Young Master, Don't Show Off - Chapter 350

[Chapter 350: Is it a big deal if there are more people?]

After discovering that the chaos in several prefectures along the coast was not caused by the sea clan, Lin Xiu asked more than a thousand sea clans to squat in various ditches late at night.

There are some common features in the many attacks that have occurred before. The time of the incident is usually late at night, and the location is far away from the prefecture and county town, usually in a small village not far from the water source.

This is also in line with the behavioral characteristics of the sea clan.

Close to the river and stream, their abilities can be better exerted, and they feel more secure. After all, once they fall into the hands of the government or the navy, their end will be very miserable.

Lin Xiu initially thought that these incidents were caused by some small groups of sea clans.

But three sea clans caught a human being back.

According to them, this person sneaked into a fishing village in the middle of the night and killed a family of three in the fishing village. If they hadn’t been squatted by them, the fishermen would have been in danger.

The water magician was taken to the bottom of the sea by three sea clans. He was extremely frightened. He never thought that the sea clan would meddle in other people’s business.

This kind of thing has never happened before.

Lin Xiu looked at the man being held by two sea tribesmen.

The man was dressed in black and was about thirty years old. He was looking at him with horror.

Lin Xiu looked at him and asked calmly, “Who are you?”

The middle-aged man raised his head. Was the handsome man in front of him the legendary sea spirit?

He was shocked that the sea spirit spoke such standard Daxia language. He didn’t want to answer, but soon, his eyes became blank and he murmured, “The seventh lieutenant of the Zhenhai Army, Jia Zhang…”

Lin Xiu frowned. The one who attacked and killed the people of Donghai Prefecture at night was not the sea tribe, but the lieutenant of the Zhenhai Army?

The Zhenhai Army was an army formed by the court to suppress the sea tribe. This army was stationed in various coastal prefectures all year round. Almost all the soldiers were people with special abilities and warriors. In order to maintain this army, the court spent a huge amount of military expenditure every year. Not long ago, it also added a million taels of military expenditure to expand the army and maintain the daily expenses of the army.

The Zhenhai Army was originally to resist the sea tribe and protect the people, but now it is the opposite.

Lin Xiu soon thought of more.

The imperial court would receive news of several sea tribe riots almost every year, and then send all kinds of materials and military expenses to the Zhenhai Army.

Lin Xiu asked these sea tribe leaders, they would not go ashore on a large scale every year, but occasionally they would sneak up and steal some chickens, ducks, cattle, sheep and the like when they were greedy.

It is not ruled out that some cruel sea tribes have a deep hatred for humans and will take the initiative to attack the people, but most of the sea tribes have to worry about the tribute for the annual Sea God Festival, and have no time or energy to riot.

Did the Zhenhai Army also blame the sea tribe for the previous riots?

Lin Xiu looked at the middle-aged man and asked, “Who instructed you to do this?”

The middle-aged man murmured, “General…”

From the mouth of the Zhenhai Army lieutenant, Lin Xiu confirmed his previous guess that there was no sea tribe riot at all. The sea tribe riots in various coastal prefectures were all planned by them.

Only when the sea tribe rioted, the role of the Zhenhai Army could be highlighted, and the imperial court would give them a large amount of military funds every year to allow them to expand their army continuously.

The sea tribe will not make excuses, and no one will doubt it.

Originally, Emperor Xia asked Lin Xiu to investigate the cause of the sea tribe riot, but he didn’t expect to find out the cause of the Zhenhai Army. Although this army was established by the court of Daxia, the actual power in the army was

held by several powerful families. Most of the generals in the Zhenhai Army were from powerful families. The

general of the Zhenhai Army came from the Wei family in Wangdu. Among the four second-class duke families in Daxia, the Xue family was the new one. Compared with the Song family, the Wei family’s presence was not high, but its strength should not be underestimated.

The Wei family had one Heaven-level strongman and two Earth-level upper realms. One of them was the current head of the Wei family, and the other was the general of the Zhenhai Army, commanding the Zhenhai Army, which was the easternmost line of defense against the sea tribe in Daxia.

Unless authorized by the court, Lin Xiu had no power to investigate the Zhenhai Army.

Even the Secret Investigation Department did not have such power.

…

Wangdu.

Emperor Xia looked at the secret letter sent by Lin Xiu, his face was livid. The rebellion of the sea tribe was actually caused by the Zhenhai Army. Over the years, those parasites have swallowed up a lot of military funds from the court, and it is unknown how many people have died in their hands.

Zhu Jin was silent for a moment and said, “Your Majesty, the Zhenhai Army is not easy to move…”

How could Emperor Xia not know that the Zhenhai Army could not be easily moved, and there were too many things involved. To move them meant to move those powerful people. Unlike the minions supported by the powerful people in various mansions, the army was full of their direct lineage.

But just because he couldn’t move, it didn’t mean that someone couldn’t move.

He was afraid of the powerful, but the powerful also had people they were afraid of.

In the past, when he did something, he still needed to rely on the knife of the Tiandao League. Now with Lin Xiu, everything was different.

At the morning court on the second day, Emperor Xia announced something, temporarily appointing Lin Xiu as the general of the Zhenhai Army to quell the rebellion of the sea tribe. This order did not cause much response in the court.

After all, this is not the first time that this has happened. In the Zhenhai Army, the generals are the ones who actually hold power. Every time the sea clan moves, the court will symbolically appoint a general to go there, but the purpose is just to get a resume. At most, he will be recalled from the army in two months.

Many people from the major families in the royal capital have served as generals of the Zhenhai Army.

Not long after, the news that a general was about to come to the Zhenhai Army camp soon spread.

Most of them sneered at the former generals.

Those people were just the sons of the rich and powerful who came to gild themselves, and they had no real skills.

But Lin Xiu’s name was not unfamiliar to them even though they were far away in the East China Sea.

No matter how ignorant they were, they would not have heard of the name of the number one on the Tianjiao list. Although he was young, his strength was already at the upper level of the earth level, which was similar to their generals.

Of course, the identities of his wives also made him well-known in Daxia.

The number one prodigy on the continent, the daughter of the Duke’s Mansion, the Fusang Tianjiao, the Daxia princess…, they are all men, who can’t envy him?

More than a dozen lieutenants of the Zhenhai Army were waiting at the gate of the military camp at this moment, ready to welcome the arrival of the general.

As for the general of Zhenhai Army, he did not show up.

The soldiers were used to it. What kind of identity was General Wei? He was the son of the second-class duke of the dynasty. He was also a famous genius in Daxia. He was once ranked tenth on the list of geniuses. When Lin Xiu was still unknown, he had already entered the upper realm of the earth level and became famous all over the world.

Moreover, he also awakened the rare ice art. Before Lin Xiu, he was the only person in Daxia who had the ability of ice art in the upper realm of the earth level. If he could advance to the heaven level, the Wei family would become the first family in Daxia.

Every time the court sent someone, he never greeted them.

At a certain moment, a pleasure boat appeared in the distant sky, and soon, the pleasure boat landed in front of the military camp.

A young man walked down from the pleasure boat, and everyone immediately greeted him. The leader said: “Huang Qi, the left lieutenant general of Zhenhai Army, greets General Lin!” The

captains behind him also saluted with fists.

Lin Xiu looked at everyone and said, “No need to be polite. By the way, where is General Wei?”

The left lieutenant general smiled and said, “General Wei is not feeling well and is resting in the tent.”

Lin Xiu did not say much, leaving the pleasure boat outside the military camp, and the women stayed in the pleasure boat, as they were not suitable to appear in the military camp.

After arriving at a certain tent, Lin Xiu sat on the main seat, looked at the people below, and said, “This is our first meeting, and I don’t know you yet. Why don’t you introduce yourselves?”

“I am Lu Zhuo, the first lieutenant of the Zhenhai Army.”

“Tian Zheng, the second lieutenant.”

…

“The fifteenth lieutenant Ren Xiong…”

In the tent, after introducing the lieutenants of the Zhenhai Army, Lin Xiu nodded and suddenly asked, “What about the seventh lieutenant? Did I miss him, or did he not come?”

The left lieutenant said, “Reporting to the general, Lieutenant Jia went out to search for the sea tribe. He is not in the camp at the moment, but he should be back soon.” Although

he said this, he was worried in his heart. Jia Zhang had been out for two days and had not returned. Could something have happened? If Lin Xiu asked about it in two days, what should he say…

Lin Xiu did not mention this matter, but said, “Your Majesty ordered me to come here this time to investigate the riot of the sea tribe. How is the situation?”

The left lieutenant said, “Reporting to the general , In the past month, more than a hundred families have been brutally killed by the sea tribe. We have searched for the sea tribe in various prefectures. Once we find their traces, we will never tolerate them and avenge the people who died tragically…”

As soon as he finished speaking, a man suddenly broke into the military tent and said, “General, Captain Jia is back!”

Everyone came to the outside of the tent, and a figure stumbled from a distance. Jia Zhang still didn’t know why the sea tribe let him go. He only remembered that he was taken to the bottom of the sea by three sea tribes. There was a handsome man from the sea spirit tribe who asked him who he was. He didn’t answer, and then he didn’t know anything…

When he woke up, he was already at the seaside.

The left lieutenant looked at Jia Zhang’s appearance and said angrily, “Where have you been? Why are you back now?”

Jia Zhang wanted to find a random reason and then go to General Wei to report this weird thing, but for some reason, his mind was in a trance, and he blurted out without hesitation: “General Wei asked me to kill a fisherman and put the blame on the sea tribe. I didn’t succeed, and I was caught by the sea tribe…” As soon as

these words came out, everyone was stunned.

Some lieutenants’ faces changed drastically. Jia Zhang, this idiot, is this something you can say?

After a few lieutenants were stunned for a moment, they immediately lowered their heads, pretending that they had not heard anything.

The left lieutenant’s head was buzzing, and there was only one thought in his mind, Jia Zhang was crazy!

He felt a little regretful in his heart. Why did he ask that one more question? He obviously didn’t want to ask, but for some reason, when he saw Jia Zhang, that sentence suddenly came out of his mouth…

But this was not the time to think about it. He looked at Lin Xiu in fear. Lin Xiu obviously heard it and looked at him.

The left lieutenant’s heart sank, and a trace of cruelty appeared on his face. He slapped Jia Zhang’s chest with one palm. This palm contained the true energy of the earth level. Jia Zhang’s heart was instantly shattered. He stared at the left lieutenant, and his body fell heavily to the ground.

Lieutenant Zuo pointed at him and said to Lin Xiu, “I’m sorry, General. Lieutenant Jia is crazy. He dared to slander General Wei. I have already shot him to death according to military regulations!”

Lin Xiu glanced at him and said lightly, “Lieutenant Huang, this is probably not something that can be explained by slander…”

“Oh, General Lin means that it was this general who ordered him to slaughter the people and put the blame on the sea people?”

As soon as Lin Xiu finished speaking, another voice came from behind him.

A middle-aged man came over and looked at Lin Xiu.

There was cold air around his body, and the temperature around him dropped sharply.

Lin Xiu said, “Whether it is true or not, won’t we know if we check it out?”

There was also cold air around his body. Some lieutenants with low strength couldn’t stand it and couldn’t help but step back a few steps.

The middle-aged man looked at Lin Xiu and said, “Listen to Wei’s advice. Go back to where you came from. You can’t control the affairs of the Zhenhai Army.”

Lin Xiu said, “What if I insist on controlling it?”

Seven or eight lieutenants slowly stood behind the middle-aged man.

Countless soldiers also slowly moved here.

Lin Xiu looked at him calmly and asked, “Is it a big deal to have more people?”

He coughed lightly, and the sound was heard from far away.

A figure flew out from the pleasure boat and landed beside him. At the same time, including the captains, all the soldiers of the Zhenhai Army who were approaching Lin Xiu knelt down, as if a mountain was pressing on their shoulders, making them unable to even raise their heads.

Then, several figures flew in the air and landed behind Lin Xiu. A

strong sense of oppression came over him, and the middle-aged man took several steps back with a look of fear on his face. These women, in addition to their outstanding looks, were not less powerful than the Earth Rank, and they were not ordinary Earth Rank…

He actually brought all his wives here!

Lin Xiu looked at the middle-aged man and asked, “Can we control it now?”

(End of this chapter)