Qianqing Palace.

This morning, Emperor Jiajing received an excerpt asking Li Mo to investigate the case of Zhao Wenhua and Hu Zongxian, and the conversation was still about Hu Zongxian and Zhao Wenhua's embezzlement of military salaries.

Yan Song felt that Li Mo would make a big fuss about this matter again, so he explained the matter to Huang Jin, hoping that he would pay attention to Li Mo's recent twists and turns and report it if it was convenient.

Around the afternoon, while Yan Song went to work in the attic, Li Mo suddenly asked Xu Jie to come to the Gongmo room to meet.

As soon as he sat down, Li Mo opened the small mahogany box he brought with him, took out three folds and handed them to Xu Jie.

Among these three excerpts, Zhao Wenhua and Hu Zongxian's copy of Xu Jie has been seen in the duty room, and the remaining two copies are the audit results of Bingchen's external inspection, and the other is Li Mo's handling opinions on this matter.

Li Mo's excerpt was harsh on Hu Zongxian, believing that he secretly understood that Zhao Wenhua's embezzlement of military salaries was "to seize the emperor's authority for his own use, and to treat the imperial court officials as thieves...... In the past two hundred years, the directors of the two courts have gone out on patrol, although they have punished the great rape, they still have to ask for the king's order in advance. Those who are not like Hu Zongxian will abandon the discipline and be good at prestige. What's more, although Chahu Zongxian has a big fault, it is not a big fault...... Wouldn't such a treatment grow the fierce flames of the Japanese slaves, and make the people of the world cold to the emperor? Therefore, he asked the emperor to issue a holy decree to reduce Hu Zongxian to the people and never use it. The cases of Zhao Wenhua and Hu Zongxian were transferred to the three legal divisions for trial ......"

This letter stamped the cabinet's seal, and it was obviously a public fold led by Li Mo.

After reading the excerpt, Xu Jie's face was contemplative, unhappy, and secretly said that Li Mo was the dictator of Hu Zongxian and did not consult him, and the cabinet minister who should have signed the excerpt, this Li Mo old man only signed himself, and also pulled Xia Mu to sign. It stands to reason that this is a public fold, and he should have the right to know. What's more, this excerpt is related to the Ministry of War, according to common sense, he, the second assistant in charge of the Ministry of War, should be the person who drafted this public fold, but now that the excerpt has been sent to Ouchi, he doesn't know it. It can be seen that in Li Mo's eyes, his second assistant has already become the ears of a deaf man.

"Have you seen these three excerpts?" Xu Jie asked.

"No," when Xu Jie read the excerpt, Li Mo was bored and stretched out ten fingers to practice fingering on the coffee table, and when he heard the question, he took his hand and replied, "The excerpt was only given to the celebrant this morning, and it happened that Huang Jin was on duty, and he remembered my instructions, so he didn't let people see it first." "

Xu Jie nodded at him, and then asked: "According to Master Li's opinion, what will the emperor do with these excerpts when he sees them?" ”

Li Mo thought for a while, didn't answer directly, but said in a detour: "That day, Long Live Lord came back from the cabinet, and for some reason, he praised Yan Song a lot, but his attitude towards Xu Ge Lao seemed to be a little unkind, what is going on?" ”

"That's because I offended the emperor."

Xu Jie said, and recounted what happened in the cabinet that day. Li Mo gritted his teeth and scolded after hearing this: "Yan Song, the old fox, is the best at seeing the emperor's eyes. ”

Xu Jie was not as excited as Li Mo, but his tone was full of disdain: "Actually, Yan Song also hates these demon ways. After Tao Zhongwen's death, the emperor gave the title of Blue Sky Master of Longhu Mountain. Last year, Lantian Division went to Beijing for activities, because a junior committed a case and found Yan Song, but he refused. ”

Li Mo sneered: "Those Taoist priests are just to please the Sacred Heart and favor Bo. As ministers of the country, we should be 'the lord has a mistake and dares to divide and fight for justice', if the bend is offered, it will really make the world's soldiers cold. ”

If Li Mo didn't have an absolute understanding of Xu Jie, he would definitely not dare to say the words "scolded Yan Song, ridiculed the emperor", but Xu Jie was silent when he heard it. There is another layer of hidden information that Xu Jie does not know, when Lantian Master arrived in Beijing last year, he asked someone to find Li Mo and send him 30,000 taels of silver, hoping that he would also help him talk in front of the emperor on the issue of the descendants who committed the crime. Li Mo agreed at the time, but it was precisely because of Yan Song's obstruction that this matter was not done.

Now that Xu Jie's old matter is brought up again, Li Mo is quite embarrassed in his heart, and after being silent for a while, he will lead the topic: "Xu Ge just asked the emperor about Hu Zongxian's attitude, I think the top ten ** is still the old rule, and I will send it back to the cabinet for a vote." ”

Xu Jie smiled bitterly, "What is the vote for, Yan Ge Lao's attitude has already made it clear on his fold that Hu Zongxian must die!" ”

"Yes, this black gauze hat on Hu Zongxian's head can't be worn for a few days," Li Mo sighed and said, "Long live Lord has never rejected Yan Song's proposed vote in the past two years. ”

"Pity Hu Zongxian, who was wise and impartial, but suffered such a cut."

Xu Jie stood up as he spoke, and walked under the four-character plaque of "Make great efforts" hanging on the front wall - this is the handwriting of Emperor Jiajing. He cut his hands behind his back, staring at him for a long time.

Li Mo understood Xu Jie's painful mood at this time, and said in a sympathetic tone on the side: "I heard that this Hu Zongxian wrote a good poem, wrote a good hand, and the Japanese slaves were treated badly, but it didn't make Zhao Wenhua harmful. ”

Li Mo said that he had a lot of thoughts, knowing that Hu Zongxian still had some friendship with Xu Jie, and couldn't help but say tentatively: "Elder Xu Ge didn't think about saving it. ”

Xu Jiehui turned around, sat back in the chair, looked at Li Mo's play, sneered in his heart, but said slowly on the surface: "Help, there is no need." ”

"Oh, why is that?" Li Mo asked puzzled.

"I guess Yan Song, it is precisely because he thought that I would definitely go to the rescue to relieve him, which would inevitably cause the emperor to be unhappy, and he could take the opportunity to ask for an order to squeeze me out of the cabinet."

Li Mo smiled, didn't say anything, and closed the fold. This Hu Zongxian must have it, Li Mo was originally afraid that Xu Jie would save him, but at this time, he saw that Xu Jie would not save him, and he would not save him, and Yan Song would not save him, so who could save him? He will definitely die, and the case of Bingchen Waicha and Zhang Jing, Li Tianchong and Zhao Wenhua will be over.

But no one expected that Hu Zongxian would be able to find a person whom none of them expected, and used a method that has been mixed throughout the ages to save himself, but this is a later story.

At this time, in the Su Building, Xia Mu watched coldly as Jinyi Wei brought a ragged man to the central stage, Xue Hua nodded to him, and motioned for someone to bring it.

The ministers and even the big eunuchs didn't know why, only Yu Jinlian and Liu Xianglan's faces changed.

Xia Mu coughed heavily, and the ministers hurriedly closed their mouths and did not speak.

I saw Xia Mu standing in the room on the stage, and he opened his throat and shouted: "Half a month ago, a group of Japanese ronins mixed into the capital, burned, killed and looted, and did all kinds of evil. But I'd better leave one! ”

The ministers looked at the man with his head covered on the stage, and there was all kinds of surprise in his eyes, presumably that the man was a Japanese ronin.

But what does this mean, in the place of wind and snow, get a Japanese slave, you Xia Mu sincerely sweep everyone's temperament?

Xia Mu sneered: "Kill!" ”

The two words are so clear, and they are so refreshing.

With a click, the slave didn't even scream out a fart, and his head was chopped off by the sudden embroidered spring knife, and suddenly a big red cloth for singing was sprinkled with blood, and he couldn't tell which was human blood and which was cloth.

The ministers were so shocked that they vomited when they saw the dead body staring at two big round eyes.

Li Fang's old face was even whiter, and he didn't dare to let a fart go.

Xia Mu coughed heavily, and the teacup in King Yu's hand fell directly to the ground and shattered into four, five, six, seven, and eight petals.

"Oh, why is the prince so careless?" Xia Mu smiled, turned his head and looked at Yu Jinlian, who didn't know what his expression was, "Why don't you come over and pour tea for the prince!" ”

Yu Jinlian was stunned, lowered her head, and went to re-pour tea for King Yu, but at this moment, a few small people appeared behind, pretending to serve tea, but in fact, they had revealed a trace of murderous aura.

Xia Mu secretly kept staring, seeing the murderous aura in the eyes of the little guy, he smiled knowingly, can the mouse still fight the old cat for more than 10,000 years?

Thinking that Xia Mu walked up to the stage, he kicked the body of the ronin and rolled it down the stage, and the hot blood splashed on the clothes of many ministers, and everyone was busy scattering like birds and beasts.

Xia Mu stood proudly, looked at Yu Jinlian in front of him, and said with a smile: "Please come and sing on the stage!" ”

"This ......" The ministers were frightened, there was blood on the stage, who still had the heart to sing, this Xia Mu was ruthless, Dong Zhuo was inferior, and Wang Mang was slightly inferior.

And that Yu Jinlian smiled at Yingying Yanyan, really put on a drama robe, sang Mu Guiying in charge, sang the spring words in the play book with a soft voice, and looked directly at Xia Mu with clear admiration in her eyes.

Xia Mu secretly said that this woman is amazing, she is obviously very ruthless in her heart, and she can pretend to ignore it, no wonder even Wang Shizhen likes this woman as if she is obsessed.

Xia Mu stood beside the woman, and Yu Jinlian raised her long sleeves around Xia Muwu, only to see one of them, Yu Jinlian suddenly pulled out a bright short knife from the floating sleeves, naturally there was no need to be soft, her wrist moved slightly, and the short knife had already been shot, and she bullied Xia Mu's door with residual temperature.

And the ministers were even more frightened and at a loss, and stayed where they were.

Xia Mu looked at the short knife that flew quickly, and sure enough, it was a Japanese samurai sword, his eyes changed instantly, and the embroidered spring knife hidden in his waist came out of the sheath with a dragon chant.

With a "sonorous", the short knife brushed the blade of the embroidered spring knife, and a string of sparks slashed.

But this one didn't work, and the surrounding Jinyi guards swarmed up, and in an instant, with a knife from the center of his eyebrows, Yu Jinlian**'s entire face was split into two bloody halves, and because Xia Mu was closer, the blood that bloomed splashed his face.

I saw Xia Mu wipe it away at will, he was used to the temperature of blood, and he had long neglected life.

Retracting the knife, the Jinyi guards around him were like dragons and tigers, surrounding Xia Mu, and the high-rise corridors on both sides, the Jinyi guards with fire guns and spears all came out.

King Yu was even more frightened, and he was sweating all over his body, and he actually slept with a slave woman for one night!

"Eight Tooth Road!" The more than a dozen would-be ronins with short knives in their hands surrounded Liu Xianglan in the middle and watched vigilantly.

Xia Mu frowned coldly, and looked at the ministers coldly, all the ministers lowered their heads, knowing that they were finished, and this matter reached the ears of the Son of Heaven, and what was waiting for them was the edict of Jinyiwei and Dongchang.

Xia Mu moved the blood-dripping embroidered spring knife to his eyes, looked at the blood dripping from the blade, and snorted coldly: "Dongyi clown, but the land of projectiles, the former Tang Dynasty and Song Ancestors, Er and other generations are respectful to my Celestial Empire, but I didn't expect that I was a big Ming, but the wolf was ambitious and ungrateful, but he took the initiative to think about the east, don't you know that I have a hundred thousand brocade knives in my hand, and you are destined to come back, I can't say that I will kill your island in the sky and destroy your wolf heart and dog lungs." ”

The Japanese ronin led by the Japanese was furious when he heard this: "Toyotomi Taiko will definitely avenge us, and the samurai of Great Japan would rather be broken than broken!" ”

"Broken jade?" Xia Mu seemed to have heard the funniest joke, "Toyotomi Hideyoshi and his son, foolish dreams, delusional to conquer my Celestial Empire and dominate the Eight Wildernesses, but it is pure fart dog talk to let me see, today I will let you know and know, what is Yelang arrogant, playing with fire**, kill!" ”

Xia Mu fell with a knife, and immediately there was a burst of gunpowder smoke, choking nose and tears, followed by a roaring sound, like a big bead and a small bead falling on a jade plate, crisp and pleasant, but by the time the ministers opened their eyes, the more than ten people had already become a hornet's nest, and the blood skeleton was gone!

Xu Jue and Xia Mu glanced at each other, and they were so frightened that they collapsed directly to the ground, scared to pee.