Chapter 272 [There is a ghost in it, it's hard to tell who it is] Part 1
Mu Linfeng hurriedly walked down the city tower with Zhang Cai and went to a place where no one was left. Zhang Cai then asked Mu Linfeng: "Linfeng, how will you deal with the emperor's imperial edict?"
Mu Linfengqi said: "Do you have any good suggestions?"
Zhang Cai smiled and said, "I thought Linfeng, you don't want to accept the order, right?"
Mu Linfeng nodded quickly and said, "The last time Zhou Yanru came to Yangzhou, he had already announced the order, and Linfeng also expressed his position. This time, Xiong Wencan was sent here again. I wonder what the emperor means?"
Zhang Cai couldn't help but frown when he heard this, "Linfeng, did you say that Zhou Yanru came last time and he also announced the imperial edict?"
Mu Linfeng said: "Not bad!"
After hearing this, Zhang Cai pondered for a while, then said, "So Linfeng, do you think about this matter?"
Mu Linfeng shook his head when he heard this and said, "Of course, Mu refused directly like last time..."
Before Mu Linfeng could finish speaking, Zhang Cai immediately said: "No!"
Mu Linfengqi said: "Why not? Do you have any other meanings?"
Zhang Cai pondered for a while and said, "Does Linfeng know how Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, won the world?"
Mu Linfeng was silent for a long time after hearing this, but he heard Zhang Cai say, "Storage grain, build high walls, and slowly become king!"
Mu Linfeng immediately said when he heard this: "It's not bad, that's exactly!"
Zhang Cai immediately said: "If today is the same as Zhu Yuanzhang's period, the only difference is that the heroes from all over the country are under the banner of anti-Yuan and restoring the Han Dynasty and expelling the Tartars. The current situation is roughly the same. The Ming Dynasty is like that in the past
The little Ming king, and Linfeng you are Zhu Yuanzhang. If you were the first to fight against the court and directly led to the destruction of the Ming Dynasty, if you were the Linfeng you, then you will suffer the loss. Those who are interested in the world will definitely give you a rebellion.
Crime!"
Mu Linfeng nodded and said, "Yes, what do you mean by sir? Is Linfeng accepting the court's pleading?"
Zhang Cai shook his head and said, "It's not the case. In the wind, you can accept the imperial edict first, pretend to be surrendered, and then put forward conditions to the court. The four counties of Yanghuai Fenglu still let you take jurisdiction, and then you ask the emperor to allow you to promote the king's army to conquer.
Jiangnan rebelled, so it was justified and obedient."
Mu Linfeng immediately said happily when he heard this: "Listen to a gentleman is better than reading for ten years. Linfeng really benefits a lot!"
Zhang Cai laughed and said, "I'm afraid Lin Feng has known these principles for a long time, but he just didn't say them out, but was waiting for me to say it?"
Mu Linfeng felt a stern when he heard this and said, "You have seen through this? The novel was compiled and published on ｗ.l6K.N"
In fact, Mu Linfeng naturally understood the truths that Zhang Cai said, and he thought about it. When Zhou Yanru came to read the imperial edict last time, Mu Linfeng was preparing to surrender, but because of the grudge between Zhou Yanru and Fushe,
If this is the case, he will be surrendered. On the one hand, he is afraid that Zhou Yanru will not agree to let him start the Fushe, and on the other hand, he is afraid that Zhang Cai will misunderstand any insider transactions between him and Zhou Yanru.
This time, the news that Xiong Wencan came to Yangzhou again had already thought of a complete plan. Zhang Cai was a wise man and naturally understood the truth. If he was directly surrendered, he would definitely be suspicious of many parties, even if Zhang Caiming knew that Mu Linfeng was pretending to surrender.
, but it may not be able to guess all the reasons and purposes of Mu Linfeng's real surrender.
Since this is the case, Mu Linfeng decided that these words could not be said by himself, and could only let others warn him and pretend to be confused. After this person's words, he realized that he would accept this suggestion.
As for whom, Mu Linfeng also had a careful plan, so the first candidate was naturally Zhang Cai, but Mu Linfeng couldn't guarantee that Zhang Cai would definitely come on the Lantern Festival, and even if he came, he wouldn't necessarily say it, so he did it.
Second-hand plan, he arranged a few seemingly savvy officials to come out to stop him when he was about to scold Xiong Wencan.
Moreover, Mu Linfeng did not invite Xiong Wencan on this Lantern Festival, and he deliberately arranged it, putting on the illusion of disdaining to see him, and then secretly sent someone to invite Xiong Wencan to the city tower. Of course, no one would know the joints in it.
What Mu Linfeng didn't expect was that Zhang Cai finally said this to him, and what he didn't expect was that Zhang Cai had seen through his plan and hurriedly said, "What do you mean by sir? Linfeng really doesn't understand!"
After hearing this, Zhang Cai pondered for a while and said, "Whether you don't understand or pretend you don't understand, you know the benefits and disadvantages of it anyway, so you know how to deal with it, right?"
Mu Linfeng hurriedly said, "Well, thank you for your advice. Linfeng suddenly realized and knew what to do!"
After talking to Zhang Cai, Mu Linfeng returned to the city tower. The officials in Yangzhou were waiting for Mu Linfeng, but they had no new sight to watch the performance downstairs. When they saw Mu Linfeng coming up, they all looked at Mu Linfeng, wanting to know if Mu Linfeng was
Really accept the imperial edict from the court.
Xiong Wencan sat in front and saw Mu Linfeng go back to the city tower, but his clothes were not changed at all, and it didn't seem like he was going to bathe incense. He couldn't help but frown. As soon as he asked, he saw Mu Linfeng walking to Xiong Wencan suddenly
He knelt down on the ground and shouted: "The criminal minister Mu Linfeng kneeled to receive the emperor's imperial edict!"
Everyone was shocked when they saw Mu Linfeng like this. When they looked at each other, Shi Kefa and Wang Zhizhen were even more surprised and hurried to Mu Linfeng and whispered: "Mu Shuai, you are..."
But Mu Linfeng ignored the two of them and shouted again: "Mu Linfeng kneels down to receive the imperial edict!"
Xiong Wencan couldn't help but show his ears, then cleared his throat, took out the imperial edict from his sleeve, then looked at everyone behind Mu Linfeng, and shouted: "Under the imperial edict, Mu Linfeng and all officials in Yangzhou will receive the imperial edict!"
Mu Linfeng quickly turned around and signaled everyone to kneel down to receive the order. At once, hundreds of officials at all levels in Yangzhou on the city tower, as well as gentry, local tyrants, landlords, merchants and their families in Yangzhou knelt on the ground.
Xiong Wencan cleared his throat, then opened the imperial edict and read it: "In accordance with the will of heaven, the emperor ordered that Mu Linfeng was originally a loyal and martyr in the Ming Dynasty, but he did not want to serve the country. He even captured Yingtian Prefecture, a bandits such as Long Qingfeng, and captured our Ming Dynasty, Yingtian Prefecture, Kyoto,
The four counties of Yanghuai Fenglu were captured. This crime was unforgivable. It should have been implicated in nine tribes and the whole family was killed. However, I thought that your ancestors had made contributions to our Ming Dynasty, and I thought that you were also deceived and exploited by traitors. The court was in trouble.
This is the time to use people. Now I am pardoning Mu Linfeng without any guilt. If he is truly surrendered, I will grant you the title of the governor of the four counties of Yanghuai Fenglu. I hope you can understand me deeply. Thinking of your ancestors’ achievements and imitate your ancestors.
, serve the court, I admire this!"
Mu Linfeng's heart trembled after hearing this. The imperial edict promoted by Xiong Wencan was not different from the imperial edict read by Zhou Yanru before, and he couldn't help but feel a little strange.
But after hearing Xiong Wencan recite the imperial edict, he said, "Mu Linfeng, I still don't accept the imperial edict and thank you!"
Mu Linfeng immediately said when he heard this: "Long live the emperor, long live, long live!" He said as he stood up, lowered his head and went forward to take the imperial edict, handed over the imperial edict to Wang Zhizhen, and said to Xiong Wencan this time: "My Lord Xiong, Mu has a
I would like to ask for some questions!”
Xiong Wencan immediately said, "Mu Shuai has something to say!" Xiong Wencan saw Mu Linfeng receiving the imperial edict, and even his name changed.
Mu Linfeng said: "I wonder how many adults have sent this imperial edict from the emperor?"
Xiong Wencan couldn't help but feel a little surprised when he heard this, and asked quickly: "What does Mu Shuai mean? Why didn't Xiong understand at all?"
Mu Linfeng hurriedly said, "That's right. A few years ago, Lord Zhou Yanru and Lord Zhou also issued an imperial edict to Mu. This imperial edict is still in Mu's study!"
Xiong Wencan couldn't help but wonder, "Have Lord Zhou also been to Yangzhou?"
Seeing Xiong Wencan's strange expression, Mu Linfeng hurriedly said, "No, the strangest thing is that the imperial edict that Lord Xiong this week is exactly the same as the rope that Lord Xiong you read..."
Xiong Wencan's face changed immediately when he heard this, and then he said, "No word is wrong? How is this possible?"
Mu Linfeng looked at Xiong Wencan's expression and couldn't help but say in his heart: "It seems that Xiong Wencan really doesn't know about Zhou Yanru coming to Yangzhou to announce the imperial edict. What's going on when he fell to the ground?"
When Mu Linfeng thought of this, he immediately said to Xiong Wencan: "If Lord Xiong doesn't believe it, you can go to the study in the humble house. The imperial edict is still in the study room!"
Xiong Wencan waved his hand and said, "No, no, no, maybe the emperor really sent Lord Zhou and Xiong to read this imperial edict at the same time? He looked at each other and was worried that there would be any mistakes in this, so he made two consecutive decisions.
It means that the emperor still attaches great importance to Mu Shuai!"
Mu Linfeng heard Xiong Wencan say this, his doubts were even worse. If he said that Emperor Chongzhen was not full of food and had nothing to do, how could he send two ministers from the court to give one person two exact words.
What about the imperial edict? And it has been more than half a month, nearly a month.
Besides, Emperor Chongzhen could not have heard any news about Xuzhou, and Xiong Wencan's imperial edict was not mentioned at all. It is hard to make people not doubt it.
Thinking of this, Mu Linfeng turned to look at Xiong Wencan again, and couldn't help but smile and said, "Mr. Xiong, you are from the capital to Yangzhou, how can you go along the way?"