Chapter Ninety-Six: Choice is greater than effort
Shen Lian was shocked when he heard this, raised his head and shouted: "Master Hou, Shen Lian follows Master Hou wholeheartedly, and has no resentment. If you go against your heart, you will be struck by lightning! β
Indeed, God didn't make a sound, and there was a winter thunderstorm.
Egawa has never believed in oaths, and oaths are used to break them from the moment they are first spoken. He smiled slightly, walked up to Shen Lian and helped him up.
Shen Lian only felt as if his wrist was grabbed by an iron hand, and he was involuntarily taken up, and couldn't help but be surprised by the arm strength of this young marquis, but he didn't expect him to look at Sven, but he had such strength.
"Shen Lian, I didn't call you here today, not to listen to your swear. I don't care what a person thinks in his heart. I just care about how he does it. Bai Gongzi told me that you did a good job. I hope you keep it up and do it with your heart. You didn't know me before, and that's okay. I'll tell you now. β
Jiang Chuan asked Shen Lian to sit opposite him, looked at him and said slowly, it seemed that the two of them were doing a good job, but Shen Lian's forehead was a layer of fine beads of sweat.
"I'm actually a very simple person, you don't have to bother to guess. If you are good to me and work hard, I will use you and believe in you. But if you don't work hard and have a lot of selfish thoughts, then I can't keep you. You also know that the Ming Dynasty is stormy, and the troubled times are coming, everyone is waiting and seeing, and they want to find a big tree next to it, which is also human nature. Many times, choice is often more important than effort, the wrong direction, the harder you try, the faster you die. β
I Jiangchuan won't hide it from you, I also want to take a bite of the fat meat of Daming Jiangshan, and even want to swallow it all. I'll give you one last chance today, you think about it, think slowly, think about it and tell me. If you don't think it's the best choice to follow me, then tell me plainly, I won't force you, and I'll let you go. If you are willing to follow me sincerely, as long as you don't die, I will give you a great wealth when I reign in the world, which you have never thought of in your life. That's it, you think now. β
Jiang Chuan's voice had always been flat, and there was still a smile on his face, but Shen Lian felt that he was trembling all over, and the sweat was already wet under the thick brocade robe.
He felt that the pressure on the young man in front of him who had been smiling was even greater than that of the commander of the Jinyi Guard, who had been blackening his face.
He smiled bitterly in his heart, this Wu Anhou looked very good and gave him two choices, but Shen Lian knew that he had no choice at all. If he had chosen the first, he would have believed that his own head would appear in front of him by tonight.
As a Jinyi Wei Qianhu, he knows too many conspiracy and vicious, dirty and cold-blooded things, and he is used to seeing those high-ranking officials and nobles, and the other side of the princes and generals is unknown.
So he knows more about the ruthlessness and decisiveness of these people than ordinary people.
In fact, from the day he was controlled by the Black Ice Platform at the beginning, he had no choice. If you want to leave, you can only do it in the form of a corpse.
"Shen Lian wishes to follow Hou Ye in this life, before and after the saddle, and after death, please Hou Ye Mingjian." Shen Lian knelt heavily on the ground with a puff, and said loudly with his forehead against the cold green brick, looking extremely loyal.
Jiang Chuan laughed, helped Shen Lian up, and said, "Don't kneel still, doing things is what I want to see." β
"Shen Lian must do his best to be loyal to Lord Hou!" Shen Jian hurriedly said.
"Okay, tell me about the situation of these big guys in Datong." Jiang Chuan waved his hand and motioned for him to sit down and speak. He knew that he didn't need to understand too much when talking to a smart person like Shen Lian, he would understand it with a little mention.
He also knew that if Shen Lian really naively thought that he would let him go, then when he walked out of this room would be when he died.
People who are too naΓ―ve are not suitable for this troubled world, let alone intelligence work, and it is good for everyone to die.
Now, it seems that Shen Lian did not disappoint him and saved his life.
Shen Lian carefully rested half of his butt on the chair, brewed and sorted out his thoughts, and then spoke in detail.
Jiang Chuan closed his eyes and didn't ask questions, as if he closed his eyes to recuperate, Shen Lian didn't dare to stop, and continued to speak.
As he spoke, Jiang Chuan's eyes suddenly opened, startling Shen Lian, thinking that something was wrong with what he said.
"You just said that half a year ago, the prefect of Datong, Mu Zuo, and the Datong garrison took a team of men and horses to Heiniu Mountain to suppress bandits, but they were defeated?" Jiang Chuan asked slowly by tapping his fingers on the table.
Shen Lian didn't know why he suddenly asked about this, so he paused and said, "Return to the Hou Ye." That's the thing. At that time, my subordinates told me about this and told me, and I asked the people below to take a closer look, and learned that it seemed that the bandits had won at that time, but they did not know how to kill a group of men out of thin air, and the battle force was strong, and the officers and soldiers were repulsed. Later, the prefect Muzuo never mentioned this matter, and the Datong garrison was also demoted. β
Hearing Shen Lian say this, Jiang Chuan suddenly laughed, he didn't expect that the team of bandit officers and soldiers he encountered when he first crossed over was really led by the Datong prefect, this matter is interesting.
"Master Hou, is there anything wrong with this matter?" Seeing Jiang Chuan's mysterious smile, Shen Lian asked cautiously.
"No, I just remembered something from the past. You continue. Jiang Chuan waved his hand and said lightly.
Shen Lian didn't ask any more, and continued to talk about the various situations he knew, even the fact that Li Yongnian was hiding in the golden house outside and raising the outer room, which made Jiang Chuan a little smacked.
When I was drinking with Li Yongnian yesterday, the old boy was drunk and talking in his sleep, obviously he couldn't even satisfy his wife, and he even had the heart to be outside the bread room.
Since it is an outer room, he obviously doesn't dare to lead it into the house, it seems that Li Yongnian is still a master who is afraid of his wife.
Jiang Chuan listened, and was a little surprised by Jin Yiwei's energy. I originally thought that Jinyiwei was already in decline, but I didn't expect that so much news could be collected here, of course, it was basically aimed at the civil and military officials of Datong, who is interested in paying attention to you.
This is also the duty of Jinyiwei, to monitor hundreds of officials, thinking that the eyes and ears of the Son of Heaven.
It seems that in the future, we will continue to let Jinyiwei play this gossip spirit, this information looks useless, but when the time comes, it will be useful.
Shen Lian said it almost half an hour before he finished speaking, and he still sorted it out. If you talk about it in detail, it is estimated that you may not be able to finish it in one day.
Shen Lian also said that if Jiang Chuan is interested, he can go to the case library of Jinyi Wei Qianhu to check it, and the content in it is even more detailed.