Su Jiudong covered his mouth lightly and said with a low smile: "It's nothing, it's just that I remembered some happy things... Go on, I'm listening. ”

Wen Yiheng smiled and tapped the tip of Su Jiudong's nose, his expression was no longer as serious as just now, and he softened his tone and talked about serious topics: "Just now I said that the two actions of returning to the seclusion tonight are good and bad. ”

"One of the biggest benefits is that the Yin Ci Gui Neng Lian and those wealthy Rong Di households sent a letter to the capital, advising Yun Mulin not to hide the drought situation. Only the sooner the imperial court knew about the drought situation in the western city, the sooner the relief grain could be distributed, and the victims would not starve. ”

Su Jiudong raised his head and stared at Wen Yiheng's eyes: "Speaking of letters, did your original letter sent to the capital to report the drought in the Western Surrender City to the Holy Lord end like this?" ”

Wen Yiheng's eyes were deep, and the corners of his mouth were playful smiles: "In addition to being intercepted by Yun Mulin in private, will those letters that were reported have a second fate?" ”

Wen Yiheng could even imagine Yun Mulin's expression after seeing the denunciation letter he had written in Shangshu Province, and immediately ordering someone to suppress the letter and not send it.

Su Jiudong's face sank and he said unhappily: "Yun Mulin's hand is inevitably stretched too long, and he even dares to intercept the secret letter that you, the prime minister of the current dynasty, handed over to the saint!" ”

Wen Yiheng pointed out the key to it and explained: "What I wrote at the beginning was not a secret letter, but a letter sent to the capital together with Shi Yiqing's report on the drought. ”

"Not MeTson?" Su Jiudong suddenly sat up straight from Wen Yiheng's arms, and said angrily: "No wonder the letter will be intercepted and suppressed by Yun Mulin, you send the letter to the capital with a swagger, can you not be pressed by Yun Mulin and not let it be reported..."

Wen Yiheng smiled bitterly: "In the current situation in the court, as the prime minister of Shang Shuling, I have military power and military merits, I am afraid that I have already become the object of jealousy of the saints." The courtiers of the high merit have never ended well. ”

"So I deliberately wrote a letter to Yun Mulin to intercept it before, in order to bring down Yun Mulin's chess pieces in the future. In the future, if the drought is exposed, there is a letter pressed under Yun Mulin's hands, and it will be searched by the saint in the future, and I can also use this to protect my life. ”

Wen Yiheng explained the inside story, and Su Jiudong was as sober as an initiation: "I see... I didn't expect this level at all, the attention was all on Yun Mulin, and Yun Mulin and the queen's power in the court was inevitably too great. ”

Wen Yiheng asked himself and replied: "Now that I am not in the capital, apart from the current saint, who else can restrain the queen and Yun Mulin... The answer, of course, is that there is no one else. ”

Su Jiudong's face suddenly showed a sad face: "Isn't there a minister on our side who can compete with it?" The courtiers who usually get along with you can't shake him? If you can't shake him, at least you can disgust him, right? Can't even do that? ”

originally thought that as long as she helped Wen Yiheng, she would be able to bring down Yun Mulin together in the future. However, Yun Mulin has the blood of the Heavenly Family, and he is the future prince, and with Wen Yiheng and his power alone, he can only compete with him and cannot directly bring him down.

It seems that after returning to Beijing, she can no longer wait for the opportunity, she will only sit back and wait for death, and she must preemptively find a suitable political candidate for Wen Yiheng in private.

Wen Yiheng's voice was no longer soft, and his expression returned to his original seriousness again:

"Our dynasty has a system, and it is strictly forbidden for courtiers to form parties without permission. Before I left Beijing, I had already instructed Xu Zhenxiu, the secretary of the Ministry of War, not to act rashly. If something happens to me, I can't defend myself and expose our relationship under the nose of the Holy One. ”

"The book of the military department? Is it the name Xu or something......" Su Jiudong fell into his memories and tried to piece together the name completely.

Wen Yiheng saw that Su Jiudong was really difficult to recall, so he couldn't help but remind: "It's Xu Zhenxiu." ”

Su Jiudong nodded again and again: "Yes, yes, yes, it's this name... At that time, Daddy only said Master Xu, and rarely mentioned his full name, and I still saw this person's name in a certain memo you wrote. ”

Wen Yiheng now regards Su Jiudong as his own, so he did not hesitate to inform Su Jiudong of his party and deployment:

"Xu Zhenxiu was originally a general of Qianniuwei, but later he used talents in an eclectic manner, got the weight of the saint, was transferred to the military department, and was later promoted to the secretary of the military department."

Su Jiudong continued: "No wonder... Daddy once told me before that at that time, the military department Shangshu did not handle the war with Gao Cheguo, and the saint intended to send Yun Mulin to the border to suppress the war, but in the end he sent you there, thinking that you are to relieve the siege for Lord Xu. ”

Wen Yiheng showed a relieved expression of "the child can be taught": "Not bad." I was willing to go to the frontier at that time, partly because of the siege for Xu Zhenxiu, and most of the reason was because your father directly named me in the letter and asked me to go to the front. ”

Wen Yiheng sat up as he spoke, took the pillow and leaned on the edge of the Luohan couch, and stated in a low voice:

"At that time, although the saint saw that your father asked me to go by name in the letter, he still intended to send Yun Mulin to the border to pacify, purely to accumulate military merits and gain a reputation for Yun Mulin, and when Yun Mulin ascended the throne in the future, he would not be criticized for not being on the battlefield." To read

"It seems that among all the princes, the Holy Lord still loves Yun Mulin more."

Su Jiudong's tone was a little helpless: "Although the saint is usually harsh on Yun Mulin, he often praises the third prince Yun Muyou, and now it seems that there is no suspicion of killing the third prince, just like the long history and horse allusions in "Customs and Customs". ”

When Su Jiudong used to coax Su Ting'an to sleep every night in the Guogong Mansion, what he held in his hand was "Customs and Customs" flipped from Wen Yiheng's bookshelf. She once read Su Ting'an an an allusion to Chang Shima.

Su Jiudong read out the passages of the original text word by word from memory: "The chief officer is fat, the viewer is fast, the passenger is happy with his words, and he is driven by a gallop, and he dies." I'm tired, 'the one who kills the king and the horse'. ”

"The horses of the officials were so tall and strong that anyone who saw them would praise them that the horses must have run fast, so that the riders were so pleased when they heard the praise that they let the horses gallop freely. This allusion ended with the horse running to his death due to exhaustion. ”

The implication is nothing more than killing.

"And as soon as he encounters something that can earn fame by going to the border to quell chaos, the Holy Lord intends to let Yun Mulin go, obviously paving the way for Yun Mulin to ascend the throne in the future." After Su Jiudong finished speaking, he nodded heavily, only feeling that the more he thought about it, the more reliable his analysis became.

"You're right. Although the Holy Lord deliberately belittled Yun Mulin in front of people and elevated the Third Prince, in my opinion, there are no more than two reasons. Wen Yiheng compared two fingers with clear joints and slender bamboo straights, and patiently explained to Su Jiudong.

"First, it is to sharpen Yun Mulin's temperament, to see if he really has the conditions to be ruthless and forbearing, and also to observe the behavior of the three princes, to see if he will be pampered and arrogant, so that he will have the unscrupulous heart to compete for the throne with the crown prince."

"By killing Yun Muyou, the Holy One wants to make him proud and complacent, stagnate and regress, and even lead to depravity and failure. A few words of praise can easily get rid of potential competitors for Yun Mulin. ”

Although there is no sign of Yun Muyou competing with Yun Mulin at present, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no competition in the future, so Emperor Tianduo has always maintained a cautious and precautionary attitude towards Yun Muyou.

Wen Yiheng also revealed the deepest analysis in his heart.

"You can even take this opportunity to see how the courtiers stand and who they support, and then take advantage of the situation to eliminate those who disagree with them, and the party will fight against differences. Before Yun Mulin ascended the throne, he personally eliminated the courtiers who disagreed with Yun Mulin. ”

Wen Yiheng often sighed in his heart that Emperor Tianduo had worked hard to pave the way for Yun Mulin, but he hated Emperor Tianduo's cruel methods of disregarding human life from the bottom of his heart.

Su Jiudong muttered: "The Holy Lord is testing Yun Mulin and Yun Mu You at the same time, isn't this just fishing..."

"Fishing?" Wen Yiheng was slightly stunned at first when he heard this, and then looked up to the sky and laughed: "Your description is also very accurate. ”

Su Jiudong only felt that the "most ruthless emperor's family" written by Bai Letian back then was really true, but he was unwilling to ask Wen Yiheng for confirmation: "But aren't they father and son, why do they have to make the situation to the point of fighting blood?" ”

The bond between relatives cannot be separated, can anyone really kill their relatives for the dragon chair in the Daming Palace...

Su Jiudong couldn't help but think of the deceased Liu Yunniang. Liu Yunniang had not had time to enjoy happiness since she entered Beijing with her, and died sadly at the age of not being confused.

At that time, Su Jiudong couldn't bear such a fatal blow for a while, and went to Liu Yunniang's bedroom to sleep every night. It wasn't until he was "scolded" and persuaded by Su Fenglan that he finally accepted the fact that Liu Yunniang left......

"There is no father and son on the throne of Huadian." Wen Yiheng sighed: "The fight of the Heavenly Family is even worse than the struggle between us courtiers. ”

Wen Yiheng saw that the matter of his relatives touched Su Jiudong's heart, and immediately changed the topic back to Xu Zhenxiu's matter:

"In short, although the saint intended to let Yun Mulin go to Mobei to quell the rebellion at that time, the courtiers were not optimistic about Yun Mulin. Although Yun Mulin can barely be regarded as a Confucian general, his combat level is really poor, and he can know it from his usual level of involvement. ”

The court knew that Yun Mulin was not good at riding and shooting, and he was weak with many other princes, while the third prince Yun Mu had excellent hunting skills, and he had the enthusiastic demeanor of Emperor Tianduo when he was young, so this also became an argument for the courtiers to compare Yun Muyou with Yun Mulin.

When it came to the current situation of the dynasty, Wen Yiheng, who was still a little sleepy, was immediately enthusiastic and talked to Su Jiudong:

"It is precisely because everyone knows Yun Mulin's strength that he will not be able to calm the war if he goes to Mobei to make a decision, and it may even make the war more and more chaotic. If the war can't be stopped, and in the end, the saint will be held accountable, and Xu Zhenxiu, the secretary of the military department, will still be blamed. ”

"And Xu Zhenxiu is our person, and being in charge of the military department is a great help to us, so Xu Zhenxiu can't have an accident. Anyway, at that time, I also knew that I was named by your father, so I simply 'recommended myself' to the saint, but I got the help of the ministers. ”