Shen Lie had already prepared, and said indifferently: "The secret character dossier has always been sealed in the library of the Reverse Scale Division, and there is a special person to keep it. As a long-term historian of the scales, Lord Tian didn't ask your subordinates, but came to ask Shen, what is the reason? ”

Tian Mu smiled coldly: "Ask Lord Shen, of course there is a reason to ask." The lower official checked the file transfer records, and it was you who took the file No. 105 of the secret character Renxu away, and it has not been returned. ”

"Is there such a thing?" Shen Lie pretended to be confused: "Dare to ask the record, when did Shen get the file?" ”

Tian Mu replied without hesitation: "At three o'clock on the day of Dinghai in the eighth hundred and twenty-first month of the Holy Tang Dynasty, the recorder is Sang Yien, the chief bookkeeper of the library. ”

Shen Lie tilted his head and thought for a while: "It's been so long...... Well, it seems like it's rare. By the way, Lord Tian, there should be a reason for the file adjustment on the record, right? How is it written? ”

Tian Mu was slightly stunned by his question, and subconsciously responded: "In the reason column, remember the words 'Emperor Yulan'. ”

"Oh, that's right!" Shen Lie clapped his hands: "I remember, it was the first emperor who wanted to access the secret file at that time, so he ordered Shen to take it, but it was ......"

He paused slightly, looked at Li Bing and the others, and said helplessly: "However, the first emperor has not returned the secret file later. ”

Hearing that Shen Lie directly deducted the pot from the secret file to Li Chengwu, Li Bing was suddenly angry.

The first emperor checked the secret file and asked the ministers of the Northern Ya to take it personally, but then did not return it. This set of rhetoric is dead and seamless, and no one can distinguish between truth and falsehood and directly refute it.

It is clear that Shen Lie is playing tricks in public, but Li Bing and them are helpless.

Tian Mu was still unwilling, and sneered: "Since Lord Shen has put all the blame on the first emperor, then the lower officials have nothing to say. However, according to the rules, all secret documents must be kept in backup and sealed with gold lacquer, so that they can be taken out and checked against the originals when necessary. To open the golden seal, the emperor's holy decree is required, otherwise no one can easily open it and read it. Lord Shen, the original secret file is gone, so what about the golden seal backup? Why is it gone? ”

Shen Lie replied unhurriedly: "The Turks attacked the imperial capital, and part of the backup was lost in the process of transfer......

"Joke!" Before Shen Lie's words were finished, he was interrupted by Wei Zixuan on the side: "The imperial court moved from the imperial capital to Yizhou, and from Yizhou to Luoyi, and along the way, the officials of various ministries carried it on their shoulders, and they never lost half of the volume. Your dignified anti-scale division, such a confidential office, will actually lose the gold seal backup?! ”

Shen Lie glanced at him coldly, and then asked, "May I ask what is Lord Wei's official residence now?" ”

Wei Zixuan replied proudly: "This official is shot from the left servant of the second-grade Shangshu. How? Aren't you qualified to ask about it? ”

Shen Lie smiled faintly, "Not qualified." ”

"You! You're too rampant! Wei Zixuan was so angry that his eyebrows rose up, and he pointed at Shen Lie and shouted.

Shen Lie didn't pay attention to him at all, turned his head to Li Bing and said, "Your Majesty, since the establishment of the Beiya, it has been a royal private soldier. And the Reverse Scale Division is a secret office that is only loyal to the emperor. For hundreds of years, foreign officials were never allowed to inquire about anything about the Northern Ya Reverse Scale Division. This is a rule, and it is an iron law. Those who dare to violate it can be killed on the spot without asking for an order! ”

As soon as these words came out, Li Bing, Tian Mu and Wei Zixuan were immediately embarrassed.

The rules that Shen Lie talked about are real heavenly rules, and now they are clearly engraved on the wall of the west wall of the North Government Office:

Those who dare to spy on the affairs of the Northern Government will be killed.

Those who dare to talk about the behavior of the North Ya will be killed.

Those who dare to resist the law enforcement of the Beiya will be killed.

In other words, in the Heart Cultivation Pavilion today, not to mention Wei Zixuan's interjection, he and several other ministers present, just listening to the conversation between Shen Lie and Tian Mu should be damned.

Li Bing coughed lightly and said in a deep voice, "Shen Qing, you don't have to be angry. Today, I have issued a special decree for several ministers to observe here. When I was still the crown prince, didn't I follow the first emperor a few times and listen to you report on the investigation of the case? At that moment, my master, Master Zhang Ce, and Commander Wang Hengda, who was in charge of the forbidden army, were also present. ”

Shen Lie nodded and responded, "What Your Majesty said is true." As long as you give a special order, you should obey it. However, adults can only sit in and not talk about it. ”

Li Bing nodded helplessly, and then instructed Wei Zixuan and the others: "You all heard it, do what Shen Qing wants, only listen, don't speak." ”

"The ministers obey."

Looking at Wei Zixuan, who was dejected, Tian Mu couldn't help but sigh secretly, and continued: "Shen Lie, since you mentioned the rules of the Reverse Scale Division, then this official will talk about the rules. As the former Changshi, what should you be guilty of losing the golden seal? ”

Shen Lie smiled faintly: "Capital crime." ”

He replied so simply, it made Tian Mu stunned: "Yo, it's quite happy, then there's nothing to say." Your Majesty, the minister suggested that Shen Lie, Marquis of Changning, be arrested and imprisoned immediately, and sentenced to death for the crime of losing the secret file. ”

When Li Bing heard this, he was slightly stunned, and then said softly to Shen Lie: "Shen Qing, there is no need to make such a fuss, right? Think about it again, where is that golden backup? Just take it out, and I won't pursue it. ”

Shen Lie replied: "Your Majesty, rules are rules, and the minister is willing to accept the guilt." ”

Seeing that he was so resolute, Li Bing had no choice for a while. He looked around, Wei Zixuan and the others all nodded lightly, obviously they had to arrest Shen Lie.

Li Bing was helpless, so he had to wave his hand and said: "Alas, you have contributed to me, and you are the most trusted person around the first emperor, and I don't want to do things perfectly." However, the imperial court has its own laws of the imperial court, and that secret file is extremely important, so it cannot be easily let go. Come on, temporarily confine Shen Lie in Dali Temple, and think about it. When you have completely figured it out, when will you talk about it. ”

The four Forbidden Army Captains walked into the Yangxin Pavilion, restrained Shen Lie with the shackles they had prepared in advance, and took him out of the palace.

The next day, the news that Shen Lie, the former head of the Northern Ya Reverse Scale Division and the Marquis of Changning, was convicted and imprisoned spread throughout the court.

Many old ministers were familiar with Shen Lie and knew his background, so they couldn't help but speculate about what happened in the court, and even Shen Changshi was arrested by the emperor. You must know that in the world of this Holy Tang Dynasty, only Shen Lie has always done someone else's share, and there is no reason for others to provoke Shen Lie.

For a time, there were those who panicked and doubted, those who secretly rejoiced, those who sighed, and those who were panicked.

Isn't that a signal? Has the emperor begun to purge the old ministers of the previous emperor?

Driven by such speculation, civil and military officials gradually took action. They either took the initiative to show their loyalty to Li Bing, or they all made friends with Wei Zixuan, Yin Chengyi, Tian Mu, Gong Chengze and other favored ministers, hoping to keep their official positions.

Smoke miasma, and so on.

Among them, there is only one person who cares about Shen Lie's safety, and he is Dong Tianxing.

After many inquiries, Lao Dong learned that Shen Lie was not imprisoned, but was taken to Dali Temple, and finally breathed a sigh of relief temporarily.

The difference between the Imperial Prison and the Dali Temple is almost the difference between mortal and semi-dead.

As long as Shen Changshi's life is not taken immediately, then things will have a turnaround!

Dong Tianxing couldn't take care of eating or sleeping, so he hid in his study, wrote three letters in a row, and ordered people to send them to Li Jiangyao, Murong Xue and Zhou Xing respectively.

Hurry up and find a way to rescue Shen Lie, otherwise you won't be able to panic!

Murong Xue and Zhou Xing were anxious at the same time after receiving Lao Dong's distress letter. One of them set off from the Suzhou camp, and the other started from the front line of Xiangcheng, and flew to the imperial capital.

In contrast, Li Jiangyao is much more calm. He asked the messenger to bring back a sentence to Dong Tianxing: "If you try to spread the news in the court, just say that Shen Lie has a secret file hidden in his hand." ”

Dong Tianxing wanted to break his head, but he couldn't understand what Li Jiangyao meant by this. What is a secret file? Why can Shen Lie's life be saved?

I don't understand, I really don't understand.

However, he was absolutely convinced of Daduhu's resourceful methods, and since Li Jiangyao said so, he would do it himself.

Lao Dong pondered all night and finally came up with a solution. After the dispersal of the dynasty the next day, it coincided with the monthly poetry meeting of civil officials, taking advantage of the fact that everyone was drunk and the poetry was flourishing, Dong Tianxing pretended to inadvertently provoke the topic of Shen Lie.

Some people who claimed to be well-informed immediately couldn't help but analyze all kinds of things, and the discussion was very lively. Lao Dong selected a few well-known big mouths who love to show off, first poured them a bottle of wine, and then secretly poked and poked the rumors he heard: secret files.

At this moment, those guys were like being beaten with chicken blood, and they excitedly spread it everywhere, and when they met people, they said that they knew the inside story of Shen Lie's imprisonment: because he held an extremely mysterious secret file of the Reverse Scale Division in his hand, he annoyed the emperor.

This kind of gossip, after the addition of good deeds, spread more and more, and soon spread all over the court.

The cleverness of Li Jiangyao's plan lies in taking the initiative to throw out the secret file and turning it into a rumor that is difficult to distinguish between true and false, so that all the people involved in this matter cannot distinguish for a while, whether Shen Lie has that deadly secret file in his hand.

If you say no, but everyone is talking about it, and the more you say it, the more true it becomes; If there is, but after all, those are just rumors on the streets, and Shen Lie himself has never admitted it.

So, between having and not having it, Li Bing was worried that the secret file that did not know the specific content was really left out, so he didn't dare to easily tell Shen Lie what to do.

A few days later, Murong Xue rushed to the imperial capital and entered the palace to face the saint.

Li Bing knew in his heart that his love general had formed a deep friendship with Shen Lie in the past contest with the rebels. Murong Xue didn't wait for the request, and ran back directly from the front line, definitely to cry out for Shen Lie and plead.

In order to block Murong Xue's mouth and avoid embarrassment, Li Bing didn't wait for the other party to ask about Shen Lie, and preemptively threw out a question against Murong Xue's army:

"When are you going to welcome Shang Zhen's cousin?"