I saw Eunuch Lu walking over with a wicked smile on his face, swaggering over, and slapped the documents in his hand on the table: "Shi Sijin, can you tell me how to deal with it?"
Seeing that he had bad intentions, Shi Xiu Shen became suspicious, so he took the document hesitantly, opened a page, and his face suddenly darkened.
"What letter?" Ye Yongjia became more and more uneasy and reached out to ask for it. He saw that it was written: "Please pass this letter to Ye Shilang: Your Majesty's decree has been made, and there is no room for change in the new policy. You are going to report to Liu Thief.
I advise them not to go against public opinion.'
"How is it?" Seeing that he had almost finished reading, Eunuch Lu raised the corner of his mouth and said, "Master Ye, you are absolutely wrong, so don't conspire with the traitors."
Ye Yongjia's hand trembled as he grasped the corner of the letter: "Father, let me explain this to you slowly... First, I am usually the most supportive of the New Deal. This is not a lie, everyone has seen it; second, this
The letter is placed in the bookcase, which means that Ye has never received it, so it was stored here."
"Your Majesty, you misunderstood. We in the palace only work hard to serve the emperor, so how can we know what's going on outside? We don't know how many faces the people outside have hidden. As for the receipt and confiscation of this letter, there are many ways to verify it. It's not me and others.
But our family still has some questions: If it was to be handed over to someone, why not put it in the middle hall instead of hiding it in the library? Probably because the army suddenly arrived today, the people were caught off guard, so they hid this letter.
Alright."
These words were like a huge thunder blast, going straight into Ye Yongjia's ears, making him tremble immediately. He felt the extreme danger of the current situation, but now that he was being suspected of this, he might not be able to explain himself.
It would be a sin, so he remained silent, determined not to say a word, and placed all his hope on Shi Xiushen.
"Master Ye, so you... admit it?" Although Lu Xinzhong was facing Ye Yongjia, his peripheral vision was directed towards Shi Xiushen.
"I'll take a few more glances." Shi Xiu Shen ignored his sinister look and snatched the letter back.
"Shi Sijin, you only have one or two words, so what's the point of it?" Eunuch Lu raised his voice even more sharply, "General Manager Shen sent me here to prevent you from showing favoritism."
Shi Xiushen sneered: "What can I do for selfish reasons? No one has any friendship with me, except the emperor!"
Seeing that he had carried the emperor out, Eunuch Lu really had no choice but to turn away: "It's best not to be like that Rong Qing, who is so talkative and unforgiving."
Shi Xiushen glared at him, then re-examined the contents of the letter, and took this opportunity to think hard.
"I've finished reading." After a moment, he folded the letter and threw it to Eunuch Lu.
"What do you think, sir?" Lu Xinzhong asked.
"I think it's not worth the trouble. If my father-in-law is still hesitant, he can find out who sent the letter at that time and ask him to come in for questioning."
Eunuch Lu said angrily: "You are obviously covering up for him! Everyone in the Ministry of War belongs to them, how can there be any truth?"
Shi Xiushen also stood up, slapped the case and said: "There is no witness, let alone physical evidence, so it is difficult to establish evidence alone!"
"If there is no evidence, there is suspicion, take it away and talk about it later!" Eunuch Lu blew the whisk in his hand.
"Shi Mou said that the imperial army only obeys the emperor. The emperor only said to search Jie Wenwu, but did not say that he would arrest other people. If you want to transfer my troops, write a request on the spot and ask Manager Shen to submit it to the emperor for approval!" Shi Xiushen
Holding the table with both hands, a pair of tiger eyes looked straight at him.
Lu Xinzhong had never seen this posture before? He timidly removed his left hand from the table, a trace of fear flashed across his face, and most of his anger disappeared.
"Will you write or not?"
"I...I won't write it!" Eunuch Lu deliberately maintained an angry tone, but he didn't dare to be too presumptuous, "This and that, it's all up to you!"
After saying that, he walked out of the house angrily and called the young eunuch who was accompanying him: "Get up the sedan! Let's go back and deliver an errand to the chief steward!"
The two men hurriedly followed them out, and Ye Yongjia half stopped and half sent him off to persuade them: "The investigation is not over yet, I hope my father-in-law will stay."
"The suspect can speak now, what else do I have left? Let's go!" He waved his hand and strode into the sedan chair. The curtain was rolled up and the little eunuchs carried him away in a staggering manner.
"Farewell to Eunuch Lu!" Shi Xiu Shen looked into the distance and clasped his fists, revealing beads of sweat on the back of his palms under the sun.
"Brother Mingzhen for your hard work!" Ye Yongjia bowed to him.
Shi Xiushen burst out laughing and patted him on the shoulder a few times: "Don't thank me. It's this eunuch who doesn't know the heights of heaven and earth, and he came to contradict you, Liu Zhennian's protégé! But, anyone who is stalked like this will be beaten.
It doesn’t feel good.”
"What does this eunuch do? He is so arrogant, even more powerful than Mr. Shen."
"You are not in the prison, so of course you don't know the origin of this guy. He is in his forties this year. He was originally a domestic slave of Wang Chuding, the former magistrate of Jinan. Later, he was expelled from the palace for committing crimes and had no livelihood, so he came to Beijing from the palace to work as a eunuch.
, I have been working a part-time job without making much achievements.
But in recent years, he has been appreciated by Shen Jing. Although he has not moved to another position, he often stands by and makes suggestions and is deeply loved. This person is vicious and domineering, but he has ink in his belly and is extremely intelligent. If I hadn't suppressed him with my status,
It’s hard to win with words alone.”
Ye Yongjia remembered it in his heart, nodded, and went back to the library with him and sat down again.
"By the way, didn't Tinglong just ask..."
"Brother Mingzhen saved my life once again. If that's the case...what else can I say?" Ye Yongjia lowered his head and sighed.
"No, I also want to express my feelings to you." Shi Xiu Shen said, "When I introduced the civil and military forces to kneel down and remonstrate, I was thinking that firstly, I would be worthy of the emperor, and secondly, I would be worthy of the new policy that the people of the world are looking forward to.
.If you persuade them to go back and delay again and again, you will miss the national plan! Besides, what are you doing to protect a man like Jie Wenwu who is just sitting there and eating nothing?"
Ye Yongjia thought of the conversation with Jie Wenwu, and felt desolate in his heart. He replied in a low voice: "Maybe I am selfish, but I really feel that Jie Gong is not a bad person, he is just blinded by this so-called peaceful age.
He lost his eyes, so he was considered by you to be an aid to the emperor. It is actually a good thing that he will quit his official position in a few days. As long as he stays away from the turmoil of the officialdom, he will see through this sooner or later."
Shi Xiu Shen stopped talking.
"By the way, can Shi Sijin help me with the New Deal?" He raised his eyes again and asked.
After hearing this, Shi Xiu Shen smiled faintly: "Although I admire your new policies and want to work with you to revitalize the country, my status does not allow me to do so. As a minister with a foreign surname, I can rely on being loyal to the emperor.
of loyalty.
Fulfilling the emperor's will and alienating the distance from the courtiers is what I must do. So I can only do what I am doing now. You and I can look at each other from a distance and understand each other without saying much. That's the so-called friendship between gentlemen.