Chapter 162: People's hearts are unpredictable

At night, light rain fell on the gloomy sky again. Still in the tavern last time, Han Yi, deputy of the right officer of the pedestrian, met with Zhan Yuanzhi again. He picked up the wine glass and smiled at Zhan Yuanzhi: "Please rest assured. Pei Kelian has fully agreed to do what Secretary Zhan said. They are happy to see if they can defeat Li Weizheng, but he asked Secretary Zhan to speak more beautifully for Goryeo on the island of Danluo."

"This is natural. My father always thought that Danluo Island was of no use to the Ming Dynasty. It was just used to beat Goryeo to obey. As long as the Goryeo people cleared their hearts and became the vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, they could return Danluo Island to them."

Han Yi nodded, "This is what the Goryeo people mean. Pei Kelian told me that Li Chenggui broke his leg himself because his son Li Fangyuan offended the Ming Dynasty and apologized to the Ming Dynasty. This time, the Goryeo people's attitude was extremely humble. I also think that as a country above the Celestial Empire, we cannot be too petty with the vassal states."

Zhan Yuanzhi smiled and said, "My Lord Han thought of this with my father. As a country above the Celestial Empire, we should be more generous. Goryeo was originally our vassal state. Don't they also belong to our Ming Dynasty when they hold the barbaric lands in Liaodong? There is no need to lose the etiquette and demeanor of a great country in front of the vassal states."

"How dare I go to the monks of the minister." Han Yi picked up the wine glass and smiled flatteringly: "Mr. Zhan, what Lord Shangshu agreed last time, I hope the master will give me more good words and I will give you a cup."

"Don't worry! This is just a small task for my father. He will not break his promise to you." Zhan Yuanzhi picked up the wine glass and drank it all, then stood up and said, "Okay, I should leave too. I will discuss the matter of Goryeo tomorrow. The day after tomorrow the court will officially receive the envoy of Goryeo. You go back and ask Pei Kelian to polish the answer well, don't be inconsistent and be caught by someone."

"The official must tell you, I will send the young master back first."

"No, I'll go back by myself."

Zhan Yuanzhi went out and got off. Han Yi sat in the room for a while, drank a few glasses of wine, and then he was full of wine and was about to check out and leave. He shouted twice, the curtain was lifted, and a guy he didn't know came in. He was tall and burly. Although he was wearing the guy's clothes, his fierce appearance made Han Yi feel a little afraid.

"Why haven't I seen you before?"

"Of course you haven't seen me." The guy sneered, and a long sword with a cold light shining against Han Yi's throat. "Call me, I'll take your life."

"What do you want to do?" Han Yi was so shocked that he didn't dare to move, and asked in a trembling voice.

The guy waved his hand and rushed into three people from outside the door, rushed to Han Yi like a whirlwind, and the leader punched him in the temple. Han Yi fell to the ground, and several people quickly put him in a sack, threw a ingot of silver on the table, and left calmly.

When Han Yi woke up, he found that he was tied to a large wooden stake. The lights were brightly lit in front of him. More than 20 big men with naked upper bodies stood on both sides, and various terrifying torture instruments were suddenly placed in the corner of the wall.

"Embroidered Uniform Guard!" Han Yi blurted out and saw an official in the Jinyiwei wearing a golden Qilin suit sitting in front of him, looking at him with a smile.

"Yes, we are the Jinyiwei. I am Luo Guangcai, the deputy chief of the Third Office of the Jinyiwei. Lord Han, I invite you here and I feel wronged."

Han Yi immediately understood that the Three Jinyiwei Institutes, wasn’t that the place where Li Wei was staying? He came to him. Han Yi had never experienced such a thing since he was a child. He was panicked and afraid and stuttered: “What do you want…what do you want?”

Luo Guangcai has tried too many people. When he saw Han Yi like this, he knew that this person was a soft cock, and he would break it with one pinch. He smiled gloomyly: "Mr. Han, you also know the methods of the Jinyiwei. Even if you don't die, you will have to peel off your skin. I will give you a chance. If you are willing to tell me honestly, I won't hit you, and it will be delicious and delicious. But if you dare to say half of the word "no", I will tell you, I will peel off your skin first."

Seeing that Han Yi didn't say anything for a long time, he shouted: "Take it!"

A big man poured a bucket of water on his face, and several others brought straw and lime. Han Yi was so scared that he was so scared that he exclaimed: "Don't do it! I said, I said, I said, I said everything."

"Okay, let's first talk about how Zhan Hui, the Minister of Personnel, colluded with the Goryeo through you?"

Several fast horses galloped through the misty night like lightning, galloping on the empty streets. Luo Guangcai couldn't hide his excitement. Han Yi explained that what he explained was even more exciting than they thought.

Several horses rushed to Li Wei's mansion and stopped. They turned over and got off the horse and ran towards the gate, "Go and report to your master, there is something urgent."

The housekeeper brought them into the mansion. After a moment, a family member hurried over and said, "Master, please come to the study to meet."

As soon as Luo Guangcai entered the study, he smiled at Li Weizheng and said, "It's true that it's not as expected by the adults, but it's more rewarding than you think."

He took out a thick confession and handed it to Li Weizheng, "You can take a look first!"

The confession was written in three pages. Han Yi confessed in detail about the contents of his four meetings with Zhan Yuanzhi. The confession stated that Zhan Hui agreed that as long as the envoy of Goryeo was willing to exaggerate him in the Busan Port, he would help Goryeo take back Danluo Island. Zhan Hui asked Goryeo to exaggerate Li Weizheng's massacre of merchants and civilians, and slightly changed the reason why the Ming army attacked Busan, and changed Li Fangyuan to hide the ship and refused to return it. Li Fangyuan repeatedly explained that he needed to report to his father before he could release the ship. This highlighted that Li Weizheng was cruel, unreasonable and bullying.

In this way, Li Wei was unable to escape the charge of "abuse of on-the-stop decision-making power" when attacking Busan. Li Wei felt cold in his heart. He knew that Zhan Hui was a sinister and cruel person, but he did not expect that in order to kill him, Zhan Hui actually exchanged national interests for the sake of his death.

"Sir, do you want to go to the palace overnight to report to the emperor?" Luo Guangcai asked excitedly.

Li Weizheng shook his head, "If I were still a Jinyiwei Qianhu, it would be okay to do this, but I am the commander of Weihaiwei now. Kidnapping officials for lynching is also a death sentence. I must stay out of this matter."

He handed the letter to Luo Guangcai and said, "Jiang Yan is not in the capital, and the thousand households of the Jinyiwei have the right to hand over it. If Fitingan reports it tomorrow morning, he will be foolproof."

"Then I'll go find Lao Fei now."

Luo Guangcai was about to leave, but Li Weizheng called him, "This matter is of great importance to us, I will go to Fitingan in person."

Li Wei changed his clothes briefly, so he got on his horse and rushed to the military camp north of the city with Luo Guangcai.

Due to the need for defense, the capital city expanded the outer wall from this year, that is, built a new outer wall, surrounding the Mochou Lake, Xuanwu Lake, Qinhuai River and Shenlie Mountain outside the city. The project started in May and mobilized tens of thousands of civilians from all over the country to work in Beijing. In order to prevent these civilians from gathering to cause trouble, the Jinyiwei also strengthened the prevention work. It was from that time that Fetingan lived almost in the military camps of the three institutes and rarely went home.

He returned to the capital two days ago and was extremely busy every day and had to deal with the large amount of documents that had been accumulated. At this moment, he was reviewing documents in the room. Suddenly, a report from a personal soldier came from outside the door: "Sir, Deputy Luo Qianhu and Lord Li are here, saying that there is something important to discuss."

"Please come in." Feitingan put down his pen, and Li Weizheng finally came to him. This was something he expected. Some time ago, he happened to go to Weihaiwei to welcome the Korean envoy. While dealing with the officers of Weihaiwei, he vaguely felt that many people in Weihaiwei were dissatisfied with Li Weizheng, especially Zheng Yuan, the commander-in-chief of Weihaiwei, who did not hide his dissatisfaction with Li Weizheng, "doing arbitrary and not doing his job."

In fact, Fei Tingan also knew that this was the sequelae left by doing things in the Jinyiwei. Although the Jinyiwei had great power, it was an offensive job. No one dared to mess with him when he was in the Jinyiwei, but once he left the Jinyiwei, there would be no good life. Li Wei only stayed in the Jinyiwei for a year and attracted so much attack. However, the old Jinyiwei who killed countless people like them was transferred to another place and was assassinated by his enemies immediately.

But Li Weizheng's situation is a bit special. His enemy is actually a powerful and high-ranking official like the Secretary of the State. This is directly related to his participation in the Qin King case. He was protected by the Emperor in the Jinyiwei, and left the Jinyiwei and had a prince as his backer. Now that the prince fell, all kinds of revenge came one after another. Therefore, his father repeatedly reminded him that he could only remain neutral and not be involved in the Li Weizheng case. This is also a certain reason.

Fitingan was thinking, and Li Wei and Luo Guangcai walked into the room. Li Wei was bowing and laughing, "Brother Fei, are you safe?"

Fitingan also stood up and smiled, "I just came back from Weihaiwei, and I was still thinking about knocking on your robbery there. I didn't expect you to come to the capital. After so long I came back, I didn't get together with my brothers?"

"No problem. I will definitely invite my brothers to the best restaurant in two days, but I ask you for help if I have something tonight."

"Brother Weizheng is my old boss, why don't you talk about the word "please"? Come on! Please sit down quickly." Even though that was said, Feitingan beat the drum in his heart. He didn't know what Li Weizheng asked him to do. He hurriedly called Li Weizheng to sit down and smiled at Luo Guangcai, "I won't say hello to you. Even if you sit on my table, I dare not mess with you."

The three of them laughed together. Li Wei was sitting down. Fitingan's personal soldiers served them tea and exchanged a few greetings. Li Wei was frank and said frankly: "My original intention is not to bother you, but things are very important to me. This time I can only ask you. Please help me with this time because of our past friendship."

Seeing that Li Wei was coming to the door in person and speaking so seriously, his smile disappeared from his face, and nodded and said, "Tell me what's going on first. If I can help you, I will definitely not refuse."

Li Wei was pondering for a moment, and then briefly told the story of Zhan Hui and Goryeo colluding with him. He took out Han Yi's confession from his arms and said: "I know that the Jinyiwei Qianhu can write to the emperor directly, and I must write to the Ministry of War. This matter is within the scope of the Jinyiwei's authority, so I can only ask you."

Fitingan didn't say anything for a moment, and it was exactly the same as he expected. It was indeed a tricky thing. Fitingan felt very embarrassed. He said a little full of words just now. Just as Li Wei saw his embarrassment, he stood up and bowed and smiled, "If Brother Fei is in a dilemma, I won't bother Brother Fei, I will find another way."

Fei Tingan knew it in his mind and privately questioned the officials. No one dared to take over this matter except the Jinyiwei, and the matter itself was not difficult. For him, it was really just a small task. If he refused, it would be okay to offend Li Weizheng, but if he offended Luo Guangcai, how could he work together in the future?

He suddenly made up his mind and just thought it was the case that Luo Guang had just found. He just handed it over. Fitingan immediately stood up and called Li Weizheng, "Sir, wait!"

He slowly walked forward, took the confession from Li Weizheng's hand, and smiled and said, "I will definitely hand it to the emperor tomorrow morning."

Li Weizheng was overjoyed, and he quickly bowed and said, "Brother Fei, Li Weizheng will remember it in his heart."

Li Weizheng and Luo Guangcai left, and Fitingan fell into deep thought. He was really unsure about this matter. From a loyal point of view, he should do this. Li Wei is his old boss. He can do the same job as a thousand households today, which is also related to Li Weizheng. This time Li Wei was in trouble, and he should help him in terms of emotion and reason. This is human nature, but he also knows that if he helps this, he will most likely leave trouble for himself. Although this matter seems to be his responsibility, everyone knows that he takes action at this critical moment, which is obviously a matter of position.

Fitingan was in a dilemma, but he had already agreed. It would be impossible not to do it. At this time, he couldn't help but feel a little regretful. He had known that he should have detoured it, and it wouldn't be too late to consider thinking about agreeing.

"Sir Qianhu, someone is coming from your house." A personal soldier interrupted his contemplation.

Fitingan walked out of the room and saw that the housekeeper was coming from the door, so he asked, "What's the matter?"

"The Grand Master suddenly fell into a coma and the house was in chaos."

Fitingan was shocked and immediately ordered his left and right, "I'll go home, you must not slacken. If something happens, come and notify me immediately."

He turned over and ran towards his home. Soon, Fitingan returned home, but the home was not as chaotic as he thought, and was very quiet. He was surprised and walked quickly to his father's study. As soon as he entered the door, he was stunned. His father was sitting at the table and carefully admiring a jade artifact.

"What's going on?" Fitingan asked in confusion: "Why did the butler tell me that my father fainted."

"I asked him to say this, but in fact I just wanted you to come back immediately." Fei Tian asked his son to sit down calmly.

Fei Tingan sat down with confusion, waiting for his father's explanation, Fei Tian said lightly: "Do you know that an hour ago, the confidant military advisor of the King of Yan came to me."

"Father said, that monk Daoyan?"

Fei Tian nodded and said, "It was him that his arrival that made me realize the complexity of Li Weizheng's case. Not only did the King of Qin want to kill him, but even the King of Yan wants to attack him, but also the King of Qi refuses to let him go."

"Why?" Fitingan was really confused. He didn't understand how a small commander attracted so many princes' hostility.

"Isn't it the sequelae of the last year's credential case?" Fei Tian sighed and said, "These princes are not actually targeting Li Weizheng, but temptation to the prince. See how the prince will react after killing Li Weizheng. If the prince does not respond, it means that the prince's party will no longer exist. The change of the Eastern Palace is a foregone conclusion. The case of Li Weizheng seems to be a trivial matter, but in fact it involves the dispute over the crown prince, which is of great importance! So I asked you to come back because I am afraid that you will accidentally get involved in this case."

Fitingan's face suddenly changed, but Fei Tian's eyes became even more poisonous. When he saw his son's face was wrong, he immediately asked: "Can it be that Li Weizheng has already found you?"

Fitingan nodded slowly and said helplessly: "Just when he came to beg me just now, I agreed." He told him about what Li Weizheng asked him, and finally said: "He came to beg himself, but it is difficult to refute human feelings, so I had to agree."

"Where is the sealed confession now?" Fei Tian asked extremely calmly.

Fitingan took out Han Yi's confession from his arms and handed it to his father, "It's important, I'll keep it close to you."

Fei Tian took the letter, but he didn't even look at it, and lit it directly on the candle. Fei Tingan was shocked and hurriedly reached out to grab it, but was knocked over to the ground by Fei Tian's backhand.

Fei Tian burned his confession with a gloomy face, and then he squatted beside his son and said in a gloomy way: "Do you really don't understand?"

"But I have agreed to him. Now I regret it. Where is the faithfulness?" Feitingan covered his face and felt extremely upset. He thought that even if he refused, he would return the confession to Li Weizheng and asked him to find someone else, but his father burned the confession. Isn't this going to kill others?

"Xinyi?" Fei Tian snorted coldly and said, "Xinyi corresponds to interests. It doesn't matter if you give up any interests for Xinyi, but this matter is not interest, but our Fei family's lives. In the face of life, what is Xinyi? Don't forget that the world's surname is Zhu. No matter which prince ascends the throne, Li Weizheng will definitely die. Why do you have to ask our Fei family to bury him?"

Fetingan lowered his head and said nothing. Seeing that he had given up and stopped forcing him, Fei Tian patted his shoulder and comforted him: "This is a power struggle, cruel and ruthless. If you are uneasy, then you can only help his wife and children in the future. But you can't have any friendship in this matter. Do you remember?"

"I understand!" Fitinan sighed softly.

"It's good if you know." Fei Tian didn't end there. He stood up and asked, "Where is Han Yi now?"

"He is locked in the military camps of the three institutes, preparing to confront him tomorrow when the Emperor asks."
Chapter completed!