The three of them returned to Prince Jing's Mansion and first paid their respects to Princess Lu Mingxue. Then they went to Situ Yi's courtyard.
"Brother, you should have something to say to me, right?"
Situ Yi smiled.
"Second brother, you are amazing. I went to the palace today. My uncle sent me to Lianzhou Prefecture to look for Brother Feng. I will be going there early tomorrow morning, so I will rely on you to take care of the family."
As a member of the royal family, Situ Chen nodded since he knew that the emperor sent his elder brother out not for fun.
"Go ahead. I'm at home, so you can rest assured."
He turned and said to Lu Ziyan who was sitting next to him.
"You stay here for a few days. Brother Xun wants to learn your shooting skills. You teach him."
When Lu Ziyan heard that it was Jiaoxun'er who was going to teach him how to use spear, he was naturally happy.
"Don't worry, second cousin. I will definitely teach third cousin how to shoot well."
The next morning, Situ Yi quietly left the capital and headed towards Lianzhou Prefecture.
Situ Hao and Lu Zifeng finally met in Lianzhou Prefecture. It turned out that they received a secret order from the emperor today. The garrison of Anzhou Prefecture, east of Lianzhou Prefecture, had secretly arrived in a mountain near Lianzhou Prefecture. The emperor ordered the two brothers Situ Hao and Situ Yi to lead this 60,000-strong army to be responsible for besieging Lianzhou Prefecture occupied by Prince Qing after Prince Qing raised the flag of rebellion.
The rest will be left to Lu Zifeng to execute.
"Alas, if this happens, the people of Lianzhou Prefecture will also suffer."
Lu Zifeng smiled at Situ Hao's remarks.
"From your words, I can tell you're not suited to leading troops. You know, kindness doesn't make for good military leadership. For the people of Lianzhou, this war is inevitable. From the day Prince Qing ordered Shen Laiqing to hide tens of thousands of troops in the mountains, the people of Lianzhou were destined to experience this. This is an unchangeable fact."
"People are so ignorant. They don't care whether Prince Qing wants to rebel or not. In their eyes, if Prince Qing doesn't raise the banner of rebellion, then if the Emperor wants to get rid of him, he will definitely be branded as someone who can't tolerate his brothers. This is something the Emperor doesn't want to see happen, and I guess even the ministers in the capital don't want to see it happen. So they can only wait for Prince Qing to raise the banner of rebellion. Now that it's a fait accompli, then it's only right for us to eliminate him. Not only will it not damage the Emperor's reputation, it might even improve it."
Situ Hao knew this very well. It was just that because a war broke out in Lianzhou Prefecture, the people here would inevitably suffer heavy casualties, and many people would be forced into the war.
Seeing that he was not in a good mood, Lu Zifeng said.
"Leave the city now. Situ Yi should be there soon. Once there, the two of you should not make any moves for the time being. Wait for my news. I will stay here. As long as Prince Qing doesn't leave Lianzhou Prefecture, I will not leave here."
Situ Hao nodded. "Well, I'll go first then. You must be careful here. Lu Dong is not around, only Lu Qiu is here. Don't expose yourself."
After seeing off Situ Hao, Lu Zifeng returned to the room and continued to monitor the movements of Prince Qing and his entourage. To be honest, Lu Zifeng could understand why the emperor asked Situ Yi and Situ Hao to lead the 60,000 troops to besiege Lianzhou City. In fact, the emperor made such arrangements because he knew that he was there, because this battle would be difficult to fight. If Prince Qing occupied Lianzhou City, Situ Hao and Situ Yi would only besiege it without attacking, waiting for him to kill Prince Qing, and things would naturally go smoothly afterwards.
Lu Mansion of Luzhou Prefecture.
Chang Lin looked at his subordinates standing below him.
"You mean, there are now many more people from the underworld in the village?"
"Well, some of those people in the martial arts world are known to the brothers. However, they are all not very presentable characters and their martial arts skills are not very high. However, there are quite a lot of them. I roughly counted them and there should be more than a hundred of them."
Hearing that there were so many people, Chang Lin was very curious about what those people were going to do.
"You go down first, let the brothers continue to watch."
After sending his men away, Chang Lin still contacted Lu Zifeng, and finally decided to let Feng Qing send some people to guard the area.
Lu Zifeng had no choice but to ask Feng Qing and the others to arrange people to guard there, because it was still uncertain whether those people were preparing to come to Lianzhou Prefecture, or whether it was a false move arranged by Prince Qing to attack Lianzhou Prefecture?
On the seventh day of October, there were only three days left before Prince Qing attacked Lianzhou Prefecture. Situ Hao and Situ Yi had already sent a message saying that they were ready and waiting to attack Lianzhou Prefecture.
Lu Zifeng told them not to worry, and learned the purpose of those people in the martial arts world through the secret guards of Chang Lin and Feng Qing. They were planning to attack Luzhou Prefecture before Prince Qing attacked Lianzhou Prefecture. However, it was people in the martial arts world who were going to attack Luzhou Prefecture. They were not going to capture Luzhou Prefecture, but to divert the attention of the court.
After discussing, Lu Zifeng and Situ Yi finally decided to ignore the attack from Luzhou Prefecture and just let Feng Qing and his men watch there, because the attack from Luzhou Prefecture was also a test from Prince Qing. If those people had just started the attack and Luzhou Prefecture reacted quickly, Prince Qing would probably not easily send troops to attack Lianzhou Prefecture. Then, all the preparations for such a long time would be in vain, which was something Lu Zifeng and the other two did not want to see.
On the eighth day of October, Lu Zifeng discovered that Prince Qing's men were heading towards Luzhou Prefecture. He immediately notified Chang Lin and asked him to keep an eye on the situation. He estimated that Luzhou Prefecture would be attacked by those people from the martial arts world in a day. He told Feng Qing and others that unless it was absolutely necessary, they should not come out to confront those people from the martial arts world for the time being, and only let the soldiers guarding the city take over.
In fact, Lu Zifeng knew that the soldiers guarding the city were no match for those people from the martial arts world, but in order to prevent King Qing from getting suspicious, he had to sacrifice these soldiers. This was also a helpless move.
On the ninth day of October, those gangsters started killing people directly in Luzhou Prefecture. Their target should be the Luzhou Prefecture Governor's Office.
Nan Qingyun, Chang Lin and Feng Qing were sitting in the prefectural yamen, listening to the secret guards reporting over and over again where these people had arrived.
Chang Lin and Feng Qing were once killers and thieves respectively, so they took these things lightly and listened with blank expressions. Nan Qingyun was different. He was a scholar and naturally had more compassion. Hearing that those people in the martial arts world had killed many civilians and were now fighting against the government soldiers and had also killed many of them, he felt so distressed that he could not express it in words. However, as a politician, he understood this. But whether he understood it or not was not important, he had to accept this fact.
"Report, those people have already attacked the government gate, sir, can you take action?"
Changlin and Fengqing both looked at you, Nan Qingyun, and Nan Qingyun nodded.
"Well, go ahead and get them all out. Feng Qing, have your men wear the uniforms of my Nan Family's Secret Guards!"
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