"Tang Chun, you have been wronged. Your bravery is commendable, and I understand it in my heart. With 20,000 troops and horses, we defeated 80,000 people and destroyed such a huge enemy. This is the first victory that our Yu Dynasty has won in recent years.
A great victory." When Emperor Yu said this, he suddenly stood up, glanced at the ministers with a serious look, and said, "Read the punishment order."
"The first punishment is that the commander-in-chief Yang Tianqi of the Southern Barbarian Military Command actually ignored Tang Chun's request for help and delayed the preparation of reinforcements. Moreover, he delayed the time for reporting the victory to the court. The Holy Emperor punished Yang Tianqi by demoting him to the rank of fourth-rank general and immediately led his family to 16
Children aged 10 years and above go to the Junshan battlefield to perform meritorious deeds.
The second punishment was that Cao Dongfang, the general stationed in the southwestern part of Nanman Province... was demoted to the rank of fourth-rank general and took his whole family to the battlefield of Junshan to pay for his crime and perform meritorious service.
The third punishment is that Cao Yong, the garrison of Dongxing County, actually saw the fierce fighting in his subordinate Daozi County and did not send reinforcements. His evil heart ignored the righteousness of our Yu Dynasty and beheaded in public..." After the purple-clothed guard read out the punishment order, the whole hall was filled with people.
There was silence all of a sudden.
"Your Majesty, Tang Chun has made great contributions to the country this time. Shouldn't he be appropriately rewarded?" At this time, the patron king spoke.
"Yes, clear distinction between rewards and punishments is the foundation of a dynasty." Master Yun Conggang said.
"Tang Chun should be given a heavy reward..."
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"Tang Chun, you have made great contributions to the country this time. The Holy Emperor has made an exception to promote you to the fourth rank of national protector general, commanding the Huangqi camp of the capital's forbidden army. You are promoted to viscount, and you are granted the title of Dongxing County. You are promoted to the second-class sword-bearing guard and commander.
The guards with swords in Huangqi camp were rewarded with three high-quality Yuan stones, 10 top-grade Yuan stones, a thousand taels of gold, and 50 pieces of cloth..." A series of heavy rewards made the officials pay attention.
Immediately, the ministers congratulated each other. However, most of them had a sour taste. As for King Yongding and Li Guogong, they looked on with cold eyes.
After Tang Chun thanked him, the emperor asked: "Tang Chun, you don't have a house in the capital, right?"
"His Majesty, I am preparing to buy a small house as a temporary residence for my head." Tang Chun replied.
"Hahaha, read out the edict of the Fire Palace." The emperor smiled and gestured to the eunuch to read out.
"The Empress of Huogong carried out the imperial edict when Tang Chun came to Daozi County to receive the emperor's decree. The decree of Huogong will benefit the people of our Dayu Dynasty. The empress was sympathetic to his great achievements and merits, so she decided to reward him with a rich house. The capital city was sunk.
Wansi's mansion is now vacant, and the Fire Palace has bought it back and decided to reward Tang Chun as the new residence of the Tang Dynasty. I hope Tang Chun can continue to be grateful to our Yu Dynasty..." After reading this edict, Tang Chun suddenly broke into a cold sweat.
Of course, Shen Wansi's mansion was a mansion, and he was as rich as anyone in the country during his lifetime. However, recently, all the houses were wiped out. There are many ghosts inside. No one dares to live in it. Empress Song of the Fire Palace gave such a reward, which is really a great reward.
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Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed that most of the ministers were looking at him with pity. The other half were looking at him with a sense of happiness and misfortune. And Duke Li Guogong, the king of Yongding, was sneering.
"Thanks to the Fire Palace for the generous reward, Tang Chun will remember it in his heart." Tang Chun gritted his teeth in his heart and thanked him with his mouth.
"Tang Chun, the empress is grateful for your contribution to the imperial court and hopes that you will move into a new house within seven days to enjoy the royal favor." The eunuch added.
"Thank you, empress, for showing sympathy to me. I will move in within seven days." Tang Chun thanked him.
"The emperor rewarded you with a jelly bean, but the Fire Palace brought a brick and threw it at you. Maybe this is the art of balance that the emperor also needs to take into account?" Li Bei sighed after hearing this.
"The emperor has promoted you as a fourth-grade general. The bet between the three princesses has been lost, which means that the Fire Palace has lost. This has lost a lot of face, and the royal family has also lost face. But this is a major matter of the country, and the emperor still has I have firmly supported you. But I have to earn some face for the Fire Palace. So Shen Wansi's 'mansion' falls on you. Good luck and bad luck come together." The fat man was also angry. However.
"Next door to Mahler, who cares? I'm so lucky that all bad luck will be wiped out. We can capture Fire Orchid's army of 50,000 people, and we're not afraid of a small house." Tang Chun. He stood up and punched the sky with his fist. With a click, the birds on the giant tree flew away in panic.
"We have to prepare immediately, we only have seven days. Shen Wansi's family was wiped out, so there must be a mess in there." Mei Tieyan said.
"Come on, let's go over and take a look right away." Tang Chun looked determined.
Several people mounted their horses and headed straight to Shen Wansi's mansion.
"It's really big. Shen Wansi's mansion is on the edge of the most prosperous area in the capital. It can be considered a golden area. It runs no less than four thousand meters from east to west, and three thousand meters from north to south.
The courtyard wall of his mansion is seven or eight meters high, and is entirely made of blue boulders the size of a van. The courtyard wall is five meters thick, and vehicles can be driven on the wall. Its strength can withstand the violent attacks of the powerful innate Dzogchen masters without collapsing. .
There is also a pavilion-like sentry residence every 100 meters away. Normally, there are innate masters here to protect it. The strictness of the defense is completely based on the scaled-down imperial palace.
Of course, Shen Wansi's mansion would not dare to exceed the imperial palace, as that would be a matter of overstepping the rules. However, the ancestors of the Shen family once produced a second-grade official, so it can still be built according to the standards of a second-grade official.
Originally, this mansion was a thing from a thousand years ago. No one accused Shen Wansi of exceeding the standard for his mansion. In addition, he was extremely wealthy, had strong connections in the capital, and had many contacts with princes and nobles.
Naturally, everything has been peaceful for so many years. I didn't expect that someone would wipe out my family overnight. In these years, it can only be said that everything is unpredictable. Wealth cannot be permanent.
It's just that most of the walls of this courtyard have collapsed now, and ordinary people can run in. However, the yin energy inside is too strong, and no one dares to get in and find some good goods. After all, life has a greater impact than money. Some.
Even the residents who were a hundred meters away from Shen Wansi were so frightened that they moved away, fearing that they would be unlucky and have their families wiped out. How many people could afford to offend Shen Wansi's entire family?
The fat man kicked it away, and a mouse was kicked and fell into the grass, squeaking and dying. The door was intact, but the word "Shen's Mansion" was all broken, and there was only half of the word "Mansion". It also represents its former glory.
"Haha, the word 'Fu' can be used just by modifying it. Just add the word 'Tang' and it will be ready." The fat man was having fun in his misery. Several people went in and found that the rockery, pavilion and small pond were all collapsed. It seemed that something had happened. It looked like a major robbery. It felt a bit like the Old Summer Palace being robbed. There were broken wood and stone beams everywhere.
After patrolling around, I didn't find a single building that was still habitable. They all collapsed and turned into a pile of ruins.
"Why do people live here?" The fat man frowned.
"The destruction was really clean. Who on earth has such a deep hatred for Shen Wansi?" Liangdouzi said.
"Wealth attracts people's hearts, but it is also the root cause of being too rich." Luo Pan said.
"So, as long as you have enough money. Talking too much will make people jealous." The fat man said with a smile.
"Fat man, go and invite more workers right away. Let's build a two-story wooden building for the time being. If we work overnight, we can build one in seven days." Tang Chun said, and they selected one that they were satisfied with.
The position determines the base.
A few people just started doing what they said. Fatty went to recruit workers, and Tang Chun and others started to level the foundation themselves. For these experts, lifting tens of thousands of kilograms of stones is not a big problem. There are a lot of discarded stones here, and there is also a lot of wood.
, the raw materials are sourced locally, so you don’t have to worry too much.
While he was working, there was the sound of rapid horse hooves at the door.
"General Tang, on the order of the patron king, I have brought some guards and workers over to help you clean up the garden." A guard from the patron palace looked respectful and said after cupping his fists in salute. There were hundreds of people behind him. He also brought some construction materials.
Saw tools. And a batch of good lumber.
Tang Chun stopped being pretentious, nodded, and sent his own guards to arrange the cleanup work. Less than half an hour later, Sihaizhuang actually sent hundreds of people to help with the cleanup. Not long after, a group of people waiting for Master Cai's Mansion
The eldest son, Cai Qiang, also sent dozens of people over. Suddenly, hundreds of people were working at the same time, and the Shen Mansion immediately became lively.
After summing up, we decided to use bricks and wood structures. In ancient times, there was a special wood glue raw material for bonding blue bricks, which was almost as effective as cement. Once it sticks to the bricks and it doesn't dry, just bake it with fire, but this wood glue
The price is dozens of times that of cement.
However, these raw materials were provided by Sihaizhuang. The house was designed by Mr. Tang himself, using a modern reinforced concrete structure.
On the afternoon of the next day, Tang Chun took Mei Tieyan Liangdouzi and several guards from the Forbidden Army on the flying eagle and hurried to his hometown. Because Tang Chun wanted to bring his mother back to live together. This did not happen before Tang Chun
Spring has always been painful like thorns on the back of a stalk.
Three days later, the flying eagle landed safely in Yuye County. Yuye County is where my mother's natal family is located. My mother's natal family, Meijiabao, is considered one of the first-class wealthy people in the local area. It's just because the Mei family is afraid of being implicated that they want to go back to their natal family.
The mother, who was living temporarily, was kicked out of the house, and the Mei family announced that it had severed ties with her mother, Mei Lan.
"Oh, my mother is fine." Tang Chun looked at Niucun, a small mountain village far away from Yuye County. His mother temporarily lives in this remote mountain village. Currently, two maids and the old housekeeper Tang Mu live with her.
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Niu Village is indeed very small and poor, with only twenty or thirty houses scattered around. Moreover, they are all thatched houses, not even a brick house. Looking at Niu Village, Tang Chun's eyes became moist.
"No, something might have happened." Mei Tieyan suddenly shouted. Tang Chun glanced over and became jealous. Because, he found that the small courtyard where his mother lived was filled with villagers numbering fifty or sixty, holding hoes and sticks.
He was confronting a group of people.
The mother, who was wearing a rough cloth and supported by two maids, was surrounded by villagers in the center. Facing the villagers were a group of domestic slaves. Tang Chun, who was at the head, actually knew him. Isn’t that guy the iron man of his second brother Tang Hong?
Liu Hong, the follower of the pole.
Although Liu Hong looks short and fat, this guy is actually the eldest son of Liu Lin, the governor of Langzhou County, his father's fiefdom. In the past, the power of the Marquis Mansion was at its peak, and at that time, Liu Hong had been following Tang Hong.