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- Most of the people who arrived here were clearly charged with the crime, and they were only waiting for the Son of Heaven to approve the sentence recital, so naturally there was no need for officials to do torture and other things.

Of course, good conditions are only relative.

In the small cubicle, there was nothing but a thatched mat underneath.

- Such conditions, if you are born in the family of the prince and prince, must be very difficult to bear.

Ren An couldn't help but chuckle.

- Such conditions are much better than the situation he was in when he was first cold.

"The Lord'......"

Under the flickering light, the old servant was frightened by the inexplicable smile of his master.

“…… Seeing the beginning of the war, I want to sit and watch the success or failure, and when I see that the winner wants to follow it, I have two hearts......" Ren An softly repeated the old servant's previous words, "What did the Lord say?" ”

"Yes......" the old servant nodded, and wept again.

Ren An muttered this sentence several times, but finally looked up to the sky and laughed.

"That's it......" Ren An shook his head while laughing, "Two hearts are two hearts!" If you are unfaithful, you will not be faithful! Prince Tian Renzong is dead, and I will die if I don't send troops on the Prince's Day! It's just a thought of the Lord! ”

"Lord!" The master and servant were taken aback by the master's bold and presumptuous words.

Ren An waved his hand: "Since the death penalty has been condemned, even if this news reaches the ears of the Lord, it will not increase the punishment." "Although the Son of Heaven is not merciful, he is not a person who tortures indiscriminately.

The old servant said no more, but silently poured wine into the empty lamp in front of the lord.

After drinking it all in one gulp, Ren An motioned to the old servant to pour more wine for himself, then picked up the lacquer, raised his hands to make a toast, and said with a chuckle: "I will go first, and wait for the descendants!" ”

The millet wine slowly spilled on the ground, the little little little wedge that outlined the cloud pattern fell, and Ren An knelt and kowtowed to the old servant: "Thank you for sending me!" An's wife and children, in the future, it will all depend on the good father! ”

The old servant didn't shirk, and the old man kowtowed in tears.

In December of the second year of Zhenghe, Ren An died.

In the second year of Zhenghe, spring, the first month, and the upward Xingyong.

This time, the suburbs sacrificed to the sky, and the Son of Heaven did not bring his favorite concubine and young son, but only brought his cronies from the Inner Dynasty, and summoned the general of the second division to Ganquan to see him.

For the close ministers of the Son of Heaven, the meaning of the Son of Heaven is obvious - the Son of Heaven is ready to take revenge on the plundering of the Huns.

Huo Guang didn't care about this, and took advantage of the last day of rest before the trip, he went home.

Knowing that his daughter had returned to Shangguan's house, he just frowned slightly, didn't say anything, and instructed his wife before bathing: "If Du Gongzi comes, you will entertain him for a while." ”

"Du Gongzi?" Dong Lu was a little surprised, and when he saw that his husband nodded with a pale expression, he didn't ask any more questions, and nodded in response.

She knew that her husband would not be untargeted, since she said so, "Du Gongzi" would inevitably come, so when she left the room, she asked the maidservant to tell the old man at the door.

Sure enough, without two moments of work, the old man came to report that Du Gongzi came.

It was the first time that the Donglu clan saw this Du Gongzi, because her husband didn't give much instructions, and she didn't show extra affection, but just entertained this guest when her husband was inconvenient.

Du Yannian, the young son of the imperial historian Du Zhou, ranked third. Unlike his father and brother who bear the name of a cool official, Du Yannian likes Confucianism and has a generous heart, which is an alternative to the Du family.

After seeing the famous thorn and listening to the guest's words, although there was no expression on his face, Donglu was still very curious, and took the opportunity of the maidservant to serve hot soup, she took a closer look at the man who was more than ten years younger than her husband.

In addition to being gentle and elegant, she couldn't see much for a while, but seeing that he took the handmaid's ear cup that was about to overturn due to panic, the Donglu clan had a little more affection for this cloth boy who had passed the old age.

"Long wait!"

Hearing Huo Guang's voice, the Donglu clan immediately got up, and after asking Du Yannian to greet him, he withdrew from the main hall.

Du Yannian was also a little puzzled about Huo Guang's invitation, especially since this invitation was conveyed through Zhang Anshi - he and Huo Guang were only general friends, but he had a very close friendship with Zhang Tang's son Zhang Anshi - which made it difficult for him to refuse while doubting.

"The service is hard, and the prolonged life is the generation of cloth, and the most idle." Du Yannian politely replied to Huo Guang.

After Huo Guang saluted him, he invited him to take a seat, and did not care about his unfamiliar politeness, but directly stated the purpose of the invitation.

"I ask Ziru (Note 1) to recommend a credible person who is well-versed in the law and familiar with the official prisons of the Central Capital, although Ziru Dao Du Jun does not like prison affairs, but he has a family history, is familiar with the law and order, and has friendships with the imperial history, the court lieutenant and the prison chiefs, but is it?" Huo Guang was very solemn, so that Du Yannian couldn't even say polite words, so he could only answer: "Inheriting the teachings of the family, it is not without a family reputation." As for friendship...... It's just a good ...... to say, "Du Zhou has been serving in the Tingwei Temple and the Yushi Dafu Temple, and when he was still a teenager, he often interacted with those grammar officials, and now, most of those people are still serving in those places."

Huo Guang hesitated, was silent for a moment, and he still said, "I have two things to ask Gongzi." ”

This sentence made Du Yannian look at him with wide eyes, and sincerely admired Zhang Anshi's guess in his heart - "Huo Zimeng is a person who is difficult to open Chrysostom, so he must have something to ask you." ”

At that time, his confidant raised his eyebrows, lowered his voice and said, "It's nothing more than something to do with the prince!" ”

"The prince is dead, what else does he want?" Du Yannian frowned at that time. For Zhang Anshi, who knows a lot, he has no need to hide it.

Zhang Anshi squinted slightly: "Do you just watch those people profit from the death of the prince one by one?" ”

Du Yannian was taken aback by Zhang Anshi's words: "Ziyu, when did you have a relationship with the prince?" He never knew that his friends supported the prince.

"I don't have a relationship with the prince." Zhang Anshi shook his head - he has always given things a book, and it is not appropriate to have a relationship with the prince.

"Then ......" Zhang Anshi's words made Du Yannian even more confused.

Zhang Anshi sneered, obviously angry: "If the Lord wants to be easy to store, naturally there is no room for me to put my beak, but ...... Watch the person who framed the prince take his place in a dignified manner! Young man, I'm really not happy! Even if the prince is not in a thousand ways, only the Lord can deal with it! ”

Du Yannian lowered his eyes slightly, as if he was groaning, and suddenly heard his friend sigh again: "At least you can't let me see my father and the general under Jiuquan, without the face......" After losing his father, he gave things to the official Lang and was taken care of by the great general Sima a lot.

So, Du Yannian agreed to come to see Huo Guang, but he didn't expect Huo Guang to be so blunt with him.

“…… The waiter said, please...... "Du Yannian has no better way to deal with it for a while."

Huo Guang nodded: "Two things." The first one, please ask Du Jun to help me check the Marquis, and the second one, I want to know what happens every day in the prison of the county mansion! ”

Du Yannian was very surprised by Huo Guangjiao's shallow demeanor, and it took a long time to regain the ability to speak: "...... The second thing mentioned in the waiter, the prolongation of life should be a try, the first thing ...... Huo Shizhong, let Yannian Yijie Buyi go to check a marquis ......"

Because there was an edict before the Son of Heaven, the prince was the prince. In September, the new security order of the crown prince was rounded up, Shi Li Shou was named the Marquis, and the soldier Zhang Fuchang was named the Marquis.

"Don't you dare?" Huo Guang raised his eyebrows slightly, and a complicated smile sipped at the corner of his lips, but Du Yannian immediately extinguished the idea of refusal.

"I don't know what to check in the waiter?" Du Yannian's intuition told him that refusal at this point meant some kind of hostility......

Huo Guang lightly deducted a few points, and said slowly: "Check out, who has he been in contact with, and has he done anything that is not in accordance with the law...... And so on......"

Du Yannian shuddered, but he couldn't refuse.

- Huo Guang will talk about this, if he refuses, how will Huo Guang leave trouble?

Du Yannian smiled bitterly, remembering that Zhang Anshi had said that many of the champion Hou's personal guards remained in the Huo family.

"Since the service can be trusted to prolong the year, the prolongation must go all out."

In the spring of the third year of Zhenghe, the heavens who accepted the shrine did not give favor to the Han monarchs and ministers, and the Xiongnu who had just plundered the border in winter attacked again, this time, the Huns entered Wuyuan and Jiuquan, and the two captains were killed in battle.

The Son of Heaven, who had been accustomed to a tooth for a tooth, sent 70,000 people out of Wuyuan in March, sent 70,000 people out of Wuyuan, 20,000 people from Shangqiu Cheng, a master of imperial history, and 40,000 horses from Jiuquan to attack the Xiongnu.

In the summer, in May, the Son of Heaven returned to Jianzhang Palace and issued an edict of amnesty to the world.

Huo Guang stayed in the palace and did not contact Du Yannian, but Du Yannian sent Huo Guang a silk book without title and signature through Zhang Anshi.

After Huo Guang read it, he handed the silk book to Zhang Anshi.

The content was not long, but Zhang Anshi looked at it for a while before he looked up and said to Huo Guang: "It's Du Yougong's handwriting." ”

"What do you think about this matter?" Huo Guang smiled and asked another question.

Zhang Anshi blinked and looked at the other person in the house: "What do you think of Jin Shizhong?" ”

Jin Riyan didn't look up, still looking at the book, and asked lightly, "What's the matter?" ”

Huo Guang got up and put the silk book on the lamp in the corner of his bookcase, watched the flame light the silk, and then slowly put it in the pen wash on the side, and at the same time replied to Jin Riyan in a low voice: "The general of the second division went out on the expedition, and the prime minister and the officials were the ancestors (Note 2), and sent them all the way to Weiqiao." The second master said to the prime minister: 'May the prince invite the king of Changyi to be the crown prince as soon as possible; If he is established as an emperor, why should the prince be worried! The Prime Minister has promised. ”

Gong Zhan seemed to shake for a moment, Huo Guang and Zhang Anshi didn't see Jin Riyan's expression clearly when he heard this, but they clearly heard this Hun who had always been regarded by the Son of Heaven and everyone as loyal and reliable whispering in a vague tone: "Mrs. Gou Yi will like this news." ”

Note 1: Ziru, Zhang Anshi's character, from "Hanshu • Zhang Tang Biography".

Note 2: Ancestral road refers to the ancient sacrifice to the road god for travelers, and the feast to see them off.