Chapter 172: Killing Chickens with a Knife

Today is a three-day court meeting, which starts at the beginning of the day and ends near the end of the day, ranking sixth in the list of court meetings since the founding of the country.

The top five on the list are all occupied by Zhu Ying, the founding ancestor of the country, Zhu Sheng can catch up with many ancestors and rank behind Taizu, which is enough to be proud.

The reason why today's Great Dynasty Meeting took so long is only because there are too many major events happening, which are listed one by one in order below.

The first major event: Zhu Sheng personally ordered the three legal divisions to supervise the Yin Cave case headed by the Bliss Garden, and the case was quickly concluded in less than three days, and finally there were 37 large and small officials, 19 wealthy gentry and wealthy businessmen, and the opening and participation of several Yin Caves headed by the Bliss Garden, a total of more than 200 people were sentenced to be executed.

Among them are more than a dozen monks such as Chu Wei and Liu Tang.

The second big thing; The 37 officials convicted in connection with the Yin Cave case were all from the Liu Dang, and the two bigwigs, Ren Pingsheng, the new secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Zhu Shanqi, the secretary of the Ministry of War, were also implicated because of their lax governance, and they were forced to resign from their official posts. In addition, Cai Jian, the right capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, was also affected by the pond fish because of his recent close relationship with Liu Dang, and was even demoted to three levels and sent to the west to eat wind and sand.

With so many positions vacated at once, it is natural that someone will have to fill them. According to the practice of the dynasty, the resignation of Shangshu was filled by the squire, and then the vacant squire was selected from among the many langs to fill the vacant squire position, and the vacant Langzhong position was assigned by the Ministry of Officials.

It's really a few happy and a few sad!

At this point, the two largest civil and official forces in the court, the Yongdang and the Liu Party, both ended up scattered, and the cabinet was only left with a soft bone like Shan Zhongji, and Emperor Yan Zhu Sheng finally monopolized power after succeeding to the throne for half a year.

The third major event is to bring up the old things again, and Liu Xizuo, a member of the ministry, asked Concubine Jin Fengxian to be the queen mother. When the Yong Party was struggling to breathe and the Liu Party's vitality was greatly damaged, no one in the Manchu Dynasty dared to raise objections, and the dust finally settled. The officials of the Ministry of Rites choose good days and discuss relevant rituals.

The fourth major event is the recent turmoil in the city, the Rong Fei Jin Feng Confucianism. After the assessment of fifteen great Confucians, including Guozi Priest Jiu Huang Liangyi, and unanimously determined that Rong Fei was profoundly knowledgeable and talented, and he was promoted to the title of Confucian. The specific date of promotion and the ritual are also agreed upon by the officials of the Ministry of Rites.

After the announcement of four major events in a row, the civil and military officials were already a little dizzy from the impact of the huge amount of information, and they were thinking about having a private exchange with their colleagues who had a good relationship after the dispersal of the court, so as to predict the direction of the future court.

But who knew that Zhu Sheng announced the fifth major event, and it was also the last major event of today's court meeting.

Conventionally, on important occasions, the most important big man must be the last to be present, which is called the finale.

The discussion of politics above the court also follows this convention, from small to large, from light to heavy.

But the four things announced at today's court meeting are already bigger than the other, could it be that there are more important things than the sixteenth Confucian of the dynasty?

The answer is – there is!

Today's eunuch on duty shouted in a sharp voice, 'Xuan, Qingzhou Chief Military Officer, Jingyuan Waiting, Chang Gaoyuan went up to the Hajj to see him. At that time, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty once thought that they had heard it wrong.

Jing Yuanhou?

Isn't he stationed at the Xuanhuang Pass, more than 2,000 miles away, to defend against the demons?

When did you run back?

What should he do if he comes back to Xuanhuang Pass?

Or is it that Xuanhuang Guan has been... No way!

Under the gaze of hundreds of pairs of incredible eyes, Chang Gaoyuan, who had traveled more than 2,000 miles and had never slept at night for several consecutive years, wore a shining armor, a sword hanging from his waist, and a red cloak, and walked into the hall majestically.

Everywhere Chang Gaoyuan passed, the civil and military officials seemed to smell a strong smell of blood.

It is worthy of being the god of war who has killed countless enemies, this style, this majesty, and this murderous spirit are really convincing!

Just when the ministers were still secretly speculating about why Chang Gaoyuan suddenly returned to Beijing, Zhu Sheng pretended to have a Q&A with Chang Gaoyuan, and then asked the eunuch on duty to read out a holy decree.

The general content of the holy decree is that Jingyuan Hou Chang Gaoyuan was canonized as the generalissimo of Pingnan, and led the Sanwei forbidden army outside Kyoto

Go south to clear the bandits. From now on, all the guards in the southern territory will be under the jurisdiction of the generalissimo Pingnan.

The Xiliu battalion stationed outside the 100,000 mountains was commanded by Zuo Zongze as the deputy commander, assisting Jing Yuanhou in suppressing bandits, and so on.

Bandits?

The southern and western borders of Dayan are indeed rampant, but most of them are small bandits of more than 100 people, so why do you need to work Dayan's god of war to take action personally, isn't this a knife to kill chickens?

Although Zuo Zongze, the commander of the Xiliu Battalion, is young and his military exploits and fame are not as high as Chang Gaoyuan, he is also the number one general in the military platoon of Dayan, and he is known as a general.

It's not enough to send out the Great Yan God of War, but also to add a promising future. Such a luxurious lineup against the sky said that it was to suppress bandits, who would believe it?

Syllable!

"Suppress the fucking bandits, I don't believe this nonsense, the prosperity of the old Chen family."

The thick calloused palms slammed against the tabletop, making the already old wooden table creak overwhelmingly.

was snorting melon seeds behind the counter, and the proprietress who still had the charm glared angrily at Xue Lishi, the former general of the Great Chu Zhenguo, who was patting the table, and then turned her head away, but a pair of ears were pricked up, for fear of missing a word.

Xue Lishi, who was tall and as strong as a bear, suddenly shrank his head in fright and said with a smile.

"Hey, hey, hey, I'm a little carried away with my excitement, princess. I've long said that these broken tables and rotten chairs should be replaced, so why don't you go and buy a new batch of them?"

"Remarkable you! I don't want to think about who made these tables and chairs with her own hands, even if you exchange them for a table made of gold or a chair made of silver, the princess will not be willing to do so."

Liu Tai'a, the former prime minister of Dachu on the side, laughed in a low voice.

"Day by day, I don't do serious things, but the long-tongued woman has learned the ability to chew the root of her tongue. Don't you have to go to work today, drink the northwest wind at night."

The proprietress grabbed a handful of melon seed skins and threw them at the two old unscrupulous.

"For the old and disrespectful, what kind of system will it become."

Chen Gong, a former Great Chu Hanlin scholar, blew his beard and glared at the two of them.

"To get back to the truth, in the eyes of the last general, the so-called suppression of bandits this time is fake, and it is true to exterminate those wrecks hidden in the 100,000 mountains, and by the way, they can also train soldiers. Those forbidden soldiers outside Kyoto City look bright and majestic, but in fact, they are all good-looking, and they are useless."

Zhou Biwu, the former commander of the Great Chu Forbidden Army, pinched his chin full of short hard stubble and analyzed.

Syllable!

Xue Lishi slapped the table hard again, shouting at the top of his voice.

"What are you talking about, it's because of this old man that I'm so happy that I don't even do work. When the kid surnamed Yu beat us Da Chu, those wrecks of Qi State, Liang State, and Chen State were all shrunk in the turtle shell and didn't dare to show their heads, and they treated all the bullshit and offensive and defensive alliances as dog farts, and watched us being beaten, and they didn't even send a single soldier to rescue.

Now, it's their turn to take the trouble themselves, and see what they do when the army comes down to the city. Hahaha, it's a pleasure, it's really a pleasure. It's a pity that this time it was the kid surnamed Chang who led the troops, if it was the kid surnamed Yu, Lao Tzu might have taken the initiative to ask Ying to be a pawn for him. If nothing else, I just want to see those people in person."

Hearing Xue Lishi mention Yu Qingzhi, the proprietress suddenly felt that the melon seeds were gone.

That guy hasn't appeared since the last time he brought a little girl named Ji Rou'er to eat a meal of wine-stuffed chicken. On the contrary, Ji Rouer brought two good-looking female dolls to come once and talked to herself for a long time.

"Humph!"

Throwing the melon seeds in her hand on the counter, the proprietress went back to the back room to take a nap in a huff.

"Hey, hey, hey, it's gone."

With a sly smile on his face, Xue Lishi rubbed a pair of big hands like a fan and got into the counter, and pulled out a jar of wine sealed with mud from the lowest floor.

Gently smash the mud seal with your fingers, and the intoxicating aroma of wine immediately fills the entire tavern.

"Hey, hey, how can you be happy today without wine, come on, I'm in for a treat, you're welcome, drink openly."

Kyoto

When the Jinluan Hall in the city was still holding a court meeting, the sky was not yet dawn on the side of Xuanhuang Pass in Qingzhou.

According to Wei Lin's instructions, Zhang Hua returned to Xuanhuang Pass to convene the whole army to make a unified confession.

Li Wentai was responsible for sending all the camp prostitutes hidden in the belly of the mountain to the neighboring Zhezhou for proper resettlement, and all the expenses required came from the military funds of the Qingzhou battalion.

There is nothing to say about the sins of one's own making.

As the sky grew brighter, many ragged and haggard-faced women and men came out of their holes, and one after another they formed a long line.

After the last person came out of the cave, one of Li Wentai's henchmen came over and asked for instructions.

"Commander, the living are all out, what about the corpses?"

"Kicked in the head by a donkey!"

Li Wentai reprimanded angrily.

"Of course it was a fire. Isn't there still a few big barrels of fire oil in the warehouse, get them all in, and get more firewood to fill them, and it's better to burn the whole mountain down directly, and bury them with the bones in the back mountain, so that nothing goes wrong."

After his henchmen left, Li Wentai walked to Wei Lin, who was not far away, and said respectfully.

"Duke Wei, everyone is out."

Looking at the miserable appearance of those ragged men and women, Wei Lin turned his head, stretched out his fingers and pointed at Li Wentai's forehead again and again, and said hatefully.

"Look at the good deeds you have done, and you have done evil!"

Previously, Li Wentai had admitted that in the past four years, he had bought nearly 10,000 men and women from the hands of human traffickers in Kyoto for the soldiers to vent***. Some of them committed suicide because they were humiliated, and some of them were played to death, so that now there are less than a thousand people left. It is also because of this that Boss Xue and other traffickers in Kyoto will go crazy to kidnap women.

"Handle your own, the miscellaneous family is too lazy to take care of it, hum!"

With that, Wei Lin waved his sleeves angrily and left.

When I walked to the foot of the mountain, I happened to meet Zhang Hua, who came to deal with the affairs of the camp.

"Gong Wei, where are you going?"

"I was tired after a night of sleep, so I went back to the camp and went to sleep. If you don't have anything to do, don't bother the miscellaneous family."

Wei Lin dropped a sentence angrily, then turned on his horse and went straight to Xuanhuang Pass.

When he entered the pass, he did not dismount, and still rode his horse towards the military tent where he lived.

According to the rules, no one was allowed to ride a horse in the camp without the permission of the commander. But now Chang Gao is far away, Wei Lin is the emperor's envoy, and the entire Qingzhou is his largest, so naturally no one can control him.

Under the gaze of many soldiers, Wei Lin entered the military tent in a huff.

Entering the tent, Wei Lin first searched in the military tent to confirm that there was no one, and then reached into his arms and took out a small cloth bag.

When I opened the cloth bag, there were more than a dozen pieces of rune paper written in cinnabar.

Wei Lin endured the pain and picked out one of them, then wrapped the rest of the rune paper and carefully stuffed it back into his arms, and then injected spiritual power into the picked out rune paper and pasted it on his chest.

With a swish, Wei Lin sank to the ground and disappeared.