The gray-robed official nodded slightly: "In front of everyone's eyes, Qin Xiao knocked the bald Li to the ground and forced the people of Tsing Yi Hall to take out the silver. ”

"And such a thing?" Fan Wenzheng's eyes widened, only to feel unbelievable, and then smiled: "The newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, and when he first entered Kyoto, he talked about the catastrophe, and he was really looking for death." Leave him alone, within three days, he will be completely out of this world. ”

"It's getting late, so you'd better go home early and rest." The gray-robed official said, "The lower official stays here to be on duty." ”

Fan Wenzheng shook his head and said: "I won't go back tonight, let people watch Han Yunong, and tomorrow morning, get his confession ......!" Speaking of this, the voice paused, raised a finger, and gently tapped on the edge of the table, and a pair of eyes became deep and vicious.

"After all, he is a black-feathered night crow, not an ordinary person, if...... Will it be extraneous? ”

"Lost Turtle City, entered Beijing to ask for guilt, wrote a confession, and committed suicide in shame." The gray-robed official's eyes showed fierceness: "When the person is dead, the crime is in our hands, and Han Yunong's guilt is a certainty." In this way, even if the news of his death is spread, it can only be regarded as suicide in shame, which is in line with the style of a soldier, and the matter is big, but it will make everyone feel that the loss of Xiling has a great relationship with the dereliction of duty of those officials in Xiling, and this is exactly what we need. ”

The gray-robed official glanced back at the door, walked out of the door, and made sure that the guards were not outside, then closed the door, walked to Fan Wenzheng's side, lowered his head slightly and approached Fan Wenzheng, but did not speak.

Fan Wenzheng tapped on the edge of the table, his face showed a look of reason, and it seemed that he couldn't make any decisions, and the gray-robed official finally said in a low voice: "My lord, when you keep interrupting, you will suffer from it." ”

Fan Wenzheng asked, "What are you going to do?" ”

"When the confession is in hand, give him breakfast." The gray-robed official chuckled and said, "I brought him a meal at noon today, he didn't eat a few bites, and he didn't prepare a meal for him at night, and tonight he has to write a confession, and by tomorrow morning, he will be hungry." Xia Guan asked him to prepare a delicious breakfast tomorrow morning, and then poison ...... inside!"

Fan Wenzheng bowed slightly, but he still didn't make a decision, and his fingers on the edge of the table didn't stop.

"My lord, if he doesn't die, he may change his tone at any time, and only when he dies will the crime be unable to be turned over." The gray-robed official sneered: "Don't worry, sir, this matter will be handled by the lower officials." ”

Fan Wenzheng nodded slightly, and the gray-robed official continued: "After he was poisoned, the food was immediately disposed of, leaving no traces, and he could present it to the saint afterwards. The lower official will also take care of the scene and make sure that the poison was brought by him, so that this matter will be foolproof. ”

"In that case, let's do it your way." Fan Wenzheng finally withdrew his fingers, stood up, and said, "The old man still has some official business to deal with, you will be on duty tonight, and when the old man wakes up tomorrow morning, he will hand over the indictment to the old man." ”

"Poisoned?" Fan Wenzheng frowned and said: "Han Yunong has been under the command of Hei Yu for a long time, and he has been in the Zhen County Governor's Mansion for many years, he has rich experience in the rivers and lakes, and he must be cautious in his actions, if he poisons the food, once he sees it, it will ......!" ”

The gray-robed official smiled: "My lord, you can rest assured about poisoning. There is a kind of poison in Xia Guancun, which is colorless and tasteless, and when it is placed in food, even a veteran who has been in the rivers and lakes for many years will never see the slightest trace. And Han Yunong felt that this was the Ministry of War, and it was impossible to think that we would poison the food, as long as he ate it, in a moment, he would die of poison. ”

Entering Jiayuguan, several people hurried to Kyoto

In order not to delay on the way, Du Hongsheng, a frail civil official, insisted on rushing to Kyoto after a long journey.

The gray-robed official gave Fan Wenzheng a hand, and when he saw Fan Wenzheng's figure in the distance, his bent body straightened.

Han Yunong stayed awake all night.

Fan Wenzheng, as an official of the military department, after learning the news of the Xiling rebellion, his first reaction was not to think about how to quell the rebellion, but to worry that the loss of Xiling would affect the military department.

Of course, Han Yunong knows Fan Wenzheng's thoughts, once the responsibility for the loss of Xiling really has to be borne by the Ministry of War, then the Ministry of War will inevitably be hit hard, as an official of the Ministry of War, Fan Wenzheng will not be able to get rid of it first, and even the position of this Shangshu will not be able to be kept.

Before Han Yunong walked into the military department, he only thought that the military department would inquire about the situation in Xiling in detail, and even report to the sage as soon as possible, and the imperial court would also discuss how to quell the chaos.

But now he has already understood that many things are far from being as simple as he thinks.

At this time, once the DPRK and China make waves, it will only delay the dispatch of troops to quell the rebellion.

But he must not accept that Fan Wenzheng put all the responsibility on the Xiling officials, let alone help Fan Wenzheng sue Yao Mubai and become a pawn in Fan Wenzheng's hands.

Therefore, if the blame is put on the heads of other people, and even more people are involved to share the responsibility of the military department, as long as it is too widespread, and even other ministries and yamen are involved, in order to avoid a big shock in Kyoto, the sage will definitely be lightly punished, so as to avoid greater turmoil in the court and China due to the loss of Xiling.

Han Yunong also did not want turmoil in the DPRK and China.

There is no money to ask for, no one wants people, and even many officials just hang on to their official bodies, but they have no power in their hands.

Yao Mubai, as the protector of Xiling, used the little power in his hands to protect the face of the Tang in Xiling as much as possible, and also to protect the people as much as possible, so that the people remembered the good of the empire, and finally died for the country with the general on Chinese New Year's Eve.

For more than ten years, the officials sent by the empire to Xiling are indeed people who have been excluded from the court, and they have gone to Xiling as officials, and they are indeed assigned to the border gates, and they are officials over there, and the environment is extremely bad, and the imperial court has been treating Xiling as a piece of chicken ribs for many years, and even the officials stationed in Xiling have to look at the face of the Xiling family.

Han Yunong has been in Xiling for many years, and it is even difficult to be an official there.

Han Yunong has a clear conscience.

But as the Governor of Guicheng, he did not find any signs of rebellion earlier, at least the Governor's Mansion was indeed taken away by the Deathwing Cavalry in his own hands, and Han Yunong was willing to admit his mistakes.

Now that the Ministry of War wants to hold the blame on such a group of people, of course Han Yunong will not agree.

Han Yunong blamed himself for the loss of Turtle City, but how could dozens of people in the Governor's Mansion at that time be able to fight against hundreds of well-trained death-wing cavalry? The enemy is strong and I am weak, but the whole of the Governor's Mansion still fought to the end, most of the officials who had worked together for many years died in that night, and those who survived were also imprisoned in the prison and became prisoners of the ranks.

Rooster Si Chen.

When the first morning sun rose, the gray-robed official had already pushed open the door of Han Yunong's room, which was the most secluded house in the military department, Han Yunong turned his head and saw the gray-robed official and stood up.

He could confess his sins, but he would never want to implicate anyone else.

After a night of deliberation, at dawn, Han Yunong finally wrote his confession, in which he wrote in detail what he knew happened that night, and he also calmly admitted that he realized that he did not notice any signs of rebellion and was guilty of negligence.

Han Yunong picked up the confession and presented it to Dou Wei, the squire of the military department, after Dou Wei took it, he glanced at it a few times before he smiled and said: "You don't have to worry, let you write this, it's not to cure you."

of sin. He turned around and said, "Someone!" ”

What Fan Wenzheng did in the military department was despicable, but Han Yunong did not lose his courtesy.

"This official is Dou Wei, the squire of the military department." The gray-robed official carried his back with one hand, and said with a smile: "Lord Ministry, let this official come over and see if you have written it here." ”

Han Yunong said: "My lord, the confession has been written, if you don't arrest the lowly now, I don't know if the lowly can go back?" He lives in the Changle Inn in Sipingfang, and before the court falls, he will stay there and will not leave Kyoto. ”

"Eat first." Dou Wei seems to be very casual.

A person walked in from the outside, carrying a delicate lunch box, walked to the table, and carefully took out the wine and food from the lunch box, there were not many dishes, but they were very exquisite, and the room was filled with aroma, whether it was the style or the smell, it could arouse people's appetite.

"After a hard night's work, let's eat something first." Dou Wei put away the confession: "This official is sent to the minister." Seeing that Han Yunong was standing still, he raised his hand and pointed to the wine and food on the table and said, "Hurry up and eat it while it's hot." ”

Han Yunong didn't talk nonsense, just bowed his hand slightly, walked to a chair and sat down, his body was straight, and he didn't mean to prepare for a meal.

Dou Wei could only say: "After eating, just let people come in and clean up." He didn't say much, knowing that if he said more, Han Yunong was only afraid that he would be suspicious, and he didn't even dare to glance at the wine and food, so he went out, beckoned the man who delivered the food, and said in a low voice: "You are watching here, he wants to eat, report to me immediately." ”

Han Yunong said: "Thank you, my lord, but I don't want to eat yet." ”

Dou Wei frowned slightly, and finally said: "What Lord Mintang means, he will write a memora and hand it over with you." Until the decree comes from the palace, you'd better stay in the military department. If you have anything you need, someone will be sent here to prepare it for you, and three meals a day will not be delayed. ”

Dou Wei sat down on the side, took out the confession, and presented it to Fan Wenzheng, Fan Wenzheng put down the chopsticks, took it and opened it, frowned, and said: "Bloody battle to the end, hehe, is this a show of merit or a confession?" ”

"Later, it was written that he knew nothing about the signs of the rebels in advance, and the rebels finally captured Turtle City, and he could not escape the blame, and he could be regarded as admitting his guilt." Dou Wei said: "Since he wrote this confession, if he is asked to rewrite it, with his temperament, if he changes the soup or not the medicine, it will still be like this, and no one else will be involved." However, this crime is enough to prove that the officials made a mistake in employing people at the beginning, and when the time comes, we will also involve Hei Yu, it is he and the officials who arranged for Han Yunong to go to Xiling to serve as the captain, as long as Hei Yu and the officials are involved, it will be much easier for us to do it here. ”

The man said yes.

When Dou Wei saw Fan Wenzheng, Fan Wenzheng had already freshened up and was sitting at the table for breakfast, when he saw Dou Wei coming in, he beckoned, "You haven't had breakfast yet, have you?" Eat some together. ”

Fan Wenzheng was stunned, and also frowned: "Could it be that he noticed something?" ”

"Probably not." Dou Wei said: "I just wrote a confession, I am in a low mood, I am worried that I will be imprisoned, and it is normal that I can't eat it for a while." Don't worry, he can't go without eating all the time, we still have time to wait for him to move his chopsticks, even if it is night, we are not in a hurry. ”

Fan Wenzheng bowed slightly, waved his hand to let the people waiting on the side retreat, and then asked in a low voice, "How is he now?" ”

"The wine and food were served, but he didn't move his chopsticks." Dou Wei frowned.

At this moment, I heard hurried footsteps outside, and heard another voice outside the door: "Ministry, there is something to report for your humble duties." ”

"Come in." Fan Wenzheng put away his confession when he saw an official coming in from outside the door, bowing and bowing his head.

"Han Day, what do you want to report at this time?" Dou Wei glanced at the visitor, this official was Han Day, the head of the Treasury Department of the Ministry of War, and it was he who drove Qin Xiao away in front of the Ministry of War two days ago.

Han Tian hurriedly said: "The Criminal Department ..... Someone is beating a drum over there at the Criminal Department! ”