Destiny Only Han

Chapter 343 Han Xin: People sit at home, and the pot comes from the sky...

"Hit, hit until he moves!"

In the execution room, Hou Feng's voice without any emotion echoed repeatedly.

Opposite him, Li Zi, who was tied to a wooden stake, seemed to have fainted even though he had been beaten to the point where he looked like no one.

But when Hou Feng's voice sounded, he still woke up in a jerk.

Immediately afterwards, Li Zi's begging voice full of infinite fear sounded: "Please, no, don't fight anymore, I really can't remember..."

Hou Feng put down the case file in his hand, looked at the jailer standing aside, holding a whip, and said: "A book written by my teacher once said that Zhou was a meat garden, set up cannons, climbed the dregs, and stood next to the wine pool. "

"What is cannonball?"

"It is to heat the copper pillar with charcoal fire, tie people to the copper pillar and scald them to death..."

He raised his eyes to see the pupils suddenly locked, and the trembling selfishness, and then said:
"But in the words of His Royal Highness, it is too inhuman."

"I am a great man who rules the world by virtue, so this kind of torture is naturally useless. It's just that in extraordinary times, we should use extraordinary methods."

"Come here, bring a charcoal basin and a soldering iron!"

The soldering iron mentioned by Hou Feng refers to a tool with imprints engraved on it, which can be used to prevent theft by leaving marks on the buttocks of horses or cattle and sheep.

A self-interested official who was born at the bottom, he naturally knew what a soldering iron was and what Hou Feng wanted to do.

So he began to struggle frantically on the stake, and shouted hysterically: "Kill me...quick! Kill me..."

It's just that Hou Feng smiled suddenly, leaning forward, with a perverted smile on his face:

"Kill you? Why am I willing to kill you? Do you know? I still have 32 instruments of torture that I haven't tested on you?"

"Hey, hey hey hey..."

For a moment, not only the selfishness tied to the wooden stake was frightened, but even the jailers standing beside Hou Feng, who claimed to be used to the darkness, couldn't help taking half a step back.

After a while, hearing the sound of footsteps approaching from far to near, his self-interested emotions completely collapsed, and he said in a crying voice: "I really don't know who it is, I only know that they seem to be from Chu, and, and look His speech and demeanor seem to belong to the government!"

After listening to the selfish words, the smile on Hou Feng's face gradually disappeared.

If things are really as self-interested, then the problem is big!

People from Chu have a government background!
Hou Feng's intuition felt that selfishness did not lie. After all, buying weapons and armor is not buying carrots. If you want to escort those many armors across counties, ordinary people, even local tyrants, cannot do it.

Then the identity of this group of Chu people is obvious.

Han Xin, or Yingbu.

The former is the king of Chu, while the latter is the king of Huainan. The fief is not only close to Chen County, but also the territory is all Chu!
Thinking of this, Hou Feng suddenly stood up, turned around and walked out.

The matter has developed to the present, and it is no longer within the scope of what he can solve independently.

Looking at the figure of Hou Feng leaving quickly, several jailers in the execution room looked at each other in blank dismay. With their political wisdom, they could not yet taste the deeper meaning from the self-interested words.

It's just that they looked at the crimson charcoal basin, and then at the selfishness tied to the stake.

"Next, what should we do?"

"Did you tell me to stop?"

"No."

"Then go on!"

"Go on, don't you see what time it is now? Annual salary is fifty shi, what are you doing!"

"That's right, let's go and have a drink, I invite you!"

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In the east of Liyang City, Hou Feng's carriage galloped through the streets and alleys in the night.

Although the city is under curfew at this time, the carriage with the Tingwei hanging on it is not prohibited, let alone the Tingwei himself, one of the Nine Ministers, sitting in the carriage. The soldiers watching the night saw it from a distance and retreated straight to the road On both sides, wait for the carriage to pass and continue patrolling.

Not long after, the driver saw two iconic big pagoda trees on Central Avenue, so he slowed down and drove straight over.

There is a quiet alley between two big locust trees, wide enough for two carriages to run side by side. On both sides of the street are houses that are completely different from ordinary lifangs. Although the outside is quiet and dark, the further you go in, the more people are buzzing with lights. brightly lit.

Many towering ancient trees stretch out from the courtyard wall, and the branches cover the sky, making the whole street look extraordinarily deep.

Here, all the people who live here are Gonghou, as well as high-ranking officials and generals with power.

So when Hou Feng's carriage was driving here, Hou Feng himself had to get out of the carriage from time to time, and walk through the large houses with closed gates but with various flags at the gates.

In later generations, this kind of rule was called civil officials off the sedan chair and military officials off their horses.

Don't look at Hou Feng is now the Tingwei of the middle two thousand stones, but he doesn't have a title above Guanneihou for a day, and he will be like this for a day, even his home is actually on this street...

Hou Feng walked to the middle of the street and alley, and saw the gates of two mansions facing each other obliquely. The steps of the gate on the left were spotless, except for the occasional servants who were watching the night, it was silent.

Here is where Zhang Liang lived.

Since Liu Bang proclaimed himself emperor, except for occasional business trips, Zhang Liang stayed out of the door for the rest of the time. He did not see any guests on the grounds of recuperation.

But in the courtyard on the right side of Hou Feng, it was even more silent, not even the servants watching the night...

This is Chen Ping's home.

Although Chen Ping often has a lot of wealth in his hands, for example, Liu Bang gave him [-] gold at one time when he separated Xiang Yu from his monarch and ministers...

According to the comparison of gold and copper after Liu Ying reformed half taels into five baht coins, one gold is approximately equivalent to 550 two five baht coins! (Note 1)

Forty thousand gold is more than 8 million five baht!
Here, Chen Ping simply withholds a little bit, which is enough for him to live a very prosperous life.

After all, Liu Bang suspects no one and never checks the accounts.

But Chen Ping was able to be honest and self-defensive. On the one hand, he repayed Liu Bang with a national scholar, but on the other hand, he was guarding against Zhou Bo...

Chen Ping's sister-in-law received the name of Jin because of Zhou Bo's unguarded mouth...

Hou Feng stood in the middle of the street, looked around, but finally decided to go forward and knock on the door of Chen Ping's room.

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study.

Chen Ping lit a candle on the table with a fire book.

Under the dim light, he looked at Hou Feng, whose face was sinking like water, and asked, "Ting Wei came here at night, but what happened?"

Hou Feng didn't say much, but put the confession obtained after the self-interested torture in front of Chen Ping.

The matter involved two major vassal states, and if one was not handled properly, the world that had just calmed down would once again fall into the flames of war.

Although the scholars of Taoism do not have a heart of compassion, they are all cruel officials who follow the orders of the monarch and like harsh punishments and laws, but Hou Feng, who has wasted half his life, is not the stunned youth he was when he was young.

If the world is in chaos again in his hands, Liu Bang will definitely cut off his head first...

Therefore, he didn't want his own judgment to affect Chen Ping's judgment.

Well, the reason why he looked for Chen Ping instead of Zhang Liang was not because of their intelligence and status, but because everyone in the Han Kingdom knew what Chen Ping was mainly responsible for at this time.

Under the dimly flickering candlelight, Chen Ping hurriedly read over a dozen pages of confession, then picked up the first page, and read it again carefully from the beginning.

In an instant, his brows frowned into the word 'Chuan'.

Although the intelligence he learned from various sources made him psychologically prepared for the seriousness of the situation, what he never expected was that things had developed to such a degree!
Because Chen Jun is located at an important node in the Honggou River System, the weapons and armor that were previously transported to Gaixia were first transported to Chen Jun, and then transferred to Gaixia again.

Moreover, after the Battle of Gaixia, the central government of the Han Dynasty continued to send a large number of purchased weapons and armor to the Chen County Arsenal for some deeper considerations.

The number of heavy infantry armor consisting of more than 1000 armor leaves alone has reached an astonishing more than 3 pairs!
Today, only a fraction of these things remain!

As for those crossbows, spears, shields and long knives, they disappeared without a trace like snow in the sun.

You must know that these standard equipment in the Han army are prohibited from being manufactured and equipped by the armies of the vassal states.

Especially those heavy infantry armors that looked like tin cans and were almost invulnerable to weapons and guns. After the Battle of Gaixia, the armies of the vassal states were forced to turn them in, and the registration books were sealed up.

Now that tens of thousands of sets of heavy infantry armor are lost, if someone with a heart disassembles the armor leaves and mixes them with inferior armor pieces forged privately, at least a 10 full-armor regiment can be armed!
And relying on the main army of 10 people, if someone with as many people as possible can operate it, it will be enough to pull up a huge army of 50 people within three years!

Chu is rich and populous.

So, it's not impossible!
At this moment, even Chen Ping, who was used to big scenes, could not help but tremble slightly with the hand holding the confession.

The reason why he suspected that it was Han Xin and not Yingbu who bought armor weapons in private was actually very simple.

At this time, Yingbu has already led a mission of dozens of people and lived in the posthouse in Luoyang. He will come to Liyang in two or three days to prepare for the New Year's Day celebration.

Han Xin, on the other hand, only sent envoys to bring some local products from Sishui County, as well as a letter stating that he was sick and could not come to the Hajj!

In addition, during the previous battle against Yan, the princes and kings of various families either beheaded Zang Tu's envoys or sent them to Liu Bang's army in person, but Han Xin was the only one who was unwilling to go to Liu Ying for a consultation, and secondly, he did not send Zang Tu's envoys to Liu Bang's army. The news of Zang Tu's messenger was written to explain.

If you are not guilty, how can this happen?

Chen Ping put down the confession in his hand, thinking about Han Xin's attempt to crack the earth to seal the king, and threatened Liu Bang to make him the king of Qi when Liu Bang was in danger, his judgment became more and more firm!

So he stood up, randomly took a cloak, turned his head to look at Hou Feng: "Go, follow me into the palace to meet His Majesty!"

Hou Feng hesitated: "Is it too late now? Your Majesty should be asleep at this point, right?"

Chen Ping shook his head: "The situation is urgent, there is no room for delay!"

(Note 1, the data comes from Ju Yanhanjian.)
(End of this chapter)