Shen Yi's words scared the young general to the point where he knelt on the ground.
"Your Majesty the Imperial Envoy!"
Zhao Zhuo lowered his head deeply and said in a deep voice: "There is a big misunderstanding in this matter!"
He looked up at Shen Yi's carriage and said loudly: "Please, the Imperial Envoy and the general return to Fengyang Mansion to find out the matter together and resolve the misunderstanding!"
Mr. Shen didn't speak for a long time.
After a moment, Shen Yi's almost emotionless voice came out: "What misunderstanding?"
Zhao Zhuo gritted his teeth and said: "There must be some misunderstanding about the fire at the imperial envoy's camp last night. Please follow me and go back to Fengyang first. Within three days, I will find out the matter and give you an explanation!"
There was no sound again in Master Shen's carriage.
Luo Yong put his head into the carriage and said something to Shen Yi. After a while, he turned to look at Zhao Zhuo and said loudly: "General Zhao, my imperial envoy said that since this matter is a misunderstanding, then
There is nothing left to investigate, and the imperial envoy did not say anything about this matter or what it has to do with the Huaihe Navy."
"My master was injured by anger last night. He needs to return to Jiankang immediately to recuperate. Please make way for General Zhao to let my master go back to Jiankang."
Hearing this, Zhao Zhuo immediately became a little anxious. He stood up from the ground, looked at Shen Yi, gritted his teeth and said: "Your Majesty, please go back to Fengyang City with the general!"
Luo Yong got into the carriage again and communicated with Mr. Shen. Then the clerk of the Di newspaper department looked back at Zhao Zhuo with a majestic look.
"General Zhao, my master is asking you, if he doesn't go back today, you will stop him here as an imperial envoy!"
"In broad daylight, the Zhao family is about to attack an injured imperial envoy!"
Zhao Zhuo was speechless.
But he still refused to give in, and the two sides were deadlocked.
The scene fell into deathly silence.
I don't know how long it took, but Shen Yi in the carriage coughed and said slowly: "Major General, come forward and I'll say a few words to you."
Zhao Zhuo immediately stepped forward and came to Shen Yi's carriage. He lowered his head slightly and said, "Your Majesty, please speak."
At this time, Mr. Shen was sitting lazily in the carriage, safe and sound.
He set the fire himself, so naturally he would not be burned by the fire he set. At this moment, he was just pretending. Seeing Zhao Zhuo approaching, he said calmly: "The matter has come to this, do you want me to do it today?"
It is definitely impossible to go back to Fengyang with you, not as good as you and me..."
"How about we each take a step back?"
Zhao Zhuo was silent for a while and asked: "May I ask, the imperial envoy, how can we each take a step back?"
"Let me leave Fengyang Mansion."
Shen Yi said calmly: "I also promise you that I will not go back to Jiankang immediately."
"I will find a town to live near Fengyang Mansion and rest for a few days."
The Huaihe Navy's sphere of influence is roughly the scope of Fengyang Mansion. Over the past few decades, several generations of the Zhao family have managed Fengyang Mansion as if they were their own. However, outside Fengyang Mansion, their control capabilities are very average.
Already.
Zhao Zhuo was silent for a while, and then asked: "How many days will the imperial envoy rest after?"
"I'm waiting for General Zhao to meet me in that town."
Shen Yi said calmly: "General Zhao and I will discuss the specific matters slowly."
Zhao Zhuo remained silent.
Mr. Shen coughed and said quietly: "Otherwise, we will have a stalemate here. Although I am in Fengyang, the people from the Di Reporting Department may have spread the news out of Fengyang. Unless the Major General takes me as a
The imperial envoy killed me with one blow, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to keep me here forever."
Zhao Zhuo closed his eyes and thought for a long time, then his voice was a little hoarse and he said: "Your Majesty, there is a town to the southeast of here called Yinjian Town."
"That's right on the edge of Fengyang Mansion."
"The last general..."
He lowered his head and said respectfully: "I will escort you to Yinjian Town."
Shen Yi in the carriage nodded indifferently and said: "Okay, then I will go to Yinjian Town to recuperate."
As a result, Zhao Zhuo got on his mount again. With a wave of his hand, the fifty people he brought lined up in two rows, followed behind Shen Yi's carriage, and escorted Master Shen's carriage.
Yinjian Town is not far from Fengyang. A group of people will arrive in this town before dark. The only inn in the town is immediately commandeered by Shen Yi's bodyguard. In the darkness, four or five people take the imperial envoy from the carriage.
He "lifted" Shen Yi down and then sent Shen Yi into the guest room of the inn, closing the doors and windows tightly.
See no one.
In the next two days, Mr. Shen stayed in his room for two days and basically didn't go out much.
On the evening of the third day, Shen Yi was in his room, leisurely drinking tea. Jiang Sheng carefully opened the door, then came to Shen Yi, lowered his head slightly and said, "Master..."
He whispered: "More than a hundred riders entered Yinjian Town!"
Shen Yi nodded slightly, stood up, stretched lazily, yawned and said, "There's nothing to fuss about. I've been waiting for several days, aren't you just waiting for him to come? You go out and guard, if Zhao Lu
Come to me in person and let him in."
Jiang Sheng nodded and went to guard the door.
More than half an hour later, when the sky was completely dark, a hoarse voice sounded at the door of Shen Yi's room.
"Is Commissioner Shen here?"
Jiang Sheng at the door glanced at the person coming and asked boldly: "But General Zhao?"
The middle-aged man at the door sighed silently when he heard this, and said a little tiredly: "It's me."
Jiang Sheng opened the door, lowered his head slightly and said, "My young master has been waiting for the general for a long time."
When General Zhao saw this, he was very sensible. He turned back silently, glanced at his entourage behind him, and said calmly: "You guys wait for me outside. No matter what happens, you are not allowed to move rashly until I let you in.
"
"yes!"
With a chorus of responses, General Zhao walked into the room where Mr. Shen was recovering, with his hands behind his back.
As soon as he walked into this room, Zhao Lu couldn't help but frown.
He glanced at the back of the young man lying on the bed, then found a chair and sat down, sighing silently: "There is no smell of medicine in the room, obviously Brother Shen is not injured."
He looked at Shen Yi and said slowly: "Brother Shen went to all this trouble just to see me, and now I'm here."
"Brother Shen, if you have anything to say, just say it."
Mr. Shen, who was lying on the bed, "sit up in shock in his dying illness" and slowly sat up. He sat on the edge of the bed, looked at General Zhao sitting in front of him, and smiled.
"Although there were no injuries on the body, the fire really frightened Shen a lot. The Marquis didn't know anything about it. Shen has been dreaming at night these past few days, and his dreams were all about the fire that burned the sky red."
"It's really scary."
Seeing him sitting up, Zhao Lu was silent for a while and then said: "Brother Shen, you should have started this fire yourself?"
Shen Yi did not answer directly, but looked at the middle-aged man in front of him and said indifferently: "Master Hou, does it matter who let go?"
Zhao Lu shook his head silently, and then laughed at himself: "As expected of Shen Qilang, who is in charge of the southeast, Quanzi and the others are no match for you."
"Master Hou, what you said is wrong."
The smile on Mr. Shen's face faded and he said slowly: "Actually, Mr. Ling and the others were so powerful that Mr. Shen had no choice but to take this step."
General Zhao put his hands in the sleeves in front of him. He looked up at Shen Yi and spoke in a calm voice.
"You burned the name of the imperial envoy in Fengyang like this and forced it on my Huaihe Navy. It was indeed a cruel move, but..."
General Zhao narrowed his eyes and said in a deep voice: "But if you take this result back to Jiankang, you will immediately put the Jiankang court into a situation where it is difficult to get off the tiger. When the time comes, Zhongshu and the prime ministers may not be annoyed with you.
."
"Even Your Majesty..."
Zhao Lu said slowly: "Maybe I will also blame you, Brother Shen."
"Use the power to force the court!"
Shen Yi looked at Zhao Lu quietly, with no expression on his face. He said quietly: "So, it depends on who can't accept it more."
"Master Marquis, you have been busy fighting on the front line, but now you have left and rushed back. It is obvious..."
Mr. Shen looked calm: "General, you cannot accept falling out with the imperial court."
Zhao Lu snorted when he heard this.
"I just don't want to see the Chen court being dragged into a desperate situation by the impulse of you young people!"
"No matter what the Marquis says."
Mr. Shen looked calm and said calmly: "Master Hou, you are here after all."
"When things have reached this point, there is nothing else to say. While the general is not busy today, Shen wants to have a good chat with the general about the Huaihe Navy."
"By the way, let's discuss terms with the general."
Zhao Lu raised his head, looked at Shen Yi, and his tone was surprisingly calm: "You want to talk to me? Are you qualified?"
This sentence is not a sarcasm, just a question.
Shen Yi was not angry, he just silently took out the gold medal he had carried with him for a long time from his arms, stood up, put it in front of Zhao Lu, and then asked with a smile.
"Is that enough now?"
Zhao Lu didn't even look at the gold medal, but said slowly: "I'm afraid it may not be enough."
This gold medal represents the emperor.
What Zhao Lu means by this is that the emperor's will alone may not be able to completely influence the situation of the court.
Shen Yi frowned, took the gold medal back into his arms, and said in a deep voice: "If the general has this attitude, then we will have no way to continue talking."
Zhao Lu was silent for a moment, then closed his eyes. After thinking for a long time, he opened his eyes and looked at Shen Yi.
"Chief Shen, what do you want to talk about? How to talk about it?"
"Of course we are talking about the Huaihe Navy and about Zhao..."
"Zhao Clan."
For the first time, someone directly said the two words "Zhao Clan" in front of Zhao Lu.
Shen Yi looked serious and asked: "Master Hou, what do you think?"
