Chapter 466: Temptation
Just when Mang Qing and his party of Jianghu masters were aiming at Tang Minghu, Li Yi and the Qin family in the government of Jinling City were ready to set off.
At this time, Qin Luming had already reported to the Ministry that he needed to go out of the city and return to his hometown to hold an eighty birthday for his father.
Regarding Qin Luming's reason, although Liu Ran, the secretary of the Southern Capital, felt that it was a little ridiculous, he had to agree to him in the end.
After all, the reason given by Qin Luming was out of filial piety, and in the Dayu Dynasty, all other principles involved in filial piety had to give way.
Moreover, this Qin Luming is also the secretary of the criminal department, and he is also at the same level as the secretary of the ministry of officials, so there is no subordinate relationship between the two parties.
Therefore, Liu Ran, the secretary of the ministry, is not good at holding on to Qin Luming.
Even if Princess Chengping had already hinted to him that he could embarrass the Qin family, in Liu Ran's opinion, Princess Chengping was also a member of the Qin family.
Princess Chengping asked herself to embarrass the Qin family, which was nothing more than their Qin family's own family background.
As the saying goes, it is difficult for a clean official to cut off family affairs, how could Liu Ran, as an old fritter who has been in the officialdom for many years, not understand this truth.
In addition, the identity of the princess of Chengping is extremely special, and if it is not good, it is likely to make the emperor unhappy.
And he is still a year or two away, how could he take the initiative to get involved in this kind of thing at such a time.
Therefore, Liu Ran directly pretended not to understand Princess Chengping's hints, and directly let Qin Luming go.
"Alright, now that everything is ready, we can go."
Qin Luming rode on his horse, looking at the seven or eight carriages behind him, he took a long breath, and then turned his head to Li Yi and said.
He knew that when their Qin family stepped out of the gate of this Jinling Mansion, they would inevitably encounter all kinds of obstacles.
But he had to grit his teeth and leave with all kinds of obstacles, otherwise their Qin family would inevitably be wiped out little by little by Princess Chengping and Zheng Yu by various means.
"Let's go, then!"
But Li Yi's mood was not shocked.
Although he also knew that their trip out of town would definitely not be so easy, he was not worried.
After all, even if they couldn't get out of the city this time, he would have a way to sneak people out of the city, but then he would have to take a greater risk.
Then Li Yi knocked the horse's belly and led the Qin family to the direction of the West City Gate.
The reason why they chose the West City Gate instead of the South City Gate, where they had entered the city before, was because there were relatively few people entering and exiting from the West City Gate, so the number of Yaowu troops and city guard camps guarding the West City Gate was also relatively small.
Therefore, once they encountered obstacles at the city gate, Li Yi and they were able to directly protect the Qin family and kill them.
As soon as the Qin family members came out of the Jinling Mansion, those who were ambushed around and were in charge of monitoring immediately rushed to report the news.
And all this was seen by Li Yi, but he didn't care about these people at all.
Because in Li Yi's opinion, even if these guys don't report to Princess Chengping and Zheng Yu, they will soon find out that the Qin family is preparing to leave the city.
When they walked out of the Jinling Mansion not far away, the surrounding scene startled everyone in the Qin family.
Due to the destruction of the previous lower nine streams, the originally prosperous Jinling City has now become unrecognizable.
The streets that used to be bustling with people are now deserted.
The streets on both sides of the road were either smashed or completely closed, and the whole street looked extremely depressed.
This made everyone in the Qin family can't believe for a while that this is actually the Jinling City in their impression.
"How did this Jinling City become like this?"
Qin Shaojie has stayed in the Jinling Mansion to recuperate from his injuries these days, so he has only heard about the situation outside and has not actually seen it.
When he heard that there were a large number of unidentified people looting in the city, he only thought that it was a small number of outlaws who were plundering alive or dead.
But now he realized that he had been completely wrong in the first place.
As a member of the Yaowu Army, he knew that if he wanted to destroy Jinling City to this extent, it would definitely not be something that a small number of people could do.
"Where is this! If it weren't for the fact that you Jinling Mansion relied on here, you would have thought that these shops would still be closed! ”
An Su said with a disdainful roll of his eyes.
They had come all the way from the north of the city, and the scene he had seen along the way was much more serious than here.
"The old Jin king's misdeeds are simply a loss of conscience."
Qin Luming looked at the corpses lying outside a shop and the blood flowing all over the ground, and he couldn't help but say angrily.
"Humph! He is not the only one who has lost his conscience, in fact, in the final analysis, all this is because of Emperor Shengheng, and he also wants to lure the grassland barbarians into the city, this is the real loss of conscience. ”
Li Yi, who was riding on a horse, looked at the ordinary people who died on the side of the road, and thought of the Pengzhou soldiers who died in the northern border fortress, and he couldn't help but feel sad.
And the people around were all taken aback when they heard this.
Especially the people of the Qin family, they looked at Li Yi with frightened eyes.
"Li Gongzi, please be cautious, in case the wall has ears!"
Qin Luming immediately observed the surroundings and then reminded in a low voice.
"Hahaha, things have come to this point, what else is there to worry about!"
An Su immediately laughed and looked at the frightened Qin family.
"Now the entire Dayu Dynasty can be described as internal and external troubles, there are grassland tribesmen in the north and soldiers in the city, and the grass army in the south is raging like fire, and there are traitors in the south of the court, and there are traitors in the rivers and lakes, and some people are ready to move, and the Dayu Dynasty has fallen to this extent, not because Emperor Shengheng is absurd and unreasonable."
Keiko also rode forward at this time and said disdainfully.
"Zizheng, how dare you say such a rebellious thing."
Jing Zizheng's father, who was sitting in the carriage, couldn't help but lift the curtain of the carriage and scolded when he heard that his son dared to say such a thing.
"Daddy, is there something wrong with what I said? If it weren't for Brother Dujun, how could he die with more than 20,000 soldiers of the Pengzhou Army and the grassland tribe! ”
In the face of his son's refutation, Jing's father didn't know what to say for a while.
Thinking of his son who died in Biansai, his eyes couldn't help but moisten a little.
Although he was also ruthless to the emperor in his heart, he didn't dare to show it.
Because he was afraid that once he showed his dissatisfaction, he would cause death for the entire Jing family.
"Uncle, what Brother Jing said is right, if it weren't for Emperor Shengheng deliberately letting the grassland army go south, how could the three county towns in the northern border fortress be destroyed, so those sacrificed soldiers in the border fortress were all killed by Emperor Shengheng in the final analysis.
Qi Chao also stood up at this time and said loudly.
As soon as he said this, the faces of the Qi family members present turned pale.
You must know that arguing about the emperor in the Dayu Dynasty is a heinous crime, not to mention that this Qin Luming is the secretary of the Southern Capital Criminal Department of the Dayu Dynasty.
And Qin Lu is also the son-in-law of Emperor Shengheng in addition to being a servant of the Criminal Department.
Now this Jingzi Zheng and Qi Chao actually said this in front of them, Emperor Shengheng, this is tantamount to directly sending his handle to the Qin family.
However, compared to his father's reprimand, Qi Lao, who was the head of the Qi family, did not scold the Qi Dynasty.
On the contrary, he just sat in the carriage and closed his eyes as if he hadn't heard Qi Chao's words.
And the rest of the Qi family originally wanted to be born and reprimand Qi Chao, but when they saw Qi Lao's reaction, they also chose to pretend not to hear.
"Fart! Your Majesty, why are you so embarrassed? ”
The scene was silent for a moment before being broken by a voice.
And this person who spoke out was Qin Shaojie.
Although his mother betrayed his father and the Qin family, and he did hate his mother, he did not have any ill feelings towards his grandfather, Emperor Shengheng.
Even though he had heard that this time, Emperor Shengheng allowed the grassland army to break through the border city in order to get rid of Zongzheng Temple, and then went all the way south, but he still felt that Emperor Shengheng had his own difficulties in doing this.
In his mind, the reason why the Dayu Dynasty was crumbling and the mansion was about to collapse was entirely because the feudal towns and vassal kings in various places had too much power.
If this time the imperial court can completely remove this cancer, then the Dayu Dynasty will inevitably completely recover its vitality.
After that, as long as the people are allowed to recuperate for a few more years, the Dayu Dynasty will inevitably be a scene where the Haiyan River is clear and the people are abundant.
Hearing Qin Shaojie's words, Qin Shaoyan, who was sitting in the carriage, couldn't help but feel his heart skip a beat.
Immediately, her face changed dramatically.
Just when she was about to open the carriage curtain and scold Qin Shaojie, her father Qin Luming was the first to speak.
"Shut up! Your Majesty's actions have their own people, the people of the world and the panic of the history books, why do you need to defend yourself here. ”
Qin Lu looked at Qin Shaojie with a fierce look in his eyes, and Qin Shaojie couldn't help but shudder with fear when he saw his uncle's eyes.
And the rest of the Qin family was also a little confused by Qin Luming's sudden reprimand.
But then Qin Luyuan took the lead in understanding Qin Luming's intentions.
Then he swallowed, and his eyes swept over his body.
"Second brother, what's wrong with you?"
Qin Luyao on the side saw that Qin Luyuan looked a little apprehensive, and he couldn't help but ask curiously.
"Don't say much!"
And Qin Luyuan only said these four words, and at the same time, he motioned with his eyes to Qin Luyao to look at the surrounding situation.
And Qin Luyao was not a fool, he reacted immediately.
The reason why Li Yi suddenly raised the topic of Emperor Shengheng with great fanfare, and Jing Zizheng, Qi Chao and others echoed it one after another, and even officialdom celebrities like Qi Lao did not say a word, all to test their Qin family.
As the saying goes, you can't hurt people, you can't do it, you can't do without people's hearts.
Although the two sides had reached an agreement to go out of the city together, Li Yi still wanted to know if the Qin family was worthy of his trust.
If the Qin family's performance could not satisfy him, after Li Yi escorted them out of the city, the two sides would have nothing to do with each other even if they reached an agreement.
But if the Qin family's performance can make him feel satisfied, Li Yi will have the intention of winning over the Qin family.
However, from the Qin family's side, Li Yi's temptation was likely to be that he weighed whether to continue to cooperate with the Qin family, so the Qin family was extremely nervous now.
"But this ······"
Qin Shaojie wanted to say something more, but he couldn't say anything more halfway through the conversation.
Because at this time, Qin Luming, Qin Luyuan, and Qin Luyao all looked at him with their eyes.
"Okay, it's not too early, let's hurry up!"
At this time, Li Yi already had a plan in his heart, so he said to Qin Luming with a smile.
And Qin Luming nodded immediately when he heard this, and at the same time, he also breathed a sigh of relief.
"It seems that the attitude of our Qin family is quite satisfactory to these people."
Qin Luming thought to himself in his heart, and at the same time, he also secretly made a note in his heart for Qin Shaojie.
He was ready to wait until the Qin family settled down, and he must give Qin Shaojie some hardships to eat.
And on the next way, Qin Luming and the other Qin family members have been observing the movements of Li Yi and the others.
They were afraid that you and the others would suddenly accelerate and abandon their Qin family.
However, this did not happen.
But after walking for a while, Li Yi suddenly felt that something was wrong.
He immediately waved his hand for everyone to stop.
"Childe, what's wrong?"
After An Su saw Li Yi suddenly stop, he immediately stepped forward and asked.
"There's a problem ahead!"
Li Yi said with a frown.
"What's the problem ahead of Li Gongzi?"
Qin Luming asked very nervously at this time.
He was worried that someone was ambushing them in front of him.
"There seems to be a large number of Yaowu troops ahead!"
Li Yi's answer made Qin Luming's already hanging heart beat even more wildly.
"It seems that this Zheng Yu still doesn't plan to let go of our Qin family!"
"No, it doesn't seem like these Yaowu troops are coming for us."
Li Yi said with some confusion after observing for a while.
"Not for us?"
Qin Luming also stepped forward at this time and carefully observed the situation in front of him.
At this time, he found that there were thousands of Yaowu troops marching rapidly on the street not far from him.
Each of these Yaowu soldiers was heavily armed and murderous.
What's even more critical is that the direction in which these Yaowu troops are marching is not coming towards them at all.
"Zheng Yu dispatched so many Yaowu troops, I'm afraid it's a big move."
Qin Luming finally breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that Yaowu Jun was not coming for him.
"Could it be that they are preparing to deal with Zongzheng Temple?"
Li Yi asked with some suspicion.
"It's possible! Since Zheng Yu is mixed with Chengping, it means that he has taken refuge in the imperial court, and now he is using so many Yaowu soldiers may be to exterminate these bandits in the city. ”
Qin Luming also felt that Li Yi's guess was very reasonable.
"Since Zheng Yu took the Yaowu Army to fight Zongzheng Temple, does this mean that we will not be in any danger in the future?"
After hearing the conversation between Li Yi and Qin Luming, Qin Shaojie said excitedly.
As soon as these words came out, everyone's eyes widened.
"That's right! If the Yaowu Army really went to attack Zongzheng Temple, then neither of them should have the heart to target our Qin family again, right? ”
Qin Luyao then said excitedly.
"That's right!"
At this time, everyone's hearts were already overjoyed.
"Even so, we can't take it lightly, so everyone should hurry up and get out of the city."
Li Yi felt that this matter was not so simple.
According to his understanding, the number of Yaowu troops is four or five thousand, if they really go to deal with Zongzheng Temple, it should be out of the nest.
After all, how many hole cards there are in Zongzheng Temple, it is impossible for the Yaowu Army to be clear.
And these Yaowu troops in front of them can't have four or five thousand people.
"Li Gongzi is right, in order to avoid long nights and dreams, let's hurry up and go out of the city."
Qin Luming also thinks that Li Yi has a point.
So everyone quickened their march and ran wildly in the direction of the West City Gate.