Chapter 294: Weakness of the Literati
When Li Gang heard Chao Yong say this, he immediately panicked, although he didn't want to leave a name in history, he was never willing to leave a stench for 10,000 years. For these Qing and Gao literati, honor is more important than life.
Chao Yong watched Li Gang change color and continued: "In my opinion, the decadent Song Dynasty and the mediocre Zhao Ji are not worthy of any loyal ministers at all. Who else wants to be Zhao Ji's loyal minister? They all stood up, and what I didn't lack was a knife and axe hand, and all of them would be executed in five days. I heard that Cai Jing made a monument to the Yuanyou party, and I will also make a monument to the traitor of the great Song Dynasty when I go back. Although your position is a little lower, I will reluctantly let you be on the same list as Cai Jing. ”
A few years ago, Cai Jing's dictatorship listed 309 people, including Yuan You, Yuan Fujian, Sima Guang, Wen Yanbo, Su Shi, Huang Tingjian, and Qin Guan, as traitors, and engraved their names into stone and promulgated them to the world, wanting to leave his political enemies stinking for 10,000 years. But Sima Guang and these people just had different political views from Cai Jing, and they didn't do anything evil, so the Yuanyou Party Membership Monument did not become a traitor monument among the people.
And Cai Jing, Zhu Mian, Wang Hao, and Cai You are different, Zhu Mian presided over the Huashi Gang in Jiangnan, which made the people in the southeast resentment boiling, and the Fangla uprising can be said to be all because of him. Cai Jing has controlled the government for many years, and he doesn't know how many harsh policies have been formulated, and the people have great complaints. Although Wang Hao and Cai You have a smaller reputation in the countryside, the hundred officials know that the two of them are obsequious to the emperor, and they can be said to have a very bad reputation in Shilin.
There is no doubt that once the four of them are engraved on the stele, it will be a real traitor's stele, and I am afraid that the people will spit on them when they see it.
Although Li Gang is a clear stream and the people in the DPRK and China are very good, not many people know about him, once he is engraved with the four people, he will inevitably be regarded as a traitor and scolded together.
Chao Yong asked the historian to record them as five thieves, and the truth would be completely annihilated in the long river of time after a few decades, and he, Li Gang, would be treated as a traitor and be scolded all the time.
Li Gang thought of the terrible place, and pointed at Chao Yong with a shudder: "Tyrant." Despot. ”
Wu Song saw that Li Gang was rude to Chao Yong, and stepped forward to teach Li Gang a lesson.
"Slow down, I'll talk to him a few more words."
Wu Song watched Chao Yong speak, and then stopped, but the strong body still gave Li Gang a heavy sense of oppression.
Even many battlefield veterans will be frightened by Wu Song's majestic body and strong killing intent, but Li Gang's face does not change.
Wu Song's threat was not as good as Chao Yong's few words to him.
Chao Yong pointed to Zhao Ji on the side and said to Li Gang: "Is he a tyrant?" ”
If it was an ordinary courtier, he would definitely not dare to comment on the emperor at will. Or the comments are also blind flattery.
But Li Gang said: "Although the saint today has some mistakes, he is a merciful lord, and he can tolerate the mistakes of his subordinates, and he is definitely not a tyrannical king." ”
"Hahahaha"
When Chao Yong heard this, he couldn't help but laugh.
Li Gang was laughed at by Chao Yong, and he couldn't hold back his face, and reprimanded: "Sure enough, he was born in Caokou, so rude." ”
Chao Yong looked at Li Gang with disdain and said, "I thought you were a loyal and upright person. It's reusable, and it's just a fool. Zhao Ji is tolerant of you subordinates, is he the lord of mercy? Why didn't he give some of his mercy to the people of the world? You go and ask the people of the world, is Zhao Ji the lord of mercy? ”
Li Gangdang was speechless.
Chao Yong didn't bother to recruit such people anymore. waved his hand and said: "Drag him down for me, and ask him to be beheaded in five days." ”
Li Gang was not afraid of death, but he was unwilling to ask for beheading with Cai Jing and the others, and saw two personal soldiers coming. Immediately go and grab the weapons of the soldiers.
Chao Yong's own soldiers are all elite soldiers, how could they be robbed of weapons by a literati, Li Gang just pounced. was twisted by the wrist.
Li Gang saw that he couldn't grab the weapon, so he slammed into the pillar next to him again.
The soldiers twisted Li Gang's wrist, seeing that he was going to seek death, they hurriedly grabbed Li Gang, and the other person also stepped forward and twisted Li Gang's other arm.
Chao Yong looked at Li Gang and said, "If you commit suicide, I will punish you." ”
Li Gang was still thinking about going down, and then looking for an opportunity to commit suicide, and never be escorted to the execution ground with Cai Jing and others, hearing Chao Yong say this, thinking of the old and young in the family, he had to dispel the idea of suicide, but he looked at Chao Yong unwillingly, and said: "Li Gang has been an official for many years, and he has never lost his integrity, why do you want to treat me like this?" ”
Chao Yong sneered: "Do you still think that you are a great loyal minister and should be praised?" ”
Li Gang said: "Whether it is loyalty or treachery has its own public opinion, and Li Gang has a clear conscience when he asks himself." ”
"I have a clear conscience, the people of the north are suffering from the fields, and the accumulation of several generations has been encompassed, and the people have been displaced and starved all over the wilderness. The people in the south suffered from the Huashigang, and in order to carry the Huashigang, how many people's houses and graves were destroyed. How can you not be loyal to them and give them a death reprimand? Now that the decaying Song Dynasty is about to perish, you have jumped out to be loyal to the Song Dynasty. Can I understand that you are the guardian of this decaying Song Dynasty? ”
Li Gang felt that he had a clear conscience just now, but he was also a little red when he was scolded by Chao Yong.
Chao Yong smiled and said: "Since you want to be martyred for this faint king, I will fulfill you and give you the name of a traitorous minister, and the faint monarch and traitor are so worthy." Okay, let's drag it down, and we will ask for it together in five days. ”
Li Gang also woke up a little at this time, it turned out that he had never been a real loyal minister, but just a trace of persistence in his heart. If he is really loyal to the Song Dynasty, then whether it is for the Song Dynasty or for the people, he should die early, maybe he can wake up Zhao Ji and change the fate of the Song Dynasty at that time. Instead of waiting for the fall of the Song Dynasty, he had to use his life to be a loyal minister.
Although it is not something that ordinary people can do to make people sacrifice their lives to die, what he has to do is also not something that ordinary people can do. The same death, if Zhao Ji just ignored the government, he might be able to wake up Zhao Ji, which would be heavier than Mount Tai; But when the Song Dynasty fell, he died of nothing, and it can be said that he was lighter than a feather.
Seeing Chao Yong's order, the two pro-soldiers did not hesitate anymore and directly dragged Li Gang out.
Li Gang didn't shout anything anymore, nor did he struggle.
Chao Yong looked at the Chinese martial arts officials in the main hall, and he was no longer interested, sitting on the dragon chair, and said indifferently: "Again, those who are willing to submit to my girder stand on the left, and those who want to perish with the Song Dynasty are on the right." ”
As soon as the words fell, several people stood directly to the left.
Chao Yong watched the others struggling, and said impatiently: "I'll count five, and drag all of them out on the right." ”
"One"
Zhao Ji also looked at the hundreds of officials below, the Song Dynasty can be said to be higher than all dynasties, the original intention was to make the officials' lives better, so that the officials could reduce corruption and bribery, but there was no corresponding severe sanction, and the corruption of the officials in the Song Dynasty was not reduced compared with the previous dynasty.
"Two"
"Three"
Chao Yong counted neither fast nor slow, and when he counted to three, the officials rushed to the left.
"Four"
"Five"
After counting five, everyone went to the left.
Zhao Ji saw that all his civil and military officials rebelled in five numbers, and he was also hit hard, and looked at Su Yuanjing reproachfully, in his opinion, Su Yuanjing is also a clear stream in the court, and his favored villains rebelled, he can understand, but these clear streams, how can they resist desperately.
Su Yuanjing saw Zhao Ji's reproachful eyes, and he could only reply with a helpless expression. He is not afraid of death, but he is really afraid of letting him bear the reputation of a traitor, and he will be engraved on the tablet and scolded by future generations.
Chao Yong glanced at everyone: "Although you are all obedient, not all of you can become my courtiers. If there are many evildoers among them, they will still be questioned after they are found out in the future. ”
Some traitors originally thought that as long as they changed their flags, they could save their lives, but they didn't expect Chao Yong to still prepare to settle accounts after the autumn. And people who don't do anything evil on weekdays feel that Chao Yong has done a good job, and they have a sense of identity with Chao Yong.
Chao Yong also knew that now he was just controlling the palace, and if he wanted to control Tokyo City without bloodshed, he still needed the cooperation of these civil and military officials.
"Who is in charge of the forbidden army in the capital?"
The new palace commander Duan Chang came out in a trembling voice: "The prince, the villain Duan Chang, has just taken over the position of Gao Yu and is in charge of the forbidden army. ”
Chao Yong casually pointed to a person and said, "In this period of the past, can there be bullying and disregard for people's lives?" ”
Duan Chang's face changed in fright when he heard this, and he looked nervously at the person who was pointed at by Chao Yong.
The man hurriedly said: "Lord Duan is careful, the villain really hasn't heard of him doing evil." ”
Chao Yong pointed to another person: "What about you, have you ever heard of his evil deeds?" ”
The person who was pointed out this time was Zhang Bangchang, Zhang Bangchang thought about it hard, and said flatteringly: "I haven't heard him do anything evil, but when he was a lieutenant in the infantry army before, he was only Gao Yu's first look, and he may have helped Gao Yu do a lot of bad things." ”
When Duan Chang heard this, he hurriedly said: "The prince is clear, although the villain is nominally in charge of the infantry army, but Gao Yu relied on the emperor's ...... before, no, Zhao Ji...... 's grace, my authority was also encroached upon by him, and the villain didn't dare to resist, but he didn't help Gao Yu do anything bad. Gao Yu and Liang Shicheng formed a party, covering the sky with one hand in the court, and some people rushed to do evil things when he did them, and they didn't need me at all. ”
When Chao Yong heard this, he nodded and said, "Yes, there is also Liang Shicheng, a traitor, if you don't say it, I forgot to take Liang Shicheng out for me." ”
Liang Shicheng originally thought that he could escape the catastrophe, but he didn't expect to be betrayed by Duan Chang, and he was immediately paralyzed on the ground in fright and dragged out by his own soldiers.
When Duan Chang saw Chao Yong looking over, he immediately knelt on the ground in fright, and said, "The villain really didn't do anything evil, the prince is clear." ”
Chao Yong nodded and said, "Get up, you don't have to bully people, and you can be regarded as a rare good official in the Song Dynasty." I'll give you a reward, you go to the harem and choose a concubine of Zhao Ji to suppress the shock. ”
"Huh?"
Duan Chang didn't expect Chao Yong to give him a reward, or such a reward, so he couldn't help but scream in shock. (To be continued.) )
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