Chapter 261: One Step Behind

Yang Yiqing was stunned.

What do you mean, Yang Qing, is there anything else? !
Qian Ning and Zang Xian haven’t solved the problem, so you say everything is fine?

Just as he was about to speak, he saw Zhang Yong winking at him. Yang Yiqing immediately understood, suppressed his anger, and said, "I will take my leave."

"Well, go down!" Emperor Zhengde nodded and signaled Yang Yiqing to leave quickly.

Old Yang turned around and glanced at Ou Zanghua. Seeing that the handsome guy was calm and composed in the face of difficulties, he bowed and said goodbye.

Ou Zanghua immediately bowed in return. Old Yang is a narrow-minded person, so he should be coaxed a little!

As soon as Old Yang left, Emperor Zhengde started to get angry: "How can this be? This is my money, my land, and my imperial estate! A bunch of servants, who gave them the courage?! Zhang Yong, is it you?!"

"Your Majesty, I am wronged!" Zhang Yong knelt on the ground and kowtowed while explaining: "My two younger brothers and one older brother are all in the capital. They didn't do any of this!"

"Who gave them the courage?!" Emperor Zhengde asked coldly, knocking the blue and white dragon-patterned gall-shaped vase on the table away with one palm.

"In reply to Your Majesty, as far as I know, the eunuch who manages the Weiyang Palace Imperial Farm is named Yang Jinshui. He was once Liu Jin's godson, and later he defected to Gu Banban." Zhang Yong lowered his head, his tone cautious.

Emperor Zhengde narrowed his eyes. Gu Dayong had been with him for many years. He would feel somewhat reluctant if he were to be arrested because of this matter.

But he felt hesitant about letting Gu Dayong investigate the imperial farm again.

As for Zhang Yong, Emperor Zhengde found him very useful and did not want to let him go for investigation.

Wei Bin was sent to the border by him, and it was unrealistic to ask him to come back.

Turning his head to look at Ou Qing, who was also very beautiful even as a vase, Emperor Zhengde suddenly remembered someone and said in a cold voice: "Pass on my decree, order Lv Fang to be the eunuch in charge of the seal, lead the East Factory, grant him the imperial sword, and thoroughly investigate the thirty-two imperial estates."

"Yes!" Zhang Yong immediately got up, came to the side of Emperor Zhengde, and quickly wrote the imperial edict.

After checking everything, Emperor Zhengde took the imperial seal and stamped it, then looked at Zhang Yong and said, "Tell Lu Fang a message. You did a good job leaving the capital last time. Don't let me down this time."

"Yes, I will definitely convey it." Zhang Yong responded, picked up the imperial edict with both hands, and slowly stepped out.

The Zhengde Emperor walked out and shouted, "Mr. Ou, follow me to the Wuying Palace."

"Your Majesty, I still have a lot of official business to attend to."

"Then come with me to Wuying Palace to fight first and then come back to do it!"

Ou Zanghua was speechless and had to follow Emperor Zhengde to the Wuying Palace.

After the two men changed into training clothes, Emperor Zhengde chose a spear as his weapon.

He touched the spear and said, "Ou Qing, this spear of mine is called Divine Might Golden Flame. The spear shaft is seven feet long, the spear head is one foot and three inches long, and the tip is three inches long. It is made of fine steel and gold, and is extremely sharp. You must be careful! Don't let me hurt you."

As the saying goes, one year with a stick, one month with a sword, and a lifetime with a gun. The gun is the king of all weapons. As long as you are proficient in gun skills, you can suppress other cold weapons.

Perhaps it is precisely because this point is too overbearing that we can only weaken the luck value of the spearmen to maintain the numerical balance of "Earth Online".

Ou Zanghua still wields a long sword. Having read through "Zuo Shi Jie Jian", he has a deeper understanding of swordsmanship.

But after hearing what Emperor Zhengde said, he asked helplessly: "Your Majesty, can't you change the club?"

"Hahaha, the gun is coming!" After Emperor Zhengde gave a reminder, he used the spear and the white snake spit out its tongue to stab.

After being blocked by Ou Zanghua, Emperor Zhengde immediately changed his move to Phoenix Nod, with the tip of the spear like a bird's beak pecking, and the movement was light and swift.

Then, he turned around and used the five spear techniques one after another, such as Leg Sweeping Spear, Crow Flapping Wings, Dragon Swinging Tail, and Sky Pillar Greeting the Sun. Each one was clean and neat, as fast as lightning, dazzling and hard to defend against.

Ou Zanghua had long known that Emperor Zhengde was an excellent marksman, so he was not careless at all.

He used his Qinggong skills and his body was agile. He sometimes dodged left and right, sometimes rushed forward and retreated. He used the mysterious sword-drawing method of "Thirteen Styles of Clouds and Mist with a Hundred Changes" to cleverly block the attack of Emperor Zhengde.

The two sides fought back and forth in a fierce battle. The shadows of guns and swords collided, leaving marks on the wall.

After Emperor Zhengde confirmed Ou Zanghua's growth, his originally gloomy mood became much better, and his marksmanship became even more powerful.

With a "bang", with the help of his powerful internal energy, Emperor Zhengde stabbed his spear into the wooden pillar, and the tip of the spear penetrated more than a foot into the pillar.

"Oh, it feels good!" Emperor Zhengde released his hand, but was still stabbed by the spear.

Ou Zanghua made a sword flower and put the sword into the scabbard.

The maidservant waiting nearby immediately brought a tray. Emperor Zhengde wiped his hands with a towel and commented, "Ou Qing's swordsmanship and body movements have improved greatly. I can no longer defeat you within a hundred moves."

"This is all thanks to your majesty's teaching." Ou Zanghua put down his sword and also picked up a towel to wipe his hands.

"Haha." Emperor Zhengde laughed heartily, and then said: "I will transfer Yang Jinshui away, and will not arrange for eunuchs to move in. Therefore, the matter of the Weiyang Palace and the Imperial Manor will be handed over to Ou Qing. How to deal with it will be up to Ou Qing."

Ou Zanghua was a little surprised, and immediately bowed and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty!"

He didn't expect that Emperor Zhengde would actually withdraw the eunuchs, which could be said to have given Ou Zanghua great trust.

"What is there to thank? If these servants were sincere in their work for me, I would have trusted them. But the eight thousand hectares of land were underreported by one thousand hectares. How could I not know where the money went?"

Emperor Zhengde smiled, walked out with Ou Zanghua, and continued, "It's normal for people to have selfish desires. Not everyone is as upright as Ou Qing, but they are too greedy! This time Ou Qing did not submit the memorial through the cabinet, so I knew that I was right about him."

Boss Zhu turned around and said with a smile: "If Mr. Ou has any ideas, just implement them in the Weiyang Palace!"

"Yes." Ou Zanghua responded and accompanied Emperor Zhengde for lunch before returning to the Honglu Temple to handle some official business.

At the same time, Yang Jinshui, who was far away in Tongzhou, was spinning two copper walnuts in his hands, listening to his subordinates' reports, and he was hesitant: "Did the people from the Honglu Temple go around Tongzhou and take away their county annals?"

"Yes," a middle-aged man below said humbly, "We bribed a few clerks who were responsible for greeting them, and after asking them, they all said that Lord Dong Qing was going to compile the book "Years in the Capital" and came down to collect information."

"Hmm," Yang Jinshui narrowed his eyes and asked, "Has anything happened in Tongzhou County recently?"

"No, oh!" The middle-aged man remembered something and added, "A month ago, Lei Sanjue reported that some people in the underworld wanted to inquire about the affairs of the Imperial Manor, but he and Captain Liu suppressed them and did not let them get close to the Imperial Manor."

"Someone from the Jianghu?" Yang Jinshui's expression froze, and he said in a cold voice, "If I remember correctly, Ou Zanghua is from the Hengshan Sect!"

"Yes." The middle-aged man immediately realized the problem and said, "Father-in-law, do you mean that Ou Zanghua suspects us?"

"Humph!"

Yang Jinshui snorted coldly and said, "Ou Dongqing is a legitimate civil servant, so it's normal for him to be suspicious of us. But...what does he want the county annals for? Go get all the county annals that Ou Zanghua didn't take away, and I'll see what's hidden in them!"

(End of this chapter)