On the third day after the left and right guards of Ganyang Army left Ganyang City, Sun Hao was practicing martial arts in the house he had just moved into. Yuan Kui, the chief constable of East Market, suddenly came to visit and said that Chen Fengshi, the governor of Pizhou, wanted to see Sun Hao.
"Captain Yuan, I wonder why the governor summoned me?" Sun Hao asked with some confusion.
Captain Yuan Kui hesitated for a moment and said, "The governor wants to ask Master Sun for a favor. As for the specific matter, let the governor explain it to Master Sun!"
Chen Fengshi is in his early forties this year. He was a second-class Jinshi in the Daliang calendar in 371. He served as a county magistrate for three years and a county governor for six years. Later, he was transferred to the Ministry of Revenue.
Last year, Chen Fengshi was transferred from his position as the head of the Ministry of Revenue to Pizhou to serve as the governor.
After seeing Sun Hao, Chen Fengshi said directly: "Sun Hao, I want you to go to Gule Kingdom!"
It turned out that Princess Huaqing, who was married to the distant Gule Kingdom, sent her confidant to Ganyang City, hoping that the Liang court would send people to the capital of Gule Kingdom to find a way to rescue her and her son.
Princess Huaqing is the cousin of the current emperor of Liang. She was sent to Gule Kingdom as a marriage partner ten years ago and became the third queen of the then king of Gule Kingdom. She was also the first queen of the Liang clan since the founding of Gule Kingdom.
Although more than 80% of the over 10 million people in Gule Kingdom are of the Liang ethnic group, it is the white people from the Western Regions who rule Gule Kingdom. This has also meant that the Liang ethnic group, who make up the majority of the people in Gule Kingdom, have always had no status.
Since Princess Huaqing married into the Gule Kingdom, because she was loved by the king of Gule Kingdom, the situation of the Liang people in Gule Kingdom improved a lot. Even among the high-ranking officials of Gule Kingdom, there were people of the Liang people.
The King of Gule even considered enthroning the Nineteenth Prince, his son with Princess Huaqing, as the heir to the throne of Gule.
However, a few months ago, the king of Gule suddenly died, and several princes who controlled the military power chose to go to war in order to fight for the throne.
After several months of fighting, the capital of the Gule Kingdom, Iron Lion City, was always controlled by the second prince Sadiq, while Princess Huaqing and the nineteenth prince Eniwal were kept under house arrest by the second prince Sadiq in the royal palace of Iron Lion City.
No matter which prince wins the war in the end, the nineteenth prince Eniwal, who has Liang blood, will pose a huge potential threat to the new king of Gule. After all, most of the population of Gule are from the Liang clan.
That is why Princess Huaqing hoped that the Liang court would take her and her son back to Liang. Otherwise, when the new king of Gule ascended the throne, her son would most likely be secretly executed.
After listening to Chen Fengshi's explanation, Sun Hao asked in confusion: "My Lord, to bring Princess Huaqing back to the country, the Ganyang Army should send people to the Gule Kingdom.
I wonder why the governor found me?"
Chen Fengshi smiled bitterly and said, "I won't hide it from you. Commander Cao has already selected more than 200 brave soldiers from the Ganyang Army and disguised them as a merchant caravan to Iron Lion City, the capital of Gule State.
As a result, I received news yesterday that the more than 200 Ganyang Army soldiers who arrived at Iron Lion City failed in their operation and were completely wiped out."
After a pause, Chen Fengshi continued, "Now, the most elite left and right guards of the Ganyang Army are being led by Commander Cao himself to rescue Shuoyuan City.
Rather than recruiting new men from the remaining vanguard and rearguard of the Ganyang Army, I think it would be better for you to lead your soldiers to Iron Lion City to rescue Princess Huaqing and her son."
Sun Hao was of course extremely reluctant to go to Gulue State. He was just thinking about how to tactfully refuse this matter when Chen Fengshi continued, "I will not let you serve the court in vain.
If you are willing to take on this mission, I will allow the Sanshui Society to annex all six remaining branches of the Qingyun Society immediately. I will also have Captain Yuan cooperate with the Sanshui Society."
Sun Hao was stunned when he heard this. "My Lord Governor, what if I accept this mission and go to Iron Lion City in Gule Kingdom, but can't rescue Princess Huaqing and her son?"
"Regardless of whether it succeeds in the end or not, as long as you agree to take on this mission, the remaining six branches of Qingyun Society will belong to your Sanshui Society."
Afterwards, Chen Fengshi said to Sun Hao earnestly, "Princess Huaqing's son is very important to Daliang.
Perhaps with him, Daliang will be able to fulfill its long-cherished wish and establish the Western Regions Protectorate in the Gule Kingdom.
Therefore, I hope you can do your utmost to bring Princess Huaqing and her son back to Ganyang City."
Chief Constable Yuan Kui and Sun Hao left the provincial government office together, and Chief Constable Yuan Kui also told Chen Fengshi another reason why he allowed the Sanshui Society to annex the Qingyun Society.
According to the division of the provincial government, Qingyun Society, like Sanshui Society, also needs to take on the task of resettling 25,000 disaster victims.
It is said that Han Wei, the leader of Qingyun Society, was not only perfunctory in resettling the disaster victims, causing many people to starve to death in recent days, but also forcibly sent some young women among the 25,000 disaster victims to various brothels and whorehouses under the name of Qingyun Society.
Sun Hao said to Yuan Kui with a confused look on his face, "Captain Yuan, our Sanshui Association has been keeping an eye on Qingyun Society recently.
When it comes to handling disaster victims, Qingyun Society did just as well as our Sanshui Society, so how could such a rumor have arisen?
Yuan Kui smiled slightly, "Master Sun, it doesn't matter whether it's a rumor or not. The governor doesn't want to hear the name of Qingyun Society in Ganyang City anymore."
Sun Hao said thoughtfully, "It seems that Captain Yuan is also very dissatisfied with Han Wei."
"Han Wei was too arrogant and domineering in the past, and there were too many people in the provincial government who were dissatisfied with him."
Early in the morning of June 22, 387 in the Daliang calendar, explosive news suddenly spread throughout Ganyang City.
Last night, Qingyun Society's leader Han Wei, deputy leader Cao Qing, and the remaining six hall masters of Qingyun Society all died in Qingyun Society's headquarters - Qingyun Escort Agency.
At the same time, Qingyun Society's territories in East City and South City suffered a large-scale raid by Sanshui Society. Overnight, all of Qingyun Society's strongholds fell into the hands of Sanshui Society.
The Qingyun Society, once one of the seven major gangs in Ganyang City, has now been completely destroyed.
The Sanshui Society, which had annexed all of Qingyun Society's territories and most of its members, replaced Qingyun Society and officially became one of the seven major gangs in Ganyang City.
The other six major gangs all knew that the Ganyang Protectorate and the provincial government had previously issued a ceasefire order to the Sanshui Society and the Qingyun Society.
Now the Sanshui Society suddenly took action against the Qingyun Society and completely swallowed up the Qingyun Society, which was tantamount to slapping the face of the Ganyang Protectorate and the provincial government.
But what the other six gangs did not expect was that the Ganyang Protectorate and the provincial government seemed to turn a blind eye to the matter and did not bother the Sanshui Gang at all.
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