The one who came to sue was the Guangwu general Lei Xiaofang.

Lei Xiaofang is as famous as Shi Shou and Tonghu Liang, and is also Pu Qin's general.

He was more than eight feet tall, strong and strong, with a lush beard, and was a very powerful look, but at this time he was angry and ruined, and he asked to see Pu Mao, and after entering the tent, he made a salute, and then sued Wang Nong.

He said: "King, Wang Shinu's dog thing, kill Shi Zuo!" ”

"Who is Shi Zuo?"

Lei Xiaofang replied: "It's a team leader in the minister's department." ”

Pu Mao was puzzled and asked, "Why did Wang Nong kill him?" ”

Lei Xiaofang opened his mouth, but he didn't dare to deceive Pu Mao, so he told the truth and said: "Didn't the king order his ministers to send some soldiers to help Li Ji and Wang Nong build a camp?" The minister sent Shi Zuo and them over. Shi Zuo's character, the king doesn't know ......"

Pu Mao nodded and said, "I don't know. ”

"But the minister knows his nature, this human nature is brave, and he is one of the few warriors under the minister's account, but he is a little upright. Somehow, he had a dispute with Wang Nong, and Wang Nong actually killed him! Lei Xiaofang was angry and said, "King, a Tang Er, a warrior who dares to kill our army!" It's a game-changer! The minister dared to ask the king to cure Wang Nong's sins and avenge Shi Zuo! ”

Pu Mao pondered for a moment, asked Lei Xiaofang, and said, "Is it that Shi Zuo is laughing at Wang Nong's shortness?" ”

Lei Xiaofang was taken aback, and said in his heart: "The king is really wise, how could he guess that it was Shi Zuo who laughed at Wang Nong's size?" But he didn't feel any sense of loss, and said confidently, "King Mingjian! Shi Zuo mocked Wang Nong a little, but the king, Shi Zuo just mocked, but Wang Nong was violent and murderous! This is just too much! The ministers and soldiers were all indignant and begged the king to avenge Shi Zuo! ”

Thinking that Shi Zuo, who is a brave man under Lei Xiaofang's account, then it can be expected that even among Pu Qin's Di and Qiang soldiers, I am afraid that he is also arrogant, not to mention in front of Li Ji, Wang Nong and other newly invested Tang people begging? And although Wang Nong is short, through yesterday's meeting, Pu Mao has seen that this person is really proud,—— perhaps it is because of his shortness, so he will be proud to arm himself, behind the pride should be his sensitivity, in this way, can provoke him to ignore the new cast, and actually kill, can only be Shi Zuo ridiculed, sarcastic to him, yes, Pu Mao almost didn't think much, he guessed the truth.

Pu Mao hadn't answered Lei Xiaofang yet, and the guards outside the tent entered: "Li Ji asks to see." ”

Pu Mao said, "Please General Li come in." ”

Li Ji had already changed his clothes, and he didn't wear the tattered clothes when he came, but changed into the Qin army's military uniform.

Entering the tent, Li Ji saw Lei Xiaofang who was snorting angrily, but he didn't move, bowed to the ground, and said to Pu Mao: "Heavenly King, the minister has come to accept the guilt." ”

Pu Mao asked, "What's the crime?" ”

Li Ji bowed respectfully and said in a deep voice: "The ministers have no way to discipline them, so the stone team rate was killed by Wang Nong. Killing people pays for life, this is the law since ancient times, and the people are still the same, but in the army? It's just that Wang Nongcheng is a brave general, and now Mu Tianwang is benevolent, from the account of the attached Heavenly King, the size of the merit has not yet been established for the Heavenly King, if he is killed, it is a pity. However, the military law of the king of heaven must not be violated! The minister Li Jiyong is not as good as Wang Nong, it is not a pity to die, and there is a crime of no way to discipline, I am willing to beg Wang Nong to be punished! ”

Pu Mao didn't answer him immediately, but asked, "What did Shi Zuo say about Wang Nong?" ”

Li Ji didn't look at Lei Xiaofang on the side, and reported the truth, saying: "The stone team said that Wang Nong was his slave. ”

Wang Nong's small character Shi Nu, Shi Zuo's surname is Shi, so Shi Zuo has this insulting remark.

Pu Mao frowned, asked Lei Xiaofang, and said, "Do you know about this?" ”

Lei Xiaofang replied: "The minister knows." ”

Pu Mao got up, went down to the tent, helped Li Ji up, and said with a pleasant face: "The general is wrong! ”

Li Ji asked, "The minister knows his mistake." ”

"Do you know what's wrong?"

Li Ji replied: "I don't know. ”

Pu Mao smiled: "I don't know how to know? ”

Li Ji's simple face showed a sincere expression, and said: "The king of heaven is the king, and the base is the minister. The king's words and ministers are wrong, and the ministers are wrong whether they know it or not. ”

Thinking about the impoliteness of Dichen and Qiangchen, and then looking at Li Ji's observance of the minister's way, Pu Mao sighed and thought in his heart: "This is the posture of being a courtier!" He became more and more kind, and said with a smile, "Lone said that you are wrong, you are wrong, this 'discipline has no way', don't do your business, if you say that you want to reduce the crime, give Lei Xiaofang the punishment is!" ”

Lei Xiaofang was stunned and said, "King, why? Where am I left to be disciplined? ”

Pu Mao was upright and rebuked him: "Don't you hear the edict I just issued? Wang Nong is now the general of my Great Qin! Shi Zuo's small team leader, how dare he insult Wang Nong as his slave? Why, my general of Great Qin is actually a house slave led by one of your subordinates? So who am I? ”

Lei Xiaofang was stunned for a moment, quickly bowed down, and said in his mouth: "The king of heaven is the king of his ministers!" Minister......"

Pu Mao interrupted him and said majestically: "Shi Zuo insulted Shangguan in front, and Wang Nong was not guilty of killing; Your majesty is not strict, you should be punished heavily, but now you are attacking Luoyang, and you are using the time, and you will be spared the pain of flesh and skin, and you will be punished for three months! ”

Lei Xiaofang didn't dare to speak more, Nuo Nuo.

Pu Mao Haosheng comforted Li Ji, gave him a waist card for his own use, in order to reward his behavior of "courage to receive on behalf of his subordinates" and "loyalty to the king", and asked the guard to take a hundred steel swords, gave Li Ji, and called Li Ji's words closely, saying: "The sword is given to the strong man." Monk Shi, you give this knife to Wang Nong for me, and I apologize for Lei Xiaofang for him, he was wronged! ”

Lee Ki respectfully thanked him.

Out of the big tent, Li Ji didn't take two steps, and when he heard Lei Xiaofang behind him, he lowered his voice and scolded him: "Dog Tang'er! The rhetoric coaxed the king to please! Today, I will let you and Wang Nong's dwarf go, sooner or later, you and I will avenge Shi Zuo! ”

Li Ji ignored him, didn't look back, just walked forward.

Back in the camp of the begging army, the camp had not yet been set up, and the begging soldiers, the soldiers of the Qin army, and the people who came to help, each under the command of their own officers, were working in full swing. Due to the influence of Wang Nong's killing of Shi Zuo, the soldiers on both sides were at odds with each other, although they were separated by a certain distance, from time to time some people looked at each other angrily and muttered a few curses.

Wang Nong, Feng Tai, Feng Yu and several others, when they saw Li Ji coming back, they all greeted him.

Mrs. Feng asked, "Dashuai, how is it?" ”

Although they received the official title of General Pu Qin, Feng Tai and others still called Li Ji the marshal according to their habits.

Li Ji said lightly: "As I expected, the king did not punish the sin of stone slaves. He handed the Hundred Refining Ring Knife to Wang Nong and said, "The king gave it to you." ”

Wang Nong caught the knife, pulled out half of the blade, and saw that the blade was sharp, obviously a treasure knife, and said with great joy: "Sure enough, the rumors are true, the king is benevolent!" I thought that even if I didn't kill me, I would be guilty of a crime, but not only did I not sin me, but I was also given a sword! ”

Feng Yu glanced at Wang Nong, and said in his heart: "Lord Qin can invite people to buy people's hearts!" Although he couldn't get used to Wang Nong's joy, he had to admire Pu Mao's generosity and means, turned his face, looked at Li Ji, and stopped talking.

Li Ji said: "Zixiao, do you have anything to ask?" ”

Feng Yu said: "Dashuai, I have a sentence that has been in my heart for a long time, and I don't know whether to ask or not." ”

Li Ji said: "We are all the remnants of the Northland, surviving in the present, huddling together for warmth, and relying on each other for our lives. Although my name is Dashuai, I regard Qing and others as brothers, so there is nothing to ask. Zixiao, what do you want to ask, just ask! ”

Feng Yu said: "Dashuai, my brother and I have traveled thousands of miles to vote for Dashuai, because we don't want to endure humiliation and swallow our voices under Hu Yi's obscenity!" And Yu Wenzhi, when Dashuai's father died, he once told Dashuai, 'Don't worry about Hu Ye', but why did Dashuai lead us to Qin today? ”

Li Ji was silent for a while, did not avoid Feng Yu's sharp eyes, looked back at Feng Yu with bright eyes, and said earnestly: "My father does have a testament of 'don't do anything', but Zixiao, now I take the big guy to Qin, I am thinking about all of us!" ”

"Yu is ignorant, dare to ask the marshal to make it clear."

"When I want to beg for the most prosperous life in the state, Guangzong, Chenliu and other counties are all for me, fighting Wubao and defending themselves, cultivating fields to eat themselves, as strong as the Huns Zhao, Xianbei Murong, and He Hun of Qianzhi, I can also fight against it.

"But now, the northern land is almost occupied by Hu Yi, Jiangzuo has no intention of the Northern Expedition, we can only hide in the mountains, lack of clothing, food, and weapons, and the strength that can go into battle is far less than before, and there are only three or four thousand people in our department. On the other hand, Murong, He Hun, and Pu Qin are all strong and strong. If this continues, it will only be a matter of time before we die!

"Between Murong, He Hun, and Pu, the Duqin lord has a benevolent name, Zhao Yanli, Yao Tao, etc., all of whom are descended from other races, and he can treat them well. Therefore, I took the opportunity of him to attack Luoyang and led everyone to join him. I'm looking for a way to live for all of us! ”

Feng Yu said: "The hard work of the handsome, Yu can comprehend it. But Dashuai, is this just the time for us to be Qin? ”

Wang Nong took out the knife that Pu Mao gave him, took it out and looked at it, put it back into the sheath, couldn't help it, pulled out again, pulled out a hair, put it on the blade, saw that the hair was broken, praised it, and said: "It's really a fucking good knife!" The knife was more than three feet long, and he was more than half his height, Wang Nong played for a long time, put it on the ground, and just heard Feng Yu's words, so he put the knife in both hands, interjected and said, "Xiao Feng, what's wrong with being a Qin person?" As long as we are kind, who we give our lives to is not the same? He asked Mrs. Feng and said, "Da Feng, are you right?" ”

Mrs. Feng smiled and said, "Yes, yes." ”

To be honest, Feng Yu doesn't think much of Wang Nong.

Wang Nong, although he is brave enough, he is brave enough, but he is light and heavy, and Feng Yu has the wrong temper with him. Since Feng Yu joined Li Ji's hands, the two of them have been friends in general, and they can get by on the surface, but they actually have no friendship.

Feng Yu said in his heart: "If it's the same for anyone, why should I run away from the slave with my brother?" ”

Recalling the scene when Zhao Shuo died heroically in order to cover them, Feng Yu was even more dissatisfied with Li Ji's initiative to surrender to Qin, but he was not an open-mouthed person, and he knew that some things could not be said nonsense, so he held down his dissatisfaction and said no more.

Li Ji saw his dissatisfaction, but since Feng Yu stopped talking, he didn't continue to say more.

However, Li Ji also opposed Wang Nong's words.

He thought in his heart: "'It's the same for whoever sells his life', Shi Nu's words are fallacious! As Tang people, we are descendants of the seedlings of China, how can we be willing to be Huyi eagle dogs? And although Hu Yi is prosperous today, but the destiny of heaven has its own normality, how can it be in Hu? The Xiongnu Zhao clan was arrogant and immediately destroyed; Xianbei Murong succeeded and was also strong for a while, but now there is the rebellion of He Hun inside, and the attack of the Pu clan outside, which is a sign of destruction! The Qin lord Pu Mao is not like an ordinary Hu person, he is called benevolent and righteous, but in my opinion, the Pu family will definitely be defeated! Alas, how dare I forget and disobey my father's will? It's just that although I don't want to work hard for Hu Yi, Jiang Zuo has no intention of recovering the north. For the sake of the lives of thousands of brothers, I had no choice but to temporarily join Pumao. And in the coming day, if you have the opportunity, you can make other plans! ”

It turned out that this Li Ji, who led the tribe to Pu Mao, was not willing to be Pu Mao's eagle dog, but a helpless move, but this person was deep in the city, but he didn't tell anyone about his thoughts, including Wang Nong, Feng Tai, Feng Yu and others.

But that Meng Lang heard about Wang Nong's killing of Shi Zuo, so he found Lei Xiaofang, and summoned witnesses who saw Wang Nong's killing, asked carefully one by one, learned about the specific scene at that time, and came to Pumao's tent.

As soon as he entered the tent, Meng Lang said: "The minister asks the king to issue an edict to kill Li Ji and Feng Yu." ”

Pu Mao was reading the military newspaper, and when he heard that Meng Lang had entered the account, he just raised his head, and when he heard this, he was stunned and said, "Kill Li Ji and Feng Yu?" He quickly understood and said with a smile, "Yes, Master Meng has heard that Wang Nong killed Shi Zuo?" This matter has already been dealt with by Lone. He smiled again and said, "Besides, even if you say kill, you should kill Wang Nong, why did Master Meng ask Lone to kill Li Ji and Feng Yu?" ”

Meng Lang said: "Wang Nong is frivolous, this horse is brave, it is not enough, rather than killing it, it is better to keep it, and it can also charge for the king; However, Li Ji and Feng Yu must not be killed! ”

Pu Mao put down the military newspaper and asked, "Why?" ”

"After the minister heard that Wang Nong killed Shi Zuo, he didn't come to ask the king for guilt, but Li Ji came instead of him?"

"Not bad."

"My lord, when I first saw Li Ji yesterday, the minister observed him carefully. This person is Shen Xiong, his joy and anger are invisible, and now he is begging for sin, and his ambition is unfathomable! It's a statue of no one! ”

Pu Mao smiled and said: "Shen Xiong, the begging of his subordinates, is it the image of no one to be a minister?" Master Meng, it's a big fuss. ”

Meng Lang said: "Shen Xiong, it means that he has a deep city; begging on behalf of Wang Nong shows that he is responsible. O king, such a man will not live under the throne for a long time! ”

"Okay, okay, even if he doesn't want to live under people for a long time. What about Feng Yu? Why did Master Meng kill him alone? ”

"The minister just asked the witnesses of Wang Nong's murder, and Feng Yu was also there at that time. Does the king know what Feng Yu's first reaction was after seeing Wang Nong kill Shi Zuo? ”

"What is it?"

His first instinct was to hold the hilt of the sword!"

Pu Mao didn't understand what Meng Lang meant, and said, "What's wrong with this? ”

"The king, this shows that he voted for the king, not sincerely, but with backbone!"

"Not sincerely?"

Meng Lang said solemnly: "The king, please think about it, if he is truly attached to the king, then how should he react when he sees that the person killed by Wang Nong is a military official under the king's account?" It should be frightened and afraid! Because the first thing that came to his mind must have been that the king might punish Wang Nong and implicate him. But, on the contrary, instead of being terrified, he reached out and held his sword! The king, this shows that what he thought of at that time was not the fear of being punished by the king, but the desire to resist and kill! ”

Pu Mao thought for a moment and said, "What Master Meng said is not bad. According to Master Meng, it seems that this is really the case. ”

"Therefore, please ask the king to kill Li Ji and Feng Yu!"

Pu Mao stood up, put his right hand behind his back, and his left hand grasped the wide sleeve corner, paced slightly behind the case, stood still, and said angrily: "Li Ji, Wang Nong, etc., are newly invested in Gu, who has no military merits, and his subordinates are only thousands, but Gu does not hesitate to hold high-ranking official positions, and assigns generals, captains and generals, Meng Shi, do you know why Gu attaches so much importance to them?" ”

Meng Lang replied: "Although there are not many tribes of Li Ji and Wang Nong, there are quite a few begging side branches in Yu County, Hebei. The king bought horse bones for the rest of the beggars. ”

Pu Mao said: "Exactly! Meng Shi, begging is not only distributed in many counties and counties in Hebei, but can respond to our army's attack on Hebei, and although begging is still called 'merging states', many of its components are local people in Hebei, and they also represent part of the people's hearts. Because of this, Gu Cai attaches so much importance to Li Ji, Wang Nong, etc., and because of this, Gu Cai did not punish Wang Nong for murder. Master Meng, the one who did it alone, was so that my Great Qin could better and more confidently defeat the Murong Clan! ”

"Chen Gu knows the king's intentions, but Li Ji, Feng Yu, and the minister still think that they can't be kept! can find an excuse to kill the two of them, and then reuse Wang Nong, so that the king's goal of soliciting other beggars can still be achieved! ”

Pu Mao said: "Master Meng, you said that Li Ji has no image of a minister, then you look lonely, but there is a statue of a master?" ”

"The king is benevolent, righteous and virtuous, and he is the wise king of the world!"

Pu Mao smiled: "Since I am a Ming Jun, how can he Li Ji still be like a minister?" Master Meng, whether he is a minister or not, should see whether his monarch is a human master! If the monarch is wise and benevolent, and the ministers are all loyal ministers! As for the anti-bone theory, I often hate this statement when I read history books alone! If people treat each other with a pure heart, who is ruthless, and who is a courtier, how can they rebel? ”

Meng Lang said: "King! ”

Pu Mao smiled: "Master Meng, you don't have to be lonely anymore. Li Ji, Feng Yu, Lone will not kill. If one day, if they rebel against Lonely, as Master Meng said, it will not be too late to kill Lonely! If there really is that day, what if the lonely Meng master will be killed? ”

"When it depends on whether the monarch is the lord of the people" and "if the monarch treats each other with a pure heart", Pu Mao's views may be naïve, but his naivety is also one of the reasons why Meng Lang is willing to assist him.

Meng Lang had no choice but to stop mentioning the matter, changed the topic, and talked about what Pu Mao was most concerned about recently.

He said: "Great King, Chen Si has a plan to break Murong Wutai's chain of horses. ”