Elegy of Tang Dynasty

Chapter 486 The World is Full of Smart People

"Kill it!"

"Kill it!"

"Kill it!"

"Kill it!"

In the stands of Huben City, shouts like a tsunami drowned out everything. If He Changqi used a stick to fight the tiger, there was still a hint of "cheating" in it.

Then the act of a single man hunting a cheetah with bare hands completely aroused the bloodiness in the hearts of the Tang people!
In their minds, tigers, leopards, jackals and wolves are like the Hu tribes that Emperor Taizong led his army to sweep across the border in the early Tang Dynasty.

It looks fierce and brutal, but in fact it is vulnerable.

A good man of the Tang Dynasty should be like this!
"Oh, how cruel! The leopard is so pitiful."

The female couple next to Fang Chongyong's seat let out a delicate cry of surprise.

But the "stuttering man" next to her explained to the woman wearing a veil with a smile on her face:
"Ji, Ji Lanzi, that's all, all, all acting. The Xuanwu Army Jiedushi Fang, Fang Guozhong, is teasing you, you're just playing!

Jin, Jin people, Wang, Wang Meng, pure and frugal, self-restrained, home, home, whenever there are guests, always greet them with clean water. At that time, people jokingly said, today there will be a flood.

Fierce, fierce warriors fight, and beating tigers is clear, clear water. Fang, Fang Jieshuai, is to let the world know, know the flood disaster. "

This "stuttering guy" actually saw through Fang Zhongyong's plan, and even quoted classics to talk about it! Although it was mostly a joke, it was also considered to be a very active mind.

Fang Zhongyong couldn't help but look at him again.

This is a hidden master! He has a quick mind, a sharp eye, and a sense of humor.

But the woman next to him, named "Ji Lanzi", obviously didn't appreciate it. She pleaded in a tone that was part coquettish and part angry: "Hongjian, it's too noisy here. I want to go back to the inn. Can you take me back?"

Just listening to this soft and charming voice can make people's ears pregnant. Any man with blood and vigor can't refuse it.

However, the "stuttering brother" waved his hand gently and said:
"No, no hurry. I, we, are going to visit the Bianzhou government office. It's very possible that we will meet Marshal Fang Jie. It's better to see it clearly."

"Stuttering Brother" is obviously focused on this "warrior vs. beast" battle.

But what he cared about was not the brave fighters and brutal beasts, but the strange and profound thoughts hidden behind this rare "performance art".

"Ugh!"

"Ji Lanzi" was obviously disappointed. She sighed and said, "The closest and the farthest are the east and the west, the deepest and the shallowest are the clear streams. The highest are the sun and the moon, the closest and the most distant are husband and wife. I didn't expect Lu Lang to be like this."

The word "Lu Lang" seems intimate, but in fact the tone is much more distant.

Fuck! Are there any experts out there?

Fang Chongyong's brain was about to explode as he listened to this. In his impression, this woman should be a slut and bitch, but she could actually speak so eloquently!
Apart from other things, just these "eight" have already told the whole story of the joys and sorrows of couples in the world! This kind of poem can definitely be passed down to future generations!
What's even more outrageous is that "Ji Lanzi" can actually compose poems about love in the heated atmosphere of the beast fight. This developed love brain is really not something that ordinary people can compare to!

As expected, upon hearing this, the "Lu Lang" mentioned by "Ji Lanzi" suddenly lost his calm demeanor.

He had a stutter to begin with, and now he was speaking incoherently:

"Ji, Ji Lanzi, I, I, this time, am here to bring you to see Brother Wenwenfang. I, I, have no, private, feelings with you. I, I, have already married, and have, have children. Don't, don't..."

He was so anxious that he couldn't speak for a moment. Then an idea flashed in his mind and he said, "One, one table, one tea stove. More, more, it's not good, it's not good."

"Stuttering Brother" suddenly found that Fang Chongyong was looking at him with curiosity. He knew that he had lost control in the argument with "Ji Lanzi" just now, so he quickly saluted Fang Chongyong with his arms crossed.

Then he moved closer to "Ji Lanzi" and kept a distance from Fang Chongyong and the others.

"Ah Lang, you should punish that bitch."

Anaye suddenly came over and whispered.

"What should I do? Should I take her home and rape her? That's not necessary, right?"

Fang Zhongyong looked at her with a puzzled expression and asked back.

"Can't you even see this?
The slut just begged the stutterer to marry her, hinting at her in every way.

The stutterer was a smart guy. He didn't fall into the trap at all and kept evading the issue openly and secretly.

Isn't this still a slut?"

Anaye couldn't help but remind her.

Although this stuttering guy looks ugly and stutters, he speaks in a witty and humorous way and is full of wisdom.

As for "Ji Lanzi", Anaye had no good feelings towards her anyway.

It must be said that when women look at other women, their vision is sometimes incredibly accurate, and can be said to be very accurate. Fang Zhongyong often cannot tell whether a high-level green tea bitch is a bitch, but Anaye, as a woman, can tell at a glance.

"Fix her?
It’s not impossible.”

Fang Zhongyong muttered to himself, and suddenly thought of a dirty trick.

He coughed lightly, sat up straight, and then without warning, he recited loudly: "The fallen flowers want to follow the flowing water, but the flowing water has no intention of lingering on the fallen flowers. How lamentable, how sad."

Fang Chongyong had been issuing military orders for a long time, and he was decisive in killing and enforcing the rules. He had a loud voice. His "artificial speech" attracted the attention of everyone around him.

At this moment, "Stuttering Brother" looked at Fang Chongyong with horror, a little confused and puzzled. How did he offend the other party that made Fang Chongyong bring up such irrelevant things!
"What do you know? What nonsense are you talking about!"

"Ji Lanzi" was furious and pointed at Fang Zhongyong and scolded him! Behind the curtain, the angry and delicate face was looming.

The falling flowers have feelings, but the flowing water is ruthless, which is exactly what she was thinking. The artistic conception and style of these two lines of poetry are not inferior to her "Eight Perfections".

Fang Chongyong just did this to "kill someone and destroy their heart"!
"Ji Lanzi" did not mean that her poems would be the best in the world, but she would never be willing to be teased by a man who looked like a warrior or a farmer!
"Ji Lanzi, sit down, sit down!"

This time the stuttering brother was so scared that he stopped stuttering and quickly pressed "Ji Lanzi" down on the seat.

He also realized that Fang Zhongyong was probably not an ordinary person.

However, Fang Chongyong did not intend to let "Ji Lanzi" go.

Since you have "hurt his heart", you must kill him with one blow.

"The brocade zither has fifty strings, each string and each pillar reminds me of my youth. Zhuangzi dreamed of butterflies in the morning, and King Wang placed his spring love on the cuckoo.

The moon shines brightly over the sea, and the pearls shed tears. The sun shines warmly over the blue field, and the jades emit smoke. Can this feeling be recalled? But it was already too late at that time.

It would be fine if you don't understand it yourself, but you also treat everyone in the world as if they don't understand it.

Isn’t this sad and lamentable?”

Fang Chongyong sighed with emotion.

Both "Stuttering Brother" and "Ji Lanzi" are connoisseurs. As soon as they heard this song, they knew that the rough man on the other side was a man of hidden talents, and his talent was no less than theirs. A casual remark was a masterpiece!
The two of them were immediately ashamed, especially Ji Lanzi, whose self-confidence was greatly hit and she became completely depressed.

"Lu Lang, let's go." "Ji Lanzi" pleaded in a low voice, with sobs in her voice.

"Stuttering Brother" bowed awkwardly to Fang Chongyong, memorized his facial features, and quietly left the beast fighting scene with "Ji Lanzi".

It quickly disappeared.

Fang Zhongyong felt no sense of accomplishment in winning over a slut with his copied poem. It was almost like the delicious meat bun he bought in the morning, which he fed to a dog before he could even lick it.

"Let's go back too. There's nothing interesting here."

Fang Zhongyong waved his hand disinterestedly.

"Ah Lang, you were really awesome just now! I can even guess how ugly that bitch's face was!"

Anaye was so excited that she stood up and took Fang Zhongyong's arm, feeling extremely happy.

"What a great ass!
Poetry and literature cannot be eaten or worn, and are worthless in troubled times!
If you were hanging out with a pedantic scholar who could only recite poetry and write couplets, he would have sold you to a brothel long ago.

Hurry up and leave!"

Fang Zhongyong slapped Anaye on her butt and scolded her in a low voice.

……

After meeting "Stuttering Brother" and "Ji Lanzi" during the beast fight, Fang Zhongyong had not seen them again for several days. Of course, he was too lazy to ask about the backgrounds of these two people.

However, the "beast fighting performance" that day caused a huge sensation, and the speed at which the rumors spread was far beyond Fang Zhongyong's expectations.

Various related news spread in all directions with Kaifeng City as the center!
The rumor that Silver Spear Xiaojie was more powerful than a tiger spread widely in Bianzhou and neighboring counties.

And it's getting more and more outrageous!

At the beginning, it was a warrior fighting a tiger alone.

Later, a warrior went hunting a tiger alone. Not only was he not eaten by the tiger, but he subdued the tiger with his bare hands.

Just tell me whether it’s cool or not!
Later, it developed to the point where tigers and leopards were torn apart alive! Moreover, one person tore apart several tigers and leopards alive!
In the Tang Dynasty, in many places, the saying “No matter how poor, one cannot be poor in temples; no matter how miserable, one cannot make the gods suffer” was true. Both Buddhist temples and Taoist temples were extremely prosperous.

Everyone felt that the person who could "tear tigers and leopards apart alive" could only be a god who walked out of a temple, and it was something that ordinary people could not achieve.

This kind of army is a bit annoying!

Then, under the promotion of some people with ulterior motives, various rumors about the Silver Spear Xiaojie Army emerged, gradually overshadowing the incident of the beast fight that day.

For example, it was rumored that Abu Muslim, the governor of Khorasan, was good at raising tigers and leopards. Whenever he went to war, he would use tigers and leopards as the vanguard to break through the enemy's formation, which was why the Tang border army was defeated repeatedly.

After they engaged in battle with the Silver Spear Xiaojie Army, the tigers and leopards were so scared that they turned around, causing the Arabs to suffer a tragic defeat with an absolute advantage of ten to one!
Silver spear filial piety, fierce beyond words!

There were also outrageous stories such as ten people guarding the pass and ten thousand people unable to open it; a hundred cavalrymen breaking into the bandit camp in Hebei, etc., which spread like wildfire and were spread everywhere, seeming miraculous.

Anyway, no one has seen those things, but no one can deny that those things don't exist.

Don't ask, the only thing I want to know is the scene of tigers and leopards being torn apart in Bianzhou, which I witnessed with my own eyes!
People often gain admiration and exclamations from their audience by bragging, and then develop a strange sense of "pride", as if they themselves have participated in the story they are telling.

However, according to later statistical research in information science, when news is passed on by word of mouth, if there is no written record and if it is not repeatedly verified, then every time it is passed on, the information will be lost or errors will occur, ranging from 10% to 30%.

The exact amount depends on the cultural literacy of the person delivering the message. The lower the literacy, the higher the loss rate.

Commonly known as "spreading rumors".

Of course, this is also the effect that Fang Chongyong hopes to achieve.

Originally, he was the governor of Xuanwu Army and managed six states. However, except for Guo Na, the governor of Bianzhou, the other five governors did not come to Kaifeng to "report on their work".

In other words, those people pretended not to have heard Li Heng's edict and did not intend to cooperate with Fang Zhongyong in the battle. Of course, the possibility of them taking the initiative to surrender to the Hebei rebels was also very small.

It's just the mentality of "wait and see".

The execution of power requires channels. The decree issued by Li Heng in Luoyang is one thing, but whether the various states in Henan will seriously implement it is another matter!
Obviously, most of the provincial governors were waiting and watching. They also saw that their fast track to promotion was very close, and they did not want to place a bet in advance and hang themselves on a tree.

However, five days after the "warrior fighting the beast", Fang Chongyong's office in Bianzhou received news from neighboring states one after another.

Li Jiayou, the governor of Songzhou, Li Pengnian, the governor of Caozhou, Xue Yuan, the governor of Chenzhou, and Chen Shu, the governor of Yingzhou, all wrote letters to the emperor requesting to come to Bianzhou in person to report on their work, communicate with Fang Chongyong, the governor of Xuanwu Army, on military affairs, and follow his arrangements.

It was not that Lu Chongming, the governor of Bozhou, did not want to come, but that he could not come because he had died of illness not long ago and the court had not yet had time to send a governor to Bozhou.

Although the governor could not come, Bozhou Sima Yan Bojun was very positive about this matter!
He was not only the one who responded positively, but he could even be said to have the most positive attitude.

Yan Bojun was a disciple of Xiao Yingshi, who was born into the Lanling Xiao family. He was a great prose writer in the prosperous Tang Dynasty and served as an official in Chang'an.

Although Xiao Yingshi was also an official, he just slacked off and punched in at the yamen every day and had no political achievements.

He is arrogant and likes to support the younger generation. He has a great influence in the cultural circle. He is a freak in the "Qingliu School".

However, Yan Bojun was different from Xiao Yingshi. He aspired to become an official, and literature was just a stepping stone. He was not interested in this and had no outstanding works.

Anyway, even a blind man could see that Yan Bojun was aiming for the position of Governor of Bozhou.

Now the world is gradually in chaos and people's hearts need to be stabilized. It is better to do familiar things than to do business with them. The promotion of Bozhou Sima to Bozhou Governor is obviously a natural thing to do.

Fang Zhongyong just needs to say a few words.

A few days later, four provincial governors and a Sima arrived at the post station outside Kaifeng City and sent a "name card" to Fang Chongyong, which was similar to an official's business card.

In the Tang Dynasty, when officials went to other places to report on their work or met with unfamiliar superiors, they had to leave a "name card" in advance to state their identity and express politeness. They could also briefly explain the purpose of their visit.

If an official came to visit without even saying hello, it would be considered an "uninvited guest". These people would be considered to be members of the political enemy, or just ignorant people who did not know the rules of officialdom, and would be looked down upon and given a hard time.

These governors and Sima were willing to send out name cards, which obviously showed that they had already lowered their attitude to the lowest level. At this time, Fang Zhongyong should have arranged a time for all the governors to come to the government office for a meeting to talk big and empty words, and then set up a banquet in the evening to talk about the practical matters.

The play can continue.

If Fang Chongyong did not reply, these provincial governors would think that Fang Chongyong was hostile to them and would probably leave Bianzhou immediately.

"General Jie, these bastards won't obey unless they are frightened. He Lao Hu beat up Lao Hu, but Lao Hu didn't behave. Instead, these governors behaved themselves. Hehe!"

Che Guangqian sneered sarcastically.

"Well, it's human nature, don't blame us. After all, we dare to fight tigers, we can't expect everyone to be able to do so."

Fang Chongyong laughed.

In fact, what Che Guangqian said is absolutely right. Don’t think of these despicable people and old foxes in officialdom as little white sheep!

When these people turn against us, they are more slippery than loaches and more ruthless than poisonous snakes!
In history, Yan Zhenqing suffered a great loss at the hands of similar people!
"Send someone to tell them to come to the government office tomorrow to discuss important matters, and to be entertained with singing, dancing and wine in the evening."

Fang Chongyong ordered Che Guangqian.

(End of this chapter)