Chapter 15 The slightly fishy sea breeze

The slightly salty, damp and cold wind blew over from the sea, making Fan Xian’s cheeks cold, he coldly looked at the group of densely packed soldiers under the stage, but inwardly he was gradually becoming calm.

The most critical and dangerous time to deal with the sailors was last night, but by daytime, the most dangerous time had already passed, so he didn’t have anything to worry too much about.

Those who do not understand the inside story of the generals and state officials, all thought that the Lord Qinzai is only first praise and then depreciate, immediately will be the most inhumane attack on the water division governor Chang Kun, in the brilliant sun, to the water division generals and soldiers to explain to the heartlessness of Chang Kun, as well as the court’s disposal of the views of him, so when they really heard the next words of Fan Xian, can not help but shocked at the little Lord Fan did not begin to whip the body.

Fan Xian’s voice, which carried extremely far across the vast playground, was only gently and sadly recalling the great deeds that Chang Kun, the governor of the navy, had done for Qing, only honoring the dead man with a sorrowful expression and sincere eyes, without mentioning a single word about the small island in the East China Sea or about the navy’s collusion with the city of Dongyi both inside and outside of the city.

Wu Ge Fei and that old Qin family’s third general exchanged glances, then slowly inclined their heads; last night Fan Xian had already conveyed the palace’s meaning to these important people, so they were not surprised.

Chang Kun was a first rank governor, and there was no strong evidence obtained as to who exactly that hand behind him was, and although it was known that the Rapunzel’s Junshan Society had played an important role in the process, under the current circumstances, the court was unwilling to expose itself to a clear and proper punishment that would bring Chang Kun to the ground.

A first-ranking officer, a military official, but collusion with pirates, foreign enemies, this fact once spread throughout the world, the face of the court of Qing dynasty where to put it? His Majesty’s face where to put it?

Want just Chang Kun can never again in the Jiaozhou naval division, as for the moral evaluation after his death, the Qing emperor and Fan Xian in fact do not care much, with the smallest cost to complete this thing, is the first task.

Of course, this mouth must be the emperor must be swallowed, only to wait for some days, Kyoto situation is very stable, the emperor will be those who dare to make small moves behind the back of the family swept away, Changkun will naturally still be dug out of the grave, filing bones and ashes, body and name broken.

After a flurry of praise was finished, Fan Xian’s face was already as cold as a stone in seawater, and his face was unsightly.

“Last night this official first arrived in Jiaozhou, I wanted to have a secret talk with the governor of the Lord, to thoroughly investigate the matter of collusion between a part of the naval division and the sea bandits …… which I do not know, the Lord’s appearance has not yet been seen, s people have gone. Who is it, dare so heartless in the governor’s mansion in the murder? Who is it that dares to rush in before the court investigates the case, with this kind of rampant means of resistance? Who, after the incident, attempted to kill the officials and generals in the entire Governor’s Mansion in order to silence them? Who was it, who secretly mobilized the sailors and incited the military last night with the intention of stirring up commotion and occupying Jiaozhou, wanting to engulf all this darkness in blood and water?”

“Who …… is it?”

(Who is too tired, omitted below)

Yesterday night in the sailor’s camp there is indeed a strange movement, and rumors have been circulating, but until today on the high platform above the Lord of the Qinzai detailed, these sailors officers and soldiers only know that the governor of the Lord Chang Kun was actually not forced to die by the court, but was bought and killed, and the sailor among the sailor even some generals dare to collude with the pirates, and dare to secretly fight against the imperial court!

Naturally, not everyone believes, at least Chang Kun and the party primrose wave of cronies will not believe, so the field of soldiers in the gradual noise, some people began to shout: “party general where? Where is General Party!”

Another person shouted, “Where did the pirates come from?”

The crowd was angry, the soldiers’ hearts were easily provoked, and the crowd gradually crowded over to the front of the high platform.

Fan Xian’s face was calm, and he smiled faintly.

Xu Maocai gave a wink to his own cronies on the stage, and the school officials who were interspersed amongst the soldiers, with a twinkle in their eyes, began to shout, “Avenge Lord Titus! Kill that son of a bitch!”

Who the hell is the son of a bitch, tens of thousands of soldiers are not clear, but this shout, but just fit the sailor officers and soldiers of the sad and depressed atmosphere, so gradually shouting in unison, sound vibration seaside sky, but intentionally or unintentionally, those who are harboring ghosts, unwilling to be bound to death of the military generals of the provocation of the suppression.

Fan Xian flat raised his hands, slightly a press, face grimly said: “the sky has no eyes, the sky has the heart, those heartless thugs, last night has been captured, after the case is closed, naturally, the punishment, in order to pay tribute to the Lord Governor in heaven.”

“Who?” Sailor officers and soldiers looked at each other, are speculating which of the military actually have such great courage. Looking at the high platform, there were a few less generals than in the past, and some smart people gradually guessed a little.

As expected, Fan Xian next read a few people’s names, are the water division in the past status of several respected generals, party primrose wave’s name is listed in the first.

The voice on the platform clearly told the 10,000 people that it was these several generals in the navy who had acted as rat droppings.

Speaking, from the right back of the stage was escorted up five blood covered generals, these are the few people in the governor’s mansion on Fan Xian yesterday night, at this time these people face pale, disheveled spirit, after being tortured, even can’t stand steadily, directly kneeling in front of Fan Xian, also don’t know what means of the Supervisory Yuan, although these people have a sinister face of wrathful color, but can’t open their mouths to cry out for justice.

The tens of thousands of generals under the stage quieted down at the same time, and looked at the scene on the stage with complicated eyes, and watched those generals who were usually high and mighty, kneeling in front of their own eyes, with their heads hanging low, and their hair tangled up in a mess, and they were miserable beyond measure.

Deadly quiet, Fan Xian looked at this scene, hand behind his back, making a gesture of preparing to clench his fist.

As expected, a sharp cry suddenly came out from amongst the quiet soldiers: ”Lord Titus was killed by those people on the stage! Traitorous dry soldiers! General Dang is innocent!”

Party Snapdragon has his own inner circle, the troops going to the East China Sea have their own ideas from top to bottom, they all understand what this scene is aimed at, naturally they will not be willing to watch things continue according to the arrangement of the Lord Qinzhi. With this shout, several other voices immediately shouted out, full of anger and hatred, aiming their spearheads at Fan Xian and the rest of the generals and officials on the stage.

These people were all in the direct line of Chang Kun and Party Primrose, and the lower and middle level school officials were always extremely capable of influencing the officers and soldiers under their command, so when they shouted out, the stage was in chaos, and the navy officers and soldiers, who had been put on edge by the rumors, were even more unsure of whose word to believe, while thousands of officers and soldiers began to go forward to the front and crowd in.

Fan Xian narrowed his eyes and stared over there, just staring at those few people who were leading the shouting, and then tightened his hand behind his back and clenched it into a fist.

The third general standing behind him grimaced, forced to make up his mind by Fan Xian, for he was also well aware that if it was true that if there was ever a mutiny, he himself would only be torn to shreds if he stood on the stage.

So he stood to Fan Xian’s side, his eyes shining brightly as he shouted furiously, “Dog days, want to revolt? You don’t even believe in the words of Lord Qin and us!”

Although this person came to the water division not long ago, but after all, the position is where, he drank out, the following situation is slightly better, but still lurks a dangerous inducement, those party Snapdragon’s believers are still potentially in the shadows, constantly instigating, shouting insults.

At this moment, Xu Maocai followed Fan Xian’s gesture and gave a second order with his eyes.

Immediately, a different kind of voice arose among the officers and soldiers on the stage.

“Kill the Party Snapdragon! Avenge Lord Titus!”

There was only one shout, and it did not create a rolling thunder of sound, but Fan Xian was already smiling gently, amiably heeding public opinion and nodding to his side.

Hong Changqing and a few sailor generals with unusually ugly faces walked over to Fan Xian’s side, pulled out the straight swords that were attached to their sides, and stomped on the backs of those Changkun cronies, stomping those offending generals to the ground before slashing down.

With four clicks, the sharp knife hacked into those sturdy neck columns, breaking the skin, cutting the flesh, releasing the blood, breaking the bones, and letting that head leave the body, rolling on top of the high platform in a bone-jarring manner, spraying out a big spread of blood.

The headless sailor general’s body bounced and convulsed for a few moments on top of the high platform, and then returned to silence and death.

On the stage and off the stage once again fell into silence, and the sailor officers and soldiers below looked at this scene …… with a dumbfounded look, thinking, just like this dead? The case has not even been tried yet, the Lord Qinzai just killed these several generals?

Fan Xian frowned at the blood not far from his feet, and not far from his own side of the heavy breathing, the face of the party primrose wave, and then lifted his head and smiled and said, “Meet your wishes, but the party primrose wave is the first evil, to be escorted to Kyoto …… only to send him a lingering death, in order to let the governor adults to close their eyes in peace. ”

This is some shameless, but the sailor officers and soldiers under the stage do not think so, just look at the young man on the stage wearing a flashy official uniform, feel a chilling cold from the depths of the heart.

In fact, the navy officers and soldiers are not fools, they will not believe that the party generals will kill Chang Tidu, for one thing, there is no reason, and secondly, everyone knows the intimate relationship between the two. But at this time, four heads on the stage, the people are clear, the Lord of the Qinzhi is dare to kill, willing to kill, often Governor has died, party primrose has been ambushed, even if the court is doing cleaning, but their own when the soldiers, and did not follow these two adults to get a lot of benefits, what can be done?

Is it really swarmed to kill the high platform of the Lord of the Qinzhi, and then fall into the weeds, and the whole world as the enemy?

Being bloodthirsty doesn’t mean being animalistic and not thinking with one’s head, so the tens of thousands of officers and soldiers under the stage were silent, including those school officials who were still intent on inciting a riot earlier were silent, lowering themselves down, thinking about how to sneak out of the water division.

Killing to establish authority, Fan Xian looked at the stage with satisfaction, knowing that Xu Maocai’s words were indeed right.

However, things are not over yet, on the stage there are still the party Snapdragon’s inner circle, there are Chang Kun’s diehards, if these people are not pulled out, how can the Jiaozhou sailors call it peace?

Fan Xian stood on the high platform and said, “Last night, someone in the sailor division got a secret order from Dang Snapdragon, intending to lead the army to attack the city, this kind of heartless and rebellious behavior is naturally not to be lightly spared.”

As soon as the words fell, the sound of horses’ hooves outside the camp came like storm clouds. All of them deflected their bodies and looked there nervously.

A group of cavalrymen covered in black armor galloped down from above a small slope, hard crossbows in their saddles, stern swords at their waists, one hand controlling the reins, the other carrying sacks, and with a rare harnessing technique in the world, they came to the sailor’s camp, bringing up a stream of smoke and dust, and a trio of spectral meanings.

Black rider!

Sailor officers and soldiers or the first time to see this legend kills like a man, dark as a ghost of one of the strongest cavalry of the Qing Dynasty, have exclaimed, more do not understand what these people come here to do, if it is to kill people, the number of this one hundred riders is not too small.

The hundred black riders drove under the high platform, stood on their horses and saluted Fan Xian, then threw the sacks in their hands to the ground, and with their horses’ bellies together, they traveled in two semicircles along the high platform, separating on both sides of the platform.

At the same time, on the hill behind the left side of the sailor’s tent, two rows of cavalry appeared silently and quietly, like two hard black lines, deeply wedged in the hill above the beams, and made a preparatory gesture for the impact on the sailor’s officers and soldiers below.

The sailors and soldiers were in an uproar.

Sacks inside all the heads, or blood stained face, or lack of nose damage ear, or brain was split open a big slit, hundreds of heads rolled out of the sack, piled up under the high platform, this kind of bloody and horrible scene, in the peace for a long time in the Jiaozhou sailors for a long time did not appear. The sailors’ officers and soldiers bluffed and retreated a few steps, making a huge open space for these heads to dress up in the light of day for the Shura.

Fan Xian took a step forward on the stage, his Chinese clothes fluttering, his face handsome, standing proudly on the pile of heads, saying: “These are the rebels who tried to blood-wash Jiaozhou last night. Generals do not panic, the rebels have been ambushed, this official is not a person who likes to take revenge.”

The sailor generals and soldiers are alarmed and do not dare to speak.

“But ……,” Fan Xian said slowly, “who is secretly presiding over this matter, this official must catch out. If you dare to oppose the imperial court and conspire against it, you must be mentally prepared to be decapitated.”

“People, this official has already found out.” He looked at the people under the stage and said, “A total of seventeen people, no, it’s seventeen dogs, seventeen dogs who used the court’s salary to store up their own wolfish ambitions!”

Seventeen people, the cleansing is not very large, including the sailor general on the stage, the officials and soldiers under the stage are relieved. At this time, the steep appearance of four hundred black riders, so many heads on and off the stage, has successfully deterred the spirit of the sailor officers and soldiers, since no one dares to rebel, they have to wait and see what the court will deal with, only seventeen arrests, and the majority of the people have no relationship.

It is not a matter of concern.

In order to protect themselves, they can even betray their superiors who are usually scared beyond belief.

So with the sound of the number three general’s reading of the name above the high stage, the sailors and soldiers under the stage gradually moved in fear, hating to be as far away as possible from the school officer who was named, abruptly, the playground will be more than seventeen small circles, small open space, the open space stood a position of the face of the sailor generals like dirt.

These are the culprits who instigated the trouble in the camp last night, and made a division of sailors and soldiers to fight with the black cavalry outside of Jiaozhou city.

Horse hooves clatter, the black riders lead the horse slowly walk into the ten thousand people, the riders face cold, do not look aside, not nervous, although ten thousand people in the side, but as into no one’s territory.

The sailor’s courage has been lost, have to make way for these black riders ordered to come to catch people to enter.

Three riders to catch a person, although there are also school officers in the desperate situation bravely up against, how can we say is already trapped, snap a few will be cut over the ground, just before the death of a futile agony just.

Another seventeen bloody and cruel sounds, seventeen heads returned to surround their brother’s heads, blood and water coated the high platform, a foul odor attracted countless flies.

Fan Xian was in the middle of it, but his face was unchanged, squinting at the sun that gradually moved to the top of his head, knowing that the matter of Jiaozhou was considered to be finished.

Only then did he begin to announce the decree.

Fan Xian waved his hand, not caring about the court’s rules of etiquette, letting the Supervisory Court’s men go and do this thing, while he sat back in his chair and rested a little.

“By the grace of Heaven, the Emperor decrees ……”

Fan Xian didn’t bother to listen carefully to what the emperor said, he just looked at the naval division officers and soldiers who were kneeling down on the stage, like mole crickets, and had some thoughts, and at last he heard a heaven-shattering cry of joy, as well as a mountainous cry of long live.

The sailor officers and soldiers have increased their salaries again?

Jiaozhou sailors news reached Kyoto, already half a month after the news. Kyoto is located inland, there is no sea breeze moisturizing, so than Jiaozhou to appear dry and boring some, the climate is not how comfortable, on the contrary, some of the body bones of weak people began to discomfort.

Hong Zhu has some fire in these days …… is fire, not anger, he rubbed his nose, thinking that if he still has a nosebleed tonight, he will have to go to the Imperial Doctor to take a look at it, the level of those people in the Imperial Hospital is really not good, if Ms. Fan is still studying in the Imperial Hospital, how good it would be ah.

He jogged to the palace, respectfully pushed open the door and said something in the Empress’ ear.

Come to the East Palace for some days, he also succeeded in obtaining the Queen’s trust, just the Prince looked at this little eunuch is always a little uncomfortable, a little eunuch face long pimples, fire straight nosebleed, which is a little bit of the appearance of the Yin people.

Listening to the words of Hong Zhu, the Empress frowned tightly, asked: “Chang Tidu was pursued is a matter of course …… but, such a big shocking case, how is not the three divisions will be examined, but instead is the Supervisory Yuan a yard in the investigation?”

The Empress didn’t seem to be clear about the inner workings of the Jiaozhou naval division, but she vaguely guessed that this matter must be inseparable from the Chang Princess, and she smiled indifferently and said, “Let’s see when that Your Highness comes to the door.”

If things were really as imagined, and Fan Xian had gone to the Jiaozhou naval division, waiting to break yet another arm of Li Yunrui, this Her Highness the Eldest Princess would surely go crazy.

It was just that the case in Jiaozhou was a bit vague, a partial general dared to collude with bandits to plot to assassinate the governor? And it happened to be on the night of Fan Xian’s arrival in Jiaozhou? Jiaozhou sailors and the East China Sea pirates have collusion? Did Changkun not know this before?

All of the courtiers were skeptical, and the military was also a bit of a backlash, because no matter what Chang Kun did, this was a key official in the military.

Just no one dares to say anything, because although His Majesty is full of sorrow for the death of Chang Kun, the aftermath is handled very grandly, and the reward for the Chang family is not light, but everyone can see that His Majesty is actually …… in a very happy mood.