Chapter three hundred and eighty sixth, fierce generals like tigers
When Yang Peng returned to the lobby of the left-behind mansion, Zhan Jinguo was waiting in the hall, and there was also an honest young man in casual clothes. He was actually an officer under Zhan Jinguo, named Wang Zhan. Don't look at it.
He looks honest and honest, but he is actually the person responsible for monitoring the supervisor Xue Dongpan.
When the two saw Yang Peng coming in, they quickly clasped their fists and saluted. Yang Peng walked up to them and asked, "What's going on with our Lord Supervisor?"
Wang Zhan cupped his fists and said: "Reporting to the general, Xue Dongpan secretly sent a messenger with the intention of sneaking back to Tokyo with materials about us. We discovered it. Just now, my subordinates led someone to capture this person. Search him.
I got several letters and a memorial." After saying that, he handed over the letter and a memorial.
Yang Peng picked up the memorial and looked at it, then looked at the letters separately, and sneered: "I didn't expect that this Xue Dongpan's claws are really long enough, and he actually learned so many things!" Zhan Jinguo asked with clasped fists.
"Brother, how should we deal with this matter?" Yang Peng thought for a while and said decisively: "Arrest Xue Dongpan and his entourage immediately!" Zhan Jinguo clasped his fists in agreement and left quickly, followed by Wang Zhan.
Already.
When Xue Dongpan was reading at home, the door was suddenly knocked open, and more than a hundred ferocious soldiers from the Kingdom of Zhan Jin rushed in. Seeing this scene, Xue Dongpan frowned and shouted: "General Zhan, you are so stupid
What are you doing? Get out!" Zhan Jinguo clasped his fists coldly and said, "Master Supervisor, I'm sorry!" Then with a wave of his hand, several soldiers immediately stepped forward and took Xue Dongpan down. Xue Dongpan naturally
Knowing what was going on, he kept yelling: "Yang Peng, you are such a wolf-hearted and rebellious traitor! How have the officials ever treated you badly? How dare you commit trouble!..."
Xue Dongpan was imprisoned in the dungeon and continued to curse until he was hoarse. Soon after, Yang Peng, accompanied by Duan Zhixian and Zhan Jinguo, came to the dungeon and saw the jailed supervisor Xue Dongpan.
As soon as Xue Dongpan saw Yang Peng, he immediately jumped up with wide eyes, ran to the fence, stretched out his hand to catch Yang Peng, his expression was extremely angry and crazy. These are loyal ministers, their loyalty is so sincere
, their anger is so compelling! No matter what era, such people are extremely rare and admirable!
"Master Xue, I advise you to calm down." Yang Peng said lightly.
Zhao Song's loyalty is so fierce! But now Zhao Song can be said to be causing harm to the country and the people. If you are loyal to Zhao Song, aren't you helping Zhou to abuse and harm the people!"
"My father is the master of law and order. Loyalty to the king is unconditional! It's ridiculous that you, a rebellious minister and traitor, can talk so shamelessly in front of me!" Yang Peng smiled, "If you put it this way, no matter what the emperor did wrong, we should endure it and we shouldn't.
Is it right to resist?" "Of course! Is there any problem with this?"
"Then I don't understand. Since no matter what the emperor did wrong, the subjects should endure it and should not resist, then why did Zhao Kuangyin usurp the kingdom of the orphan and the widowed mother? Speaking of which, the orphaned and widowed mother had never done anything like this.
Anything that is unethical!"
Xue Dongpan frowned, and after a long while he said: "That is destiny!" "Oh, destiny is destiny. Isn't this an excuse? Has anyone heard God speak? If this can also be a reason,
Then there is no problem with what I did today, because I am also destined by destiny!"
Xue Dongpan glared at Chen Xiao, but there was some hesitation in his eyes. Yang Peng smiled and said: "Since the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, how many dynasties have the world changed? If what you insist on is really correct.
, the current kingdom should be returned to the royal family of the Xia Dynasty. If you say that Xia Jie was cruel and unkind and lost the qualification to own the world, then I want to ask you, are Zhao and Song still qualified to own the world today?"
Xue Dongpan frowned and was silent for a long time. He raised his head and said, "quibble!" Yang Peng said with a smile, "I don't expect you to figure these things out right away. You have plenty of time."
Xue Dongpan showed surprise, "You won't kill me?" Yang Peng said calmly: "If you were like Master Pang, I would kill you immediately. It's a pity that you are not, you are a rare animal! Someone like you
There are already too few people. If I kill you, wouldn't there be even fewer people?" Turning around to leave, he glanced at Xue Dongpan and said, "Just stay here well. Maybe the development of the current situation will allow you to
The point of view has changed. By the way, there is one thing you need to know. The men you sent to Tokyo have been intercepted by my people. So you don’t have to think about that aspect." After saying that, Yang Peng walked outside.
, Zhan Jinguo and Duan Zhixian followed closely behind.
Xue Dongpan came back to his senses and shouted at Yang Peng's back: "Yang Peng, who are you? Who are you?" Yang Peng and others returned to the lobby of the left-behind residence, and Duan Zhixian asked: "Brother, are you?
Do you want to keep Xue Dongpan locked up all the time?" Yang Peng walked up and sat down, rubbing his temples, "Hey, this guy really gives me a headache! Just keep him locked up for now." Duan Zhixian said carelessly: "Xue Dongpan
Pan is a good official, but he is very pedantic and makes people angry!"
Yang Peng smiled. Qian Letian came in quickly from the outside, clasped his fists and said: "General." Yang Peng glanced at him, "Do you know about Xue Dongpan?" "General, my subordinates have already
knew."
Yang Peng pointed to the seals of the supervisory army on the desk that originally belonged to Xue Dongpan, and said to Qian Letian: "These seals originally belonged to Xue Dongpan. I give them to you now. You have to do what he did every other day.
A report will be sent to the capital in two months." "Yes.
Yang Peng was thinking about these messy things, and his mind was in a mess. Han Bing came over and coughed. Yang Peng took back his thoughts, looked at Han Bing, and asked with a smile: "Is it you?" Han Bingbing said coldly.
He asked: "I heard that you arrested Xue Dongpan?"
Yang Peng smiled bitterly and said: "Why does it seem like everyone knows about this?" "Huh! If you don't want others to know, you have to do nothing but yourself! Let me ask you, what do you want to do with Xue Dongpan?" "That's no big deal.
"?" Han Bing stared and said, "You want to kill him?" Yang Peng smiled coldly. Han Bing was anxious, "You can't kill him! He is a good official! If you kill him, I, I will...
…”
Yang Peng said calmly: "Does it mean that if I kill him, you will kill me? It doesn't matter, you are going to kill me anyway." Han Bing stared at Yang Peng, looking very angry and at a loss.
Yang Peng thought Han Bing looked like this very interesting, and he didn't know if it was something wrong. He found that he was obsessed with teasing Han Bing. Yang Peng suddenly laughed, "I'm just teasing you, I don't want to kill him."
What Xue Dongpan means: What a pity it would be to kill a rare animal like him!"
Han Bing got angry for no reason and shouted angrily: "Yang Peng, you are so hateful!" After cursing, he turned and left, obviously looking a little crazy. Yang Peng looked at Han Bing's beautiful figure and smiled, and took a photo
He patted his cheeks and muttered: "Teasing a beautiful woman is nothing, it's really a good sport!"
At night, Han Bing sat down on the edge of the bed. He slowly pulled out the dagger tied to his thigh. He placed the gleaming blade on Yang Peng's neck, with an almost crazy light in his beautiful eyes. "I just want to
With just one cut, great revenge was avenged. Who could have imagined that the life of the famous general is now entirely in my hands."
Han Bing wanted to cut him off with a knife to settle the grudge between the two, but he couldn't do it for some reason. Han Bing frowned and sat there in a daze. Yang Peng suddenly said something. Han Bing was startled.
, quickly retracted the dagger. Looking towards Yang Peng, he found that his eyes were closed and his mouth was moving and making indistinct sounds. Only then did he realize that he was talking in his sleep. I felt relieved for no reason. Seeing the quilt covering him
He lifted his arm off and said angrily: "It's hard for such a big man to sleep properly!" After saying that, he put the dagger aside, stood up, and bent down to cover him with a quilt.
Yang Peng vaguely felt that it was Yang Tong or Yang Jiumei who leaned down to cover herself with a quilt. He couldn't help but stretched out his arms and hugged her body. Han Bing was suddenly attacked and was shocked, waiting for her reaction.
When she came over, she found that she was already lying in his arms. Han Bing was stunned, and then a feeling she had never experienced before came to her heart, making her panic.
Han Bing's face turned red and she shouted: "Let me go!" But she found that Yang Peng hugged her and fell asleep again, sleeping soundly. Han Bing was funny and angry at the same time, and hurriedly struggled from
Yang Peng came out of Yang Peng's arms and stood beside the bed, her face flushed and her heart pounding. Then she frowned and murmured: "He is my enemy, and I will one day seek revenge on him!" After the words fell, look.
He glanced at Yang Peng, frowned, turned around and left the room.
The next morning, Yang Peng got out of bed and felt some heavy pain in his head. He took a deep breath, stood up, and inadvertently found an exquisite dagger lying on the edge of the bed. Yang Peng was stunned, and bent down to pick up the dagger.
He looked at the dagger and murmured with a smile: "Isn't this the dagger I gave back to Han Bing?" It turned out that this dagger was the one Han Bing used when he sneaked into Yang Peng's mansion in Shangjing to assassinate Yang Peng.
As a result, the operation failed for some reason and the dagger was left behind. Yang Peng obtained the dagger and later gave it back to Han Bing.
Yang Peng smiled and put the dagger in his arms. Han Bing, dressed in a warrior uniform and with a ponytail, came to the study and saw Yang Peng's back in front of him. Many complicated emotions arose in his heart and he asked coldly: "
Are you looking for me?"
Yang Peng turned around. Han Bing immediately saw the dagger in Yang Peng's hand, and was shocked. Then she remembered that she left the dagger in Yang Peng's room last night. She felt a sense of relief.
She couldn't help but thought to herself: It's okay, let's settle the matter between him and me today. She thought Yang Peng wanted to settle a score with her.
Yang Peng walked up to Han Bing. Han Bing didn't wait for Yang Peng to speak, and said calmly: "I entered your room last night. I wanted to kill you!" Yang Peng asked with a smile: "Then why didn't you do it?"
Han Bing's eyes showed confusion, and then he glared and shouted: "Auntie suddenly doesn't want to do anything!" Yang Peng laughed. Han Bing's cheeks turned red for no reason, and he said angrily: "You can deal with me how you want!"
Yang Peng stretched out his left hand and grabbed Han Bing's right hand. Han Bing trembled like an electric shock. Yang Peng put the dagger into her hand, lowered his head and whispered softly in her ear: "Next time, remember not to use the crime tool."
Stay at the scene!" Han Bing's face turned red, she was ashamed, angry and embarrassed. She glared at Yang Peng fiercely, turned around and ran away as if running away.
Yang Peng looked at Han Bing's moving back and smiled. "I didn't know what it meant at first, but I found out after listening to the explanation from a fan who had read the book. The first sentence is the word "Li", and the word "dong" in the second sentence is the word "Yuanhao".
, the first two sentences mean that Li Yuanhao will be the emperor, and the last two sentences mean that they will occupy Xiazhou and become the king and hegemony. We didn’t take this seriously at first, but we didn’t expect that something would happen soon. The rebels seemed to have
As if they had emerged from the ground, they occupied Xiazhou in one fell swoop, then became a prairie fire, and finally captured Yinzhou in one go. Now Li Yuanhao's army must have captured more territory."
Duan Zhixian said gloatingly: "This Li Yuanhao is also a hero. He dared to raise an army to rebel against the imperial court!" Everyone agreed. Qian Letian said: "General Duan is right, but this person is not worthy of imitation." Duan Zhixian said angrily: "
What do you mean by this? Is it right to shrink your neck and be bullied by the court into keeping silent?"
Qian Letian said with a smile: "That's not what I meant. The emperor is ordered by God, and God's will is benevolent. Since the emperor and the court are corrupt and ignorant, they have violated God's will, and everyone can replace them!..." Duan Zhixian laughed loudly, "This
That's the right sentence! I think eldest brother can replace that foolish king! If that foolish king is the emperor, can't eldest brother still be unable to do it?" All the brothers agreed one after another.
Qian Letian smiled, "My lord, it's natural to do it. But now is not the time. Acting recklessly like Li Yuanhao is actually harmful to others and yourself! Now that it is rising in the north, it is about to become a giant that far surpasses the Liao Kingdom.
Threats, under such circumstances, rash internal fighting is likely to allow foreign tribes to reap profits. Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, they have always been more vigilant about internal troubles than foreign troubles. If they rashly raise the banner of rebellion, they will inevitably be strangled by the Song court.
Although the Song Dynasty was decayed, the lean camels were bigger than horses, and they strangled them with all their strength. Not to mention Fang La, even we couldn't bear it! Therefore, we must act cautiously, not only to accumulate the power to continue to unify the world, but also to temporarily avoid fighting with the Song Dynasty.
Direct confrontation from the imperial court!"
Chen Jie said angrily: "Sir, what you said is a bit exaggerated! There are only people like Master Pang in the Song Dynasty. The generals only know how to be greedy for money and don't know how to fight. The soldiers generally lack training and are afraid of life and death. What is there to fear from such a court?"
"
Qian Letian shook his head, "General Chen's words are wrong! It's not that the Song Dynasty didn't have good generals who were good at fighting, such as Yang Yanzhao of Bianjing, Gao Hu, and Zhe Daoping. These are all mature, prudent, courageous and resourceful people. Song Dynasty
It’s not that the court is without generals and talents, it’s because the treacherous ministers are in charge and the emperor is fatuous, causing the pearls to fall into dust!”
Qian Letian said: "Once the emperor and those traitors see that the situation is out of control, they will definitely appoint these good generals. The outcome will be really unpredictable. And when we are in internal conflict, I am afraid that the Liao Kingdom will take advantage of the situation and move in."
At that time, the country was overturned, whether it was a coward, a treacherous king, or a loyal minister or a righteous man, all of them would become slaves to the subjugation of the country!" Everyone frowned and felt heavy.
Yang Peng returned to the yard behind, and all the girls came to greet him. Yang Peng gave each of them a long wet kiss, which made the whole house happy. Those pairs of eyes filled with affection and anger almost gave Yang Peng a try.
Melted. The whole day, Yang Peng didn't go anywhere, didn't deal with anything, he just stayed in the backyard of the left-behind mansion and talked lovingly with the women.
The next morning, Yang Peng discussed matters with Qian Letian, Zhan Jinguo, Duan Zhixian, and Huyan Chijin in the study. Qian Letian reported to Yang Peng the expenses and civil affairs: "In the past three months, 156,000 yuan of newly reclaimed farmland has been
There are more than 1,000 hectares, including 100,000 hectares of official land, and the rest are obtained by the common people from reclaiming wasteland. In accordance with the general's intention, my subordinates have exempted the common people from taxes on newly reclaimed wasteland for three years. In the past month, customs duties and commercial tax revenue have increased more than the previous month.
It has increased by 20%, and business activities are booming; in the past three months, there have been an increase of 500,000 new people, all of whom have migrated from all over the Central Plains. My subordinates have resettled them in eight states respectively. Now the total population of eight states
It has exceeded two million. As for expenses, in the past three months, the military's expenses totaled one million, one hundred and twenty-nine thousand, three hundred and forty-five taels."
Duan Zhixian curled his lips and said angrily: "You are so stingy, you even calculated the fraction!" Everyone couldn't help but smile, but Qian Letian said seriously: "Although the number is small, it is related to military expenditures.
No big deal can be careless!" Duan Zhixian was in awe, "You are right, I was wrong!"
Yang Peng smiled and said: "Duan Zhixian, don't cause trouble, Qian Letian, you continue." "Yes. The military expenditure is 1,129,345 taels; policies to benefit the people and various internal affairs
The expenses are six hundred and ninety-three thousand six hundred and twenty-nine taels." Then he took out a booklet from his sleeve and presented it with both hands, "This is a detailed item of various expenses. Please take a look at it, General."
Yang Peng took the folder, opened it and looked at it briefly, then closed it and put it on the desk. He thought: "The amount of money flowing is so huge, if there is no effective supervision, I am afraid there will be many corruption phenomena." Qian Letian deeply thought.
He took it for granted and sighed, "My subordinates have investigated and dealt with many cases of this kind of thing. They are all cases of embezzlement of public funds, corruption and perversion of the law!..."
Duan Zhixian stared and shouted: "What?! We also have corrupt and corrupt officials here?" Zhan Jinguo sighed, "How can we avoid this kind of thing!" Duan Zhixian stood up in shock, "No! These people must be slaughtered.
It's over!" Yang Peng laughed and said: "Zhixian, don't get excited, sit down!" Duan Zhixian waved his hand, "I can't sit still!"
Yang Peng said angrily: "You can't solve the problem by babbling like this! I have a solution for this matter, so you don't have to get excited." Duan Zhixian sat down after hearing what Yang Peng said, "Brother, what can you do? You can't.
Let these bastards destroy the country we finally conquered!"
Yang Peng looked at Qian Letian, "What do you think?" Qian Letian said: "There are two ways. One is to strictly investigate corruption. Once found, we will deal with it severely and never tolerate it. However, this method can only treat the symptoms, but it cannot cure it.
To cure the root cause, we must build a proper supervision system so that they can detect problems in time and eliminate the cancer attached to the military and political system as soon as possible."
Yang Peng said: "It's consistent with what I thought. But have you ever thought about it, the supervision system of the Song Dynasty is not perfect, but now it is still in power. Why?" Qian Letian frowned and thought: "That's because the emperor is stupid.
."
"Come on! This is the crux of the problem! In fact, since the Qin and Han Dynasties, the imperial court's supervision system has been very complete, but why do old problems appear repeatedly? Every once-splendid dynasty cannot escape the fate of destruction.
?It’s because of the emperor! This is the biggest weakness! No matter how reasonable the government structure is, as long as the emperor is a bastard, everything will be in vain! Therefore, the only way to solve the vicious cycle of chaos in the Central Plains for thousands of years is to solve this weakness! No
If this weakness is solved, the current situation of monsters and monsters taking over the people and making life difficult for them will continue to appear!"
Everyone felt that what Yang Peng said was very reasonable and couldn't help but nodded. Duan Zhixian frowned and said: "I think there is no way to solve this problem! Emperors will always have bastards from generation to generation! No matter how brave and wise the eldest brother is, there is no guarantee that he will give birth to a child.
Come on, you beast!" Everyone couldn't help but smile. Yang Peng said angrily: "Duan Zhixian, are you cursing me?"
Duan Zhixian chuckled, "I'm telling the truth!" Yang Peng nodded, "You're right, no matter how great a person is, he can't guarantee that there won't be bastards among his descendants! So can we change our thinking and give in from ancient times?
Are you looking for a way through the inheritance system?" Qian Letian's eyes lit up, then he became sad again, shaking his head and saying: "I'm afraid this won't work, no matter how wise the king is, he would not be willing to hand over his throne to someone with a foreign surname!
"
Duan Zhixian said: "So many things need to be changed. The first one is to change the ideology and morality of loyalty to the emperor. The king is wise, and there is nothing wrong with being loyal to him, but is it necessary to be loyal to a fatuous king? This idea of loyalty to the emperor is inherently a paradox.
, created by those emperors to ensure that they and their descendants rule the country! Therefore, if this is not changed, there is no way to solve the emperor problem."
"Don't people need to be loyal?" Zhan Jinguo asked in confusion. Yang Peng shook his head, "Of course people must be loyal, but not to the emperor, but to the nation and the country." Everyone's eyes lit up. Yang Peng thought.
Said: "Achieving this will not be achieved overnight. It will take a long time and a lot of effort, and the resistance encountered will certainly not be small! This alone is not enough. The government and the army must also be transformed so that
They become a force loyal to the country instead of being loyal to a certain person or a certain family. Only with these can we ensure the smooth implementation of the abdication system and ensure that the king neither dares nor can pass the throne to his son!"
Everyone was lost in thought, their thoughts extending along the opening that Yang Peng opened for them, as if they saw a bright future that was completely different from historical records. They couldn't help but be excited, and also vaguely worried. Duan Zhixian swallowed with his eyes wide open.
, "His grandma's! The Sa family finally knows what to do!"
Yang Peng smiled and said: "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, and we must start to do it now." Duan Zhixian clasped his fists and said: "Brother, just tell me whatever you want! I won't hesitate to mess up the whole family!" Yang Peng told Zhan Jinguo and Duan Zhixian
He said: "The education of the army has already started. The reason why our army shows unique momentum and combat effectiveness can be said to be because of this. In the future, education will need to be strengthened. I will write a teaching material for you in a while.
In addition, political commissars must be institutionalized, ranging from regiments to small teams, and moral principles must be set up. Morality must be people who are firmly loyal to the country and the nation, educating soldiers in peacetime, and boosting morale in wartime."
What happened after all? Let’s look at the breakdown next time.