The villain took me crooked after wearing the book

Chapter 122 Secret Letter
Lin'an
Xu Yunchen's letter arrived at night five days later, even if it was rushed.

The messenger took out the pass token with the letter in his pocket, walked through the palace gates, and hurried to the imperial study.

"Report!"

"A secret message from Jingzhou."

Cheng Shengquan, the emperor of the Great Yan Dynasty, was correcting the memorials inside. Hearing this sound, he immediately said in a deep voice: "Biography."

It was dark outside, and the messenger in light brown clothes immediately stepped into the imperial study room with dimly lit candles.

Eunuch Lan, the chief eunuch next to Cheng Sheng's body, took the secret letter and handed it to Cheng Shengquan.Cheng Shengquan sat on the big chair, looking at the letter, the veins on the back of his hand couldn't help twitching.

"Snapped."

He slammed the letter on the table. The middle-aged emperor, who had passed his forties, was full of the coercion of a high position.

"What a Qiyuan Mountain bandit, how good you Han Zhi is to lie!"

Cheng Shengquan snorted coldly, looked at the messenger and said, "Go down first."

The messenger left, and Eunuch Lan looked at the extremely angry emperor, poured a cup of tea in front of him, and comforted him: "Your Majesty calm down, it's not worth it to be so angry."

Hearing this, Cheng Shengquan calmed down a lot, he said coldly: "The bandits in Qiyuan Mountain must be eliminated."

The next day, the Golden Temple.

Cheng Shengquan announced the news to the government and the public, and the court was shocked.

"What?! Han Zhi dared to mine a private mine!"

"Where did he get the bear heart and leopard courage to collude with the Qiyuan Mountain bandits to harm the common people!"

"Your Majesty, I feel that this person's crime is unforgivable, and he should be executed as a warning to others,"

The ministers were discussing in one go, and Cheng Sheng, who was sitting on the dragon chair, coughed lightly, and the place fell silent.

Cheng Shengquan looked from left to right, and finally his eyes fell on the crown prince Cheng Yu standing in the front.

"Prince, what do you think of this matter?"

Cheng Yu came out. He was wearing a light golden court dress and a golden crown on his head. His black hair hung softly behind him. Outline, slender and tall but not rough figure, dragon and phoenix posture, natural temperament, with a strength that looks down on everything.

He bowed slightly, and said: "My minister believes that if the imperial court sends another thousand troops to wipe out the bandits, Qi Yuan will be restored to peace."

Cheng Shengquan looked away from him, and asked loudly: "Do you have any different opinions?"

After the ministers whispered and discussed for a while, Prime Minister Zuo Rong stood up and said: "I think what the prince said is very true. Send troops again to eliminate the bandits and take back the iron mine."

"Hmph, it's not easy to take it back with a thousand soldiers! Have you forgotten the missing Shen Shizi?"

Ye Anbang, Marquis of Pingyang, snorted coldly, and stabbed back, Prime Minister Zuo gave him a hard look.

"Oh?" Cheng Shengquan said with some interest in his tone, "What's the opinion of Marquis Pingyang?"

Ye Anbang clasped his fists and said: "Your Majesty, I think that if we want to eradicate bandits completely, we should send a general there. On the one hand, the eradication of bandits is a certainty, and on the other hand, it can also show how much His Majesty attaches importance to Qi Yuan."

Zuo Rong stood up and retorted: "Nowadays, most of the generals in the court are stationed at the border, and the rest stationed in the imperial city can't leave. How can there be any extra generals rushing to Qiyuan to suppress the bandits?"

The courtiers started discussing again, and it was true that there were no extra generals rushing to Qi Yuan.

Seeing this, Ye Anbang smiled loudly, then looked at Cheng Shengquan and said, "Your Majesty, there is really someone here who recommends you."

Cheng Shengquan turned pale and asked, "Who?"

Ye Anbang glanced at Zuo Rong's unhappy expression, and said seriously, "General Chi Guanglei."

"Your Majesty, didn't you let him return to Beijing from Beidi Border Pass a month ago, and if there is no accident, he should have arrived in Jingzhou by now."

Cheng Shengquan's eyes lit up, that's right, he almost forgot about Chi Guanglei, "That's right, let General Chi help Qi Yuan this time."

So Cheng Shengquan summoned a servant, wrote a secret letter and handed it to him, "I want you to take a day to deliver this secret letter to General Chi."

"Our family takes orders."

After the servant quit, Cheng Shengquan wrote another imperial decree and handed it over to Doctor Yushi, "You send someone to deliver this imperial decree to Xu Yunchen, the sooner the better."

"Yes, Wei Chen takes orders."

Seeing that the matter was almost settled, Cheng Shengquan withdrew from court.

……

One day later, in the north of Jingzhou.

A group of troops rested here, and one person rushed into the temporary tent quickly, holding a sharp-tailed swift in his hand, and a piece of paper was tied to the swift's foot.

"General, there is a secret letter from the emperor."

Chi Guanglei's tall body stood up from the big tiger-skin chair, "Quick, bring it quickly."

He took Swift with a big hand, and after taking the note, Swift flew away as soon as he let go. He opened it with a frown, and quickly finished reading the content.

"Father, what's the matter? I want the emperor to send a secret letter."

Chi Guanglei looked at the source of the sound. It was his most proud eldest daughter, Chi Wei. She was wearing a red riding outfit, her hair stood up high like a man's, revealing her beautiful face, and her thick eyebrows were raised slightly to show her heroic spirit. , double pupils cut water, lips do not touch but vermilion, as bright as the autumn moon, as bright as spring flowers.

Chi Guanglei said solemnly: "The emperor's secret letter said that I should rush to Qiyuan, Jingzhou to support Lord Xu in eradicating bandits, and to find the whereabouts of Shizi Shen."

"Shen Mingnan?" Chi Hua was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "It's better to care about the bandits than him, that brat will be fine."

Chi Guanglei stared slightly, "What a dead boy, he is the prince, please be polite to me, otherwise I will not protect you when you are caught and impeached by those censors when you return to Beijing."

"Cut." Chi Hua curled her lips slightly, stretched her waist and walked outside the tent, she smiled brightly at Chi Guanglei, "Let's go Dad, I'll call that kid Chi Xianyu, let's go early. "

Chi Guanglei looked at Chi Hua who said that the wind is the rain with a sad look on his face. With such a manly temper, when will he bring him a son-in-law?
……

Qiyuan County, Han Mansion, Shen Ming's South Bedroom.

In front of him was an opened iron box, which contained opened letters. On the chair opposite him, Xu Yunchen was flipping through these letters.

There are private letters between Han Zhi and his eldest daughter Han Hui'er, and letters between him and Qiu Chenghe, counselor of Beijing-China Communications Department. It is conceivable that people in Beijing have already extended their hands to Qi Yuan.

Xu Yunchen's face was solemn, there were not many other people inside except these two people, from the surface it could only be seen that this was the case, but Han Huier, a concubine, how could she be involved with court officials?
The problem is that the Han family and the Qiu family are incompatible. How could the two reach a consensus on the iron mine?
Shen Mingnan seemed to see his doubts, pointing to the letter paper on the table, he said: "Qiu Chenghe is the favorite student of Si Tengxin, the general secretary, and it is thanks to Teng Xin's promotion that he can sit in this position."

How could Xu Yunchen not know this?It was only because he knew that he realized that Qi Yuan's matter was introduced to the capital because he couldn't control it three years later, and it turned out that this group of people was behind it.

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(End of this chapter)