Rule the Ming Dynasty Alone

Li Zhiqing was a Jinshi in the 11th year of Chenghua. He was first appointed as the head of the household department, and later promoted to the doctor of the household department.

Wang Yue worked at the border and Li Zhiqing was in the capital. It was expected that the two would not have any intersection. However, the Ministry of Household Affairs has always been responsible for supervising payment. Whenever money and grain are sent to the border, officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs will escort them.

Maybe Wang Yue didn't remember a small household official, but it was impossible for Li Zhiqing to forget Wang Yue. At that time, Wang Yue was the Minister of the Ministry of War of the three sides of the general system. Later, he was awarded the title of Wei Ningbo for his meritorious service. He was a real big shot.

Although Wang Yue's face was smeared with ashes now, with just a look of care, he had already recognized Wang Behead, who had become famous all over the world after his comeback last year.

boom!

Just when Li Zhiqing was about to call out Wang Yue's name, his eyes suddenly went dark.

Wang Yue had realized from Li Zhiqing's reaction that the other party had seen through his identity, so in order to prevent himself from being put in danger, he had no choice but to strike first.

Originally, I just wanted to stay ashore peacefully, so why did I have to force myself to take action?

"You?" The big man who had been escorting Wang Yue just saluted, and saw Li Zhiqing lying on his back. He immediately turned to look at Wang Yue in shock.

boom!

Wang Yue simply refused to do anything and punched the strong man in the face again.

The strong man felt a series of gold stars pop out of his eyes, and then he fell to the ground.

Wang Yue immediately wanted to go down the stairs and dive from the deck to escape. As a result, there was a rush of footsteps on the stairs, which blocked his escape route.

Seeing that the strong man on the ground was not completely unconscious, he actually wanted to struggle to stand up, and immediately kicked the opponent's nose hard.

After the strong man felt a heartbreaking pain from the bridge of his nose, he completely fainted and hated this despicable old man who sneaked up on him.

"What happened? Master Li!" Several guards who heard the movement and ran up to check the situation shouted in shock when they saw Li Zhiqing lying on the ground.

After Magistrate Yang heard the noise outside, he no longer stayed on the bed, but hurriedly put on his clothes and walked out to check. When he saw Li Zhiqing in a coma, he was shocked and asked: "What on earth is going on?"

"Master Magistrate, it should be that member Hu who knocked Master Li unconscious and escaped with the guard!" A guard immediately speculated when he saw his unconscious companion on the other side.

"He...he is so audacious! What he did in a daze, find him immediately, I will kill him!" When Magistrate Yang learned that Wang Yue had done this, he immediately roared with gnashing teeth.

At this time, the woman's voice came from the room: "Ah... it's gone! It's gone!"

"What are you doing standing still? Put out the fire quickly!" Magistrate Yang learned that his room was on fire, and immediately ordered angrily to these pig-like men.

Several people present couldn't help but look at each other. They received two orders one after another. So were they going to find the prisoner or put out the water?

Finally, under the murderous gaze of Governor Yang, they realized that it was more important to put out the fire, otherwise everyone on their ship might be ruined.

"It's gone wrong, it's gone wrong!"

"Where is the water tank? Put out the fire quickly!"

"Don't be stunned, you stupid pigs, hurry up and send water to the top!"

…

The fire started suddenly and became more and more intense, causing many people to shout in panic.

Although there was a large water tank on the ship prepared to put out the fire, the fire-fighting effect was not very good because it had begun to burn violently and the official ship was very chaotic.

"The official ship has arrived at the pier. Everyone, please get off the ship quickly!" Someone shouted happily when they saw that the official ship had returned to Yangzhou Wharf.

The trackers on the shore have already started working, helping to pull their hull to the edge of the pier.

Wang Yue wrapped his face in a cloth and came to the deck. He couldn't help but feel happy when he found that the official ship had really returned to the dock. I originally wanted to take advantage of the chaos to escape by jumping into the river, but now it seems that I don't need to.

"Everyone should go to the pier below, but no one is allowed to leave without permission. Please stay there for me!" Magistrate Yang immediately made arrangements when he saw the thick smoke still billowing from the room above.

The salt merchants naturally had no objections and just wanted to escape from this dangerous place.

After being released, all of them covered their mouths and noses, hurriedly got off the official ship, and then came to this wide pier.

"You..." Su Bancheng had just fled to the dock with the crowd, but when he saw that the person standing next to him turned out to be Wang Yue, he was shocked and said.

Wang Yue glanced at the fat man, but he was considering whether to punch him.

"No, I won't tell anyone!" Su Bancheng felt the murderous aura in Wang Yue and immediately raised his hands in surrender.

Although he didn't say anything, Wang Yue had been exposed. A strong man who had been responsible for guarding Wang Yue pointed at Wang Yue on the boat and said: "Captain Liu, that's him, catch him quickly!"

Liu Captou searched in the direction pointed by the strong man, and immediately put the chain he had brought around Wang Yue's neck, and said with a fierce look: "Let's go, follow me, Capt. Tou, to see the Lord of the Palace!"

Wang Yue saw the chain around his neck, hesitated for a moment, and then followed the catcher towards Li Zhiqing and Magistrate Li over there.

Li Zhiqing opened his eyes leisurely, but looked at the blue sky in front of him with lingering fear. The nightmare he had had was too terrible.

In the world under his control, the imperial envoy Wang Yue was played around by him, and now he is still conducting private visits in Taixing County incognito, looking for the private salt farm that he deliberately spread.

It's just that he just saw Wang Yue on the boat in his dream, and Wang Yue had already lurked beside them and saw their activities clearly.

If this is not a dream, then it will be useless no matter how many connections Li Zhiqing has in the capital. His ten heads may not be enough for the king to behead him.

"Master, are you awake? How do you feel?" The entourage on the side asked with concern and joy when seeing Li Zhiqing finally wake up.

Li Zhiqing's mind was buzzing, but he waved his hand and asked in confusion: "What's going on? Where am I?"

"Sir, have you forgotten? You were attacked by that gangster on the boat just now, and you fainted, but that gangster has now been caught by Magistrate Yang!" The accompanying servant was stunned immediately, and then told him everything. Tell me what happened.

"Bad guy?" When Li Zhiqing heard this word, he recalled the scene that had just happened and realized that he was not dreaming at all. He immediately turned pale and said in horror.

When Magistrate Yang saw that his men had captured the person, he waved his hand and said: "Captain Liu, bring the person over and hand him over to Master Li!"

If he had just wanted to save money, he would have let Mr. Hu go, but now he had to kill this daring man for Li Zhiqing.

Li Zhiqing hoped that he was overthinking it, or that he had hallucinations before he fell into coma, so he looked hopefully towards Capt. Liu.

"Master Li, how are you?" Wang Yue greeted Li Zhiqing with a smile when he saw him waking up.

After carefully recalling it just now, he also remembered that he had indeed met Li Zhiqing, who was delivering food in Datong, but he did not expect that the other party would still remember him.

"How... how is it possible? Wang Yue, how could you be here?" Li Zhiqing asked in shock when he saw Wang Yue really appearing in front of him.

Wang...Wang Yue?

When Magistrate Yang and the newly arrived Yushi Zhang learned that the murderer in front of them was the famous Wang Behead, they opened their mouths slightly and looked at the tall old man in shock.

At this moment, their hearts undoubtedly sank to the bottom.

Since this member Hu is Wang Yue, naturally everything they did was known to Wang Yue, and they are now in doom.

Just by misappropriating huge amounts of salt profits, all their participants will lose their heads.

But what puzzled them was that, according to their intelligence network, Wang Yue should still be in Taixing County this time. Why did he suddenly appear here as Hu Yuanwai?

"Why can't I be here? In order to catch you all, I have suffered a lot during this time!" Wang Yue said with emotion as he faced the shocked gazes of the three people.

After he was assassinated on the way to Yangzhou at the end of last year, he chose to take advantage of the situation and pretended to be injured and fell into the water and disappeared. In fact, he had quietly come to the border of Yangzhou Prefecture to investigate the private salt field.

It's just that even though he forced his grandson to work hard at the dock, he still found nothing after nearly a month of investigation. In the end, he was almost chased and killed by a group of mysterious officers and soldiers.

In order to get on the ship smoothly this time, it took a lot of effort. Not only did he risk his life to enter the tiger's den, but he also experienced a cat-and-mouse game just now.

Now that his merits are finally complete, he has obtained the evidence of the crimes of these officials, and can kill them all in one fell swoop.

Li Yiqing's eyes immediately flashed with a fierce look, but he suddenly pointed at Wang Yue and said: "This person is a traitor! Don't try to confuse the public with your monstrous words, strangle him to death immediately!"

Liu Captou was a little confused, but he knew that Li Zhiqing was the real master of Yangzhou City. He immediately used his hands to strangle the old man to death.

"How dare you!" Lu Song had already appeared, but he pointed a knife at Mr. Liu and threatened him.

When Liu Captou saw the knife that was almost touching his throat, he immediately let go of his hand to save his life.

When he saw Lu Song dressed in a royal uniform, he knew that the old man in front of him was not a rebel, but the rumored imperial envoy Wang Yue.

But judging from the current situation, Li Zhiqing and his gang of officials are really in danger.

"Master Li, are you trying to kill people and silence them? You are so brave. Assassinating the imperial envoy is a serious crime that will punish the nine tribes. Do you really want your whole family to be buried with you?" Wang Yue hung the hanging on his neck. He took off the chain and said with a bit of ridicule.

what to do?

Magistrate Yang and Yushi Zhang realized that the imperial envoy had already grasped all the information they had, and couldn't help but look to their backbone Li Zhiqing for help, hoping that Li Zhiqing could find a way to resolve this crisis.

Li Zhiqing sighed helplessly when he saw that the imperial guards had appeared here.

Even if he dared to kill people and silence them without fear of being killed by the Nine Tribes, they simply don't have the strength to fight against the imperial guards, so they can only resign themselves to their fate now.

"Lu Baihu!" Wang Yue looked at the frightened salt merchants and officials around him, but his expression darkened.

Lu Song liked the days of following Wang Yue's orders very much, so he immediately said respectfully: "Please give me your orders, your Majesty the Imperial Envoy!"

"Arrest everyone here immediately, and send people to seal down Jiangdu's money shops. I am the imperial envoy to clean up the case of Yangzhou officials embezzling salt profits!" Wang Yue knew that now he had to take away the stolen goods, so he issued the order immediately.

Lu Song had been waiting for this moment for too long, so he immediately handed over his hands and said, "Yes!"

"Wait!"

At this time, a large number of officers and soldiers came from the direction of the city gate. There were as many as a thousand people, and the leader was Yang Kang, the commander of the Yangzhou Guard.

The imperial guard led by Lu Song was less than a hundred people at all. Now that he saw Yang Kang, the commander of the Yangzhou Guard, leading a thousand people, he was on alert.

Once a conflict does arise, they will most likely be wiped out here.

"Commander Yang, what are your intentions when you bring so many soldiers here?" Wang Yue asked coldly when he saw that the person who came was not kind.

Although there is no evidence in hand now, judging from Yang Kang's arrogant attitude, the soldiers who saw the massacre of refugees that night were probably the work of this group of Yangzhou guards.

Now that troops and people are coming, it must be impossible for them to come to help themselves.

"This commander has just received a secret report! Someone is pretending to be an imperial envoy and is cheating here. The real imperial envoy has not arrived in Yangzhou yet. Are you the group of people pretending to be imperial envoys?" Yang Kang sat on the horse and said with a smile.

Huh?

Lu Song did not expect that a small commander would have such courage and openly question the identity of the imperial envoy.

"This is the imperial edict. If you have any doubts, you can read the imperial edict!" Wang Yue noticed the murderous intention in Yang Kang and said seriously.

It's not that he is willing to retreat, but this army has obviously seen blood. Now that the troops are mobilized, it cannot be ruled out that the commander wants to kill people and silence them.

After all, the evidence he has obtained can kill the entire Yangzhou officialdom, and their only way to survive is to silence him.

Yang Kang and Li Zhiqing exchanged glances, but they were too lazy to look at the imperial edict and said: "The imperial edict can also be a forgery. In order to ensure the stability of Yangzhou City, you all should go back with this commander and accept the investigation!"

"I am Lu Song, a member of the Jinyi Guards. I am the captain of the imperial escort. Are you trying to kill me?" Lu Song realized the danger and immediately revealed his identity.

Yang Kang looked at Lu Song and said coldly: "A bunch of daring lawbreakers! Come and take them all back to the guardhouse. Anyone who dares to resist will be killed without mercy!"

Li Zhiqing, Yang Mingyuan and Zhang Lushan couldn't help but secretly breathed a sigh of relief when they saw Yang Kang being so tough. This was their territory after all, and now Wang Yue, this powerful dragon, would also be killed by them.

boom!

Suddenly, a gunshot was heard not far away. Yang Kang, the commander of the Yangzhou Guard who had been showing off his power just now, fell off his horse and fell into a pool of blood.