The lives of the people in Litian City over the past year can be said to be quite uneasy. When the Wen family first ruled here, the Wen family had always prided themselves on having the best culture in the Three Jins.
Compared to the Helian family whose ancestors had impure blood, and compared to the Situ family who only knew how to fight and kill, the Wen family was indeed the most elegant among the three golden flowers.
If we don’t talk about anything else, let’s talk about the stories of fox monsters and ghosts that are spread in the land of Sanjin. Whenever a scholar appears in it, a sentence must be added in front of it. A poor scholar who came from Li Tiancheng and so on. It is enough to prove the people's perception of Litian City in Sanjin.
I heard that the family also produced several great Confucians and scholars. On weekdays, there were many stories within the big family, which provided the people with a lot of material for association and creation. At that time, Litian City and The people in the city lived a leisurely life.
In later generations, it really has the meaning of "Rongcheng" in the Three Jin Dynasties.
However, everything changed when the Yan people came in and replaced the Wen family as the rulers of this area.
It’s not that the Yan people are so vicious, because the Yan court really intends to govern this place as its own territory, so apart from the cleaning that should have been done at the beginning, it did not do anything to make people angry. thing.
The taxes and penalties here are similar to those in Yan. It may be inevitable that Yan people can get accommodation when they break the law here, but the people of Jin can also understand that who is called their own family? The army was defeated?
But since the Jingnan Marquis Mansion was established in Litian City, the people in Litian City have been really frightened every now and then.
It's like a slap on the face. It hurts only for a moment, and at most it adds some heat to it.
But at this moment, it seemed like he was going to slap you, but he also made several false moves on you, which made people fear and dodge again and again, and the psychological pressure they endured was far greater than a slap in the face. Countless times larger.
Nanhou of the Yan people is a legendary figure. This is known to the people of Litian City. Everyone is actually mentally prepared for him to kill people in Daxing Prison in Litian City. It is just to wait for others. It doesn't matter when it breaks out.
Then, first of all, Mrs. Jingnanhou suddenly "died" of illness. The eyes of the Jingnan army inside and outside Litian City were so red that it was really scary.
It took a lot of effort to wait for that incident to pass slowly. Just when everyone began to feel that they could relax a little, the incident happened again.
In a spice shop on Changchun Street, a regular customer was sitting behind the counter and accompanying the boss to distinguish the newly arrived spices while whispering:
"The one in front is the first one." Two, right?"
The boss, who was over fifty years old, carefully picked up the tea cup, took a sip, and nodded silently when he put it down.
The two of them are not secret agents or silver-armored guards, but it is Litian City's high-pressure atmosphere from time to time in the past year that has forced the people here to become a little nervous.
"Alas, this is the first time I have seen this kind of thing in my life. "
"I heard that he is gone. This is the first time you have seen him. "The boss glanced at this old customer and tea lover.
For the people of Litian City, starting from the generation of their grandfather's grandfather, the surname of Litian City was Wenren.
< p> "Dynasty changes and family destruction are commonplace in dramas. But this matter is something we don't even dare to write about in dramas. "The boss picked up the teacup again and nodded.
"Do you think the Marquis of Nan of the Yan people is really going to rebel? "
The boss shook his head and said: "I don't know. ”
“It’s already like this, why don’t you fight back? The two stone lions at the entrance of the Hou Mansion are both red, and it is said that there will be another one coming today. "
"We can't figure out some things about the Yan people. "The boss said.
"Hey, no matter how unclear it is, if you were the emperor... if you were that or something, would you be able to bear this? "
"We are even less clear about Yan Ren's matter. "
"You old thing, stop pulling all these twists and turns for me. "
"Oh, after you get the goods, you have to leave the city. But I still have to continue to open a store here. The whole family is here. "
"What are you afraid of? To tell you the truth, yesterday I sold back the house and shop that I sold last year. "
"Why do you suddenly want to open your business back again? Is it because business outside is not doing well? ”
“Business is not bad. Shengle City always produces novel gadgets. As long as we can get the goods, we don’t have to worry about sales. It is said that the orders there are all waiting for three months.” Yes, I arrived early and had some on hand. ”
“That’s why you want to move back?” "
"It's not all because of this. I'm thinking that if the Marquis of Nan really rebels, I'm sure we in Litian City will fall under the emperor's feet again, right?
By then, the prices of shops, houses, and land here will definitely have doubled! ”
“That makes sense, but what if we lose? ”
“Hey, there is no such thing as a sure-fire business in this world. ”
“Yes. "
"But I am quite optimistic about this Nanhou. Look, have the Yan people ever lost when they used this Nanhou as their commander?
Not only did we not lose, we also achieved great victories several times!
This time the Yan people suddenly changed and let the eldest prince Lao Shizi take command. Look, he was defeated by the savages.
What the hell are savages? In the past, they were the favorite slaves bought by merchants in Sanjin. They were very lowly. The eldest prince of the Yan people couldn't even beat those cheap bones. It can be seen that This eldest prince is truly a waste. "
"No matter what, I don't want Nanhou to rebel at this time. If the Situ family really can't stop the barbarians, those damn things will come over, haha, Look at the fate of those savage slaves in the past, our fateOne can imagine the situation.
To put it bluntly, this Nanhou has indeed been scary from the beginning, but in the past year or so, I have not seen him do anything outrageous. Furthermore, there are He is in our Litian City, no matter how chaotic it is outside, I feel really at ease in my heart. "
"That's not true. This world has changed too fast. ”
“Do you still want this material?” "
"Put it away and load it. ”
“Yes. ”
“By the way, do you think it’s interesting or not? When I killed everyone in my family, I immediately went to prepare for the war. It seemed that nothing happened. Once my wife died, no one came out of the mansion.” Well, it seems that if the whole family is tied together, it's still not as good as one girl... Wuwuwuwu. "
"You are seeking death, so just forget about the rest. How can you say such things? Who do you think you are? If you keep yelling like this, I won't do this business, and don't drink my tea anymore. I'm really afraid that you will kill me one day! "
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"Send this letter to Yanjing. "
"Yes. ”
After handing over the letter, Wen Yin, currently the leader of the Jianghu organization of the prince’s forces and actually the backbone of the sixth prince, silently looked out the window on the second floor.
Dong After the defeat of the conquering army, the imperial court has issued several imperial edicts, and the two most recent ones are extremely rare, declaring that the eunuchs came with the gifts from the emperor and were qualified to "come as if I were here in person"
But the gate of Jingnan Houfu is still closed.
The Jingnan Army soldiers guarding the door explained what it means for the army to only listen to the military orders of the Marquis and not listen to the edicts of His Majesty.
Two of the eunuchs who announced the edict were killed after they announced the edict at the closed door.
Because they were carrying gifts given by the emperor, they were not allowed to do so. Being able to knock on the door of the Hou Mansion, they couldn't help but go back in despair like their colleagues who came to announce the decree before.
The bodies were naturally disposed of, but the two stone lions at the door of the Hou Mansion. There was still blood on his face.
Throughout the ages, whenever a general responded to the emperor's order with this attitude, it was basically equivalent to directly stating that he was going against the will.
But the imperial court not only did not reprimand him. Marquis Jingnan, on the other hand, continued to send eunuchs to announce the decree, as if he had been slapped on the left cheek and then took the initiative to send the other cheek.
Wen Yin has been receiving constant requests from Yanjing these days. The prince's letter asked about the situation in Litian City, and even asked him about the movements of the Jingnan Army near Litian City and the preparation of grain and grass supplies.
This is Wen Yin's response. The prince's evaluation.
Of course, you can't say that the prince's reaction is wrong. As the prince of a country, it is reasonable to want to know the situation in advance, but at this time, even if everyone in the world is I think Marquis Jingnan wants to rebel, but he still can't say it out loud.
Speaking in the heart and speaking out are two different concepts.
Compared with the frequency of the prince's letters being sent almost every day, since this incident came out, His Highness the Sixth Prince has not sent a letter to him asking about the situation.
Thinking about it, His Highness the Sixth Prince already clearly understood the meaning of the matter here, so he didn’t want to interfere with it from the beginning. This was a truly wise move!
What Wen Yin didn’t know was that Xiao Liuzi had long been demoted by Emperor Yan to be the head catcher of a local county, and it was announced that the Sixth Prince was sick and recuperating at home. This matter was handled by Wei Zhonghe, and outsiders would naturally investigate. No flaws.
As for His Highness the Sixth Prince, who has become Yan Xiaoliu, it is naturally impossible for him to use his intelligence network to issue and issue orders from such a distance, nor will he take the risk to do so.
"Huh..."
Wen Yin took a sip of rice wine, pinched a few peanuts and threw them into his mouth, then rubbed his hands and sighed:
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“It’s getting cold.”
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A eunuch wearing a red eunuch uniform led a group of guards and entered directly from the west gate of Litian City , without any delay, went directly to Jingnan Hou Mansion.
In other places, faced with such eunuchs, local people would come to watch and wonder. Although the eunuchs were lifeless, everyone also knew that eunuchs who could take on such errands would That person in the palace must also be a respectable person.
And for these eunuchs in the inner palace, going out of the palace to announce an errand is really a big deal. Not to mention the salary and benefits, in fact, there is no such thing. The important thing, the most important thing, is that no matter how high the status of a slave is in the palace, he is still a slave after all. When he is out of public service, with a bag of imperial edicts in his hand, he can finally live the addiction of being a master!
However, for Eunuch Huang who came to announce the decree this time, the taste was very different. At the same time, the people who were watching after entering the city looked at him not with awe, but... ……mercy.
The closer he got to the Jingnan Hou Mansion, the more tears filled Eunuch Huang’s eyes.
The Zajia family is feeling bitter, but the Zajia family can’t say it yet!
In the past, everyone was eager to get this kind of good job. For this, they had to work hard and even pay some interests.
But the errand of going to Li Tiancheng to announce the decree was something that the eunuchs in charge of the inner palace avoided.
If at the beginning, it was just Marquis Jingnan who refused to accept the order, the worst you could do was come back in disgrace and just take a job and listen to a scolding.
It’s such a long journey from Yanjing to Litian City, running back and forth, my body is falling apart, and I haven’t even caught a little bit of scenery or even a little bit of sight. It really doesn’t feel like it, but for those who are good at it For the forbearing eunuch in the palace, it was not intolerable.
But it’s good now.
Since the Eastern Expedition was defeated, the imperial court ordered Marquis Jingnan to return to command, and the eunuch who issued the decree had to carry His Majesty’s token. This has a different meaning. .
The will was not announced before, it was nothing more thanAfter eating so hard and working so hard, now it’s: Do you still have the nerve to come back?
Two of them are already dead.
This time the lot was drawn on the back of Eunuch Huang’s hand. If he got it, he had no choice but to come over.
The level of the father-in-law who announces the order will be different depending on the person to whom the order is announced. Those who can announce the order to the Marquis of Jingnan must be at least one of the eunuchs in charge of the palace, and they are all long-time wives. It is not easy for a son to become a mother-in-law, with the status he has today. In the palace, he can also accept those little chambermaids and little maids as godsons and daughter-in-laws;
The wonderful castration has just begun. ,
You have to line up to draw lots to get on the guillotine,
If you had known this, why would you have given yourself a knife to enter this troubled palace!
So, before leaving Yanjing, Eunuch Huang took out his treasure and gave it to his most trusted godson;
Before entering Litian City, That is, last night, I sent one of my men to go to Litian City separately from myself tomorrow to buy myself a coffin, so that after my death, my body could be sent back to Yanjing to be reunited with my treasure before being buried.
Everything has been arranged, and Eunuch Huang feels that he can die, oh no, he can go and declare the decree.
Straight mother-in-law,
The Zajia family is just an eunuch without a son, why is it my turn to die so generously?
The road,
will eventually be completed,
Finally,
the gate of Jingnan Hou Mansion is right in front of you. .
At the door, there are many soldiers standing in good order.
Eunuch Huang subconsciously looked at the two stone lions at the door. There was indeed blood on the lions. You said that the Jingnan Marquis Mansion was really not afraid of bad luck or taboos at all. Wipe it clean or simply replace it with two stone lions.
Then,
Eunuch Huang began to look elsewhere. The stone lion had been hit by the two unlucky guys one by one. Which one should I hit?
Hit the steps?
It’s not that easy to exert force.
By the way, let’s hit the wall.
The entourage and guards behind Eunuch Huang all tacitly agreed not to rush Eunuch Huang who was in a daze.
People are about to die... then just wait.
On this matter, everyone can still compare their feelings, and it seems that because they were mentally prepared to die on the Huanggong Highway, they realized that money really does not bring about death. If you don't take things with you, you will often reward them with them during the journey, and at the same time, you will also treat them to meals and toothpaste.
"Huh..."
Eunuch Huang breathed a long sigh of relief and took out the imperial edict from his arms.
It is obviously the emperor's will that is sacred and inviolable, but here, it doesn't work so well.
Even the Jingnan Army soldiers at the door of the mansion saw that he had taken out the imperial edict, but they still didn't react at all.
What about your awe!
Eunuch Huang sighed again,
turned over and dismounted,
opened the imperial edict,
said directly:
" Jingnan Houtian Wujing accepted the order!"
After shouting,
Eunuch Huang doesn't want to wait anymore,
The first unlucky guy is here. After shouting all day long, Marquis Jingnan accepted the order and shouted until he could no longer make a sound. The door still did not move, and finally he crashed into the stone lion on the left.
The second unlucky guy yelled for a long time, and finally hit the stone lion on the right and died.
Eunuch Huang felt that since he had to die in the end, he might as well save his energy and not let himself suffer the sins of those people again before his death.
The most important thing is that when you are ready to die, the feeling of waiting to die is really torture every minute.
Eunuch Huang began to bend down,
Eunuch Huang began to accumulate strength,
Eunuch Huang closed his eyes,
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At this moment,
a heavy friction sound was heard, and the door of Jingnan Hou Mansion actually opened at this time.
Eunuch Huang, who had made all the preparations, suddenly swayed and lost his center of gravity. With a "pop", he leaned forward and rolled forward on the ground. The hat fell off, and his face was covered with dust and mud.
But Eunuch Huang didn't care about this at all. He just opened his mouth in a daze and looked at the man standing in the gate.
The man was wearing a white python robe, and his eyes were as cold as the ice of the abyss.
The most shocking thing is actually his white hair.
Outside the gate of the Hou Mansion, a group of soldiers knelt down in unison and said in unison:
"See the Marquis!"
"See the Marquis! ”
At this time, the guards brought by Eunuch Huang also dismounted and knelt down, showing no restraint from the palace officials.
When this man appears in front of you, surrender is almost subconscious. This feeling is similar to meeting His Majesty...
And everyone knows that the hope of the Eastern Expedition army, and even the hope of the entire Yan Kingdom, lies in the man in front of them.
Eunuch Huang, who was sitting on the ground, licked his lips.
When Marquis Jingnan came out and walked towards him,
Eunuch Huang mustered up his courage. ,
Using a voice that seemed to be pleading, cowardly, and flattering,
whispered:
"Hou...Hou...Hou, Lord, Will, will."
Then,
carefully and slowly delivered the imperial edict in his hand to Jingnan Marquis.
When other families receive an edict, they have to burn incense and bathe in advance, then set up the incense table, and then lead the whole family to kneel down and pray for the edict in fear.
The eunuch who declares an edict only needs to hold the edict in his hand, that truly represents the emperor’s face, as if I were here in person!
Where has it ever been like this?
Has there ever been an example of me being so humble and begging others to accept orders?
But Eunuch Huang is not wronged, not wronged, really not wronged at all.
He wants to cry, but it is tears of emotion;
Compared to The first two unlucky guys, what more do you want, what do you have the nerve to ask for?
"Hou...Hou...Hou, my will."
Seeing that Marquis Jingnan did not answer, Eunuch Huang reminded him softly, this kind of energy is When he first entered the palace a few years ago, he was not so eager to curry favor with the maid of Yuxiu Palace.
Jingnan Hou did not go to receive the order.
He just said in a voice so calm that it made people tremble in their hearts:
"I understand."