The rebirth of the son-in-law

On August 12th of the [-]th year of Zhengping, the emperor appointed Shen Yan, who was already a Hussar general, as a general, and married Chu Yan, the princess of Eastern Wu.The Shen family evolved from foreign relatives to the most powerful family of in-laws.

Shen Yan, who was victorious and returned to court, entered Luoyang through the east gate.The proud Shen Lang back then became the prince's son-in-law, leading [-] meritorious soldiers in brocade robes, dismounting steeds, and entered the city majesticly welcomed by all the officials.

Shen Yan has grown a beard, and his wind-swept face is a bit more mature and old. His brows are still delicate, but the years still leave some traces.

"General, you said that when you come back this time, will His Majesty reward me with a general?"

"Qian Dazhuang, you still want to be a general if you are so stupid?"

"Bah! Zhao Chunhua, you are just a captain, what right do you have to laugh at me?"

"Stop arguing, His Majesty will reward you for your merits! Ladies and gentlemen, we are all the general's confidantes, don't lose face of the general!"

"That's right!" Zhao Chunhua said with a smile, "We all rely on the great general's grace to be where we are today. Although the brothers will go their separate ways after the award is awarded, we will never forget the great general's grace!"

"That's right! The General gave us glory and wealth. My life, Qian Dazhuang, belongs to the General. In the future, the General will still run. I, Qian Dazhuang, will be the first to stand up!"

The corners of Shen Yan's lips curled up, showing a warm smile, he waved his hands and said: "You are all my confidants, Shen Yan, I have long regarded you as brothers and sisters, we killed the enemy on the battlefield, and came here with swords and fires. Now It's time to enjoy the blessings, what are you talking about driving? It will only be a shared wealth!"

Zhao Chunhua nodded and said in agreement: "Yes! The general is my brother. We not only want to share wealth and honor, but also share adversity!"

"Yup!"

"That's right!"

Shen Yan smiled slightly, pulled the reins, and said loudly: "Brothers! You followed me to conquer Yang, Jiao, Yi, Liang, and Luoyang, and made great achievements in battle! We have made great contributions to your Majesty's killing enemies, rehabilitating bandits, killing barbarians, and reclaiming lost land. The most vicious Xiongnu has also been feared by us! The world knows me, Shen Yan, thanks to my brothers!"

"The general is mighty!"

"The general is mighty!"

"The general is mighty!"

The [-] soldiers behind him cheered in unison, as if they were winning a battle, and felt joy from the bottom of their hearts.

They followed Shen Yan into Xuanwu Terrace, where they received their rewards.Thirty thousand officers and men stood waiting in the school field under Xuanwu Terrace, while Shen Yan brought a dozen of his confidants and favorite generals to Xuanwu Terrace with joyful faces.

On the Xuanwu Platform, a scribe in official robes with gold seals and purple ribbons stood with his hands behind his back, condescendingly looking down at the densely packed soldiers and soldiers, and beside him was an attendant holding a bamboo pole with an oxtail hanging on it.

This is the certificate of the emperor's envoys. Such a festival is very powerful, and it represents the emperor.

Shen Yan and his confidant stood on the stage, took off their swords, and knelt down on the ground.Shen Yan gave a salute full of excitement, couldn't help raising his voice, cupped his hands and said: "The great general Chen Yan brought the meritorious soldiers to pay homage to His Majesty."

"I'll pay my respects to Your Majesty!" Shen Yan's confidant knelt down on the ground.

"Your Majesty, I wait to see you!" The people standing from the stage to the audience bowed all the way.

"I will pay my respects to Your Majesty!" Thirty thousand soldiers fell to their knees.

The man with his hands behind his back slightly raised his lips and turned around.His brows were slanted, he had a short beard under his chin, his eyes were sharp and deep, he shook his long sleeves, and saluted Shen Yan: "Zhang He, I have seen the general."

Shen Yan looked up and saw that it was Zhang He.He was taken aback for a moment, feeling unexpected, but he still knelt down and waited for the reward.

Zhang He smiled slightly, stared at him for a while, then took a silk book from the side, slowly opened it and read: "General Shen Yan, made great contributions to this dynasty, pacified Yangzhou, settled Jiaozhou, entered Yizhou, and conquered Liangzhou." Zhou, to promote the might of the country, is actually a hero. Specially, the general Shen Yan was made a champion, and he lived in the city of thousands of households, and married the princess Chu Yan of the Wu Kingdom, and added the title of captain of the son-in-law. "

Shen Yan was very pleasantly surprised, because the emperor's reward was too generous.He is the first person in the new dynasty to enshrine ten thousand households, and he is also the most powerful person in the new dynasty!Since he started, the Shen family has been able to become the head of the family in one fell swoop!

"Congratulations to the general! Let me just say, the credit of the general is only comparable to that of Wei Huo from the Han Dynasty!"

"Great General Gai Weihuo!"

"The general has always loved his soldiers like his sons, and he is the general who is most sympathetic to his brothers!"

"The general is a great hero admired by the people of the world, and he deserves this honor!"

Shen Yan was overjoyed when he heard this.However, when he was about to give thanks, Zhang He, who had been paying attention to him, suddenly twitched his lips, closed the silk book, bent down with his hands behind his back, and said to Shen Yan: "General, I am joking with you. I don't think you will I know, since you entered Luoyang, my subordinates have already taken people to raid the house, right? How could you think of getting such a reward? It’s too good to be true, isn’t it? Huh? Hahahahaha!"

Shen Yan's complexion changed, he stood up, his eyes widened and he said: "This is impossible! Zhang He, you dare to attack a meritorious minister, do you dare?!" The last two words were almost roared out.

Seeing Shen Yan's blue veins flushed suddenly, Zhang He sneered: "Why don't you dare? You are still dreaming of your spring and autumn dream of being the head of the world! I will not only destroy your whole family, but also destroy you The whole family!" He straightened up, and wrote lightly, "Don't worry, I will not let any of the old, young, women and children of the Shen family go."

"You!" Shen Yan exploded, picking up the saber from the ground.

Everyone hadn't figured out what was going on, how the envoy who rewarded kindness turned into a traitor who forced to kill loyal officials. Seeing Zhang He humiliating Shen Yan so much, they all angrily picked up the knife on the ground and pointed at Zhang He. He cursed loudly.

"Dog thief! The general ruled the world for His Majesty, and he has achieved great military exploits. How can he allow you to play around like this!" Qian Dazhuang said angrily.

"Speak wild words! Haven't apologized to the general yet!" Zhao Chunhua pointed at Zhang He and reprimanded him.

"The general was wronged by you, a thief!"

The crowd was furious, but Zhang He looked at the crowd coldly like a rock standing in the raging sea, and said with a sneer, "You want to rebel? For a dying person?"

Everyone seemed to be strangled by Qi Qi, daring to speak out, staring at Zhang He.

Zhang He's face turned cold, he flicked his sleeves and shouted angrily: "You are so courageous!"

Snapped.

Qian Dazhuang was afraid of his majesty, he could no longer hold the big knife in his hand, and fell to the ground.Then, someone beside him threw away his sword, and was so frightened that he fell silent.

"It's okay for you to die, and I will not stop you from being loyal to your general. But you will turn from meritorious ministers to rebels. Waiting for your family members to return to their hometowns, your heads will fall. You have worked hard for more than ten years. The rich future you have worked so hard to obtain will also leave you because of the stigma of being a traitor." Zhang He described the consequences in a calm tone, glanced at the pale-faced people, and laughed softly, "What? Are you afraid? "

thump.Someone got down on their knees.

Then people with trembling legs knelt down one after another until only Shen Yan with red eyes and Zhang He with hands behind his back and smiling were left standing.

They are afraid.I am afraid that if I work hard for half my life, I can finally give my child's wife and elderly parents a good life, but I will bear the name of a thief.They hated Zhang He, but they were terribly afraid of Zhang He, the virtuous one.

Zhang He, who holds the festival, said they were rebels, they were rebels, and said they were thieves, they were thieves.You can sacrifice your life for righteousness, but if it is the will of the emperor... what should you do?

"Hahahahaha..." Zhang He smiled with satisfaction, and said in a deep voice, "I heard that your general is traitorous and adulterous, is there such a thing?"

The people kneeling beside Shen Yan all lowered their heads, blushing, and no one dared to speak.

Zhang He snorted coldly: "Whoever can come forward to testify, I will spare him the death penalty, and reward him for his merits, no less!"

Everyone still lowered their heads, just peeking at Shen Yan with a slightly pale face from the corner of his eye.

Shen Yan laughed and said angrily: "Zhang He, they are my brothers who were born and died. Do you think they will come to frame me with such a lure like you? I believe they will not!"

Zhang He didn't take it seriously, but his expression became colder: "Really? Let me ask again, if no one testifies, the people present, wives, children, old and young... I can't guarantee that I will live until tomorrow!"

"You—" Shen Yan gritted his teeth angrily.

Sweat was already dripping from Qian Dazhuang's forehead. He thought of his blind mother, his eight-year-old son, and his family's five-generation single heir...

Qian Dazhuang was not the only one, Zhao Chunhua also thought of his newly married wife and brother who had a broken leg...

There were also a few school lieutenants who had just become fathers, trembling all over, startled and frightened.

After a long while, those kneeling people finally picked up the dropped knives tremblingly and stood up. They gathered around and surrounded the general who had led them to kill the Huns and was finally framed and convicted of adultery by treacherous officials.

Some people pointed at him and scolded him for his sins with women, some gestured with knives and said that his achievements were fake, some people spat at him excitedly, and they said that he had never killed the Huns, that he was greedy for Mexican military pay, and that he intended to They completely forgot about the rebellion. Just a moment ago, they knelt on the ground and praised him as Gong Gai Wei Huo, the commander who is most sympathetic to his brothers, and a great hero admired by all the people in the world.

"I'll give evidence! He robbed civilian girls at the border!"

"I, I will also give evidence! He is greedy for the rewards of the ink soldiers, and even forced us not to report it!"

"Yes! I will prove it too! He didn't kill the Huns at all! It was the Huns who retreated!"

"I testify that he intends to rebel..."

"I testify that he invaded the field..."

"I will testify..."

Shen Yan was silent.In front of the soldiers he loved so much, under the scolding and accusations of everyone, he seemed to be ten years older at that moment, and even a few wrinkles were found on his youthful face, which could be said to be scheming.He lowered his head, his head lowered lower and lower, he hunched his back among his trusted subordinates, and bent his waist in the noisy and flying saliva.

In the end, even Shanyu, who had killed the Huns, could not let him bend over. The general, who made the foreigners fearful, bent his spine, bent his legs, and knelt down on the ground with a plop.

All the soldiers who respected and loved him became even more excited. The stuttering and guilt and sadness at the beginning became smooth and easy, as if he really admitted the accusations in their mouths, admitted that he was such a heinous slave, and admitted all speculation and slander.

Then they taunted him with peace of mind and justice, attacked him with the most vicious and fearful words, and hit his softest fatal point with the sharpest language. At this time, they learned how to use public opinion to extract confessions without a teacher. And stand on the moral high ground and spurn him, just like when he sweated and taught them how to defeat the enemy under the scorching sun, but now the enemy has become him.

Shen Yan was forced to kowtow to confess his guilt. He finally shed tears, choked up, his thin face twitched rapidly, and shouted: "I am guilty! I am guilty! I am guilty!"

The stern voice was quickly drowned out by the chaotic reprimands and the crazed cries of the soldiers, and he was swallowed by the crowd. All of them turned into messengers of justice and wanted to give him the most terrible death penalty. The expressions on their faces It was so ferocious, presumably those enemies who died under their swords had seen it before.

The person who was kneeling on his knees and crying out for him a moment ago can turn his head and become the person who demanded his execution. Shen Yan said that he believed in the soldiers, but the person he trusted wanted to put him to death.

"Haha, I just like to watch this kind of drama. I like to watch teachers and students kill each other. I like to watch a proud person be broken by something he cares about. A person with integrity is humiliated by a villain. things!" Zhang He laughed heartily.

They kept saying that they loved their general, and they really loved their general deeply. It was just some false words and impossible threats, which could make these hypocritical people take off their masks and whip their heroes.

"I didn't make a move from the beginning to the end, I just said a few words. If the general wants to hate, he should hate these people instead of me." Zhang He looked at Shen Yan who was knocked down to the ground with fists and kicks, and smiled faintly.

At the end, there was nothing new, and Zhang He just felt that it was boring.

With his hands behind his back, he walked down the Xuanwu Terrace slowly, and murmured to himself: "I know that those who are good at using people will be used by others sooner or later, and those who are good at killing people with a knife will be chopped down by the knife sooner or later, but I don't care. At this point, it is impossible for me to kneel down and plead guilty like the general. I will kill them before they react. This is the difference between a gentleman and a villain. I am a villain, so I have a way to be ruthless, and he It's a gentleman, he can't."

He turned his head to look at the chaotic Xuanwu Terrace, a sarcasm smile slowly formed on the corners of his lips, he took the support section, and calmly walked through the mighty [-] blood-bathed soldiers.

On August 12th, 30th year of Zhengping, General Shen Yan was convicted of more than [-] serious crimes, and Zhang He, the censor, was in charge of ransacking his home and beheading him.

On August 12th of the [-]th year of Zhengping, the emperor appointed Zhang He, the imperial historian, as prime minister. Since then, Zhang He's power has overshadowed the sky.