Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 739 Being a traitor is not so easy
God capital, Luoyang.

Ever since Pei Yuan was appointed as the right servant of Zhongshu and the servant of Luantai, the commander of the bodyguard Ma Buqin army, and the governor of Zhili's prefectures and counties, Empress Cao Yanxi has done a big thing.

She handed over her second son, the eighth son Zhang Xianzai who was only three years old, to her elder sister, and the imperial concubine Cao Yannai to Luoyang, the capital of the gods.

After Cao Yannai arrived in Luoyang, the Ziwei Palace in Luoyang immediately imposed martial law.

The guarding work of the entire palace was in charge of the only surviving general of the old Guiyi army, Luo Tongda, the prime minister during the period of Zhang Teng's father Zhang Chengfeng.

The city defense of Luoyang was in charge of Cao Yanming, Duke of Ziting County who had just stepped down from the construction envoy of Shendu Ying.
Eighty percent of the people used in this imperial guard system came from Helong, and among these eighty percent, more than sixty percent came from various families of the Guasha Lao Guiyi Army.

It can be said that, except for the people from the Lao Guiyi Army faction, they can't get close at all.

At the same time, Cao Yannai also took Zhang Xianzai to live in Ziwei Palace.

The reason why Empress Cao Yanxi wanted to do this was because she saw the turbulent waves that seemed to calm down.

In less than a year since Zhang Ting left Jingzhao Chang'an Mansion to go to Chengtian Liangzhou Mansion, everything that Pei Yuan did was dangerous enough.

Some things, even Cao Yanxi felt that Pei Yuan had gone too far and played too much.

Tokyo, Kaifeng Prefecture
After Zhang Ting sent an angel to announce his appointment, everyone thought that Pei Yuan would be a treacherous official who would monopolize power.

But on the contrary, at the beginning Pei Yuan didn't move at all, and even going to the court seemed to be perfunctory just for the sake of pointing.

For two whole months, he didn't take any power, and didn't deal with a major event.

At first everyone thought that Pei Yuan was just pretending, but seeing that he kept acting badly for two full months, many people believed it now.

It was rumored in private that Pei Yuan had fallen out of favor a long time ago and was sent to take the blame by the emperor, and now he dare not do anything to protect himself.

Um!Very reasonable.

This time, the emperor is not here, and the "treacherous officials" who can be called the power regent are frightened, why don't we hurry up and start having fun?

All of a sudden, ghosts and monsters from all walks of life came out, the old Wu Xun who had no ambitions after Zhang Shengren entered the Central Plains.The heavy loss of Wubao Haoqiang.After the Qianzhuanghui was seized, the resentful Buddhist sects immediately started acting as demons.

Then, Pei Yuan let them roam free for another month, and suddenly started Operation Thunder.

Pei Yuan took advantage of his authority to directly transfer the inspectors from Zhili Hezhong Mansion and Shanzhou Mansion and the guards of the two mansions to Kaifeng Mansion in Tokyo, and then, according to the criminal evidence collected in the past three months, he was arrested one by one. Arrests.

To be honest, an emperor like me, Zhang Shengren, came from an era when politics was relatively loose in later generations, and he was not a strict king at all.

It can even be said that compared with the kings of previous dynasties, Zhang Shengren is quite tolerant in the scope of the founding hero and the wise lord.

In terms of ranking, it is estimated that they will only be ranked behind Han Guangwu and former Qin Fujian.

In this week, as long as you don't brazenly confront Zhang Shengren, don't break the law of the king, or even jump out to do it yourself, Zhang Shengren rarely kills people, and rarely makes the people below feel uneasy for PUA.

Is this style good?

In general, it is very good. You must know that since the end of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, the pursuit of the sword is the truth. The martial arts from top to bottom (the emperor is also a martial artist) will not reason with you at all. When encountering things, they will cut the whole society. It became a sickness.

Therefore, Zhang Tie's tolerant style soon brought long-lost peace to this violent society.

This is also the reason why Zhang Ting used the Donggui faction and Lianglan Liugu faction who entered the Central Plains to eat most of the benefits of the old Donghe and Daibei Wuxun, but did not cause much turmoil.

Everyone is longing for a stable and orderly society.

But without the turmoil, and in such a benevolent atmosphere, there are many crimes and violations of law and discipline.

People, most of them don't remember to fight, and after a few years of quietness, these guys whose interests have been damaged in the process of establishing a new dynasty began to act.

Although he couldn't compete with Conglong Gongchen from the Helong area, he had to find a place to make up for the losses he suffered.

Can't beat the heroes of the dragon, and I can't beat the heads of the Guizhou below?
Therefore, when Pei Yuan arrived at Kaifeng Mansion in Tokyo, he found that Zhang Zhouchao's social order had reached the point where it had to be reversed.

Although Zhang Xichong is strict, that is for officials. He has done a good job in terms of character and in supervising the efficiency of officials.

In the past few years since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the imperial court has continued to conquer the north and south, and Zhang Xichong has provided perfect guarantees in matters such as the supply and deployment of food, grass, supplies, mules, horses, carts, and boats, without any mistakes.

It can even be said that with the assistance of the privy envoy Guo Tiance, Zhang Xichong built the Great Zhou Center, which is the most efficient and complete among the hundreds of power centers that have appeared since the Anshi Rebellion. The restriction of arrogant soldiers and powerful generals is also the most successful.

But in other respects, in the face of a large number of new and old ministers' crimes, and the encroachment of folk wealth by the Hexi Chamber of Commerce, Qianzhuang Association, and Buddhism, Zhang Xichong most likely deliberately ignored it.

Because his most important task at that time was to use the finances that were not abundant to support the army's southern and northern wars.

So Pei Yuan knew what he should do, and only then did he have three months of fishing law enforcement, and then began to collect the net.

On June [-]th, Pei Yuan arrested a large number of the Northeast officials of the old Rihe River who forcibly occupied the land, robbed the women, robbed the shops, and even beat them to death.

For these people, Pei Yuan strictly followed the legal situation, beat the board, punished them with hard labor, and exiled them.

He even beheaded a few unlucky ones to make an example of them. Even Concubine Kang's cousin in the palace, that is, Kang Fu's grandson, was sentenced to death.

You must know that Kang Fu was very kind to Zhang Ting, who was weak and weak in the past. Concubine Kang was very beautiful, good at singing and dancing, and gave birth to a prince. She was also very favored. Her cousin, Pei Yuan Kill as soon as you say, without blinking an eye.

On June 27, the father of Su Guogong Li Cunhui's concubine's father forcibly demolished the water trucks of the people along the river because of irrigation problems, and ordered his servants to kill one of the people and wound more than ten people.

Pei Yuan also mercilessly detained this idiot known as Su Guogong's father-in-law, and the four thugs who shot to death and injured the people were all executed directly.

In July, Pei Yuan instructed the left-behind personnel of the Zhongshu Province and the Ministry of Rites to form an inner court to supervise the Yushi Yamen, and began to seize the Hexi Chamber of Commerce and the Qianzhuang Association for surprise audits and investigations.

In recent years, Zhang Zhou's Hexi Chamber of Commerce and Qianzhuang Association are almost in a state of barbaric growth.

Because Zhang Tie didn't know anything about finance at all, and in order to raise money to fight wars and control various Buddhist schools in the Central Plains, he got out of bank notes and bank associations.

Up to now, although the Hexi Chamber of Commerce and the Qianzhuanghui have indeed made great contributions to the imperial court, their power has expanded to the point where they have begun to compete with the imperial court's household department for financial power after they were negligently controlled by Zhang Tie, and they are even called "real" by officials. household department.

On the one hand, Pei Yuan cracked down on crimes such as corruption, dereliction of duty, and competition with the government for profits in the Hexi Chamber of Commerce and the Qianzhuang Association.

On the one hand, he was preparing to write a letter to Zhang Tie to merge most of the functions of the Qianzhuanghui into the Transshipment Department, and then merged to form a new government office - the Gold, Silver, Salt and Iron Transshipment Department, which would be directly managed by the Minister of Shangshu, and the remaining small part would simply become the private property of the royal family.

As for the Hexi Chamber of Commerce, Pei Yuan even suggested canceling some of its functions and merging it into Jinyi Guards.

As a result, for some reason, this memorial was leaked before it was released, which immediately aroused huge waves of opposition.

The leader of the Hexi Chamber of Commerce, Zhang Liecheng's father-in-law Cao Wanjin even publicly drew out his waist knife and said that as long as Pei Yuan dared to listen to this melody, he would come and fight Pei Yuan to the death.

After hearing this, Pei Yuan immediately grabbed Cao Wanjin's youngest son's unclean hands and feet without saying a word, and sent him to prison. Cao Wanjin searched everywhere anxiously, but couldn't rescue the youngest son, and his reputation plummeted.

But from then on, Pei Yuan needed heavy guards from soldiers when he went out.

Even at the court meeting, there are warriors guarding the side with their swords, otherwise they might be beaten, showing the true qualities of treacherous officials.

In August, when Zhang Ting was preparing to conquer the eight tribes of the enemy, Pei Yuan started to attack the Buddhism in the Central Plains again.

First, in the name of the upcoming birthday of the emperor's birth mother, the Empress Dowager Cisheng, he ordered Buddhist monks from the four provinces of Zhili, Hebei, Hedong, and Jiaodong to gather in Kaifeng, Tokyo, to chant scriptures and pray for the Empress Dowager Cisheng.

It is also clearly required that the abbots and the chief priests of major temples in various places must come in person.

As a result, as soon as these virtuous and eminent monks arrived, Pei Yuan immediately sent Jingqi from Hanhai Town, with the cooperation of Marquis Wu and patrol inspectors from various places, to make a surprise inspection of the situation in each temple.

This is Tiaohu Lishan and Heihu digging out his heart!

You must know that since the Anshi Rebellion, especially after Tang Wuzong exterminated Buddhism, the imperial court did not issue much certificates to monks at all.

And with the weakening of the imperial court's control, many temples didn't take Duyi seriously.

The actual situation now is that most monasteries, except for a small number of monks, do not have a certificate at all.

So, in less than ten days, Pei Yuan found out all the information about these large temples with more than 300 monks, and registered all the monks who did not have a certificate.

After that, they ordered the local governments to check all the temples in their jurisdictions, even if there are only three or five monks, they must be checked.

Although Pei Yuan did not further announce what would happen to the monks who did not have a degree, all the major temples smelled extremely ominous.

So soon, in response to the government's start to investigate Dudu, temples in the five provinces of Zhili, Hedong, Hebei, Jiaodong, and Jianghuai all broke out resistance and even armed rebellion.

The reason is simple, what kind of person needs to take the initiative to become a monk?
There are only two kinds, one is related to the temple, they donate to the temple voluntarily, and send their fields in the temple to pretend to be temple land, in order to pay less or even no tax.

The other type is those who have committed crimes, and most of them are serious criminals. They either escape from their enemies, or from the government, or even just to cover themselves as monks and travel around conveniently, and they join Buddhism.

This trend was very popular in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties and the Northern Song Dynasty. Even in the Ming Dynasty, it was still a popular deception method. Just think about the routines of Lu Zhishen and Wu Song in the Water Margin.

This is not Buddhism, it is a den of bandits.

Historically, before Guo Rong exterminated the Buddha, he specially formed a bodyguard Mabu pro-army to replace the Forbidden Army dominated by Daibei and Hedong warriors whose force began to weaken.

When recruiting brave warriors from all over the world to join the Ma Bu army, Guo Rong almost asked these people who were hiding in the temple to join them by name.

It was not until the disarmament that a large number of temples relied on were basically disarmed that the smooth operation of exterminating the Buddha began.

In Zhang Zhou, the warriors Zhang Tie himself brought from the Helong area were already very good at fighting, and he also got the followers of Guanzhong righteousness composed of tens of thousands of Guanzhong men.

Although some pro-army and forbidden troops were recruited in the Central Plains later, the scale cannot be compared with Guo Rong in history.

And here, the position of the top warriors in Zhang Ting's place is already full, and compared with the historical Hou Zhou, there is also a big lack of attractiveness.

Therefore, there are still many vicious and vicious people hidden in the countryside and in the major temples.

This is also the reason why Pei Yuan needs to mobilize the soldiers of the inspection departments of Hezhong and Shanzhou near Guanzhong and the guards of the prefectures and counties.

Because this is a tough battle, which is different from the public security war fought by large corps.

In two months, the five provinces, from the towns to the countryside, were physically integrated.

Even the patrol inspectors who controlled a place, this kind of toubob military officer at the grassroots level of Zhang Zhou, killed seven people in battle, which shows how fierce the battle is.

Of course, the most intense one was in Kaifeng Mansion, Tokyo. One day ago, Pei Yuan took a carriage to the early court, but when he was about to reach the imperial city, a group of assassins suddenly appeared.

They are very skilled, have a clear division of labor, and are even equipped with fuyuan crossbows.

A group of people dragged Pei Yuan's guards down, and the other sharpshooters armed with fuyuan crossbows had already set up an ambush on the tall buildings, and within a few breaths, they fired six arrows in succession, all of which hit the carriage.

However, Pei Yuan, who is used to intimidating others, is naturally very careful.

He installed steel plates on both sides of the carriage, and he wore a chain armor twisted with steel wires weighing more than 20 kilograms at any time. The accompanying guards usually started with 30 people.

Of course, the outcome was that 13 of the [-] assassins were killed on the spot, and the rest were also injured, so they should not have run far.

In an unremarkable courtyard in Kaifeng Mansion, Tokyo, a tall and tall young man very nimbly got in through a very hidden dog hole at the bottom of the wall.

The posture is extremely smooth, and there is not even much clay on the robe. It can be seen that he must have drilled many times and is very proficient.

"Second Uncle, I found out. Among the Fuyuan crossbows they used, three of them came from Hedong craftsmen as supervisors. The place where they settled down in Tokyo was a small merchant from Hebei. Everything seems to have nothing to do with Huainan and Huaibei."

The second uncle mentioned by the boy was the 'big traitor' Pei Yuan who had just escaped the assassination.

Pei Yuan snorted coldly, "It's a cover-up. They never dreamed that in the black markets of Tokyo, Shendu, Zhengzhou, Guide, and Xuchang in Zhili, there would be such a beheading tool as Fuyuannu." , [-]% are controlled by Jinyi's personal guards, and [-]% are under the orders of Jinyi's personal guards.

No matter how they concealed their whereabouts, as long as they used the Fuyuan crossbow, they could not escape the surveillance of the court. "

The young man also chuckled, "With the IQ of Li Renshu, the Huaibei thief, he wouldn't understand that the relationship between Second Uncle and Cao Wanjin was just acting, and Zhang Gong, the commander of Jinyi's personal guard, didn't want to get rid of Second Uncle.

But Second Uncle can't take risks like this again in the future, if there is something wrong with you, we Wenxi Pei, then it will be really bad luck. "

In Pei Yuan's slender and strange eyes, there was a rare warmth, and he patted the shoulder of the young man in front of him.

"Some things can only be done by my second uncle, a saint has difficulties like a saint.

The purpose of this risk is to lure Li Renshu and the others out. These people are still in the dark, and they can still send Master Cixian to Xiangji Temple, which is guarded by layers of guards. If they are not wiped out, the saint's trip to Bozhou will be ruined Dangerous. "

After finishing speaking, Pei Yuan seemed to be a little emotional, "Wenxi Pei! In the Great Dynasty alone, there were 17 prime ministers, and a peerless talent like Xian Gong (Pei Xingjian), but now, only you and me are left. Uncle and nephew.

Zhong Pu, if something happened here, I will recommend you to be admitted to the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China. With this old face of a certain family, the saint will definitely take you by my side.

It depends on you whether our Pei family can produce another Xian Gong. "

There is a reason for Pei Yuan to be so emotional. He dared to act so cruelly. He stopped doing many things halfway through. This is obviously clearing the way for the emperor!

Therefore, those who are familiar with Emperor Zhang's personality and are more politically sensitive know who is standing behind Pei Yuan. This is also an important reason why Pei Yuan has not been opposed by everyone.

But after Pei Yuan did these things, even his father was afraid that Pei Yuan would implicate the Pei clan, publicly severed ties with him, and ran back to Wenxi's hometown.

Of the dozens of Pei family members, the only one who followed him was his nephew Pei Ji Pei Zhongpu.

Pei Ji was overjoyed, and kowtowed to Pei Yuan. He knew how rare this opportunity was. No matter how many people kowtowed and broke their legs, they couldn't find such a way.

Serve directly beside the Holy Son of Heaven!And the uncle did not leave such an opportunity to his son, but to him, which is indeed a great kindness.

Historically, Pei Ji was almost the last glory of Wenxi's Pei family. Wu Neng led an iron cavalry formation to kill thousands of Khitan heads, and Wen Neng stabilized the place and brought it into great order.

He was also the last general of the Han family in Shuofang. He died in battle when Li Jiqian captured Lingzhou. After him, Shuofang returned to the hands of the Han people. It was already Zhu Hongwu's time.

Pei Yuan helped Pei Ji up, then drew out the dagger and handed it to Pei Ji.

"I can't do it myself, come on!"

The 15-year-old Pei Ji shook his head violently, "Why does uncle need to do this? Nephew, don't let him go!"

"Of course you have to do a full set of acting. You have practiced martial arts since you were young, and you know the seriousness better than someone. This knife must make outsiders look very serious. You can't be a director for at least ten days. Hurry up!"

Pei Yuan let out a low cry, and Pei Ji burst into tears. After taking three or four deep breaths, he became ruthless and stabbed Pei Yuan with his knife.

The bloody smell wafted away suddenly, and the sky turned pale. A news spread rapidly in Kaifeng Prefecture, Tokyo.

Zhao Guogong Pei Yuan was assassinated and was seriously injured. He has not gotten up until now, and even the imperial physician in the palace has rushed over.

Along with the news of Pei Yuan's injury, there were also surging waves that were already undercurrent.

The situation of the emperor's expedition to Mobei is unknown, the empress of Jianguo is in a panic, and the life and death of the appointed ministers are unknown. This is the best time.

However, some people would not have imagined that the ultimate purpose of Pei Yuan's turbulent waves was to muddy the water, so that some guys who had been hiding at the bottom of the water could actively or passively reveal their true colors.

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