Chapter 198 Want to kill three birds with one stone?
"The spy told Feng Yu that General Wei's father was not killed by Cui Xiang at all, but by the emperor." Kong Mushi told An Ran in shock.
An Ran frowned slightly when he heard this, it was about Wei Lin's father, and An Ran said: "I'll talk about this later, call Wei Lin, and let him listen to it together." ”
Kong Mu nodded and asked, "Where is General Wei?" ”
"He's coming." Old Madam Shui pointed in the direction Wei Lin came from.
Wei Lin saw that everyone was looking at him, and he was a little strange, "What's wrong?" ”
"There's something you can hear about too." An Ran pulled Wei Lin into the tent, Kong Mu followed in, and the old lady stood outside to help control the wind.
"What's the matter? So serious? Wei Lin didn't know.
"Kong Mu, you say." Enron said.
Kong Mu told Wei Lin and An Ran what Feng Yu had relayed from the spy to Wei Lin and An Ran.
More than 30 years ago, Cui Yan, Lin Hao, and Wei Guang went to Beijing to catch the exam, Lin Hao's knowledge was the best among them, on the day of the list, Lin Hao won the title of champion without almost any suspense, and Cui Yan was behind Lin Hao, the position of the eye of the list, for Cui Yan, it was already an extraordinary performance to be able to win the list, Wei Guang ranked seventh, and the three of them did well in the exam, and everyone was in a good mood to discuss going to the best Yongfu restaurant in the capital to celebrate.
On the way, the three of them met the current emperor who was still a child at the time and his entourage was bullying an old man on the street, Lin Hao didn't know that the child was the prince, so he couldn't see that the old man came forward and said a few words to the emperor: "This little boy, this old man didn't mean to dirty your clothes, it's better to forget it." ”
"Forget it?" The emperor who is still the prince is unforgiving: "My clothes are my father...... Do you know how precious it is to give it to me? Even if I cut off his head, I can't afford to pay for this dress. ”
Lin Hao saw that this child was going to cut off someone's head bag just to stain a piece of clothing, what kind of reason is this? I couldn't get used to the arrogance of this official eunuch, and said sharply: "It's just a piece of clothing, no matter how precious it is, it can't weigh a human life, right?" As a hairpin family, the son is considerate of the people, so why bother to bully a weak old man with his own background? Is not the life of the poor people? ”
"You have to take care of it!" The emperor saw that Lin Hao and a scholar dared to take care of his affairs, so he beckoned to let the servants teach him a lesson, but he was beaten by Wei Guang with three punches and two feet, the emperor's face was blue with anger, and he pointed at Lin Hao and Wei Guang and asked: "Have the ability to leave your name." ”
Lin Hao didn't take the emperor who was still the prince at the time in his eyes at all, he just thought that he was the son of a gentleman and a eunuch, he was already a high school champion, and he would also be an important minister in the court in the future. ”
The crowd all screamed, and immediately cast an envious gaze at Lin Hao, the old man heard that it was the champion Lang who helped him out of the siege, and hurriedly kowtowed to thank him, Lin Hao helped the old man up, and gave him two taels of silver to let him go back, if this son wants to compensate him for his clothes, he will deal with it.
The emperor just sneered and said indifferently: "You wait, I will make you regret it." ”
After saying that, the emperor left with a few of his entourage.
The three of them didn't take the emperor who was still a child to heart, and went to Yongfu Lou to order good wine and food, and they were all drunk.
Cui Yan knew that the child was the prince on the evening of the second day, and the emperor, who was still the prince at the time, found him and said that he burned Lin Hao's exam paper last night, and if his father blamed him, he would definitely be punished, so he had to Lin Hao die, only when he died, there was no evidence for his death, and there was no such person.
Cui Yan said in horror: "But the list has come down, and the invigilator also has a list, how can there be no such person?" ”
The emperor said: "How about the list?" I asked those people to repost a copy, and as long as the invigilator said a word from this king, they would erase Lin Hao's name. ”
Cui Yan didn't understand: "Since the little prince can rewrite the list and the list on the invigilator, why do you need Lin Hao's life?" He is a scholar, and the prince is powerful, as long as he is driven out of the capital, what can he do? ”
The emperor snorted coldly: "My father attaches great importance to the imperial examination, and the father will check the list of scholars and sons who rush to the examination every year, Lin Hao's name is in all the list of candidates for the examination, if there is no reference test paper for this person, the father will definitely ask, so Lin Hao must die, only if he dies, the father will not ask." ”
Cui Yan was frightened and didn't know what to say, Lin Hao offended the prince, it seemed that he would definitely die, if he didn't help, Lin Hao wouldn't even have a chance to live.
"What does the prince want me to do?" Cui Yan had no choice but to agree.
The emperor handed him a bottle of poison, saying that it was colorless and tasteless, and that he would die after half an hour of drinking.
Cui Yan took the bottle of poison, in order to save Lin Hao's life, Cui Yan only added a small amount to Lin Hao's wine, hoping that after Lin Hao passed out, he would let Cui Mao rescue him from the capital, but no one expected that when Lin Hao was poisoned for a moment, Wei Guang came and knocked Cui Yan unconscious, forcing the poison on Lin Hao's body into his body, and Wei Guang, who was highly poisonous, desperately rescued Lin Hao, and died in the hands of the emperor's guards. New Lewen
Wei Guang's death was not done by Cui Yan at all, he was just to save Lin Hao, but he didn't expect to kill Wei Guang.
When Kong Mu said this, he asked, "General Wei, sister-in-law, do you think what the spy said is credible?" ”
After An Ran listened, he didn't have a good answer, he only looked at Wei Lin, who pondered for a while and said, "Lady, do you remember the letter that Xiao Zi said?" ”
"Yes." An Ran nodded, "Xiao Zi is from Cui Mansion, do you think that letter is Cui Yan confessing to you about your father's death?" ”
"Ji Lao said that the letter is missing."
"yes, what do you think?" An Ran asked.
"If that letter is taken by the emperor, what do you think the emperor will do to us next?" Wei Lin asked with a frown.
"Naturally, Cui Yan and we will not be allowed to live." An Ran replied without thinking about it.
"So......" Wei Lin snorted coldly, "He is planning to wipe us out step by step." ”
When An Ran heard this, he immediately understood, "Do you mean that the emperor let the 50,000 army disappear, one is to use Ji Han Ji to hide the military situation to cure Ji Lao's crime, and then let us send troops to attack Cui Yan, and when we both consume our troops, the 50,000 army will appear and wipe us out?" ”
"The emperor is so scheming, do you want to kill three birds with one stone?" An Ran understood the emperor's intentions, and couldn't help but gasp, she always thought that the emperor was just an emperor who was addicted to the harem, but she didn't expect him to make a plan, and it was all like this.
The disappearance of the 50,000 army is enough to wipe them all out, whether Ji Han Ji Yin asks Wei Lin for help or not, it doesn't matter to the emperor, Wei Lin lent troops to Ji Han Ji Yin, then part of the troops in the south will be cut off, and he will order to transfer most of the troops in the south, then the south is equivalent to an empty city with no combat power, the emperor took the opportunity to take the south border, and took advantage of the fact that Wei Lin and Cui Yan were killed and wounded in the war, harvested both sides, and reaped the benefits of the fisherman, and Ji Lao did not have Wei Lin as a backing, Ji Lao was difficult to support alone, The emperor wants to clean up Ji Lao's family, it's just a matter of moving his fingers.
It's just that......
An Ran sneered: "Although the emperor's strategy of killing three birds with one stone is good, but he didn't count our ultimate weapon, the army of 50,000?" Then let's eat the emperor's 50,000 army first and then see his reaction. ”
"Okay, since it's the emperor's envoy's plan, we will know where the 50,000 troops are." Wei Lin agreed with the girl's idea.
"Let's get some troops." Enron said.
Dispatched 30,000 troops, An Ran recruited 30,000 young and middle-aged people from the villagers to make up the number, 60,000 people, no more than one and no less, after the number of eunuchs who announced the edict, 60,000 troops opened Fanyang Mountain, 'cleared' Cui Yan.
Palace.
When Li Gonggong racked his brains and was worried about how to intercept the hiding place of the 50,000 troops from the emperor, Mrs. Wei's carrier pigeon sent a message again, and Li Gonggong opened it and saw that there were only six short words on the letter. Take care!
"Mrs. Wei found it herself?" Sure enough, it was General Wei's wife, who acted vigorously and resolutely, and she was one step ahead of others to find out the news.
Since Mrs. Wei has found out where the 50,000 army is hiding, then he doesn't need to investigate this matter anymore, since he received Mrs. Wei's letter, he has been trying to get closer to the emperor, the manager Cui is very vigilant to guard against him, and he is even more suspicious of him, fortunately, Mrs. Wei found it in time, otherwise he has already made the worst plan to risk his life to help Mrs. Wei find out where the 50,000 army is located, and he bravely went to righteousness, and Mrs. Wei saved his life again.
In the Yanyang Palace, the emperor also received a secret letter from the eunuch announcing the decree, in which he said that General Wei had personally ordered 60,000 troops to set off, and after reading the letter, the emperor immediately laughed, patted Cui Mao's shoulder and said: "Chief Cui, it's still your strategy, I will soon be able to clean them all up, let them ride on my head one by one, and I will let them die one by one without a place to bury." ”
"It is estimated that there are only 30,000 people defending the city in the southern border, and the emperor, I will transfer 60,000 Jieling troops over, and I believe that the southern border will soon be in the hands of the emperor." Cui Mao carefully calculated the strength of the southern border, and now the southern border is full of more than 30,000 people, and the number of elite soldiers left behind will not be very large, he understands the strength of the two generals Liu Han, and the combat strength of the two of them is not to worry about at all.
"Go, go!" The emperor urged happily.
The southern border is like an empty city at the moment, and the emperor is very confident that he can take the southern border in one fell swoop.
"Lin Wan'er, Lin Wan'er, didn't you say that I am mentally retarded? When I destroy Wei Lin, I will arrest you in the barracks to reward those soldiers, make you worse than dead every day, dare to scold me for being mentally retarded, I will let you not survive, you can't die, hahaha......" The emperor gritted his teeth and kept hating Lin Wan'er's insults to him, and he couldn't wait to cut that woman with a thousand knives on the spot to be discouraged.
However, don't worry, when he has played enough, he will have a chance to chop Lin Wan'er alive, the emperor thought very confidently.