Lin'an Never Night

Chapter 395 I Can Speak Foreign Languages ​​(Additional chapter for JJM leader)

Yang Yuan was not too worried about how to become a "general".

Of course, he could not use the same approach to Zhao Gou as he did to Qin Hui.

His "shield" is going back to Japan today, and Zhao Gou is now hiding in the palace and cannot come out.

But Yang Yuan still has too many mines in his hands.

Qin Hui is only dead now, but his reputation is still intact, at least officially.

Therefore, Yang Yuan reserved a backup plan and prepared to release it bit by bit.

Since Zhao Gou was lucky enough to survive, these thunders could become his opportunity to get close to Zhao Gou.

Before this, Yang Yuan tried hard to stay out of it and not let him have any part in the assassination.

From now on, he has to actively get involved and stir up this muddy water. Only when he is noticed by the big shots will he have a chance.

Yang Yuan went to Bafu Hall immediately.

In the Bafu Hall, Zheng Yuandong was explaining things to the eight imperial officials with a stern look on his face.

Such a big thing happened in the court. Although the Privy Council is not responsible for investigating this matter, we still have to be more cautious.

There were eight rooms in the mechanical department, eight officials in charge of imperial orders, six men and two women, all standing in silence listening to the instructions, and the atmosphere was solemn.

"It's urgent. No time to lose!"

"Yang Wugong, you can't come in... Hey!"

Following a brief negotiation outside the door, the door of the signing room was knocked open with a "bang".

A person fell in, slid a long way on the smooth ground, and almost fell under Fei Yuye's skirt.

Fei Yuye was not hesitant either. She kicked the man away.

But her eyes were a step faster, and she suddenly realized that it was the guard guarding the door. Her toes suddenly stopped, and she changed from kicking to pointing, and suddenly tapped the guard's shoulder.

This did stop the guard from sliding, but in a hurry, she didn't retract all the strength from her foot, and the man's half body was numb from being touched by her toes, and he couldn't help but cry out in pain again.

The light of the morning sun scattered in from the open door, and in the light and shadow, a man strode in.

Leng Yuchan suddenly opened her eyes wide. She recognized him just by looking at his outline. Erlang? What was he going to do?

The head of the Dragon Office frowned and shouted in a deep voice: "Yang Yuan, you broke into the court without permission, what do you want to do?"

Yang Yuan ignored him and hurried to Zheng Yuandong, clasping his fists and saying, "I obey your order. I heard that a shocking case of assassination of the king occurred at Xiangji Temple last night."

Zheng Yuandong frowned and said, "Yang Yuan, you are now 'ready to be ordered', you don't need to know about this matter."

Yang Yuan said, "I don't need to worry about that. But last night I was ordered to guard the 'Fish-selling Bridge'. After the imperial boat passed through, I took the boat to the 'Imperial Pier'."

Zheng Yuandong didn't know what he was talking about, but he knew that he couldn't have come here to chat with him.

Zheng Yuandong patiently asked, "What are you doing at the Imperial Pier?"

Yang Yuan said, "Last night, the most outstanding performers and actors from the brothels of Lin'an gathered at the Imperial Pier to compete for the title of Lin'an's Twelve Most Beautiful Women. Among them was a jade-waisted slave from the Chunfeng Tower, who was the lover of Liu Shangqiu, the military commander of the Imperial Archery and Horse Academy..."

Zheng Yuandong stared at Yang Yuan and asked, "So?"

Yang Yuan said, "I have always been on good terms with Liu Qianxia, ​​so naturally I have to go and show my support. That jade waist slave wanted to retire from the society, and Liu Lingxia was kind and sympathetic, so he publicly promised to take her as his concubine."

Although Zheng Yuandong knew that Yang Yuan must have a reason for saying all this, he was really unbearable for not getting to the point.

Zheng Yuandong emphasized his tone and said in a deep voice: "So what?!"

Yang Yuan said: "I congratulated Liu Lingxia and Miss Yuyao, and when I was leaving by boat, I crossed paths with a small boat at a narrow part of the river.

I have good hearing ability, and I vaguely heard two Japanese talking on the boat. They mentioned Xiangji Temple and Banjing Hall, as well as words like "so amazing" and "I almost died"..."

When Zheng Yuandong heard this, his expression suddenly changed.

Although the assassins at night tried their best to hide their identities, the "Bitter Formless" thrown by Yagyu Shishitake at the end, although shaped like a dagger, had details that were clearly different from the Central Plains weapons.

Although there were also many Japanese weapons flowing into the Central Plains, especially Japanese samurai swords, which were a very popular collectible among the people of the Song Dynasty, there were not many people who collected Japanese hidden weapons.

Because this hidden weapon might involve the involvement of foreign forces, Mu En, the head of the Imperial City Department, had already discussed it with him early on.

Nowadays, not many people know about this hidden weapon. Even those who were at the scene at the time have never seen this "Bitter Formless" weapon.

Therefore, it is not surprising if someone talked about Xiangji Temple after what happened last night.

But when Xiangji Temple and Banjing Hall are mentioned, the Japanese delegation is currently staying at Banjing Hall, and there are also "so awesome" and "I almost died", then...

Zheng Yuandong suddenly thought of a question and immediately asked, "How do you know that the person you were talking to was Japanese? They were wearing Japanese robes at the time?"

If the person Yang Yuan saw was wearing Japanese robes without any concealment, then the suspicion would be greatly reduced.

Yang Yuan said: "No! They are wearing the clothes of our Song people, but they speak Japanese."

Zheng Yuandong asked in surprise: "Japanese? You... know Japanese?"

Yang Yuan said: "You may not know, I was ordered to go to sea to investigate a case of smuggling of goods by merchants from the Arab world. After this case, I brought back more than 20 female slaves from foreign countries, both in the East and the West.

They were all young and beautiful girls who had no power to protect themselves. I took them in out of pity. As we spent more time together, I learned some foreign languages ​​from them.

Yang Yuan cleared his throat and said in an imitating foreign accent: "Ashiba! Shit, noah, chuxieyo, oppa, sarangheyo. Yamietie, ke~moqi~~, ahtaxi nooku ni, maotao maotao, oh, shit!"

Zheng Yuandong and the Sixth Chamber Imperial Secretary looked at him blankly. Yang Yuan explained seriously, "These are all foreign languages ​​I learned from them, from several countries."

Zheng Yuandong said in surprise: "I see, then...what else did you hear them say?"

Yang Yuan said shyly: "They said a few more words, but I didn't understand them. I only understood these two sentences: 'It's amazing' and 'I almost died'."

After hearing this, Zheng Yuandong fell silent.

After hearing this, the eight officials in charge of imperial edicts fell silent.

Yang Yuan took in young and beautiful foreign women, some of whom were probably Japanese. The Japanese language he learned from these Japanese women was "Amazing!" "I almost died"...

The heads of the Dragon Room, the Elephant Room and other rooms were all men. They glared at Yang Yuan, with two words trembling on their tongues, ready to be spoken.

Those were two Chinese characters in perfect Chinese pronunciation: "Shitty!"

Fei Yuye looked at Yang Yuan with a sidelong glance, and couldn't help but ask, "Is this true? Are you really that powerful?"

However, thinking of Leng Yuchan and Xue Bingxin's successive actions, Fei Yuye had to quietly admit that, well, he might... be really powerful.

Leng Yuchan felt a sour taste in the tip of her nose, as if she smelled a jar of Shanxi aged vinegar.

"Hey! Did you remember what I just told you?" After being silent for a while, Zheng Yuandong suddenly turned to the official in charge of the eighth room.

The eight officials in charge of the imperial edict clasped their fists together and replied, "I will remember this."

Zheng Yuandong waved his hand and said, "Then go ahead. Each of you should focus on your own affairs and don't make any mistakes at this moment."

The eight officials filed out, and when they came to Yang Yuan's side, they couldn't help but tilt their "eyes" towards Yang Yuan from looking straight at him to a forty-five-degree angle downwards.

Even Fei Yuye was no exception, but she withdrew her gaze quickly enough so that no one saw it.

Only Leng Yuchan and Yang Yuan already knew each other well, so there was no need for them to "salute".

When she walked past Yang Yuan, she just gave him a threatening look: "Wait, I will squeeze you dry and make you learn a foreign language!"

After the official from the Eighth Chamber left, Zheng Yuandong left the case and paced hastily in the signing room with his hands behind his back. Suddenly he stopped and said to Yang Yuan, "Yang Yuan, you must go to Duting Posthouse with me right now."

Yang Yuan was stunned for a moment, and asked doubtfully, "Go to 'Duting Posthouse'?"

Zheng Yuandong nodded and explained, "The Imperial City Simu Tiju is currently acting as the official at Duting Posthouse."

Yang Yuan understood.

This Duting Posthouse is the closest to the imperial city among the four major posthouses in Lin'an.

Opposite Duting Posthouse are the Secretariat, the Chancellery, the Ministry of Palace Affairs and the Six Ministries.

On its left side, after crossing Liubu Bridge, you will see Wumen and Donghuamen, which lead directly to the Imperial Palace.

The Imperial City Bureau was temporarily moved here and occupied the inn for office work, apparently to facilitate timely communication with the three provinces and six ministries and the imperial palace.

"Yes!" Yang Yuan followed Zheng Yuandong out and asked casually, "Don't you all need to tell Envoy Qin Shu about this?"

According to the news Yang Yuan had just heard, those responsible for investigating this shocking case are the new Prime Minister Wanqi Xie, Privy Councilor Qin Hui, and Imperial City Envoy Mu En.

Zheng Yuandong said calmly: "No need, Envoy Qin Shu has already requested permission to mourn!"

Ah! Not bad!

Yang Yuan is a modern man after all, and he overlooked this point. He only remembered it when Zheng Yuandong mentioned it.

The ancients believed that the death of a close relative or elder was not the end of filial piety, but a new starting point for filial piety.

Keeping healthy is not a big deal, but seeing off death is a big deal - "Mencius"

When a close relative or elder passes away, a son should take the initiative to resign from the mourning period and return home to observe the mourning period.

Yang Yuan thought to himself, it seems that the information I just heard was wrong, Qin Hui could not be in charge of this case.

However, it is unknown how much Qin Hui truly felt for his adoptive father. Even if he really regarded Qin Hui as his biological father, he would probably be unwilling to mourn.

But requesting an imperial decree to observe mourning is a necessary step. I'm afraid that as soon as he resigned, he would start thinking about how to get the emperor to issue an imperial decree to "take away his love"?
Yang Yuan actually guessed it right.

Qin Hui had just submitted a petition to the emperor for mourning as required by the rules, but he did not even go home and instead went to the residence of Wu Guojiu.

In fact, the Qin family's mourning hall had already been set up, and ministers from various departments and royal relatives were all going to the Qin mansion to pay their respects. As a "filial son", he only needed to wait in the mourning hall until his future son-in-law, Wu Guojiu, arrived.

But Qin Hui couldn't wait any longer.

He has a lot of bombs at his disposal, and you never know when any of them will explode.

If he had the identity of Privy Councilor, he could also find ways to eliminate as many mines as possible.

If he went home to observe mourning for even just three to five days, the government would deprive him of his love and reinstate him. He was worried that something might go wrong during this period.

Therefore, Qin Shuxiang, the future father-in-law, immediately after submitting the "Letter of Request for Mourning", went straight to the residence of the King's Uncle, hoping that the King's Uncle would go to the Queen to plead for him and let him get the chance to stay in office as soon as possible.

At this time, the gate of Banjingguan outside the city was opened, and the carriages of the Japanese delegation came out one after another and drove towards Xingqiao Wharf.

Although a major event occurred in the imperial court, diplomatic affairs still had to proceed as planned and could not be delayed.

Since there were many vehicles that could carry people, the accompanying envoy Du Rangmei and the deputy envoy Yu Jiguang, who were sitting in sedan chairs and walking in the front with the monk Jinghai and the official Yoshida, did not notice that the number of members of the Japanese delegation had quietly decreased.

(End of this chapter)