Amano 5th year, November 15

Ming Jing, the imperial palace of the Western Zhou Dynasty

Although Yin Mo, the secretary of the household department, left the main hall at the fastest speed after the dispersal of the dynasty, he was still in front of the palace gate after all, and was stopped by Sun Qingquan, the secretary of the military department, who had already premeditated.

"Master Sun."

Looking at Sun Qingquan, who looked like he was stumbling with him, Yin Mo smiled bitterly: "You don't have to pester the old man anymore, the old man really can't send food out, otherwise we can check the account book, if it is the slightest bit different from what the old man said, the old man immediately asked the Queen Mother and His Majesty to resign and return home." ”

Sun Qingquan, the secretary of the Western Zhou Military Department, was born in the army back then, and was a representative figure of the Western Zhou Dynasty military generals turned civilian, with a straightforward style and a rigid personality, looking at Yin Mo with a pitiful face, he didn't care about it, and smiled coldly.

"Gong Yin, Sun is a rough man, I can't understand the account book carefully concocted by your household accounting master, and I won't read it, I only know that the Queen Mother and Your Majesty have given us the responsibility of supervising the front-line grain and grass in the Ministry of War, and this officer, that is, the Ministry of War, has to do their duty.

Now, King Li has sent letters to the court several times to ask for grain, but your household department has repeatedly prevaricated, and even postponed the original date of grain distribution.

This official wants to ask Yin Gong and his colleagues in the household department whether they clearly know what a serious crime it is to delay military rations, and if they don't know, Sun can go and ask someone from the criminal department to explain to Yin Gong. ”

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Sun Qing's words were not harsh, and Yin Mo slowly frowned, and his old face was faintly angry.

Yin Mo, who was an official in the Taizu Dynasty, was an out-and-out veteran in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and he was respected wherever he went.

"Lord Sun, although the Ministry of War has the responsibility of supervising the grain and grass, but how to prepare the grain and grass and do it to the front line is our own business.

If Lord Sun has any objections, he can go directly to His Majesty for impeachment, and there is no need to popularize the laws of the Great Zhou Dynasty to the old man at this gate. ”

"Hmph."

Sun Qingquan was scolded by Yin Mo, and he was not angry, but smiled slightly: "Yin Gong has a good tongue, but no matter how good your tongue is, you can't change the food that can be eaten." ”

He looked up at the sky, pinched his fingers again, and said loudly: "Today is the 15th of November, and in five days, that is, the 20th of this month, that is, the original date for transporting grain.

The food is not raised effectively, and the corpse is in a vegetarian position, and the official will definitely join you at the Queen Mother and His Majesty. ”

After that, Sun Qingquan ignored Yin Mo, who was trembling with anger, took the wat board in his hand, turned around and strode away.

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"Junior, dare to deceive me."

Yin Mo's face at this time could no longer be described as difficult, he looked at Sun Qingquan who was leaving, and his cloudy old eyes flashed with resentment.

At this time, Ning Decai, the prime minister of the Western Zhou Dynasty, suddenly appeared next to Yin Mo, stretched out his hand and pressed on Yin Mo's thin shoulder, his eyes fluttering: "Yin Gong, the surname Sun wants to deliberately provoke you again, don't be fooled." ”

Yin Mo frowned: "Deliberately provoke the old man? Why? ”

Ning Decai looked left and right, although they were now in front of the palace gate, but because Yin Mo and Sun Qingquan, the two court bigwigs, were arguing violently here, the ministers of the Western Zhou Dynasty did not dare to mix and avoided it from afar.

Seeing that there was no one around, Ning Decai opened his mouth and said: "Sun Qing is all a friend of King Li, when the emperor was still there, the two were officials in the same place for several years, Sun was the local chief official, King Li was the general of the garrison, and later the two took up another position, but the friendship has not been broken.........

Yin Mo raised his hand to stop Ning Decai's following words: "The old man knows a little bit about the matter between Sun Qingquan and King Li, so Ning Xiang should go straight to the point." ”

Ning Decai's chubby face was full of gentle smiles, even if his words were interrupted by Yin Mo's rudeness, there was no change, and after a slight pause, he followed Yin Mo's request and went straight to the topic.

"The front line of 600,000 troops, people eat horses and chew every day, the consumption can be imagined, Yin Gong let the household department slow down their grain and grass, if it weren't for the overall stability of the court, I'm afraid you would have been impeached in the name of the commander of the Jin Dynasty.

Now, if King Li does not come forward, he will let Sun Qingquan, the secretary of the military department, who has the responsibility of supervising the distribution of grain and grass for the army, stand up and make this matter clear.

Yin Gong, think about it, Sun Qing can do the position of the book, no matter how hard and straightforward his temperament is, he will not block the palace gate and publicly hold you accountable for the elders of the Three Dynasties, in my opinion, the surname Sun is fake, and provoking you is his real purpose.

And the calculation behind him doing this is also very simple, if you are always pulled into the trap by him, it is very likely that you will spread your anger on the military rations that the household is preparing to wait for five days to be distributed on the front line.

Of course, Yin Gong's ethics will not stop there, but those surnamed Sun can secretly make trouble.

At that time, there was a problem with the military rations, and Sun Qingquan and King Li directly reported today's matter to the Queen Mother.

Today, everyone in front of the palace gate is watching, and the ministers have seen that you have always broken up because of the displeasure between the military rations and Sun Qingquan, and with these witnesses, Yin Gong, you can't explain this matter even if you have eight mouths.

After that, things will be simple, you always have a "lesson from the past", even if you are not punished by the Queen Mother, but the errand of preparing military rations will definitely not be able to be saved, and the person recommended by King Li will take over this position, which perfectly solves the problem of military rations for the army, and is no longer subject to the constraints of the household department.

Yin Gong, now you always understand what's going on. ”

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After Ning Decai finished his analysis, he looked at Yin Mo with a smile on his face, and Yin Mo also looked abrupt, and then became angry.

"Okay, Ji Linbing is really calculating, thank you for playing with the old man in the palm of your hand, hum, it's really terrifying."

Looking at Yin Mo, who was full of hatred, Ning Decai smiled and asked, "Yin Gong, do you always have a way to deal with it?" ”

"Don't worry."

Yin Mo glanced at Ning Decai, his fingers gently rubbed the wat board, and his old face was full of confidence.

"King Li and the surnamed Sun want to use military rations to calculate the old man is still a little tender, the old man has been an official in the household department for more than ten years, and he has dealt with the word money and food for half his life.

"Haha, Gong Yin is old and resourceful, Ning Mou has a lively look." Ning De complimented.

"Where, where."

Yin Mo smiled to himself, and then said to Ning Decai: "Thank you Ning Xiang a little more, if you hadn't explained the key points to the old man, the old man would have almost fallen into their way today." ”

Ning Decai waved his hand and said humbly: "Yin Gong is noble, Ning Mou has always been respectful, a little busy, a little effort, Yin Gong doesn't have to be like this." ”

The two of them exchanged a few more polite words, Yin Mo took the lead in saying goodbye and leaving, and after he left, the bright smile on Ning Decai's fat face suddenly faded visibly.

"Relying on the old and selling the old things, if it weren't for the fact that you were still useful, the original picture would have cleaned you up first."

Ning Decai secretly slandered Yin Mo in his heart, don't look at the two of them chatting so happily just now, in fact, the two of them are not all the way at all.

First of all, Ning Decai needless to say, the leader of the post-party, and Yin Mo, was more inclined to the neutral faction in the Western Zhou court.

It's just that as a book, Yin Mo also has some protégés under him, so although he is under the jurisdiction of the neutral faction, he is actually more like a unique faction.

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In the Western Zhou Dynasty, there were still many small factions like Yin Mo, but most of them were attached to the three forces of the Hou Party, the Royalist Party, and the Neutral Party, and the degree of independence was also different.

Yin Mo is the secretary of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and he is a veteran of the Three Dynasties, and his qualifications are inferior to those in the Western Zhou Imperial History, and he is not the top three people in the neutral faction, but he is not out of the top five, so Yin Mo has great power in the neutral faction.

Backed by the big tree of the neutral faction, Yin Mo, who originally liked to show off his qualifications, was even more terrible, he was called an arrogant and mean person, unkind to the old, bitter and cunning, and flaws must be reported, many officials in the DPRK and China were not used to him, and they retreated when they saw him.

Ning Decai himself is the same, but this Yin Mo has a gap with King Li, and he has repeatedly stumbled Ji Linbing.

The enemy of the enemy is a friend, although Ning Decai doesn't like Yin Mo, but for the sake of Ji Linbing's face as a common enemy, he still endures the discomfort in his heart and befriends Yin Mo.

Of course, Ning Decai didn't hold back any kindness, he completely pushed Yin Mo out as cannon fodder, purely disgusting the royalists, and at the same time, it also avoided a head-on conflict between the core backbone of the party and the Li Wang faction.

Because of this, Ning Decai's attitude towards Yin Mo is very simple, without harming his own interests, he can help if he can.

If Yin Mo behaves well and bites off a piece of royalist meat, he will be happy in his heart, if this old thief is planted, Prime Minister Ning Dacheng will not be heartbroken.

Regarding Ning Decai's psychology, the treacherous and cunning Yin Mo naturally knew it, so he didn't show closeness to Ning Decai.

Even if it weren't for the unwillingness to offend the Hou Party, and the desire to use the momentum of the Hou Party to deal with Ji Linbing, Yin Mo, who was mean and conceited, and Ning De would not have done the necessary hypocrisy and grievances, even if they didn't tear their faces between the two, they would never be as lazy as they are now.

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Not to mention Ning Decai's slander, and after saying that Yin Mo and Ning Decai separated, he left the palace gate and walked to the place where his sedan chair was placed.

"Sir."

Yin Mo didn't stop, he was put into the sedan chair by the sedan chair man, his buttocks sat down, he looked at Chang Sui, and explained.

"Send someone to Yamen, and say that the old man is in poor health, and he won't be on duty today."

Chang Sui nodded in response, turned his head to find his servant to command, Yin Mo put down the sedan curtain, and his voice was cold.

"Go home."

"Yes."

The head of the sedan chair man answered, bowed to a few companions, and the four of them worked together to lift the sedan chair with a green mantle and red top, and took a pair of long legs, and rushed to Yin's mansion briskly and steadily.

Although Yin Mo has all kinds of problems, he is not greedy as an official, and it is rare that he can hold back and never stretch out his hand after sitting in the big oil field of Hubu for so many years.

This is also an important reason why Yin Mo can stay firmly in the position of the head of the household book.

Of course, if you are not greedy, you are not greedy, but Yin Mo is not the kind of noble and noble ancient with clean sleeves.

He still receives a lot of income from the officialdom, and he does not refuse the filial piety of the protégés and former officials below, plus the shops and merchants in the house who open themselves, although Yin Mo's life is not luxurious, but it is far from being poor.

A set of mansions with five entrances and five exits, gardens and left and right courtyards not far from the imperial city, is a sky-high price that hundreds of ordinary families cannot afford to save for a lifetime.

Yin Mansion

The sedan chair drivers were just about to carry the sedan chair along the side door into the house, when suddenly a woman's cry came from the side of the gate, and Yin Mo, who was closing his eyes in the sedan chair, heard the movement and frowned.

"Go and ask what's going on."

Chang Sui has been following the side, heard the answer, and took the two little guys to check in person, and it didn't take much effort for the three of them to turn around, and Chang Sui came to the side of the sedan chair and said softly.

"It's a little woman who is crying, her husband is a bird breeder in Beicheng, called Xu San, some time ago the eldest young master's Huang Li was sick, I heard that Xu San was good at raising birds, so I took Huang Li to let him see, and it happened to meet the little woman who sent food to her husband Xu San.

When the eldest young master saw that the little woman had a bit of a look, he moved his mind in his heart, and used some means to accept the little woman, but Xu San knew that the guy was hot-tempered, so he made a big fuss.

Now Xu San has been taken by the yacha of Jingzhao Mansion, and the little woman is here to ask the eldest young master for mercy and release. ”

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Don't look at this Yin Mo Changsui is just a subordinate, but he didn't sell the face of the eldest young master at all, and he didn't hide the ins and outs of Yin Mohe without the slightest concealment between his words.

"Bastard things, you know how to do nonsense with family affairs."

Yin Mo, who was already angry in his heart, heard that his grandson had done a bad thing, and he was furious in his heart: "Pass the old man's order, let that dog go to the ancestral hall to kneel, and if there is no old man, he is not allowed to come out, and he is not allowed to bring him food." ”

Chang Suiyi answered, and asked Xu San and the little woman how to deal with it, Yin Mo groaned for a while, and spoke.

"Find an excuse, let Jingzhao Mansion release people, give them some silver to seal, and then let them leave the capital."

"Yes."

After explaining this, Yin Mo, who was holding his breath, couldn't sit still in the sedan chair, opened the sedan curtain and walked out, stepping out of his old legs and preparing to walk to the backyard.

While passing through the atrium, Yin Mo accidentally caught a glimpse of a pine tree, and suddenly stopped, his eyes staring at the pine tree tightly, his eyes flashing with memories and remorse.

This pine tree was planted by Yin Mo's second son, Yin Changmei, and Yin Changmei is Yin Mo's favorite son, and now, it has been more than ten years since he died.

At the same time, it is worth mentioning that Yin Changmei's death has a lot to do with Li Wang Ji Linbing............

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More than 20 years ago, when Taizu of the Western Zhou Dynasty was still on the throne, the first emperor had not even been established as a prince, just an ordinary prince.

At that time, there was a minor official surnamed Tang surnamed Liupin in the capital, and a little daughter named Tang Wan'er under his knees.

This Tang Wan'er was born with a beautiful country, a country and a city, and a steady stream of matchmakers came to propose marriage from a young age, but they were all rejected by the Tang family, because this woman had already had a marriage contract, and the man was Yin Mo's second son, Yin Changmei.

From the perspective of that year, Yin Mo was the Yin of the Sipin and Yifu Mansion at that time, Yin Changmei himself was also famous, and Tang Wan'er's father was only a six-grade petty official, or in the Leng Yamen, and the two got married, and it was the Tang family who climbed high.

In fact, if it weren't for Yin Changmei's love for Tang Wan'er, Yin Mo, who was on the rise in his career at the time, planned to find a good family for his second son with a superior family background, and at the same time he could be regarded as a political ally for himself.

But Yin Changmei couldn't stand it and Tang Wan'er didn't marry, Yin Mo doted on his son, so he could only follow his heart, and finally nodded and agreed to the marriage.

After the Yin family got engaged, seeing that the two families were about to agree on the wedding date, when the Yin family began to prepare for the wedding, they never thought that Tang Wan'er met Ji Linbing, the king of Weifu, who was visiting Weifu, when she went out, and the two fell in love at first sight.

Later, the two experienced countless twists and turns, and finally confirmed that the other party was their destination, and half a month later, Tang Wan'er proposed to the Yin family to withdraw from the marriage, which caused a sensation in the entire Ming Jing, and the Yin family and Yin Changmei became a joke in the entire Western Zhou Dynasty.

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Later, although Yin Mo wrote to ask Taizu to uphold justice, it was obvious who Taizu of the Western Zhou Dynasty preferred for a courtier and a son.

Although Taizu rebuked King Li to the frontier and gave a lot of compensation to the Yin family's father and son, Tang Wan'er still got her wish and married Ji Linbing two years later, becoming a legitimate princess.

Of course, there is also a period in which the former emperor also took a fancy to Tang Wan'er, and the secret history of the palace where the two men and women competed for women, I will not go into detail here.

Just said that after King Li and Tang Wan'er stayed and flew together, the two of them were happy, and Yin Changmei, who was robbed of his beloved fiancée by his life, had a hard time.

He became the laughing stock of half of the Western Zhou Dynasty and the object of contempt of all men, and many people also made up jokes about his experience and spread it around.

In the following years, Yin Changmei borrowed wine every day to eliminate sorrow, depressed, Yin Mo was worried about his beloved son, often persuaded, and had little effect, and finally in a Jin and Zhou campaign, the then Pingbei general Ji Linbing made great contributions, and was rewarded by Taizu, and the scenery was infinite, which greatly stimulated the depressed Yin Changmei.

On a moonlit night when the stars were scarce, Yin Changmei, who was overwhelmed by the burden of her heart, left a suicide note and hanged herself at the age of less than 30.

While the white-haired man sent the black-haired man to the black-haired man, Yin Mo was grief-stricken, but also resentful of King Li and Tang Wan'er who caused Yin Changmei's result today, and he swore in front of his son's spirit that he would use the life of King Li and his wife to sacrifice Yin Changmei's spirit in the sky.

From that moment on, Yin Mo and Ji Linbing got involved, singing against him everywhere, as if he was the first Li Wang Hei in the Western Zhou Dynasty.

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It's just a pity that Ji Linbing's power and status have improved too quickly, and in the early stage of Taizu and Taizong, Yin Mo could still suppress each other, but after he entered the top of the military and mastered the heavy army, Yin Mo was already difficult to compete with the other party alone.

After the death of the first emperor Zhou Taizong, King Li assisted the Empress Dowager Ning to kill the power minister Yu Cong, and forced the former general Pang Longhu to return to his hometown, and King Li sat on the position of the general of the dynasty, holding the military power, and was the uncle of the emperor and the head of the clan, and the power was monstrous, almost ending Yin Mo's revenge.

Fortunately, the power of King Li was too great, which aroused the vigilance of the Queen Mother and hundreds of officials, so the Hou Party and the neutral faction came into being.

The reason why Yin Mo, the sworn enemy of King Li, can now stir up trouble in the court, but is not suppressed and eliminated by the royalists, is of course supported by his own forces, and more is supported by Empress Dowager Ning behind Yin Mo.

Empress Dowager Ning, a scheming woman with superb political means, has always been wary of King Li, Yin Mo is just one of her chess pieces, and the other party has many layouts in the army and the court to control King Li and ......... The back party represented by the Ning clan.

As for Yin Mo, he naturally knew that Empress Dowager Ning was using him, but he was not using the other party.

At present, King Li is powerful, and it is difficult to take revenge with his strength alone, so Empress Dowager Ning, Ning Decai's Hou Party, and other forces are all targets of his cooperation.

Yin Mo has been up and down all his life, and he has not fallen after three dynasties, whoever wants to treat him as a fool is a real fool.

Walking to the pine tree, Yin Mo stretched out his thin old hand to rub the hard and rough bark, and muttered to himself.

"Don't worry, my father will kill that pair of dog men and women to avenge you, heh, you don't know, they all treat your father as an old fool now.

But it doesn't matter, the old fool is the old fool, just enough to make them less wary, my son, you watch it well, it won't be long before Dad will give them a big surprise............"

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ps: Dazhang, make up for yesterday, recently on a business trip, may have to do a change of party for a while, I hope forgive