Chapter 1069: Ruthless
Whether Zhang Xiaosi truly cares about the monarch or wants to take care of both the royal family and the Feng Mansion, she is right about one thing:
When the prime minister is gone, the big man will change, and everything will start to be different from before.
When the Prime Minister is here, everything is under his control.
With the Prime Minister gone, no one can become the second Prime Minister, and no one dares to say that he can control everything in the Han Dynasty.
I don’t have that ability and reputation, so I can only use other means to control it.
It can be said that the state of the court after the death of the prime minister is normal.
On the other hand, when the prime minister was here, the emperors and ministers of the Han Dynasty were all twisted into a rope, defenseless against each other, and went all out. This is abnormal.
“My brother fought thousands of miles in the battle of Guanzhong and made great contributions. In the end, he was not even able to be granted the title of Marquis.”
Wei Yan only received "three thousand firsts", but he was actually granted the title of Wugong County Marquis, and was also promoted to the general of Zhendong.
What is one thing that is not above the elder brother?
When Zhao Guang thought about this, he couldn't help but feel aggrieved for his brother.
He gritted his teeth and said:
"I know that for your own selfishness, how many achievements of the Xinghan Association have been ruined? How many people's hard work and sweat have been paid in vain?"
Since the establishment of Xinghan Hui, it has been the biggest thug of the imperial court.
Either passively or proactively, they dug into the foundations of aristocratic families and participated in the attack on old-style aristocratic families many times.
The Xinghan Hui was incompatible with the old aristocratic families—unless there were exceptions allowed by the court.
This is the biggest bottom line of Xinghanhui.
Otherwise, no high-ranking person would be able to sleep peacefully after seeing a behemoth like the Xinghan Society united with a wealthy family.
These people in front of me are so bold that they dare to use their own channels to sell private goods to Liangzhou powerful people.
Helping others deliver goods to grassland tribes in private.
If it had not been the fourth sister-in-law who was handling this matter, someone with serious intentions would have taken advantage of it, not to mention the brother, and even the entire Xinghan Association would have been passive.
“The villain can’t live up to the king, and I can’t live up to the leaders in the meeting...”
Captain You could only repent with tears.
Zhao Guang originally wanted to kick him a few more times, but seeing his appearance, he finally closed his eyes and let out a long sigh:
“Your contribution was personally commended by the Lord. The Lord was so optimistic about you at the beginning, but now he feels so heartbroken..."
Captain You was just crying at first. When he heard these words, he thought of the king counting his wounds in the wounded camp and asking about his appearance with concern.
Finally, I couldn't help but burst into tears.
Everyone present was silent.
“Bang!”
Zhao Guang dropped a dagger, his eye circles were a little red, but his words were ruthless:
"Cry now, it's too late, kill yourself."
“Don’t worry, your wife and children will not be expelled, but all the benefits they currently enjoy will be revoked.”
“They can start all over again later.”
How many people’s hearts were united by Feng Junhou’s sentence “so that future generations will not suffer from war”?
Everything these people do in front of them is not only for their own enjoyment, but also for the purpose of accumulating wealth for their children and grandchildren.
What Zhao Guang is doing now is not only to prevent them from enjoying it, but also to cruelly cut off their last thoughts.
Want one person to pay the price and your descendants to enjoy the blessings?
Go ahead and dream!
Captain You crawled at Zhao Guang’s feet and said while crying:
"General Zhao, I know that I will never see the prince again in this life. I only hope that General Zhao can tell the prince for me. I will still want to fight for him in the next life!"
I remembered that before I followed the king, my parents died in a war, and four of my six brothers and sisters died of starvation on the way to escape.
As long as the wife and children are not expelled, at least they will not starve to death, and they will have a chance in the future.
With the foundation they have laid before, as long as they work hard, their starting point will still be higher than others.
“Don’t worry, I will bring it to you.”
Captain You laughed miserably after receiving Zhao Guang's assurance, held the dagger in his backhand, and stabbed himself in the heart without hesitation.
Looking at Captain You falling softly, someone finally collapsed.
"I don't accept it! I want to see the prince. I have made great contributions to the Han Dynasty. The prince once said personally that even if I die, he will support my family..."
He was waving his hands as if he were crazy.
Zhao Guang was too lazy to look at him, and glanced at the old **** next to him with a vague look.
Two old soldiers suddenly jumped up and pressed him from behind.
While doing these actions, one person also pulled out the Huanshou knife from his waist.
His fatal spot was stabbed accurately from behind.
Complete it in one go, without any sloppiness.
It can be seen that he has been prepared for it.
That person never thought that Zhao Guang would come to settle accounts with them this time with such a ruthless heart.
His eyes widened, and his eyes were still full of disbelief before he died.
In the end, the throat can only make a few "ho ho" sounds.
The white knife goes in and the red knife comes out.
He only felt that all the strength in his body was suddenly drained, and his consciousness gradually became blurred...
Blood flowed from the wounds of the corpse and stained the floor red.
Most of the people present had crawled out of the dead. This small scene was just a trivial matter to everyone.
There were only a few young people with slightly naive faces. Seeing all this, they felt their stomachs suddenly twitching.
They shrank their bodies subconsciously, not daring to make any sound.
Zhao Guang sat back on his seat expressionlessly, lowered his eyes, and said lightly:
“There are daggers and poisons here, you can choose one yourself. If you can’t do it yourself, you can also say something and someone will help.”
After all, those who have experienced life and death before the battle, some people saw that they could not escape, so they mustered up their courage:
“Please give me a dagger, general.”
“Bang!”
Someone threw a dagger at him.
The man picked up the dagger and smiled the same way Captain You did before he died:
"The villain dare not blame the general, let alone the monarch. He only blames the villain himself. His excessive greed has led to today's disaster."
As he spoke, he gritted his teeth and said:
“What the villain hates even more is those people who confuse people. Only today did the villain realize that those people have no good intentions at all.”
"After the villain dies, if those people can and deserve what they deserve, I hope that the brothers present, for the sake of my former colleagues, can tell me that I will die without any regrets!"
Zhao Guang finally raised his eyelids, glanced at him, and said calmly:
“Don’t worry, they will go underground to look for you soon. Under the yellow soil, if you have any grudges, just take revenge.”
“If so, then thank you general!”
The man touched his neck and fell to the ground.
“Please give me a dagger, general!”
“Please give me a dagger, general!”
"I didn't die under the sword of the traitor before the battle. How can I be willing to die under my own sword now? General, please give me some poison. I can at least taste what the poison tastes like before I die."
…
“Madmen, they are all madmen, they are all madmen…”
Someone took advantage of the chaos and shouted, suddenly turned around and wanted to run out.
“Peng!”
A heavy arrow followed him like a shadow, going straight into his heart.
Zhao Guang, who was sitting on his seat, put down the bow and arrow in his hand indifferently.
There were a few people who had been a little bit. When they saw this, they suddenly turned off their minds and completely turned their minds.
“Ugh!”
Several students who came to Liangzhou for internship from the school smelled the faint smell of blood and finally couldn't bear it anymore. They covered their mouths and vomited on the spot.
After a long time, he spoke:
“Open the door.”
The closed hall door creaked open.
Cross an archway of about ten steps, and then open another door.
Everyone who was waiting in the outer hall looked over.
“The general has finished handling the business, please come in.”
The guard stood with his hands solemnly and said to the people in the outer hall.
In the outer hall were Dong Yun, who was sent by the imperial court, Huang Tong, a chamberlain sent by the palace, and Liao Hua, who was temporarily in charge of the Liangzhou governor's affairs.
Liao Hua has leadership experience and is also the most sensitive to the smell of blood.
His nose moved, his eyes suddenly shrank, and he looked toward the inner hall warily.
Looking at Dong Yun who was taking the lead, he opened his mouth and wanted to give a warning.
But seeing that Dong Yun had already crossed the archway impatiently, Liao Hua finally closed his mouth.
Sure enough, Dong Yun, who was the first to enter the inner hall, suddenly exclaimed:
"what happened?"
“Oh, it’s nothing.”
Zhao Guang stood up to greet several people, with a calm face and replied:
"I was dealing with internal matters within the Xinghan Society just now. These people all made mistakes. After being reprimanded, they felt guilty and shameless, so they committed suicide."
A rough count revealed that there were at least a dozen corpses.
If you want to say that the dead people still holding daggers in their hands committed suicide, that's normal.
But you said the guy with the arrow fletching in his back committed suicide?
How did he commit suicide?
Put the arrow feathers into your own back?
And those others, why did the knife pass through the back?
Is it so special for the people of the Xinghan Society to even commit suicide?
Looking at Zhao Guang, who was as calm as if nothing had happened, and then looking at the people in the Xinghan Club who bowed their heads and remained silent.
Not to mention Dong Yun and Huang Tong, even Liao Hua couldn't help but feel frightened: How cruel!
This Zhao Erlang is indeed a figure who has followed Xiao Wenhe for so many years.
This thing was done ruthlessly and absolutely!
Liao Hua spent a lot of time in Liangzhou, and his relationship with the Guan family was unusual.
Dong Yun and Huang Tong signaled with their eyes to let him be the first to speak.
Liao Hua had no choice but to bite the bullet, step over the scattered corpses, walk to Zhao Guang, and persuade in a low voice:
“My dear nephew, this matter doesn’t have to be like this!”
"A few of us were still angry before we came here. This time, the most we can do is to bring the chief culprit to justice. As for the others, they have made meritorious deeds before the battle."
"A small punishment but a big punishment is enough. Why didn't you discuss it with us before taking such a heavy blow?"
Zhao Guang smiled, shook his head and said:
“Uncle Liao, as I said before, these people did something wrong and were ashamed of others, so they committed suicide.”
As he spoke, he let out a long sigh with some compassion on his face:
“Alas, who told the Xinghan Society to put loyalty and righteousness first? Who among the people who came out of the Xinghan Society doesn’t regard the word righteousness as their life? Without righteousness, what’s the point of living?”
Liao Hua doesn’t think much of this.
But Dong Yun already wanted to have a relationship with Zhao Erlang's mother.
Am I pretty?
Isn’t it pretty?
It would be better if this matter was instructed by King Feng Gui.
If only the Zhao Erlang in front of him made his own decisions, he might be taken care of by a certain ghost king by then.
Liao Yuanjian (also known as Liao Hua) had a close relationship with the Guan family. In addition, he had worked with King Feng Gui for so long. I heard that King Feng Gui wanted to call him uncle.
No matter what happens to King Feng Ghost, he will always take Tiger Girl’s face into account and will not embarrass him.
Chamberlain Huang has gone back. As long as he stays in the deep palace, who can do anything to him except the emperor?
The most miserable person is yourself.
He is at the minister's desk, and King Feng Gui is still in charge of the minister's affairs!
Forcing people within the Xinghan Association to commit suicide, what a powerful official!
The more Dong Yun thought about it, the more he felt that it was impossible for him not to speak:
“Yes, yes! General Zhao, there is no need for this!”
“We came here this time just to take a look at the various workshops in Liangzhou and the situation of the military and civilians on the border for the imperial court and the emperor.”
“After all, the monarch has been in Buliangzhou for a long time, leading the army to fight against the thieves in Guanzhong. There is no control over the people below. Occasionally, some people are restless. That is normal.”
“Just give me a warning. It’s so impulsive to cause death. It’s so impulsive..."
He swore that no matter whether it was in the court or the palace, he just wanted to warn Xinghan Hui not to cross the line.
At most, it is a punishment to show a beating.
As long as the Xinghan Hui handed over the culprit and punished him, the matter would be over.
After all, who has not noticed what the Xinghanhui has done for the court over the years?
If you make a mistake, you just need to correct it.
There is no need to be so extreme, no need, really no need.
But it was obvious that the reaction of the Xinghan Society was so strong that it far exceeded the expectations of the court and the palace.
Zhao Guang lowered his eyes and said quietly:
“There are state-owned laws and regulations, and the Xinghan Association is based on loyalty and righteousness. No one can cross this bottom line.”
"The mistakes these people made were not small mistakes. In order not to harm their family, they had no choice but to commit suicide to save their face."
In the Han Dynasty, it was not just talk about a scholar dying for his bosom friend.
That can really be done.
Zhao Guang committed suicide by biting these people to death. Unless he wanted to become a life-and-death enemy of the Xinghan Society, outsiders basically just listened and believed it.
And what Zhao Guang did was more than that.
I saw him clapped his hands.
So someone came in carrying several large boxes and lined them up by the door.
“General Zhao, this is...”
"This is all the files of the Xinghan Hui that have accumulated properties in Yeze, the capital, over the years."
Zhao Guang looked at the boxes and sighed, "In order to make up for this mistake, the Xinghan Society decided to hand over all the properties in Duyezawa to the state."
These boxes represent the countless money and food that the Xinghan Society has invested over the years, as well as the countless profits in the future.
Just sent out like this, even people like Zhao Guang, who married a former rich woman in Hanzhong, felt heartbroken.
There is no other way, my brother said:
Since the place where the mistake was made was Tsunozawa, let’s just make a clean break with it.
This also prevents anyone from using Tonozawa as an excuse to settle old scores in the future.
The Xinghan Society is no longer the small society it once was.
The elder brother has almost reached the top of the Han Dynasty's power.
Coupled with today's sensitive moment, we must not leave any excuses to others.
If my brother falls, he doesn't need others to pounce on him and bite him. The Xinghan Association will be torn apart by itself.
And those guys who are more greedy than evil wolves will never give up until they have chewed up Xinghanhui.
Although the current approach may make people think that Xinghan is a little too weak, he will be frightened and even vomit out the meat in his stomach.
But there are also people who think that Xinghanhui is really ruthless in doing things.
The King of Yue ordered three hundred soldiers to commit suicide in front of the battle line, which directly scared the courage of the enemy soldiers.
At the moment, Dong Yun and others looked at the corpse in front of them, and then at the row of large boxes next to the door.
Facing this huge concession from the Xinghan Hui, several people not only did not feel a trace of joy in their hearts, but instead felt a trace of chill.
What exactly did Xinghanhui, or in other words, King Feng Gui, think?
Are you so loyal? !
(End of this chapter)