The most unlucky crossing in history

As Zhong Qiyun guessed, it was mid-April when Xie Wenyuan arrived in Jingzhao. At that time, it had been seven days since Xie Cheng led his troops to the northwest, and he also took Xie Wenzhuo there.

The position of the Xie family general was due to the great achievements made by the state when the dynasty was established. The Taizu was grateful, so he made an order that the position of the Xie family general should not be taken away for a lifetime unless he violated the 'nine crimes'.

Therefore, the position of the General of the Xie family has also been inherited to this day. Although there have been emperors in all dynasties who have given great meritorious officials inherited titles or official positions that have remained unchanged for hundreds of generations, many positions have passed over time, and because the younger generations have no talents, they have become vain positions. But the Xie family is different.

From generation to generation, the Xie family produced brave and skilled generals. There are innumerable ancestors who fought in the north and south, fought in the army and horses, and shrouded in horse leather. Therefore, for a hundred years, the position of the general has been worthy of the name, just like Xie Cheng's generation, the three brothers Two people have died in battle, and only Xie Cheng is left. This is the tragedy of the Xie family, and it is also the glory of the Xie family for a century.

It's a pity that the emperor in the court later wanted to reduce the power of the generals, and took away part of the military power promised by the Taizu. Although Xie Jiazai's position among the generals is still solid, but whether the court sends troops or not has to follow the orders of the civil officials. Xiwen hates it The atmosphere of martial arts is strong, and even though the Xie family holds a quarter of the military power, they have no right to make decisions. Even so, Emperor Feng Zheng is still afraid of the Xie family's backlash, and he is still not satisfied...

It is a big joke that a civil servant who has never been on the battlefield knows everything.

Xie Wenyuan, who was waiting in the outer city to be summoned today, thought of his concubine Xie Wenzhuo, Xie Wenyuan sighed slightly, Xie Wenzhuo and Xie Wenzhuo were the only ones left in the generation of the Xie family.I don't know if the Xie family killed too much, the population has never been prosperous, Xie Wenzhuo or Xie Cheng's concubine, the second wife of the Xie family, went to the temple to beg for many years, and now she is only eighteen, and there will be nothing else after that out.

Now that Xie Cheng brought Xie Wenzhuo to the battlefield, he wanted Xie Wenzhuo to go to the battlefield to practice more, and prepare to train the next general.

"My lord, the pass inspection has passed, and you can enter the city."

Zhang Hong's voice came from outside the carriage, and Xie Wenyuan responded, "Is the Holy Majesty personally welcoming you today?"

Generally speaking, if the envoy ministers return to the court, if the Holy Majesty attaches great importance to it, they will personally welcome them and inquire about the envoy matters.

"It's the prince." Zhang Hong said, "I heard that the sage has occasionally felt a cold recently and felt unwell, so he asked the prince to come and greet him."

"Prince?" Xie Wenyuan chuckled. It is rumored that the prince who is not long in life is lingering on the sick bed, and there has been no cure for it.

He can be cured, but now that the second and third princes have fallen, he is better.

Just thinking of this, Tan Yuanjin's voice came from outside the tent.

"Master Xie, now we have arrived at Jingzhao. The journey is difficult and tortuous. I have something to discuss with you before entering the inner city. I wonder what Master Xie would like?"

"Your Highness's words are serious. If Your Highness wants to talk, I will sweep the bed and wait for you," Xie Wenyuan opened the curtain of the carriage first, got out of the carriage and welcomed Tan Yuanjin into the carriage.

In the car, under the current situation, Tan Yuanjin no longer said those stereotypes, and just asked directly: "Xie Wenyuan, I don't hide things anymore, I just ask you, if you are careful, you are prepared how?"

Xie Wenyuan took the teapot on the small table and added a cup of tea to Tan Yuanjin, and said with a smile on his lips: "Of course, I will report it according to the facts."

Tan Yuanjin sneered when he heard the words: "Do you really think that you can defeat me by saying this? Impossible, as long as my mother and concubine are the queen for one day, as long as the Pei family does not fall, I will never fall into the situation like Tan Yuance."

Xie Wenyuan looked at Tan Yuanjin in surprise when he heard the sound: "What does your Highness mean by this? Why did I want to 'destroy'? Could it be that the Shendu incident was not that the prime minister Wei Hechao united with King Shendu, disregarded the subjects of the Great Emperor, and intended to murder Did the imperial court order officials and princes to seize power?"

Tan Yuanjin was startled, and it took a long time before he frowned and looked at Xie Wenyuan: "You, you only want to deal with Wei Hechao? But don't forget, although those in the Ministry of Rites belong to you, Linghu Qing belongs to the prince. Will you not know the truth?"

Today when he heard that the prince was coming to welcome him, Tan Yuanjin understood what Xie Wenyuan meant when he laughed that he didn't know anything about the prince.Has the prince ever been critically ill?Even if he really had heart disease back then, but now it seems that the song is probably better.Pretending to be dead after a long illness is just to let them fight for him, and then reap the benefits of the fisherman.

"The prince knows that I have such a trick, do you think he will just let it go?"

"What does it matter to me whether he knows or not? Just do as I tell you."

"..."

Tan Yuanjin couldn't speak for a while, silently scrutinizing the person he had never understood before, Xie Wenyuan was an accompanying reader, so he didn't know what the eldest son of the Xie family was thinking about all day long.Young, courteous and thoughtful, polite but very alienated.He felt inexplicably displeased, as if he felt that this person didn't think highly of them princes, but on the surface Xie Wenyuan did everything he could, making it difficult for people to find fault and find no basis for his contempt.

Thinking about it now, then

It is actually a terrible thing for a person of his age to be so considerate.Perhaps it wasn't that he didn't like Xie Wenyuan back then, but that he was inexplicably afraid of this person who was about the same age as him.Just never want to admit it.

It's like he doesn't know and can't figure out why Xie Wenyuan let him go.

"When I was young, I studied poetry, song, Fu, and governing the country with the Taifu. Although I didn't show it on the surface, I still felt that you should look up to the third brother, although I don't know why."

Tan Yuanjin said slowly: "But the third brother had an accident last year. You could have helped him, but you didn't. I think it was a mistake."

Xie Wenyuan took a sip of tea, but did not speak.

"After leaving Shendu, I thought about it for more than a month on the boat, thinking that you were going to take refuge with Tan Yuanyong and take this opportunity to weaken Wei Hechao and my power, but what you said just now does not seem like you want to help him. Even, you may have caught his handle, so you can threaten him to cooperate with you in dealing with Wei Hechao."

Tan Yuanjin squinted at Xie Wenyuan, and said after a while, "Xie Wenyuan, what do you want? Could it be that you want to be the second Wei Hechao, want to get..."

Before he finished speaking, Xie Wenyuan interrupted him in a cold voice: "Your Highness, you can't talk nonsense, if people misunderstand you, it will kill me. I just want to be loyal to the present. It’s all about being loyal to the world and being loyal to the world, and I don’t want the rest.”

Tan Yuanjin sneered, obviously not believing it, but he didn't say any more.

There was silence in the carriage for a while, and then Tan Yuanjin said: "Through the matter today, this king can't struggle. Since you are going to deal with Wei Hechao, it's not that this king is at a disadvantage. Why don't I help you."

"Oh?" Xie Wenyuan raised his eyebrows.

"I have some letters from Wei Hechao and King Shendu." It was something he had worked so hard to get, "but you have to make sure that the crown prince and Wei Hechao will not deal with me."

Xie Wenyuan laughed, as if he heard some fairy tales, this is not to protect him, but to want Xie Wenyuan to stand by his side, right?How many letters?Ah.

"Your Highness really overestimates me. I'm weak to protect myself, so how can I still have the energy to protect you? Instead of telling me about the impossible here, why don't you think of another way out."

The crown prince has been dormant until now, so there must be the instruction from the present, why did no other noble concubine choose the daughter of the Pei family instead?The Pei family, a wealthy businessman with an official position, seems to be in balance with the other four families, but in fact, it is more than what they see on the surface?the emperor

It is to take the opportunity to let a few princes see the opportunity and then seize power without waiting. If one of them makes a mistake, they will have an excuse to take down the subsequent forces, so as to extend all the power to the emperor's family, and then hand it over after his death. In the hands of the prince.

These are from the matter of the Zhuo family back then, only the prince knew about it and could see a thing or two.

Under the power struggle of the emperor's family, there is no kinship at all.It's a pity that these princes couldn't see clearly, only that the emperor was just a father.

The emperor took the initiative to seize power, and Tan Yuanjin would have no chance of fighting for anything, unless he was as ruthless as he was with the prince today.

After talking with Tan Yuanjin and the horses and chariots were about to enter the inner city, Xie Wenyuan stopped talking, and Tan Yuanjin also returned to his side to drive the horses.

The envoy returned to the court, but brought bad news. All the officials, envoys, and the son of the emperor here were outraged and pointed out that Shendu Guoyuan had already colluded with the ministers of the court, intending to murder the prince and send envoys. All the envoys, even the second prince, had wounds of various sizes.

The minister directly complained of grievances, bluntly said that the Lord Shendu had ulterior motives and wanted to cause civil strife, and listed all kinds of evidence.

Emperor Feng Zheng was extremely angry, and ordered a thorough investigation of the matter, and ordered the soldiers stationed on the frontier to strictly guard the border with Shendu.

In addition to the investigation, an imperial decree was issued to reward the ministers who gave their lives to go on missions. It specifically mentioned that the Zhong family fleet in Hangzhou desperately protected the second prince and the envoys. Run away from Shendu.

Later, the decree was given to the Zhong family's fleet to "Xingjiang Order" and "Xinghe Order", and the princes around Emperor Fengzheng personally sent the imperial edict to Hangzhou.

On the day when this decree was issued, on the third day of May, Xie Wenyuan received a package from Zhong Qiyun.

In addition to a bunch of famous specialties of Songjiang Prefecture, there are also a few pieces of letter paper.

The letter stated that when the gambling shop transported weapons to Dongyingkou, it also mentioned that after Zhong Qiyun reported the matter to Jiang Cai, Jiang Sicheng found out that several owners of the gambling shop had strange origins, saying they were from Jianzhou, but The accent is nothing like that.

After the letter, I wrote a sentence: "We are separated by more than ten thousand miles, each of us is at the end of the world, and the road is long and short...Nowadays, the world is unpredictable, and I know that it is inevitable to be busy, but I still need to ask Brother Yuan. You have to have a good rest. Zhong Yuan Ren wrote."

On the third day, the sixth day of the fifth lunar month, there were not many discussions in the morning court, and it was not yet noon when the court retreated. Xie Wenyuan, who was sitting in the carriage, heard the noise outside the carriage, so he opened the window to take a look.

But I saw a crowd of people in front of a shop, very busy, but I couldn't see what it was for.

"What's going on there

thing? "

Yanzhi outside the carriage heard the sound and responded with a smile: "Oh, that's the newly opened Chengfeng Station and Chengfeng Pavilion. I heard that it was renovated a long time ago, but the seal has not been processed, maybe it's these few days. Now that it’s done, the sixth day of May is another good day, and today’s opening ceremony is a ribbon-cutting event, and the store is so busy giving gifts.”

Chengfeng Station?Did Zhong Qiyun still open the store?Xie Wenyuan hooked his lips and smiled, "From your tone, it seems that you went to see it earlier?"

Yanzhi rubbed his nose and admitted: "When I was waiting for the lord outside the palace just now, I came to take a look when I was bored... If the lord wants to punish..."

"No problem." Xie Wenyuan waved his hand, standing outside the palace gate for several hours is really boring, as long as it doesn't interfere with things, Xie Wenyuan can't help it.

After that, he took a closer look at the two shops, there were many people going back and forth, and the waiter was also busy delivering gifts.

Thinking of Zhong Qiyun's temper, Xie Wenyuan let out a sigh of relief, this person might come running.

However, for the first time, Xie Wenyuan made a rare guess wrong.