Chapter 138: I used a series of clever tricks to get Liu Yu to death
Chapter 138: I used a series of clever tricks to kill Liu Yu
Zhao Ji had already made a plan. He changed the subject and solemnly declared:
"Before I personally marched to the southeast, there are a few people among the people who have joined the Fang La bandit army.
From today on, those who persuade you to surrender and those who submit will be rewarded.
If anyone commits fraud in order to obtain a reward, he is committing the crime of deceiving the emperor and should be punished among the three clans."
As soon as Zhao Ji said this, he immediately crushed in the bud all the greedy thoughts of a very small number of people among the people who wanted to cheat and receive rewards.
In fact, Zhao Ji's words will also lead to those corrupt officials in Suzhou City who accompanied the emperor on this temporary execution platform, who wanted to use this to attract the emperor's decree and get rewarded. After returning to the Yamen, they made false accounts.
Then you can get rid of the greed of recruiting people and reward money.
Zhao Ji added: "Liang Daguan has brought the imperial edict and pen and ink."
Liang Shicheng immediately agreed: "I obey the order."
In fact, Liang Shicheng immediately asked the accompanying young eunuch to take out the blank edict, as well as a pen, ink, and inkstone that were always ready, and put them on the table of the temporary execution platform.
Zhao Ji said to Zhang Bangchang, the minister Zuocheng who was accompanying him, "Zhang Aiqing, just now, did you all hear what I said clearly?"
"When I return to the official house, my minister Zhang Bangchang heard everything clearly."
Zhao Ji nodded and said with a smile: "Thank you, Zhang Aiqing, for drafting an edict for me. I will announce the recruitment of Fangla and his troops, and write it down in a language that can be understood by officials and civilians."
Zhang Bangchang, the minister Zuocheng, kowtowed and said: "My minister Bangchang obeys the order and thanks the officials for their support."
Zhao Ji smiled slightly and thought to himself that this is the nobleness of imperial power. I am obviously too lazy to write the edict to recruit the Fangla rebels myself, so I have to arrest you, Zuo Cheng, a minister who was born as a Jinshi, and help me do it for you, but you still have to thank me profusely.
It is seen that Zhang Bangchang thinks highly of you.
Zhao Ji stretched out his hand and pointed at the blank edict that Liang Shicheng had laid out on the table.
Zhang Bangchang understood immediately, stood up, hunched over and did not dare to straighten up, trotted past Zhao Ji, and came to where Liang Shicheng had laid out the blank edict.
Writing an edict for Zhao Guan's family was really difficult for Zhang Bangchang, who was born as a Jinshi and had real talent and learning.
Zhang Bangchang's pen moved like a snake, and he quickly wrote what Zhao Guanjia had just said about recruiting Fangla and his tribe, as well as the reward for those who could recruit Fangla and those who surrendered, in sentences that were more suitable for writing in an imperial edict.
"My minister, Zhang Bangchang, has prepared an imperial edict according to the official's wishes. I would like the official to review it." Zhang Bangchang held the edict he had just written in his hands and knelt down before Zhao Ji.
Zhao Ji took the edict and looked at it.
At this time, Zhang Bangchang, the minister Zuocheng, did not get Zhao Guanjia to let him get up, so he did not dare to get up on his own. He knelt down in front of Zhao Ji, looked up at Zhao Guanjia, observed the words and expressions, and guessed the holy intention...
Zhao Ji saw that the edict written by Zhang Bangchang was indeed written according to his previous intention. The writing was so good that only scholars could understand it. Even the people in the southeast should be able to understand the holy meaning of the edict.
Zhao Ji handed the edict to Zhang Bangchang and said, "Zhang Aiqing, please add a few more items to this edict."
Zhang Bangchang was frightened and took the edict in his hand. He was afraid that the edict he had drafted was inappropriate.
Zhao Jidao: "After receiving the edict, the southeastern states and counties immediately announced it to the people.
After this edict is promulgated, anyone in the local area who joins the Fang La bandit army will be punished with serious crimes.
Counting from the date of issuance of this edict, if more than a thousand people in a certain state join the Fangla rebel army, they will be punished by the magistrate and other officials; if more than a hundred people in a county join the Fangla rebel army, they will be punished by the county magistrate, county magistrate and
The crime of a county captain."
According to Zhao Guanjia's dictation, Zhang Bangchang, the minister Zuocheng who wrote the supplementary content in the edict, really admires him. Today's officials are even more thoughtful in their considerations!
This edict was written according to the wishes of the officials. It first announced to all parts of the southeast that Zhu Chong and Zhu Meng's father and son, who had harmed the southeast, had been punished by Zhao Guan's family. In this way, Fangla's uprising was used under the banner of "killing Zhu Meng."
It was torn into pieces invisibly.
Also, the government's method of recruiting people through reward money regardless of previous earnings can be described as a plan to draw money from the bottom of the cauldron!
Just now, what Zhao Guanjia added can be said to be from both the civilian and government perspectives to prevent the expansion of the enemy army in the rear from now on recruiting...
Those present, including the officials and soldiers who came from the capital with Zhao Guanjia, learned about Zhao Guanjia's holy will. They all admired and praised Zhao Guanjia from the bottom of their hearts. They were so different from each other. Now they are really versatile in both civil and military affairs. The strategic deployment of the opponent's bandit army is really amazing.
Very thorough and appropriate...
The great eunuch Liang Shicheng lamented from the bottom of his heart that Zhao Guan's family was really different from what it used to be. Alas! Nowadays, the official family of Zhao Guan, who is decisive in killing in the face of the saints and extremely wise, is known as the "hidden minister".
More sad than ever.
However, Liang Shicheng was fortunate that our family had such a good personal relationship with Wang Fu. Wang Fu was executed by Zhao Guan's family, but our family only donated most of the family wealth when he was in the capital, not only saving his family and life, but also his official status.
, it seems that Zhao Guan’s family has used our family as a servant for many years and can no longer leave our family.
What skills do our family have to keep the officials from leaving our family? We just want to make the officials happy.
Liang Shicheng, who was thinking about this, in order to keep Zhao Guan's family happy, took the lead in kneeling in front of Zhao Ji again, kowtowed, and shouted:
"The edict that the officials want to issue is truly sage and will definitely have a miraculous effect in quickly recruiting and pacifying Fangla's bandit army!
Long live my emperor!"
With the great eunuch Liang Shicheng taking the lead, the officials and people present had no choice but to kneel down and kowtow again, shouting in unison: "Long live my emperor, the sage of the official family!"
Although the time traveler Zhao Ji enjoys the supreme title of "Long Live", he can't help but feel annoyed after hearing it too many times in a short period of time.
Also, he has seen that Liang Shicheng is just trying to flatter me. His statement that once this edict is promulgated in the southeast, "it will definitely have a miraculous effect in quickly recruiting and pacifying the Fangla bandit army" is pure fart (nonsense)!
There are still many die-hards in Fangla's bandit army. Even if the top soldiers in Fangla's rebel army want to be recruited and submit to the court after learning about this edict, can they be regarded as deserters in the bandit army so easily?
Obviously it's not easy.
This edict was promulgated in the southeast. The most important thing was to disintegrate the morale of Fangla's bandit army.
Zhao Ji took a look and said, "Liang Shicheng, who is good at flattering me and likes to slap dragons on their butts, is a problem you have in your spare time when you have no real work to do!"
I will give you Liang Shicheng a hard job to do.
Zhao Ji said to Master Liang with a smile: "Master Liang, please be flat."
"Thank you Lord for your kindness." Liang Shicheng stood up.
Zhao Jidao: "I want to ask Mr. Liang to run an important errand, can you?"
With a "plop", Liang Shicheng knelt down in front of Zhao Guan's family in fear, and said in a flattering tone: "It is only natural that the government sends this old slave to run errands. Just give him the order, and the old slave will do his best to do it well.
The officer's inquiry was enough to kill the old slave!"
Although Liang Shicheng talked about officialdom on the surface, he was extremely beautiful in his heart.
After all, he saw that after he had just flattered the Zhao Guan family and patted the dragon's fart, he was immediately put in the Zhao Guan family's favor and had to give our family an important errand.
What does it mean to be able to run important errands for the official family? It goes without saying that it means that the Zhao official family still trusts and trusts our family! Our family not only did not fall in the official turmoil in the capital, but now it seems that "hidden"
The position of "phase" remains firm.
Liang Shicheng felt happy and bowed his head to wait for the important errand assigned to him by Zhao Guan's family.
Zhao Ji tried his best not to laugh, pointed at the makeshift execution platform, the bloody heads of Zhu Chong and Zhu Men, and ordered:
"The father and son Zhu Chong and Zhu Meng who deceived the emperor in vain and caused harm to the southeast have been beheaded.
However, holding the heads of these two thieves in front of the Fang La bandit army under the banner of "Kill Zhu Meng" will definitely have a miraculous effect in breaking down the morale of the bandit army.
Therefore, I have asked the Liang officials to take the heads of Zhu Chong and Zhu Meng with my own hands, stuff them with fine salt into their seven orifices and broken necks, and then bury the two heads in the fine salt and put them in a wooden box.
Embalming!”
"Huh?!" Liang Shicheng listened to the important errands assigned to him by Zhao Guan's family and described them in such detail. These scary and disgusting tasks still need to be done by him, Senior Official Liang?!
Liang Shicheng felt a little nauseous.
However, he still pretended to be extremely grateful and kowtowed: "Old slave, I have received the order to thank you. I will definitely handle the errand assigned by the official!"
Zhao Jidao: "Just now, when Yang Zhi led his troops to raid Zhu Meng's mansion, didn't they find a large amount of ice cubes stored in the cellar?"
Liang Shicheng hurriedly replied: "Officials have good memories, that's why."
Zhao Ji then said: "Master Liang, after pickling the heads of Zhu Chong and Zhu Men to preserve them, wrap the two wooden boxes containing the heads in oil paper, then use ice cubes to cool them down, and finally wrap them in quilts, coats and other items.
I don't trust anyone else to do such delicate work, only the ingenious Liang Daguan can do it well.
Therefore, everyone has to work hard for Liang officials."
Liang Shicheng felt numb in his heart, but on the surface he pretended to be happy and said with gratitude: "I obey the order, and I thank the officials for their praise. I will do all this myself."
Liang Shicheng stood up and walked to the temporary execution ground where the blood was not completely dry. He grabbed the hair on Zhu Chongren's head that was stained with blood with his left hand, and grabbed the hair on Zhu Mengren's head that was still sticky with blood on his right hand.
A young eunuch beside Liang Shicheng wanted to reach out and take the two heads from the hand of his godfather Liang Daguan.
Unexpectedly, Liang Shicheng spit hard at the blind adopted son and winked at him, meaning that the official ordered our family to do this job personally, and your adopted son is here to do a disservice!
The adopted son understood immediately and did not dare to wipe the spit from his face. He bent down and followed Liang Shicheng.
Liang Shicheng felt bitter in his heart and felt sick in his stomach, but on the surface he pretended to have the same confident smile as when he was delivering important errands to the emperor. He held a bloody human head in each of his left and right hands...
Liang Shicheng said to the young eunuchs around him:
"Follow our family into the mansion and deal with the heads of these two thieves according to the imperial decree."
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The people who were watching the excitement secretly laughed at him. Eunuch Liang had failed to take a good picture of the dragon's fart, and had created a disgusting chore for himself!
However, the people were happy. After all, after Liang Shicheng brought Zhu Chong and Zhu Meng's heads into the Zhu Mansion, they should be able to deal with it for a while according to the method given by Zhao Guan's family. There was no eunuch Liang Shicheng present, so these people were thankful.
There will be fewer times of kneeling and kowtowing.
After Zhao Ji saw Liang Shicheng carrying two bloody heads, protected by four young eunuchs, into the Zhu Mansion, he continued to let Zhang Bangchang draft the edict.
Zhao Jidao: "Zhang Aiqing continues to prepare edicts for me..."
"I know that after the people from Southeast Fang La gathered to rebel against the imperial court, I have already mobilized 100,000 elite soldiers of the Forbidden Army, and also mobilized 200,000 troops from the northwest army who are capable of fighting in Xixia to defend Xixia. I will soon go to the southeast to pacify the Fang La bandit army."
The right hand of Zhang Bangchang, the Minister Zuocheng holding the brush, trembled. Fortunately, he had already hung the brush in the air at this time and did not leave any stain on the edict because he was shocked after hearing what the official said.
Zhang Bangchang thought to himself, is it true that 300,000 elite troops have come to the southeast to quell the rebellion as the officials said?
However, given Zhang Bangchang's high position, before he left the capital, he knew that this time the officials visited the southeast, and they brought only more than 3,000 personal followers with them, plus the newly appointed Liangzhe Road System who had already arrived in the southeast.
Tan Zhen was appointed as envoy and led more than 10,000 elite imperial guards in the capital;
Also, Tong Guan, who should be arriving soon to lead the Privy Council, oversee the Northwest Army, and be the new envoy to Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, will lead the Western Army with more than 10,000 elite soldiers and generals;
Calculated in this way, the Zhao Guan family's troops and horses on their southeast patrol this time did not exceed 30,000 troops in total!
But Zhao Guan's family asked his ministers to exaggerate in the edict. This is the sage of Zhao Guan!
There are less than 30,000 troops, but they are known to the outside world as 300,000. This is exactly what Sun Tzu said in "The Art of War": 'use reality with imaginary, imaginary with reality...the army that subdues the enemy without fighting'!
Zhang Bangchang sighed and admired in his heart, now, the official family has become sage!
He continued to write the edict according to the wishes of Zhao Guanjia...
Zhao Ji looked at Zhang Bangchang, who was thirty-nine years old and in the prime of life, and felt a faint murderous intention in his heart.
Although Zhang Bangchang, the current Minister Zuocheng, has not yet fully exposed his evil face,
However, Zhao Ji, who was familiar with the history of the Song Dynasty, knew that five years later, in the first month of the first year of Jingkang (AD 1126), when the Jin soldiers besieged Tokyo for the first time, the then Dazai Zhang Bangchang, who advocated peace talks, followed Kang Wang Zhao as a hostage
Structure and head to Jinying.
Zhang Bangchang requested peace with the Jin army, and the Song Dynasty was willing to cede territory and pay indemnity in order to make peace...
In the end, the Song Dynasty ceded the three towns of Taiyuan, Zhongshan, and Hejian, and compensated the Jin Kingdom with five million taels of gold and fifty million taels of silver coins (there was not that much gold and silver in the capital of the Song Dynasty, so they compensated a small part first, and then the Song Dynasty compensated the Jin Kingdom for five million taels of gold and fifty million taels of silver coins.
Part of the gold and silver is temporarily owed), Song and Jin reached a peace agreement, and the Jin army withdrew...
Of course, there were many peace ministers in the two Song dynasties in history, and it was impossible to kill them all.
However, when the Jin army returned to Bianliang City in Tokyo for the second time, the Jingkang disaster occurred. After the two saints were kidnapped, the Jin Kingdom wanted to establish a puppet regime in the Central Plains that only the Jin Kingdom would obey.
I want to make you Zhang Bangchang the emperor...
At that time, you, Zhang Bangchang, claimed to be ill and refused to ascend the throne. You tried every possible means to evade it, and even said you would commit suicide to refuse.
However, the Jin army threatened to massacre the city, but you still ascended the throne and proclaimed yourself emperor. You were made emperor of "Great Chu" by Jin Guoqiang, established the "Pseudo-Chu" regime, and obeyed the orders of Jin Guo, which lasted for one month...
Zhang Bangchang's expedient method of being forced to proclaim himself emperor and then return the throne to Kang Wang Zhao Gou has historically been criticized more than praised.
I don’t care about this controversial behavior.
However, if we go by what is recorded in the history books, after you, Zhang Bangchang, became the emperor of "Great Chu", you accepted the Jin army's control of the young and beautiful concubine of my original owner, Song Huizong, the 19-year-old Mrs. Jinggong, Li Jinggong.
The surname, you slept with and was canonized as the "Queen of Da Chu"; you also accepted the more than ten beautiful female family members of the Song Dynasty Palace given to you by the Jin Army...
Damn it, if I don’t kill you old pervert Zhang Bangchang in advance, I won’t be a qualified time traveler.
In addition to wanting to deal with Zhang Bangchang, Zhao Ji most wanted to send Liu Yu, who should be in Hangzhou now, to report to the underworld in advance.
Liu Yu was a notorious traitor "son emperor" who was once again supported by the Jin army after Da Chu!
The time traveler Zhao Ji has already planned out a series of clever schemes to kill people with a borrowed knife and deal with Zhang Bangchang and Liu Yu...