Chapter 684 - Ascending (I)
In the night, a carriage drove out from the stronghold of Yousi, and the people of the north and south of the two Jin Dynasty read it all. [The crisp sound of horses' hooves at the beginning of the text, accompanied by the sound of silk and bamboo by the Qinhuai River, converges into a beautiful nocturne.
Li Hongniang and Lian Shui'er sat opposite each other in the carriage, although they couldn't see each other's faces clearly, they could smell each other's breath.
"Have you decided?" Li Hongniang asked lightly.
"Are you insulting me?" Lian Shui'er's voice was hoarse, "If all your relatives were slaughtered by the enemy, and you still worked for the enemy, how would you feel?" β
"As I said, I have no conclusive evidence of who the perpetrators are in Sangyu Village. It's just that there are too many doubts in Half Moon Valley, which makes people have to wonder about what happened back then. Li Hongniang said sincerely.
"I'll check the specifics." Lian Shui'er's voice was as cold as a stone, "But with what I know about that person, that person has always done things only for results, and unscrupulous means." The bloody case in Sangyu Village must have been committed by him. β
"Whatever you want." Li Hongniang sighed.
In the previous conversation, when Li Hongniang showed all the hole cards, Lian Shui'er finally collapsed. He told what he knew, like a bean poured into a bamboo tube. And Li Hongniang naturally also revealed the suspicions of the slaughter of the village in Dangsuo Sangyu Village, pointing out that the perpetrator should be the Guogong Mansion, the controller of the Half Moon Valley garrison.
This inference made Lian Shui'er almost go crazy. When she was a child, she suddenly changed dramatically, her relatives were killed by robbers, and she was only saved by the people of the Guogong Mansion, so she began to work for the Guogong Mansion and did many evil things. Now that Lian Shui'er learns that the executioner who killed her relatives and her own clan is actually her "benefactor", how can she not collapse.
Li Hongniang knew what she wanted, and the result shocked her and made her feel the chill of this winter.
As a condition, Lian Shui'er proposed to let Li Hongniang try to send her back to the Guogong Mansion safely. Li Hongniang agreed after a little thought. Although she has different paths from Lian Shui'er, it would naturally be better if she could cultivate a "traitor" for the Guogong Mansion.
As for how to let Lian Shui'er go back, Li Hongniang also thought of countermeasures, since Huan Xing put a few eye posts around her, she couldn't help but use them.
The carriage turned east, and after half an hour, it arrived at the stronghold of Zuo Si, which was not far from the martial arts. Li Hongniang deliberately covered Lian Shui'er's head, and Hu Qiang resisted into the stronghold and locked him in a secret room. The whole process was secretive, and it was the eyeliner that confused Huan Xing.
Even Li Hongniang didn't expect that Huan Xing would go to the stronghold in person the next day, and took Lian Shui'er away without saying anything, not giving Li Hongniang time to delay at all. After Li Hongniang pretended to be angry, she let Huan Xing's people take Lian Shui'er away. She smiled secretly, Lian Shui'er was really important to the Guogong Mansion, so much so that Huan Xing didn't even have a basic explanation.
In the right stronghold, Mu Yu and Yuan Rong sat under the lamp, their faces as pale as water. On the cases in front of them, two pieces of paper that recorded Lian Shui'er's confession were still dry.
"Brother Mu," Yuan Rong said with concern, "Is this material going to be shown to Huang Yuandu?" β
"To that old thief? I'm really unwilling. Mu Yu raised his head and looked at the roof, and said with some sadness and indignation, "Especially Lu Junqing, the dog thief, should have died a long time ago." Now that it's clear that a dog-eat-dog farce is about to happen, I really don't want to miss it. β
Yuan Rong pondered for a while and said, "We might as well hide this section about Lu Junqing......"
"No!" Mu Yu said, "Huang Yuandu's shrewdness, you and I have seen it, it's not so easy to fool around." As soon as Huang Song is involved, Huang Yuandu will definitely find his son to find out, and he may leak the stuffing at that time. β
"But now only Huang Yuandu can stop Xiao Hui from the latest chapter of the online game Zero World. I'm afraid that it will be difficult to stop it if it is directly reported to the Holy Lord now. β
"Yes, that's where the difficulty lies." Mu Yu slapped his hands hard, and said hatefully, "The rebellion has not been revealed, and the saint trusts him, I'm afraid it's hard to believe." Only Huang Yuandu, who has never been all the way with Xiaotong, and has a deep understanding of the Guogong Mansion, this material is of great use to him. β
Yuan Rongxiu's eyebrows tightened, "Either don't report the materials to Huang Yuandu first, and let Huang Song deal with Lu Junqing." Either inform Huang Yuandu immediately and let Huang Yuandu try to deal with the Guogong Mansion. Of course, Huang Yuandu will definitely stop his son from killing Lu Junqing. β
"Lu Junqing's matter involves a cabinet full of money. The reason why the Guogong Mansion asked Huang Song to be the wronged boss was to borrow a knife to kill people, and then use this as a bargaining chip to cooperate with Qian Manji. To get through this person, it must be said to be far-sighted. Mu Yu couldn't help but sigh.
"It's a pity that Xiao Lang is not in Jiangning, if he is in Jiangning, with his relationship with the saint, he will definitely be able to leave the cabinet full of money and not be able to eat. We can't, and the Holy One believes that a full chest of money is better than us. If we rush to play, we will suffer. Yuan Rong also sighed.
For the personnel of the left and right divisions who specialize in intelligence, the difficult thing to do is often not how to get the information, but if the choice is made according to the relationship.
There was silence for a while. Mu Yu finally took a long breath and said, "The big thing is important, let the two old thieves bite it first." As for Lu Junqing, save his life first, and when Zheng'er comes back, they will take off the old horseman's dog head together. β
Now that the decision has been made, Mu Yu and Yuan Rong no longer hesitated, and immediately sorted out the materials, listed some unknown things about the Guogong Mansion, sealed them in an envelope with fire paint, and sent them to the Prime Minister's Mansion overnight.
In the middle of the night, Huang Yuandu sat alone in the study, his eyes were bloodshot, his face was red and white, and he was obviously enduring great anger.
In his hand, it was the secret piece that Mu Yu had just sent. However, this material has been pinched by Huang Yuandu. Huang Yuandu's hands kept trembling, and his fingers were digging into the paper.
The content of the materials made Huang Yuandu shocked and angry. He didn't expect that Xiao Hui would lay such a large net.
Huang Yuandu never thought that Xiaotong was a good bird. At that time, Huang Yuandu advocated new science and suppressed traditional Confucianism, and for this purpose, he specially took down the person in charge of the Jiangning Academy of Literature, the great Confucian Wei Buzhou. From then on, the relationship between Xiao Tong and Wei Buzhou gradually became secret, and through Wei Buzhou, he took in and supported some Confucians who were rejected by the new science.
As for the descendants of some officials who dismissed their officials and confiscated their homes, Huang Yuandu also heard about it. At the beginning, Huang Yuandu and Xiao Hui didn't care, or let Xiao Tong do this. The reason why this is so is because Huang Yuandu and Xiao Hui are both very proficient in political scheming: if there are only two forces left in the entire Great Qi Dynasty, Huang Song and Xiao Hui, it is bound to be life and death, and you cannot coexist. If there is a third-party force as a buffer, the effect will be very different.
Of course, the growth of the Guogong Mansion is also related to the support of the Empress Dowager Huang Jiao. Out of wariness of the palace, Huang Jiao also openly and secretly supported Xiao Tong, hoping to use his prestige to compete with Xiao Hui.
There is another reason that is very ridiculous, Guogong Xiaotong's age is over seventy, and for such an old guy who has half a foot in the coffin, whether it is Huang Yuandu or Xiao Hui, he has intentionally or unintentionally relaxed his vigilance.
In the past ten years of the Great Qi Dynasty, the struggle and cooperation between Xiao Hui and Huang Yuandu were the main theme, and Guogong Xiaotong could only be regarded as a concertist. What Huang Yuandu didn't expect was that this grandfather of the country, who originally belonged to the role of beating the side drum, secretly developed such a big force. This made Huang Yuandu finally understand what it means to be "old and ambitious", oh, maybe "old and not dead is a thief", which can better represent Huang Yuandu's state of mind at this time.
The expansion of the power of the Guogong Mansion is not unusual on the surface. First of all, he has a large number of children, five sons and three daughters, and most of these children are married to military generals. For example, the eldest grandson, Xiao Ting, married the daughter of Cong Kui, the envoy of the right road of Shandong Guan, which can be regarded as a heavyweight union.
Secondly, there are many protΓ©gΓ©s. Xiao Tong is old and has done many positions, and he once served as the secretary of the military department, the commander of the city guard, the secretary of the Jiangning Mansion, and the secretary of the criminal department, and he is a famous old minister. Xiaotong himself is the nephew of Qi Taizu, and he is of the same age as Taizong, even if he sees him, he must be called an uncle. Because of this, the prestige of the Guogong Mansion is very high.
Thirdly, it is the self-cultivated forces of Xiaotong, including some characters who were destroyed by Xiao Jun and Huang Yuandu, and many descendants were secretly included in the account of the Guogong Mansion.
What surprised Huang Yuandu the most was that the materials said that Xiaotong had a group of generals who were loyal to him and established a secret settlement. In the border army, the garrison camps in various places, the city guards, and even the forbidden army, there are people who belong to the Guogong Mansion. These people are all in charge of a purple-robed man from a national government, and this purple-robed man is most likely the eldest son of Xiao Tong.
Everyone has a legend that Xiao Tong died in the army at an early age. Now it suddenly appeared, how could Huang Yuandu not think about it: Xiaotong actually lied that his son was dead, but secretly asked him to cultivate the power of the Guogong Mansion, who can not be shocked by this scheming?
With such scheming and preparation, Xiaotong finally arrived at the "mountain". Huang Yuandu also understood why the matter of the empty time in the army had recently become known to the government and the opposition, so that Dong Lancheng, who had the best chance to compete for the post of captain, became precarious.
And the day before yesterday, the concert about the impeachment of Qiao Zhenchuan was also sent to the palace. In the chapter, Qiao Zhenchuan connived at his family to do business, secretly sold contraband to Dajin, and seized a share of the market, etc., which was very detailed, and it was done by the people around Qiao Zhenchuan at a glance.
Dong Lancheng and Qiao Zhenchuan, the two Taiwei contenders, have a problem, and the fishermen will soon surface.
Of course, Huang Yuandu's anger was not against Xiao Tong, but at his son Huang Song, he didn't expect his son to hook up with the Guogong Mansion so deeply, and even promised the other party to kill Lu Junqing, who he once relied on as his right-hand man.
Huang Song entered the palace a few days ago and told Huang Jiao that Song Zheng had sent Dajin as an envoy, and he was instructed by someone. This made Huang Yuandu already see a little sign, and now Huang Song is so bold that in order to deal with his eldest brother Huang Yue, he does not hesitate to collude with outsiders. How unfortunate the Prime Minister's Mansion is!
"Evil animal, you don't understand my heart." Huang Yuandu sighed, angry and sad, with old tears on his face.
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