Hypocrites

"Mr. Jie." Shen Yu finally saw the real Jie Yun, even though he was wearing a brown shirt, he was still content.

Jieyun was exposed by someone, and he smiled instead: "You have good eyesight. You Duhou, you brought Lian Gong's son, who is the son in the hall?"

"Mr. Jie, you might as well meet him in person."

Jie Yun just smiled and said nothing, compared to him, Shen Yu is just a brat who has been up and down for decades, and his mind is shrewder than anyone else.Shen Yu came to visit, but it was someone else who stayed in the hall to talk with "Jieyun". Who else could the Emperor Youhou come forward to introduce?

He sowed a handful of millet, but the birds did not swarm to grab the food.

Lian Zhen said: "If you sprinkle food into the mud, the birds won't eat it."

"And why?"

Lian Zhen didn't think too much: "Because it's dirty, the mud will splash on the feathers."

"Eating dirty food is not food? If you don't eat it, you will be hungry, so what should you do?"

Lian Zhen couldn't figure it out, Jie Yun walked down the courtyard, picked up the millet grains one by one, rubbed them on his clothes, then lifted them out again, and landed on the clean pebbles.The flock of birds fluttered together.

Jieyun obviously had no intention of communicating with Shen Yu, Shen Yu tried to speak several times, but he deliberately turned him away, so he had to shut up and watch him feed the birds.Until Liang Heng walked out of the hall with a visibly angry look, the dark "Jieyun" rubbed his hands and followed him: "Master Youhou, I will see you off soon."

He actually thought that Shen Yucai was the one giving orders.

Leaving Jie's house, Liang Heng said angrily: "Move with emotion, understand with reason, it doesn't work. What exactly does Jieyun want?"

Shen Yudao: "Long live name, what happens after a lonely death. Jie Lao wants to resign from office, but he will not leave the capital, which shows that he is not willing to accommodate, but still has expectations. He does not want to be like my father. Although he preserves his integrity, he dies and disappears. , and I don't want to commit myself to a courtier like Huo Tingwei."

"Didn't I just come to promise him? He pretended not to know!"

Shen Yu thought to himself, the real Jieyun knows it, and it doesn't matter whether the fake one knows it or not.

"He still gave me some advice," Shen Yu said, "Let me find another person. Former Changle Shaofu, Jiang Zhi."

Changle Shaofu, compared to Shang Shuling and Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, is really an irrelevant position, and I don't know why Jieyun let them go to Jiangfu.

Liang Heng came back and stared at Shen Yu suspiciously. When did "Jieyun" talk to Shen Yu?

West Market, Bookstore.

There was little business, the boss moved out the collection of books to dry, and he swayed on the drunkard's chair with his eyes squinted.The aftertaste of pear jujube wood and ink is timeless.

Someone stopped in front of the desk, blocking a piece of sunlight.

"Looking at Wangdu, where else are these many scrolls stored? Wangcheng Zhigui, besides this place, is Zhangyi Palace Tianlu Pavilion?"

The boss opened half of his eyes, and saw that the person who came was actually a regular customer. He hadn't seen him for several years, and he became more and more handsome and heroic.

"Isn't this... Mr. Shen?"

"Master Jiang." Shen Yu bowed his hand in return.

In the backyard of the book shop, Shen Yu sat opposite the boss at the stone table where Song Jun and others used to meet for tea.

The owner of the bookshop, that is, the old Shaofu of Changle, Jiang Zhi, did not look surprised at all, but a kind of indifference that had known that there would be today.

"The younger generation has a doubt. I don't know if my father knew the identity of Mr. Jiang at that time?"

Jiang Zhi waved his hands and said: "A book dealer, you can't be called a big man, and Shen Gong also became acquainted with books. A confidant in his life is enough to comfort the world, why bother with trivial matters."

Shen Yudao: "Elder Jiang lives in seclusion in the city, so please forgive me for the younger generation's rash visit."

Jiang Zhi said: "Not to mention, not to mention. If you were determined to 'recklessly', you would have brought the little emperor along with you. Back then, you spent the night in my library and took the crown prince in for the night. Piper shines."

Shen Yu couldn't help but feel ashamed, he bumped into obstacles everywhere with Liang Heng, which made him cautious on this trip.Of course, there is no lack of old friends with the boss of the book shop, and he owes a lot of favors, so he must be more cautious in doing things.

"I learned from other sources that Mr. Jiang actually runs a bookstore in Xishi," Shen Yu said, "No, it should be that Mr. Jiang is the owner of the bookstore. This really surprised the younger generation."

Jiang Zhi smiled and said: "Your father and son served as court officials successively, and I was still in office at that time, and it was only a matter of time before we reunited in the officialdom. Unexpectedly, there were unpredictable events, and now there is a separation between yin and yang. Shen Youdu, then you are From whom did you learn about me?"

He is commensurate with his official position, which shows that although Shen Yu knows nothing about his situation, he is well aware of the movements in the court.Official Shen Yu appointed the emperor's bodyguard, following Liang Heng's private edict, without going through the Shangshutai, very few people knew about it.

Since he is an old friend of his father's generation, and his heart is like a mirror, it is useless to play tricks.Shen Yu then told him and Liang Heng about all the things that he and Liang Heng had failed to visit the old officials for several days, and they had to get Jieyun's advice.

After Jiang Zhi heard it, he smiled and said: "So it's Brother Jie, no wonder. When I was still the lieutenant of Sili, I had the deepest friendship with Jieyun. He didn't want to go out of the mountain himself, so he pushed me out of the way. Shen Youdu, Let me ask you, what are you and the emperor doing to visit these powerless veterans and waste your energy?"

What else?Shen Yudao: "Your Majesty has no one to use, no one to trust in the court, and they are all controlled by the eunuchs. If there is no left and right arm, even the emperor can't do anything."

Jiang Zhi nodded after hearing this: "If I don't have anyone, I can weave other people's power for my own use, how about that?"

"Luo Zhieun party forces?" Shen Yu couldn't help being surprised.

Jiang Zhi said, "Use strength to fight, borrow the power of the other party to attack the eunuchs."

"Borrowed by whom? No, who else is entrenched in the court?"

Jiang Zhi inspected it and found that Shen Yu really didn't know, so he explained: "Do you know the whole story of the eunuch party's rise?"

Not to mention Shen Yu, looking inside and outside the capital, and even the whole Nan Qi, who doesn't know, who doesn't know?The first emperor ascended the throne as Xiaozong, isolated and weak, coerced by his relatives, no one to help him inside and outside the court, and finally a small eunuch temple, taking advantage of the opportunity for powerful ministers to enter the palace to meet and serve him personally, a sap stick knocked people's souls back to the west sky.

Qiu Zhiyuan, who beat Han Wei to death, and Tong Fang and Niu Shida, who laid hands on him, all flew up to the branches.Of course, only Liang Heng and Shen Yu knew what they were doing all this for, it was just to make the people who manipulated the emperor change from a Korean clan to an eunuch.

"It was the three generals who killed Han Wei later, but who killed Han Ying?" Jiang Zhi said.

Han Ying is the son of Han Wei. If Han Wei loses power, his son and daughter should be removed from the history books.Shen Yu never suspected this, Jiang Zhi mentioned Han Ying, and for a moment he couldn't remember how Han Ying, who was the captain of Sili at the time, disappeared in front of the stage.

"At that time, Han Wei was Guang Luqing, and the five thousand southern troops in Wangcheng served under his command. The father and son were escorted by soldiers when they went in and out. Who was it that tricked his father and son into leaving the guards and entering the palace alone? Who is it? When Han Wei was killed in the Golden Luan Hall, he took his son into a side alley and hacked him to death? This person could not be Qiu, Tong, and Niu who were in the Golden Luan Hall at the time, nor could it be the single official who had returned to Liwu. This person should be a confidant that Han Wei and his son trust very much, who can speak in front of Han Ying, can influence his decision, and can serve him closely when Han Ying retreats."

Shen Yu's heartbeat gradually accelerated.Following Jiang Zhi's narration, a figure slowly appeared in his mind.

"How did you know the details of that year..."

Jiang Zhi smiled lightly: "Didn't I say that before being transferred to the Changle Shaofu, he was the captain of Sili? I still know a little about the death of the former chief. Shen Youdu, some secrets about the late emperor, I can't say, I know more than your Majesty today. Compared with the three generals in the doctor's office that everyone thinks, the person that the late emperor really trusted in his heart was actually the fourth person who hid himself during the killing of his relatives. The person who holds the position of Captain of Sili is this person's protégé. He is called Zhuandiao. In fact, the late emperor cultivated the power in the court for that person. As long as you know the way, if you want to distinguish this person's affiliation from the officials in the court, you should be Not difficult."

It's not difficult to say, but in fact, before Jiang Zhi learned about this time, no one had ever mentioned it to Shen Yu.Even the Xie Ling Pavilion, which claims to gather news from all over the world, has never heard rumors.This fourth person is really like a ghost, hiding his identity and name in the well-known case of punishing Han in this dynasty.

"Who is the fourth person?!" Shen Yu blurted out.

Jiang Zhi smiled mysteriously, and pointed to his head, as if he had told Shen Yu the answer, everything was in his mind.

"Killing foreign relatives and returning the country's roots is a great achievement. Think about who will soar into the sky after the fall of the Han clan."

These words lingered in Shen Yu's ears and accompanied him back to Zhangyi Palace.

Tianlu Pavilion.

Lian Zhen dozed off boredly with his back against the plinth, while Xinzhou stood with his head bowed, respectfully avoiding the eyes of the dignitaries who came and went to and from the attic.A lot of people were gathering in Tianlu Pavilion to discuss important matters, and Shen Yu heard a sentence or two from time to time, which was related to the peace talks in the Northern Dynasty.

The door opened, and Liang Heng was surrounded by all the officials. He saw Shen Yu at a glance, grinned briefly, and continued to deal with everyone.

Qiu Zhiyuan hardly spoke, with an unfathomable expression on his face, while Tong Fang sarcastically said: "When it comes to negotiating peace with Beichao, it's always you civil servants. , Forget about your hometown on the north shore, Shangdu is still under Chao Ren's iron hoof rule, and now you want to negotiate peace with the world's enemies?"

Duan Boyu sat firmly on the throne of the emperor, and counterattacked calmly: "Che Lang said this, it sounds as if you have led troops to fight on the battlefield. Looking inside and outside the temple, only the King of Southern Sichuan, and the Northern King Regarding the matter of Chao Yihe, only the King of Southern Sichuan is qualified to discuss the matter. You and I are just talking on paper."

"Duan Xiang is right," a young official echoed, "The four towns in southern Sichuan implement the military field system, farming in season, training troops in wartime, and fighting against Beichao for decades. If I wait to draw a conclusion here, If our dynasty is insufficient to fight Beichao, the Southern Sichuan Army will be the first to disagree. If it is also said that our army can find a gap to cross the Zhuo River and seize the opportunity while taking advantage of the civil strife in Beichao, then the difficulty in dispatching troops, horses, food and grass is only the Southern Sichuan King. Clear. Instead of arguing endlessly here, it is better for your Majesty to issue an edict to recall the King of Southern Sichuan, and ask him to explain it in detail to know the pros and cons."

"It's easy to say," Tong Fang snorted, "Master Yang, the King of Southern Sichuan has guarded the south bank of the Zhuojiang River. His name has stood firm for decades, and he is a god of war. How can he say that he will leave when he leaves the position? With a heavy army in hand, border autonomy, there has long been a practice that the Southern Sichuan Army is not allowed to cross Shixing County, and it is not something that His Majesty can recall if he wants to."