Chapter 19: The Mystery of Life and Death
"What about the 'Tian' secret spy? What can they do? β
After listening to Fan Zeng's words, Wu Yang was even more curious about the secret spy with the "Tian" name, and he couldn't imagine how far a secret spy at this level could go.
"'Tian' is a secret spy-" Fan Zeng's old face was full of fascination, "In our family, it should be like Qin Xiang Lu Buwei, who can support the monarch of a country, can influence the rise and fall of the dynasty, can live in seclusion behind the scenes, and can also show off in front of others, not only can make the current situation for his own use, but also make a situation and build momentum!" It's a pity that such a talent would be willing to lie under my secret spy department? β
Fan Zeng's words made Wu Yang leisurely fascinated, and he couldn't imagine what kind of power could turn his hands into clouds, turn his hands into rain, and manipulate the current situation in the world.
He looked at the lonely scroll on the lonely wooden shelf at the end of the hall on the second floor, and asked tentatively: "Is there such a capable person in the Great Song Dynasty?" β
Fan Zeng also looked in that direction, with nostalgia on his face, "That's just a legend, whether there is such a person, our family can't say, our family just hopes that there is such a secret spy in our hearts, who can help the Great Song Dynasty rewrite the defeat in the dark!" β
Hearing Fan Zeng say this, Wu Yang knew that this person's identity must be the biggest secret of the secret spy department, and he didn't need to think about it to know that if there was such a person, he would definitely have a pivotal position in the enemy country, and once his identity was exposed, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Wu Yang immediately changed the topic: "Fan Zhangyin said the day before yesterday that he wanted to sort out Yue Fei's list of military intelligence spies, I don't know if he can find anything?" β
"They're all deadβ"
It was Zhang Sijiu who answered, he came over with a bunch of scrolls and piled them on the counter, and then took out a list full of names from the drawer and handed it to Wu Yang.
According to the analysis of Yue Fei's past correspondence and the foreign operations of the Yue family's army, Yue Fei did not deliberately send spies to the Jin country, these people were all the commanders or deputy commanders of the Zhongbaoyi Society who were active in the Jinzhan area at that time, and they voluntarily voted into Yue Fei's name because they admired Yue Fei's prestige, and were incorporated into the loyal protection army, and undertook the task of collecting intelligence for the Yue family's army to fight against Jin."
Yue Fei incorporated a total of 18 loyal and protective rebel armies, and each loyal and protective rebel army had an intelligence department responsible for collecting intelligence for Yue's army. The Intelligence Department has a director who directly liaises with Yue Fei's military aircraft counselor, and this military aircraft counselor is Xie Dacheng.
"After Yue Fei withdrew, the Jin State carried out a frenzied encirclement and suppression of these loyal and righteous troops, and the eighteen loyal and righteous armies were wiped out without exception. Now it seems that Dong Rong, who was still free from the Taihang Loyal Protection Righteous Army, is a pity, but now Dong Rong is also dead, and even Xie Dacheng is dead, and the help that Da Song can get on the battlefield is getting less and less! β
The atmosphere on the second floor became dull for a while, this is not Zhang Sijiu's concern alone, as early as the twenty-sixth year of Shaoxing, it is also the second year of Qin Hui's illness and death, and he learned that the emperor of the Jin State Wan Yan Liang was preparing to overhaul the Bianjing palace room, and there was a plan to move the capital again, Zhang Jun, who was relegated to Yongzhou, had the same opinion as Huang Zhong, and they all believed that Wan Yan Liang's move had the intention of watching the Great Song Dynasty.
Regardless of his degraded status, he sent a message to the emperor: "Today's situation is extremely serious, and Your Majesty will give it up to him...... Chen Cheng is afraid that after a few years, the people's strength will be exhausted, the financial use will be lacking, the soldiers will be old, the people's hearts will be separated, the loyal martyrs will be wiped out, and internal and external troubles will still arise, what will Your Majesty do? β
The Emperor ignored him.
Zhang Jun did not give up, and once again pointed the spearhead at Qin Hui and his henchmen Wan Qiao, Tang Siwei and others, and denounced them for "eliminating loyalty and goodness, and conspiring their evil intentions by obeying the enemy's orders...... Gather treasures, have a private room, all for the sake of the body and not for His Majesty! β
Zhang Jun thought that he spoke properly, and all his loyalty was for the sake of His Majesty and the community, but who knew that it completely annoyed the emperor, and he issued an edict strictly ordering Zhang Jun not to talk nonsense in Yongzhou, and reprimanded him for "inviting honor and talking about side affairs!" β
Zhang Jun was just reprimanded by the emperor's edict, and Liang Xun, a Jinshi of Dongping, was not so lucky, he was personally demoted by the emperor to the state army thousands of miles away, and died in the degraded land within two years.
Zhao Gou's attitude can not be said to be resolute, but the court and the people still have doubts about the peace policy insisted by Zhao Gou and the late Prime Minister Qin Hui in these years, and the ministers are afraid that he is the emperor, and it is not good to point the finger directly at him, and they have poured out the humiliation and anger brought by the emperor's kneeling to the courtiers in these years to Qin Hui, in an attempt to alert the emperor and become a master of Zhongxing who works hard to govern the country.
I don't know if I was dissatisfied with the courtiers' repeated urging, and the emperor, who had no sense of existence in the court after the peace conference, suddenly hardened once, and he made a clear edict to the world, admitting that it was his own arbitrariness to pay tribute to the Jin people, and it had nothing to do with Qin Hui.
"The policy of peace is cut off from my will, Qin Hui can praise me, how can it be defined by its survival!"
For those who tried in every possible way to clear his name, Zhao Gou did not have the slightest gratitude, but called them "ignorant".
"Those who are close to the ignorant people advocate floating rumors to confuse the public, and even have fake edicts, resist the charter and buses, and discuss side affairs in vain, which is very appalling. From now on, the Constitution should be reset! β
"Let's go back to Yue Fei's military intelligence spy." Seeing that the topic was far away, Fan Zeng pulled the topic back again.
"Yes, palm print!"
Zhang Sijiu nodded, and spread out one of the scrolls piled on the counter, on which was Yue Fei's relationship map, his wife and children, in-laws, generals with names and surnames, and Yue Fei's intimacy, their respective whereabouts and life and death after Yue Fei's death, etc., with Yue Fei as the center, listed them one by one.
After Yue Fei's death, his eldest son Yue Yun was executed at the same time, the eldest daughter Yue Anniang was killed, the second daughter Yue Xiao'e, that is, the folk called Yue Yinhua threw herself into the well and died, his wife Li Wa took the third son Yue Lin to exile in Lingnan, and the second son Yue Lei was exiled to Yunnan and has died of illness. The fourth son, Yue Zhen, and the fifth son, Yue Ai, changed their surnames to E and lived in seclusion in Nie's Dawan in Huangmei County. Yue Fei's wife and children were all under surveillance, and there was no movement. β
"Yue Fei's father and son and the sixteen generals under their command are collectively known as the eighteen generals of the Yue family's army, Yue Fei's father and son and Zhang Xian were killed in the eleventh year of Shaoxing, Wang Gui was backed by the official family and Qin Hui, Tang Huai, Yang Zaixing, and Gao Zhong were all killed in battle before Yue Fei was imprisoned, Cao Ning committed suicide, Zhang Xian died of illness, and Shi Quan failed to assassinate Qin Hui and was killed; Zhang Bao, Wang Heng, Yu Hualong, and He Yuanqing all committed suicide after Yue Fei's death, and Niu Gao, Ji Qing, Yan Chengfang and Lu Wenlong are still alive, all of whom are currently in hiding. These four are good fighters, all of them are heroes, if you want to say that the four of them can plan such a big game of chess, and know how to take advantage of the situation and build momentum to avenge the old marshal, I don't believe it! The only thing left is only Xie Dacheng, who is not only Yue Fei's military aircraft counselor, but also has an excellent personal relationship with Yue Yun, and is a brother who worships his son. β
Fan Zeng's people also found out that after Yue Fei's father and son were killed, some people heard Xie Dacheng say that he would fight to avenge his good brother and avenge Yue Shuai! Xie Dacheng is different from all the veterans of the Gushan Old Camp, he once disappeared for a period of time after the death of Yue Fei's father and son, and then suddenly appeared in the Gushan Old Camp, because he was blind in one eye and lame in another leg, under the joint guarantee of the veterans of the Gushan Camp, Xie Dacheng finally lived in the Gushan Camp.
"At that time, Shi Quan's assassination of Prime Minister Qin Hui failed, and he suspected that Shi Quan's assassination of Qin Hui was instructed by Xie Dacheng...... All the evidence points to this Yue Fei's military aircraft counselor, but he is dead! β
Zhang Sijiu said as he observed the look on Wu Yang's face.
Wu Yang thought thoughtfully: "We also had doubts about Xie Dacheng's death, and interrogated many veterans of the Gushan Battalion, and they all unanimously said that Xie Dacheng died of illness on the eve of the Lantern Festival, and the grave was also pointed out to us, it is indeed a new grave, Fan Zhangyin is not suspiciousββ"
Fan Zeng smiled: "If you don't die, you will be clear when you open the coffin." Xiao Wu doesn't need to worry about these things, our family has ordered someone to open the coffin for autopsy, the dead can't live, and the living can't escape! β
Wu Yang looked at Fan Zeng's smiling face and woke up: "Fan Zhang's print, isn't it already tested?" The result? β
Fan Zeng saw that there was no difference in Wu Yang's face, and nodded secretly in his heart, and his evaluation of Wu Yang was a few points higher.
It is necessary to know that the world attaches great importance to Yin, and what is admired is "entering the soil for peace" and "death is great", and no matter how many grievances there are in life, they should disappear with the fall of the loess. The reason why the servants in the yamen are called "cheap karma" is because although they are to help the government solve the case, the examination of the corpse itself is considered disrespectful to the deceased by the world!
Wu Yang, as the son of the Jiedu Mansion in a town, was able to abandon these prejudices, and proceeded from respecting the facts, so Fan Zeng could not take a high look at him.
"Lord Xiao Wu, you are really a wonderful person, unlike that class of rotten Confucians, as soon as they heard that the coffin was opened for an autopsy, they cried like a little daughter-in-law who had been wronged by her husband! Come on, look at this again! β
Zhang Sijiu said and opened a scroll on the counter, which was Xie Dacheng's autopsy report.
Zhang Sijiu pointed out the key points in the autopsy report to Wu Yang, and explained to him in detail-
Although Xie Dacheng is Yue Fei's military aircraft counselor, he is a civilian, but his martial arts skills are not low. In the battle of Zhuxian Town, Yue Fei shook the tens of thousands of gold troops led by Yan Wushu with eight hundred iron cavalry, and then covered up the footmen, and then attacked the enemy on both sides with several light cavalry.
Xie Dacheng was one of the leaders of the light cavalry, he led the light cavalry to rush back and forth, posing a great threat to the flank of the Jin army, and in the end, Yue Fei won a great victory in Zhuxian Town with 20,000 against 100,000! Xie Dacheng was injured in this battle, with a knife in the center of his eyebrows, deep visible bones, a shot in his left foot, and a crack in his calf.
After the war, Xie Dacheng completely switched to a civilian position, responsible for the intelligence exchange in Yue Fei's army.
During the Third Northern Expedition, Yue Yun once saved Xie Dacheng's life, because he exposed his position in advance, he was almost dumped by the Jin soldiers, although he finally relied on a fierce fight to get out of the encirclement, Yue Fei beat Yue Yun with forty military sticks on the grounds of "rash advance".
Xie Dacheng also became sworn brothers with Yue Yun because of this. Xie Dacheng has never married a wife, and Yue Yun also joked that he will pass on a son to Xie Dacheng in the future.
Zhang Sijiu pointed to the autopsy grid and smiled proudly: "Although the body buried in Xie Dacheng's grave also has a wound on the center of the eyebrows, after careful inspection by our servants, this wound should have fallen in the past one or two years, not an old wound of ten or twenty years." There is also a scar on the left leg, Xie Dacheng's leg was very lame when he entered the Gushan camp, it should be that the lower leg did not heal well after the fracture, according to the examination, although the left leg calf bone of this corpse also has traces of bone cracking, there is no sign of fracture. Based on these two points, it can be said with certainty that this corpse is not Xie Dacheng! β
Zhang Sijiu said that Wu Yang knew, and he didn't know, about Xie Dacheng's death, when the three divisions were interrogated, they naturally understood it.
Wu Yang asked Zhang Sijiu: "Where are Xie Dacheng's bones now?" β
Fan Zeng didn't hide it from him: "Xie Dacheng's bones are in the cellar of Bingjingwu, where there is the coroner's coroner's room of the secret spy department. β
"Ice Ease?"
Wu Yang remembered the iced sour plum soup given to him by the official family in the summer, in which the crushed ice the size of lotus seeds collided with each other, making a dinging sound, and waited for it to slowly turn into ice lines, from the mouth to the abdomen, not to mention how refreshing it was in the summer. Suddenly hearing that the ice cube storage place was actually the coroner's coroner's office, I couldn't help but "gurgle" in my throat.
Fan Zeng "quacked" and smiled: "Bingjing Wu has always been the cover of my secret spy department. Rest assured, the ice cellar in the palace is not in the Bingjing Administration, it is far away! Who would dare to put the bones in the royal ice cellar and die? β
Wu Yang has a city government again, in the end he is a son who is used to being pampered, and when he heard Fan Zeng say this, the disgust in his heart disappeared.
"If Lord Xiao Wu is interested, you can go to Bingjing to check it out for yourself tomorrow and see the means of falsifying the corpse! It's a pity that the fake is the fake, and it will be revealed after all! β
"Since the Xie Dacheng buried in the grave is fake, where is the real Xie Dacheng?"