Song Qiqiu was depressed and looked sluggish, but Cheng Xun didn't have much time to talk nonsense with him, so he directly asked people to step forward and take off his official uniform, and then sent him home, so that he could study at home and cultivate his self-cultivation.

Then, Cheng Xun went to find Wang Taifu's order, handed him the handwritten letter from Yang Wuyu, and gave him a few words of encouragement, ordering him to temporarily act as the Yin of Jinling Mansion.

After Cheng Xun left, all the officials under Wang Taifu came up to say hello.

"Congratulations, my lord, although the king has only temporarily made you take the position of Fu Yin, I think it won't be long before there will be a formal appointment."

"Yes, and the king himself gave a handwritten letter, which is a rare gift."

"Please also open the king's handwritten book, so that I can also see it!" Everyone laughed.

"Okay." Wang Taifu agreed, his face full of smiles.

He and Song Qiqiu are also old rivals, and the contradictions between the two have long accumulated to the point that it is difficult to solve.

However, after all, Song Qiqiu was favored by Yang Wu, and he achieved the position of government minister at a young age, and he was also allowed to observe the cabinet proceedings.

As long as everyone is not a fool, they can understand that Song Qiqiu will inevitably have a great future in the future, and it is very possible for him to become the center.

In addition, although Song Qiqiu is a little impatient in personality, this does not mean that he will not manage his connections, otherwise there will be no faction belonging to him in history.

Therefore, there are not a few people in the court who are willing to get along with Song Qiqiu.

On the other hand, Wang Taifu's personality is a little impatient, and he is a little too strict with his subordinates and even his colleagues at the same level, and it is difficult for such a person to be close.

In addition, his level was originally below Song Qiqiu, so he had been suppressed all along.

However, this time Song Qiqiu committed his own death, and finally committed it in the hands of Yang Wu, and was personally dealt with by Yang Wu, so that his prestige suddenly soared, overshadowing some other colleagues at the same level; Even those subordinates also came to say hello enthusiastically.

At this time, in the face of everyone's invitation, and he himself was also very curious, so he immediately opened the handwritten book given by Yang Wu for everyone to watch together.

"Beware of arrogance and rashness."

As soon as he saw these four words, Wang Taifu's face suddenly changed, and then he smiled a little bitterly.

It is easy to understand that "guarding against arrogance" is a kind of praise and affirmation of his past achievements, and at the same time warns him not to be proud and to continue to work hard.

As for the word "abstain from irritability", it is even easier to understand.

Wang Taifu knows his own family affairs, of course he knows what kind of character he is, and he also understands that his impatient character is prone to problems, and he offends people the most, which also has a major impact on his career.

However, it is one thing to understand, and it is indeed difficult for him to change himself.

After all, he is now almost forty years old, and his character has long been cultivated, and he has been like this for so many years, where is it so easy to change.

But now after seeing Yang Wu's handwriting, he still feels a pang in his heart, knowing that his character can't be changed if he doesn't change.

"I didn't expect that even the king would be alarmed, and it is really a big sin to let the king worry about me in his busy schedule." Wang Taifu sighed in his heart, and at the same time was a little moved, if it was an ordinary king, where would he care about the personality of his subordinates, that is, Yang Wu cared about him, so he would specially give a handwritten note to mention one or two.

At least this intention is enough to make Wang Taifu grateful.

He immediately decided to ask the best craftsmen to frame the book and keep it at home. At the same time, he wrote the same four big characters and hung them in his study, so as to remind himself to be calm and calm at any time, and not to be impatient.

Not to mention the arrangements made by Wang Taifu, in the Huagai Palace, after Yang Wu arranged the disposal of Song Qiqiu, he immediately ordered to summon Feng Dao, Chang Mengxi, Zhang Yanhan and other seven scholars who were released.

Among these seven people, not to mention Feng Dao and Zhang Yanhan are both famous people in history, but a few others, who can say that they will not achieve anything in the future?

This time they were innocently imprisoned, although Song Qiqiu was secretly pushing the hand, but it was the cabinet who really ordered them to be arrested in prison; When Yang Wu returns this time, he must at least express himself and appease them, otherwise who can guarantee that they have no resentment in their hearts.

Soon, Feng Dao, Chang Mengxi and the other six people who had been released before, plus Zhang Yanhan, who had just been released, all entered the Huagai Hall under the guidance of the guards.

"Students, wait to meet the king." The crowd hastened to salute.

"Well, get up." Yang Wu bowed his head, motioned for everyone to get up, and asked directly: "Do you know what the purpose of Gu summoned you this time?" ”

Everyone looked at each other, obviously unable to guess Yang Wu's purpose, that is, Feng Dao, who had joined the army under Liu Shouguang, could not guess Yang Wu's thoughts.

"Although this king is similar in age to King Yan, his mind is much more difficult to guess." Feng Dao secretly compared Yang Wu and Liu Shouguang in his heart.

Although Liu Shouguang has an arrogant temperament and a penchant for killing, it is not difficult to guess his mind, as long as anyone who is a little familiar with him can guess.

This makes the villains most like to gather around him to do what they like; It's a pity that for people like Sun He and Feng Dao who still have some ideals and beliefs in their hearts, even if they guessed Liu Shouguang's thoughts, they didn't want to blindly follow the trend, but had to confront Liu Shouguang for the sake of the country.

It was because of this that Sun He eventually lost his life, and Feng Dao left the Yan Kingdom after some efforts to no avail.

Yan King Liu Shouguang's mind is easy to guess, but Wu King Yang Wu's thoughts are a little difficult to understand, especially when Feng Dao doesn't know Yang Wu very well now, it is even more difficult to guess his thoughts.

As for the others, they have never been out of office before, they are just a scholar, and they can sway freely in front of Yang Wu, and it is good not to be worried in their hearts, where can they guess Yang Wu's thoughts.

"Students don't know." The seven of them hurriedly shook their heads and replied.

Yang Wu sighed and said: "You also know that there have been too many scholars from the north and south in the past year or so, and it is inevitable that there will be fine works placed in them. ”

The seven nodded hurriedly, but did not speak.

I only heard Yang Wu continue: "However, in the process of cleaning up and detailing, it is inevitable that some innocent people will be involved, although the seven of you have not been able to have evidence to confirm their identities in the end, but I believe that you all sincerely want to serve our dynasty, and it is impossible for you to be an enemy country, this is Lone is convinced!" ”

"From now on, if anyone dares to make a fuss about this matter, he will never be spared!"

The seven of them were moved, and said with some excitement on their faces: "Thank you for your trust, the students are grateful!" ”

Especially Feng Dao and Zhang Yanhan, one of them originally served as an official under Liu Shouguang, and although the other had never been an official himself, after all, he was born in an official family, and he knew the thoughts of those who were officials.

Those in power like to be ambiguous in their words, making it difficult to discern his true intentions; For those things that are difficult to determine, they can avoid them, for fear of saying the wrong thing and taking responsibility.

Now the seven of them are involved in the detailed crime, although they were finally released, but they all have resentment in their hearts.

After all, with this case on their bodies, as long as they can't completely confirm their identities one day, they will have to bear such a suspicion one day, which may have a huge impact on their future future.

In the future, even if they are in the Wu Kingdom, they will always be affected by this incident.

This is just like Tang Yin in history, he was involved in the case of Xu Jing's fraud, although there was no evidence that Xu Jing was fraudulent, but in the end Xu Jing was dealt with, Tang Yin was also implicated, and it was difficult to step into the official career for the rest of his life.

Now the identities of these seven of them are also suspicious, and they also have to be looked at differently.

But now that Yang Wu said it himself, and in such a positive tone, in front of so many ministers in the cabinet, then the doubt about their identity has been decided, and if others dare to talk about this case in the future, they are questioning Yang Wu's authority, and Yang Wu will definitely not be able to spare him at that time.

This can be said to be crucial to the future careers of the seven of them, so of course they will be grateful; Two of them, in particular, wept with joy and were so excited that they couldn't help themselves.

Yang Wu nodded, and continued: "Although the case of cleaning up the detailed work this time implicated you, in fact, in the end, we also caught seven detailed works, plus the ones caught before, a total of ten people. This shows that the arrest was not done without a reason. ”

He looked at the seven people below and said apologetically: "In the end, I implicated you and made you suffer several months in prison, and I ask for your understanding." After speaking, Yang Wu stood up and apologized to the seven people.

"Don't dare!"

"How dare you let the king do this?"

"The king is like this, but he torments the students."

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The seven people immediately panicked, and hurriedly knelt on the ground to return the salute, and at the same time, the look on their faces became even more excited.

These people are just scholars, and the biggest official they have seen before is just a stabbing history.

In this troubled era, martial artists are rampant, and their scholars are often not reused, and those warriors look down on them as literati and regard them as grass mustard.

And now what about Yang Wu? As the lord of the Wu country, he was able to do this, and personally apologized for the little grievances they had suffered, this benevolence, this trust, was enough to make them grateful to Dade and sincerely obeyed.

At this time, even if Yang Wu asked them to die, I was afraid that they would be willing.

That is, although Feng Dao served as a soldier in front of Liu Shouguang, although his nature is still greedy for life and afraid of death, he can't help but have the idea of dying as a confidant in his heart at this time.

"The king who attaches great importance to our scholars is a rare saint in the world; If I can serve such a holy monarch in my life, I will only be a petty official in the court of Wu State, and I am willing. ”

Compared with Yang Wu, Liu Shouguang, who he followed before, was too far behind.

At the beginning, Liu Shouguang would arrest them if they were a little unsatisfactory, and if they could "repent" next, he would also give them a chance to "repent", if they were unwilling to "repent", it would be a direct death.

As for asking Liu Shouguang to apologize for the mistakes of his subordinates, it is simply a fantasy.

"This time I went south to Wu instead of choosing to go to Jin, it seems that this choice is indeed correct; Not to mention anything else, in terms of this bearing and benevolence, King Wu is much stronger than King Jin. ”

Although he had never met Li Cunxuan, the king of Jin, Feng Dao believed that there could never be anyone more benevolent than Yang Wu in this troubled world.

"King Wu is benevolent, this alone is much stronger than King Qi! If I can serve King Wu, I will have no regrets in this life. ”

Feng Dao was moved in his heart, and Chang Mengxi, another scholar who came all the way from Qi Country, was also moved in his heart.

Compared with the Yan State, the rejection of scholars in the Qi State is more serious, Li Maozhen is especially fond of martial artists, and the official positions in the entire Qi State are basically held by martial artists, and it is impossible for a scribe like Chang Mengxi to be reused.

This time he went south to Wu Kingdom, and he was originally dissatisfied with his involvement in the crime, but now in addition to gratitude, he still has the slightest dissatisfaction in his heart.

It was the many ministers of the cabinet who were also pleasantly surprised when they saw Yang Wu's actions.

"The former king was famous for his generosity and benevolence, and it seems that the current king has also inherited his father's generosity. Both generations of father and son are so benevolent, this is really a blessing for my Wu country! ”

Most of these old ministers have experienced the Yang Xingmi era, such as Tao Ya and Liu Wei, who were Yang Xingmi's old brothers.

For them, what they want now is to be able to start and finish well, to maintain the relationship between father and son with the Yang family, and to see the prosperity of the Wu Kingdom day by day.

Before, they were worried about whether Yang Wu would change his temperament, whether he would be suspicious of the heroes as his authority became more and more powerful, but at this time, the worries in their hearts disappeared in an instant.

Everyone was excited and grateful, but Yang Wu smiled slightly in his heart.

The reason why he personally apologized to the seven people just now was to appease the hearts of the seven people, after all, among the seven people, Feng Dao and Zhang Yanhan, two people who can leave their names in history, are worthy of him to do so.

Although Yang Wu didn't know about the other five people, from their performance since they entered the Huagai Palace, Yang Wu believed that these five people must not be ordinary people.

After all, if it were an ordinary person, I was afraid that Yang Wu would have been trembling and sweating for a long time.

In addition to appeasing these five people, Yang Wu also wanted to take the opportunity to show his benevolence and reassure everyone.

And in this way, everyone in the world will know that they value the scholars, and they can personally apologize to the seven innocent people who were imprisoned, and after the other scholars learn about it, even if they don't feel it personally, don't they have a sense of emotion in their hearts? Wouldn't the scholars of other countries come to serve in droves?

And this is Yang Wu's second purpose.

As for whether it will affect his majesty because of this, it is even more unlikely.

He is a king who personally leads troops to fight in all directions, why worry about not having authority? And he has just disposed of Song Qiqiu, and now he is gracious to others, and everyone will only sigh in their hearts that "King Wu is benevolent", and there will be no contempt.