"This is Fushui, not Yishui. I just crossed the Yellow River this morning, and I will arrive in Chang'an in two days. I can then go on a mission. I wonder how the Prime Minister is doing now? You kid can always do something, just
Can't you just do things peacefully and wait for His Majesty's reward? If you insist on tearing up the imperial edict and beating the servant, haven't you thought about the consequences before?"
"Okay, okay, let's drink. Just these two sentences over and over again along the way. Are you bored?"
Guan Fu chuckled and said, "Don't hate it. When you get to Chang'an, many people will ask you this. Just two sentences. If you can't tell me a reason, just wait! Removal of office and seizing titles are trivial.
, His Majesty may not be able to save you whether he wants to kill you or not. You have offended a large number of people without knowing it outside these years. If it weren’t for the protection of Your Majesty and the Prime Minister, you would not be as prosperous as you are now."
"Am I beautiful?" Su Ren shook the shackles on his hands: "This is considered beautiful. Whoever likes it can come. I don't like this kind of scenery."
"Okay, don't pretend to be pitiful. If someone from Tingwei Mansion can put a big shackle on you, would you believe it? Even if you are asked to take a car from Yanmen back to Chang'an, you will have calluses on the back of your neck. I will already be polite to you.
Okay, don’t know how good grandpa is."
Su Ren smiled: "Thank you, thank you! Tell me, what do you want?"
Guan Fu chuckled for a long time: "It's nothing. A distant relative of mine wants to go to Louguan Academy. Although you are not a wine worshipper, everyone knows that you actually run Louguan Academy. Is that okay?"
"No! Unless you donate ten thousand taels of gold to Louguan Academy, then you can consider it."
"Ten thousand taels, why don't you go and grab it?"
"You can't rob so fast. How do you think Louguan Academy has grown over the years? It has grown bigger and bigger. The poor students don't receive any money and they still subsidize their meals. Who would give you food if you don't have money? My Lord Lieutenant, you
I’ve been in Chang’an for so many years, don’t you know?”
"Why did I hear that it only costs five hundred gold?"
"Those are ordinary people. How rich is the Guan family in Yingchuan? I heard that half of the land in the entire state belongs to the Guan family. A word from the Guan family is better than that of the governor. Ten thousand gold is a trivial matter to you. No matter how much you pay,
It’s too late for me to be happy about a few of these students. Don’t worry, this ten thousand gold gift will not be in vain. They must be the best teachers and the best scholars. I’ll wait for three or four years to give you a great talent who has become a general and a prime minister!
"
"Hmph! I believe half of what you say, kid. Ten thousand is ten thousand. I don't care about the world. As long as I can protect the Guan family's business, I will be satisfied."
"Of course this is no problem. How about I go back and teach it myself?"
"You? Hahaha..." Guan Fu laughed loudly: "You still want to go home? His Majesty ordered you to be sent directly to the prison. You won't be able to get out in less than a year and a half."
"Oh? That's it, that's good. It just so happens that your distant relative is coming soon. I'll be waiting in the sky prison. Just now I was worried that the money I asked for from you would be too little. I'm afraid I won't be able to rescue him from the sky prison with 10,000 gold.
Man, since I am going to Tianlao, I just saved this money."
"Humph!" Guanfu was angered by Su Ren's words: "Boy, don't say these nonsense, don't blame me for falling out!"
"Hey! Yingshui is clear, Guan's family is calm; Yingshui is turbid, Guan's clan is!"
Guan Fu was shocked: "Where did you hear this?"
Su Ren smiled and said: "When I was in Yanmen, a few merchants from Yingchuan said this, so I remembered it. Is there any problem?"
"Nonsense, nonsense!" Guan Fu whirled back and forth angrily.
Su Ren grabbed Guan Fu and said, "For the sake of our friendship, I will give you one last idea. Immediately give all the land in Yingchuan to the people, sell the houses, and send away the slaves. Only the ancestral home and Sanwu will be left."
The servant boy may still be able to make it in time, otherwise it won't be just your distant relative who is going to the prison."
"So serious?"
Su Ren's face straightened: "Brother, don't you really know what your Guan family did in Yingchuan? That's it for now. It's up to you whether you want to or not. But please don't implicate Prime Minister Dou. He must be the great Han Xin.
After working hard for so many years, it’s time for him to enjoy his old age."
Guan Fu lowered his head and said nothing. He kept this posture for a long time. Seeing that it was getting dark, Guan Fu ordered to set up camp and came to Su Ren alone: "Can you..."
"No!" Before Guan Fu finished speaking, Su Ren immediately refused: "Now that the border troubles have been eliminated, although there are still some Huns causing trouble, they are no longer a serious problem for me as a man, so your Majesty's eyes will turn back. Although I have said that these years
The big man's internal worries haven't reached the point of causing trouble, but someone as powerful as you, Guan, is a little too presumptuous."
"The land of Yingchuan is more than a thousand miles away. You, the Guan family, dare to annex it in large quantities just because you are a lieutenant in the court. Although the people are not in dire straits, I'm afraid it's not far away. The Guan family occupies half of the land in one state. It's scary to think about it!"
There are even tens of thousands of domestic slaves. Why do you, Guan Shi, want so many people?"
"This..., we really don't want to..."
"It's not whether you want to, but whether you can!" Su Ren took a deep breath and changed his posture again: "Zhang Tang is my disciple. I know this person fairly well. He is a pure minister. Why?"
Being a pure minister means that he only thinks about His Majesty. As long as His Majesty wants to do something, he will be ruthless and selfless! Why can His Majesty put Zhang Tang in the position of Tingwei so quickly? Didn't General Guan understand it?
"
"Your Majesty wants to pay us with Zhang Tang?"
Su Ren nodded: "Isn't the power of Tingwei's Mansion still small for the rebellion in Chang'an? There are twelve palaces, not to mention marquises and the like. Tingwei's Mansion arrested, tried, and confiscated people in one go, without any sloppiness.
.In just a few days, there are hundreds of people. Those are all princes. What are you doing now?"
Guan Fu swallowed his saliva and said, "What is your Majesty doing?"
Su Ren looked at Guan Fu, shook his head and stopped talking. At this point, it was clear that if Guan Fu was still attached to the gold, silver and land, no one could save him. Look at Guan Fu now.
It seemed that he believed Su Ren's words, but he was still reluctant to part with the things in his hands. The final result of hesitation was the most dangerous, so Su Ren did not continue, because he knew that it would be useless to say more.
Guan Fu did not wait for Su Ren's answer, so he could only turn around and walk away. He walked a little shabby and stooped, as if he had aged more than ten years. After being in the officialdom for so many years, the old man naturally has two brushes, not just clinging to them.
After touching Dou Ying's thigh, his vision was naturally not too bad. The actions of Tingwei Mansion some time ago gave Guan Fu a big impact, and Guan Fu was already a little worried at that time. Unexpectedly, Tingwei Mansion disappeared again.
It made Guan Fu relax a lot. Just like that, Guan Fu also sent someone back to his hometown Yingchuan to report the news, but he didn't expect that what Su Ren said today was so terrible.
Han Qing sighed: "Guan Fu, I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep tonight."
Su Ren nodded: "It's no wonder that these people can't sleep. When they were annexing the land based on military merit and official titles, did they ever think about whether the people who were driven out of the fields by them could sleep? To be honest, these nobles and meritorious officials
They are the worms of this society. They do not produce anything, but they consume the most and the best things, and their greed is unbridled!"
"You are also an honorable person!"
"Yes, I am also a moth, but I am a moth who always tries hard to do something, but makes fun of other moths. Look at the current situation, and I am about to be caught and beheaded. Isn't it a bit sad?"
Han Qing did not answer, and Su Ren continued: "I try not to be like a moth, so if I want to change the current atmosphere, even if I can't completely change it, I have to change it a little bit, so that there are fewer moths, and let the big tree of Han Dynasty try its best.
You can stand upright longer."
"So you gave His Majesty the "Farming Order and Business Order"? What if His Majesty doesn't have the determination? The consequences will be very serious if you give up halfway. We also deliberated for a long time that night. Once it fails, it will most likely be an earth-shaking disaster.
!”
Su Ren said with a smile: "Once successful, it will bring prosperity to the world and the well-being of the people. Big rewards will naturally come with big risks. Since your Majesty has already started to implement it, we can only continue. On this point, I really admire your Majesty's courage."
, it would be extremely difficult for me to make this determination."
"This trip to Chang'an is not easy!" Han Qing fell down and lay directly on the ground: "The nobles in the world must hate you to the bone right now. Only Tianlao is safer, and Guan Fu said that you are right.
I’m afraid it won’t be easy to come out in a year and a half.”
Su Ren smiled: "There is no other way. I just hope Wei Qing and the others won't blame me. I have offended too many people this time! It's also good that there is no need to go to court again in the future to avoid being accused.
Beat to death."
"Hahaha!" Han Qing smiled bitterly: "Only you can laugh in this situation."
Guan Fu stayed up all night. Su Ren's words were too terrible. There were hundreds of members of his clan, all of whom were his relatives. He got up at dawn in the morning and couldn't wait to come to Su Ren's prison car. He wanted to push it.
He was worried that he would hurt Su Ren and make him angry. He opened his mouth to scream, and after shouting twice, Su Ren turned over and continued to sleep. Guan Fu scratched his ears and cheeks anxiously, and there was an unprecedented chaos.
No matter what Guan Fu did, Su Ren never woke up. Guan Fu finally understood that Su Ren had finished what he said, or at least what he should have said, so it was up to him whether he was willing to make up his mind. Before noon, Su Ren and Su Ren
Han Qing discovered that more than a dozen fast horses rushed out of Guan Fu's camp, aiming to go south instead of west. So the two of them were sure that Guan Fu was going to make a move, but no one knew how, and it was best not to know.
The Lieutenant had something important to deal with, so the Lieutenant's army escorting Su Ren stayed in Rushui for a day. Also because the Lieutenant had something important to deal with, the discipline in the army was loose and there was no morale. Still because the Lieutenant had something important to deal with, the prisoners
No one found out after being robbed for a night. Moreover, not only the prisoner, but also all the prisoner's staff, armor, weapons, horses, and even the brush Su Ren used to wash the white horse were taken away. (To be continued)