Chapter 119 Rumors

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date="2020-11-30"

title="Chapter 119 Rumors"

weight="107001"

series = ["I [Imperial] Am Not This Kind of Man"]

mode = "manual"

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The first rays of sunlight in the morning cast onto the magnificent city wall.

At the southern gate of the capital, twelve soldiers from the Five City Division joined forces and pushed open the heavy wooden gate. The two sides of the gate immediately became lively. The bustling crowd kept coming and going.

Many merchants and travelers were carrying their bags and drove in horse-drawn carriages. Some were anxious to go into the city, but some were going out of the city.

The two long teams are like long chains, moving slowly in opposite directions.

The weather was a bit hot, Ye Kuang and a dozen Nanchen scholars were among the team leaving the city.

They all came to rush the exam, were frightened by the chaos in the capital, and determined to return home early.

Those who chose to return home also accounted for the vast majority of Nanchen scholars. Only a handful of daring ones are willing to persist.

Out of the city, a cool wind blew on the face, as if even the weather had become cooler.

The group of people are all children of the Nanchen family. Although the master has only a couple of dozens, there are hundreds of servants and book boys who serve. With dozens of large carts with luggage, the whole group is invisible at a glance.

The steward was driving away the servants, and dozens of scholars got together in groups, talking gossip.

"It went smoothly out of town. Didn't you see how to check it?"

"Last time Brother Li was sent back, it didn't mean that the truth has been ascertained and that he will not be disturbed anymore.

"Well, maybe I should stay and try. I think the imperial court's meaning is mainly to appease. Maybe it will be more biased towards our south." A short, fat scholar wiped the sweat from his forehead. , And some regrets.

"Cheap Zhang Zichen and the others." The other scholar also regretted it, talking about his classmate who had ventured to stay in Beijing.

"Come on, although Brother Li was sent back last time, he really suffered a lot. The people at Pingxi Camp are like evil wolves, all wounded on their bodies. Fortunately, they were transferred to the torture department and were not tortured."

"Isn't it? I heard that Brother Li is still trembling now. He even trembles when he hears the footsteps of someone passing by. He screams from time to time in his sleep at night, and the whole person is mentally troubled. "

"It's also because of his bad luck, who got involved with a traitor and had dinner at the same table."

"Then we can guarantee good luck? Take advantage of the fact that the war has not yet started, hurry up on the road, nowhere is safer than home."

"Alas, the home may not be safe. The taxation of Southern Defence General's Residence has been getting heavier in recent years. Now that the war is on, there is no need to add a few percent. When are you heading these days?"

Several people were silent and went all the way forward.

The group of people walked further and further, and gradually the walls of the capital were no longer visible.

Entered into a dense forest with rocks on both sides. A round-faced scholar couldn't help laughing: "The forest is dense and the roads are narrow. Based on the art of war, this is a good place to ambush."

Companion smiled and said: "Who will ambush our group of scholars who have no power to bind chickens? Don't be silly, hurry up."

Farther and farther away from the capital, the atmosphere relaxed, and the team moved forward slowly.

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Seeing the convoy walking through the lane below and standing on the top of the mountain, Cui Qianshi Shiran withdrew his gaze.

He turned his head to look at the uninvited guest on one side, and smiled: "So, is Deputy Commander Ren satisfied?"

Ren Jinglei was respectful and bowed: "Thank you, General Cui, for his magnanimity."

Cui Qian’s eyes flashed with a cold look. Today, he was leading people. He originally planned to intercept these Nanchen scholars. They will search and torture them one by one, and be sure to find the love letter. Who knows, before he can do it, suddenly The support horse rushed up.

Ren Jinglei led the people, put on the banner of Pei Ling, and gently and firmly demanded that he sell his face.

"Please look at the army in the face of General Pei, and don't act like this on the site of my Perak camp. Otherwise, it would be really unsightly if things go to the center." Ren Jinglei spread his hands together, helpless.

The road going south through Nanyingfang is indeed the site of Perak Camp.

Cui Qian looked at the eight hundred elite soldiers that Ren Jinglei was carrying behind him, and had to put down his thoughts of doing it in grief. He didn't want to be too noticeable, he didn't take many people on this trip.

"I didn't expect General Pei to take such care of these Nanchen sergeants. As far as I know, Nanchen hates General Pei." Cui Qian smiled.

Pei Ling was the number one hero who captured Nanchen, and in the eyes of the old and young Nanchen, she is naturally the number one ene. They don't have the attitude of respecting heroes like Beishuo. heard that some of the older generations of the Nanchen family, especially those who have received the favor of the Nanchen Emperor, mention Pei Ling, and they can't wait to swallow the bones and blood.

"Now that Chaozhong is single-minded for stability, how can he delay major events because of personal grievances." Ren Jinglei looked serious.

"You can let it go." Cui Qian said with a smile.

After a pause, he suddenly asked, "Do you know the origin of the guard named Fang Yuan next to the emperor?"

"The matter of the palace, how can a foreign minister of mine be able to put his beak." Ren Jinglei shook his head solemnly.

"Forget it, you know that you can't ask anything."

Cui Qian smiled and approached Ren Jinglei.

"Remember, I don't want to give others the face, since it's you, then forget it."

While talking, he raised his hand and patted Ren Jinglei's shoulder, and then straightened out the fringed ears hanging down on his chest.

He got close to Ren Jinglei's ear and said with a smile: "If one day you don't have a good time with General Pei, you can come to me in the same location and keep what you can do comfortably."

"Thank you, General Cui, for being able to look up." Ren Jinglei replied with a calm face holding his fist without moving.

Cui Qian smiled and turned to leave.

Ride a horse from the top of the mountain. The adjutant next to him asked in a low voice: "Commander, just forget it?"

"What if I don't forget it?" Cui Qian snorted coldly.

"But in case that document..."

"Everyone is gone, where did the paperwork come from?"

The adjutant is right to think about it. Now, most of Nanchen's scholars are out of the city. If the clerks are on these people, they must have found that they can't find a way out, so they just slipped away.

"Keep your eyes on the rest of the people, let's talk about it if there is trouble." Cui Qian said coldly. Although the old love letter was a thorn in his heart, it was not fatal.

But just slaughter some Nanchen Remnant Parties. Could the emperor really use this reason to criticize him for failing?

Now Nanchen is turning back and chaosing the party everywhere, but he cut off the enemy in advance.

After staying on the top of the mountain for a while, Cui Qian and his party returned to the capital after the spies were determined, and it was impossible to turn around again. Ren Jinglei led the crowd to leave.

Cui Qian was two more polite to him, just because of the same illness. Ren Jinglei's father, Ren Duo, was also a member of the army. After the fall of Cheshire, he transferred to a civilian post and took up the post of magistrate. He took his family to the post not long after. As a result, the Nanchen soldiers and horses who were counterattack broke through the gate, and the whole family was killed. Only the young Ren Jinglei escaped by hiding in the pool. Pei Ling then counterattacked, rescued him, and brought him back to his side for training.

So although Pingxi Camp and Pingxi Camp are not in harmony, Cui Qian is quite gentle with Ren Jinglei. Because of this, Pei Ling sent him out for this trip.

Otherwise, with Cui Qian's temperament, it is very likely that he will get hard-tempered, regardless of whether he will rush down with his soldiers and horses.

Anyway, his blood is noble, and there is a queen mother as the backstage, so any guilt can be turned into a big matter.

Ren Jinglei sighed. Recently, in the Pili camp, all the things that lay on his head were worrying about labor...

Qin Nuo also discovered that the things that have been on his head recently are all hard work!

First of all, the matter of the Southern Army, the love letter gave him a heavy blow. After that, a secret agent from Qianlinsi was sent to investigate secretly, and all the clues showed that there was no exaggeration at all in the love letter. The real situation is even worse. After all, the love letter was written by a family member, and many of them were rewarded after the Great Week, and the Southern Army did not dare to go too far. For civilians who have nowhere to sue, the southern army is even more cruel.

This is not the only thing that bothers me, but also the news that Dongbo just sent.

Regarding the glass chip before. Sure enough, it was stolen from Emperor Jingyao's mausoleum. Not many people stole it, but the thief was not the craftsman who built the mausoleum that Qin Nuo thought before. But an orion in a nearby mountain village.

He strayed into the tomb through a crack.

crack? The tomb of Emperor Jingyao has been built for more than ten years. It has only recently been completed and has just been closed. How could cracks appear?

Qin Nuo was speechless. He temporarily pressed the news, and ordered the people from the Qianlin Division to find someone with architectural experience to carefully investigate and find out what went wrong.

If the natural terrain changes. Find someone to fix it as soon as possible and try to minimize the impact of the incident.

When building the tomb, some officials cut corners. Then hehe, Qin Nuo wouldn't be merciless in this big corruption case.

After finishing the order, Qin Nuo relaxed.

At this time, there were many things in the middle of the court, and Qin Nuo did not put the changes in the tomb first.

But don't know how violent disturbances this matter will cause soon.

What he now has a headache is the situation in Nan Chen's hometown. The things worried about before really come true! A rebellion broke out in Laian in the eastern part of Nanchen, and the local families echoed the small imperial court in the south.

La'an is the southern big port, originally under the control of the remnant forces of Nanchen, it was not captured by the southern army until halfway through, and was included in the territory of the Great Zhou. After years of fighting, the Southern Army suffered heavy losses. After taking control of this place, it retaliated and weakened the power of the local giants and martial arts sects, further deepening their hatred. Now the small southern court has sent troops to counterattack, winning steadily. Lean officially took off.

After the Lian rebellion, there have been three successive rebellions in three states and counties, with different scales and different successes, but they all acted the same.

Among them, the riots and riots that broke out in the central Kang City are the most noticeable. Kang City is an important town in the central part of Nanchen. It is located at the north-south transportation hub. On the 28th day of Wuli Kingdom’s march, an official of Nanchen’s belonging secretly contacted the remnant forces and wanted to open the city gate in the dark. The official position is not high, but it happens to be in the city gate office. At the same time, the five thousand elite soldiers sent by Nanchen lurked along the waterway into the small woods outside the city, waiting for the inside and outside to join forces and break the city in one fell swoop.

Fortunately, the on-duty patrol soldier was alert and found that the city gate was opened late at night and immediately sent someone to check it. As a result, this small group of patrolling soldiers was immediately killed by Nanchen soldiers who had sneaked into the city, but it also caused a commotion and alarmed the guards in the city.

The news of Nanchen's approaching soldiers had already spread. The local officer had ordered the soldiers to be more vigilant, and immediately dispatched soldiers and horses to resist. After a bloody battle, Nanchen had to retreat because there were too few soldiers infiltrated. Kang City was saved, but the local officials in the surrounding cities were almost astonished, and the Nanchen officials among the officials were even more excluded.

However, Nanchen returned to Shun for many years, and most of the local officials were local gentry. Such behavior would only further intensify the conflict.

Qin Nuo flipped through the report, almost vomiting blood with anger.

Governing the world has never been easy. He must be calm.

In Qin Nuo's efforts to turn the tide, the news of the defeat seemed to have grown wings, and quickly blossomed and fruited on the land of Nanchen. Of course, the fruit would not be any good fruit.

As the news spread to the capital, the successive rebellions and successive defeats also made the people of the capital swept away their previous contempt for the Nanchen Remnant Party and turned it into an unprecedented dignified one.

All kinds of rumors are flying, why Nanchen, the pseudo-emperor, learned the art of witchcraft from Wuli Kingdom after he took effect in Wuli Kingdom. Not only can it poison the people, but it can also confuse people and call the wind and rain.

Those Wuli Kingdom's witchcraft are extremely powerful. As long as the Southern Army meets them, various situations will occur, either from abdominal pain or dizziness, or even into dementia.

There are also continuous rebellions, all because of the enchantment of Wuli Kingdom's magic, so that the officials who had worked in the first place obediently obeyed their commands...

All kinds of rumors spread in a mess.

But amidst the chaotic news, there is another statement that stands out.

It was the imperial court that led to the rampant rebellion!

Those who hold this view are mostly scholars with some cultures, so the problem is right.

"Right now..." The people in the city didn't dare to speak directly to the emperor. They just pointed their fingers to the sky and everyone knew it.

"Before I was notoriously dumb. Later, after being sealed off, I also practiced some humble activities of brewing and making wine all day long. I also like to compete with the people for profit, and I am proficient in eating, drinking and playing. How can I understand the important affairs of the country? People, it’s natural to be an idle clan prince, but it happens to be..."

"It doesn't matter if you are at a peaceful age, alas, now there is chaos in the south, but the truth is revealed..."

This argument is eloquent, and the term “click-to-stop” is even more unpredictable, and it immediately occupies a large position in the public opinion circle in Beijing.

Accompanied by this kind of remarks, there is another argument that rages on.

"This chaos, the southern army is afraid that it can't clean up, or ask General Pei to come forward. With him leading the army, the Southern Dynasty remnant party, what enchanting witchcraft, like cutting melons and vegetables."

"It's just now this one, can you use General Pei?"

"The loyal minister and the good general must also be equipped with Mingjun. It is the first emperor who has the mind to use General Pei."

This Emperor Xian is naturally talking about Emperor Jingyao.

"Oh, it's all rebelling against the king, and the clan is swept away, otherwise it won't be your turn..." At the end of the topic, someone can't help but sigh with emotion.

"Shhh, don't say it, I'm going to die!" In the end, it will end with this sentence.

When the secret report was delivered to Qin Nuo, Dongbo thought he would be angry.

The Southern Army was so corrupted, in the final analysis, because the imperial court was lazy and neglected to manage during Emperor Jingyao, and the killing of Pingxi Camp afterwards was even more because Qin Cong blindly indulged his beloved people and let Cui Qian go over to take credit.

Now that the crisis broke out after Qin Nuo took the throne, it became his fault.

Unexpectedly, Qin Nuo just smiled bitterly.

It cannot be expected that the common people will have too much political consciousness, especially in this era of backward communication and information acquisition.

The common people will only see that when Emperor Jingyao was there, he fought a victory, and Nanchen's food and jewelry were continuously transported to the capital. Qin Cong has been in power for a short time, and it can barely be considered smooth sailing.

And soon after he became the throne, it was precarious.

What he cares about is Pei Ling who is mentioned repeatedly in the rumors.

Is it the idea of ​​ordinary people, or is it a caring person?

If the emperor hears this kind of rumors, he will definitely have a grudge against Pei Ling. The pot is his own, but the hope is all pinned on another person.

Even Qin Nuo felt angry and uncomfortable the first time he heard it, but he quickly controlled it.

Qin Nuo rubbed his nose and spared no effort to provoke the relationship between himself and Pei Ling, the people behind the scenes are ready to come out.

Dongbo asked, "Should we deploy personnel to conduct a thorough investigation. Or should we ban such remarks?"

Qin Nuo shook his head: "The mouth of defending the people is better than Fangchuan, so ignore it. If the war in the Southern Dynasty goes smoothly, this kind of rumors will naturally be self-defeating. If the war goes bad, I am afraid that a new version will evolve in the future.

"But if you ignore it, I'm afraid it will be even more detrimental to the emperor."

Qin Nuo thought for a while, "Fighting against the rumors, hard top is not enough, it is better to guide the situation. Let go of two more rumors."

Dongbo: "Huh?"

"For example, the Southern Army and General Pei are at odds, and they don't want the Northern Army to intervene in the southern battlefield again. Or the Southern Army accepts bribes from the southern cliques and deliberately retreats and refuses to fight against the enemy..."

Dongbo hesitated for a moment, "This kind of rumors are raging, I'm afraid it will panic the southern army."

"If they knew how to write the word fear, they would still be saved." Qin Nuo sneered.

Dongbo lowered her head. She understood that the emperor really wanted to clean up the southern army.

After Dongbo retreated, Qin Nuo stood up and stood at the entrance of the hall.

It was raining outside the court, and clear water drops continuously from the eaves, washing the green trees on the ground.

In the summer season, the rain brings coolness.

The rumors are actually right. He can no longer use Pei Ling, because Pei Ling's military power can no longer be expanded.

He has completely controlled the soldiers and horses of the northern border, and the southern army can't hand them over to him. Although the court didn't say it clearly, they all had this tacit understanding.

Ha, after all, my own mind is not enough!