Chapter 570 Take what you need
The more Zheng Yuanxuan looked at the military record, the more he frowned, as if he had swallowed a fly in his throat. After holding it for a long time, he still couldn't help but speak.
"Duke Wei has successively achieved great victories, and His Majesty was very excited to hear about it. Before coming here, he specifically told me that I must ask Duke Wei for his advice and the details of the battle. When the time comes, His Majesty will learn about it. His Majesty was amazed when he heard Duke Wei's successive victories, such achievements are rare in ancient and modern times."
Qin Lang glanced at Zheng Yuanxuan disdainfully, "I don't believe His Majesty would say such a thing, my battle is nothing at all. His Majesty was the general of Tiance, in charge of the country's conquests, and fought many beautiful battles. Winning more with less and defeating the strong with the weak is like taking the battle of Wulaoguan in the Central Plains War. Only a few thousand horses defeated Dou Jiande's 100,000 Hebei army. The record is not worth mentioning, far away there is Huo Huqi who sealed the wolf and lived in Xuxu, and recently there is the Duke of Dai who conquered the country in the north, I just defeated some Western Rong and barbarian Qiang."
Zheng Yuanxuan felt uncomfortable being blocked by Qin Lang's words, and couldn't speak for a while.
Qin Lang added another sentence indifferently, "Could it be that Duke Pei has doubts about my military merit record and thinks that I have falsely reported military merit?"
"Don't dare not dare." Zheng Yuanxuan shook his head, but said again, "My military merits in the Tang Dynasty have a system. In battle, I go to the battle and go to the battle, and I win the top and the bottom. As a result, these military departments have strict evaluation standards and inspection systems."
"Of course I know this. If Mr. Zheng thinks there is something wrong with the military achievements I have recorded, just say so. If he thinks there is no problem, then I forgive Mr. Qin for not being able to accompany me because he still has official duties."
Seeing the tense atmosphere, Tang Jian came over with a smile to round things up.
"Wei Gong, we are also here under a holy order, and we are responsible for doing things for His Majesty and the court. I hope Wei Gong will understand." As he spoke, he pointed out his doubts, such as Qin Lang successively After several successful reports, they beheaded about 40,000 heads in total, but this time when they came, they got more than 50,000 ears.
"Why didn't the Duke of Wei keep the head for inspection, why did he only save the ears?" Zheng Yuanxuan also challenged, "The head can be identified by face, so you can know whether it is a Dangxiang Qiang or a Tuyuhun thief, whether it is a young man or a woman or a child."
Qin Lang heard the meaning behind his words, so he only took out one ear. Who can tell whether the owner of this ear is a Dangxiang Qiang soldier, a Tuyuhun soldier, or just old and weak women and children, or simply the Tang army who died in battle? Or were they cut from the corpses of the common people in the Tang Dynasty?
Even directly kill Liang and cut off the ear, after all, the ear can only distinguish whether it is the left ear or the right ear, and it can only guarantee that one ear represents a head, not the identity of the head.
"In the past, my Tang Dynasty has never used ears as military credentials."
Qin Lang chuckled.
"Back then, Luo Shixin, Duke of Tan, commanded the army by cutting off his ears, and the court did not say that it was not counted. As for why I did not take the head by cutting off my ears, it was because of the tense battle. It is not easy to defend the Five-Star Fort against a siege of 30,000 people with outnumbered enemies and a single army, how can you cut off your head and bring it back and preserve it?"
"Furthermore, after that, I fought back and ran for thousands of miles. How can I bring so many heads? Let me ask, I have to fight again, and I have to travel, and I have to carry tens of thousands of heads. miss?"
"Is it important to have a few dead heads, or to reuse the defeated enemy?"
Qin Lang fought back with a few questions, but both Zheng Yuanxuan and Tang Jian kept their mouths shut.
It's not that they can't fight back, but Qin Lang's words are also reasonable, although he actually avoided why he had to cut off his ears instead of taking the head. Based on the level, why couldn't Qin Lang.
Furthermore, when they questioned Qin Lang before, Qin Lang didn't answer about the difficulty of identifying his identity with his ears.
"Forty thousand rewards, but more than fifty thousand for the ear test, what is Wei Gong going to explain?"
"There is no explanation for this. The 40,000 rewards were the result of my battle in Lanzhou. Now I count 50,000 because I also wiped out the enemies of Weizhou and Hezhou, and wiped out the enemies of Kuozhou, There are several Qiang people in Shanzhou who still want to take advantage of the fire and rob them before they can escape, and every left ear in my warehouse is a fake military achievement."
Zheng Yuanxuan's face darkened, "Including Tuoba Chici's left ear?"
Qin Lang smiled, "Yes, including that one."
"Duke Wei, Tuoba Chici has been appointed by His Majesty as the governor of Xirong Prefecture and the Duke of Pingxi County, and given the surname of the country. Now he is called Li Chixin. Do you know that the Duke of Pingxi County has submitted a petition to His Majesty to impeach you?"
"So what?" Qin Lang asked back.
"Mr. Pingxi impeached you for indiscriminately killing innocent people and wantonly killing prisoners. He also said that you deliberately insulted him. He also said that when you were fighting with Dangxiang, you asked him for his left ear as a military exploit?"
"I don't deny this, but when I killed his subordinates by the Yellow River, they hadn't surrendered yet, and they were still stubbornly resisting. As for saying that I insulted him, that's right, I cut off Tuoba Chi The ear of the resignation, but that is because he drove more than ten thousand Tang military and civilian prisoners to death under the Five Star Fort, and I will pay back a little blood debt for them. If I hadn't cared about the overall situation of the court, I would have chopped up that **** by the Yellow River."
Tang Jian smiled to ease the atmosphere, "The previous things are over, now there is no Tuoba Chici, only Li Chixin, Duke of Pingxi County, his ear should be returned to him, and this ear should be subtracted from the military merit book. "
"I kept that ear, but I won't return it to him."
"If you say confrontation, then confront? Zheng Yuanxuan, where were you when I was fighting on the front line, and now you are running around chattering, so get the **** out of here." Qin Lang had long seen Zheng's family was unhappy, and this time he would be caught by him again. Deliberately making things difficult is also directly showing off.
Zheng Yuanxuan had never been so angry before, the head of a dignified family with five surnames also slapped the table with a dark face.
Qin Lang directly flipped the table over.
The atmosphere fell to freezing point.
Tang Jian had no choice but to hastily end the inquiry, and took Zheng Yuanxuan away.
Liang Jianfang and other generals came in, looked at the messy room, couldn't help but smiled wryly, "Why is Duke Wei angry? They are angels, I'm afraid it's not good."
Qin Lang was smiling all over his face, not even half as angry as he was just now.
"It's okay, I also did that on purpose. If there are people, you can't see the generals doing meritorious service. If you always find fault, then give them some excuses."
"Why?" Liang Jianfang and others were puzzled.
"You can't understand it now, but when you come to my position one day, you will understand." Qin Lang smiled and didn't explain much. Those who understand will naturally understand, and those who don't understand will not Understand.
But he believes that after Zheng Yuanxuan and Tang Jian go out, they will be very satisfied, and they will have something to go back to exchange business. The one in Luoyang Palace will probably be satisfied after receiving these reports.
Take what you need.
Most people are still only looking at the appearance, but some people have been looking at the essence through the appearance. Both Qin Lang and the emperor are very good at acting for others to see. It's just that Qin Lang has seen through the emperor long ago and has been cooperating with the acting.
Qin Lang is now like a kite, the higher he flies, the more worried the emperor is, so he took the initiative to hand over the thread to the emperor, no matter how many threads the thread is, it can always make the emperor feel at ease. The thicker the emperor's line, the more satisfied the emperor will naturally be.
This has nothing to do with whether Li Shimin has changed, it's just an instinctive reaction as a superior and an emperor, if Li Shimin, who is becoming more and more sage, can't even do this basic thing, then it is impossible for him to become a sage .
An emperor, no matter how lofty his ambition is, is not as great as his achievements. He must first firmly grasp his power and stabilize his throne. If this basic thing cannot be maintained, then everything else is just a castle in the air. From this point of view, the emperors in China for thousands of years, the more sage and more meritorious they are, the stronger their control over the imperial power must be.
Such as Emperor Qin and Han Wu, Tang Zong and Song Zu, or Genghis Khan who was proud of his generation, and then Kang Mazi and Qianlong.
Those who can't even hold their own seats, how can they talk about other things.
But in general, Li Shimin is the kind of emperor that Qin Lang admires very much. Although some of his actions now make him feel disgusted, he knows him very well. The people have a bottom line.
This is one of the rare emperors who treated heroes well, and also one of the few more enlightened emperors.
Although he would be tempted by Wei Zheng to draw his sword to kill, would be angered by the old school like Xiao Yu and Chen Shuda, and would be suspicious of famous generals like Li Ji and Li Jing, but he always grasped the margins very well.
Since Li Shimin ascended the throne, although the central prime ministers have changed frequently, the bottom line has been doing very well.
If you change to an emperor like Chongzhen, if you dare to do this, you may end up being killed. Or an emperor like Yang Guang would step on you to the end, and even give you some poison. And a stupid king like Chen Houzhu would fight fiercely with the generals on the front line, but he racked his brains behind the scenes to get the general's woman and give the general a cuckold.
The subordinates of Yu Wentai and Gao Huan, such heroes, can't tolerate Qin Lang's behavior.
It can only be said that Qin Lang also has a choice.
As the so-called bullying a gentleman, he knows Li Shimin's bottom line, and also knows some of his suspicions and worries, so Qin Lang dares to deliberately give up the blame, but it's just a way of survival.
Qin Lang is so young, he has to look a little young, otherwise, how can Li Shimin feel at ease.
In the next few days, Qin Lang didn't dump Tang Jian and Zheng Yuanxuan again, showing a military upstart who was proud of his achievements to the fullest, and didn't take the two founding fathers of the Tang Dynasty seriously.
The two of them were so angry that they stopped seeing Qin Lang altogether. They went in and out of the barracks all day long, visiting and investigating, but Qin Lang ignored the report.
Each perform their duties and perform their own performances.
Brothers, if you have tickets, here are a few. Another month has begun. May August be safe!
(end of this chapter)