Li Tongren and the others were overjoyed when they heard Yang Peng's praise, Li Tongren bowed down and said: "The subordinates are just adhering to the wishes of King Yan, and they can have this situation, it is all the work of King Yan's holy virtue and education, how can the ministers have an inch!" Other bureaucrats chimed in.

Yang Peng smiled: "Your Excellency is polite! Suddenly thinking of Ya Yu Guanyin, who was standing beside him in military uniform, he raised his hand and pointed at her and said, "This one, you must not have seen it." The officials looked at Ya Yu Guanyin, who was dressed in a beautiful military costume, and thought that she should also be a princess, but they didn't know her. Chen Xiao said: "Her name is Ye Yu Guanyin, and she is also my princess. The officials didn't know the name of Ya Yu Guanyin, and when they heard Yang Peng say that it was the princess, they bowed together: "Meet the princess!" Ya Yu Guanyin hugged his fists and said: "You don't have to be polite! ”

Yang Peng said jokingly: "Your reaction makes me very dissatisfied...... The officials suddenly heard this, their hearts were shocked, and they became uneasy, secretly thinking about what had offended King Yan.

Yang Peng's face showed a look of sudden realization, and said: "I understand, you haven't heard of the name Ya Yu Guanyin, so you all look like birds who don't take it very seriously. Then I'll tell you another name for her," glanced at everyone, and saw that everyone was looking at him with a worried look, and said with a smile: "My beloved concubine has another title, you must have heard of it, the eldest princess of Liao!" ”

Li Tongren and the others suddenly heard the words 'eldest princess', and they couldn't help but be stunned, and then their faces changed color in horror, and they all looked at Ya Yu Guanyin with wide eyes and extremely unbelievable eyes. Everyone has naturally heard of the name of the princess, not only has they heard of it, but it can really be said that it is like thunder, the eldest princess of the Great Liao Kingdom, second only to the first two emperors of the Liao Kingdom, led the Khitan army to destroy Goryeo, went south to the Central Plains, and dominated the world, with a great reputation! At the beginning, in Xixia, he was also a terrible character who could stop children from crying! But not long ago, this famous princess disappeared in Liao, Li Tongren and other important ministers of Western Xia thought that this princess died in the power struggle within Liao, never expected her, she actually turned into the princess of King Yan!! It's incredible!

However, Li Tongren and the others thought about it: "Although the princess is famous, she is much inferior to King Yan, King Yan is the number one hero in the world, and the princess is the number one heroine in the world, and it is very normal for her to marry King Yan as a concubine, I am afraid that only King Yan is qualified to have her in this world!" When everyone thought of this, they didn't feel shocked, but they were still confused about why the two hostile people finally came together, but this kind of thing belonged to the private affairs of King Yan and the princess, and as subordinates, they didn't dare or ask about it.

Yang Peng smiled: "Okay, the gossip is over, now let's get down to business." Li Tongren and the others hurriedly threw their chaotic thoughts out of their heads and waited intently for Yang Peng's next words. Yang Peng said: "The purpose of my visit, I think you have also guessed it." How's the situation on the Western Xia side now? Li Tongren hugged his fists and said: "Back to King Yan, I just received news from our people, and I was about to write a military report to King Yan." Then he shouted to a young official behind him: "Hurry up and hand over the note you just received to King Yan for a look!" The latter hurriedly agreed, took out a note, held it above the top with both hands, and ran to Yang Peng's face. Yang Peng picked up the note, unfolded it and looked at it, only to see that only one line of words was written on the note: Hu Daochong was still hesitating, and today he found that the envoy of Tubo was coming.

Yang Peng showed a thoughtful look, and all the officials bowed their heads and did not make a sound.

Yang Peng raised his head and asked, "Who is the person you sent as a lobbyist?" Li Tongren said: "Back to King Yan, it is a close confidant of his subordinates, Li Qian, King Yan has also seen it." Yang Peng suddenly remembered that he was a very clever and steady young man, and it was appropriate for him to be a lobbyist. Yang Peng couldn't help but nodded.

Yang Peng instructed: "Summoning General Yang and the Supervision Envoy to me." Li Tongren responded, and immediately sent his officials to invite Yang Yanzhao and the supervision envoy. At present, Yanyun has 350,000 troops in Ningxia, and Yang Yanzhao is the commander of the whole army as the general manager of the Shaanxi and Gansu marching army; The so-called supervision envoy is an official position in the Yanyun magistrate system, which is at the same level as the local governor or the remaining guard, and belongs to the officials who supervise the local officials, and their subordinates are self-contained, completely independent from the local official system, and do not belong to each other, and have complete supervision power over the local government, and they directly belong to the supervision institute managed by Huang Qiaoyun; The Supervision Yuan's supervision of localities is divided into two lines: the bright line is the supervision envoys and their subordinate officials who are sent to various places to take up posts, while the dark line is that the identity is not made public, and there is no permanent body, and the Supervision Yuan is often dispatched by the Supervision Yuan to secretly inspect various places.

Soon after, the sound of hurried footsteps came from outside the door, and Yang Yanzhao, who was dressed in military uniform, and a middle-aged man in official robes, accompanied by two officials, came quickly.

A few people walked into the lobby, and Yang Yanzhao and the middle-aged official bowed together: "The last general (Weichen) greets His Royal Highness King Yan!" The other two officials bowed to Yang Peng and returned to their positions.

Yang Peng smiled: "No need to be polite. ”

The two stood up, Yang Yanzhao stood on the left, and the supervisor stood on the right. Yan Yun values military affairs over civil affairs, so the rank of military generals is higher than that of civilian officials.

Yang Peng asked Yang Yanzhao: "General Yang, I want you to choose 20,000 elite cavalry to attack, have you done it?" Yang Yanzhao hugged his fists and said: "King Yan's plan is very good! The last general has already selected 20,000 elite cavalry according to the order of King Yan, and ordered Yang Qi and Yang Gui to lead the 20,000 elite cavalry to set off with Yang Qi and Yang Gui as the chief and deputy commanders! You may have arrived at your destination! ”

Yang Peng nodded and asked, "I received a report in Tianjing New Town that the Tubo army has stopped attacking Xiliang Mansion and Xuanhua Mansion, what is going on?" Is there still a truce between the two sides? Yang Yanzhao nodded and said, "The two sides have been fighting for seven or eight days. The Tubo people attacked one after another some time ago, and the losses were not small but they did not make much progress, presumably they wanted to change their strategy! Li Tongren immediately continued: "Just now we received news that a Tibetan envoy appeared in Xiliang Mansion!" ”

Yang Yanzhao nodded and said: "That's it, the Tubo people can't attack for a long time and the losses are not small, so they want to lure them down!" Then he hugged his fists and said: "King Yan, the reason why the last general did not order the troops to attack after discovering that the Tubo people stopped attacking is because the last general thinks that although the Tubo people have stopped attacking, their ambitions have not been eliminated, and they are actively building siege equipment to prepare for the next attack, and the 20,000 elite cavalry attacking in that direction should be able to delay their progress even if they cannot completely thwart the attempts of the Tubo people." ”

Yang Peng nodded and said appreciatively: "You did the right thing!" Then he asked, "Can the army be mobilized?" ”

Yang Yanzhao shook his head and said, "There is a shortage of food and grass, and it is impossible to mobilize the army at all, and the rations of the 20,000 war cavalry were also raised with great difficulty. ”

Li Tongren hugged his fists and said: "Even if there is not one million quintals of grain in the entire Xingqing Mansion, there are 800,000 quintals, if King Yan needs it, the ministers can collect food from the people." ”

Yang Peng waved his hand and said: "This is not good, food is the foundation of social stability, and collecting all this grain will inevitably cause social turmoil!" ”

Li Tongren said movingly: "King Yan is sympathetic to the suffering of the people, he is really a benevolent and righteous king!" Even Yao Shunyu soup can't compare to King Yan! The civil servants chimed in. Yang Yanzhao frowned, he didn't like the flattery of civil officials.

Yang Peng stood up, walked to the hall, paced back and forth, stopped, frowned, and said, "If you can persuade the remnants of Western Xia to surrender, then it will be no better!" However, this intermediary is only afraid that the yang will be violated! Ya Yu Guanyin said: "According to the current situation, that way of chong is clearly perfunctory to us. Since he is perfunctory to us, then he is naturally perfunctory to the Tibetan envoys. ”

Li Tongren said puzzledly: "Dao Chong should know that this kind of thing can be delayed for a while, but it can't be delayed for a lifetime, if he doesn't surrender, there is only one way to destroy!" The Tubo people surrounded Xuanhua Mansion and Xiliang Mansion, and they had already made up their minds to annex the land west of Xiliang. How could he be so unwise? He thought that Dao Chong might have wanted to die for Xixia, but since he had surrendered to Yan Yun, he didn't want to believe that others would be so noble, so his thoughts quickly shifted away as soon as he touched this point.

Ye Yu Guanyin walked to Yang Peng's side, glanced at Yang Peng, Yang Peng smiled slightly, Ye Yu Guanyin said to everyone: "According to the information we have obtained, that Dao Chong is definitely not a martyr who is willing to die for the sake of Western Xia!" As soon as these words came out, Li Tongren and others echoed one after another. I only heard Ye Yu Guanyin continue: "This person has a strong desire for power, and his idea should be to delay and wait for change. He saw that we Yanyun didn't want the Tubo people to succeed, so he wanted to drag it out for a while so that we could fight with the Tubo people, and he would be in a desperate situation! When everyone heard this, they only felt as if they had been empowered, and the things in front of them immediately became clear.

Yang Yanzhao said: "What Niangniang said is right, it should be so, otherwise why should Dao Chong receive the envoys of both sides at the same time, if he really has the heart to surrender, there is no need to hesitate between us and Tubo!" Obviously, we are much stronger than Tubo, and if we want to surrender, we will naturally surrender to our Yanyun! When he behaves like this, he is clearly delaying time! Many officials chimed in.

Yang Peng frowned and said, "It seems that this person is difficult to be convinced!" Ya Yu Guanyin immediately realized Yang Peng's thoughts and said, "You can do that, but you must not take risks yourself!" Yang Peng smiled, "Don't worry, this is not the original rescue of Guanyin, it is not worth my risk, but it is necessary to get close to the command!" ”

Yang Peng asked Yang Yanzhao, "I remember that the closest thing to Xiliang Mansion is Zhuoluo City, right?" ”

Yang Yanzhao hugged his fists and said, "Exactly." At present, Fan Long led 10,000 infantry troops to defend Zhuoluo City, and our secret envoys and spy personnel all entered Western Xia through Zhuoluo City. ”

Yang Peng said: "Let's go to Zhuoluo City." Yang Yanzhao hurriedly said: "The last general will send soldiers and horses to protect King Yan!" Yang Peng waved his hand and said, "There's no need for that." He turned his head to look at Li Tongren and said, "Master Li will find a place for us to rest for the night." Li Tongren hurriedly agreed, and then said: "The Xixia Palace is very tidy, King Yan might as well live in the Xixia Palace." Yang Peng nodded. Li Tongren immediately said: "My subordinates lead the way for King Yan!" Yang Peng said to Yang Yanzhao and the supervisor: "You two come with me." The two of them clasped their fists and promised.

Yang Peng walked outside, and everyone surrounded Yang Peng and followed.

Under the guidance of Li Tongren, the group came to the Western Xia Palace. The palace was very silent, except for the occasional sight of the old eunuchs and maids cleaning and the guards who guarded the palace.

Li Tongren led everyone to the former Western Xia Emperor's bedroom in the backyard of the palace. Yang Peng glanced at it, but saw that the dormitory was very spacious and splendidly decorated, and a huge round bed with a white gauze tent hanging from it, very clean, as if it had just been replaced.

Li Tongren said: "According to King Yan's instructions, my subordinates ordered people to clean this palace every day, and the bedding and other things in the main dormitories of the palace will be changed and washed every day. This is the previous Xixia Emperor's bedroom, this gauze tent bedding has just been changed this morning, if King Yan feels bad, his subordinates immediately ordered someone to change it again. ”

Yang Peng waved his hand and said, "No need! After a pause, he asked, "It's expensive to maintain this palace, isn't it?" Li Tongren said: "If you go back to King Yan, there are two hundred servants in charge of cleaning and palace maids in charge of washing, and they need to spend three hundred taels of silver per month, and in addition to daily expenses such as bedding and window paper, they are two hundred taels of silver a month, so they need five hundred taels of silver a month." ”

Yang Peng felt that it was not expensive, nodded, looked around, and saw many antiques on the huge desk not far away, and saw many calligraphy and paintings hanging on the walls around him. Li Tongren looked at the antique calligraphy and paintings around him, hugged his fists and said: "These antique calligraphy and paintings are all treasured in the palace, naturally they are true!" Yang Peng asked again: "Are there many similar antique calligraphy and paintings in various palaces?" "Back to King Yan, the antique calligraphy and paintings treasured in the palace are basically still in the palace, and there are a lot of them. At the beginning, the Emperor of Western Xia and the Western Xia Dynasty fled from the capital in a hurry, and most of the antique calligraphy and paintings treasured in the palace were too late to take away, so these antique calligraphy and paintings were basically left. ”

Yang Peng smiled, "Okay, well, I accidentally found a lot of wealth!" When they heard this, their hearts were moved, and they laughed. Yang Peng said to Li Tongren and the supervision envoy: "The two of you sent people to register and make a register of the antiques, calligraphy and paintings treasured in this palace, and then packed them and transported them all to Tianjing New Town. The two of them clasped their fists and promised.

Yang Peng walked to the bed and sat on the edge of the bed, Ye Yu Guanyin stood beside Yang Peng, and the other three stood respectfully in front of Yang Peng.

Yang Peng glanced at the supervision envoy and said, "I remember that your name is Wang Huan. ”

Wang Huan was overjoyed and said excitedly: "I didn't expect King Yan to actually know the villain!" ......" Yang Peng smiled: "You were originally a Confucian student, but later gave up Confucianism, changed to a lawyer, and entered Yenching University to study two years ago." You have good grades and have a unique understanding of government structures and checks and balances. Your performance since you arrived in Ningxia has also been very good. Do your best, and your talents will never be buried. Yang Peng's words of encouragement obviously revealed the message that he would be reused in the future, Wang Huan was excited, and said: "The subordinates will live up to the trust of King Yan!" ”

Yang Peng smiled and nodded, and asked, "For the officialdom in Ningxia, do you think there is anything that needs to be improved?" ”

Li Tongren glanced at Wang Huan, but Wang Huan didn't look at Li Tongren, and hugged his fist at Yang Peng and said: "Back to King Yan, the officialdom in Ningxia is not completely on the right track, and the most important manifestation is that the appointment of officials in various places is not on the right track, and there are few direct dispatches and examinations in the palace, while many former officials are retained, and there are many problems. Although the palace has repeatedly reinstated orders, officials in various places have also reined in, but after all, habits are difficult to change, and many officials have not very good behavior, and even bend the law for bribes, and in the past month, more than 30 officials have been investigated and punished by the subordinate supervision departments! The bad habits of officials and the perversion of the law for bribes have caused varying degrees of negative impact on civil affairs in various localities, and this matter brooks no delay, and it is far from enough to rely on the inspection departments to investigate and deal with it, and it is also necessary to put the Ningxia official system on the right track as soon as possible. ”

Li Tongren hurriedly pleaded guilty and said: "The subordinates are staying in Xingqing Mansion, so they can't escape the blame, and they also ask King Yan to punish them." ”

Both of them stood in front of Yang Peng, Yang Peng looked at Wang Huan and then at Li Tongren, and said with a smile: "Lord Li doesn't have to blame himself. Ningxia, you have governed very well! You are not an immortal, how can you control so many officials! Li Tongren listened to Yang Peng's gentle words and soothed, and did not punish him, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and at the same time moved, and said: "Thank you King Yan for your innocence!" ”

Yang Peng said to Wang Huan: "What Lord Wang said is indeed a big problem, and official corruption and bad habits are the most destructive to internal affairs. Bad habits should be urged to be corrected, and where they are repeatedly taught or the circumstances are heinous, the supervision department may report to the Yanwang Mansion and impose a punishment of demotion or removal; For those who are corrupt and pervert the law, hmph, there is nothing to be tolerated, once it is verified, they will be arrested immediately and taken to Bianliang. ”

Li Tongren was a little uneasy in his heart, and Wang Huan hugged his fists and promised. Yang continued: "It is imperative to put the Ningxia bureaucracy on the right track, but there is no need to rush it. My plan is to be fully integrated by the end of the year. He looked at Li Tongren and said, "Lord Li, you have to tell the officials in Ningxia to study Yanyun's laws and regulations and the way of governing the country." At the end of this year, all officials in Ningxia will have to take part in a test, and only those who pass the test will be allowed to remain in their posts, and those who fail will be dismissed or demoted. The vacancies that arise at that time will be filled by students who have passed the test at Bianliang University and Yenching University. Master Li, do you understand? ”

Li Tongren hurriedly said: "The subordinates understand, and the subordinates must urge the bureaucrats under their jurisdiction to study carefully!" It's just that there is just a difficulty, and I ask King Yan to show it. Yang Pengjing listened to the following. Li Tongren continued: "There are many officials in various places who do not understand Chinese and only understand Western Xia, what should these officials do? ”

Yang Peng thought for a while and said, "This is easy to do, if you don't know Chinese, you can take the test in Western Xia." Li Tongren was overjoyed in his heart and said, "Thank you for the grace of King Yan." Yang Peng asked, "Are there any more questions?" Li Tongren thought about it, shook his head and said; Without. ”

Yang Peng looked at Yang Yanzhao and said, "The army is stationed in place and is on standby. Yang Yanzhao hugged his fists and promised. Yang Peng glanced at the three of them and said, "If you don't have any problems, just retreat." The three of them hugged their fists and promised, bowed to Yang Peng, and withdrew from the dormitory.

Yang Peng lay down on the bed and stretched his waist. Ya Yu Guanyin pulled him up and said angrily: "If you want to sleep, take a bath first!" Yang Peng hugged Ye Yu Guanyin's slender waist, kissed her red lips, and said with a smile: "You accompany me!" Ya Yu Guanyin frowned and said, "I'm clumsy, I can't serve people, don't blame me for not doing well!" Yang Peng laughed and said, "I don't want you to serve, I'll serve you!" Then he took Ya Yu Guanyin's slender hand and ran out, called a palace maid, asked where the bathroom was, and ran towards the bathroom. Soon after, laughter and exclamations of Ya Kannon were heard in the bathroom.

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The gaze turned to Tianjing New Town.

Shang Shiheng hid at home and didn't go out for many days, and when something like that happened, he only felt ashamed to see where people dared to go out. While he was ashamed, he was also very puzzled, he really couldn't understand, how could he become himself after he had drugged Luo Yanran and Zhuang Shaocheng after he had confessed to the cook? These days, he sent people to the Tianjing Hotel several times to try to find the cook, but in the end, he got the news that the cook had disappeared inexplicably? Shang Shiheng felt that he might have been calculated, but he had no clue who was calculated.

In the evening of that day, his father, Shang Conglong, came to Shang Shiheng's courtyard. Seeing that Shang Shiheng was sitting in the courtyard looking at the sunset in the sky in a daze, he snorted and said angrily: "It's just such a trivial matter, but it's actually sluggish, what else to talk about and do big things!" ”

Shang Shiheng was shocked, only to find that his father had come in at some point, and hurriedly got up and saluted: "I've seen my father!" Shang Conglong walked to the stone bench in front of Shang Shiheng and sat down, looked him up and down, and asked, "Still thinking about that?" When Shang Shiheng heard his father's question, he couldn't help but think of the scene that day, a strange feeling rose in his heart, sighed, and then said with great shame: "Now the people in Tianjing New City know that I have that thing with the person surnamed Zhuang, I, I really have no face to see people!" ”

Shang Conglong scolded: "What a useless thing! We are going to do big things, and our lives may be lost, such a thing is not worth mentioning at all! You can't even let go of this kind of thing, why do you talk about big things? Shang Shiheng's heart sank, and he said with a face of shame: "The son knows that he is wrong, and the father teaches him a lesson!" ”

Shang Conglong saw that Shang Shiheng was no longer as depressed as he was just now, so he smiled and nodded, motioning for him to sit down. Shang Shiheng sat down.

Shang Conglong said: "What do you think about the assassination of King Yan before?" Shang Shiheng smiled coldly and said, "Yang Peng has gone against the grain, naturally there are countless people who want to take his life!" ”

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