Jiang Qing

Bai Bingchen arranged Zhang Huailiu and the others in a house not far from his mansion, and Jiang Yan personally selected a few people to protect them.

After they settled down, Bai Bingchen and Mei Shao entered the palace.

Zhao Zhen kept someone for dinner, returned to Qinzheng Hall, listened to Bai Bingchen's account of the cause and effect, pondered for a while and said: "Send a few people to provoke the relationship between the villagers and the government. Very accurate, usually the children of rich and noble families will not put themselves in the perspective of the interests of the villagers. This is why peasant uprisings have been quick to rise and lose quickly since ancient times. They have an upside-down attitude. The ambition of heaven and earth, but not the ability to support a regime. This person catered to this, took the Benzhou Uprising as the front, but himself added fuel to the back, confused the public, and finally reaped the rewards. This way of doing things is the most human Love it."

Zhao Zhen looked at Bai Bingchen and said: "His apparent identity is contrary to what he is doing behind the scenes, but his apparent identity is not enough to bear the consequences of rebellion, so he can only hide in this idiot's way, doing enough This kind of petty behavior."

"Sun Zhe, Marquis of Pingdong, his grandparents and grandchildren were the heroes of Emperor Mu Lie's ascension to the throne. They were crowned with the titles of the four major armies appointed by the first emperor. During the period of Emperor Mu Lie, the general of the rebellion between the two kings was crowned with the title of Marquis of the Four Great Armies established by the first emperor. He married his wife Lan Hui, one of the two Confucianists in Benzhou. He had a son who was only five years old and died young after being robbed by bandits. " Bai Bingchen went over the basic identities of the two military marquises, and said: "The Sun family and the Ren family can be regarded as the real descendants of the army. The villagers have lost their minds, and according to His Majesty's deduction, these two people are not suitable."

"Emperor Mu Lie?" In the history of the Li Kingdom, this king can be said to be the most legendary monarch except Zhao Heyu, the first emperor who established the Li Kingdom. During his reign, the territory of the Li Kingdom was the largest in history. In the time of broadness, all sides came to court, Haiyan and Heqing, Li Guo was respected all over the world, his deterrence remained undiminished ten years after his abdication, and no country dared to send troops to provoke.

But at the same time, he is also an extreme tyrant who kills his brothers, builds large-scale buildings, loves to drive and fight everywhere.Speaking of which, the military power of the four major armies at that time was much stronger than it is now, but none of them dared to disagree, and they were all afraid of this cruel and ruthless king.

"Today, only Pingdong and Nanyang are the descendants of Emperor Mu Lie's enfeoffment among the four major armies. Is it possible that because of this relationship, the Sun family and the Ren family made a joint arrangement and did this?" Mei Shao guessed. .

"After Emperor Mu Lie, no king dared to let the military power fall aside, and the military power of the military princes was reduced again and again. If the Sun family and the Ren family had disagreed, why wait until now when the power in their hands is dwindling? What about such a thing?" Bai Bingchen said with a chuckle: "Let's say it is now, even when the Ren family and the Sun family were in full swing, they didn't dare to do anything wrong. At that time, apart from Emperor Mu Lie, there was also a Xihou is suppressing it."

Mei Shao knew a thing or two about this period of history.At that time, the Marquis of Jinxi held most of the military power in his hands, and the fiefdom of Jinxi occupied the entire Shu land in the southwest. Emperor Mu Lie even named him the King of Zhonglie, the same title as "Lie". Daoxing horse saber, extremely insolent.In the end, even Emperor Mu Lie, who thought too much of himself, couldn't bear his madness. He started at the night banquet and took over the military power of Jinxi, and the Marquis of Jinxi was put under house arrest until he died.

Throughout the ages, military commanders and emperors have rarely known each other. Even the father and son of the Yu family, who were highly relied on during the late emperor's time, were nothing more than two generals until their death, without the honor of being a marquis, let alone the Mei family as the leader. There are several families of generals.

Mei Shao sighed in his heart, and suddenly remembered his attack on Weihu Mountain in Cangzhou, and said: "Actually, there is another possibility..."

Both Zhao Zhen and Bai Bingchen looked at him.

"There are many bandits along the Shunjiang River. When the bandits set foot in their strongholds, if they want to expand the size of their own strongholds, and they cannot directly come forward due to the morals of the world, they will provoke the few strongholds they want to annex. The relationship between them is mostly due to the dispute over the ownership of the passing merchants in various places, and after the two places have quarreled, they will start." The more Mei Shao thought about it, the more she felt that this possibility was extremely high. The arsenal in such a stockade is even more abundant than the armaments in the Yamen of Cangzhou Prefecture. Pingdong and Nanyang are already rich because of water transportation. If there are bandits who participated in the Benzhou Uprising, then their supplies and supplies during the siege of Shencheng will be There are also traces of food and grass backup.”

"The dispute over the unclaimed land in Benzhou..." Zhao Zhen followed Mei Shao's assumptions and thought about it, and he really had a bit of a bandit style, "If this is the case, it will be difficult for Pingdong and Nanyang to get rid of the bandits for a long time. , It was originally instructed by these two military marquises. Bandits...just now Baiqing seemed to say that the youngest son of the Marquis of Nanyang was robbed by bandits and died young?"

Bai Bingchen frowned, and said: "If you have to go back to the Nanyanghou's mansion and the bandits' Liangzi, they were married during the old Nanyanghou's time. The old Nanyanghou's wife went to the Buddhist temple to offer incense when she was about to give birth, and was taken by a bandit on the way down the mountain. The wife of the rich businessman was robbed and tied up in the mountain for more than half a year. Even the child was born on the mountain. Afterwards, the old Nanyang Hou managed to find the whereabouts of his wife, but because of the steep mountain, he was afraid of harming his wife and children. Attacked the village, and after the wife gave birth to a child, she took the child and fled down the mountain. Without the shackles of his wife and children, the old Nanyang Marquis Chen Bing went down the mountain and slaughtered wantonly, killing all the people in the village. Who knows, he escaped during the turmoil A few gangsters, more than ten years later, after Ren Heyu ascended to the Nanyang Marquis, after marrying Lan Hui, he took care of him in every possible way, fearing that what happened back then would happen again, and in the end he was kidnapped by the gangsters when the child was five years old. She tried her best to save her, but she went down the mountain alone with injuries all over her body. After losing her child, Lan Hui was often anxious. Once when she went back to her mother's house, she accidentally knocked over the candlestick and burned her parents to death. In an extreme collapse, Lan Hui almost lost her mind, Ren Heyu looked around for famous doctors to make her temporarily forget the painful past, and she survived."

"In this way, there is really no reason for Nanyang Marquis to cooperate with the bandits, but he has placed the teacher under house arrest. This suspicion cannot be escaped no matter what." Mei Shao said.

"Assuming that the supply of food and grass for the rebel army really relies on transportation along the river and invades the hinterland of Pingdong, it goes without saying that the Marquis of Pingdong has this power, but if the person behind the scenes is really him, he might as well go directly to Ximen It's too logical to make trouble, build momentum at the weak east gate, and attract others to smash the gate of your own city. After something happens, the first object of suspicion is him, which is too risky." Bai Bingchen cut in from a different angle , analyzed: "If the Marquis of Nanyang is the black hand, he will not be able to intervene in the river transportation in Pingdong. We can only rely on people who can speak well in the land of Pingdong, and there are two such people, one is the Marquis of Pingdong, and the other is the two ministers who just went to Pingdong a few days ago."

"The Marquis of Pingdong and the Marquis of Nanyang are colluding. This matter can be solved. Or the Ministry of Industry and the Minister of the Ministry of Households have already done a good job for the Marquis of Nanyang when they were in Pingdong. After they return to the capital, there will still be another Time difference to avoid suspicion."

"If it's as Bai Qing said, my left minister is really well-connected, and he's spying on you secretly." Zhao Zhen sneered.

"The whereabouts of Marquis Pingdong is unknown now, but Marquis Nanyang is actually in Minzhou. If it is really Marquis Nanyang's black hand, I guess he is about to do it. Your Majesty should plan ahead." Bai Bingchen said. .

"Then Bai Qing and Mei Qing's opinion, how to break the situation now?"

Bai Bingchen blurted out what he wanted to say, but swallowed it again when he reached the edge of his mouth, suffocated, and said: "Mr. Zhang mentioned that he was able to escape from the Nanyang Marquis Mansion because of someone secretly helping him. I thought it was possible to respond internally, in the name of comforting Nanyang Marquis Benzhou's injury. Send an imperial envoy into Nanyang as an internal response to find someone who can help you and get information. In addition, Master Mei led the troops to hide in the state capital outside Pingdong, waiting for an opportunity to prevent the Marquis of Nanyang from suddenly sending troops to attack the outer city. "

"The minister is willing to go."

Zhao Zhen glanced at Mei Shao who had volunteered, nodded, and said, "The person who should be in charge, Bai Qing, can someone choose?"

"Mr. Sui Zhang thanked Juren for coming to the capital, I think I can entrust it to you."

"How can such a small person take on such a heavy responsibility?" Zhao Zhen said slightly dissatisfied.

"He is familiar with some of the land and climate of Pingdong. If he is an internal response, he can get information from Nanyang Hou's words and pass it on to Mr. Mei. More importantly, he is familiar with it. Mr. Mei has already visited Nanyang once. Hou, Ren Heyu must be suspicious, and anyone sent by His Majesty to the court will have doubts, but a newcomer who has never been in the court, Ren Heyu will relax his mind."

Mei Shao turned her head and glanced at Bai Bingchen, with a strange expression on her face, but in front of Zhao Zhen, she still didn't say anything.

Zhao Zhen trusted Bai Bingchen very much. When he said this, he didn't raise any objections at the moment. He just said, "He still needs to be willing to do this matter. Go and find out what the Juren said. If he is willing, after the matter is completed , I will add an official to him. If he does not want to, Bai Qing and I will choose another candidate."

The night was deep, and the matter was initially decided, and the two were ready to leave the palace.

Bai Bingchen secretly gave Zhao Zhen a wink, and suddenly said to Mei Shao: "Master Mei can go ahead and ask Xie Juren what he means."

Mei Shao narrowed her eyes slightly, raised her eyebrows and asked, "Now?"

He glanced at the sky, and knew that Bai Bingchen was deliberately distracting himself, and asked in a slightly unkind tone, "Does Master Bai have any political affairs to discuss with His Majesty?"

Zhao Zhen got a hint from Bai Bingchen, and hurriedly said: "Never, it's some private affairs of the empress, I'll leave Mrs. Bai to talk about it."

Mei Shao's eyes turned between Bai Bingchen and Zhao Zhen a few times, facing Bai Bingchen with a calm expression, he couldn't say much in the end, but glanced at the sky outside again, and said restrainedly: "The spring day just rises, and the night It's still slightly cold, Lord Bai still needs to pay attention to his body."

After speaking, he left the hall.

After Zhao Zhen watched Mei Shao leave, he looked away, looked at Bai Bingchen with a smile, and said, "Let's go? Go trouble your sister in the middle of the night?"

Bai Bingchen sighed softly and said, "Your Majesty should know that this is just an excuse. I still have something to say to Your Majesty."

"It's not a good thing to say even Mei Qing has to push her away." Zhao Zhen suppressed his smile slightly, and looked at him intently.

Bai Bingchen looked into Zhao Zhen's eyes and said, "I beg Your Majesty to blame the minister for General Ling's death, get rid of the minister's right position, confine the White House for self-examination, and not participate in government affairs."