Ye Tianhuai leaned on the armchair, holding her cheeks with one hand and gently clasping the bookcase with the other, but her eyes were always staring at the secret report on the small table not far away.

The secret report presented three things succinctly.

First, the envoy of Yingzhou Jiedu secretly entered Beijing last night, stayed overnight in Gufu, and left Beijing early this morning.

Second, Wang Lisong arrived in Beijing today, and before entering the city, he was ambushed by a group of men in black on the outskirts of Beijing, and Wang Lisong was robbed, but the robbers did not hurt him, but released him not far from the carjacking.

Third, the main force of the Zhongzhou Army, about 100,000 people, moved to Shengjing in the name of the exercise and stationed at Shilipo, a hundred miles east of Shengjing.

These three things seem to be unrelated, but Ye Qianhuai feels that they seem to be strung together by an invisible thread behind them.

Wang Lisong's arrival in Beijing has been reported to the court today, according to the previous agreement between Ye Tianhuai and Gu Shihai, tomorrow morning will be the day when Wang Lisong will go to the palace to present his feelings.

What is Chen's feelings? Naturally, it is about how he was imprisoned and why he missed the trial of the three divisions.

Although the Chunqiu fraud case has long ended with Shi Taiping's dismissal and exile, and the three divisions will also try to meet the criminal department's squire Qian Deliang before his death, but Gu Shihai, the mastermind behind these two cases, is still sitting firmly.

For Gu Shihai, perhaps, as he himself said, it was just the replacement of one or two ineffective subordinates.

Wang Lisong's testimony is the most likely to be a powerful evidence for the direct removal of Gu Shihai.

Otherwise, Gu Shihai would not have targeted him several times.

But Gu Shihai obviously won't sit still.

The movement of the Zhongzhou Army is the best evidence.

Three days ago, Eagle Guard submitted a report that an urgent secret message had been sent to the Zhongzhou military camp from the Gu Mansion.

Dajing implements the separation of civil and military control. In the state capital, the two heads of the Assassin and the Jiedu make the two heads of the Wen and the Wu on an equal footing.

In other words, the military power of the local area is completely in the hands of the Jiedu envoys. The envoys were generally appointed directly by the emperor.

Today, the festival envoys of Zhongzhou and Yingzhou are all protégés of Gu Shihai. The movement of the Zhongzhou army around Gyeonggi must have been at the behest of Gu Shihai, and the intention was to put pressure on the emperor.

If Ye Qianhuai forced Gu Shihai in a hurry, he would most likely order the nine gates of Gyeonggi to open the city gate and welcome the Zhongzhou army into the city in the name of the Qing monarch.

At that time, Ye Qianhuai only had a forbidden army of more than 10,000 people in his hands that had not yet been fully prepared, but he had to face an enemy army of more than 100,000 people.

It's tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg.

Ye Qianhuai frowned.

Gu Shihai has a strong nature, and it can be seen from his desperate choice in the Renshen Palace change that this is a person who would rather be broken than broken.

What can he do, Ye Tianhuai really can't say.

What's more, even if she dared to gamble, the courtiers would not allow her to be so rash and fight with the fortune of the country.

Such a big move of the Zhongzhou Army is known to everyone in the DPRK and China. And Gu Shihai's intentions have long been revealed.

Ye Qianhuai could almost imagine that if Wang Lisong pointed out by name in the early tomorrow morning that Gu Shihai used his power for personal gain to instigate fraud in Chunqiu and the matter of the three divisions interrogating and adjusting the package, the courtiers were only afraid that they would help Gu Shihai speak one-sidedly, and it was even very likely that they would push the problem back to Wang Lisong's head, saying that Wang Lisong, who had just been rehabilitated and returned to Beijing, would be sent to Leizhou again.

Ye Tianhuai clenched his fists and sighed. Now she is far from being able to compete with Gu Shihai head-on.

She looked at the secret report from afar, and frowned.

Looking at it, Ye Tianhuai suddenly noticed that there was an obvious strangeness in this report, which she should have noticed at first glance.

That is the description of the part about Wang Lisong being robbed.

Wang Lisong's return to Beijing this time was escorted by the Leizhou Yamen, and secretly there were Eagle Guards following, who could rob people under the noses of these two groups of people, or move in the suburbs of Beijing, except for Gu Shihai, Ye Tianhuai couldn't imagine anyone else who had such ability.

But the strange thing is that he went to such great lengths to rob people, but in the end he didn't do anything and let them go.

This made Ye Qianhuai puzzled.

There must have been something that Ye Qianhuai didn't know.

Ye Tianhuai sat alone in the Qinxian Hall for most of the hour, and finally, she pushed the door out and said to Li Baoquan, who was waiting outside: "Li Baoquan, as soon as the morning dawns tomorrow, you will go to the post house where Wang Lisong is staying to deliver the message, and say that I remember that he has traveled a long distance with his advanced age, and he is tired of traveling and driving, and he is allowed to rest for a few days before going to the palace to express his feelings." Then you bring him into the palace, and if I want to see him, let him wait for me in the Wenxuan Palace. ”

Li Baoquan didn't ask too much and answered.

——

The next day, as soon as he got rid of Chao Ye, he strode to the Wenxuan Palace.

Li Baoquan did not go to court with her today, and was already waiting outside the Wenxuan Hall early.

"What about people? Did you bring it into the palace? Ye Qianhuai asked hurriedly as soon as they met.

"Brought in, waiting in the main hall inside." Li Baoquan replied as he trotted after her.

"What's the trouble?" Ye Qianhuai asked again.

"If you go back to Your Majesty, there will be no obstacles along the way, and it will be smooth."

Ye Qianhuai nodded, and when she saw that she had walked outside the door of the main hall, she stopped, stood outside the door and straightened her clothes before walking inside.

On the side seat of the main hall sat an old man, dressed in a gray-brown cloth robe, with half-white hair, tied on the top of his head in a common hairstyle for scholars, and a beard on his lips and chin. Although he is over the age of six, he sits upright and energetic, without half the decline of an old man, nor the fatigue of the dust.

Seeing Ye Qianhuai and Li Baoquan entering the door, he immediately stood up and gave a big salute to Ye Tianhuai, saying, "The criminal minister Wang Lisong sees Your Majesty." ”

He was quite tall, and when he stood up, he was a little taller than Ye Qianhuai. But when he bowed to Ye Qianhuai, there was a heartfelt admiration in it.

It's not sycophancy, it's not flattery, it's just pure admiration.

Ye Tianhuai was a little excited in his heart.

After tossing and turning for so long in this life, after hearing Wang Lisong's various words and deeds in so many people, today she finally saw the real Wang Lisong.

With just one glance, she could be sure that Wang Lisong was the fake one in front of her.

When he saw him, Ye Tianhuai unconsciously appeared in his mind the plaque inscribed by Wang Lisong himself on the gate of Wenxin Hall.

Words are like people.

It is indeed the ambition of green pines and the wind of a gentleman.

Ye Tianhuai hurriedly stepped forward to support his arm and said, "Hurry up for the sacrificial wine, there are no sinners here." The case of Chunfu fraud has been found out, and it was not the sacrificial wine, and the sacrificial wine has been wronged these days. ”

Wang Lisong refused to straighten up, and said: "The old minister's sin is not about Chunyu, but as a courtier, not only can he not share his worries for His Majesty, but let His Majesty worry, which is really a big deal." ”

(End of chapter)