Chapter 1149: Broken Palm
When he arrived at the door of the small living room of the inner house, Liu Guojin came out and asked Yao Zongwen to change into his casual robe.
Yao Zongwen was wearing a serious robe for going out to visit guests. Of course, he was not very comfortable. He was not polite. After a few words, he loosened his big clothes and changed into a round-necked robe for home furnishings. He entered the house and sat opposite Liu Guojin. There was a small table in front of both of them, with various kinds of wine and food on it. Several local dishes that Yao Zongwen brought back from Liaodong, including the white fish that he wanted to eat.
Liu Guojin still adhered to the tradition of Han officials and used separate meals to treat guests to dinner. Both of them had a set of dishes, which were arranged on a table, and the wine was also kept in a silver pot in a thermos.
"I'm drinking southern wine." Liu Guojin said: "Although it's hot, it's better to warm it up so as not to hurt your stomach."
"I love drinking hot southern wine." Yao Zongwen smiled and said, "I was originally from Zhejiang. The rice wine tastes sweet and hot but not as violent as the wine, which is very good."
In fact, it was not different from the north and south at that time. The scholars and officials drank more yellow wine, and few people drank soy wine. After all, the scholars and officials should pay attention to Yongrong’s reserve. They tried their best to drink until they were speechless and even made many ugly things like later generations. That would be too embarrassing. At this time, the drinks were also literary gatherings, and most of them had to be divided into rhymes and poems or couplets. If they were confused, how could they do these elegant things?
However, there is no outsider in the Liu family today, so Yao Zongwen is not polite, drinking and picking up food and having a feast.
After drinking for several rounds, Yao Zongwen said to Liu Guojin: "The old senior asked the students to come, must there be something important?"
Liu Guojin felt a little sad. Yao Zongwen deliberately ate and drank in person, and finally asked perfunctorily what to do. Of course, it was unimaginable before that. If the two were allies, they would discuss everything and make decisions together. After several years, they were about to retire. Although they were still in contact with each other, they were also the deputy envoy of the inspector, but the person in front of them no longer took him seriously.
"This matter is also related to Brother Yao." Liu Guojin deliberately narrowed the distance between the two, and Yao Zongwen frowned unconsciously when he heard this.
"Where, this is the five thousand taels I gave me," Liu Guojin explained the reason in detail, and pointed to the things of the area, saying: "This is a dozen gold watches with excellent texture and materials. This thing has become popular in the capital recently, and it is hard to find a thousand gold coins. In addition, the 20,000 yuan account tickets are equivalent to cash in cash, saying that they are for my own control. Brother Yao is in person, so of course I will give five thousand taels too."
Yao Zongwen waved his hand and said, "Are you confused? How can you do this? The student just joined the Wei official and changed hands to deal with his people and disrupted the situation. That's really a god and I can't save me."
This is true. If Yao Zongwen had never surrendered, he would resign after he was so evil that Wei Yan would not have done anything. Ordinary officials were not Zuo Guangdou and others, and Wei Zhongxian might not have to kill them all, but Yao Zongwen was different. Yao Zongwen had already submitted a very solid letter of surrender in Liu He's defeat, and turned his head and turned his back to help outsiders deal with the eunuch party. He would definitely kill them all no matter which sect the boss of such a slander. It is impossible to forgive and forgive.
"You think I didn't refuse?" Liu Guojin smiled bitterly, pointed to the table, and said, "You can tell if you look."
Yao Zongwen passed by in confusion and glanced at him, first sneering disdain, then stunned.
There was an account on the table first, which was a detailed account of Liu Guojin and Yao Zongwen who had a personal pocket and allocated 200,000 yuan from the Ministry of Revenue. Not only did they receive the silver, how much money they spent, how many people they recruited, and how many people they recruited, and then disbanded the money to the ministers in the court. Each of them was quite detailed.
Then there are the various benefits that the two colluded with the Liaoxi generals and the various collusion.
Yao Zongwen sneered at first. If these accounts were used on ordinary officials, of course they would not die anymore. However, they might not work on him. It just made him a little scared. He Ji's surveillance on them was really to the point of being meticulous. It was hard to imagine how many people He Ji had placed around them.
However, Yao Zongwen was not afraid. He sneered: "Senior, are you afraid? Don't worry, the student will go back to visit Eunuch Wei and say hello to him in advance. Even if someone uses this to deal with us, Eunuch Wei can keep us fine."
"Oh, of course it's not just that." Liu Guojin said with a blank face: "This thing and a dagger appeared on my study table in the middle of the night. The next morning the maid found out when she was cleaning it, and she was frightened at that time."
"Uh..." Yao Zongwen was also a little surprised and frightened. Liu Guojin was a martial artist and had the status of a deputy envoy of training, so he had more than a dozen or twenty servants around him. After returning to the capital, he also brought these inner fellows to guard the door of the mansion. It was impossible for Liu's mansion to join the ordinary thief, so he sent their account book and a dagger to the table in the inner study room. There were too many things contained therein.
"Anyway, don't panic first." Yao Zongwen said: "Don't meet people randomly, don't be honest. Let's wait until I see Eunuch Wei before talking."
Liu Guojin also knew that Yao Zongwen's confidence was that he had joined the eunuch party camp and had a relatively core position. Of course, he was a little worse than Gu Bingqian, Wei Guangwei, Xu Dahua and others, but he was also touching the core side. With this relationship, Yao Zongwen's confidence was of course much. This incident in front of him scared Liu Guojin to death, but Yao Zongwen could still remain quite calm.
After leaving the Liu Mansion, Yao Zongwen's wine and food had turned into cold sweats. The more he thought about it, the more he became, the more he became more and more afraid. Hutchison's methods were emerging one after another. He and Senior Liu were involved in it like a net. In the past two years, they have also done some things for Hutchison. Of course, they have benefited more, but they never expected that there would be such a threat. I remember that I had heard that Hutchison Zhang Han had a group of subordinates who specialized in private affairs. It seemed that the rumors were true, and today they were called to meet him.
However, Yao Zongwen still cheered up for him. No matter how powerful Zhang Han's people are, can they compare with the Jinyiwei Banner School? As long as Eunuch Wei is willing to send some foreign flag schools to protect him, he will always have no worries about his life. Senior Liu can also explain it. The key is that the account matter cannot be caused... Thinking of this, Yao Zongwen suddenly felt a little upset. If he was Eunuch Wei, the person who just took the opportunity to come over with such a lot of trouble, I'm afraid he would feel unhappy?
He hurried back to his mansion in a carriage. Yao Zongwen immediately sent someone to the Wei Mansion to inquire about it to see when Eunuch Wei will live in the mansion in the past two days. He already has the right to go directly to the Wei Mansion to ask for a meeting. However, it is only when Wei Zhongxian stays in the mansion. Wei Zhongxian lives in the palace for half of the time and half of the time. There is no certain rules on time, so he has to ask clearly before talking about it.
After asking his servant to make a cup of tea, Yao Zongwen felt that his heart was throbbing, and he had many conspiracies and tricks. He cooperated with Liu Guojin to go all out in the court. He could play any party, Zhejiang Party, then Donglin, and then the eunuch Party. However, this kind of naked spy method was really the first time I saw this. For a time, many rumors about the Jinyiwei during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty were rushing into his mind. This kind of scaring himself became more and more scary. Yao Zongwen had lost his composure at Liu Guojin, and his hands holding the teacup were trembling slightly.
"Hey, what is this?" After a long time, Yao Zongwen calmed down and turned around and jumped up again.
On the desk behind him, there were a lot of things.
After Yao Zongwen approached, a strong smell of blood came to his face.
He opened the cloth bag tremblingly, and couldn't help but say "ah".
A man's palm was wrapped in cloth, and a copper cigarette pipe was placed next to it.
Yao Zongwen didn't understand the meaning at first, and only felt scared. After a while, he remembered that Neiding, who had been hiding from Liuhe, usually had such a copper cigarette pot bag on his waist.
Now it seems that this palm must be the one of Needin.
Yao Zongwen carefully searched and picked up the items, but there were no letters or other items. There was only one palm and a smoke pot on the table in front of him.
The man was hidden in Zunhua. Yao Zongwen suddenly understood. During the day when he and Liu Guojin were preparing to drink together, and at night they discussed reporting to Wei Zhongxian, they ran to Zunhua to search for his Needine, cut off his palm and sent it over. During this period, the manpower to mobilize, the intelligence ability to be displayed, the decisiveness of taking action and the confidence to accomplish things were all expressed under the broken palm in front of him.
The incision of the broken palm is quite flat and almost smooth, even the bones are the same, and there are still remaining blood beads on the pale bones, which looks really shocking.
Yao Zongwen could hardly hold on and had to support the table with both hands so that he would not fall to the ground.
Only then did he realize that the abilities he had always been proud of were simply jokes under absolute power, but were nothing more than some conspiracy and power activities, including sending people to the other side of the Liuhe River. He thought it was secret and natural, but in the eyes of others, he was already aware of the fire.
This matter is no more than embezzling some military pay. Wei Zhongxian can suppress it. If this matter is exposed, Yao Zongwen will be ruined immediately and anyone will cut off him, especially the eunuch party. In order to cover it up, Wei Zhongxian will make the most fair and strict attitude. Yao Zongwen will be arrested immediately and then tortured to death. There will never be a second possibility.
Thinking of this, Yao Zongwen was soaked in sweat and couldn't help but tremble.
At this time, Changsui, who might have heard the movement outside, slammed the door and asked, "Master, is something wrong?"
"No." Yao Zongwen answered hoarsely, and then asked back: "Who is there anyone coming to my study today?"
"Only Mei Xiang came in to clean it. The villain remembered that the master told me that he would not let anyone come into the study at will."
"Oh, that's fine."
Yao Zongwen stood with the table for another quarter of an hour. It felt like it had been a long time since his body calmed down. He moved the table over and sat down slowly.
Chapter completed!