Chapter 667: The Ministers Are Suspicious of the King
Mi Yan dipped his finger in water and wrote a word on the table, and Li Xin carefully recognized that it was the word "Li"! This surname was originally commonplace, but Mi Yan's mysterious attitude would definitely not be simple, and the answer was about to come out in Li Xin's heart.
At this time, the soldiers reported outside the door, "The marquis of Zhenzhen, the old man of Jiangdu Zhang Ge sent someone to send an official document!" ”
Li Xin glanced at Mi Yan, "It's really time to come, I don't know what Zhang Fangyan wants to do!" Then he shouted out the door, "Send in!" ”
Mi Yan took the official document handed in by his own soldiers, and opened it for inspection under Li Xin's instructions, but he also gasped like Li Xin before.
"Townsmen, please look!"
Mi Yan rarely made any comments on this official letter from Zhang Fangyan. Li Xin unfolded the letter, which contained few words, but it was only an invitation to cross the river to participate in a routine military meeting, and there was nothing strange about it.
"Marquis of Zhen, please look at this thing!"
It was only at this time that Mi Yan magically took out an oiled paper bag wrapped in several layers, but the bag was sloppy, obviously unwrapped and hastily wrapped after opening. But he saw that he untied the oil paper layer by layer, and there was a wisp of imperial silk half-covered and half-hidden, and when the oiled paper package was completely opened, Li Xin saw it clearly, it was actually a holy decree.
Li Xin was puzzled, he pointed to the holy decree, and then pointed to the handwriting on the table, and asked, "He sent it?" ”
Mi Yan nodded heavily, but did not make a sound, a pair of eyes burst with scorching flames, looking at Li Xin.
The holy decree was slowly unfolded, and Li Xinxin, who read every word and sentence in the future, was shocked as Fengtian carried the emperor. In the end, the imperial court dealt with him with the matter of Fengyang, demoted the marquis of Zhenzhen to Mengyinnan, took away a military position, and ordered him to live in Jinan Mansion......
Li Xin didn't believe that such an unbelievable holy decree came from the emperor's consent, otherwise the emperor would not have let him lead his troops south.
"Is the Marquis doubting the authenticity of this object?"
Li Xin only groaned and did not answer. And Mi Yan didn't seem to intend to get a reply from Li Xin, and continued:
"Zhang Ge Lao asked the Marquis of Zhenyu to rush to Jiangdu to discuss matters, what is the explanation? Is it a coincidence? ”
This sentence touched Li Xin's heartstrings, after experiencing many sinister struggles, he would not believe in any coincidences, maybe a seemingly coincidental thing is an invisible net woven in secret, but is he capable of resisting?
Li Xin's gaze fell on the scroll of the holy decree again, the origin of this holy decree is really suspicious, who knows if this is a forgery? Besides, how could such a militaristic heavy object fall into the hands of thieves?
"The person who delivered this oil-paper bag also brought a piece of news." Mi Yan pointed to the holy decree on the table. "Three days ago, they attacked Jining, the angel who delivered the decree happened to pass through Jining, and all the entourage of more than 1,000 people were captured and killed, and Yan Binglie, the prefect of Jining, did not dare to fight behind closed doors, and did not save ...... when he saw death."
Li Xinxin was stunned, he had only heard the military report before, saying that Shandong had been attacked by thieves, but he didn't want it to deteriorate to such a point!
Although what Mi Yan said is conclusive, but the matter is big, how can Li Xin be gullible? However, Mi Yan did not finish all the facts, and he continued to add weight to Li Xin's heart.
"The angel who delivered the decree also recognized that it was Gao Keng, the eunuch who was the celebrant and the eunuch in the hall! The other party brought him too! ”
Li Xin frowned, and brought the eunuch who was captured alive to the Longtan camp, isn't this clearly framing himself? But the matter has come to this, you can't sit idly by, when he first joined the Beijing Division, Gao Keng and his people took good care of him, and he couldn't pretend that he didn't know anything, Li Xin asked himself if he couldn't do it.
He had no choice but to ask Mi Yan to pass on the mysterious messenger, and at the same time bring Gao Keng over. Mi Yan watched the always resolute and decisive Zhenyu Marquis get up when the matter came to the end, and he didn't say more, bowed down and went out for a while, and brought a black and thin man.
The black and thin man was carrying a big wooden box in his hand, and I saw him stop the wooden box on the ground, and actually knelt on the ground respectfully and kowtowed to Li Xin.
"The villain Yue Guang has seen the general!"
This person's mouth turned out to be a Beizhili accent, but Li Xin's eyes were all attracted by the wooden box, Yue Guang opened the wooden box, and inside was a head soaked in lime, and carefully identified it as Gao Keng's appearance. It was only at this time that Li Xin suddenly realized that Mi Yan said that he had brought it, but he had brought Gao Keng's head.
"The big boss of the general was afraid that the general would be suspicious, so he ordered the villain to bring the eunuch's dog head over together, and the emperor's holy decree is true! The big boss of the general has always admired the prestige of the general, and he can't bear to sit and watch the general be harmed by the traitorous ministers of the government, so he reminded him righteously. The villain is now over, if the general doesn't want to deal with the villain, the villain will go north and return to the army! ”
After that, Yue Guang stood tall and resolute, and he didn't have the slightest fear. It is said that Yan Zhao is a generous and sad person, and when I see it today, this statement is really true, but it is a pity that such characters cannot make meritorious contributions and drive away the enemy and resist insults, but they have become the vanguard of the civil war.
In Li Xin's view, the rebellion of the thieves and the suppression of the official army were no different from the confrontation between the government army and the anti-government army in later generations, and the result was either the east wind overpowering the west wind, or the west wind overpowering the west wind. But this thing Erfeng once knew that the sandpiper and the clam competed for the fisherman's profit, and in the end, the two families were empty of bamboo baskets, and the Manchu Tartars who were eyeing each other were cheap in vain.
Of course, Li Xin would not dispose of this Yue Guang, but Gao Keng's head was a tricky big trouble, if Yue Guang was allowed to take him away, wouldn't he sit back and watch the bones of the deceased remain? If you leave it behind, it will be a time bomb sooner or later.
In the end, Li Xin still left Gao Keng's head and let Yue Guang leave safely.
The joy of getting a million stone of rice was swept away. Li Xin immediately convened Zhang Shi, Lu Jiu, Niu Jinsong and his henchmen to hold an emergency meeting, and unexpectedly, Chen Wenshan, the commander of Longtan County, was also listed.
Li Xin glanced at Mi Yan beside him suspiciously, and Mi Yan leaned over and whispered: "It's time for him to join the gang, after today, this person will be like a finger in the town!"
Chen Wenshan's attendance was indeed arranged by Mi Yan. After Mi Yanzi escaped from Shengjing, his temperament and mind seemed to have changed, and this contemporary scholar who read the book of sages and sages was even more reactionary in his thinking than Li Xin, a traverser. Occupancy, occupancy...... Li Xin muttered silently, but said that the Three Guards were like bandits and bandits who occupied the mountains as kings.
Chen Wenshan, who was sitting at the end of the seat, was full of joy and pride. He never thought that he would be lucky enough to participate in the confidential meeting of the Three Guards, so didn't it mean that the Marquis of Zhenyu already regarded him as a confidant? This thought popped up in his head, and he felt even more excited, only to feel that happiness came too suddenly, and suddenly he was not prepared.
"Everyone, take a look, the thief spies sent it!"
Li Xin's deep voice made Chen Wenzhi slightly depressed, and he raised his head to peek in, only to see a scroll of imperial silk being looked at by several illiterate generals. After changing hands several times, it was stuffed into Chen Wenshan's hand, and he woke up and looked carefully.
After reading a few words, Chen Wenshan's mind suddenly felt blank, and then beads of sweat the size of beans oozed from his head, crackling and rolling down, and then his clothes were already soaked with cold sweat. He held the imperial silk as if he were holding a hot coal, his hands trembled, and his whole face was convulsed and deformed.
This, this is clearly a holy decree! Or was it sent from a thief? Chen Wenshan, who was relieved, realized even after realizing it later, if this secret meeting was spread, the fate of everyone present would inevitably be Ling Chi, the Zhu clan, and the raid of the family.
I only heard Li Xin's voice sound again. "Did you see it all?"
"The emperor dares to unload the mill and kill the donkey, our brother will turn against his mother, it's a big deal to go back to Taihang Mountain!" Li Xin once forbade Lu Jiu to say such things as returning to Taihang Mountain, but now that the emperor was unkind, Lu Jiu broke his vows again.
"What Brother Lu said is that whoever dares to stand up to the general, our brothers will fight with whomever they want. It's just that this thing was sent from the thief, but I'm afraid it is also ill-intentioned, and it is difficult to distinguish the authenticity! ”
Zhang Shi analyzed in a low voice, but he actually broke into it. Li Xin said secretly, what Zhang Shi said was exactly what he was worried about, the thief sent a holy decree, whether he believed it or not, he achieved his goal, and a seed of doubt took root in his heart.
Li Da, who has rarely spoken, echoed: "What General Zhang said is extremely true, in my opinion, the truth of the holy decree is no longer important, what matters is how the emperor will feel about the killing of the angel of the decree!" ”
As soon as this remark came out, everyone was silent, Li Da's words really cut to the point, if the holy decree is true, the angel was killed, the holy decree was robbed, and the biggest beneficiary was Li Xin, then Li Xin's situation fell into the crotch of his pants like yellow mud, not but. Take 10,000 steps back, even if the holy decree was forged by thieves, how can Li Xin prove it? Can it really be as if nothing happened and swagger to Jiangdu to attend the meeting?
It is important to know that there is no room for luck in the world, and once the number becomes a reality, it will be 100%. Li Xin could not take this risk, and neither could the more than 10,000 soldiers of the Three Guards.
Li Da cleared his throat and said slowly: "In the past, the Southern Song Dynasty jailer once said to Yue Wumu, 'The monarch and the minister are not suspicious, but if they are suspicious, they will be chaotic, so the monarch will be punished if he is suspicious, and the minister will be the opposite if he is suspicious. If the minister is suspicious of the king and does not oppose it, he will be punished for the king's suspicion; If the king is suspicious of the minister but not punished, then the suspicion of the king will be reversed. 'How similar is the situation of the Marquis of Zhenyu today to Yue Wumu? ”
This passage is so clear that it completely destroyed Chen Wenshan's heart, and the holy decree in his hand fell to the ground with a click, and he shouted in his heart: On the thief ship, my life is over!
It's just that everyone is still in the mood to pay attention to Chen Wenshan, and after listening to Li Da's words, they are all like five thunderbolts, although they are subconsciously aware of the severity of the problem, but they are really said so blatantly, they are still shocked and stammered. Mi Yan's eyes were full of amusement and looked at Li Da.
Li Da is a Manchu descendant, these words came out of his mouth, must the motive and purpose be so simple? But then there was another wave of discouragement, this man just said what he wanted to say but didn't dare to say!
"If the Marquis of Zhenyu wants to be Yue Wumu, he has to be a living Yue Wumu!"
A sentence was like a thunderbolt in the air, which blew everyone back to their senses, and they all looked at the owner of the voice. But he saw Chen Wenshan's body half-leaning over, his face was pale and stiff, his hands were clenched into fists, and his bloodless lips were still trembling.