Reincarnation of the powerful minister

"Baizhifang bombing...joint investigation team...team leader? What kind of official position is this, I have never heard of it before." In the Hall of Mental Cultivation, Emperor Jing Long raised his eyes from the secret report presented by the Jinyiwei, watching the palace. A servant of the official.

Su Yan explained: "It's just a temporary position. A special task force will be set up with elites, and the minister will be responsible for leading and managing it. The staff of the Ministry of Punishment, Dali Temple, and Beizhen Fusi will also be called by the minister as needed. The task force investigates in name The Baizhifang bombing was actually aimed at the Seven Killing Battalion and the deeper forces behind it.

"When the truth of the case is revealed in the future and the culprit is brought to justice, the joint investigation team will be disbanded and all personnel will return to their respective positions, so it is temporary.

"In addition, the minister also needs a special fund from the court to be used for various legitimate expenses of the investigation team."

Emperor Jinglong understood that Su Yan wanted real power without rank.Although this real power is limited to dealing with "players", the decision-making power and degree of freedom are enormous.

If you don't do something, you should be a decision maker, and you don't like to be restrained by others—this is indeed Su Yan's style.

The emperor appreciated it in his heart, but he only said lightly on his face, "No."

"—Why?" This response was beyond Su Yan's expectation.Before going to Shaanxi, the emperor gave him much more power than this.At that time, he didn't even ask for it, and the emperor gave him an imperial decree "Unified by Weier" without blinking an eye, and Shang Fangjian, who cut first and played later, how could he suddenly become stingy now?

Just when Su Yan began to reflect on whether he was really too spoiled and arrogant, so that the emperor wanted to restrict him and beat him, Emperor Jing Long got up and walked in front of him.

The emperor was standing, how could he sit upright as a courtier, Su Yan quickly put the teacup aside, got up and saluted.

As soon as the wrist was raised, it was held.The emperor asked: "Think I'm stingy?"

"No, no, how dare you," Su Yan replied with a dry smile, "It's just a sudden whim of the minister, and the request is a little too much."

The emperor took a deep breath and wanted to spank him.

The emperor glanced at Lan Xi who was standing beside him.Eunuch Lan was very obedient, and immediately signaled the other servants to leave the inner hall with him.

The door of the hall was closed, and Su Yan suddenly recalled the last time in the Hall of Mental Cultivation, the imperial decree "Since it is the grace of rain and dew, I will eat it next time". Forgive me!"

The emperor held on to his wrist and pulled him back a step, almost touching his chest.

The hair on the temples was blown by hot air, and Su Yan felt the hot and suppressed breath in his ears.The emperor asked in a low voice, "Where is the crime?"

Su Yan swallowed, and said, "It's the fault of... taking an inch?"

The emperor patted his butt with his other hand, and there was a muffled "pop" through the fabric, and Su Yan's body trembled accordingly, from the numbness of the skin to the heart.He responded softly: "I know I'm wrong..."

"You don't know." The emperor said, "Why do you think I don't want to delegate power this time?"

Su Yan didn't answer right away, but obediently waited for the emperor to continue.

"Because what you are asking for is not power, but risk! Now that the enemy is dark and we are clear, and thousands of cold arrows are aimed at the people on the table in the dark, you push yourself up to be the first bird, which is the same as putting yourself on the firewood What's the difference between burning?"

The emperor hit the nail on the head.Su Yan blushed: "Actually, it's not that dangerous...Besides, the emperor and the young master are the biggest targets on the table. You two are not afraid. What are you afraid of?"

The emperor shook his head: "The incident in Shaanxi has taught me a lesson. The premise of delegating power to you is to ensure your safety. The case must be investigated, and the mastermind behind the scenes must be arrested, but it is not for you to arrest desperately!"

"Don't worry, the emperor, I cherish my life very much. There is no one who treats death like home. I will not complain about how many guards the emperor sent me this time, and let them follow me honestly."

Su Yan saw that the emperor was unmoved, and that his plan was about to fail just as soon as it was sprouted. In a panic, he added in a dizzy manner: "His Royal Highness Prince Yu also wants to investigate this case, and acting together with me is more or less a guarantee."

The emperor chuckled, "My fourth younger brother is born with unparalleled physical strength and martial arts skills. It is indeed a good guarantee. But I don't know when you and him will settle down and even fight against the enemy hand in hand? From the secret road of Linhua Pavilion The explosion, the time when we went through adversity together; or the time when we overcame the wall with alcohol and visited Gyeonggi at night?"

Isn't this hitting yourself on the muzzle?Su Yan wished to bite off the tip of his tongue, he groaned and replied: "When will the injustice be repaid...I don't forgive him, I just...distinguish between public and private."

He felt guilty when he said the last word, and he was slapped on the buttocks again, and his breath was even weaker. He simply leaned on the emperor's shoulder and said shamelessly: "Anyway, this case has been investigated, and the emperor doesn't make it easier." , I have my own way to lure the snake out of the hole—”

The emperor sighed with a headache, knowing that his Aiqing was exquisite and smooth on the surface, but he was very assertive in his bones, and would do whatever he wanted to do against all odds, and unless he was put in prison, he would always think of a way to implement the plan.

Seeing that the emperor still refused to agree, Su Yan immediately adjusted his strategy, his legs were no longer weak, and he stood up straight, and changed his tone of righteousness and dignity: "Why does the emperor only care about the safety of the humble minister, and not worry about the coming crisis?" If you turn a blind eye, you won’t worry about losing the big for small things? Do you know what kind of rumors I heard in the market today?”

"Su Yushi, there is no need to repeat the old trick." The emperor sneered slightly, let go and walked to the table, picked up the secret report that had just been put down, "Come here first and take a look at this."

Su Yan walked over awkwardly, took the secret report and opened it, frowning suddenly: "On the second day of February, in Shuntianfu, Baodingfu and other places, unidentified incidents occurred at night. Explosion of reason? The second day of junior high school... three days ago, it was the night when the Baizhifang exploded!"

The emperor nodded: "This is a secret report from Jinyiwei from all over the country, but because the two prefectures are the closest to the capital, the news came the fastest. It is unknown whether other prefectural capitals also exploded on the same day."

On February [-], the dragon looked up.

When the great calamity meets the darkness of the sky and the earth, the red lotus appears into a vacuum.

There are bad mountains and rivers, this peace... There are no gods, Buddhas, or sentient beings.

In the southwest direction, the loud noise sounded like ten thousand thunders, and the sky was as bright as day, like a big fireball rising from the ground, and like... a red lotus blooming in the void.

Many flashes of thought came and swirled in his mind, Su Yan caught one of the flashes, and murmured: "I understand!"

He hastily picked up the pen, spread the paper and dipped it in ink, and quickly wrote two lines of cursive words: "A thunderbolt is a sign of catastrophe, the sky and the earth are dark, the sun and the moon have no light. The vacuum saves suffering, the red lotus appears in the world, and the chaos reopens."

"Please look, my lord, this is a nursery rhyme that has been circulating in the capital recently." Su Yan put down the brush and pointed to the dripping ink on the paper, "The 'thunderbolt' here is not thunder, but a loud explosion. 'Red lotus' is not a symbol, but refers to the flame of the explosion.

"'The sky and the earth are dark, the sun and the moon have no light' not only describes the scene after the explosion, but also implies that the current political situation is dark; the combination of 'sun and moon' is 'bright', which is homophonic for the country name 'ming', and the sun and the moon have no light. Chujun has no virtue. These two nursery rhymes describe the explosion as a sign of the coming catastrophe, and the "vacuum" as the messenger sent by God to rescue the suffering and reopen the chaos. The intentions are very sinister!

"What's even more sinister is that this nursery rhyme didn't start to spread after the explosion of Baizhifang, but before."

The emperor calmly said: "That is to say, the people behind the scenes have long planned to create explosions in the capital and other prefectures on the night of the second day of February to confirm his prophecy that 'the red lotus is alive'."

Su Yan thumped the table with his fist: "In order to build momentum for public opinion, he spared no effort to sacrifice thousands of lives as pawns on his chessboard. How selfish and ruthless, it is anti-human!"

Thinking of the four broken pages of the scriptures again, he murmured: "'The great catastrophe is when the sky and the earth are dark, and the red lotus enters the vacuum'. If this sect really exists, it may not be called the 'Red Lotus Sect', or the 'Vacuum Sect'." teach'?"

The emperor's face changed slightly.

Su Yan keenly caught this micro-expression, and asked tentatively, "The emperor has heard of this name? Is it Red Lotus, or Vacuum?"

Emperor Jinglong groaned, and tapped his fingertips on the edge of the table regularly.Su Yan knew that this was a small gesture when his mind was in turmoil and unresolved, and he patiently waited for an answer that he didn't know whether he would give.

After a long time, the emperor said: "The Vacuum Sect."

The so-called vacuum is not the vacuum phenomenon in later generations of physics, but the infinity that has evolved everything in the world, and is the foundation of the universe.To put it simply, it is the blissful and illusory cloud realm that exists in all sects.

Su Yan may have doubted whether there will be a soul after death. If the soul is also a kind of energy, then according to the law of energy conservation, where will it go?But in any case, it is definitely not to go to this "vacuum" piled up with thousands of blood and lives as the cornerstone.

"Cult!" He cursed bitterly.

The emperor said: "So when the Great Ming was first built, Emperor Taizu ordered that the Vacuum Sect be strictly prohibited from preaching among the people. Its leader, who was known as the 'Vacuum Sect Master' at the time, also followed the law not long after."

Then, it is said in unofficial history that Emperor Taizu's rebel army also took advantage of the power of a certain sect, and finally put down the grind and killed the donkey, is it true?Is it this vacuum teaching?Su Yan didn't dare to continue asking, fearing that the political sensitivity of this gossip would be too high, and he would gossip his head off.

He thought for a while and said, "I guessed before that 'Yi Zhe' has been planning for at least ten years, and the motive is either 'ambition' or 'revenge'. From this point of view, could it be revenge against the Great Ming clan? This' Player', could it be the new vacuum leader?"

These two questions were a veiled verification of Emperor Ming Taizu's methods. Emperor Jing Long glanced at Su Yan with a deep and unpredictable expression.

Su Yan knew that he was plucking the hair on the tiger's head, and his palms were sweating from nervousness.After a while, I finally heard the emperor answer with neither joy nor anger: "Maybe."

enough.This "maybe" is the clearest answer that Emperor Jinglong can give him, and it is also the greatest tolerance and trust that an emperor with equally formidable means can give to his courtiers.

Su Yan bowed deeply, cupped his hands and said, "Thank you, my lord." Let him know who he is fighting and how to win the battle.

The emperor held his hand, made him straighten up and looked at him, and said in a deep voice, "That was then, and today is today."

"I know."

"Taizu is Taizu, and I am me."

Su Yan smiled slightly: "I also know."

The emperor sighed: "Do you... want to stay away from the Great Ming clan and the vortex of power?"

Su Yan said: "I am already on the cusp of the storm, I can only ride against the wind and waves. I am not afraid!"

The emperor held his hand tightly, remained silent for a long time, and finally sighed in compromise: "Whatever you want to do, just do it! Remember, I am your jade pillar supporting the sky. With me, the sky cannot fall."

Su Yan took a deep breath, so that the heat on his face and the fire in his chest would not be so intense that he would lose his mind.He boldly raised the emperor's hand, rubbed it on his cheek, and said: "The sky is too high to be reached, and the respect cannot be questioned, but I still want to ask - can I get away from the giant that supports it?" Ao any closer?"

The emperor's eyes flashed.Before Su Yan could distinguish whether the emotion revealed in this gaze was surprise or relief, he heard the emperor whisper: "Yes."

The waist was tightly embraced by the arms, and the emperor's embrace was deep and tender, Su Yan closed his eyes.