MTL - Poor Family-v2 Chapter 979 Assassinated at the city gate

  Chapter 979 Assassinated at the city gate

In the morning, Li Yanqing entered Lin'an City in two carriages under the strict guard of eighty personal soldiers and twenty female soldiers. One of the two carriages was empty, and Li Yanqing was sitting in the other carriage. , if there are attackers on the way, they will have to divide their forces to deal with two carriages, which will weaken the strength of the attackers virtually.

Today Li Yanqing is going to have an audience with the Emperor Zhao Gou, and personally present his report on the economic strategy of the West Road. Of course, this kind of report has been sent to the capital in advance, but it is a matter of attitude for him to personally report to the Emperor. No matter how dangerous the situation is, he must come to see the emperor.

   The journey was relatively safe, Li Yanqing soon arrived at the palace, all the guards were waiting outside the palace, and Hu Qinger led seven female guards to accompany him into the palace.

This is the main reason why Li Yanqing brought female guards to the capital. The palace did not allow him to bring his own personal guards into the palace, but Zhao Gou also understood his difficulties, so he agreed that women could enter the palace, which bypassed the palace and forbade outsiders The iron law of soldiers entering the palace.

Every female soldier is dressed in a palace uniform, which looks elegant, but they hide their murderous intentions. It was made of fine steel, and there were three throwing knives hidden in the soft armor. Hu Qing'er's belt was her whip blade. These seven female soldiers were Hu Qing'er's disciples, and they were all masters of concealed weapons.

Li Yanqing had to be on his guard. These palace guards were Liu Zhengyan's subordinates. If Liu Zhengyan attacked him in the palace, he would really die, especially now that the palace guards were holding real ones, not He had to be more careful with wooden ceremonial weapons.

  A group of beautiful court ladies surrounded Li Yanqing and walked towards the palace, attracting countless people's attention, and the soldiers were not good at searching them, as long as they didn't hold weapons, or had no obvious hidden weapons, they would be let in.

  Hu Qing'er led seven female soldiers surrounded by Li Yanqing to the apse of Chui Gong, where the Imperial Study Room was located, and the security was even stricter, and the eight female guards were not allowed to go inside.

Li Yanqing nodded to Hu Qing'er, took off the sword at his waist and handed it to Hu Qing'er, he has the right to bring the sword to the hall, but the sword here does not refer to the real sword, but the ceremonial sword without a front, Li Yanqing took a sword from a guard Wearing the Yi Sword on his body, he followed the guards to the Imperial Study Room.

   "His Royal Highness King Jin is here!"

  Following the guard's loud shout, the emperor Zhao Gou's hearty laughter soon came, "Yanqing, I finally have you here!" Zhao Gou went out of the imperial study to meet him in person.

  Li Yanqing hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down on one knee, clasping his fists, "I see you, Your Majesty!"

  Zhao Gou hurriedly helped Li Yanqing up, and said with a smile, "You are my brother-in-law, brother-in-law and brother-in-law don't need to perform this big gift!"

   "Your Majesty, the courtesy of a monarch and his ministers cannot be discarded."

   "I know, but you can keep it simple."

The arrival of Li Yanqing made Zhao Gou happy from the bottom of his heart. In the past few years, Li Yanqing saved the dangerous situation in the Northwest Three Routes, seized the East Road in the east, destroyed the Xixia Kingdom in the north, forced the Kingdom of Jin to seek peace, and turned the crisis into peace in the Song Dynasty. The territory was opened up, and the territory reached as far as Dunhuang, Shazhou, which made the Song Dynasty gradually enter ZTE.

   These are all the credit of Li Yanqing, and of course Zhao Gou's great achievements. On this point, the interests of the two are completely consistent.

Although Li Yanqing has too much power, Zhao Gou is somewhat afraid, but Zhao Gou knows that it is not the time to talk about this matter. He must find a suitable opportunity, or find a solution that is acceptable to both parties, such as Li Yanqing's son came to Beijing to study.

  When Zhao Gou heard that Li Yanqing really brought his son, he immediately felt a lot better.

  The two walked into the imperial study room and sat down. Zhao Gou asked with a smile, "I read your report, and you mentioned in the report that you should properly support the enemies of the Kingdom of Jin. I don't know what you mean by that?"

Li Yanqing smiled slightly, "My minister refers to supporting the tribes of the grassland to fight against the Kingdom of Jin. Now the main force of the Kingdom of Jin is attacking the grassland in Mobei, trying to conquer the grassland. The tribes of the grassland were originally attached to the Liao Kingdom, and the Liao Kingdom has been oppressing them a lot. It is deep, and the force is strictly limited, so that they can't buy armor at all. After Xixia was destroyed, several grassland tribe chiefs approached Weichen and wanted to exchange cattle and sheep for armor. Weichen exchanged 100,000 sets of Xixia armor Five million cattle and sheep, these cattle and sheep are currently used to reward the three armies, there are still some left, and I plan to transport them to the capital to give to the court."

  Zhao Gou is not interested in cattle and sheep. He is more interested in supporting the grassland tribes themselves. First, he can contain the Jin Kingdom, and second, whether he can make the grassland tribes turn to rely on the Song Dynasty. This is the focus of an emperor.

   "Is it effective to resell the weapons to the grassland tribes?"

Li Yanqing nodded, "It should be said that the effect is remarkable. Last month, the two sides fought a series of battles in the southern grassland. Tens of thousands of Jin soldiers were wiped out and had to retreat to the east. Although the grassland tribes also suffered heavy losses, compared to the previous The fate of the massacre is much better, at least they can unite to resist the conquest of the Jinbing, and I hope that the Jinbing can be stuck in the grassland for several years and wear out its elite."

  Zhao Gou nodded, "This matter is very important, please continue to pay attention to it!"

   "The minister obeys the order!"

  Zhao Gou laughed again: "Besides the content in the report, what good news does the Economic and Strategic Envoy have to share with me?"

  Li Yanqing pondered for a while and said: "I came here by the Yangtze River and found that Dongting Lake is seriously infested with bandits. I hope His Majesty can send troops to wipe them out as soon as possible so that the people can live and work in peace."

"In fact, I already know about this matter. I sent Cheng Changyu, the governor of Dingzhou, to lead the army to suppress the bandits, but it was unsuccessful. I am considering sending Li Gang as the governor of Yuezhou, to lead the army to suppress the bandits. Is there any capable general you can recommend?"

Li Yanqing smiled slightly and said: "Li Gang will be very competent as a pacifier, but I am afraid that he will be a bit powerless to lead the army to suppress the bandits. I recommend Yue Fei, the governor of Jingxiang, to lead the army to suppress the bandits. I believe that he will cooperate with Li Gang and win the victory." Bandits win."

  Zhao Gou nodded, "This matter is feasible, but let me think about the specific plan for a while. If it is feasible, I can issue an order in the afternoon."

   Li Yanqing then reported to Zhao Gou the current situation of Lingxia Road and Hexi Road, and proposed the idea of ​​relocating Han people to Lingxia Road. Zhao Gou greatly supported him, saying that he would urge Zhizheng Tang to discuss settlement expenses.

  The two talked for about an hour and a half, a full three hours, before Li Yanqing left the palace and returned to Chi'ankou Town.

Li Yanqing's carriage was escorted by personal soldiers and walked slowly along the Royal Street. For today's interview, Li Yanqing basically expected it. The emperor Zhao Gou didn't mention the power reduction and proton issues at all, maybe it wasn't Zhao Gou I don't want to, but today is not the time, Zhao Gou will not make this request to himself in person, and will probably find a middleman.

  The team gradually reached Yongjin Gate, where people came and went, and it was extremely lively. Several soldiers stood guard at the city gate.

  As Li Yanqing's team approached, passers-by stepped aside one after another to let this murderous team go first, but the team did not reveal the identity of the owner of the carriage, otherwise the street would be full of people again.

The first carriage entered the city gate, and at this moment, a black figure suddenly descended from the sky, stabbing fiercely into the carriage with a spear in his hand, and seven or eight black shadows shot out from both sides, raising their crossbows together and shooting into the carriage. The blue arrow pierced through the carriage in an instant, and even shot eight poisonous arrows in a row, and the people inside had no way of avoiding it.

  It's just a pity that they were unlucky. When Li Yanqing came, he sat in the first carriage, but when he returned, he took the second carriage. The first carriage was empty. The other party was obviously gambling, but unfortunately lost.

   There was a sudden commotion all around, Hu Qinger was furious, and shot out a flying knife casually, the black-clothed assassin on the roof of the car couldn't dodge, was shot in the left chest by the extremely fast flying knife, and fell off the carriage with a scream.

The rest of the soldiers had already reacted. They were very angry and swung their knives to kill the eight assassins together. The other dozen female soldiers raised their shields to guard the front, back, left, and right sides of the carriage. Operated by hand, it can penetrate the human body within ten steps.

  The surrounding people were also in chaos, stumbling and fleeing in all directions.

The assassins obviously just wanted to hit with one blow, and they didn't want to fight, so they scattered and fled, but they couldn't beat Hu Qinger's flying knives. , and three other people were surrounded by Li Yanqing's personal soldiers, and they were dismembered. Only two assassins got into the houses and escaped.

   Until then, a large group of soldiers came from all directions, and Hu Qinger almost went mad, pointing at the soldiers and cursing them as useless.

  At this time, a female soldier rushed over and said, "General Hu, I want you to see if the assassin is still alive?"

  Hu Qing’er came to her senses now, she remembered that the assassin on the roof of the car might not be dead, so she hurriedly searched around, when the guards suddenly shouted, “Here’s a survivor!”

  (end of this chapter)