Lin Ye was sitting on the steps in front of the house, holding his chin in his hands, looking like a simple boy.
He can deceive many people like this.
Logically speaking, this Geling City is still far away from Lin Ye, even if he is already in this Geling City.
His foundation is in Yunzhou. It is not that easy to gain a foothold in Geling.
What is this place? This is a maelstrom of power. If someone floats, someone will be sucked into it.
How could a person who was less than twenty years old, even if he had some care from the emperor, easily get a place in Geling City?
Lin Ye had one month before this to take the initiative to request an order to be transferred to Geling, and the emperor was looking forward to him taking the initiative to request the order.
Even the Emperor thought that Lin Ye was hesitant this month and was waiting for the Emperor to give him some benefits.
But in fact, Lin Ye spent this month to carefully understand what Geling City was.
He had already understood that he could not resist, and coming to Geling was inevitable.
Since he couldn't resist, Lin Ye had to get himself out of this crisis-ridden place, and then turn himself into a crisis-ridden place for others.
In Geling City, some people had already made preparations for Lin Ye. It seemed that some people had determined that Lin Ye would come to Geling a long time ago.
Lu Nuan met Lin Ye before he died.
He didn't just go to Lin Ye to ask for a page of medicinal scriptures. He went to see Lin Ye because he also knew that Lin Ye had returned to Geling to serve as an official.
Lin Ye was sitting on the steps like a harmless young man. What he was thinking about at this time were the words Lu Nuan said when he met him.
Lu Nuan said, if you don't want people to know your biggest secret, then it's best to let people know some of your other secrets.
Lin Ye knows this very well, and he does it better than anyone else.
For example, Lin Ye deliberately exposed the cobwebs in Yunzhou City in order to better protect the good storehouse.
Even the emperor knows about the existence of the spider web, how long will it be before the emperor notices Shoushenku? So the only chance is to make Shoushenku a part of the spiderweb.
Use what is exposed to hide what cannot be exposed.
For another example, Lu Nuan came to Yunzhou to meet Lin Ye. This was something that could not be hidden. The master would know about it, and so would the emperor.
So Lu Nuan used this method to tell Lin Ye that there was something more important in Geling City than Lu Nuan's exposure.
When Sui Qingqu appeared next to Lin Ye, he let Lin Ye know about the existence of the swordsman in a bamboo hat.
When Lu Nuan appeared next to Lin Ye, he let Lin Ye know about the existence of the bamboo hat swordsman in Geling.
Lin Ye recalled what Lu Nuan told him, and a face came back and forth in his mind.
The face of mother-in-law.
The reason why the Shoushan Treasury in Wuwei County exists is because of the existence of the Shoushan Treasury, so there are strangers coming and going around my mother-in-law, so naturally no one will suspect her.
It took her mother-in-law ten years to transform herself into a Bodhisattva. Even Tuoba Lie had to worry about the name of this Bodhisattva and did not dare to do it casually.
And all of this is the mother-in-law's preparation for Lin Ye's coming to Geling.
The old man who had been teaching him how to behave had spent more than ten years paving the way for Lin Ye.
Lin Ye just hasn't figured it out yet, what is the purpose of her mother-in-law paving the way for him?
Did the mother-in-law predict that sooner or later, Dayu would cause chaos and Lin Ye would take advantage of the situation?
Or is it that my mother-in-law has already found out that the death of General Liu Jigong was actually related to the emperor's inescapability?
Lin Ye couldn't understand these things, and Lin Ye was not in a hurry to figure them out because there was another thing that he needed to figure out as soon as possible.
That's why the result of her mother-in-law paving the way for Lin Ye and the kind of person the emperor wants Lin Ye to become seem to be overlapping.
The road paved by her mother-in-law was for Lin Ye to become an important minister with military power, and the emperor did the same.
Different paths to the same destination?
Pang Hai, the captain of the Imperial Guard School, ran over at this moment, clasped his fists and said, "General, Guan Yuanqing, the Minister of War, would like to see you."
Lin Ye hummed: "Please come in."
Lin Ye once had some friendships with officials from the Ministry of War, but he couldn't say how deep they were. He only met them a few times.
At that time, the person who held the position of Minister of the Ministry of War was still Yin Chongti. Now Yin Zhongti has been promoted to Minister of the Ministry of War.
Yin Zhongti looks extremely clean.
He didn't even come from a humble family. He was just a kid from a peasant family. He relied on his ten years of studying hard for the imperial examinations to get through, and it took him another twenty years to reach the position of Minister of the Ministry of War.
When you reach this point in your career as an official, you are basically at the top, and it is difficult to go any higher.
Guan Yuanqing and Yin Chongti are two different people. Guan Yuanqing came from a good background. His father once served in the Ministry of War, and he also reached the position of minister of the Ministry of War.
At that time, the person who served as Minister of War was Cui Fanye's father.
"Master."
As soon as Guan Yuanqing entered the door, he greeted Lin Ye with a smile, but did not salute according to his dignity.
Lin Ye didn't care, after all, he was considered a down-and-out person now.
He was removed from the rank of a high-ranking feudal official by the emperor, and countless people were filled with joy.
"What's the matter, Mr. Guan?"
Lin Ye also asked with a smile.
Guan Yuanqing said with an embarrassed look on his face: "That's right...it's really not easy to talk about this matter, but as an official of the Ministry of War, Lord Shangshu has explained the matter, so I can only bite the bullet and do it."
Lin Ye asked: "What can make the Lord Minister so embarrassed?"
Guan Yuanqing said: "That's right...the courtyard where the father-in-law lives now was temporarily borrowed by the Ministry of War and originally belonged to the Ministry of Personnel."
"A few days ago, officials from the Ministry of Personnel asked to see Lord Shangshu, saying that since the Lord is no longer the Protector General, the house should be returned to the Ministry of Husbandry. Lord Shangshu and the people from the Ministry of Husbandry had a falling out, and there was a big fight...
..."
Before he finished speaking, Lin Ye smiled and nodded: "So that's it."
He said: "I also remember this. At first, His Majesty said that the General Protector did not even have a house of his own in Geling City, which was outrageous, so he asked Yin Shangshu to make arrangements."
Guan Yuanqing said: "Yes, yes, yes, Lord Shangshu left this matter to the lower officials, but the Ministry of War really didn't have a decent place, so I shamelessly went to the Ministry of Husband and borrowed this place. When I heard that it was
We built a house for the General Protector, and the Ministry of Revenue also cooperated very well, so we took care of the house."
He looked at Lin Ye, his face looking even more embarrassed.
He said: "My father-in-law also knows that because the matter is urgent, the land deed of this house still belongs to the Ministry of Household Affairs. Now they have sent people to embarrass the Master. We are also..."
Lin Ye said: "Why bother with such a simple thing? I'll just move out."
Of course Lin Ye knew that it was impossible for them to dare to explore this matter casually.
The emperor must have deliberately caused people to misunderstand something, so those guys dared to bully him.
Lin Ye was also helpless when thinking of the emperor's unyielding temper.
The emperor had been waiting for him for a month. If he didn't embarrass him, would he still be the emperor?
Besides, the emperor was happy to see the officials in the court and Lin Ye being at odds with each other.
Especially the officials of the Ministry of War, it would be best to turn against Lin Ye.
After thinking about it, I knew that some courtiers must have gone to ask the emperor for instructions. Now that Lin Ye is no longer the Protector General, should the title deed of the General Protector's residence be changed?
Of course the emperor will not say it clearly, but it will definitely make people feel ambiguously that Lin Ye is no longer a general, so there is no need to prepare a mansion for him in Geling.
The people at Hubu got the emperor's instructions and felt as if they had taken medicine.
Guan Yuanqing came to visit in person, probably because he wanted to see Lin Ye's reaction to being humiliated.
Lin Ye said: "In this case, you allow me two or three days, and I will have someone pack up the things and free up the house."
Guan Yuanqing immediately said: "I shouldn't have made it difficult for you, but the Ministry of Revenue is really pressing. I'm afraid it will be... a bit late in two or three days. They have been urging the Lord Shangshu, and the Lord Shangshu's chair is with that
While fighting..."
After saying this, Pang Panghai, who was behind Lin Ye, became a little angry.
He stepped forward and said, "Do you think my general is easy to bully now?"
Guan Yuanqing immediately said: "How is this possible? My father-in-law and I were officials in the same dynasty, so it is impossible to add insult to injury. However, this... Colonel, you just made a mistake. Your father-in-law is no longer a general."
Pang Panghai's anger rose immediately. He has been following Lin Ye ever since, and he has never experienced such a cowardly attitude.
"You are really a villain."
When Pang Panghai stepped forward, Lin Ye deliberately took a step sideways to make way for Pang Panghai.
Guan Yuanqing's face darkened: "Do you know who you are talking to?"
Pang Panghai: "Do you know who you are talking to?"
He went up and grabbed Guan Yuanqing's collar: "Do you know that if you were in Yunzhou, I would have cut you into pieces by now?"
"You are so brave!"
Guan Yuanqing said angrily: "You dare to insult and threaten the court officials. If I get implicated by you, I'm afraid you won't even have time to regret it."
Lin Ye smiled and said: "The Lord Assistant is right, Pang Panghai, how dare you be rude to the Lord Assistant? How dare you hit the Lord Assistant in the face?"
Pang Panghai: "General, my subordinates have acted recklessly today!"
He slapped Guan Yuanqing on the face, and the snap was as crisp as it could be.
Lin Ye said: "Bold, how dare you hit Mr. Assistant Minister on the left cheek?"
Pang Panghai rounded his arms and hit Guan Yuanqing's right cheek again, which was harder than the previous blow.
Lin Ye said: "How dare you fight on both sides?"
Pang Panghai laughed evilly, holding Guan Yuanqing's collar with one hand, and swung it with the other hand before firing his bow left and right, cracking, cracking, and lashing him more than a dozen times.
Lin Ye: "I am no longer a general. I can't even control my own soldiers."
He sighed and said, "If I don't let him hit you in the face, he will hit you in the face. If I say I can't hit you on the left cheek, he will hit you on the right cheek. If I can't hit you on both sides, he will hit you on both sides."
Guan Yuanqing's face was swollen, and the fingerprints on his face were all swollen, and each one was particularly obvious.
Guan Yuanqing said: "My lord, if you allow your subordinates to beat up court officials like this, I'm afraid I will have to reason with you before His Majesty!"
Lin Ye: "Yes, yes, it is time to reason in front of His Majesty. It is also my fault. After I am no longer a general, my subordinates are not obedient."
He said: "Pang Panghai, you are so brave. I won't let you insist on fighting, and I won't let you throw the minister out. How dare you throw him out?"
Pang Dahai: “Why don’t you dare!”
He lifted Guan Yuanqing up with one hand and strode out. The men Guan Yuanqing brought were afraid of hurting their master and did not dare to come up to stop him. They just kept angrily scolding Peng Dahai.
Pang Dahai was so fierce that he didn't care what those people were scolding.
He carried Guan Yuanqing to the door of the mansion, and then shouted loudly.
"Such a despicable person dares to come and humiliate my general. My general is not in such a state of despair. Today I will let you see the fate of your dog-like eyes!"
As he spoke, he threw Guan Yuanqing out. The guy flew more than a foot away and crashed directly into a garbage basket on the roadside.
The garbage basket looks familiar. If you look carefully, you can see the company's logo on one side...