Seeing that the ambush troops had gone far away, and the Prestige of the Official had been exhausted, Li Yongfang stood alone in a field outside Fushun City, dumbfounded. He slowly turned around and looked at Zhou Qingfeng again, only to find that the tyrannical steel monster had disappeared – Zhou Qingfeng was staring at him coldly, and Guo Buyi, who had not appeared yet, was also there.
Seeing Guo Buyi, Li Yongfang felt as if he had seen a life-saving straw. His knees went soft, and he knelt on the ground, abandoning all his prestige and dignity, and wailed in front of Guo Buyi, "Brother Guo, save me!"
In the cool morning breeze, Guo Buyi sneered and said, "This is fate, Lord Li, you don't have to be too sad. The cycle of the heavens, karma. Yesterday's cause is today's result.
You have been in Fushun for many years, if you had been more aware of the suffering of the people and governed the place, you would not have ended up like this. Even I did not expect that your Prestige of the Official would be so weak that you could not even take a few punches from Zhou Qingfeng. If I had known this, I would not have hesitated for so long. Sigh …, accept your fate. "
When Li Yongfang heard that he had to accept his fate, he cried and shouted, "Brother Guo, it is all my fault. But I am still an official of the imperial court, killing me is a big crime. I beg you, please tell this Young Master Zhou that I will give him whatever he wants, but please spare my life. "
This time, Guo Buyi did not even have the courage to sneer, and looked at Li Yongfang as if he was looking at a pitiful worm, "Lord Li, I am with Zhou Qingfeng. We want you in person. "
"Ah …?" Li Yongfang's face was lifeless, and his heart was cold.
Guo Buyi continued, "I did not want to intervene in this matter, but I could not resist Zhou Qingfeng's persuasion. Moreover, after my divination, I found that the Lord Li's destiny has changed, and there seems to be more tribulations. After much consideration, I decided to lend eighty percent of my spiritual power to Zhou Qingfeng so that he could control that … "
"Lu Ba," Zhou Qingfeng replied.
Guo Buyi wasn't used to this term, but there was nothing he could do about Zhou Qingfeng. "If I didn't lend you my spiritual energy, Zhou Qingfeng's …"
"Lu Ba."
"Alright, I got it." Guo Buyi glared at Zhou Qingfeng, then said to Li Yongfang, "Anyway, without my support, he can't fight this war. After the war, I found out that Lord Li, you are really cunning, but also really weak. "
'Crafty' refers to the fact that Li Yongfang actually secretly attracted the Female Zhenren. 'Weak' refers to the fact that the Fu Shun guerrilla, who commanded tens of thousands of city residents and hundreds of thousands of village people, actually had a prestige that was not much stronger than Zhou Qingfeng who only had a few thousand Pilgrims. After his true nature was exposed, Guo Buyi naturally wouldn't maintain his neutrality anymore.
"Lord Li, accept your fate." After saying that, Guo Buyi raised his palm and pressed it on Li Yongfang's head. Li Yongfang's eyes suddenly stared blankly, her body trembled, and after a moment, her face turned pale and lifeless. When Guo Buyi raised his palm again, a small figure appeared on top of Li Yongfang's head.
As soon as this small figure appeared, it panicked. Zhou Qingfeng grinned and gently caught it. After looking around, he directly swallowed it. As soon as this small figure entered Zhou Qingfeng's mouth, Li Yongfang's body kept trembling. The trembling was so violent that she even foamed at the mouth and urinated. After a quarter of an hour, Li Yongfang's body calmed down and everything returned to normal.
"What's wrong with me?" Li Yongfang seemed to have just woken up from a nightmare. Looking at her battered and exhausted appearance, she could not accept it at all.
Guo Buyi carefully looked at Li Yongfang and said to Zhou Qingfeng, "This puppet technique is done. For three months from now, Lord Li will be under your control. His daily speech is unhindered, and his memory is not lacking. Although his official prestige has been exhausted, his authority is still there. After three months, if you do not return his soul to him, he will die. "
"Thank you, Senior." Zhou Qingfeng cupped his fist at Guo Buyi.
"Today's matter is considered settled." Guo Buyi's figure floated in the air and flew towards Fu Shun City. Before leaving, he shook his head slightly and sighed, "This is fate, I had no choice!"
Looking at Guo Buyi leaving, Zhou Qingfeng said loudly, "Senior, fate is not to be feared, the ancestors are not to be followed, and the words of others are not to be pitied. Why are you always talking about fate? I believe that man can conquer the heavens. "
However, Guo Buyi laughed again. His laughter was mixed with a hint of bitterness as he said, "When I was young, I was just like you. I looked at the world and refused to submit to anyone. But now, I have to resign myself to fate. By the way, don't forget the money you promised me. All I can do now is to earn more money for my retirement. "
Guo Buyi ridiculed himself and then floated away. Zhou Qingfeng looked at him and sighed. He did not know what this great cultivator had experienced, but there was a lingering pessimism and negativity hidden in his carefree manner. He turned back to look at Li Yongfang and chuckled, "Lord Li."
Li Yongfang let out an "ah" and looked a little dazed. Zhou Qingfeng said happily, "Lord Li, please cheer up. We still have a lot of things to do."
Li Yongfang was dirty and smelly, so Zhou Qingfeng covered his nose and was forced to move away. He thought for a moment and felt that since this Lord You Ji was already under his command, he still had to take care of his face and not let others look down on him.
"Let's go, let's take a bath in the village first, then send someone to Fu Shun City to report." Zhou Qingfeng said happily, "Our remaining task today is to stabilize the situation."
The two of them returned to the scene of the ambush. There were not many casualties among the scattered soldiers. When they saw Li Yongfang, they actually took the initiative to gather. Li Yongfang announced on the spot that he and Zhou Qingfeng had forgiven each other and were now on good terms. All their conflicts had disappeared and they would work hand in hand to create glory together.
The soldiers were confused and did not know what was going on, but at least they knew that there was no need to fight anymore. Li Yongfang then ordered people to gather the troops and report back. He went to the 'coal mining village' to freshen up. The servants in the city had already sent him a change of clothes. He then sat in the sedan chair and returned to the city, looking like everything was fine.
When he arrived in the city, it was only around eight or nine in the morning. Li Yongfang went to the government office and gathered many officials in the city. He announced in public, 'Today, I led my troops to clear the Jurchen bandits who climbed over the city wall and attacked Fu Shun. With the help of the righteous citizen Zhou Qingfeng, we won a great victory. However, the bandits were cruel and ruthless, and the commander, Lord Zhao Yihe, unfortunately died in the line of duty. I am so sad, my heart aches. '
A commander died?
There were still garrisons and hundreds of officials in Fu Shun City. When they heard the news, they were immediately frightened and puzzled – the Jurchen bandits attacked the border? What was going on? Didn't the news say that Li Yongfang was going to eliminate Zhou Qingfeng? How did it turn into eliminating the Jurchen bandits in the blink of an eye?
The explanation given by Li Yongfang was that this was a diversion. It was a scheme that I set up to encircle and suppress the bandits. Do you have any objections?
Objections? The one who died was not them, so how could the officials in the city have any objections? Zhao Yihe was Li Yongfang's man, so if someone was to grieve, it should be Li Yongfang who grieved. Others didn't care.
The Prince of Fu Shun Garrison Commander Ming Yin quickly came out to comfort Li Yongfang, saying that it was thanks to his bravery that he repelled the bandits at the border and ensured the safety of the local people. As for His Excellency Zhao Yihe, swords and spears have no eyes on the battlefield. His Excellency Zhao Yihe also asked for benevolence, so he just reported to Zhang Chengyin, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong.
Just like that, His Excellency Zhao Yihe's death was forgotten, and no one mentioned it again. Li Yongfang comforted the officers in the Qianhu Institute, then turned around and called several arresters in charge of public security in the city to reprimand them. She directly investigated one of them and suspended several others. She also promoted Wang Kunpeng, a promising young man in the west of the city, to be the chief arrester of Fu Shun, to control the security of the whole city.
Promoting Wang Kunpeng was just the beginning.
After the battle this morning, the Jurchen bandits even 'killed' a large number of soldiers, generals, and even a baihu who accompanied Lord Li to battle.
Lord Li was extremely worried about the military strength of Fu Shun, so he decided to make an exception and promote Zhou Qingfeng to be a 'trial baihu', acting as the Qianhu Institute's baihu. His subordinates, Gao Daniu and Wu Daimen, were acting as the chief. The rest of the soldiers were also recruited by Baihu Zhou himself.
It was just an acting baihu, so such a change of personnel did not need to be reported. Li Yongfang could make the decision with just a word. Others could not even get a word in. So that afternoon, when Zhou Qingfeng came back from outside the city, he went to the government office of the Qianhu Institute and began to exercise his power with a group of subordinates. This appointment really surprised many people in the city, and no one could understand it at all.
At present, apart from Li Yongfang, the highest official in the city was the Garrison King's Life Seal. Guard Wang sent people to inquire about the news, especially the family servants and soldiers who followed Li Yongfang out of the city to fight in the morning. But the news he received scared Guard Wang. In the battle in the morning, almost half of the family servants of Lord Li and Lord Zhao were killed, and more than a hundred soldiers who followed them also lost their lives.
Those who escaped back were all panic-stricken, but no one could tell the situation of the battle at that time. They only knew that there were heavy casualties and corpses everywhere. Those who knew the details often lost their lives.
Guard Wang specially went to check the corpses. Not surprisingly, there were no corpses of the Jurchen bandits, but the corpses of his own soldiers were everywhere. Especially Lord Zhao's corpse, it seemed to have been smashed by a huge iron hammer, and the whole body was smashed.
Terrible, terrible, really terrible!
Guard Wang came back with a pale face, and that night he fell ill and asked for leave, saying that he was too weak to perform his duties, and asked Lord Li to temporarily take over his position for a while. Lord Li was very satisfied with Lord Wang's cleverness, and specially sent him a thousand taels of silver as a consolation, comforting him to recuperate at home and not to worry too much.
Well, even Guard Wang was not in charge, and the world of Fu Shun had really become a one-man rule. But as for who the speaker was, people had different opinions. The people in the city were not fools. Seeing that Zhou Qingfeng, who was originally suppressed, turned out to be the biggest beneficiary of the whole incident, the speaker must have something to do with him.
When night fell, Lord Li specially gathered all of his family members in his residence. He had two sons, the eldest one was already an adult, and the second one was still young. He said a few words to his two sons, and then let them take their wives and concubines to Shenyang to take refuge. The excuse was that it was difficult to suppress the Jurchen bandits in the north, and it was better to temporarily hide.
The family of Lý Hôt was deeply puzzled. But Li Yongfang put on the posture of a parent, and deliberately said a few words such as a war was about to break out at the border, which scared the whole Lý Hôt. That night, they packed their belongings and fled early the next morning.
But some people wanted to escape but couldn't, and the advisor hired by Li Yongfang was forced to stay. The advisor was old, but he was called to Li Yongfang's study at night. When he entered the study, he saw not only Li Yongfang, but also many outsiders, including Zhou Qingfeng, were in the room. These people all showed greedy faces like hungry wolves, their eyes gleaming, and stared at him with a smile.
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