Taking advantage of the time when there is no return, Shen Mo wants to squint for a while and recuperate for a while, who thinks that as long as he closes his eyes, his eyes will be full of corpses and a sea of blood, making him toss and turn and unable to sleep, so he has to lie there, staring at the ceiling, thinking about the possible development of things.

But he found that he had no clue at all, because in this conspiracy and change, he was blocked out, without authorization, unable to know, so small and powerless. Discouraged, I couldn't help but gloat: 'This time you are really done, it is definitely self-inflicted.' 'That you. Naturally, it refers to Jiajing.

When it was almost dark, Sanchi brought back the news that he heard - Emperor Jiajing returned to his hometown ten days ago, at first he worshiped the tomb of Xian, revisited the Xingwang Mansion, boated on Mochou Lake, and even met with the elders of his hometown, announcing that he would be exempted from paying taxes in Tianfu for three years...... The daily trip is as good as the ceremony, and there is no abnormality.

Three days earlier, the Emperor had announced that he would retreat for three days if he had gained, and that he should leave the customs tomorrow morning; The ministers were also happy to be lazy, so they met to play on the lake, which may be the reason why the city was tight and loose.

After listening to Sanchi's statement, he was silent and asked, "See high."

Adult? ”

Sanchi shook his head and said, "I saw it, but the secret whistle of Dongchang stared at him too tightly to connect his head...... There are several other adults who are in the same situation. As he spoke, he remembered something and said: "Oh, also, what kind of master named Xiong Xian is now deeply trusted by the emperor, and whatever the emperor has to say, it is all passed on through him, and the ministers have a lot of opinions, saying that the emperor's favor for him is even greater than that of Shao Yuanjie and Tao Zhongwen back then." ”

"What about Chen Hong?" asked in a deep voice.

"I was about to report to my lord," Sanchi said: "Chen Hong's movements are even more suspicious, he has almost changed all the generals of the accompanying troops, and now he is his people inside and out."

"yes, got it." Shen Mo nodded, got up and walked to the window, pushed open the window, and saw the stars in the sky, the light in the lake, the adults were still interested, and they wanted to continue the night banquet Everything that happened in Lucheng looked no different, the emperor was still lazy in cultivating, the villains were still in power, and the ministers were still idle, just like countless years before, there was nothing unusual.

But the silence clearly smelled a strong aura of conspiracy from the dark night, and there must be something happening in the unknown. How much he wants to have a pair of discerning eyes that can see through the fog and see things clearly...... It's a pity that this time he encountered the biggest crisis since his debut, he was so dazed and helpless, and he felt powerless.

After thinking about it for a long time, Shen Mo realized that he had to go back to the original point - it was absolutely impossible to fight alone. You have to get the right helper to make progress. A good man has to help three people, let alone himself?

He believes that Chen Hong's wanton abuse of power and exclusion of dissidents will inevitably cause dissatisfaction among some people long ago, and even many vigilant people will smell the conspiracy in them, and the next thing he needs to do is to find out these people, unite them, and work together!

But what method can be used to achieve the goal without attracting the attention of the East Factory? His silent gaze finally fell on the painting boats that were singing and dancing, and he couldn't help but laugh and said, "It turns out that the method is right in front of you." ”

"Your Excellency, have you got a solution?" The three feet behind him said excitedly.

"Hmm." Shen Mo bowed his head and said: "The palm lamp grinds the ink." ”

"Yes." Sanchi's hands and feet quickly lit the lamp, polished the ink, sat down at the table silently, began to imitate someone's handwriting tone, wrote several invitations in a row, and ordered Sanchi to send them out at night.

Early the next morning, several of the invited officials saw it. The invitation card in an ordinary envelope, but after reading it, no one felt rude, but a little complacent, because the one who sent the invitation was really not an ordinary talent who was more famous than Wang Shizhen, the prince of the country and the priest Xu Wenchang!

Everyone knows that Xu Wei's eyes are above the top, and he usually disdains to associate with colleagues, and those who can get his blue eyes are all excellent talents. Now I have invited myself to his birthday banquet, this is a face that is hard to change! So the invitees were all overjoyed, prepared gifts, freshened up, and went out early to go to the appointment.

The bizarre thing is that Xu Wei himself received such an invitation, opened it and looked at it, and couldn't help but be happy: "When did I invite someone to dinner and send myself an invitation?" He thought it was a prank, but when he looked closely, he recognized it as a silent handwriting, and immediately knew that there must be something strange in it, and when he saw it clearly, he hurried away, but arrived earlier than everyone else.

According to the description on the invitation, he found the ship without difficulty, and when he saw the silent guard, he was even more sure that something was happening, and hurried into the painting boat, and under the guidance of the guard, went straight to the second floor.

When the sky passed, the guests arrived one after another, and sure enough, when they saw Xu Wei picking up the guests there with a spring breeze on his face, he suddenly felt a lot of face, and they all bowed their hands to say hello. Xu Wei politely replied, invited the guests into the cabin, and served them with their own tea and snacks.

Among the guests were civil officials, military generals, and even eunuchs in the palace, which were extremely rich in ingredients, completely freeing themselves from the shackles of 'people in groups', showing the unique taste of the host...... Of course, when I thought that it was a strange person like Xu Wei who invited a treat, everyone was not surprised.

When the guests arrived, Xu Wei ordered the boat to sail offshore and sail towards the center of the lake. He sat down at the table and said to the eight guests who had been invited, "Thank you for coming......

Everyone hurriedly and humbly said, "I can get Mr. Wenchang's invitation." I can't wait for it ○"

Xu Wei shook his head and said, "It's not me who invited you, and today isn't my birthday." Someone else invites you to go."

"Ah......" everyone looked at each other and said, "Who asked in your name?"

Guest? ”

Before he could finish speaking, he heard a gentle voice say, "I." When they looked up, they saw silence in a gray robe. Walk slowly down from the upper floor.

"Lord Shen?" Everyone was silent, and couldn't help laughing and saying: "You are too outward, you know that it is a leisurely game, who of us dares not to support the scene, and do you still need to let Lord Xu come forward?" ”

Shen Mo didn't laugh, but walked in front of everyone with heavy steps, and said in a deep voice: "This is to hide people's eyes." ”

As soon as these words came out, the room was silent, and everyone didn't know what medicine he was selling in his gourd.

Listening to the silent words again, he was not shocked and said, "Because I suspect that someone wants it."

Rebellion!"

Quiet, deathly quiet, all the officials looked at each other, only to see the eunuch Ma Quan. As he walked out, he muttered, "Oops, I almost forgot, our family has to be on an errand today." Immediately, there was another one, the commander of the Wuxiang Left Guard, Dongning Bo Jiao Ying followed: "I am also ......" but when they reached the door, they were forced back by two tall and unkind samurai.

The atmosphere in the cabin was strange and urgent, and everyone had different faces, some frightened, some nervous, some overwhelmed, and some with frightened faces.

"Sit down," Xu Wei shouted, "Listen to Lord Shen first."

Everyone didn't have an idea, so they sat back with a restless expression, looked at Shen Mo in fear and said, "Lord Shen, you can eat things indiscriminately, you can't talk nonsense, and you will punish the nine clans for rebellion." ”

Shen Mo couldn't help but laugh and said: "It's not to let you rebel, but to work with me to set things right and make the merit of King Qin."

"Hehe......" Everyone laughed awkwardly, and one of them, Shaoqing Xu of Taifu Temple, said: "Lord Shen is not joking, right?" Who dares to plot against this clear-minded and unprovoked person? Let's still drink bars......" Everyone echoed and laughed.

Silent but not smiling, he said in a deep voice: "You don't know, Lin Run, the imperial historian of Nanjing Henan Province, once asked for a face in Yangzhou City, and wanted to impeach Yiwang Dianshan in person!" did all kinds of illegal things, but was stopped by others, and failed to do so. As he spoke, he took out a piece of music from his sleeve and said, "He found him and asked me to present it to the emperor." And he gave it to the people to circulate.

In addition to the atrocities of occupying people's houses, forcibly seizing the feudal domain, and indiscriminately killing innocents, half of them involved rebellion, such as the royal palace exceeding the system, privately setting up the East Factory, buying the outlaws, and frantically expanding the army, and each of them was supported by accurate data, without the slightest ambiguity. For example, there were 2,000 guards in Yifu, and now there are more than 104,650; The original number of lieutenants of the Honor and Guard Division was 600, but now there are more than 6,600, and the rest are not in the editor!

When seeing these shocking data, who dares to say that King Yi is not a map

Misdeeds? Then he either received money from King Yi, or he was an accomplice of King Yi.

"All of you here are smart people, and you naturally know about such a major impeachment, but you can't get into it," Shen Mo said lightly, "What does this mean?" ”

Everyone couldn't help but nod secretly. There must be someone who doesn't want the emperor to know, and there are only two or three people in the world who have the ability to do this.

was guessing the identity of the person, and then heard Shen Mo say: "I returned from Shaoxing and encountered a chase on Poyang Lake, the chasing party was the warrior raised by Yan Shifan, and the chased party was the strange hero He Xinyin who secretly investigated him. After a pause, he said: "Because He Xinyin found out that Yan Shifan and King Yi were doing the same thing, raising warriors and stealing weapons!" When he sneaked into the mansion of Yan Shifan Wangfu a few days ago, he found that all those warriors had disappeared, and Yan Song had been ...... by his son Under house arrest. ”

All the news was not as shocking as this last one, everyone's hearts were in their throats, and Xu Roller said in a trembling voice: "You're not joking. Xiao Ge Lao put Yan Ge Lao under house arrest? The atmosphere became more and more solemn, if it was said that the matter of King Yi was still very far away, but if Yan Shifan really locked up his father, the disaster might be just around the corner.

"Or detention, it might be more appropriate." Silent and said lightly: "Now He Daxia has gone to track down those disappeared warriors, and I am traveling day and night, rushing to warn the emperor." As he spoke, his gaze swept over everyone: "As a result, I saw that Dong Ningbo Bo was relieved of military power, Ma Gonggong was expelled from the palace, and several adults wanted to enter the palace yesterday, but they were also blocked out......"

Everyone couldn't help but nod and said, "Your Excellency is right, we have indeed been unlucky recently. ”

"It's not your bad luck." Shen Mo shook his head and said: "Now the palace and the palace and the army guards are all in the hands of Yuan Wei, Chen Hong and Xiong Xian, and the three of them are inextricably linked with Yan Shifan......

Needless to say, the first two, but the third one was still very surprising, and everyone asked: "Xiong Xian is also related to Yan Shifan?" ”

"I tracked down the old bottom of Xiong Xian." Shen Mo said coldly: "He is a native of Ji'an, Jiangxi, he once made Beijing and took refuge in Yan Shifan, and later relied on Yan Shifan's relationship to make a fortune, although there seems to be no contact for 20 years, Guan Na Xiong Xian went straight to the Forbidden Palace like a rocket, and became a figure comparable to Shao Yuanjie and Tao Zhongwen back then, and Yan Shifan's operation is indispensable behind this." ”

The silent gaze swept over the crowd slowly and firmly again: "Judging from all aspects, it is very likely that someone is planning a shocking conspiracy, which is expected to be the plot of Bo Lang and Jing Ke!" After a pause, he raised his voice and asked: "Everyone, we are deeply favored by the emperor, and our honor and disgrace have long been associated with the emperor. Rather just die, not relentless!"

Hearing Shen Mo say this, everyone really has the same hatred, but this matter is not trivial after all, if just a few words from him can make everyone follow recklessly, then they will not be able to mix today. So after a moment of silence, Dongning Bo Jiao Ying, who was the most noble, said: "Lord Shen, it's not that the brothers don't believe you, it's just that you have heard all the information, and it is not ironclad evidence, and if you don't get it right, you will make the emperor blame......

Shen Mo had expected that the reactions of these people would not be too positive, because the people he was looking for had really average personalities...... This is also helpless, because the emperor always likes to use some lucky villains to serve as close attendants, and use Shixun's children to lead the guards, and these people basically haven't read any books, and their quality is very average. There are a lot of concerns, and it is basically impossible to expect them to follow them anyway.

But Shen Mo is not completely uncertain, because the candidate he chose is either to have an enmity with Yuan Wei, or he is not treated by Chen Hong, or as soon as something happens to the emperor, he has to lose his head, so even if he is reluctant, he has to follow him in the end.

Silence has patience to wait, but some people don't have the patience......

"Let's see the emperor first!" Xu Wei, who had never opened his mouth, finally sneered: "Who of you knows what happened in the palace in the past three days? Why can Chen Hong squeeze out you unscrupulously, why is no one allowed to enter the palace! As a courtier, the most important concern should be the safety of the emperor, not whether the emperor will blame!"

Although his words are choking, they are irrefutable, who dares to say more, they just don't care about the emperor's life or death!

Seeing that the atmosphere was a little stiff, he silently said: "You are all my silent brothers, and I will never harm my brothers!" I will not ask you to follow me into the palace, nor will I let you fight with them. It caused everyone to laugh and say: "If someone really tries to do wrong, even if they are desperate, they are not ambiguous!"

"Good." Shen Mo nodded and smiled: "Our top priority, one is to find out what will happen, and the other is to pass the danger signal to the emperor as soon as possible," said and asked a middle-aged man who was in the last seat of Gan Gan: "Imperial Doctor Cui, can you see the emperor?" "Because the Imperial Physician has the smallest goal and has a legitimate reason to approach the emperor, this is exactly why Shen Mo invited him to come.

Imperial Physician Cui's face was entangled for a long time before he said softly, "There may be a chance...... Every three days, the Tai Hospital will send someone to check the emperor's pulse, and I told the court judge that I should be able to get this errand. ”

"When?" Shen Mo asked......

"Tomorrow afternoon." Imperial Physician Cui swallowed and spitted.

"Good." Shen Mo took out a wide strip of cloth from his sleeve and said: "Tie this to your upper arm, you can hide and search your body, and when you see the emperor, you will untie it and present it." ’’

Imperial Doctor Cui took it, took a look, and saw something' before the traitorous party along the way, expecting it to be the conspiracy of Bo Lang and Jing Ke. ''I'm afraid of the uninitiated. Take advantage of the gap to steal, or there is a risk of accidents. It's a pity to die!' Knowing that it was a warning letter written by Shen Mo to the emperor, he solemnly received it in his arms and nodded: "I will do my best." Although he was a little cowardly by nature, in the face of this heavy trust, he still felt that he should accept and complete it, and it would become the most glorious moment of his life.

"Please." Shen Mo smiled at him, and said to the others: "When you go back, please pay close attention to the movements around you, we will keep in touch at any time, you can rest assured, without the emperor's authorization, I will not let you do anything out of the ordinary." After a pause, he said slowly: "If it turns out to be a false alarm in the end, I will bear all the responsibility, and you will all protect your hearts." The emperor will not blame; If on the contrary, everyone shares, I Shen someone will never be greedy for merit!"

He's talked about it, how many people can say anything? All solemnly

Nodding his head, he listened to you.

Shen Mo nodded and smiled: "Pay attention to safety, and come to Japan to drink and celebrate."

Wine. ”

"Drink the celebration wine together!" Everyone responded in unison.

In the afternoon, the painting boat drove back to the dock, the guests dispersed, Xu Wei stood at the bow of the boat, sent off the guests on behalf of the host, returned to the cabin and smiled at Shen Mo: "I haven't seen you for many years, so full of fighting spirit." ”

"Hey, hey." He smiled silently: "The east wind blows, the war drums, this world."

Who is afraid of whom? ”