At dusk, the sun sets, and the entire Yongqing County is shrouded in the afterglow of the setting sun.

Although Yongqing County is a small county, its status is no less than that of an ordinary county government. Most of the near the front door of Yongqing are some stalls, small shops, restaurants and pawnshops and other business market areas, which are close to the back door, but most of them are some officials, businessmen's residential areas, most of their mansions are distributed on a long street near the back door, this Huang Meng and Jin Ren's mansion is of course no exception, but the two are relatively far apart, so they usually don't meet each other, a clean official, a business, naturally not very familiar, So when Huang Ji heard that the Jin County Order brought his drunken father back to the County Order, he was a little uneasy, although he didn't know what it was, but he always felt a little strange. After hearing the news, I paced back and forth in my room all afternoon, not knowing what to do.

At this time, I saw that the sun was about to set, and this person had not come back yet, so I thought to myself: "No, I have to go to the county government to dignitaries, I can't get drunk for a day." ”

With a mind in his mind, he quickly walked out of his room and shouted to the housekeeper in the courtyard: "Prepare the horse, I want to go to the county government ......."

In the county mansion, on the side room at this time, Huang Meng also gradually woke up, first looked around blankly, and found that this was not his own house, and was shocked, and then realized that he was drunk at noon today, Jin Ren sent himself back, thinking it was his own mansion, but he didn't expect to send him to Jin Ren's own house.

Just as Huang Meng was thinking about it, a voice suddenly came from outside the door: "Lord Huang, Lord Huang, are you awake?" This voice is none other than Jin Ren himself.

Huang Meng immediately replied: "Wake up, wake up." ”

As soon as he heard this, the door was pushed open, and of course it was Jin Ren who came in, and three strangers behind him, this stranger was none other than Pang Zhong and his party.

When Huang Meng saw this posture, he was a little stunned, and said in a daze: "This ...... Lord Kim, who is this? ”

Jin Ren waited, looked back at Pang Zhong's expression, and when Pang Zhong gave him a comfortable feeling, he cleared his throat, and said with a smile to this Huang Meng: "Oh, Lord Huang, you don't know these three masters, and I'm not afraid to tell you that these three are from the Jin Kingdom." ”

Huang Meng was a little confused at first, and was immediately startled when he heard this, first looked at Pang Zhong and the three of them in surprise, and then as if he understood something, he immediately got up angrily and pointed at this Jin Ren and said: "Okay, you Jin Ren, I thought you were a good official who was honest and honest and dedicated to the people, but I didn't think that you would collude with the people of the Jin Kingdom, don't you know that my country is at war with the Jin Kingdom?" The emperor has issued a ban on business, and you dare to have dealings with the people of the Jin Kingdom, you are guilty! In the end, Huang Meng blushed and shouted at the top of his voice.

Pang Zhong and Jin Ren first glanced at each other a few times, then Jin Ren thought about it, frowned, and said: "Oh, Lord Huang is right, I am indeed breaking the law in this matter, but Lord Huang is not right at all, I didn't say that the three of them are merchants of the Jin Kingdom." ”

Huang Meng was stunned for a while, looked at Pang Zhong, and then suddenly realized, and slowly pointed to Pang Zhong with his hand trembling again and said, "Not a businessman? Difficult...... Could it be? ”

As soon as Jin Ren saw this, he knew that Huang Meng must have an answer in his heart, so he said to Huang Meng: "Yes, yes, these people are from the Jin military. As soon as these words came out, the room suddenly fell silent, and it was so quiet that even the wind outside the window could be heard clearly.

"People from the military, don't you ......" After a while, Huang Meng said tremblingly, this impact is really too great, after all, the people who are in the army at the moment, if you want to kill yourself, it will be easy to do it, this heart is really a little panic.

When Pang Zhong saw it, he knew that it was time for a showdown, so he said loudly to himself: "Fu Chang Chajin, Qiangong Douxing, Gen Liang Ghost, Pingge Wanxing, I don't know if the adults have heard of these four sentences." ”

Huang Meng's expression suddenly became nervous, these four sentences are famous remarks circulated in the Jin State, not to mention in the Jin State, even in the Liang State, and the Wei State are known to everyone, these four sentences are talking about the four generals of the Jin State military, Fu Chang is good at governing the officials, and he has been punished and punished; Qiangong is good at observing phenomena, and has always had the name of heaven and man; Gen is good at commanding troops, but he is always elusive and difficult to see; Pingge was the "Sixth Division", a communications and investigation agency that controlled the Jin Kingdom. Huang Meng was a little worried in his heart, and Huang Meng asked this Pang Zhong: "That's ...... below."

Pang Zhong smiled, walked into this Huang Meng and said softly: "I, I am Fu Chang." ”

Huang Meng knew that this person must be one of those four people, and when he heard this, he was still the best at punishing others, so he had to smile bitterly: "Then my lord, you came to me, is there something wrong?" After finishing speaking, he looked at Jin Ren with an angry face.

Jin Ren knew that if he were to be someone else, he would inevitably start to condemn himself for colluding with the enemy country or something like that, but this Huang Meng would not, Huang Meng had lived a stable life for more than 40 years, and he had never seen any big winds and waves. Huang Meng still looked indignant when he learned about it before, and his momentum gradually weakened, so he expected that this Huang Meng must be very flustered now.

So he glanced at Pang Zhong, and explained to Huang Meng: "Lord Huang, now a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity is in front of the adult, I ask the adult, whether to take it or not." ”

Huang Meng was surprised, and said cautiously to this Jin Ren: "Big ...... What does this mean, my lord? ”

Jin Ren explained: "Now that the two countries of Jin and Liang are at war, the front line is full of wars, and the people are not happy, this war has dragged on for a long time, but the people are still suffering, the Jin State does not want to fight, the people of this Liang State, who wants to fight?" It's hateful that Lin Yi is still obsessed, and he wastes a lot of money and food to fight, you are in business, you know, how much grain and grass has been transported to this Lin Yi in Yongqing County, but this Lin Yi is not satisfied, just yesterday, he actually came to urge the grain again, saying that what kind of grain and grass is not continued, asking me for food, and saying that if I don't hand it over to him, I will be accused of sin, what kind of person do you say! Kim Ren said that in the end, he slammed the table in anger.

Huang Meng was frightened by this smash, so he looked at Pang Zhong cautiously, and found that Pang Zhong was also staring at him, so he was frightened, and then immediately turned to Jin Ren and frowned: "Then, what do you mean ......?"

Jin Ren knew that it was time for a showdown, so he said to this Huang Meng: "I was in the court at the beginning, and I know that since the founding of the Great Liang, although the country and the people are peaceful and prosperous, the factional disputes in this court have never stopped." In the past, Emperor Wu was originally a good man in the green forest, but he rose up in troubled times, and finally created the foundation of my Liang after a lot of hardships. Your Huang family and the Lin family were the first to follow Emperor Wu's family, although at that time they shared weal and woe and shared the same hatred, but now that the country is settled and the family is settled, they began to compete with each other and form parties for personal gain, I said, but right? ”

When Emperor Wu first rebelled, it could be called poor and white, with neither soldiers nor money. The Huang family was originally a local scholar clan in Jianghuai, and they made a living from business in the previous dynasty, but they earned a lot of family property and had a certain status and inheritance. The original head of the Huang family, Huang Desheng, that is, the current Dingguo Gong, after hearing that Emperor Wu raised troops, it was not to say a word that all the family property was sold to Emperor Wu, and Emperor Wu from the date of leading the troops to the final establishment of this Liang, relying on the money and grain funded by the Huang family and the soldiers and horses recruited with those money and grain, and it is precisely because of this that the Huang family has gradually changed from a local scholar clan to the leading famous family in the Liang country today. The Lin family is different, Lin Changhai, the head of the Lin family, was a subordinate of Emperor Wu, and he used his body to block a sharp arrow shot at Emperor Wu on the battlefield, which was a life-saving grace for Emperor Wu, so after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Lin Changhai was named the Duke of Chengguo, which is also the origin of the Lin family. Huang Desheng is a businessman, and he saw that Lin Changhai was just a cloth cloth, and he was of course unhappy when he could climb to an equal position with himself just by blocking a few arrows on the battlefield, so he repeatedly targeted the Lin family after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Also, it is not surprising that after the founding of the People's Republic of China, two families with such transcendent status fought for status.

This Huang Meng has never heard his uncle say bad things about the Lin family since he was a child, and when he heard that the Lin family was mentioned here, he was interested, and said curiously: "I look at the big ...... Adults have something to say, no...... I don't know what adults mean? ”

Jin Ren looked at this appearance, smiled and said: "Let me tell you this, Lord Huang, if Lin Yi returns victorious this time, it must be a transcendent status, your Huang family and this Lin family have a deep grudge, and it will be your Huang family who is unlucky at that time, do you want Dingguo Gong to be dug up after a hundred years!" At the end, the voice suddenly brightened, and it turned out to be a question.

Although this Huang Meng is a relative of the Huang family, he is a timid and fearful person, how can he hear these words, plus the Pang Zhong next to him stares at himself, knowing that if he should not be able to escape from this place today. So he couldn't help but change his face greatly, and he said tremblingly: "That...... What the adult meant was that he wanted me to go...... Go to inform the Guogong? ”

"Don't bother you, let me ask you, how long have you not been in Beijing?" This Pang Zhong didn't wait for Jin Ren to speak, then he answered.

Huang Meng was shocked when he saw that it was the executioner who spoke to him, so he replied: "This ...... To be honest, I haven't been back for two years. After saying that, he looked ashamed.

This Liang country is located in the south of the Yangtze River, but it attaches great importance to family and ethical relations, the Mid-Autumn Festival to admire the moon, Jiujiu Dogwood and the New Year, the elders of the family will call their relatives to reunite, but this Huang Meng is good, relying on his own location in the "big granary" to live a comfortable life is not home for more than two years. Jin Ren couldn't cry or laugh when he heard it.

"That's right, you will go back to the capital in a few days to see your people, and I will pretend to be your subordinates and go to Beijing to explain this matter to the head of the Huang family in person."

Huang Meng knew that he was afraid that he was going to bear the title of a traitor, but he was very unwilling but helpless, this person in Jinren's mansion did not say what he couldn't say, he was a county order, and he was a cloth cloth, besides, a few people in this Pang were still looking straight at themselves, what if they killed themselves and ran out. He didn't want to think about it, how could the three of them let him die?

Jin Ren knew that the coercion and temptation of this side had touched Huang Meng's heart, so he continued: "Lord Huang, I will explain the situation to the Huang family master, and after some consideration, the Huang family master will definitely think that what we said is reasonable, and when the time comes, I will join the Huang family to jointly write to the emperor to impeach Lin Yi, this emperor is already afraid of the military power in the hands of the Lin family, this time Lin Yi will definitely return to Beijing, and send someone to act for Lin Yi's position, when the time comes, isn't this position your Huang family?" ”

Jin Ren didn't wait for Huang Meng to speak, and continued: "After the Huang family leads the troops, they can meet to negotiate peacefully with the Jin State, and won't this matter be done?" It's good for the Jin Kingdom, it's good for your Huang family, it's good for the emperor, it's good for the people, isn't it a plan to kill four birds with one stone? ”

When Huang Meng heard this, he was finally a little moved, although he didn't have a deep feeling for the Huang family, but after all, he was a family, how could he not do something that was of great benefit to him? So he hesitated, gritted his teeth at this Pang Zhong and Jin Ren, and said, "Okay, I'll take a risk." ”

Pang Zhong's eyes were shining, and he looked at Huang Meng with blazing eyes and said: "In this way, you go back and pack up immediately, let's enter Beijing overnight, Jin County Order, you will say to the outside world that you have something important to go to Beijing to face the saint in person, you are an official ordered by Emperor Wen himself, others will not believe it, so it will not seem abrupt." ”

Jin Ren arched his hand, answered, and then stepped aside and stopped talking.

When Huang Meng saw Jin Ren like this, he immediately got up, arched his hand and said, "Then I'll go back and prepare immediately." ”

Pang Zhong walked over slowly, as if to frighten Huang Meng, patted him on the shoulder and said, "I hope that the adults will not live up to some of the intentions of this official, this second young master, the adults also have to think about it, right?" ”

Huang Meng was taken aback, only to feel that cold sweat was swishing out of his back, and he was very frightened, so he said to this Pang Zhong: "My lord, this is ...... What does that mean? ”

Pang Zhong suddenly smiled, and said to this Huang Meng with a smile: "Let the second son live in the county mansion for a few days, okay?" ”

Huang Meng knew that he was being used as a hostage to blackmail himself, and then the little thought in his heart was that he couldn't get up anymore, so he arched his hand to Pang Zhong with a wry smile, and then walked out.

Huang Meng walked out a long way, but he looked back in a ghost.

I saw that Pang Zhong also walked out of the house, staring at the sky in a daze, and he trembled in his heart.