Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Chapter 292

After hearing what he said, Shi Congyun felt that Meng Xuanzhe deserved the title of child prodigy in Sichuan.

So he let the generals and officials go down to rest, gave Meng Xuanzhe a seat, sat down and asked him some questions.

At the beginning, Shi Congyun didn't believe that he had such a high level of consciousness. No matter how the country collapsed and surrendered, he lost his country. As a prince, he should feel sad. Not to mention, this is their Meng family's country.

I just didn't want to chat for a while, and felt that this person really knew the current affairs, and knew that the demise of the Shu Kingdom could not be stopped.

Shi Congyun took him down as a hostage, and he couldn't be so simple as to believe that Shu would hand over Chengdu City with a letter of surrender.

Shi Congyun thought that since he was so open-minded, he might be able to help with something, so he asked him if he was familiar with all the officials in the court of Shu.

Meng Xuanzhe was not only familiar with it, but immediately asked Shi Congyun to give him pen and ink. He wrote down all the positions in the court from big to small at the moment, and said proactively: "If the commander-in-chief doesn't think I talk too much, I will You can say a few more words."

"Say it, say whatever you want." Shi Congyun changed his attitude from the beginning.

He began to introduce Shi Congyun: "Marshal, there are real officials and false officials in our country. Some have money and some have no money."

"You are so damn good!" Shi Congyun couldn't help but patted him on the shoulder: "I just want to hear this, tell me who is rich and who is not!"

Meng Xuanzhe nodded again and again, and said flatteringly, "Commander, apart from the royal family in the middle school, there are Wang Zhaoyuan with high official positions, Zhao Chongtao, Li Hao, and Li Tinggui who were killed by the commander."

Then he mentioned these people one by one, and Shi Congyun asked the clerk next to him to write them down.

"Li Tinggui is a servant, and he holds a high position, but he doesn't care about things;

Although he had fought with the commander in the past and committed serious crimes, he is really a clean and honest person, and he is not extravagant in a high-ranking family. Only his old wife does not even have concubines, and all the dignitaries in Chengdu are alone in his family. "

Shi Congyun nodded, Li Tinggui was still fresh in his memory, "Well, Li Tinggui is indeed a man who knows how to fight. If this king hadn't been so wise and skilled, he would have almost fallen into his way."

Meng Xuanzhe nodded again and again and said: "The richest minister in the country must be Li Hao. That old guy doesn't talk about gold, silver and treasures. There are hundreds of concubines in his house alone. He is a 68-year-old man. Don't be afraid to flash your waist."

Shi Congyun became angry on the spot, and said, "How decent is this Li Haocheng!

Think of me as the wise and mighty first emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, who fought south and north to protect the environment and the people, and there were only more than 20 concubines in the harem.

Think of me as a loyal minister of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the commander of the army, the majestic King Qin, and there are only two concubines in my family. He dares to dominate hundreds of concubines by himself.This is not what fish and meat are. "

Meng Xuanzhe nodded again and again: "Yes, yes, the commander-in-chief is right. The commander-in-chief can definitely accept the hundreds of beautiful concubines in Li Hao's family. Anyway, he is not blessed to be an old man. Gao Gaishi is worthy of talents who serve the country and the people.

Besides, there are thousands of concubines in the father's palace, if the commander-in-chief doesn't dislike them, they can also accept them together. "

Shi Congyun glanced at him: "Aren't you usually afraid of your father?"

"In the future, the Kingdom of Shu will also belong to the commander-in-chief, not our father and son. It's a matter of course." Meng Xuanzhe said flatteringly.

Shi Congyun felt more and more that this guy was really thick-skinned, but he said what he said, and he was quite happy. This little brother can be dealt with, although Meng Xuanzhe may be a year or two older than him.

When the time was almost up, I asked someone to serve wine and food, and while inviting him to dinner, I talked: "I have my own arrangements for the harem, but why are you in such a hurry to give away your father's little wives?"

Meng Xuanzhe said: "The commander-in-chief has worked hard and made great achievements, of course it is to honor the commander-in-chief! This is their blessing."

Then he poured wine for him with both hands, and added in a low voice: "Furthermore, there are thousands of concubines in the palace, many of whom were forced to enter the palace at a young age. They don't understand anything, as if they were raised in captivity. , some of them are poor people with good parents, and it is estimated that they could not even find a home in the past ten years.

My father went to Daliang, so he couldn't support so many people.

At that time, there are relatives and friends among these concubines, and those who are in rich families are fine, so they can go home.

What's left to let them fend for themselves?That is to kill them!
Or just find a man who is willing to accept them as a cow or a horse, life will definitely not be easy, so a certain thinks that it is the best blessing for them to go back with the commander. "

Shi Congyun laughed loudly: "Bullshit, I can't fit so many people in my house."

"It's fine in the palace." Meng Xuanzhe opened his mouth and said it as a matter of course, and then realized that he had said something wrong, and kept silent in fear.

Shi Congyun didn't continue talking, but fell into deep thought. After a while, he beckoned for his own soldiers and asked them to arrange a tent for Meng Xuanzhe to live in.

When he resigned, Fu Zhaoyuan said suddenly when he led his soldiers to clean up the dishes: "Brother-in-law, let me say a few words, I think what he said makes sense, it's not that you can't live in the palace, wait for Shu What else can people say when the country is destroyed?"

"Get lost." Shi Congyun kicked him out, "Stop talking nonsense outside."

Fu Zhao wished to shut up, and took his soldiers to pack up the dishes and go out. The night was not quiet, there was the orderly footsteps of patrolling soldiers outside the big tent, and unknown insects and birds were singing from time to time in the distance.

Shi Congyun was kept awake most of the night by Meng Xuanzhe and Fu Zhaoyuan.

Seeing him like this, Xiao Huanghua gave him a mink cloak, and moved a small stool to sit obediently beside him. Shi Congyun stretched out his hand and wrapped the little girl in the cloak, and she leaned quietly on his shoulders.

The lights of the camp in the distance were dim, and the night sky overhead was dotted with stars. Under the same starry sky, the city of Chengdu was submerged in shadows, with only twinkling spots of light leaking out.

The next day, Shi Congyun called Shao Ji and asked him to bring the most elite and confidant soldiers under his command at the same time, and then asked Fu Zhaoyuan to bring over his obedient soldiers.

Many of these personal soldiers are the same group of recruits who lived and died with him in Gaoping back then. They fought with him for five or six years, and they all obeyed him. Their salaries were all paid by Shi Congyun himself, and they were very generous. .

Shi Congyun has a new task for these more than 1000 people. He talked with Meng Chang last night to get a good idea of ​​the officialdom of the Shu Kingdom. He has been beaten to the bottom of the city, his family's wealth is not counted, and there are hundreds of concubines. Don't even think about keeping the family wealth. It is magnanimous to save his life.

If Meng Xuanzhe's statement is true, then Li Hao's family wealth alone is enough for at least ten battalions of his army, not to mention other high-ranking officials and dignitaries of the Shu Kingdom.

Shi Congyun seriously explained the matter. The reason why he sent his confidantes and soldiers was because most of these officials' families were similar to Li Hao's, with wealth and wives and concubines. How could ordinary soldiers withstand such temptation? Only confidants can guarantee Execute your own orders, block and confiscate, and don't mess around.

Later, Shi Congyun ordered Shao Ji to be the commander of this temporary army, Fu Zhaoyuan and Meng Xuanzhe to be his deputies, and Meng Xuanzhe to be his guide.

Meng Xuanzhe was very surprised. He was a hostage yesterday, but today he has become an enemy officer!

Shi Congyun just said: "Your concubine returned to Mianzhou, I didn't touch her, you know how to let her rely on me to save her life, and you also know how to find a way for those innocent women in the harem, you are a good person, and you can see the general trend of the world clearly.

Now that the situation has changed, you will be my courtiers in the future, but now it is the first thing this king entrusts to you, do it well, if you do it well, it will be your credit, and you will be rewarded when you return to Daliang. "

Meng Xuanzhe knelt down to thank him, Shi Congyun nodded and asked him to get up, and such an elite force was temporarily formed.

At noon that day, the Kingdom of Shu did not breach the contract, and Shi Congyun ordered the three armies to wait in line. All the officials of the Kingdom of Shu and the leader of the country, Meng Chang, got off the white horse-drawn cart in plain clothes, with white cloth strips around their necks, and opened the city of Chengdu. The gate surrendered to him.

This surrender ceremony was initiated by Qin Ziying, and it has been the same in all subsequent dynasties.

Under the attention of all the people, Shi Congyun accepted the kneeling worship of the former lord of Shu and all the officials, and then let Meng Chang and the officials get up, and then ordered the three thousand forwards led by Pan Mei to enter the city and directly take over the palace treasury.

Then Liu Qingchuan, Dong Zunhui, Luo Yanhuan, and Murong Yanzhao were ordered to lead two battalions of troops to take over the city defenses of each gate.

He led the Chinese army and Wang Quanbin, Wei Renpu, Dou Yi and others into the city.

Before entering the city, Shi Congyun was very cautious. Taking advantage of the fact that the civil and military officials and the emperor were in control of the city gate, he asked the imperial guards and defenders in the city to come out to accept the surrender and lay down their weapons.

Afterwards, Shi Congyun himself did not enter the city, and waited until the afternoon of that day, when all the defenders and soldiers of the Shu Kingdom surrendered and put down their weapons before entering the city.

Stepping on the bluestone bricks through the long darkness through the wide doorway, when the vision is broadened and the sky and the earth are bright, the Chengdu city with pavilions, terraces and pavilions, and the endless stream of eaves and tile houses is finally laid out in front of you, Shi Congyun stops Stepping down, taking a deep breath of Chengdu's air on the empty street, he laughed loudly and said, "From now on, this will be my Great Zhou's Chengdu Mansion!"

The generals and officials behind him congratulated one after another, but the officials of the old Shu Kingdom and the last emperor Meng Chang remained silent.

Later, Shi Congyun ordered people to surrender the Kingdom of Shu immediately, and reported the news of the troops entering Chengdu to the Queen Mother Regent. A house, he is waiting to use it to accommodate the royal family and officials of the Shu Kingdom.

Regarding Chengdu City, Shi Congyun immediately ordered the city to be closed for [-] days and the government treasury to be searched.

On the same day, Shi Congyun entered the Imperial Palace of the Kingdom of Shu, ordered the imperial city to be sealed off, and asked Meng Chang and his family members to move to the side palace in the northwest corner of the imperial palace.

Meng Chang looked sad but did not dare to disobey his order and immediately obeyed.

Shi Congyun asked all the officials to go home except for a few prime ministers and senior officials of the Privy Council, and then he made a ruthless move.

Immediately let Shao Ji lead troops to send people to seal off the residences of hundreds of officials, and at the same time issue an order that all officials of the puppet Shu Kingdom of the sixth rank and above must follow the army to Daliang as officials.

A quota was given according to the rank. Officials above the third rank were allowed to keep up to [-] family property, and officials above the sixth rank were allowed to keep up to [-] family property, and the rest would be confiscated.

Many Shu officials objected to this order on the same day, but Zhou Jun had already entered the city, so they only dared to talk and dared not resist with force.

But some officials don't care at all. For example, Li Tinggui and others don't have much money in their family.

Not to mention the value of copper coins in the war-torn era, even at the end of the Qing Dynasty, when prices soared, a feudal official like Zuo Zongtang, who was not corrupt or corrupt, could only save more than 1 coins in his lifetime.

What Shi Congyun gave was actually very broad, but even so, many people clamored to see him and reasoned, because they must have more than 1 yuan.

Shi Congyun didn't see them all, and ordered Shao Ji to be told that if necessary, they could see blood in order to frighten them.

On that day, Shi Congyun and the officials and generals around him lived in the palace in Chengdu.

Shi Congyun almost turned his eyes to flowers, especially the little yellow flower who has been following him. She has been living in the mountains, and she has no idea that Chengdu, which is five or six days away from them, is so magnificent.

There are flower beds and flower pots everywhere in the palace, and a large number of hibiscus are planted, as if walking into a sea of ​​flowers.

Shi Congyun was amazed, and subconsciously sighed, "It's good that these good lands are used to grow food."

Although he was well-informed and had heard countless rumors about Meng Chang building the Crystal Palace for his beloved concubine, he was prepared in his heart, but the magnificence of the palace of the Kingdom of Shu still exceeded his expectations.

The floor tiles are carved with patterns of auspicious clouds, flowers and birds. All the railings are piled up with white jade and carved with exquisite patterns. This is not the industrial age of later generations. They are all handmade by craftsmen. A large number of such stone floor tiles are very time-consuming and labor-intensive. Can't afford it.

The pillars of the main hall can smell the fragrance from a long distance. Shi Congyun knew it was precious sandalwood without looking at it, because the palace of the girders is also sandalwood, but the girders are only those in the vertical arch hall, and they are usually filled with rows of sandalwood. , almost all the pillars here are, and the outside is also inlaid with gold patterns.

The window and door frames are all exquisitely carved, extremely detailed, the owl kisses on the eaves are actually carved from jade, the palace curtains and curtains are all made of exquisite silk, and many of them have beautiful and delicate patterns, which are embroidered.

However, the palace complex of the Kingdom of Shu is not as open and closed as the girders, and the whole is more delicate and luxurious.

At this time, there were almost no maids in the front hall. I heard that they were all in the back hall. Meng Xuanzhe told him that there were more than 2 palace ladies and concubines in the palace.

Shi Congyun ordered not to let the soldiers go back, and he will decide how to deal with the concubines and maids in the palace tomorrow.

At night, he temporarily stayed in the side hall, and the soldiers and the generals and officials who came in with him also spent the night in the outer palaces and wing rooms. Shi Congyun in the Kingdom of Shu asked Meng Chang to go back and gather his family in the side hall, but asked Li Hao, Li Tinggui and other important ministers from the Shu region followed him, explained the situation to him, and at the same time prevented their powerful ministers from interfering with their plans.

That night, Shi Congyun lived in a side hall, Xiao Huanghua followed him and looked around curiously, but Shi Congyun didn't care, he was so excited that he couldn't sleep, because today he completely wiped out the Kingdom of Shu, This is the first time he lived in the palace to control the palace of Shu Kingdom.

After a while, Xiao Huanghua was helping him to wash his feet comfortably, when someone came outside, the guard at the gate of the outer courtyard came in and announced that Li Hao, the Prime Minister of Shu Kingdom, had something important to see him.

Shi Congyun was curious, why did the old man come here in the middle of the night?Could it be that he begged himself not to copy his home?

Thinking about nodding to let him in, it turned out that the old man didn't come in alone, there was another person behind him, and guards stood on the left and right.

The hall is lit by candles, the light is not very good, it is a little dim, but Shi Dashuai has experienced many battles, he can see at a glance that Li Hao is tightly wrapped, and the person wearing a veil is a graceful woman
Beauty trap!The three words immediately came to mind, and he suddenly felt that Li Hao was outrageous, did he think he would be tricked!
(End of this chapter)