Jiangdu Palace, the imperial study

Yang Gao looked coldly at Pei Lin and Fang Baihua who were pressed to the ground, and sneered disdainfully. This Pei Lin is really arrogant, he has been jumping up and down in Jiangdu for so many days, he really thinks that Jiangdu City is his back garden. If it weren't for the long-line fishing for big fish, all the Chang'an spies among the scholars who participated in the imperial examination would have been dug out, and Pei Lin would have been locked up in the prison of the Criminal Department ten days ago.

When Pei Lin was escorted into the imperial study, he still wanted to pretend to be tough, and he stood proudly and did not kneel. But how could the guards in the imperial study allow Pei Lin to be so rude, and immediately stepped forward and pressed Pei Lin to the ground, Pei Lin struggled to stand up, and could only stare at Yang Gao with angry eyes.

Yang Gao glanced at Pei Lian coldly and sneered, "Isn't this Lord Pei Lianpei, the palace supervisor of Jinyang Palace?" Why did you get to Jiangdu? ”

The palace supervisor of Jinyang Palace was Pei Lian's official position in the Sui Dynasty, and Yang Gao called him so just to ridicule Pei Lin as a second minister.

After all, Pei Lin is a literati, and the most important thing in a literati's life is reputation, hearing Yang Gao call himself like this, Pei Lian's face turned gloomy, and he snorted: "Yang Gao's child, the old man is no longer the minions of your Yang family, the old man has abandoned the secret and returned to the Tang Dynasty, and is now the right servant of the Tang Dynasty, the Duke of Wei." ”

"Oh?" Yang Gao smiled, "I didn't expect that Lord Pei has been promoted, so I have to congratulate Master Pei, it's just that a small palace eunuch in my Da Sui can become Li Yuan's Xiangguo, it seems that Li Yuan's subordinates are very short of people!" ”

"Hahaha!"

Several of the guards on the side couldn't help but laugh.

Pei Lian's face turned red, and he scolded sharply: "Yang Gao'er, it is clear that your faint father Yang Guang has no knowledge of people, but this time I Pei Lian is full of talent, but he has always been subservient. The Tang Emperor knew how to make good use of people, what is the ridiculous thing about promoting well-educated people? ”

Syllable!

When Yang Gao heard this, he immediately got up, pointed at Pei Xiao and scolded sharply: "Pei Xuanzhen, there is really a shameless person like you in this world. Don't think that I don't know your details, just with your little political achievements, which point is worthy of full talent? Zhan Xiongfei, slap this old thief for me! ”

"Yes!"

Zhanzhao was born in the rivers and lakes, and he has always been jealous and hateful, and he naturally hates Pei Lian, a shameless minister, and after listening to Yang Gao's words, he rolled up his sleeves and walked towards Pei Lian.

Pei Lin looked at Zhan Zhao, who was coming step by step, and his face was as frightened as earth, but he still shouted unforgivingly: "Yang Gao'er, I am the first important minister under the command of Emperor Tang, if you dare to humiliate the old man like this, Emperor Tang will definitely not let you go!" ”

"How dare you threaten me?" Yang Gao sneered, "Xiongfei, give me a hard slap, wait until this old thief can talk well, you will stop!" ”

"Yes!" Zhan Zhao responded, raised his right hand high, and slammed it towards Pei Lian's old face.

Syllable!

With a crisp and loud slap, Zhanzhao's force value was as high as 96 points, the power of this slap can be imagined, Pei Xiao was dizzy for a long time before he came to his senses, and a bright red blood mark was added to his face, and the pain was hot.

"Yang Gao'er, the old man swears to you... Yes! “

Before Pei Lin finished speaking, Zhan Zhao had already slapped Pei Lin on the right cheek with his backhand, and the force of this slap strengthened a few points, directly beating Pei Lin to the point that his eyes were full of stars, and he couldn't slow down for a long time.

Yang Gao looked coldly at Pei Yuan, who was slapped and punished, and only felt a burst of happiness in his heart, among the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Yang Gao hated Li Yuan the most, followed by Pei Lian.

Pei Lian's ability is extremely poor, but he has a strong sense of utilitarianism, and he can become the prime minister completely by some unsightly means.

Pei Lin and Li Yuan were friends of wine and meat when they were in Jinyang, and in order to please Li Yuan, they also gave him the palace maid privately, and often gambled and drank with Li Yuan day and night, and they were extravagant. After Jinyang raised troops, Pei Lin sent five hundred palace maids to Li Yuan and asked him to march with him.

Li Yuan himself is extremely lustful, and Pei Lin naturally makes him quite satisfied with these things, so after Li Yuan ascended the throne, he took Pei Lin as the first hero of the founding of the country and rewarded him generously.

After all, the high position obtained by this kind of indiscriminate means could not last long, and after three years of Zhenguan, Tang Taizong Li Shimin dismissed him, cut off half of his food, and let him return to his hometown.

Pei Lin was very unhappy about this, and even wrote a letter asking to stay in Chang'an, which made Li Shimin extremely dissatisfied, and publicly accused Pei Lian, "Your merits and talents are not enough to assume your current status, only because of the emperor's favor to you, you are ranked first." During the Wude period, there were many mistakes and fallacies in politics and law, and the local officials were disorderly in their governance, for which you should also be responsible! I think of the old feelings, I don't punish you with death, let you return to your hometown, what are you not satisfied with?"

A Xiangguo who has been in office for more than ten years was finally accused by the emperor like this, which shows how bad his ability is.

Bang Bang Bang !!

One slap after another slapped Pei Lin in the face, Pei Lin pretended to be tough at first, but after more than 20 slaps, Pei Lin finally couldn't hold it anymore, and fell to the ground and begged with blood spraying his mouth: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, the criminal knows that he is wrong, the criminal knows that he is wrong, please don't fan the criminal minister." ”

Yang Gao glanced at Pei Lin coldly, and said mockingly: "Master Pei, wouldn't it be good if you were like this earlier, and you would have saved yourself from suffering like this, do you say you are cheap?" ”

"The sinner is cheap, the sinner is cheap!" Where did Pei Lin dare to talk back at this time, and only said yes.

"Take him down, take care of him!" Yang Gao waved his hand in disgust, "Pick a few more captured Guanzhong spies, let them go back and tell Li Yuan that Pei Lin is in my hands, and I believe that Li Yuan will come to ransom him." ”

At present, his strategic goal is Jiangnan, and Pei Lin is worthless to him, so it is better to take the opportunity to blackmail Li Yuan. Moreover, such a waste with more than enough success and more than failure to stay by Li Yuan's side, the harm must be not small.

After Pei Lin was pressed down by several guards, Yang Gao turned his head to look at Fang Baihua again, and said coldly: "Fang Baihua, you also saw Pei Lian's fate just now, I hope you had better understand your identity, it is easy for a woman to be slapped like this." ”

"The people... The folk girl knows! Fang Baihua was obviously frightened by the scene just now, and at this moment, her face was like earth, and she replied tremblingly.

Yang Gao said expressionlessly: "I know that you are Li Zitong's subordinate, and I also know what you are here to do in Jiangdu, I only need you to do one thing now, do a good job, and I will let you go after the thing is done!" ”

"I don't know what Your Majesty wants the people to do?" Fang Baihua asked cautiously.

Yang Gao said lightly: "What I want you to do is very simple, you only need to write a letter to Li Zitong and tell him that you have heard an important piece of information in Jiangdu, Guanzhong Li Yuan sent 200,000 troops south to Jingxiang, and the main force of the Sui army has gone to Jingxiang to meet the battle, and Huainan is empty!" ”