After the Gu of the Red Chamber

Emperor Pingkang was really annoyed, he was kind by nature and had a good reputation, otherwise he would not have allowed the ministers to borrow money from the treasury, but he never thought that he would give convenience to the ministers, since he was regarded as casual!

Tete took the initiative to borrow money before he ordered the treasury to be counted, and even borrowed all the treasury, not on purpose! ?

When he doesn't know?It was not because he was afraid that he would take all the money in the treasury for disaster relief, so he quietly borrowed it before he counted it.

It would be fine if those ministers who borrowed money were really unable to survive and had to borrow money to survive the day, but at first glance, the people who came to borrow money were not only well-known and rich princely families in Beijing, but even many court officials. First-rank ministers also came to borrow money.

When he doesn't know?These people have a gray income, so they may be short of money, and the charcoal and ice tributes they usually receive are also first-class. I am afraid that everyone has more money than him, so they will be poor to borrow money?

In the past, Emperor Pingkang didn't use money, that's all, but now when money is used for both war and disaster relief, he can watch others spend his money for disaster relief.

The emperor was furious and buried millions of corpses. Of course, Emperor Pingkang could not have ransacked the minister's house for this matter, but he also criticized the matter heavily at the court meeting, and at the same time issued an order to collect debts. What's more, he directly pointed out Let the new prince lead the matter.

When Tu Mingyu received the order, he was almost in a bad state. If it was something else, he might happily accept it, but to collect debts, and to collect debts from the ministers of Quan Dajin !This is not an easy job.

As soon as Tu Mingyu returned to the mansion, he hurriedly discussed the matter with his staff. Several staff members looked at each other in blank amazement.

A staff member bit the bullet and said, "Why don't we take a sick leave? Push it away first?"

Even if it is in an ordinary family, it is not easy to ask for debts, not to mention that now you have to collect debts from most of the officials in the Jin Dynasty. At that time, maybe the Holy Majesty would throw out the new prince to quell public anger, or take the opportunity to pull the deposed prince up.

What the staff said happened to be what Tu Mingyu was most worried about. He may not be able to handle political affairs, but he has a three-point grasp of his father's temper.

His previous poor performance had already moved his father a little bit, and he could see that his father was very satisfied with the little boy born to his second brother, and he also knew that his second brother was wronged. , love the house and the house, maybe they will take the opportunity to pull him down, maybe it's not sure if the second brother will go up.

However, if he didn't do it, maybe the father would have a reason to depose him.

While Tu Mingyu was hesitating, Gao Ming boldly advised: "Although this matter is not easy to handle, it is still an opportunity for the prince."

It is impossible not to do so, and the key point is how to turn the crisis into a turning point.

"Oh!" Tu Mingyu was noncommittal, "What do you mean by that?"

Gao Ming said with a smile: "Back to the prince, there are quite a few people in Beijing who have borrowed money from the treasury, and among them are many loyal supporters of the abolition of the prince. Why don't the prince take this opportunity to deal with those families?"

Anyway, it's all about debt collection, which family is not a debt collector, and the family who has a good relationship with the abolished prince, on the one hand, helps the Holy One to recover the money, and on the other hand, it is time to let those people know some rules.

It's useless to think about the abolished prince. Right now it's the new prince's world, and it's time to let those people know that the abolished prince is a thing of the past. Besides...

Gao Ming said again: "According to this old slave, the Holy Majesty is only having a headache because of military expenses and disaster relief. As long as we can meet these two major events with the money we ask for, we can do business with the Holy Majesty if we want to come to him."

It is really too difficult to collect debts from the officials in the whole capital, as long as you ask for more than half, the money is barely enough to cover, and it is enough if you think about it.

What Gao Ming said made Tu Mingyu's heart move. To be honest, he has been compared with the deposed prince over the years. He has been trampled under the feet of the deposed prince. yes, but...

He hesitated slightly, worried: "I'm afraid that someone will say that he is using his power for personal gain."

The aide smiled and said, "It's okay."

He glanced at the list of those who owed money, and said in a low voice: "If the crown prince and the fourth concubine's natal family also collect debts together, no one else would dare to say anything."

Among the big debtors, in addition to the old connections of the abolished prince, there are also the family of the new prince's wife and concubines. If they attack the family of the fourth prince's concubine first, it would be hard for others to say anything.

Although the natal family of the fourth concubine is just a small fourth-rank official, the money they borrowed is not as much as that of Concubine Chen's natal family, but if you borrow more and less, the money will always have to be repaid. They will take the fourth concubine first. I don't believe others can say that they use power for personal gain.

Tu Mingyu took a look, "It's so good!"

Although there are some who feel sorry for the lady, but who told the lady's natal family not to be careful, but the biological father borrowed money before checking the treasury.

Just when Tu Mingyu took his relatives to the princess's natal house and forced his father-in-law and mother-in-law to pay back the money, Wang Ziteng led a small group of servants walking freely in the Beirong territory.

Since he received the news of the abolition of the prince, what he did most was to secretly come to Beirong to fight in the grass valley. In order to make a false impression that Beirong intends to invade Dajin.

The Great Jin borders the Bei Rong, and there are many conflicts in normal times. Moreover, the Bei Rong is not like the Da Jin. When things are going badly, they sneaked to the border of Dajin to hunt grass valleys, kidnapped and killed the people of Dajin, and then snatched one back by the way.

There are countless sporadic burnings, killings, and robberies like this. In the past, Dajin mostly endured it silently. After getting the news, it was considered good to send people to the burned village to help collect the corpses. Follow the road, Beirong people come to fight Caogu!Success, their Da Jin also turned against Cao Gu and went back.

Bei Rong robbed them of the first village of Dajin, even if Wang Ziteng couldn't return it ten times, at least he would return it three times, and slaughtered the three villages.

Wang Ziteng was originally a warrior, and his attacks were ruthless and hot. He said that Tucun is a real Tucun, and no living people will be left for Beirong people. There are many people in Jin Dynasty and few people in Beirong. Long, Bei Rong couldn't support it anymore, and the matter of hunting grass valleys gradually decreased.

However, in the past, most of the Beirong came to Dajin to fight Caogu, and Wang Ziteng would take revenge, but it was the first time in these years that Wang Ziteng took the initiative to go to Beibei to fight Caogu this time.

Moreover, in the past half month, Wang Ziteng beat Caogu at least ten times, beheaded nearly a hundred people at least, and sent them back to Beijing in the name of Beirong spies. After seeing so many Beirong heads, it is said that The capital didn't dare to underestimate this matter, and had people prepare food and grass early to find out.

Although hundreds of Beirong people were slaughtered, Wang Ziteng still felt that it was not enough, so he simply hired the local Beirong people and asked him to point out the border villages directly, and grab them one by one.

Some confidantes who didn't understand the reason said that Wang Ziteng was ordered by the abolished prince to do something, but only Wang Ziteng knew that he was using this incident to vent his grievances.

In his life, he was going well, he was born into a family, had enough food and clothing, and married his sweetheart who grew up with his childhood sweetheart.

His official career was even smoother. Because his sister married into the Rongguo Mansion, he received special training from Jia Daishan as soon as he entered the Northeast Army, and within a few years he achieved the position of general. After Jia Daishan passed away, he went smoothly He took over the Northeast Army.

The only regret is probably that he has been married to He for many years, and his knees have been empty. There is only a sickly young girl under his knees, and he has no son. The brother's son is the heir, never thought that all of this was man-made!And it was his good sister who cut off his heir!

He asked himself that he treated his two younger sisters very well. Over the years, he not only gave them annual gifts every year, but also helped them wipe their buttocks.

If it weren't for him to support the two younger sisters, how could Aunt Xue be childless, but still hold the position of the Xue family's mistress for so many years, and still be able to suppress her husband Xue Yi? have?

If it weren't for him, why would no one dare to ask Mrs. Wang a single word when the concubine born to Jia Cunzhou by Aunt Zhou was suddenly abducted and sold?

Not all the problems, all the troubles, were resolved by relying on his face.

So what did his two good sisters do?Mrs. Wang dared to prescribe medicine to Mrs. He, causing him to be childless. If he hadn't been ordered by the emperor not to leave Liaoyang mansion at will, he might have rushed to the capital and killed Mrs. Wang directly.

Under the grief and indignation of Wang Ziteng, all the anger was directed at the Beirong people. These days, he has often massacred Beirong people in the name of abolishing the prince and letting him make trouble. Beirong borders Dajin After almost all the villages were cleaned up by him, he simply hired a local from Beirong to lead the way, and directly killed them one by one.

Wang Ziteng seemed to be bored and pulled the bow and arrow casually. He didn't know whether it was intentional or not. The arrow missed the guide's vitals every time, and the guide trembled in shock.He asked casually: "Didn't you say that there is a Beirong village near here? How come there is still no one?"

The guide trembled, and quickly replied: "Hurry up! Hurry up! It's just ahead."

Although the man was wearing the clothes of ordinary people in Beirong, his appearance was somewhat Han Chinese. At a glance, he could tell that he was a mixed blood of Han Chinese and Beirong people. He even spoke fluent Chinese and even There is a faint accent of the Suzhou area in the south of the Yangtze River.

The Northeast is a place of exile. There are quite a few people exiled from various parts of the Great Jin Dynasty to the Northeast. Hu Han mixed race.

It is not surprising that such Beirong people are caught at the border between Beirong and Dajin, but for some reason, the guide always has a sense of disobedience. If I really want to say, It seems that a Han person deliberately wears the clothes of the Beirong people, and it seems that a scholar deliberately pretends to be a beggar.

"Okay! Very good! Very good!" Wang Ziteng said three good things in a row, then suddenly raised his hand and shot the guide to death with an arrow.

Wang Ziteng's arrow was extremely powerful, and the sharp arrow pierced through the man's head, leaving only a little arrow tail between the man's eyebrows, but in the blink of an eye, there was no time to scream, and the dead could not die again up.

"Master!" The servant at the side──Wang Da was taken aback, and quickly asked, "Master, this is..."

How to kill the guide so well?

Wang Ziteng sneered, "Look around here, does it look like a village?"

Everyone in Beirong raises cattle and sheep as their occupation, and usually lives by chasing water and grass. If there are more cattle and sheep here, the usual little pasture is enough for the cattle and sheep to eat. The places they pass, let alone grass, are better. Even the roots of the grass have been dug up in the place. If there is nothing to eat, they will change to another place to explore life, and this place is overgrown with weeds. If there is a village, how can the grass grow so long.

Besides, after they walked for a long time, there was no smoke from the kitchen, nor the sound of chickens crowing and dogs barking. Doesn't it mean that people in that village don't need to eat?

Wang Da rubbed his head in embarrassment, and said embarrassingly: "Master is still careful."

Wang Er nervously glanced around, and quickly said: "Master, this Beirong man must have a plan to lead us here. For safety's sake, please leave this place as soon as possible."

"What are you afraid of?" Wang Ziteng said calmly, "Go and see what the Beirong people are doing."

Wang Ziteng smiled cruelly, and licked away the blood on the arrow, "That's what makes it interesting."

Therefore, how could the fake news produced by the suspicious formation be as good as the real thing? Speaking of which, his official position has not been moved for a long time.

Wang Ziteng led his men to sneak to the rear, and the group tore off their clothes to wrap around the horse's feet, without making a sound, they just sneaked in quietly.

No matter who arranged this matter, this time Bei Rong really put in a lot of effort to lure them into the valley, and they really built a Bei Rong village, which looks like the real thing at first glance, with broken thatched huts built of mud walls , Sparse and crooked fences, at first glance, it really looks like a real Beirong village.

But the fake ones are fake after all, Wang Ziteng destroyed so many Beirong villages, I have never seen a Beirong village where the men are all mighty and tough, all dressed in furs, but they can’t even marry a wife, Half of the village didn't even have a child.

After Wang Ziteng only glanced at the false Beirong village, he didn't bother to look any further, and led his people around the village. When he got there, he suddenly found that there was a whole group of Beirong army waiting for them.

If you add the Beirong people pretending to be villagers, there are at least two teams of Beirong troops waiting for them here.

Wang Ziteng rubbed his chin, it seemed that the Beirong people really wanted his life this time!Did he destroy too many Beirong villages a while ago, making them hurt?Otherwise, it's not like the Beirong people's habit to deal with him so generously.

Wang Da couldn't help trembling, don't look at them there is also a team here, the number is similar, only a little less than the Beirong people, but the Beirong people grew up on horseback since they were young, and their folk customs are sturdy, and there are few Beirong people It is said that it can reach three Dajin people.Coupled with the fact that the terrain here is empty and there is nowhere to hide, if the Beirong people find out, they are probably dead.

Under Wang Da's fear, he immediately thought of retreating, and quickly persuaded: "Master, there are many people in Beirong, why don't we retreat first?"

Wang Ziteng raised his eyebrows slightly, and waved directly to Wang Da, "Come here."

Wang Da didn't understand the reasoning, stepped forward a few steps, and persuaded: "Master, why don't we-"

Before he finished speaking, Wang Ziteng suddenly covered his mouth and wiped Wang Da's neck with a knife. Wang Dalian had no chance to scream, so he died immediately.

Wang San was startled, "Master, this is..."

Wang Ziteng calmly wiped the blood from Wang Da's body, "Wang Da was timid before the battle, so he must not fight, lest this kid cause trouble for us."

Wang Er was stunned, and subconsciously glanced at the Bei Rongjun again, "The master wants to..."

Wang Ziteng sneered slightly, "Since they are all here waiting for me, how can I let them down."

What's more, always handing over the heads of some ordinary people of Beirong may make people suspicious. It's better to hand over the heads of some genuine Beibei army. It is true that Beibei has the intention of invading.

Intentional calculations without intention, coupled with Wang Ziteng himself being brave and fearless, the people under him were also forced to be brave and fearless. In just half a day, this group of Beirong soldiers was dealt with, not only killing most of the Beirong army , Also captured the little leader of this group of Beirong soldiers.

What was even more unexpected was that the captured little leader turned out to be a coated slave under the tent of the King of Beirong. There was a girl in the family who was serving the King of Beirong's personal maid, and she really knew a lot of the secrets of the King of Beirong.

According to what the man said, this time the Beirong people really thought about invading the Jin Dynasty, so they were sent to be the forwards, thinking about getting rid of Wang Ziteng first.

Since Jia Daishan's death, the Northeast Army has been supported by Wang Ziteng. Once Wang Ziteng left, there would be no more officials in Liaoyang Mansion who could be in charge. At that time, they would occupy Liaoyang Mansion first, and then go straight to the capital. The previous dynasty is the same, enter the Central Plains, and enjoy the wine and beauties of the Central Plains.

Wang Ziteng was too lazy to listen to the man talking in his sleep, and said coldly, "Are you so sure that you will succeed?"

It is not the first time that Bei Rong has had a dream. He was beaten several times by brothers Jia Daishan and Jia Daihua, and the worst one almost hit their king's account. Why hasn't Bei Rong learned his lesson yet? , still daydreaming?Not afraid of being countered by the Great Jin Dynasty and directly let them exterminate the clan.

"This time it will definitely succeed." The little boss's face was obviously excited, "This time is the oracle from the priest, we will definitely succeed this time."

This piece of land in Liaoyang Mansion originally belonged to the Northern Rong, but the Northern Rong had been weak in the past few years and was far from being an opponent of Jia's army, so it was snatched by the Jin Dynasty. In the prosperous place of Mansion, the life of the Beirong people is getting more and more difficult.

All Beirong people have a mind to take back the Liaoyang Mansion, but because of the great power of the Jin Dynasty, they dare not provoke it. This time, there is an oracle from the priest, and the priest showed his power in front of them. They will definitely be able to success.

"An oracle?" Wang Ziteng raised his eyebrows slightly. He is not a superstitious person, but he saw several captive Beirong people with expressions of conviction, and he couldn't help but feel slightly puzzled, "What Beirong priest?"

Although Beirong is a foreign race with the unity of politics and religion, the priests of Beirong are also like the royal family of Beirong. They are passed down by blood, mostly from father to son, from son to grandson, and from generation to generation. He still has to listen to the king of Beirong in major matters. It was the first time he heard the order from the priest of Beirong who passed the king of Beirong.

As if sensing the doubt in Wang Ziteng's heart, the little boss couldn't help sneering, "What kind of priest was that priest before, he wasn't of the blood of a real priest at all, but now...our priest is finally back."

Not just the little bosses, all the Beirong people are convinced when they mention priests. They are people who have witnessed miracles with their own eyes. As long as there are priests, the Great Jin Dynasty must be in their pockets .

"Really?" Wang Ziteng sneered, "It's a pity you won't see it."

With a wave of his hand, he directly ordered the heads of those Beirong prisoners to be chopped off.

"Come here." Wang Ziteng shouted: "Send the heads of these Beirong people to the capital and ask the capital for help!"

Wang Ziteng's eyes were slightly cold, "I want to see if the oracle of the Beirong priest is accurate!"

No matter where the Beirong priest came from, this time he finally had a chance to earn some real military merits.