Sealing Sword

At that time, no one in the world had heard of Ruan Feiyu, and the famous Nan Confucianism was his teacher, Ruan Qingxing.

Ruan Qingxing, a Confucian in the south, and Qin Hebai, a chivalrous man in the north, each hold half the sky in civil and military affairs, but they have the same path and different paths.

45 years ago, Qin Hebai became famous in the first battle. He was 28 years old when he transferred from the rivers and lakes to the temple. Ruan Qingxing, who is Jane in the heart of the emperor, can't do without good words for the matter of the general.

At that time, when the late emperor's dragon chair was in turmoil, there were not many trusted ministers who could rely on him. On the one hand, he asked the gods to find psychological comfort, and on the other hand, he hoped that the sages would help him. He obeyed Ruan Qingxing's words, and not only sealed Qin Hebai The position of general, and a hundred thousand troops were also handed over to him.

Qin Hebai did live up to his trust. He has an upright and heroic personality, and his martial arts are superb. He is not like those reckless men who have nothing but brute force. A group of people who were waiting to see his jokes shut up one after another, and relieved the late emperor's worries. After eight years, he had completely gained a firm foothold in the court and became the head of military officers, alongside Ruan Qingxing as his right-hand man.

It should have been a blessing to have civil and martial arts in the same sky, but unfortunately life is always impermanent.

Qin Hebai is young and promising. He is not only a great general with power over the court, but also a northern hero praised by everyone in the Jianghu. Zeng Zan said: "Wen has Ruan Xiang, Wu has Qin Gong, the great fortune of the widow."

It's just such a blessed person who just couldn't die well.

Ye Fusheng has mastered Lve Ying for ten years, and he is familiar with the past of these courts, not to mention.

Qin Hebai was named a general at the age of 28. He fought for eight years to quell the chaos in the East China Sea, and went north to fight against the enemy, forcing the northern barbarians to retreat outside the pass. They did not dare to invade for three years, and then returned to the court from the border. ", the first-rank official residence, and the status of Ruan Qingxing, who was 54 years old at the time, was comparable to that of Ruan Qingxing.

"The biggest crime in this world, apart from committing chaos, is the master of meritorious deeds." Ye Fusheng shook his head, "Qin Hebai's death is too unfair, and he is not wronged."

At that time, the Southern Confucian Ruan Qingxing was already seriously ill, and his control over the power of civil servants was not as good as before. In addition, the late emperor indulged in seeking immortality and neglected political affairs, and the power in the court was divided.

There are infighting among the civil servants, and the power of the military attaches overwhelms, and there is a hidden tendency to control the military and government. Perhaps Qin Hebai has no such intentions, but he also failed to take measures to contain it, allowing such an imbalance of power.

At this moment, Ruan Feiyu was born.

"Two years later, the first emperor lost his body due to taking supplements and taking pills. The court and harem were full of undercurrents. However, Ruan Qingxing was seriously ill and could not control the civil servants. Therefore, there is an urgent need for a balance." Ye Fusheng twitched his brows, "For this reason, Ruan Qingxing wrote a letter to the late emperor, please open Enke, and select available people to help him support the civilian forces and fight against the military officials. Ruan Feiyu is one of them one."

Thirty-five years ago, Ruan Feiyu was only a 35-year-old young man who was unknown. He had known that he was from Lanzhou and had no relatives.I don't know when he got Ruan Qingxing's blue eyes and was accepted as a closed disciple. He stayed in Sanmai Academy for two years without being famous, and he was as quiet as a chicken cub curled up in a shack in winter.

However, that time Enke was the winner of the gold list, overwhelming all talents.

The champion of the new discipline, talented and capable, although he has no family background, he is a high-ranking student of Ruan Xiang. Although he has no reputation for a long time, he has real talents and practical learning. After working as a post in the Imperial Academy for two months, he was exceptionally selected to work in the Ministry of Punishment, with a bright future.

It is said that the new official took office three fires, and the first case he handled was burned on Qin Hebai.

In the northwest area, military officers guarding the city took bribes from foreign countries and allowed their merchants and monks to "act cheaply" under the rule. As a result, they mixed with spies and stole the defense map of the city, attracting foreigners to knock on the gates, which almost caused a catastrophe.

The military officer had fought with Qin Hebai for many years, and the latter wanted to punish him with minor punishments and major punishments for his friendship in these years. He was only punished for the crime of ineffective guarding, demoted him, and concealed the details.

He was supposed to handle the first and last matters well, but somehow Ruan Feiyu found out about it. From this, he followed the vine, and it really made him feel the clues—the military officer was not a fascination for money at all, but he had already colluded with Fan Bang and became a man. A traitor who betrays his country and seeks glory.

The first emperor was already suspicious, and he had become jealous of Ruan Qingxing and Qin Hebai's re-use, especially Qin Hebai, who held the military power, made him feel like a thorn in his throat.Finding out what the emperor was thinking, Ruan Feiyu played to listen to the heaven, the late emperor took the military officer back to Beijing in a rage, and was held accountable in the court, Qin Hebai was almost beaten as an accomplice, but there was no real evidence to prove that he was collaborating with the enemy, and he was thinking of it for the sake of years of military exploits , only the Dangdian punished the [-] boards and ordered him to go back to the government for self-reflection.

In this way, the civil and military forces reopened a new situation. With the support of his teacher and the help of many colleagues in the civil official group, Ruan Feiyu secretly confronted the military official party, and even formed a relationship with Qin Hebai.

Chu Xi frowned slightly: "But judging from the records of Baiguimen, Beixia is not a narrow-minded person."

Although he was born in the royal family, when the Beixia incident happened, he didn't know where he was waiting in line to drink Mengpo soup. He can be said to know nothing about it.

Ye Fusheng nodded, and said: "Because of this, Qin Hebai did not return to the court to take revenge on Ruan Feiyu after a month of confinement, but asked for a transfer to guard the Jinghan Pass."

Chu Xiwei said: "But I remember that Qin Hebai died at the age of 39. He committed the crime of treason, and all his families were executed."

Ye Fusheng said "hmm": "He has been stationed in Jinghan Pass for less than a year, but he was summoned urgently by the late emperor with a gold medal to command the arrow, but for some reason he refused to return the court, and the late emperor sent Lve Yingwei to arrest people , and tied him back to Tianjing."

It turned out that before that, a major event broke out in the palace—the emperor was seriously ill and vomited blood. After a careful diagnosis in the imperial hospital, it was found that he was poisoned, and the poison came from the "elixir" that the emperor had to take every day. Serious troubles can cause great harm to the lungs and organs.

What is even more shocking is that the Taoism of refining the elixir was offered by the second prince to please him. During the torture, someone confessed that the second prince had poisoned him in order to... kill the king and seize the throne, and ascend to the great treasure early .

The first emperor was furious, the second prince was banned, and everyone in the court was in danger. Ruan Feiyu, then the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, wrote a letter to start the performance.

The second prince values ​​martial arts and despises culture, and has always been on good terms with Qin Hebai. In addition, Jinghan Pass is an important place in the northern border, and Chen Bing seems to be strangling the throat of the country here.Qin Hebai was originally afraid of the late emperor, but now he is implicated in the treasonous matter, and he couldn't return it in a hurry, which made the late emperor believe that he was going to rebel, so he sent Lve Yingwei to capture him.

Qin Hebai's martial arts were superb, and most of the guards in Jinghan Pass were personal soldiers, so a group of ten Lve Ying guards had nothing to do with him, and in the end it was Lve Ying, the commander at that time, who managed to take him down.

When confronted in court, Qin Hebai's grievances were groundless, but Ruan Feiyu's evidence was conclusive. One side refused to plead guilty, and the other side was aggressive. In the end, Ruan Qingxing went to court to support his disciples due to illness, and Qin Hebai's confidantes betrayed halfway. A total of 130 people, including his son, were sent to prison.

Qin Hebai, the protector of the country, committed treason, which can be regarded as the biggest case since the founding of the Great Chu. It almost involved the entire court at that time, and even the world was in turmoil because of the Beixia incident. Some people even rolled nails to block the sedan chair, just to hand over a blood letter, imploring the court to retry the truth.

However, after the third trial, there was still no way to get rid of the crime. The ambitious people tried to rob the prison but failed, and even pushed the Qin family into the abyss. The late emperor ordered to choose a day to be executed.

On the day of the execution, it rained heavily, and the alleys of Tianjing were empty. Ruan Feiyu, the new Secretary of the Ministry of Punishment, personally supervised the beheading. Six of the 130 people in the Qin family fell to the ground. The blood was washed away by the rain, and the corpses fell down the stone steps.

Three months later, Ruan Qingxing died of illness on a day of heavy snowfall. Before his death, he was handed over to Ruan Feiyu at the Samadhi Academy.

Chu Xiwei frowned tightly: "It sounds like Nan Ru is not a good thing?"

Ye Fusheng said: "There are no absolutely good people in this world, and naturally there will be no absolutely bad people. The case of Beixia has not been rehabilitated so far. There were officials who wanted to avenge him during the late emperor's time. They were either guilty of the same crime or demoted. They are all people who are wise and protect their lives, whether Qin Hebai rebelled or not is an unsolved case... Therefore, whether Ruan Feiyu is a good person or not is still open to question."

Chu Xiwei took a look at him, and said, "But I heard what you said, but it's clear that you're complaining about Beixia."

Ye Fusheng spread his hands: "As a junior, I have no right to comment on these old things, so naturally I can only follow in the footsteps of my predecessors."

"Senior? Which senior?"

Ye Fusheng rolled up his sleeves, revealing the swan goose tattoo that Chu Xiwei found glaring at a glance, and said, "Of course it's the first leader of Lve Shadow Guard back then."

As soon as he mentioned this, Chu Xiwei was upset, and said with a sneer, "It seems that you have had a good ten years, and you have such a sense of belonging."

Ye Fusheng didn't choke him, just shook his head and asked, "Ah Yao, don't you think this tattoo looks familiar?"

Chu Xiwei's eyes were fixed, and she thought about it carefully, her face suddenly changed.

Ye Fusheng said softly: "It's exactly the same as the engraving on Jinghong's scabbard, isn't it?"

Chu Xiwei was silent for a moment: "What do you want to say?"

"I remember you sued me back then, saying that my master didn't like you and Ziyu." Ye Fusheng looked at him, "I didn't understand it at the time, but now, I can give you the answer... She really doesn't like it You, to be precise, she doesn't like everyone in the Great Chu family."

Lve Shadow Guard was established by Gaozu. The first leader was his brother who lived and died with him in the army. Together they went through the turmoil of the rivers and lakes, revolted and fought together, and overthrew the previous dynasty together, helping Gaozu sit on the throne. Shadow, the blade of life.

The direction of Gao Zu's heart is what he pointed at with the blade, and he will never leave him all his life, even until his death.

But such a person was not liked by the first emperor.

The first emperor was sensitive and suspicious by nature, and he was unwilling to reuse Lve Ying, especially in Qin Hebai's case, the commander of Lve Ying once went to Tianze Palace at night and knelt down to intercede for Qin Hebai.

Kneeling all night, wet in the cold rain, bearing the bruises all over his head from being smashed by the late emperor's teacup, he only begged the late emperor for mercy.

In the end, he failed to save Qin Hebai, but angered the late emperor, was denounced as a gangster, and was executed outside Yuanmen Lingchi, cut a whole thousand knives, and abandoned in a mass grave outside the palace. Lve Yingwei was also abolished from then on, and all members Cut off his tongue and tendons, and expelled him from Tianjing City.

There is no burial place for soldiers and horses throughout their lives, and few people even know their names.

Ten years ago, Ye Fusheng entered Lve Shadow Guard and became the new leader, only then did he find the record of this person's life, and the thin words made him tremble with fear——

Gu Zheng, whose courtesy name is Chengjun, was from Yanchuan. He was good at using swordsmanship, and his physical skills were unrivaled in the world. He was once known as the "Jinghong Sword".

Gu Chengjun offended the late emperor, was convicted and died. Only one daughter was far away from Tianjing. She was too young to be involved.

Chu Xiwei's heart was hanging in her throat, she couldn't get up or down, the blood in her whole body was so cold that she stood still.