Chapter 176 Yang Guang: I Love Watching You Make Dog Licks For People!
Chapter 176 Yang Guang: I just love to see you being a licker to others!
Shi Zhixuan has always been very active in dealing with the Turks.
When he was young, he planned to divide the Turks, a powerful nation, into eastern and western parts, making them hostile to each other and creating an excellent external environment for the Central Plains dynasty.
Unfortunately, Yang Guang's three expeditions to Goguryeo failed, and he had no spare power to use troops against the Turks, which gave this powerful grassland nation a breather.
Now that the great master Bi Xuan, who was worshiped as a god by the grassland people, is dead, in Shi Zhixuan's view, it is when the Turks have lost their spiritual faith and are leaderless, that this is the best time to send troops!
After Shi Zhixuan finished speaking, Song Que, who had been silent for a long time, also spoke.
"Your Majesty, I believe that in order to fight foreign affairs, we must first settle the domestic affairs. Although Your Majesty has ascended the throne, there are still countless rebels and traitors in the world, and natural and man-made disasters continue. I suggest that we first smoothen the affairs within the territory of our Wu Dynasty, and then we will not go abroad.
Late!
I requested the order and led the troops to go out to quell the rebels from all walks of life in the world!"
As soon as these two people spoke, the officials in the court who had been afraid to speak suddenly became active.
Everyone can see that when a new emperor ascends the throne, he must have some close friends, and this is the best time to show loyalty to His Majesty the Emperor.
The reason why the world was in chaos before was because the imperial court had lost control over various places, and the aristocratic families in various places actually had a laissez-faire attitude towards the rebels.
They wish that the world would be as chaotic as possible, so that they, the noble families, would have the opportunity to reshuffle the cards and seize the throne.
But now the situation is different. The throne has been confirmed, the Wu Dynasty has been established, and no one has hope for that position. What is the use of keeping those rebels at this time?
Why not use it to suppress bandits and gain some military merit? It can also show your face in front of the new emperor and express your support for His Majesty.
"Your Majesty, I, Dugu Sheng, am willing to lead the troops to fight and destroy Dou Jiande in Shandong!"
"Your Majesty, I am willing to send troops to Wagang to pacify Li Mi and other traitorous troops!"
"His Majesty."
One by one, the generals asked for orders to go to war, and the court suddenly became lively. As long as His Majesty did not attack the families behind them, suppress bandits, etc., they were still very happy.
Song Xuan smiled and said: "I have already felt the desire of you all to serve the country. Since you all want to put down the rebellions in various places as soon as possible, in this case, my first fire after ascending the throne will be to burn these rebels.
Get up!"
At the end of the Great Court Meeting, a decree bearing the seal of the Emperor of Wu Dynasty was conveyed from the capital to all parts of the country.
"The first order of the Emperor of Wu Dynasty, the order to suppress bandits!"
To put it in later terms, it was a nationwide special campaign to crack down on organized crime.
In the bandit suppression order, Song Xuan's wording was extremely harsh, requiring mountain bandits, wandering bandits and all kinds of rebel bandits within the Wu Dynasty to surrender to the local government as soon as possible within seven days and wait for the court's follow-up treatment.
"Anyone who dares to refuse to surrender in any name or in any form will be punished as a traitor and will be killed without mercy! Don't say you didn't predict what you said!"
In Prince Xian's Mansion, Yang Guang was lying in the courtyard basking in the sun, looking at the bandit suppression orders copied by his subordinates.
"Song Xuan." As soon as Yang Guang opened his mouth, he felt something was wrong, and then changed his words: "When His Majesty the Emperor issued this decree, how did all the officials in the court react?"
"What other reaction could there be?" A guard laughed and said: "I heard that the civil and military officials of the entire dynasty were extremely supportive, and many generals requested orders one after another to go out to suppress the bandits.
Your Majesty is still merciful and said that he wanted to give bandits from all over the country a chance to change their ways, so he issued this bandit suppression order and gave them a chance to surrender!"
Yang Guang was silent for a long time and said nothing.
When he was in power, he issued orders to suppress bandits more than once in response to the war-torn rebellions all over the world, and he even wanted the generals of the DPRK to lead troops to attack the bandits in various places more than once.
But unfortunately, except for Zhang Xutuo, he could no longer control all the generals in the imperial court. Even if they promised, they would not send troops. Even though he was the emperor, what could he do?
"A bunch of licking dogs!"
After holding it in for a long time, Yang Guang finally uttered these words.
He had learned the word "dog licking" from the emperor when he had a chat with Song Xuan last time. Now, he felt that using this word to describe the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty was really suitable.
"Your Majesty, I heard from my humble position that when His Majesty held a court meeting for the first time, he beat to death more than twenty important court officials, causing a sensation throughout the capital!"
"Beat more than twenty people?" Yang Guang stood up suddenly, "Didn't the other ministers stop him?"
"Who dares to stop him?" the guard said, "Our new emperor is very powerful. Every civil and military officer in the court was frightened. It is said that not a single person asked for mercy."
"You are a fool!" Yang Guang said with the national curse.
A bunch of bastards, even before they lost power, if they wanted to deal with an important minister in the court, they had to fight with the ministers for a long time.
Just like this, he still had to be called a tyrant and a coward by them, completely ruining his reputation.
The result is good now. The new emperor Song Xuan came to power and killed more than 20 important ministers in one day. Why don't you, the civil and military officials who talk about benevolence, justice and morality but shut up about the world's common people, stop nagging?
After doing this for a long time, am I, the tyrant you call me, actually easy to bully?
"Good death, good death!" Yang Guang chuckled. His motivation for living now is to see how these officials from aristocratic families behave like dogs to His Majesty the New Emperor.
And the result did not disappoint him. The new emperor Song Xuan was really a ruthless man. He would be beaten to death without any ambiguity at all. If he had had such courage in the first place.
Yang Guang thought for a while and then shook his head, forget it, if he had had such courage back then, he would have been decapitated by the generals below.
Having only courage without the strength to match it will only lead to faster death.
After taking a sip of wine, Yang Guang looked at the bandit suppression order in his hand, looked up to the sky and roared, "What a pleasure!"
In the imperial study room, Song Xuan was reviewing memorials.
There is no doubt that, just like the previous world, most of them are about the loyalty of local officials.
Of course, there are also indispensable hints such as "How are you, Your Majesty?", "It's raining here, Your Majesty," and "The fruits here are ripe, Your Majesty, I'll send you some."
Song Xuan reviewed it for a while, then put down the folder and turned to look out the door.
But there, Song Que was walking quickly under the guidance of a eunuch.
After the monarch and his ministers met, Song Xuan got straight to the point and said, "What do you think of what Wang Yan said about warriors in the court today?"
Song Que pondered for a moment and said: "I think what he said makes sense. Although warriors are special, they are also subjects of our Wu Dynasty. How can we not follow the laws of our Wu Dynasty?"
After that, he added: "If Your Majesty is not at ease with them, I can set out now and kill those thorn heads one by one!"