"Just a letter proposing mutual trade, and you dare to assert that General Nian will soon give Yaozhou to the locals? Wang Jun'an, you, the Minister of War, are becoming increasingly backward."
Feng Yinzhen suddenly sneered and spoke.
Wang Junan was stunned and his face turned red instantly.
He had always prided himself on being loyal and upright throughout his life, and he always did things in an upright manner for the country and the king. However, when he heard the king mocking him like this, he felt extremely embarrassed.
But he still spoke seriously with a flushed face.
"Your Majesty, the people of the Western Frontier are fierce and ignorant, and there has never been any trade between the two countries. Yet, the General has taken the initiative to propose trade. If this were truly accomplished, I'm afraid the Western Frontier's chariots would soon enter our Great Abyss..."
"So you think my general is incompetent and useless, and my Dayuan army is made of paper and can't stop the chariots of the Western Frontier?"
Feng Yinzhen interrupted Wang Junan and said coldly.
"You used this letter to accuse the general of treason. Are you truly serving the country and the king, or are you using the name of serving the country and the king to sow discord between me and the general?
Is it General Nian or you, Wang Jun'an, who is the traitor?
"thump!"
These words were so serious that Wang Jun'an's knees softened and he knelt down with a thud. "Your Majesty, I dare not provoke a quarrel between you and the general, and I would never betray my country even if I died!"
Beside him, there was a strong smell of urine. It turned out that the deputy general Lu Shanding could not bear the emperor's majesty and was frightened to pee.
Although the Golden Palace was spacious and tall, it could not accommodate the large number of court officials and the dense crowd. The smell quickly spread, and several court officials nearby could not help but cover their noses and cast disgusted glances.
As it happened, Zhang Min, who was standing in the front row, had a particularly sensitive nose and couldn't help but curse under his breath.
"waste!"
Feng Wanwan's nose was also very good, and she could smell that smell as well. While she felt disgusted, she was also a little happy.
[Ha, you're a guilty thief indeed. You were frightened to death by my pig-hoof dad's questioning!]
[However, my pig-trotter dad was particularly smart today. He was just as wise as my uncle. He saw the benefits of mutual trade and didn't wrongly accuse my uncle. Not bad!]
[Give the pig's hoof dad a little red flower as a reward! ]
Wang Jun'an knelt on the ground, his body trembling with fear at Feng Yinzhen's words, but his mind was racing and he suddenly screamed again.
"Your Majesty, I may have misunderstood the General's intention regarding the trade agreement with the Western Prince, but it is a fact that the General's letter contains irresponsible and disrespectful statements to Your Majesty! Please examine the General's letter!"
"You really won't give up until you cross the Yellow River. Very well, I will see how the general disrespects me in his letter home!"
Feng Yinzhen's face turned pale, but instead of getting angry, he smiled and then opened the family letter that served as evidence.
With just one glance, his smile faded, his thick black brows furrowed tighter and tighter, and surprise gradually appeared in his dark eyes.
Your Highness, Zhang Min lowered his head slightly, and the corners of his lips curled up slightly.
It is said that the heart of a king is hard to predict, but he has been with three generations of kings, so he can be said to be very familiar with guessing the heart of a king.
Their new monarch may be more open-minded than the previous two generations of monarchs, but as long as he sits in that position, he will definitely be suspicious of the people around him.
Even if that person is his brother who once risked his life for him.
Once the seeds of suspicion take root, they will quickly grow into towering trees.
The name of this big tree is fear.
They were afraid of his military power, afraid that his achievements would threaten the emperor, and afraid that he had ambitions to seize the throne.
The contents of that letter would surely become the most powerful nutrient, causing this tree of fear to grow rapidly, ultimately crushing Nian Gengyao and tearing the Nian family apart!
[…These black-hearted bastards are really going to great lengths to harm my uncle! They even used a family letter to harm my uncle!]
"But Daddy Pig Hoof, don't believe this. This letter is fake. It's a copy of my uncle's handwriting!"
They were truly cunning, mixing a genuine letter with a forged one, using a mixture of real and fake evidence to deceive the idiot.
[And the seal on this family letter is real! In my opinion, it must have been stolen from my uncle by this lieutenant general named Lu Shan. He stayed with my uncle for half a year, so he planned to do this to him? What a jerk! The general promoted you, and you're repaying his kindness with hatred and sending him to hell!]
Seeing that the big pig's hoof had a strange expression, Feng Wanwan quickly took a look at the letter from home. This glance awakened her memory, and she immediately remembered the small details of the original book.
He then began to curse these bad apples.
The letter home was actually forged?
Feng Yinzhen's frown suddenly relaxed after hearing Feng Wanwan's angry and passionate accusation.
So that's how it is.
No wonder he felt something was wrong with the letter.
He and Nian Gengyao had known each other since they were teenagers. When Concubine Hua entered the mansion, their relationship became closer and more familiar. He could see that there was something wrong with the handwriting of the letter.
Although Nian Gengyao was a military general, he was very considerate of his family. He would ask about various matters in detail in his letters, and his handwriting would be as neat as possible. However, the handwriting in this letter seemed a bit sloppy. This handwriting was somewhat similar to the handwriting in the correspondence between Nian Gengyao and the King of the Western Frontier.
Moreover, the questions in the family letter were very simple. A large part of the letter described how proud and powerful he was in the military camp. It also implied that the current emperor was a weak scholar. It also instructed the family to secretly protect Concubine Hua. It would be best if Concubine Hua could give birth to a boy, so that the future of the Nian family would be promising.
The last words were very meaningful, which could easily lead people to misunderstand that he was trying to seize power and usurp the throne in the name of Hua Fei's son.
But Feng Yinzhen's first impression of these words was that they didn't seem to come from his respected brother.
But he saw the small seal at the end of the family letter. It was Nian Gengyao's personal seal. Other things could be forged, but this small seal could not be forged because it was carved by him for Nian Gengyao when he was still a prince.
His carving skills were not very good at that time, so this small seal was not perfect, and only he was aware of the flaws on it.
So he almost believed that this family letter was indeed written by Nian Gengyao.
It wasn't until Feng Wanwan revealed the truth that the original doubts were instantly cleared up.
A gleam of light flashed in his dark eyes, and his gaze fixed on Lu Shan, who was slumped on the ground, and he spoke in a low voice.
"What did you do for a living before you joined the army?"
"ah?"
Lu Shan's mind had been confused for a long time, and when he suddenly heard such a question, he was so scared that his whole body trembled again.
The collar of his clothes was wet again.
Trembling.
"Your Majesty, I am… no, I am a humble servant. I was just a teacher before."
The smile on Zhang Min's lips suddenly froze, and a bad premonition suddenly surged in her heart.
Sure enough, Feng Yinzhen smiled slightly and stared at Lu Shan in the hall meaningfully.
"Teacher, you really are wasting your talent. After all, you are a remarkable person who was able to imitate General Nian's calligraphy to a level 70% similar to his in just six months."
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