The entire Jingang was in chaos.
The people from the Water Dragon Bureau hurried to the pier, but the raging fire stretched for several miles, and the wood piled up on the entire pier and the docked warships were swallowed up by the fire, and they had no way to start.
The people of Jingang were alarmed, and they came to the cliff at the end of the town to look at the sea in a panic.
Such a fire was something they had never seen in their entire lives, and even the sky was reflected in red.
The connected warships were burning, the sea breeze was roaring, and the sea surface was burning for no apparent reason, as if a giant dragon was burning, and thick smoke billowed, obscuring the clouds and obscuring the sun.
Some of the people were worried, some wiped their tears, and some knelt down and kowtowed to the gods and Buddhas, begging the Bodhisattva to bless the people in their Golden Harbor safe and sound, and begging God to take the punishment away.
"The warship must have been dismantled, and God refused to accept it."
There is an old man who is angrily holding a walking stick.
Another person said: "We don't care about our own warships, so God will take back the warships. It will not be used by us Dazhou people."
"This is how to do!"
A woman burst into tears.
The local magistrate found a pen and paper trembling to report to the saint, the warship caught fire for no reason, and the entire pier was caught in a sea of flames, perhaps God warned...
The magistrate didn't want to be accused of being a bad manager, but he seemed to have forgotten that what he was guilty of was the destiny. God warned him to burn down the warship he wanted to build the emperor's mausoleum. Could it be that God was dissatisfied with his emperor
These things, the magistrate could not consider for a while.
No one noticed that after the continuous fire and the thick smoke, more than 30 warships, large and small, slowly left the pier and drove towards the southeast at full speed.
No one even noticed that a small donkey, carrying an old man with a Taoist spirit, left the Golden Port at night and headed towards the capital.
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"Holy, holy!"
In the yamen of Huichuan County, Li Qitian was being served by Xiong Jinshui to change his clothes, when he heard someone outside in a rough voice saying, "There is an urgent report from Jingang!"
Li Qitian frowned, and casually ordered "Go away." Then he strode to the front hall.
I saw a man in a strong suit standing in the middle of the ground with a worried face, it was the undercover spy Zhu Meng.
"What's the matter?" Li Qitian took a seat casually as he lifted his robe.
Zhu Meng presented the memorial together with the secret report in his hand, bowed his head and stepped aside cautiously.
Seeing Zhu Meng's cautious appearance, Li Qitian knew that something must have happened to Jingang.
He first opened the secret report sent by the undercover agent, and his expression changed greatly after a glance, and then he opened the report sent by the magistrate of Jingang.
"What is the warning! Who is the warning! Those wastes are all food! Let me demolish a few boats, and the whole dock is burned to me. What is the use of this group of wastes!"
The sage was so furious, Xiong Jinshui and the palace people knelt down in panic.
From a few words, I heard that Jingang had gone into the water and burned the warship used by the saint to repair the emperor's mausoleum. Xiong Jinshui felt that something was wrong.
Li Qitian was already whirling around in anger, panting heavily.
"Waste, a bunch of trash, what use do I want you to use!"
When he walked to the table, he waved his hand and brushed off the pen, ink, paper and inkstone on the table. The blue-and-white porcelain pen fell to the ground and shattered, and the water in it was spilled on the ground.
"Sacred God's anger!"
The crowd kowtowed in unison.
Li Qitian roared: "Stop your anger? How can you calm your anger! I just want to build an imperial mausoleum. First, I was greedy for ink several times, and then the materials were shoddy. I just bought the stone with silver, and now the wood has been burned again. It is said that it is a warning from God, what did I do to need a warning from God?"
"I love the people like a son, I work diligently every day, and I don't dare to be slighted in the slightest. Even if God warns me, I tell me not to spare you mediocrity!"
"Sacred Lord, calm down!" Everyone kowtowed again.
Li Qitian gasped like a cow, gritted his teeth and said: "Check it out, investigate thoroughly! How could there be a fire at the seaside for no reason? There must be something strange about it! If you can't find out the reason, it must be a warning from God, and I will kill the entire pier. The person above, give me the wood to be buried with me!"
"Yes!" Zhu Meng took the order and quickly retreated.
Li Qitian immediately issued several orders, ordering people to investigate the situation in Jingang as soon as possible.
After waiting for an hour, I asked someone to ask how many ships were left.
When he heard that all the warships on the pier had been burnt to the flames, Li Qitian was angry and smashed the newly brought four treasures of the study.
When Li Qitian was angry, he did not avoid people, so the guards outside the door vaguely heard the movement. Although they didn't dare to spread rumors indiscriminately, it was hard to guarantee that these voices would not be heard by other people, such as Tang Xiu, who was waiting beside Pang Xiao.
Pang Xiao is now living in the yamen's backyard to recover from his injuries. After hearing the news from Tang Xiu, his slightly pale face smiled for the first time in several days.
With such a big uproar, now Sister Yi must have safely boarded the ship with her treasure.
No one would have thought that the treasure would be on the previous warship, carried by his beloved treasure, far away from Li Qitian's search.
Seeing Pang Xiao smiling, Tang Xiu couldn't help lowering her voice, and joked in a tone of voice: "The lord has such a virtuous inner helper as the princess, it's a secret pleasure."
Pang Xiao raised his eyebrows and said in a low voice, "You brat has grown up courage. If the princess listens to this, she will be reluctant to marry Ji Yun to you."
Tang Xiu's young and delicate face turned red.
Seeing this, Pang Xiao couldn't help but smile.
Everything went well, and his injury should gradually get better. It also avoids delays in what to do in the future.
Tang Xiu happened to hear these words. However, the guards in front of the palace did not dare to spread the news.
So it was three or four days after Lu Heng got the news of what happened to Jingang.
"Uncle, the people on the street are saying that a giant dragon flew in the first few days of Jingang. It first spewed fire and burned the warship, and then blew a gust of wind, which made it impossible for people to approach to put out the fire. The dragon was lying on the sea. until the sky was bright and all the warships were burnt to ashes before they flew into the clouds."
Lu Wenru wanted to come back because Lu Heng was used to serving him personally, so he hurried to report when he heard the news outside.
Hearing this, Lu Heng put down the idle book in his hand in astonishment.
"Fire dragon?"
"Yeah. It can breathe fire and blow wind. The people in Jingang spread it like a god, and the villain just heard it on the street."
"Have the warships been destroyed?" Lu Heng frowned.
Lu Wenru nodded: "Yes, it is said that there is not a single ship left, and even the dismantled wood that was placed on the shore was burned together. Fortunately, there were no casualties among the people, and the fire on the pier did not spread. In the city, the fire is now out."
Lu Heng shook his head, "Do you think the Sage will care whether the people are injured or not? All he cares about is the burned wood."