Chapter 25: Seizure of office (9)
[Zhang Shoujue's fate has changed a little here, including the time of death, as well as children, etc., the plot needs, I hope you understand!]
"Xiao Yan!" Standing in front of the door of his son's bedroom, Xiao Yi's face did not smile, but he did not have the expected anger, but a trace of indescribable regret.
"Huh, Daddy!"
"Uncle Xiao!"
In the room, the two teenagers stopped "discussing" about swordsmanship.
"Come out with me!" Xiao Yi finished speaking, then turned to leave.
"Oh......" Xiao Yan drooped his head and followed weakly. Zhang Tianyi made a gesture of asking for more blessings at him behind him.
In the backyard of Xiao's Mansion, on an empty martial arts arena, Xiao Yi stood tall and looked up at the moon.
After hearing his son's footsteps, Xiao Yi spoke, "Do you know why you came here?"
Xiao Yan was depressed in his heart: "Why else? Why don't you just beat me up! This place is big, the use is open, eighteen kinds of weapons, and the tools are complete!"
Although he thought so in his heart, Xiao Yan was not stupid enough to say it, so he had to shake his head honestly.
"Because this place is empty, as far as the eye can see......" Just when Xiao Yan was puzzled, Xiao Yi turned to look at him, and solemnly added: "So, it won't be overheard!"
"What!" Xiao Yan was surprised inexplicably, and his eyes looked directly at his father.
Xiao Yi looked at his son: "That young man's name is Zhang Tianyi?"
After training in the internal guard for so long and going on several missions, Xiao Yan's reaction was not slow: "Did he use a fake name? Who is he? What is the purpose of approaching me?"
Xiao Yi looked at his son, and he looked at it with such a heart, without joy or sadness, at this time, grief had no effect.
"If the pseudonym is good, it will be killed with a sword. If it's your real name, can you still do it?"
It didn't take long for Xiao Yan to understand: "Who is he?"
Xiao Yi still replied flatly: "Zhang Tianyi, Zhang Shouqi's son." ”
When Xiao Yan heard this, he was shocked: "Impossible! Zhang Shouqi's son Zhang Xiancheng has already died!"
"You killed?" Xiao Yi's eyes suddenly became fierce.
"How is it possible?" Xiao Yan hurriedly shook his head and defended: "The second uncle said that the sword of our internal guard is held in the hands of the saint, and it is the king's order, and the king's ministers have to die!
Xiao Yi smiled noncommittally: "Then how do you know?"
Xiao Yan replied: "After Zhang Shouqi committed suicide, I found that there were a few more people and killers outside!"
"Later, Zhang Xiancheng also died inexplicably, but we did not receive the order to remove Zhang Xiancheng. The second uncle said that since Zhang Shouqi was dead, then the saint would never execute his son again, because there was no need for this. ”
"Hehe, that's natural! Zhang Shoujue's accusations can't be made public, and the knife on the surface can't be used, so we have to use our dirty knife. But his son didn't know that the saint was still a saint after all, and the rules he created by himself were enough to break it once, and Zhang Xiancheng, a guy who knew nothing, was not worth breaking the rules once. Xiao Yi had no honorifics in his mouth, and his tone did not have the slightest sense of respect.
"That Providence ......" Xiao Yan's heart was a little complicated at the moment, although it was only a few days, he had become friends with Zhang Tianyi.
In fact, it can't be blamed that Xiao Yan is too emotional, from childhood to adulthood, Xiao Yan has been growing up in Fuliang County with his father, except for reading and practicing martial arts every day, he has never seen a few people, and his little friend is only Tang Xueying next door. After arriving in Chang'an, he quickly fell into inhumane special training, and then it was a lonely mission again and again. This time, I finally met a teenager of the same age and smell, so it was naturally easy to become friends.
But if what his father said is true, then he is the murderer who killed Zhang Tianyi's father! Although the king of Hades is not himself, the role of bull head and horse face cannot be shaken off.
"Zhang Shouqi has more than one son, and he also has a younger son named Zhang Tianyi! More than 10 years ago, Zhang Shouqi quietly sent him out, but he said to the outside world that he died young. Xiao Yi replied.
Xiao Yan did not suspect that his father had been in the internal guard for so many years, so he naturally had his own source of intelligence. As a newbie, one of the most important items in the special training is how to build your own intelligence network. Just as my father said, they are the sword in the hands of the saints, but they are dirty knives! This knife is held in the hands of the saints, but they are not held in the hands of the saints, and the purpose of the knives is only one, that is, to protect the saints at all costs, including the personal safety of the saints, and ...... Reputational security! Independent intelligence networks can undoubtedly ensure that the image of the Holy One is even more brilliant!
Each inner guard has a number, and this number is all they have, and only when they are separated from the inner guard can they regain their original name, and they can choose to continue to serve the saint in the court and in the army. Although almost all the officials in the court knew their origins, they did not shy away from their origins. However, as long as they fill in their real names instead of numbers on the roster of the Ministry of Officials or the Ministry of War, this is enough!
For the political family, seeing with one's own eyes and listening to others is diametrically opposed treatment!
From here, it can also be seen that the emperors of the Tang Dynasty are different from the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, and the constraints of monarchical power and relative power make the emperors of the Tang Dynasty have to need such a fig leaf. In the Ming Dynasty, there was only one person who could decide the fate of Jinyiwei, Zhu Chongba!
Xiao Yan has his own numbers, and Xiao Yi used to have them!
This also means that Xiao Yi has cut off the possibility of whitewashing, in order to change the way out for his son, he can only pick up the sword in his hand, but he didn't expect that it was a step too late after all......
"Why?" Just when Xiao Yan was holding on to the faint hope, praying that this Zhang Tianyi was not the other Zhang Tianyi, and at the same time thinking about how to get along with Zhang Tianyi when the truth was revealed, so as to fall into such a contradictory and painful entanglement, his father asked him a word with a sad gaze for the first time.
Xiao Yan stopped the entanglement, met his father's gaze, was silent for a moment, and said in a low voice: "I want to do something......"
"Do something...... In order to prove that he has grown up?" Maybe it was his son Mo Ruo's father, or maybe he had a similar experience back then, Xiao Yi withdrew his sadness, with bitterness, and said with a smile: "In order to prove it to Xiao Jue?"
Xiao Yan nodded silently.
Xiao Yi looked at his son and shook his head: "Hehe, a man's original dream is really inseparable from a woman." ”
Xiao Yi took a deep breath and continued, "Okay! Since you choose to be a dog, then I have to teach you the most important one!"
"A dog, a good dog, the first is loyalty!
Xiao Yan nodded vigorously, then plucked up his courage and took the opportunity to ask a question that he had been asking for many years but had found nothing: "Dad, mother...... How did you die?"
For a single parent, this kind of problem must accompany him throughout his growth.
Before, Xiao Yan didn't know anything, but in the past few months, he seems to know something, or feel some clues in the past that has been dusty for many years.
Xiao Yi was silent for a long time before he replied, "I still can't sue you! Because in that case, you won't be able to do the first one!"
Xiao Yan looked at his father's face and gradually lowered his head: "But you have already said ......"
"So, I'll tell you the first one!" Xiao Yi suddenly laughed.
Xiao Yan lowered his head for a long time and didn't speak: "...... Is there no hope?"
As if hearing his son's unwillingness, Xiao Yi stretched out his hand, touched his son's head, and said in a voice that only two people could hear: "Only the emperor can kill the emperor!"
Xiao Yan didn't understand, but he still nodded vigorously......
The conversation between father and son has ended, and in the next few days, Xiao Yan and Zhang Tianyi have been together for a short time, and they are always preoccupied, but fortunately, Zhang Tianyi's mood is not easy, because he got a message!
The goal of his coming to Chang'an was to take away what belonged to his father!
That's right! Zhang Tianyi is indeed the little son that Zhang Shouqi sent out back then!
Over the years, Zhang Tianyi has been following his master to practice martial arts in the mountains, and only a few months ago, the master told him about his tragic annihilation.
Zhang Tianyi is a genius! But it is only limited to the talent of martial arts! As for some of the checks and balances of the emperor's use of internal guards, it is naturally impossible for this young man who grew up in the mountains to know.
When he learned that the imperial court's treatment of his father was only a demotion to an official, but his father died on the way to his post, and then his eldest brother, mother and other family members died inexplicably one after another, the clever Zhang Tianyi realized that this was a conspiracy!
Later, in line with the simple logical concept of who benefits and who is the most suspicious, Zhang Tianyi went to Pinglu. I didn't expect him to find out a lot of things!
It was also An Lushan's bad luck, who would have thought that Zhang Shouqi would come to do this more than 10 years ago? An Lushan, who thought that he had cut the grass and eradicated the roots, naturally did not have much vigilance, and soon let Zhang Tianyi find his feet.
So, the hunt began! It's just that Zhang Tianyi never had a chance......
And now, the culprit who killed his father and killed his eldest brother, An Lushan, the Pinglu Jiedu envoy, actually took over the Fan Yang Jiedu envoy who belonged to his father!
Since the court meeting, An Lushan has been busy, and the wealth accumulated in more than ten years has almost been squandered, An Lushan is like a gambler, since he has invested so much, how dare he give up!
The benefits of investing more are obvious, at least for many people, gold and silver jewellery is still very useful! Not tempted? Just not enough!
As a result, Li Longji did not wait for the next court meeting, but directly issued a decree to appoint An Lushan and the post of Fan Yang Jiedu envoy, and the seals of the left prime minister Lin Xilie and the second minister Xu Fan were attached to the central decree, so whether it is from the holy will or the legal principle, this appointment is impeccable!
However, what is intriguing is that the post of envoy of Hexi Jiedu did not fall into Wang Zhongsi's pocket, but let Hu General Ge Shuhan, who was pulled up by Wang Zhongsi, take it away.
As soon as the appointment came out, the dynasty was in an uproar!
An Lushan's victory as the envoy of the Fanyang Festival can also be accepted by the hundred officials, after all, people are generous, except for the people of the right faction, almost all the officials who have some say in the Golden Palace have more or less benefited.
And this Ge Shuhan, who had never heard of it before, actually took away the position that his boss liked, which is a bit reverie.
However, except for a few people in the inner guard who could clearly understand the meaning behind this appointment, most of the rest of the people in the court were just looking at flowers in the fog. After guessing to no avail, he can only boil it down to the following: The saint really likes to use Hu Jiang!