Yang Erya hurriedly raised her head, but the meteor had already passed, but soon another meteor crossed the night sky, dragging a long trail! Seeing this scene, Yang Erya couldn't help but be slightly moved. Yang Peng said: "Legend has it that meteors are formed by people's souls, and after people die, their souls will turn into meteors and go away!" Yang Erya's heart trembled, "Such a beautiful star is actually a human soul!" Yang Peng suddenly laughed, "It's just a legend!" ”

Yang Erya looked at the starry sky and said, "If after death, the soul will turn into a meteor and leave, then where will it end up?" Yang Peng smiled: "Maybe there is a heaven and earth, and people will reunite there!" ”

Yang Erya lowered her head and thought: "This is really good, we can be together forever!" Then he looked at Yang Peng, and it happened that Yang Peng was also looking at her, and the eyes of the two met together, and neither of them spoke. Yang Erya suddenly became shy and lowered her head.

Early the next morning, Yang Peng had a meeting with the generals in the camp hall, and Yang Erya, whose condition had improved greatly, also came. Everyone has heard that King Yan has taken care of Yang Erya in the past few days, and they all feel in their hearts that they are afraid that this General Yang Erya will also become a princess! Looking at Yang Erya's eyes were a little congratulatory, Yang Erya was panicked by everyone's eyes, her heart was pounding, and her delicate face involuntarily turned red, it was really beautiful!

Yang Peng said to everyone: "I am very pleased with what I have seen and heard in the past few days, you have done a good job, even better than I expected!" Everyone rejoiced in their hearts, and hugged their fists together and said: "This is caused by Yan Wang Weide, and the lower officials (the last general will not dare to take credit!) This is the general etiquette under the rule of the emperor, regardless of civil and military, as long as there is merit, it must be attributed to the king. Yang Peng smiled: "I'm not an immortal, Weide can have so many wonderful uses!" ”

Yang Jing, who had long been impatient, immediately said loudly: "Big brother is right! What kind of bullshit Weide causes, it's just a big shit! He glanced at everyone, "Can you guys not be a sycophant!" Everyone was robbed by Yang Jing for a while, and they couldn't help but be quite embarrassed.

Yang Peng said angrily: "Yang Jing, don't be verbose!" Yang Jing pursed his lips and stopped talking. Yang Peng pointed to Du Cheng, who was standing below Zhang Xiaochun on the right, and said, "This Lord Du, you must all know each other." From today on, he will be the Xuanwei envoy of Shanxi, in charge of all internal affairs in Shanxi! As soon as these words came out, Zhang Xiaochun was shocked, he originally coveted this position, and for this reason, he jumped up and down a lot during this time, but he didn't expect to fall into Du Cheng's hands!?

Du Cheng bowed to Yang Peng and said loudly: "King Yan is very loving, and the lower officials should bow and die with all their might!" Yang Peng smiled and nodded. Du Cheng turned around and bowed to the civil and military forces, "Please take care of you in the future!" Everyone returned the salute and said a few polite words, Zhang Xiaochun came back to his senses, his eyes were very resentful and staring at Du Cheng, he thought that he must be behind his back, so the beauty of the governor of Shanxi fell into his hands! Yang Jing said with a grin: "Take care of something, I won't!" If you dare to be corrupt and pervert the law, I will chop off your dog's head with an axe! ”

The crowd laughed. Du Cheng hurriedly said: "The lower officials will never dare to be corrupt and bend the law, the general can rest assured!" Yang Dezheng said angrily: "Even if he is corrupt and perverts the law, he should be sanctioned by King Yan, how can Brother Yang Jing be lynched!" ”

Yang Jing said loudly: "If the eldest brother bends the law for personal gain, it doesn't mean that I want Yang Jing to come to this axe!" The crowd laughed. Yang Peng didn't know whether it was a joke or said seriously: "If there really is such a day, Yang Jing, you should chop me with this axe!" Everyone's hearts were shocked, but Yang Jing said very approvingly: "That's!" If the eldest brother behaves nonsense, my pair of axes will not spare the eldest brother! It's a big deal that after cutting my eldest brother, I Yang Jing also committed suicide! ”

Yang Erya said angrily: "Brother Yang Jing is really talking nonsense!" Yang Jing's eyes widened, "Sister, you can't protect the eldest brother just because you like him!" ”

Yang Erya didn't expect Yang Jing to say such a sentence, she was very embarrassed, and said angrily: "What are you talking nonsense? Seeing that Yang Peng was looking at himself with a puzzled expression, he was even more ashamed. Yang Jing picked his head in confusion, "Am I mistaken?" Actually, you don't like big brother! But everybody says you like it! ”

Everyone couldn't help laughing, Yang Erya almost wanted to beat that black charcoal head hard to relieve his hatred, and he was completely at a loss for what to do. Yang Peng said with a smile: "Don't talk about these things in the hall!" Then he said: "I plan to leave Bingzhou tomorrow, Shanxi's affairs, militarily, are naturally under Yang Yanzhao's command, as for government affairs, Du Cheng is in charge." The crowd said yes in unison. It will take a few days for Han Bing to come to Bingzhou, and Da Lang will temporarily take over the post of governor of the capital in these days. Chen Jie clenched his fists and promised.

At this time, Wang Kai, the captain of the secret guard, rushed in from outside and presented a letter, "Master, there is a letter from Shaanxi. Yang Peng took the letter, opened it, took out the letter, opened it, and looked at it. Everyone looked at Yang Peng, the hall was very quiet, and the needle drop could be heard.

Yang Peng finished reading the letter, frowned, and said: "The Khitans handed over the northern part of Qingfeng Road and Yongxing Military Road to the Western Xia people, but returned the southern part to the Song people!" "The so-called Yongxing Military Road is basically the current Shaanxi, and Qingfeng Road is the southern half of the current Gansu Province.

Everyone listened to Yang Peng's words, and there was a lot of discussion. Du Cheng frowned and said: "The Khitan people do this, obviously with bad intentions!" What a brilliant ploy! Yang Jing glared and said, "What a wonder!" I don't see what's going on! ”

Yang Peng teased: "If Yang Jing can see it, then it's not a ploy!" Everyone laughed, and Yang Jing also grinned, "It's still the eldest brother who understands me!" Yang Peng said: "There is another thing, the Khitans also handed over Shanxi to the Western Xia and signed a formal document. Many people felt inexplicable, and Yang Jing shouted: "The Khitan people are really inexplicable!" They have all lost Shanxi, how can they give Shanxi to others? Then he smiled and said: "You still say that I Yang Jing is talking nonsense, and the Khitan people are talking nonsense!" ”

Du Cheng frowned and said, "I'm afraid it's not like that!" This is clearly a plan for the Khitans to sow discord, they handed over Shanxi to the Western Xia, nothing more than to let the Western Xia come to fight with us, so that the battle between us and the Western Xia is inevitable! Only then did everyone understand the Khitan people's thoughts, and they couldn't help but feel that the Khitan people's plan was really vicious! Yang Jing pursed his lips, "Come on, let's come, we are not afraid of the Khitans, are we still afraid of the Xixia people?" angered me, I rushed into the Xixia Palace with two board axes and cut off the head of the Xixia Emperor! Everyone laughed, and Huyan Chijin and Yang Gui said in unison: "Yang Jing said this well!" Yang Jing was very proud when he saw that someone recognized his words.

Yang Peng smiled and didn't continue to talk about it, but talked about something else. Soon after, Yang Peng said: "If you don't have anything to do, let's go separately!" The crowd looked at each other, hugged their fists at Yang Peng, and then Yuguan withdrew from the hall.

Yang Peng suddenly raised his voice and said, "Erya, you stay." Everyone smiled knowingly, but Yang Erya was so ashamed that her face was flushed.

Everyone left, and only Yang Erya and Yang Peng were left in the hall. Yang Eryafang's heart was pounding, and she said secretly: What did the eldest brother leave me for? Isn't it because of Brother Yang Jing's words just now? Thinking of this, Deng Shi became very uneasy.

Yang Peng got up and walked in front of Yang Erya. Yang Erya lowered her head, not daring to look at Yang Peng, panicked. Yang Peng leaned down and whispered a word in Yang Erya's ear. Yang Erya immediately looked at Yang Peng with wide eyes, and then her delicate face turned crimson, her beautiful eyes trembled, and she was clearly rippling with infinite shyness and joy. Hurriedly lowered his head, and a pair of slender hands played with the corners of his clothes.

Yang Peng said: "Sister Yang Erya, what do you mean, but say something!" Yang Erya hung her head and blushed, and said in a voice like a gnat: "I, I have no opinion!" After saying this, I almost wanted to find a hole to get into, but I turned my head and ran away. Yang Peng looked at Yang Erya's beautiful back, touched his nose and smiled, and muttered, "Hey! You're such a pest! Looking back, I couldn't help but sigh when I thought about the confidantes who had followed me since I came to this world, and I was a little worried that I couldn't make each of them feel happy. I couldn't help but sigh, "Hey, it's really hard to be a man, especially an excellent man!" Hehe. ”

There was a sound of hurried footsteps outside, Yang Peng left his messy thoughts behind, and looked outside, only to see that the fat and round Dunan was leading a tall and thin young man over, and the two whispered something as they walked, and they couldn't hear the content clearly. When I arrived at the door, I only heard Dunant whispering: "Follow me to meet the eldest brother!" No way to be rude! Then he led the tall and thin man in, hugged his fist at Yang Peng and bowed: "Big brother, little brother brought Bai Tong according to your orders!" ”

Bai Tong hurriedly bowed: "The grass people meet His Royal Highness King Yan!" Yang Peng smiled and stepped forward to help Bai Tong, "I heard Dunan say that you are a very good talent!" When I saw it today, I really had a good temperament! ”

Bai Tong glanced at Dunan gratefully, no wonder he was grateful to Dunan, there are many friends in the world, but there are very few friends who are really willing to share the honor and disgrace with you, most people, on the surface, are friends, in fact, who doesn't want you to live worse than him, or even worse, the better? Bai Tong hugged his fist at Yang Peng and said: "King Yan has praised it, and the grass people dare not be ashamed!" Yang Peng smiled: "Talented, there is no need to be arrogant!" "Yes!"

Yang Peng returned to the press table, picked up the letter he had just received, turned around and handed it to Dunan, "This is the information I just received, take a look." Dunan hurriedly took it with both hands, and then couldn't wait to take out the letter paper and look at it, while Bai Tong stretched his neck to watch. After reading it, Dunant handed the letter back to Yang Peng. Yang Peng smiled and asked, "What do you think?" ”

The two glanced at each other, and Bai Tong hugged his fists and said: "The purpose of the Khitan people is very clear, they want to gather everyone's strength to deal with us!" Dunant continued: "The act of ceding Shanxi to Western Xia is the most obvious, and it is clearly a plan to kill people with a knife!" I estimate that at this moment, the envoys of the Khitans are already active in Western Xia and Song! Bai Tong nodded.

Yang Peng pondered for a moment and asked, "Do you think the Western Xia and Song Dynasty are plotting?" Bai Tong said: "Although Song Guo is afraid of us now, he is only afraid of being even more jealous!" Naturally, their family did not dare to make any changes, but as long as the Liao State and Western Xia moved, the Song State would definitely not be willing to be lonely! Dunant continued: "Bai Tong is right! So will the Tangut people fall for the scheme? I think that the Tanguts have bitten this incense bait cast by the Khitans, otherwise how could the Tanguts accept the gift of the Khitans? If my estimation is correct, the envoys of Western Xia may already be on their way to us! ”

Yang Peng nodded and glanced at Dunan, "So, how should we deal with it?" ”

Dunan said: "Diplomacy is naturally indispensable, see if we can bribe the ministers of these countries so that they will not form a close alliance against us!" However, I estimate that this method has limited effect, and the final solution to the problem is only military means! ”

Yang Peng frowned, "For now, the Khitan talent is our main threat, Song Guowen is weak, and the Western Xia has no grievances with us, is it really impossible to remove the threat in these two directions by diplomatic means?" ”

Dunant shook his head, "I'm afraid it's hard!" Unless the other party does not want to meet us in arms, once we have this thought, we will negotiate peace with him, but we will be regarded as cowardice and make it even more rampant! Therefore, diplomacy may work, but the big brother must not expect too much, and must be prepared militarily! As the saying goes, 'be prepared'! ”

Yang Peng smiled: "This is natural. Then he fell back into deep thought. Dunan and Bai Tong looked at Yang Peng, but they didn't dare to speak. Early the next morning, Yang Peng left Bingzhou and went to inspect near Yanmen Pass, and then turned to Yanjing. Since entering the sixteen states of Yanyun, all the scenery is completely different from the Central Plains, everywhere is a bright and peaceful scene of spring, the faces of the people are smiling, and the street market is extremely prosperous. Dunan and Bai Tong couldn't help but marvel when they saw such a situation, and they admired Yang Peng even more in their hearts. Before, the two only said that Yang Peng, the king of Yan, was an invincible hero who was invincible in the world, but now they knew that he was even more remarkable in governing the country, and they admired him in their hearts.

Yang Peng returned to Yanjing and rested for two days, at the same time, Dunan and Bai Tong wholeheartedly understood Yanyun's administrative system and people's livelihood.

Yang Peng rested in Yanjing for two days, and then went south to Lianghuai. In addition to the secret guards, there were also Dunan and Bai Tong, and Yang Peng had high expectations for the two of them, so he kept the two of them with him during this time. The group took a few building boats, went out to sea along the Sanggan River, and then went south along the coast all the way to Lianghuai.

Along the way, Yang Peng chatted with Du Nan and Bai Tongtian, from human geography to history and legends, from social and people's livelihood to governance, and from the change of dynasties to foreign countries. In the process of chatting, Yang Peng found that whether it was knowledge or insight, Dunant was stronger than Bai Tong, in fact, Bai Tong was also a genius in ten thousand, but it was a little overshadowed in front of Dunan. Dunant's concept of 'the world is the world of the people of the world, and the so-called kings of the past and present are just people of the world to satisfy their selfish desires', especially appreciated by Yang Peng, and also made Yang Peng value him more, because not to mention this era, even after a few hundred years, people who can have such thoughts are very rare, and Confucian thought has long poisoned the world in all aspects!

Before you know it, the fleet sailed into the Huai River, and then followed the canal south to Yangzhou. Along the way, although it is also a bright spring, but the situation seen is far less than the sixteen states of Yanyun, the two Huai, which should have been very rich, give people the feeling that it is a little withered, many years of war have destroyed the social economy here, and at the same time, the people have fled their hometowns in large numbers, and it is difficult for the two Huai not to wither and dilapidate!

The fleet entered the Yangzhou wharf, and Duan Zhixian and Cheng Shijie, who had already received the news, had been waiting on the wharf for a long time. As soon as they saw Yang Peng's boat, the two immediately became excited.

The boat docked, Yang Peng and the others walked down the boat, Duan Zhixian and Cheng Shijie hurriedly greeted them, and the three of them couldn't help but be very happy to see each other, patting each other's arms and laughing. Duan Zhixian said loudly: "Big brother, the banquet has been prepared, let's drink!" Yang Peng nodded and said, "Okay!" Drink and go! Then the men got on their horses and marched toward the city, followed by Dunant, Baitong, and the guards.

Yang Peng looked at the situation on the wharf, there were not many goods, not many people, walked into Yangzhou City, only to see few pedestrians on the wide streets, and most of the shops on both sides were closed, this is really not like the legendary Sui Yang Emperor thousands of miles of dragon boat down the river that the southern paradise!

"Zhixian, Cheng Shijie, have you implemented the policy according to my instructions?" Yang Peng asked.

Duan Zhixian said with some annoyance: "I have already carried it out according to the instructions of the eldest brother, but the effect is not very good, and we don't know what's going on?" Cheng Shijie continued: "We have already implemented the policy of exempting customs duties and agricultural taxes according to the instructions of the eldest brother, but I don't know why, so many days have passed, but not many people have returned, and there has been no progress in business and trade!" I really don't know what the problem is? ”

Dunant, who had not spoken, suddenly asked, "May I ask the general, are you going to implement these policies yourself, or are you sending people to do it?" Duan Zhixian and Cheng Shijie glanced at him together, and Duan Zhixian asked puzzledly, "Who are you, why didn't the family see you yesterday?" Yang Peng then remembered and introduced: "This is Dunan, and he is also my sworn brother...... The two suddenly realized, hugged their fists together and said: "Since it is the brother of the eldest brother, it is also our brother!" Duan Zhixian said again: "Brother Du doesn't have to call us generals, just call me Brother Duan!" Then he pointed at Cheng Shijie, "This Cheng Shijie, you can call him second brother!" Dunan was overjoyed in his heart, and hugged his fists and said, "Brother Duan, second brother!" The two smiled.

Yang Peng pointed at Bai Tong again, "This is Bai Tong, he is a friend of Dunan, and both of them are my staff officers." Bai Tong hurriedly clenched his fists and said, "I've seen two generals!" Duan Zhixian Cheng Shijie nodded, and Cheng Shijie said, "Mr. Bai doesn't have to be polite!" ”

Dunan said to Duan Zhixian: "Brother Duan hasn't answered the question of the younger brother yet?" Duan Zhixian said with a smile: "Those bird things in government affairs, where can Cheng Shijie and I understand, naturally they are handed over to those civil officials." "Are the civil servants still the same officials as they were?" Duan Zhixian nodded, "Of course." ”

Dunan frowned and said, "I'm afraid that the problem lies with these officials." Duan Zhixian and Cheng Shijie both showed puzzlement, but Yang Peng understood what Du Nan meant, "You mean, those officials are yang and yin?" Dunant nodded, "I'm afraid it's probably so!" Those officials were all officials of the Song State before, and later took refuge in Mingjiao, and now they have taken refuge in the eldest brother, so the character can be imagined! I'm afraid that these people are all guys who are used to hiding and bullying their superiors, flattering their superiors, but they are very vicious and don't do their right thing, so many of the eldest brother's policies have not been implemented! ”

Duan Zhixian and Cheng Shijie couldn't help but be furious when they heard this, Duan Zhixian scolded: "Aren't these frustrated birds tired? Bai Tong hurriedly said: "The general is angry!" What Dunant said is just a speculation, and what the facts are now still need to be investigated! Duan Zhixian raised his eyebrows and said loudly: "It's also an investigation!" That's definitely the case! , I said why so long has passed, these two Huai still have no improvement, it turns out that those bastards are playing tricks with yesterday's family, which is really hateful! Truly damn it! ”

Yang Peng said angrily: "Duan Zhixian, don't scream!" It's called a fart! Cheng Shijie nodded, "Big brother is right, we have to find a way to solve the problem!" If these problems are not handled well, we will be no different from the dog officials who were scolded by us before! Duan Zhixian pointed to his nose and asked depressedly, "Second brother, are you saying that we have also become dog officials?" Not really! ”

Yang Peng said angrily: "Second brother is saying that you have to deal with the problem well!" Duan Zhixian nodded and said, "That nature!" Then he raised his eyebrows, "This matter is also easy, just arrest and kill all those dog officials!" Yang Peng shouted: "Don't talk nonsense! Duan Zhixian picked his bald head and said blankly: "Where did you talk nonsense yesterday?" Yang Peng said angrily: "The matter has not been clarified, and the charges are still uncertain, how can you kill people indiscriminately?" Now is not the time to be a hero on the green forest road, see who is not pleasing to the eye and kill it! Now you have to pay attention to the rules in dealing with problems, just like when you treat soldiers, you can't kill anyone who doesn't like your eyes, right? If he didn't violate military law, you can't be willful anyway, otherwise you will have violated military law! Locally, the same is true! ”

Duan Zhixian patted his head and said embarrassedly: "What the eldest brother said is right, it was the mistake of the family yesterday!" What a headache! Then he said depressedly: "My second brother and I will only manage the army, the things in this place are real, I really can't figure it out, big brother, you should send someone else!" Yang Peng smiled: "I have my own plans." Cheng Shijie said: "The most important thing now is to let the supervision department send some people over as soon as possible, if they are there, the local officials believe that they will be much more restrained!" Yang Peng smiled bitterly: "I would like to, but now the Central Plains and Shanxi are still short of manpower, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to take care of Lianghuai in a short time!" ”

After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.