"Come on, sir, I can guarantee that none of these people are innocent."
Yang Feng pointed at a group of civil and military officials in front of him and said.
This is the local official of Ningshan Guard and Zezhou, and the state city and the acropolis are together.
"We admit that we have indeed neglected our duties in this matter. If we are guilty, we should leave it to the court to deal with it. However, our officials have done it innocently and have not done anything illegal. There are many bandits in the Taihang Mountains, and they all hide in the deep mountains and valleys. It is difficult to eradicate them all, let alone Xingxing."
Jinyi is isolated in the mountains. If bandits attack and seize it by surprise and block the road, it will be difficult for us to detect it in a short time.
If the ambassador is held responsible for dereliction of duty, we will not dare to escape.
But don’t accuse someone of their innocence out of thin air.”
Zhizhou said solemnly.
Yang Feng walked up to him.
"You call this a bandit?"
He held a flintlock pistol upside down and said.
Then, before Zhizhou could wake up, he knocked the gun down with the butt of his gun.
Zhizhou immediately screamed.
"You, Tamar, call this a bandit? You, Tamar, call this a bandit..."
Yang Feng kept hitting it frantically.
The unlucky Zhizhou was still covering his head at first, but he soon fell down, and then continued to be hit. He kept screaming while being hit by the gun handle, and soon his face was covered with blood...
Other civil and military officials stood there silently as if they didn't see anything.
Ambassador Yang has a notorious reputation.
It is a good thing for everyone to have someone who can withstand his violent temper. It is useless to stop him. After all, this is someone who dares to kill people in Chengtianmen. He can just smash it up. So the unlucky Zhizhou was miserable in front of his colleagues.
He screamed and accepted the beating from Yang Feng. Fortunately, Ambassador Yang was very restrained and he only accepted the beating.
Finally Yang Feng stopped.
He let out a sigh of relief as if satisfied.
"Bandits?
I tell you.
In the entire Ming Dynasty, except for the guards of your emperor and the emperor's grandson, no one could legally hold this thing, and except for a factory in the capital of the Ministry of Industry, no one else could legally manufacture such a thing. Even your Jin Dynasty
, King Yan and other vassal kings don’t have it, but now the person holding more than a dozen of these things is actually a bandit?
Digging the ground with a golden hoe?
Lai Gong, this is conclusive evidence of rebellion.
I suspect that the Zezhou and Ningshan guards are all accomplices against the party.
They are all rebels.
Not only them, Zezhou Yiguojian is also very problematic, we should search Yiguojian."
Yang Feng held a flintlock gun covered in blood and said like a villain who had finished venting his anger.
There is also a Guanye building in Zezhou.
Moreover, this Guanye mainly uses fragrant coal.
"Ambassador, don't accuse good people unjustly!"
"Lai Gong, I'm an unjust official!"
…
The civil and military officials immediately burst into mourning.
Lai Gong just sat there calmly, obviously looking like he was watching a show.
Then Yang Feng picked up Zhizhou...
"Did you see the faces of these people when I beat you? Believe it or not, even if I beat you to death, they wouldn't say a word to save you? I know you must be innocent, but you must also know what happened.
What, I will give you a chance now, either I will continue to beat you and beat you to death here, even your emperors will not dare to punish me, and no one will dare to care about me killing people in Chengtianmen. Or you will explain everything, and then I will
Letting you go can even guarantee that nothing will happen to you. You should know that the emperor's grandson and I are friends. If the emperor's grandson succeeds to the throne, I can guarantee your success.
In a word, do you want to do it or not?"
Yang Feng held Zhizhou's head and turned his face towards the civil and military officials.
Zhizhou suddenly woke up.
He looked at his colleagues with malicious eyes.
A person who can know a state is not stupid. Even if he doesn't know the real details of this matter, he also knows that it involves a fight for the crown prince. Everyone knows that Yang Feng and the emperor's grandson are together, so as long as the emperor's grandson successfully succeeds to the throne, he will definitely have merit.
.
The future is immediately bright.
What's more, he also knew that even if Yang Feng really beat him to death, his death would indeed be in vain.
So it's a good choice.
"Come on, sir, I'll report it to you. Those bandits are not bandits at all. They are all guards of the King of Jin. They brought a large number of firearms to Xingjin Post under the order of the King of Jin to hide. Ningshan Guards and other generals all know that, but they are just the guards of the official."
I thought it was just a transfer of military affairs. I was a civilian official and had no right to interfere with military affairs, so I didn't care about them. Lai Gong, Lai Gong, I was really not in the same group as them, and I didn't know if they were going to Xingjin Station.
Pretending to be a bandit and ambushing him.
This official is wronged!"
He immediately pounced on Lai Gong, lying at Lai Gong's feet and howling.
"You are an idiot!"
Lai Gong finally couldn't help but sigh melancholy.
Indeed, this is a fool!
Everyone is actually acting, putting on this big show for His Majesty the Emperor, but you jump out and say it's all fake. Do you think His Majesty the Emperor has a good temper?
I have to say that this little villain Yang Feng is very bad!
Yang Feng smiled on the side.
"Lai Gong, this guy is crazy and talking nonsense. He is a bandit. He is not a guard of the Jin vassal at all. The King of Jin has nothing to do with this matter. It was the failure of the general and others to suppress the bandits, which led to the Taihang Mountain bandits to capture Xingjin Post and ambush the imperial envoy.
, the last general’s crime!”
The commander of Ningshan Guard quickly saluted Lai and then shouted anxiously.
This is the old man's plan to seek the country.
Of course, it is more likely that he knows more or is deeply involved.
"It is my duty to investigate. Now you two are insisting on different opinions. It is difficult to tell whether it is true or not. I need to go to Taiyuan to investigate with Wei Guogong before handling the matter. You all go back to face the crime first. As for you, you also go back to the Yamen to face the crime.
.”
Lai Gong said.
Those civil and military officials quickly resigned, and soon only Zhizhou was left. Zhizhou looked at Yang Feng pitifully, knowing that as long as Yang Feng took action, he would be saved...
"It's better to be cautious, the matter is important, and you really shouldn't listen to his side of the story."
Yang Feng said.
"Well?"
Zhizhou was dumbfounded.
Then he saw Yang Feng walking past him.
Even if he is not a smart person, he still knows that he has been tricked by this bastard!
"Lai Gong, can I retract my confession?"
He looked at Lai Gong and said pitifully.
"Whether you retract your confession or not, what you said will be reported to me truthfully!"
Lai Gong said.
So this idiot is ready to be stupid again!
You have now submitted your petition to the emperor's grandson. Although there is a risk of being beheaded by the emperor in anger, as long as you persist, as long as you are not beheaded by His Majesty the Emperor, and persist until the emperor's grandson succeeds to the throne, promotion will eventually be inevitable. Now
In this case, it would be foolish to retract your confession for the second time. The emperor will be angered, and so will the emperor's grandson. In the end, even if you are not beheaded by the emperor in anger, the emperor's grandson will at least ask you to get out after he succeeds to the throne.
I don't want to get burned when I come to Gong.
He is an imperial envoy, and he is responsible for investigating and reporting everything based on the facts.
"Did the Ambassador have a good time?"
In Na Zhizhou's collapsed eyes, Lai Gong said to Yang Feng angrily.
"Lai Gong was joking, I just wanted to do something to help you."
Yang Feng said with a smile.
It is impossible for Zhu Yuanzhang to admit that his third son was the mastermind. No matter how much evidence there is, it will be useless. At most, it is his third son's subordinates who did it without telling his third son. Then he killed those who deserved to be killed, while his third son was unable to control him.
be punished.
Of course, if Yang Feng insisted on the death of his third son, his third son could die violently.
But you can't rebel and cause chaos.
After all, the King of Jin had many sons, and for Zhu Yuanzhang, this son had already blossomed.
Just die!
But if you commit rebellion, your home will be ransacked.
That would be different.
As for Yang Feng, all he needs is to make this matter known to the world. Even if Zhu Yuanzhang will not really punish King Jin, the whole world will know that King Jin is the mastermind of the previous series of assassinations, so he needs people to constantly point out his mistakes.
King Jin did it, and then Lai Gong had no choice but to report it according to the facts. After all, Yang Feng was still watching, so he could only report it according to the facts.
Then the news that the King of Jin assassinated his younger brother and nephew, secretly manufactured arms and attempted rebellion began to spread to the outside world.
As for the final result.
At that time, if Ambassador Yang did something very cruel to him, he would have to blame himself. Ambassador Yang never thought of asking Zhu Yuanzhang to punish King Jin. He took care of such trivial matters himself.
But let the whole world know that his actions were righteous.
As for Zhizhou...
This kind of consumables should be thrown away after they are used up. Shouldn't Yang Feng be responsible for him? He is an adult and must be responsible for his own actions. Be bolder and brave the cold light in Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes. If you insist on this, then as long as you don't die,
The emperor's grandson will reward him after he succeeds to the throne. But if he is stupid enough to take the wrong path at important crossroads in life twice in a few minutes, then it can only be said that he is too stupid. This kind of person should be kicked back to his hometown immediately.
It is a good thing for himself and the people under his rule.
"The Ambassador is so deceptive when he manipulates me, Ming Dynasty, into the palm of his hand!
Is it true that Daxia Zhifeng bullies the weak in this way?"
Lai Gong said.
"Come on, sir, I have no interest in playing tricks on others, but if others insist on showing up, do you want me to refuse?
People must insult themselves, and others will insult them.
Since Yang recognized the Ming Dynasty, he has done a lot for the Ming Dynasty.
As for what I want, I just want to be free and at ease.
I did not seek wealth, power, or land in the Ming Dynasty, but I continued to help the Ming Dynasty, so that the Ming Dynasty could expand its territory and make the country rich and powerful. Without me, the Ming Dynasty would not have been able to solve the Japanese country once and for all, let alone open up Fusang.
Make the Japanese country surrender.
What did I get in exchange for doing so much?
He was assassinated again and again, and he was almost killed by a shipload of gunpowder at sea.
What I have done in exchange for so much is to be punished and killed?
If that's the case, don't blame me for fighting back."
Yang Feng said.
The two of them rode through the Tianjing Pass, and the few attendants and imperial guards behind them wisely kept a long distance apart.
"But what you did is not to seek death? You offended the vassal king with the blessing banquet, offended the family with the official record, offended the Confucian scholars with the peach blossom fan, and then got involved in the dispute with the appointment of the prince. Everything you did was like playing with fire.
, since you are playing with fire, you must understand that one day you will eventually get burned, and you can’t blame others for this.”
Lai Gong said.
These northern officials had actually been watching with cold eyes during the struggle between Yang Feng and Liu Sanwu. After all, they were not on the same side as those southern civil servants. Instead, they reaped the benefits of Yang Feng's fight with the southern civil servants.
As for who becomes the crown prince, they don't care.
These civil servants in the north are very flexible. After all, they have knelt a lot in the past few hundred years. No matter what Yang Feng did, the final situation will not be worse than the Jurchens or the Mongols, right? Everyone can even do it at that time
After getting through it, are you now going to have to fight to the death with Yang Feng? Look at Yan Shenggong, even now he still calls Yang Feng a brother, and even gives gifts to his good brother during holidays.
flexible!
This is the principle of northern civil servants.
Or it can also be said that they are more sincere.
"But I just want to live a free and happy life. What's wrong with me? I just want to make Ming Dynasty fairer. What's wrong with me? It's just because of the education I received that I can't stand that one family is above all the people, trying to save the people from the burden.
A huge parasitic family doesn't have to spend all their blood and sweat to feed the family. What's wrong with me? I didn't make anything up, and I didn't exaggerate anything. You think I made up some stories, but I can say it clearly.
, everything written is factual, without any fiction.”
Yang Feng said.
"Your Excellency is indeed right, but you are in Ming Dynasty now, so your arrival is a mistake."
Lai Gong said.
This old guy is still very good.
He already understood the root cause. In the final analysis, Yang Feng was incompatible with the entire Ming Dynasty, but he was unwilling to integrate into it.
"so what?
Kneel down on the ground and become a slave?
Long live the mountain and sing its praises?
It’s just that my knees just can’t bend!
I think people should live standing, no matter what they are facing. Even in an era when everyone is kneeling, I stand like an alien and still cannot kneel down.
You may be used to kneeling, but I really can't kneel down, and I also hope that everyone can stand up and stop kneeling.
Isn’t it good to live standing up?”
Yang Feng said.
"What if you can't survive standing up?"
Lai Gong said.
It could be seen that he was also a little bit sad.
He actually understood that Yang Feng was obviously sarcastic towards them, but he had nothing to say.
After all, if you think about the Confucian scholars in the north, they can only survive by kneeling. If you really want to count, those foreign rulers are incompatible with them, but they can still kneel on the ground to sing praises and pinch their noses.
They fearfully gave these conquerors a whitewash of peace, in exchange for surviving successive rounds of killings.
Although my life is indeed very humble.
The posture of kneeling on the ground is indeed like a dog wagging its tail begging for mercy.
but……
They finally survived on their knees.
From this point of view, they sincerely thanked Zhu Yuanzhang for allowing them to start a new life.
real.
They thanked His Majesty the Emperor.
Therefore, compared with the southern civil servants who were always thinking about fighting for power, the northern civil servants were conscientious in the Hongwu Dynasty.
All of them are exemplary ministers.
Ling Han and Lai Gong are among them.
Those who later scolded Zhu Yuanzhang were mainly southern civil servants, especially those from Jiangsu and Zhejiang. After all, for these northern civil servants, it was nothing for Zhu Yuanzhang to kill so many people! He is also a tyrant, have you ever seen what cruelty is? Jin Hailing, we
Even he could kneel down and sing praises, let alone Zhu Yuanzhang.