Zhu Mian, who was also in the room, was puzzled: "Xiao Cai Xianggong, such a letter, such an important evidence, was so blatantly sent to you?" Xia Guan was stunned and didn't understand, what did he want to do with pork ping? ”

Cai Bian thought about it for a long time and said: "It proves that in this incident, Pork Ping doesn't want to stab in front of the emperor." So it's a political issue rather than a judicial one, and there is no need for evidence. Now that he can send the letter to the old man, there is only one explanation: all the court officials, including my brother Cai Jing, have studied the letter and approved it. Then the situation is basically set, and the general who is sent to me here, even if I protect Zheng Juzhong, it doesn't matter if I destroy the evidence. Once Zhongtang knows in his heart, Zheng Juzhong will be a dead man sooner or later, and they will do it when the emperor's last trace of old affection for Zheng Juzhong disappears. ”

Zhu Mian spread his hands and said: "But this is none of our business, this is his personal behavior in Zheng Juzhong." Although Lao Tzu is the enemy of pork leveling, he is not so good as to use this means. The personal grudge between Zheng Juzhong and Pork Ping was settled when he was sentenced to Jiangzhou. ”

"There is a saying among the people that it is called forcing Liangshan." Cai Bian said lightly: "The biggest problem now is that Zheng Juzhong seems to be from our faction, so his behavior almost kidnapped us collectively." No one can carry the pot of assassination as a courtier, we didn't participate, but poked it out, with the ability of pork to lead the rhythm, he definitely has a way to make the whole world feel that we are involved. ”

Zhu Mian was frightened, thinking of the Chai family incident that had just been washed in blood.

But then Zhu Mian smiled and said: "Fortunately, Pork Ping has concerns, and he doesn't dare to stab this kind of thing at the emperor's level, which will spoil the tone of my Great Song Dynasty's consistent preferential treatment of officials, and he Pork Ping himself will also suffer." So now the letter is in our hands, as long as we destroy the letter and don't respond, no one can do anything about us. ”

Cai Bian said coldly: "This is just an ideal of yours. Now that the entire middle hall has recognized this matter, he dares to send the letter openly, just waiting for us to respond. He killed 5,000 people in Jiangzhou that year, washed the Chai family in Cangzhou a while ago, and beat the Taoist priest in the capital strongly. He's clearly creating a rule that if you don't respond to him now, you're going to war without rules. Zhu Mian: Let me ask you, what do you think is protecting you now? The answer is rules. So do you want to go to war with pork in a no-regular situation? ”

Thinking of the Jiangzhou incident that year, thinking of the Chai family, and what happened to the Taoist priest in the capital, Zhu Mian couldn't help but shiver and didn't speak for a while.

Cai Bian said: "Politically, I am not afraid of pork ping, because politics has rules of the game, and he is also a person who is willing to play within the rules." Only after entering the military confrontation, 'soldiers do everything', for the time being, basically no one in the world wants to fight him in the sword field without rules. ”

Zhu Mian said in horror: "Xiao Cai Gong, do you think that he will use methods similar to the Chai family to scare us?" ”

Cai Bian started with his hands behind his back, and said with a tight brow: "To be honest, I don't know what he thinks, it is also a point of no return for him, and he does not have such an environmental soil on the basis of the politics of the Great Song Dynasty." ”

Zhu Mian breathed a sigh of relief.

But Cai Bian then sighed: "But he is a person who can make mistakes, he is young and dares to do it." As a minister, he has experienced two assassinations, and he has already touched the source, so no one knows what he will do next. Maybe he wasn't sure himself, so he waited for us to respond. ”

Zhu Mian's heart went up and down again. Theoretically, if Lao Tzu encounters this, he will really make a mistake, as long as he has the strength, kill first, kill and kill, and then talk about the future.

Cai Bian said lightly: "The variable is that people are likely to make mistakes when they encounter this kind of thing, so after losing political rules and entering a disorderly state, no one has good fruit to eat, and this is the reason why my brother hates this kind of thing the most." But Pork Ping is a mature politician, and it seems that he is still sane at the moment, just waiting for our response. So there are variables here, and we are faced with a choice. If we choose to keep Zheng in the center for the sake of the party flag, there is a certain probability that Pork Ping will retract and continue to do not violate the river water, because he is a mature politician. But there is also a probability that he will directly make a mistake and start a war with us in an irregular way like Zheng Juzhong. ”

"What if you give up Zheng Juzhong?" Zhu Mian said.

Cai Bian seemed to be a little older in an instant, and muttered: "The old man doesn't want to admit it, but in fact, if you give up Zheng Juzhong and shrink back, our banner will have no cohesion." Pork is ruthless, he knows that the person who assassinated him is not us, but he uses this incident to declare war with us. It's called being tied up, and a rat poop spoils a pot of soup. He is smart and smart, and he does not publicize Zheng Juzhong's treason, which not only preserves the national dignity and takes care of the emperor's feelings, but also makes the people of our faction unaware. The people below us don't know what happened to Zheng Juzhong, they will only know that when the pork level came to the door, I, Cai Bian, shrank my head just like Cai Jing at that time in the Jiangzhou incident, so they won't trust my banner. In fact, the decline of my brother Cai Jing began precisely because of Pork Ping's dispatch to the temple of the Son of Heaven. ”

Zhu Mian looked a little dizzy and said: "But Xiao Cai Xianggong, the lowly position is still unimaginable, this is just his pork ping's wishful thinking." Why don't we give up Zheng Juzhong on the one hand, and at the same time publish Zheng Juzhong's letters to the world, get rid of the relationship, and our faction will continue to work with him to level the well water and not violate the river water? ”

Cai Bian sneered: "Do you dare? If politics is announced, there will be chaos and no rules. Since there are no rules, do you think Pork Ping is a benevolent person? Will he still be with you in the well and not in the river? Lao Tzu pit him so much on the river, this time he is most likely framing and smearing with rhythm, saying that the southeast is independent, and then as if he sent troops to the temple of the Son of Heaven, he took his descendants into the southeast to finish the dirty work. ”

"Visually, he doesn't want to mess around more than anyone else, and he cares more about the interests of the Great Song Dynasty than anyone else, is it really possible?" Zhu Mian said.

After Cai Bian turned around and sat down, he took the third letter in his hand, shook it and said: "This is a handwritten letter he wrote to me, I don't have to say much about the details, all kinds of brain holes are taken for granted." But at the end of the letter, it is also his statement to General Xu: he will always leave, but he will definitely take away a wave of ghosts and gods, he can fail but the opponent will never win, at the extreme moment he will finish the dirty work, leaving a quiet world for those who are willing to work hard, he is destined to bear infamy, but he will not compromise softly. This is his belief in beheading hundreds of officers when he was just starting out, his belief in risking the battle at the Miaokou of the Son of Heaven, his belief in sacrificing the Hedong Army to win the national war, his belief in risking taboos to wash the Chai family with blood, and his belief that he did not hesitate to wrestle with the emperor and drive away Taoist priests. This is the Dark Knight's creed. ”

Zhu Mian thought about it in a cold sweat, tilted his head and said, "Then obviously, we were really threatened and blackmailed by robbers this time." ”

"It's been blackmailed." Cai Bian looked at the letter and said: "He admits that he is not bright, and he is strongly prepared to bear infamy." According to his past resume, he is a person who matches his words and deeds, which is unstoppable, you know? ”

Zhu Mian said: "This sounds like Xiao Cai Xianggong, you are already speaking from his point of view?" ”

Cai Bian smiled slightly, picked up three letters, lit them on the candle flame, looked at the firelight and muttered, "Because I'm also tired, I'm also old." Now it seems that the world is really going to change, believe me, this time is not the past, it is real. At the beginning, Wang Anshi was almost unstoppable in the limelight, and he was obviously much stronger than Wang Anshi, and even more undeniable than Wang Anshi. After the Taoist priest failed to enter Beijing, we lost the last bargaining chip, and finally angered Pork Ping. His letter made the old man feel his determination. He is young, he doesn't like the spring breeze, he doesn't get annoyed when he sees the summer cicadas, he doesn't feel sad when he sees the autumn wind, and he doesn't sigh when he looks at the winter snow. He is not a Wenqing, he is a do-it-all cool official who can do dirty work, and now that he has to leave Beijing, the old man believes that he really has the faith to take away a wave of people to protect this great Song Liming that he single-handedly killed. ”

Seeing that he actually burned the handwritten letter of Pork Ping threatening the important members of the imperial court, Zhu Mian was very anxious, and walked around and said: "Ming Mansion, how can you burn such an important impeachment evidence." ”

Cai Bian smiled bitterly: "If it is not burned, you dare to take it into Beijing to impeach him with this question?" Do you think it's too long? When he was so angry, under his character of marching west with 20,000 recruits to fight and burying hundreds of thousands of people in Western Xia with his own hands, do you really think he would not dare to lead troops into the southeast to do dirty work? ”

Zhu Mian still didn't understand his thoughts: "He is simply breaking the rules, it is a bandit!" ”

"Yes, it's a robber, just like Brother Cha came in when he was handsome and 400,000 iron horsemen, but what can you do? The rules are always made by the strongest people. Cai Bian said coldly, "Now that almost all of the elites of my Great Song Dynasty can fight were brought out by him, and now that the emperor trusts him so much, he has shamelessly declared that he is a robber and recently declared war on us and others in advance, do you really plan to go to the egg to touch the stone?" ”

After Zhu Mian's face changed several times, he finally stopped talking.

Cai Bian looked out the window with his hands behind his back and said: "After all, my brother is more sophisticated, he is the first to understand the unstoppable nature of pork flat and the source of the right of pork flat." Even in the early days, I only saw his domineering and domineering, but ignored his fortitude and hard work off the stage. Everyone always thinks that he is a courtier who slaps horses, does what he likes, and is lucky to get to the top. In fact, when we are all laughing at him for not learning and not knowing, and laughing at him for being young and ignorant and only getting into trouble, he is constantly relying on doing things and killing people, proving that the era of pork is coming. ”

After a pause, Cai Bian instantly aged a few years old, and muttered: "At the beginning of the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, there has always been a voice saying that Zhao and Song were not righteous, so that many problems of official governance could not be straightened out. But no one knew what was going on. And now the old man finally understands that the right is the same as the dynasty, the source is divided into positive and unjust, and the right obtained by killing and confrontation is the most stable and difficult to subvert. My brother Cai Jing was the first to understand this, and I now understand why he has the confidence to threaten and blackmail us. Maybe this is our last chance to compromise. ”

"If you miss it, will you really die?" Zhu Mian confirmed again.

"Yes." Cai Bian nodded, "When he knew Jiangzhou, his prestige in the army was still limited, and his military power was taken away by the imperial court, so he secretly entered Suzhou and kidnapped Liu Zhengfu's old miscellaneous hair, which offended the Empress Dowager Liu in the court, but he cleverly used my brother Cai Jing to resolve it." ”

"Compromise requires a vote, saying that we will not turn back, so how to show favor to him now?" Zhu Mian said.

Cai Bian said coldly: "Obviously, if he can't kill Zheng Juzhong, we have to help him kill Zheng Juzhong, so that there is room for compromise, this is our way and his condition." ”

Zhu Mian was depressed for a while, there is absolutely no problem in betraying Zheng Juzhong, I care about his old Zheng's life or death. It's just that it's not good to blackmail and compromise hooligans, and we are like facing the big people of the underworld, and we can't sue even if we know that he is wrong. Because Cai Bian said that Pork Ping's prestige is too high now, and the official family trusts him too much. So in this matter, the Shangguan family is the county government, and the pork flat is to settle the gang leaders in the county, and the Lao Tzu has really become a big-headed poor man who has no way to sue.

Once upon a time, Lao Tzu was as young as his pork flat, and he was full of wealth and wealth, why didn't he have such a mind? Once upon a time, the young Lao Tzu was also full of ideals like him, and vowed to use his knowledge to make a career. But why did after entering the big dye vat of officialdom, life changed and corrupted as soon as life was better?

With the addition of official robes, the mentality above the people was dizzy, as if they had smoked opium. Dream? Mommy has long forgotten what it is. Since where he started, the bookish mind of his youth has become another kind of obsession, obsessed with promotion, currying favor with superiors, and collecting wealth for bribery in order to keep his hard-won future.

Cai Bian and Zhu Mian sat opposite each other in silence now, the two looked at each other and made the same thoughts. It's a little funny that looking at the current pork flat, it reminds them of the young and enthusiastic self when they were just out.

The only difference is that Pork Ping walked out of his own bloody path under the bruises, stepping on the white bones under his feet, approaching the peak, and about to form his dynasty. In the face of difficulties, Lao Tzu retreated, and at first went with the flow, and gradually transitioned to the same stream, and then could not be alone, and there was no backbone of his own.

There are two kinds of rights and states, justice and injustice. This is what Xiao Cai Xianggong said.

Compromise and compromise, get used to it, forget what the fight is, and can't straighten up your waist, so now the hooligan who claims to be the Dark Knight has come to the door in advance to blackmail, threatening to take a wave to hell.

He may be bluffing, but as a cavalryman who breaks through all barriers, he has now put on armor under countless baptisms, and he is about to wake up, and he already has the prestige and capital of a soldier who surrenders without a fight.

So in the blackmail he faced this time, Xiao Cai Xianggong, like the corrupt compromise in the early days of his official career, chose to back down and go with the flow, rather than fighting like a knight......