Chapter 167: The Mystery of Origin
"Childe's situation seems to be a little delicate?" Cai Jin felt as if he was on a thief ship, but he had no chance to regret it, so he could only give Meng Yan advice.
"You see that?" Meng Yan's eyelids raised slightly, and he glanced at Cai Jin, this old guy's eyes were really sharp.
I really didn't bother to get him out of prison in vain.
"The court is suspicious, and the Tatars and Warats hate you to the core, which can be described as internal and external difficulties." Cai Jin said slowly.
"Actually, it's not so strict, the people who suspect me are because I have the things of his lifeline in my hands, so they want to put me to death, whether I apostatize or not, they will suspect me, and if you don't use this crime, they will also use other charges to make me die!" Meng Yan Road.
"In that case, why don't you hand over the evidence you have?" Cai Jin was a little puzzled.
"Before this, if I hand it over, I am afraid that before it reaches the hands of the saint, I may be intercepted by those people, and I have no strength to resist, I am not sure that the bones are cold, and now, if I hand over the evidence, they will frame me for possible defection, then the evidence I provide is not enough to be accepted, with the emperor's trust in him, do you think I have a good chance of winning?" Meng Yan explained slowly.
"Yes, Gongzi is right, now for you, it's a dilemma!" After Cai Jin heard this, he couldn't help but sigh.
"yes, it's a good thing, at least they didn't catch any of me, at least for now, they have some scruples about me, and they don't know how much evidence of their smuggling I have!" Meng Yan Road.
"Lord Guo, will he doubt you?"
"After so many years in charge of Nanya, Uncle Guo is not only his own people. No one believed me, and he was also skeptical about me, and he didn't fully trust me! Meng Yan said.
"But he's in the same boat with his son now?"
"Although I can't live the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a wicked person, nominally Uncle Guo and I are in a son-in-law relationship, but this relationship is not strong."
"Childe is referring to the matter of the Holy Guardian Media, right?"
"Sort of."
What Meng Yan didn't say was his suspicion of Meng Xian's death, from what Lao Cai (selling steamed buns) said to that.
He was almost certain that Meng Yan had lied to him, and that the file he had given him about Meng Xian might have been revised.
This is for Guo Nu, who was born in Jinyiwei and mastered the three major intelligence agencies of the Ming Dynasty. Make up a seamless dossier. It's not that hard.
Not only did Meng Xian's death have many doubts, but now even he has found many doubts in himself.
The biggest doubt will be, from birth. I haven't seen his mother. I don't even know my mother's name. There is no tablet for the mother in the house.
It's all a bit unusual.
The only explanation is that his mother died in childbirth when she gave birth to him.
But even if she is a dead person, she always has a name. Birth and origin, don't you always jump out of the cracks in the stones?
The reason why Meng Yan didn't ask anyone was because he was not the original Meng Yan, although he inherited that Meng Yan's memory, but whether this memory was missing or not, he himself couldn't be sure.
He can only hide this matter in his heart, think about it little by little, understand it, and discover it.
Jinyi Wei Nanya.
"Lao Da, do you think I should hide it from him?"
"Master, from the perspective of protecting Lord Xiao Meng, you have done nothing wrong, but from the perspective of Lord Xiao Meng, he has the right to know this qiÄ."
"You didn't say this, even if it was me, the things back then were not very clear, and now there are even fewer people in the know!" Guo said angrily, "Either you are dead, or you are belittled, stay away from the court, if I hadn't been Taoguang Yang, I would have gone to Nanjing to retire a long time ago." ā
"What the master said is true, but you are still a person trusted by the saint, if even you are belittled, then the saint will also be suspicious."
"The saint is young, there are some things that I can't understand now!" Guo said angrily.
"And now that Lord Xiao Meng is back, the situation is even more complicated!" Lao Da also sighed.
"Yes, this matter is not trivial, if you can't get it, it's not just you, me and him, if you don't get it, it will be a big storm!" Guo said angrily.
"According to my understanding of Lord Xiao Meng, I'm afraid he won't give up lightly, he is a very strong person, no matter how scheming and means he is, he is not under anyone, just like his great-grandfather!" Old Dadao.
"Lao Da, these are just our suspicions, I really don't know what to do, Meng Xian sent him away back then, and didn't let anyone contact him, probably to protect him, but I didn't expect that he came back after all, and as soon as he came back, he made so many things." Guo sighed angrily.
"What's Boss Hu's opinion?"
"That old fellow is notoriously cautious, how could he give me advice?" Guo snorted angrily, "He just wanted to bring the secret into the coffin, and at this time, he wouldn't say anything." ā
"Whether we want to stop Lord Xiao Meng now, some of his practices are already very out of line, and if it goes on like this, it is certain that someone will be caught." Old Dadao.
"How can I stop it, can that kid listen to you and me?" Guo said angrily.
"We must let him understand that he can't continue to act recklessly, otherwise, not only will he be in danger, but he will also affect the master and many people." Lao Dajian yƬ road.
"Who's going to tell him?"
"The master said to him directly, it's not suitable, it's not easy to say, let me go, Lord Xiao Meng is pretty good to me." Old Dadao.
"Well, you've got it figured out, what do you say?"
"Master, if you keep some things hidden, it will inevitably get worse, so Lao Da has a request, can you tell the truth to Lord Meng?"
"Do you want to kill him?"
"It's not the whole truth, part of it, it's about Xiao Meng's mother." Lao Da said.
"You make me think about it, think about it."
"Master, it's getting dark, I'll go to the kitchen and get you something to eat?" Lao Da also knew the embarrassment in Guo Nu's heart!
The people and things involved in this matter are too heavy and a little careless. That's what happened to you.
"Cai Jin, I'll give you a few days, let's familiarize yourself with the situation in the capital first, let Lin Tianxing take you around, you don't have to worry about me here."
"Thank you, Lord, I also want to walk around and take a look, it's been twenty years!" Cai Jindao.
"Do you have old friends in the capital?"
"Yes, can I go see you?" Cai Jin smiled bitterly.
"Twenty years later, they may not still recognize you. It's okay not to see you. Save the hassle! Meng Yan smiled.
"Yes!"
"Find Jiang Feng to spend one hundred taels of silver on the account, buy whatever you want when you see it, eat whatever you want, and the monthly allowance I give you is twenty taels of silver. What do you think? Meng Yan commanded.
"So much?"
"Well, a lot. I feel like it's less giving. I can only give you so much now, and it will rise in the future, that's all. If you have something, look for Jiang Feng. ā
"Yes, Childe!"
After dealing with personal matters, Meng Yan stayed in the warehouse of the Nanya Craftsman and did not come out, recuperating from his injuries while training his own treasury team, but he also lived a very fulfilling life.
"Uncle Da is here, sit, Tianxing, make tea!"
"Yes, Childe!" Lin Tianxing has now become Meng Yan's follower, he follows everywhere, and he is at the same level as Tang Xiao, and he is very trusted.
"Uncle Da is here today, first, to see you, and second, there is news to tell you!" Lao Da sat down and said.
"What's the news?" Meng Yan asked, although he didn't go out of the warehouse, he still had the news outside, of course, there were some news that he couldn't control.
"The Queen Mother put Sun Lian into the palace to recuperate from her injuries, it seems that she wants to keep Sun Lian by her side." Old Dadao.
"Expected!" Meng Yan nodded.
"It seems that you have long thought that the Queen Mother would do this!" Lao Da exclaimed, he felt more and more that it was not a good thing for Guo Nu to continue to hide it like this.
Meng Yan is too shrewd, the city is deep, and the thinking is far-reaching, which is impressive.
"The Queen Mother reuses her own family, Wang Zhen has one more opponent, Sun Lian may not be Wang Zhen's opponent now, but as long as the Queen Mother is here, Wang Zhen has to scruples, so the pressure on the master's side is much less."
"What is the relationship between Uncle Guo and Wang Zhen?"
"I used to work together in the East Palace, and there was a festival, but I don't know what it is." Lao Da said, "But the Empress Dowager Sun's side finally relies on her own family, and our master and the Sun family are at most using the relationship!" ā
"Uncle Da, how is the Waragon Mission?"
"Everywhere, the cabinet's attitude is to turn big things into small things, and calm things down." Lao Da said.
"What is the attitude of the Holy One?"
"At present, the battle in Luchuan is tense, and the saint is probably worried about another incident in the north, so maybe this matter will be handled in a low-key manner." Lao Dadao, "Today, the Holy Lord summoned the master to meet alone, and I guess he was talking about this matter. ā
"Then we won't pursue it?"
"The Warats have also lost a lot this time, and you have also separated their relationship with the Tatars, and there will inevitably be a contest between them next, which is beneficial to the imperial court." Old Dadao.
"Uncle Guo also has this attitude?"
"The lord knows that you have been wronged, but you can start from the overall situation of the imperial court, once there is something in the northwest and endangers the safety of Gyeonggi, no one can afford this responsibility!"
"Is my Ming Dynasty's northwest frontier defense so fragile?"
"Do you know how many soldiers are registered in a Xuanfu town?"
"I don't know!"
"There are 452 horses in the 151,000 Ma Bu Army, but there are actually fewer than 80,000 people, and there are 50,274 registered military horses, which are actually more than 30,000!" Lao Dadao, "It is still unknown how many of them can fight. ā
"As far as I know, there are less than 50,000 elites in Warat, and there are less than 30,000 Tatar troops under Tokhtar combined." Meng Yan Road.
"What Lord Xiao Meng said is right, but they are all cavalry, coming and walking like the wind, most of us are infantry troops, even if we have the advantage of firearms, we can only build cities and defend them according to the danger, and the strategy is insufficient."
"To deal with the Warats, there is no other way to deal with cavalry against cavalry!" Meng Yan nodded.
The development of firearms needs to go through a long process to have high mobility and instantaneousness, otherwise cavalry will still be a powerful force that determines the victory of the war for a certain period of time.
Especially on the plain battlefield, the cavalry was still invincible.
"No matter what decision the imperial court makes, I have no complaints." Meng Yan thought for a moment and said to Lao Da.
"You can think so, that's the best, I'll go back and tell the master!" Lao Da breathed a sigh of relief.
"But there is one thing, I have to figure out, when will the pension of the imperial court give my father be paid, I have been to the Zhonghou Institute several times." Meng Yan said slowly.
"I can't answer you this well, although the master is already the commander of the Jinyi Guard, there are still many places where he can't ......."
"Okay, I understand, I'll handle this matter myself!" Meng Yan nodded.
"Master Xiaomeng, you ......" Lao Da didn't know what to say for a while. (To be continued......)