Unable to rely on others, Yu Zizhen could only take three approaches on his own.
On the one hand, she ordered people to quickly take away the students who led the trouble, and on the other hand, she asked her subordinates to create various "accidents" on the route that Lu Dingchang's troops had to pass. At the same time, she personally went out and pretended to meet Lu Dingchang by chance to stop his troops.
Soon, many small accidents occurred on the route that Lu Dingchang's troops had to pass. For example, the walls along the street suddenly collapsed, and bricks and rubble blocked the road. A carriage carrying wood suddenly fell apart, and the wood rolled all over the ground, blocking the road. A house suddenly caught fire somewhere, and firefighters blocked the road. In short, there was nothing that Lu Dingchang could not think of that would not happen today.
Lu Dingchang suppressed his inner urgency and repeatedly ordered his subordinates to take a detour. At the same time, those students who gathered together and wanted to file a complaint to the emperor were either killed by Yu Zizhen's subordinates out of the blue, or simply mixed into the crowd and sprinkled with powder.
While kidnapping people, they did not forget to yell at those scholars who had not been "killed" and were looking at them with shocked expressions.
"The Leopard Guards are coming soon. If you don't want to die, get away quickly!"
"Justice is important, but life is not?"
"Thinking of eggs hitting rocks, isn't that stupid? You all deserve to have your heads chopped off as military merits!"
"Why aren't you running? Do you think you can beat the Leopard Guards just by standing there like an idiot?"
"As long as the green mountains remain, there will be no shortage of firewood. You don't even understand this. Have you all become stupid from studying?"
“.......”
A group of scholars watched helplessly as pedestrians, vendors, and rickshaw drivers who were walking peacefully, suddenly attacked and kidnapped the leaders of their team as they passed by.
They reacted and were about to rally everyone to rescue the people, but the kidnappers not only didn't feel guilty and didn't run away, but instead turned around and yelled at them...
The scholars who had reached the stage of participating in the Spring Examination were at least smart. After listening to the shouting of the crowd, they quickly realized that this group of people might not be here to harm them, but to save them.
Those who reacted quickly immediately grabbed their friends and prepared to run away. Those who reacted slowly, those who were still doubtful, and the very few who believed their warnings but were stubborn and insisted on fighting against each other, were all pulled or pushed away by their classmates who knew the situation and reacted quickly.
Seeing this, Yu Zizhen's subordinates immediately took the students they had knocked unconscious and ran away.
As for Yu Zizhen, she was feeling sorry for her ruined houses and shops, and at the same time she was mentally wishing to punish Lu Dingchang and his stupid brother-in-law with a thousand cuts.
Those shops and houses that caught fire and collapsed were all bought by her and then transferred to other fake identities. In other words, the damage caused by these so-called "accidents" was all her money!
She rode her horse, seemingly wandering aimlessly, muttering to herself, "Those two bastards, just wait, I'm going to make them pay until they're bankrupt!"
Feng Yuan, who followed behind her to protect her, had a puzzled look on his face. He didn't understand what Yu Zizhen was talking about, just like he didn't understand why Yu Zizhen was wandering around here.
Just when he was struggling over whether he should ask directly, Yu Zizhen finally stopped wandering around. She rode her horse forward and blocked Lu Dingchang, who was leading at least two thousand soldiers.
"Hey, isn't this from the Five Military Commandery...who is it?"
Feng Yuan: ...
Lu Dingchang: ...
Lu Dingchang's trusted subordinates: ...
The corner of Lu Dingchang's eye twitched slightly, and Feng Yuan hurried over to remind Yu Zizhen quietly, "Sir, this is Lord Lu, the former Grand Commander of the Five Military Commands."
"Oh, yes, Lord Lu." Yu Zizhen slapped his forehead, "Look at my memory."
Lu Dingchang's mouth and eyes twitched at this moment. If he didn't have something urgent to do, he would have really wanted to ask Yu Zizhen if he had a grudge against him, otherwise why would this kid slap his forehead so hard?
"Prince Yu." Lu Dingchang suppressed the inappropriate thoughts in his mind and nodded coldly at Yu Zizhen.
Yu Zizhen looked at him and the soldiers he brought with him with curiosity, "What are you doing?"
"Official business. Please don't interfere with us, my lord."
Yu Zizhen was immediately displeased when he heard this. "I just happened to meet Lord Lu and said hello to you. How did that hinder you and your subordinates? Isn't it a shame to put such a big blame on me? You are from the Five Armies Commandery. If I hinder your official duties, wouldn't that be the same as hindering military affairs? You are trying to kill me!"
She changed from her previous kind look, the curiosity and smile on her face disappeared, replaced by a face full of grievance and anger.
Lu Dingchang had a bad feeling and frowned, "Your Highness, you are worrying too much. I have no such intention."
"If you say no, then there's no more?" Yu Zizhen started throwing a tantrum. "You're saying I'm obstructing official business! Wuuuuuuu—who did I offend? I just greeted you. How could I be so polite and make a mistake?"
She wiped away nonexistent tears and said, "No, I can't just believe everything you say! You said you were here on official business, right? I even said you were bringing troops into the city without permission!"
She raised her chin high and said, "Unless you show me the transfer order from the Ministry of War, I won't admit that I have interfered with military affairs!"
Upon hearing her words, Lu Dingchang's already small eyes narrowed into slits.
He reasonably suspected that Yu Zizhen did not accidentally see him leading troops into the city, but had received the news and deliberately brought people here to block him in order to prove his crime of leading troops into the city without an order.
When he thought of this, Lu Dingchang broke out in a cold sweat.
His mind was full of thoughts at the moment, "Yu Zizhen knows everything, so what about the others? Are the people from the Fan and Yang factions already writing memorials to report me?"
In the Great Qi Dynasty, the Five Military Commandery only had the power to command troops, and the order to dispatch troops came from the Ministry of War. Once the charge of him leading troops into the city without authorization was proven, his position as the commander-in-chief of the front army would be over.
With the main branch of the Lu family mediating for his release, he might not have died, but exile and confiscation of property were inevitable.
Lu Dingchang didn't want to get himself into trouble for his brother-in-law, so he decisively rejected Yu Zizhen's request. "If the Crown Prince doesn't admit it, then don't admit it. I never said that the Crown Prince was interfering with military affairs."
After saying that, Lu Dingchang didn't waste any more words with Yu Zizhen, but took his subordinates and took a detour.
But this time he was not in a hurry to chase those students, but was anxious to find the people in their department who were in the Ministry of War.
He needed to get the transfer order from the Ministry of War immediately to prove the legality of leading troops into the city.
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