Chapter 1446 The whole story!

After a cup of tea, Ye Cheng had already left the imperial study, leaving Ye Mingsheng alone sitting on the chair, quietly digesting this sudden news!
According to Ye Cheng, Liu Baichuan was killed as a revenge killing. When Liu Baichuan was investigating the case, he arrested the two brothers Ye Nengwen and Ye Nengwu. Although Liu Baichuan let Ye Nengwen escape with the help of Ye Tie to Huo San, he served three years of hard labor and his brother Ye Nengwu was also executed for this.

Therefore, it is completely understandable that Ye Nengwen said he hated Liu Baichuan, and then took his nephew and son to seek revenge on Liu Baichuan!

Although this matter seems to make sense, Ye Mingsheng still feels that there are many doubts about this matter!

First of all, how did Ye Nengwen know that Liu Baichuan went to Ji County and met Liu Baichuan at Zhuji Restaurant?

Is this really such a coincidence?

Ye Mingsheng's first attitude towards this matter was skeptical!

The reason why Ye Mingsheng transferred Liu Baichuan back from Sichuan to report on his work this time was mainly because about a year ago, Yongliang reported that there were some unusual movements in the Golden Horde, and Luo Cong, a captain of Yongliang's coordination department, was currently performing very averagely in investigating intelligence on the Golden Horde!
Therefore, the Minister of Rites Su Yi and the Chief of Staff Zhao Han implicitly expressed to Ye Mingsheng their wish to strengthen intelligence investigations into the Golden Horde...
Ye Mingsheng also attached great importance to the opinions of Su Yi and Zhao Han. At that time, Ye Mingsheng considered replacing Luo Cong, but Wang Xuecheng expressed his support for Luo Cong, saying that Luo Cong was a backbone of the Coordination Office with rich experience and strong ability. If Luo Cong was replaced, there would be no more suitable candidate within the Coordination Office!
He will allocate more manpower and operating funds to the Yongliang Coordination Office to enhance its intelligence and reconnaissance capabilities against the Golden Horde!

After all, Wang Xuecheng is the director of the Coordination Office, so since he spoke up to protect Luo Cong and put forward suggestions for improvement, Ye Mingsheng also gave Wang Xuecheng face and adopted Wang Xuecheng's suggestions!
However, more than half a year ago, unusual movements broke out again in the palace of the Golden Horde, and the Yongliang Mediation Office was still slow to realize it. For this reason, Zhao Han once again wrote to Ye Mingsheng to express his idea of ​​strengthening intelligence investigations on the Golden Horde!

At this time, Ye Mingsheng had the idea of ​​replacing Luo Cong, but because Wang Xuecheng had said before, there was no suitable candidate to replace Luo Cong within the Coordination Office!
As for Guanzhong, it was the center of the former Luoan court. Although the Guanzhong clans have lost their former strength after being attacked several times by Ye Mingsheng in recent years, they are still alive and well, and still have certain strength and foundation!

One of the key points of Ye Mingsheng's layoffs this time is Guanzhong. When Qi Dechao, who was in charge of Guanzhong, returned to Beijing to report his position, he told Ye Mingsheng some of his thoughts, that is, although Daqian took Guanzhong by force, the grassroots organizations in Guanzhong did not change much...
Therefore, Qi Dechao told Ye Mingsheng very clearly at that time that he hoped Ye Mingsheng could send someone to help him deepen the reform in the Guanzhong region!

Qi Dechao's words were still very obscure. He just said that he would help him but did not specify what he would do. However, Ye Mingsheng could still hear the hidden meaning in his words.

There is great resistance to deepening reform, so if we want to continue deepening reform, we must remove these resistances!
So the question is, how to remove these obstacles?
There can be many answers to the question, gentle, conciliatory, tough and so on, but if you want to achieve immediate results, there is only one way, and that is to kill!
Qi Dechao also knew this method, so he asked Ye Mingsheng for help and asked Ye Mingsheng to send someone to help him do this!
Ye Mingsheng knew very well in his heart why Qi Dechao asked him to send someone to help him kill people in Guanzhong instead of doing it himself!
After all, although you have to kill people in order to deepen the reform, you can't kill all the Guanzhong clans. And because of some previous events, Qi Dechao has already severely offended the Guanzhong clans in order to carry out Ye Mingsheng's orders!

If he took up the butcher knife again now, Qi Dechao would really have an irreconcilable hatred with the Guanzhong clans. The spy planted by the Coordination Office next to Qi Dechao had reported this to Ye Mingsheng. Qi Dechao's wife Liu had repeatedly admonished Qi Dechao because of this matter!

Let Qi Dechao not be too harsh on the Guanzhong clans. Sometimes it's good to be ignorant. After all, you can't kill all the Guanzhong clans. They also have people in the court. Even if you are not afraid, don't forget that you have descendants...
It was under his wife's repeated exhortations that some of Qi Dechao's ideas underwent subtle changes, which ultimately prompted him to ask Ye Mingsheng to send someone to Guanzhong to assist him in deepening the reforms when he returned to Beijing to report on his post!

Ye Mingsheng was very disappointed with Qi Dechao's idea at first, but after being enlightened by Pei Zhixiu, Ye Mingsheng felt that Qi Dechao's behavior was normal and somewhat understandable!

After all, people like Hai Rui and Hai Gangfeng are very rare!

It was not easy for Qi Dechao to withstand the temptation in Guanzhong, not be corrupted by the lure of money and beauty, and still insist on working.

In addition, considering that Qi Dechao was one of the talents that Ye Mingsheng focused on training and was considered by Ye Mingsheng to be the future pillar of Daqian, although Ye Mingsheng did not agree to Qi Dechao's request at that time, he was privately considering who would be the most suitable person to send!
When these two things came together, Ye Mingsheng also felt that he could assign these two tasks to one person. After all, Yongliang and Guanzhong are adjacent to each other. Assigning one person to be responsible for it will be more conducive to coordinating resources from all aspects and more conducive to carrying out work!
So after Ye Mingsheng thought about it, he thought of Liu Baichuan!

When Huo San was still around, he had strongly recommended Liu Baichuan to Ye Mingsheng, saying that Liu Baichuan had made many achievements for the Coordination Office, had strong personal abilities, and was very loyal to Ye Mingsheng. He was an important backbone of the Coordination Office and Ye Mingsheng's loyal guard...
Because of Huo San's several recommendations, Ye Mingsheng also got to know Liu Baichuan. In the process of getting to know him, Ye Mingsheng also realized that Liu Baichuan was indeed a rare talent in intelligence work. Many victories of the Coordination Office in intelligence work were led by him. He was also Huo San's right-hand man in the Coordination Office!

Although in terms of merit, Liu Baichuan's merits are definitely enough to support his promotion to deputy director of the Coordination Office, but Ye Mingsheng took into consideration that after Wang Xuecheng left, Huo San already had the dominant position in the Coordination Office. If he promoted one of his confidants to be deputy director, it would further strengthen Huo San's control over the Coordination Office!

This would be a major hidden danger to the development of the Coordination Office, especially since Huo San and An Miaoyi were very close at the time!

So even though Huo San recommended him many times and Liu Baichuan had made enough contributions, Ye Mingsheng never promoted Liu Baichuan. He just compensated him financially and rewarded him with a lot of gold, silver, jewelry, houses, shops, etc.!

Later, Ye Mingsheng saw Huo San and An Miaoyi getting closer and closer, and finally had to kill them. He secretly executed Huo San and allowed Wang Xuecheng to return to the Coordination Office!

Wang Xuecheng and Huo San had been at odds for a long time, so naturally he looked down upon Huo San's trusted and beloved general Liu Baichuan, and directly arranged for Liu Baichuan to go to Sichuan!

Wang Xuecheng actually had evil intentions in doing this, and he wanted to kill someone with a borrowed knife. However, Liu Baichuan's ability was not exaggerated. Under his manipulation, Sichuan fell into civil strife, allowing the Fengwu Army to easily take over Sichuan without bloodshed...
This time, Liu Baichuan has made great contributions again. Therefore, many people in the Coordination Office and the court believe that Liu Baichuan should be promoted to deputy director of the Coordination Office!
But Wang Xuecheng naturally didn't like Liu Baichuan, and directly put Liu Baichuan in charge of the work of the Coordination Office in Sichuan and Shu, which was a complete exile of Liu Baichuan! In fact, Ye Mingsheng knew all of Wang Xuecheng's operations on Liu Baichuan, and Ye Mingsheng also acquiesced to Wang Xuecheng's appointment.

Liu Baichuan was brought up by Huo San, and he has a very close relationship with Huo San. It might be a bit of an exaggeration to say that the two of them are so close that they are like wearing the same pair of pants, but the difference is not much, the two are like real brothers.

Although Huo San died suddenly of an illness, many people knew the real cause of his death!

Therefore, considering the particularity of the work of the Coordination Office, Ye Mingsheng couldn't help but have some concerns about re-employing Liu Baichuan!

To Ye Mingsheng, Liu Baichuan is, in a sense, like a piece of chicken ribs, tasteless to eat and a pity to throw away!

Therefore, based on the principle of trusting people when employing them and not employing people if you don't trust them, Ye Mingsheng acquiesced to Wang Xuecheng's treatment of Liu Baichuan!

But when Yongliang and Guanzhong needed someone to take up the banner, Ye Mingsheng thought of Liu Baichuan, who was experienced and capable!

During the time that Liu Baichuan served in Sichuan, the inner guards had been secretly monitoring him and then reporting to the court. In the inner guards' reports, Liu Baichuan did not show too much sadness about Huo San's death, nor did he show any thoughts of investigating the truth of Huo San's death and avenging Huo San...

This also made Ye Mingsheng less worried about Liu Baichuan, and he also had the idea of ​​re-employing Liu Baichuan. After all, Liu Baichuan was indeed a rare talent in intelligence work and was able to do a good job in the tasks assigned to him!

Based on these considerations, Ye Mingsheng ordered Liu Baichuan to return to Beijing to report for his position. He also planned to contact Liu Baichuan in person. If there was no problem with the person, Ye Mingsheng planned to show great favor to Liu Baichuan and make him grateful for his kindness!

At the same time, considering that Wang Xuecheng had a strong prejudice against Liu Baichuan, Ye Mingsheng also planned to let Liu Baichuan be in charge of the Guanzhong and Yongliang Coordination Office, and appoint Liu Baichuan as the deputy director of the Coordination Office to report directly to himself. This would also prevent Wang Xuecheng from making moves behind the scenes and holding Liu Baichuan back!

Originally Ye Mingsheng was looking forward to Liu Baichuan's return to Beijing, but he didn't expect that Liu Baichuan would die like this, and his death was so close to Wang Xuecheng's death!
There are many similarities between the death of Liu Baichuan and the death of Wang Xuecheng. The murderers both seem to have normal motives. One is to retaliate against Wang Xuecheng for cheating on his wife and persecuting him, and the other is to retaliate against Liu Baichuan for killing his brother and imprisoning him for three years!

However, after careful investigation, various suspicious points were discovered, and there were too many details that could not stand up to scrutiny!
Ye Mingsheng has been in the underworld for so many years, he can feel the undercurrent, some people are playing games and the center of their game is the Coordination Office...

Thinking of this, a cold light flashed in Ye Mingsheng's eyes. He has been in the business for so many years and has summed up a lot of experience. One of them is that it is rare to be confused. This world is not black and white, and right and wrong are not so clear!
So it is important to turn a blind eye to some things!

But there are some things that you can never turn a blind eye to. Ye Mingsheng must make those people understand that there are some things that cannot be done!
Thinking of this, Ye Mingsheng called Ye Cheng in again, but this time Ye Mingsheng did not say anything, he just threw a token to Ye Cheng!
Ye Cheng was shocked when he got the token, but he immediately bowed and left the imperial study with the token. A stick of incense later, a man in gray walked into the imperial study quietly.

Ye Mingsheng asked directly:
"What are the recent movements of those people in the Coordination Office?"

When the man in gray heard Ye Mingsheng's question, he spoke without hesitation:
"Five days ago, Qianhu Ge Xiong went to see Deputy Director Ji and had a secret conversation with him for about half an hour!"

As soon as these words came out, Ye Mingsheng immediately asked:
"What did the two of them talk about?"

"Our people didn't hear too much. They just heard Ge Xiong persuade Deputy Director Ji to take the position. Ge Xiong said that he would fully support Deputy Director Ji to take the position. As long as Deputy Director Ji has an order, he, Ge Xiong, would go through fire and water without hesitation!"

After hearing this, Ye Mingsheng thought for a moment and asked back:
"Ge Xiong wants to be the deputy director?"

“For fear of alarming Deputy Director Ji, our people only dared to listen from a distance, so they didn’t hear the situation clearly, but the situation should be like this…”

(After the chapter was released yesterday, many book friends made comments, all of which criticized me. One of them was particularly angry and wrote several hundred words. Although these were all aimed at me, I still thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to express your thoughts.

I humbly accept everyone's criticisms and will try not to make similar mistakes in the future. But in fact, I have also thought of the points you mentioned, but because of the limited space, I have only left it to this chapter today. Finally, I wish you all good health and all the best! )