After Song Nan said everything in his heart, there was a sudden silence in the room, and after a while, Yang Yiqing slowly spoke: "Lord Song is saying that tonight's assassination was planned by Li Zeng and Zhou Dong?" ”

Song Nan nodded and said: "Exactly, they are taking advantage of your Lord Yang's eagerness to complete the rectification of the border preparations, and tricked me into going to the lantern market to watch the lanterns through your hand, and they have already arranged assassins to kill me." ”

Yang Yiqing sighed with hatred: "I knew that they were so bold, I wouldn't agree to anything, the old man lived for so much in vain, and he actually believed the nonsense of such a traitor, and the old man was ashamed." ”

Song Nan comforted: "The wolf's ambition is very human, Liu Jin wants to put me to death for a long time, this kind of thing will happen sooner or later, Liu Jin can't bring me down on the surface, and finally used these inferior means, this eunuch has reached the point of madness, even so I can't spare him." ”

Wang Yong said angrily: "Yes, my lord, the humble official immediately took someone to raid Li Zeng's mansion and took the heads of Li Zeng and Zhou Dong, two dog thieves. ”

Song Nan glared and said, "Shut up, what evidence do you have to prove that it was Li Zeng and Zhou Dong's people who assassinated me?" Did you capture a live confession? Or do you have other witnesses? Although this qiē can be inferred, what is important about this kind of thing is that the evidence is conclusive, and behind them is Liu Jin, and if you don't pay attention to it, you will be bitten back. I warn you, no one is allowed to show anything until there is evidence, and if you startle the snake, there will be no chance. ”

Hou Dabiao hurriedly said: "Could it be that we just stare at these two dog thieves and see them at large?" And the king of Anhua, he ordered his guards to take advantage of the chaos to kill you, don't these accounts be settled with them? ”

Song Nan said quietly: "Of course, we have to count, but not by brute force, we are almost isolated in Ningxia Town, and we have to use our brains to do it." The most important thing at the moment is not to find out the bad luck of King Anhua and Li Zeng Zhoudong, but to find out another thing. ”

"What's the matter? But please command, sir. Wang Yong arched his hand.

"This time the loss of the palace is my mistake, I can't blame you, I trusted the general Anhua King too much, so that he had a chance; But this mistake is not a question of whether we should enter the palace or not, but we were deceived by Zhu Changshun and took the fake map he drew into the palace, so that it became a self-defeating net. ”

"Yes, yes, I forgot about this guy, this guy must be under the command of King Anhua."

"That's not necessarily, if he tells the secret, we will be under siege as soon as we enter the palace, how can we be allowed to move around the palace for a few hours, the specific reason is not to speculate, Wang Yong, Hou Dabiao, you immediately bring someone to arrest that Zhu Changshun for questioning, you should be able to get the answer from his mouth, the city is very chaotic tonight, you must be careful, but you must not go on a business trip."

Wang Yong and Hou Dabiao agreed, and went downstairs without saying a word. The two of them are on fire, and if they don't find something to do tonight, I'm afraid they won't be able to sleep all night.

After the two left, Yang Yiqing got up and walked slowly to Song Nan and arched his hand: "Lord Song, the old man really didn't expect this Ningxia town to be so dangerous, and he blamed the old man for being too naïve." ”

Song Nan hurriedly said: "What did Lord Yang say, Lord Yang is an open-minded person, and the heart of a gentleman can withstand the filthiness of a villain." I'm not a gentleman, I'm from the bottom, so I know that these guys are not good things, so I'm wary of them everywhere. It is not a secret that there is a lot of fighting in the imperial court, Liu Jin and I have become a fire and water, he was in charge of the inner court, but a lot of his wings were cut off by me, Qian Ning died, Gu Da was assigned to Nanjing, Zhang Yong and Ma Yongcheng He could not mobilize, this qiē will make Liu Jin hate me to the core. I can't help it in the capital, this time I came to Ningxia Town, of course he has to take risks, even if there is no today's thing, and I don't know when there will be an incident, so adults don't have to blame themselves. ”

Yang Yiqing sighed: "Having said that, Yang always feels ashamed of people, not to mention that he almost harmed the lives of adults, and almost hurt Kou'er, the old man needs to reflect and reflect." ”

Song Nan said in a deep voice: "I need to reflect, and I also need to reflect on this matter; Speaking of Miss Chloe's life, it was Du Wancheng, the chief flag of my Jinyi Guard's Fire Gun Team, if he hadn't blocked the crossbow arrows for Miss Chloe, I'm afraid Lord Yang and Mrs. Yang would have been grief-stricken tonight, and I wouldn't have had time to rescue me if it happened suddenly; Hey, Du Wancheng is a good brother. ”

Yang Ko'er burst into tears and sobbed: "Cole will remember Brother Du for the rest of her life, no matter where she goes, she will offer Brother Du's spiritual position, and give him incense and offerings sooner or later, Brother Du blocked it for me...... Blocked dozens of arrows, and died really miserably. Woooooooo ”

Yang Yiqing shook his head and sighed: "It's all the old man who accidentally buried this good man." ”

Although Song Nan's heart is also very heavy, he doesn't want to be immersed in this atmosphere, although it is heartbreaking that more than a dozen brothers died tonight, but what can be changed by remorse, and there is no time to blame and regret now.

"Lord Yang, there are some things that I need to talk to you about." Song Nan said slowly.

Yang Yiqing was stunned and said, "My lord, please speak." ”

Song Nan said: "What I say to you tonight is very important, Lord Yang must go to my heart, don't think that I am worrying about the sky." ”

Yang Yiqing saw that Song Nan's face became more and more solemn, and his heart was also awe-inspiring, and he turned his head to Yang Qian'er and said, "Coo'er, avoid it." ”

Yang Ko'er bowed and said, "Ko'er go and boil some porridge soup for Song Gongzi to drink." ”

Song Nan smiled and nodded, "Thank you." ”

After Yang Ko'er left, Song Nan stared at the candle flame for a while, Yang Yiqing quietly waited for Song Nan to speak, and the room was silent; The lights burst suddenly, and the candle flame suddenly brightened, and Song Nan turned his head to look at Yang Yiqing and said slowly.

"Lord Yang, I suspect that King Anhua is engaged in a great conspiracy."

"Conspiracy?"

"Yes, it's a conspiracy, and it's a conspiracy."

Yang Yiqing had goosebumps all over his body and asked, "What do you mean...... The king of Anhua has ...... What kind of attempt failed? ”

Song Nan nodded and said, "Do you remember what I told you about King Anhua's meeting with Liu Jin in Beijing?" He met Liu Jin in the Xiangshan Annex, in order to increase the number of guards in his palace, originally my Ming vassal king was generally only allowed to have hundreds of guards to guard, his Qingyang county palace already had a thousand guards, and went to the capital and asked to expand the number of guards in the Qingwang Mansion in the name of King Qingding. The emperor didn't understand this, and after listening to Liu Jin's words, he actually approved the number of 5,000 guards for the Qingwang Mansion, so that if the number of soldiers was full, the king of Anhua would have enough soldiers and horses in his hands, which was unusual. ”

Yang Yiqing frowned and said in a low voice: "I also know about this matter, but in the border town of Ningxia, there are thousands of soldiers and horses in the palace, which is beneficial to the enemy, and the emperor may also be based on this consideration, I think the reason put forward by the king of Anhua must also be to use the materials of the palace to raise troops to serve the country, which is high-sounding and has no place to blame." ”

Song Nan said: "It is precisely because of the high-sounding that this official did not care much about it, but I stole into the palace this time and saw a large number of military supplies on the inner wall of the palace, the amount is staggering; Of course, this alone can't explain anything, what really makes me suspect is that he would rather carefully borrow a knife to kill someone this time than expose my identity in the palace and kill me, he could obviously kill me directly for breaking into the palace with the crime of misdeeds, why is he so cautious? ”

Yang Yiqing smiled and said: "Lord Song, you are too suspicious, do you still want him to expose it to your face and then kill you?" ”

"Of course he doesn't want to, but if he doesn't have any scruples, why is he so cautious?" Song Nan frowned.

"Lord Song, you are the Marquis of Qinfeng, the commander of the Jinyi Guard Yamen, or the commander of the Shenshu Battalion, can you kill it? Even if you have a private trip to the palace, you can only report it to the court for trial and disposal, if the king of Anhua dares to kill you directly, he will also be punished, even if it is a manslaughter, the court will not stop there. ”

Song Nan said softly: "This is not the point, the point is, what can the court do with him after he kills me?" At most, it's just a punishment; And the reason why he was reluctant to do it directly to me, and chose to use Li Zeng's assassination to kill people with a knife, was not because he was afraid of punishment, I think he was unwilling to be exposed to the eyes of the imperial court. You think, an important minister of the imperial court died in his mansion, and a qiē in the palace of King Qing could not help but be watched by the various yamen of the imperial court, and he may be afraid of these. ”

"Then can you guess that he has bad intentions? That's a bit of a stretch. Yang Yiqing shook his head slowly and said: "Even if he has thousands of soldiers and horses in hand, and Ningxia Town is stationed several times as many officers and soldiers as him, what kind of climate can he become?" If he wants to make trouble, why don't he go to Qingyang? The Qingyang garrison is less than a thousand, which is much easier than here. ”

Song Nan shook his head and said: "Qingyang Yan can be compared with Ningxia Town, the adults are also the people who lead the troops, the terrain of Ningxia Town is lonely, there is a Helan Mountain barrier in the north, there is the Yellow River moat in the south, Ningxia Town is surrounded by fertile fields for thousands of miles, and the grassland is thousands of miles, which is a fertile land; If you can occupy this place, you can attack, retreat, and defend, even a hundred Qingyang can't compare. ”

Yang Yiqing nodded and said: "This is also true, if you occupy Ningxia Town, you can gain a foothold, if the imperial court does not mobilize heavy troops, it will be difficult to recover." However, because of this, Ningxia Town will have three guards and horses stationed, because of the extreme importance of its strategic location, then again, how can the king of Anhua have the courage to make trouble with the town army three times his own and occupy this place? ”

Song Nan said: "The long causeway collapsed in the anthill, no matter how strong a man is, what will happen if he is seriously ill and sick in his heart?" Don't you see that the military and political officials stationed in this town are inextricably linked to the king of Anhua? That An Weixue, unabashedly willing to be the pawn of the king of Anhua, ran before and after the king of Anhua, is this the work of the court officials? What is the connection between the garrison generals of this town and the king of Anhua, and how much can you know about Lord Yang? What I'm worried about is that King Anhua has already won over the generals in the army, and if he starts an incident and the town army is against the water, it will be a situation of erosion. ”

Beads of sweat appeared on Yang Yiqing's forehead, the situation described by Song Nan was shocking, if he really knew the situation inside, it would be fine, the problem was that he didn't know the situation in Ningxia Town, and he couldn't rule out the possibility that Song Nan said, which was the most fatal.