Chapter 1373: Zhao Xianqiu's death
Zhao Xianqiu's face was like ashes, but at this time he also figured it out, in the past two days, Xiaoshengzi's father-in-law seemed to give him advice, but in fact, he had already been bought by Yang Huairen, and everything was a calculation for him.
He realized this and asked, "Since the prince has so much evidence from our family, why bother with this last move?" ”
Yang Huairen knew what he meant, and he didn't go around the bend with him, and directly said eight words, "If you fight a snake, you won't die, but you will be devoured by it." ”
Zhao Xianqiu shook his head, didn't know whether to laugh or cry, closed his eyes and thought for a while, before he said slowly, "It's all fate, hehe, I, Zhao Xianqiu, admit it." Dare to borrow a knife from the prince. ”
Yang Huairen knew that he wanted to leave a whole corpse for himself, so he didn't say anything, jumped off the horse, and turned his head.
Brother Hei Niu instructed a forbidden soldier to throw a saber to him, Zhao Xianqiu picked it up, rubbing the blade with his thumb, "It's a quick knife." ”
After saying that, he wiped his neck, his movements were so gentle, and the blood that flowed from the knife was slow.
When Yang Huairen turned his head to look at him again, he felt that Zhao Xianqiu was self-defeating, which was a little different from He Cunbao's self-cutting, Zhao Xianqiu seemed to be a little unwilling, I don't know if it was the moment he wiped the blade to his neck, recalling his life, there was always some regret and reluctance.
As for how to report this matter to the imperial court at the right time, Yang Huairen was also prepared, Zhao Xianqiu was corrupt and perverted the law, killed the good and risked the merits, and apologized for his crimes.
Naturally, the matter is not over, Yangzhou may not be a big point on the map of the Great Song Dynasty, but its geographical location is too important, such an inland shipping hub, can not be chaotic.
Yang Huairen summoned Xiaoshengzi and pointed to Zhao Xianqiu's corpse and said, "You find someone to collect his corpse, your way, this king doesn't understand." ”
Xiaoshengzi naturally knew what Yang Huairen meant, as a eunuch, he couldn't be a whole person when he was alive, and he still hoped to be buried after he died.
"Little Bottom obeys."
Yang Huairen said again, "There is still something to entrust you to deal with, Zhao Xianqiu is dead, but the Caoyun Yamen still needs to operate normally, Xiaoshengzi father-in-law, I believe in your ingenuity, it should be no problem to do this, right?" ”
Xiao Shengzi knew that with his qualifications, it would be impossible to replace Zhao Xianqiu as the leader of the Caoyun Yamen, and Yang Huairen asked him to temporarily support the Caoyun Yamen, which was a bit of a reuse.
In the future, the imperial court will definitely send another senior father-in-law to preside over the overall situation, but his current position in the Caoyun Yamen cannot be replaced by anyone.
Especially with Yang Huairen as a backer, he can at least let go of his hands to do things, as long as he does his errands well, he will not worry about the day when he will not come out.
Xiao Shengzi understood another meaning of Yang Huairen's move, Yang Huairen asked him to join Fengshenwei in order to control him, and the ultimate goal was to control Caoyun Yamen through him.
Xiaoshengzi doesn't mind this, it doesn't matter who you are, what matters is who you are on, what you do, and what kind of life you can live.
However, Yang Huairen did not immediately withdraw his hand, and continued to point to Zhao Xianqiu's corpse and said, "After you have experienced this, you should understand what you should do in the future, you are a smart person, you don't need me to say more." ”
Xiao Shengzi naturally knelt down, "Xiao Di understands that he will definitely not disappoint the prince." ”
Yang Huairen waved his hand and motioned for Xiao Shengzi to find someone to collect Zhao Xianqiu's body, and ordered someone to put Zhao Bin and Tang Shopkeeper and others in prison to await trial, and then turned to Zhu Runqing.
Zhu Runqing took a step forward, bowed with his crossed hands, and bent his waist almost at a right angle, before he slowly straightened up, "Today's matter, thank you for clearing the grievances of the lower officials." ”
It seems that Zhu Runqing also figured out what was going on. However, Yang Huairen was in a bad mood.
If you want to talk about Zhu Runqing's opinion, Yang Huairen still feels good, when so many people have lost themselves, Zhu Runqing can still keep the bottom line of being a scholar and an official of the imperial court, which is indeed very rare.
But Yang Huairen thought about it and suddenly realized that there were too many officials like this in the Great Song Dynasty, so the whole country had no righteousness.
If you are not corrupt, it does not mean that you are a good official, and if you are not stained by the mud, it does not mean that you are a clean official.
Zhao Xianqiu has done so many bad things, Zhu Runqing, as the prefect of Yangzhou, can he not know at all?
Guarding your own one-acre and three-point land and pretending to be high, are you a little daughter-in-law who guards herself like jade? A manly man, he doesn't dare to ask for his life for the people, why are you an official?
Originally, Yang Huairen wanted to scold, but after thinking about it, he felt that it was a waste of tongue, and if he scolded useful words, he went directly to scold Zhao Xu's kid.
What is called a soldier and a nest of bears, the situation of the Great Song Dynasty is very representative, the emperor is a coward, counting on heroes under his hands?
Don't look at the victory of the imperial court in the west this year, everyone is singing praises for Zhao Xu, but Yang Huairen knows in his heart that this matter has nothing to do with Zhao Xu.
If it weren't for the great victory in Qiantouhuan County, it is estimated that the forbidden army would dare to confront the Western Xia army head-on, and now it may still be building walls and passes.
If it weren't for the infighting in the Western Xia court, the empress dowager and Liang Yiwei spent their own strength fighting for power and profit, let alone destroying the Western Xia, it would be good not to be counterattacked.
Zhang Dan played a big role, but this man acted too harshly, and he was a tendon, and he did the business of killing 1,000 enemies and losing 800 of himself, and he won the battle by piling up money and food.
He doesn't care if the soldiers live or die, tens of thousands of people have died, and then recruit them, the population of the Great Song Dynasty is there, what are tens of thousands of people?
As for the consumption of state funds at any cost, people are not afraid, and there are rich people in the Song Dynasty, and just a few of them are enough for the court to spend.
Zhao Xu's new policy is naturally continuing, and Yang Huairen doesn't care, but it doesn't mean that he doesn't know that the same policy is appropriate in the north, not in the south, in poor places, and not in the rich Jiangnan.
It is said that the bigwigs in the court should not be unaware of this truth, but the decree still requires the whole country to be implemented uniformly, and the people who actually do things in the local area are still degraded by the imperial court.
Thinking of this, Yang Huairen looked at Zhu Runqing again, and suddenly felt that he had nothing to say to him, so he only ordered the people related to Zhao Xianqiu's case to be handed over to him Yangzhou Mansion to deal with, and then took people out of Tucui Building.
When Yang Huairen walked out of the gate, he suddenly heard a loud cheer from the onlookers, and he couldn't figure out whether they were singing because they saw the might of the forbidden army, or because Zhao Xianqiu was happy to sing the law.
But no matter which one it is, at least Yang Huairen has some comfort in his heart, the people's thoughts are very simple, good people should cheer and celebrate when they see bad people die.