Kai Fu Han

Chapter 213 True, False and Right
"Send me back. I feel very sleepy after wandering on the sea for so long." Wanyan Zongjun already understood what Xu Han saw, so he planned to go back to rest first. With an ordinary person's body, he took a boat It is indeed not an easy task for many months.

Zhou Xinyuan went out and called a ceremonial officer who had attached a general card: "You take Yan Zongjun back to the residence, and then arrange for guards, so there should be no mistakes."

"Don't worry." After the official responded, he led Wanyan Zongjun out of Zhou Xinyuan's office door.

Zhou Xinyuan watched the two of them walk out of the door, turned around, and saw Xu Han still reading seriously. He went out first and boiled a pot of hot water to make tea. He poured a cup for Xu Han and put it on the table next to him, and then poured it for himself. After drinking a glass of wine, he returned to his desk and began to deal with the recent backlog of official business.

The two of them were busy with their own business. Zhou Xinyuan got up to stretch his body in the middle, gave Xu Han some tea, and continued working.

Time passed quickly, and it was Xu time in a blink of an eye, and the sky outside the window had darkened slightly. Xu Han finally finished reading all three law books in his hand.

He stood up and stretched his body for a long time, some old muscles and bones crackling.

"How is it? Do you understand? Is there anything you don't understand?" Zhou Xinyuan asked.

"After reading it, it is all in vernacular, with punctuation marks to break up sentences, and it is easy to understand. Although there are still some flaws in the stripes of these laws, it can be seen that although the people who made these laws are novices, the overall performance His thoughts and ideas are very 'gong'." Xu Han took a sip of the cold tea and replied.

"Oh? There are still flaws. Tell me about the flaws you see. I will report them to the Legislative Department and ask them to add them to the next revised version as appropriate." Zhou Xinyuan asked for advice.

"Let's not talk about this for now. Can you tell me how the implementation of these laws is going?" Xu Han asked again.

"Although there were some situations and some people resisted when it was first implemented, they were all suppressed. You also read Announcement No. [-] yesterday, which contains the results of some people who resisted the law. The implementation has been stable so far. There are too many, no one dares to resist the law too blatantly." Zhou Xinyuan replied.

The first half of Announcement No. [-] is the penalty notice for the seven landowners, and the second half is the "Xinghan League Grain Storage Law".

The implicit meaning of Zhou Xinyuan's last sentence is: there must be people who break the law secretly, but now the technological development is backward, and the manpower of the Xinghan League is not enough to take care of all the corners. The person is at large for the time being.

After hearing Zhou Xinyuan's answer, Xu Han fell silent and sat down again. After a while, he said with a heavy expression: "It is the right of the imperial court to make laws and recruit officials through imperial examinations. Although you announced it in the first announcement, You have recognized the State of Zhao yourself, but all subsequent actions show that you Xinghan Alliance only used the State of Zhao as a cover."

When Zhou Xinyuan heard that Xu Han directly punctured the Xinghan League's fig leaf, the smile on his face also subsided, and he replied after some consideration: "As long as we recognize ourselves as Zhao people, we will be enemies on all sides. So the only way is to do this." Only with the support of the people at the bottom can we gain a foothold in this lonely place abandoned by the imperial court. Otherwise, what can we do? Could it be that, like those gentry and gentlemen who eat the king’s salary, they have followed the puppet regime established by the Kingdom of Jin? Are you willing to be a subjugated slave?"

The continuous questions left Xu Han speechless.It took me a while to find a point of defense:
"Those rebels and resistance martyrs in Hebei did not behave like you, doing such lawless and destructive things." "Haha!" Zhou Xinyuan sneered first, and then retorted: "Let's not talk about how the rebels' money and food are obtained. Come on, how many good people were killed during the grain requisition. How does the court treat the rebels now? After Zongze's death, the treacherous minister Du Chong took over and directly gave up on the rebels who had fought side by side to fight against the Jin. Not only have their establishment been cancelled, but their food support and material supplies have also been completely cut off.”

"Do you know why Du Chong was able to hold Tokyo during this period? Do you think it was him, Du Chong, who knew people and made good use of them? He was strategizing? Bullshit." Zhou Xinyuan cursed.

"It's because the Kingdom of Jin is doing its best to wipe out the anti-Jin rebels in the north, and it can't spare any time to go south to attack Du Chong."

"When all the rebels are killed and the Jin Kingdom completely occupies the land north of the Yellow River, then they will get the supply support from these lands, shorten the supply line, and go south to attack Tokyo again. I guess Du Chong will not fight again. But run away and hand over to the Jin army the kingdoms that our ancestors won with blood."

"Do we, the Xinghan League, expect the imperial court full of traitors like Du Chong to come to our rescue and wait for them to conquer the rivers and mountains in the north?"

"what!!!?"

In fact, Zhou Xinyuan was hit the hardest during this trip to the south. Zhou Xinyuan, who originally had high hopes for the imperial court, was severely hit by reality the next time he went south. This time, he was knocked down all at once, breaking his deepest feelings for the imperial court of Zhao. All the fantasies and suffocation that I had been holding back finally came out.

When Xu Han saw Zhou Xinyuan's excitement, he didn't interrupt and just watched him vent quietly.Having lived for most of my life, I have experienced ups and downs, and I have never seen anything, and I have never experienced any despair. I have become accustomed to it, and I have completely seen through it, otherwise I would not have voluntarily resigned from my position.

After Zhou Xinyuan finished speaking and saw that his mood had eased a little, he continued to ask:

"Then you declare that you recognize the Kingdom of Zhao. How do you prove that you will always recognize the Kingdom of Zhao? If you defeat the Kingdom of Jin and conquer the lost territory in the future, are you willing to give up the military power in your hands? Give up the laws that have been implemented? Are you willing to be recruited by the Kingdom of Zhao? "

"Who can say for sure what will happen in the future?' I will give you a method to eliminate doubts, without drilling turtles and Zhu Pei. It takes three days to test the jade, and it takes seven years to identify the materials. The Duke of Zhou was afraid of the day of rumors, but Wang Mang was humble and did not usurp it. At that time. Xiangshi died at the beginning, and who knows whether he will be true or false in his life.', our Xinghan League has not established itself as king and has not committed to the Jin Kingdom, which already shows that we have not rebelled against the Zhao Kingdom."

This poem is a poem by Bai Juyi in the Tang Dynasty. The last two sentences mean: "The Duke of Zhou was afraid of rumors, so Wang Mang was respectful before usurping the throne. If this man had died, who would know the truth of his life?", indicating the authenticity. What is wrong can only be proven correct over time.

"Your three laws are too powerful. If you are allowed to grow up, although the Jin Kingdom and the Puppet Qi Kingdom may be defeated by you, it is estimated that the Zhao Kingdom will not survive the disaster. I cannot convince myself to continue to help you." Xu Han sighed.

(End of this chapter)