Chapter Ninety-Six: The First Suspect

Envoy Di, Yu Wenwen was talking to Di Ling, at this time the agreed time had passed, Xi Sheng, who was supposed to come to visit, did not appear, so the situation was a little delicate, and the two people who were talking now were in very different moods. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Di Ling Xie Hua felt that something big was going to happen, and Xi Sheng didn't come, which meant that something was wrong with the trip, maybe it was deliberately delayed to provoke Yu Wenwen, or maybe there was an accident on the way.

In fact, it was not an accident, Xie Hua was worried about Xi Sheng's assassination a few days ago, so it stands to reason that it was expected, originally he still had illusions, thinking that there would be a false alarm today, Yuwen Wen and Xi Sheng both had a full beard and a full tail, but there was still a problem.

"Oh, what's wrong with this Xi Erlang, isn't it a pastime for this official, what time has it been." Yu Wenwen said, "Could it be that you got lost halfway?" Or maybe you change your mind and don't come? ”

"Yuwen envoy, Xi Langjun may have been delayed because of something, please don't take it to heart." Xie Hua replied, seeing Yu Wenwen who was smiling, he was extremely helpless.

"This dark cloud is full of sky, it seems that something big is going to happen, could it be that there are monsters in Yecheng, and the heavens want to use the heavenly thunder to punish the demons?"

"The envoy laughed, Yecheng is the master of the capital, where will there be monsters at the feet of the Son of Heaven..."

"It's hard to say, back then, in Chang'an City, the thief Yang Jian almost killed the white sunset thunder, this official thinks that there may be a demon king of the mixed world in Yecheng today, this kind of thing is difficult to say, right?"

"Ahh The envoy laughed, laughed..."

"Xie Diling has lived in Yecheng for a long time, and I want to know a lot of stories, so how about letting this official know for a long time?"

"What the lower officials know is street rumors, vulgar and unbearable, where can they get into the ears of the envoy."

"The stories that this official said when he entered the palace and listened to His Majesty are also street rumors, and Xie Diling means something..."

"Don't misunderstand, the lower officials have no such intentions!" Xie Hua was so anxious that he was in a hurry, this Xiyang County duke was so good at his tongue that he took him to the ditch without paying attention.

"Since I don't mean that, let's hear about it, what's interesting in Yecheng?"

Xie Hua reluctantly talked about all kinds of strange things he knew, as a palace order, he was sent to greet people with smiling faces on weekdays, and Xie Hua spoke without offending people.

He didn't dare to say that his ability to observe words and emotions was very high, but it was not low, but Xie Hua felt that it was a little difficult to talk to Yu Wenwen, not that the other party was vulgar, but that he was out of tune.

"It is said that he was still teasing Yang Jian in the main hall back then, I really don't know what to say..."Xie Hua lamented in his heart, Yuwen Wen even dared to tease the assistant prime minister, so he accepted his fate, but he was still quite disdainful in his heart: "What kind of climate can this kind of person become?" ’

Seeing that Xie Hua was in a good mood, Yu Wenwen was in a good mood, so he talked a lot, and kept looking for topics to chat with Xie Hua.

You can listen to anecdotes or something, of course, the main purpose is to delay time, buy time for Zhang \ Dingfa, who went out to carry out the assassination mission, and wait for Zhang \ Dingfa to return to the embassy from the tunnel with people, then there is perfect alibi evidence.

Xi Sheng, who is going to visit the envoy today, will definitely have an accident, and there must be an accident, and the incident will not be a trivial matter such as diarrhea and a bad carriage, in order to achieve the desired effect, it must be assassinated, and the mastermind behind the scenes is Yu Wenwen.

Therefore, if something happens to Xi Sheng on the way to and from the embassy today, the first suspect is him Yuwen Wen, in view of this, starting from Yu Wenwen, every one of his guards and entourage must have no handle.

Zhou Faming and Tian Yilong didn't say anything, gathered their respective entourages and stayed in the courtyard where they stayed, and after waiting for a while Xi Sheng came to "understand" each other, and then they drank and talked about it vulgarly.

The conflict outside Shouchun City, Yangzhou, was triggered by Tian Yilong taking a more look at Xi Sheng, and Zhou Faming was angered by the "Daoyi" scolded by the other party and scolded "Suolu", so the situation deteriorated, and finally Yuwenwen slapped him.

This time, Xi Sheng came to visit and said that he wanted to apologize to Yuwenwen, but in fact, he had to meet Zhou Faming and Tian Yilong, who were also in the embassy, so both of them were honestly waiting in the embassy.

And Yu Wenwen's subordinates are also "all" in the embassy, so as not to make some people suspicious and suspicious, worried that he will send people out to do things, and it will be difficult for everyone to deal with it when the time comes.

But his subordinates really went out to do things, if they got bigger, maybe they could kill Xi Sheng, and then sneak back to the embassy through the tunnel, and no one would be able to catch the handle at that time.

The calculation is very good, but Yu Wenwen doesn't dare to be too optimistic, as the saying goes, "before you win, you lose", what if the matter is revealed?

What to do? Cold! The person sent out to assassinate Xi Sheng was arrested, and then he came to him by touching the vine, if the situation deteriorated like this, Prime Minister Wei Chi would inevitably go crazy, then it was time for Yuwen Wen to perform in his true colors:

"My dad is Yu Wenliang!"

The typical official face is still the kind that makes people grit their teeth and want to kill quickly, but it is very in line with the outside world's 'opinion' of Yu Wenwen, not to mention that he can be a little 'fearless' now.

Yes, I did! I forced them to go! If Xi Sheng wants to castrate me, I will kill him!

Isn't it just a slap in the face? Isn't it just a whip? Isn't it just being ridiculed by the world? Do you want me to pass the blame on to my subordinates? No way!

Yu Wenwen arranged his subordinates to do things, and one of the guidelines pursued was "I will come to carry the black cauldron, and send you to death", his subordinates were born and died for him, or to do 'wet work', or to offend people, then he had to carry the black cauldron he should carry.

It's been a chaotic time these days, if you don't do this, who will give you your life!

He has never been an official in modern times, but he has read too much news and knows that the first instinct of the bureaucracy is to "shake the pot", and the thousand-year-old officialdom has accumulated habits like this, if it is a peaceful season, it will be enough, and now the dynasty is in turmoil, and his subordinates are not fools, and the result of daring to shake the pot is that no one is willing to sell his life.

It's not that Yu Wenwen is amorous, or he has a strange hobby of carrying a black pot, it is really a lesson from the past, and he can't help but keep it in mind.

Taking the situation in the late Ming Dynasty that many people are concerned about as an example, Emperor Chongzhen wanted to make every effort to turn the tide, but he was powerless, and his "leadership art" was quite criticized by later generations.

For example, in the 11th year of Chongzhen, in order to strengthen the defense of the Lugou Bridge, the choke point in the southwest of Beijing, the courtiers proposed to build a small city at the Lugou Bridgehead as a bridgehead, and the cost quoted by the "relevant yamen" was 320,000 taels of silver.

Chongzhen ordered Wu Jun, the eunuch of the imperial horse eunuch, to re-appraise the value, and as a result, Wu Jun was valued at 149,500 taels of silver, nearly 170,000 taels less than the "relevant yamen" estimate, and the emperor was very happy and appointed Wu Jun to preside over the construction of the Lugou bridgehead.

After three years of construction, the bridgehead was built for the Gongji City, that is, the Wanping City of the later generations, and the actual cost was 132,800 taels, which was more than 17,000 taels more than Wu Jun's own budget.

saved more than 17,000 taels of silver for the imperial court, Wu Jun was very happy, and the emperor was also very happy, but some people were not happy: you could have reported 320,000 taels of silver, but you only spent nearly 150,000 taels to get it, and the 170,000 taels of silver for white flowers, everyone had no points!

The interest group frantically counterattacked, nitpicking during acceptance, saying that Wu Jun cut corners, and said that he was full of private pockets and swallowed more than 10,000 taels of silver.

Wu Jun lost his official position and resigned, went bankrupt, and collected enough "corrupt income" to return to the imperial court, and from then on, no fool dared to obstruct the swallowing of the treasury by interest groups.

Example 2, due to the unfavorable war in Liaodong, Chongzhen felt that he could try to ease relations with the Manchu Qing and let the imperial court take a breath to deal with the peasant army first, so he secretly asked Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the military department, to be in charge of negotiating peace.

As a result, the matter was exposed, the official played, Chongzhen pushed his responsibility away, and Chen Xinjia, the man who took the blame, lost his official position and lost his life.

Chongzhen frequently threw the pot for the sake of a good reputation, and Li Banghua, who rectified the Beijing camp, was also unlucky, and later when Li Zicheng entered Beijing, the emperor must make up his mind to move south to protect half of the Ming Dynasty, but he hoped that some ministers would stand up and propose to move the capital, so as not to be said to be a fugitive emperor.

However, no one is a fool like Wu Jun, Chen Xinjia, and Li Banghua anymore, and there is no follow-up.

Yu Wenwen doesn't want to be desperate without his subordinates at a critical time, so the strength is his choice: what is the leader used for? Leadership is what leadership is used to take responsibility for! As the mastermind behind the scenes, he is ready to be held accountable.

As for the negative impact caused by the revelation of the matter, Yu Wenwen has also calculated, Xi Sheng instructed someone to castrate him in the Qiuguan Mansion prison, this matter is obvious, although there is no evidence, it does not mean that the superior cannot guess it.

Xi Erlang is the first year of junior high school, then Yuwen Erlang is the fifteenth, it's a big deal to flip the table, and the matter has evolved into a "dog eats dog" of the powerful people, so that the people who don't know the truth in the world will watch the excitement.

In this way, the reputation will definitely be damaged, and it doesn't matter to Yu Wenwen, man, what kind of words are you timid.

Don't even dare to kill, and dare to say revenge? If you don't accept life and death, you can do it!

"Envoy?" Xie Hua asked cautiously, he was talking, but when he saw Yu Wenwen seemed to be sneering, his first reaction was that the other party was going to be furious, so he hurriedly 'greeted'.

"Huh? Yes... What time is it? Why hasn't Xi Langjun arrived yet? ”

"Envoy, why don't you send someone to find out?"

"Well, then there's the Lao Di Order."

While the two were talking, Zhang Dingfa came from a corridor, Xie Hua saw him, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and at the same time, he was secretly relieved, as well as Yu Wenwen.

"Envoy, the lower official will arrange for someone to go to the Xi Mansion to inquire." After Xie Hua finished speaking, he retreated, while Yu Wenwen walked towards his courtyard as if nothing had happened, followed by Zhang Dingfa.

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"Someone did it first, who would have done it?" Yu Wenwen asked, he asked not only himself, but also Zhang Dingfa and Zheng Tong who were present, and now there were only three of them in the room.

"Could it be that Xi Sheng's enemy did it?" Zheng Tong guessed, "Although it has nothing to do with us, I am afraid that Jun will become the first suspect, no matter what Xi Sheng's situation is, the Qiu Guanfu will come to the door to find out." ”

Zhang Dingfa, who was ordered to assassinate Xi Sheng, came back safely, and brought back good news: before he could make a move, Xi Sheng was assassinated at the gate of his mansion, but the other party's life and death are now unknown.

Zhang Dingfa only saw chaos at the gate of the mansion, it seemed that the assassin fled on horseback, and many people chased after him, but it is certain that Xi Sheng should not come today, so Yu Wenwen is researching, where the assassin is sacred.

In any case, Yu Wenwen has to praise: O righteous man!

"Envoy, although we know that the assassin has nothing to do with the envoy, we still have to beware of someone taking the opportunity to make trouble..."Zheng Tong said, Yuwen Wen frowned when he heard this, and asked what the plan was.

"Envoy, this and this, and this..." )