"General Pang, a mere warrior, does he know how to govern and secure the country?"
Dou Yangshuang's questioning voice rang out in the hall, causing another burst of laughter. In the hall filled with senior officials and scholars, Pang Gang's disparaging words about Dou Yangshuang just now undoubtedly offended most of them.
Although Pang Gang was also an official of the Ming Dynasty and was the superior officer of many of them, he could not win the approval of these self-proclaimed scholars.
After Pang Gang was belittled by Dou Yangshuang, he was not as angry as he expected. Instead, he looked at Dou Yangshuang up and down. The look of contempt was so obvious that it could drive Dou Yangshuang crazy.
Finally, Pang Gang sighed softly and said: "Okay, I want to ask you, do you think you have been studying hard for more than ten years in Hanchuang, and now that you have won the imperial examination, you should be very talented and famous. If you are now given to one state and one county,
Can you manage the land? Can you manage it so that everyone can live and work in peace and contentment like my Qingzhou? If I give you a battalion of soldiers, you can lead them into battle to kill the enemy, capture thousands of heads, and drive the Tatars out of my Ming territory? When
In front of all the adults and scholars, do you, Dou Yangshuang, dare to say with all your heart that you can!"
Pang Gang's voice was very loud. When he said the last sentence, Pang Gang's voice made Dou Yangshuang's ears buzz and tremble.
Dou Yangshuang stared at Pang Gang, trembling his lips, and wanted to yell at Pang Gang several times: "I can, I can do it!"
But Dou Yangshuang couldn't say these words after several times of excitement. He knew very well that in front of so many respectable adults in Hangzhou, he must not make a mistake. If he talks nonsense again today, he will inevitably
He would be ridiculed by others, and he, Dou Yangshuang, would become the laughing stock among the scholars and would never be able to hold his head up again, let alone go to Beijing to become a Jinshi.
However, seeing Dou Yangshuang's embarrassment, there were people in the hall who stood up for him. A young voice sounded in the hall, "Since the adults said this, I guess these adults can do it?"
Pang Gang looked back and saw a scholar standing, looking at Pang Gang provocatively.
"It seems that this is another scholar who doesn't know how high the sky is." Pang Gang said with a dumb smile: "I can tell you that I am capable and I can do a good job. Last year, I took in a total of 50,000 refugees.
At the beginning of this year, I led 4,000 elite troops to coordinate with Governor Lu and the capital to defeat the Qing army. They defeated the Qing troops led by Qing Wuying Commandery Prince Azige, Rao Yubeile Abatai, and Yangguli, and more than 50,000 Mongolian soldiers.
, beheading over 10,000 people, I ask you, can you do it?"
"Can you do it?" Pang Gang's voice echoed throughout the hall, leaving all the scholars speechless.
Pang Gang shook his head and looked at him with pity: "You can't, you don't have the ability."
When he said this, Pang Gang looked up to the sky and laughed loudly, chanting loudly: "If you don't see me, the army of the Han Dynasty will be over. The weak-headed prisoners will please grow their tassels. If you don't see me, the ban Dingyuan is far away, and the Jueyu Qingqi is urging the war cloud! A man should be in a dangerous line, how can it be?"
Let a scholar's reputation ruin this life? If a scholar cannot contribute to the country, he will only waste food in vain, which will only give Ming Dynasty an extra rice worm."
At this time, Dou Yangshuang was so angry that he was trembling all over. He pointed at Pang Gang and yelled, "How dare you insult Si Wen? I'm going to sue you."
Pang Gang smiled contemptuously, stepped forward, grabbed Dou Yangshuang's outstretched finger, and shook it. He only heard a crisp sound. Dou Yangshuang was still howling and lying on the ground, rolling and screaming, and his whole body was in pain.
He shrank into a ball, and when everyone took a closer look, it turned out that his finger had been twisted off by Pang Gang. As the saying goes, ten fingers are connected to the heart. Dou Yangshuang was so painful that he almost fainted.
"Wow..." There was an uproar in the hall. No one expected that General Dingyuan would dare to commit murder in public, and even break someone's finger.
Pang Gang ignored the uproar of everyone in the hall, lowered his head and sneered at Dou Yangshuang, who was lying on the ground and couldn't help shouting: "You should be glad that you are not a Tatar, otherwise if you dared to point at me like this, I would have chopped you off long ago.
Dog head!"
Pang Gang looked around at the shrinking heads before snorting contemptuously: "Trash!"
After Pang Gang finished speaking, he strode out quickly, leaving only the stunned officials and scholars. The hall of the governor's office was deathly silent. After a long time, a howl came from inside, the sound was as shrill as a wounded beast:
"domineering....."
Pang Gang took Li Xuezhu out of the governor's office and walked on the street. Li Xuezhu was walking beside him, half a body away from him, but she was snickering on the side. Pang Gang said with a bitter smile: "You can laugh if you want, anyway.
Wherever I go, do I offend people?"
Li Xuezhu finally covered her mouth and started to giggle. She looked at Pang Gang with her big beautiful eyes and said, "General, don't worry, I'm not Sister Ruolan. I think you're doing the right thing. What's so great about those scholars?
With their nostrils turned up in the air, they look arrogant. If we really want them to do something, they can't do anything serious. Many important national affairs have been ruined in their hands."
Pang Gang looked at Li Xuezhu with some surprise. Seeing her look of deep resentment, Pang Gang couldn't help but remember that she was instigated by the ministers in North Korea to "exile" her to the Ming Dynasty by his father.
Naturally, I don’t have much favorable impression of those scholars.
Pang Gang shook his head and sighed: "Actually, that's not the case. There are some talented scholars, but there are too few. The atmosphere is so bad."
Seeing that Pang Gang was in a bad mood, Li Xuezhu cleverly changed the subject, "General, you originally wanted to go in to meet some grain merchants, but now you come out like this, isn't it a pity?"
Pang Gang laughed and said: "I thought it was simple at first, but now that I have offended everyone, it is hard to go back. But as for food, they have to sell it even if they want to, or if they don't want to, otherwise
I don’t mind showing them what it means to persuade others with virtue!”
"Is this okay?" Li Xuezhu couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded.
"Let's go, I'll take you to visit someone." Pang Gang didn't care what Li Xuezhu thought, but he jumped on his horse and walked forward...
After Pang Gang left, the hall in the governor's Yamen became a mess. People called doctors and cursed. Liu Rushi and Chen Yuanyuan took advantage of the chaos and retreated to the backyard.
Chen Yuanyuan, who had been silent in the hall just now, had a look of intoxication in her eyes, her beautiful face suddenly turned red, and she whispered to Liu Rushi in a voice like an oriole: "Sister Liu, that General Pang just now is so majestic.
, so many officials and scholars can’t speak highly of him.”
Liu Rushi smiled slightly, stretched out her jade fingers and tapped Chen Yuanyuan's white forehead, and said with a chuckle: "You little girl, are you in love?"
Chen Yuanyuan's pretty little face turned red with embarrassment, and she stamped her feet and said coquettishly: "Sister Liu, you are making fun of me again. I just think what General Pang said is very reasonable. You see, so many gentlemen and scholars are silent."
, doesn’t it still prove that what he said is right?”
Liu Ru couldn't help but smile, put her arms around Chen Yuanyuan's slender waist and said, "Whether what he said is right or not cannot be judged so simply. Maybe those officials didn't bother to argue with him, and besides, you saw that
Well, the scholar just contradicted him a few words, but he broke the person's fingers in one go. Even if this person was reasonable, he was too cruel."
Chen Yuanyuan pouted her little lips, "Hey, Sister Liu, you helped us, why did you speak for that scholar instead? I think that scholar deserved it. He can't lift his hands or resist. He can only talk. I
I despise this kind of person the most."
Liu Rushi looked at Chen Yuanyuan in astonishment, and after looking at her carefully for a while, Chen Yuanyuan felt a little embarrassed, and protested: "Sister Liu, why are you looking at me like this?"
Liu Rushi said dumbfounded: "Sister Chen, don't you mean that my sister is also a talkative person?"
"Oh, I'm sorry Sister Liu." Chen Yuanyuan stuck out her cute little tongue and said embarrassedly: "I forgot, Sister Liu is the most talented girl in our Jiangnan? But sister has real talent and learning, so naturally she is not
Those pseudo-Taoist scholars can't compare."
Liu Rushi shook her head helplessly. She was a sister who was good at everything. She was extremely intelligent, could sing and dance better than herself, and her beauty was the best in the world. At least there was no woman he had seen who could compare with him in public.
, but she just doesn’t like scholars very much. It may be because she has been exposed to those fake moralists since she was a child. She always thinks that scholars are fake and serious and not many good people. Therefore, although her fame is due to the praise of scholars, she finally
Those who looked down on were also scholars, which made Liu Rushi feel helpless.
Liu Rushi shook his head: "Okay, sister can't help you, so hurry up and clean up. Let's go back to the inn."
Chen Yuanyuan nodded and ordered several maids who were with her to quickly pack their luggage and prepare to return. Although they were famous concubines in the south of the Yangtze River, they were not qualified to live in the governor's Yamen, otherwise they would attract gossip.
After Pang Gang left, everyone in the hall was scolding Pang Gang for his rudeness and Tuoba. The inspector Xi Lianglin was so angry that he banged the table and cursed: "This common man with no literary skills is so rude. I must be punished."
Impeach him with a memorial."
"Yes, impeach him!" Everyone agreed in unison with great enthusiasm, and from time to time they secretly glanced at Governor Wu Yadong's face. The governor with the highest status here had not expressed his opinion yet.
Wu Yadong pondered for a while before asking: "Putting the impeachment aside for now, do you know why Pang Gang came to Hangzhou?"
Everyone shook their heads, and suddenly one person said: "Sir, I just heard that Pang Gang was inquiring about the grain merchant. I thought that maybe Pang Gang came here just to buy grain."
"Buying food?" Everyone exclaimed in unison.
Xi Lianglin asked doubtfully: "I heard that Qingzhou's harvest was good today? Why did you come to Hangzhou to buy grain again?"
Wu Yadong sneered and said: "Huh, don't listen to that man's nonsense. How much food can be grown in a barren land like Qingzhou? It's not surprising that he comes to buy food. But you all have to listen to me, don't sell a grain.
Give him food!”
Everyone responded in unison: "I will obey your orders!"