"Thank you, General. You've been waiting for a long time." As soon as he sat down, Meng Hongwen personally refilled Gongsun Feihong's tea. The latter quickly stood up and wanted to let him pass, but the former raised his hand to stop him.
"Your Excellency, by giving such high praise, you are really putting down the lower officials." Gongsun Feihong could only say humbly.
"I may not be able to blame myself for the death of Han Sanxi." Meng Hongwen said after beckoning Gongsun Feihong to take his seat again.
"Why do you say this, sir?"
"If after receiving the complaint in the afternoon, I did not ask him to go back and wait for the message, but immediately ordered someone to go to court to retry the case of Chen Ji's fire, then would the general think that he would still die?"
"This——" Gongsun Feihong didn't know how to answer.
"What does the general think about Chen Ji's case?" Meng Hongwen asked again.
"Reply to your Majesty, I thought -" Seeing that the other party finally asked for his opinion, Gongsun Feihong stood up quickly, and while slowly speaking out what he was thinking, he secretly paid attention to Meng Hongwen's changes in demeanor in order to adjust his views in time.
And the wording. Unfortunately, Gongsun Feihong's Taoism was too shallow. Until he finished speaking, he couldn't see any clues from the face of the frontier official in front of him.
"Well - I know." After hearing Gongsun Feihong's opinion, Meng Hongwen just said noncommittally, then took a sip of tea, suddenly turned to face the door and ordered: "Go and invite Mr. Zhou, the chief historian.
Come here."
"Sir, what are you doing?" Gongsun Feihong's heart jumped when he heard this. Some strange thoughts and many questions came to his mind at the same time - is Zhou Quan actually Meng Hongwen's man? Or has Meng Hongwen already secretly connected with Xiao's party?
If not, then why did he suddenly ask Zhou Quan to be called?
"The secret must not be leaked." Seeing Gongsun Feihong's surprised face, Meng Hongwen smiled incomprehensibly, as if he had seen through the former's mind. However, for some reason, Gongsun Feihong calmed down quickly because of this, as if the other man's smile had something to do with it.
A soothing magic.
For this smile, Gongsun Feihong felt both strange and familiar. The strangeness was because of Meng Hongwen, and the familiarity was because Gongsun Feihong had seen the same smile on the faces of His Majesty and Chief Minister Jiang Ning before, so he knew it very well.
What this kind of smile represents is actually the confidence that "everything is under control".
Unparalleled confidence.
The crisp sound of banging came from outside the door again, and with it came the governor of the state, Shi Zhouquan.
"Oh my! Hurry up and hurry up, I'm still busy. You two, Shangguan, have been waiting for a long time. I really deserve to die. I deserve to die!" Before he could show up, Zhou Quan's laughter sounded outside the door. When he walked in, he saw Meng Hongwen and Gongsun Feihong.
Still wearing his official robe, his eyes flashed slightly and he bowed again and again: "The night is deep, and you two haven't rested yet? Hey, you two are so diligent, you are really a role model for the officials of the country, and you are not like a subordinate.
I am used to being lazy and exhausted, so I go home early to rest after my errands every day. Compared with you two, I am really ashamed of myself. I only feel ashamed to have failed your majesty and the emperor's kindness!"
"Yu Chun is serious. In such weather, I have to ask you to come late at night. I feel sorry for you. However, the case is urgent and I have to do it. I hope Yu Chun will understand. Come on, come on, Yu Chun will sit down and rest for now. Who is coming?
, hurry up and watch the tea for Mr. Zhou!" For some reason, Meng Hongwen changed his previous attitude tonight, and turned to Zhou Quan with a pleasant look, and took the initiative to stand up to greet him, which made people feel like spring breeze.
"Don't dare! How can this be done? No way! Your Excellency, you have really embarrassed me. Please sit down first, please sit down first!" Zhou Quan is also a veteran in officialdom. Even though the alarm bells have been ringing in his heart, he looks flattered.
His demeanor and flattering attitude were still sincere and sincere, without any trace of forgery. Gongsun Feihong on the side was secretly speechless, and he even sighed in his heart: "This is an official! If he didn't know that these two are political enemies, he would have
Now that they are so affectionate, I have to take it seriously!"
In the guest room where the two officials pretended to be affectionate, tea was quickly delivered. The three people in the study took their seats in order. Meng Hongwen took the lead in holding the tea and signaled Zhou Quan to join him. The latter quickly thanked Zhou Quan and wet his lips slightly.
Putting down the tea cup, he took the initiative to speak: "I dare to ask, my lord, you summoned me tonight. What are your orders?"
"When discussing matters in the front and back halls the other day, Yuchun Zeng and Siming each expressed some opinions. The two Japanese officials thought about it again and again, and still felt that what Yuchun said was very reasonable, so I specially asked someone to invite you here tonight.
Let’s discuss it carefully and see if we can set regulations on this so that we can start the investigation as soon as possible.”
"Oh - that's it -" Zhou Quan nodded when he heard the words, but deliberately slowed down his speech while he quickly calculated in his mind.
What kind of medicine is sold in Meng Hongwen’s gourd?
If Meng Hongwen didn't know his intentions that day, Zhou Quan would not believe it. If the other party was really so stupid, how could the emperor and several old ministers regard him as the successor of the first minister Jiang Ning and vigorously cultivate him? In this case, Meng Hongwen
What does tonight mean?
"It's broken! Could it be that you are invited to enter the jar?" Zhou Quan suddenly thought.
After all, he had exposed the window covering the case involving the banned soldiers in public. Unless Meng Hongwen was prepared to bite the bullet and suppress the case without investigating, he would not be able to avoid this sensitive issue, so the other party deliberately found him alone to "fix it"
No matter what they talked about tonight, Meng Hongwen will release the news to the outside world tomorrow. It was Zhou Quan who was the first to instigate the ban on soldiers, and the investigation charter was also his "idea" for Meng Hongwen. Once the Yan family became angry, Meng Hongwen
You can completely wipe him out and push him forward to hit him with thunder.
"If I had known this, I should have found an excuse not to come tonight!" The more Zhou Quan thought about it, the more frightened he became. He felt cold sweat running down his back, and he regretted that he should not have been so smart in the first place. But then he thought about it and realized that something was wrong. If Meng Hongwen
If you really want to do this, you don’t have to wait until tonight. You can do it after the discussion in the back hall that day.
"Since I'm not inviting you to the urn, what does Meng Huxu mean? Is it possible that someone like me, Zhou, is the one who got me wrong?" Zhou Quan continued to think.
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Speaking of which, Meng Hongwen will serve his second term in another year. What if the other party had originally planned to punish the Yan family before returning to Beijing, but had been suffering from no chance? It is not impossible. His Majesty asked him to come to Liaozhou for this purpose.
What? Now that five years have passed, the Yan family is still stable. How will he explain to His Majesty after returning to Beijing? Does he still want to enter the Political Affairs Hall? If this is the case, then his idea that day will undoubtedly scratch Meng Hongwen's itch.
At this point, the other party can just go with the flow and use this case as an excuse!
Thinking of this, Zhou Quan glanced at Meng Hongwen subconsciously, and suddenly saw Gongsun Feihong sitting next to him, and his heart moved again.
"That's right! Why did you forget this guy?" Zhou Quan's mind became more and more vivid, and he felt that he was gradually discovering the truth.
Anyone dares to touch the Wuying reconnaissance cavalry? What's more, there are dozens of forbidden soldiers' crossbows involved in the case? If Liang Tianchuan really had such connections, how could he be driven all the way from Chizhou by the Jiezi camp like a lost dog?
Liaozhou? The most intriguing thing is that the gang of prisoner robbers had obviously killed more than a dozen military camp scouts, so why did they leave Gongsun Feihong alone, and the latter was still unscathed?
Chen Ji’s Fire is also worthy of further scrutiny.
As soon as Gongsun Feihong entered the city that day, something happened to Chen Ji, and today Han Sanxi died. These two incidents seemed to be caused by Yan Burui's guilty conscience. On the other hand, thinking about it, it may not be that the Yan family had already noticed a problem, so he
Being in a hurry to do the cutting can also explain why Qishanyuan did both things so sloppily.
If the matter is urgent, just follow the authority, just completely cut off Chen Ji's clue.
If we think along this line of thinking, it seems that it is not difficult to guess Meng Hongwen’s thoughts.
"Ahem - I already understand what your lord means." Zhou Quan, who thought he had figured out everything, cleared his throat and spoke again. Although he had thought a lot just now, it was only in the blink of an eye.
"That being the case, then where should I start investigating this case? Can Yu Chun give me some advice?" Meng Hongwen still had a smile on his face, but his eyes, as deep as the night, were already faintly shining with a faint light.
On the dark long street, Tian Zhitang continued to walk side by side with the white horse. Seeing that he was just frowning and thinking in thought along the way, the white horse did not bother him, and he was leisurely humming a tuneless tune.
Seeing Beicheng getting closer and closer, Baima suddenly dodged towards the dark alley on the street. Tian Zhitang was just wondering when he heard the sound of beetle leaves scraping from the other end of the street.
"That's it." Tian Zhitang shook his head and chuckled, then took out a ball of gold silk tape from his arms.
After all, Liaozhou is an important town in the border state, and there is no room for any mistakes in matters such as city defense and curfew, otherwise it would have been infiltrated by Xuanfang's secret agents. Having said that, some things are not completely unaccommodable.
In just a moment, the night watch team had turned around the corner. Tian Zhitang looked from a distance and immediately stopped smiling. In addition to a group of infantry, he saw a dozen knights wearing helmets and carrying armor.
Although there were only a dozen horses moving forward slowly, they showed the terrifying momentum of thousands of troops merging into battle to kill the enemy. Especially the leader, whose evil aura seemed to have real substance, rode the horse under the dark night, as if
It’s like a devil coming to the world!
Tian Zhitang was looking at the man from a distance, and the other person stopped and looked in this direction. As soon as their eyes came into contact, Tian Zhitang suddenly had the illusion that his eyes were stinging, and then the focused gazes of the other dozen knights made him feel like a ray of light on his back.
It's as if he is surrounded by thousands of troops, and his life and death are only determined by the thoughts of the opponent's general.
"What a sharp look!" He couldn't help but secretly praise, and took the initiative to flash his gold silk sash to the general, and then clasped his fists in greeting. From the other side's ferocious-looking gold-plated tiger head hood and fine and bright clothes
From the fish scale chain armor, it seems that this person's official position should be not low.
Seeing the tape in Tian Zhitang's hand clearly, the hostility in the general's eyes suddenly disappeared, but he did not express too much. He just nodded and said hello, and then continued to lead the team forward, and soon disappeared into the depths of the night. Until that order
The awe-inspiring sound of the scraping of armor leaves could no longer be heard, and the white horse sneaked out of the hiding place, returned to Tian Zhitang, and looked in the direction where the knights left with a look of surprise.
"Oh my God! Have the Xuanfang people been dishonest again recently? Otherwise, why would these guys go to the city to patrol at night? It's really a wave of ups and downs. This prisoner robbery case is still hot!"
"Isn't this usually the case?" Tian Zhitang asked puzzledly.
"Nonsense! I'm afraid there's no such night patrol even inside the palace!"
"Oh?" Hearing what the other party said was so exaggerated, Tian Zhitang couldn't believe it. Where in the world is there a city with stricter defenses than the Imperial City?
"Don't believe it! Do you know where these guys came from?" Baima glanced sideways at Tian Zhitang, then put away his playful smile and said solemnly: "Wu Huan Qi! I have my invincible Liaozhou Wu Huan Qi.
! Even those pampered trash snacks in the capital are not worthy of carrying their shoes!"
"No way to ride?" Tian Zhitang, who was originally calm and calm, his pupils suddenly shrank, and his heart was full of mixed feelings.
It turns out to be Wu Huan Qi!
As everyone knows, among the seven large, nine small and sixteenth battalions of the Liaozhou Army, the Wuhuan Cavalry Battalion is recognized as the most powerful in combat. It was Yan Rong's personal army when he was in charge of the Dali Commandery Seal. The so-called "Wuhuan" is taken from
The meaning of "there will be no return even after death", this name alone shows the bravery and fierceness of the Wu Return Cavalry.
At its peak, the Liaozhou Army had no less than 100,000 troops, and only a thousand could be selected for the No Return Cavalry Camp at most. However, these mere thousand cavalrymen followed Yan Rong on the battlefield for twenty years, and fought with iron and blood in nearly a hundred battles.
His astonishing achievements in fighting and battle formations gave him the reputation of "I am invincible on the battlefield"! His death battle order of "advance towards the enemy, and there will be no return even if you die" once became the name of all the best generals in the world.
The most terrifying nightmare often makes them sit up in shock in their Chinese army tent surrounded by heavy troops!
In a sense, it is precisely because of this invincible cavalry that can always stabilize the world in times of fierce battles and dangers, that Yan Rong can be invincible in his twenty-two years of military career, conquering the kings of all countries one by one.
Banner, he expanded more than 6,000 miles of territory for the Daluo Dynasty, and used the blood and tears of kings and ministers of other countries and the bones of millions of enemy troops to forge his name as a war god. In that "King Yan Luo has no famous generals, and he will not be able to fight before he rides."
In the era of the 1970s, even the most outstanding elites of the imperial guards from various countries, such as Dagui Yulongzhi, Xuanfang Weiyangjun and Zhou Rong Changmen Jiashi, could only act as foils for Qian Liaozhou Wuhuanqi! p>
However, "high achievements are hard to reward, and powerful ministers are taboo." Since Yan Rong removed his armor and hung seals fifteen years ago and begged for his bones from the reigning Xianzhuang Ming Emperor, the imperial court began to change the tactics to suppress the Liaozhou Army.
The Wuhuan Cavalry Battalion was the first to bear the brunt and became the most unlucky one, so that this invincible division, which was the most brave in the world and had never lost a battle or any enemy army, was actually used by one of its own people with a soft knife.
The blood was drained bit by bit, and the most "famous" sword was none other than Yue Zhifeng's martial arts myth of "Ten Thousand Riders to Prevent Changes".
Yue Zhifeng, who ranks at the top of the four poles of martial arts, is indeed a god with swordsmanship, but the bravery of an ordinary man has always been a joke in the face of the power of the military formation, and it is still the most ridiculous kind! If martial arts masters can really compete with the army with their personal bravery, then all dynasties
How stupid did the emperors and ministers of the past dynasties have to be to spend large sums of national funds to maintain military armaments? Anyone with a discerning eye knows that it was not Yue Zhifeng who made the Xuanfang people retreat at all, but due to some inconvenient reasons,
It’s just a tacit understanding.
However, the world is so ignorant. As long as the statement is exciting enough and gimmicky, no matter how absurd it is, they are willing to believe it. If a lie is repeated a thousand times, it will become the truth. For many years, the emperor and ministers of the Yu Dynasty have repeatedly claimed that those Xuanfang Rangers were "succumbed to Yue Zhifeng"
"I'm scared to retreat on my own", I would rather put down my face and lift up a bastard to the altar than wipe out the merits of Liaozhou's soldiers who conquered the enemy without fighting or fighting. Who else cares about the truth?
Those who wear armor for the country should be respected and remembered by every Chinese, but they have fought and fought for the country countless times, and conquered thousands of miles with their blood; for twenty years, they have been waiting for the frost to cover their armor, and they have defended the country with their loyalty.
In the end, all these efforts only resulted in suppression by the court and forgetfulness by the people. How can you not make the soldiers feel cold?
Liaozhou is the Yan family’s Liaozhou, and it didn’t happen without reason.