I Rely on Beauty to Stabilize the Country

On the fifth day after the early dynasty, General Xue led his troops and set off from the junction of West Beijing and Hebei with Zhang's caravan.

On the open space, thousands of people gathered together, and the sound of drums and gongs sounded, the sound was magnificent, resounding between heaven and earth.

Gu Yuanbai put on the imperial attire, toasted the heaven and the earth one by one, and prayed for the soldiers.

After he finished praying, it was General Xue who encouraged his morale and set off to take oaths.

General Xue has a lot of experience, even if he picked it up casually, it will make people's blood boil.

But General Xue was obviously very excited this time. When he was talking about what the Border Nomad had done, he already clenched his fists and gritted his teeth.

The grassroots officers in the queue will transmit every word of General Xue to ensure that everyone can hear what the coach said.

After the oath was over, General Xue strode up to Gu Yuanbai, and said with tears in his eyes, "I will live up to my Majesty's entrustment!"

Gu Yuanbai's blood boiled when he heard it, and he wished he could also ride his horse to the battlefield.He collected himself, smiled, helped General Xue up, and said loudly: "Then I will wait for the general to triumph!"

After sending General Xue and the caravan away, because of the request of the emperor, the members of the Zhang clan who were in charge of the bookstore worked hard to distribute the newspaper of "Daheng Guobao" specially ordered by the emperor to Daheng. Heng everywhere.

When the tyrants from all over the world read this newspaper, they saw that it was clearly written that the rebel party sent out envelopes to win over the tyrants from all over the place before they were wiped out.

Their hearts are completely cold.

Due to the time difference, after more than ten days after Gu Yuanbai moved to the summer resort, this issue of "Daheng Guobao" was rushed across many mountains and rivers and dangers, and delivered to the hands of the tyrants.And at that time, this proved that the envelopes sent by the tyrants in Jingnan and Jiangnan had been in the hands of the Holy Master for nearly a month.

Almost the next moment they read the newspaper, all the tyrants had the idea of ​​going to the capital in person to meet the Holy Majesty.Whether it's self-proving innocence or uneasiness in their hearts, they have to go and see for themselves.

But we can't crowd everyone to the capital.

So the tyrants from all over the country elected representatives from all over the place, specially selected the tyrants who were famous enough and had a deep enough relationship with Jiangnan and Jingnan, and asked them to hurry to the capital.

These tyrants rushed halfway, and heard that the Holy Majesty had moved to the summer palace, so they changed their route halfway and hurried to Hebei summer palace.

Therefore, after Gu Yuanbai stayed comfortably in the summer palace for more than twenty days, he finally ushered in these dozens of tyrants who rushed over from all directions.

No matter how rich these tycoons were, they would not be arrogant in front of the emperor.

They are all very cautious, their eyes do not look around, there are no standard clothes and accessories that should not appear on them, they are clean, and they even appear in front of Gu Yuanbai in a simple way. Will offend the nobleman.

As for Gu Yuanbai, he asked someone to carry a brazier.

All the tyrants couldn't help but looked towards the brazier, with some doubts on their faces.

Gu Yuanbai smiled slightly, turned his head to give instructions, and Tian Fusheng put a bag of snow-white envelopes beside the brazier.

"When I sent troops to crusade against the rebels in South Jingnan and Jiangnan, many local tyrants had already become accomplices of the rebels. Before the soldiers came to the city, they sent letters one after another in order to obtain Fang's support and win over," Gu Yuanbai was not in a hurry, "and this big bag is the letters sent by these tyrants."

The eyes of all the tyrants moved to the envelope, their hearts were extremely anxious, and their breaths could not help but stagnate.

Gu Yuanbai smiled and said: "I know what you are here for. I have never opened these envelopes, and I don't want to wrong my subjects with the remarks of the rebel army. Since you have rushed here, it is just right, Tian Fusheng."

Tian Fusheng respectfully said: "The little one is here."

Gu Yuanbai wrote lightly: "Burn these envelopes."

"Yes." Tian Fusheng took out letter papers from the bag, and threw them into the brazier without blinking.The sparks in the brazier suddenly sprang up, and the fire light was reflected on the ground, and the powerful eyes around were full of shock.

The Holy One was burned so cleanly? !

Quite a few people with sharp eyes could tell at a glance that these envelopes had never been opened.Some tyrants who are close to Jiangnan, they recognized the note on the letter paper, and after recognizing it, they were shocked and their legs softened.Because they knew faintly in their hearts that these envelopes must be addressed to themselves.

But this will see that after the letters are swallowed by the flames, all the tyrants will inevitably feel a sense of gratitude for their narrow escape.

They all began to tremble with fear, and kept thanking the Holy One for his generosity in their hearts.

Gu Yuanbai said with a gentle attitude: "I won't pursue it after I said it, but a gentleman's words are hard to follow, everyone, don't worry."

This method of buying people's hearts simply stirred up the hearts of all the tyrants. They honestly finished greeting Gu Yuanbai and left the summer palace, still in disbelief.

The panic I felt when I came here was completely gone all day long, replaced by my unwavering admiration for the Holy Majesty.

With such a broad mind and such determination, these envelopes that took the opportunity to remediate them would be burned as soon as they said it, what an honor it is!

In the palace, Gu Yuanbai tasted a few sips of tea, asked Tian Fusheng to clean up the brazier and ashes, and began to deal with government affairs leisurely.

Historically, Gu Yuanbai remembered that there were two people who had done this kind of burning of letters.One is Cao Cao, King of Wei, and the other is Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu.

Both of these two ministers sent letters of surrender to the enemy because the situation was not favorable to them, but after they won, they found these letters in the enemy's mansion, and both chose to present the letters in front of all the courtiers. Burn them all to show that they will no longer pursue them.

There are many advantages to doing this, one is to avoid falling into a situation where people panic and suspect each other in the future, and the other is that it is a good way to subdue people's hearts, it is clever, and it can also reflect the broad mind of the superior.

The third is that Gu Yuanbai still intends to get the land back from these tyrants.But now the inside is still developing, and there are still enemy countries outside. At this time, what Gu Yuanbai should do is to ease the relationship between the emperor and the powerful.

He took Jingnan and Jiangnan into his own hands. Jiangnan was a bustling profit field for businessmen from all over the world, and because of the anti-corruption incident, the tyrants were uneasy. At such a time, he needed a means to maintain stability.

Do things step by step, and the goal cannot be completely placed on the surface.

This is the best way, first soften their attitudes, calm down their emotions, make them trust the emperor, and completely let go of their guard against the emperor.

Gu Yuanbai put the teacup aside, and corrected out a flamboyant "read" word on the memorial.

After a while, the guard walked in with long strides, saluted Gu Yuanbai, and said, "Your Majesty..."

He hesitated.

Gu Yuanbai raised his eyes and glanced at him, lazily said: "Say."

"I just went out and heard an extremely exquisite poem," the chief guard said with a serious look, "this poem is catchy to read, has profound meaning and is in harmony with the rhythm. Fan, I heard that it is a good work that Mr. Chang has deliberated over the past [-] days."

Gu Yuanbai became interested, "Read it once and listen to it."

The head guard read it out word by word.

The first four sentences were fine, they were euphemistic and reserved, and the words were vivid and beautiful. Gu Yuanbai could only vaguely figure out that this was a poem written by a poet, and when the chief guard read the next sentence, he fell silent.

It's really catchy, it's really exquisite.The more Gu Yuanbai heard it, the more familiar he felt. Finally, he directly interrupted the chief guard and asked, "Who is this poem for?"

The head of the guard said implicitly: "I heard that the title of this poem is "For Friends. Talking with Xue Jiuyao at night on July 21"."

"..." When Gu Yuanbai heard Xue Yuan's name, he realized where the familiarity in the poem came from.

He couldn't help but feel a sense of ridicule. He lowered his head and took a sip of tea. After swallowing the indescribable feeling, he knocked on the table, thought for a while, and asked, "How is Xue Jiuyao now?"

His Majesty's tone was indiscriminate, and Tian Fusheng's expression on the side was already very strange when the head guard read the poem. Hearing His Majesty's question at this moment, he couldn't help but think of the rebellious words Xue Yuan once said, and his back immediately twitched. Feeling cold for a while, he hurriedly lowered his head to lower his sense of presence.

When the sage went to see Xue Yuan before, the chief guard took his brothers to do things for the sage, but they were not there at that time.Later, when they came back, those who had been warned by Tian Fusheng didn't dare to say a word about this matter, so until now, the chief guard still doesn't know Xue Yuan's unruly intentions towards the Holy Majesty.

He said honestly: "Master Xue's injury is much better than before."

Tian Fusheng's eyelids kept twitching, and he kept saying in his heart, Mr. Zhang, stop talking!

He has stayed by the Holy Majesty's side for so many years, and he can't see clearly what the Holy Majesty is thinking now.Logically speaking, even Xue Yuan said such things, execution should be executed.But the Holy Majesty not only did not execute the man, but also suppressed this matter, which shows that his attitude towards Xue Yuan is unusual. They, who are slaves and courtiers, really can't get along with this kind of thing.

Gu Yuanbai was a little playful: "How did you think of going to see him?"

"When I went to visit the concubine's body in the morning for the sake of the sage, I met a young man from Xue's mansion on the way back," said the guard. Who is the person, so he stepped forward to ask, after saying a few words, he followed the servant to see Master Xue."

The guards who executed the execution were tall and big, they ate a lot, and they had enough strength.As soon as the big board fell, the meat would be bruised.

It stands to reason that with Xue Yuan's physical fitness, nothing should happen.After all, even at that time, he still had the strength to hold Gu Yuanbai's hand and say such things to him.

Thinking of this, Gu Yuanbai lost his mind for a while, sneered suddenly, got up and said, "Let's go, I'll go out and have a look, and see what's going on with this poem."

See what Xue Yuan wants to do.