This sleeve is broken secretly

The news of Dari Achi's rebellion and the October hailstones slammed into the capital, like a cold current, completely took away the last little heat in late autumn, and forced the whole world into a cold winter.

To many, Dari'achi's rebellion came as no surprise.When the peace was discussed that day, many people had doubts about this matter, and the news at this moment only confirmed their conjectures.Although it is indeed a headache for Dari'achi and Tumozhong to join forces, the country in the Central Plains is rich and powerful, and if they really fight, they will not be afraid of these grassland nations.

However, what really surprised anyone was that Shen Yi, the Minister of Rites, was stripped of his crown and sent to prison awaiting trial because of this incident.

Speaking of which, this lord servant is a legend.Since Hongwu won the first prize in the 23rd year of Hongwu, he has been on a steady rise and became the emperor's close minister in one fell swoop. After that, he has been favored forever, as if no matter what kind of court situation, this talented person can't be overthrown.Countless pairs of eyes watched him survive the Kuang Rebellion, the Northern War, and the scourge of rumors. I don't know how many people hoped that he would stumble, but they couldn't do so.

But who knew that this new star of power minister who had just begun to shine suddenly fell at this moment.

Most people are half lamenting and half gloating, but only a few people who know the inside story know that it is not easy for Shen Bing to go to prison.

It stands to reason that such a major event as Dari Achi's rebellion, no matter how much responsibility is pursued, it will not be able to catch up with Shen Yi, a servant.But the problem is that on the eve of the peace talks, Shen Yi privately met with Dari Achi's envoy Uri Geng Dase, and no one knew what they talked about.

If this matter is considered minor, Shen Bing can be sentenced for "negligence of duty, slack and dereliction of duty"; if it is considered major, it can involve "collaboration with the enemy and treason".And this collaborating with the enemy was under the instigation of who, and who knew about it, and how many people were involved in it, these are all articles.

Now is the stage when the dispute between Han and Gui is in full swing, how to judge Shen Yi's matter directly involves the dispute between the two factions.After Shen Yu was imprisoned, Emperor Hongwu ordered the three divisions to have a joint trial, but how the trial and sentence will depend on Emperor Hongwu's attitude.

For a moment, everyone's eyes were on Sansi.

During the process of the three divisions discussing how to handle the matter, Shen Yu was included in the "Supervisor".This prison belongs to the Prison Secretary under the Metropolitan Procuratorate and only detains important officials of the imperial court.

Since the "Supervisor" is right under the nose of the Supervision Institute, to a certain extent, this prison is even a bit stricter than the "Punishment Supervisor" and "Five Cities Military Prison". point.Since Shen Bin was imprisoned, I don't know how many people went up and down and wanted to see Shen Bin secretly, but they were all sent back because of the seriousness of the matter and the strict supervision.

Twelve days after Shen Bing was imprisoned, a person finally broke through the guards and saw Shen Bing without anyone noticing.

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"Master Shen, someone is visiting." The jailer knocked on the door and said in a low voice.

Shen Yan asked and turned his head, looking outside the door.

His official uniform had been stripped off, and he was only wearing a white jacket wrapped in a jacket from the prison.Although the jacket was considered neat, it had been worn by countless people before, and the cuffs and corners of the jacket had been frayed, and even the cotton had leaked out.Although he was dressed in shabby clothes, Shen Bi's waist was always as straight as a bamboo stick, his shoulders were spread wide, his eyebrows were calm, and although he was downcast, he did not look embarrassed.

In addition, this is the "Supervisor", and most of the jailers here will not deliberately embarrass the prisoners in the prison, lest someone who goes out in another day will be promoted again, and then blame them in turn.Shen Bing was imprisoned, and these jailers also offered him winkingly, never being cold or starving him.

Therefore, although Shen Yan looked a little pale and haggard, he did not look sick.

At this time, he slowly came to the door of the prison cell, and looked out through the fence, but saw a figure wearing a hood came to the door through the dark corridor, stood still facing Shen Bing's gaze, and waved his hand to cover the door. The face's hat fell back.

This person was actually Li Chenfu.

Shen Bing's expression calmed down.He didn't seem to be surprised that it was Li Chenfu who came, and respectfully saluted the people outside the door as before: "Teacher."

Li Chenfu looked at him: "It's okay to stay here? Has anyone ever scolded you?"

"There are coats and grains for food, Liangqing is already satisfied." Shen Yan replied with lowered eyes, "I just troubled the teacher to come here to see me, the students feel ashamed."

Li Chenfu sighed: "Your fate today is half related to me. I can't bear it if I don't come."

Shen Bing's eyelashes trembled slightly, but he didn't say anything.Li Chenfu looked at him with his head bowed, seemingly submissive, with mixed feelings in his heart, and it was also very complicated.Six years ago, Shen Yan joined his family and has been on a steady rise since then. Li Chenfu once thought that with him in the poor family, there would be hope for revival.

But the more he observed Shen Bing, Li Chenfu gradually became more and more disappointed.Although this son looks soft and docile, his quality is like gold and jade, which cannot be broken by a knife or melted by a fire, and the more he is refined, the stronger he becomes.Although such characters are proper gentlemen, they are the most likely to end up in an irreversible end in this mysterious court.

The wood is beautiful in the forest, and the wind will destroy it.

Thinking of this, Li Chenfu couldn't help but let out a long sigh: "Liangqing, when you entered the official position, Qin Daru once wrote a letter to persuade me not to accept you as an official. I saw that you are talented, so I became selfish and didn't take his words into consideration. Take it to heart. Now it seems that it is a cocoon."

Hearing this, Shen Bing's lips seemed to turn paler: "Students are incompetent..."

"You still don't understand." Li Chenfu smiled wryly.At this point, the veteran official of the three dynasties who had been struggling in the court for decades finally sighed and let go of his upright admonishment, showing a bit of fatigue and helplessness, "You are not incompetent, you are You are too capable, people like you... can't be tolerated in this court."

Shen Bing's lips trembled, as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't say it.

Li Chenfu sighed and recalled: "I remember that when you first entered the Imperial Academy, you wrote a sonorous memorial to impeach Kuang Zheng. I scolded you at that time because you only had the world in your heart, and you couldn't be a good official." Do you still remember? After all these years, you still haven’t forgotten what I said?”

"How many civil and military people in this dynasty were not full of knowledge and ambition when they entered the dynasty? But how many people can really put those ideas into practice? In the end, don't they all still have to judge the situation and step by step?" Li Chenfu said. As he spoke, there was a bit of sadness and regret in his tone, and he seemed to express his feelings, "I know you hate the party and government, and even more hate official battles. You just want to do something good for the people wholeheartedly. But the reality is that if If you don’t put partisanship first, and don’t put the political situation before government affairs, you will be used by other people who want to do it, and nothing will be achieved in the end.”

Shen Yan breathed out silently, and said in a low voice: "The matter of the peace negotiation is due to the students' short-sightedness and lack of consideration..."

"Are you still quibbling?" Li Chenfu was angry and funny, and said in a low voice, "You have been used by others, can't you see it? The Xie family is the first to use you!"

These words were like a shocking thunder, which finally wiped away the last trace of blood on Shen Bing's face.

"Do you think that the Xie family objected to the peace talks because they really hated those foreign people? Those are just high-sounding excuses!" Li Chenfu sneered, "It's also because the old man is slow, and it's only now that the Xie family has relied on them. The deep-rooted forces in Hui County have been relying on the mutual market for a long time to amass personal wealth!"

As if his chest was hit hard by a boulder, Shen Yi's eyes went dark, his chest was in severe pain and his mouth was filled with fishy sweetness, but at the same time, his mind suddenly became sober like never before.

The mutual market turned out to be because of the mutual market.

He should have thought of it earlier.

As the overlord of the grassland, Tumozhong was the first tribe to pay tribute to the Central Plains and open the border.The place where the two parties traded was Hui County, and it was also the first place to be captured when the Battle of the Northern Xinjiang Grassland started.Although the mutual market is carried out under the control of the imperial court, the powerful dragon cannot overwhelm the local snake. Since ancient times, there have been local forces controlling the mutual market transactions, and even raising taxes privately to profit from it.Yinhui County is the only place of trade, and the transaction volume between the two clans is huge, which can be said to be a huge fortune.

The Grassland War broke out, the mutual market was terminated, and Hui County fell, and this huge profit hidden under the water also came to an abrupt end.Although the local snakes in control of Hui County were unwilling, they could do nothing about it. After all, the war was not up to them.

But who would have thought that the battle would stop after a year, and after the stop, the mutual market would open again—but this place has changed.

Hui County, which the Xie family has long controlled, is about to be abandoned. After the peace agreement with Dari Achi is reached, the place of trade will be changed to another place, and it will break away from the control of the old local snake.

Once the peace talks with Dari Achi are concluded, the Xie family will soon lose a huge sum of money.

Of course, this is what Xie does not want to see.

What should I do?

Of course, they tried every means to prevent the peace talks between the Central Plains and Dari Achi.

As if walking forward in a fog, although Shen Wei knew that there were ghosts ahead, he still uncontrollably let his thoughts stagger forward: "But... the student asked Xie Qin his opinion on the negotiation, and at that time He told me that although his eldest brother and father, as military households, had no choice but to oppose the peace negotiation, they secretly agreed with the Central Plains and Dari'achi's covenant... Could he be lying to me?"

Li Chenfu sneered and said, "Whether Mrs. Xie lied to Xie Jin or whether Mrs. Xie lied to you, of course you and I don't know. As I said just now, Mrs. Xie opposed the peace negotiation because they wanted to leave Hui County's mutual market profit has nothing to do with military households or not. But the emperor made the final decision on the peace negotiation. At that time, the emperor was hesitating, and they couldn't put their hands into the emperor's head to influence the emperor's decision. But they really know the emperor too well, and know that the only way for the emperor to make up his mind to give up the peace negotiation with Dari'achi is to let the marriage matter end in a catastrophe and give the emperor a hard blow in the face."

He took out a letter from his sleeve, handed it to Shen Bing, and said coldly: "This is a letter from the spies from the border. Dari Achi Khan is seriously ill, the eldest son is not in good health, and the youngest son is sick. It is the truth. But the second son of Dari Achi Khan is not at all the "fool" that Wu Ri Geng Dase said. According to the spies, this time the son did live in seclusion after having a fever when he was young, but he Relying on the influence of the mother clan, he has accumulated a lot of prestige in the tribe. At this time, it seems that Dari Achi was caught in the battle for the throne between his eldest and second sons after the Khan became seriously ill. Dase Shangjing asked the princess to marry the eldest son, but it was because they had already lost in this battle and wanted to fight for the last time."

Shen Yan said in a low voice: "So Mrs. Xie..."

"That's why the Xie family knew on the first day that Wu Ri Geng Da Sete entered Beijing that this was a marriage that was doomed to fail." Li Chenfu sighed, "They pressed the message, said nothing, and symbolically followed suit. After a few words of objection from other aristocratic families, I watched you and my master and apprentice prepare for the marriage like clowns... They just need to wait, after the marriage fails, the emperor will change his mind and terminate according to their wishes Negotiate peace with Dari Achi."

"But it's not right—" Shen Yan couldn't help pinching the cell door tightly, and blurted out in a low voice, "If they don't want to negotiate a peace with Dari'achi, they should just release the news of the long battle for the position early, why bother?" Going in such a big circle—”

"Confused!" Li Chenfu scolded mercilessly, "I just taught you not to look at things, don't get caught up in them, jump out, think about the political situation first, and think about party disputes first! You just ignore it Is it? If you can use this matter to frame you and me, frame the poor family once, why not do it! For Xie, this is a deal that kills two birds with one stone!"

"No..." Shen Yan retorted almost subconsciously, he murmured, "Xie Ling can't—he won't..."

That was Langyu from the capital, his thank you Rangzhi.The nobles of Tianhuang, unruly and self-possessed, are as dust-free as the finest gold and jade, with their own brilliance.No matter how bad it is, I will never do such a thing to frame others——

"You want to say that Xie Ling can't?" Li Chenfu saw through what he was thinking at a glance, and immediately sneered, "No matter how good you are with Xie Ling, don't forget that his surname is Xie, he is your best friend Before friends, they are Xie's people first!"

Shen Bing closed his eyes suddenly, his mind buzzed, as if thousands of giant bells were wailing in his ears at the same time.

And the big knife that had been hanging around his neck for several months, grinding his flesh inch by inch, finally fell down at this moment.

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"Yeah, he won't listen to what I say, and if I say a few more words, I will misunderstand and make noise. It's so boring."

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"This kind of person has a certain destiny, and she should have had this awareness when she agreed to enter the palace. If she is a daughter of a noble family, the child she gives birth to will naturally be precious, so she will not just send it to be married. This has been the case since ancient times , doesn’t she understand? There’s nothing to argue about.”

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"It was only recently that I realized that some of the differences between us are fundamental, and we can't communicate with each other. Maybe this is what my elder brother often said, the distinction between 'cold and precious'."

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The distinction between cold and expensive.

In a burst of sudden pain, Shen Bian thought a little desolately, so it is so.

He once thought that helping each other in the same boat was just a brief gathering of two light boats in the torrent. They had to join hands for a moment, but they couldn't stand side by side for a long time after all.Now that the river is turbulent and the direction of the flow is changing, even if they cling to each other tightly, they still cannot resist this clear-cut fate.

What's more, maybe Xie Jin has already seen their future clearly.He has known for a long time that if the two people from different worlds get rid of the tender love like bubble phantoms, what is left of them is just two cold surnames standing like a rock in the two seats facing each other. on the mountain peak.There is no change, no escape.

He was the one who was hesitant and took care of his own way, but he couldn't see such a simple and easy-to-understand reason.

It was he who was so deep that he took those fantasies of the shadows in the sky and the moon sinking in the water as real warmth and happiness.

It deserves to wake up from the dream at this time, leaving only a mess and empty hands.

Perhaps seeing that Shen Yan's face was too pale, Li Chenfu finally sighed: "It's good for you to worry about the country and the people, and to devote yourself to the business, but in the end, you will be used by others. I told you not to get along with the family You never cared about the person who walked too close to you, and now being kicked off the cliff by someone is also——it is also a doomed result."

Shen Bing stared blankly at the void outside the cell, without speaking.

Li Chenfu couldn't bear it, and said in a low voice: "I have failed Qin Daru's entrustment, and I didn't take you well... Or maybe you are destined not to belong to this forbidden palace... The three divisions will interrogate, you won't Your life is in danger. But after this, you—you resign and go back to Jiangnan."

After a moment of silence, Shen Bing took a step back, knelt down on both knees, leaned over upright and touched his forehead lightly, and performed the great gift of master and apprentice.

Li Chenfu turned sideways to avoid him, and said with a faint smile: "From now on, you will be free and unrestrained, and you will no longer have to bend your knees to anyone except your parents and gods. "

Shen Yan whispered: "It just failed the teacher's high expectations."

"I've gone through three dynasties and dedicated myself to reviving the poor family. It's been a lot of hard work, and it's not this time that I'm disappointed." Li Chenfu said calmly, "The road ahead is difficult. You are still too young and have a pure nature, which is not suitable for the current court situation." .Go home, maybe time will give you some answers."

The mountains are green and the water is beautiful, and the rivers are wide and far away.The way out that Jin Yutang has never found before may find his way back in the countryside.