Zhao Fude's repeated and repeated provocations made Zheng Rong's chest ignite a karmic fire, if it was placed more than ten years ago, he would have already stabbed him, but now there are a few more cities, suppressing his anger, and said lightly: "Mr. Zhongli, please send out the emperor's decree and household documents, and read it to Zhao Tingshi." ”

Zhong Likuang nodded, took out a bright yellow wooden letter from the bag he was carrying, carefully opened the lid, took out the holy decree, and read it aloud in the hall.

After reading it, the officials bowed three times and bowed nine times, and the mountain shouted long live. Zheng Rong squinted at Zhao Fude and asked, "Please ask Lord Zhao, the assassin of Henan Province, can this Shangfang sword in the king's hand kill Henan officials?" ”

Zhao Fude knew in his heart that King Youyan not only had the sword of Shang Fang, but also managed the military and political affairs of Henan Province, except for himself and Wu Yan, the envoy of Jiedu, he had beheaded any official in Henan, and the life of his younger brother Zhao Fuyi was irretrievable. Thinking of this, Zhao Fude simply broke the jar and fell, and did not kneel, stood up and pointed at Zheng Rong and scolded: "The emperor gave the prince Shang Fang the sword is a trust in the prince, and it is also the prince's right to kill people with the Shang Fang sword, why bother with the humble position, it is really a superfluous move, but I just want to humiliate the official, and I can't accompany the humble duty!" With that, he arched his hand, turned his head and walked towards the outside of Ning He Hall.

Zhao Fude couldn't walk a few steps, and was half-dragged and half-carried by the soldiers waiting outside the hall to re-enter the hall. Zheng Rong said with a straight face: "What Lord Zhao said is good, Shang Fang's sword can't kill officials above the fourth grade, you are a dignified feudal official of the third grade, of course this king can't kill you." But if you bend the law for personal gain, reverse black and white, and despise the sins of this king, this king will truthfully state it to the Holy Lord, and then there will be a criminal department and a division of the yamen to examine and determine your crimes. After the left and right obeyed the order and dragged Zhao Fude down to the court to take care of him, Zheng Rong said to Zhao Fuyi, who was already a fart and urine: "Your sins, this king has just said it, what else do you have any last words?" ”

Zhao Fuyi has already lost his soul, where can he still open his mouth, just waiting for a knife in the back of his head.

Unexpectedly, at this time, Qiu Yizhi suddenly ran out and knelt in front of Zheng Rong. Zheng Rong was taken aback and asked, "Yizhi, is it possible that you want to intercede for your uncle, who is inferior to a beast?" ”

Qiu Yizhi bowed and said: "Yizhi has no father since he was a child, his mother has also died, and the two uncles are close relatives. Saying that, he bowed twice, "Please also ask your father-in-law to be merciful and spare my uncle's life!" ”

When Zheng Rong heard this, he was full of emotion, pondered for a while, helped Qiu Yizhi up, and said to Zhao Fuyi in a loud voice: "Your ruthless and unrighteous maternal uncle, how can you have such a loving and righteous nephew?" Since Yizhi interceded, the king was extremely forgiving. But the death penalty can be avoided, and the living crime is unforgivable, and this king will take away your fame today, and make you return the land that has been annexed over the years, and all the land estates will be confiscated, and you will be given one acre and three points of good land, and from now on you will be a good citizen and make a living by yourself! ”

When Zhao Fuyi heard this, tears and snot flowed all over the ground, and he didn't know what to say, just watching him kowtow like pounding onions.

Zhao Fude was also put down, and calm regained in the Ning and Harmony Hall. Zheng Rong took a sip of tea and said to the officials standing in the hall: "The Holy Decree and the Household Documents have also listened to it, and the Holy Lord sent this king to control Henan in order to relieve the current drought. However, Emperor Gao Zongren once had a holy edict saying: 'Ten natural disasters must have seven man-made disasters'. This Zhao Fuyi is rich and unkind, and he doesn't know how to worry about the country because of his fame, so he actually took advantage of the fire to rob and occupy the land of good people, which is hateful and hateful. Now this king is presiding over the disaster relief plan in Henan, and the household department has allocated 700,000 taels of money and grain, and this king also intends to send more than 300,000 yuan of money and grain from Youyan. In this way, through the hands of all the adults, there will be millions of silver, and you can intercept them layer by layer, fill your own pockets, and test the law! ”

The officials of Henan prefectures were frightened several times today, and how could they still have the courage to bend the law for bribes, and they all fell to the ground and shouted: "Don't dare!" ”

Zheng Rong does not have an official residence in Henan Province, and it is not an overnight thing to preside over disaster relief, so he must find a suitable place to preside over major events. Zhong Likuang suggested setting up an office in the Assassin's Mansion in Henan Province or Zhao Fuyi's house, both of which are well-known places in Henan, and the facilities are very complete, which is really a good place to handle such important matters. However, Zheng Rong didn't want to have anything to do with the two Zhao brothers, so he simply asked people to seal these two buildings, let alone use them himself. Unexpectedly, Zheng Rong transferred from Youyan the next day to the skilled craftsmen in the army who were responsible for setting up tents in the barracks, and within a few days, the ruined temple that he met with Qiu Yizhi for the first time was renovated, and it became a major relief event presided over by the vassal king.

Within a few days, the carriages and horses transporting money and grain gathered in Nanyang, and the officials who came and went to work stuffed the narrow streets paved with loess in Zhaojiadai, filling this depressed and calm small village with a busy atmosphere.

As soon as Zhao Fude, who was impeached by Zheng Rong, was sent to Beijing, the Criminal Department of Zhongshu Province was instructed by the Zhongshu Province to preside over the trial. The lobby of the criminal department is not an ordinary place, and after two or three interrogations, more than a dozen corruption cases were asked, and they needed to be verified one by one, but Zhao Fude tore his clothes and pants into strips in the prison and hanged himself. When the news reached Nanyang, Qiu Yizhi was sad for two days. At the same time, the Zhongshu Province requested a decree and selected the right attendant Li Xinru from the household department to serve as the assassin of Henan Province. Li Xinru is a self-aware old jinshi, although he still has some government ability, but in disaster relief matters, he has always been the head of the king of Youyan.

Although the drought in Henan was more serious than expected, since Zheng Rong took charge of the two brothers Zhao Fude and Zhao Fuyi, the rule of officials in Henan has finally improved, and the greed for ink is not as rampant as before, and the 700,000 taels of relief money and grain allocated by the household department are more than enough.

The big event was decided, Zheng Rong didn't want to stay in the ancient temple all day long, so he left Zhong Likuang to deal with paperwork, and he went with Qiuyi, bringing Zhao Heizi and three or five cronies to inspect all parts of Henan. Whenever I go to a place, in addition to talking about the past and the present, and enjoying the local customs, it is to explore the local relief situation.

Youyan Wang's fame shocked the world, and he made a big splash in Henan a few days ago, and it has reached the point where even micro-service travel still can't hide his identity. So he asked Zhao Heizi to take Qiu Yizhi to pretend to be a victim and secretly visit. Although Zhao Heizi was upright, he hated those bureaucrats and magnates who were greedy for the people's fat and people's cream, and Zheng Rong visited everywhere as soon as he had an order, sparing no effort. Although Qiu Yizhi is a child, and he doesn't understand the world, he is rare but extremely smart, and when he sees an abnormal situation and can't judge it, he always writes down the mood carefully, and then goes back to ask Zheng Rong.

After several times, Zheng Rong sighed with emotion - he had already been ordered by the Holy Order to assassinate Zhao Fude, the supreme governor of Henan Province, but when these officials saw that it was profitable to distribute grain and rice, they still gambled on their own fame and future, and tried their best to exploit it. There are those who falsely report the disaster situation to deceive the rice, there are those who privately distribute standard geese to pluck their feathers, there are those who sell good rice from households and then buy old rice to earn the difference, and there are also those who send people to pretend to be victims of the disaster to queue up in a cycle to receive rice and steal beams and change pillars. Zheng Rong sighed, so he could only ask Shang Fang's sword again and again to kill these shameless officials one by one.

So he went all the way to kill, and he had beheaded twenty or thirty officials at all levels, and the more Zheng Rong thought about it, the more he couldn't do it, but he was always helpless, but fortunately, all matters were basically over.

It's late autumn and winter is coming.

The grasslands in the north are vast and sparsely populated, and the nomads do not farm, but rely on grazing water and grass to make a living. In spring, everything recovers, in summer the vegetation is luxuriant, in the autumn is fruitful, and only in winter the world is bleak. As a result, the northern nomads often took advantage of the summer and autumn to raise their soldiers and horses to be fat and strong, so as to harass the northern border of the Han Dynasty in winter and loot property, population, grain, and utensils to survive the winter.

At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the northern Tatars were rampant, and the two emperors Taizu and Taizong became brothers, opening the horse market and transporting the New Year's coins. After nearly 40 years of rule by Taizu Taizong, the strength of the Han Dynasty is growing, so Emperor Shengzu Wu raised 400,000 troops, successively made five northern expeditions, penetrated more than 1,000 miles into Mobei, attacked and destroyed the Tatar royal court several times, and created China's immortal achievements. After that, the Tatars completely subdued the Han Dynasty and voluntarily attached it to a vassal state, paying tribute every year and becoming a vassal every year. After the Gaozong and Zhongzong dynasties, the Han Dynasty was at its peak, and the northern state was able to suppress and appease one after another, and the north was always calm and peaceful.

However, Zhongzong lost his virtue in his later years, and Chengzong succeeded him in a daze, and the national strength of the Han Dynasty declined, although the Tatars were still unable to invade southward, but there were Turks rising rapidly on the steppe. The Turks were originally a small Tatar subordinate state, because they could not stand the Tatar slavery, under the leadership of their Shan Yu Wang Khan, they raided the Tatar royal court with a small number of troops, and completely wiped out the Tatars, and the original Tatar more than 100 subject states all obeyed the orders of the Turks. In the sixth year of Chengzong, the Turks gathered a total of 200,000 soldiers and horses from their headquarters and subject countries to invade the south. The north of the Han Dynasty has not been at war for more than 70 years, the horses are put into the Nanshan, the swords and guns are put into the warehouse, the Turks suddenly attacked, the border generals are at a loss, and the Hetao is lost in ten months. At this point, the Turks were getting bigger and bigger, and they could no longer be moved.

Emperor Xianzong Zhao made great efforts to govern the country, changed the law internally to raise salaries, and reorganized the armament externally, and began to constantly tug of war with the Turks. In the eighteenth year of Shenzong, there was no grass in the north of the desert, and the Turks turned their heads to the east, wiped out the Bohai Sea, a vassal state of the Han Dynasty, and began to threaten Youyan and Henan, and the Han Dynasty then took Zheng Rong as the governor of Youyan Road; In the twenty-fifth year, Emperor Shenzong collapsed, and the current emperor ascended the throne, that is, Zheng Rong was appointed as the first vassal king, leading the military and political affairs of Youyan. Zheng Rong fought with the Turks for more than ten years on the throne of Youyan, opened up more than 100 miles of territory, and ensured the peace of the Han Dynasty, so he became famous all over the world.

Today, although Zheng Rong, the king of Youyan, has been appointed to preside over the disaster relief in Henan Province, the primary task is still to guard Youyan and prevent the slightest. Therefore, looking at the fact that the matter in Henan is about to start and end, he handed over the Shang Fang sword together with a piece of music written by Zhong Li Kuang, which is considered to be the end of the matter.

A few days later, when the court's commendation document came down, Zheng Rong immediately pulled out his departure and went all the way back to Youyan. Before leaving, Zheng Rong wanted to take Zhao Heizi away, but although Heizi wanted to follow King Youyan to make a contribution, there was an old mother at home who needed to be supported. Zheng Rong couldn't bear to go against Heizi's filial piety, so he left a sum of money for him to support his mother well, and let him go to Youyan to take refuge when he was in trouble.