Leng Yi then interrogated another commander. After Xiao Yi took advantage of the situation and presented Xu Hou's testimony, the commander also admitted that this was the case.

The person Leng Yi then interrogated was Shi Shouxin.

Shi Shouxin still pulled his head, resigned to fate, and no longer had the pride to say.

Leng Yi said: "General Shi, you admitted earlier that you were the one who mobilized the army out of the city to smuggle your son, right?" ”

Shi Shouxin nodded.

"You're lying! I have already verified that it was actually the eldest prince Zhao Yuanzuo who transferred the troops! He used the military talisman given by the official family, as well as the secret edict of the official family, and then transferred the forbidden army out of the city and handed it over to your son Shi Baoji to command. There's nothing you do in there! Why are you carrying the black pot for him? ”

Shi Shouxin's back was slightly hunched, and he said angrily: "Lord Leng, don't you check this matter, don't you just need someone to carry the black pot, I'll carry it." ”

Leng Yi said: "You think you are very righteous like this, don't you?" If I'm not mistaken, you actually fell for Zhao Yuanzuo's big deal! ”

Shi Shouxin's body moved, and he looked up at him slightly.

Leng Yi said: "I know what you're thinking!" ――You think this order to make you carry the black pot is the meaning of the official, right? So you have all your thoughts, and you break the jar. All the sins were bought. Let me tell you, the official family didn't know about this matter at all, it was all done by Zhao Yuanzuo alone! ”

Shi Shouxin's eyes widened, and he looked at Leng Yi: "You ......, what did you say?" ”

"Don't you know? Zhao Yuanzuo wants to deal with you and me! Then take command of the Praetorian Army alone! He designed this trap to lure you in. After you are killed, he will be able to deal with me with all his might, and when both of our commanders are dead, he will be able to lead the forbidden army alone in order to achieve his ulterior motives! ”

"What the hell is going on?" Shi Shouxin's voice was anxious and heavy.

"Tell me first, what did he tell you, what did he say, so that you are willing to bear the death penalty of the Zhulian Nine Clans and carry all the black cauldrons?"

Shi Shouxin thought about it for a while, and finally said slowly: "That day, he came to me in a panic and told me that my son Shi Baoji had been arrested by you for smuggling arms to the Liao State through Western Xia. This is a crime of collaborating with the enemy and a conspiracy against the enemy, and it is to connect the nine clans. Q: What should I do? I was shocked and a little panicked, wondering why my son was doing this. Zhao Yuanzuo then cried, saying that this matter had affected him. said that Shi Baoji deceived him, but Shi Baoji said that he was just mobilizing the forbidden army to smuggle Qinlong bamboo and wood to the capital to make a sum of money. They have been doing this for a long time, and Zhao Yuanzuo also knows that there are also a lot of benefits in it. Originally, there was no need for military escort before, but recently there have been a lot of bandits in Qin Longyi, and this time there are a lot of goods. He couldn't stand it, so he took the troop transfer talisman given by the official family without authorization, mobilized two battalions of forbidden cavalry to him, and handed it over to Shi Baoji for command with the official's hand. As a result, Shi Baoji turned out to be smuggling arms in Western Xia, you must know that in this way, he would not mobilize the forbidden army to give him command. ”

Leng Yi said: "He won't even believe what a child says, do you believe it?" ”

Shi Shouxin sighed and said, "He took out the secret letter from the official family, saying that he had reported this matter to the official family and asked the official family what to do." The official replied to him and scolded him, saying that he was the eldest son and the future prince, and there could be no mistakes, and this matter could only be borne by me. Anyway, Shi Baoji's smuggling of arms to the Liao State is also a capital crime of the Zhulian Nine Clans, as long as I take all the things down, I can spare my family, and only kill me Shi Baoji and the others. I think about it, but this is the only way, rather than the whole family die, it is better to die for the two of us. So I said yes. ”

"You saw the letter from the official family with your own eyes?"

"Look, or I wouldn't believe it."

"He lied to you! It must be a fake letter imitating the handwriting of an official! Leng Yi smiled bitterly.

"No......!"

"Won't?" Leng Yi sneered, "I'll tell you the truth, when I was re-selecting the generals below the forbidden military camp, many officials wrote secret letters to the officials to impeach me for abusing my power. They didn't know that this was actually an authorization given to me by the government. It is useless to tell the officials. Therefore, in order to avoid the distraction of the official family's northern expedition and to ensure the smooth progress of the selection, I have placed people from our trial court at all the post stations along the way to the north, and all the letters sent to the north, especially the secret reports sent by the army to the officials, have been intercepted and inspected. At the same time, all the post stations on the border of Western Xia also have people from our trial court. Therefore, if he really had such a letter to the official family to report this matter, it is impossible for me not to know. This is one of them; Second, I ask you, when did he tell you about it? ”

"The first three days you came to my house."

"That's not right, I intercepted the smuggling arms at the border of Western Xia, and after arresting Ling Lang and others, I rushed back non-stop. The journey took only ten days. If you calculate his journey, even if his spies knew about it immediately and told him about it before us, he would immediately report it to the official, and the official family would immediately reply. We went directly back to the capital, and his people needed to go to the capital first, then go to the north, and then go back to the capital, -- the journey from the capital to the north was similar to the road from the border of Western Xia to the capital, so that they would have to walk two more trips. Moreover, he told you three days ago. That is, it only took him seven days, you calculate, did he have time? ”

Shi Shouxin's face suddenly changed, he had been in the army for many years, so he naturally knew very well about the speed of this kind of transmission. Even if the army is expedited with the fastest 800 li, it is impossible to rush from the Western Xia border to the capital within seven days, and then from the capital to the northern frontier, and then from the northern frontier back to the capital. In a hurry, I didn't even pay attention to this big flaw in time!

Leng Yi continued: "There is a bigger flaw, after I tell you, you will know that he is really lying." ”

"What?"

"When I went to report this matter to Empress Hua Rui, I learned that Empress Hua Rui had just received an urgent military situation from the official family, saying that the 200,000 Xiang army led by the official family had broken through to Zhuozhou in the Liao State and was heading towards Youzhou. The official family asked Empress Hua Rui to send a general to quietly lead troops to the border Yizhou to assemble according to the established plan, so as to respond. And after the official family led the troops to retreat, and the Liao army chased into the Great Song Dynasty, the enemy who would attack in the future was surrounded and annihilated! ――Does the general know who is the general designated in the official's urgent secret decree to lead the troops? ”

Shi Shouxin was dumbfounded, and his words were a little trembling: "Is it ......, is it?" ”

"That's right! You are the one appointed by the officials! There are also the two of you, the privy deputy envoy Cao Bin, who divided the troops into two routes and assembled in the area of Yizhou. Moreover, there is no mention of what to do with your sins in the urgent secret decree, you think, if the official family asked you to confess the crime before and only killed you and your son, then how could you still let you lead the forbidden army to save him? ”

Shi Shouxin nodded slowly, cold sweat flowing from his forehead: "This Zhao Yuanzuo, he ......, he actually lied to me?" He grew up watching me, and he lied to me? ”

"General, you are too sincere, he doesn't lie to you, who is he fooling? If my guess is correct, Zhao Yuanzuo and Ling Tang are in a gang, after Ling Lang's smuggling was revealed, I caught Ling Lang and others, and Zhao Yuanzuo resorted to the means of losing his pawn and protecting the car. Under the pretense of the official family's holy decree, he deceived you and made you and Ling Lang bear everything. As long as you admit it, through my side to report on the official family, your father and son smuggled and collaborated with the enemy, and mobilized the army without authorization, both of which are capital crimes to exterminate the nine clans, do you think the official family will let your family go? ”

Shi Shouxin tugged at his head, he knew that he was afraid that he was wrong. ”

Leng Yi said: "Zhao Yuanzuo did this to cover up their arms smuggling, they smuggled arms, you are afraid that you don't know, this is because they have other conspiracies!" ”

"What conspiracy?"

"You want to!" Leng Yi said: "He pretended to be in the name of his father, and let you bear the blame for the black pot." What is the purpose? Why did he do it? ”

"Why?"

Leng Yi was a little dumbfounded, this stone is too sincere, right? I had to wake him up: "Before I caught Shi Baoji and them, they used to say that they didn't smuggle weapons mainly for money. Since it's not for money, it's only for power. And they did it in collusion with Western Xia and Liao. What other powers need to use the power of these two countries? ”

Shi Shouxin's old face was cold, and his pupils suddenly constricted: "You mean, they ......, they want to rebel?" ”

Leng Yi nodded slowly: "The purpose of their collaboratorship with the enemy is to enhance the strength of the enemy army and murder officials on the battlefield!" At the same time, Zhao Yuanzuo now has the privilege of mobilizing the army, and he is only afraid that it will be used to the detriment of the official family! ”

"No......"

"Won't?" Leng Yi smiled bitterly, "I'm afraid that the day you believe in it will be the death of you and me!" ”

Shi Shouxin's old face turned pale: "Then what should I do?" ”

"The general doesn't have to worry, I have a way, do you think it's okay?" After that, Leng Yi whispered in his ear for a while. Shi Shouxin nodded again and again.

In the afternoon of the same day, Hua Rui, who was listening to the government, suddenly issued an edict and convened an emergency meeting of the governors. At the same time, let the eldest prince Zhao Yuanzuo participate.

Zhao Yuanzuo didn't know what was going on, but it was the first time for him to participate in such a high-level meeting when he was only fifteen years old, and he was very surprised.

Zhao Yuanzuo swaggered to the Chongzheng Hall where Hua Rui listened to the government. After entering the door, I saw several people in the house, namely Shen Lun, the left-behind prime minister, Chu Zhaofu, the privy envoy, Cao Bin, the deputy privy envoy, Shi Xizai, the privy envoy, Chen Congxin, the privy commander, and Leng Yi, the governor of the forbidden army, and Yang Ye, the new deputy commander of the forbidden army.

In addition to these people, there was another person who was also present, which made Zhao Yuanzuo angry and afraid, he was the general Shi Shouxin!

Zhao Yuanzuopi smiled and bowed to Shi Shouxin and hugged his fists: "General Shi is also here." ”

Shi Shouxin didn't return the courtesy, but just looked at him coldly. (To be continued.) )