Bright Spring

The middle-aged man's complexion changed, and he glanced to the other side. There were also a few men in black robes walking quickly on the other side of the street!Scattered passers-by on the street ran away in a panic.

Those black-headed men seemed to have suddenly spotted the middle-aged man who was looking around, and immediately started running!

The middle-aged man immediately withdrew and retreated into the lobby.The guest officer who was still sitting there stretching his arms asked: "What's wrong?" The middle-aged man ignored it and ran inside immediately.It was too late to close the gate, because the gate of the pavement was inlaid with wooden boards, and it was very troublesome to open and close.

He rushed straight into the yard behind the pavement, walked to a small door, opened the wooden door, and looked around, there were also men in black robes running quickly outside!He immediately re-bolted the wooden door, retreated into the yard, and glanced left and right. Outside the fence was the alley outside the back door; only behind the outer walls of the wing rooms on both sides led to another road.

The middle-aged man had no choice but to rush into a side room, and then closed the room behind him.

A woman's voice could already be heard in the yard.

The middle-aged man widened his eyes, looked around, and saw a window on the wall.The window is just like the small window that Li Bai can see when "looking up at the bright moon", it is small and high.The middle-aged man hastily pulled up a chair to the wall, his movements were rough and flustered, and suddenly "ding ding jing kuang..." knocked the furniture loudly.

He climbed from the chair to the window, but soon his upper body got stuck there!

"Ah..." The middle-aged man squeezed out desperately, screamed, his face turned red.

At this moment, someone grabbed his ankle!A voice said coldly: "Come down, Jishui County is such a small city, the gate will be closed soon, where can you go if you run away?"

The middle-aged man was dragged from the window and pinned on his plinth chair.

"Magong?" The young man who spoke just now asked suddenly.

The face of the middle-aged man suddenly turned ashen, as if he sighed secretly, and he stopped struggling at all.

The young man found a stool and sat down.At this time, inside and outside the wing room, several men in black robes had already arrived.The young man sitting on the stool said: "I am Zhang Sheng, the new Commander of Jinyiwei. Your original name should be Xiao Jien?"

The middle-aged man was silent.

The men who just came in brought the rope and tied up the middle-aged man first.Zhang Sheng waved his hand again, and everyone clasped their fists and exited silently, closing the wooden door.There was a faint sound of talking outside, and those men seemed to be asking other people in the yard.

Zhang Sheng pondered for a moment, then said: "What have you done, you can recruit yourself. The case has been investigated to this point, so you can quickly recruit to save trouble and avoid getting blood everywhere!"

"I am Xiao Jien." The expression of the middle-aged man suddenly turned cold.

Zhang Sheng nodded.

Xiao Ji'en actually sneered: "What's the best move? It's nothing more than two dead bodies, five steps of bleeding, and nothing in the world."

Zhang Sheng was stunned for a moment, and then slowly said: "I'm afraid it's not just the two corpses, but why would they have to bleed and die for thousands of dollars?" Zhang Sheng, the commander of Jin Yiwei, must have read some books. People, can connect with Xiao Jien's allusions.

Xiao Jien glanced at Zhang Sheng with a very strange expression, he couldn't tell whether it was pain and despair or extreme resentment.

Zhang Sheng said again: "Fortunately, you are not a bloodthirsty person today. If you are not the mastermind, as long as you recruit the mastermind, the Xiao family may not have to exterminate the nine clans."

Xiao Jien stopped talking, still thinking about something.

Zhang Shengdao: "The eunuch Wang Yin used to be the adopted son of 'Ma Gong', so of course he knew Ma Gong; it is useless if you don't recruit him, and you will be able to identify it when you are brought back to the capital. I will torture you on the spot according to the order. If you don't recruit me, I will be there Sentence is here!"

Xiao Jien remained silent.

Zhang Sheng nodded, got up and said: "Then I'll take your wife and daughter first. Brothers have worked hard for many days, and they should be rewarded; then I will torture|kill your son, and finally I will deal with you."

Xiao Jien's eyes trembled, and he finally said, "Are you still in the army?"

Zhang Sheng said with a blank expression: "What do you mean? Treating such a wicked person like you who is insane, murders your father, and is disloyal and unfilial, would anyone think that this is going too far? A wicked person should be ruled by a wicked person!"

After a while, Xiao Jien said: "King Yan is just a man who seeks to usurp the throne. I am loyal to Emperor Jianwen and avenged my father, so I am not disloyal or filial."

Zhang Sheng sneered and said, "Who are you, qualified to judge the late emperor?"

"Everyone in the world knows it." Xiao Jien said.

Zhang Shengdao: "Then when you write it down, who are the 'everyone knows'?!"

Xiao Jien was stunned by what a general said.

"I am 'Magong', you just ask Wang Yin to recognize it..." Xiao Jien finally spoke again, "I have nothing to say about the fact that it has fallen into your hands."

Seeing this, Zhang Sheng immediately took out the prepared paper and pen from the bag, and poured the ground ink from a small ceramic bottle.

Xiao Jien pondered and said: "I can confess freely. But there is one condition, can I directly kill my family members in the future, and don't insult or torture them?"

Zhang Sheng thought for a while and nodded, "I will promise you."

Xiao Jien frowned and asked, "How can I trust you?"

Zhang Sheng pointed to the paper and said, "I wrote down what I just said, and I want you to sign it after reading it."

Zhang Sheng held the pen in mid-air, looked at Xiao Jien, and waited silently.Xiao Jien was also silent, with a pensive look, as if he was recalling the past.

... Time seems to have returned to the early years of Jianwen ten years ago.

Xiao Jien remembered that the spring was warm and flowers were blooming, and the capital was prosperous and peaceful.

His medicinal material business in the capital is doing very well, and everything is going well.The Juren Wang Gen at that time was actually Xiao Jien's biological elder brother (Xiao Jien was originally Wang Gen's younger brother, and was adopted by his family friend Xiao's family when he was young), so he naturally took care of him in many ways.

The tax on city ships that should be avoided, and the money for goods entering and leaving the city pass, were all saved after some clever maneuvering at the government; Xiao Jien's medicinal materials cost less than other companies.

At that time, although Wang Gen was a Juren, he was still studying and preparing for the scientific examination.But Wang Gen has already worshiped the emperor Huang Zicheng as his mentor, and his future is bright; the Wang family's casual greetings at the Yousi Yamen are almost always useful.His peers dared not deal with Xiao Jien, and even directly sent money to join his business gang, and his business grew bigger and bigger.

Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunwen succeeded to the throne as the Crown Prince of Taizu Emperor, although there were soon private rumors that the court was going to cut down the vassal; but Xiao Jien didn't think it was a big deal at the time (he was not a royal family anyway).Everything is stable, the end of the Hongwu Dynasty, the "Jianwen" rule of law is about to begin, and the world seems to be entering a peaceful and prosperous age.

Xiao Jien thought about that time, it was such a wonderful and peaceful day, he never expected that such a drastic change would happen in the huge world!

Then the situation quickly took a turn for the worse, and the Ming court entered a state of combat readiness, dispatching troops and generals everywhere, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers continued to cross the river and march north!Unexpectedly, the war quickly intensified, and news of the Pingyan War was everywhere in the market.

In the second year of Jianwen, Wang Gen ranked second in high school!

During that time, Wang Gen talked with Xiao Jien about many important national affairs.Finally one day, Xiao Jien was summoned by the emperor and went to Dongnuange, a mere medicinal herb dealer!

At that time, there was not even a single eunuch in Dongnuange.In addition to the emperor and Xiao Jien who was summoned, there were four other ministers: Huang Zicheng, Jing Qing, Wang Gen, and the head of state Ma Quan.

After talking about some mysterious and difficult things between the monarch and his ministers, they finally got to the point.

Huang Zicheng roughly said something: some important spies in the north were originally under the supervision of Ma Quan, but in the past two years, the spies of the imperial court have frequently failed in their work, and some people have been caught and arrested one after another; the emperor's confidants think that Ma Quan Quan's status is too high and his target is too conspicuous, he may have been targeted by the spies of Prince Yan's mansion, that's why the imperial court's spies in the north are often seized!

The Jinyiwei is even more riddled with holes, and many royal relatives and nobles serve in it. In the war within the royal family, it is difficult to distinguish those who are loyal and traitorous.

Therefore, the imperial court needs someone who is very inconspicuous and not easy to be targeted, but also trustworthy and talented to take over the errand of "Magong".

So Huang Zicheng recommended Wang Gen's younger brother Xiao Jien to the emperor!Wang Gen is a man of Huang Zicheng and a disciple of the Son of Heaven, and he is a trustworthy person; Xiao Jien is Wang Gen's younger brother, and also a "grasshopper" on a rope.And his identity is still quite hidden, the world doesn't know the relationship between Xiao Jien and Wang Gen at all.

Huang Zicheng also said some words about Xiao Jien's cleverness and conciseness, although he has no fame.

The emperor made a promise to Xiao Jien: When the "Battle of Pingyan" is won, he will promote Xiao Jien in an extraordinary way, and he will be appointed as a knight or reward officer, and asked him if he would be loyal to the imperial court.

Xiao Jien made some calculations at the time: Although he made a lot of money as a businessman, it was nothing compared to the worship of the honorable Guangzong Yaozu descendants!Moreover, he already knew some secrets in Dong Nuan Pavilion, so he dared to reject the world's kindness face to face?