To be honest, Shen Yi himself felt a little surprised when he saw this secret letter from the emperor.
Because the meaning at the end of this letter is to let Shen Yi decide when to officially launch the Northern Expedition.
This is very problematic.
Because according to the logic of this era, the person who makes the decision should always be the emperor, but now, the emperor actually handed over the decision-making power to Shen Yi.
It's a bit inconsistent with the ethics of a monarch and his ministers.
But when you think about it again, it’s not so strange.
After all, it is impossible for Shen Yi to show private letters to others, and it is impossible for the emperor to show the contents of the letters to others. In fact, although Mr. Shen is the one who makes the decision, when the time comes to go through the process, Shen Yi still has to submit a letter to ask for it. The emperor nodded.
Thinking of this, Shen Yi took out the candle light from the side, then lit the letter, stood up and threw the letter into the brazier in the study.
The brazier is one of Shen Yi's essential office tools, because he needs to burn a lot of things on a daily basis.
Master Shen quietly watched the letter paper in front of him burn into ashes, then returned to his seat, looked at Lin Sheng, and said: "I will reply to His Majesty right now, and you will have my letter delivered by courier later." Go back to Jiankang."
Lin Sheng lowered his head and said yes, then stood by the table with great discernment, poured some water into the inkstone, picked up the ink stick and started to grind Shen Yi's ink.
Shen Yi raised his head and glanced at him, but did not stop him. He sat in his seat, thought about the words for a while, and then started to write a reply to the emperor.
This letter is not difficult to write, because Shen Yi's work is proceeding step by step and in an orderly manner.
So far, Xuzhou City has at least cost the Qi army more than 20,000 people, which is only about half of the goal of 50,000 people that Shen Yi set for himself.
And this was just a goal he had set for himself. For the imperial court, his capture of Xuzhou was already a great achievement. Even if he started the Northern Expedition now, it would be reasonable.
Therefore, Shen Yi only needs to report the current situation and progress to the emperor, and then write a rough plan for the future to the emperor, and then everything is settled.
Mr. Shen is very good at writing plans.
So far, he has drawn... well, written too many plans for His Majesty the Emperor, and basically all of them have been realized.
This letter took almost half an hour for Mr. Shen to finish. After finishing writing, Shen Yi read it from beginning to end to make sure that he had not said anything wrong and that he had avoided the imperial taboo, and then he dried the ink. , sealed into an envelope.
This is a good habit of Jinshi.
If you don't avoid taboos during the exam, it will be nothing more than being deprived of the qualification to take the exam. If you still write wrong words when you become an official, your future may be lost.
Although Mr. Shen's current status will not lead to his downfall due to taboo avoidance, no one can say whether it will become a lever.
After packing up his letter and sealing it with fire paint, Shen Yi handed it to Lin Sheng beside him and said, "Send it out as soon as possible, be cautious."
Lin Sheng lowered his head and said, "I understand."
Just as he was about to turn around and leave, Shen Yi asked casually: "Have the family affairs been settled?"
Lin Sheng stopped, looked back at Shen Yi, and lowered his head.
"Si Zheng is not suspicious of this subordinate..."
Shen Yi was stunned for a moment, and then he laughed dumbly: "You are thinking too much. If you are instigated by Qi people to rebel, Xuzhou City will be impossible to take down. Qi people can clearly distinguish the importance of a high-level official of the Di Reporting Department and a Xuzhou City official. of."
If before the fall of Xuzhou City, Shen Yi had some doubts about Lin Sheng, but after the fall of Xuzhou City, this suspicion completely disappeared.
Because it's illogical.
By now, the possibility of anyone in Xuzhou city betraying Da Chen is higher than Lin Sheng, including Shen Yi himself.
Mr. Shen patted his shoulder and said softly: "I heard that your little wife is half of Zhu Lizhen's blood. Zhu Lizhen women are not as gentle as our Han women, and most of them have not married and followed their husbands. I I'm afraid that one day, you will be injured in the hands of that woman."
Mr. Shen said it a bit euphemistically. To be precise, he was worried about Lin Sheng's death at the hands of that barbarian woman.
Lin Sheng was silent for a while and whispered: "When I go back today, I will make it clear to her."
Mr. Shen nodded and said, "How many people will you take home?"
Lin Sheng shook his head: "It's not a problem, my subordinates can handle it."
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"lady."
In a large house in Xuzhou Prefecture, Lin Sheng, who had just returned from outside, returned home carrying two pieces of bacon.
At this time, the most lacking thing in Xuzhou city was meat, so bacon and the like became a rarity. He waved the bacon in his hand in front of his newlywed wife and said with a smile: "It's so easy to get it. I can get it today." See a bloody fish."
The young woman is only 18 or 19 years old. Her maiden name is Zhang, which is a Chinese version of Zhu Lizhen's surname. Her father is Zhu Lizhen, and her mother is the sister of Pan Mao, the prefect of Xuzhou. She is Han Chinese.
However, her father's family is not prominent and is inconspicuous among Zhu Li. The Pan family only entered into such a marriage in order to get married to Zhu Li.
The Zhang family has not made much progress until now, so she followed her uncle Pan Mao's instructions and married the wealthy businessman Shen Ping.
In the Northern Qi Dynasty, this was regarded as "downward marriage", because few Zhu Lizhen women married Han people.
Her original name was Cuirong, and she became Shen Zhang after she got married.
After seeing the bacon, the young woman quickly stepped forward to take it, hugged her husband, and said with a smile: "My husband is still capable. I heard that a pound of meat in the city can be exchanged for several taels of silver, and Even if you have money, you may not be able to buy it.”
Lin Sheng, or Shen Ping, is a high-ranking official in Xuzhou City. His family has a big business. Originally, there were many servants in the family. However, as the Huai'an army entered the city, many servants in the family dispersed. Now there are only Four or five people are at the house.
The young woman was in a good mood. She took the bacon and cooked a few dishes herself. Then she served Lin Sheng a meal. The young couple sat on both sides of a small table.
"I don't know when these southerners will be able to leave Xuzhou. In the past few months, people in the city have been panicked and there is no peace."
Lin Sheng took a bite of food, hesitated for a moment, and then whispered: "Chen Jun is here, there is nothing wrong with it, I am a Han Chinese..."
"And now, food in the city is sold cheaper than before."
Shen Zhang glanced at her husband and whispered: "Didn't they steal all the food? Most of them were from my uncle, and some were from our family. Now they use it to pretend to be good people and win people's hearts. …”
"Also, it has been almost seventy years since the founding of Daqi... Does it really matter if we are Han or Zhu Li?"
Lin Sheng...or should be said to be member Shen, silently put down the bowls and chopsticks in his hands, raised his head and looked directly at his wife who had just passed the door, and finally gathered up the courage.
"I'm... not from Xuzhou."
The young woman almost screamed: "Stop talking!"
Obviously, she had already noticed it.
Because all Zhu Lizhen's homes in the city have been raided by Chen Guo's army, except for their home, no one has visited or paid any attention to it.
After finally speaking out the words buried in his heart, Member Shen clenched his fists and whispered: "I am from Chen Guojiankang."
Shen Zhang clenched the chopsticks in her hand tightly.
Lin Sheng looked up at her and said silently: "After the things here are over, I will take you back to Jiankang, away from the battlefield, and then we will go to the south of the Yangtze River to find a place with beautiful mountains and clear waters, and live a good life..."
Shen Zhang lowered his head to eat silently. After finishing the meal, he returned to the room silently without saying a word.
Lin Sheng lowered his head, and after eating a few mouthfuls of food, he returned to the room. After looking at Shen Zhang, who was sleeping with his back to him, he took a deep breath, lay down next to his newlywed wife, and closed his eyes. Eye.
"I am in Jiankang and have a wife..."
He closed his eyes, not daring to look at his wife next to him.
But he told everything that needed to be said.
At this moment, Lin Sheng already wanted to die...
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The next day, the Qi people were still attacking the city, and Mr. Shen was working at Zhizhou Yamen as usual.
However, after not seeing Lin Sheng all morning, Shen Yi felt something was wrong, so he took people to Lin Sheng's residence.
When Shen Yi arrived, Lin Sheng was sitting on the threshold, his hair disheveled, and he looked extremely haggard.
Shen Yi frowned, sat next to him, and said, "What's wrong?"
Lin Sheng raised his head and looked at Shen Yi. After being silent for a while, he said, "I told her last night."
"I lay down next to her."
Lin Sheng felt a little painful: "I thought that when I fell asleep, she would kill me with one knife and that would be the end of the matter."
"When I woke up the next day, there were daggers and scissors beside my pillow, but she was the only one missing..."
At this point, he stopped talking and lowered his head with tears streaming down his face.
Shen Yi was shocked, stood up suddenly, and ran towards the main hall of the Lin family.
As soon as he opened the door, Shen Yi's pupils trembled.
On the beam, a piece of white silk hangs down.
A slightly thin woman hanged from the beam, but her expression was quiet, as if she was relieved.
Seeing this, Shen Yi felt that the back of his spine was numb!
He froze in place and did not move for a long time.
After an unknown amount of time, he returned to Lin Sheng and sat down.
"Brother Yankang, this is definitely not my intention. I am worried that after you take her back to Jiankang, she will find out sooner or later..."
"I never thought that she..."
At this point, Shen Yi couldn't continue.
Lin Sheng's body was trembling a little: "Sizheng, I can no longer report to the Secretary in the residence..."
Shen Yi nodded to express his understanding. He took a deep breath and swallowed hard.
"I will recommend you to the imperial court. First go to the south and serve as county magistrate for a few years..."
"In a few years, I will look for an opportunity to promote you to the position of prefect."
Lin Sheng covered his face with his hands and said nothing.
Shen Yi stood up and looked up at the woman who seemed to be swaying in the wind.
Some people in this era, like people in another world, seek advantages and avoid disadvantages.
But another person in this world seems completely different from that world...
Even beyond his knowledge...
At this moment, Shen Yi didn't know if he had done anything wrong.
He stood there alone for a long time. After an unknown amount of time, he spoke in a hoarse voice.
"A generous burial..."
I have been deleting, deleting, and revising this chapter for a long time. I don’t even know if I should post it, because the protagonists on the Internet are usually omniscient and omnipotent and will not make mistakes. However, at this point in the plot, Lin Sheng’s new wife must have an ending. Zuo Siyou Thinking about it, if you extrapolate further, it seems that this can only be the case.
From Shen Yi's point of view, it is not wrong for him, the newspaper chief, to want to avoid risks.
From Shen Zhang's perspective, it seemed that she could only go so far.
As a result, things became difficult to deal with.
I have been thinking about this chapter for a long time. If you have any opinions, please leave them in the comments. If you don’t think it’s good, I can consider revising it...
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