"What? King Huan was assassinated!"

Baishui Village, the ancestral home of the Wang family, Wang Chong looked at Yang Naixing, the governor of Yangzhou in front of him, and said in disbelief: "How is it possible? When I left yesterday, King Huan was fine, and King Huan had so many guards around him. How could he be assassinated in just one day?"

Yang Naixing said with a bitter face: "Mingjian, the deputy envoy, will never dare to deceive the deputy envoy. It was an assassin who came out of nowhere last night. He suddenly rushed to the other courtyard. When the subordinate led his people to arrive, King Huan··························································································································································································

Wang Chong staggered back a few steps and fell on the chair, his face slightly pale, his face full of shock and disbelief, his Adam's apple surged, he swallowed several times in succession, and looked at Yang Naixing in panic.

"King Huan is the eldest son of the official family. He has always been smart and capable, and is extremely favored by the official family. If this news reaches Tokyo and the official family, wouldn't it be a huge disaster!"

"A huge disaster!" Yang Naixing also looked frightened.

He hurriedly bowed and said, "But now that things have come to this point, we have no other way. Even if we have a huge disaster, we can only suffer. Now, everyone in Yangzhou officials are in danger. For the sake of our plan, we still need to unite and find the envoy behind the scenes to redeem our sins. We only hope that the officials can take advantage of us to lighten our envoys."

"But now the city is in chaos. The officials ordered people to lock down the city last night, and all the people in the yamen were sent out to arrest the assassins."

Wang Chong raised his eyebrows and asked hurriedly: "All the assassins ran away last night?"

Yang Naixing said: "I ran away while the chaos last night, and some of them were also on the spot. Now I am locked in prison, and Judge Zhang and the others are being questioned."

"No need to delay, let's go back to the city!" Wang Chong also knew the importance of the matter, so he immediately stood up and walked out, and Yang Naixing followed closely.

"Come on, prepare horses!"

Now that King Huan is assassinated, among the officials who went south to patrol the salt this time, Wang Chong had the highest official rank, so Yang Naixing, the governor of Yangzhou, would come to his house in person.

When Yang Naixing came, he rode a fast horse. Wang Chong only brought Yu Chu Er, and the few of them immediately rushed to Jiangdu City.

In the magistrate's yamen and in the side hall of the back hall, the body of King Huan was lying on the white cloth.

As he entered the door, Yang Naixing finally took the time to talk to Wang Chong about what happened last night.

Because it was New Year's Eve, King Huan was kind to his subordinates, and all the people in the yamen went back to spend the New Year with their family members, and lived in the villa with only the guards brought from Tokyo.

At the moment of the ugly moment, a large number of assassins rushed to the villa. First, they set fire in the backyard and the east yard, and shot away a large number of people, which also forced King Huan to the southwest corner of the villa.

But I didn't expect that a large number of assassins had been ambushing around, carrying a large number of crossbows and stubble, and were equipped with very complete equipment. Duan Chengjin and the guard commander Zhao Shichang could only take a group of guards to protect King Huan and attack the other courtyard. They were ambushed by the assassin and were shot on the street.

"The villa was burned, and most of the house next to it was burned."

"Where is Zhao Shichang and Duan Chengjin?" Wang Chong asked with a dark face as he looked at King Huan's body.

"General Zhao was shot to death by an assassin. General Duan was carrying more than ten arrows. He lost too much blood and was seriously injured and unconscious. He has not woken up yet. The doctor said whether he can wake up depends on God's will."

The king nodded with a key point. Although it was a little surprised, it was reasonable. Even King Huan was shot and died. Zhao Shichang was Zhao Ceying's escort. He had followed Zhao Ceying since he was in Yuzhou. There was no doubt about his loyalty.

As for Xiaoduan, luck is pretty good.

Yang Naixing continued, "The prince's guards were almost killed or injured. Only thirty people survived, and more than ten were seriously injured, and the rest were all covered with injuries.

Wang Chong went forward with a dark face and touched Zhao Ceying's neck. It was already cold. All the words came to his mouth and all turned into a helpless sigh.

"Go and see General Xiao Duan!" Wang Chong said in a deep voice.

Yang Naixing hurriedly led Wang Chong to a wing room in the Houya. Xiao Duan was too seriously injured and was placed in a separate wing room, next to them were more than thirty injured guards.

Wang Chong rushed to Xiaoduan's bed first, first explored Xiaoduan's breath, breathed a sigh of relief, and then began to check on Xiaoduan's injuries.

A thick circle of gauze was wrapped in his body, the blood had stopped, and the golden sore medicine was also applied. As the doctor said, whether he could not survive depends on Xiao Duan's own luck.

Wang Chong asked Yang Naixing to call the doctor and ask Xiao Duan about the location of the injury, depth, etc. After hearing this, even Wang Chong couldn't help but sigh that Xiao Duan was really a slaughtered young man. He was shot in his body, and he almost leaked his intestines. He didn't even die.

But the breath is getting weaker and weaker.

Wang Chong sighed and said to Yang Naixing: "I'm sorry, Magistrate Yang, please retreat to the side first!"

"This is the deputy envoy?" Yang Naixing retreated to the side and asked in confusion.

Wang Chong took off the needle pouch tied around his waist, put it on the table, lifted up the small piece of quilt, twisted up silver needles, aimed at the acupoints, and slowly inserted the silver needles into Xiao Duan's body one by one.

After a silver needle pricked the acupoint, a stick of incense passed!

The small section of the breath recovered a lot at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the pulse gradually became stronger.

The doctor next to him was very surprised. He put away the silver needle and told the doctor some precautions. Wang Chong pulled Yang Naixing to see the injured guards. After checking their injuries, he left his special golden sore medicine to the doctor and asked the doctor to change the medicine.

After a while, most of the time passed!

Yang Nai was so anxious that he urged Wang Chong to say, "Deputy Envoy Wang, let's go to the prison to take a look!"

Wang Chong didn't say anything and followed Yang Naixing to prison.

Last night, more than 30 black-clothed assassins were caught on the spot, and now they are all locked in prison. Parliament Li Tong is torturing the group of assassins one by one, asking about their origins and the envoy behind the scenes.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! Seeing that Wang Chong and Yang Naixing arrived, Li Tong hurriedly stood up to greet the two of them.

"Brother Li, what did you ask?" Yang Naixing asked hurriedly without caring about the false gifts.

Yang Tong said: "I asked some of them. These people have various origins, all of whom are running around the world. There are those in the Huai River, those in the Jiangnan, Fujian, and even a few in the Shu area."

"Impossible!" Wang Chong said: "The guards around His Highness Huan are all elites among the imperial guards. If they were ordinary people in the martial arts world, how could they be their opponent?"

Yang Naixing nodded deeply and said, "What Deputy Envoy Wang said is extremely true, this matter is definitely not that simple."

This New Year is destined to be a bad day. The entire Yangzhou City is martial law day by day, and a large number of soldiers guard the city gates, docks and other places where they can enter and exit Yangzhou City. No entry is allowed, and the government forces check from door to door. All inns, brothels, and gambling houses are the key targets for investigation.

Fortunately, it is the end of the year and every household has a lot of New Year’s goods in stock. Even if the city is closed, there is no need to worry about having no food to eat and starving to death in a short period of time.

In the west of the city, the original Sheng House has now become a royal house. The word "Sheng" written on the two lanterns hanging under the gate was changed to the word "Wang" many years ago.

Wang Chong sat cross-legged on the bed, not starting to meditate and practice Qi, but reviewed the recent things in his mind. In fact, Wang Chong did nothing, but just pushed the eight salt merchants whose houses were searched, sent someone to help them build a connection, and introduced several powerful maritime merchants to them.

Wang Chong did not interfere in the subsequent incident, but only sent them secretly. The rest were all done by the group of salt merchants themselves. They deliberately spread the news in the Jiangnan region first, attracting salt merchants with unclean foundations in the coastal areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, joining forces with each other, and attracting support.

All salt merchants saw what King Huan did in Yangzhou. The eight salt merchants whose houses were searched were a living example, and dozens of heads that were about to be cut off were alarm bells.

Instead of waiting for the house to be searched, it is better to fight back and take advantage of the chaos to survive. How many people dare to be salt merchants are good at it!

Thinking about the Bai family, for the sake of Mr. Bai's property, they dared to send killers to assassinate Gu Er several times.

The development of the matter was indeed as Wang Chong had expected, with a large number of killers flocking to him. Wang Chong and Wang Qianer, the two who had the highest military power, were not by King Huan's side. The dozen assassinations before the New Year also caused King Huan to lose his troops and generals. It was New Year's Eve, early morning.

The right time, place, and people are all in all.

The death of King Huan is just the first step, and the rest of the road is not easy to walk.

Thinking about the possibilities in the next moment, Wang Chong took a deep breath, removed the distracting thoughts in his mind, and began to meditate and practice Qi.

Soon, some assassins could not stand the torture and finally confessed that the governor Yang Naixing personally led the team to arrest the salt merchants behind the scenes, but when he led his troops to arrive, he found that the building was empty.

Yang Naixing was furious, but he was helpless.

On the tenth day of the lunar month, at the Bianjing Imperial City, 800 miles of urgent news were sent to the palace. Zhao Zongquan thought that what he received would be good news, but he did not expect to wait for the bad news that King Huan was assassinated in Yangzhou.

Zhao Zongquan spit out a mouthful of old blood on the spot, shouted "Ying'er" and then fainted.

When the queen received the news, she fainted.

When Empress Dowager Cao heard that the emperor and his wife were both fainted, she was happy first, and then hurriedly asked about the reason.

The eunuch hurriedly reported to the truth: "It was His Highness, King Huan, who was assassinated in Yangzhou."

"What?" Empress Dowager Cao immediately slapped the table, looking shocked.

"It's outrageous! Who is so brave that he dares to assassinate the prince in broad daylight!"

Empress Dowager Cao was so angry that she was so angry that it was the same as she and Zhao Zongquan who were not in the same way. It was the same as not like Zhao Zongquan, the father and son, but it was the same as Zhao Ceying was assassinated and killed.

Zhao Ceying is the emperor's eldest son. Although he has not yet been enthroned, everyone in the government and the country knows that Zhao Ceying is the future crown prince. Now that Zhao Ceying is assassinated and killed in Yangzhou, wouldn't it be like rubbing the court's face to the ground?

Empress Dowager Cao was furious and immediately ordered a thorough investigation of the matter, and then rushed to visit Zhao Zongquan. If at this critical moment, what trouble would happen to the emperor Zhao Zongquan? This world...

"How is the emperor?" Seeing the imperial physician let go of Zhao Zongquan's hand, Empress Dowager Cao hurriedly stepped forward to ask the imperial physician.

The imperial physician bowed and bowed and said, "Don't worry, Your Majesty is not seriously injured. He just fainted when he was anxious and fainted. When I put a needle for Your Majesty, I would wake up."

"Hurry the needle!" Empress Dowager Cao hurriedly urged.

The imperial physician hurriedly carried the needle for Zhao Zongquan, and finally released blood from his middle finger with an empty needle. Not long after, Zhao Zongquan on the dragon bed woke up quietly.

"Ying'er..." As soon as he woke up, Zhao Zongquan said with a sad face.

"The thing has happened, and the emperor still has to worry. Now that such a big thing has happened, Jiangnan is afraid that something will happen, so the emperor must not have any more accidents." Empress Dowager Cao looked at Zhao Zongquan and said with a worried look on his face.

After comforting Zhao Zongquan, he told the imperial physician to be guarding Zhao Zongquan. Then Empress Dowager Cao returned to her bedroom.

Before long, Han Zhang and several other grandpas rushed over. After visiting Zhao Zongquan, they came straight to find Empress Dowager Cao.

When Zhao Ceying died, Empress Dowager Cao did not feel sad, but instead breathed a sigh of relief, because Zhao Ceying was too capable and too radical, and he had been thinking about reforming the old system left by the late emperor. Empress Cao was once so angry that she couldn't swallow her food and couldn't sleep well by Zhao Zongquan, the father and son.

Now that Zhao Ceying is dead, Empress Dowager Cao is really relieved. Zhao Zongquan is weak and easy to grasp, but the most important thing at the moment is to find out the cause of Zhao Ceying's death, bring the murderer to justice, and tell the world.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Meet the Grandma!" Han Zhang and others bowed to Empress Dowager Cao and greeted her.

"No gifts and calmness!" Empress Dowager Cao looked at Han Zhang and others and spoke directly: "Now King Huan was assassinated in Yangzhou, the emperor and the queen were furious and fainted. Now in the court, we still have to rely on Grand Master Han and several of our husbands to support us!"

"What the Grand Empress said is very important now is to stabilize the court and soothe people's hearts. Now the court can no longer withstand turmoil!" Han Zhang said deeply.

The remaining few people hurriedly agreed.

Empress Dowager Cao asked: "What should I do about King Huan, how do you think of the matter?

Several people looked at Han Zhang, and Han Zhang immediately bowed and said, "Your Highness Huan went south this time to thoroughly investigate salt affairs. A few years ago, Your Highness Huan arrested more than 20 officials from all over the Lianghuai Salt Bureau, searched eight salt merchants, arrested dozens of salt merchants involved, and confiscated millions of silver. This matter must be inseparable from those salt merchants."

"A mere salt merchant dares to assassinate the prince of our dynasty?" Empress Dowager Cao said angrily.

Han Zhang said: "According to the recent report sent back to Yangzhou, His Highness Huan suffered multiple assassinations just before the New Year. Fortunately, his guards under his command tried to protect them, so he survived."

"It must be those salt merchants!" Gao Shangshu of the Ministry of Revenue also quickly agreed, and the rest of them also had the same opinion.

Empress Dowager Cao immediately ordered: "According to the Grand Grand Master, who should I send to supervise this matter now?"

Han Zhang said: "It is the cold winter month, shipping is blocked and the road is difficult to move. If you send people from Bianjing to Jiangnan again, you are afraid that time will not be enough."

"Ai family remembers that Wang Chong, deputy envoy of salt and iron, was also one of the officials accompanying him?" Empress Dowager Cao said: "Although Wang Chong is a little younger, he has the ability. After only a few years of going to Quanzhou, he has managed Quanzhou better and better. Since this is the case, let him supervise the matter of salt affairs and the case of assassination of King Huan."

"The Great Empress!" Han Zhang and others also knew that this was the best way to do this for the sake of the present.
Chapter completed!