Suddenly heard that Guan Zizai, the leader of the "Wild Goose's Nest" with whom he had been wrestling wrestling for many years, committed suicide by jumping off a cliff in Dazhang Mountain because he was forced by Shi Wansui to commit suicide, and Yang Guang, the king of Jin, who was planning for the next step in Fusui Jiangnan, felt a little lost: Guan Zizai died like this, which made him even feel overwhelmed for a while. At the same time, there was a glimmer of hope in his heart that what Yang Su was about to bring back to Guangling was a corpse that someone else pretended to be Gao Qinglian, not the real body of Guan Zizi who he had been looking forward to for a long time and wanted to arrest him with his own hands.

Since he received Yang Su's report, no matter day or night, he can't help but recall that since he first heard Guan Zi in this name in the early years of the emperor's reign, in the past ten years, he has been thinking about the situation of wanting to uncover the mystery shrouded in Guan Zizai's face with his own hands, and every time he recalls the price he has paid for cracking the "Wild Goose's Nest" case over the years, he can't help but have a very bad feeling of punching the air.

It wasn't until more than ten days later that Yang Su arrived as scheduled, bringing with him the familiar and unfamiliar body he had been looking forward to for a long time, but he didn't want to see: it was still the slightly obese body, or the round face...... Undoubtedly, the cold, stiff and stiff corpse in front of him was the Gao Liansheng who was once very familiar with him, and it was also Gao Qinglian who made him feel very unfamiliar, and it was even more mysterious Guan Ziyi.

"Please show me the prince, how to dispose of Gao Qinglian's body?" Yang Su, who accompanied Yang Guang to inspect Gao Qinglian's body, saw Yang Guang standing in front of the coffin for a long time without avoiding the corpse, so he stepped forward to remind him.

"Well, the weather is hot, it is not appropriate to transport his body back to Chang'an for his father to be undetectable, in my opinion, cut off his head here, and take it to Chang'an as soon as possible with ice. Thinking of his loyalty to the old master, he chose a good place in Guangling and buried him. Yang Guang woke up from his contemplation, turned around and walked out the door, and explained to Yang Su.

"Will Chen Junfan, Xiao Yan's uncle and nephew, who were escorted to Jiankang by the previous official, also be escorted back to Chang'an and handed over to His Majesty to dispose of personally?" Yang Su followed behind Yang Guang and asked again.

"I'm just about to discuss this matter with the Yue Guogong, and let's go to the council hall to speak." Yang Guang led Yang Su in front of him and walked towards the council hall in the front yard, and said to him, "Yesterday, this king received a message from the king's servant from Jiankang, suggesting that this king behead Chen Junfan and Xiao's uncle and nephew on the spot, so as to intimidate the hearts of the people in Jiangnan. ”

Yang Su didn't expect that after the Battle of Chen, Shangshu's right servant who stayed in Jiankang after the war, shot Wang Shao, and advocated beheading Chen Junfan and Xiao's uncle and nephew on the spot, but he was asked by Yang Guang for a while and couldn't answer.

After pondering for a moment, Yang Su made up his mind, and as Yang Guang walked into the meeting hall of the Yangzhou Governor's Mansion, he clasped his fists and said to him: "Xiaguan thinks about the prince's future Fusui Jiangnan, and thinks that it is better not to kill these three people." ”

Yang Guang was noncommittal to what Yang Su said, politely invited him to sit aside, and said to him: "Yue Guogong wait a while, this king has already handed over the gift of the king's servant to Mr. Gu Shi for reading, and listen to what he has to say before making a decision." ”

Before he finished speaking, he had already seen Gu Shi, a Confucian in a green shirt, walking straight into the conference hall without being clear.

In just a few months, Gu Shi recruited nearly 1,000 Jiangnan scholars and Confucian scholars for Yang Guang to come to Guangling to participate in the compilation of books.

"Mr. Gu, this is the marching marshal who led the army to quell the Jiangnan rebellion this time, and his subordinates accepted the words, Yang Su, the Duke of Yueguo." Yang Guang got up and introduced Yang Sudao to Gu Shi.

"I have admired the name of Yue Guogong for a long time, and Gu Shi is polite." Gu Shi rushed to Yang Su and shuddered, then turned to Yang Guang and said, "The old man already has an idea in his heart about what the prince asked yesterday, and he has come to show the prince. ”

Yang Su didn't really mind that Gu Shi was very perfunctory to him, so he just sat silently on the sidelines, intending to listen to Gu Shi's views on dealing with Chen Junfan and the other three rebel leaders.

"Mr. Gu, please sit down and talk." Yang Guang said, and actually got up and held a tea bowl for Gu Shi.

"The king servant shot in the post, and suggested that the prince behead Chen Junfan and the three on the spot, which has his own reasons. The old man did not object to the beheading of Chen Junfan, but he did not approve of the beheading of Xiao's uncle and nephew, but thought that the prince should be the son of today, and still named Xiao's uncle and nephew as a duke. Gu Shi was not polite to Yang Guang, got up and took the tea bowl, put it on the few cases beside him, and said his own proposition directly.

"Chen Junfan and Xiao's uncle and nephew are both rebels and rebels, why does Mr. Gu favor one over the other, make suggestions to the prince, and treat the three of them differently?" Yang Su glanced at Yang Guang and couldn't help asking.

"May I ask the Duke of Yue, the king of Jin has been ordered to pacify the south of the Yangtze River this time, where should the first thing begin?" Gu Shi turned to Yang Su with a smile and asked.

Yang Su saw that Yang Guangchong nodded to himself, so he hugged his fists and replied: "Jiangnan and the Central Plains have been divided into north and south for three hundred years, and they have always regarded themselves as orthodox in China. ”

"Yue Guogong's words are true, but please forgive the old man for taking the liberty of asking Yue Guogong again, there are as many as one million household registrations in Jiangnan, and if you want to win the hearts of the people, how do you need to start to get twice the result with half the effort?"

Yang Su lowered his head and thought about it, and replied: "Naturally, first of all, start with the heart of the people in Jiangnan, which is the easiest to achieve immediate results." ”

Gu Shi smiled slightly, arched his hand and asked Yang Sudao: "So, may I ask Yue Guogong, who has enjoyed the people of Jiangnan in the past three hundred years?" ”

"The Xie family of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Xiao family of the former Liang Dynasty, in the eyes of the Dao, are all famous families in the south of the Yangtze River." Yang Su blurted out a reply without thinking.

"Xie's uncle and nephew once rejected the army of millions of tigers and wolves in the former Qin, so that Jiangnan was spared from misery, and the martial arts of the former Liang Xiao father and son were the most in the Southern Dynasties, and the Duke of Yue Guo really saw extraordinary." Gu Shi praised Yang Su from the bottom of his heart, turned to Yang Guang and said, "It is precisely because Xie and Xiao Er are the people of Jiangnan that the old man suggested that the prince should submit a chapter to the court to pardon the sins of Xiao's uncle and nephew, and still make him a high-ranking official and a lord, so as to collect the popularity of the people in Jiangnan." What's more, the ancestral tomb of the Xie family has been repeatedly stolen and excavated, including the old man, the Jiangnan scholars every time they mention this matter, it is difficult to suppress the resentment in the chest, often think about the Xie family to restore its heirs, rebuild the mausoleum, if the prince can visit the Xie family in Jiangnan one or two descendants, the last chapter of the imperial court, for the continuation of the bloodline, the restoration of the family, it is like recruiting thousands of Jiangnan scholars to compile books here, write books far away. ”