Chapter 369 A Ray of Light (11)
Hearing this, feeling Zhao Ning's anger, Di Cambodia was shocked, and he didn't dare to delay for half a minute, so he hurriedly replied:
"Back to General Zhao, the lower official has ordered the city gate and neighborhoods to be blocked, and he has just been patrolling everywhere, and he definitely doesn't dare to delay the general's military order!"
"Then tell me what happened to these two people. Zhao Ning pointed to the two people he had thrown on the ground.
Di Cambodia followed the prestige, and only then did he have time to see clearly, kneeling on the ground was a young man in brocade clothes and jade belts, and a richly dressed woman.
"The lower officials don't know General Zhao...... What does this mean?"
Zhao Ning snorted coldly: "When I was returning to Yunzhou City, I saw these two people, who were leaving in front of Yunzhou City under the escort of some entourage.
"This young man is a scholar from the Yunzhou official school, his father is an official in Huazhou, and the people who came to pick him up were his father's subordinates;
"This woman, who is said to be still in the Yunzhou prison, has now completed her sentence, and she was sent out of Yunzhou City by Yunzhou officials to go back to Bianliang.
"Lord Di, the general's military order is to blockade the whole city, and not a single fly is allowed to fly out of the city, this order is not only given to the common people, but also to the officials and magnates equally.
"But these two people actually told the general that as long as there is a warrant from officials above the seventh grade, they can enter and exit Yunzhou City at will without any obstruction!
"Now you come and tell the general, how did you do in Yunzhou?"
Di Cambodia's heart was shocked, and he looked at the young man and the woman in disbelief, he never thought that under his lockdown order, there would be people who could go out of the city at will, and only needed the warrant of the seventh rank official!
The degree of corruption and chaos in the Yunzhou government is far beyond his imagination.
"The general is angry, the subordinate is guilty, please punish the general!" Di Khan bowed to the ground and did not make any excuses.
Zhao Ning snorted coldly again, and before he spoke, a cultivator in Tsing Yi flew over from the nearby square area and handed him a note, and after unfolding it and reading it, Zhao Ning's face became even lower: "Bring it here." ”
Suddenly, the injured old man who had been given money by Di Cambodia before was brought to the two of them.
"Master Di, this old man was injured by the servants, and you have seen it in person, and now I will ask you, is your handling appropriate?" Zhao Ning asked.
Di Khan Zhi replied: "The lower official gave him silver, and asked the person who beat him to apologize to him...... Half an hour ago, the people below came to report that the beating officer had already apologized to him. ”
He's telling the truth, he's been rewarded with that before.
Zhao Ning turned his head and asked the old man: "Uncle, tell the general, have the people from the government apologized to you?"
The old man looked at Zhao Ning, then at Di Khanzhi, and finally under the encouraging gesture of the cultivator in Tsing Yi who brought him, he still sighed and said the truth: "No." No one from the government apologized to me. ”
Di Cambodia's hands and feet were cold, and he looked at the old man in surprise: "Really, no? The official asked them to place you, and they didn't do it?"
"How can the people of the government apologize to someone like the old man? let alone settle the old man. ”
The old man was miserable and helpless, and when he saw Di Cambodia's face full of shock, he said more: "A person like the old man just lives one day at a time, how dare he think about that?"
Di Cambodia's heart was like a knife, he closed his eyes in pain, and said to Zhao Ning with his head: "The subordinate official is derelict in his duties, please punish the general!"
"Ben will tell you that although this old man is living a precarious life, when the national war broke out and the government called on the people to donate money and materials, he donated more than 100 copper plates!"
Zhao Ning looked at the old man, "Ben is right, right?"
The old man was a little embarrassed, lowered his head and said:
"When the war broke out, so many soldiers were killed, and the old man also wanted to do his part, but the old man was weak, and he had a total of 200 copper coins on his body...... donated most of it to the government, and kept a dozen coppers for self-defense......."
Looking at what he meant, it seems that he feels that he has left a dozen copper coins, and it is a very shameful thing not to completely disregard his life and donate all the money like those hot-blooded men who died on the battlefield.
Di Cambodia trembled when he heard this, and his heart was like a needle prick.
Waving his hand, motioning for the cultivator in Tsing Yi to take the old man away, Zhao Ning looked at Di Cambodia again: "Xu Monkey trespassed into people's houses and injured the people, but you just made him apologize?"
Di Cambodia raised his head in shock - Zhao Ning was not in Yunzhou, but he knew everything about the situation in Yunzhou, which greatly exceeded his expectations and made him feel incredible.
But at the moment of Zhao Ning's questioning, he only felt bitter, opened his mouth and said with difficulty: "This is ...... General, the Yunzhou government is really ...... The lower officials dare not ......"
What he means is that the Yunzhou government is rotten from top to bottom, rotten to the roots, and his handling of a Cangcao has already caused public anger, if he uses heavy canons at this time, he is afraid that he will become the target of public criticism, and no matter how difficult it is to implement the decree in the future, he will not be able to do anything.
Di Cambodia had his concerns, but this did not make Zhao Ning forgive.
He said coldly: "If it is an ordinary person who breaks into someone else's house and injures someone, can it just apologize? If it is an ordinary person who injures someone from the government, even if the other party is only the lowest level of errand servant, can he be punished if he is not caught and imprisoned and suffers?"
"The people in the government have made mistakes, just apologize, always apologize, don't say that you don't have to go to prison, and even your position will not be affected, Di Cambodia, this is the rule of your head Yunzhou?
"The royal law of the Great Qi Dynasty is clear: the Son of Heaven is guilty of the same crime as the common people, everyone is equal before the law, and the crime of breaking the law in the public is added to the law!
"But what are you doing? Public people only need to apologize for breaking the law?
The terrible thing is that the common people even agree with this, no matter how much they have been wronged by the government, as long as they do not lose their lives, they regard getting an apology from the people in the public as the greatest fairness and justice that can be achieved.
"They didn't think about more, they didn't dare to ask for more, and they weren't destined to get more!
The officials took this for granted, and thought it should be so.
What does this mean?
It shows that the people in the public have trampled the law under their feet! The common people have become completely fish and meat! The law of the imperial court has become an empty paper that cannot be implemented at all, and has become a joke!
In the long run, where is the justice of the world, and where is the morality of the world?
"Once justice does not exist and morality dies, where will I still have hot-blooded sons and daughters who are willing to fight to resist the righteousness of defending the country against foreign invaders? Where will there be enthusiastic people who are willing to destroy their families and relieve their hardships for the survival of the dynasty?
"If this is the case, in less than a hundred years, the country will not be a country, and the people will no longer be the people of Daqi!"
Zhao Ning said these words heartbrokenly.
After a pause, his eyes lit up, and the murderous aura appeared in his eyes: "Today, as the assassin of Yunzhou, you dare not enforce the law impartially, then good, I, Zhao Ning, will come to enforce my military law!"
After speaking, without waiting for the stunned Di Cambodia to come back to his senses, and without waiting for the officials of the Assassin Mansion who followed Di Cambodia to react, Zhao Ning waved his long sleeves and shouted: "Someone!"
In an instant, one by one, the Yuan Shen Realm cultivators dressed in green clothes jumped up from the neighborhoods in the vicinity, and between the rabbits and the falcons, they all gathered in front of Zhao Ning like birds, and they all hugged their swords and saluted:
"I'll wait for the general's orders!"
Zhao Ning's murderous gaze fell on a group of frightened, hesitant, confused and confused officials, and issued a military order word by word:
"A team will go to the prison, drag He Huanzhi, the head of Cangcao, and all the Cangcao officials out of the yamen of the Assassin's Mansion, and the punishment that should be asked and beheaded, and the punishment that should be punished, will be executed immediately!"
"Order!"
"The second team, take down all these Yunzhou officials in front of the official, divide them into two batches according to their crimes, and those who are guilty of serious crimes will be immediately taken to the assassin's mansion and beheaded, and those who should be imprisoned for minor crimes will be imprisoned immediately after the punishment!"
"Order!"
"The third team, all the officials of the Yunzhou Assassin's Mansion, whether they are in the yamen or at home, will be immediately arrested and taken to the gate of the Assassin's Mansion, and they will also be divided into two batches according to the crime of life and death, or beheaded or imprisoned, and there is no need to ask for another military order!"
"Order!"
After Zhao Ning's military order was completed, all the cultivators got up at the same time and rushed to their respective mission sites in three directions.
It was not until this time that the officials of the Assassin Mansion who followed behind Di Cambodia knew that Zhao Ning was going to move his real character, to take their lives, and to completely rectify and bloodied the Yunzhou officials, and they all immediately panicked.
Just when the cultivator in Tsing Yi was about to pounce, the Assassin Mansion Changshi took a step forward and stared at Zhao Ning with a solemn face:
"General Zhao, what are you going to do? There are dozens of officials, hundreds of officials, and countless officials in the Yunzhou Mansion, do you want to punish the crime? If this is the case, I am afraid that we will not be able to comply!"
As he spoke, Changshi turned around and shouted: "Everyone, General Zhao wants our lives, and wants Yunzhou to become a chaotic place without imperial court officials, and I, as a local parent official, are ordered by His Majesty to sit on one side, can you agree?!"
After listening to Changshi's words, the officials knew that the other party was planning to gather people to resist, and they all understood that it was the autumn of life and death, so they took a step forward: "We are the herdsmen of the Son of Heaven, and we must not let Yunzhou become a place of chaos!"
Looking at these officials in front of him who were fierce and wanted to fight against the court, Zhao Ning sneered.
In the seventh year of Qianfu, he came here, destroyed the first powerful man in Yunzhou at that time, and dealt with the heinous history of thorns, and then the cultivators of Yipinlou and the Changhe Boat Trip, united with the Yun family and other local clans, have been working hard for the justice of the world.
Over the years, the cultivators under Zhao Ning have achieved extraordinary results, which has made the folk customs of Yunzhou one of the positive.
It's a pity that as the struggle for power within the dynasty gradually has no bottom line, the rise of the Hanmen has become the general trend, the officialdom has been completely corrupted, and Yunzhou has not become a real paradise.
Zhao Ning's people, with thousands of hard work, can only make the government not careless of people's lives, so that they will not fish in the village on the bright side, as for the officials who are greedy for ink and bribes, they squeeze the people under the table, and they are becoming more and more black-hearted, and Zhao Ning's people can't control it.
In order for officials to be truly clear, officials should fulfill their duties and respect the law for the public, and it is far from enough to rely on the power of the people without power.
This required the emperor, the highest authority in the empire, to stir up the turbidity and promote the Qing Dynasty, and the imperial court and government should rectify the rule of officials from top to bottom, and establish a bureaucratic system that acted relatively in accordance with the law.
The cultivators under Zhao Ning's command can assassinate those officials and bullies who have committed heinous crimes and disregard people's lives, but they can't make all officials stop eating meat - officials eat meat, of course, they use the power in their hands to devour the blood and sweat interests of the people, otherwise where does the meat come from?
If Zhao Ning had let the cultivators under his command force the magistrates to not be able to eat meat, Yipinlou would have become a thorn in the side and a thorn in the flesh of the government, and it would have been surrounded and suppressed by the imperial court, and it would have been impossible to survive to this day.
In the final analysis, under normal circumstances, only a part of the officials who committed the most heinous crimes, and it is the interests of the vast majority of officials to eat the flesh and blood of the people, to show off their power in front of the people, and to enjoy the dignity brought by power.
But now it's different.
Zhao Ning is no longer a civil force, he is the general manager of the camp in the north of Bianliang, and he holds the power of life and death in Yunzhou!
In ordinary times, it is just that officials oppress the people, but during the national war, officials still abuse their privileges, are superior to others everywhere, do not treat the people as their own, and devour the flesh and blood of the people in violation of the law.
Zhao Ning now has the power and reason to completely rectify the Yunzhou officialdom, and he must also wash the Yunzhou official mansion in blood!
No one knows better than him how difficult the war will be.
Seeing that the group of Yunzhou officials in front of him had successively shown their cultivation qi and made a gesture of letting go, Zhao Ning sneered and said contemptuously: "The light of the fireflies, also want to compete with the sun and the moon?"
Before he could finish speaking, he took a step forward.
With a bang, the power of cultivation in the middle of the Wang Extreme Realm burst out from under his feet like a tidal wave!
Those officials who were still aggressive just now, wanting to use the will of everyone's strength to make Zhao Ning dare not do anything to the entire Yunzhou government, were like lightning strikes, like fallen leaves that had been swept up, and they flew out of the ground vomiting blood one after another.
Many officials and servants fell to the ground in large numbers, and no one could get up, and they could only wail in pain. Changshi was even more broken, lying on the ground vomiting blood, his face was full of fear, and he didn't even have the courage to look at Zhao Ning again.
Xu Monkey was also among them, and unlike everyone else, he bled to death on the spot.
In addition to him, there were two other servants, who also died on the spot, few people knew that these two people were the servants who beat the old scavengers - under the monitoring of Yipinlou, all the wind and grass in Yunzhou City could not escape Zhao Ning's eyes.
The officials of the Assassin Mansion, what are the bad deeds, whether they deserve to die, there are also detailed records.
Di Cambodia turned his head to see the tragic situation of his colleagues, and his heart was mixed.
When he was in the treasury before, He Huanzhi, the head of Cangcao, dared to use the will of the group, so that he did not dare to attack him, if it were not for the power of Zhao Ning's great victory, he would not even be able to put all the Cangcao officials in prison.
And now, Zhao Ning is moving all the officials and officials of the Assassin Mansion.
But no one could stop him!
"The middle stage of the king extreme realm...... Sure enough, only absolute power can exercise absolute will. ”
Di Khan Zhi looked at those Zhao Ning's entourage, the cultivators in Tsing Yi, escorted all the officials away, and bowed to Zhao Ning again, surrendering happily: "Having General Zhao sitting here is really a blessing for Yunzhou and a blessing for the national war!"
Di Cambodia didn't care about how Zhao Ning would deal with himself who was ineffective, and at this moment, he felt happy and relaxed just because Yunzhou finally had the opportunity to gather all his forces to join the national war.
"Master Di, from today onwards, you have to remember that if you run an errand under my Zhao Ning, you have to carry out the general's military orders to the letter, and it doesn't matter if there are jackals, insects and snakes blocking the way, just kill them.
"If the general's military order is discounted, it will not only insult the majesty of the general, but also delay the layout of the general, which is really a major event that hinders the national war. ”
Zhao Ning glanced at Di Khan, "Do you understand?"
"Xia Guan understands!"
Di Cambodia Zhi regretted it now, he knew that Zhao Ning was so strong, no matter what kind of obstacles he encountered before, he should not hesitate to retreat:
"With General Zhao here, Yunzhou will be able to gather all the military and civilian forces and become an unbreakable iron city!"
Zhao Ning was noncommittal, raised his head with his hands, looked at the stars dotted with the night sky, and said to himself: "Is the military and the people's power strong?"
What he did just now is bound to offend the entire officialdom if he deals with the Yunzhou government, and is even hated by most officials.
However, he never thought of subduing the hearts of government officials.
As the chief manager of Bianliang, he can use his authority over the officials of the imperial dynasty.
What he cares about and wants to be closed is the heart of the army and the people.
The will of the army and the people is the foundation for great things.
"After tonight, many officials have been dealt with, and the Assassin Mansion is bound to be empty, in order to avoid the poor operation of the Mansion in the future, you immediately go to the Yun family and other local clans to recruit good talents to fill the vacancy. ”
Zhao Ning finally motioned for Di Khan Zhi to get up, "Later, the general will also write to the imperial court and ask the imperial court to send officials down, but you don't have too much expectations for this matter, and making good use of good talents is the right way." ”
Finally, he pointed to the young man and the woman, who were still kneeling on the ground, frightened by incontinence, and said, "Take these two men away and throw them into prison." ”
Di Cambodia's hand to take the command.
He felt puzzled in his heart, and he didn't understand why Zhao Ning wanted to say that he didn't expect the imperial court to send officials down, but seeing that Zhao Ning had no intention of explaining, he couldn't delve into it:
"The general's bloody assassination of the Shifu is certainly beneficial to the overall situation, but if so many officials are dealt with at once, will Your Majesty and the imperial court be downgraded? Will some courtiers take the opportunity to attack?"
Zhao Ning chuckled lightly and disagreed: "They won't have that mind." ”
Under normal circumstances, such a handling of the officials of the Yunzhou Assassin Mansion, especially the large-scale killing, would definitely be in great trouble, and even be recalled to Bianliang for questioning.
But the current situation is different, Zhao Ning knows very well that those people in Bianliang will take care of themselves next, and they have no energy or possibility to talk to him.
Seeing that Zhao Ning didn't want to speak again, Di Cambodia had to bow back and go to do his own errand.
Walking to the corner of the street, Di Cambodia's heart suddenly felt something, and suddenly looked back, and saw Zhao Ning still standing in place from a distance, looking up at the galaxy.
He didn't know what Zhao Ning was thinking.
The Zhao Ning he saw was as eye-catching as a sword in the long dark night and the streets were faintly lit.
At this moment, Di Cambodia finally realized that the long dark night of Daqi was not only the desperate black tide brought about by the Beihu army attacking from three sides, attacking the city and plundering the land, but also the stench and black fog precipitated by corruption and perversion of the law in the past hundred years.
In this boundless darkness, Zhao Ning fought bravely with his subordinates, and it was the only light that brought light in the dark night.
This lightning bolt wants to clear the dark night in the universe and completely light up the vast and gloomy sky, which is destined to have countless hardships and hardships, and I don't know what kind of heavy price to pay...... Even in the end, it doesn't always work out.
The corners of Di Khan's eyes were moist.
In his sight, Zhao Ning's slender and upright figure is the spine that stands up to the sky.
Lonely and tenacious.
He quickly wiped away his tears, turned around and walked towards the front with a firm step.
No matter what the road ahead is, no matter whether the rivers and mountains of Daqi can drive away the darkness and finally see the light, at least from this moment on, he has already made up his mind to keep up with Zhao Ning's pace, let go of his hands and feet to fight with all his might.
Till death rests.