This sleeve is broken secretly

After the beginning of spring in the 27th year of Hongwu, Zhu Jian, the governor of Yingzhou, and Lou Fu, the commander-in-chief of the Monan Army, went to the court to plead for the recovery of half of Yingzhou that had fallen into the hands of the prairie people.At this time, a year has passed, and the military and political reforms and land reforms implemented by Shen Yi and Xie Gong have begun to bear fruit.Most of the old, weak, sick and disabled in the frontier army were replaced, fresh blood was added to the army, and after a period of training, the scale has been issued.Everyone knows that if the prairie army adapts to the Central Plains soil and water and defending the city, it will be difficult to regain Yingzhou.At this time, it is a good strategy to go all out.

With the permission of the Ministry of War, on the first day of May, Lou's father led a surprise army to attack the fortress occupied by the grassland army.Lou's father went all out again and conquered three cities in half a month, forcing the panic-stricken prairie army to retreat in succession.It was not until Yulin Pass that the Grassland Army was able to stabilize its position and once again formed a confrontation with the Central Plains Army.In the next one and a half months, the two sides won and lost, and soon reached a stalemate.

In the process, the time quietly arrived at the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Because there is a battle ahead, Emperor Hongwu did not spend a lot of money on the Mid-Autumn Festival this time.However, in order to stabilize people's hearts, Emperor Hongwu still decided to hold a Mid-Autumn Festival banquet in the palace, and then went up to the tower to celebrate with all the people, and Shen Yu and Xie Ling were also among the invited officials.

Different from the New Year banquet in the Hall of Supreme Harmony last time, this time the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet was held in the imperial garden.At Youshi after sunset, the imperial garden was already full of fiery trees and silver flowers when all the officials were seated.Because you want to enjoy the moon, the lights in the garden should not be too bright.Therefore, only small glazed lamps were hung around the banquet and on the pine branches, and a layer of gauze was used to cover the lampshade, so the lights did not appear too bright.Seen from a distance, floating above the surface of the tree shadows, it looks like the shadow of the moon, and it is like the light of the glistening, hazy and beautiful to the extreme.

The officials were seated according to their grades, and Shen Yi and Xie Ling were placed at the same table, some distance away from the main table.Looking from a distance, they could see that Emperor Hongwu was sitting at the top, the crown prince was on his left, and several other princes were sitting on the right.Emperor Hongwu didn't have many heirs, and all the sons came, only to see that half of the table was filled, and the other half of the table was filled with several important cabinet ministers, including Kuang Zheng and Liu Ling.

Emperor Hongwu seemed to be in a good mood, and he kept laughing and drinking with the courtiers around him since the banquet started.When the wine was half drunk, he smiled and said, "Where is Liang Qing? Ask him to come up and have a drink with me."

Hearing that Shen Yan hurriedly left the table, toasted to the main table, bowed down and bowed down: "I respectfully wish you a happy festive season, and all the blessings and peace."

Emperor Hongwu smiled and drank the wine in his glass with him, and turned to the prince after arousing, "Liangqing has been the prince's lecturer for a while, right? How does the prince feel, is it beneficial to study every day?"

The prince hurriedly said: "Listening to Mr.'s words is like reading a hundred volumes. I have really benefited a lot. Mr.'s talents and learning are admired by my son since childhood. It is really a blessing to be able to study with Mr. now."

Emperor Hong Wu laughed, nodded his head and said: "Be close to a gentleman and stay away from a villain. The prince has done a good job. Liangqing is the important minister of the country I want to leave to you. It is good that you can make friends with him. But he can't be yours forever. Your husband, the days when you can study with him are flying by, cherish it yourself."

The prince answered "Yes", and looked at Shen Yi with a smile.

At the same time, Kuang Zheng, who was in the banquet, was holding the wine glass and staring at Shen Bing bleakly.I don't know if he didn't sleep well recently, or he was seriously ill, but seeing that his eyes are blue and black, his complexion is sallow, and his appearance, which was considered elegant before, is now a bit wretched.He listened silently to the conversation between the three, found a gap, and suddenly smiled at Emperor Hongwu: "Your Majesty, have you forgotten that Liang Qing is best at Qing Ci? Such a beautiful day, isn't it a good time to write Ci and Fu?" Is it time?"

Hearing this, the faces of everyone at the banquet changed slightly.Especially the prince, his expression darkened almost immediately.

It is true that Shen Yan was promoted to the emperor's close minister with Qingci, but that was a few years ago, and he is still the prince's teacher now.Kuang Zhengzheng brought up this despicable past in the public, and his intentions were really bad.

However, Emperor Hongwu did not speak, and the others did not dare to say anything.However, Emperor Hongwu groaned for a moment, and smiled at Shen Bing: "It's true that I haven't read Liangqing's poems for a long time. Come, let's write."

Immediately, a few inner eunuchs brought up a table, and put pens, ink, paper and inkstones on it, in a posture for Shen Bi to write an inscription on the spot.

It should be known that when writing Qing Ci in the past, Emperor Hongwu wrote the theme he wanted to see on a small piece of paper, and ordered the internal supervisor to send it to Xiyuan for inscriptions by civil officials who specialized in writing Qing Ci, and then sent it back to the palace after writing.Civil servants can write beautiful and relevant Qing Ci within a few hours, which is already a quick writing.However, at the moment, Emperor Hongwu actually asked Shen Yi to write it on the spot without giving him any time to conceive, which is simply a difficult task.

Among the different expressions of the people, Shen Yan smiled slightly, came to the back of the stage calmly and raised the pen holder.He was born beautiful and graceful, but standing under a camphor tree and meditating with a pen, it looks like a picture of a gentleman to others.However, Shen Yan raised his pen and wiped the ink without haste, raised his eyes to look at the moon, and wrote on the paper like flowing clouds and flowing water:

"...The emperor's mound hangs down, and the treasures are exposed. What happened one after another, I feel uncomfortable with the letter. The song says: "Zhuobi Jingyun and the dragon are soaring, and the sky is shining brightly.The heart of heaven is favored, the holy and filial piety is prepared, the holiness and virtue are like clouds, and the light shines in all directions, and it will be Fudan on the first day of Wansi..." (Yan Song's "Qianshantang Collection")

When he was writing, a small eunuch recited along with him.However, Shen Ting wrote faster and faster. At the end of the day, his writing was full of thoughts, and the momentum of his brushwork was like a galloping river.However, the beauty of its rhetoric and the brilliance of its artistic conception are astonishing, and it is hard to believe that it was written hastily without preparation.At the end, some people who were stunned stood up blankly, staring at the person who wrote the lyrics as if possessed by a demon.

After finishing the last sentence, Shen Yi picked up the tip of his pen, took a long breath and smiled slightly, full of hearty feeling.The little inner eunuch still had most of the words unread, and after hastily reading it, he raised the wet paper and presented it to Emperor Hongwu in a hurry.

Emperor Hongwu held it in his hand, read it silently for a while, and then sighed: "A talented young man is like a ghost."

Say no, the man took out a hundred gold pearls to reward him.Shen Yan knelt down to accept it, and then slowly retreated to his seat.

Today's man of the hour is no longer Shen Yi, but innumerable.

The shock caused by the inscription lasted for a stick of incense before it slowly subsided.At this time, Emperor Hongwu invited the silk and bamboo dance, and there were bursts of melodious and lingering music in the imperial garden. Everyone in the banquet was admiring the moving dance of the court ladies. No one noticed that there were two people missing during the banquet.

Just now when Xie Qin saw that Kuang Zheng asked Shen Bing to write Qingci, he held his breath, and immediately wished he could get up and stab the traitor all over his face.He endured it for a while, and then left in anger after Shen Bing returned to his seat. Shen Bing knew that he was unhappy and quietly left the table behind him.

The two made an excuse to go to the toilet, avoided the palace servants scattered around, hid in the shadow of a bamboo forest, and stood by the drinking water of Yuhu Lake, talking slowly.

"Don't be angry." Shen Yan pinched Xie Ling's wrist in his hand, and rubbed his thumb against the inside of his wrist like soothing a little lion with fur, and said softly, "It's not good for others to see it. .”

Xie Qin sneered and said: "So what if other people see it, I, Xie Yin, am not afraid of him. Heh, he is just annoyed at your land policy and stabbed his golden mountain and silver mountain, and the dog jumps over the wall in a hurry."

Since the start of the war in the north, finances have tightened, and the treasury, which has always been relatively rich, has suddenly become a little tight.On the one hand, Shen Bin's land reform liquidated the land, took back many privately occupied military fields, and paid a large amount of taxes.On the other hand, Emperor Hongwu ordered Liu Lingche to check the account books of the account department, and found out many cases of deficit, many of which were borrowed by the account department by officials who have not yet paid back.It was okay before, when the country was peaceful and the people were in peace, these countries that owed money turned a blind eye, but now it is wartime, and it is time to spend money, and many officials are suddenly driven to panic by debt collection .

Xie Qin looked at the full moon in the center of the lake, and said coldly: "I heard that Kuang Zheng himself borrowed 500 million, and his disciples didn't know how much he borrowed back. When the emperor asked, the old thief cried and said that it was all for the emperor. The money was spent, and it was used to refine elixir for the emperor to search for immortals. To force him to pay back the money, he just agreed, and I don't know if he can pay it back."

It is a big job for the household department to check the accounts. Since the beginning, Liu Ling has asked Emperor Hongwu to transfer Xie Ling from the Prince's East Palace to the household department.Now that Shen Yan and Xie Ling are on the left and the right, they have completely blocked Kuang Zheng's way to get rich, so it's rare that he hates him so much.

Shen Yan lowered his eyes halfway, and said quietly for a long time: "It's spent for the emperor... This is not a lie. I heard that there are several large loans, all of which were arranged by several governors?"

"Yes." Xie Ling couldn't help having a headache when he mentioned this matter, and sighed, "Those who used to be the emperor's attendants, now they are all the officials of the frontier after they are released. In the past, the emperor lived in the southern tour. It's their family, and these people say that the money was spent for the emperor, and I believe it too. It's not easy to ask for this money."

"There are two difficulties in your errand. One is to distinguish who is really not paying money, and who is fishing in troubled waters." Shen Yan said with a sneer, "I think Kuang Zheng is the second type... ...Secondly, the attitude of the emperor is very important here. He must fully support you in order to be confident. Because of this, you can't treat those Fengjiang masters who really don't pay the money but are friendly with the emperor. The officials chased after him fiercely."

Xie Ling nodded: "What you said is reasonable. In fact, I think it doesn't take long for the household department to be under pressure. The news from the front came that General Lou has basically grasped the situation in Yingzhou. If everything goes well, the battle will be over around July. Everything will be fine. If it really develops like this, we only need to wait until October to catch the rest of the fish and shrimp.”

"October..." Shen Yan slightly sighed, "It would be the best if everything goes well."

But now the situation is like duckweed in the wind, and the trend may change in a blink of an eye. Even a genius like the two of them can't see through the future.

"Don't worry, I will protect you no matter what." Xie Ling paused and sneered, "If that old thief Xie Ling dares to disrespect you again, I will definitely make him regret his official career."

Although Shen Ting had a lot of thoughts in his heart, he couldn't help but smile after hearing his words: "We have no personal grudges with him, it's just that we have different positions, so why should you target him?"

"You have no personal grievances with him, but he has offended me completely from the moment he made things difficult for you in public." Xie Qin turned his head to look at him, couldn't help but let out a long sigh, half serious and half joking, " Liangqing, why are you so outstanding? If you were just a mortal, not so many people would pay attention to you, no one would frame you, and no one would rob you from me."

Shen Yan said with a smile: "If I'm just a mortal, you won't like me at all."

Xie Ling turned his head and thought for a while, then raised his head and smiled: "That's true."

He didn't bother to say any vulgar love words to Shen Bing, saying "No matter what kind of person you are, I will love you", because their love and combination is a strong alliance, and it can only bloom in full bloom on the cliff desert thorn rose.He loves Shen Bing's ability to manage the world, and Shen Bing also loves his outstanding appearance. They are stars who can stand on one side when they are separated, and they will become stronger when they are together, so there is no need for cowardly love words to act made of emotion.

Shen Bing also loved his confident but doting expression when he said "it is true", and his heart felt soft and sour, and he instantly thought "how can I ask for it when I know that I am like this".Finally, the time and place were wrong, under the trend of all kinds of tenderness, Shen Bing still couldn't hold back and stretched out his hand to hold his hand quietly.

Xie Ling didn't expect that Shen Yan would come to pull him suddenly, and couldn't help being taken aback, but was overwhelmed by ecstasy in an instant.He has always been very courageous, and when he was teased by Shen Bing, he immediately fell in love with him, and when Shen Bing pulled his hand lightly, he hugged the man into his arms, bowed his head and kissed him.

"...!" Shen Cang turned his head to avoid him in panic, and gasped in his ear, "Are you crazy?"

Xie Jin hugged him tightly and did not leave him, and gently blew into his ear, whispering: "I'm not crazy... Liangqing, we are in the imperial garden, a hundred steps away are the emperor and his wife." Baiguan."

"Nonsense! Don't I know this? Let me go."

"Think about it carefully, isn't it exciting?" Xie Qin smiled lowly next to him, his voice was a little ambiguous and mischievous, "Think about it, could it be that the king's land is on the shore of the land, and the Lord of the world sits away from us?" At the banquet a hundred paces away, there are all kinds of monsters, ghosts, monsters, ghosts and ghosts... But none of these people can hinder our intimacy here. They hold the power of life and death, but they can't separate us; they have something in their hearts So many dirty secrets, but no one knows that I am kissing you here..."

Shen Bing was hugged by him, hot breaths and whispers could be heard in his ears, and he trembled slightly in the August weather.

He has always been cautious and prudent, seldom impulsive, adheres to the principle of "think twice before acting", and wears a coat of outstanding appearance almost all the time.Occasionally a little tired, I endured it secretly and never showed it.

But at this moment, imagining the scene described by Xie Ling, he felt a little desperate and dripping joy.

Xie Ling caught Shen's subtle body reaction without hesitation, and he couldn't help teasing and said: "You see that you are shaking, don't you feel very good?"

Shen Yan was slightly annoyed, and wanted to push him away, but his hand landed on Xie Ling's chest, but it was as soft as a piece of tofu.

Xie Qin stretched out his hand to pinch the wrist he pushed, and laughed more and more badly: "Besides, when I think of Mr. Shen, who was so noble and steady in front of others, now being held in my arms, his face is as red as a flat peach, and his skin is as hot as a peach. The soldering iron is as limp as a water snake, and I'm so excited—”

Shen Bing took a deep breath, and opened his mouth to scold the disciple, but he grabbed the back of his head and kissed him without hesitation.

This time Xie Ling's lips and teeth went straight in, licking and kissing heartily, savoring the taste of Shen Yi.He is like an adult male lion, his movements are the fiercest but not impatient, domineering and powerful, conquering his partner inch by inch.Shen Yan's body was sore and hot for a moment, and he took a step back as if he couldn't bear it, but he happened to lean on Xiuzhu behind him, and Xie Ling leaned up like a shadow, wrapping him between his chest and the bamboo pole, Enthusiasm and tenderness weave a fine net, not giving him half a way out.

When the lips and teeth of the two separated again, their breathing was already confused.Shen Bing grabbed Xie Ling's arm and wanted to say something, but his chest heaved violently a few times, but he only let out a gasp from his lips.

Xie Ling smiled "puchi".

Shen Bing was angry and ashamed, and said angrily, "You laugh—"

Before he finished speaking, Xie Qin leaned forward again and pressed a kiss as light as a flying feather on his clothes on his forehead.

Shen Yan sighed, and couldn't say any more words of reprimand and complaint.

I can't help myself from the depths of love.And he and Xie Ling are both normal.

Xie Qin held his face, gently wiped the wet corner of his mouth with his thumb, and whispered: "Go back."

Although it can only be for a while, it is enough for the two who deeply understand each other's love.

Shen Bing nodded, took a deep breath and let the cool autumn night wind blow off the passion on his face, then carefully arranged his clothes, Fang and Xie Qin hurriedly left the bamboo forest in the dark.

The trees in the imperial garden are dense, even if the silver moon is like a plate tonight, it cannot fully illuminate every corner.Forest shadows, under bridges, beside stones, and behind corridors, at first glance, they are all good places to hide people's eyes and ears.

However, Xie Ling and Shen Yi still don't understand this deep palace.Any old man who has lived in the palace for more than ten years would tell them without hesitation that the four square vermilion walls with the bright yellow roof in the center as the heart have turned into ghosts.Normally, it just closes its eyes, making you feel that the gap between its toes and scales is a secret place, but you don't know that every inch of hair and scales are under its control and detection.

Those who are not careful will pay a big price when the spirit opens its sleepy eyes.

The moonlight is charming.

A long time after Shen Yan and Xie Ling left, a figure finally separated from the dense night.He poked his head out slightly under the moonlight, keeping the two people's leaving back in his eyes.