The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 637 Dismantling the Inside
"My lord." While Bing Yuanzhen and his wife were talking in the study, they suddenly heard the butler come to report from outside the door of the pavilion: "Someone offers famous tea..."

This is a code word between Bing Yuanzhen, his wife, and the housekeeper. Serving tea is a gift, and if the housekeeper says so, it means that someone has come to give a gift.

Bing Yuanzhen and his wife looked at each other, both of them were puzzled. During this period of time, there was a lot of turmoil and Bing Yuanzhen stopped, how could anyone come to give gifts?But this news made Bing Yuan really excited. As for showing that he still has a sense of presence in Wei as a grand master.

"Where are the people?"

"Wait in the living room."

"Understood." Bing Yuanzhen didn't have time to pack the gold and jewelry, so he walked out of the inner room quickly. When he reached the door, he remembered that his wife was still there. He looked back at his wife who helped him pack the gold, "You also go out , I also want to lock the study room, and I will clean up these things myself."

"..." Mrs. Bing gave him a helpless look, picked up an incense burner, and poured the incense ash inside on top of the gold, and the gold that had been wiped clean was immediately dusty.

This is also Bing Yuanzhen's recent bad taste. He thinks that gold is too clean, and there is no sense of accomplishment in wiping it, so every time he wipes it clean, his wife makes it dusty. The next day, he scrubs happily again.

In fact, Mrs. Bing knows that her husband is not really greedy for money. He has a lot of ambitions in his chest, and he is eager to assist Ming Jun to make a big career, but Zhai Rang and Li Mi, who he assists, can't make his ambition come true.

Now even under Li Mi's deliberate suppression, he has begun to sink and degenerate. After seeing no hope for his official career or the hope of Wei Guo, Bing Yuanzhen, who suddenly became idle from being busy, began to give up on himself and became a The greedy, vulgar, profit-seeking villain, the high-spirited Wagang military division in the past no longer exists, only a walking dead who has lost his soul.

This is actually due to human nature. Many talented people will lose confidence, self-denial, self-doubt after repeated setbacks, and become vulgar and ignorant. Truth is obviously one of them.

Bing Yuanzhen locked the door of the study room, and hurriedly came to the living room, only to see a man about thirty years old sitting in the living room, with dark skin and bright eyes, giving people a shrewd and capable feeling, with A trace of gentle temperament makes people involuntarily feel a little good.

But Bing Yuanzhen's eyes immediately fell on a big leather bag under his feet. The leather bag was bulging, and it seemed to contain heavy things. What could it be?

In an instant, Bing Yuanzhen seemed to look through the leather bag, and saw dozens of ingots of gold and silver inside.

"Dear brother, I've been waiting for a long time, dare I ask how to address you?" Bing Yuanzhen cupped his hands. He had never seen this person before, but these were not important at all.

The man stood up, cupped his hands and said with a smile: "My surname is Shi Minghao, and I am from Qinghe, Hebei. This is the first time I have taken the liberty to visit. Please forgive me, Grand Master Bing."

"Good talk good talk!"

Bing Yuanzhen sat down on the main seat, he couldn't help but glanced at the bulging leather bag again, and asked with a smile: "Mr. Shi came to the humble house, what advice do you have?"

"I can't say it's an advice, but I'm actually sending a letter to Grand Master Bing." Shi Hao was caught by the greedy look of the other party, and he was very disdainful in his heart, what grand master?Duo Duo is a greedy and careful person.

Send a letter?

Just a letter, not a gift?

Bing Yuanzhen seemed to have stepped on an empty space, and there was a deep sense of loss in his heart, and the disgust on his face could no longer be restrained. He said coldly with a straight face, "What letter to send? Who is it?" letter?"

Shi Hao took out a letter from his bosom, handed it to Bing Yuanzhen, and said with a smile: "Please take a look at it!"

Bing Yuanzhen took a look and was dumbfounded. He saw the words on the envelope: "Sinners to Emperor Wu of the Great Sui Dynasty." These large characters were definitely in his handwriting.

Bing Yuanzhen took a quick look at the man who claimed to be Shi Hao, and felt very nervous. He hurriedly opened the letter and looked at it, which made him yell "ah" and his eyes widened.

This letter turned out to be a letter of surrender to Yang Tong in the name of Bing Yuanzhen. The words were extremely flattering. In order to protect his personal safety, he was willing to donate the heads of Jiangducheng and Li Mi to ask for forgiveness from the Emperor of the Sui Dynasty.His name and personal seal were also signed on the back. Whether it was handwriting or seal, it was entirely his handwriting. Even he himself suspected that the letter was written by himself at this moment, but the question is, when did he write this letter? Believe it?

"You are framing me!"

After a while, Bing Yuan, who came back to his senses, had blue veins twitching, his eyes were about to burst into flames, he suddenly tore the letter into pieces, pointed at the gate and yelled: "Get out of the gate, get out of here! I don't welcome a villain like you."

Shi Hao unhurriedly took out another letter from his bosom, handed it to Bing Yuanzhen respectfully, and said with a teasing smile: "Grand Master Bing, I don't know that Li Mi, who is worried about gain and loss and suspicious, saw this letter. How would the letter feel?"

Bing Yuanzhen snatched the letter, and after hastily read it, his legs softened and he sat back heavily on the couch.The inside was exactly the same as the torn-up letter. After a while, he panted heavily, and asked with red eyes, "Who are you?"

"Anyway, you are also a grand master of the first dynasty. Could it be that you still can't guess my identity?" Shi Hao looked at him coldly, and sneered with the utmost sarcasm: "Do you want me to report my family name?"

Bing Yuanzhen gritted his teeth and said, "Are you a spy from the Sui Dynasty?"

"Of course I am Tai Sui's spy."

"You want to drive a wedge between me and Your Majesty, but there is no way?"

"Li Mi has internal and external troubles and is surrounded by enemies. What he fears most is that someone will dedicate Jiangdu to the Sui Dynasty. Do you think he will forgive you after reading this letter? What's more, you have changed from the first conspirator to a powerless idler. Gentleman, the reason for opposing him is very good, why not use your head of Grand Master Bing to cut off the thoughts of many restless people?"

"You..." Bing Yuan really felt awe-inspiring.

Shi Hao ignored Bing Yuanzhen who was stern and soft-spoken, took out another letter and put it in front of him. "This is a letter written to you by His Majesty himself."

Bing Yuanzhen glanced at it, snorted coldly, and said angrily, "You don't need to look at me to know it's another fake letter?"

Shi Hao looked at Bing Yuanzhen who was stalking the mouse with a smile, and said: "It's true or not, Grand Master Bing can judge for himself! One day is enough for you to think about it. I'll come back tomorrow and say goodbye." Shi Hao picked up the heavy bag and stood up. , without looking back, strode towards the gate.

Bing Yuanzhen looked at his back, feeling an unprecedented exhaustion in his heart. Li Mi thought that the river was like a city like an iron barrel, but the Sui army's secret works swaggered here and there. How many such secret works are there?

Thinking of the assassination that shocked the world back then, and thinking that he almost died in the assassination, Bing Yuanzhen's heart trembled.

He hurriedly picked up the trust, walked into the secret room, and looked at Yang Tong's letter. It was an amnesty decree written for him, exempting him from all crimes, and it was stamped with a jade seal on the back.

Bing Yuanzhen let out a long sigh. He knew that the letter was true. The Jade Seal of the Chuan Kingdom is a unique sacred object in the world. It symbolizes orthodoxy and is exempt from the supreme authority. Li Yuan and Li Mi didn't dare either, otherwise they would be reviled by the world, and the Sui army didn't dare and would not engrave it privately.

The letter is true, but he also knows what price he needs to pay in order to truly enjoy Yang Tong's amnesty.After putting down the letter, he thought of Li Mi's injustice towards him again, and couldn't help but feel a sense of loss.

Bing Yuan really knew that Li Mi suppressed him for a deep reason, because he represented the interests of the former Wagang Army, and Li Mi suppressed him in order to completely erase Wagang's mark;
And I accept bribes, in fact, not for my own selfishness, but because the alliance between Tang and Wei is in the interests of Wei, and Wei, who lost the Central Plains and inherited Wagang's cause, is just a fish without water, so even if Li Tang didn't pay bribes, he would agree ; but why does he still accept bribes?In fact, it was a reasonable excuse for Li Mi, but who would have thought that Li Mi would push him to the end.

Now, he has seen that the unification of the world is the general trend. Li Mi and Li Fuwei are hard to surrender, let alone the arm wrestling with the powerful Sui army. Sooner or later, the Sui army's iron cavalry will sweep Jiangnan, and Li Mi's demise will be sooner or later What's the use of dying?
That being the case, why should he be buried with this unjust man? Since Yang Tong gave him an amnesty, why didn't he seize this last chance?
In addition to the amnesty, Yang Tong also gave him two choices in the letter: hiring according to his talents and returning to his hometown. Bing Yuanzhen looked at the gray gold ingots, and suddenly realized that he was gold covered in dust, and even if he couldn't, he would shine again. , we must also seize this opportunity...

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Shi Hao, who sent the letter to Bing Yuanzhen, was an officer stationed by Heibingtai in the State of Wei. Three years ago, he was ordered to rescue the noble daughter Yang Xifang. They fell into a place where no one was available and no one dared to go to the post, but they were also brutally attacked by Li Mi, causing the power of the Black Ice Platform to suffer heavy losses in Xuzhou.

Before Li Mi went south, Shi Hao got an order from his superiors to set up an intelligence agency in Jiangdu first. When Li Mi took control of Jiangdu, a complete intelligence system had already been established. He opened an inn by himself as a cover, which was also located in the east of the city. The location is not far from Bing Yuanzhen's mansion. Standing on the third floor of the inn, you can see the tall gate of Bing Yuanzhen's house.

Standing in front of the window and looking at the tall gate of Bing Yuanzhen's house, he was extremely excited. For the past two years, he has been silently collecting information on the south of the Yangtze River, compiled it into a book every month, and sent it to Taiyuan by flying eagle.

It has been more than two years of peaceful life, but he has not received any instructions, and year after year has passed, he even suspects that he has been forgotten.

But at this moment, the headquarters of the Black Ice Terrace suddenly came with an important order, which was personally issued by Ling Jing, Shangshu of the Ministry of Commerce, and there was a letter written by the Holy Majesty, which also made him realize that the Sui army was about to attack the puppet Wei, not the puppet Tang.

He is well aware of the situation in the puppet Wei Dynasty, and he knows that a talented person like Bing Yuanzhen, who has the merits of a dragon, will never be willing to be an abandoned son. When his life is threatened, he will definitely seize Da Sui, the only survivor. straw.

But Shi Hao still has another task, which is to contact Lu, Gu, Shen, Wu, Wang, Xie and other Jiangnan gentry, and then send them letters declaring their allegiance to the Sui Dynasty to Li Mi.

At present, several letters have been received, but this is not enough.

(End of this chapter)