Overlord's Road to Ancient Emperors

This matter cannot be hidden from Qiao An at all. He is the magistrate of Yuhang County. He knows better than others whether there are really pirates fleeing into the territory. Therefore, when he heard the news and heard that King Qi was going to lead the army to suppress the bandits, he was at a loss. water.

"What are they trying to do? Where did the fugitives come from?" Qiao An asked the master.

The master also couldn't figure out the mystery of this, so he guessed: "It should be that the king of Qi wanted to falsely report the military situation, and then falsely report credit. There must be bad news from the imperial court for not doing anything at all."

Qiao An's face turned blue with anger, "They really dare to do it. They actually faked it just for such a reputation. How much material will be consumed by the three armies, just to satisfy his vanity."

Until now, Qiao An never thought that King Qi would not only pretend to be a military leader, but even create a "real" military exploit.

The King of Qi went out with the army, Qiao An was not in the ranks, and Wan Chunlin did not dare to let other officials accompany him, fearing that more people would know about this matter, so he only chose a ten thousand soldiers who were loyal to him to follow.

But just one day after the army went out, a person sneaked into the backyard of the county government office, and crawled into Qiao An's house in the middle of the night.

"Who?" Joan was taken aback. He was about to shout when someone covered his mouth, and then he heard a familiar voice saying, "Master Qiao, it's me, don't make a sound."

Joan nodded, and waited for the other party to let him go before turning to look at him and asking, "It's you? But King Shun has something to say?" It turned out that the servant who slipped in in the middle of the night was the servant who delivered the letter to Joan during this time.

"My lord..." The little guard's face was very ugly, his whole body was wrapped in anger, and he couldn't speak.

Joan poured him a glass of water and asked him to speak slowly. The little guard wiped his face and said angrily, "My lord, on the way here, I met a Yangzhou government soldier, so I sneaked in in disguise, and then accidentally stole heard something."

"What's the matter?" Qiao An knew that this matter was definitely not simple. He always had a bad feeling in his heart, but he just couldn't figure it out.

I just heard the little officer say: "Do you know what King Qi's plan is? They want to kill the fishermen on an island in the name of pirates and pretend to be pirates to make meritorious service. There are more than 700 fishermen on that island. The king suspected that the number of people was too small, so he asked Wan Chunlin to find a bigger island, Wan Chunlin was afraid that the island with many people would not be remote enough, so he started arguing with King Qi."

Joan was dumbfounded, and a chill came out of his bones, "They... how dare they? Are they crazy?"

"Yeah, they must be crazy! Master Qiao, what should we do?" The little guard had never seen such a thing before, and he escaped immediately after hearing about it. Originally, he wanted to return to Nanyue to report to King Shun. But he knew that this place was not under the control of the king, and their soldiers had all gone to hunt down the pirates, so there was no room for manpower. Even if there were manpower, it would be too late for them to come, so he came to Qiao An.

Joan sat down on the chair, his mind was very confused, half angry, half sad, and didn't know what to say for a while.

This is the emperor's favorite prince, so despicable, so cruel, if such a person ascends the throne as emperor in the future, how cruel and heartless he will be.

"What should I do, Mr. Qiao?" The little guard was so anxious that he was about to cry.

Looking at his anxious and sad expression, Joan pulled an ugly smile from the corner of his mouth and asked, "What's your name?"

"Villain Zhang Yi, Master Qiao, life is at stake, what should I do?"

Qiao An whispered: "You, an ordinary official in South Vietnam, know that human life is at stake, but they...they dare to regard human life as worthless. Why is this? They are so daring! They deserve death!"

Qiao An went to get some broken silver and handed it to Zhang Yi: "You go, just pretend you didn't see this matter, and just tell King Shun after you go back, if... Forget it, you can leave at night, so as not to get involved your turn."

Knowing that he couldn't help, Zhang Yi took his money and left in a hurry. He thought, he should go back and tell the prince as soon as possible. Mr. Qiao is just a small county magistrate, what can he do?

Joan sat alone in the room until dawn. After dawn, he opened the door, dressed in official uniform and hat, and walked out energetically.

He went to the backyard to visit his family, and told them to pack up their luggage and leave Yuhang with their servants. The family thought that the pirates were coming again, and they were escorted out of the city before they could ask.

Qiao An recruited his master and trusted subordinates, and told them about King Qi's plan, which aroused everyone's anger. After everyone vented, he asked a question: "You said, I should wait for them to do this big evil. Is it better to go to the imperial court with the evidence in hand, so that King Qi will lose the hearts of the people and never recover, or should he try his best to save the people of that island?"

He said: "The former, sacrifice hundreds of people to save the common people in the world, and the latter, sacrifice us, maybe they can save them." Joan smiled bitterly: "Of course, even if it doesn't work this time, they can kill us." After a few insiders choose the next target, we can't stop it."

The master took a look at everyone and said, "My lord, it's better to divide the soldiers into two groups. You go to Beijing to file an imperial appeal, and I'll go save people."

In fact, they all know that neither of these two parties can succeed. It is not easy to sue the imperial court. With the power of the Zhao family, he may not be able to enter the palace at all, and saving people is even more delusional. There are [-] government soldiers over there. Woolen cloth.

But even if it doesn't work, they still have to do it, otherwise they have a bad conscience.

"Then..."

"Wait!" A voice interrupted Joan. He looked up and saw a smiling black and thin young man jumping off the beam.

Everyone was shocked and quickly surrounded them, "Who are you? Why are you here?"

The young man pushed away the sword in front of him with a smile, and said to Qiao An: "Master Qiao, long time no see, you don't recognize me?"

"Are you...?" Qiao An stared at him for a long time, making sure he didn't know this character.

The young man touched his face and sighed: "It turns out that I have really changed so much, hey... let's not talk about this, I am a small person under King Shun's command, and I was ordered to come to Yangzhou Mansion to do business, and I learned what you just said. Special offer."

Hearing him mention King Shun, Qiao An suddenly had an idea, pointed at him and said, "You are..." No matter how one person changes, it is impossible to really become two people. Qiao An just didn't contact that person before.

The young man, that is, Ye Changqing nodded, "Hey, don't say it if you know it, let's get down to business."

Qiao An gave up the main seat and asked respectfully, "I wonder what your lord's opinion is?"

"I don't have any good ideas, just a few low-level ideas." Ye Changqing blinked and said, "The best way to stop this matter is to spread it out, so that they don't dare to do it, but if they don't do it, it's just a rumor , not only will no one believe it but will be used by King Qi, he only needs to say that someone deliberately spread rumors against him to gain the favor of the people all over the world, and the person who is most likely to be responsible is King Shun."

Qiao An frowned and asked: "This is not good, how can it drag down King Shun's reputation."

"Perhaps King Shun doesn't care about such a reputation, but in this way, King Qi won a good reputation without doing bad things. This is too cheap for him."

"so what?"

"So, while spreading the word we have to do something else."

"Like?"

"For example, let King Qi really suffer. He has been cultivating himself these days, and we have never found a chance to get close to him. It is a failure."

The corner of Joan's mouth twitched, and he asked tentatively, "I don't know the purpose of your visit to Yangzhou Mansion this time?"

"It's not worth mentioning." Ye Changqing took a few more glances at Qiao An, because Qiao An was also one of the purposes of his coming here, King Shun wanted to help him get promoted, but the person involved didn't know about such a good thing.

Ye Changqing secretly sighed: The prince is really a great man who does good deeds without leaving his name!

"Furthermore, since King Qi wants to massacre the people of an island to pretend to be pirates, then we might as well use our strategy to lure King Qi to the island, and then use our geographical advantage to block the [-] soldiers from the government and let King Qi fall into the hands of pirates."

"Where did the pirate come from?" Joan asked.

"Didn't the news they report say that a group of about a thousand pirates fled to the coastal area during their escape? If there is a way to get nearly a thousand people, just pretend to be pirates."

"It's not appropriate." How could one of his own people pretend to be a pirate.

"The situation is urgent and we have to do it as a last resort. Mr. Qiao just turn a blind eye and close one eye. There is no better way, right?"

Qiao An nodded. Not only did he have no better way, but he also very much agreed with Ye Changqing's use of violence to control violence, "I don't know what we can do?"

"Well, Master Qiao is responsible for disseminating the news. We are not familiar with this Yangzhou Prefecture. It is best to spread the news." Ye Changqing smiled, but the smile was a bit cold.

"The officer understands."

Things went smoothly afterwards. After the news came out, the common people were dubious, but the common people along the coast spontaneously organized manned patrols. Once they saw the government soldiers and immediately passed on the news, they were also afraid. Less, not afraid of [-], just in case, it is always good to be more defensive.

The first person that King Qi thought of when he heard the news was leaked was Wan Chunlin, who almost killed him, but it is absolutely impossible for the team to turn back here, otherwise it will only prove that the rumors are true, so he must separate Some of our own people pretended to be pirates and pretended to attack the island, and then led people to drive away the pirates. Don't even think about killing people. If you can get things over, you will be successful.

Because it was a show, King Qi felt that there was no need to use tens of thousands of soldiers. He selected some of the people from his entourage to pretend to be pirates, and took a small boat to make a fake circle on the sea, and then spread the news, and then deployed two thousand soldiers. The soldiers followed him to the island, declaring to the outside world that he would lure the enemy with his body, and if he failed, he would be benevolent.

Ye Changqing took the first step to deal with King Qi's entourage. At the moment on the island, he thought about killing King Qi on the island. Just because he dared to kill the people and pretended to be a soldier, Ye Changqing wanted him to die, but he didn't King Qi's life was not demanded, and this person's death here would only bring infinite troubles.

But King Qi didn’t have a good time, he was captured by the “Pirate” and brought out of the sea, Ye Changqing threw him in a canoe and was pulled by a big boat and drifted on the sea for five days and nights, without a drop of water, let alone food Not only that, from time to time someone shoots an arrow at his side, making him unable to sleep.

After being tortured until he was breathless, Ye Changqing sent him ashore, and tied a letter on him, which read: I don't bother to kill this kind of idiot, let's save it to harm the people of Dayan, haha!

King Qi was dying and recuperated in Yuhang for more than half a month before he came back from the ghost gate. The first thing he did was to thoroughly investigate how the news leaked out. He locked his target on Wan Chunlin. People, secondly, Wan Chunlin's first reaction when he proposed this plan was to reject it, so the person who is most likely to betray him is Wan Chunlin.

People from Li Xu added fuel to the flames, wanting evidence for evidence, witnesses for witnesses, King Qi quickly confirmed Wan Chunlin's betrayal of him, and poured all his hatred on Wan Chunlin.

Wan Chunlin will definitely die, this is what Li Xu knew after he got the news, he asked people to withdraw, there is no need for them to do anything after that, King Qi will give a satisfactory result.

The turmoil in Yangzhou Mansion lasted for two months. It was not until Wan Chunlin ransacked his family for being accused of colluding with pirates, and the new county guard took office. Qiao An was promoted because of his goodwill during King Qi's injury. , did not cost Li Xu a penny.

King Qi did not return to Beijing until he recovered his health. He came back full of confidence, and returned in despair. The people of the whole Yangzhou Prefecture were wary of him because they were not sure whether he had done something outrageous. It is said that the day he left, There was no one to see him off.

There are always rumors. No one can tell the truth about this matter. Some people say that all the fishermen on the island are indeed dead. A fire burned everything clean. I don’t know whether they died at the hands of their own people or died. In the hands of pirates.

Some people say that King Qi was not actually taken away by pirates, but was detained by Master Wan, just because Master Wan disapproved of him killing people for feign merit.

Some people say that Master Wan was wronged, he didn't collude with the pirates at all, because he had no motive, what good would it do him to collude with the pirates?It was just because he offended King Qi that he was charged with ransacking his family and exterminating his family.

After reading the letter, Li Xu handed it to Kou Xiao, "This time King Qi stumbled, and his reputation was completely rotten. The emperor punished him to kneel in front of the ancestral temple wall to think about his mistakes. He didn't say a deadline. The Zhao family will probably try their best to turn the public opinion back. "

Kou Xiao only heard about King Qi after he came back, he was very disgusted with him, threw away the letter and said: "Ye Changqing should have thrown him into the sea to feed the fish, does this kind of thing keep him alive and continue to do evil?"

Li Xu comforted him: "If he dies at sea, things will become a big mess. It's hard to guarantee that there will be no mistakes. If you want his life, you can do it at any time in the future, and there is no rush."

Thinking of Wan Chunlin's fate, Kou Xiao gained a new understanding of Li Xu's means of revenge. Others killed one thousand enemies and self-injured eight hundred, but his Highness used a knife to kill people, killing them invisible.