Chapter 22: Acquaintances
The acquaintances Yu Wenwen met in the group of captives can be said to have turned into ashes, he knows them all, this guy has a lot of 'business' contacts with him, and they have a good relationship with each other, so he recognized each other among a group of disgraced captives: Prime Minister Changshi, Peiguo Gong Zheng Yi.
Of course, Zheng Yi's current position is the marshal of the Southern March, but he is almost "unemployed", because the Southern Army has been defeated like a mountain, and only the remnants of the cavalry that have slipped away are no different from the end.
"The county prince, I have no choice but to be appointed as the marshal Changshi to go with the army, and please be merciful!" Zheng Yi stood in front of Yuwen Wen with tears streaming down his head and cried, saying that he was about to kneel down and was helped up by Yuwen Wen fifteen at Yuwen Wenwen's motion.
Yu Wenwen tried his best to put on a smiling face to try to calm down Zheng Yi, who had become a frightened bird, he recognized the old acquaintance in the crowd at a glance, who was wearing people's clothes and looking evasively, and then pretended to be deaf and dumb to find an excuse to take him to a secluded corner to 'talk in detail'.
"What did the elder brother say, how could the younger brother and the elder brother be friends who have forgotten their years to do such a cruel thing as cutting off people's heads." Yu Wenwen felt that God must have a deep meaning in letting the two of them 'meet', so he decided to seize the opportunity.
Zheng Yizi is righteous but not righteous at all, but very greedy for money, unprincipled power is to better accept bribes, he grew up in the palace and the sons of Yuwentai, the founder of the Great Zhou, it stands to reason that he should be full of loyalty to the Great Zhou, but it turns out that this is not the case at all.
Emperor Wu of Zhou, Yu Wenyong, felt that Zheng Yi's hair section \\ was good, so he asked him to accompany the prince Yu Wenyun, and as a result, he and a bunch of villains surrounded Yu Wenyun, a prodigal son, as long as he could make the other party happy.
Fortunately, Emperor Wu of Zhou and Yuwen Yong were in power at that time, and these people did not dare to be too presumptuous, and helped the prince Yu Wenyun pretend to be a good person, but when Yu Wenyong died of illness, Yu Wenyun's true nature was exposed after he ascended the throne, and they also followed the help to abuse.
All kinds of dirty things are too many to write, anyway, this fact that Zheng Yi later took refuge in Yang Jian to help him usurp power is ironclad, if it is from Wei Guangzheng's point of view, it is not a pity to cut Zheng Yi, a minister.
However, Yuwen Wen had other ideas, because he knew that since people like Zheng Yi could betray Emperor Wu of Zhou, Yuwen Yong, Emperor Xuan of Zhou (Emperor Tianyuan), and Yu Wenyun, who betrayed the little emperor Yu Wenyan, then one day he would also betray the future Emperor Wen of Sui Yang Jian.
Yu Wenwen will not give up this opportunity to plant a nail next to Yang Jian, so he has to try to trigger the 'hidden mission': the deep sea is in Chang'an.
Zheng Yi is talented but can't strengthen the country, and he is skilled in arches and horses, but he can't go into battle to kill the enemy, but he is very good at music, so there is no trouble if he lets him go back, otherwise if he is that kind of person who is the type of Jia Xu of the Three Kingdoms, he can't take care of it anyway, so he just slashes it out.
The strategy to persuade Zheng Yi to comply is to capture the old man, Yu Wenwen pretended to take Zheng Yi to his father Yu Wenliang to 'make things clear' and then pave the way for him to defect to Anzhou and ask for a half-official position.
Zheng Yi naturally won't agree, first of all, regardless of whether Yu Wenliang, the governor of Anzhou, will give him an official and a half-job, the most important thing is that his family is in Chang'an, if the court knows that he has taken refuge in Anzhou, I am afraid that it will be the result of being beheaded.
"If the younger brother leads the army alone, he will let it go, but now that my father is leading the army, the military law is strict, if the younger brother lets the elder brother go and intercepts half of the way to the sentinel rangers, everything will be over." Yu Wenwen looked tangled.
However, Zheng Yi was not entangled at all, he saw that Yu Wenwen's mouth was loose, and he knew that the other party intended to let him go, how could he not grasp the life-saving straw, and patted his chest vigorously, promising that if he was caught by the Anzhou army again along the way, he would never reveal a word about the public release of Xiyang County.
Yuwenwen said that it is still inappropriate, now that the Anzhou army is fully superior, the cavalry is wandering around in the wilderness to intercept and kill the fine work of the imperial court, even if you are tight-lipped brother, you can't resist being shot as soon as you meet, so it is better to go to see my father.
"The younger brother guarantees that his father will give the elder brother a stable and decent official position!" Yu Wenwen also slapped his chest loudly.
Zheng Yi was so anxious that he was sweating profusely, dozens of people in his family were in Chang'an, it was impossible to defect to Anzhou to be an official, and his personal troops were scattered in today's chaotic army, if it weren't for the bad luck to drag down the soldiers who were in a hurry to flee for their lives, he would have slipped away, so why bother to change the people's clothes and hide in the prisoner camp to fish in troubled waters.
Now, in order to escape from the 'clutches' of the Anzhou Army and keep his family safe, Zheng Yi decided to let it go: "In the next family, all of them are trapped in Chang'an, and they really can't serve under the Duke of Qiguo. ”
After speaking, he was already in tears, and he was about to kneel and kowtow, but he was still held by Yuwen Fifteen beside him, and when he saw that the fire was almost off, Yuwen Wen showed his 'true face' and asked Zheng Yi to write a letter of allegiance to the bottom.
His excuse is just in case, with this letter of allegiance, in case the matter of releasing Zheng Yi privately is leaked, he can use this letter to save the situation in front of his father, Zheng Yi is not a fool, knowing that Yu Wenwen is blackmailing himself to do things for him after returning to Chang'an.
But Zheng Yi still wrote without hesitation, there was no pen and ink on the scene, but he was still 'full of blood', and directly bit his finger and tore off a piece of cloth from his clothes, and came with a bloody handprint, by the way, pressed the bloody handprint,
His character is not good, but his knowledge is not compromised, his loyalty and faith are sprinkled with hundreds of words in one go, and his content is quoted from the classics, the writing is flying but the flesh is abnormal, and he is extremely advocated, Yu Wenwen glanced at it hurriedly, and the goosebumps rose, and he hurriedly put it away.
"Fifteen, go get ready." Yuwen Wen showed a 'resolute' face, and then asked Yuwen Fifteen to lead the horse over, and after he left, only he and Zheng Yi were left with two foxes, one young and one old.
Zheng Yi knew that this was a trap in order to save his life, and he had to jump when he wrote this letter and drew a bet, which means that once the letter is exposed, he will be unlucky, and the other party can 'please' him to do something 'within his ability' with this handle.
Once this thing is done, there is no turning back, so Zheng Yi decided to ask for guilt in front of Yang Jian as soon as he returned to Chang'an, and confessed all the things that were loyal to him, he would not be stupid enough to be bound by this kind of trick and be the rebellious inside line of Anzhou.
He pressed the treasure on Yang Jian's side, and seeing that the old classmate was about to arrive, he waited for the cheap grandson 'Chan Rang' to change the dynasty, and someone was so stupid that instead of taking a tailwind boat, he got on a broken boat.
In order to save his life and write a letter of loyalty, this kind of thing is a big loss, so he is afraid that he will have to stand aside in the future, but it doesn't matter, as long as the limelight is over for a year or two, there is still a chance to make a comeback with his old relationship.
Yu Wenwen would not be stupid enough to think that with a piece of loyalty and faith, Zheng Yi could honestly obey his orders, and there were only two ways to make people willing to be an insider: handle and benefit.
A piece of paper is not an effective handle, and if he says that he has no evidence, the other party will not believe it, so he has to add: "The little brother met a certain woman with a certain little lady and a certain maid somewhere one day. ”
Zheng Yi was puzzled when he heard this, and muttered in his heart: "When you meet a woman, you look at the right eye, you take a fancy to someone else's daughter, and if you buy a maid, you buy it back, what do you tell me?" ’
"A woman asked her younger brother to find someone to report safety to the prime minister's wife." Yuwen Wen pointed out the off-topic meaning.
Zheng Yi said that there was no problem, and then after a while, he broke out in a cold sweat, and then looked at Yu Wenwen with dull eyes, his mouth opened and he wanted to speak, but he couldn't say it, he knew who the other party was talking about: specially pointed out that 'report safety to the prime minister's wife' means that the three people who disappeared for nearly a year are the queen mother Yang Lihua, the little princess Yuwen Eying, and the female official Anu!
"My little brother has a business and wants to sum up with my brother"
Zheng Yi looked at Yu Wenwen in disbelief, he really couldn't understand what was going on with this guy, he had always thought that Yu Wenwen was out of tune, a prodigal rich man, and there was something wrong with his brain, but now he couldn't see through it more and more.
In July last year, he went to Anlu as an envoy and contacted Yuwenwen, and felt that the other party was a waste, and he spoke without concealing his mouth, saying anything without going through his brain, and when he was in Chang'an, the king of the palace provoked Prime Minister Yang Jian for no reason, and he didn't know what the picture was.
In the days of Chang'an, Yu Wenwen spent all day drinking and provoking right and wrong as the second son of the governor of Anzhou, and it was not safe to come to Chang'an as a hostage, so Zheng Yi thought that Yu Wenwen was wandering in Chang'an, but he was happy in the bitterness, so he could understand it.
What else can I do, as the second son of the family, don't expect to inherit my father's business, I can only be sent to Chang'an by my father and brother as a hostage, ask myself Zheng Yi thinks that if he is replaced, I am afraid it will not be much better.
Zheng Yi felt that the other party was like this: he didn't do things in tune, and he didn't become a climate.
But now it looks like this kid is a little wrong, as if he has been pretending all along, making people feel that he is incapable of letting his guard down and then stabbing him unprepared, now think about it, Yu Wenzhi, the second son of Puyang County, and if he didn't get into his trap, he was bitten back, or the kind that was bitten to death.
Zheng Yi couldn't figure out how the other party got the Queen Mother Yang Lihua, as Prime Minister Yang Jian's confidant, he knew that Yang Lihua was not poisoned by the traitor as the outside world said, but disappeared in October last year and was taken away.
He also knew that Cheng was suspicious of this Yuwen Wen, although there was no evidence to prove that this kid did it, but all kinds of signs showed that Xiyang County Gong was still suspicious, and now the other party really 'didn't admit himself'.
At this moment, Zheng Yi's evaluation of Yu Wenwen was instantly refreshed: This kid is really good at acting!
"Is the prime minister good? How is the Prime Minister's wife? I wonder if Bo Anhou and Yang Jiaerlang are okay? "Yuwen pretended to be crazy and stupid, and said that he wanted to help 'a certain woman' inquire about some things.
Zheng Yi's head was in a mess, and he could only ask and answer one by one, and he only knew that the other party said that a certain woman missed her parents and brothers, so she asked someone to ask around for trouble, especially because she had a lot to say to her mother.
He is not a fool, knowing that Yang Lihua must be in the hands of Yu Wenwen, as for what is the relationship between the two, then 'hehe', Yu Wenwen has always emphasized that reporting safety to the prime minister's wife is to give him a 'business opportunity', provided that he hides it from Prime Minister Yang Jian.
The prime minister is afraid of Mrs. Dugu's family, which is known to the world, and Dugu's daughter Yang Lihua is also known to the prime minister's henchmen, if he Zheng Yi has a line in his hand to catch up with Yang Lihua, who has been missing for nearly a year, then this is equivalent to making Mrs. Dugu look at her differently.
As long as he doesn't make any big baskets to 'order' the prime minister, then relying on Mrs. Dugu to blow the wind on the side, then he Zheng Yi can at least guarantee it, so Yuwenwen is stuffing a chance to make a fortune into his hands.
'Even if you turn around, you're going to have to do it!' Zheng Yi felt ecstatic in his heart, and felt that the future was bright, and it didn't matter what responsibility he was responsible for, as long as there was Mrs. Dugu, who dared to do anything to him.
In ecstasy, he calmed down a little, he was afraid that the other party was making up nonsense, and when he was about to say something, he suddenly had something more in his hand.
"These Cheng Yi are a little bit of the meaning of the little brother, and there must be a sentence from Brother Lao, and the prime minister's wife must be very pleased to hear it."
"Of course, of course!" Zheng Yi's eyes narrowed when he saw Feng Huan turn around.
Yu Wenwen also smiled widely, his side room, Yang Lihua really wanted to be far away from his parents in Chang'an, and he also wanted to find someone in Chang'an to 'do business', so he was in a hurry to come to such a show.
The prime minister's wife, Dugu Jialuo, has suffered a lot for her daughter Yang Lihua, and it is considered that the mother-daughter relationship is deep, if there is news of her daughter, she will not be able to sleep and eat, and she wants to know more about the situation, so Zheng Yi, as a communication channel between mother and daughter, can be regarded as earning this tigress body.
The nemesis of the big boss Yang Jian is his wife Dugu Jialuo, if Zheng Yi can make this tigress think that she is a good person, it is equivalent to being insured in front of Yang Jian, no matter how much she declines, she will not be able to decline anywhere.
Yuwen Fifteen, who was hiding on the side, saw that the two were talking very happily, and they all began to hook their shoulders and put their hands on each other's backs, and then led the horse over, Zheng Yi changed his clothes, got on the horse, and secretly left the camp and galloped north under the escort of Yuwen Fifteen and several cavalrymen.
Yu Wenwen looked at the backs of those who disappeared on the horizon and smiled slightly: "First help spread the news, and then spread the news, I can't help you!" ”