Chapter 758: Pillow
Imperial City, Lingwang Mansion.
Fighting back in a desperate situation, and really knocked a crack in the tight siege. Not only was he able to breathe, but he also had room to continue moving.
Although such a Jedi counterattack is beautiful, it is still far from completely getting rid of the current predicament.
Of course, Ling Wang's subordinates are now in full swing, and the morale gathered by the Jedi's counterattack is not a joke, it is the confidence to survive. However, how to reverse and escape from this situation needs to be done step by step carefully. The main thing is to continue to show your strength, and at the same time build momentum to suppress King Jing and throw the "weak" hat over.
The people below were full of energy, but Yang Shu didn't dare to relax at all. Even the follow-up counterattack from King Jing has arrived, especially at the local yamen in the imperial city. It is said that the impeachment of the chief officer for accepting donations has been reported to it, and Yang Shu's name was directly named in it, and Bai Changqing was also brainstormed. Also hugged in.
If reputation is the seven inches of King Jing, then Yang Shu's benchmark in the system is Bai Changqing. If Bai Changqing is slapped, then King Ling will not want to gain the approval of any big boss in the civil service group.
So for King Ling, although the situation has improved due to his Jedi counterattack, it is still very difficult, and it is hard to predict the future trend.
However, early this morning at the back door of King Ling's mansion, someone from the family hurried over and said that someone was looking for him. He lit up a wine jar and handed him a note, which said that the prince would see him when he saw the wine jar.
"Where's the person?" Yang Shu had just finished washing, and last night he discussed with several advisers under his command until midnight, and then slept for two hours. Now he was a little listless, and he relied on a pot of strong tea to refresh himself. Seeing his own personal guard coming to report, and the inexplicable touch of the familiar aroma of the jar of wine, he had a premonition of something.
"Go back to the lord, the visitor is waiting outside the back door. But Guanzhi is not a monk, just an ordinary person, with no distinctive appearance, and I don't know his identity, so he is just watched and not moved." The inner guard spoke carefully, not Dare to take the slightest initiative.
King Ling put down the wine jar, didn't drink it, threw it aside and said: "Let someone check if there is any problem with this wine, and then lead the man at the back door to my study. Remember, since they go through the back door, we have to be careful." After entering the mansion, cover it up for that person."
Others may not be able to smell this wine, but Yang Shu can. He even knows that it is the best Wuliangye brewed for two years, which is rare on the market just from the shape of the wine jar. As a drinker, Yang Shu was very persevering in being able to hold back the drink. At the same time, he guessed in his heart that the identity of the person he found might be related to the person behind the wine.
Yang Shu was not in a hurry, he went to have breakfast after washing up, and then slowly went to the study, where he saw two royal guards looking at a middle-aged man in simple clothes. All three stood and saluted when they saw Yang Shu come in. But the man just bowed his hands and did not speak.
"Why? Seeing this king, do you feel unworthy to let you greet me?"
"Wuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu" The man's expression was a little eager to explain, but he opened his mouth and made a noise while pointing his finger into his mouth.
"My lord, this man has no tongue, he is a mute." The inner guard at the side pinched the man's chin and looked carefully. There was only half an inch of tongue left inside, and the cut was neat. Although it had healed, it could be seen that it was cut. It fell off and was cut cleanly.
Yang Shu groaned, but didn't move over to look.
After sitting down, Yang Shu pointed to the jar of wine on the table and said, "The wine is not bad, but it's not easy to buy. I guess the surname Shen called you here?"
Hearing this, the man nodded without hesitation, and showed his Xuan Qingwei badge. Although his tongue was cut off, his ears and brain are fine. He was one of Wang Jian's guards, and his tongue was cut off by him after he failed to extract a confession during a mission. Wang Jian was trusted to send him to carry out this top-secret mission.
Seeing the other party nodding in acknowledgment, Yang Shu let go of his guard a bit.
The person surnamed Shen is Xuan Qingwei's celebrity, now he is talented and promoted to the fifth rank, standing firmly on the line between Jiang Cheng and Pang Ban, and belongs to a neutral force, so Yang Shu is not too worried about Shen Hao stumbling him.
But it's also very strange why Shen Hao would suddenly send him to look for him. It stands to reason that the Xuanqingwei family should just wait quietly and wait for the final outcome?
"Why did Shen call you a mute?"
The man took out a copper bar from his pocket, understood it very well, and didn't pass it directly to Yang Shu, but handed it to an inner guard of the royal family who had been pressing on his shoulder beside him, signaling the other party to check and hand it over.
The main task was to check whether there was anything strange and dangerous on the copper bars, and only after everything was correct did an inner guard present the things to Yang Shu.
There was no ban on the copper bar, so Yang Shu took it and unfolded it. After reading a few lines, he closed it and looked at the man in front of him playfully. He laughed and said, "The person surnamed Shen didn't say anything? Forget it, sending a dumb person like you here is already a statement."
With a wave of his hand, Yang Shu asked his subordinates to reward the man with a silver ticket of one hundred taels, and then dismissed him. Then he called several of his main advisers over. Afterwards, a cover-up circle was set up again in the study.
"It was sent by Xuan Qingwei's surname Shen just now, pass it on and have a look." Yang Shu picked up his teacup and took a sip with a smile on his face. I don't know if it's because of the strong tea or because of the happy event. He suddenly feels much more energetic.
Yang Shu had heard the saying before: Sleepiness meets pillows. I think this kind of thing is unlikely to happen in reality, because it is too coincidental, but now it really happened to him.
There are many contents in the copper bar, which are very detailed. It is no longer a simple document, but a very detailed case file, and it is the kind of file that has reached the closing standard. It contains analysis, deduction and key empirical evidence.
Why would someone surnamed Shen throw such a thing over? After reading the first few pages of the dossier, Yang Shu understood: it was just revenge.
The case itself was an assassination in the street last year by a person surnamed Shen, who was almost killed. At that time, the person surnamed Shen happened to have a relationship with King Shou. Many people suspected that King Shou wanted to kill the person surnamed Shen. After a thorough investigation, it was discovered that King Jing sent someone to do it. The purpose was just to take advantage of a little life surnamed Shen. Just pour dirty water on King Shou.
Judging from the situation at the time, King Jing's thinking should be very simple: it doesn't matter if you succeed or fail. It never occurred to him that someone could actually find out about him, and chose to hand it over to King Ling at such a wonderful time.
After a few counselors got together and quickly read it, their faces were all happy.
"My lord! This is a good thing! If we use it well, we can not only jump out of the predicament, but even completely reverse the direction of the wind, and turn King Jing into a desperate situation!"