latelenovela Chapter 125: Has your brain been eaten by a pig?
Chapter 125: Has your brain been eaten by a pig?
While questioning, Ye Wuwei had already sat up from Qi Wushuang's arms, and the two sat facing each other in the carriage.
Qi Wushuang answered Ye Wuwei's question: "That's because the Embroidered Uniform Guard was disbanded more than two years ago."
The Embroidered Uniform Guard was an institution established after the previous emperor ascended the throne, but the elders in it were all his subordinates when he was a prince.
After the former emperor ascended the throne, he established the Embroidered Uniform Guard with a staff of one thousand people.
The Embroidered Uniform Guard took orders directly from the former emperor and was specifically responsible for doing some shameful things for the former emperor.
such as:
Spying on officials' privacy to blackmail them, making money for the former emperor, organizing assassinations, etc. were the former emperor's sharp knife.
Three years ago, the former emperor sent half of the Embroidered Uniform Guards to the north. He originally wanted to fabricate evidence to frame Qi Wushuang and collude with the Ati people, but he did not expect that these 500 Embroidered Uniform Guards would never come back after they left.
The other half of the Embroidered Uniform Guards who stayed in Chamdo City encountered one scandal after another, all of which were shameful.
Pei Qing, the former commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, was also trapped in the bed of Concubine Yuwen's cousin's wife, and the incident became known to everyone in Changdu City.
For the sake of the Yuwen family's reputation, Grand Tutor Yuwen had to issue an order to the former emperor to disband the Embroidered Uniform Guard. In the end, the Embroidered Uniform Guard was disbanded.
After listening to Qi Wushuang, Ye Wuwei had a general understanding of the Embroidered Uniform Guard.
The Xiuyiwei was a bit like the Wudesi during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, except that the Xiuyiwei was disbanded shortly after its establishment, while the Wudesi eventually developed into the Huangchengsi and even the later famous Jinyiwei.
Ye Wuwei asked, "Did you ask someone to do what Pei Qing and the others did?"
"That's right, but I'm not making false accusations, it's all true.
I'm just letting the truth out."
"Then Pei Qing is still alive?"
“Alive.
Pei Qing had been with that woman since he was a teenager, and he had committed adultery, which was not punishable by death according to the law, so that woman would naturally protect him."
"You didn't think of killing him again?"
"He was just following orders. He left Qamdo after the Embroidered Uniform Guard was disbanded. Naturally, I won't take action against him again."
"He may have the letter about your transaction with Humuhan."
Ye Wuwei told him that the man had confessed that there were eight letters, but he only found six.
"That person also said that the deputy commander once said that he didn't believe Pei Qing was really a coward and wanted to ask Pei Qing himself."
Qi Wushuang thought for a moment:
“What you said is very possible.
Pei Qing was very loyal to that person, and it was because of me that he lost his position as commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, so he couldn't really accept it."
"Actually, if it was just you buying horses from the North, it wouldn't be a big deal. The key is that the other party is the Third Prince of the North.
Whether you knew his identity initially or not, no one would believe it if you told them.”
How could Qi Wushuang not understand this?
The other party is the third prince of the North. This identity easily makes people wonder whether Qi Wushuang has any other collusion with the other party?
Some people even suspect that the retreat of the Ati people from the south of the desert to the north was an agreement reached between Qi Wushuang and the other party.
This will have a huge impact on Qi Wushuang's reputation and will also increase the difficulty of promoting new policies in the future.
After finishing speaking, Ye Wuwei asked again:
"How many letters have you written to Humuhan?"
"Nine in total."
"So, the Northern Prince still has a letter concerning your transaction with Humuhan."
Ye Wuwei also said that these letters were given to the deputy commander by the Great Prince of the North.
Qi Wushuang didn't say anything for a long time after listening to this.
Ye Wuwei suddenly thought of something:
"Could it be that you sent the letter asking Humuhan to kill the Embroidered Uniform Guards?"
Qi Wushuang looked at Ye Wuwei:
"I did write a letter asking Humuhan to help me kill 500 Embroidered Uniform Guards, and I also promised to give him 50,000 dan of rice for free after the mission was accomplished."
Fifty thousand dan of rice is enough to feed ten thousand people for a year!
The current price in Qi Dynasty is one tael of silver to buy two dan of fine rice, and 50,000 dan of rice costs more than 20,000 taels of silver!
Converted into modern currency, it is approximately more than 15 million yuan!
This prodigal!
Ye Wuwei blurted out:
"How dare you write such a dangerous thing directly in a letter? Have you been eaten by a pig?"
Qi Wushuang was awkward: "My brain wasn't eaten by a pig either."
Ye Wuwei stared at Qi Wushuang and said, "If this doesn't count as having your brain eaten by a pig, then what does it count as?"
"I added a special potion to the ink of that letter. The writing will disappear after six months."
This is Mission Impossible!
Ye Wuwei looked at Qi Wushuang without saying anything.
Qi Wushuang reached out to pull Ye Wuwei's hand:
"At first, I didn't want more people to know about this, so I wrote a letter and asked Pigeon Tiger (a male peregrine falcon) to deliver it to Humuhan.
But I was also worried that it would become a handle in the future, so I deliberately used ink mixed with a special potion."
Ye Wuwei took a deep breath and calmed down:
"According to what you said, the handwriting on the letter has long since disappeared. Why is the Great Prince of the North still holding on to it?"
"Not entirely."
"What's that like?"
"If you use another special potion, you can restore the handwriting, but very few people know of this method."
But now it seems that since the Great Prince of the North kept the letter, it means that he is one of these very few people.
"You won't finish your words at once?"
Ye Wuwei really wanted to slap Qi Wushuang to death. There was no trace of the tenderness and affection he had before!
Qi Wushuang patted Ye Wuwei's back twice and said flatteringly:
"You weren't by my side at the time, so I could only come up with this stupid idea.
If you had been..."
Ye Wuwei didn't want to listen to Qi Wushuang "fawning" on him now, so he interrupted Qi Wushuang:
"What do we do now?"
"I'll let Qi Cheng handle Pei Qing's situation. As for the Great Prince of the North..."
Ye Wuwei knew nothing about the Great Prince of the North, so he couldn't give any substantive advice.
Qi Wushuang thought for a moment:
“I’m not sure what the Northern Prince will do.
He might come to me with the letter to negotiate terms, or he might make the letter public to ruin my reputation.
We can only deal with it according to the situation.”
"Don't you have anyone left in the North?"
"Of course there are, but they are just ordinary spies who can't get close to the prince."
"Is there any way for Humuhan to get the letter back?"
"Humuhan, I will send someone to ask, but the possibility is extremely low."
Ye Wuwei thought for a while and said:
"How about I go to the North? I'll try to steal the letter from the Northern Prince."
Qi Wushuang stopped him immediately:
"Don't even think about it. It would be so dangerous for you to be trapped in the North alone!
Putting this aside, there's a desert six hundred miles long and over three hundred miles wide where the southern and northern parts of the desert meet. You'll be buried in that desert all by yourself."
Hearing Qi Wushuang say this, Ye Wuwei felt relieved.