Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Gentleman, the Partner, the Way Back

At noon, Scholar He put one hand on his forehead, blocking the dazzling sun, ignoring the dazzling sweat flowing on his face, and left the deep imperial city quickly, not entering the small corner room of the middle book under the door, but directly got on the sedan chair and came to the yamen of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. As soon as he entered the yamen, he found that the official uniform on his body had already been soaked with sweat, and some people walked to the hall unconsciously, and sat alone for a long time before he woke up.

Previously, His Majesty passed him into the imperial study, just a few simple words, He Zongwei knew that the secret hand he had laid out turned out to be all in His Majesty's eyes, and His Majesty knew what he was investigating, but he was too lazy to ask and too lazy to care, he just looked at it coldly.

As soon as he thought of this, Scholar He shuddered and was terrified, after all, he had some wrong intentions in investigating the case, and with His Majesty's wise eyes, since he knew about this matter, where could he not see the reason? However, to his surprise, His Majesty did not severely reprimand him on this matter, but only gave a few words of explanation to him a little tiredly, and then drove him out.

He Zongwei fell into deep thought in the cool yatang of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, why did His Majesty not get angry? Could it be that the inner court and the yamen of the Criminal Department really found something in Dazhou? Is it the Tiger Guard Gundam, or is it Wang Qinian, who is absolutely not dead, who has shown traces? Dazhou is not far from Kyoto, but the back and forth transmission of information always takes time, He Zongwei has no other way, so he has to wait for the return of that place in Kyoto excitedly and nervously, until this time, he still does not know where to be in Dazhou, because his search for Gundam will be very pandering to the will of heaven to block the returning old dean Chen outside the city, and at the same time give Chen Pingping a chance to make a move.

Of course, this is also the emperor's chance.

Not only He Zongwei didn't know what was going on in Dazhou. None of the scholars in the sect and the Qingguo officials of the Six Ministries and Three Temples guessed that Qingguo was in a kind of turmoil today, they just smelled some kind of strange smell, but no one would associate this smell with the old Dean Chen, who had returned to old age.

No matter how wise a person is, he would not have thought that there would be a problem between His Majesty and Chen Pingping, and the courtiers would not even dare to think about it.

Even officials from the Supervisory Yuan. I have never doubted that the old ancestor is against Qingguo. Loyalty to His Majesty. Loyalty to His Majesty, all for the sake of Qingguo, this is the education that all the officials and agents of the Supervision Yuan received at the beginning of their admission to the hospital, these decades. Led by Chen Pingping, all the black-clothed officials are also working hard for this goal, for the strength of Qingguo, and for the safety of His Majesty.

Because no one would have thought of this. Therefore, some people will sensitively explore that aspect. As the most powerful intelligence system and secret service agency in the world, there are changes in Kyoto today. There is no doubt that many signs fell in the eyes of the officials of the Supervisory Yuan, especially the increase in the defense level of the forbidden army, the sudden transfer of the Kyoto garrison, and even the sudden entry and exit of the palace by the priest of He University. All fell into different needle eyes. Through different routes, it was passed back to the square black and gray building.

The eight major places are in addition to the five where the black rider is located. All the leading figures are in the black and gray building of the Inspectorate. The sun had just moved west, and the information had been gathered into two places, sorted out by different intelligence officers, and then put on the two intelligence directors' cases.

The organizer of the second department is a middle-aged man, and he is a rare person left by the old ministers of the eight major departments. Since Fan Xian became the director of the Supervision Yuan and gradually began to take over the power of the Supervision Yuan, Chen Pingping began to persuade those old courtiers in the Eight Great Places to retire in order to make his takeover smoother, and those old courtiers were originally the people who built this courtyard with Dean Chen, so they naturally did not have any resistance to the son of Miss Ye Family, so they retreated extremely naturally and happily.

Mu Tie took over one, Fan Xian's senior brother who used the Poison Master Sect took over three, Yan Bingyun took over four, the current leader of the Black Horse has also become a silver-faced Jing Ge, the bald host of the seventh department left very early, and the host of the eighth department is also the person selected by Fan Xian from the Qi Nian group.

Only because of the crucial reason of intelligence, the second department is still managed by the old host, he is sincere and conscientious, and he trains the deputy with sincerity and conscientiousness, and only after the deputy can provoke the stall of the entire Qingguo intelligence system, he will let this close person of Dean Fan take over.

The Supervision Yuan and the Metropolitan Procuratorate have been fighting lawsuits, and Dean Xiao Fan is very unkind to see that He University, so He Zongwei was originally the focus of the Supervision Yuan's secret surveillance, although His Majesty has always held an attitude against this kind of surveillance, but the Supervision Yuan does some idle things with the power in his hands, and the court cannot keep an eye on it every day. The middle-aged leader of the second department frowned and looked at the file in his hand, not knowing what He Zongwei was said by His Majesty today, and his face turned so ugly.

As for the adjustment of the forbidden army and the opening of the Kyoto garrison, it is also very sensitive information. The director of the second office frowned and thought for a long time, but he still couldn't understand what forces needed to be dealt with so carefully by the imperial court around the capital of Qingguo Kyoto. In particular, the Supervision Yuan did not participate in this matter from the beginning, and the palace did not even inform it, which is really too different from the past.

He picked up the file on the case, coughed twice, walked out the door, went up the stairs, walked to the quiet secret room, knocked on the door twice, and pushed it in.

A young official, dressed in white and completely out of step with the gloomy atmosphere of the Supervision Yuan, was sitting behind a large table, staring intently at something.

The second director smiled slightly, looked at Yan Bingyun and sighed in his heart, then stepped forward and put the case file in his hand on his desk.

The old dean has retired, and Lord Xiao Fan has finally become the real dean, and Xiao Yan Gongzi obviously has to not only manage the affairs of the four places, but he is afraid that he will also take over Fan Xian's position and become the new secretary of the Supervision Yuan. In the past few years, Chen Pingping has been recuperating from her illness, and Fan Xian is impatient to take care of the details, so the affairs of the entire Supervision Institute were originally undertaken by Yan Bingyun alone, so in the future, Yan Bingyun will become the master of the miscellaneous affairs in the hospital. Therefore, the officials of the Supervisory Yuan are used to it, and there will be no objections.

And for the old courtiers of the Supervision Yuan, although Lord Xiao Fan is a person with amazing talents, and because of the relationship between Miss Ye and Old Dean Chen, they are loyal to Fan Xian and have a lot of respect, but this respect is always at a distance. Compare it to. He grew up in the Inspectorate of Inspectors. The son of the Yan Ruohai family, the son of Xiao Yan, who paid a great price in the Northern Qi Courtyard, is undoubtedly closer.

"Uncle Liu, something. Do you want to send it personally?" Yan Bingyun smiled gently, not feeling the frost in front of Fan Xian at all, stood up and invited the host of the second place to sit down, and then opened the files casually.

"The transfer of the forbidden army and the Kyoto garrison only needs to be reported to the Inner Court and the Privy Council, and it is nothing that we don't know. The host of the second place looked at Yan Bingyun and said worriedly: "But this is not in line with the convention. There must be a purpose for such a big thing. However, our hospital did not know exactly what was going on until this time......"

At this time, Yan Bingyun had already finished reading these pieces of information, the arc of the corners of his lips was still so stable, and he said with a smile: "Dongyi City has been restless recently, there are many masters in those places, and the people in the rivers and lakes are murderous. Maybe the palace is worried. Just like the Hanging Temple that year, a few more killers came in. It is nothing for the forbidden army to raise the level of defense. ”

"It's the Kyoto Garrison. Yan Bingyun shook his head and said, "Wait a while and send a message to the Privy Council to ask." ”

"The Privy Council can ignore us. The host of the second department frowned and said: "And the current problem, Shi Fei personally led the army to go, and it must be the will of the palace." ”

He suddenly thought of something about Tsubaki, and thought that it wasn't too long for Old Dean Chen's convoy to leave Kyoto, but immediately he laughed at himself and shook his head.

"What's wrong?" Yan Bingyun's eyes were dark, and he glanced at him carelessly.

"Nothing. The organizer of the second department shook his head and said with a smile: "I'm really old, and my head is sometimes easy to think about. ”

Yes, he never imagined that the palace would attack his most beloved old dean, so he subconsciously strangled the previous speculation to death. Just like the incomprehension between Gong Dian and Ye Chong, just like the uneasiness and panic of the general Shi Fei, no one could have thought of this.

Yan Bingyun slowly lowered his head and said, "The surveillance of the military in the courtyard is a matter that cannot be put on the table, so don't issue a document to the Privy Council." What's the usual practice?"

"We can't interfere with the military, and we usually draw up an information note and hand it to the palace, and ask Your Majesty to look at it. The organizer of the second division pondered for a moment and said, "Of course, we have to react faster to a change like today. ”

"Good. Yan Bingyun still lowered his head and said, "Immediately send this information to the imperial study in a secret way." ”

"Yes. The organizer of the second department subconsciously responded like a subordinate, and suddenly felt that Yan Bingyun's reaction was a little strange, and he didn't raise his head, looking a little rude...... He shook his head again, he had watched Yan Bingyun grow up since he was a child, and knew that the other party was not such a person, but he thought that there was something wrong with Yan Fu itself, so he didn't think much about it, picked up the file and exited the door.

Of course, in front of the powerful state apparatus of Qingguo, if the Supervision Yuan, as a secret agency, does not react, it may be for this country, this imperial court, and even this square black and gray building...... The best response.

The room returned to the same silence for countless years, Yan Bingyun slowly raised his head, if anyone was around at this time, he would definitely be able to see the struggle and pain in the eyes of this little Yan Gongzi.

Yan Bingyun's hands under the table were clenched very tightly, and he didn't let go for a long time, his thin lips were pursed extremely tightly, and there was almost no blood. He slowly stood up, walked to the side of the window, lifted the black curtain, looked out, and saw at a glance a corner of the Minghuang Imperial City that was shining in the early autumn sun.

At this time, he thought that when he first entered the supervision center, the old man in the wheelchair met him in this room, and the black cloth on the window never seemed to be taken off, as if the old man was used to the darkness and could never see the sun again.

Later, the old man left the room and returned to Chen Yuan, and Fan Xian didn't like to stay in a serious and gloomy courtyard like the Supervision Yuan every day. So the person who stayed in this room the longest was Yan Bingyun himself.

In the past, the organizers of the eight major offices would report on both sides of this long table, but now there is no one on both sides of the long table. In the past, there would be a wheelchair at the end of the long table, and there was a shadow behind the wheelchair.

Wheelchairs are long gone. Yan Bingyun slowly entered the black curtain in his hand, let out a long sigh, and the confusion and pain in his eyes gradually disappeared. Since he is the second owner of this room. He will inherit the temperament and will of the previous master, and since he has made up his mind, he can no longer hesitate.

Yan Bingyun, when Emperor Qing imported new blood to the imperial court. One of the seven young courtiers summoned to the palace. These seven young courtiers are the newcomers that Emperor Qing has prepared for the future of Qingguo, except for Qin Heng, who died in the rebellion, the other six people have begun to shine in the court of Qingguo.

Among the six people, the fastest climber is naturally He Zongwei, who is already a scholar of the middle school and the scholar of the school, and also holds the position of the imperial history of the left capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Speaking of Bingyun and Cheng Jialin, one of the four sons of Fan Men. There is no doubt that everyone is in the Fan Xian faction.

It's just that no one knows that His Majesty, the great emperor of Qingguo, was in that night talk. How much effort and deterrence has been invested in Xiao Yan Gongzi of the Supervision Yuan.

The so-called Seven Gentlemen, in the eyes of His Majesty the Emperor, the most important are He Zongwei and Yan Bingyun.

Yan Bingyun sat down slowly, his palms spread flat on the desk, and gently stroked over the incomparably complicated documents and intelligence chapters of the Supervision Yuan. Then he rang a bell softly. summoned his own direct officials and the members of the Qi Nian team who could be moved, and softly issued orders one by one.

These commands do not appear to be related to each other. It is not very noticeable, but the reinforcements to Dongyi City and the handover of Deng Ziyue on Xiliang Road will consume most of the attention of the Supervision Yuan in these ten days.

A total of four orders were issued, and it was easy for the Kyoto Supervisory Institute to evacuate more than half of the forces and begin to move to various parts of the country. These movements were not unusual, so they did not attract anyone's attention, but in this way, it was extremely difficult for the Inspectorate to gather a strong lethal force in Kyoto.

There are not many people who can do this, and even if Fan Xian does it himself, I am afraid that it will not be as fast as Yan Bingyun, because Fan Xian is a person who is impatient with detailed affairs after all, he knows the Supervision Yuan very well, but it is still not as thorough as Yan Bingyun's understanding, a huge supervision agency, only a few points have been moved, but it can cause such consequences, Xiao Yan Gongzi's strategy is still so powerful.

The only thing that can't be moved is the Supervision Yuan, one was originally responsible for supervising the governance of hundreds of officials in Kyoto, and one was originally managed by Fan Xian himself, and now although Mu Tie has become a host, but in fact, the officials of one place still feel that their direct boss is the dean, although Yan Bingyun has Fan Xian's warrant, but there is no way to transfer them out of Kyoto with too bizarre orders.

After Yan Bingyun finished all this, he took a deep breath, as if he felt that what he had just done was about to suffocate him.

"It's all for the sake of Qingguo. Yan Bingyun slowly closed his eyes, and couldn't help but think of the conversation between him and his father a long time ago, and the corners of his smooth eyes couldn't help twitching, "Or is it all for the Supervision Yuan?"

When Eunuch Yao left the imperial study and came to the imperial city to announce the holy decree to Ye Zhong and Gong Dian, few people in the palace knew about it. When Ye Zhong and Gong Dian knelt on the ground, forcibly enduring the shock and uneasiness in their hearts to accept the order, Eunuch Yao handed over His Majesty's handwritten letter, and then said expressionlessly: "General Shi Fei is waiting for the order. ”

Ye Zhong stood up and took this handwritten letter from His Majesty, just like receiving a big Dongshan, his arm was so heavy that he couldn't lift it, he was one of the few remaining Jiupin powerhouses in Qingguo today, but in the face of this handwritten letter, he still felt that he couldn't afford it.

Fortunately, it was Shi Fei who really needed this handwritten letter, an important minister of the military Yanjing faction, because he had been absent from Kyoto for a long time, he was sent such a fatal messenger by His Majesty the Emperor, Ye Chong, as the chief envoy of the Privy Council, couldn't help but feel a sadness for Shi Fei, and at the same time a chill arose in his heart.

Let the military Yanjing faction do this, not let the Dingzhou military do it, except that Shi Feiling's Kyoto garrison division is easy to manipulate, I have to say. Ye Chong has lived in Kyoto for a long time, and His Majesty the Emperor is not very confident about the relationship between him and Chen Pingping.

Ye Zhong thought about this, but there was no emotion on his face.

Eunuch Yao left the camp of the forbidden army empty-handed, bent over, and slowly walked towards the deep palace. In fact, like Ye Chong, the heart of this chief eunuch also had many complicated emotions. After serving in the palace for a long time, he is used to seeing between His Majesty and Dean Chen. It is completely different from the conversations and dialogues of ordinary monarchs and ministers. He knew that in His Majesty's heart, Old Dean Chen was definitely not just an ordinary minister.

Thinking of the scene of His Majesty's anger in the imperial study, the smile on Eunuch Yao's face involuntarily became bitter. In fact, in his opinion, if His Majesty really wants to send down Old Dean Chen. Then, when he was in Kyoto, when President Chen entered the palace to say goodbye, wouldn't it be more convenient for His Majesty to do it, and why did he have to delay it until President Chen had already left Beijing and walked on the road back to his hometown? The masters of the criminal department sent by Scholar He are in Dazhou, and the masters sent by the Inner Court to help the Metropolitan Procuratorate are also in Dazhou.

Eunuch Yao understood His Majesty's mind better than anyone else. It seems that His Majesty is still watching...... Eunuch Yao knew that if Old Dean Chen really wanted to get out and leave, unless His Majesty personally led troops to chase after him, no one would be able to stop the old monster.

He walked up to His Highness Tai Chi and leaned against the side of the pillar. Enjoy a rare leisure. The eunuchs and palace maids who passed by him saluted respectfully and fearfully. Then leave silently. Eunuch Yao closed his eyes and enjoyed the afternoon sunshine of early autumn, and sighed secretly. He said to himself in his heart: "Old Dean, since you are gone, don't come back, and Your Majesty doesn't want you to come back." ”

Yes, His Majesty the cold-blooded and ruthless Emperor Qingguo, after secretly investigating for a long time, still disobeyed his nature and gave Chen Pingping a chance, a chance to defend himself, and a chance to leave. However, Chen Pingping did not defend himself before leaving, and now outside Dazhou City, he met the Tiger Guard Gundam wanted by the imperial court, and it depends on whether he is willing to leave.

If Chen Pingping is willing to leave, maybe this matter will be over, if he refuses to leave, then he will have to go back to Kyoto.

This is not Emperor Qing's affection for Chen Pingping, but I am afraid that it is more about interrogating, questioning, and asking softly about Chen Pingping's heart.

Emperor Qing and Chen Pingping have known each other for decades, and he can accept anyone to betray him, because the suspicious emperor never believes anyone in the world, but he can't accept Chen Pingping betraying him, and even he himself doesn't believe any truth he has found out.

Living alone in the world, he is always afraid of being lonely, especially the person sitting on the dragon chair, perhaps Emperor Qing himself did not realize that Chen Pingping, an old cripple who looked extremely lonely, was the only warmth in his cold heart that could prove that he was a living person.

Therefore, His Majesty the Emperor was angry and anxious, and until the end, he still looked at himself and Chen Pingping's heart with a trace of unconfidence.

The authorities are fascinated, and perhaps the only one who can see all this clearly is this eunuch head who leans on the pillars of the Taiji Hall and basks in the sun.

Old eunuch Hong likes to bask in the sun, Eunuch Yao also likes to bask in the sun, and Gonggong Hou, who died under Fan Xian's hands, also likes to bask in the sun, probably because these deviant people have too many secrets in their hearts, and their eyes are more vicious than anyone else, so they know too much about the joys, sorrows, sorrows and sorrows of the emperor, and they can't say or think about it, so they have to let the sun keep soaking their bodies, so as not to make those secrets in their bodies moldy, so as not to frostbite them with those cold emotions.

Eunuch Yao closed his eyes and breathed slowly, he was not a strong man like Hong Siqi, nor did he have the great spirit of sacrificing himself for Qingguo to dominate the world, he was just a cautious and cautious person, and all his goals were to ensure that he lived in peace and stability, so he didn't have any other thoughts about those things between His Majesty the Emperor and Old Dean Chen except for fear.

"It's a nice day. Father-in-law Dai, who came out of the hall, leaned against his side and said with a smile.

Eunuch Yao glanced at this old partner with a smile, the two of them entered the palace together, but Dai's father-in-law's life in the palace was not as smooth as his own. Gonggong Dai was the first in the palace of Shuguifei, and he was deeply loved by His Majesty, and the important things that were sent to the minister's house were handed over to him to do, and then he lost power and mixed very miserably in the palace.

The eunuchs and maids in the entire palace are very afraid of Eunuch Yao, after all, he is the closest chief eunuch beside His Majesty, but Grandpa Dai does not have the fear of ordinary people, after all, he is an old acquaintance, and Grandpa Dai is not small now, and there is a little Fan behind him.

Eunuch Yao didn't answer, but just moved to the side and gave him half of the position of the pillar.

Father-in-law Dai glanced at him, stopped talking, and then sighed: "When we first entered the palace, we were lazy to bask in the sun here, but we were beaten by Father-in-law Hong for fifty boards, do you remember?"

Of course, Eunuch Yao remembered that among the few little eunuchs at that time, Xiao Houzi was already dead. He sighed, knowing what Lao Dai wanted to ask, presumably the other party also noticed the strangeness in the palace today. It's just that this matter is too big, and I'm afraid that only five people in the whole world know about it, not to mention that Father-in-law Dai and Lord Xiao Fan have a very good relationship, and this matter has to be hidden from him.

Eunuch Yao smiled, squinted his eyes and glanced at the sun on his left, and said, "The partners of the year, the last to die, scattered, how many of them still remember the love of the same board like you and me?"

"We're alive, it's good to be alive. Grandpa Dai shook his head.

Eunuch Yao suddenly raised his head and looked at the end of the corridor, only to see a young eunuch leaning over slowly, he squinted his eyes and said, "Hong Zhu has been following you recently, how is it?"

"This kid was stimulated about three years ago and became more and more reticent. Grandpa Dai obviously liked the clever and silent little eunuch, and sighed and said: "I was also a celebrity in the East Palace at the beginning, but who would have thought that I would end up like this." ”

"He also served in the imperial study. Taciturn...... It's also a good thing. Eunuch Yao said calmly: "You also talked too much back then. ”

Grandpa Dai laughed at himself and didn't say anything more. In a mountainous area, the rapid march had reached this point, and a subordinate of the Kyoto garrison, who had just rested for less than a day, received an urgent secret report from the Kyoto Privy Council. Shi Fei took the secret letter, destroyed the fire paint at the mouth of the letter, read the contents of the letter word by word, his pupils shrank, and then returned to normal, and he was not silent for long, and handed the letter to the personal soldier beside him.

"Put this letter away, you are not allowed to show up to-morrow! If I die, take this letter...... Give it to Lord Xiao Fan. Thousands of cavalry of the Kyoto garrison division were waiting in the valley, and General Shi Fei only stood under the sunset with his own soldiers, watching the movement in Dazhou not far ahead.

The soldiers were slightly stunned, thinking that their Yanjing army and Lord Xiao Fan and even the Supervision Yuan have always had nothing to do with it, what is this letter so important?

Shi Fei sneered and didn't explain anything. He looked at his subordinates at the bottom of the valley, and he didn't have any confidence in his heart, because even he didn't know that among the officers and soldiers of the Kyoto garrison, there were nails planted by the Supervision Yuan.

Although the imperial court clearly stipulates that the regulations on the affairs of the Supervision Yuan are also clearly stated, it is strictly forbidden for the Supervision Yuan to infiltrate the military, but what kind of person is the general Shi Fei, he does not believe in these at all.

Even a big man like Old Man Qin was planted in the hands of the spies of the Supervision Yuan, Shi Fei didn't think that he was more powerful than Qin Ye.

He took a deep breath and said, "Pressure, approaching in the direction of Dazhou." ”

He was afraid that he would fail and die, and he was even more afraid that once he died, His Majesty would plant the crime of killing Old Dean Chen on himself in order to appease the emotions of Lord Xiao Fan, so he handed over the handwritten letter of His Majesty to his own soldiers, and if he failed this time, then this letter must be sent to Fan Xian's hands.