Chapter 207: A Warning from Empress Dowager He
Xiao Tianlong shook the green dragon halberd in his palm, looked up to the sky and laughed: "Yes, it's me Xiao Tianlong!" ā
Jin Liang smiled coldly and said: "The name is very scary, isn't it still driven away by Zhang Yan, and hasn't it become a lackey of a certain family?!" What Qingxiao Tianlong, I think you're just a howling dog! ā
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Jin Liang took him in his eyes, instigated the red rabbit horse, shook the Fang Tian painting halberd in his palm hard, and bounced the green dragon halberd in Xiao Tianlong's palm.
The red rabbit horse was like a red lightning, flying forward, Fang Tian's halberd with the help of the momentum of the red rabbit horse, a halberd stabbed Xiao Tianlong's arm that was holding the green dragon halberd and had no defense, Jin Liang shook it again, and actually picked Xiao Tianlong, who was eight feet long and weighed two hundred pounds, off the horse, and the green dragon halberd fell to the ground, like a piece of scrap iron.
Xiao Tianlong, who seems to be invincible, is not Jin Liang's enemy, no wonder his name is big, but he has not left his name in history.
Jin Liang remembered that Zhang Yan had said that he had eliminated some poles, there was a pole called Huanglong, there was a pole leader who rode a white horse and his surname was Zhang Baiqi, there was a pole leader who spoke loudly and his surname was Zhang Leigong, and there was a leader with big eyes and a surname of Li Ben and Li Damu.
Xiao Tianlong struggled to get up, but the Flying Tiger Sergeant had already rushed forward and tied Xiao Tianlong strongly.
Jin Liang lifted Fang Tian's halberd and pressed the head of the cold light morid against Xiao Tianlong's throat: "Xiao Tianlong, who told you that I would pass through this valley at this time?!" ā
Xiao Tianlong smiled contemptuously: "Although I, Xiao Tianlong, am a thief. But he is also righteous and dry, and will never betray his friends! ā
Jin Liang pushed the sharp halberd forward and pressed it tightly against Xiao Tianlong's throat: "Don't cut off your life for stupid righteousness!" ā
Xiao Tianlong shouted: "If you want to kill, you will kill, why bother talking nonsense." Twenty years later, Lao Tzu is still a hero! ā
Jin Liang was furious. wanted to stab Xiao Tianlong to death with a halberd, but Zhang Ren hurriedly stopped: "Lord, leave him a dog's life!" Just now I asked some bandit leaders again, and they didn't know the origin of the black-clothed man in the Tianshan Mountains before yesterday, saying that only their commander Xiao Tianlong knew! ā
Jin Liang raised Fang Tian's halberd, shook his head again and again, and said, "But this guy sees death as home." Unyielding. What to do! ā
Zhang Ren smiled and said: "Everyone has weaknesses, although this Xiao Tianlong is not afraid of death, but he is a woman who likes women!" The bandit leaders said... Xiao Tianlong has raised more than a dozen ladies in the cottage, which can be said to be unhappy without women, such a person is easy for him to confide in the truth. ā
Jin Liang laughed and said, "Then I'll hand him over to you, just in one day." Make sure he tells him who's behind it! ā
Jin Liang sent Xue Lan and Liu He to work hard, and the people of the consulate department raided Xiao Tianlong's lair, and took advantage of the situation to sweep away all the bandits at the junction of Changshan County, Zhongshan County, and Julu County.
Jin Liang also sent Dian Wei to lead the remaining men and horses to reorganize the prisoners, clean up the battlefield, and clean up the spoils.
Zhang Ren brought Xiao Tianlong into a tent. Tie him up. He also gave him the elixir, which was rich in aphrodisiac ingredients. can quickly improve a man's affection**, when Xiao Tianlong finished eating the elixir, he reacted. Then I saw that more than a dozen of his wives were fiercely resisting with some Flying Tiger Army soldiers.
Xiao Tianlong was furious when he saw this, and kept insulting, and Zhang Ren quickly took a rag and plugged his mouth.
Zhang Ren saw that Xiao Tianlong's reaction was getting worse and stronger, so he ordered someone to take off his clothes, pick up a sword with a cold light, and put it on his cocked bird. Hehe smiled: "Xiao Tianlong, is your friend important?" Or do you bird matter? If you don't tell your friend. You can only give it to us, the soldiers of the Flying Tiger Army who have made meritorious contributions, and you will be a eunuch for the rest of your life, and you will never be able to enjoy the wonderful feeling of a beautiful woman again! ā
Xiao Tianlong, a good woman like an outlaw, the way they longed for death was "death under the peony flower, and being a ghost is also romantic", but Zhang Ren threatened to let him be a eunuch for a lifetime. This was far more uncomfortable than killing him, Xiao Tianlong watched the sharp sword get closer and closer to his bird, and the sadness on his face became heavier and heavier, and finally he couldn't bear it anymore, and screamed: "Woo woo woo." ā
Zhang Ren felt that Xiao Tianlong's reaction was a little strange. looked up, oh, Dian Wei's torn socks were still stuffed in Xiao Tianlong's mouth, and he quickly pulled out the stinky socks.
Xiao Tianlong screamed, "I said! I say! It was Zhang Fu of the Zhen family, who asked me to ambush you, and said that if the ambush was successful, Mrs. Zhang would pay me 500,000 stone grain. ā
"Zhang Fu?!" Zhang Ren hurriedly called over a leader of the Zhen family's soldiers: "Who is Zhang Fu?" ā
"Lord Zhang, that Zhang Fu is the big housekeeper of our Zhen family, and the nephew of our old lady Zhang, except for the old lady Zhang and a few young ladies of the son, the Zhen family belongs to him." The leader of the soldiers replied.
Zhang Ren got confirmed, and looked at Xiao Tianlong with a smile: "Thank you!" The sword in his hand swung down!
Xiao Tianlong screamed miserably, fainted in an instant, and when he woke up, he saw that he was empty underneath, so he scolded sharply: "Zhang Ren is a thief, he has no faith in his words, lacks morality, and is a bad seed!" ā
Zhang Ren grinned and rested the sword on Xiao Tianlong's neck: "It seems that I didn't promise you anything in advance, if you scold again, I will cut off your head!" ā
"Zhang Ren thief, you can't be a man, what's the point of me living, you kill me with a sword!" Xiao Tianlong howled miserably, howling as he struggled desperately, trying to put his neck against the sword.
Zhang Ren hurriedly took back the sword, and said with a smile: "Kill you with a sword, it's cheaper for you, my lord has decided to completely sweep the stubborn bandits between the counties in Jingzhou and Jingzhou, and you will be escorted to the counties and counties in Jingzhou and Jingzhou to make a tour of the public, so that those bandits can see the fate of their refusal to return and intend to attack the Central Army!" Hey, it's called waste utilization! ā
Xiao Tianlong couldn't bear such humiliation, so he wanted to bite his tongue and commit suicide, but Zhang Ren found out in advance and removed his jaw, making him unable to bite his tongue.
Zhang Ren sneered: "Xiao Tianlong." My lord said that for you thieves, horse thieves, pirates, whores and other thieves who have no thief and no spirit of morality, the best punishment is not to kill them with a knife, but to let you survive and not die, and let you endure a life that is even more miserable than the innocent people you have ever mutilated! ā
Jin Liang's heart was like an arrow, so he asked Liu He and Xue Lan to divide the prisoners of these thieves equally. Most of the remaining bandits were placed in the labor reform brigade in the Tuntian Corps, and a few of the most vicious bandits were placed in the slave camps.
The people in the Tuntian Corps are divided into four categories, the first category is the field guards, the second category is the tun people, mainly composed of displaced people and errant officers and men of the Central Army, and the third type is the members of the labor reform team, mainly composed of prisoners of war or people who have broken the law, and they can usually be reformed into ordinary cantonment people. The fourth category is slaves, which are made up of the immediate family members of the great families who fought against Jin Liang and the most heinous prisoners of war, and there is almost no possibility of reform.
Zhang Ren took Jin Liang's handwritten letter, led the 500 Flying Tiger Army, and with the assistance of Liu Hesuo, the lieutenant of Zhongshan County, returned to Zhenjiawu Fort and captured Zhang Fu and his henchmen with lightning speed. And a thorough interrogation investigation was conducted.
It turned out that Zhen Yu, the son of the Zhen family, was frail and sickly. The second son and the third son are young, and the old lady Zhang who is in charge of the family trusts her nephew Zhang Fu very much, and that Zhang Fu abused the trust of the old lady and took almost one-third of the Zhen family's family property as his own, especially among the eight thousand soldiers of the Zhen family, Zhang Fu installed many cronies, and the Zhen family soldiers almost became Zhang Fu's private soldiers.
Jin Liang transferred all the Zhen family soldiers. Jin Liang let Zhen Yu put Mrs. Zhang under house arrest, Zhang Fu suddenly broke the foundation, and Jin Liang let Zhen Yu and Zhen Jiang completely control the financial power of the Zhen family, Zhang Fu was not only angry with Jin Liang for breaking his roots, but also worried that his embezzlement of family property would be discovered by Zhen Jiang. He sent someone to inform his old friend Long Qing Xiao Tianlong to ambush Jin Liang, he thought to himself that if Jin Liang was destroyed, Zhen Jiang did not rely on it, and the Zhen family would be his Zhang Fu.
Zhang Ren announced the results of the investigation to everyone in the Zhen family, and Zhen Jiang, Zhen Yu and other children of the Zhen family were very angry, and they all agreed to let Zhang Ren punish Zhang Fu. Zhang Ren quickly sent people to arrest Zhang Fu and his henchmen and their relatives, and all the Zhen family property that was swallowed up by Zhang Fu was returned to the Zhen family, and Zhang Fu's group totaled more than 2,000 people, all of which were handed over to the Tuntian Corps under the Central Army.
Jin Liang's mother-in-law, who is old and disrespectful, Mrs. Zhang learned that her most trusted nephew had embezzled one-third of the Zhen family's property from her, fainted in anger, and woke up, she looked like she had a stroke, as if she was more than ten years old, she originally wanted to wait for Zhen Yu to regain control of the Zhen family after she died, but Zhang Fu's incident completely ruined her reputation, and the Zhen family said that she would not let her regain control of the Zhen family.
When Jin Liang learned about this, he just smiled and didn't say anything more.
Such an old lady Zhang is not uncommon in later generations, often using houses and cars to ask those poor second-generation sons-in-law, seeing those rich and handsome pursuing their daughters, they stubbornly ask their daughters to give up the original poor second generation to get along with those officials and rich second generations, even if the daughter is married, such mothers-in-law are still very critical of their sons-in-law, and some will fan the flames to encourage their daughters to divorce and remarry good people.
Jin Liang sighed deeply, saying that women have long hair and short knowledge, and they will always judge a person's value by their life experience, in fact, Mrs. Zhang's values, in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and even the Wei and Jin dynasties, are indeed the mainstream values of this era.
Jin Liang doesn't believe in this evil, he wants to beat this value of bloodline to pieces!
Out of that valley, sure enough, as Zhang Ren said, a horse Pingchuan, except for the vast smoke and waves of hundreds of miles of mainland Ze blocking the road needs to be detoured, the other roads are in good condition, the heavy snow has not yet closed the road, along the way those thieves were swept away by the local county soldiers, Jin Liang's army went smoothly, and arrived in Xiangyang four days later.
Jin Liang's heart was like an arrow, so he took the lead, walked in front of the army, and saw the colorful flags at the north gate of Xiangyang from a distance, and the gongs and drums were noisy.
Jin Liangxing went to the gate of the city, looked carefully, and the court ministers headed by Shangshu Ling Huang Wan and Chengtian Feng in the imperial history, and the military generals such as the commander of Wei County, the commander of the Second Army of the Central Committee, Sima Gaoshun, Lu Chong, and the division commander Gao Lan were all greeted at the north gate. Zhao Yun was also one step ahead of Jin Liang, leading the villagers to Xiangyang, following Gao Shun, Gao Lan and other generals, and came to welcome Jin Liang's return.
When Jin Liang was talking to Huang Wan, Tian Feng, Gao Shun, Zhao Yun and others, a royal chariot decorated with Ming and yellow carvings rushed over, and a crisp, pleasant and familiar female voice sounded: "Jin Liang, the general of Zhengnan, receives the order!" ā
The crowd parted, and a woman dressed in the costume of a high-ranking female official of the palace got out of the chariot with a bright yellow brocade. Slowly walked towards Jin Liang.
Jin Liang was taken aback, and it turned out to be Cai Yan and Cai Wenji who came to read it with the holy decree.
Jin Liang knew that the senior female officials had replaced the former ten permanent servants and became the main administrative force of the inner palace, but he didn't expect Cai Yan to change his original intention and accept the call of the Empress Dowager He after rejecting it several times in a row. became a high-ranking female officer.
Thanks to Jin Liang's insistence, the Empress Dowager He Lian and the Son of Heaven Liu Wei had to abandon the plan to re-recruit eunuchs, and instead expanded the authority of female officials to replace eunuchs, and the rights of the original ten permanent servants were shared by senior female officials from various families represented by Lu Zhi's niece Lu Lu, Cai Yong's daughter Cai Yan, and Ma Richan's niece Ma Fei. In this, except for Cai Yan, who is still young, most of the other female officials are women over thirty years old, and they are all widows who have no family background to assist He Lian, a widow, in managing the harem.
The reason why female officials can easily take the lead in the harem is not only because of Jin Liang's strong support, but also because it is now the queen mother who is in the court to listen to the government.
The Queen Mother listened to the government. The reuse of female officials to assist the government has a precedent in the Eastern Han Dynasty. After the death of Emperor Han He, the prince Liu Long was born only one hundred days ago, and the heir was Emperor Han Dynasty, and the Empress Dowager Deng listened to the government for less than half a year, and the Emperor died again, so the heir of Liu Hu, the king of Qinghe, was the Emperor of Han An, Emperor An was only thirteen years old, and the Empress Dowager Deng was still in the court to listen to the government. The talented girl Ban Zhao was able to participate in the confidential information with the respect of the master, and she was loyal to her mind and mind. Deng Qiu assisted the military state as a general and was the elder brother of the Queen Mother. Quite relied on, and later his mother passed away, and the queen mother hesitated to return to the system, and asked Ban Zhao, who thought: "The general has retired after success, and this is the right time; Otherwise, the border disaster will happen again. If there is a slight delay, the world is famous, will not it be enough to pay the water? Empress Dowager Deng thought it was reasonable and approved Deng Qiu's request. After the death of Ban Zhao, the Empress Dowager personally mourned for her teacher for many years and was under the guardianship of the messenger.
It's the same as Ban Zhao back then. Cai Yan and other ladies of the family assisted the Empress Dowager He Lian in handling political affairs, and they were not criticized too much, after all, in the eyes of Lu Zhi, Cai Yong and other ministers of the family, their daughters and sisters-in-law can be ministers, which is also a strong support for their family's politics.
According to Jin Liang's suggestion, Empress Dowager He set up six departments in the palace in accordance with the six departments of the cabinet: Shang Gong Department, Shang Yi Department, Shang Fu Department, Shang Food Department, Shang Bed Department, and Shang Gong Department, and the chief female officials of the six departments are collectively called "Six Shang", which are Shang Gong, Shang Yi, Shang Fu, Shang Shi, Shang Bed, and Shang Gong, which are equivalent to six Shangshu. The six departments lead the twenty-four divisions, and there are twenty-four canons under them, and there are women's histories under the canons to manage the affairs of the palace.
Cai Yan is Shang Yi, responsible for all ceremonial matters, and Cai Yan is responsible for all major holy decrees.
Cai Yan unfolded the holy decree and did not read it, but just looked up and quietly looked at Jin Liang who was sitting on the red rabbit horse.
Jin Liang realized, quickly turned over and dismounted, and bowed to wait.
Cai Yan knew that Jin Lianggui was an auxiliary minister of the cabinet, a general of Zhengnan, who controlled the most elite central army in the imperial court, and was the martial arts master of the Son of Heaven, and had been granted the right to be exempted from kneeling by the Son of Heaven and the Queen Mother, so he no longer required Jin Liang to bow down when she read the holy decree.
The holy decree is very simple, in order to commend Jin Liang for breaking the Niu Fuding Hanoi, breaking Yang Dingping Hedong, and breaking the Xiongnu Dingzhou and the great merits, he was specially named the general of the expedition to the north, and he was the military governor of Jingzhou, Bingzhou, Youzhou, and Qingzhou, and at the same time concurrently led the general of Liao, responsible for all the affairs of the north, and added 500 feudal towns in Wen County, and rewarded all the meritorious generals under Jin Liang, and confirmed Jin Liang's appointment of these generals.
Jin Liang thanked the holy decree, and Cai Yan said with a smile: "General, your achievements in this war are very prominent, especially the pacification of the Huns, sweeping away the harm of many years of internal disturbance of the Huns, which can be called a miraculous feat, and the court's reward for you is well deserved." Another message from the Queen Mother ordered you to enter the palace as soon as possible. ā
Jin Liang arched his hand and smiled: "Cai Shangyi, I don't know why the Queen Mother summoned me?" ā
Cai Yan said with a smile: "Maybe the Queen Mother wants to hear you talk about these recent military events, right?" ā
Although Jin Liang didn't take Liu Han's imperial power seriously in his heart, he still had to make full respect on his face, so he ordered Gao Shun and Dian Wei to be responsible for reorganizing all the horses and horses he brought, and ordered Zhao Yun to lead a hundred Flying Tiger Army, follow him, follow Cai Yan's carriage, and march to the palace.
The harsh winter is coming, the cold wind is cold outside Xiangyang, and the palace is not warm, the plump and enchanting Queen Mother He Lian is wearing a thick mink fur, reclining on the phoenix bed, her beautiful eyes are looking forward to it, and she looks at Jin Liang gracefully and lazily: "Aiqing, you have been gone for a month, and there is no news at all, and there are rumors that have spread to Xiangyang that you have disappeared, but you are still concerned about Xiangyang?" ā
Jin Liang glanced inside and outside the Queen Mother's bedroom, all the palace maids avoided it from afar, and the people standing at the entrance of the dormitory were all the henchmen of the Queen Mother He Lian, and they had all witnessed the Queen Mother and Jin Liang by the lake.
Jin Liang hurriedly walked to the phoenix bed, stretched out his big hand, gently stroked the delicate face of the Queen Mother, and whispered: "Although the Weichen people are on the battlefield, they miss the Queen Mother all the time. ā
Knowing that it was a lie, Jin Liang's very affectionate and serious expression made it more real than the truth.
Empress Dowager He shook her head suddenly, and her face turned cold: "Aiqing, if you really have me in your heart, why did you provoke that Wei family dancer Du Xiuniang in Hedong County, and because of this, you were in danger, causing this palace to worry and fear you for many days!"
Jin Liang put on an innocent expression: "Queen Mother, you have seen the skill of Weichen, but you don't know the pain hidden behind the skill of Weichen!" ā
Empress Dowager He's fair and smooth forehead wrinkled slightly: "Hidden pain?!" ā
Jin Liang gently took Empress Dowager He's slender jade hand and touched it under his crotch.
Empress Dowager He held Jin Liang's upright handle, and her beautiful eyes were full of spring: "Aiqing, you are so hard here!" ā
Jin Liang put on a very painful expression: "Can the Queen Mother know that the solitary yang does not grow, the solitary yin does not grow, and only the combination of yin and yang is the right way?" ā
Although the Empress Dowager He already has a fifteen-year-old daughter of Princess Wannian, she herself has just passed the age of thirty, although she is mature and plump, but in addition to getting the blessing of Emperor Han Ling, there is only Jin Liang, Emperor Han Ling has a harem of three thousand, Jin Liang has three wives and is busy with military and political affairs, Empress Dowager He's experience in that area is even inferior to those fifteen or sixteen-year-old female middle school students in later generations, thirty like a wolf She heard "the lonely yang does not grow, the lonely yin does not give birth, only the yin and yang are combined", and she couldn't help but nod her head
Jin Liang put on an innocent expression again: "In the month of going out on the expedition, I often have a hard pain here, I have asked the divine doctor Hua Tuo and Zhang Ji before, they said that the masculinity of Weichen is too violent, and the woman's Yuan Yin Qi needs to be reconciled, otherwise Weichen's temperament will become more and more tyrannical, until he becomes a demon king who kills people without blinking." (To be continued.) )
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