roccoschili Chapter 206 The evidence is conclusive
Chapter 206 The evidence is conclusive
Several people entered the house and after telling the story, their eyes were filled with tears again.
Ever since Ye Jinxuan received Jinchu's letter last year and made up his mind to join the Dingbei Palace, he began to change slowly.
Only when a person is filled with hatred and has no goals will he rush forward recklessly. Once he knows that he has a chance to take revenge, Ye Jinxuan will naturally no longer act rashly without considering the consequences.
In the past few years, he had fought bravely and courageously against the enemy, and he had earned some merit and been promoted. He also had a few brothers in the army who had fought for him and had made their lives with him. These brothers had also been promoted to the positions of centurions and even thousand-man commanders.
Therefore, as long as someone was willing to inquire, Ye Jinxuan would be able to find out quickly if there was any movement in the army.
Hard work pays off. After lying dormant for more than half a year, Ye Jinxuan finally found the correspondence between Chen Tianyao, the current commander of the Northwest Army and his father's close subordinate, and Li Ge Lao, the chief minister of the cabinet.
Two of them worked together to fabricate charges, collude with foreign nations, and even did not hesitate to cause heavy losses to the Northwest Army in order to frame Wu'an Hou Ye Shengpei. In the end, more than one hundred people in the Wu'an Hou Mansion were wrongly convicted and their entire family was executed, resulting in a tragic end.
Now, Ye Jinxuan actually got this iron-clad evidence. If the Dingbei Palace aspires to take over the Dragon Court in the future, the injustice of his Ye family will have a chance to be made public to the world.
With the help of the Prince of Dingbei, he once again went to lobby Liu Zhongquan, another capable subordinate of his father. Liu Zhongquan did not believe that General Ye had collaborated with the enemy and betrayed the country, so he had been secretly looking for the whole story of the heavy losses suffered by the Northwest Army.
Moreover, after Chen Tianyao took charge of the Northwest Army, his style of doing things was completely different from that of the previous Wu'an Hou Ye Shengpei.
Perhaps he was worried about repeating the same mistake as Marquis Wu'an, who had underestimated the enemy and recklessly advanced, or perhaps he was concerned for his own life, but Chen Tianyao only cared about making Floating Cloud City an impenetrable barrier. Whenever the Western Rong invaded, he simply closed the city and defended, never actively pursuing them.
This made the officers and soldiers of the Northwest Army very angry, and they just wanted to launch a thorough offensive.
Unfortunately, Chen Tianyao remained unmoved and continued to implement his own retreat plan, thinking that the Floating Cloud City he built could withstand a million-strong army.
However, unexpectedly, just last winter, the Western Rong people disguised themselves as border residents and tried to sneak into Fuyun City. It happened that one day, a concubine of Chen Tianyao's eldest son gave birth to a child, and everyone went to join in the fun and drink the full moon wine. The defense of the city gate was very lax, and the Western Rong people took advantage of the situation to enter Fuyun City.
That night, they cooperated internally and externally to allow the Western Rong people to break into Fuyun City. Chen Tianyao then hurriedly fought back. The Western Rong people looted and fled, but the Jin Dynasty suffered heavy losses. For a time, the people and soldiers all complained and secretly called General Chen a coward.
The fact that Chen Tianyao had suffered a defeat and that the Western Rong people had infiltrated Fuyun City could not be concealed. When the news reached the capital, the old emperor harshly rebuked him. Naturally, the civil officials headed by Li Ge Lao also spoke harshly to him.
After Chen Tianyao learned about this, he cursed Li Wenyan for being hypocritical, cunning and pretentious. In anger, he wrote a letter on the spot, accusing Li Wenyan of protecting him in every way when he had tried to win him over to frame Ye Shengpei a few years ago, but now he wanted to kill him before he had even finished his work.
Not only did he not try to comfort himself in front of the old emperor, but he also took advantage of his misfortune and turned around to scold him as a person in a higher position.
If he disregards the past friendship like this, then don't blame Chen Tianyao for turning against him!
In short, this dog-eat-dog letter was extremely important evidence, and the angry Chen Tianyao sent someone to send it to the capital to threaten his former teammate Li Wenyan.
However, as soon as the messenger left Fuyun City, he was intercepted secretly by people planted by the Prince of Dingbei who had been prepared in advance. The letter was replaced with another one with different content and sent to the capital.
When Lord Li in the capital saw the letter, which was addressed to Chen Tianyao but was actually carefully prepared by the Prince of Dingbei, he was so angry that he threw the fine Duan inkstone at hand on the spot.
Soon after, the old emperor fell ill, and the princes competed for the throne. Lord Li was busy monopolizing power and eliminating dissidents. For a while, he had no time to care about General Chen who was far away in Fuyun City in the northwest.
Ye Jinxuan took the intercepted letter and went to find Liu Zhongquan again. He told him the truth that he had collected. Liu Zhongquan immediately flew into a rage and cursed Chen Tianyao as an ungrateful, sinister and despicable villain.
Because Liu Zhongquan was good at fighting and was highly regarded by General Ye Shengpei, the Marquis of Wu'an, Chen Tianyao had long harbored resentment against him.
Ever since Chen Tianyao framed the Ye family a few years ago and assumed command of the Northwest, knowing Liu Zhongquan's abilities, he had been severely punished and even demoted him by two ranks. Unwilling to resign, he continued to suppress him, both overtly and covertly, leaving Liu Zhongquan with a deeply frustrated life these past few years.
A lean camel is bigger than a horse, and a higher-ranking official can crush others to death!
Ye Jinxuan knew very well that even Chen Tianyao, who did not have the emperor's favor at the moment, was far from being a contender for by the weak Liu Zhongquan.
Therefore, he did not ask Liu Zhongquan and Chen Tianyao to break up directly, but only asked Liu Zhongquan that if King Dingbei rebelled and overthrew Chen Tianyao one day in the future, he hoped that he could stand up and bear witness for the old Shangguan Ye Shengpei who was wrongly accused and for the more than 100 members of the Ye family who died unjustly.
If the Dingbei Palace succeeds, it will be the future emperor. If the emperor is willing to clear the Ye family's name, Liu Zhongquan will be more than happy to do so. How could he refuse to testify for his old superior who has spent half his life in the military!
After these things were settled, most of the burden on Ye Jinxuan's shoulders was lifted. He just stayed quietly in the Northwest Army waiting for the Prince of Dingbei to send him. He just waited for the situation in Dajin to change and the Dingbei Palace to take advantage of the situation to clear the grievances of his Ye family.
I thought I would have to hold on in the Northwest Army for another two or three years, but unexpectedly, when I met the spy lurking in the Northwest Army from the Prince of Dingbei in early July, I received a handwritten letter from the Prince of Dingbei.
The letter said that the current emperor was in a coma and the court was in chaos. Ye Jinxuan had also obtained evidence in the Northwest Army that Chen Tianyao and Li Wenyan had colluded with foreign countries to frame Wu'an Hou a few years ago. There was really no need for him to stay in the Northwest Army and serve Chen Tianyao.
The prince said that he had been separated from Jinchu and Zhao'er for several years, and the siblings from Youyun City were very concerned about their brother. The prince and Jinchu's wedding was set for August 18th, Jinchu's big day. If she could see her brother on the wedding day, she would probably feel less regretful.
Moreover, the northern border is short of manpower. If Third Brother is willing, please leave Fuyun City as soon as possible and go to Youyun City.
After considering it for two days, Ye Jinxuan agreed to the prince's proposal.
With the cooperation of his good friends and Liu Zhongquan, during a small-scale close combat with the Xirong people more than half a month later, Ye Jinxuan was careless and hit by the enemy's poisoned arrow, and unfortunately died a few days later.
Another seven or eight days passed, and Ye Jinxuan, who had escaped, arrived at Youyun City alone in disguise.
This is why the Prince of Dingbei personally brought him to see his younger brother and sister-in-law tonight.
After hearing his third brother's light-hearted description of the hardships and dangers of the past few years, Jin Chu felt both happy and pity in his heart, and couldn't help but shed tears again and again.
Seeing Jin Chu's eyes filled with tears several times, Su Cheng'an felt very distressed, so he changed the subject and talked about his and Jin Chu's wedding date. Everyone became happy again and began to look forward to it, gradually forgetting the sad memories from before.