Some time later, in Lai Qinggui's cottage, a shocking banquet was also held, but it was just ...... The atmosphere was a little weird. (

A big and small boss, looking at Li Zhen in disbelief, who was gorgeously dressed, white and fat, and looked amazingly good, and said in his heart, who the hell was captured? It was clearly invited to be an ancestral offering.

Luan Bin is very happy, his brother-in-law let him lose it, his wife has always been with him, and now he can return safely, which is also a matter of concern. Besides, although Li Zhen has no brains, she is better than being single-minded with herself, and with such a dead friend by her side, her position is more stable. So he took great pains to arrange this feast.

In this period of severe scarcity, a table full of wine and meat...... Mallets, fish, and delicacies can only be regarded as side dishes with wine, as for the main dish, what are the "big bones and turtle backs", "rotten steamed slices", "Ding boiled sheep", "eight rough geese and ducks", etc., showing the roughness of the reckless hero's large pieces of meat and drinking in large bowls.

For the leaders of the cottage, such a sumptuous dish is extremely rare, and they swallow saliva one by one. Even the big dragon head smiled jealously: "I haven't had such a grand birthday before." Luan Bin hurriedly explained: "This time it's a coincidence, and there are a lot of things." ”

Lai Qinggui couldn't be too stingy, so he stood up and said with a smile: "The second brother has returned safely, it's really gratifying" said and picked up the wine bowl and said: "Come, second brother, on behalf of everyone, I respect you." ”

Li Zhen hurriedly stood up, touched the wine bowl with the big faucet, and then drank a sigh, and after Lai Qinggui sat down, he wiped his mouth, shook his head and said: "This local wine was still drunk before, why do you feel really bad now?" A mouthful of earthy smell. "The second master is used to drinking the elixir wine in the city, and the taste is of course high." Someone on the side made a strange noise.

Li Zhen didn't realize it, nodded arrogantly and said: "Yes, when we are in the city, we can drink all the good wine in the world......" "What wine have you drunk?" Some people were really curious and asked funny.

Li Zhen said like a few family treasures: "What 'Wuliangye,' Liuketang Qionghualu,' and 'mistaken water,...... It's more. ”

The crowd had not said that they had drunk it, but they had not heard of it, and while they were toasting him, they asked him about his adventures in the city. Although Li Zhen said that this wine was not good, she did not refuse to come, and while drinking bitterly, she bragged about her singing every night, and slept full of Jiangnan girls; Eat all the delicacies of the mountains and seas, get dozens of taels of silver for each meal, and there are big officials to accompany him, even Shen Jingluo has accompanied him to eat twice

Listening to his boasting, there was no boundary, and there was a dead friend who relied on Qinggui, and finally couldn't help but say loudly: "Since it's so good over there, why do you come back?" ”

As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere that had just been a little hot suddenly froze. Li Zhen was like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, stared at the leader and jumped to his feet: "What do you mean?" You don't want to see me back, do you?! fourth

"I didn't say that!" The man was not afraid of him, and sneered: "I just feel that the blessing of the second master is a little bigger, and the brothers who were caught in the past have all been beheaded, but you don't say anything, and you are still being offered as an ancestor, which is really ...... I can't believe it. "Looks like I'm not dead, I've let you down." Li Zhen's face was fierce for a while, and he raised his fist with a vinegar bowl, and gestured in front of the man: "What good is it for you if I die!" ”

The man Huo De stood up, not to be outdone, and said: "People are not your filial sons and grandsons, if you don't do something unseemly, why don't people kill you?" Delicious food and drink are waiting for you! ”

"Niangqiu, no wonder Lao Tzu was arrested, no one is trying to save me!" Li Zhen swung his fist and scolded: "It's a traitor like you, who slanders the big dragon head and wants to kill me!" ”

The man resisted and said loudly: "Doing it shows that you are weak-hearted!" The two fought together, and the people next to them hurriedly went up to pull the fight, and some of them were interested in watching the excitement, and they were chaotic for a while.

"Stop it!" Hearing a loud shout, the big dragon head slapped the case, and immediately locked everyone in the field, and saw Lai Qinggui said with a black face: "A group of ruined things!" After scolding, he brushed his sleeves up. As soon as the big dragon head left, the banquet couldn't go on, and all the leaders looked at each other for a while, and then dispersed.

Seeing a good banquet, Luan Bin shook his head helplessly, and said to Li Zhen: "Why are you so angry?" ”

Li Zhen snorted angrily: "Brother-in-law, don't think I don't know, except for you and my Black Armor Army, no one in this village wants me to come back!" Saying that, he snorted fiercely: "Looking at their smiling ghost looks, I can't get angry!" ”

Luan Bin didn't expect him to say this, but he couldn't refute it, so he could only sigh, pat him on the shoulder and say, "Brother, it's not as serious as you think......" "Hmph......" Li Zhen snorted and didn't speak.

Although the exchange of the captured rebel leaders for the three She elders seems to be ordinary, the impact is huge.

First of all, within the mountain people, Shen Zuo's move naturally won widespread favor, because before that, no one had ever put their lives above the height of their military exploits. A decision at a critical moment is a hundred times more effective than any sweet word {6; In addition, Shen's feasible 'thundering plan' finally made more and more clansmen gradually change their positions, and at least they were able to maintain neutrality, even if they were not inclined to the official army. This is undoubtedly a positive factor in the great plan to pacify southern Gansu.

But Shen bore the criticism for this, which was unimaginable to the people of southern Gansu, and those hot-blooded officials unsurprisingly began to attack him for being weak and compromised, appeasing and raising Kou, and even saying that he was mediocre and incompetent, and had the legacy of the former Song Dynasty...... For a while, the crowd was raging, and the officials poured out the most vicious speculations on the former idol mercilessly, which made people sweat for him.

But Shen is no longer a fledgling junior character, he is now a high-ranking official in the Ming Dynasty, and there are countless friends, classmates, and protégés, how can he sit idly by? So the counterattack was launched, and many people from all ministries, departments, Hanlin Academy, Guozijian, and most importantly, the Metropolitan Procuratorate stood up to speak for him, among which the Zuo Du Yushi Linrun, who was known as the first capable of fighting, was the vanguard.

Lin Run said in the recital: "The old man said: 'Those who are happy to kill people should not be as determined as the world, and they will not be falsely accused. The court is a king, and the living people are all bare-like, what is the limit of the Han Dynasty? What is the difference between victory and defeat? What are the five tyrants? According to the mountains and rivers and a battle; The three kings have a way, and the flow of sound is taught in the four yi! If you regard it as a grass, tree, or beast, and do not distinguish between it and not, do not argue about coming and going, and kill it, how can you be a parent? In the end, he pointed out clearly: 'If you kill the people indiscriminately, although you have merit, you will not be able to do it with the gentleman. "With sonorous and powerful articles, he opposed the reckless use of military force at home, actively supported Shen Zhuo's pacification policy, advocated putting the common people in the world first, opposing war, opposing killing, and letting the people live a stable life.

In the middle of the matter, Wang Zhi wrote an article questioning: 'The husband and the people, the barbarians, the temperament is different, and their hearts are different, can the people regard them? Don't you hear the wolf of Zhongshan? He wants to be Dongguo Ruhu? The sharp writing also drew a round of applause.

But soon, there was a household in the matter of Zeng Shengwu, and he used an article to shoot back: "Although the popularity of Fu She is different, but he is good and avoids harm, enjoys life and evil death, and is also the same ear as the Han people." If you get the way, you will be obedient and obedient, and if you lose your way, you will be away from rebellion and invasion, and it is advisable to fix it! ”

However, the other party quickly cross-examined, and Zhou Hongzu, the superintendent of the imperial history, issued a document saying: "The Yi people do not obey the king, there are many repetitions, and they are stubborn and abnormal. He also cited many examples of repeated rebellions of ethnic minorities, and did not believe that the goal could be achieved by means of Huairou.

Not only is there endless debate in the officialdom, but even the literary world has its own opinions on this. At that time, the leaders of the literary world, Wang Shizhen and Li Xinlong, were both advocates of Han nationalism, and they didn't look down on Shen's way of dealing with it like swallowing water, not only publicly criticized him on various occasions, but even wrote dramas to arrange him.

However, Shen is not easy to mess with here, Li Zhen, Xie Zhen and others, who also have high influence, have expressed their support for Shen Zuo, and flaunted him as a great politician with a compassionate heart.

The two sides are like this, and the words are flying, although the overall support for Shen is still at a disadvantage, but it also makes people clearly realize that he is already a member with a solid foundation, and it cannot be shaken by a few officials and a few impeachments.

Just when everyone was waiting to see what else was going on, an article by one person put an end to this controversy. This person is Zhang Juzheng, who wrote a very wonderful "Pingnan Discussion", which made everyone live in silence:

At the beginning of the article, he made it clear that minority rebellions should not be treated in the same way as foreign wars. Because the effect of force is only temporary, the hatred caused can last for a long time, and after twenty or thirty years, a new generation will grow up and rebel again. On the contrary, in order to stabilize the rear of the southwest, Zhuge Liang captured seven and seven longitudinal Meng, and ruled the southwest barbarians with virtue, so as to eliminate worries and concentrate on the northern expedition.

He also made a detailed analysis of the people's situation and topography in southern Gansu, and convincingly pointed out that relying solely on force to attack the rebels is like 'entering the test to drive away the coke, 'entering the bush to drive away the birds' is difficult to achieve, and the She people will form an alliance with the rebels because of the indiscriminate persecution of the government, resist the official army, and make it difficult for the purge to be effective. Only by taking advantage of the contradictions between them and the rebels, winning them over with interests, and appeasing them with virtue and politics, will they move in favor of the officials and troops to suppress the bandits, which will not only deprive the rebels of their support, but also cut off the ears and eyes that are giving them information and make them passive.

In addition to laying out facts and reasoning, Zhang Juzheng also quoted a sentence from Jiajing's holy decree a few years ago: 'If there is a conquest without fighting, if you don't kill the innocent, the king's soldiers will also go to Qin!" And from this, it is deduced that the original imperial court was strict and suppressed, although it was victorious, it was just 'a lot of small work, not a big strategy, not even the meaning of the Son of Heaven. Completely blocked the tick of the hardliners.

In fact, the pen and ink lawsuit has never been able to completely convince the public, no matter how wonderful Zhang Juzheng's article is, people can talk to themselves and continue to be entangled. The reason why the opposition disappeared all of a sudden is probably because his identity is too special...... As Xu Jie's proud protégé, it is impossible for him to make such a clear statement without the instruction of Lord Yuanfu. This makes many speculators dare not follow the trend anymore. At this point, the criticism of Shen Zuo has finally decreased slightly, but it is impossible for people who want to see his jokes to disappear.

However, the disturbances from thousands of miles away could not affect Shen Zhuo's pace, and he still carried out his plan step by step. "Have you decided on who I want?" In the signing room, Shen asked Liu Xiandao. "Already." Liu Xian replied respectfully: "I still have to ask the adults to decide." "Get him." Shen looked at the schedule and said, "I have half an hour to free after lunch, so let Bang come over at a time." ”

"Yes." Liu Xian replied respectfully. After three o'clock in the afternoon, he appeared in the signing room on time and brought a junior officer with him. Shen saw that the man was a little poisonous, and asked softly, "Are you?" "It's so small that Hu Da kowtows to the governor." The man saluted him, and after reporting to his home, Shen was sure that it was indeed the ruffian who let go of the soldiers who did not kill when he first came to Longnan. "Is it him?" Shen looked at Liu Xiandao.

"That's the man." Liu Xiandao: "Although this guy is not stingy, he still knows shame, spare him from death, this guy is like inserting someone." This time to recruit warriors in the army, he was the first to sign up, and threatened that whoever wanted to grab this place would have to win his fist first. As he spoke, the corners of his mouth flashed with a wry smile: "As a result, no one can beat him within three days, and the last general has no choice but to lead him away." ”

Shen looked at that Hu Da, who was born with big shoulders and a round waist, and was powerful, looking like an iron tower; Moreover, this person can no longer see the frivolity of the past, and the sunlight has become resolute and calm, and it seems that there has indeed been a big change.

But there was something that had to be said in advance, and he asked Nahu Dao, "Do you know what the task of this walk is?" Hu Da nodded and said, "I know, there is a dead mission to go and never return." "If you know, why do you need to hard-connect?" Shen looked at him fixedly.

"At the beginning, the adults spared me with a copper coin that was the same on both sides." Hu Da said in a deep voice: "Since then, my life has been an adult's, and now that an adult has something to do, it is time for me to repay my debts."

"Since this official has pardoned you, you don't owe me ......" Shen shook his head and said.

"There's no one better suited than me." Hu Da was a little anxious and said: "My lord, I am really phthalein, you can hand over the task to me!" He said with a heart: "If you don't agree, I'll be killed when I go out!" "Presumptuous, how dare you threaten your lordship!" Liu Xian scolded on the side. "Hey, one, one, one, one," Shen waved his hand to say that it didn't matter) to Hu Dadao = "Tell me about your advantages 0 bar."

"I am the captain of the scout, and I am familiar with the mountains and rivers of southern Gansu; There are also two kung fu, and they will not be harmed by the thieves who don't have long eyes. Hu Da said a little embarrassed: "Besides, my kung fu of lying is not bad, this adult should know." ”

Shen couldn't help but laugh, thinking of his deeds of deceitful and slandering the people, knowing that this seemingly rough guy had a lot of eyes. After thinking about it for a while, S1 finally bowed his head and said: "It seems that you have a bamboo in your chest, okay, this task will be handed over to you." Hu Da was overjoyed when he heard this: "Great, it's all up to the orders of the adults!" ”

Shen asked him to get up and sit down, and then asked Shen Mingchen to explain the task to him. Shen Mingchen looked at Hu Da for a long time, shook his head and smiled: "It looks very pompous, but this name doesn't look like a person with status." ”

Hu Da thought about it, and really hadn't heard of any middle-level officer with such a name, so he knew the opportunity and said, "Dare to ask the lord to give him a name." ”

Shen smiled when he heard this="I feel more and more that you are suitable." Okay......" thought about it = "I'll give you a brave word, and I'll call it Hu Yong in the future." "Hu Yong......" Hu Da grinned when he heard the words = "Sure enough, there is more pomp than Hu Da." "Back to the truth, Hu Da...... Oh no, Hu Yong. When he was happy, Shen Mingchen said again: "The purpose of your trip is to meet someone." "Who?" Hu Yong immediately concentrated on his thoughts. "It's Li Zhen who just let go." Shen Mingchen smiled: "We adults miss him very much, so let you send him some gifts." "What gift?" Hu Yong asked.

Shen Mingchen clapped his hands, and two guards came over with trays and put the things on the table in the same way. I saw that it was a bag of pearls and jade, two jars of good wine, and a handful of red dates and a handful of longan...... and a half-worn coat and hat.

After packing up these things, Shen Mingchen took out another letter and said: "This is a letter from the adult to him, you can take a look at it first, and you can know it in your heart." ”

Hu Yong didn't take the letter, and smiled embarrassedly: "It knows me, I don't know it."

"Oh...... "I can't read." Shen Mingchen was not surprised. Toilet = "It doesn't matter, I'll tell you." So he retold the contents of the letter to him, probably like a friend's correspondence, asking for warmth and warmth, living and eating, and without any suspicious words.

Hu Yongzheng was wondering, Shen Mingb pointed to the corner of the robe on the table and said, "There is also a wax pill sealed here." And repeatedly admonished: "But don't divulge it until it's life and death." In case it leaks, remember to shout: 'I have failed the kindness of Lord Jinglu, and I will not be able to complete the great things you have entrusted me with!' After speaking, he said: "The day you are asked to do this is to divide the relationship between several bandit leaders, we can't prepare all the situations, the most important thing is to act at the opportunity...... Hu Yong nodded silently, only then did he know how difficult his task was.