Chapter 332: Roundabout
As the most important intelligence officer of the Intelligence Department in the Jin Kingdom, Yu Wenxu Zhong provided a large amount of valuable information, which played an important role in Zhao Ta's timely grasp of the political and economic dynamics of the Jin State and the relative decision-making. Now that he is in danger, he cannot sit idly by and must find a way to help him out of the crisis.
"Li Jun, Hong Yan may be targeted by Wushu now, and he is in a very dangerous situation, and he must try to rescue him!" Zhao Ta urgently summoned Li Jun to discuss the matter.
"Your Majesty, it won't be so serious!" Li Jun thought for a while and said, "A few days ago, Hongyan also proposed to take advantage of the opportunity of the Jin State to purge the 'Liao Party' and widely contact our Great Song Dynasty officials in the Jin State to instigate them to oppose Jin!" ”
"He's already starting to implement it?" Zhao Ta asked anxiously.
"When his subordinates learned about it, they thought that the time was not yet ripe and that it was easy to cause exposure, so they ordered him to pause and not move blindly!" Li Jun replied.
"Well, you're doing a good job!" Zhao Ta said, "But according to the known information, Hong Yan may not have obeyed your orders, so measures must be taken to prevent the worst from happening!" ”
"Yes, Your Majesty! His subordinates immediately warned him again, and ordered Huining Station to make emergency preparations! Li Jun replied that he was not blindly following the emperor's orders, because he knew that the emperor's intelligence source was not only the intelligence department, but also another intelligence agency parallel to the intelligence department, in addition to the information provided by the military intelligence department, so the emperor naturally had more resources than him.
"No, order all the intelligence officers of the Intelligence Department to immediately cut off contact with Hongyan, change their addresses, and maintain only one-line contact with him. At the same time, it is necessary to make an emergency plan and try to move it out of the city as soon as there is a change. Safety first! Zhao said.
"Your Majesty, the situation is already as serious as this?" Li Jun asked in surprise. According to the emperor's plan, this has raised the alert level to the highest.
"Be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years, and now the emperor of the Jin Kingdom is in a trance. can't govern normally, and the power of Wushu is flourishing, so it is difficult for Hongyan to get the protection of Wanyan. But he was bent on provoking a fight between the Jurchens and Hanchen of the Jin Kingdom again, which would inevitably be hated by Wushu and others, and the way to try to clear him out without alarming the emperor was to ......" Zhao Ta said solemnly.
"Well, this person is very deep in the city, and he can endure for many years to collect every word and deed about Yan Xiyin, and frame him from the discontextual meaning. He can also poison Han Fang quietly and get rid of his opponents one by one, so he will definitely monitor Hongyan closely and investigate the people who interact with him, and after a long time, he will inevitably find out that he is connected with us! Li Jun said.
"The Wushu I am worried about is no longer patient, he can instruct someone to poison Han Fang, and he can also make people guilty of cyber crimes, and get rid of him!" Zhao Ta sighed and said......
The Intelligence Department complied with the order and immediately activated the emergency plan, but Zhao Ta still felt unsafe in his heart. He also summoned Chen Gongbo, the envoy to the peace with Jin, and ordered him to supplement the list of prisoners of war exchanged with Jin. He was instructed to add the name of Yuwen Xuzhong, and to claim it back at all costs, so that he could be judged by the motherland and the people, and severely punish this surrendered enemy country. A giant traitor who betrayed the interests of the Great Song Dynasty.
But the development of things still exceeded Zhao Ta's expectations, and they only had time to remind Yuwen Xuzhong not to be too public, and terminate the contact with the Song Dynasty's ministers. When all the evidence was eliminated, the vultures were already in action. The Jurchen nobleman Tang Kuo paid a house slave named Du Tianfoliu in his family to report to the Jin court. It is said that a group of Song Dynasty ministers led by Yuwen Xuzhong are preparing to rebel. Wushu immediately sent troops to surround Yuwen Xuzhong's mansion and put him in prison for rebellion.
It was clear that the Wushu couldn't wait, and he didn't even have any interest in hiding it. Anyone understands that it is impossible for a little domestic slave of a Jurchen aristocratic family to know Yuwen Xuzhong. Not to mention participating in such an important and confidential event as the rebellion, it is obvious that the manipulators behind Du Tianfo's stay are the Jurchen Party officials led by Wushu. And what they did next proved their determination to get rid of Yuwen Xuzhong and make an example of the chickens and monkeys, and to take charge of the dynasty alone.
After taking control of Yuwen Xuzhong, the judicial organs of the Jin State immediately launched a reconnaissance procedure under the instruction of Wushu, and they conducted an all-round and carpet search of Yuwen Xuzhong's home, but the results were very disappointing, because Yuwen Xuzhong had destroyed all the things related to Song after receiving the warning, and the Jurchens could not find any evidence sufficient to prove that Yuwen Xuzhong was involved in the rebellion. It stands to reason that Yuwen Xuzhong should be acquitted on the grounds of insufficient evidence, but the Jurchen Party will not give up the opportunity that it has finally seized.
The evidence of the accusation of rebellion against Yuwen Xuzhong put forward by the most Lu is more ridiculous, saying that there are more books in Yuwen Xuzhong's home, so it constitutes evidence of rebellion. I didn't even bother to weave a more convincing incriminating evidence, but I finally gave Yuwen Xuzhong a relatively reluctant charge. At this time, Wan Yan Yan had become a confused emperor who relied on alcohol to pass his life, and he was no longer able to protect or want to protect the literary scholar Yuwen Xuzhong whom he admired a few years ago.
Although Yuwen Xuzhong has long been ready to become a loyal martyr, he will not stand still, but argue with reason. However, he apparently lacked experience in dealing with interrogations, and was too scholarly to underestimate the determination of the vultures to get rid of him. When he tried his best to argue, he questioned the official in charge of the interrogation, if it is said that there are more books at home is a rebellion, then the ministers who came from the Song Dynasty have books at home, and Gao Shi talks about having more books at home than my family, is it also a rebellion to say that Gao Shi talks about it?
Originally, this was Yuwen Xuzhong's struggle before his death, but he was caught by the pigtail by Wushu who was struggling to find his 'comrade', and immediately ordered the arrest of a group of Song Dynasty ministers who had dealings with him, including the important coordination Gao Shi Tan, originally the Jurchen Party was also very unaccustomed to Gao Shi Tan, but Yu Wen Xuzhong put himself on his own and inadvertently betrayed his friend Gao Shi Tan.
Although the public prosecutor was unable to produce strong evidence, he insisted that Yuwen Xuzhong did have a plan for rebellion, and it is unknown whether Comrade Yuwen Xuzhong really had the idea and plan of rebellion. After being censored for a month, Yuwen Xuzhong was officially sentenced to death for treason, and his friend Gao Shitan was indispensable to accompany him on the road.
As soon as the butcher's knife of Wushu was raised, it was ready to kill the monkeys and make an example of the monkeys, but before the slaughter began, the expected effect was immediately obtained, and the Han officials in the Jin Dynasty immediately became extremely cautious and obedient, and did not dare to engage in any kind of struggle with the Jurchen Party led by Wushu. And another part of the Han officials simply came to the back of the big tree to enjoy the shade, and directly took refuge in the vultures. As a result, no one in the court dared to intercede for the two, so they waited for the emperor's imperial approval to go to the execution ground......
Just when everyone thought that Yuwen Xuzhong would not be able to escape this knife, things took a big turn again, and the peace envoy in the Great Song Dynasty suddenly came with news that the Song Dynasty demanded that all the captured officials be returned, including the ministers who served in the Jin Dynasty.
"Taishi, what is the purpose of the Southern Dynasty suddenly asking for those vassals!" Cai Songnian asked very puzzled, the butcher's knife was about to fall, but at this time, Da Song suddenly asked for a surrender to make people doubt their motives.
"This is not unusual, our peace agreement with the Southern Dynasty has been entangled for a long time because of the exchange of prisoners of war, so that the peace agreement has not been signed for a long time, we ask them to return the captured generals, they are unwilling to give, we are also reasonable to be embarrassed!" Wushu waved his hand and said, he didn't care much about it, Zhao Huan sent it back, and he still cared about a few miscellaneous fish.
"Taishi is reasonable, but in the list of the people who asked for the return of the Southern Dynasty, there are the names that Yuwen Xuzhong talked about with Gao Shi, and they will be beheaded in two days, is it too strange to ask people at this time!" Cai Songnian still had doubts and expressed his worries.
"Oh, do you suspect there's fraud?" Wushu pondered for a while, and after thinking about it, things were a bit of a coincidence.
"Yes, although the Southern Dynasty side asked for Yu Wenxu and others to claim that it was to punish the traitors who committed treason and defected to the enemy, but the subordinates were worried that they were in the fog, and they actually wanted to rescue them, and it is very likely that they really colluded with the Southern Dynasty a long time ago, otherwise it would be too much of a coincidence!" Cai Songnian said.
"Sizzle...... You have some truth in what you say, but the Southern Dynasty proposed to return the list before they were arrested, could it be that Zhao Er really has to be an immortal and an unpredictable prophet, I think it is probably a coincidence! Wushu nodded, and shook his head again.
"Taishi, then should we behead the two of them first, so as not to have many dreams at night, even if someone dies, they will be helpless!" Cai Songnian still felt that it was inappropriate, and wanted to take the lead and make it a fait accompli.
"You can't kill it, let's suspend the execution first!" Wushu immediately refused, he had already known Zhao Er's character very well for so many years, he was a person who would be avenged, if he killed those two, I am afraid that he would immediately retaliate, and the prisoners of war of the Jin Kingdom who fell into his hands would probably be killed immediately.
"The Taishi wants to release them, this matter must not be done!" Cai Songnian said hurriedly, he was worried that Wushu would change his mind because of this, it can be said that he single-handedly planned the Yuwen Xuzhong rebellion case, if they escaped this catastrophe, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not turn over, then where will they have a good life in the future, so they want to cut the grass and eradicate the roots.
"No matter what Zhao Er's purpose is, as long as you hold them in your hands, whether to kill them or release them or we have the final say, let's see!" Wushu pondered for a moment and said, he seemed to see something from it, and he might be able to get something from Zhao Er...... (To be continued......)