saw Cai Min lying on his back, squatting on the ground to eat, and he didn't seem to notice that someone had entered the house.

The escort who led the way immediately became anxious and shouted: "Cai Min, are you blind?" The hall is down, why are you still so arrogant and don't hurry up to salute? ”

Cai Min was taken aback when he heard this, and immediately turned his head to look out of the door, and sure enough, he saw two people standing at the door, but because the light in the room was very dim and backlit, he couldn't see the identity of the person who came for a while.

Cai Min was carefully distinguishing, but he heard one of them say to the guard: "You don't have to be unreasonable, Lord Cai has not been dismissed from office, and you can't do it easily." It was Zheng Xin's voice.

Cai Min was surprised and delighted when he heard this, hurriedly threw away the rice bowl in his hand, and crawled to the door, seeing that the person with a long head and figure was indeed His Highness Zheng Xin, he hurriedly bowed down and said, "Your Highness...... His Highness ......, but he could not say anything else."

Zheng Xin ignored him, but waited for the guards to set up the tables, chairs, candles, and sit down peacefully, and then said, "Cai Min, you sit down first, I have something to say to you." ”

Cai Min hurriedly waved his hand and said, "The lower official is guilty, how dare he sit in front of His Royal Highness?" ”

Zheng Xin was not reluctant, and said: "If you don't want to sit, just stand and talk back." He paused and said, "I heard you say the word 'guilty' just now, it seems that what Li Shenshi said is true?" ”

Cai Min nodded and said, "What Li Shenshi said is indeed the truth. The lower official is not true, he is not prudent, he has lost the face of the saint, the face of the court, and the face of His Royal Highness, and the lower official is really embarrassed...... "After saying that, he actually howled and cried.

Zheng Xin let him cry for a while, and when he calmed down a little, he said coldly: "Cai Min, you can't help but look down on yourself too much." For an official of your rank, there are not 1,000 people in the Han Dynasty, but 800. Among them, there is no such thing as mud and sand, and it is inevitable that there will be one or two shameless ones like you, which is not a strange thing. ”

Qiu Yizhi heard Zheng Xin's opening and insult Cai Min in a clear and righteous manner, and her heart was very happy; Hearing that Cai Min was already convinced, Nuo Nuo said repeatedly: "His Royal Highness's lesson is good, the lower official is indeed shameless, and he is not an important person. Please also ask His Royal Highness to read that the lower officials have also worked hard for decades, so spare the lower officials! Then his knees weakened again, and he fell to the ground with his head bowed.

Qiu Yizhi saw Cai Min crawling on the ground and sobbing, and a burst of pity couldn't help but rise in her heart; However, remembering how he coerced and enticed, and even sent troops to force himself to release Miaozhen, this only remaining compassion disappeared in an instant.

So Qiu Yizhi smiled contemptuously and said in Zheng Xin's ear: "This Cai Min is so cowardly, then you might as well scare him and make him spit out more facts of the case." ”

Zheng Xin listened, nodded slightly, and then said: "Cai Min, I see that your attitude is quite sincere, but you are still dishonest behind your back, and you refuse to tell the truth. Don't have a little bit of luck mentality, thinking that the ugly things you have done, Your Highness will not know! ”

When Cai Min heard Zheng Xin say this, his body curled up on the ground suddenly shrank, and he hurriedly said: "The lower officials are a little careless in their conduct, and as for corruption and bending the law, it has never been before, please ask Your Highness to be clear." If the officials have anything to hide, please ask Your Highness to pout my eyes! ”

Zheng Xin was originally bluffing to scare Cai Min a few words, but when he said it so firmly, he really didn't have any real evidence to correct him, and he was speechless for a while.

Qiu Yizhi, who was beside him, laughed twice and said: "Lord Cai swore not to go too early, beware of being blind and taking the wrong path on the Huangquan Road, delaying reincarnation is the right thing." I remember that when I was promoted to the court yesterday, the demon Dao Miaozhen still didn't say half a word, do you want to pass her over and let her finish her words? ”

When Cai Min heard this, he trembled all over his body, but he still had a hard mouth, and said with his head held high: "This is a frame-up!" It's a prisoner who survives! Please also ask Your Highness not to listen to the fallacies of Miaozhen! ”

Zheng Xin was ordered to take charge of the affairs of the criminal department in the capital, and in a few months, he also tried several Jiangyang thieves and corrupt officials, and naturally accumulated some experience in interrogating criminals.

When he saw Cai Min's appearance, he knew that he must have something to hide from himself, so he smiled and said, "It seems that Lord Cai really has a clear conscience." Master Cai was born as a scholar, and he must be familiar with the scriptures and history, and he must know the allusions of the ancients' four knowledges. ”

The so-called "four knowledges" are "heaven knows, earth knows, you know, and I know".

Zheng Xin paused and said: "However, all things in the world and all living beings, if they really do the next thing, how can only these four know about it?" As far as Lord Cai is concerned, isn't what you did known to Miaozhen? If I send someone to the 'Tzu Yun Guan' to investigate carefully, I'm afraid I may not be able to find out Lord Cai's handle, right? ”

Cai Min suddenly raised his head when he heard this, staring at Zheng Xin with a pair of triangular eyes wide, but he couldn't speak in the air.

Zheng Xin saw the slightly frightened expression on Cai Min's face through the dim light, and knew that his words had had had an effect, so he suddenly raised his voice and said, "Cai Min! His Highness wants to leave a way for you to live, and I don't want to see you hit a stone with an egg! If you don't understand my hard work, then Your Highness will let you die without a place to bury, do you believe it or not? Even if you die alone, do you believe that all the descendants of your clan will be martyred for you, so that you will never be able to turn over? ”

Zheng Xin's vigorous drink frightened Cai Min and completely collapsed his already weak psychological defense.

I saw Cai Min immediately lowered his head, kowtowed, and begged for mercy: "Please also ask His Highness to be merciful, and his subordinates to be merciful!" ”

Qiu Yizhi saw that Zheng Xin had not had a deep friendship for several months, and he had actually experienced such majesty - so much so that in just a few words, he scared a treacherous old official like Cai Min to the point of fear - so he couldn't help but admire it very much in his heart, so he hurriedly said: "Cai Min, you have no room for bargaining and no capital at all now!" If you want His Highness to be merciful and extrajudicial to show mercy, don't invite His Highness from the truth! ”

Zheng Xin listened, fearing that Qiuyi's people would speak softly and speak without enough deterrence, so he added: "This is your last chance, if you dare to hide it, Your Highness will have no grace!" ”

After this rubbing, Cai Min finally knew that if he didn't confess completely today, he would be very sad, so he had to sigh and say: "Alas~ It's all to blame for the fact that the lower officials have lost their footing and become hated for thousands of years, and they didn't remember the truth of preventing the slightest mistake, and finally fell to the current step." Then, Cai Min told Zheng Xin and Qiu Yizhi about his relationship with the "Ciyun Guan" in detail.

It turned out that Cai Min himself had nothing to do with the "Ciyun Temple", just because he heard that the first emperor Zheng Yong and the assassin Yin Chengliang both believed in Huang Lao's skills, so under the recommendation of a subordinate, he went to the "Ciyun Temple" not far from Yuezhou Mansion to practice some Taoist techniques - but it was not to pursue any ethereal way to ascend to immortals, but just to be able to talk about a few Taoist quotations on multiple common topics when communicating with the same peak.

Unexpectedly, the Taoist aunt "Tao Te Ching" in this "Ciyun View" did not read very well, but "Hug Puzi" practiced proficiently - the old Taoist aunt who presided over saw that it was the state pastor who came, and without thinking about it, he sent two young and slightly beautiful Taoist aunts to wait for Cai Min, the parent official.

is also to blame Cai Min for not being angry, the two Taoist aunts didn't tease much, they were already confused, and they stayed in the "Ciyun Temple" that night.

Since then, Cai Min has been out of control, and whenever he is free, he will go to the "Ciyun Temple" to have lewd pleasure.

And because he was diligent in the Taoist temple, he was thought by others to be "obsessed with cultivation and not government affairs" - and the emperor Zheng Yong at that time was also "addicted to cultivation but not government affairs", even if others had a slight whisper in their hearts, they did not dare to open their mouths to reprimand in person. So Cai Min turned "Ciyun Guan" into his own forbidden prostitution in this way, until after the end of the year, one of the Taoist aunts suddenly said that he had Cai Min's flesh and blood in his abdomen.

After Cai Min got the news, he immediately panicked - you must know that although the colleagues in the officialdom are gentle and frugal on weekdays, they are actually staring at each other - such an ironclad truth, once it can't be covered up and known by political enemies, Cai Min's reputation and future can be ruined immediately.

Therefore, Cai Min made up his mind: just wait for this child to be born, and send him away immediately or simply throw him into the river to extinguish his mouth, even if it is a hundred. But who knew that after October, the child born by that aunt was extremely cute, and Cai Min himself was quite Xiao between his eyebrows, and he was a boy with a handle.

Cai Min thought that although he had a son under his knees, because he was rich, his son had the woman's surname, and the concubines he accepted after he became famous preferred to have not moved for a few years - if the illegitimate son born to his fellow aunt died, his Cai family would fall into a situation without a future.

In this way, Cai Min did not make up his mind after all, and sent someone to quietly lend this little son from the "Ciyun Temple", and made enough benefits to make his favorite concubine recognize him as the mother of the child.

Cai Min expected that this would be seamless, and no one would be able to know the inside story - but who knew that the news had leaked from the beginning, and he was the one who was kept in the dark. It wasn't until today, five years later, that someone provoked him at such a juncture and caught him off guard.

In the end, Cai Min sighed and said, "If it weren't for His Highness coming to investigate the case this time, I don't know how long this matter would have been hidden." This incident is a heart disease of the lower officials, and it is only relieved to vomit it to His Highness today. ”

Zheng Xin sneered and said, "Your wishful thinking is okay!" Even if I don't come, one day if you offend a colleague, or if a colleague wants to offend you, the matter will surely burn like a fire, and you will be burned to the ground. ”

Cai Min was stunned for a moment, pondered for a while, and suddenly laughed and said, "Your Highness is right. I thought that this matter was kept secret, and in Jiangnan Province, perhaps Yin Chengliang's means could be heard by his ears and eyes, and other officials should not know about it. Who knew that a small county order in the remote Shanyin County under the subordinate of the lower officials was also like watching the fire, which was really unexpected by the lower officials! ”

Qiu Yizhi took over the conversation and said: "So when Lord Cai was the first to lead the army to attack me, he was afraid that Yin Chengliang would have your handle in his hands, so he had to obey his orders?" ”

Cai Min nodded vigorously and said, "It's exactly as Lord Qiu said." However, the subordinate and Yin Chengliang have always been inseparable, so the subordinate did not care about the execution of this military order he issued. Otherwise, with the number of soldiers in my Yuezhou Prefecture, how could I not take a Shanyin county seat? ”

When Zheng Xin heard this, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but hang a mocking smile.

In last year's rebellion, although Zheng Xin was in charge of supervising the conscription, transporting grain and grass, and administrative affairs of Youyan Road in the rear under his father's military order, Qiu Yizhi had heard of Zheng Xin having been born and died several times on the front line, and his achievements were not inferior to himself, Zheng Sen, Zheng Miao, Cui Nan, and Wei Hulai. Even the emperor has praised Qiu Yizhi's military exploits more than once.

Therefore, Zheng Xin knew in his heart: If Qiu Yizhi can be defeated only by the weak Yuezhou Daojiedu Army, then this Cai Min is a buried military wizard!