A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 640 If you dare to attack Hou Junji today, you will dare to rebel tomorrow.
almost instantly,
Wu Huaiyu has finished a set of combos,
Hou Junji had no resistance.

It's not that he can withstand beatings very well, or that he doesn't fight back, but Wu Huaiyu's blows are very fast and violent, and he hits directly with critical hits.
He immediately knocked Hou Junji into shock, and the next few hits were all for free.
After Huaiyu finished the set and stepped back, Hou Junji fell to the ground stiffly. A strong man weighing more than 200 kilograms suddenly fell to the ground and hit the palace. He even made a loud sound. ,

Push the golden mountain, fall the jade pillar,
Hou Junji had rough skin and thick flesh, but Wu Huaiyu's fighting was not aimed at the belly. The first blow was a knee to the chin, and then two blows to both cheeks and even the head.

Finally another knee.

I fainted directly.

There was an uproar in the hall.

The 180-pound Wu Huaiyu took away the [-]-pound Hou Junji. This was a result that no one expected.

I'm afraid Hou Junji didn't expect it.

The guards at the entrance of the palace were stunned and didn't know what to do.

Qin Qiong came up and pulled Huaiyu away, squatted down and inspected Hou Junji.

"Still breathing,"

Wu Huaiyu stood there and looked coldly at Hou Junji who fell to the ground, "Don't worry, I have a sense of discretion. I just knocked him out. It's not serious. I can pinch him and he will wake up."

Qin Qiong reached out and pinched the person fiercely.

Sure enough, Hou Junji woke up from the pain very quickly. He was still a little confused when he woke up.

My eyes are blurry,

Who am I, where am I, how am I lying on the ground,

After a while, Hou Junji finally came to his senses and remembered Wu Huaiyu's surprise attack on him.

Hou Junji's face was swollen and he pointed at Wu Huaiyu angrily.
But Wu Huaiyu just stood there and mocked him slightly, "Hou Sanshui, weren't you very powerful when you cursed yesterday? You also said that I, Wu Huaiyu, have no ability. Why are you shooting arrows while I am still nursing, and you can hit me with one hand?" I eat shit?
What, just lip service? "

Hou Junji was angry and ashamed, "You, you sneak attack, you don't follow martial ethics, you are shameless!"

"Ha ha,"

"I'm standing in front of you and taking action, you say I'm a sneak attack? How about I stand here and let you take action first, and then we'll make gestures. If your skills are not as good as others, don't make excuses. You're in your 30s, and you still claim to be a general." My son, what are you saying about riding a horse and shooting arrows at the age of seven or eight, but now you can't even hit a fixed target right now, and you are just a reckless man who rushes around with a spear?
The sage asked you to study more, and asked you to learn the art of war from Dai Guogong and follow the middle school culture of Wei Shi, but have you really studied it with your heart?
When you took over as the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, when you saw the word "敕Du" in the comment of a candidate official, you actually pronounced it as "Zhang Du" in public.
"Jidu" is the title of a chapter in the Book of Songs, referring to a lonely red tang tree. When used in official selection comments, it means that this person has little help.
Later, the concubine Zhang Liang, the imperial censor, gave birth to a son for him. You sent congratulatory notes to people, and you just wrote "Nongzhang's happiness" as "Nongzhang's happiness".

Shame on you, Hou Sanshui.

You have the nerve to look down on this today and look down on that tomorrow. While others are making great contributions on the front lines, you are jealous and ridiculing in the rear.

If you have the ability, let’s use real swords and guns to show off.
Come on, I'll stand here and let you go first. Let's just show off our fists and kicks. I won't compete with you on archery or poetry."

Killing people hurts the heart, hitting people in the face.

Hou Jun gritted his teeth in anger, but the next moment, he felt something was wrong with his teeth.

Only then did he realize that three of his teeth were shattered after Wu Huaiyu hit him with two knees. Yesterday, Su Lie knocked out two more.

There was blood in his mouth, his lips were broken, and his jaw bone seemed to be cracked.

My face is still burning,
Yesterday's old injury was not healed, but today it is a new one.

With everyone watching,
Hou Junji's eyes turned red and he was about to go berserk.

Wei Zheng shouted loudly, "I haven't followed the order to go home and reflect."

This voice woke up Hou Junji. This is the palace, this is the Wude Palace. Although the emperor has left, he is still guilty. He has to go home and reflect on his mistakes. If he fights with Wu Huaiyu again in this palace , then no one can save him.

After swallowing the knocked-out teeth and blood, Hou Junji clenched his fists and tried his best to suppress his anger.

He crossed his hands and saluted again to Li Jing and Wu Huaiyu,
"I, Marquis Sanshui, am here today to thank Duke Dai and Duke Jin for their teachings. I will definitely shut myself up and reflect on my mistakes and study hard."

Hou Junji turned around with difficulty and left with heavy steps.

Zhongshu ordered Wen Yanbo to say loudly, "How dignified are you? How dignified are you? Duke of Jin, I want to impeach you to the saint."

Wu Huaiyu just crossed his hands coldly,

"Please help yourself, Mr. Wen. I will also ask the saint for forgiveness,"

Fang Xuanling looked at Wu Huaiyu and said, "Duke Jin, why bother?"

Wei Zheng also shook his head and sighed.

Although everyone disliked Hou Junji, they chose to beat him at this juncture. Even if it was not in front of the emperor, he was beaten so hard in the palace, in front of the prime minister and the three judges.

Wen Yanbo was not polite to Wu Huaiyu and immediately asked his chamberlain to report to the emperor what had just happened here.

Ma Zhou, the censor of the book administration, came over and looked at his brother-in-law for a long time. "Even if Erlang doesn't want to be the prime minister, there is no need to use this method. I don't know how the saint will be angry. What if?"

The emperor had just returned to the Li Zheng Hall and was about to say a few words to the queen, but the chamberlain came to report that something had happened again at the Wude Hall.

"Li Jing slapped Hou Junji?"

"Wu Huaiyu beat Hou Junji so violently that everyone fell to the ground unconscious, his face covered with blood, and a tooth was knocked out?"

"Hou Junji never fought back from the beginning to the end."

By the time he finished listening, the emperor was already trembling with anger.

"Clear the account,"

"This Wu Huaiyu, whatever he wants to do, no matter how much I trust him, he must give up his choice,"

Seeing this, Empress Changsun quickly persuaded, "Your Majesty, since Wu Huaiyu is unwilling to accept the post of prime minister, why should you force it?"

"Everyone is arrogant and domineering, do they still have me in their eyes?" Li Shimin shouted angrily.The queen persuaded Li Shimin for a long time before he calmed down a bit.

"Pass an edict to put Wu Huaiyu in jail."

"Your Majesty, calm down," Empress Changsun put her hand on the emperor's back, helping him soothe his back. "Wu Huaiyu traveled to Chang'an in a military chariot the day before yesterday, presented prisoners to the Ancestral Temple, and was given a banquet and title in the palace. Today he will be imprisoned. Wouldn't it be spread out? Is the world in uproar?"

"Then can he be allowed to be arrogant, arrogant, and lawless?"

"Today he dares to beat Hou Junji in the Wude Hall. Tomorrow he might dare to beat Fang Xuanling in the Taiji Hall. In the future he might dare to rebel against me!"

"Your Majesty, please calm down and have a cup of tea first."

"Your Majesty might as well let Wu Huaiyu go home and reflect."

While they were talking, the chamberlain came to report again and presented Wu Huaiyu's list of words.

Forbearance, Li Shimin suppressed his anger.

"allow!"

Li Shimin suppressed his anger and said, "Zhunwu Huaiyu resigned from all official positions including the Secretary of the Ministry of War, the Secretary of the School, the Secretary of the School, the Secretary of the Ministry of Photography, and the Director of the East Palace Army and Horses.
Let him go home and shut himself up to reflect on his mistakes.
Another hundred catties of copper fine! "

He also ordered Li Jing to be fined twenty kilograms of copper.

On the same day, Qin Qiong submitted a letter claiming to be ill and injured, and also said that he had not taught Wu Huaiyu and others well. He asked the emperor to resign with the title of Tong Zhongshu, and to go to the countryside of Sanyuan to retire.

Li Shimin also approved.

Wu Huaiyu closed the door to thank guests and thought about his mistakes at home. He had time to spend with his wife, concubines and children.
The most unlucky person was Hou Junji. He was beaten three times in two days and was dismissed from his post by the dismissed prime minister. The most important thing was that the whole Chang'an was in an uproar and was completely humiliated.

He was lying at home, too embarrassed to see anyone, ashamed, angry and helpless.

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Huaiyu taught Li Qing exercises at home.

She was about to give birth, but the baby's position in her belly was not correct. Fortunately, in Wu Huaiyu's eyes, this was not a big problem. A set of exercises in the chest and knee position, once in the morning and once in the evening, for about a quarter of an hour each time, about a week or so, can help the fetus. Convert breech position to cephalic position,
Wu Huaiyu personally demonstrated,

"Loosen your belt, push up, put your knees on the couch, raise your hips, make your thighs perpendicular to the bed, and keep your chest as close to the couch as possible,"

Li Qing is a martial arts practitioner and has very good physical fitness. His stomachache in July and August does not affect his ability to perform this exercise, so it is not difficult.

Instead, he had the leisure to make fun of Wu Huaiyu's demonstration.

"I heard that Hou Junji asked the imperial doctor Lao Zongzong to help him fill his teeth, but he disliked gold teeth and insisted on using jade to make his teeth. The whole city of Chang'an was looking for jade merchants to find good jade grains,"

Li Qing also talked about the news he heard when he returned to Dai Guogong's mansion today.
Hou Junji is now a joke to Chang An. Many people have long looked down on him or were jealous of him, but now many people take pleasure in his misfortune.

"Of course jade teeth can be used. They are not as conspicuous as gold teeth. However, jade is generally not hard enough and is easy to wear. Hou Junji lost five teeth. He will probably have to replace his jade teeth with new ones in the future. Of course, the hardness of jade is It's taller, but it's easy to crack," Wu Huaiyu made a rare professional comment.

"If Hou Junji really dislikes the vulgarity of gold and silver teeth and the low-grade alloy silver paste, then he can use ivory, ox bone or even sandalwood. Ivory is hard, ox bone can even be a little elastic, and sandalwood is It’s high-end, luxurious and unassuming, so it suits him very well.”

Li Qing couldn't help but laugh, "Alang, you said you were so brave. You knocked out a few teeth of people in the palace. Even though he was no longer the prime minister at that time, he still had [-] households. Lord Lu Guo,
Are you really not afraid that the saint will punish you severely and even behead you?

Don't do this again next time. You don't know how worried and scared we were when we heard it. I don't want to lose Aye before the baby is born. "

"It's really Hou Junji who makes me so angry," Wu Huaiyu said,

"You might as well say that you beat Hou Junji to resign," Li Qing pointed out directly.

"Hush, don't dare to talk nonsense." Wu Huaiyu said quickly.

"Alang's heart is known to everyone on the road."

"Even if it is known to everyone on the street, it cannot be said clearly."

"Alang is really so sure that the saint will not punish him severely?"

"I admit that I'm a bit of a gambler, but I'm still very sure, at least [-]-[-],"

Wu Huaiyu's self-confidence was due to the fact that Li Shimin was a good emperor. He was neither Zhu Baba nor Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, nor Kang Mazi. Furthermore, he had just achieved great military exploits, so he would not let the emperor suffer if he made such a mistake. I'm going to kill him.
After all, there is a precedent,
Yuchi Gong had beaten the county prince Li Daozong almost blind in one eye before. He had just cut off his official position and seize the title and sat on the bench for a year. Now he is reinstated.

There are also new examples of Su Lie and Hou Junji. They were only relieved of their official positions and went home to reflect, but their titles were not reduced.

Li Jingdu slapped Hou Junji, and Wu Huaiyu quickly followed suit.

"Since you have returned to the capital, the saint appreciates you and makes you the prime minister. You are also the second department of civil servants and the director of the East Palace troops. This is his trust in you. Why do you need to use such a dangerous trick to resign?"

"Has Alang forgotten that Lu Zushang refused to be the governor of Jiaozhou, and the saint killed him?"

"Lu Zushang and I are still different." Huaiyu sighed, "You don't know how dangerous the errand the saint wants me to do this time. If you force me to mount the horse before the time comes, I'm afraid there won't be any bones left, or even It may also implicate the entire Wu family, so I have to be careful not to rush."

"Is it really so dangerous?"

"You want to go against the nobles, officials, nobles and powerful men in the world, what do you think?"

Li Sanniang couldn't help but take a breath, "Well, Alang, the infantryman, took the risk and took the right path. Now he finally handed over the hot potato, but he just pitied Hou Junji."

"What's so pitiful about him? This guy just needs to be dealt with. I've always given him face before, but he doesn't want it himself. So who's to blame?"

"I'm afraid this matter won't be over yet. What if the saint still wants to use you to lead the charge after a while?"

"Let's take it one step at a time. I hope the saint can figure it out after a while. This matter must be planned slowly and cannot be rushed.

If I were to rush in, I wouldn't dare rush. "

To seek for the country, one must first seek for one's life. Many famous reformers in history, such as Shang Yang, Wu Qi, Wang Anshi, Zhang Juzheng, etc., or Wang Mang's reform, Yongzhen's innovation, basically failed, and even the law was defeated and people died.

Although he also wants to promote some new policies to make the Tang Dynasty more prosperous and the people more healthy, but the time is not ripe, so he cannot rush in, otherwise even Li Shimin may not be able to save him by then.

(End of this chapter)