Hu Yin, Wanqi Xie, County Magistrate Huang, and Commander Han were squeezed into a small cell. Although no one dared to neglect it and Wu Jie carefully sent people to clean it, it was summer and there were some things in such a place that could not be solved by just cleaning.
One is the stench brought by natural defecation, and the other is the mosquitoes, lice and other things that breed in the entire prison.
When Qu Duan entered the prison in full armor and sat cross-legged in front of the cell with a sword in his hand, four people inside were helping each other catch lice in the dim light of the cell.
Of course, when they saw this person coming in, Wu Jie and another high-ranking general stood behind this person on both sides with swords in hand. After knowing who it was, the four of them stopped immediately and became serious.
Commander Han and Magistrate Huang were particularly tactful and hid in the corner early, while Hu Yin and Wanqi Xie sat upright opposite Qu Duan and exchanged glances with each other... Just from the fact that Qu Duan came here and his weapons fell into Wu Jie's hands, they were able to infer a lot of things.
For example, the military in Guanxi was more inclined towards the imperial court;
For example, Qu Duan might just be too domineering and not rebelling, otherwise he wouldn't have come here so easily... Wu Jie came to inform him of his plan.
"What crime have I committed to deserve this humiliation?"
Unexpectedly, after both parties sat down, Qu Duan was the first to speak, and before he even introduced his name, he coldly asked the two people behind the opposite fence.
Hu Yin, who had prepared a lot of words, was caught off guard. Wan Qi Xie, on the other hand, twirled his beard and sneered, not at all flustered: "We are in prison, dirty and filthy, and can only catch lice to survive. You are outside the prison, wearing a golden helmet, silver armor and brocade robe, but you have lost your weapons. How can you be the one being humiliated?"
Qu Duan was slightly startled, then changed his words: "Well, I am the commander of Jingyuan Road and the governor of Yan'an Prefecture, Qu Duan. May I ask the Minister, what crime have I committed? Why am I accused of rebellion?"
Wanqi Xie turned his head to look at Hu Yin.
Hu Yin also reacted at this time, but he sat upright in the cell, expressionless and asked: "I want to ask General Qu, as the General Commander and the prefect of Yan'an, you detained your legitimate superior, the General Manager Wang Shu, and then wanted to kill him. When Yuwen Xianggong disagreed, he forcibly took the General Manager's seal and drove the General Manager out of the country. Is this true?"
"It's the truth!" Qu Duan answered proudly. At this point, these things could no longer be concealed from anyone.
"Why is that?" Hu Yin asked seriously. "Don't you know that doing this is tantamount to treason?"
"Wang Shu is incompetent, not me. I can't clean up the situation. What does this have to do with rebellion?" Qu Duan said proudly. "He lost his army and humiliated the country. I wanted to kill him to thank the world, but I let him go easily because Yu Wen Xianggong in Chang'an disagreed. I just expelled him from Fuzhou. Doesn't this just prove my loyalty to the country?"
The brothers Wu Jie and Wu Lin beside them, as well as the magistrate Huang and commander Han in the prison were all stunned... Well, let's not talk about the fact that Wang Shu was your superior in terms of rank. Let's just say that he was the governor of Yanfu Road, and you failed to kill him. When Yan'an fell, you stripped him of his official seal and drove him out of Fuzhou. Why can you still be so self-righteous and think that there is no problem?
"How can a subordinate put his superior under house arrest or expel him from his place of residence?" Hu Yin suppressed his anger. "Not to mention that you even have murderous intentions."
"He lost his army and humiliated the country!" Qu Duan still sat upright. "Everyone in northern Shaanxi wants to kill him!"
"Isn't it because you disobeyed orders and refused to join the war that he lost his army and humiliated his country?" Hu Yin finally couldn't hold back the expression on his face. It seemed that not everyone could learn Emperor Zhao's ability to act like a puppet.
"Hearing your words, I know you are another useless soldier like Li Gang and Wang Shu!" Qu Duan pointed at Hu Yin and said sternly. "Wanyan Loushi has tens of thousands of elite soldiers, and Wang Xie is a bandit who can only run away when fighting. I only have more than 10,000 elite soldiers, who are the seeds of Guanxi troops. We should deploy defenses along the mountainous areas and retreat layer by layer to protect them... How can we really do what Wang Shu wants and destroy them in Yan'an? Do you know that if you and Wang Shu had followed your logic and rashly joined the war that day, the entire Guanxi would have been taken by Wanyan Loushi! You useless man would not even have a place to sit in a cell!"
Hu Yin was stunned by the scolding, and the people around him were also stunned, but Qu Da continued to vent:
"Why don't you understand that the current situation in Guanxi was preserved by me?! And for useless people like you, Wang Shu, and Li Gang who don't know how to fight, every time you say something in the military, the front line will lose thousands of lives, and the country will lose ten years of national fortune?! The country is in such trouble, the people are suffering, and the royal family is humiliated. The Jin people are only three-tenths of the reason, and you, useless civil servants who only talk about military affairs on paper, are more than seven-tenths! Without you, there wouldn't even be the Jingkang Incident, and now you blame me?!"
Hu Yin's face flushed and he was breathing hard, but he didn't know how to refute. Inside and outside the prison, not to mention the seven or eight people here, even the Privy Council attendants and imperial soldiers sitting in other cells were completely silent.
Finally, Wanqi Xie couldn't bear to watch and couldn't help but interrupt: "How can you be so rude to the Zhongcheng?"
When these words came out, Qu Duan was immediately stunned, then he stood up, put on his armor, and faced Wu Jie. He pointed at Hu Yin in the cell and asked, "Is this young man the Chief Censor Hu Yin? Isn't he the Military Assistant of the Privy Council Wanqi Xie?"
"No!" Wu Jie answered helplessly. "The one who just spoke was the military officer Wanqi. As for the Zhongcheng, Xue Feng mistakenly thought he was a fake because he was young..."
"Xue Feng is really innocent." Qu Duan looked back at the shackled Xue Feng in the cell behind him. He couldn't help but breathe in and laugh, but his voice was trembling. "If I were him, I would have killed this kind of Zhongcheng with a knife long ago. Why would I stay and bring disaster to the world?"
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