After understanding the situation, Hong Tian Xiao came up with a plan to kill two birds with one stone, which was to assassinate Ao Bai.
Assassinating Ao Bai would definitely make Hong Tian Xiao more trusted by Kang Xi, which would make it easier for him to move around the palace. It would also make Ao Bai more worried about Kang Xi. The assassination of Oboi also sped up the pace of Oboi's usurpation of power. In short, the more intense the battle between Kangxi and Oboi, the longer it would be beneficial to Hong Tian Xiao's plans.
Although Kang Xi was one of the few wise emperors in history, he was still young and his thoughts were not very meticulous. He had the impulsive and playful mentality of a teenager. After hearing Hong Tian Xiao's plan to assassinate Ao Bai, he immediately clapped the table and exclaimed in admiration. As the Emperor, assassinations should never have occurred to him.
The reason why Hong Tian Xiao dared to bring up the assassination of Ao Bai was because Yang Yizhi had already brought Lu Gaoxuan and the fat and thin itinerant monk to the capital. With these four experts, Hong Tian Xiao was much more confident. Even if things didn't go well, with the martial arts of the five people, it would not be a problem for them to retreat unscathed.
After a detailed discussion with Kang Xi, the first plan to assassinate Ao Bai was secretly carried out. Although Kang Xi did not participate, he asked Suo Ertu, the head of the imperial guards, to follow him. There were two purposes. One was to observe the kung fu of Hong Tian Xiao and Ao Bai, and the other was to supervise Hong Tian Xiao.
During this period of time, Oboi was vigorously engaged in the enclosure movement. The enclosure movement was actually to drive the people who originally lived in the " city " to the edge of the " city " or outside the city, and take their land for themselves. This was a way for the Qing Dynasty aristocrats to oppress the Han. Behind the enclosure movement was the secret struggle between Oboi and Kangxi because of their conflicting policies.
During this period of time, the land at the edge of the city had been replaced. Ao Bai had surrounded the remaining land of the Han people who had not yet obtained land outside the city. Therefore, Ao Bai had been going outside the city to inspect the land almost every day. Therefore, the best place to assassinate Ao Bai was outside the city. For this reason, Hong Tian Xiao and Suo Er Tu had explored the road for a few days before finally setting up an ambush on a barren slope ten miles outside the city.
Saultu had been in the officialdom for a long time and was extremely cunning. When Kang Xi directly appointed Hong Tian Xiao as the imperial guard, he began to inquire about Hong Tian Xiao's background. Three days later, when he learned that Hong Tian Xiao was the younger brother of Liu Yan, the palace maid that the Empress Dowager favored, and that Hong Tian Xiao's martial arts were superb and highly regarded by Kang Xi, Saultu naturally viewed Hong Tian Xiao in a new light. The assassination of Oboi arranged by Kang Xi was extremely secretive. Apart from Saultu, no one else was a royal guard, so Saultu understood that although his official position was higher than Hong Tian Xiao's, he had to listen to Hong Tian Xiao's orders.
Three days later, the assassination attempt on Ao Bai officially began.
On this day, Ao Bai had his breakfast as usual and took his men outside the city to inspect the fields. As Oboi held power in the court and held military power, no one dared to touch his sharp edge. In the beginning, when Oboi went out, he was often surrounded by people. Almost all the masters in Oboi's residence followed him.
Later, when Oboi went out, he was assassinated several times. However, the assassins were either skilled in martial arts or few in number. In addition, Oboi's own martial arts were already difficult to defeat, so Oboi gradually felt at ease. From then on, he no longer brought so many followers. Every time he went out, he only brought four or five people with the highest martial arts skills.
There were five people with the highest martial arts skills in Ao Bai's residence. They were Ao Bai's fourth junior brother, Master Ji Yong, the Northern Desert Bear, Helian Xiwu, the Thunderbolt Double Fiends Ou Lianyu and Xia Yuyi, and the Wind Monk Cheng Zhi. Among them, Helian Xiwu, Ou Lianyu, and Xia Yuyi were all famous big shots in the underworld. They had joined Oboi's sect because they had too many enemies. The Wind Monk Chengzhi used to be a Shaolin disciple. He was the apprentice brother of the current Shaolin Sect Master. He was expelled from the sect because he violated the precepts.
The last time Ao Bai was assassinated was three months ago. The leader of the Green Wood Hall of the Heaven and Earth Society, Yin Zhizhong, had led a group of men from the Green Wood Hall to ambush Ao Bai. There were ten halls in the Heaven and Earth Society, which were divided into the first five halls and the last five halls. The first five halls were Lotus Hall, which was responsible for Fujian Province. As the main force of the Heaven and Earth Society was in Fujian Province, Lotus Hall was the strongest. Hong Shun Hall was responsible for Guangdong Province, Jiahou Hall was responsible for Guangxi Province, Cantai Hall was responsible for Hunan and Hubei, and Honghua Hall was responsible for Yunnan Province. The last five branches were Green Wood Hall in charge of Jiangsu, Crimson Fire Hall in charge of Guizhou, West Gold Hall in charge of Xichuan, Profound Water Hall in charge of Yunnan, and Yellow Earth Hall in charge of Zhongzhou and Henan.
This arrangement was made when Chen Jinnan first established the Heaven and Earth Society. Later, as the scale of the Heaven and Earth Society gradually expanded, Chen Jinnan allowed each sect to infiltrate other neighboring provinces. Among all the incense masters of the Ten Halls of the Heaven and Earth Society, the Green Wood Hall Master, Yin Zhizhong, was the one with the best martial arts skills and the smartest brain. Chen Jinnan had high hopes for him. In just three short years, the Green Wood Hall quickly infiltrated the north with Jiangsu as its base. First, it went to Shandong, then Hebei, and then Tianjin and the capital. The number of members increased by five times, and it became the second hall after the Lotus Flower Hall. As the head of the Lotus Flower Hall, Cai Dezhong, was already old, Yin Zhizhong had become the successor to the head of the Heaven and Earth Society.
However, when a person's career had always been in a favorable position, it was easy to breed arrogance. Yin Zhizhong was like this. Seeing the harm that the enclosure movement had brought to the Han people, Yin Zhizhong issued the most important and most unsuccessful order of his life, which was to assassinate Oboi.
The result of the assassination was very obvious. Yin Zhizhong did not investigate too much about Ao Bai. He only thought that how could a general who fought on the battlefield compare with a martial arts master like him? Yin Zhizhong had led twenty of the Heaven and Earth Society's best men to ambush Ao Bai and his party, but they had suffered a crushing defeat. If Yin Zhizhong had not held Ao Bai back to cover everyone's retreat, perhaps only one or two of the twenty men would have made it back.
In addition to Yin Zhizhong being killed by Ao Bai, the Green Wood Hall also lost four good men. The strength of the Green Wood Hall suffered an unprecedented blow. Not long after, Guan Anji and Xu Tianchuan of the Green Wood Hall became enemies in order to compete for the position of incense master. The Green Wood Hall was almost divided into two, and they no longer had the time to deal with the Qing court.
"Shoot." Seeing that Ao Bai and his men had entered the ambush zone, Hong Tian Xiao hurriedly raised the red flag in his hand. With a series of whooshing sounds, countless arrows were shot at Ao Bai's convoy from all directions. In addition to the five masters under Ao Bai, there were two hundred personal guards accompanying him. These personal guards were all experienced warriors who had gone through life and death with Ao Bai.
Due to the sudden incident, Oboi and his party were not prepared at all. In a short time, no less than a hundred people were shot.
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