I am a Big Villain

Yan Chu has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, but if he wants to become an excellent general, it is not enough to have martial arts. He must also be quick-thinking and familiar with the art of war. Therefore, when Yan Chu was still very young, as his biological mother, , Mrs. Yan San had already begun to enlighten him in literature.

Mrs. Yan San was born into the Zheng family in Handan. The Zheng family was not a prominent family, but it had a high status among literati. Especially Mrs. Yan San's father, Mr. Zheng, was a master of ink painting, which was worth millions of dollars.

The daughter of such a family, Mrs. Yan San was also obsessed with books and paintings. After her husband's death, she became even more obsessed with calligraphy and paintings.

When Yan Sanye was still alive, in order to compensate his beloved wife for being alone in his boudoir all year round, he would often search for some unique books, or give her some precious papers and inkstones.

Mrs. Yan San has never used those things after Mr. Yan left. She only takes them out when she misses them occasionally to relieve her lovesickness.

As the only son of Mrs. Yan San, the original person has become a person who can often come into contact with those things.

The reason why Yan Chu was able to detect the problems in that piece of paper was thanks to the few memories in his mind.

There was a master of ink making in the Ming Dynasty named Qin Qiuzi. The ink he developed was as colorful as paint, did not fade, and had good water resistance. These are not the biggest features of Qiuzi ink. The most praiseworthy thing about Qiuzi ink is its fragrant.

The aroma is similar to medicinal ink, but mixed with the smell of other wood spices. When written on paper, the fragrance will last for hundreds of years.

After Qin Qiuzi became famous, he produced very few inkstones, and it was almost hard to get them with a lot of money. He was from the Ming Dynasty. If people from the Zhou and Jiang countries wanted to use Qiuzi ink, they had to have those who traveled between the Three Kingdoms. For merchants, the price usually gets higher after it changes hands several times.

Therefore, even for a high-ranking family, having a piece of Qiuzi Mo is like a treasure and they will not use it lightly.

Just like the Yan family, there is only one piece of Qiuzi ink, which Mr. Yan collected for his wife during his lifetime.

The reason why this memory is so clear is because when I was seven years old, Mrs. Yan San’s piece of Qiuzi Mo was thrown into the water tank because she thought the fragrance smelled good. When she was finally found, she fished it out. , only a small section is left, and a tank full of ink-scented water.

Perhaps to the person who framed him, Qiu Zimo was just something he could use casually. Now that he was used to it, he wouldn't find anything strange and ignored this fatal problem when imitating his handwriting.

First of all, did Yan Chu carry a piece of Qiu Zimo with him when he joined the army? Secondly, the royal family of the Jiang Kingdom has its own special inkstone, and Qiu Zimo will not appear in the royal family of the Jiang Kingdom. If this is the case, why do both parties in this letter use Qiu Zimo?

When Yan Chu raised this question, everyone in the Xuanshi Palace was stunned.

Because although the fragrance of Qiuzi Mo is unique, it is light and can only be smelled if you smell it carefully. Its main note is still the fragrance of ink, and everyone is just focusing on identifying the handwriting on it without carefully exploring what the word is used for. What is written in ink.

King Zhou quickly asked someone to bring a letter over, put it under his nose and smelled it carefully. Although it was light, it was indeed the smell of Qiu Zimo.

"Who knows if you just like Qiu Zimo, who is always with you, and the person you are contacting may not be from the Jiang Kingdom royal family."

The prince blushed and said. His remarks made King Zhou very angry. How could his son feel that he wanted to kill Yan Chu.

The prince represents the entire Zhou royal family. If he is so impatient, will people think that all this is his intention, that he is afraid of Yan Chu's great achievements and is uniting with others to frame him?

King Zhou was alert and rang the alarm bell several times.

Qiu Zimo is not extremely rare in the palace. At least King Zhou himself has two. The prince is the crown prince and King Zhou also gave it to him. In addition, the queen and the second princess Zhou Mingzhu also have it.

Thinking about it this way, after Yan Chu raised this doubt, would the courtiers doubt him as the emperor?

"Qiu Zimo only sells ten yuan every year, and five yuan goes to the royal family of the Ming Dynasty. Who sells the remaining five yuan to, and changes hands to whose hands, everything is traceable."

Mrs. Yan San hurriedly stood up and knelt down: "Please, Your Majesty, please don't win the favor of the villain or chill the heart of the hero."

She now regrets extremely that after her husband's death, she should not have left her son to her parents-in-law to teach her, letting him take on the heavy responsibility of the entire Yan family.

These days, his son was imprisoned in the sky prison, his life or death uncertain, and he was being reprimanded and insulted by the people of the entire Zhou Dynasty.

Mrs. Yan San originally had a relatively quiet temperament and was quite aloof. She couldn't stand such a huge difference, and suddenly she felt left-handed.

Her husband and son risked their lives to protect such a group of people. In this case, why should the Yan family stick to their original promise? She hated those ungrateful people, and also hated the Zhou royal family. This time, no matter what, she escaped from danger. She would never let her son go to the battlefield again.

Those people were unworthy and unworthy of his protection.

"Your Majesty, there are doubts about this matter. Why not bring General Fu here and ask him how he discovered these letters."

Prime Minister Guo stood up. He had wisely protected himself before, but now that there were doubts, it was right for him to help the Yan family.

Behind the screen, Zhou Mingli looked at the sister-in-law who still kept a faint smile. She lowered her eyelids and wondered what she was thinking.

Fu Cong was a tall, handsome and cheerful young man. He seemed to be training soldiers. When he was summoned, he was still wearing silver armor.

"I see the emperor, long live my emperor, long live the emperor."

Fu Cong knelt on one knee beside Yan Chu. After saluting, he looked at Yan Chu cautiously, with a hint of apology in his eyes.

"General Fu, please tell me how you found these letters. Logically speaking, if General Yan really collaborated with the enemy and treason, these letters should not be found randomly."

Prime Minister Guo asked Fu Cong.

Fu Cong looked very solemn: "On that day, General Yan led his soldiers to fight against the Ming Dynasty, and a suspicious assassin suddenly appeared in the camp. He appeared from General Yan's barracks, because General Yan's barracks contained the army's confidential military aircraft documents and drawings. In order to prevent important letters from being taken away by assassins, my subordinates and several lieutenants had no choice but to check General Yan's camp accounts. These letters were found from under General Yan's mattress because the handwriting on them was exactly the same as that of the general. It is so serious that I have the guts to seize the general when he is unprepared when he returns and write a letter to His Majesty."

He recounted exactly what happened that day, and it was exactly the same as his previous confession.

"General Fu has a good memory. It's hard for you to remember the whole story so clearly. If you don't know, you might think you memorized it in advance."

Mrs. Yan was very dissatisfied with the junior whom her husband had previously favored. She felt that her grandson was framed, and the other party must have had a share in it. After all, he was the biggest beneficiary now. General Yan died of illness, and Yan Chu died again. Being imprisoned, the entire Yan Family Army is now under his control. I am afraid that in a few years, it will be renamed the Fu Family Army.

"Old madam, every word of mine is true. There were many people who could testify for me that day."

Fu Cong's expression was a little helpless, but Mrs. Yan was the wife of his mentor, and he could only tolerate this old man.

Yan Chu looked at the people around him. His memory stopped at the age of sixteen. The person in front of him had never appeared before he was sixteen.

Fu Cong felt his gaze and turned his head, with no trace of guilt between his brows.

"The situation was urgent at that time. Your Majesty, there seems to be some doubts in this matter, but under the circumstances, I don't have time to think about it. I would like to ask your Majesty to investigate the matter thoroughly as the old lady said."

Fu Cong kowtowed three times: "The Yan family's army is the army of the Yan family. The general cannot shoulder this important task. The young general is loyal and courageous. Every time I think about it these days, there are still many doubts about it." Explain that once the young general's charges are cleared, his subordinates are willing to return the position of commander and continue to work for the young general. "

The Yan family army is the army of the Yan family. This sentence is not pleasant to hear. King Zhou didn't feel anything. Anyway, the petty prince was uncomfortable.

"His Majesty."

Mrs. Yan stood up tremblingly and knelt down, "General Fu also said just now that there was an assassin in the camp that day. Those letters were most likely left by the assassin. Otherwise, Qiu Zimo's problem cannot be explained. Please return my Yan family to me." A fair one.”

The king of Zhou already felt that Yan Chu was innocent. After all, the flow of every piece of Qiuzi ink could be traced. The things in Yan Chu's camp that day are still stored in the palace as evidence. There were only ordinary inkstones in them, but there were no The famous Qiu Zimo.

However, the public resentment is boiling outside now. Even if he is cleared of the crime of collaborating with the enemy and treason, the relatives of the 30,000 fallen soldiers may not forgive the man who took the initiative to provoke the war. Moreover, the ten cities that were ceded were also owned by the King of Zhou. The pain in my heart.

As for what Yan Chu said, he was originally determined to win, but now that the matter has come to this, no one knows how things would have turned out if the collaboration with the enemy and treason had not occurred.

Those who do not meet the requirements must be dismissed, but those who deserve punishment must also be punished.

"Yan Chu, you privately mobilized troops to attack the Ming Dynasty, causing the loss of ten cities in the Great Zhou Dynasty and the sacrifice of nearly 30,000 generals. I punish you by removing you from the position of commander of the Yan family army, demoting you to the fifth rank of ranger general, and paying compensation. Can you accept the offer of one hundred thousand taels of silver from the fallen soldier’s family?”

For the entire Yan family, one hundred thousand taels is more than enough, and although the fifth-grade cavalry general is not as good as Yan Chu's previous position as the second-grade hussar general and commander-in-chief of the Yan family's army, for his age It is said that in the future, if you slowly climb up based on your merits, you will be able to climb back to your original position sooner or later.

Based on his crime of deploying troops privately, King Zhou already made a decision that was very prudent.

Unfortunately--

"Your Majesty, Yan Chu's hands and feet are all broken now. I'm afraid he has failed your Majesty's love." Yan Chu raised his arms, and the loose cuffs naturally slipped down, revealing two deep wounds on his wrists, as well as deep or shallow marks of whipping on his arms.

"What!"

Mrs. Yan and Mrs. Yan almost fainted when they saw this scene.

King Zhou even stood up a little rudely. Who has the courage to dare to pick Yan Chu's hands and feet? This is because God has let Zhou lose a good general.