Zhang Xiaowu nodded to show that he understood, Longdu Mansion Yin was equivalent to a high-ranking official in the capital city of the Republic or a high-ranking official in the Demon City, and his administrative level was naturally higher than that of many provincial high-ranking officials.

Ruan Qingwen continued: "The reason why King Ning served as the Yin of Longdu Mansion was because the children of the powerful people in Beijing acted excessively, and they often drank and fought and molested the people's daughters, disturbing the lives of the people of Longdu City. Emperor Taiqian appointed a few Longdu Mansion Yin, but they didn't dare to scare those sons and brothers, or they were forced to release them under pressure after being arrested. Emperor Taiqian had a headache, so he had to send King Ning to govern them. King Ning knew that the silver-clothed guards and officials of Longdu Mansion were incompetent, so he formed a long knife team, and everyone had a horse swords, and after killing three people, he was so frightened that the sons and daughters of Jingzhong were honest from now on, and they no longer dared to mess around. ”

Zhang Xiaowu smiled: "My grandfather is one of them, no wonder he uses a horse chopping knife." ”

Ruan Qingwen said: "The prince of Jingzhong, who no one can govern, was ruled by King Ning for three months, and the magnates in Beijing all respected him, which made Emperor Taiqian jealous. After the governance of Longdu, King Ning resigned from the post of Yin of Longdu Mansion, but the Long Knife Team had nowhere to go, so King Ning accepted them as guests. It is precisely because of the long knife team that the first emperor is even more jealous of King Ning, although King Ning has resigned many guests one after another, but no one dares to guarantee that King Ning's long knife team will not make trouble. ”

Zhang Xiaowu suddenly thought of one thing, could it be that his father left King Ning's Mansion back then, could it be because King Ning privately reached some kind of agreement with the Long Knife Team in order to avoid being suspicious?

"Later, an incident happened that eventually led to King Ning's rebellion."

"What's the matter?"

"It is said that a concubine in the palace wrote a poem to King Ning, expressing her admiration, and this poem was accidentally seen by the little eunuch and secretly reported to the chief eunuch, who reported it to the first emperor, causing the first emperor to be furious."

"This ...... What kind of seducing sister-in-law is this? Zhang Xiaowu couldn't help but laugh and said, "Doesn't he like girls?" Why did you still hook the? ”

"Whether this matter is true or false is not yet known, maybe it was framed in order to get rid of King Ning, maybe it was really to seduce the concubine-sister-in-law." Ruan Qingwen couldn't help laughing, "This King Ning is excellent, but it's not that he didn't work to seduce other officials' wives." There was once a court official whose wife was very beautiful, and when King Ning learned about it, he went to his house to watch, and wrote love poems to people to express his admiration, and finally the official was so angry that he killed his wife and committed suicide. ”

Zhang Xiaowu's eyes widened, and he couldn't help but blurt out: "Damn!" Is this King Ning a stallion? Can you do this kind of thing? ”

Ruan Qingwen said: "So King Ning has a mixed reputation, and the historian is also determined by the historian for his rebellion, but the historian obeys the emperor." ”

Zhang Xiaowu remembered that Grandpa said that King Ning was very good to his subordinates, even if others said how bad King Ning's character was, he had no resentment, but he didn't want to mention the life of King Ning's Mansion too much. It seems that King Ning's character is indeed up for debate, but King Ning's talent and ability have to be admired.

"King Ning has so many concubines and beauties, what about his children?" Zhang Xiaowu said curiously, "He must have more than 100 children, right?" ”

"One hundred and twenty sons and daughters of King Ning, all of them were poisoned." Ruan Qingwen's answer made Zhang Xiaowu so frightened that he almost fell off his horse, and all one hundred and twenty children were killed, which was Emperor Taiqian's own nephew and niece, and he was killed just because his father King Ning could threaten the throne? Biological niece, biological nephew, Emperor Taiqian and King Ning are compatriots, born to the same father and mother, one hundred and twenty nephews and nieces were all killed, Emperor Taiqian's heart is indeed much more than his son Emperor Dade.

Emperor Dade just killed some of the rebels on the day of the palace seizure, and sent the family members who exiled the rebels, which was simply one-tenth less than Emperor Taiqian.

The most ruthless emperor's family, sure enough.

The story of King Ning made Zhang Xiaowu more aware of the horror and ruthlessness of imperial power, the so-called companion of the king is like a companion tiger is not just talking, it may not be that he offended the emperor, it is very likely that he was jealous of the emperor. Thinking of this, Zhang Xiaowu suddenly felt that power was even a little boring, and he thought of what he had crossed.

First for living, then for revenge, and then for the sake of the Qinglong Army in Saibei, for the ten thousand brothers under his command. Zhang Xiaowu suddenly realized that he seemed to have never lived for himself once in this world.

"What do I like?" Zhang Xiaowu thought about it, he was not good at drinking, not lustful, not good at money, not good at power, and seemed to have no distractions.

Ruan Qingwen saw him meditating and asked with a smile: "Why should the general sigh here, the time of King Ning has happened too long. ”

Zhang Xiaowu said with a smile: "I'm not sighing for King Ning's story, I'm sighing for myself, King Ning's hobby is beauty, but what is my hobby, and what is my pursuit?" Mr. Nguyen, do you know me? Do you know what my hobby is? ”

Ruan Qingwen thinks this question is ridiculous, now Zhang Xiaowu has fame and fortune, he wants power, power, beauty, beauty, as a civilian, he has become the lord of a land, he is in charge of the military and civilian power in Saibei, and he is famous for holding the ghost guard army to shock the world, what can he lack? He thought that Zhang Xiaowu was not satisfied, and in another sentence he was full of food, and after thinking about it, Ruan Qingwen shook his head and smacked his tongue: "You like to be comfortable and unrestrained." ”

Zhang Xiaowu stroked his palms and smiled: "That's right! ”

Hunzhou City, the capital of Hunzhou, is in the east of Hunzhou, and the official road from Qingfeng Mountain does not pass through Hunzhou City, Zhang Xiaowu and others naturally cannot see Hunzhou City, a thousand-year-old city, if they see it with their own eyes, they will see what the real disaster is, there are countless hungry people inside and outside Hunzhou City, and the people cry and beg the government to release grain to help the people, but the government has never dared to release grain. Half a month ago, there was a famine in Xuzhou, and Jiyang Prefecture released grain to help the people, causing hundreds of thousands of victims to flock to Jiyang Prefecture, and there was no food after a few days of grain distribution in Jiyang Prefecture. So the Jimin rioted, broke through the Jiyang Mansion, and caused chaos in the city, resulting in the slaughter of the Jiyang Mansion by the mob.

Hunzhou learned a lesson, did not release grain to help the people, and only asked the victims to go south to Lingnan, but at this time the victims had no strength to go south, and they starved to death under the city of Hunzhou. The people of Hunzhou City are also panicked, fearing that the victims will riot.

On the road to Hunzhou, dead bodies and white bones also appeared from time to time, and the morale of the ghost guards gradually declined, and they began to doubt the value of their existence. Defend the country and expel the Inuyi. But looking back behind you, what kind of country are they defending? A Shenghan Empire with countless hungry people in the country, corrupt and bribed officials, and busy with partisan strife within the imperial court?

In the Holy Han Empire, Zhang Xiaowu and others felt so heavy for the first time, and it was the first time they were so helpless.

"General, we ...... Is it wrong? Wang Yijin asked.

Bao Yin said angrily: "What kind of country are we guarding?" ”

"Alas......"