Chapter 198: Letters
Who is "the other"? This question is not difficult to answer. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info but anyone who regards Zhao Shuo as a thorn in the eye, a thorn in the flesh, and a thorn in the flesh, can be classified into the category of "others". In the eyes of these people, Zhao Mo, the eldest son who had long been given up by Zhao Shuo, can only be regarded as a tool, and he is still a very useful tool, because he is the proof that Zhao Shuo is mean and unscrupulous for power.
Qin Hanzhen felt that there was something in these words: "Cousin Zhao, are you talking about your grandfather? Why does it sound like there are still others here?" At present, Zhao Shuo is regarded as a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh, isn't there still the Shu King's family? Compared with the second son of the Liao King, who is not very obvious in his desire to win the heir, the younger son of the King of Shu is more like a person who will use Zhao Mo to calculate Zhao Shuo, right?
Zhao Mo smiled slightly: "Of course there are others." I can't believe that they can come up with the methods they used to deal with my father, let alone all the perjuries they have prepared for this!"
It turned out that the Liao Wang's family suddenly went to Beijing, planning to find time to join the eldest son Zhao Shuo after the queen mother's birthday, saying that he was in contact with foreign countries, sold military horses privately, and filled his pockets...... And so on, not only to destroy his relatives in righteousness, but also to knock him into the dust. In order to prove that Zhao Shuo deserved it, the Liao King prepared several pieces of evidence, including two witnesses and a letter from Zhao Shuo.
According to the Liao Wang, this was when the Liaodong army was patrolling the border this spring, and caught a smuggler who was doing business between the two countries on the border, and found that he had a military horse in his hand that was forbidden to be sold abroad, and immediately detained the person, and after severe torture, the prisoner confessed to his accomplice, which was a junior military attache in the army. And Zhao Shuo's letter was found from the luggage of the little military attaché, which can prove the fact that the other party colluded with Zhao Shuo. Now, the little military attache and the smuggler, as witnesses, have been secretly escorted to Beijing by the King of Liao, and they are locked up in the palace of the King of Liao. Of course, Zhao Mo hadn't seen it, but when he lived in the Liao Palace, he had private contact with the people Zhao Shuo had placed in the palace, and he probably knew the location of the detention.
It is said that these two people are eating and drinking well now, and they are doing quite well, except for a little shallow scar on their bodies and faces, and they really don't look like they have been severely punished.
There is a suspicion in this matter, that is, when Zhao Shuo was in the Liaowang Mansion in Liaodong, he could not have access to military affairs. He was not treated well by the King of Liao, and was almost in a state of idleness, and this matter was well known in Liaodong. If there is a military attache in the army who wants to buy military horses privately, then at least he has to have some power and profitability. Zhao Shuo has no power, and he can't be the other party's backer, so why should the military attache count him as his share?
Moreover, according to the subordinates of Zhao Mo who had only recently traveled to the capital from Liaodong, the border of Liaodong had been peaceful for a long time, and there had not been a major war for many years, and the occasional sporadic skirmishes were nothing at all. The Liaodong Army gradually relaxed, because of the bitter cold at the border pass, it was very common to eat empty salaries, and many military attachés privately sold surplus military horses, ordnance, and military rations to merchants in exchange for property. These things are actually a small treasury of the Liaodong Army, and they are generally self-determined by each army. When you encounter a more generous general, you can use it to improve the lives of your soldiers, but if you meet a greedy general, these treasures will often only fall into the pockets of a few people. The prince of Liao knew this, but he did not have the opportunity to fight and make military achievements, and he was not on good terms with Jinshang, he needed the support of these generals to maintain his prestige in the Liaodong army, so he turned a blind eye to this situation for many years. As long as the people in the army don't go too far and make a small fuss, he won't care.
Since he had always cared about such things, why did he suddenly plan to sue his son?
Zhao Mo intuitively felt that there was something wrong here, and when he entered the Liao Wang's Mansion, he found that the attitude of the Liao King and the Liao Wang's step-concubine towards him was unexpectedly kind, and he felt even more weird. The husband and wife of the King of Liao pretended to be kind and concerned about him, as if they were trying to win him over to lean towards him, and then let Zhao Mo say that Zhao Shuo was not in front of the emperor and the queen mother, because Zhao Mo's experience was clear to many people and received a lot of sympathy, as long as he sold it in public again, then Zhao Shuo would definitely receive more criticism.
Of course, Zhao Mo would not really be co-opted by his grandfather and stand on the opposite side of his father, but he still felt that the behavior of King Liao and his wife was very strange. If they act according to their ideas, Zhao Shuo will certainly be criticized, but Xiao Wang's family will not be able to turn over. Didn't the step-concubine of the Liao King want to marry the daughter of the Wang family for her son? She was also very polite to the little Wang family, wouldn't it be a contradiction to act like this?
Zhao Mo also noticed that King Liao and his wife seemed to be very kind to him, but their two youngest sons couldn't suppress their temper for the time being. The second uncle Zhao Li couldn't see him, so he didn't see him, and he kept a straight face when he met, barely maintaining the etiquette. Uncle Zhao Yan wanted to be willful, and wanted to scold him several times, or whip him, but was stopped by the step-concubine of the King of Liao. The latter once scolded his youngest son for this, and Zhao Yan was so angry that he refused to eat, and the step-concubine of the King of Liao spent a long time coaxing the younger son. Zhao Yan stopped smoking Zhao Mo after that, but looking at him, his eyes were full of cruelty and mockery, as if to say: "I'm just letting you go for the time being, but sooner or later I'll beat you up." ”
In this way, it is like the feeling that the step-concubine of the king of Liao persuaded his sons to let Zhao Mo go for the time being, but one day it will make them get their wish. Zhao Mo deduced that the Liao King and his wife must have something to do with him, so they are deliberately pretending to be kind at the moment, so as to confuse him. After two days, the step-concubine of the king of Liao really gave him two girls.
These two girls are both good looking, and they do things very properly, and it can be seen that they have been carefully taught. Zhao Mo was a little suspicious, they were originally candidates for the concubine of Liao to prepare for her son, but now they were sent to him. Their performance was quite honest, except for serving him in his daily life, they didn't care about anything else, but they quickly took over all the messengers who served him from Fei's mother, as if they were trying to make it impossible for him to leave them as soon as possible. Zhao Mo guessed that they must have a plan, so he also pushed the boat down the river, and let them do it.
Then, today, the king of Liao ordered the eldest grandson to return to the Cheng'en Hou Mansion, and said that the eldest son was too cold and ruthless to his grandson, and if he saw his son in the palace, he would definitely teach his son a lesson and let his son take his grandson home......
When Qin Hanzhen heard this, he immediately guessed the intention of the King of Liao: "Does he want you to take those two girls to your father's house? Why? These two girls are here to be the ears and eyes? But how many days can you stay there? What can those two girls do?"
Zhao Mo smiled, and did not answer directly, but mentioned another matter: "Although the prince is light on literature and heavy on martial arts, these days, in order to show kindness to me, he often calls me to his study. But he didn't have much patience to talk to me, and usually didn't say a few words before asking me to endorse him. I said that I would do my homework and stay in his study to read and practice calligraphy, and he didn't stop me, but he was impatient to accompany me, so he went busily by himself. I took the opportunity to find something good in his study. He paused and lowered his voice, "I saw the letters and account books that he intended to use to corroborate my father's incriminating evidence, as well as the confessions of the two witnesses. ”
Qin Hanzhen was taken aback, and hurriedly asked, "The thing is fake, right?"
Zhao Mo hesitated for a moment before replying: "I don't know, because they seem to be true, and there is nothing wrong with the confession, there is no flaw, it just feels ...... It doesn't look like my father did it. ”
Qin Hanzhen was stunned: "What about the letter? This is the most likely to be forged, right?"
The Epistle is indeed the strongest piece of evidence. Zhao Mo said, "The letter detailed the details of my father's collusion with the military attaché, and even how he acted and how much silver he earned. I saw that the handwriting was indeed exactly the same as my father's handwriting, and my father's handwriting had some small habits that were not known for many years, and if others imitated his handwriting, they would not normally be found, but there was one on the letter. Had it not been for my father's repeated assurances that he had never done such a thing, I would have suspected that the letter was indeed written by him. ”
Qin Hanzhen frowned: "What can I do about this...... She looked up at Zhao Mo, "Then what are you going to do?" If you can't find the flaws in these evidences, how can you prove your father's innocence?
Zhao Mo suddenly smiled, looked around, took out a letter from his sleeve, and handed it to Qin Hanzhen.
Qin Hanzhen was stunned, and suddenly looked at him in disbelief, and after a long while, he took the letter in a daze and opened it to read.
This is a letter written by Zhao Shuo to a junior military attache in the army, colluding with him to sell military horses privately and to a Beirong businessman. Not only is the details clear, but the names are complete, and even the handwriting is exceptionally clear, which is simply indefensible.
Qin Hanzhen sighed: "If this letter is true, I can only say that the person who wrote the letter is really too ...... Not smart anymore. Considering that the letter may have been written by Zhao Mo's father, she said a little more tactfully, "When you do bad things, don't write down what you have done on paper in such clear and clear words, it's better to be vague and find a pronoun or something." Is he writing like this for fear that others will not know that he is doing bad things?"
Zhao Mo smiled: "It's just because it's too clear that I think it can't be true." But...... The handwriting is too similar. Even if my father told the emperor that it was a forgery, I am afraid it would not be convincing. He paused, "Therefore, I stole the letter and used the pen and paper in the prince's study to imitate an identical letter." It's about five or six points like the original letter.,At first glance, you can still fool the past.。 For the prince, as long as he doesn't look closely, he shouldn't notice it. But if it really came to the emperor, the flaws in the letter would be too obvious. ”
Qin Hanzhen looked at him with a strange expression, thinking that he had deliberately dug a pit for his grandfather. If the King of Liao found out that the thing was dropped before presenting the so-called evidence, it would be fine, if he didn't find it, the whole thing would have become the King of Liao falsely accusing his own son, right?
She said with some unease: "If the King of Liao finds out that the letter has been dropped, will he suspect you?"
Zhao Mo looked at her with a smile: "Even if he doubts it in his heart, he will only suspect Chang'er and Sheng'er who are following me, right?" And he hasn't found it yet, and he probably won't find it in the future." ”
Qin Han was puzzled: "Why? Where did you get your confidence?"
Zhao Mo smiled: "Because the letter I forged is now in the hands of the two girls next to me." They were going to bring the letter into my father's house. He sneered, "Handwriting alone is not safe, and if you can add my father's private seal, wouldn't it be more stable?"
Qin Hanzhen suddenly realized: "That's why the step-concubine of the King of Liao sent two girls to you...... They didn't go to your father's to be your father's ears, they were going to bring the letter to your father to be sealed!"