Reincarnation of the powerful minister

Cui Jinping hesitated again and again, but in the end he did not submit Yu Chezhi's military report to the cabinet immediately.

Ever since he stepped into Xie Shiyan's mansion the night he was promoted to general manager, thanked him for his kindness, and expressed his willingness to contribute, he felt a faint realization in his heart—this was the beginning of his parting ways with Su Yan.

Taking a broad view of the entire court, it is indeed Su Ge who is the most holy family and the most thriving.But this branch of flowers and trees is too fresh and tender, too solitary, and the roots are not deep enough.It's not like those tangled old bushes. Although they look gray and low and ordinary, they are better than being low and ordinary, and strong winds can't easily destroy them.

——If this beautiful tree is willing to give him the opportunity to climb and stand shoulder to shoulder, he is also willing to fight against the wind and rain with the other party within the range he can bear.But Su Yan didn't like him. He would rather be with the factory guard Yingclaw and reuse a madman who can only offer aphrodisiacs than support him.

——So it was Su Yan who was sorry for him first and betrayed the friendship between them.

Since you are unkind, don't blame me for being unrighteous... Cui Jinping gritted his teeth and locked the playbook in the drawer.

Two days after this memorial was put on hold, a new military report came from the Daming Mansion:

Yu Chezhi wrote to the imperial court again, saying that he sent a team to search for and support Qi Jingtang. Along the way, he found traces of fighting between the two armies and heard many local rumors. The leader surrendered after being captured by the rebels... There are various rumors, but none of them are good news.

Yu Chezhi suspected that the left army of the Fifth Army Battalion led by Qi Jingtang was defeated because he underestimated the enemy.

Cui Jinping also sent the second playbook to Xie Shiyan.

Xie Shiyan was overjoyed. On the one hand, he told him to keep holding on to the news, so that Su Yan must not be prepared when he heard about it; Ge Lao Jiang Chunnian.

The cabinet currently has five ministers.

The first assistant Yang Ting and Su Yan had an old relationship, and they were in the same lineage as Li Chengfeng, so Xie Shiyan gave up trying to win him from the beginning.

Yu Chezhi was leading the army to fight abroad, so regarding Qi Jingtang's matter, he must have held back his anger. Even if he didn't bombard Su Yan himself after returning to Beijing, it would not hinder their impeachment.

Jiang Chunnian was a bit stuttering and kept a low profile. He was usually quiet, but Xie Shiyan knew that he was not willing to be inferior to Su Yan in the cabinet, and he could become an ally with a little lobbying.

In this way, two of the remaining three Ge Laoli can be his help.Only Yang Ting, who was biased towards Su Yan, was soft-tempered and not intimidating.

Xie Shiyan did the calculations and felt that the chances of winning this time were not small. Even if Su Yan could not be dismissed, he could severely hit his position in the cabinet, and even push him out of the core of the court.Once he falls from the high position of "almost prime minister", what awaits him will be a series of insults and profit sharing from everyone, and it will be difficult to make a comeback after that.

After three nights of plotting, among the six or seven core members of the "Falling the Soviet Union" team headed by Xie Shiyan, Jiang Chunnian Jiang Ge was the most impatient one.He urged: "Since the impeachment book has been written, when will it be done?"

After Xie Shiyan pondered, he said, "Wait a little longer."

"What are you waiting for? Be careful about nights and dreams. Don't forget that Jin Yiwei's spies are not vegetarians."

"...It is equal to the third playbook of elder Ge."

It is indeed Yu Chezhi's style to play consecutively in a short period of time.When he led the army to suppress the bandits, at most, he wrote nine memorials within half a month, either urging for food and grass for the march, or attacking the officials who were slowing down. Fortunately, Emperor Jinglong was lenient and did not take this as disobedience.Yu Chezhi became more and more the one among the civil servants who led the army, the one whose temper and demeanor were closest to that of a general.

Xie Shiyan predicted that Yu Chezhi would never tolerate his generals disobeying military orders, and would definitely play again.

Sure enough, two days later, the third memorial came——

Yu Chezhi captured a group of "rebels" minions. After interrogation, he confirmed that Qi Jingtang's troops had indeed confronted them several times recently, and they were all defeated.Crazy Liao led his subordinates to take advantage of the victory to pursue, and the captured minions did not know how the battle ended.

This can be regarded as ironclad evidence.

Xie Shiyan took this reassurance thoroughly, and said, "Stable! In the early morning tomorrow, we will concentrate our firepower and bombard Su Twelve. We will not stop until we kick him out of the cabinet!"

"Tonight's secret meeting in the Xie Mansion...what are we talking about?"

At night, the oil lamps on the wall illuminate the courtroom of Beizhen Fusi vividly.Shen Qi rested her legs on the table, while asking, she absently played with the brass punishment awl in her hand.

Jin Yiwei's undercover agent clasped his fists with embarrassment and replied: "The Xie residence is very well guarded, and it is difficult for the brothers to get close. I only know that there are about six or seven people who met, and I don't know the specific identities, and I don't know what they talked about."

Xie Shiyan, an old man, had a grudge against Qinghe last time because of Qi Jingtang's gift of Chundan, and this time he is so sneaky, could the plot be related to Qinghe?

Shen Qi waved the spies away, and was planning to go to Xie's mansion to inquire in person, but Gao Shuo hurried in, standing still in front of him, as if he was about to blurt out something, but turned hesitant to speak.

"Why, what did you do to worry that I would punish you?" Shen Qi raised her eyebrows and asked.

Gao Shuo forced a smile in embarrassment and embarrassment: "I don't feel bad about being humble, sir, don't you know?"

"Then don't act like a little daughter-in-law to me."

Hearing the words, Gao Shuo restrained his emotions, his face was indifferent, and suddenly he felt much better in his heart, so he said forcefully: "I have something to report to your lord. I don't want to say this, but I have to, and at the same time I'm afraid to say it The adults are going to go crazy."

Shen Qi refrained from shooting him with the awl: "Say something quickly, and fart quickly!"

Gao Shuo pulled out a ball of red gauze from his bosom, and handed it sullenly.

Shen Qi nailed the cloth to the table with an awl, and when she unfolded it, it was a torn sleeve of a bright red gauze dress.

"This was picked up by the palace people when they were cleaning up the Fengtian Palace. Seeing that it was broken and useless, it was thrown into the utility room and prepared to be disposed of together in the future. There was a school lieutenant on duty in the palace who had friendship with the palace people. One time when people were chatting in the corridor, Fu Bao, who was next to the emperor, brought someone over and asked who lost the red gauze dress without permission. He also said that the emperor lost his temper and must find it. The palace man was very frightened, Hastily took out the gauze garment from the utility room and handed it to Eunuch Fu Bao."

Shen Qi frowned when she heard this: "Whether the emperor is nervous about the jade seal or a torn gauze garment, what does it have to do with you? What does it have to do with me? Why are you talking about these trivial matters!"

Gao Shuo hurriedly said: "My lord, please continue to listen. After Eunuch Fubao left, the palace servant found out that he was in a hurry to get it and half of the sleeve was missing, so he entrusted the captain to run errands for him. As a result, the captain of Jinyiwei took the torn gauze clothes When the sleeves were sent over, I accidentally heard two servants in charge of changing and preparing clothes in Fengtian Palace chatting in private, saying that this red gauze dress was... worn by Mr. Su when he stayed in the palace, so the emperor was very concerned about it and insisted on looking for it. Can't come back."

When Shen Qi heard the three words "Master Su", there was a buzzing sound in her mind, and there were glowing red shadows as thin as cicada's wings in front of her eyes.His expression was distorted by the red shadow, and he squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth: "Which Master Su?"

"Old Su Ge, Master Su."

Shen Qi took a deep breath, the coke was smoldering in his heart, trying to scald a hole in his lungs.He held the brass torture awl tightly, and he didn't even notice that the awl tip pierced his palm. "go on."

"The captain knew that the matter was secret, so he didn't dare to listen to it, and he didn't dare to hand back his sleeve, so he hid it quietly, as if nothing happened. After half a month passed, the captain felt relieved when he saw the calm, tonight It was only when I was eating with me that I made a slip of the tongue after drinking... My lord! My lord, I have already warned him to rot this matter in his stomach and stop drinking in the future. If he can’t keep his mouth shut, he won’t wait for his lord I went to clean him up myself!"

Gao Shuo knew something was wrong when he saw Shen Qi's eyes, but the captain was his cousin, he couldn't just ignore death and save him, at least to save face first.

Shen Qi slowly let go, and daubed the blood of her palm on the gauze sleeve, said in a hoarse voice: "Just this once. Call him out of the capital, and never appear in my eyes or ears."

Thank you Gao Shuo for winning streak.

"The two dressing servants in Fengtian Temple, you should go and question them tonight, and then make an accident."

"Yes!"

"Go down."

"My lord..." Gao Shuo hesitated, and quietly exited the room.

Shen Qi picked up the blood-stained red gauze with the torture awl, and burned it on the candle.The dancing flames made his face blurry, and he stared at the debris and ashes falling on the table, motionless.

"What did I say? After enduring the old ones, you have to endure the young ones again. When will it be..." Feng Qu'e's shadow leaned over from the darkness, and crushed the ashes into powder with his blood-stained fingers. Hoarse and treacherous, "Haven't you made up your mind yet?"

Shen Qi didn't say a word, didn't move at all, until the blood pointed to his throat and drew back, and then stabbed the brass torture awl backwards, and the phantom disappeared without a trace.

"...I don't need anyone to tell me what to do." Shen Qi snorted and blew out the candles on the table.

Su Yan woke up from a light sleep, sat up abruptly, and called out, "Ah Chai!"

Jing Hongzhui, who was meditating on the outer couch and adjusting her breathing, blinked to his bedside and replied, "I'm here. What's the matter, my lord?"

Su Yan wore long hair, wrapped around a thin quilt, frowned and said, "I'm a little uneasy, I always feel that something is going to happen..."

Jing Hongzhuan knew that Mr. Su was not a weak-willed and suspicious person, and there must be a reason for this sudden palpitation, so she sat on the edge of the bed and held his hand: "Did your lord think of something? Omissions or concerns will pop up in my mind when sleep is blurred."

Su Yan also felt the same way. After thinking hard for a moment, he said, "The atmosphere in the court has been weird these past few days. Especially during the last court meeting, I felt that there were many eyes secretly spying on me and examining me, but I didn't find any courtiers. What's the difference? I wondered if I was overtired and sensitive recently. Looking back now, there was indeed something wrong, but I couldn't tell you exactly...By the way, I asked Xiaobei to look for famous assassins in the concierge. Did you find it? "

"Three drawers are full of officials and gentry who are asking for an audience. After my lord entered the cabinet, there were too many people who wanted to make friends with me. Su Xiaojing didn't bother to deal with them, so they piled them all up in the drawers like rubbish." Jing Hong Chase got up and walked to the table, picked up a famous card and handed it to him, "This one belongs to Cui Jinping."

Su Yan took it over to look at it, and sighed: "If I had noticed Ping Shan's thoughts earlier and communicated with him more, maybe I wouldn't have turned against my friend now."

Jing Hong chased and said: "It may not be useful to say it earlier. Sometimes you have to fall and suffer a loss. Only by experiencing it can you remember it, especially for those whose eyes are on the top of their heads."

Su Yan couldn't fall asleep anymore, so he got up and tied his hair in a bun, put on his outer shirt, and said, "Ah Chai, come out for a walk with me."

On a spring night at the end of May, the wind already felt as warm as early summer.Su Yan and Jing Hong chased out of the house, turned two alley corners, and walked slowly along Chengcheng Street.

When walking onto the stone bridge, Su Yan pointed to the railing and said: "At the beginning, I picked you up in this bridge hole." It was also on this bridge that I met Shen Qi for the first time.

"You were half-floating and half-sinking in the water at that time, like a dead body. While your angry eyes frightened me, it also aroused my curiosity." Su Yan smiled, "Looking back, I'm really lucky." OK."

Jing Hong chased and brushed the catkins off his shoulders, held his hand and continued walking: "The lucky one is me."

The Taibai Building at the end of the street was still lit. Su Yan walked through the door, smelling the aroma of wine on the spur of the moment, and chased Jing Hong, "Come on, let's go upstairs and have a drink."

"It's going to be morning in two or three hours. Is it okay for adults to drink?"

"It's okay, just two cups." Su Yan walked to the corridor on the second floor, and suddenly stopped, showing surprise, "Cui Jinping?"

The cups and cups were messed up on the seat by the window, and the table was covered with water stains. Cui Jinping lay alone on the edge of the table, motionless, as if he had passed out drunk.

Su Yan stared blankly, and suddenly remembered that this seat was where they drank tea together when they made friends in Taibailou.

He walked over, gently pushed Cui Jinping's shoulder, and called out, "Brother Pingshan?"

There was no movement.

"Brother Ping Shan, you are drunk, shall I take you home?"

Cui Jinping changed his posture, babbled a few times, and then stopped moving.

Su Yan was helpless, and chased after Jing Hong: "He got drunk alone, I can't just turn a blind eye and leave him here. If he misses tomorrow's court meeting and don't say anything, what if he gets robbed by bad guys and something happens."

Jing Hong chased her heart and didn't want to care about Cui Jinping, thinking that he would take up Master Su's care and time even if he broke up with Master Su.So while supporting him, he forced a wisp of true energy into Cui Jinping's meridians, stimulating him to sober up.

Cui Jinping whimpered, opened his eyes to look at Su Yan in a daze, closed them again, and said in a raving voice, "Don't fall into my dream... Get out, get out!"

Su Yan laughed: "Brother Pingshan, this is not a dream, this is Taibai Tower."

"Tai, Taibailou...Brother Qinghe speaks quickly, he is just like me, so happy to have this friend... Happy..."

Su Yan vaguely remembered that this was what Cui Jinping had said to him when they were making friends here, and after being startled, he felt lost.

"...You are unkind, I am unjust...Su Qinghe, you shouldn't! I shouldn't either...I'm sorry, I'm sorry..." Cui Jinping grabbed Su Yan's lapel, and his whole body softened , unconscious again.

Now not only Su Yan, but even Jing Hongzhui sensed something was wrong, and said in a low voice: "My lord, this guy seems to have a ghost in his heart. Otherwise, why would you come here late at night to have a drink?"

Su Yan thought for a while, and said, "How about this, you send him back quietly, don't disturb his family, and then check his bedroom and study to see what you find."

"Okay. But what about my lord?"

"You come and go, I won't hold you back, I'll wait for you here, how about it?"

Jing Hongzhui was a little worried, but it was not yet Haishi, the Taibai Building was lively and bright, it should be safe, besides, he couldn't keep Mrs. Su as a child, so he nodded and said: "I'll go back as soon as I go, My lord is waiting for me while eating supper."

Su Yan paid for the wine for Cui Jinping, and asked Ah Zhui to send him away, and ordered a few more stir-fried dishes, and ate slowly with sweet rice wine.

In less than half an hour, Jing Hong came back after chasing her.Su Yan poured wine for him and invited him to sit down and eat together.

Jing Hong chased him not in the mood to eat or drink, leaned over, and said in a low voice: "I threw him at the door, thinking he walked back in a daze after being drunk. Then I searched the dormitory and study room, and found a desk drawer lock Stop it, open it and take a look... I was afraid of scaring the snake, so I didn't take the things away, so I came back and reported to the adults first."

Su Yan's face was serious when he heard this, and his brows were furrowed in surprise.

"How could this be? It shouldn't be, Qi Jingtang is—" Su Yan suddenly silenced.Qi Jingtang is a famous general recorded in the history books. He has almost no defeats in his life. How could he be defeated just after his debut?

Are the history books wrong?Or in the parallel world, the same people have different fates?Or is it because he plucked the seedlings and encouraged them to grow, resulting in a butterfly effect?Su Yan was a little upset, and kept tapping on the edge of the table with his fingertips.

Jing Hong pursued: "I'm afraid this matter will be used to deal with your lord, otherwise Cui Jinping wouldn't be so guilty. How will your lord deal with it?"

The more difficult the situation is, the more calm you must be.Su Yan took a deep breath, stopped tapping the table, held the wine glass and handed it to Jing Hongzhui: "Ah Zhui has worked hard, drink a glass first to quench your thirst."

Jing Hong chased after him to calm down quickly, and laughed softly: "Master, will you feed me?"

Su Yan laughed, and really fed him a glass of wine.

After Jing Hongzhui finished drinking the glass of wine, Su Yan also thought of something, put two pieces of silver on the table, and pulled Jing Hongzhui away from Taibai Tower.

"Let's go to Beizhen Fusi!"

"doing what?"

"Look for Qilang, he said that the case will be tried in the Yamen tonight."

"Shen Qi knew about this?"

"I guess I don't know yet. I just remembered that when I recommended Qi Jingtang to the court, because his reputation was not obvious, I was afraid that the recommendation would not be convincing. I asked Qilang to investigate his past achievements and submit a report to the cabinet. That's why I recommended him." Therefore, Shichiro should have collected all his past battle cases..."

"Are these battle examples useful?" Shen Qi handed a simple bound booklet to Su Yan.

In the middle of the night, Su Yan brought Jing Hongzhui to visit Beizhen Fusi suddenly, which made Shen Qi somewhat unexpected, subconsciously blowing away the ashes on the table, got up and came out to meet him.

Su Yan told Shen Qi what happened tonight.Shen Qi immediately ordered someone to find out the previously collected information from the study room.

"The emperor taught me to play chess before, and he once said something like this to me..." Su Yan sat at the table, flipped through the booklet carefully, and said without raising his head, "He said that everyone who plays chess They have their own style of chess, some are wide open and close, they push the door vertically and horizontally, some are slanted with swords and like to make surprise moves, some are conservative, some are aggressive, and some are murderous... The style of chess generally changes in a short period of time. There are too many changes. So I think, the combat style of a general is also the same."

Hearing the word "Emperor" from his mouth, Shen Qi's eyes flickered coldly, and she lowered her eyelids.

Su Yan pulled a piece of paper, compared the words on the booklet, scribbled and drew on the page, and said with emotion: "It would be great if King Yu was here at this moment. He is very good at conquest, and he is a master at using soldiers. He analyzes battle cases, It is easy to draw a tactical diagram or something, which can save me a lot of time."

Now Jing Hongzhui's face also darkened, she reached out for a pen and paper, tore off the second half of the booklet, and said, "I can draw too, leave these to me."

When Su Yan saw it, he looked quite decent, much more reliable than a few doodles made by himself.

The paper was all over the table, and the three sat around the table to study.

Shen Qi said: "Qi Jingtang joined the army at the age of 16. In the past eight years, he has experienced 65 battles, mostly fighting bandits and ronin."

Jing Hong chased: "These, and these few games, all won very well. It seems that what he is best at is attacking, clearing, fighting and chasing."

Su Yan thought about one of them: "How did you turn defeat into victory in this match? I can't understand some things."

Shen Qi picked it up and took a closer look, then said in a deep voice: "The solitary army goes deep, put it to death and survive..."

"It's like the sword move 'Shenhui Douzhuan', which uses one's own life gate to lure the enemy. If the opponent falls for the trick, the time when the offensive is too old is the time to lose." Jing Hongzhui explained.

Su Yanruo realized something.

25-year-old Qi Jingtang is still a little-known boy from Dengzhou. After the world line has deviated from his original life trajectory, Su Yan is not very sure whether this battle will be life or death, victory or defeat...

"Don't let me miss you, Xiao Qi." Su Yan murmured, "Come back alive, come back with a win... If you want to send back Chundan, you can."

Shen Qi and Jing Hongzhui looked at each other, and they understood each other - the medicine can be taken, but people must get out of Qinghe's sight.

Su Xiaojing stood in front of the bed, looked at the sleeping Su Xiaobei, and said silently: Goodbye, Brother Xiaobei.

Su Yan is not at home, Shen Qi is not here, and Jing Hongzhui is not here, tonight is the best time.

The door creaked slightly, and then closed gently. Su Xiaobei, who drank the sweat medicine, did not wake up.