Chapter 26 Section Eleven

Although Ye Shipeng was imprisoned in the Wannian County Prison for the past two days, but Gu Baotou and the jailers respected him very much, and his life was not difficult. The magistrate of Wannian County never interrogated Ye Shipeng since that day when he identified his appearance, but Dali Temple once sent a supervisory censor to understand the situation, and this censor was also an old acquaintance of Ye Shipeng, and he also testified against Ye Shipeng. Shi Peng's charges are a bit vague, and without Song Jing's words, it is impossible to give him a real charge, and everyone is waiting.

Of course, people also had some disrespectful guesses about Song Jing, suspecting that he was acting for his own benefit, using the pretext of banning gambling to avenge Song Heng's prodigal family in gambling. Since Ye Shipeng had a lot of friends and the crime he committed was not a heinous crime, most of the people coming and going in the Wannian County Prison in the past few days were Ye Shipeng's well-known friends in various places in Chang'an.This also makes Ye Shipeng's life quite not lonely. However, Jiang Jiao's arrival made Ye Shipeng quite worried. "I don't want to see you here." Even so, Ye Shipeng felt a little proud. Jiang Jiao, as a third-rank official, came to visit him in prison in a place of suspicion, which proved that he saw People have good eyesight.

"I'm not here to make a fuss, but there are some things that need to be discussed." Although Jiang Jiao was a high official, he didn't put on airs at all.Of course, in order to avoid the bad luck of being in prison, he just moved a bed and sat at the door instead of entering the cell. "I checked with the emperor and talked with Song Jing again, but the results were not obvious." "Your Majesty still remembers me?" Ye Shipeng's eyes showed a trace of inconspicuous but real fear. "It seems so. However, the emperor doesn't seem to be interested in your affairs. But it's a bit difficult to do this. If the emperor is willing to come forward, everything can be easily resolved." Jiang Jiao was quite frank, he didn't want to Hiding something from Ye Shipeng.

"Thank God." Ye Shipeng breathed a sigh of relief. "It's best that the emperor doesn't care about this matter. If the emperor is still thinking about me, then my life will be gone. Everyone thinks that I should be a hero, but I would rather be a bear, as long as I can live well." "Don't be ridiculous. It's a good thing to be alive, but it's not easy for you to be a bear. You don't have the talent to be a bear." "Damn it, it takes talent to be a bear?" Both of them laughed at the words, and the strange feeling between them due to the lack of news disappeared.However, after listening to Jiang Jiao's detailed introduction and explanation of the situation, Ye Shipeng felt that the matter was much more complicated than he imagined.This also shows that his previous actions were too rash.

"Brother Jiang, I'm really sorry. I used to take myself too seriously and thought there was nothing I couldn't do, so I messed up your matter." "This is also my own fault." Jiang Jiao waved to Ye Shipeng, letting him listen to his own words. "Your brother's reputation is too great. In addition to the matter of the Supreme Emperor, I thought that there must be no worthless people under the great name. Who would have thought that your brother knows nothing about government affairs. If we could talk carefully last time, It won't get to where it is today. Your brother is here to share my worries, so I must get you out."

"Forget it!" Ye Shipeng stood up with difficulty, dragged the shackles and walked to the door. "Although our date is not at the right time, I am very happy to meet you. To be honest, although Song Jing brought me in, it is a blessing to have a prime minister like him in the Tang Dynasty. Fortunately, I am not decapitated. At most, he was exiled to the army for a few years. I heard from the guards who came back from the frontier that riding a horse and shooting gazelles in Mobei is very interesting, so I will try it too." Speaking of this, Ye Shipeng paused for a while, seeing that Jiang Jiao was still listening to him very intently, he emphasized his tone: "I have two things to ask you, one is to help me take care of Ruyi. I die, I have a responsibility to him, it is best to find a good family for her to marry."

Looking at Jiang Jiao's surprised expression, Ye Shipeng knew what he was thinking. Because of Ruyi's nonsense, almost everyone who knew them thought they were like a husband and wife.But he changed his mind again, forget it, let him do whatever he wants. "The second thing is to take good care of yourself. When I get tired of playing in Mobei in the future, if I want to go back to Chang'an, I have to rely on your power. Can you agree?" "You're asking me to be an unrighteous person, it's not like you're treating me as a friend." Jiang Jiao said seriously.

"Either way, you use your relationship, your power, and the emperor's favor for you to get me out of here, and then promote me to a second rank. At that time, you will most likely be relegated by the emperor because of power. , even arrested and imprisoned. One thing must be made clear, I will not be able to rescue you from prison at that time. Listen to me, don't take that righteous word so seriously, I have thought it through long ago, and I can be frank It's better to live a good life than anything else. Besides, I'll go to Mobei to play, and you will continue to be your minister, and the two of us will continue to live our good lives, isn't it a good thing?"

"Maybe you're right, but you don't understand the affairs of the court. I'll be in charge of the specifics." "But don't be confused. If you insist on helping me, I won't accept your favor. If you can't get me out, you'll get yourself in instead." Ye Shipeng now cherishes this friend who was born as a playboy. One cannot be angry, and in anger one is most likely to make mistakes.Song Jing was a little disturbed that he had arrested Ye Shipeng so rashly.What he didn't expect was that such a small case of a marketer would alarm the emperor.

Of course, the emperor didn't say anything specifically, but simply learned about the situation, and seemed to be rather disapproving of Ye Shipeng's charges. The emperor's personal interrogation made Song Jing discover that the charges he had made against Ye Shipeng were untenable.He has no real evidence and no reliable witnesses to cover up filth; the crime of disrupting the currency system of the Tang Dynasty comes from the establishment of a gambling club, but he never imagined that the gambling club was semi-official in nature, and what it supported was actually The central government of the Tang Dynasty was increasingly struggling with office expenses.It turned out that since the emperor came to the throne, the provinces in the central government have achieved great results in saving office expenses. To his surprise, the gap in office expenses was made up by gambling clubs.And this matter, as the leader of the courtiers, he didn't notice it, and he thought that he was saving money and the effect was remarkable.Thinking back to the emperor's inquiry about Ye Shipeng, Song Jing suddenly discovered a terrible fact. It turned out that the emperor knew very well about the gambling meeting to fill the office expenses.

This incident dealt a heavy blow to Song Jing's self-confidence.If the policies and reforms he has implemented over the past few years have hidden flaws like this incident, then his lofty ambition of revitalizing the Tang Dynasty may be wiped out in an instant. Tomorrow is the day to rest.Song Jing wanted to leave Zhengshitang as soon as possible, and he wanted to go back to Shengye Temple to think about it.What the hell happened?Make a mess of what's in front of you.