His Majesty's thoughts, the courtiers all know in their hearts, and the Marquis of Taiyuan has been in the town of the prince for two years, and it can not be said that he is inconsiderate of His Majesty's difficulties. Since Xiufeng Xiangguo became the country, he has repaired the army internally and governed the feudal towns externally, and in all fairness, it can indeed be called a dream of worrying about the essence of the white industry. Although these ministers are far away from the border, they have heard a lot from the literary envoy on weekdays. As a border general, Weichen is not qualified to comment on the merits of the prime minister, and the minister handed over these two letters to His Majesty without other meanings. The minister just thinks that His Majesty should know these things, the minister is in front, and he is facing the great enemy of the party day and night, and the war with the Dingyan army has exhausted the minister's mental strength, and he really has no energy and time to get involved in the court dispute. Your Majesty has also commanded troops in other towns for a long time, so you should know the difficulties of your ministers......"

Li Wenge's confession had been thinking about it for a long time in advance, although he knew that Wang Jun's fall was imminent, but this was a personnel change at the highest level of the imperial court, and as a foreign vassal, he actually had no say in this matter. These things are what Guo Wei, Chai Rong, Feng Dao and others need to consider, but Li Wenge knows in his heart that Wang Jun is not an ordinary person, he is the number one minister and prime minister of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and there are all kinds of henchmen inside and outside the government and the opposition. Guo Wei wants to move not only this person, he is actually targeting the "party" represented by Wang Jun, that is, the group of people who took the Yanyi and forced him on him to the throne.

Among this group of people, they are either the prime minister of the dynasty, the heavy generals of the forbidden army, or the outer feudal towns with heavy troops, like Chen Guan and Yan Yan, who have the title of university scholars, can only be regarded as second-rate goods in this huge meritorious party. To attack such a powerful force, even with Guo Wei's temperament, it is inevitable to distinguish among the courtiers. In the end, the important ministers of the DPRK and the Central Committee will inevitably have to make everyone pass the test and make a political statement on this issue. If his status was the same as more than half a year ago, he was still a small border general, and he might not be qualified to receive such care. But now he is no longer the Li Wenge of the year, the title of General of the Right Guard and the real power of the Eighth Route Army's envoy, plus the power of thousands of troops and horses in his hands. made it impossible for him to avoid this no matter what.

It is a fundamental principle to draw a clear line with Wang Jun.

Maybe you don't have to be keen to be the vanguard of the overthrow of the king, the love between the kings of Guo is far from being something that a small feudal town like himself can provoke, but it must not leave the emperor with the slightest ambiguous political statement. Guo Wei may not care much about this, but Chai Rong, who will ascend the emperor's throne next year, is by no means a very magnanimous person. Although he is very glad that he does not have a blessed appearance with big ears, he still has to be careful, and making a political statement in this way at this time will neither disrupt Guo Wei's deployment of the king nor leave Chai Rong with a good relationship with Wang Jun.

This is a very opportune time, Li Wenge thinks.

“…… Do you know why I acquiesced to you taking the power of the Gao family? ”

Regarding Li Wenge's statement, Guo Wei just listened quietly. When he finished speaking, the emperor asked such a sentence that was not related.

Li Wenge was stunned, and replied cautiously: "The minister was also forced to be helpless, and the literary quality made the king arrange for the minister to enter the Zhangwu army as the leader, but the minister did not have the intention of seizing the state for himself. If the father and son in the high office did not want the life of the minister, the minister would not have launched a mutiny. The incident at the end of the year before last, although the minister did not know about it in advance, but after all, the matter started because of the minister, and the minister did not shy away from saying that if it were not for the fact that the minister was detained in Jiedu Mansion by the father and son of the high servant at that time. It was the minister himself who controlled the mutiny......"

Guo Wei shook his head lightly: "It doesn't matter what happened to you. By the time I got the news, you were in control of the military and government of the state city, and you had the support of the army. With the civil officials attached, Gao Yunquan's father and son are powerless. But despite this, that is not why I approve of you. There are many such things in the local area, and not every time the imperial court will recognize the new feudal towns that have mutinied! ”

He paused. said with a smile: "You can fight, and you have a mind to use it on the Dingyan army, and you have the ambition to eliminate the military disaster in the northwest for the imperial court." That's just one of the reasons why I praise you. That's why I allowed you to be a festival envoy. Grant you the feast. It's not entirely for your great martial arts, but because you let the Gao family go. Didn't kill them all......"

Li Wenge's mind shook suddenly, as if he had figured out something, but it didn't seem to be completely clear, a vague shadow wandered in his chest, and he suddenly began to be able to understand Guo Weidi's feelings.

“…… Do you know what is the most unbearable thing in troubled times? The army mutinied at every turn, and the emperor changed like a lamp, these are nothing. The most unbearable thing is not these, but the people in the whirlpool regard the means of power as the foundation of their lives, and throw the affection between people and the benevolence of the ancient sages to the clouds. It seems that there is no other way to solve the problem except killing, and all things in the world are only killing, and only violence is ......"

"Although I am the Son of Heaven, I got up recklessly, and killing people in the early years was just an idle matter. After being in the army for a long time, I feel that killing someone is nothing more than that, and there is nothing difficult about it. I have never tasted anything from the perspective of the slain—so in the Qianyou Rebellion, when 168 men, women, and children of my family died tragically, I was like a tall building, and there was nothing left in my heart but coldness and resentment. At the beginning, I also swore that the Liu family's men, women, and children would not let go of any of them, and asked them to all be ambushed and punished to pay tribute to my family and relatives. At that time, the guards around me told me that my eyes were blood-red......"

"But in the end, very few people I killed......"

"Do you know why?

I have figured it out, I have killed too many people in this life, and there are disasters and disasters, so I want to let me also taste the pain and sorrow of the suffering of my relatives...... This is retribution. Who says God doesn't have eyes? He is an old man who is shrewd, and those who kill people will always kill them, this is the simplest law of troubled times. ”

“…… From that moment on, I wondered, who killed my kin? Is it Li Ye? No, it's this world, it's this world that kills as a powerful thing, and believes that standing on grass will eradicate the roots, killing 168 people in my family. Whether it is a political dispute above the court or a change of dynasties, if the minimum restraint is lost, all scruples are lost, then it is not one person who suffers, but everyone ......"

"Solve the problem by killing the means. It's the place I hate the most right now. It is not terrible for two people to be hostile, it is not terrible for two people to fight to the death, and it is terrible for one person to fail, not only for one person to suffer, but for the whole clan to be destroyed. The winner is the prince and the loser is the thief, there is nothing wrong with this, but today's victor not only denounces the loser as a thief, but razes its nine clans, trying his best to make sure that the other party never has a chance to turn the tables...... This idea is actually very wrong, the person you killed. It may not be the person who will kill you in the future, and the person who will kill your entire clan in the future may not have an indissoluble enmity with you, but this practice has now become a common practice, a law of the world, and it is this law that I hate. If it weren't for this abominable law, my family might still be alive and well in the world at this time......"

"So since I succeeded to the throne, I have been respecting literati, but in fact, I don't like it either. However, I know that the saints revered by these talents preach the way of mercy and forgiveness, and do not advocate extermination. I want to be able to reuse these talents to make abstinence from killing and killing again the law of this world. Let the chaotic times that are full of people at every turn come to an end. So that future generations will no longer continue to live in killing and being killed all day long, so that there will be fewer and fewer miserable people like me in the world......"

"So I like you very much......"

"The Gao family wants to kill you, they want your life, and you are in power. But he didn't turn around and kill the Gao family without leaving a chicken dog, although I don't know what you think, but I am still very pleased. Because you are a very sober and calm person. Not a murderous horseman. ”

Speaking of which. Li Wenge had already fully understood, although as a time-traveler from the century of civilization. He had a very clear understanding of the limitations of the ancient emperor's thoughts, but at this moment, he looked at the feudal emperor in front of him with a look up posture, this martial artist who had not studied much in the army.

At this moment, Guo Wei's bleak and sad face exuded a faint brilliance of humanity......

No wonder the great cause of ending the troubled times will be started in the hands of this person, with this thought, Guo Wei, a veteran ruffian who is more than half a hundred years old, has surpassed his own era, he has stood on a person who has never stood on the height of the earth in five generations and ten countries.

The key to ending the troubled times is in the hands of such an old man who has really tasted the taste of human life in the troubled times, and this key is called not killing.

Guo Wei's tragic experience did not bring hatred and tyranny to this son of troubled times, on the contrary, this honest and honest emperor realized the truth that more than ten generations of emperors had not realized before, and the world needs a new order, an order that is not based on killing.

Benevolence and forgiveness, limited to vision, Guo Wei re-excavated this concept that Confucius had put forward more than a thousand years ago from the pile of old papers, and took it as the most fundamental concept of governing the country.

"With this benevolence, Your Majesty will create a generation of extremely prosperous ......"

This is a scene sentence, but it is from the heartfelt words of Li Wenge.

Guo Wei smiled, he knew that Li Wenge really understood his words.

"You're a different kind of feudal town, and I can see that you're different from other knots......"

Guo Wei sighed, with a bit of bitterness in the smile on his face.

Li Wenge was speechless, he didn't know how to answer this, and the emperor didn't seem to expect him to answer.

"If it weren't for the fact that the matter of the Dingyan Army has not yet ended, I would very much like to keep you in the court and ban the army......"

This sentence startled Li Wenge, but listening to the tone, Guo Wei did not mean to forcibly keep him in the court.

"Brother Xiufeng is old, the twilight is deep, what he wants to do, in fact, is still the same as the previous dynasty, when I first ascended the throne, I was uneasy inside and outside, and my seat was not yet secure, thanks to him, I passed the most difficult days. At that time, in order to stabilize the situation, Brother Xiufeng often managed things day and night, and couldn't sleep for two hours a day, I and his brother for many years, I knew his temperament well, he sincerely hoped to assist me to be a saint, but I couldn't do it......"

"Your Majesty, there is no room for ministers to beak in the affairs of the prince, but since Your Majesty is willing to treat the ministers, and the ministers have the courage to say for Your Majesty, after changing the previous dynasty, the Wang Xiang may be a good minister, but if Your Majesty wants to end the troubled times and create a prosperous dynasty, Xiufeng Xiangguo must go to the throne. This is not for Your Majesty, nor for the Marquis of Taiyuan, but for the sake of the society and the people of the world......"

Speaking of this, Li Wenge hesitated for a moment and slowly continued: "...... It's also for the sake of Wang Xiang'...... himself! ”

What Wang Jun did was absolutely intolerable to Chai Rong. Guo Wei's dismissal of him when he was alive was actually a conclusion to this public case, otherwise after Chai Rong ascended the throne, with the suspicious character of Zhou Shizong, Wang Jun would never be allowed to live, and it would be a great luck to be able to avoid harming his family.

Li Wenge knew that Guo Wei could understand what he meant

The expression on the emperor's face relaxed, and he asked, "You met two Hu merchants from the Western Regions yesterday?" ”

Li Wenge was stunned for a moment and replied, "Yes." are two Manichaean monks. ”

The Son of Heaven smiled: "Li Huairen is always able to do some new and strange things that ordinary people can't guess. Those Hu merchants have been in Beijing for almost half a year, and no one has paid attention to them, you are a foreign town, and you are in a mess with them, are you not afraid of impeachment by the imperial history? ”

Li Wenge frowned: "The minister didn't think about it so much, those two people are the heads of Hu Shang in the Western Regions, and they want to set up a shrine in the Central Plains." When the minister saw them, he wanted to do some business with them, Yanzhou had taken in too many displaced people last year, and the minister wanted to buy some crop seeds from them that were not available in the Central Plains. There is also Gaochang's white cotton, and the minister also wants to introduce it to Yanzhou for planting, so that Yanzhou people may be able to achieve self-sufficiency in food and clothing this year. Otherwise, it is inevitable that we will have to buy a large amount of grain from the interior this year, and the minister bought grain from Huainan last year. caused the price of grain in Kanto to soar, Li Xiang was already very dissatisfied, and if this year is like this, Li Xiang will not say anything. The courtiers don't have that much money in their hands. ”

Guo Wei listened and said with a smile: "The ambition is not small, but the most important thing in Yanzhou is the side matter." You give me an account. What is the situation in the military area? ”

Li Wenge replied, "Your Majesty." After the beginning of spring, the minister had to redeploy the war against the Pingxia Division. Judging from the current situation, as long as the ministers are given one to two years, the four states can return to the rule of the imperial court. Xiazhou is no longer a state of detention, but a ...... of the king of governance that is no different from the county of Zhongyuan Prefecture! ”

Guo Wei perked up when he heard this: "What you said, even if you are older, I can also trust it, from this year onwards, the imperial court will no longer have any control over the Dingyan army, and will no longer receive party envoys, and you can deal with the affairs of the Pingxia Department with full authority, but you still have to discuss with the Zhe family in case of trouble, Zhe Kejiu is a veteran, his experience can be served." ”

"Yes——!" Li Wenge responded.

"What do you lack?" Guo Wei tidied up his robe, said with a smile, and then added: "I know that Yanzhou is barren, and you, the general, are self-made and a poor ghost." ”

Li Wenge thought for a while and said: "Your Majesty, the ministers in the army have still relied on the armor in the Zhangwu Army's inventory and the eight hundred sets of infantry armor purchased from the hands of Zhi Linggong to support the façade. ”

He paused and said with a smile: "The minister knows that the armor is a thing strictly controlled by the state, and the minister has the heart to customize it to the Shaofu, and he is afraid that the privy council will say that the minister has bad intentions, so he has not dared to speak." ”

"At the end of last year, I eliminated 15,000 guards and pro-army, but there are still some armor in the treasury, and the army in front of the palace has not yet become large-scale, so it cannot be used for the time being, so I will issue an order tomorrow to the Privy Council to allocate you 500 bird hammer armor and 500 fine-scale armor......"

Guo Wei is very generous.

Li Wenge was overjoyed, the bird hammer armor and the fine scale armor were both iron armor of this era, and the defensive performance was far superior to the infantry armor equipped by his own troops.

Get rich!

He immediately knelt down: "Thank you, Your Majesty!" ”

Guo Wei waved his hand: "Don't be busy thanking you first, I have conditions!" ”

Facing Li Wenge's confused gaze, Guo Wei said: "I know that you have some ways, but now that the imperial court has reorganized the forbidden army, there is a shortage of horses. I've been worrying about this for a long time, and when you enter Beijing, those 100 horses are very much in line with my wishes. I thought about it, so the Taifu Temple allocated a special fund, and you bought the horse on behalf of the imperial court, according to the current market price, and did not ask you to post your own money. Taifu Temple is going to build a horse supervisor in Yanzhou to receive horses, I have approved their recital, and when you go back, I will call the Taifu Temple Cheng Lu Duanquan to know the Yanzhou horse supervisor, and return to Yanzhou with you. I hope that you can get hundreds of good horses for the imperial court every year, and you will always have to fight with the Khitans in the future. ”

Li Wenge bowed down and said, "Weichen takes the order——! ”

……

Coming out of the Chongzheng Palace, Li Wenge walked out of the palace slowly under the guidance of the Yellow Gate, and just walked to the Donghua Gate, he saw Zhao Kuangyin leading a young official with a clear face and eyes but a little vicissitudes of life walked in from outside the imperial city.

Zhao Kuangyin was covered in dust, his face was tired, his eyes were bloodshot, and his eye sockets were deep-set, obviously looking extremely tired. The young man was also tired, but his pace was steady. This person was wearing a purple robe and a goldfish bag at his waist, and he was obviously also a dignitary of the dynasty.

Li Wenge said hello to Zhao Kuangyin with a smile, he still remembered the dinner in the evening, seeing that the sun was setting in the west, he should go to the Iron Scraps Building to make an appointment, but looking at Zhao Kuangyin's appearance, he looked like he had just returned from an errand, in this case, can he still have a treat at night?

When Zhao Kuangyin saw him, he also smiled awkwardly on his face, bowed down and hugged his fists and saluted: "General, after the last general returns to the order, he will go to the pavilion to ask for it, and please forgive the general!" ”

Li Wenge was about to say a few polite words, but the young official said "Huh", looked at Li Wenge with a little surprise and said, "Yuen Long, is this General Li Da, the envoy of Yanzhou Jiedu?" ”

Zhao Kuangyin responded: "Exactly——! ”

Li Wenge bowed: "Don't dare, it's Li Wenge below, ...... is this adult?" ”

Zhao Kuangyin coughed, and said with a little embarrassment: "General, I will introduce you to the inferior position, this is the envoy of the inspection school Taifu Zhenning Army, the prince of His Majesty today, the prince of Taiyuan County, Guo Gong, is honorable......"