A festive feast was stirred up by Zhao Kuangning like this, and as a result, everyone was in no good mood, and their faces were very ugly; Especially Yang Wu, he was like eating a fly, and he was in an extremely bad mood. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Not long after Zhao Kuangning was kicked out, Yang Wu reluctantly explained a few words, and then announced the end of the banquet and asked everyone to go back to rest.

After going back, how to deal with Zhao Kuangning became a difficult point.

Originally, according to Yang Wu's original intention, it was best for someone who openly challenged his authority on such an occasion to be killed on the spot.

He is not a brutal person, and he will not kill people for no reason to show his authority like Zhu Quanzhong.

However, the current situation is that Zhao Kuangning is a defeated person, and he dares to rely on the old and sell the old to call him a child, if he doesn't fight back, everyone is secretly afraid that he will really see him as a child in the future, then the majesty he has built up through his victories on the battlefield in recent years will be ruined.

Even if it is a bit too much to directly kill Zhao Kuangning with a cane, it can't make him feel better, at least he has to be punished with a cane, first beaten half to death, and then exile Zhao Kuangning's entire family to Wenzhou.

At this time, many areas in the south were barren, such as Lingnan, which was a special place for exiling prisoners in this dynasty; Now Lingnan is not in the hands of Huainan, but Wenzhou is also a remote and barren land, and the population is sparse, and people need to develop it, so many prisoners in Huainan have been exiled there in the past year.

However, his idea was met with resistance within the Yang family, and this resistance first came from Yang Xingmi.

It didn't take long for him to know what had happened at the banquet after Yang Xingmi left, and then he beckoned Yang Wu over.

"I know everything tonight, what are you going to do with Zhao Kuangning?" Yang Xingmi asked in a deep voice.

In the past year, he has rarely been concerned about government affairs, but recently he has become obsessed with planting some flowers and plants to pass the time, and his life is leisurely.

However, after all, Zhao Kuangning's incident happened not long after he left, and the matter was a bit big, those officials and generals may be okay to say, after all, those who are qualified to participate in the banquet are all high-level figures in Huainan, who know the severity and will not talk nonsense; But the ladies who came with them were hard to say.

Women already like gossip, and it is difficult to ensure that it will not be leaked out after seeing what happened at the banquet with their own eyes, and it is difficult to track it down afterwards. Therefore, I am afraid that it will not be long before the officials and generals of the entire Guangling will know about it.

In addition, Zhao Kuangning was also an envoy of the festival at the beginning, and he had ruled several states in Shannan Dongdao for more than ten years, and now he was put in prison, and everyone was concerned about how Yang Wu would deal with this matter.

"The child feels that Zhao Kuangning is arrogant and rude, and he doesn't take the child in his eyes, and the child must respond, otherwise the child's majesty will be damaged!" Yang Wu said: "Of course, it is too heavy to kill him, so the child thinks that he can be roded a hundred, his family property will be confiscated, and the whole family will be exiled to Wenzhou!" ”

Yang Xingmi frowned and said, "Isn't it a little too much?" After all, Zhao Kuangning is almost fifty years old, what is the difference between fighting a hundred battles and directly killing with a cane? ”

What's more, Zhao Kuangning was a feudal town at the beginning, and he had a high reputation in the world; He took the initiative to attach himself to my Huainan again, and later took the initiative to vote after the defeat, if he was killed in Guangling in just a year, what would other feudal towns think when they heard about it? ”

This is also a problem, no matter how Zhao Kuangning is not, he was also a famous feudal town in the world at the beginning, and he used to be a brother and brother with Wang Jian, Li Keyong, Li Maozhen and other feudal towns.

And he came to Huainan as a vassal to take refuge, if he was killed because of a few words, then when Huainan conquered other feudal towns in the future, who would dare to surrender easily?

Yang Xingmi continued: "Those Guangling officials who went to the Zhao family to fight the autumn wind under various pretexts, you must have also acquiesced, right?" ”

Yang Wu had no choice but to nod, he couldn't deny this, after all, he knew these things but didn't stop them, it was actually acquiescence.

"Since you acquiesced, then it is natural that people have some resentment, so for the sake of this matter, you have killed it a little."

"But ......"

"You're worried about the damage to authoritarianism, aren't you?" Yang Xingmi waved his hand.

Yang Wu nodded, "Yes, the child has only been in charge of Huainan for a year, and he dares to do this, if he doesn't deal with him heavily, how can he stand up for himself?" ”

I only heard Yang Xingmi suddenly laugh and say, "Then what if you have been in charge of Huainan for many years and your authority is stable?" Are you going to kill Zhao Kuangning directly to show your majesty? ”

"If the authority is stable, then there is no need for this, just punishment." Yang Wu said.

"That's it, blindly showing majesty will only make people afraid of majesty and not virtuous. If there is a great chaos today, there are many brutal and murderous people in various feudal towns, and each is eager to show its majesty by various means, but what is lacking today is not majesty, but benevolence! ”

"Look at Zhu Quanzhong, isn't his majesty now enough? But he still likes to kill, not to show majesty, but to show his cruelty. Now he is strong, and his men are afraid of him, so they dare not disobey his commands; But if one day his authority is shaken even slightly, then he may be in a state of no return. ”

"The father's power is not as good as Zhu Quanzhong, but the father is the opposite of him, showing benevolence everywhere, so I can Huainan have a stable heart and can compete with it."

Yang Wu couldn't help but smile bitterly, thinking in his heart that if he didn't have his own crossing, according to the development of history, it wouldn't be long before the power of the Yang family would be taken away by Xu Wen. The only role of Yang Xingmi's benevolence is to let Xu Wen and his son hold the government for 30 years before they dare to usurp the throne, so that it will not be like other regimes of this era, once someone succeeds in a coup d'état, it will not be long before they will usurp the throne and stand on their own; But it is of little use to save the overall situation of the Yang family.

Of course, this is also because there is no successor to the Yang family in history, and Xu Wen took the right approach and did not rush to usurp the throne, but ruled in the name of the Yang family, so that Yang Xingmi's old subordinates did not rise up to resist.

Yang Xingmi may have seen the disapproval in Yang Wu's expression, and said with a smile: "Of course, being a father does not require you to be blindly benevolent, but to ask you to be gracious and generous, lenient and severe. So the key to how to deal with Zhao Kuangning is not what you think, but what those officials in Huainan think! ”

Yang Wu was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly asked: "Father is saying that if everyone thinks that Zhao Kuangning should be punished heavily, it means that the child is majestic enough, so he can be dealt with lightly, so as to show benevolence to everyone; In turn, Zhao Kuangning should be punished again to show his majesty? ”

Yang Xingmi smiled: "Yes, it seems that you have understood the key points of being in power, so you can rest assured as a father!" ”

Yang Wu was thoughtful, he sat with Yang Xingmi for a while, and saw that he looked a little tired, so he said goodbye and left.

The next day, in the council chamber of the Embassy.

"Ladies and gentlemen, many of you may have heard about what happened at the banquet last night, and some of you may not have heard of it, but it doesn't matter, Judge Zhou, you can introduce the situation!"

"Yes!" Zhou Yin bowed down and listened to the order, and began to introduce it to everyone, he tried his best to introduce last night's events from a more fair perspective, what to say, and did not deliberately say bad things about Zhao Kuangning.

After hearing this, the officials who came to attend the public meeting were in an uproar, after all, only a few people were able to attend yesterday's banquet, and most of them had just heard about it.

Yang Wu is now the de facto lord of Huainan, and Zhao Kuangning is just a lost dog who has fallen into trouble, so he still dares not to put Yang Wu in his eyes, how to convince people if he is not punished?

So as soon as Zhou Yin's words fell, someone stood up and said: "Zhao Kuangning despises His Highness so much, if he is not severely punished, how can he convince people?" The subordinates feel that they should be killed directly to warn others! ”

"Yes, Zhao Kuangning is arrogant and rude, and he must be severely punished!"

"Subordinates seconded!"

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Some people feel that it is not enough to kill Zhao Kuangning with a cane, and his family must also be disposed of; Some people even suggested that Zhao Kuangning was just a fallen person attached to Huainan, who had no power and no power in Guangling, if there was no one behind him to instruct, Zhao Kuangning alone, would he dare to do this?

Therefore, this part of the people advocated handing over the case to Fan Yu for disposal, and asked him to strictly investigate the people behind Zhao Kuangning, find out and kill one by one, and never let go of a person with ill intentions towards Huainan.

Hearing these murderous words, for a while, even those who were ready to stand up and say a few fair words for Zhao Kuangning didn't dare to speak out, for fear that if they didn't make up their minds, they would be regarded as Zhao Kuangning's "fellow party".

Of course, only a small number of people have demanded that the case be expanded to be strictly investigated, and even those who previously demanded that Zhao Kuangning be severely punished do not support this.

After all, everyone is an official in Huainan, and if Yang Wu is randomly instigated to set off a big case today, it is difficult to say whether this kind of thing will fall on their heads in the future.

When Yang Wu saw it, he immediately said in a deep voice: "This matter only involves Zhao Kuangning alone, and has nothing to do with anyone else. Don't get involved at will, make something out of nothing! ”

After listening to Yang Wu's statement, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, but everyone's opinion was still based on Zhao Kuangning, and basically no one advocated a lighter sentence; There were some people who stood silent, not knowing whether they were in favor or against.

Yang Wu continued: "How to deal with Zhao Kuangning, you might as well talk about your opinions, no matter what, Lone will not be blamed." ”

This year, he has been in charge of Huainan, and it is a little inappropriate to call himself "I" or "Ben General" or "Ben Shuai" and "Ben Guan", so in the end, he began to call himself "Lonely" like Yang Xingmi. Of course, as the prince of King Wu, even if he is called lonely, it is not a violation of etiquette.

After listening to Yang Wu's words, those officials who had felt that it was inappropriate to directly cane Zhao Kuangning to death dared to come out and say a few words of justice for Zhao Kuangning.

"Your Highness, Zhao Kuangning was rude and rushed into His Highness, which is of course a big crime, but it is still inappropriate to kill him on this ground, kill people with words, what objection does this have with Zhu Quanzhong? Moreover, Zhao Kuangning took the initiative to vote after all, and if he was killed here, it might have a bad impact on persuading other feudal towns to surrender in the future. It was Zhou Yin who stood up and spoke first.