Chapter 43: The Truth
"It should be all accepted, who knew that it would be so difficult, wouldn't it be good for me to have a good face." Pei Shu said angrily.
Xie Xian lifted his eyes, stared at the looming figure behind the partition and said,
"Ayu has never been profitable and can't afford to be early, and Pepsi takes the lead. Just deceive others with this, and you don't have to use it in front of me to get an axe. ”
"You seem to know me very well." Pei Shu muttered dissatisfiedly: "I can't have warmth?" ”
Xie Xian was noncommittal, put down the teacup and got up: "You must be scolding me for being nosy in your heart at this moment, right?" “
Pei Shu replied silently, knowing that she still asked.
"Whoever you want to show favor to is your private matter, and others have no right to interfere, just ....." He bypassed the partition and came to Pei Shu's approach,
"The location where you placed Pei Yuanchang is too coincidental, so coincidental that it makes me suspicious, you may have eyebrows in the case of the theft of official silver."
Pei Shu's hair stood on end.
The official silver that disappeared in the Yuhang River not only involved the extermination case of the Huai family and the Meng family, but also involved Xie Xian's foreign family and the Zhenguo Mansion.
Gain's official money was used for military expenses.
As we all know, the supply of food and grass is the key to victory.
The military quartermaster disappeared mysteriously, the front line was tight, and the special affairs should have been allocated from other places, but because the scope was too wide, and even the Xiao royal family was involved, the officials who handled it were afraid of causing a commotion, and they did everything possible to prevaricate.
Due to the constraints of many complex factors, military supplies could not be transported to the front line for a long time, which led to the complete defeat of Nanyi and the annihilation of 80,000 soldiers.
This undeserved tragic price was also the fuse for the fall of the Fu family.
Eight states supported troops but refused to send troops to rescue, and morale was low.
Food and grass were cut off, and the soldiers were hungry and unable to fight.
General Fu did not leave the city to meet the enemy's clamor no matter how he shouted.
He defended the city, and finally did not wait for life-saving food, grass and reinforcements, but waited for the enemy army to break through the city.
General Fu led his troops to fight bloodily, but it was difficult to recover the decline after all.
The border city of Jingtong was lost, 80,000 soldiers were all killed in battle, the people in the city were massacred, and the news came back and the people's resentment boiled.
It is necessary to push the culprit out to calm the people's grievances.
When the emperor was afraid of Fu Jiajun, he wanted to take back the military power, so he pushed the boat down the river and pushed the Zhenguo Mansion out of the blame in the name of delaying the fighter plane.
Some courtiers who were in the same party and fought against each other took advantage of the wind to deduct all the blame on General Fu.
Characterized as a major military accident, a sinner through the ages.
Then he wanted to issue an edict to behead and pass on the nine sides. This is a warning to the soldiers of the border city.
This is equivalent to completely denying the Fu family's contribution to border defense and treating them as the most heinous ministers.
Xie Xian's hatred of the royal family is not without reason.
His two uncles were not afraid of death, and died bravely on the battlefield, and their bones were gone. General Fu was shot off his horse by the enemy in the chaotic battle, and was dragged away by the local people and hid in the cellar by the local people, and luckily picked up half his life.
Man survived, but life is worse than death.
It is hateful that he served the country all his life and finally became a sinner spurned by all the people, and he regretted until he died: "I should not live." ”
My grandfather died blindly, and my grandmother couldn't afford to fall ill and died of regret.
The eldest uncle and second uncle who sacrificed their lives for the country not only did not get the honor they deserved, but they carried a stigma.
The little uncle was demoted and moved to the left side of the country, and he was not allowed to return to Beijing without an edict, and the Zhenguo Mansion was almost full of subversion.
The result of this is that Xie Xian died a few horses in the cold winter when the water was dripping into ice, and climbed the foothills in the wind and snow to ask for advice from the master, so as to protect the Fu family's inheritance.
Xie Xian's relationship with his grandfather's family is extraordinary, he lost his trust when he was young, and now Xie's housemother is a concubine in the past, about the death of his biological mother, there is another hidden secret, and the relationship between father and son is incompatible.
He can be said to have been raised by the Fu family, and it is no wonder that when he smells a little, he catches her like a shark seeing blood.
Pei Shu knew that she must not be timid and dodge at this time, she raised her eyes and looked directly at him and said,
"When the official silver was stolen, we were twelve, and I lived in the mountains for many years, and even after returning to Beijing, I only had the false name of the lord of a clan."
"Master Xie has been immersed in officialdom for many years, but he has not been able to find out the strange case in one fell swoop. Let me ask, how can I, an idle head of a family who is not involved in the court, get clues before you? ”
As she spoke, her voice became excited,
"Moreover, who doesn't know the depth of the unsolved case five years ago, involving a wide range of aspects, it can be said that it affects the whole body, and the slightest carelessness will take the lives of the whole family, and everyone is afraid to avoid it. How long do I have to be to get involved? ”
"I admit that it is indeed my selfishness to choose the place where the second uncle is released in Xi Yue, but it is just because I got a kiln in Xi Yue by chance and wanted to get some convenience."
Xie Xian didn't speak, just looked at her quietly.
This person is very elusive, and I can't tell whether he believes it or not, Pei Shu's voice lowered: "Lord Xie is so speculative about me, it's really terrifying. ”
Xie Xian was still silent, his eyes sparkling as if he was thinking about the credibility of her words.
The silent atmosphere made Pei Shu suffer.
Finally, he opened his mouth: "Little fox, there is not a word of truth in your mouth. At first, I was puzzled, why did you not hesitate to ruin your reputation to contact Mu Si Gongzi, and later found out his true identity, and then I realized. ”
The Huai family, the Meng family, and the maternal grandfather's family all suffered unwarranted disasters, and Xie Xian had no intention of exposing Mu Si's identity, and even held the mentality that he could muddy the water as much as possible.
He did not pause and said: "As soon as you got off the mountain, you sent your henchmen to Minzhou, the initial purpose should be simply to open up a financial route for the family, but later you found that the Guogong Mansion seemed to be too different from what you expected in your heart, so you revised the plan in time and began to frequently enter and exit the Cainan Courtyard, and then you took advantage of your identity to take the kiln of the old family as your own, and then took the opportunity to take away the private property of the Qin family and sent Pei Erlang to Xi Yue to take up his post. ”
"The dots are connected to the line, and the answer is obvious, you are paving an extraterritorial sea route to connect the domestic waterway, trying to control the lifeblood of a country's economy. I guess, if Pei Erlang is used, your next step is to support him on the road of being a feudal official. ”
Just having financial resources and no power, the end will probably be miserable, although her identity is stained with a noble word, and no one may beat her up if she makes a small fuss.
But if it reaches the point where the country is rich and the country is full of golden light, the intertwined family magnates will definitely join forces to encircle and suppress her, and share and eat her.
Evil tigers are also afraid of wolves.
If you want to repel the swarming hyenas, you have to hold a sharp blade that makes people see it, so that people can easily move her.
Xie Xian peeled off the cocoon from the confused situation, and after gradually becoming clear, he couldn't help but sigh at her exquisite methods as a chess player.
She intends to build a counterweight to all parties to protect her rights and interests from being violated.
She's big!
The extraterritorial sea route is both an endless source of wealth and a retreat for her, and she had prepared for the worst before she fell to the first child.
Xie Xian knew that what he had seen at present was only a corner of the chessboard.
If her ambition was, as he expected, to control the economic lifeblood of the entire country.
Then a local feudal official is not enough to support the overall situation, she will inevitably make some moves in the court.