Chapter 41: Chess Pieces

Li Linfu's voice fell, the room fell into silence for a long time, Meng Yi, who was standing by the window, turned his back to Li Linfu, didn't say anything, didn't know what he was thinking, and Li Linfu at this time was also very strange and didn't ask, the two of them had their own thoughts, and the atmosphere suddenly became weird.

After a long time, it was Li Linfu who finally broke the silence when he opened his mouth, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he was shocked.

"Is Commander Meng hesitant to kill me?"

Hearing this, Meng Yi, who was facing out of the window, instantly tensed his body, and the look of shock on his face flashed, but from behind him, he didn't see anything unusual, and his voice couldn't be heard abnormal.

"Why did Lord Li say this? Xia Guan was just hesitating about the matter of Zhongyuan, how could he want to be unfavorable to the adults, couldn't the adults be joking? ”

Compared with Meng Yi's sudden tightness, Li Linfu seemed very relaxed, he sat back next to him, added a cup of tea to himself, took a sip slowly, and then said slowly:

"Let's just think the old man is joking, by the way, I remember that Commander Mengda is the same as Tantai Zhongyuan, both are southerners, right?"

'Like Tantai Zhongyuan, they are all southerners', the person who said this sentence didn't know if it was unintentional, but the listener's face was already stiff, and Meng Yi forcibly suppressed the turbulent waves in his heart, and he said lightly:

"My lord, I'm afraid I'm mistaken, Xia Guan is from Moling and belongs to Xijun. ”

"Yes, yes, you look at my brain, people have a bad memory when they get old. Li Linfu patted his forehead lightly, as if he really remembered it wrongly, and then he said casually:

"I remember that when the Xishan Imperial Mausoleum was built, a group of conscripts were recruited from Xijun, and Moling County seems to be also within the scope of conscription, can the commander of Mengda have an impression?"

Meng Yi's hands shrouded in his robe were already quietly clenched, and the beads of sweat on his head were clearly visible, but his voice was still calm.

"I've heard of it, but at that time, Xia Guan was traveling in Dongjun and happened to miss that conscription, so I don't know the details. ”

Li Linfu did not question this answer, he nodded and said:

In order to prevent the spread of the plague, He Chong, the captain of the Mausoleum, ordered to control 100,000 levies in the Imperial Mausoleum, and they were not allowed to go out at will, but the conscripts suddenly rebelled, causing quite a stir, and I heard that one of them had a big filial son carrying his sick mother and rushed out of the encirclement of the Mausoleum Army, and there were countless wounds on his body, and his whereabouts were finally unknown, and I don't know whether this person was dead or alive in the end. ”

"He's dead. At this time, Meng Yi suddenly turned around expressionlessly, looked directly at Li Linfu, and said in an indifferent voice:

"Let me tell you about this matter, that person's name is Meng Weiguo, he once knelt outside the military camp for three whole days, hoping that the imperial court could buy medicine to treat those sick servants, including his mother, but in the end, what they were waiting for was an edict from the emperor, all of them were buried alive! Meng Weiguo rushed out with his mother on his back in the chaos, but those mausoleum guards did not want to let go of one of them in order to kill people and cover up the truth, and chased and killed for a whole day and night, just when they were about to despair, they met a pair of kind-hearted master servants in the mountains, it was the little master who was only seven or eight years old who let his servants save them and find someone to help them heal their injuries, so that they had a new life of their mother and son, the man named Meng Weiguo, who was already dead at that time, and he only had one name after waking up, called Meng Yi！”

Meng Yi's voice was a little scary when he told about it, anyone could hear what kind of horror was contained in it, he didn't hide his identity anymore, as if he had made up his mind. Li Linfu just lowered his head and listened quietly, until finally he raised his head and looked at Meng Yi, he sighed lightly, not knowing whether he was mourning his misfortune or what, at this time he slowly spoke:

"That kid back then is today's side-by-side king. ”

"Yes, it's the prince, and it's also my master, is this answer consistent with what you want?" Meng Yi looked at Li Linfu lightly, his eyes were already undisguised with a strong killing intent, since he had already revealed his identity, he would never allow Li Linfu to walk out alive from the forbidden army yamen, he was just a little guilty, he was not able to complete Haotian's trust, but if he could save Zhongyuan, there might be a glimmer of hope.

Li Linfu turned a blind eye to the killing intent on Meng Yi's body, he poured a cup of tea and handed it to Meng Yi, and said helplessly:

"You and the little prince are still too young. ”

These words made Meng Yi slightly stunned.

Li Linfu went on to say:

"Do you think that your rise in the forbidden army over the years is all due to the arrangement of the little prince? Although I also have to admit that the little prince is resourceful, he has been able to consider many things at a young age, but after all, he is young and knows very little about the Great Xia court, and many of the details have not been thought of, not to mention anything else, four years ago in the autumn hunt, the emperor was assassinated in the paddock, you rescued the driver in time, it seems that the arrangement is seamless, but you were just a cavalry captain at the time, and you didn't even have the qualifications to enter the paddock, and the forbidden army that accompanied the car should be the commander of the military academy。 ”

Meng Yi's eyes widened, looking at Li Linfu in a daze, his head was in chaos. At this time, Li Linfu's voice continued to sound:

"Let's not talk about the big and small mistakes in the past few years, let's just talk about this matter now, the little prince sent you to the position of the great commander through the Tai Zhongyuan, presumably to let you mobilize the forbidden army to open the city gate at a critical time, right? However, although the person sitting on the throne knows nothing about military affairs, but the city government is not bad, will he really choose to believe you so easily and hand over the Praetorian Guard to you to dispatch? The Imperial City Forbidden Army has a rule that only the Great Commander knows, at a critical moment, if you want to mobilize the Praetorian Guard, you must use the Emperor's Imperial Pen Dragon Talisman, if not, the unauthorized transfer of the Praetorian Guard is equivalent to rebellion, and the hidden master in the Forbidden Army will kill you as soon as possible, although you are now the temporary Great Commander, but do you have the Imperial Pen Dragon Talisman in your hand?"

"If you want to completely gain the emperor's trust and get the imperial pen dragon talisman, the only way is to arrest Yutai Zhongyuan and hand it over to the emperor, he is an outcast, the little prince's chess is indeed exquisite, presumably he arranged it this way at the beginning, but unfortunately he can't be cold-blooded and ruthless after all, so it can only be done by those of us who are courtiers. ”

"You don't have to question the identity of the old man, even the little prince knows that he has installed his henchmen in Beijing, wouldn't the old prince think of it? Without the old man, you don't know how many times you have died. After you catch the Zhongyuan and hand it over to the emperor, the old man will find a way to let the emperor hand over the imperial pen dragon talisman to you, and when the little prince's soldiers come to the city, the old man will open the city gate with you to welcome the little prince into Beijing. ”