"Are you serious about what you just said? Governor Zhao really intends to abandon the city and flee?" Yue Fei watched Zong Ze go away and said suddenly...
The soldier next to him clasped his fists and said: "How dare you deceive the general? At dawn today, Magistrate Zhao turned into a businessman and wanted to leave from the west gate with a large amount of family property. Because the general ordered us to guard the city gate strictly and conduct a careful investigation
, to prevent the enemy from entering the city. When our army brothers came forward to interrogate, they saw that the other party was hesitating, so they stopped him and wanted to send him back to the military camp for review. Only then did Magistrate Zhao tell the truth, but he insisted that he did not escape, but
I want to transport those ancient paintings on gold and stone to a safe place."
Yue Fei devoted himself to serving his country, and hated people who were greedy for life and afraid of death. He gritted his teeth and said angrily: "We are here to fight bloody battles, but as a high-ranking prefect, he actually wants to abandon the city and flee. If the people know,
People must be in panic, it’s really unreasonable and extremely hateful!”
Having said this, he thought about Li Qi's close friendship with Li Qingzhao, and couldn't help but hesitate a little, saying, "Is Mrs. Zhao here too?"
The soldier shook his head and said, "I haven't seen the prefect's wife yet."
Yue Fei nodded and said, "Where is Magistrate Zhao now?"
The soldier said: "Since the brothers first arrived here, many people did not recognize Magistrate Zhao, so they were sent to the camp to wait for the general to make a decision."
"Does anyone still know about this?"
"It was still dark at that time, and not many people left the city. Only our brothers knew about it."
Yue Fei nodded and said: "Very good, I will give you my order later. Anyone who dares to speak out about this matter and disturb the morale of the army will be dealt with according to the military law."
"As you command!"
Yue Fei hurried to the camp. As soon as he entered the room, he saw Zhao Mingcheng sitting on a chair drinking tea. He looked down upon this man even more. However, because of Li Qi's face, he finally endured it and took ten thousand steps back and said that he couldn't bear it.
So what, Zhao Mingcheng is a civil servant, he is a military commander, and his rank is several positions higher than him. When you meet him, you have to salute to show respect, cup your hands and say: "Forgive me, forgive me, because this is a critical period.
Therefore, the soldiers are very nervous and they should not have taken the magistrate by mistake. I have punished them severely."
Zhao Mingcheng seems to have inherited the common surname of civil servants and is timid and afraid of death. A few days ago, he saw the enemy troops coming to Laizhou City unimpeded, which was not bad, but Yue Fei stayed behind closed doors, although the enemy troops finally
He still retreated, but the reason was that the enemy was not well prepared. If he said that the enemy came back, who could guarantee that this weak general could resist it? This made Zhao Mingcheng feel that Laizhou was too unsafe, so he thought about it and decided to
Decided to go out to avoid the limelight.
In fact, you can't blame him for this. Emperor Yanjing is like this, and naturally his ministers will not be much better.
But this is a matter of losing face after all, and if Yue Fei reported it to the court, Zhao Mingcheng would probably be dismissed from his post. Originally, he was still thinking of various words, but when Yue Fei came in, he apologized and hurriedly followed the trend: "What General Yue Fei said, I
How could you not know that I am not a narrow-minded person."
As he spoke, he sighed again and said: "Actually, there are things I did wrong. In fact, these gold stones were obtained with all my life's efforts. How can I, Zhao Mingcheng, live my life? But I really don't want these treasures to be lost.
The opportunity fell into the hands of those reckless men, so I wanted to take advantage of the enemy's retreat to transport these treasures out of the city and place them in a safe place, and then come back to live and die with the people."
How can Yue Fei believe him? If so, you can ask your wife to do it. As a prefect of a state, how can you leave your post at will? But he has made up his mind not to argue with Zhao Mingcheng about this matter, and said with a smile: "Yes
Yes, yes, Yue Fei naturally understands the intention of Magistrate Zhao, but - Yue Fei thinks that Magistrate Zhao does not need to bother with this, because I have decided to send troops to Kunyu Mountain tonight to completely annihilate the enemy. Magistrate Zhao is here to calm down.
Just wait for good news."
This news came too suddenly. Zhao Mingcheng was surprised and said: "General Yue's words are serious."
"I don't dare to deceive Magistrate Zhao." Yue Fei cupped his hands and said.
Zhao Mingcheng chuckled: "That really couldn't be better."
Yue Fei and Zhao Mingcheng explained some matters about sending troops tonight and promised not to tell the matter. Then he sent Zhao Mingcheng away. Then he went to Niu Gao's door and knocked on the door.
"who?"
"I, Yue Fei."
"Oh, I, Lao Niu, am not feeling well and can't go out to greet you. Is there anything wrong with Brother Yue?"
Yue Fei smiled slightly and said: "If General Niu is ill, let's stay in Laizhou City to defend the city. I will lead the army alone to attack Kunyu Mountain tonight."
"What? Attack Kunyu Mountain?"
Niu Gao screamed and heard a commotion and a snap inside. The door opened from the inside, and Niu Gao said extremely seriously: "Brother Yue, you can't leave me, Lao Niu, to eat alone!"
"
Yue Fei gave a wry smile and said, "Hurry up and get ready. I'll go to the camp to arrange some things first. Come here as soon as possible."
"Hey, hey, I'll come right away."
Late at night, eight thousand light cavalry troops led by Yue Fei and Niu Gao quietly left the south city gate.
Beijing.
An extremely strange thing happened in the court today. The source of the matter was only a memorial from Li Qi. The content of the memorial was also very simple. It was to impeach a person. This person was the king who was almost forgotten by the officials.
Fu. When the officials learned about it, their expressions were surprisingly unanimous, and they all looked astonished.
In the whole hall, Song Huizong was probably the only one who knew the whole story. What made the officials even more surprised was that the person who submitted the memorial did not come to court, which was extremely rare.
After Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty read the memorial, Long Yan was furious. He banged the table and shouted that the witness should come to the palace.
Alas. It’s really overwhelming and everyone is pushing me!
Wang Fu had offended so many people, and now it was time for him to be punished. The witnesses almost all came to the palace in groups and verbally accused Wang Fu of hair-raising crimes.
Not to mention the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, even Song Huizong himself was a little unexpected and became even more angry. Without giving others any chance to argue, he immediately issued an order to send Wang Fu, his son and others to the southernmost Qinzhou, and they would never be allowed to return to Qinzhou.
After entering Beijing, Li Qi was also asked to personally search Wang Fu's home.
Moreover, Song Huizong seemed not to allow his officials to think too much. The imperial edict had already been sent to Wang Fu's home before the morning dynasty was over.
In fact, on the night Zhu Xin died, Li Qi sent people to surround the palace. Not to mention people, even a cockroach had to be interrogated a hundred and eighty times and trampled to death regardless of whether he was guilty or not.
In a small restaurant.
Li Qi sat in front of the window, his eyes always looking at the street downstairs. There was another person sitting opposite him, this person was Qin Hui. It should be said that Qin Hui was really unlucky. Originally, the first thing he did when he came back was to talk about
He was rewarded for his meritorious deeds, but Song Huizong was not in the mood to reward him now, and he had not even summoned Qin Hui.
After a while, there was a sudden commotion in front of him. Li Qi turned his head and saw a large group of people walking in the distance. Two prison cars were followed by more than a hundred soldiers. No one could get close. Naturally, there were many soldiers in the two prison cars.
Sitting there are Wang Fu, Wang Xuan'en and his son. Wang Fu, the once unparalleled virtuous prime minister, has now become a prisoner. This makes people feel that things in the world are unpredictable!
Suddenly, Yue Fan walked up in military uniform.
Li Qi took a sip of tea, but his eyes still fell outside the window, and he said calmly: "Did he say something?"
Since Song Huizong did not want to leak this matter, the matter of arresting Wang Fu and his son naturally fell on Li Qi.
Yue Fan said: "Reporting to Bu Shuai, from the beginning to the end, the two felons said nothing more except kowtow and admit their guilt."
Li Qi frowned slightly and said, "I understand, you go down first."
"yes."
After Yue Fan left, Qin Hui suddenly said: "Sir, there is something fishy about this!"
Li Qi snorted and said, "How do you say this?"
Qin Hui frowned and said: "Wang Fu is a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, and he is by no means incompetent. As long as such a person is not dead, he will never think that he has lost. At this time, he should take action, no
Maybe he didn't even say a word to beg for mercy, and it's even less likely that he would kowtow and confess his crime. Moreover, his son is only so old, but he is so calm now, I think there must be something wrong with it."
These words undoubtedly reminded Li Qi, and he thought to himself, yes, it's too quiet. This is definitely not like Wang Fu's style. He quickly tapped the table with his fingers and pondered for a moment. Could it be? His face suddenly looked shocked, yes,
This man is as good at playing power as Cai Jing, and he is very careful. If he can detect something, it would be reasonable. If so, it would be terrible. He will definitely not be able to keep him. Then he suddenly laughed and said: "Even if he
He has extraordinary abilities, but so what, now the overall situation has been decided, and he has decided to go to Qinzhou, so there is nothing to worry about."
Qin Hui said hurriedly: "Sir, whether Qinzhou is far or near, we can reach the capital in a month with a quick horse."
Li Qi raised his eyebrows and said, "What do you mean?"
Qin Hui's eyes were slightly closed, and he said coldly: "To cut the weeds, we need to get rid of the roots. We don't say that the consequences will be endless, but we hope that they will never happen. After all, things are unpredictable. As long as he is still alive, who can guarantee that he, Wang Fu, will not return to the capital."
Li Qi glanced at Qin Hui and sighed secretly, women's benevolence may be the difference between him and me. He said: "What you said makes sense, but since the founding of the Song Dynasty, we have rarely killed ministers, even
It can be said that it has never happened before. You see, ordinary people's crimes are punishable by imprisonment, but scholar-officials' crimes are punished by transportation. Alas, if I had known this, I should have obtained a scholarship quota."
Qin Hui said: "That's just the imperial court, it doesn't mean that the people in the world are like this. Those Fang La thieves and Song [***] people killed many scholar-bureaucrats. It's a long way from Tokyo to Qinzhou. If something unexpected happens on the way, it's also
Logically speaking, the most that can be said is that the escorting soldiers were negligent in their duties."
"Yes! Accidents are hard to avoid, but we can minimize the possibility of accidents."
Li Qi stood up on one foot, took the crutch from the side, limped out of his seat, turned around and said: "Qin Hui, please arrange more people to protect Wang Xianxiang and his son, be smart, I don't want to show up - then
What do you mean, oh, kill people and silence them."