Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

"Tell me."

The other party only said three words indifferently, and his attitude suddenly calmed down, which immediately alerted her that this man was just being so affectionate to her just now, but as soon as he turned around, he was ruthless in an instant Face to speak.

I feel a little resentful in my heart, and I also understand that this person is difficult to deal with, but he will not let beauty influence him because he is lustful.

"Commander, there are still many eunuchs, maids and concubines in the harem. They are ignorant, and have never opposed the king. Most of them enter the palace because they have no choice. Please let them live. If you want to reward them to the soldiers, it will be fine." At least I beg the commander not to let the soldiers spoil them..." Madam Huarui said in a low voice.

"On it?"

She nodded.

"Get up, as if it's something big, I promised, come, come, come, sleep with me for a while before dawn."

Huarui's face turned red and she shook her head again and again. She wanted to say that it was not dawn yet, and she had to go back quickly. If this incident was exposed, she would no longer be able to be a human being...

However, he was afraid that Shi Congyun would break the contract, so he could only sleep with him uneasy.

.......

Shi Congyun embraced the beauty comfortably and smelled the fragrance of the beauty. He really knew what it means to have "ice muscles, jade bones, and no sweat".

But the so-called no sweat is a lie, Mrs. Huarui has been sweating profusely all night, and she is very hydrated.

Nine times out of ten, Meng Chang himself has no ability to write such sentences, which seriously deviates from objective facts and needs to be criticized.

He really didn't expect that it would come to his door, but he didn't intend to let it go. If it was in his hands, would there be any reason to return it?

Anyway, he is not a good person, everyone is not surprised, even if Zhou Xian is robbed, he is not afraid, he is not afraid of the shadow slanting when he is upright.

But women are thin-skinned, and are the most vulnerable to moral attacks.

In ancient China, a man's infidelity can be bragged about as an anecdote, but a woman's infidelity will be infamous for thousands of years, and in some places it will even be fatal.

So he decided to settle it by himself, and the moral burden is on him. As a new human being in the 21st century, Shi Congyun seldom uses morality to measure issues, because he has a clearer view of the essence of morality. In his opinion, this is a matter of benefit and cost. Letting women bear the cost is too great and the harm is too great.

After entering the sage mode, Shi Congyun wanted to be Han Gaozu again.

When he woke up again, it was already noon, the sun was shining through the window, and the exhausted Mrs. Huarui was still asleep. She slept in the side room all night, but Xiao Huanghua, who had obviously not slept well, got up to help him wash up.

When he was refreshed and ready to go out, Xiao Huanghua curiously asked him what he was doing with that beautiful sister. Shi Congyun pinched the tip of the little girl's nose: "You are still young, I will teach you when you are one year older. I'm going out to do errands, you help me take care of this sister, and ask the guard at the door to bring you food when you're hungry."

Little Yellow Flower nodded and wrote it down seriously.

At the door, Shi Congyun explained to the guards and told them not to let the woman in the house go out.

.......

At noon, Shi Congyun sent Pan Mei to register and compile the books, and took over the palace treasury. At the same time, he called for the eunuchs in charge of the palace, and asked them to find the roster of maids and concubines. report.

More than 100 eunuchs were frightened and followed suit.

As a result, later that afternoon, Shi Congyun went to inspect and found a problem. Some court ladies thought that his registration and compilation of the register was the victim.

Shi Congyun was furious, and immediately ordered a thorough investigation. In the end, 26 court ladies who escaped registration by bribery were found out, and each of them was beaten with [-] lashes. At the same time, the eunuch who had accepted the bribe was directly executed on the spot.

The soldiers around him killed people like hemp, quickly pressed the eunuch to the ground, blood soaked the head on the spot.

Immediately, everyone was frightened, and they did not dare to mess around in the harem, and they all followed his orders, and then he handed over this matter to Wei Renpu to handle.

Originally, Meng Chang was going to be notified in the side hall at the back that his imperial concubine had been confiscated, but he forgot it in a hurry.

In Chinese history, except for a period in the late Qing Dynasty, there has always been monogamy and multiple concubines. There has never been a saying about equal wives. One wife and others are all concubines, because the ancients were not stupid. If there is one more wife, the problem of inheritance and inheritance has become a saying. Unclear issues will cause brothers to turn against each other, families to split, and the country to split.

The emperor's concubines have more status, that is, all kinds of concubines, who are regarded as the emperor's family members in name, and have higher status than concubines.

Among them, the title of imperial concubine is the most expensive status after the queen, and can be counted as Meng Chang's family. It stands to reason that she can go to Daliang with Meng Chang and continue to be a family. .

At first Shi Congyun thought Mrs. Huarui was giving her title, but after Meng Xuanzhe told him about it, he realized how insane Meng Chang was.

He searched for beauties everywhere in Shu. There were thousands of concubines in the harem and more than [-] court ladies. Meng Chang divided these concubines into twelve grades and selected them by himself.

The highest of the twelve classes is called Mrs. Huarui. There are a group of Mrs. Huarui instead of one, and the noble concubine Fei is the most favored among the Mrs. Huarui.

Good guy, Shi Congyun figured out why all 14 Shu troops were disarmed. Although Qin Shihuang also had tens of thousands of court ladies, he has the world and a vast territory. In this small Shu land, he actually made it like this. what to live.

In history, Meng Chang died of illness not long after arriving in Daliang. After that, Mrs. Huarui became Zhao Kuangyin's favorite woman, so folk rumors said that Zhao Kuangyin had a crush on Mrs. Huarui, so she murdered Meng Chang.

Regarding this point of view, Shi Congyun fully agrees with some historians.

Either Meng Chang died of illness, and Shu has been pampered and pampered for more than 40 years. It is normal to travel thousands of miles to Daliang.

Either he was killed by Zhao Kuangyin, but it could not be because of Mrs. Huarui, but the Song army maintained the military habits of the Five Dynasties, burned, killed and looted after entering Shu, which caused the army and people in Shu to rebel. kill him.

If Zhao Kuangyin is really only for a woman, there is no need to kill him to get a bad reputation. As soon as he asks his wife, daughter, and concubine, he has to respectfully send him over. There are too many such things in history.

It is often said that the military is the continuation of politics, but there is a premise for this sentence. The premise is that you have to be able to stand up militarily before you are qualified to talk about political means.

A subjugated king like the Shu Kingdom who cannot stand militarily would be willing to kill his own son if he wanted to survive, not to mention giving away his wife, otherwise he would have to find an old crooked neck tree by himself.

So Shi Congyun is very domineering, besides, he didn't want his queen, he just wanted a noble concubine.

In the afternoon of the same day, Shi Congyun went to patrol the streets again, and went to the various armies to emphasize military discipline. Anmin's notice had been posted, but the streets were still deserted, and no common people dared to come out.

Then when they arrived at Li Hao's mansion, the family confiscation team was moving out a large number of gold and silver treasures and precious antiques. Shao Ji was commanding the troops, and Shi Congyun went to ask him about the situation.

Shao Ji was excited and gritted his teeth again: "Marshal, this old thief's family doesn't know how much money he has, how much money he has looted, he has already pulled tens of thousands of taels of gold and silver alone, and more than 30 carts have left."

Shi Congyun also cursed, and then said: "How many wives and concubines are there in his family?"

"His wife and children are placed separately in the side yard. There are 160 concubines in the old man's house, and there are more than 350 maids under [-] years old."

Shi Congyun said directly: "Ask them, those who are willing to stay and continue to serve Li Hao, let them stay, and go to Daliang in the future, and those who are not willing to send ten coins to each of them, let them go home."

Shao Ji nodded, and then asked: "Marshal, there are young brothers who haven't married yet, can you take one away?"

Shi Congyun just wanted to agree, but quickly shook his head: "No, although it sounds appropriate, I can't open my mouth.

I want to have an army of tens of thousands in Chengdu. If other places follow suit, I can't manage it in the future, and it will just become a robbery. Tell those young boys to wait, give them a lot of money in a few days, and marry whoever they want when they go back. "

Shao Ji and the soldiers got the guarantee, and went on to work happily.

........

When Shi Congyun returned to the palace that night, Wei Renpu came to report to him, saying that there were 280 eunuchs and 2 court ladies and concubines in the entire harem of Shu Kingdom. There were originally more, more than [-]. Many have fled because of the military chaos.

Shi Congyun nodded, feeling a little annoyed, and said to Wei Renpu: "Wei Gong, how do you arrange for so many women in the harem? If everyone pays them to go back, it will be a lot of money.

If rewards are given to the soldiers, it is two or three thousand miles away from Daliang, and the mountain road is rugged, whether they can go back is a problem. "

People are not things, they can be moved around at will, and these palace-grown women are forced to carry their luggage with the army to walk two or three thousand miles back to Daliang.

Wei Renpu thought for a while, "Commander, you can give it to the unmarried soldiers in the Jiannan Army.

The Jiannan army was originally adapted from the surrender of the Shu army. Most of their families are in Shu. In addition, they have not done any meritorious service. It is not appropriate to reward them with the same reward as the army. It is just a matter of betrotting the women in the palace to the boys in the Jiannan army and rewarding them for submission. I face.

As for the troops from Daliang and Jingzhou, they were rewarded with money. "

After listening to Wei Renpu's suggestion, Shi Congyun thought it was reasonable, so he simply said: "Wei Gong will handle this matter, and tomorrow we will first pick the first batch, and each person over the age of 28 will give ten coins to let them leave.

Secondly, I asked them if they would like to work in the Daliang Palace. If they were willing to stay, the rest should be given to the soldiers of the Jiannan Army. "

Wei Renpu's order was then ready to be carried out.

.........

As a result, when he returned to the side hall that night, Shi Congyun found out that Mrs. Huarui had actually gone back to the harem. The guard looked guilty and said that Fei had quietly left when he took Xiao Huanghua to get food from the gang leader at noon.

Shi Congyun scolded several people, but there was no punishment, and Xiao Huanghua also scolded them, but not so severely.

As long as there is a war, he usually does not open a small stove alone, but eats with the leader of the pro-barracks, Junna.

Then he didn't bother to pay attention to it, he still had a lot of things to deal with, and he didn't care that much in his heart, so she ran as long as she wanted, so she didn't have to open her mouth.

.......

The next day, Wei Renpu told him the results after the treatment. Only 56 people were willing to go to Daliang. After all, the road was too far, and Shi Congyun didn't care.

As for Jing Guo's round of selection, there are still more than 6000 people left after going out to dismiss and return home, which is still a lot.

Shi Congyun simply ordered that those over the age of 25 be sent home, so that only 4000 people remained in the afternoon.

On the other hand, amid the complaints of the officials, the confiscated army also completed the search of most of the official residences in Chengdu, except for those left according to the quota, the others were placed in the warehouse of Daying outside the city.

As a result, the next day, Pan Mei brought him a piece of news that was both joyful and disturbing. There was too much money and treasures in the treasury of the Kingdom of Shu!Even if all of their [-] troops were employed as laborers this time, it would be impossible to transport them all.

Pan Mei said that according to his estimate, even if these things go by water, enter the Yangtze River, take the Huaihe River and Bianhe River to Daliang, bypassing the rugged mountain road in the north, it may take several years to transport them!

Shi Congyun finally understands what is the trouble of happiness. He has been fighting for so many years, but he has never seen so much money!

So he directly ordered Pan Mei to judge the affairs of the Chengdu government, let him manage and manage the Shu land, and at the same time be responsible for transporting all the treasury wealth left by the Shu state to Daliang in the next few years.

Pan Mei took the order. Originally, she wanted to convict the officials of the feudal borders in Chengdu that only the emperor could appoint them, but when Shi Congyun spoke, everyone took it for granted.

Then Shi Congyun asked Dou Yi to count the achievements of each army, and prepared to reward the troops. The copper coins were too heavy, so Shi Congyun planned to reward them in Chengdu, and let the soldiers carry them back to save transportation costs.

The rewards and punishments this time are still the same as the last time they fought against Khitan, with camps as units (ranging from 500 to [-] people), there is a guaranteed reward, and the more battles left, the more camps with more meritorious deeds, the more rewards.

Special rewards for outstanding performance, such as Dang Jin being the first to rush to the top of the city to gain a firm foothold when attacking Jianmen Pass, and he will be rewarded with a thousand coins for his first achievement.

.......

In the afternoon, Fei took care of himself and returned to the side hall where Meng Chang's family lived, full of guilt.

Shi Congyun allowed Meng Chang to take his whole family to Daliang. The old mother, daughter, son, and his queen could also bring five concubines. He chose by himself, among them was Fei.

In addition, there are ten maids and five eunuchs, and the family wealth will pull three carriages for him, and those who are too many are not allowed.

Meng Chang's mother was not a queen at first, but a noble concubine, who was named queen after Meng Chang registered, but now she was calm.

Huarui felt guilty, thinking of the evil things Shi Congyun did to him last night, she had no face to face her husband. Fortunately, since Meng Chang was placed under house arrest in the side hall, she got drunk every day and didn't care at all...

Empress Dowager Li was originally the concubine of Li Cunxu, Emperor Zhuangzong of the Later Tang Dynasty, and was later bestowed on the late Emperor Meng Zhixiang.

She went to greet her mother.

The mother is getting old, but her eyes are like light, as if trying to see through her guilty conscience, after she finished speaking, she was about to leave quickly, but she didn't expect her mother to stop her.

"Where did you go today? You care about my son the most on weekdays. I haven't seen you all day today."

Facing this question, she panicked for a moment, but she even calmed down and replied, "Report to mother, go and tidy up some clothes."

Empress Dowager Li nodded and glanced at her: "Go and rest, the situation is not good now, don't go to the outer hall if you can.

But.....There is nothing we can do when it is a last resort. My son can't live up to it and can't protect you. What can we do now that the knife is on his neck. "

After hearing this, she felt that there was something in the Queen Mother's words, but she didn't understand, so she nodded.

Back in her small wing room, she quickly collapsed on the bed, exhausted physically and mentally, and soon fell into a deep sleep, but suddenly returned to the night that made her fascinated in her dream.

........

In the next few days, due to the good military discipline of Zhou's army, there was no sign of burning, killing or looting, and no one rode horses on the street. When the army passed by, they just had to get out of the way.

At the same time at the south gate of Chengdu, Zhou Jun opened the treasury and began to distribute rewards. Soldiers lined up to receive the rewards. Many soldiers had so much copper coins that they could only be put in sacks or baskets.

Although the currency of the Shu Kingdom and the new currency of the Zhou Kingdom are copper coins with different styles, it does not affect it, because the currency of this era is not a credit currency, but a value currency.

To put it simply, the copper itself is valuable when a copper coin is cast, and it will not depreciate due to changes in shape and style. At worst, it will be melted and recast, which is different from the paper money that relies on national credit to guarantee its value in later generations.

Many soldiers were very excited, but found that they could not hold their own rewards, so they began to buy sacks, pots, bamboo baskets and other things from the people to store their money, which brought good business to many weavers in Chengdu for a while.

Some weavers took the opportunity to customize a kind of fine bamboo strips for the soldiers of the Zhou army, which could be carried on the back, small and large, and the business was booming.

The common people also found that these soldiers actually used money to buy their things instead of directly robbing or killing people to seize goods. It's been a long time.

As a result, Zhou Jun became more popular in the city, and life in Chengdu gradually recovered.

In the next few days, Pan Mei began to gradually take over the Chengdu government, and the governors of various states also came to Chengdu. Shi Congyun asked them to either go to Daliang as officials, or resign on the spot and go home to retire.

As early as a few days ago, Shi Congyun had sent a letter back to ask Empress Dowager Fu to transfer officials from the Imperial Academy, the Ministry of Officials, and the Department of Household Affairs to fill in the vacancies of officials.

The next thing happened in an orderly manner. Li Chuyun’s troops from Suizhou also joined forces at the Chengdu Foreign Exchange. Afterwards, Zhou Jun’s armies got rewards, and all of them were smiling, but the adapted Jiannan Army didn’t fight, so there was no reward, so I could only look at Zhou Jun with envy. .

Until a few days later, Shi Congyun asked the Jiannan Army to use the capital as a unit to count those who had not yet married wives and families, and had no fiancées. After reporting them, they were taken outside the palace, and Shi Congyun personally explained to these young soldiers.

"The old thief Meng Chang is licentious and immoral. He is old and frail and has no ability. He even robbed more than 2 young women in Shu. They are all your fellow countrymen or sisters. Today, my master Wang is here to liberate Shu. People, relieve your suffering.

Naturally, these innocent women will also be released, you are blessed, they are all beauties, they are all given to you today, as your reward for submitting to my Great Zhou, take them back and treat them well. "

Shi Congyun also joked: "Don't worry, old thief Meng Chang doesn't have that ability and can't stand up, unlike you, even some of his concubines are young children, let alone these court ladies, they are all Innocent girl."

The young soldiers below laughed.

Shi Congyun came up with another trick. In addition to asking the soldiers to take one each, he also asked them to report where their homes were when they came up. If there are fellow villagers who are willing to follow, Wei Renpu will not assign them.

The soldiers all applauded, and many of the uneasy palace ladies also breathed a sigh of relief.

To be honest, seeing thousands of beauties, Shi Congyun himself was blindsided, and even wished to take them all back to the mansion, even if he didn't have that ability, he was still a sight to behold.