Therefore, if Hou Jing wants to go from Taicheng (Imperial Palace) to Xizhou City, he must first take the Dasima Gate, go out of the Dasima Gate, turn left through the government office, go to the west, go to the Lu Gate, pass through the inner city wall, and go south along the moat to the heavenly prison.

After all, the prison is a prison, not an ordinary prison, even in a peaceful and peaceful country like Nanliang, this prison is also a very important place, but now that the country is in turmoil, there are not many servants on duty in this prison, and there are a lot fewer prisoners. But with Xiao Zhengde coming to power, more and more people who were labeled as rebels or disobedient were sent here. With the increase in the number of prisoners and the increase in importance, the officials here were replaced by Zhang Huaren's personal soldiers to guard.

So after receiving Song Zixian's order, he learned that Hou Jing was coming today, and Zhang Huaren specially tidied up the cells of Yang Kan and Chen Xianda. Hou Jing didn't have anything to say about Chen Xianda, and keeping him was nothing more than wanting to control Chen Baxian's forces, so he sent someone to transfer Chen Xianda from the moldy and damp dungeon on the bottom to a clean and tidy single room on the upper floor. The entourage also arranged a special servant for him to take care of his daily life, and there were entertainment props such as books, guqin and Go in the single room, especially Go, Chen Xianda can be described as a master for a while, just let him ponder the game in the prison.

Chen Xianda showed his bold and wise side as early as the time of Gao Huan's Shandong expedition, but because this person was not good at drilling into the political methods of the camping and punk party, coupled with his personal preference for living in seclusion, he lived in the south of the city and almost did not leave home and did not interact with the people in power in the court, so he was often ignored by Zhu Yi and other parties, which was also his great luck and did not get involved in political struggles.

His attitude towards Hou Jing seems to be ambiguous, neither distant nor close, he accepts the food and clothing sent by Hou Jing, but he never talks to him too much, every time Hou Jing goes to the prison to visit him by the way, he feels very bored, and he sits for a while and leaves.

Yang Kan was locked in a luxurious single room, and Yang Kun was locked in a water prison, and later Hou Jing ordered him to be moved to the earth prison, which can be regarded as picking up a life, because the water prison is chained all day long, and his hands and feet are soaked in thigh-deep water, and the cell is dark, and the prisoner is prone to blindness after a long time, and the lower body will almost have symptoms of ulceration and swelling when soaked in water for a long time.

Yang Kun relied on his father's face to escape death and move to the dungeon, although the environment of the dungeon is also very bad, but compared to the water dungeon, it is ten million times stronger.

Yang Kan sat in a spacious and bright cell, holding a copy of "The Biography of the Zuo Family in the Spring and Autumn Period", but his eyes were fixed on the sky outside the skylight. Zhang Huaren came over with his own soldiers and said to him: "Lord Yang, the general and the prime minister will come to see you in a while, are you always ready to prepare?" Yang Kan came back to his senses, put down the book, and said in a low voice: "Three senior officials came to see me at the same time? I'm not a viewing platform here, so why do I come here every once in a while? Don't they all have to go to work? Zhang Huaren didn't understand what he meant, and then said, "I mean to wait for Prime Minister Hou to come to see you in person." Only then did Yang Kan figure out that Hou Jing was holding three positions, and he was making people a lame monkey from the north actually claim the king in Jiangdong.

Speaking of this family, there is an interesting fact. Jiangdong has had a lot of wealthy families since the Eastern Wu Dynasty, from the earliest Gu Lu Zhu Zhang to the later Wang Xie Yuan Xiao, generally these high-ranking families are in-laws and royal families are also relatives, but they are not intermarried with the lower scholars, and Hou Jing came to Xiao Yan from the north, because he defected and fled in a hurry, and the small clan did not have time to take it away, so after Zhongli settled down, he wanted Xiao Yan to find a matchmaker in the big family of Wang Xie and said that this Xiao Yan was also old and confused, and directly told Hou Jing that Wang Xie was high, and he was not worthy of others. You can help him find a wife under Zhu and Zhang.

This is a naked humiliation of Hou Jing, he was already taboo about his background and physical disability, Xiao Yan was completely angry with him by not giving face, so he said at that time that one day he would let those women from high-ranking families be allowed to marry slaves as wives. In fact, Xiao Yanda doesn't have to reject Hou Jing like this, thinking that people like him should be more coaxed and coaxed, and he can choose a talented and beautiful princess among the harem maids to marry him, which not only appeases Hou Jing's undecided mind, but also gets a strong military guarantee.

Another thing also contributed to Hou Jing's determination to rebel, that is, a month after the failure of the courtship, because most of Hou Jing's subordinates were short of supplies and clothing, he asked Xiao Yan for 100,000 pieces of silk as the soldiers' winter clothes sheets, but Zhu Yi's grandson secretly exchanged it for worthless green cloth, so Hou Jing calculated this account on Xiao Yan's head.

All in all, Xiao Yan didn't take Hou Jing's position and feelings too seriously for many reasons, so it led to Hou Jing's rebellion without hesitation. But there are many ministers in the court who want to be oppressed and neglected like Hou Jing, such as Chen Xianda, such as Yang Kan, who failed in the Northern Expedition, but because these people have been following Xiao Yan for a long time, they are more reliable than Hou Jing in terms of loyalty.

Hou Jing did everything possible to win over those ministers, although before the war. During the war, and even after the war, a large number of Southern Liang courtiers did defect to Hou Jing and Xiao Zhengde, but the few loyal ministers who were proud and stubborn always kept their distance from him. Yang Kan is like this, and so is his son Yang Kun.

Hou Jing came to Yang Kan's cell and talked to him very enthusiastically, Yang Kan always smiled and did not answer, Hou Jing said a little angrily: "I treat Mr. well, but why does Mr. refuse to be thousands of miles away?" Does Sir think I'm not worthy to be your friend? Yang Kan said with a smile: "No, the prime minister is unstoppable in the sky, and the so-called arrogance is flourishing, how dare you climb high in the next prisoner?" The reason why he avoided answering was that he was now a prisoner, and he really didn't dare to tarnish the prime minister's innocence. ”

Hou Jing laughed and said: "Mr. Miao, the reason why Jing is here today is also caused by Xiao Yan'er herself, Nanliang's domestic political corruption and corrupt officials are rampant, even if it is not for me Hou Jing to do these things, naturally there will be others to overthrow the tyranny." Mr. must have thought that Jing's move was a traitor, but Jing thought that this was to relieve the people of Jiangnan. ”

Yang Kan got up and walked to the guqin, and said to Hou Jing: "That's it, now that you are in prison, you don't care about those external affairs, if the prime minister doesn't dislike it, you can play a song for the prime minister to enjoy." He knew that talking about state affairs with Hou Jing would definitely end in a quarrel, and if he didn't get angry, he would have to be in a different place. That's why I changed the topic and talked to Hou Jing about state affairs, but only listened to music.

Hou Jing is not an elegant person, but with a celebrity like Yang Kan, he can't help but pretend to be elegant, and then smiled: "It's so good, you can hear General Yang's wonderful song, which is not something that ordinary people can enjoy." Then he sat cross-legged on the couch and began to listen to the piano while drinking tea. I saw Yang Kan stroking the strings with his hands, and a low and melodious piece of music floated out.

The reason why Hou Jing wants to win over Yang Kan all the time is not because of how much strength he has behind him, but because Yang Kan has a good reputation in the officialdom of Nanliang and is very respected. With the current Hou Jing taking Jiankang under house arrest and Xiao Yan, he most hopes that the people of the world will see that he is supported by the wealthy families in Jiangdong and supported by celebrities like Yang Kan, so that his regime will be legitimized and rationalized. Although most of the wealthy families in Jiangdong have nominally served Xiao Zhengde as their new master, celebrities like Yang Kan have drawn a line with him and have not given him face at all.

So Hou Jing's heart can only endure no matter how anxious he is angry, although he is reckless, he will not lose his mind, the indiscriminate killing of ministers is already openly arguing with the world, and if he has a hat of slaughtering celebrities, then he really has no place to go, and he will not want to do anything in the future. He is a man with a purpose, a plan, and an ambition. After the necessary force deterrence has achieved its goal, it is also very important to adopt gentleness and pacification.

But Yang Kan doesn't eat oil and salt, which makes him have a headache, Zhu Yi lost no time in giving him an idea: people like them pay the most attention to family, his two sons ran away to Xiao Duo, but there is also a younger son Yang Kun in his hands. Hou Jing's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he immediately had a way to deal with Yang Kan.

So when Yang Kan was intoxicated with the violin, Song Zixian deliberately asked the sergeant to escort Yang Kun past his cell, and suddenly saw the little son with a cloak and a withered appearance, Yang Kan's strings snapped and broke, he looked at Yang Kun in a daze, and couldn't say a word for a long time with his mouth open. Yang Kun also seemed to find out about his father's existence, and stopped with tears in his eyes, and the father and son were relatively speechless in this cell.

Hou Jing got up and asked people to bring Yang Kun in, and he led everyone out of the cell to give him space for the father and son to communicate. Yang Kan stepped forward to help his little son who was kneeling on the ground, and asked with tears in his eyes, "Why aren't you dead yet?" I thought you were dead? Yang Kun was heartbroken and looked confused when he heard his words, and he was a little suspicious that this person was his own father, how could there be a father who was looking forward to his son's death? I only heard Yang Kan continue: "Our Yang family has been loyal and righteous since ancient times, and the family style is tame, and my father originally wanted to be defeated and die, but I heard that His Majesty (referring to Xiao Yan) is still alive in the world, and since ancient times, loyal ministers have not been the two masters, and my father still wants to survive the remnants of the King of Qi One day can serve His Majesty again." But you're ......"

Yang Kun was a little angry, wiped his tears, got up and said to Yang Kan: "Father, the child also thinks so, so he didn't die to be loyal, and the child also knows about the matter of loyalty and observance, but if there is chaos today, the child is dead and useless." Yang Kan probably lost his mind a little after seeing his youngest son, and then blurted out: "Child, the matter of keeping the festival will be handed over to the father, you want to protect the reputation of our Yang family to die and martyrdom, really don't you act as a father to help you?" ”

Yang Kun is going crazy, he is only twenty this year, his father is going to force him to die, he is a little confused, and asked very seriously: "Father, am I your own son?" Yang Kan was also a little angry when he heard him say this, and immediately scolded: "Rebel, if you are not my own child, why should I let you die as a martyr?" You can't be greedy for life and afraid of death, right? ”

Yang Kun also got angry when he heard him say this: "Father, since the child is your own child, why did you let the eldest brother and second brother escape and stay with me at the beginning, but now that our father and son are captured, you want me to die and be martyred, what is the reason?" Yang Kan saw that he didn't understand his "good intentions", he was very distressed, and pulled him up and whispered in his ear: "For my father, I regret that I didn't let you run away at the beginning, and now I am captured by Hou Jing, I am afraid that he will use you to threaten me, and then my father will only succumb to his obscenity, and the loss of honor is a trivial matter, and the family is unfortunate that it is a big thing." As a father, he was forced to make this decision.

Yang Kun was a little dizzy by his father's logic, what did he think, he didn't want to die by himself for a while, and he had to force himself to die for a while. Isn't it that Yang Kan has been locked up in the prison for a long time, and Yang Kan is crazy?! Suddenly, Yang Kan rushed up and strangled Yang Kun with the belt in his hand, Yang Kun was handcuffed and shackled, although he was young and strong, he was completely unable to resist flexibly, and the other party was his father, so he didn't dare to be too heavy.

Seeing that Yang Kun began to roll his eyes and stick out his tongue, Hou Jing, who was monitoring in the next cell, was frightened and hurriedly asked Song Zixian to come over to save people. The two big men finally pulled away from Yang Kan, only to see Yang Kun lying on the ground coughing vigorously, completely speechless. Hou Jing was very puzzled and asked, "Lord Yang, this is your own son, why are you suffering like this?" Yang Kan shouted: "He can't be loyal to the king in life, it's better to die for the king, I don't have a son like him who is greedy for life and afraid of death, if you let me see him next time, I will kill him!" ”

Even Song Zixian felt that this sheep was crazy, and even killed his own son, which was simply inferior to a beast. Hou Jing looked at him very strangely, trying to see something in his eyes, but unfortunately he found nothing, so he had to let people send Yang Kun back to the dungeon, it seems that Zhu Yi's method did not work, and Yang Kan did not eat this set at all. Hou Jing also had a headache for him at this time, but he had no choice but to leave for the time being. (To be continued.) )