[Yongzheng x Nian Gengyao] overwhelmed the world

Yue Zhongqi returned to the capital with a large group of soldiers captured from Jungar.

Some of these soldiers are old and frail, and some have been seriously ill for a long time. They don't look like the captives who once dominated the battlefield, but more like beggars begging along the road.

The only thing they have in common is that they are all Qing people without exception. They were captured and returned after surrendering Zhungeer.

How to deal with such a group of prisoners of war is really a difficult problem.

If you kill them, you are still your own after all, if you don't kill them, it will be difficult to convince the public.

And this difficult problem will soon be brought into Yinzhen's hands by Yue Zhongqi.

Yinzhen had heard the news a few days ago, and for him, it was undoubtedly a test for him to embark on the road of no return.

Nian Gengyao also learned that Yinzhen was troubled by this matter recently, and that Yue Zhongqi had brought people outside Beijing. Seeing that he had to face the two dilemmas, he secretly worried about Yinzhen.

Counting the days, Yinzhen knew that Yue Zhongqi would arrive in Beijing tomorrow, so he specially called Nian Gengyao to Yongwang's mansion.

As soon as Nian Gengyao entered the door, he saw Yinzhen frowning deeply, knowing that he had put a lot of thought into this matter these days, and he probably already had some clues.

Seeing that Nian Gengyao had arrived, Yinzhen said as expected: "Shuangfeng, I invited you here not because I am hesitant and difficult to make a decision, but because I have already made a decision but I don't know whether I should do it or not."

Hearing what he said, Nian Gengyao already guessed in his heart, so he said, "Are you planning to let them go?"

Yinzhen really nodded.

Nian Gengyao sighed: "Actually, they are all poor people, and they are not worthy of death. However, if you let them go, wouldn't it be another way for you to cooperate with the enemy in the hands of Master Seventy-Four?"

Yinzhen stood up, and he walked from one end of the room to the other.After a long time, he still didn't speak.

Suddenly, a notification came from outside the door: "Master Yue Zhongqi has arrived—"

Yinzhen took a deep breath, as if to suck in all the hesitation.

"Call him in."

Yue Zhongqi made arrangements for the large group of captives brought back, and rushed to Prince Yong's mansion in a hurry.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered the door, he bumped into Nian Gengyao who was rushing out of the house.

Nian Gengyao's complexion was uglier than anything else, red and black, Yue Zhongqi stood bewildered like a child who has made a mistake.

Yue Zhongqi was a little embarrassed and said, "Master Nian, are you here all right?"

"With your good words, I won't die." Nian Gengyao said coldly.

Seeing that the two of them were in a stalemate, Xu Zhen hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Master Yue also knows that Mr. Nian is my best friend, why don't you let him stay and listen to how to decide this matter? What do you have? Misunderstandings are easy to resolve."

Yue Zhongqi and Nian Gengyao saw that Yinzhen had said so, so naturally they couldn't refuse, so they sat on both sides of Yinzhen in embarrassment.

"Lord Yue, the king has already made up his mind on this matter. I think these soldiers are also forced by their livelihood, and they didn't really join the enemy. Why don't they let them go with fifty army sticks?" Yinzhen said kindly.

Yue Zhongqi also changed his expression slightly, and said in a low voice: "Prince Yong, they are prisoners of war of Zhungeer, not ordinary soldiers."

Nian Gengyao smiled and said, "Why, you are only allowed to be kind and righteous, and Prince Yong is not allowed to show mercy?"

Yue Zhongqi knew that Nian Gengyao was completely kept in the dark by Yinzhen, and he didn't know anything. What he did would only harm Yinzhen, and he was even more dumb eating Coptis chinensis, unable to express his suffering.

Yinzhen guessed that what Yue Zhongqi said must have something to do with the fourteenth elder brother, so he said, "Is this what the fourteenth brother means?"

Yue Zhongqi nodded.

Then he said: "To be honest, the Great General Wang intends to catch the prince's sore feet this time, the prince must be careful."

Yinzhen thought about it carefully, then said with a headache, "Let me think about it again."

Nian Gengyao saw that Yinzhen was moved by Yue Zhongqi's few words, and he was even more puzzled.He vaguely felt that Yue Zhongqi and Yinzhen must have something to hide from him.

Yue Zhongqi saw that Yinzhen couldn't make a decision for a while, and was about to get up to leave, but Nian Gengyao stopped him: "Lord Yue, stay."

Yue Zhongqi felt a "thump" in her heart, but obediently stopped in her tracks.

Nian Gengyao circled around Yue Zhongqi, raised his voice on purpose, and said, "I don't think it's the general king's intention, but your Master Yue's intention. It's not justified to give Prince Yong a bad reputation for being cruel and merciless." Do you mean it?"

Yue Zhongqi clenched her teeth tightly and was about to say everything.In the end, he blushed, but he still didn't say anything.

Yinzhen made a relief from behind and said, "Everyone is an official in the same dynasty, why bother to be suspicious of each other."

Nian Gengyao said to Yinzhen again: "Prince Yong, you must think twice. If killing prisoners of war is a popular thing, the general king would have done it a long time ago. They are from the Qing Dynasty, and their families are still here. Could it be that Are their families going to watch them go to the guillotine?"

Finally, Yue Zhongqi couldn't take it anymore, jumped out like crazy, grabbed Nian Gengyao by the collar, and shouted: "You don't know anything at all, if they don't go to the guillotine, then Prince Yong and you and I will go to the guillotine! You think I want to kill them, isn't it because—"

"Because of what?" Nian Gengyao was waiting for his words.

"Because the whole thing is just a play, Mr. Yue is the person I sent to lure the old fourteenth." Yin Zhen finally told the truth.

"What? That is to say, you killed me that day, and then persuaded me to transfer him away. It was a game you set up?" Nian Gengyao couldn't believe it. He thought of countless explanations, but he couldn't find anything. Be willing to believe that the final truth is true.

"Shuangfeng, listen to me, the old fourteen looks like a martial artist, but he is actually very shrewd, and he is not easy to deal with at all. If the acting is not true, if he sees it through, we will all have no good fruit." Yinzhen Worried and anxious at the same time, I had no choice but to tell the whole story.

Nian Gengyao felt an inexplicable pain in his stomach, and a mouthful of blood gushed out of his mouth.

The blood fell on the ground, and the red blood reflected on the moss-covered stone bricks, showing a picture of proud snow and cold plum blossoms, but each stroke was filled with the pain of a sincere person.

"I understand. For the sake of the so-called anti-insidious scheme, you are willing to sacrifice my life and almost make a fake show. This is your true face." Nian Gengyao smiled. lightly imprinted.

"Brother Nian, I can testify that those people were sent to show off, but they actually did it, and almost killed you. Prince Yong really didn't know about it!" Yue Zhongqi also helped Yin Zhen said good things.

Yinzhen stepped forward to support Nian Gengyao and said: "Shuangfeng, that's all in the past, just take it as my fault, the most urgent thing is that it's the old fourteen who bullied him, we are on the same boat, we are in the same boat. One, we should think of a way.”

Yue Zhongqi also continued: "That's right, everyone is a grasshopper on the same rope. If I let them go this time, I will lose my faith with Brother Fourteen. Maybe they will beat back and say that Prince Yong and Prince Yong Zhungeer colluded, or laughed at his wife's benevolence. In short, all this is a game of Brother Fourteen and the others, these people can only be killed but not let go."

Nian Gengyao couldn't help but laugh: "Kill, kill, Yinzhen, ask yourself, how many people have you killed for this throne, and you almost killed me too."

Yinzhen already had a lot of knots in his heart, and listening to Yue Zhongqi's words added fuel to the fire.At this moment, Nian Gengyao's opposition was the last straw that broke the camel's back.

Yinzhen finally broke out, and he said angrily at Nian Gengyao: "You are the true kindness of a woman! Once you succeed in everything, how can people who do great things worry so much? Yes, the throne is for me. Words are very important, even if I take my own life, I will not hesitate. But am I for myself? I am for you, for my thirteenth brother, and for these dead men who work for me. If I fail , have you thought about their end?"

"If I had known this, you might as well have let me fend for myself." Nian Gengyao closed his eyes in despair.

"Shuangfeng, please stop making trouble. In my eyes, your life is more precious than anything else, even more important than my own life." Seeing Nian Gengyao's appearance, Yinzhen couldn't help but humiliate again.

"My life is my life, so their lives are not theirs?" Nian Gengyao asked with red eyes.

Yinzhen was stunned, but he didn't answer after all.

Nian Gengyao left Prince Yong's Mansion alone. When he left, he didn't say a word, and he had nothing to say to Yinzhen.

Before the prisoners of war were about to be executed, Nian Gengyao bought off the jailer and went to see them in the prison for the first and last time.

Except for one person.

Back then when Gengyao saw Bao inquired here, he was already mentally prepared, but when he actually saw him, he still felt bad.

Bao inquired and recognized Nian Gengyao at a glance, and grinned: "Who did I say, it turned out to be Lord Nian Gengyao, the admiral of Sichuan."

Seeing that he still had a smile on his face when he arrived, Nian Gengyao felt even more uncomfortable.

"I know you are not a bad person, and you have your own reasons. This is too cruel." Nian Gengyao apologized to him.

"Hey, what's so cruel. Winners and losers, I, since I became a soldier, live with my head on my trouser belt, I have seen through life and death." Bao inquired and picked up a pot sent by Nian Gengyao. Good wine, took a sip.

"I really envy you. I wish I was half as free and easy as you." Nian Gengyao shared a drink with him through the prison's fence.

After Bao inquired about drinking the wine, he threw the jug on the ground with a bang, smashing his body to pieces.

"There is a saying that if you have wine today, you will be drunk today, and you will worry about it tomorrow. Don't think about those useless things. For the sake of being half of my confidant, I advise you to break it when you break it. Some things need to be withdrawn." As soon as possible. As for me, I have nothing to worry about, but I am afraid of pain. I don’t know if tomorrow, the knife and axe, will be able to cut the mess quickly.

"Stop talking, I'm going back to Sichuan tomorrow, so I won't come to see you off." Nian Gengyao shouted and ran out.

He had just walked a few steps when he heard something huge fall down behind him.

"No, the prisoner committed suicide!"

Nian Gengyao was stunned.

liquor,

debris,

Blood all over the place.

It was mixed with the shouts of the jailer and the noisy booing of other prisoners.

"Inquire about—"

Nian Gengyao cried bitterly, but strode forward without looking back.