Chapter Eleven: Sending the Sun and the Moon in Style
In other words, Hu Yin, Wan Qixian, Huang Zhixian, and Han Tong were crowded into a small cell. Although no one dared to neglect, and Wu Jie carefully sent people to clean it, it was summer, and this kind of place was a bit awkward.
Things cannot be solved by cleaning.
One is the stinky smell caused by natural defecation, and the other is the mosquitoes, lice and other things that breed in the entire prison.
When Qu Duan entered the prison in full armor and sat down cross-legged in front of the cell with a sword, the four people inside were helping each other catch lice in the dim light of the cell.
Of course, when they saw this person entering, Wu Jie and another high-ranking general stood behind him with their swords in hand. Knowing who had arrived, the four of them immediately stopped and became serious.
Commander Han and Huang Zhixian were particularly knowledgeable and hid in a corner early, while Hu Yin and Wan Qixi sat upright opposite Qu Duan and exchanged glances with each other... They only came here from Qu Duan, and then their weapons fell on Wu Jie
With this result in hand, they can deduce a lot of things.
For example, the morale of the Kansai military is still more towards the imperial court;
For example, it is possible that Qu Duan was just overly domineering, rather than rebelling, otherwise he would not have come here so easily...Wu Jie was here to inform him of his plan.
"What is my crime to deserve this humiliation?"
Unexpectedly, when the two parties sat down, Qu Duan was the first to speak, and before they had even exchanged names, he coldly inquired about the two people behind the fence opposite.
Hu Yin, who had prepared a lot of words, was caught off guard, but Wan Qixi twirled his beard and sneered without any confusion: "I am waiting in the prison, covered with filth, and can only survive by catching lice. Your Excellency is outside the prison, wearing a gold helmet and silver.
The armor and brocade robe is just a weapon, so how can you be humiliated instead?"
Qu Duan was startled for a moment, then immediately changed his words: "Well, I have the command of the Yuan Road in Xiaguan Jing, and I know Qu Duan of Yan'an Prefecture. Dare you ask Zhong Cheng, what crime am I guilty of? Will I be slandered as a rebel?"
Wan Qixi turned to look at Hu Yin.
Hu Yin also reacted at this time, but he sat in the prison and asked expressionlessly: "I want to ask Qu Dutong, as the governor of the capital and the prefect of Yan'an, he detained his serious boss, the general manager.
The king concubine, and then wanted to kill him, but when Prime Minister Yu Wen disagreed, he forcibly left the seal of the economic envoy and drove the economic envoy out of the country. Is this true? "
"It's the truth!" Qu Duan answered boldly. Now, these things cannot be hidden from anyone.
"Why is this so?" Hu Yin asked seriously. "Don't you know that doing this is tantamount to conspiracy?"
"The king is incompetent and I can't clean up the situation. What does this have to do with rebellion?" Qu Duan said proudly. "This man has humiliated the country by losing his master. I wanted to kill him to thank the world, but instead I killed him because Xianggong Yuwen of Chang'an did not agree.
I let him off easily and just expelled him from Yanzhou. Doesn't this just prove that I am loyal to the country?"
Next to you, brothers Wu Jie and Wu Lin, as well as the magistrate of Huang County in the prison, Commander Han and others have all been stunned... Well, let alone talking about the size according to rank, Wang Shu is your superior, just say that he is the same as Yankun Road
Jing Lue Envoy, you didn't succeed in killing me, but when Yan'an fell, you took away your official seal and drove you out of Yanzhou. Why can you still feel confident and confident that there is no problem?
"How can there be any reason in the world for subordinates to be placed under house arrest and their superiors to be driven out of their base?" Hu Yin responded with suppressed anger. "Don't say you have murderous intentions."
"He has humiliated the country by losing his master!" Qu Duan still sat upright and proud. "Everyone in northern Shaanxi wants to kill him!"
"He lost his master and humiliated the country. Isn't it because you didn't listen to the orders and didn't go to the war?" Hu Yin finally couldn't hold back the expression on his face. It seems that not everyone can learn the Zhao Guan family's ability to play puppet.
"As soon as I heard your words, I knew that you were another useless person who didn't know how to fight like Li Gang or a commoner!" Qu Duan pointed his finger at Hu Yin and said sternly. "There are tens of thousands of elite soldiers in Wanyan Lou's house, and Wang Xie is a
I only have more than 10,000 elite bandits who can only run away as soon as the battle begins. They are the seeds of Kansai soldiers and horses. They should have set up defenses along the mountainous areas and retreated layer by layer for preservation... How can I really follow Wang Shu's instructions?
Do you mean to die in Yan'an? Did you know that if you and Wang Shu followed the same principles and rashly joined the war that day, the entire Guanxi area would have been captured by Wanyan Loushi! You loser, you wouldn't even have a place to sit in a cell!"
Hu Yin was stunned on the spot after being scolded, and everyone around him was also stunned, but Qu Da continued to vent his words:
"Why don't you understand that the current situation in Kansai is the result of my efforts to protect it?! And for trash like you, the king's concubine, and Li Gang who don't know how to fight, every time you say a word in the military, there will be more front lines.
Losing the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers, the country will lose ten years of national destiny?! The country is in such a disaster, the people are suffering from such disasters, the royal family is so humiliated, and the Jin people only account for three-thirds, you civil servants who are talking about military affairs on paper,
But it has to account for more than seven points! Without you, there wouldn’t even be the Jingkang Revolution, and now you are talking about me?!”
Hu Yin's face turned red and his breath was difficult to calm down, but he didn't know how to refute. Inside and outside the prison, not to mention the seven or eight people here, including the attendants of the Privy Council and the imperial soldiers sitting in other cells, were completely silent.
In the end, Wan Qixi couldn't stand it and couldn't help but interjected: "How can you be so rude to Zhong Cheng?"
As soon as these words came out, Qu Duan was immediately stunned, then he stood up, faced Wu Jie, pointed his finger at Hu Yin in the cell and asked: "Is this young man Hu Yin, the censor Zhongcheng? Isn't he the Privy Council member Wan Qixi?"
"No!" Wu Jie had no choice but to answer. "The person who just spoke was Wanqi joining the army. As for Zhongcheng, Xue Feng mistakenly thought it was a fake because Zhongcheng was young..."
"Xue Feng is really innocent." Qu Duan looked back at the shackled prisoner behind him. Xue Feng, who had been stunned for a long time, couldn't help but inhale slightly and laugh, but his accent was trembling. "If I were him, I would encounter
This kind of Zhongcheng has been killed long ago, so why should he stay and harm the world?"
Hu Yinlian's eyes were already red.
But Qu Duan paid no attention to the people in the prison, and just continued to speak to Wu Jie: "Da Wu, have you seen... I have been in the army for twenty years, and you have been in the army for seventeen years. You have sacrificed your life and death for the country many times.
Although they are of no use to the country, they can achieve half a degree at the age of thirty, and they can still make a promise just because they have read a few sentences.
Life and death between you and me...how unfair is that?"
Wu Jie was about to speak but stopped.
But Qu Da immediately shook his head and corrected his statement: "No, if we talk about studying, you and I are both people who have studied. I can still write poems and recite poems, so why don't I become a deputy privy minister at the age of forty?
This kind of person most likely gets a high position by getting close to officials, and today your brothers have entrusted my life to this kind of person?"
Not to mention Wu Jie, everyone else inside and outside the prison did not know how to communicate, but Hu Yin, the person involved, had already lost his breath and could not even speak.
"That's alright." Qu Duan sighed again, but seemed to have calmed down, and then turned to face Hu Yin in the prison. "I, Qu Da, pride myself on being a general and ask myself about my loyalty. If I encounter an upright minister, I will voluntarily argue, but when I encounter
People like you don't even want to argue. If you say I'm rebelling, just rebel. If you want to find an excuse to kill me, just kill me. I don't have a word... I just have one thing to tell you,
Between Wang Shu and Wang Xie, who is the one who harmed the country, who is the useless and incompetent person, and who is trying his best to stabilize half of Guanxi? The people and the people of Guanxi Five Roads naturally know that these five Guanxi Roads
Heshan will naturally understand... People like you can't stop Youyou's mouth! And Zhaozhao's annals will also explain it to me in the future!"
At this time, seeing Wan Qixi covering his face in silence and Hu Yin still breathing heavily, Wu Jie finally took a step forward and knelt down on one knee for the first time towards Hu Yin, who was breathing heavily:
"Zhongcheng, Qu Da's crime is clear and unmistakable, but it is only because he is used to being domineering and wants to get rid of the kings and concubines to monopolize military power, but he is definitely not a treasonous person. Otherwise, there should have been some connections. Be careful, how could he easily get here today?
Come to see Zhongcheng? I just ask Zhongcheng not to deal with him directly because of his offensive words..."
For some reason, Wan Qixi, who had been hiding his face, almost wanted to laugh: "Wu Dujian, I only ask you, as you said, this General Qu has no intention of rebellion, and we are going to kill him today."
He...the killing was certainly unjust, but with the kind of person he was, couldn't he add that he had to take the blame on himself?"
Wu Jie on the ground was unable to refute.
Qu Duan, on the other hand, couldn't help but sneer when he saw the young Zhongcheng speaking: "Do you, all the civil servants, treat our generals in front of us like this? If I don't rebel, you, the great general, can be killed unjustly, but you can't.
Easily humiliated..."
"He is self-willed and domineering. He despises his colleagues, humiliates his superiors, violates restraint at every turn, and makes big claims about himself, but has no military exploits... How can he be humiliated?" Wan Qixi also sneered at him in prison.
"You civil servants are worthy of talking about your military exploits?" Qu Duanfu was furious again.
"How did you defend Nanyang? Who attacked the Yanling Changshe?" Wan Qixi reprimanded sternly. "When you were wasting your time in northern Shaanxi, the people you mocked in your poems fought bloody battles in the Central Plains and drove out the Jin people.
Henan! Are you worthy of talking about your military exploits in front of the two of us?!"
"Did you two guard Nanyang? Did you two attack Yanling-Changshe?" Qu Duan became more and more angry. "If you dare to answer this question in person, ask where Han Shizhong is, where is Yue Fei? And you claim that Yanling-
The great victory of Changshe was said to have wiped out more than a dozen Meng'an, but we don't know how many Jin people were killed among them. Did they kill the good ones and take credit?"
"Qu Da!" Wu Jie was also mad at Qu Duan. "Is it a lie that the Jin army escaped from Henan? Is it a lie that Wanyan Loushi gave up the march and turned to Hedong? With your temperament, you can die today or live.
It’s time to die!”
"What do you know, am I afraid of death?" Qu Duan is still not afraid, and is still facing the enemy with vigor. "I just want to tell you that if the Central Plains wins, it will win, but it may not be such a big victory. And if the Central Plains wins, the entire Kansai region will not be able to win."
Have you worked hard? How can you reward so many lieutenants, but be stingy with official positions in Kansai? It’s not because there are officials there next to each other, and everyone can be a lucky person!"
"In that case, how about you go to the official's house and be a lucky person?" Hu Yin, who hadn't spoken for a long time, suddenly spoke up, but he didn't know when he had calmed down. "I, Hu Mingzhong, don't know how to fight. There are always people in the court who know.
Soldier, you said that I am not worthy of mentioning my military exploits. There is always someone in the court who is worthy of mentioning my military exploits in front of you... When I came here, the officials promised me an arbitrary arrangement. I can treat you with the highest standards and allow you to go to the officials in Tokyo.
How about being the deputy commander of the imperial camp?"
Wu Jie breathed a sigh of relief.
Qu Duan was slightly startled, but then shook his head and laughed again: "It's just that he was afraid that killing me here would weaken the morale of the army, so he coaxed me to go to Tokyo and kill him!"
Wu Lin, who had been silent for a long time, felt that she couldn't bear it anymore: "Qu Da! It won't work this way, that won't work either, do you have to do everything in the world? I really want to kill you, just because of your nonsense just now
, Zhongcheng forced our brothers to do it here, can you really survive?"
Qu Duan opened his mouth to ridicule, but Wu Jie on the other side simply stood up and pushed him: "Qu Da, don't push yourself too far. The imperial court has won a great victory in the Central Plains and people's hearts are attached to it. If I really want to kill you, why do you need to spin like this? Zhongcheng is fine, too.
, Mr. Yu Wen, if he really wants to kill you, you have no chance at all. And when we get to Tokyo, the officials will make the decision, and if the officials want to kill you, it is also the holy will, and it has nothing to do with Hu Zhongcheng."
By the way, although Qu Duan is said to be capable of both literary and martial arts, he is still not enough in front of Wu Jie, let alone Wu Lin. So, after a few random pushes from both sides, Qu Duan was directly held down, and then someone was found to tie him up.
hands.
Even so, Qu Da was still dissatisfied, and his words were still annoying... After a while, he said, "I know, Wu Jie, you want to get rid of me, and you will take charge of the military in Guanxi"; after a while, "This is
The prime minister sent me away, but because he doesn't know how to fight, if he stays here, he is afraid that he will ruin the seeds of Kansai's elite soldiers.
When he was pushed out by Wu Lin with all his strength, he still looked up and sighed: "It's pitiful that I was so determined to serve the country that I was harmed by such villains!"
Finally, he actually didn’t forget to give Wu Lin another horse!
Not to mention how this man acted like a monster and refused to obey, after the chaos was over, Hu Yin, Wan Qixi, Huang Zhixian, Commander Han and their previous entourage came out of the prison together, and then Hu Yin and Wan Qi were arrested.
Arranged to take a bath in a separate courtyard. Seeing that there was no one else around, Wan Qixi finally couldn't help it anymore:
"Zhongcheng should not have been controlled by this guy and then let him live. Just because of his arrogant remarks in prison, even the Wu brothers were angry and wanted to kill him."
"It wasn't because he was holding back his words, but when he was extremely angry, I felt that there was some truth in what he said." After Hu Mingzhong came out of prison, he relied on Wu Jie to deal with Qu Duan, but he was still confused.
"Besides, as a minister who is ordered by the Emperor to be the governor, you should not use the Emperor's authority for personal gain... After all, this man has merit and is the number one general in Kansai. I always feel that it would be a pity to kill him, so he might as well hand it over to the officials.
Home training.”
"That's fine." Wan Qixi shook his head and sighed. "Let's take it back to Tokyo and talk about it... But what about the Kansai side? Does Zhong Cheng think Wu Jie can be used?"
"Wu Jie can certainly be used." Hu Yin answered casually, then suddenly stopped. "If Wanqi joins the army, please take him back to Tokyo to die. I won't go."
Wan Qixi also stopped in astonishment, dumbfounded: "What does Zhongcheng mean? What does 'not go' mean?"
"Brother Wanqi is dissatisfied. I saw the broken mountains and rivers during this trip. I am as emotional as when I went to the capital during the Anshi Rebellion of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, but I only wish I didn't have the literary talent of an official to express my thoughts freely." Hu Yin said seriously.
."With the same mood, I began to think about asking for foreign posts... I just feel that whether it is a good thing to be a governor of the state, or to stay in Kansai as a freelance writer, as long as I can do something practical for the country, it is better than staying in Tokyo.
Standing dry in the hall!"
Wan Qixi wanted to speak but stopped.
In other words, it is impossible for the dignified censor Zhongcheng to come out of the town just for writing, or even to be just a magistrate... Are you kidding me? Even a loser like Wang Xie knows Fengxiang Mansion, and even a domineering man like Qu Duan does.
Zhi Yan'an Prefecture, and even Wu Jie under Qu Duan was Zhi Shunde's army. How could Hu Yin be ranked alongside these people? Therefore, since he was asked to stay abroad this time, at least he would be the king's general envoy, and at most he would be
It is even possible to replace Yu Wenxuzhong in important tasks such as staying behind in Chang'an.
But what does this have to do with him?
"The reason is as well as today's events. I will naturally write a note and send it to you. I only have one sentence: Please be sure to present me to the officials if you join the army... Just say that Hu Yin knows that the DPRK and China are now fighting against the Jin Dynasty.
The overall situation has become unshakable. Not only is he useless in the court, but he has repeatedly hindered the government's political affairs due to his pedantry. Once he is appointed abroad, Hu Yin also knows that he does not understand military affairs, so he will never make any decisions. On military affairs, he will only listen to Su.
I will put my words into action... and I ask the officials to give me a chance." As he said that, Hu Mingzhong, dressed in dirty clothes, bowed his head heavily to Wan Qixi, who was also in a mess in the courtyard. "In any case, after Jingkang, Hu Mingzhong
Yin's determination to serve the country and his determination to fight against the Jin people have never wavered in the slightest."
For some reason, facing the other party, Wan Qixi felt a rare panic in his heart... and the last time he was so panic was that time when he went out to Nanyang with Zhao Guan's family at night.
Counting the time, it was only three or four months ago.