Volume 10 Chapter 681

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Chapter 681

That evening, Tang Yin held a banquet for download in the square outside the main hall of the palace.

All the local officials who entered the capital this time came to participate, and some ministers from the court also came. The scene was very lively and noisy.

Local officials seized this rare opportunity and toasted to please the important ministers in the court, hoping to find a solid backer for themselves in the court.

Right Prime Minister Shangguan Yuanji and Left Prime Minister Qiu Zhen had the largest number of people gathered around them. Officials from all over the country tried their best to flatter and flatter them. Although Zhang Zhe, the imperial censor, was also a first-rank official and was on an equal footing with Shangguan Yuanji and Qiu Zhen, the people around him There are very few officials.

Everyone knows that Zhang Zhe has a weird temper, is stinky and tough. If you don't try to please him, nothing will happen. If you try to please him, you will get into trouble. Everyone has the same mentality towards such people, avoid them if they can, and hide as far away as possible.

Most of the county captains and county captains in the Feng Kingdom were military generals. Qiu Zhen, as the left prime minister and the head of the military attache, can be said to be their old boss. The difference can also be seen through the officials' attitudes towards Qiu Zhen and Shangguan Yuanji.

To Shangguan Yuanji, people were more than complimentary and polite. To Qiu Zhen, the compliments also revealed a bit of respect and intimacy. During the conversation, there were a lot less formal words and more greetings and family conversations.

Just as the venue was buzzing with people, a guard sang loudly: "The king has arrived——"

Following the singing, the venue immediately fell silent. The officials hurriedly returned to their seats and sat upright, not daring to look sideways.

Soon, Tang Yin walked into the square surrounded by guards and maids. Seeing the king coming, all the officials left their seats and knelt down, kowtowed and saluted.

Tang Yin's seat was also arranged in the square, located in the middle. As he walked towards his seat, he glanced at the people on both sides with a smile.

After sitting down, he waved his hands slightly and said, "Everyone, please get up!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Everyone stood up together, and then sat down carefully.

Tang Yin said with a smile: "Don't be too formal, everyone. We are not outsiders, so just treat this banquet as a family banquet."

Hearing the king's relaxed and easy-going tone, everyone secretly sighed in unison.

Tang Yin looked down at the table in front of him, then picked up the wine bottle to pour wine. Ah San and Ah Si on the side hurriedly stepped forward to take the wine bottle from his hand, but Tang Yinze waved his hand, indicating to the two of them that he could do it himself.

He poured himself a glass of wine, raised it high, and said loudly: "Everyone has come a long way and worked hard all the way. Let me propose a toast to you all!"

"I respect you, Your Majesty!" Everyone hurriedly picked up the wine glasses, raised them to Tang Yin, and drank the wine in one gulp.

After drinking a glass of wine, Tang Yin poured another glass for himself and said: "This second glass of wine is to honor those heroes who fought with us through life and death but did not survive the battlefield. The reason why our country of Feng has such a vast territory today , all thanks to the sacrifice of life and blood of these brothers!"

"Here's to my gale heroes!" When everyone picked up the wine glasses again, many people's eyes were already red. Back then, when they were fighting in the army, they all crawled out of the dead. Thinking back to the brothers in the past, they are now But we are separated forever, and it is inevitable to feel sad in our hearts.

Tang Yin raised his wine glass for the third time and said: "This third glass of wine is still dedicated to you all. You all have worked hard in your local posts. I respect you."

"Your Majesty, I am so ashamed of myself!" People hurriedly filled up the wine and had a third drink with Tang Yin.

After drinking three drinks in a row, Tang Yin's cheeks were slightly flushed. He raised his sleeves, wiped the corners of his mouth, and waved to everyone: "Everyone can eat what they should, and we can't keep drinking! "

Following Tang Yin's greeting, the atmosphere immediately became lively again, with endless laughter and laughter.

After three drinks and five dishes, Tang Yin suddenly stood up, with his hands behind his back and a frown on his face, walking slowly along the aisle in the middle of the banquet.

Seeing this, people stopped talking and laughing one after another, put down their wine glasses and bowls and chopsticks, and all focused their attention on him.

Tang Yin wandered by himself for a while, then stopped in the middle of the aisle and asked everyone around him: "Everyone, tell me, how have your political achievements been since you became a local official?"

"Thanks to the king, everything is fine, and the area under my jurisdiction is also prosperous!" The nearby officials heard Tang Yin's question clearly and said in unison.

"Is it prosperous? But that's not what I heard!" After hearing this, the expressions of everyone present changed and they looked at each other, and many people slowly lowered their heads.

Tang Yin said quietly: "Someone once came to me and said that most of the county and county captains in our country are from the army. They are top-notch warriors who fight in the world and fight on the battlefield, but they are not. They know how to manage politics, let alone govern a land, land and people. They each take credit and are proud of themselves, relying on themselves as heroes in the army. They are tyrannical in the local area, corrupt and pervert the law, and are lawless. They are no different from bullies. Tell me, is this the case? "

As soon as he said this, no one answered, and there was silence and silence.

Narrowing his eyes slightly, Tang Yin looked around at the people around him and continued: "But I don't believe it. All brothers are veterans and generals who have been on the battlefield for a long time. No matter what kind of strong enemies and dangerous situations they faced, they were able to deal with them calmly. Why can’t we manage a mere county, a county or even a city? My brothers have all shed their blood and sacrificed their lives for my country, how can they become a bully who brings trouble to the place?”

Hearing what Tang Yin said, Shen Zhichen's face turned red, and he stood up suddenly with righteous indignation and said loudly: "This is someone who is slandering the king and instigating the relationship between the king and his ministers. Such sycophants have ulterior motives, and the king must not take it lightly." Spare him!"

As soon as he took the lead, other local officials also got angry and said at once: "What Mr. Shen said is absolutely true. He said that we can't manage politics and are corrupt and perverting the law. That's sheer fart!"

"That's right! The ministers in the army can command thousands of troops, break formations to kill the enemy, attack cities and seize territory, and go through life and death, blood and sweat for the sake of my strong country. How come in the mouth of the sycophant, I will become a waste when I get there? What a bully? It’s so unreasonable and so abominable!”

Listening to everyone's insults, Shangguan Yuanji picked up the wine glass and took a sip calmly. It was he who suggested to Tang Yin that it was not appropriate to transfer military lieutenant generals to local posts. What Tang Yin just said was basically his exact words at that time.

Tang Yin smiled and glanced at him without leaving any trace, then waved his hands to everyone to signal them to quiet down, and said: "I was also very angry at the time. Like everyone else, I felt that the person I met had ulterior motives, but thinking about it later, I also think there is some truth in what he said. Brothers are all soldiers. Planning strategies and dispatching troops are their duties, but governing the local area is really not what everyone is good at. Those things should be done by civilian officials. "

"Your Majesty, do you think that I have failed to manage the place well?"

"The brothers here will naturally know whether the governance is good or not."

Tang Yin clasped his hands behind his back, wandered back and forth in the aisle, and said slowly: "I have a suggestion here, brothers, please listen carefully. Let the civilian officials do what the civil servants should do. We have been fighting in the army for so long, and we can't do it." It's time to go home and live a peaceful and comfortable life. If any brother proposes to retire and return to his hometown, the county chief and county lieutenant will receive ten thousand taels of silver and three thousand acres of fertile land. The county chief and county lieutenant will receive five thousand silver and one fertile land. Fifteen hundred acres. I don’t know, what do you guys think?”

His words were like a bombshell exploding in everyone's hearts. In just a moment, many people's faces turned pale. Ten thousand taels of silver is already quite a lot, and with the addition of three thousand acres of farmland, future generations will have no worries about food and clothing. The conditions offered by Tang Yin are generous enough, but for county-level officials, these benefits can only be regarded as nothing. Being a drop in the bucket, being the head of a county or the commander of the county army is like sitting on a mountain of gold and silver. Who can accept it now that they are asked to retire and return to their hometown?

"Your Majesty, I have nothing wrong with you. How can I force you to give up your throne and return home? Your Majesty, you must not believe the slander!" Zhao Yuting, the head of Tianyang County, knelt on the ground and said with a trembling voice.

It would have been better if he didn't stand up and speak out. Seeing him shouting for injustice, the anger in Tang Yin's heart suddenly burned.

He raised the corner of his mouth and said in a cold voice: "Slander? Do these 'slanders' wrong you? Zhao Yuting, do you think I don't know about the things you did in Tianyang County?"

While he was talking, he strode to the table, took out a wooden box from under the table, pulled off the lid, and took out a stack of paper inside. He walked back to Zhao Yuting and said in a deep voice: "Where are you? It's so trivial to violate the law. You don't know how many people's lives are taken away? Please give me a good look!" As he spoke, he threw the paper in his hand hard on Zhao Yuting's head.

With a crash, the papers were scattered all over the floor. Zhao Yuting shivered as he knelt down and hurriedly collected the scattered papers one by one. Then he lowered his head and took a closer look. The blood on his face instantly faded.

On the paper, the illegal activities he had done on a daily basis were clearly displayed one by one, with detailed records of the specific time, place and person.

"I won't talk about anything else. Let's just talk about the ancestral hall you built, the red sandalwood ancestral hall. The entire ancestral hall is made of red sandalwood. Even a mountain of gold or silver is not as valuable as the ancestral hall in your home. Come and tell me, Where did you get these red sandalwoods?"

"This this……"

"You can't tell, can you? I will tell you that when the palace was being built, the imperial court requested red sandalwood from all counties. At that time, under the banner of the imperial court, you made a clever plunder in Tianyang County and obtained such a large amount of red sandalwood. As a result, You haven't sent one to the court, but you have used it to build the ancestral hall. In your eyes, do you still have the court and me, a great king? How can I tolerate you if you are greedy and inferior to a pig or a dog?" Tang Yinyue said! Getting more and more angry, he turned his head and shouted: "Come here, raise the guillotine!"