4. The mind is unpredictable
"Bang-"
Ma Teng, who had gray temples and was getting older, was furious, and directly picked up the cane and threw it at Ma Chao, but Ma Chao in front of the arrogant man did not dodge this time, and was hit by the cane, his body shook, and blood spilled from the corner of his mouth.
"You son of a, for the sake of a little woman, you are going to destroy the entire Ma family!"
Ma Teng was so angry that he smoked, and wanted to raise his cane to fight again, so frightened that Ma Dai and the others hurriedly stopped him, not daring to let Ma Teng, who was angry, get closer to Ma Chao again.
After Ma Dai rushed to the Ma Mansion that day, Ma Teng and the others thought that Ma Chao was very likely to go to He Mansion to rob He E, and sent people to Yan Mansion and the alley where He Mansion was located to intercept Ma Chao in fear, but they didn't expect that Ma Chao had already taken the lead in infiltrating Yan Mansion, and on the day of the wedding, he desperately broke into such a catastrophe.
"My lord, calm your anger, now let's think about how to deal with the anger of the General's Mansion!"
Ma Xiu, Ma Tie and the others glanced at their elder brother, with complaints, this unruly eldest brother can make their Ma family miserable this time.
The governor of the palace, Shi Yanzhu, the old surnames of the Guanzhong families, the Cao Peng history, and other guests, these forces have gathered together, and they will tear the Ma family apart alive.
"My lord, I can only tie up the eldest brother first, and hurry up to the general's mansion to take the blame!"
"Yes, yes, it's slow, when the General's Mansion sends out the sergeants, it'll be too late."
Ma Xiu and Ma Tie were both anxious to give Ma an idea, but Ma Teng, who was still beating Ma Chao angrily just now, hesitated at this time, and he said to himself:
"But, if you send your brother to the General's Mansion like this, he, he may never come back."
"My lord, when it is broken, it is broken, and the family is the most important!"
Ma Xiu and Ma Tie persuaded movingly.
If you can't avoid the catastrophe this time, the fall of the Ma family may occur, where do you still care about a person's life, the car and the handsome used to be his father's style, why did he become so hesitant when he got old.
"My lord—"
Before Ma Xiu and Ma Tie could be persuaded again, a rush of footsteps had already come from outside the hall.
"Oh no, the lieutenant of the Chinese Military Academy has already entered the mansion with a soldier, saying that he was ordered by the hussar general to capture Meng Qi and bring him to justice."
Ma Yi ran into the hall in a panic, looked at the many Ma family members and said without hesitation.
Hearing that Dian Wei brought a soldier into the mansion, everyone's hearts rose to their throats, but when they heard that they were just simply capturing Ma Chao, Ma Xiu and Ma Tie quickly returned to normal.
"My lord, your mind is in turmoil, so let the children make their own decisions first!"
Ma Xiu and Ma Tie saw that Ma Teng was losing ground and had no patience to wait for their father anymore, so they rushed to Ma Chao together, and said:
"Brother, for the lives of dozens of people in the family, I have offended!"
After speaking, Ma Xiu and Ma Tie started one after another, tied Ma Chao tightly with a rope, pushed Ma Chao, and were about to walk out of the hall and hand it over to Dian Wei, who had already led the troops into the house.
The old Ma Teng watched Ma Xiu and Ma Tie tie up their brother with their hands, without mercy, and couldn't help but cry for a while, he abandoned his cane, staggered and rushed to Ma Chao, stretched out his hand and slapped again, and snapped very loudly.
"Son, you're going to harm the entire Ma family."
"Hahaha." Ma Chao, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly laughed, and he didn't pay attention to his father, but was pushed by Ma Xiu and Ma Tie, two anxious brothers, and strode out of the hall.
"I'd rather die like a man than be kept in captivity and be a pig with a head and tail wagging!"
As soon as these words came out, Ma Teng's body was shocked, and the old tears came out of his eyes again, once today, I am afraid that the father and son will never see each other again.
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General's Palace, Inner Chamber.
Yan Xing wore the clothes of Yanju, sat behind the desk, and took a cloth to carefully wipe the good bow in his hand.
Yan Gui stood aside with some restraint, waiting quietly.
This time, Ma Chao broke into a big disaster.
Yan Xiang, who was so troubled by him on the day of his wedding, lost face, has come to an end, and his resignation has also been sent to the general's mansion.
The lady of the He family was also dismissed, and the He family was even more infamous for "breaking the contract without trust" and "greedy for the powerful", and the family's reputation was ruined.
The Ma family is also uncomfortable, although Ma Chao has been captured and brought to justice, but Ma Teng still tremblingly pleaded guilty, and took a group of Ma family sons and nephews to ask to see the hussar general Yan Xing, panicked, and even called the death penalty.
Murder and punishment, Ma Chao's revenge is not cruel.
"Zhengdu, you have seen everything at the banquet, so what do you think?"
Yan Gui was personally present with Yan Xing's congratulatory gift, and when he heard Yan Xing's question, he immediately replied:
"That Ma Chao is fierce and rampant, it is really hateful, even if he has a lot of merit in the army, he should not be easily forgiven, and he should be severely punished to set an example!"
Yan Xing listened to Yan Gui's words, the hand wiping the bow back paused for a moment, glanced at Yan Gui, who was full of words, smiled coldly, and said:
"Is this what you have in mind? Or in the words of the senior Shi and others? ”
It's-
Yan Gui's heart tightened when he heard this, and he hurriedly bowed down, and said with panic in his mouth:
"Regularity is blunt, I don't know the deep meaning, please make it public!"
Prior to this, Changshi Yanzhu had vaguely revealed with Yan Gui, Fu Gan, You Chu and others that Yongliang was prosperous, and his strength was strong, and the arrogance of the arrogant soldiers and fierce generals in the army was growing.
At present, the General's Mansion is about to use Ma Chao's iron case to deter people's hearts and restrain the officers and men in the army, so the criminal Ma Chao can only be severely punished, and will not be indulged lightly.
But now it seems that this is not the hussar general's mind.
Yan Gui secretly complained in his heart, and Yan Xing didn't speak for a long time, so he could only rack his brains to think in his heart, and suddenly thought of something, and added anxiously:
I heard that Ma Chao first went to He Mansion to ask for marriage, and was humiliated by the He family, regarded him as a rude martial artist, and then broke the contract to marry Yan, which made Ma Chao furious and made a big fuss about Yan Mansion leaving. It seems that the matter is complicated, and it is not appropriate to be partial, and it should be decided by the words of one family, and perhaps it should be handed over to a company for trial, so as to show the principle of fairness and justice. ”
Yan Xing's face softened, but he still shook his head.
The children of the Yan family are all middle-aged, embarrassed and embarrassed.
At present, Ma Chao's case involves the nerves of everyone under his command, and it is mixed with the contradictions and disputes between the old surname of Guanzhong, the Liangdi Wuzong, and the old and new civil and military.
With the rapid expansion of their own power, the forces under their command have become more and more complex, and the new and old generals in the army, the Sanhe Shi clan, the old surname of Guanzhong, the Yongliang Wuzong, and the Hanmen Shiren, they are loyal, effective, and serviced to themselves, and at the same time, they will also engage in disorderly internal battles for each other's interests.
In view of Yan Xing's reckless background and the disadvantage of being compared with the Yuan and Cao families, or the third prince of the fourth dynasty, or supporting the Son of Heaven, the advantage that Yan Xing could rely on in the confrontation between the three families was Cuihan's natural danger and a fierce and warlike cavalry.
This is destined to be the status of the officers and soldiers in the army, and a series of government decrees such as the pension order, the settlement order, the marriage order, and the preferential care order are all dominated by the officers and soldiers in the army, and most of the people who are waiting for the generals are the first to follow Yan Xing, and they are the force that supports Yan Xing the most, and they are also a group with huge profits.
But it is impossible to expect these arrogant soldiers to be able to abide by the law like scholars, and the gap between civil and military, the importance of law and military law, and the big and small disputes between the two often appear in front of Yan Xing's case.
In addition, according to the prominence of status and authority, Yan Xing's command should be headed by the old men in the army and the Hedong scholars, followed by the Hanmen scholars and the Sanhe celebrities, and finally the rookies in the army, the old surname of Guanzhong, and the Yongliang Wuzong, but the chain of contempt in private is very different, the old surname of Guanzhong is respected, and the status of the Hanmen and Wuzong is the lowest.
Clear-eyed people can see that the old surname of Guanzhong looks down on Hanmen and Wuzong, such as the Pingling He family, they would rather be low and small, carry out high-door marriages, and take the route of the Duling Yan family, rather than look at the Ma family between Wuzong and the generals.
Although the contradiction broke out unexpectedly and only involved a few individuals, the entanglements in it were accumulated by everyone in the past.
Therefore, Ma Chao's case, countless people are watching, waiting for the hussar general to intervene and see how Yan Xing will deal with it.
According to Yan Zhu's idea, when Yan Xing took root in Hedong, he still wanted to marry the Wenxi Pei family and reuse the Hedong scholars, so they are now based in Chang'an and based on Guanzhong, so they should appease those old surnames in Guanzhong, and by the way, use this iron case to kill chickens and monkeys, suppress the arrogance of the arrogant generals in the army, and maintain the balance between civil and military.
But what Yan Xing was about to do at the moment seemed to be different from what Yan Zhi thought.
The Bafu will arrange a large county for Yan Xiang to serve as the county commander, and the He family will send someone to comfort him, as for Ma Chao, he will be whipped fifty, stripped of all military titles, punished for hard labor in the army, and the rest of the Ma family will be pardoned without guilt.
From this point of view, the hussar general still strongly advocated the maintenance of the lieutenant generals and colonels, and did not approve of the practice of strictly ordering chickens and monkeys to set an example.
Yan Gui, who bowed down, thought silently in his heart.
It's just that the next moment, Yan Xing once again subverted Yan Gui's thoughts.
"Summoning Xi Cao, transfer Yang Pei from Luoyang to Chang'an, and serve as Chang'an Order!"
Yang Pei took down the deeds of the hussar general's entourage and his own soldiers to punish the crime, which has been passed on by word of mouth, spreading as far as Sanhe and Guanxi, and the people of the time are more than Zhidu and Yizong, such a cool official entered Chang'an to replace Sima Lang as Chang'an Order, not to mention that the children of the old surname in Guanzhong were frightened, even those heroes in the army should be shocked.
It's really hard to guess the mind of this hussar general.
Yan Gui thought as he wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.