Meng Shenglun still had the last trace of illusion and asked, "...... to govern What rumors have you heard again? The officers and men of the Wu army were loyal to the ruling ......"

"Not only are you faithful, but you also know how to use it for your own benefit."

Meng Seng Lun had the opportunity to tacitly agree with King Wu and accept punishment in a dignified manner, but now he would rather give up his dignity and make it clear that King Wu could not misunderstand the soldiers of the Wu army.

Meng Shenglun turned his heart and knelt on the ground, "I have a capital crime and am willing to be punished by death, but the soldiers of the Wu army have never profited for themselves, let alone used their loyalty to the government." ”

The tacit understanding was broken like this, Xu Ji nodded to Tang Weitian who was guarding the door, Tang Weitian hesitated to withdraw, stood outside the door, listened carefully to the sound inside, if there was something wrong, he could rush in immediately.

"Tell me, what are your sins?"

"On several occasions, I acted on my own behind the back of the ruling party, disrupted military discipline, and put General Wang and thousands of soldiers to death."

"It's already been said."

"I'm still ...... I've done other things. ”

"Hmm."

"I smashed the Tiancheng tablet in the Taimiao, and I am still in the palace...... Killed a few people. ”

"How many?"

"Seven."

"Who?"

"Zhang Xi's concubine."

"They're old, aren't they?"

"But after all, they are Zhang Xi's concubines, and if Zhang Xi dies early, they have to bear the blame for him. I only hate that Zhang Xi's mausoleum is not in the city, otherwise it will ......" Meng Seng Lun restrained his anger and lowered his head.

"That's what you've done, what about the others?"

Meng Shenglun hesitated for a moment and replied: "I have killed more than three hundred and twenty people, most of them are concubines, palace maids, eunuchs around Zhang Xi and Zhang Wanwu's father and son, as well as the family members of the generals who invaded Wu back then, but no one has touched the mansion of the general and Cao Shenxi......

Xu Ji held back his anger, "Have you ever thought that these people may be captives taken by Tiancheng from all over the world?" ”

"There are some of them, but they are willing to be slaves and slaves, and they have a great opportunity but refuse to avenge their homeland, which is a great crime."

"Princess Wu is such a 'slave'."

"That's different!" Meng Shenglun said loudly, forgetting his respect for King Wu for a moment, "Princess Wu has never been willing to give in, she has been resisting, but unfortunately her strength is weak and she has no choice." I have heard in Jiangdong that she assassinated Zhang Xi several times in the palace and made many attempts in the general's mansion. ”

Princess Wu's resistance was exaggerated a lot in the rumors, but she resisted after all, and would rather commit suicide than get rid of the humiliation.

"Her greatest revenge is to give birth to a consul, and the consul will fulfill her long-cherished wish......"

"Don't talk about it." Xu Ji interrupted, anger on his face, "Mother and I will not indiscriminately kill unarmed people in the name of revenge. ”

"The Cheng army back then did not let go of the unarmed people of Wu State."

"So you look at the current appearance of Tiancheng, the foundation has only been built for more than 20 years, and it collapsed with a bang, one side made chaos, the four sides responded, and the root cause was investigated, but it was still too brutal, planting countless resentments, which were usually not revealed, and when there was a chance, they immediately burst out."

Meng Seng Lun kowtowed respectfully, "We all understand the truth, but we also have resentment in our hearts, which may be more and heavier than the people of other countries. The ruling government has captured the eastern capital, this is our 'opportunity', we cannot remain calm like the ruling government, and we must 'burst out'. ”

Xu Ji let out a heavy sigh, was silent for a while, and asked, "You have killed a lot, why hasn't anyone reported to me?" Cao Shenxi is in charge of the Eastern Capital, sitting in the palace, and he has heard nothing? ”

"We never focused on killing, we just spread it out, we got rid of it one by one. Moreover, the kings and soldiers themselves were busy plundering, and did not care about our affairs, and even if they heard and saw it, they did not think so, and it was commonplace for them. As for Cao Shenxi, he has only a few people under him, and he is in charge of the warehouse, and it is the queen mother's dormitory that is protected, so we avoid these places and scare others and prevent them from complaining. ”

"What else have you done besides killing people?"

"Huh?" Meng Shenglun didn't understand too much.

"Are there any other evils?"

"This ...... Anyway, if you want to kill, the means of individual soldiers may be somewhat ...... Out of line, I never ask. With all due respect, the ruling should not ask, the soldiers are born and die......"

"You don't ask, I don't ask, but someone will ask, and General Song died because of this."

"Wasn't General Song killed by an assassin?"

"Tian Jiang is not an assassin of officers and soldiers, he killed General Song to avenge his personal revenge."

"Personal vendetta?"

"General Song raped and killed a woman whom Tian Jiang recognized."

Meng Senglun's face was incredible, and he said after a while: "General Song is bloody and strong, and it is inevitable that he will do something out of the ordinary, but I promise that woman deserves ...... crime."

"Enough!" Xu Ji was furious, and when it came to it, Meng Shenglun still didn't think that he had done anything wrong, "There is no crime, and he has to be tortured before he dies." We are under the banner of the righteous army, not the Tiancheng Emperor who killed innocents indiscriminately, nor the tyrant of Wu State. ”

Meng Shenglun couldn't help but say: "How can the ruling state say this about his ancestor? ”

"Who was the person General Song killed?" Xu Ji asked.

"I don't know, it's very convenient for him to stay in the palace, and he killed a lot of people, thirty-seven or eight people, I don't know which one caused the killing."

Xu Ji specially sent Song Xingju to protect the Queen Mother's bedroom, and he did it, the Queen Mother's bedroom was safe, but other places became his hunting grounds.

Xu Ji laughed angrily, "Who said Wu Shi Gengjie? You're very good at finding loopholes, and if I don't say a word, you can dig a bottomless pit. Hey, Song Xingju killed people by himself, but he was still able to calmly lead troops to patrol the city and enforce military discipline, which is really amazing. ”

"These are two different things, General Song killed people to avenge the destruction of the country, and the kings and soldiers looted to satisfy their own selfishness, we didn't rob a single gold or silver."

Xu Ji shook his head with a smile, "I actually want to persuade General Meng to admit my mistake, it's really stupid." ”

"No, no, I was indeed wrong, I shouldn't have done these things behind the back of the ruling party, so that outsiders would think that the ruling party could not control us. But the soldiers are not wrong, I made them do this......"

Meng Shenglun did "admit his mistakes" and "admit his mistakes" from the beginning, but his so-called mistakes were only concealed from King Wu's own opinions, not indiscriminately killing innocents.

"For the sake of morale, I don't want to execute you publicly, ask General Meng to judge himself."

Meng Seng Lun kowtowed three times and stepped forward and said, "Obey." ”

"What are your last wishes? As long as it's not excessive, I can do it for you. ”

Meng Seng Lun smiled, "I am willing to be able to attack the Eastern Capital and trample on the cell where the princess of Wu Kingdom was once imprisoned." I only hate that I can't assist the ruling from now on, and I can't see the ruling rule the world with my own eyes. ”

"Do you have a wife and children in Jiangdong?"

"No, I've never been married."

"What about brothers and nephews?"

"There are some, and some of them are in the army, and if they have the will, they should assist me in ruling instead of having the ruling take care of them."

Xu Ji wanted to say that he would no longer need an assistant like Meng Shenglun in the future, but in the end he held back and said coldly: "Tomorrow I will appoint you as the general of the army, and the day after tomorrow you can cut yourself." ”

"Yes."

"Let's go down." Xu Ji still had a lot to say, a lot of doubts to ask, and felt that it was completely unnecessary.

Meng Shenglun got up and withdrew from the chamber.

Tang Weitian came in and said with some surprise: "What did the Metropolitan Governor say?" General Meng looked like he was going to die. ”

Xu Ji asked: "Tang Weitian, if you see other rebel soldiers looting and killing the old and weak, women and children, will you stop it?" ”

Tang Weitian's face was full of confusion, "Do you mean to snatch the loot from them?" It's not good, it's all your own people, and you have to follow the rules. ”

"Don't you think the people who were looted and killed are innocent?"

"Oh, that's what the Governor means. Innocent or not innocent ......" Tang Weitian scratched his head, "We have to live first, we can't eat enough, and we still care about the lives and deaths of others?" I didn't eat people, even if it's good, it is said that there are really incarnated army cannibalists, and they still eat their own people, so I'm really hungry......"

Tang Weitian swallowed his saliva, and as soon as he said to eat, he was hungry again.

"What if you have enough to eat and drink?"

"Do you mean me, or everyone?"

"Everyone."

"Then what kind of rebellion, what kind of war, go home to farm, herd cattle, three meals a day, don't worry about dying on the battlefield, how good. I don't need to wear armor, I don't have to take knives and guns, and if there is robbery and murder, that is, bandits and bullies, I don't know others, I will definitely draw a knife to help when I see injustice, and then throw off my name, so that all the villages will recognize me. "Tang is full of heavenly will, like a heroic man who has achieved fame.

Xu Ji felt a lot more relaxed and said with a smile: "Thank you." ”

"Thank me for what? I didn't do anything. ”

"Keep your dreams, don't throw them away."

"But I don't have a dream." Tang Weitian became more and more inexplicable.

"What you just said is a dream."

"Seeing that the road is uneven, draw a knife to help?"

"Yes, keep the dream."

Tang Weitian smiled so hard that his eyes narrowed into a slit, "Don't hide it from the Metropolitan Governor, I do have such a dream, a horse, a knife, whoever sees me will come up to say hello, call 'Tang Daxia', send good wine and food, I can pick and eat......"

In Tang Weitian's dream, there is not much content to help each other, but he thinks very carefully about the treatment of heroes.

Xu Ji nodded and encouraged, "All people in the world want is to be well fed and clothed." ”

"Haha, this is what the poor want, the rich and the officials have long been fed and clothed, and what they ask for is a box full of gold and silver, and a warehouse full of rice, and people like the Metropolitan Governor are even more different."

"Oh, what do I want?"

"Millions of elite soldiers, sweeping the world. Those who follow me prosper, and those who oppose me perish. The flag refers to the invincible wind. Feet and shoes, all kneeling. An order and the world obeys, a rage and the world is shaken, a wave and the world is determined, and a sitting and the world is peaceful. ”

"The words of the Incarnate King?" Xu Ji guessed that Tang Weitian couldn't think of these words.

"Yes, he has written a lot of similar words, let's memorize them, saying that he can save his life on the battlefield, and the Metropolitan Governor will have to listen to a few more paragraphs?"

"No need, because that's not what I wanted."

"Huh? Don't the Metropolitan Governors want millions of elite soldiers and don't want to sweep the world? ”

"Yes, but it's like you want to be full, it's a thought, not a dream."

"What is the Governor's dream?" Tang Weitian was very curious.

Xu Ji was silent for a long time, unable to tell his dream, and said for a long time: "It's the same as you." ”

"It turns out that the Metropolitan Governor also wants to be a hero."

Xu Ji smiled, some words are not enough for outsiders, some things are not enough to discuss with outsiders, he has his own dreams and plans.