When everyone looked back, they saw that the commander's backyard was also on fire.
The fire was actually quite fierce.
Seeing this, Wang Tengyun hurriedly said, "Quick, go put out the fire."
The surrounding guards and the Imperial City Division soldiers sent by Yao Bin to assist them in the investigation were about to rush into the barracks.
In a flash, Wang Anshi suddenly realized something was wrong and shouted, "Wait!"
Everyone stopped and looked at him.
Wang Anshi looked at the errand boy running over, his eyes fixed on him. This man was too suspicious, so he shouted sternly, "Catch him!"
While everyone was stunned, the man's eyes showed fear at first, but he seemed to remember something. Sweat poured down his forehead. Then he gritted his teeth, took out an ox horn knife from his waist, and stabbed Wang Anshi fiercely.
Fortunately, the guards next to him did not leave. Immediately, someone on either side cut off his arm that was stabbing Wang Anshi with a knife, and another person stabbed him to death.
"How did you kill him?"
Wang Anshi frowned.
The guard beside him said helplessly: "There is nothing we can do. We are afraid of hurting the envoy."
It was really not him who acted as an accomplice to silence the witnesses. After all, the thousands of people sent to protect the envoys were all reliable elite soldiers selected from the Bianliang Imperial Guards.
The situation was urgent and there was nothing they could do.
Wang Anshi was thinking when he suddenly caught a glimpse of several other men in soldier uniforms sneaking out of the camp in the darkness. He shouted, "Catch those people."
Everyone rushed over immediately. Seeing that their plan was exposed, those few people had no choice but to run away. However, they were no match for the elite imperial guards and were quickly caught up.
After a fight between the two sides, two people were killed on the spot and the other three were captured.
Wang Anshi immediately arranged for separate interrogations.
By the next day, the matter had been investigated thoroughly.
These five people are the death squads sent by the Yang family.
The sons of nobles and nobles were able to act tyrannically in the camp, naturally not by themselves, but by raising a group of loyal thugs.
These people are often their close subordinates in the camp, who do dirty work for them, such as reselling arms, trafficking in contraband, and even killing people.
This was a common practice during the Song Dynasty. Historical records show that when Xia Song was the commander-in-chief, he sent his soldiers to the border to sell goods for huge profits. Sun Mian also mobilized his troops to serve as his transport assistants.
However, most of the goods were legal, so most of the generals in the army, including Xia Song, were not implicated. Except for those who sold contraband, they were often tacitly approved by the court.
After all, the law only prohibits officials themselves from doing business, but does not prohibit officials from sending their soldiers to do business. Anything that is not prohibited by law is allowed. Even when Zhao Jun wanted to deal with Xia Song, he couldn't use this point to make a fuss.
But letting his soldiers do legitimate business is one thing, and doing illegal things is another.
Murder and robbery, disposal of corpses, reselling of weapons, organizing gambling in the military camp, eating up the empty quotas, etc., were basically done by the cronies of these senior officers.
The same is true this time.
They were sent to attack Wang Anshi.
Since Wang Anshi was escorted by local officials and the Imperial City Administration along the way, they had no chance to take action.
Once they entered the military camp, it would be impossible for them to mobilize soldiers to attack the imperial envoy.
Although the soldiers were intimidated by their power and did not dare to speak out what they had done, they were not fools.
They were forced to keep it secret, but if they attacked the imperial envoy, it would be a crime punishable by extermination of the entire clan and death, so naturally no one would follow them.
However, they still had one or two trusted confidants in the army who were familiar with the military camp situation. They set fire to create chaos and sent the soldiers to the distant material house to put out the fire.
When the trusted confidant comes to report, he will set fire to the backyard to attract the imperial envoy and the guards of the Imperial City Administration.
At this time, there were only two or three people around the imperial envoy. They ran out from the backyard and met up with the trusted confidants. They pretended to be soldiers from the camp and suddenly attacked the imperial envoy, killing him and running away.
As for the trusted confidant who had spread the value, he would most likely be silenced. But he had no other choice. His family was under arrest, and even though he knew it was a capital crime, he had no choice but to go.
"What a cruel plan!"
The next day, Wang Tengyun, who hadn't slept all night, told Wang Anshi the results of the interrogation with panda eyes, and sighed: "If it weren't for my dear brother Jiefu's wit, I'm afraid we would both have become ghosts under the knife!"
"They are so brave to attack the envoy."
Wang Anshi's face was solemn. He looked up at the sky outside the door and said, "This matter must be reported to the Supreme Court as soon as possible. I am worried that other envoys will be attacked as well."
"Well, report back immediately!"
Wang Tengyun nodded.
Now.
Both of them immediately wrote official documents, stamped them with their seals, and sent them as expedited documents through the channels of the Imperial City Office and the Censorate of Daming Prefecture.
The clerks from the two departments who were responsible for delivering official documents were asked to change horses but not people and send them back to Bianliang at an expedited speed of 800 miles!
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