Delong

Chapter 380 Four Wild Walks

Chapter 380: The Four Fields (14)

The autumn rain continued, and in the afternoon, Captain Hu Yan returned to Dongdu.

Before I could meet my family and friends, I galloped in from Jianchun Gate, headed north on Tianjie Street, crossed Xinzhong Bridge, crossed Chengfufang, and came straight to the "Island in the Lake" where Jing'an Terrace is located.

It is indeed an island in the lake. The autumn rain obviously affected a huge area. The water system around Jing'an Terrace, which is the downstream of the Ziwei Palace and Shanglinyuan, has obviously soared and flooded directly to the shore, causing several external bridges to lose their bridge decks. Not only that, the Luoshui River on the road also seemed to be a little too high... This made Hu Yan a little uneasy, because he had been in Jing'an Terrace for many years, almost when it was first put into use, and he had never seen such a situation. look.

It's not like I haven't seen heavy rain and heavy rain before, and it hasn't risen to this level, right?
"Luoshui is blocked." An elderly Bai Shou who was on duty behind the bridge gave the answer easily. "No one has dredged the silt for two or three years."

"Is it so blocked?" Hu Yan was even more puzzled. "The river is so wide and so deep..."

"It's not just that Luoshui is blocked, it's also that the ditch leading into Luoshui is blocked." Bai Shou smiled wryly. "Especially in Xiyuan and Ziwei Palace, there is no one to take care of the flowers there. The summer has been dry all summer, and the ditches are full of clogged branches and leaves. As a result, a heavy rain has directly flooded the entire Xiyuan. It rushed into the river, and then the water gate in the west of the city was not blocked, but the water gate in the east of the city was blocked... Jin Wuwei only had three melons and two dates left, and they all went to salvage and clean up the debris."

Hu Yan heard it desolately, but knowing the reason, he didn't ask any more questions, but went in obediently, tied up his horse, and came to the black tower.I don't know if it's an illusion, but the black tower actually looked a bit dilapidated in the autumn rain, and this only deepened the uneasiness suppressed by Captain Hu.

Report your name, enter the tower, and after a while, with the sound of a gust of wind, you are summoned, saying that Uncle Cao is at the top of the tower.With fear and uneasiness, Hu Yan came here, after saluting, he finished the two messages simply and directly, and then stood with his head bowed and hands crossed, waiting for orders.

Unexpectedly, Hu Duwei stood there for a long time without speaking, only hearing the rain outside kept ticking.

Everyone below knows that Uncle Cao has been stubborn from the beginning, which is also an important reason why he became a conservative in Nanya, that is, he happened to have experienced the founding process of the Great Wei when he was young. Besides his eldest brother, he is the most remarkable and powerful person in the world. For this reason, this great master almost unconditionally supports the late emperor's various policies.

Cao Lin was slightly taken aback, and immediately asked, "When was that?"

And Hu Yan also wrote these names on it, then hung them in a row, and tore off Mang Jingang's name.

"Fart!" Cao Lin in front was still trying to endure, but when he heard the word Tiandao, he suddenly yelled loudly. "What qualifications does he have to discuss the way of heaven?! The four supreme beings only dare to talk about it after they have become enlightened!"

These are the other seven nobles of the Eastern Capital and Zhang Shizhao.

A flash of lightning flashed by, and a moment later, there was rumble outside the black tower and the sound of rain started to rush. Cao Huangshu also inexplicably put out his anger, and continued to ask, "Did he really say that?"

"It's the rope." Cao Lin sighed. "It's a rope that binds others as well as myself... It's not the law that I told others in private... In my life, I have been tied to the late Emperor and Dawei."

In this way, one after another, soon, there were only four lists of papers left in front of Cao Zhongcheng. The master's pile of notes was hooked with the string hook of the British father's pile of notes, so that there were only three piles of notes left.

"Liu Wenzhou was placed with Master Nanpo, Cao Shiyu was placed behind Qianjinzhu, and all other mentions of the master were deleted... Zhang Shiben and Zhang Shizhao were placed after Nanpo Master, Xiao Hui and Zhou Xiaoshang were placed behind Qianjinzhu."

"Say what you want." Cao Lin finally turned his head. "Even you, who followed me from the western capital to the eastern capital like you, are unwilling to talk, who else can I talk to?"

After a while, the names of Chong and Daochang were also torn off, this name was too flimsy.

Thinking about it, before I left, that is, the elites of Jing'antai when the final lineup was at its peak, it seems that only Li Qingchen and Qin Er are still there now, but Qin Er... probably can't hold on for a little bit, that is, Li Qingchen Will come up with such an idea.

Cao Lin did not reply to the other party. Maybe he already had the answer in his heart, but he was unwilling to admit it. In fact, after a long silence, the grand master of the royal family suddenly asked his old subordinate a seemingly irrelevant question: "You know What did I visualize when I became an alchemy?"

"You can tear up the notes from the dozen or so people before." At this moment, Cao Zhongcheng, who was sitting there resting his forehead with his hand, suddenly issued another strange order. "Only Mang King Kong is left."

Li Ding is flanked by the Dragon Gang and Ying Gong, while Xue Ting is backed by Li Hong in Hexi.

Hu Yan immediately made up.

Hu Yan was silent for a moment, and he was willing to go all out: "Zhongcheng, Zhongcheng felt that something was wrong seven or eight years ago, but I think it was wrong twelve or thirteen years ago."

"The master of the house, Liu Wenzhou, Niu Dugong, Lai Zhan'er, Tu Wanchang, Yu Jieluo, Xue Changxiong, Xiong Bonan, Cao Shiyu..."

Soon, he spoke again: "Forbidden Army, Seven Demon Slayer Guards, Dongyi Navy These three notes are also written...The Imperial Army is hung behind Sima Huada, and the Seven Devil Slayer Guards are hung behind Heishui Commander , The Dongyi navy is placed on the side of the Dongyi governor."

Hu Yan nodded quickly, deeply agreeing.

"That's when the imperial court succeeded in splitting the Wu tribe, especially when the tribes in the west of the Wu tribe directly attached themselves, and the leaders came to court together." Hu Yan answered seriously. "It was the time when His Majesty decreed to wrap all the big trees in Dongdu with silk... At that time, I was worrying about the dowry because I wanted to propose marriage to my wife. At that time, I thought, why not be a thief and steal a few pieces of silk?" ...But I dare not."

"In fact, people's hearts are easy to deal with." Cao Lin suddenly laughed. "Someone advised me not to count on Jiangdu. Help the emperor's eldest grandson to go up earlier, respect the sage as the Supreme Emperor, and then issue an order to let the army from Jiangdu return to the court. Jiangdu's forbidden army misses their hometown. Some people say that we can first take the opportunity to amnesty the world and resettle them on the spot. Zhang San was granted the title of King of Qi, Xiao Hui was given the title of King of Liang, the Duke of England was given the title of King of Jin, and Li Hong was given the title of King of Xiliang... When the imperial army came back, they should be mopped up first. Xiliang resisted the Wu clan, then went down to Xiangfan, went down the river, and wiped out Jiangnan, then gathered the wealth of Jiangnan, the artisans of Bashu, and the military force of Kanxi, took the land of Jin, and went to Hebei..."

Hu Yan also wrote down more than a dozen names and local states and counties, and then hung them side by side under the rope hook on the wall on the first floor of the tower as required. He knew that these people were probably court officials, and then they changed their banners or did not change their banners. , an independent or semi-independent individual state and county power.

After a while, probably really uneasy in his heart, Hu Yan raised his head carefully, but saw a scene that surprised him - the majestic pillar of the country, the great master, Jing'an Taichung Prime Minister Cao Huangshu, at this time, his beard and hair were dazzled, his eyes were red, He was obviously listening to his subordinate report on the important military situation, but he was actually in a daze, as if he was just staring at the rain outside in a daze.

In the sudden sound of the wind chime, Hu Yan immediately woke up, and then kept silent.

Hu Yan responded in silence, as if he hadn't thought of this level, or dared not speak.

"These two people are not the generation who have lived under others for a long time. They are both young and know how to fight. They are both people who took the initiative to expand and succeed quickly." Cao Lin took the initiative to explain. "Unlike the other dozen or so local officials, it doesn't matter if they oppose it or not. They just hold the territory and have no intention of expanding at all."

Thinking of this, Hu Yan was somewhat touched, but forcibly violated his philosophy of daily affairs, raised his head, and said sincerely: "Zhongcheng, Li Twelve Lang definitely has good intentions... Besides, the situation has reached this point. , Their young people are always unconvinced, and they often don't know that everything in it will affect the whole body."

Hu Yan didn't dare to be negligent, let alone lie, he only mentioned that he had heard that the Huaixi Army had dispatched to support Yancheng in a hurry, and he made it clear about the battle of Yancheng without any omission.

Hu Yan didn't say anything, but noticed that there were only two piles of paper left on the hook in front of him.

Hu Yan didn't dare to be negligent, and immediately replied: "To tell you the truth, the lower officials think that God's will is God's will, but the most important thing is the slackness of people's hearts... The reason why they can be so fast and so anxious just because they said that night is not the same as this year. It is directly related to the drought and the lack of maintenance of water conservancy, but no one cares about water conservancy maintenance in a place like Yingchuan, which is close to the Eastern Capital, this is something that I dare not even think about before."

"I'm not convinced either." Cao Lin's face became a little more lively, and then he looked at the old subordinate in front of him again. "I asked myself that since I was ordered by the late emperor for nearly twenty years, I have never had the slightest disagreement, and I have never been slack in the slightest... It is just that my talents and virtues are a little lacking, but my cultivation is considered to be useful here... But since seven or eight years ago, when the first expedition to Dongyi started, things suddenly went wrong. Seeing the situation getting worse day by day, and people’s hearts falling apart day by day, I seemed to be helpless. How can I be convinced by such a situation? ?”

"So it's just God's will?" Cao Lin sighed.

Hu Yan hesitated to speak.

As for the rest of the Taibaos, most of them were brave and foolish. The Great Taibao and the Second Taibao were able to support a whole county, which was already remarkable, and an old man like himself had already been consumed by the official circles of Dongdu before he went out.

"How exactly did you lose?" Although Cao Lin spoke, his movements remained unchanged. "I want to hear what you have to say."

"Remove Gu Yi, Su Wei, and Niu Hong, and put Bai Hengjin in Bai Hengqiu's place, and the same goes for Duan Wei."

So busy here, Hu Yan was already sweating profusely.

Obviously, these are all higher-level figures who actually controlled a wealthy area, with neither a large nor a small territory.

These are all rebel rebels, occupying less than or at least one county in general, and there are actually more than a dozen of them.

"Yes...it should be?" Hu Yan was cautious.

"However, how can things be so simple?" Cao Lin suddenly changed the topic. "Not to mention that the hearts of the former Dongqi and Nanchen will never return. I am just the eldest grandson of Emperor Fu. I am afraid that I may not be able to win people's hearts. Instead, I will lose people's hearts first... Now there are so many rebels, and the world is known as four hundred states and counties. There are probably two or three hundred people who are good at using swords and soldiers and collecting taxes for themselves, but they are as powerful as the Bai family, as sudden as the Xiao family, and as cunning as the Zhang family. None of them became emperors, not even kings... ...If I instead abolish the establishment first, I am afraid that I will break the hearts of the last loyal officials of the Great Wei and be taken advantage of by others. Li Twelve Lang and the others, it is still easy to think."

Hu Yan just glanced at it, then lowered his head.

"Naturally."

"But if that's the case... why do you allow the policy of disintegrating the world and returning to the situation where the three families stand side by side?" Hu Yan immediately lowered his head after asking this question.

Hu Yan removed the latter name with complicated emotions.

While doing it, Hu Yan suddenly realized.

"It's in Nanchen's old place. One mu of land is reported for three mu, and he found out that he received three times the land tax when he went to Jiangdu to supervise the autumn tax." Hu Yan also took a lot of seriousness. "When I came back, I found that he was in a bad mood. Later, I heard what other people in the team said...it was Zhang Sanlang who told people in private that since the imperial court had done such a thing, and it had been done for decades, It’s not okay to go against it, otherwise it’s going against the way of heaven..."

"Dengzhou Bai Yousi, Huaixi Du Pozhen, Huainan Wang Daiji, Xuzhou Sima Zheng, Hejian Xue Changxiong, Jiyin Li Shu, Jibei Wei Xuanding, Yiyang Zhou Xiaoshang, Tingtaocheng Mrs. Lu, Jinbei Polangdao, Jingxiang Bai Hengyuan..." Cao Lin continued. "Hang these names side by side with Li Ding and Xue Ting... Mang Gangang is gone."

"Madam Lu is too far away, Bai Yousi... is also a little far away, so tear it up too."

The most important one is to implement the Guanlong standard thought through discrimination and oppression of the old places of Southern Chen and Eastern Qi, store money and food in large areas, and relocate local masters above condensed alchemy, including Jing'antai itself, to regularly inspect and monitor local tycoons. Suppression is essentially based on the same kind of thinking.

"Write the Red Emperor next to the Qianjin Pillar, write the Qing Emperor next to the governor of Dongyi, write the Black Emperor next to Zhang Xing and Heishui Da Siming, and write the White Emperor next to the British Duke. Sideways." Cao Lin's words were cold. "Write Sanhui on the side of Chonghe Taoist."

Hu Yan was inexplicably confused: "But, Great Wei... Isn't the most fundamental purpose of Great Wei to unify the world?"

"Li Ding of Wu'an County, Xue Ting of Jincheng County." Cao Lin continued. "Hang these two names side by side, then pull off the rope, and raise the position, which is half higher than the rest of the dozen."

Hu Yan didn't dare to speak anymore.

He had heard both of these names before. The former was the prefect of Wu'an, but annexed Xiangguo County on his own, and the other was the school lieutenant of the Jincheng Witch Clan. There were originally [-] elites, but he annexed two or three counties around Jincheng.

And this action, in the end, alarmed the great master, who finally said: "I see... Are you here, Old Hu, during the first battle in Yancheng?"

These are the peripheral and recent gurus.

Hu Yan almost staggered.

Although Hu Yan was puzzled, he didn't dare to be negligent, and immediately followed his words. Soon, only Li Ding, Xue Ting, and Mang Jingang, who was half a body lower, were left on the hooks on the wall.

"Chonghe Taoist, Master Nanpo, Governor of Dongyi, Our Lady of Nanling, Commander of Heishui, Qianjinzhu... Duke of England."

"Sima Zheng, Wang Daiji, and Xue Changxiong didn't retaliate, they just tore them up."

Cao Lin was also silent for a moment, and then nodded with difficulty: "What you said makes sense...I just thought it was inappropriate at the time, but I didn't realize it until I was in charge of my own family in the past two years and interfered more with finances and people's livelihood. It's too bad, because my family, officials, soldiers and civilians are all poor, so how can there be any reason to take out so many things and just tie them to a tree to save face?"

Hu Yan shook his head again and again: "The people below have speculated a lot, but the officials really don't know the truth."

Cao Lin shook his head: "No matter how arrogant this man is, he's still a little Zhang Shizhao. You can still listen to Zhang Shizhao's words as long as he speaks... However, what he meant was from the perspective of people from Dongqi and Nanchen. , I also admit that the current situation of the Great Wei can only be rebuilt when the three kingdoms stand side by side, and then take Guanlong as the foundation, and swallow the other two."

After supplementing hard, Cao Lin continued to study, and then suddenly stepped forward, tore off the weakest group of papers, Li Hong, Li Ding, and Li Cheng, and threw them on the ground, followed by Sima Huada, and then Dongyi University. The governor, the old lady of the Nanling Madonna, and the commander of Heishui... landed together, as well as notes from the Forbidden Army, the Demon Guards, and the Dongyi Navy.

Only then did Hu Yan know that this plan came from Li Qingchen.

What they have in common is that none of them directly declared treason, but they all showed sufficient military literacy, and they all have real powerful forces around them, making it difficult to figure out their true position.

This shows that Cao Zhongcheng believes that Duan Shangshu is also a member of the British Duke.

These are great masters!But only part of it was said, and there were inexplicably more British princes who had already written their names.

"Then," Hu Yan continued. "I once heard someone say that Zhang Xing decided to rebel because of another matter that day..."

"Let's not talk about this anymore...Since we're here, I'm short of manpower. Do me a favor." Cao Zhongcheng continued to order. "I said, you write it, and then hang it on the rope hook on the front wall for me."

And Cao Lin finally stood up, walked to Hu Yan's side, and carefully looked at the last remaining notes.

"Duan Wei, Gu Yi, Qian Shiying, Bai Hengjin, Niu Hong, Su Wei, Zhang Shiben... plus Zhang Shizhao, this old boy will not die easily."

"Yes." Hu Yan immediately bowed his head and spoke again.

Then, Cao Lin thought for a long time, but while taking off a pile of papers from Zhang Xing and throwing them away one by one, he sighed with emotion: "Zhang Sanlang is good in everything, but no great master is fighting for him. Besides, his Dragon Suppression Gang is too complicated, why can these people gather together to listen to him?"

"Li Hong, Bai Hengqiu, Li Cheng, Zhang Xing, Xiao Hui." Cao Lin said another string of names. "Li Hong, Li Cheng, and Li Ding hang together; Zhang Xing, Li Shu, Wei Xuanding, and Du Pozhen hang together; Xiao Hui, Zhou Xiaoshang hang together; Bai Hengqiu, Bai Hengyuan, and Polang Dao hang together. "

"What is it?" Cao Lin became more serious.

Cao Lin thought of the recent waterlogging in the Eastern Capital, and nodded his head in agreement, but then asked, "How can we deal with people's hearts?"

Hu Yan hastily tore, wrote, pasted, and hung.

Hu Yan was both surprised and stunned.

Hu Yan naturally bowed his head and said yes.

"Daijun Er Gao, Huaiyang Mang Kongang, Hengshan Wang Chenkuo, Internal Servant Wang Zhuo, Yiyang Zhu Zhou..."

Hu Yan was dumbfounded.

"Zhao Tuo, governor of Huaiyang, Cao Wang, governor of Liang County, Feng Wuyi of Zhao County, Yuan Baocun of Wuyang County, Chen Ling of Diaoyin County, Zhao Yan of Brazil County, Gonggao of Lelang..." Cao Lin blurted out. He said a dozen names in one breath.

One is the former leader of the True Fire Sect, and it is generally believed that the old leader is a tower of gold; the other is the British Gongbai Hengqiu who inexplicably hooked up with the old master Nanpo.

At this time, Cao Lin turned to Hu Yan, and revealed his original intention to this old subordinate in the rain: "If Dawei really wants to collapse, I will definitely not allow myself to be powerless to watch. Fortunately, I still have a body with a little cultivation. If you can act, then follow this order and desperately tie up the most important people to deal with them in turn."

As he said that, Cao Zhongcheng tore off the large pile of papers that said Qianjinzhu, leaving only the papers of British Gongbai Hengqiu fluttering in the wind in the pagoda.

The rain continued, and Hu Yan felt like he was sweating profusely.

(End of this chapter)

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