[Red Mansion] Let's listen to a general's order

Following this line of thought, the emperor suddenly realized that his most respected teacher had probably been planning for a long time.

In the past, I always said something in my ear from time to time that Li Lian was extremely popular among the people, and every household set up a longevity tablet for him to worship him day and night. The old courtiers of the state and the arrogant soldiers dare not disobey his words, and they all regard Li Lian as the leader...

Whenever I want to win over, be kind to, or get close to Li Lian, I always ask Kang Hetai for his opinion first. Kang Hetai either suggests to wait and see what happens, to find out the attitude of his father, or to come up with other important things To disturb his thoughts.

No matter what Li Lian said in the court, even if there were disputes, in the end, Li Lian would always follow Li Lian's wishes, just like the time when Zhang Changning, who was devoted to him, was squeezed out by Kang Hetai and Gao Gong. He was transferred to the Ministry of Industry to control the river, and at the end Li Lian said something, and his good teacher immediately signaled the doorman to shut up.This is not only for him to show, how much influence Li Lian has in the court, but also...to praise and kill Li Lian.

The emperor thought that perhaps from that time...or even earlier, Kang Hetai had quietly arranged the end.

Unconsciously, he had withdrawn the honorific title for Kang Hetai and called him by his first name.

I'm afraid it's because Li Lian didn't fall for the trick, so Kang Hetai couldn't help but lead the disciples to expose it at this time!

"I'm tired, all my lords, please leave the papers, and I will take a closer look." The emperor is not sure whether it is Kang Hetai's own intention to overthrow Li Lian or even suppress the military, or it is the ministers of the court. To participate, he wanted to stabilize Kang Hetai and others in front of him first, and then make a long-term plan. Secondly, he was habitually soft-hearted and wanted to save face for the minister.

Kang Hetai didn't know that his esteemed disciple had already guessed his thoughts and plans very closely, and he boasted that he knew the thoughts of this disciple best.After years of embellishment, the emperor's fear of Li Lian should have reached its peak. Right now, he is probably worried that others will think that he has nothing to hide. So, as a teacher, let's pass the ladder to his disciples! .

He winked at Wang Ziteng not far away.

Wang Ziteng glanced at the emperor, although he felt that something was wrong, but at this time he was on the verge of an arrow, and had no choice but to stand up and say: "I report to the emperor, the war has long since ended, but the champion Hou Li Lian made excuses to count the victories." To rectify the frontier, together with hundreds of thousands of Zhou soldiers stationed at the frontier for a long time and have not returned, it is clear that there is a difference of heart, please learn from the emperor!"

Wang Ziteng is the one with the highest official position among the military attaches in the palace.For today's matter, he pulled all the military officers who he had been friends with in the past, not Li Lian's line, over here.Even Jia Yucun and other civil officials who were close to the four major families in the past, he and Kang Hetai persuaded them one by one.

It was only under Wang Ziteng's persuasion that Jia Yucun made up his mind that since he couldn't climb Li Lian's big boat, he would approach the Wang family and Kang Hetai's party to sink Li Lian's big boat and become his stepping stone.

"After the great victory over the Huns, Turks, etc., the army seized a large number of cattle, sheep, horses, gold, silver and antiques, etc. The frontline was short of manpower, and I also sent people to the frontline to assist. It really took a lot of time. In addition, there was an inventory The meritorious deeds of the soldiers and sent people to report to the homes of the fallen soldiers, so it is understandable that the champion will take a little longer. You don't need to be suspicious." The emperor took the initiative to defend Li Lian.

Kang Hetai made up his sword and said: "I heard that the hundreds of thousands of soldiers on the border now only know that there is a champion, but not the emperor. This is not a one-day achievement. I am afraid that the champion Li Lian has long been treacherous and long-cherished. The emperor immediately decreed that the champion Hou Tiance should be dismissed as commander and marshal, and escorted to Beijing to eliminate the country's troubles!" This was a complete slap in the face and a blatant frame for Li Lian.

"Please issue an order immediately to dismiss the champion Hou Tiance as commander and marshal, and escort him to Beijing to eliminate the country's early troubles!" The rest of the people, regardless of literature or martial arts, shouted in unison.

"Okay! What an immature trouble! What is the difference between this and Qin Hui impeaching Yue Fei for unwarranted charges!?" The emperor held the sword at his waist and clenched his fists tightly.

He has already retreated again and again, but you people are going to seek your own death!

The emperor wants to save face for this group of people, but they don't want face themselves, so don't blame him.

"You want to be Qin Hui, but I don't want to be Song Gaozong!!"

"Do you think I'm really that easy to deceive!?"

"I won't talk about many things..." The emperor's voice suddenly rose, "It doesn't mean I don't know!"

At this moment, the emperor, who had consciously been fooled by Kang Hetai for decades and fooled him like a fool for several years, was full of dissatisfaction and disgust towards Kang Hetai and his henchmen.

"The emperor calm down!" The ministers never thought that the kind-hearted (easy to bully) emperor would be so angry.

"Let me calm down? Right now, the champion will return to the capital with his victorious army. You can't wait to celebrate with your family, but you still want to make something out of nothing, and slander the champion for rebellion!?"

"If this matter gets out, how will it make those Hao Erlang who threw their heads and blood for my Da Zhou think?" At that time, those who didn't intend to rebel, I'm afraid they will be forced to rebel!

When every minister was surprised and afraid of the emperor's rare anger, the "warrior" Kang Hetai didn't take it seriously, and sneered at the emperor's word Haoerlang, saying: "The one who sings with the number one scholar outside the Donghua Gate is the one who sings." That's really nice." He looked down on those rough warriors who only knew how to wield swords and guns from the bottom of his heart.

"Kang Qing be careful!" The emperor's face was very ugly.

Kang Hetai said unwillingly: "Your Majesty! This subject is just devoted to the Emperor wholeheartedly, and what he said is all old-fashioned words to seek the country, and he has absolutely no selfishness!" How could he be reconciled! ?

He has spent more than ten years of hard work since the emperor ascended the throne, day and night, all the time preventing the emperor from getting close to Li Lian, sowing dissension in front of the emperor without a trace, and even facing Li Lian's "humiliation", "Threats" (Niu Jizong's New Year's throwing ax incident) have to swallow their breath, is it easy for him! ?

Now that the river is clean and the world is peaceful, the swords and guns should be stored in the warehouse, the horses should be released to Nanshan, and the court should suppress the warriors and improve the status of the literati.Let those warriors who can't read big characters to govern the country, do they understand?In the end, didn't they rely on the talents of their literati!Since there is no need to use warriors, literati should be favored, and all military power and military power that originally belonged to the military should be taken care of by literati.

Kang Hetai firmly believes that he is wholeheartedly for the public, and for the sake of Da Zhou's eternal life.

It's a pity that he could fool himself, but he couldn't fool the emperor.

Kang Hetai has been a teacher and student of the emperor for decades, while he knows the emperor, how could the emperor not know him very well.

Kang Hetai is capable, but his eyes are high and his abilities are low, his actions are reckless, and his bearing is mediocre, but the emperor is thinking about his old relationship, and Kang Hetai did put all his heart and soul on the emperor in the past, and did his best for the emperor, so he made peace with him A bachelor of the temple.If it weren't for the emperor's sideways action in the court, Kang Hetai would have been swallowed up by Gao Gong, who was so powerful.

After tearing off the false image of warmth in the past, Kang Hetai's upright and awe-inspiring appearance made the emperor sick for a while.

"An Fuhai, pass on my decree: Kang Hetai, a scholar of the Palace of Preservation, Jiang Yan, Minister of the Ministry of War, and Sun You, the supervisory censor... Prince Teng, the governor of the Beijing camp...Jia Yucun in Shuntian Prefecture...slandering and slandering colleagues...The situation is bad, Each person is fined for one year. Kang Hetai, the great scholar of Baohe Palace, is the head of all the great scholars of the Palace of Palaces. I am close to the people, so that the ministers can hold their positions, but I am narrow-minded, jealous of the virtuous, and can't tolerate others. I dismissed him from the position of a scholar in the Palace of Baohe, and went back to the mansion to contemplate his mistakes behind closed doors. Without my permission, no one else is allowed to visit. .”

The faces of all the ministers in the hall turned ashen, unable to utter a word, and Kang Hetai's body went limp, and he fell limply to the ground.

Half a year's salary is not a big problem for most of them. All of them have big businesses, and a random meal is several months' salary.What they were afraid of was that if they were reprimanded by the emperor today, other courtiers would naturally inquire about the ins and outs, and then they would know that they jointly impeached Li Lian, and even framed Li Lian for rebellion, intending to put Li Lian to death.At that time, Li Lian's family and even the Taishanghuang's family will definitely fight back wildly. They have been officials for so many years, and none of their butts are clean. The "good things" they have done have been exposed, enough to make them lose their official positions at least, and send their whole family to the frontier at worst.

Having figured this out, they couldn't help but glared at Kang Hetai resentfully.

If it weren't for this old boy to push them, they would rush to mess with Li Lian?

If this old boy hadn't vowed to imply that the emperor has been dissatisfied with Li Lian for a long time, they would have provoked the emperor's fury?

If it weren't for this old boy, they would need to get into this big trouble now! ?

In a way, this emperor is the same as his father.

Even the Supreme Emperor never thought that under the open-minded and kind-hearted character of his son, there is such an extreme personality hidden.

As the saying goes, dogs that bite people don't...no...it should be said that the emperor is worthy of being the emperor's own son, Zi Xiaofu.When you like someone, you can lift him up to the sky; when you hate someone, you can beat him to death with a stick.

Right now, the emperor, who felt fooled like a fool, had changed his attitude towards Kang Hetai from one extreme to another.

In the past, under the tolerant personality, the emperor could not be more tolerant and trusting of Kang Hetai; now that the paranoid personality is awakened, it will be Kang Hetai's misfortune.Feng Shui takes turns, which is good and reasonable.

"Your Majesty! I beg your Majesty to see... um... um..." Before Kang Hetai finished playing the teacher-student love card, two guards took out a ball of cloth from nowhere and stuffed it into his mouth, lest he His voice displeased the emperor.

"My lords, please!" An Fuhai stood at the gate of the palace with a smile.

The ministers saw with their own eyes that Kang Hetai, who was the most valued by the emperor in the past, ended up like this, how could they dare to stay, and after bowing out tremblingly, they filed out of the Hall of Mental Cultivation.It's better to go by yourself than to be dragged away by the guards.

Jia Yucun was also one of those who resigned in fear.

As he was walking, he regretted why he had listened to the nonsense of Wang Ziteng and Kang Hetai, and stood up to fight Li Lian with open swords and guns. Now he is facing the crisis of losing his official position, but he has a persevering personality. , will never give up so easily.

After racking his brains and thinking hard, he finally came up with a good idea, not only Li Lian and officials from the Supreme Emperor's family would not target him, even the emperor would give up on him...

Just as the news of the army fighting on the front line came to the capital one after another, the news of the dismounting of the court officials also spread throughout the capital one after another, and it once grabbed the headlines and became a hot topic among the people in the capital.

What is the reason for dismounting? Corruption, bribery, and abuse of power are finally normal. Other reasons are that the curtain is not repaired, the concubine destroys the wife, the father-in-law and the daughter-in-law are ashamed, the son bullies the male and female, etc., let the common people see it for nothing. Dayton drama.

But it's fine to hear these news, but it's not as big as the great event of the army returning from victory.

The sky is cloudy, snowflakes are flying, the snow on the ground has increased by several inches, and everywhere is covered with silver and white snow.

In such a severe cold season, the people in the capital usually choose to hide in their houses for the winter, and they will not come out without special things.

Today is different, people come and go, traffic is busy, loud cheers can be heard from time to time, because today is a big day for Li Lian and his army to return to the capital, except for the local people in the capital, many people from other states and counties have come , intending to participate in this grand event of the army returning from victory to offer prisoners.

Since ancient times, the Han people have hated the Huns, and the people in the north still hate them.In previous years, the Xiongnu went south every year, burning, killing and looting, doing all kinds of evil, killing countless people, destroying the homes of the people on the border, and many relatives and friends of the people in Beijing died at their hands.Therefore, the hatred of the people in the north towards the Xiongnu could not be extinguished by pouring out all the water in the three rivers and five lakes.They always hope that the imperial court will send troops to kill the Xiongnu and other foreign tribes and avenge them.

Now, Li Lian and others have done it.They not only defeated the millions of troops of the Huns coalition army, but also captured Huhanxie, the great Shanyu of the Huns, captured the Dragon City of the Huns, broke into the lair of the Turks, captured the Turkic Ashina Hosana Khan, the coercive Xianbei King Tuoba Yihuai bowed his head and proclaimed himself a vassal, ceding land to pay compensation, and sending a hostage...

Even if these things were released alone, they would be enough to make them happy for decades, let alone it was done in one go now!What an exciting thing!Li Lian and others lead the army back to Beijing, can the people from other places in the north not come to watch! ?

As long as they are still panting, they all come, and those who can't leave, let the young people in the family carry, support, and carry them, and they will come no matter what.

The soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty, who had won unprecedented victories, had come to the capital less than five miles away.

I saw them riding tall horses, lined up neatly, full of murderous aura, as if they were about to go to the battlefield again.There was a blazing light in everyone's eyes. Although the weather was extremely cold, it couldn't extinguish the burning flames in their chests!

Li Lian rode Ben Xiao and led the army slowly towards the capital.A flamboyant white plume fluttered in the cold wind, adding a bit of power.

He Qi, Niu Jizong, Ran Feng, Li Mingzhu, Lin Han, Gao Kegong and others followed closely behind on horseback.

Li Lian looked back not far away, and saw dozens of carts carrying countless flags. None of these flags was the flag of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and all of them were representatives of different tribes and nobles of the Huns, Turks, and Xianbei. The flag of the enemy, but there will be soldiers holding these captured enemy flags to show victory later.

Among them, the most eye-catching one is Hu Hanxie's white wolf banner.The fur of the white wolf on the big banner is as bright as platinum, which is dazzling. There is a faint fierce light in the eyes, the hind legs are slightly bent, and the front legs are stretched forward. It can throw a big banner and bite your neck off.

Li Lian looked at the army behind him again. They were very imposing and everyone was fighting. As long as Li Lian gave an order, they would rush towards the enemy without hesitation.

But they think that there are quite a few people who are missing arms, or legs, or are blind, noseless, and missing ears...

However, they are lucky.

Because more comrades unfortunately died on the battlefield and died on the border.Because of the inconvenience of transportation, they had to be cremated on the spot that day, and their ashes were put in a box to be sent back to their hometown in the future.

"Jing Ya, what are you thinking?" He Qi looked at Li Lian and asked.

"Haha! You don't need to ask? We have won this unprecedented victory. The marshal will be famous in history and admired by all people. The emperor will definitely reward him generously. I'm afraid the marshal is thinking about how the emperor will reward him. Reward some rare treasures and rare things!" Gao Kegong became more excited as he got closer to the capital, and couldn't help but interrupt.

Niu Jizong was also very excited, "Bah bah bah! Old Gao! Do you think the marshal is as superficial as you stupid big man!?"

"Let me guess, Marshal is missing his mother, brother, and nephew at home?" Li Mingzhu said playfully.With the merits of Ashina Hosana Khan who occupied Biesili and captured the Turks, she will definitely surpass Fuhao, Hua Mulan, Qin Liangyu and other famous female generals in history books to become the first female general in history.

"I think the marshal should present the prisoners in a while!" Before long, he will preside over the grand ceremony of presenting the prisoners under the eyes of tens of thousands of people. Ran Feng will be heart-to-heart, and he will recite the main points of the ceremony repeatedly at this time. Don't be ashamed of yourself!

"No, no! The Marshal is probably thinking about what to say after meeting the Supreme Empress!" Niu Jizong has witnessed the intimacy between Li Lian and the Supreme Empress no less than a thousand times in the past 30 years.

These four men said that the father was right, and the wife said that the mother was right, and they quarreled endlessly, almost getting into a fight, and finally caught He Qi and asked him to express his opinion on whose statement he agreed with.

Li Lian knew that they were nervous and wanted to fight to vent their emotions, so he didn't restrain them, just smiled and said nothing.

He Qi vigilantly expressed that your arguments are very reasonable, and the old man agrees with all of them, which made everyone dare not say anything on the surface, but they couldn't help but slander General He for being too immoral, which also made Li Lian laugh. Unexpectedly, Uncle He would also I will play with Niu Jizong and the others.

Li Lian had to wait until the end to reveal the answer, so now only Lin Han was left without expressing his opinion.

"Thinking about my niece?" Lin Han, who was in a daze with a smile on his face, was awakened by the hot eyes of everyone, and hesitantly asked.

This poor answer made everyone boo and Lin Han was very depressed.