At that moment, Liu Yan immediately crowned Gao Dingbian as the general of Anton on the fourth grade, led the Youzhou horse army to command the envoys, held the festival, and waited for the opportunity to use troops against the Tuqi; Wang Hanxin is the general of the West from the four products; Zhou Siyi is a general who breaks through the six products; Chen Shijie and Chen Shihua brothers are each captains of the seventh grade; The late Gai Yanxiao posthumously sealed the general of Zhengsanpin Zhendong, Wu Anbo; The rest of the soldiers who conquered Goryeo were rewarded for their merits, the soldiers were promoted to the first rank, and the war dead were promoted to the second rank and were given generous pensions.

"Thank Emperor Longen!" Wang Hanxin fell to the ground and bowed after listening to the reward.

Gao Dingbian and Zhou Siyi also went out of the class together to thank him.

Liu Yan said to Gao Ding with a calm face: "Today, Wang Hanxin is drunk and nonsense, I don't care about him, tomorrow when he wakes up, you tell him, let him tie himself up to me to apologize to the hundred officials!" He was also instructed to think about it behind closed doors at home for half a year, and he was not allowed to take half a step out of the mansion! ”

"Yes, Wechen obeys. Weichen will take him back. After Gao Dingbian and Zhou Siyi finished speaking, they set up Wang Hanxin and retreated.

Only then did Liu Yan turn around and apologize to Rodsarn: "I didn't expect this son to disturb your envoy Yaxing, don't be surprised." ”

Rodesan hurriedly smiled and said, "Your Majesty is serious, thanks to this play, this banquet is a lot more interesting." Please. ”

In the greetings between the two, the banquet resumed, but the atmosphere of the banquet was no longer what it used to be. The wine and delicacies in front of him are still the same, but the hearts of the Queen Mother Wenchen and her party are like a stone blocked, and Wang Hanxin made such a fuss, Liu Yan pushed the boat down the river to reward everything that should be rewarded, and there was no delay at all. Now that the holy decree has been issued, they can't raise a counterargument, because they were intimidated by Wang Hanxin's murderous aura just now, and no one stood up to raise objections. Now they can all see that Wang Hanxin and Emperor Liu Yan performed a double reed, and took advantage of the state banquet to do all the appointments. Although Wang Hanxin was not sent to the actual position, the matter of Gao Dingbian had been decided, and Wang Hanxin, who made a big fuss at the banquet, not only did not have any actual punishment, but was promoted to an official, and he was grounded for half a year It was really a big bargain.

Among them, the most annoyed was Shang Shu Jingbian of the Ministry of War, he looked at Xue Boren who stopped him just now with a look of resentment, but at this time Xue Boren sat in his seat and drank as if nothing had happened, as if the scene just now had never happened at all, so angry that An Jingbian almost lifted the table.

After the banquet, Liu Yan returned to the queen's moon palace full of joy. Seeing the depressed face of the Empress Dowager Wencheng and her party, Liu Yan had a long-lost feeling of comfort, he knew very well in his heart that the queen must have learned about this at this moment, and he just observed the queen's attitude towards this matter.

Entering the Moon Palace, Queen Hua had already been waiting for a long time. After the husband and wife entered the room and sat down, Liu Yan said, "Does the queen know about today's banquet?" ”

"The concubine has heard a little, and it seems that His Majesty seems to be quite happy about this matter."

Only then did Liu Yan realize that the corners of his mouth could not be suppressed, and he straightened his face, and said: "This matter is not worth being happy about, but when I think of Wang Hanxin's nonsense, the expressions of the officials are indeed unprecedented. ”

Empress Hua shook her head and sighed: "Your Majesty has passed the year of establishment, how can you still be so hearty?" Wang Hanxin's nonsense is really detrimental to the majesty of His Majesty and the hundred officials, and His Majesty is so lenient to him, how can the hundred officials be convinced? The concubine dared to assert that from tomorrow His Majesty would receive all kinds of impeachment of Wang Hanxin from hundreds of officials, His Majesty was quick for a while, but in exchange for the voice of the crusade above the court, if His Majesty really loves this person, he should think carefully about how to calm the dissatisfaction of the hundred officials. ”

Liu Yan nodded and smiled: "The queen said very well. It's just that I think that by taking advantage of Wang Hanxin's trouble, I can thwart the attempt of the Queen Mother's party; Second, Wang Hanxin, this kid is indeed an out-and-out stunned young man, he is a person who can really risk his life to do something out of the ordinary, and even if he is removed from his official position, he will still be loyal to me; Since I ascended the throne, how many things in this court can I really do as I want? It's just that this stunned boy does things, every time it makes people angry, I can't wait to behead him, but it's strange to say, just count the things he did that made me feel comfortable, he did what I wanted to do but couldn't do it, and after I finished it, I could stay out of the matter and not be complained, for such a character, how could you tell me to really bring him to justice? ”

The queen shook her head again and again when she heard this, and sighed: "Your Majesty's partiality is too obvious, what that Wang Hanxin did is no different from a ruffian, and Your Majesty still agrees with him so much." But then again, His Majesty really doesn't seem to have anything to do with him. If you want to kill him, he is not afraid, and besides, Your Majesty, you are reluctant; To say that dismissal and exile would not frighten him; If he is fined, he can really sell the mansion to a pawnshop; Even the concubines couldn't figure out how to punish him, so they just did what His Majesty wanted. Your Majesty, don't hold on, just laugh if you want to. ”

When Liu Yan was told by her, she immediately laughed sneeringly, and slowly turned into a hearty laugh, and even Queen Hua couldn't hold back and laughed together.

As expected, the next day, Liu Yan's dragon book case was piled up with a mountain-high impeachment of Wang Hanxin, and Wang Hanxin really offended all the officials this time. But Liu Yan didn't even bother to look at these recitals, except for ordering Wang Hanxin to kneel in front of his main hall for a whole day, the rest was just handled according to what he said at the banquet.

From here, Wang Hanxin disappeared from the court, and he thought about it behind closed doors at home. The hundred officials launched a joint letter to Liu Yan for refusing to severely punish Wang Hanxin, and finally angered Liu Yan, and threw down a sentence: "You want me to punish severely, if any of you are willing to go to Wang Hanxin's mansion to read the holy decree, I will make the decree!" As a result, all the officials were silent. It is everyone's wish to severely punish Wang Hanxin, but there is no difference between going to his house to read this holy decree and going directly to death, because no one doubts that Wang Hanxin can do something to tear up the holy decree and then slaughter the messenger. And so it ended up being a dead end.

Wang Hanxin's time in the face of the wall was not easy at all, because Liu Yan ordered people to hand over to him the military deployment, personnel, and resources in the areas of Linzhou, Fengzhou, Yanzhou, and Lingzhou in the northwest of Chang'an, and asked him to study how to deal with Tuqi on this basis. After Wang Hanxin got these materials, he studied and analyzed them every day with Gao Dingbian, who had not yet taken up his post, and Zhou Siyi and the Chen brothers also accompanied him to study, so during the period of contemplation, Wang Hanxin became the general who knew the most about the northwest region of the Silk Country, which also laid the foundation for his future military career. (To be continued.) )