Listening to Zhao Hongrun's words, the hall was in an uproar. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Even if they didn't expect that Zhao Hongrun would dare to overturn their boatload with a rod, could it be that His Royal Highness King Su really didn't know what a huge force was behind the many nobles sitting in this banquet hall at this moment?

"This Zhao Run, as arrogant as ever!"

At this moment, there were many people in the hall who thought viciously in their hearts.

At this time, after hearing Zhao Hongrun, the anger on the original face of Uncle Yuanling gradually dissipated, and was replaced by an incredible color: "Huh? Xiaohou is not eligible? Most of you here are not qualified? So who qualifies? …… Your Royal Highness, you shouldn't say it's just you, right? ”

"That's what I meant." Zhao Hongrun had no intention of retreating, looked directly at Uncle Hou Yu of Yuanling, and said lightly: "Outside, this king led the army to attack Chu Zeshou Ying fell, and Han Ze Handan was defeated, and the 200,000 army of Qin Zeqin was destroyed in Sanchuan, so that the countries of the Central Plains no longer dare to underestimate our Great Wei; Inside, the king is in charge of the Smelting Bureau, the construction of Bolang Port, and the repair of Lianglu Canal...... Looking at my Great Wei today, apart from my father and emperor, who dares to say that his merits are above this king? If even this king is not qualified to recommend candidates for the four orders of Hedong, what are you Yuanling Marquis? ”

Uncle Yuanling Hou frowned when he heard this, and said, "His Royal Highness King Su is proud of his achievements, this is not a good thing!" ”

Hearing this, Zhao Hongrun laughed, pursed his lips and mocked: "I am proud of my achievements...... First of all, you have to be meritorious, right? I think, Marquis Yuanling, even if you want to be proud of your achievements, you don't have this qualification, right? ”

"You ......" Uncle Yuanling Hou was so angry that his face turned red.

But even though he was angry by Zhao Hong, he couldn't say anything to refute it.

After all, Zhao Hongrun's exploits, not to mention recent decades, even more than 100 years, can be called unsurpassed.

Looking at the entire Wei State, I am afraid that only Zhao Yuansi, the son of Wei, can stabilize Zhao Hongrun in terms of merit, because Zhao Yuansi, the son of Wei, once united with Xiong, the monarch of Chu Xuancheng, to destroy the Song State and occupy the territory of the Song State.

In addition, even if it is Zhao Yuanzuo, the king of Southern Liang, Zhao Yuantong, the king of Yu, or the rest of the wise men and famous ministers of the Wei State in the past hundred years, it cannot be said that they can beat His Royal Highness the King of Su in terms of merit.

Of course, even if it is impossible to refute the ironclad facts, but Uncle Yuanling Hou Yu is difficult to swallow, I saw him look at Zhao Hongrun, and said in a tone of indignation: "Xiaohou is just following the will of His Royal Highness King Su and saying the candidate in my heart, but I don't want to be humiliated by His Royal Highness King Su......" After that, he stood up, left the table angrily, and arched his hand towards King Qing Hongxin and said: "His Royal Highness King Qing, Xiaohou has been humiliated for no reason, and he has no shame to stay here anymore, please forgive Xiaohou for retiring first!" ”

"This ......"

Qingwang Hongxin showed a look of embarrassment on his face, but he was secretly snickering in his heart.

Even he didn't expect that the old man next to him would be so irritable, and he would offend most of the nobles present with a lot of power as soon as he came up.

He didn't have to think about it to guess that after Uncle Yuanling Hou left today, he would definitely stand on his side of King Hongxin, and even pull a large number of people to stand on his side.

And just when he was secretly snickering, he saw Zhao Hongrun raise his hand and shouted: "Marquis Yuanling, slow down." ”

Hearing this, Uncle Yuanling Hou immediately stopped preparing to leave, turned around and looked at Zhao Hongrun, his expression seemed to be a little surprised, a little confused, and a little proud.

And at this moment, many princes and nobles present in the hall were also a little strange in their hearts, wondering why His Royal Highness King Su wanted to open his mouth to stop Uncle Yuanling Marquis who left the table angrily.

"Could it be that this Zhao Run is actually a soft persimmon with a strong heart?"

Many nobles were surprised.

"What else does His Royal Highness King Su command?" Uncle Yuanling Hou Yu held the shelf and asked with an indignant expression.

However, to everyone's surprise, Zhao Hongrun had no intention of apologizing to Uncle Yuanling Hou at all, and even, he didn't talk to Uncle Yuanling Hou at all, but said to Wei Jiao, the head of the sect guard beside him: "Wei Jiao, immediately scatter your manpower, go to Yuanling to stare at Yuanling Hou, and find out to this king, Yuanling Hou has a house geometry, a field geometry, a family wealth geometry, a servant geometry, and the daily expenses of the house." The amount of his property, even if it is a copper coin, must be checked and recorded in detail by the king. ”

"......" Uncle Yuanling's face changed slightly.

It is no wonder that after all, the vast majority of the nobles of the Wei State have many legitimate or improper sources of wealth, and the reason why they have not been exposed before is not because these do not exist, but because no one has seriously investigated them, or to put it simply, no one dares to track them down - even the imperial court has always turned a blind eye to the profit-making channels of the domestic aristocracy.

And now, Zhao Hongrun has put on a posture of strict investigation, so it is inevitable that he will be able to verify all kinds of criminal evidence of corruption and perversion of the law and damage to the public and private interests of the Marquis of Yuanling.

"Don't be stingy." Staring intently at Uncle Yuanling Marquis, Zhao Hongrun chuckled and said: "You must know, Wei Jiao, there are people under this king's hand, so let's just send a thousand merchant sailors to wait in the mansion, fields, and shops of the Marquis of Yuanling, and give me twelve hours a day to stare at everyone who comes in and out!" …… Be sure to check carefully, this king doesn't want to make a fool of himself in the Criminal Department in the future. ”

Zong Wei Chang Wei Jiao understood, and said with a smile: "Your Highness, it is not in accordance with the rules to directly send the merchant army, it is better to send reserve soldiers in the name of training soldiers, as for the number, just send two thousand people...... He felt that two thousand people were enough to completely stare at the Yuan Linghou from top to bottom, and there would never be any omissions. ”

"Very well, that's it." Zhao Hongrun looked at Uncle Yuanling, who had changed his complexion greatly, and said lightly: "Check carefully, check slowly, and it won't get in the way for a year and a half...... This king, there are people! ”

"Yes." Wei Jiao responded with a fist.

Seeing this, Zhao Hongrun looked at Uncle Yuanling Hou as if nothing happened, and said with a smile: "Yuanling Hou, aren't you going to leave?" There is no need to stay and say goodbye to the king. ”

"......" Uncle Yuanling Hou Yu subconsciously raised his head and pointed at Zhao Hongrun, but then he didn't know what he thought, and hurriedly put his hand down again, his face was blue and white.

I have to say that compared with the nobles of the Chu State, the nobles of the Wei State rarely expose scandals such as dumping the commoners and harming the public and private interests, but this does not mean that the aristocratic personality of the Wei State is noble, but few people in the Wei State will seriously investigate this kind of thing.

Otherwise, it seems that some aristocratic families have encroached on the country's mines and illegally mined ores, and no one really knows about it?

Of course not, in fact the imperial court is more or less clear.

It's just that these nobles are quite obedient on weekdays and have never opposed the imperial court, so unless there is a scandal that cannot be concealed - such as the collapse of an illegal private mine of a nobleman, which killed hundreds of civilians and caused the people's resentment to boil, otherwise, the imperial court will turn a blind eye to this kind of thing.

But once a famous person appears to investigate the matter, then the court can no longer pretend to be deaf and dumb, and must give an explanation to the subjects.

If things come to this point, even if a corrupt nobleman is noble, it will be difficult to keep his family, unless he is a child of the Ji Zhao family, otherwise, he will be exiled from the army, and even executed.

And Uncle Yuanling Hou Yu is precisely the one whose family background is not very clean - in fact, to put it simply, few of the powerful nobles of Wei State have a clean family background.

In this case, Uncle Yuanling Hou, who was still indignant and was about to leave, seemed to have his legs rooted in place at this moment, and he couldn't move his legs.

It's no wonder that he is panicking at the moment, after all, it seems that Zhao Hongrun's revenge method, not to mention that his family background of Uncle Yuanling Hou Yu is not very clean, even if it is a clean aristocratic family, I believe that Zhao Hongrun will suffer heavy losses.

For example, if Uncle Yuanling Hou Yu had some shops under his name, and whenever these shops were open for business, there were more than a dozen Yan Ling soldiers standing there with their arms crossed, who would dare to come to these shops?

In the long run, no matter how good the business was in the past, the store will be ruined.

Some people may say that if Zhao Hongrun really dares to do this, Uncle Yuanling Hou can complain to the imperial court.

But the question is, what about the evidence?

Do you really think that when the time comes, as Zhao Hongrun and Wei Jiao said, they will directly send the soldiers of the Yanling Army over? Will Zhao Hongrun be stupid to such an extent?

If Zhao Hongrun really planned to do this, he only needed to let some Yanling soldiers leave the army early and stuff them directly into Yuanling City, so that those soldiers would not be on the list of Yanling Army, and there would be no evidence at all.

As for the arrest of those veterans, it is even more unreasonable, people are just standing on the street in front of the store, one has not been smashed, and the other has not injured anyone, what reason is there to arrest the other party?

What's more, if such a thing really happens, it is clear that Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su, wants to deal with the Marquis of Yuanling, the local government, who would dare to interfere rashly? As long as Yongwang Hongyu and King Su Hongrun do not turn their faces, the Criminal Department will only turn a blind eye, or simply perfunctory - one is His Royal Highness King Su, who is for the country and the people and has made great achievements, and the other is the local princes who have always secretly encroached on the interests of the country, which side do you guess the officials of the Criminal Department will favor?

It is precisely because he knows these things that Uncle Yuanling Hou Yu is in a dilemma at this moment.

At this moment, his only chance of winning is that the princes and nobles present all stand up and stand in line with him to jointly fight against the domineering His Royal Highness King Su in the palace.

At this time, the princes and princes present also faintly had this thought and plan.

But at this time, Zhao Hongrun suddenly said something to Zhao Wenshen, the king of Chengling: "King Chengling, this king heard that you formed a rebel army a while ago, and it was deployed in Sujube to guard the Han army to cross the river, and it happened that the garrison of 'Pi's City' was empty, would you mind moving this rebel army to 'Pi's City'?" ”

This sentence not only surprised Zhao Wenshen, the king of Chengling, but also made those princes who had planned to stand up and stand on the front line with Uncle Yuanling Marquis Yu were taken aback, and they all showed different expressions.

I believe that everyone present can understand the meaning of Zhao Hongrun's words.

Suddenly, the princes and nobles who originally had the same interests, the camp immediately collapsed, and when Zhao Wenshen, the king of Chengling, reacted, he already felt that the eyes of many princes and nobles present were no longer as friendly as before.

『……』

Zhao Wenshen, the king of Chengling, turned his head to look at Zhao Hongrun, who was smiling, and his mood was very complicated.

How could he not see Zhao Hongrun's intentions?

But the problem is that His Royal Highness King Su threw out a fragrant bait that was difficult for him to refuse.

Accept, or reject?

Zhao Wenshen, the king of Chengling, was in a dilemma.