Chapter 65 6 Dealing with Criminals

The trouble caused by one person has caused a headache for the entire court of the Silk Country, and now the emperor of this empire, Liu Yan, is secretly meeting in Xue Boren's mansion to discuss how to solve this matter.

The positions of both sides of the discussion are not very stable, which also fully explains their inner entanglement. On the one hand, they hated Wang Hanxin's actions and wanted to cut him with a thousand knives to relieve their hatred, and on the other hand, they were really reluctant to lose such a promising young talent when the country of silk was about to use troops against Tuqi. The discussion then turned into a debate in which both sides had no position, and whenever one of them tried to exonerate Wang Hanxin, the other side immediately put forward a large number of arguments to refute it, and vice versa, until both of them were exhausted and did not come up with a result.

Seeing that the two of them were anxious about this topic but didn't know the essentials, Wu Sicheng, who had been watching from the sidelines, coughed lightly and said, "Please let me interject." If we behead Wang Hanxin to show our gratitude to the world, will we be able to win the favor of the people of Goryeo and rule them well? ”

Liu Yan thought for a while and said, "No. ”

"That's it, since we punished Wang Hanxin and can't save his reputation, then why punish him again?"

"What! Don't punish him?! This time, Xue Boren and Liu Yan called out at the same time.

Wu Sicheng nodded and said, "The problem in front of us now is very simple. We need a lot of military talent to fight against the Turks, and Wang Hanxin is what we need, so it is very unwise to kill one of our useful people in order to be unable to win back their trust. In fact, this matter is not only Your Majesty, Lord Xue. Even Deputy Su was protected, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty thought about the same. What really bothers everyone is that their inner morality and conscience can't tolerate his behavior, and the reason why everyone racks their brains so much is just to give Wang Hanxin a sufficiently severe warning. At the same time, it is just a way not to hurt his life and to take into account the dignity of the country. With all due respect, such a method does not exist. So no matter how much you discuss and think about it, there will never be a satisfactory outcome. ”

Xue Boren was so little by Wu Sicheng, and then he came to his senses, and said with his beard in his hand: "That's true, it's true, the authorities are fascinated, and Weichen and the emperor are all entangled." So I can't see these clearly. What should I do with Lord Vu? ”

Wu Sicheng first saluted Liu Yan and said, "In my opinion, Wang Hanxin is not suitable to stay in Goryeo. First of all, what he has done in the past few years has made the people of Goryeo hate him, and he is easy to provoke popular rebellion; Secondly, he killed the Goryeo royal family, and I am afraid that there are not a few Goryeo people who want to take his life, and it is not safe for him to continue to stay in Goryeo; Third. It is the time to use troops against the Turks, and it is more advantageous to transfer them back to the capital to listen to them; Finally, the person was transferred. The disappearance from Goryeo could also alleviate some of the popular grievances and facilitate the rule of Goryeo. ”

Liu Yan shook his head and said: "Wang Hanxin is making such a fuss, how can Cui Jianjiang, the blessed king of Goryeo, give up?" Surely he will recruit soldiers and horses to fight against us again. The war in Goryeo will not end here, and now He Ling is sick and cannot be co-ordinated. Su Chengdong wants to act as the protector of Liaodong, and it may be inappropriate to transfer Wang Hanxin from the front-line command at this time. ”

Xue Boren felt that Liu Yan's statement was really ridiculous. Just now he was still struggling with whether to execute Wang Hanxin, and now he is placed in the sequence of generals who continue to fight against Goryeo, obviously from the bottom of his heart, he has no intention of punishing him at all. It seems that he is really confused, the emperor came here to find a step down, and he actually argued with him seriously, he really didn't know the current affairs. Thinking of this, he spoke: "Your Majesty, on this point, Weichen also agrees with Lord Wu's statement. Although the war in Goryeo has not yet ended, the famous generals and main forces of the Goryeo army have been annihilated by our army. Therefore, the war in Goryeo is no longer the focus of our country, and our country should shift the primary goal of our strategy to the Turkist countries. Besides, the transfer of a Wang Hanxin will not have a great impact, there are also Gai Yanxiao, Hua Meng, and Gao Dingbian sitting there, which should be enough to deal with. In contrast, it is necessary to appoint an administrator who will govern the land as soon as possible. ”

Liu Yan heard Xue Boren say this, so he nodded and said, "Xue Qing's family said so, and I will no longer insist on it." In this battle with Tuqi, Yang Lian's defense of Youzhou made Yang Lian's performance poor, which was not to blame him, he was not a military general in the first place. It is better to take this opportunity to set up the land of Goryeo as the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, with Yang Lian in charge of the administrative governance there, Gai Yanxiao as the Sima of the Metropolitan Protectorate, Hua Meng, and Gao Dingbian as the deputy general, in charge of military affairs. Zhu Tianshun made a meritorious contribution to this battle and was promoted to the defense envoy of Youzhou, what does Xue Aiqing think? ”

"The emperor's rewards and punishments are clear, and the ministers seconded it."

Liu Yan smiled and said, "Then let's go back to the topic, how should we place this Wang Hanxin?" ”

Xue Boren was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and then replied: "This kid has been taught repeatedly. Transferring him back from the battlefield of Goryeo was a punishment that really tormented him. But that's just it, it's really hard to convince the public, this kid is on the rise at a young age, and he used to protect his blue eyes and did nonsense, and now it's even worse, if he doesn't punish him well, he doesn't know how to be His Majesty's courtier, so I'm afraid it will be detrimental to his future career. As for how to deal with it, Weichen is all up to His Majesty's holy judgment. ”

Liu Yan thought for a while, and said: "It's better to be like this, he is now a captain from the Liupin Prison Gate, and this time the pacification of Goryeo can be regarded as his credit, so he will be given the false title of General Weiyuan on the Sixth Grade, let him receive the Positive Sixth Grade, and then punish him to be a street patrol soldier on the streets of Chang'an, so that he can take the opportunity to suppress his arrogance, and once there is a war, as long as his identity is restored to lead the army to the expedition, how about it?" ”

"Servants?" Xue Boren thought about Wang Hanxin, an arrogant kid, who was forced to patrol the streets of Chang'an, and couldn't help laughing: "It sounds quite resentful, Your Majesty is really wise and wise." ”

In this way, the fate of the thorn-headed king Hanxin was decided in a corner of Chang'an, thousands of miles away from Goryeo, and the most bizarre personnel order in the history of the Silk Country was concocted by Liu Yan, Xue Boren and Wu Sicheng. Since then, it has also opened a new page in Wang Han's new military career. (To be continued......)