Peerless Pirates

In the dark of night, a carriage drove out of the Yousi stronghold and was read in full by the people of the Northern and Southern Jin Dynasties. [The crisp sound of horse hooves at the beginning of the text, accompanied by the sound of silk and bamboo coming from the Qinhuai River, merged into a beautiful nocturne.

Li Hongniang and Lian Shui'er were sitting opposite each other in the carriage. Although they couldn't see each other's faces clearly, they could smell each other's breath.

"Have you decided?" Li Hongniang asked calmly.

"Are you insulting me?" Lian Shui'er's voice was hoarse, "If all your relatives were slaughtered by the enemy, but you still worked for the enemy, how would you feel?"

"I said that I have no conclusive evidence about who was responsible for the incident in Sangyu Village. It's just that there are too many doubts in Banyue Valley, which makes people have to doubt what happened back then." Li Hongniang said sincerely.

"I will verify the details." Lian Shui'er's voice was as cold as stone, "But based on my understanding of that person, that person always only seeks results and does not use any means. The murder in Sangyu Village must be his fault."

"As you wish." Li Hongniang sighed.

In the previous conversation, when Li Hongniang showed all her trump cards, Lian Shui'er finally broke down and poured out what she knew. Naturally, Li Hongniang also revealed the suspicious aspects of the massacre in Dangsuosang Fishing Village.

, pointed out that the perpetrator should be Guogongfu, the controller of the Banyue Valley garrison.

This inference almost drove Lian Shui'er into madness. She suffered a sudden change when she was a child, and all her relatives were killed by bandits. Only she was saved by the people of the Duke's Palace. From then on, she began to work for the Duke's Palace and committed many evil deeds.

Things. Now that Lian Shui'er has learned that the executioner who killed her relatives and her own clan is actually her "benefactor", how can she not collapse?

Li Hongniang knew what she wanted, and the result shocked her so much that she felt the bone-chilling chill of this winter.

As a condition, Lian Shui'er proposed that Li Hongniang try to bring him back safely to the Duke's Mansion. Li Hongniang agreed after thinking about it for a while. Although she and Lian Shui'er were on different paths, if she could cultivate a "traitor" for the Duke's Mansion,

”, of course it couldn’t be better.

As for how to get Lian Shui'er to go back, Li Hongniang also thought of a countermeasure. Since Huan Xing had placed a few whistles around her, she had to take advantage of them.

The carriage turned east, and after half an hour, it arrived at Zuo Si's stronghold not far from the Wuyuan. Li Hongniang deliberately covered Lian Shui'er's head, and Hu Qiang resisted her into the stronghold, and locked her in a secret room. The whole process

Being secretive will naturally confuse Huan Xing's eyes.

Even Li Hongniang didn't expect that Huan Xing would come to the stronghold the next day and take Lian Shui'er away without any explanation, without giving Li Hongniang any time to delay. After Li Hongniang pretended to be angry, she allowed Huan Xing's people to take Lian Shui'er away.

Shui'er. She smiled secretly, Lian Shui'er was so important to the Duke's Palace that Huan Xing didn't even have a basic explanation.

At Yousi's stronghold, Mu Yu and Yuan Rong were sitting under the lamp, their faces as pale as water. On the desks in front of them, there were two pieces of paper recording Lian Shui'er's confession, and the ink was still wet.

"Brother Mu," Yuan Rong said with concern, "Do you want to show this material to Huang Yuandu?"

"To that old thief? I'm really unwilling to do so." Muyu raised his head and looked at the roof, saying with some sadness and anger, "Especially that dog thief Lu Junqing, he should have died long ago. Now it is clear that a dog-eat-dog farce is about to happen.

I really don’t want to miss this great show.”

Yuan Rong thought for a while and said, "We might as well hide this part about Lu Junqing..."

"That's inappropriate!" Mu Yu said, "You and I have seen Huang Yuandu's shrewdness, and it's not that easy to fool around with. Once Huang Song is involved, Huang Yuandu will definitely find his son to find out, and then the secret may be revealed.

of."

"But now only Huang Yuandu can stop Pang Hui. I'm afraid it will be difficult to stop him if he reports it directly to the Holy One."

"Yes, that's where the difficulty lies." Mu Yu pounded his hands hard and said bitterly, "Pang Tong has yet to show any signs of rebellion, and the Holy One has great trust in him. I'm afraid it's hard to believe. Only Huang Yuandu has always been with him.

Pang Tong is not all the way, and he has a deep understanding of the Duke's mansion, so this material will be of great use to him."

Yuan Rong frowned, "Either don't report the information to Huang Yuandu first and let Huang Song deal with Lu Junqing. Or inform Huang Yuandu immediately and let Huang Yuandu try to deal with the government. Of course, Huang Yuandu will also stop his son from killing Lu Junqing."

"Lu Junqing's matter involves Qian Mancai. The reason why the Duke of Guo asked Huang Song to be the scapegoat was to borrow a knife to kill people, and then use this as a bargaining chip to cooperate with Qian Mancai. Pang's dealings with this person must be considered a foresight.

"Muyu couldn't help but sigh.

"It's a pity that Xiao Lang is not in Jiangning. If he were in Jiangning, based on his relationship with the Holy One, he would definitely make the money in the cupboard full of money and make it difficult for him to walk around. We can't do it. The Holy Spirit believes that the money in the cupboard is better than ours. We rashly went to report

, but you will suffer a loss." Yuan Rong also sighed.

For people in the left and right departments who specialize in intelligence, the difficult thing is often not how to obtain intelligence, but how to make choices based on relationships.

After a moment of silence, Mu Yu finally let out a long breath and said, "The most important thing is to let the two old thieves bite each other first. As for Lu Junqing, save his life first, and when Zheng'er comes back, we can take off this old man's dog head together."

"

Now that they had decided, Mu Yu and Yuan Rong no longer hesitated, and immediately compiled the materials, listed some unknown things about the Duke's Mansion, sealed them in envelopes with fire paint, and sent them to the Prime Minister's Mansion overnight.

Late at night, Huang Yuandu was sitting alone in his study, his eyes bloodshot and his face a mixture of red and white, obviously suffering from great anger.

In his hand was the secret document that Muyu had just sent. However, this document had been pinched into shape by Huang Yuandu. Huang Yuandu's hands kept shaking, and his fingers were dug into the paper.

The content of the material made Huang Yuandu shocked and angry. He did not expect that Pang Hui would actually lay such a large net.

Huang Yuandu never thought that Pang Tong was a good bird. At that time, Huang Yuandu advocated New Neo-Confucianism and suppressed traditional Confucianism. For this reason, he specially took down the person in charge of Jiangning Academy of Literature, the great Confucian Wei Buzhou. From that time on, Pang Tong

His relationship with Wei Buzhou gradually became secretive, and through Wei Buzhou he took in and supported some Confucian scholars who were rejected by the New Neo-Confucianism.

Huang Yuandu also heard about the fact that Pang Tong took in some descendants of officials who were dismissed from office and had their homes confiscated. At first, Huang Yuandu and Pang Hui didn't take it seriously, or in other words, they allowed Pang Tong to do so. The reason for this was because Huang Yuandu and Pang Hui were both very smart.

General political intrigue: If only two forces, Huang Song and Pang Hui, were left in the entire Great Qi Dynasty, they would inevitably live and die and not coexist. It would be a matter of party struggle. If there was a third party force as a buffer, the effect would be very different.

Of course, the growth of the Duke's Palace was also related to the support of Queen Mother Huang Jiao. Out of wariness of the Palace, Huang Jiao also supported Pang Tong openly and secretly, hoping to use her prestige to compete with Pang Hui.

There is another reason that is quite ridiculous. Duke Pang Tong is already over seventy years old. For such an old guy who has half his foot in the coffin, both Huang Yuandu and Pang Hui have relaxed their vigilance intentionally or unintentionally.

In the ten years of the Great Qi Dynasty, the struggle and cooperation between Pang Hui and Huang Yuandu were the main theme, and the Duke Pangtong could only be regarded as a concert player. What Huang Yuandu did not expect was that the Duke of Guo, who was originally a side drum player, actually developed secretly.

This made Huang Yuandu finally understand what it means to be "an old man who is brave but determined in his profession". Oh, maybe it is called "to be old but not to die is to be a thief", which can better represent Huang Yuandu's state of mind at this time.

On the surface, there is nothing unusual about the expansion of the Duke's power. First of all, Pang Tong has many children, five sons and three daughters, and most of these children are married to senior generals in the army. For example, the eldest grandson Pang Ting married Shandong

The daughter of Cong Kui, the military commander of Guanyou Road, can be regarded as a heavyweight alliance.

Secondly, there are many disciples and former officials. Pang Tong is old and has held many positions. He once served as Minister of the Ministry of War, Commander of the City Guards, Yin of Jiangning Prefecture, and Minister of the Ministry of Punishments. He is considered a famous veteran. Pang Tong himself is the descendant of Qi Taizu.

The nephew was of the same seniority as Taizong. Even if Pang Hui met him, he would still call him uncle. Because of this, the prestige of the Duke's Palace was very high.

Thirdly, it was the forces that Pang Tong cultivated himself, including some people who were killed by Pang Hui and Huang Yuandu, and many of their descendants were secretly included in the accounts of the Duke of Guo.

What surprised Huang Yuandu the most was that according to the data, Pang Tong controlled a group of military generals who were loyal to him and established a secret settlement. There were people belonging to the border army, garrison camps, city guards, and even the Forbidden Army.

People from the Duke's Mansion. These people are all under the responsibility of a purple-robed man from the Duke's Mansion, and this purple-robed man is most likely his eldest son Pang Tong.

Everyone said that Pang Tong died in the army in his early years. Now he suddenly appeared, which made Huang Yuandu think about it: Pang Tong actually lied about his son's death, but secretly ordered him to cultivate the power of the Duke's government. This plan,

Who can not be alarmed?

With such scheming and preparation, Pang Tong finally "came out of the mountain". Huang Yuandu also understood why the matter about the military mid-air had recently become known to both the government and the public, so that Dong Lancheng, who had the best chance to compete for the post of Taiwei, became in danger.

stand up.

And just the day before yesterday, the memorial regarding the impeachment of Qiao Zhenchuan was also sent to the palace. The memorial revealed that Qiao Zhenchuan allowed his family to do business, secretly sold prohibited goods to Daikin, and seized market share, etc. It was very detailed. At first glance, it was Qiao Zhenchuan.

done by people.

Dong Lancheng and Qiao Zhenchuan, the two contenders for the title of Lieutenant, have a problem, and the profiteers will soon surface.

Of course, Huang Yuandu's anger was not against Pang Tong, but towards his son Huang Song. He did not expect that his son would be so deeply involved with the Duke's government, and even agreed to kill Lu Junqing, whom he once relied on as his right-hand man.

In the previous episode, Huang Song entered the palace and told Huang Jiao that Song Zheng had been sent to Dajin as an envoy, and that he was under the instigation of others. Huang Yuandu had already seen some signs of this. Now Huang Song was so bold that in order to deal with his eldest brother

Huang Yue did not hesitate to collude with outsiders. What a misfortune for the prime minister's office!

"You evil beast, you don't understand my heart." Huang Yuandu sighed, angry and sad, with tears streaming down his face.

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