Chapter 281 Setting up the Stage for a Show

Outside Hangzhou.

Guo Hao was slightly stunned when he heard what Chen Daniu said.

When they were still in Daizhou, Chen Daniu gave him the impression that he was honest, honest, not smart, and could be fooled casually.

But now, when he looked at Chen Daniu, he couldn't see through him.

"You've grown a lot with big brother."

Guo Hao said something.

He was originally going to go directly from Hangzhou to Suzhou, and he was even ready to set off, but Jiang Suiyun's words gave him an enlightenment.

During the trip to Suzhou, it didn't matter who he left, except Chen Daniu.

If Wei Yuan really wants to kill him, then the only person who can protect him is Chen Daniu.

Simply because the person with the closest relationship between the Eight Tigers of Daizhou and Wei Yuan is Chen Daniu.

"The more you live, the more confused you become. It's not easy for us brothers to be where we are today."

Chen Daniu glanced at him coldly, "To be honest, my eldest brother is indeed murderous towards you, and I should have left Hangzhou yesterday at the latest."

Guo Hao was shocked, "Are you staying here specifically for me?"

Chen Daniu snorted coldly: "Otherwise? I can't watch you die, right?"

Guo Hao was a little moved, "Among our brothers, you are the one who values ​​the most friendship."

Chen Daniu closed the car curtain and stopped looking at him, "You are also the most unkind and unjust."

Guo Hao smiled bitterly, jumped on the carriage, took the reins from the driver, "Third brother will personally hold the whip and drive for you."

Chen Daniu didn't respond at all.

At this time, in Hangzhou city.

In an old house.

King Wu was sitting in the courtyard, calm and focused.

After a while, a personal guard came over and bowed: "Your Majesty, General Chen has left the capital."

King Wu nodded.

The guard said in confusion: "What Marquis Wei means is that he hopes that the prince can hold off General Chen. At the very least, General Chen cannot be allowed to appear in Suzhou before Guo Hao arrives in Suzhou. Why do you let General Chen leave?"

King Wu asked, "If General Chen insists on leaving, who among you can stop him?"

The guard was speechless.

Since leaving Taihu a few days ago, on their way to merchants from various aristocratic families, they often sparred with Chen Daniu, and were defeated after just a few moves.

If Chen Daniu insists on leaving Hangzhou, at least forty or fifty people will need to be dispatched to stop him. After all, it is not a fight to the death.

On the one hand, they had to be careful not to hurt Chen Daniu, and on the other hand, they had to stop him, which was very difficult.

Seeing his silence, King Wu continued: "Why do you think General Chen deliberately stayed overnight in Hangzhou?"

"Do you have the impression of General Chen that he is honest, honest and stubborn?"

The guard nodded.

King Wu sneered: "But what if he insists on letting you see this side of him?"

The bodyguard was immediately frightened.

"If he really wants to leave, and you can't stop him, you might as well let nature take its course and let him go to Suzhou with that General Guo."

Hearing King Wu speak again, the guards were full of confusion, "General Chen is from the Marquis of Wei. Isn't he afraid that the Marquis of Wei will be disgusted by what he does?"

King Wu said earnestly: "This is the most interesting thing about General Chen. He can have great affection and righteousness for people like Guo Hao, how can he not die for Wei Yuan?"

"And Wei Yuan, how could he not know this?"

The guard suddenly realized, "Your Majesty, I wonder when we will leave for Suzhou?"

King Wu lay on the rocking chair, slowly closed his eyes, and said with a smile: "Who said we were going to Suzhou?"

The guard was even more confused.

King Wu smiled and said: "We are only responsible for setting up a stage for Marquis Wei. Since the stage has been set up, how to sing and who to sing this play has nothing to do with us."

All the famous businessmen from Jiangnan and Southeast Asia gathered in Taihu Lake, Suzhou. It is impossible for the imperial court to not know about such a big event.

At such a critical moment, it doesn't matter where King Wu appears, but he cannot appear in Taihu Lake, Suzhou.

He and Wei Yuan had a tacit understanding of each other.

The person who set up the stage was indeed King Wu, but the people who sang the opera were not Wei Yuan and Guo Hao. The latter were not worthy enough.

Wei Yuan made the momentum so huge because he was actually acting with the guy in the capital.

Guo Hao is just a chess piece being used.

——

Lin Zhaoyuan's personal guard, the one named Han Guang, arrived at the flower boat in Taihu Lake, Suzhou before Guo Hao.

At this time, Wei Yuan was sitting on the deck fishing.

This is the thing he has done the most since coming to Jiangnan.

During fishing, Han Guang stood behind him and reported to him exactly what Guo Hao said when he ate fish.

He smiled at Lin Zhaoyuan and Shi Jian, who were sitting on his left and right sides, and said, "It seems that General Guo is quite able to endure hardships."

Lin Zhaoyuan asked: "What exactly does Commander Wei plan to do with Guo Hao? Do we have to kill him?"

After hearing these words, Han Guang stepped back knowingly.

Shi Jian and his gang are one of Wei Yuan's trump cards, and they do some shady things for him, so there is no hindrance to him continuing to sit here and listen to such sensitive topics.

Wei Yuan said: "If I really wanted to kill him, I wouldn't have let King Wu stay in Hangzhou after doing things with Chen Yuanzhi."

Before, when he called Chen Daniu, he was definitely not calling him by his first name.

Lin Zhaoyuan was shocked, "Shuai Wei arranged this to see if Yuan Zhi is traveling with Guo Hao?"

I asked this because I wanted to know if Wei Yuan had any intention of testing Chen Daniu.

After all, before coming to Suzhou, Chen Daniu had made it clear that he did not want the brothers to kill each other. In other words, Chen Daniu did not want to see Wei Yuan kill Guo Hao.

At first, Lin Zhaoyuan was worried that because of this kind of thing, Wei Yuan would have a grudge against Chen Daniu.

If Chen Daniu went to Hangzhou because of Wei Yuan's arrangement, it means that their eldest brother is also dissatisfied with Daniu.

Wei Yuan smiled and said: "You are overthinking. I know Chen Yuanzhi better than any of you. If I read him correctly, he will definitely choose to go with Guo Hao. I do this to give each other a step down."

Lin Zhaoyuan suddenly realized.

No matter what, Wei Yuan didn't really want to kill Guo Hao.

But the other party has broken the rules after all. If he doesn't kill him, it won't be enough to rectify the law. If the Eight Tigers of Daizhou or the generals from Daizhou's network have problems in the future, how will he convince the public?

But once Chen Daniu follows Guo Hao to Suzhou, putting Chen Daniu in the middle can indeed give each other a step down, so that things will not get to the point where they really have to do it.

"Of course, I asked King Wu to deliberately stay Chen Yuanzhi in Hangzhou because I wanted to see if Chen Yuanzhi would choose to go with him for Guo Hao."

Just as he said this, he saw a flying pigeon passing a message, saying that Chen Daniu and Guo Hao were already on their way to Taihu Lake.

After seeing the content of the letter, Wei Yuan smiled and said: "From now on, if any of you say that Daniel is stupid, I will be the first one not to do so."

Lin Zhaoyuan also laughed with him.

But the smile was somewhat forced.

He could see better than anyone else that Wei Yuan was a little different since he sat in the position of commander in front of the palace.

Only Chen Daniu and the others thought that Wei Yuan had not changed.

Before, maybe there really was some brotherly love involved.

But now, it is more about superiority and inferiority, the relationship between the lord and his auxiliary ministers.

The reason why Lin Zhaoyuan was able to discover this silent change was because he had always regarded Wei Yuan not only as his eldest brother, but also as his 'master'.

This word may be a bit unpleasant, but this is what Lin Zhaoyuan really thinks.

He didn't know whether Wei Yuan's change was good or bad, but he didn't care. He just needed to remember his mother's words before she died.

"For generations of the Lin family, they have fought through fire and water for the Wei family, even to the death."

——

In late May of the seventh year of Jiayou's reign, Chen Daniu, Guo Hao and his party had arrived in Suzhou.

They took a boat all the way to Taihu Lake via the canal.

Along the way, Guo Hao's cronies, as if they were seeing someone they admired in their hearts, would compete with Chen Daniu and ask for advice on martial arts whenever they had the chance.

"General Chen, a few years ago, the Liao cavalry pretended to be bandits and harassed the people around us. At that time, the last general was ordered to conquer, and he met a Liao general. His weapon was very strange. It was a scimitar with an iron chain. When he used it, it was close to Without him, how should I deal with the enemy if I encounter him again?"

"General Chen, when I competed with you yesterday, the move you used to knock the general to the ground, can you demonstrate it to the general again?"

"General Chen"

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It's been almost like this for a few days.

Because all the generals who came from Daizhou knew that Chen Yuanzhi was a martial arts fanatic. He competed with various martial arts from time to time, and he could be said to have integrated the strengths of various martial arts.

Everyone is a martial artist, who doesn't want to improve his martial arts? So I often ask.

If it were anyone else, Chen Daniu would have been extremely annoyed. After all, those generals had nothing to do with him.

Why should we teach them martial arts for free?

But who allowed these generals to come from Daizhou?

Daizhou is the second hometown of Chen Yuanzhi and others.

Chen Yuanzhi even often told people that when he gets older in the future, he will go to Daizhou to take care of himself.

Therefore, he has a natural affinity for generals who were born in Daizhou.

Nowadays, some soldiers in the capital have deliberately changed their ancestral home to Daizhou in order to gain the favor of the Eight Tigers of Daizhou.

In the past, those warriors were all proud of the soldiers of the Imperial Guard of the capital, and regarded the soldiers of Daizhou and Yanbian as "Tujun", saying that they were not serious soldiers of the Imperial Guard.

But now, times have changed.

Those who can make it in the army basically come from the frontier army.

Let’s not talk about anything else. Nowadays, among the Eight Tigers of Daizhou, which one does not hold an important position?

Xu Changzhi served as the commander-in-chief of the Ma Army.

Yang Huairen, who was close to the Eight Tigers of Daizhou, served as the deputy commander of the Infantry Department.

Xiao Yuming was promoted to Yuhou by Wei Yuan.

In the middle of last year, even Shen Qing, the least famous among the Eight Tigers of Daizhou, took a position in the Ministry of War.

The influence of Daizhou's forces is getting stronger day by day.

Therefore, the Forbidden Army officers and soldiers who once took pride in guarding the capital and were born near the capital are now eager to obtain the status of border soldiers or the background of being born in Daizhou.