Chapter 584 Family

"Zhu Mian, do you think this king will let you go? If you live, how can this king's heart be at peace? The corners of his mouth were slightly upturned, but he just said lightly, took Sanniang's knife, and waved his hand to slash at Zhu Mian at his feet. The cold light slashed, and the knife was so fast and fierce that Zhu Mian didn't even have time to scream. The head fell to the ground, blood gushed out, and the splattered brocade robe was full of blood.

"Old Xiao, now that Zhu Mian is dead, I hope you can forgive this king for what he did back then!"

killed Zhu Mian with a knife, Zhao Yougong felt a lot more relaxed in his heart, he dreamed of that stubborn old man countless times over the years, and in him, he saw the style of the Great Song Dynasty, and it was also this stubborn old man who made Zhao Yougong believe that the man of the Han family still had a backbone.

Leaving Zhu Mian's body, he kowtowed to Xiao Guicheng's grave again, and then Zhao Yougong did not plan to stay longer, and directly returned to Suzhou Mansion. The team marched slowly, and Zhao Yougong came to the intersection, but saw a man over fifty years old walking over, this person had a healthy complexion, a strong body, and his eyes were full of essence. Afraid that Zhao Yougong would not recognize this person, Tang Miao whispered, "Your Highness, this person is Xiao Lingye, the current patriarch of the Xiao family. ”

"Hehe, sure enough, the tiger father has no dogs, Mrs. Xiao is strong and wise, and this descendant will not fall into prestige!"

Soon Xiao Lingye came to Zhao Yougong, he bowed his hand, and said with a smile that was not yin or yang, "Your Highness, do you know what it means to be hypocritical and buy people's hearts?" ”

@收买人心? Hearing this, Zhao Yougong smiled, stared at Xiao Lingye, and snorted with disdain, "Does this king need to buy people's hearts?" The reason why I came here was just to admire Xiao Lao. Worship it. It's just because this king feels guilty in his heart. I just want to feel at ease. Buying people's hearts? Hehe, does this king need to do this? Xiao Lingye, you heard clearly, this king doesn't care what you think, you just need to know one thing, this king feels guilty, just because he didn't expect to kill Xiao Lao back then. As for your Xiao family, if you dare to stop on the road of this king. Only death! ”

There was a monstrous confidence in his tone, and Zhuo Zhuo's gaze made Xiao Lingye dare not have the slightest doubt.

Not long after, Zhao Yougong led the people out of Meili Town, and Xiao Lingye also frowned, he thought about it, and said to Xiao Lingxiang and Xiao Lingkai behind him, "Big brother, second brother, send someone to deliver a message, let Shiro and Liulang come back." ”

"How?"

"King Qin is a hero. No one can stop it, it's late. Shiro and Rokuro are killed, I'm afraid my Xiao clan will also be destroyed! ”

Xiao Lingye's expression was solemn, he didn't mean to joke at all, he had just watched the scene of Zhao Yougong killing Zhu Mian. That Zhu Mian is a cronie of the official family, and he is also deeply rooted in Jiangnan officialdom, but Zhao Yougong did not hesitate to cut off his head in front of the elders of the Xiao family. Zhao Yougong said that he was not buying people's hearts, but in fact, he was already buying people's hearts, at least most of the Xiao family had no hatred for him, and some just admired him, the Xiao family was like this, what about the other Jiangnan clans?

I just talked with Zhao Yougong, and I can better know this person's heart, and it can be said that he did it by the way, because his purpose is not here at all, he is willing to befriend the Xiao family, but he is by no means afraid of the Xiao family, if the Xiao family insists on going against him, then the knife that killed Zhu Mian will also fall on the Xiao family in the future. In the face of this frequent, ruthless and decisive young man, he can't accept it or not.

As Xiao Lingye thought, Zhao Yougong did have some intention of buying people's hearts, since he wanted to kill Zhu Mian and worship Xiao Lao, why not buy people's hearts by the way? Fang La is a disaster in the south of the Yangtze River, can quickly occupy the land of several states, and can still find internal responses in various state capitals, is it because Fang La is capable of reaching the sky? Fang La's ability to rise in Jiangnan, holding heavy troops, and being supported by countless people, naturally has the ability, but if he loses the support of the Jiangnan clan, he will not be able to progress so smoothly. Just now that Tang Miao has learned, those who secretly acquiesce in or even support Fang La include the Lanling Xiao family and the Huzhou Xu family.

Lanling Xiao clan, is the Southern Liang royal family, the power in the south of the Yangtze River is self-evident, this Huzhou Xu clan is also not far behind, to silk trading starts, strong financial resources, before the Tang Dynasty Taizong period, Xu Hui entered the palace as a concubine, the Huzhou Xu clan power is to occupy the entire south of the Grand Canal. Now among the Xiao family alone, there are Xiao Shilang and Xiao Liulang who have changed their names and surnames to work under Fang La, and as for the people of other families, they don't know how many.

The Jiangnan clan secretly supports Fang La, in fact, it is not surprising at all, since the emergence of the family family, it has never stopped the power struggle. During the Sui and Tang dynasties, the family was powerful and raised private soldiers, so at that time, all the clans intended the world, and finally the Guanlong group gained power and was occupied by the Li family. Since the time of Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, he has learned the lesson of the family's door valve to become bigger, so Li Shimin secretly supported the Shandong clan, so the Fanyang Lu clan and the Qinghe Cui clan rose, and gradually the Shandong clan began to fight against the Guanlong aristocracy. In the Gaozong period, he began to restrict the family to raise troops, and during the martial anniversary, Wu Zetian suppressed the family gate valve by bloody means, and then the gate valve power was weak. Since Wu Zhou, the family gate lords no longer have the ability to directly participate in the battle of the world, but they have not lost their figures, but they have only participated in another way, such as the rise of An Lushan, which is inseparable from the support of the Dugu clan and the Taiyuan Wang clan. What the Xiao and Xu families are doing now is just emulating the previous dynasty.

In recent years, the Great Song Dynasty has not only been defeated repeatedly against Liao, but also incompetent internally, in this case, the Jiangnan clans with the largest power in the family will have a pessimistic attitude in the current court, since the dynasty is incompetent, why not overthrow and establish a new dynasty? So the Xiao family, the Xu family and others secretly supported Fang La, which is also a matter of course.

Zhao Yougong intended to do his best to solve the forces of Fang La, so he had to drive these Jiangnan clans out of the forces of Fang La first, without the secret help of these Jiangnan clans, it was tantamount to breaking one of Fang La's arms. The influence of the Jiangnan clan is invisible and intangible, and it is estimated that even Fang La himself does not know much. Zhao Yougong is somewhat afraid of these Jiangnan clans, since Wu Zhou, the power of the northern clans has dissipated, but there are still a lot of clans in the land of Jiangnan, if these clans really fully support Fang La, that is, His Royal Highness Zhao has three heads and six arms, and it is also wishful thinking to solve Fang La in a short time.

However, Zhao Yougong has never had the intention of completely eliminating the family, and in this regard, the Lanling Xiao clan and the Huzhou Xu clan do not need to become mortal enemies. I don't know if the family is big, but there are other reasons. The gathering of the power of the family is indeed not a good thing, but it is not all a bad thing. At least, if the power of the family still remains, there will be no disaster of five generations, allowing the barbarians to rise and the descendants of the Han family to be almost extinct. The family is the source of turmoil, and it is also the seed of the proud continuation of the Han civilization. If there is still a person like Fan Yang Lu or Qinghe Cui, why did the Khitan rise?

The most important thing is to maintain balance, which can be cut and limited, but it must not be completely removed. In terms of resisting foreign aggression alone, why does the family only have advantages and no harm? Because most of the families take the land of their surname as their roots, and if they invade the land, they will invade their homeland, so the family will resist desperately. But the merchant can't, because the merchant is not chasing the homeland of survival, but the interests of gold and silver, and gold and silver have no land boundaries, so where there are interests, they will run to wherever they want. Therefore, Zhao Yougong will not destroy the Xiao family and the Xu family, he will also re-cultivate various families in the north, the more families there are, the easier it is to control zhì, in this way, there is only good for the court and no harm to the Han civilization. As for whether it will be overthrown by the family, hehe, there are not many families in the Great Song Dynasty, and it has not been destroyed? In the later Ming Dynasty, there were only scholars and no families, and they were not destroyed by the Manchu Qing Dynasty? The fall of a dynasty is by no means because of a family, and the reasons for the demise of every dynasty are complex.

Back in Suzhou Mansion, Tang Miao asked with some solemnity, "Your Highness, do you really not arrest Xiao Lingye?" ”

"No, wait a minute, if Xiao Shilang and Xiao Liulang return to Meili Town, don't worry about it, if these two people are still working in Fang La's hands within ten days, you will go to General Niu to transfer troops, since it can't be used by this king, it's better to be clean."

"Whoa!"

Tang Miao breathed a long sigh of relief, decisive in killing, and extremely bold, this is the real His Royal Highness the King of Qin.

On August 18, at the entrance of the south city of Suzhou, the crowd was crowded, and under the scorching autumn sun, the people of Suzhou gathered in the south market, because today more than a dozen officials such as Han Yingyuan, the prefect of Suzhou, asked for beheading, which was really very happy. In recent years, the people of Jiangnan have caused Zhu Mian, Han Yingyuan and other officials to suffer a lot, and now these big tigers in the court are about to be beheaded, and the people are about to set off cannons to celebrate.

The execution was personally supervised by General Niu Gao, the commander of the Dingguo Army and Dingdong, and Tong Guan was accompanied by Tong Guan on the disposal of the two Zhejiang roads, and at noon, Niu Gao issued an execution order, and then more than a dozen executioners waved their knives down, and the heads of more than a dozen state officials rolled to the ground. The blood at the entrance of Nanshi Street was so scared that a group of Jiangnan officials didn't dare to think about it anymore, and on the same day, Suzhou weaving Peng Xin's official document on behalf of the Suzhou prefect also gave the frightened Jiangnan officials a hope. It turns out that what His Royal Highness Zhao said is not false at all, as long as he is a good student, he can really be promoted, but I didn't see Peng Xin, a fourth-grade weaver, actually jumped into a second-grade master, what kind of promotion speed is this, and I didn't dream so fast, right? Of course, you have to do things for His Royal Highness Zhao wholeheartedly, if you do things for the official family, it will be the end of Steward Zhu.

There is a long way to go to rectify Jiangnan officialdom, and Zhao Yougong didn't think that Jiangnan officialdom would change in a few days. On this day, the sky was not as hot as before, Zhao Yougong put down his official business and accompanied Wang Yuyan to the edge of Taihu Lake. Although many years have passed, Taihu Lake is still the same Taihu Lake, remembering the matter of going with Zhu Mian to listen to the perfume pavilion and seek beauty, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and now not only Azhu is by his side, but even the little lady of the Wang family has not been able to escape. (To be continued......) R1292