Li Zhang

The land invasion case in Ningzhou made Sima Yi very angry, and it also made him doubt the implementation of other states and counties. After the imperial envoys were sent out, he felt uneasy and added the hidden guards.After this investigation, it turned out that there were a few cases of stealing and exchanging positions. Although it was not as obvious as Ningzhou's, it was common to exchange for good.After all, the time when the land equalization system was fully implemented was the time when the battle between the two kings was at its most intense, and it was inevitable for the boldest to fish in troubled waters.

After Sima Yi was hit by Li Zhang's death at the beginning of the year, he behaved mischievously for a few days. Not only did he bring Qin Fang with him every day, but he also begged for a few more beautiful boys from the King of Qi. After entering the palace, he handed them all over to the imperial guards. , Ask Wei Weicheng to train them according to the standards of imperial guards.He himself is even more neglectful of government affairs, often soaking in the martial arts arena of the imperial guards, pretending to really ask others to practice with him.

The imperial guards were trembling, and their subordinates could not be taken lightly or seriously. Not only would they be scolded by Sima Yi, but they would also be scolded by the Empress Dowager. They all complained in secret, and they didn't even look good on those young people.

Poor these youngsters, although they are from elementary school, how can they stand such beatings, they are paralyzed into mud after a few days, they can't even get out of bed, they hugged each other and cried faintly.

Qin Fang couldn't bear it, and pleaded with Sima Yi. Sima Yi watched them thinking about Li Zhang, and suddenly lost all nonsense. Qin Fang waits with her.

After Sima Yi moved into the Chaoyang Palace, he turned his mind back to the government. In addition to continuing to restore and expand agricultural production, he also listened to Wei Pingxuan's advice and institutionalized the examination and selection of talents. There is no entry threshold for a list every three years. .And open public schools widely, so that children from poor families have the opportunity to study, and then have the opportunity to take the exam and become an official.At the same time, it also expands the scope of martial arts, giving martial arts practitioners more room for development, and strives to achieve a balance between civil and martial arts.

Sima Yi's move further won the hearts of the people from the poor family, and also made the children of the aristocratic family more cautious.He often read the memorials until late at night, looking at everything in detail. Often Qin Fang couldn't bear it and fell asleep at the table, but he was still burning the lamp to fight at night.

After Jin Bai left, Sima Yi was silent for a long time, many things were stuffed in his heart, there was no one to confide in, so he didn't want to let them out.Qin Fang sometimes reminded him of Feng Yu, after the rage, he began to remember Feng Yu's goodness, but the flood was hard to get rid of, so he could only find another good grave for Feng Yu and redo it for him. court affairs.

He would often think of Li Zhang's conversation with himself in the imperial prison, thinking about what he said about seeing and not seeing, the prince and the guards, and faintly felt that he understood what he meant.

He would still take off Long Yuan from time to time and wipe it slowly, his eyes drifting away slowly, his expression was so gentle that Qin Fang would cry in a daze, but he slowly pulled back the thoughts of Piao Yuan as if unconsciously, Slowly sheath the sword.Whenever this happened, Qin Fang didn't dare to make a sound, Sima Yi also completely acted like no one else, and it gradually became a daily ritual.

When Mu Yan sent Ningzhou secret guards information about the land invasion case, Sima Yi was very surprised. He asked Mu Yan in anger, but he never gave instructions in this direction. Wei quite applauded.Although Sima Yi didn't pay much attention to the situation of the dark guards, he knew that Jin Bai's primary criterion for training the dark guards was obedience. Self-assessment has always been a big taboo for the dark guards. In the case of an order, a certain type of intelligence will be thoroughly investigated in a targeted manner.In other words, they will always be bees collecting information, not spiders sitting firmly in the gossip array.

Sima Yi vaguely felt that something was wrong, and only thought that maybe Jin Bai was not completely out of it, so after Bai Shan also gave him a vague answer, he called Jin Bai back.

The land invasion case in Ningzhou caused Sima Yi to reorganize the government in a drastic way. Some states and counties, like Ningzhou, overthrew and reset the land equalization system again.The officials of the imperial court also experienced another shock during this rectification. Some humble scholars who were complacent when they reached high positions were pulled off their horses. A really virtuous process begins.

When the end of the year was approaching, everything was almost done, and Sima Yi had a rare time to carefully read the minutes of the event, but he frowned after reading it, and asked the governor to find all the files of the Ningzhou case and start over from the beginning. After reading it to the end, his complexion was cloudy and uncertain, and he raised his voice to call Xi Gonggong, but he hesitated for a long time and did not make a sound.

Eunuch Xi looked at the files spread all over the table, and asked tentatively, "Which lord is the emperor going to pass on for an audience?"

Sima Yi hesitated again and again, and finally changed the name on the edge of his mouth to another: "Go and call Lin Tai'an!"

Eunuch Xi went out, and after a long time, Lin Tai'an, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, came in panting, and after paying his respects, he looked at the emperor with an uneasy expression.

Sima Yi asked in detail about the investigation and evidence collection and interrogation of related cases in Ningzhou, especially the Dongping Village Tuzhai case, raising several doubts from time to time, and Lin Tai'an reported them one by one according to the facts.

"So, there is no plaintiff in this case?"

"Yes. The case file is included in the files of the land invasion case, but it is the source of the land invasion case."

"The evidence is as solid as the land invasion case?"

"Exactly. Mr. Qian who went to Ningzhou personally said that he has never handled such an easy case. Every piece of evidence is the most crucial point. The criminal confessed without much effort."

Sima Yi nodded, pulled out an interrogation record, and asked, "Why are there traces of smearing here?"

Lin Tai'an saw that Sima Yi really had his eye on this, he couldn't help panicking, and argued: "The master who took the record is a little deaf, he heard it wrong..."

"Oh?" Sima Yi flipped over casually, but continued to ask seemingly casually: "Master Lin was also listening that day, right? What did he say?"

"No... I didn't say anything." Lin Tai'an began to sweat on his forehead.

Sima Yi looked up at him coldly.

Lin Tai'an swallowed, closed his eyes and said desperately: "The prisoner said that he saw Guard Li in Yunnan."

"Which Guard Li?"

"It's...the one next to the emperor..."

Sima Yi snapped the booklet in his hand: "Did he read it clearly?"

"...He said he saw it clearly."

"What about that person?"

"Shang... in prison."

"Get off!"

Tan Jinbo didn't expect that there would be a day when he would face the Holy Spirit. Although he was so overwhelmed by the momentum that he didn't dare to raise his head, he was very grateful to Pingdu in his heart.

This was a side room in Dali Temple. Sima Yi sat with his back to the light, looking at Tan Jinbo, who was in prison clothes and beard and hair messy, and remained silent for a while.

Tan Jinbo knelt tremblingly, remembering the words Pingdu asked him to make up in his heart, and he was so nervous that he only remembered one sentence over and over again.

Sima Yi spoke, his voice was filled with a sense of oppression, and it was like thunder in Tan Jinbo's ears: "Who did you see?"

The nonsensical sentence was the one Tan Jinbo had been waiting for.With a shake of his body, he immediately yelled loudly, like a drowning man grabbing a life-saving straw: "It's Guard Li! Li Zhang!"

Sima Yi clenched the armrest of the nanmu chair under his hand, and leaned forward involuntarily, but his voice was very calm: "Do you see the truth? How do you recognize him?"

"Guard Li...saw him...when he was in Yunnan! He...led his horse in the city, and just...saw him."

"Do you know the consequences of deceiving the king?"

"Yes... yes, he changed his disguise, but... the sin... the sinner has a photographic memory, so... he recognizes it!"

Lin Tai'an on the side called a few yamen servants, and after walking slowly in front of Tan Jinbo, he went out and changed his clothes and covered his face, so that Tan Jinbo could identify him.

Tan Jinbo was blinded immediately, and made mistakes in random identification several times, so he confessed to Pingdu in a hurry: "The sinner didn't see it! It was General Pingdu who told the sinner!"

"Pingdu? Why did he tell you this?"

"The sinner...is General Ping's...brother-in-law..."

Sima Yi no longer doubted.Many people are impressed by Pingdu's photographic memory, and he has indeed met Li Zhang!

Sima Yi suddenly lost his heartbeat, and his blocked heart suddenly emptied, causing him to suddenly lose all his strength.

he is alive

Still alive!

The hot feeling rushed from his heart to his nostrils, and his eyes were reddened uncontrollably!

Lin Tai'an took Tan Jinbo out tactfully, but Tan Jinbo didn't understand, so he yelled for the emperor's favor all the way, but no one paid any attention.After Sima Yi was overjoyed, his heart was full of deep resentment towards Jin Bai, and he drove back to the palace without saying a word.

Sima Yi stepped into the imperial study room, and Jin Bai followed him in. After summarizing the secret guard information of the month, he added a few words about Rouran and Xianbei's recent activities.Sima Yi seemed to be listening but not listening, the storm accumulated in his eyes, making Jin Bai who looked up and saw suddenly feel cold all over his body.

Jin Bai stopped what he was talking about, and after waiting for a while, Sima Yi didn't speak, he thought about it for a while, and asked straightforwardly: "Where did the emperor go just now?"

Sima Yi almost gritted his teeth and spit out these three words: "Da-li-si!"

Jin Bai still couldn't figure it out. Seeing that Sima Yi's anger was getting stronger and stronger, but he still wanted to continue on his own, he couldn't help being a little puzzled. After thinking about the things he had done recently, he didn't find any mistakes, and his tone was a bit uncomfortable. Patience: "I am not a worm in the emperor's belly. I can't guess why the emperor is upset. Please let the emperor express it!"

Sima Yi gritted his teeth secretly, and it took a lot of strength to suppress the thought of pounced on him and grabbed him by the collar to question: "Is Li Zhang really cremated? Or did you sing to Gu with him?" A good show?!"

Jin Bai was shocked when he heard the words, no matter how calm he was, he couldn't help showing some traces. Seeing in Sima Yi's eyes, his thoughts were confirmed, and he couldn't hold back anymore, jumped up and grabbed Jin Bai's lapel , ruthlessly pulled him in front of his eyes, his face distorted with hatred like a King Kong in the temple: "Good job, Jin Bai! Who gave you the guts? How dare you do such a reckless thing!"

Jin Bai didn't panic any further, instead he calmed down, facing Sima Yi's overwhelming anger, he said sadly and helplessly: "I wish he would seek my accomplice before he did that, but it's a pity... the monk of Baoen Temple said, After seven days of dying, Li Zhang’s body became soft again, and the monks feared that he was resurrected from an evil spirit, so they cremated him before they informed me. After the fire started, it rained heavily..., really, the sky does not want to kill him.”

Sima Yi's eyes widened in horror, and he stared at Jin Bai in disbelief: "... Is that so?"

Jin Bai smiled miserably: "He would rather be like this than ask me for help. Does the emperor still think that I am his accomplice?"

Sima Yi let go of his hand in confusion, staggered back two steps, and fell unsteadily into the chair.

Jin Bai looked at Sima Yi, for the first time he no longer had the feeling of looking down, and for the first time felt his pain, but he still didn't want to help him.

Both of them had their own concerns and stopped talking.In the silence, Eunuch Xi came in hesitantly and asked where to put the dinner.Sima Yi regained his composure, gestured to Eunuch Xi that he was here, stopped Jin Bai who was about to salute and exit, and said, "Let's have dinner with Gu..."

Jin Bai sighed silently, watched Sima Yi get up and sit down at the table, and then sat down next to him.

A tasteless meal.Even with Jin Bai accompanying him, the atmosphere at the dinner table was still low and depressing.

Sima Yi seemed to finally be unable to bear it anymore, and opened his mouth first: "Ningzhou... is it him?"

Jin Bai smiled bitterly: "Yes. The hidden guards over there have been investigating, but he has always refused to reveal his identity. Really, he is quite stubborn."

Sima Yi's face was full of nostalgia: "Yes! I've never seen such a stubborn person like him....Gu, I regret it..."

"emperor……"

Jin Bai hesitated to speak, but Sima Yi raised his eyes to look at him, knowing vaguely in his heart, and still stubbornly waiting for him to speak.

"Let him go!"

Sure enough.

Sima Yi had no choice but to smile bitterly, feeling a dull pain in his heart, which was no longer as sharp as when he first learned the truth.

Jin Bai looked up at Sima Yi, his eyes were full of begging in pain: "If there is another time, it will be true..."

Sima Yi took a deep breath, nodded and agreed, "Okay. But, I just want to know the exact news about him."

Jin Bai visibly relaxed, and nodded in the same way: "The minister will send someone to search secretly."

Sima Yi didn't say any more, the feeble pain in his empty chest gradually receded, and hope sprouted little by little.My heart, which had been cold for a long time, warmed up again.

The author has something to say:

Although Sima Yi promised to let Li Zhang go, what he thought of when he wrote it was his past promise.So it's hard to say what will happen when I actually see it later.