Nanzhao, Yang Tho Baa City, Wang Jian is commanding his soldiers to dig the ancestral grave of King Nanzhao. Many local people gathered around and watched the scene under the watchful eye of the armor soldiers.

The soldiers dug very hard, sweating like rain, and when they pushed the stone and carried the coffin, the sound of the trumpet was long and powerful.

But compared with the onlookers who pointed fingers, talked a lot, and applauded and cheered loudly from time to time, their enthusiasm was not enough. Although the people didn't do it themselves, they were all red-faced and excited, as if they had eaten too much of the big tonic and couldn't wait to practice their hands in person.

Wang Jian was very satisfied with the reaction of the people, which showed that this move was very popular, and he was also satisfied with his decision to dig the grave.

In fact, most of the people present were Han Chinese. Since the formation of the climate, Nanzhao has been constantly invading the border of the Tang Dynasty, descending and rebelling, and re-attacking, which is extremely hateful, Shuzhong and Lingnan have suffered greatly, not only the loss of food and property has been heavy, but the population has also been plundered a lot.

In the past 100 years, because of the weakening of the national strength, the Tang Dynasty could only repel the attacks of Nanzhao, although there were times when they were defeated, but there were never troops entering the territory of Nanzhao, and they could not be completely defeated, which led to the barbaric habits of Nanzhao.

This time, Wang Jian defeated the Nanzhao army in Shuzhong, beheaded the king of Nanzhao, Longshun, and then took the opportunity to enter Nanzhao, killing people without mercy.

In the past few months, wherever the Tang army went, the corpses of the local troops of Nanzhao were strewn all over the field, and rivers of blood flowed. All the Nanzhao people who dared to hold the blade and face the Tang Dynasty soldiers became the souls of the Tang army. So much so that the ghosts of the 100,000 mountains wept endlessly day and night, and it was extremely miserable.

Until Wang Jian captured the city of Yang Tho, the capital of Wang, and Shun Huazhen, the son of Long Shun, the so-called "Great Feudal Republic of China" established by Long Shun, was completely destroyed.

Now, the Tang army has captured the entire territory of Nanzhao,

Tieqiao City, Huichuan City, Jianchuan City, Crystal Mansion, Lishui City, Nongdong City, Yinsheng City, Tonghai City, Shanyan Mansion, all planted the banner of the Tang Army.

Not only these cities, Wang Jian also sent monks to lead the elite to clean up the various high mountains and villages, and the Nanzhao people entrenched here were either surrendered, moved out of the mountains, or erased from the world.

According to Wang Jian's temperament, he longed to plant a military flag in the middle of every river, every thousand steps. In order to declare the prestige of the Tang army, it shocked the Nanzhao savages, so that they would never dare to commit the Tang Dynasty again.

After the conquest of Nanzhao, Wang Jian's actions can be called cruel.

His behavior caused dissatisfaction among some people, including Zhang Wence, the consolation envoy who had just arrived. Right now, Zhang Wence was standing aside, and his face was very ugly when he saw the soldiers digging people's ancestral graves.

An official in a cyan official robe beside him was whispering something to him: "Now that the entire territory of Nanzhao is under the control of Wang Shi, the king of Shu still hasn't stopped killing people. Some time ago, the king of Shu ordered the monks to lead the elite of the army to arrest all the leaders in the mountains in the mountains.

Then they asked them to move the mountain people out of the mountains and settle in the large and small cities built by the king, but those leaders were killed on the spot by the king of Shu if they had a whisper, or did not obey the order, and the people in the stockade were also slaughtered.

"Now don't say that there is not a single living person in the Nanzhao royal family, and even the 100,000 wild people in the mountains have been killed by him! If this continues, I am afraid that our hatred with the local people will be too deep, which will be very detrimental to the long-term peace and stability in the future. ”

The more Zhang Wence listened, the more gloomy his face became.

On the eve of the Central Plains War, he was only a county commander of Weixian County, because he used a lot of money to build the river fortifications to defend Zhu Wen to the north, and he was short of filial piety to Shangguan, and he was almost killed by Shangguan.

Later, he was appreciated by Li Ye, and was promoted to the post of Weizhou Assassin at the beginning of the war, in charge of the transportation and distribution of grain and heavy baggage for the army in the three towns of Hebei.

Although he can't be compared with the top bosses of the three provinces and six departments, he is also a powerful figure under Li Ye, and he can be summoned by Li Ye from time to time.

This time, the reason why Li Ye sent Zhang Wence to Nanzhao to be a consolation envoy and preside over the post-war reconstruction was that he heard that Wang Jian had killed too much in Nanzhao, and he was already a little dissatisfied.

Zhang Wence said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty has repeatedly ordered that it is not appropriate to criticize the people in the conquered areas

It's too much, but the king of Shu actually digs up people's ancestral graves! Where is this what the king can do, such a perverse act, I think he is taking revenge!"

Everyone knows that when the king of Shu was still the princes of Shuzhong, he did not deal with the king of Nanzhao, and was attacked by the other party, kicking his nose in the face, which was very humiliating.

Zhang Wence immediately stepped forward, bowed his hand, and then said to Wang Jian: "The king of Shu captured Nanzhao and leveled the land and thieves, which was a great achievement, and we admired it......;

"When they submitted to the imperial dynasty in the past, didn't the imperial court give them preferential treatment? But what was the result? These people will not die of thieves! They cannot be merciful to these barbarians, only the long knife will make them afraid, and only when they are killed will they be terrified, they will behave!"

Before Zhang Wence finished speaking, Wang Jian interrupted him coldly, and his fat face was full of displeasure.

Zhang Wence naturally disagreed with these words, and wanted to speak, but Wang Jian was immediately furious, "You civil officials, you know that you are full of moral articles, and you don't know what is going on with the application of the world, what qualifications do you have to question this king? You are a four-grade official, and you dare to shout in front of this king, and you don't get out!"

This reprimand immediately made Zhang Wence's face flush. Unwilling to accept this humiliation, he turned and left.

When he arrived at the official office, the more Zhang Wence thought about it, the more angry he became, and his resentment was unsettled. The King of Shu was so arrogant and domineering that he absolutely could not be tolerated! He called his cronies and asked them to collect evidence of the King of Shu's disobedience to the orders of the imperial court, and planned to take a good look at the other party.

I don't know if I don't check this, and Zhang Wence was taken aback when I checked it.

Wang Jian killed far more people than he had expected, and this was already a blatant violation of the imperial court instructions. Not only that, Zhang Wence also found that after Wang Jian killed people, he put all the money and property of the Nanzhao royal family and the cottage head into his own pocket, and also included their wives and concubines into his house!

"What does the King of Shu want?! This kind of behavior is different from a robber, this is to harm our imperial society!" Zhang Wence was frightened, and hurriedly wrote a recital, with various evidence, and sent the great monk to send it back to Chang'an urgently.

A few days later, an edict arrived in front of Wang Jian.

Li Ye ordered him to return to the court on the same day.

Wang Jian got the edict and did not stay for half a moment, and the next day he took 500 soldiers and embarked on the return journey.

Although Zhang Wence participated in Wang Jian, the other party was the commander of the army after all, and when he left, he still took people out of the city to see him off.

Originally, Zhang Wence thought that Wang Jian would be very angry with him, and he had to get angry, and he was ready to spit on himself.

But when the two met, Zhang Wence unexpectedly found that Wang Jian did not have any anger, but thanked Zhang Wence with a smile and a friendly attitude.

Before leaving, Wang Jian, who was on the move, turned around and smiled at Zhang Wence, and said something that made Zhang Wence confused, "Everything that this king should do has been done, and then it's up to the consolation envoy." ”

Zhang Wence's heart moved, and he wanted to ask something, but Wang Jian had already ridden away.

Thirty miles after leaving Yangtho City, Wang Mu, who was indignant in his chest, said to Wang Jian unconvinced: "Your Highness, that Zhang Wence is really a villain, he actually complained to the court behind his back, completely ignoring the merits and hardships of His Highness's expedition to Nanzhao, it is really not a son of man!"

Wang Jian glanced at Wang Mu, the other party was his nephew and his confidant, and said lightly: "What Zhang Wence did was exactly what I wanted him to do, what was wrong with him?"

This sentence made Wang Mu dumbfounded: "Your Highness, this ......"

Wang Jian smiled, "Nanzhao is a place that is different from other places, the mountains and rivers are densely intertwined, the so-called poor mountains and bad waters are many people, and the local people are wild and untamable.

"Killing too many people is naturally not a good thing, but I don't do this wicked person, do I still want to do it after the war to appease the people and declare the benevolence of the imperial court?

"Now he's gone

After I am gone, those who are precarious and trembling under my blade will also have a sense of gratitude for him, and his errands will be much smoother in the future. I have laid a good foundation for him, and those wild people in the mountains and forests have been enclosed by me into dozens of newly built large and small cities, which will be very convenient to manage in the future.

As long as Zhang Wence is not stupid, he will not let the Han people oppose the local people, but only let them live together around the city, and with the right policies, they will soon be able to integrate with each other. At that time, even if there are still wild people in the mountains and forests, and they want to go out of the mountains to make trouble, those local people who have benefited will not agree. ”

Wang Mu didn't expect that Wang Jian's actions would have such a deep meaning, and he was speechless in surprise for a while.

After a long while, Wang Mu said bitterly: "But in this way, Your Highness will be in trouble." The conquest of Nanzhao was a great achievement, but now His Royal Highness has ignored the imperial edict and wantonly killed people, looted wealth, robbed beauties, and dug up the ancestral grave of King Nanzhao......

"I'm afraid that after I go back, I will inevitably be attacked by civilian officials, and it will be difficult to be rewarded. Your good intentions and righteous dedication are estimated to be difficult to be recognized by the world. And this military exploit of pacifying Nanzhao can be regarded as a vain......"

Wang Jian turned his head and looked at Wang Mu strangely, "What do I want military merit for?"

Wang Mu was suddenly surprised.

Wang Jian said leisurely: "I am already the king of Shu, one person is above ten thousand people, and there is no seal." If I make a great contribution, what will you ask Your Majesty to give me?

Only then did Wang Mu react, it turned out that what Wang Jianping did after pacifying the Southern Zhao also had the intention of self-defilement, in order to seek a situation where merit and demerit were offset and there was no need for the court to reward him!

Wang Mu said: "But King Qi ......"

Wang Jian waved his hand: "King Qi is different from me. ”

Wang Mu wanted to ask what was different, but Wang Jian preemptively said: "Don't ask, I won't say if I ask." When it's time to know, you'll all know. ”

Speaking of this, Wang Jian took off the wine bag, took a sip of it, and said: "Look, this time I return to the court, Your Majesty will definitely not ask for me, nor will I let those civil officials attack me." Of course, military exploits will not be narrated.

"Your Majesty is wise and powerful, and he is naturally well aware of my intention to purge Nanzhao with iron and blood; what is even more rare is that Your Majesty is sympathetic to his subjects and has a wide chest, which is doomed to me not to suffer.

"Because of this incident, Your Majesty will feel ashamed of me, so you, the old troops who followed me to fight, will definitely be greatly rewarded by Your Majesty, and you will have a great future and a great future, which is at your fingertips.

"You have been fighting with me for many years, and my siblings and friends have been killed and injured countless times, but I have not been able to achieve great achievements, and your previous situation was also very ordinary, and now you can get these, and I am worthy of you in this life. In the future, even if I am an idle rich man, eating and waiting for death, I will have a peaceful conscience. ”

Wang Mu's eyes were red, and he choked up: "Your Highness's kindness, I will not forget it! It's just that Your Highness has suffered a lot, and I want to leave a bad record in the history books, which will damage the reputation of the first generation.....

"What is my name? Even if there is, that's a fart!"

Wang Jian looked up to the sky and laughed three times, and then his expression was correct, "If it weren't for the encounter with Your Majesty, a slightly narrow-minded king, I, Wang Jianyan, would have the opportunity to lead the troops to the battle, behead Long Shun, kill Nanzhao, and be ashamed?"

"Now that I have revenge, my humiliation has been eliminated, and I have helped the Han people who were taken captive to Nanzhao to vent their bad breath, and the happiness of life is rare in ancient and modern times, and I live up to this life!"

Wang Mu looked at Wang Jian's heroic spirit of pouring wine into the sky, and his eyes were full of admiration.

Only great heroes can be true to themselves, and they are true celebrities.

Of course, he didn't know that when Wang Jian was king in Shuzhong, he was not in this kind of frank mentality, and at that time he was full of ambition to open a dynasty and establish a country.

It's just that the times are stronger than people, and now that he is a minister, if he doesn't have this kind of free and easy thinking, I'm afraid that he will either end up depressed, or he will rebel and be killed by Li Ye.

"In the face of the general trend, those who go along with it prosper, and those who go against it die......" Wang Jian, who had been drinking wine for a long time, muttered in a daze.