When the two soldiers ferociously led He Shikai out of the prison, pushed him to the ground, and began to use their knives to mark his ears and tongue, He Shikai finally believed Zheng Daoqian's idea.
This is really because I want to cut some bits and pieces from myself and send them to the king.
He Shikai hurriedly shouted: "I have something important to tell the general! After meeting the general, let him do whatever he wants!!"
The soldiers went to report him. After a long time, the soldiers picked him up again and escorted him to Liu Taozi.
The doors and windows inside the house are wide open.
There were more than a dozen civil servants, a few of whom were kneeling not far away, immersed in writing something. Two of them were sitting next to Liu Taozi, delivering something to him and talking in a low voice.
There are several people under the window, constantly sorting and classifying the documents in front of them.
In the main room, everyone was quite busy.
He Shikai knelt in front of Liu Taozi respectfully, "General!! We understand our mistake!"
"The general is a tiger and a bear. We actually try to threaten him with words. We deserve death!!"
Liu Taozi looked at the people on the left and right, they bowed and then left first. Then Liu Taozi looked at He Shikai.
"Since you know your sin, I will be merciful and let you choose, tongue, ears, eyes, you choose one yourself."
He Shikai hurriedly saluted again, "General! I, a lowly person, offended the general for a moment. The general should punish me. However, even if the general chopped me into pieces, it would not be able to offset the crime of offending the general. I really feel for the general."
not worth!"
"Oh? Then what do you think we should do?"
"General, this offense is all because of the villains around the king. The king has always valued you. If you don't check for a while, you must be very upset. I think the king must be willing to apologize to you!"
"Of course, General Tianwei, even if your Majesty pays ten thousand carts of gold, it cannot be offset by the crime of offending the General!"
"It's just that this is worth much more than the little person's broken pieces. The king is a nobleman, so if he makes amends, wouldn't it be more worthy than the little person's apology?"
Liu Taozi glanced at He Shikai again.
"Did I ever ask you to atone for your sins? I cut off your belongings just to give them to King Changguang so that he can make amends!"
He Shikai shook his head, "General, this time it is clear that the king did something wrong. If you held me hostage to ask the king to apologize, then it is not that the king is apologizing for offending you, but just apologizing because I was held hostage by you. If you are willing
Let me go, and I will definitely tell the truth to the king. The king has always been generous in treating talented people, and he treats ordinary people with the courtesy of a scholar, let alone a general."
"General, if I can go back this time, I will definitely convince the king to apologize for my offense. The general has made great achievements in battle and is in charge of the defense of two states, but he is not rewarded. I didn't know about it in the past, but now that I'm here, I know
It’s not easy being a general, I will tell you the truth!”
"As a humble person, I naturally dare not advise the general. However, I know that the general always knows right from wrong, so there will be no mistakes."
"It all depends on the general!"
The monk bowed to him again.
Liu Taozi pondered for a long time.
"Okay, I'll let you go, but you can avoid the death penalty and be whipped twenty times."
He Shikai did not dare to beg for mercy and quickly saluted, "Thank you, General!!"
He Shikai was taken away by the soldiers, and Tian Zili walked in from the side door, squinting his eyes and standing next to Liu Taozi, "Brother, no wonder Gao Zhan likes him so much. If nothing else, it's just this
His eloquence is really great, I was almost convinced by him just now."
"Gao Zhan is not surrounded by useless people!"
Tian Zili sighed: "This guy is just a servant. Apart from these servants, Gao Zhan has Gao Guiyan, Gao Rui and other important ministers around him who are willing to work for him."
"It's not easy to deal with either."
Liu Taozi did not respond, "Go ahead."
He Shikai was beaten, but he felt extremely comfortable in his heart. This painful time was finally over. As long as he could leave this hellish place, he would accept it even if he was slapped fifty times again!!
Just as He Shikai was struggling to get up, Tian Zili walked to him coldly with a straight face.
"My general is a frank man, but he doesn't pay attention to your trivial skills, but you think there is no one at the frontier?"
"How can you hide this plan of escape from me by using your words?"
He Shikai grimaced, "What are you saying, Mr. Tian? How dare I deceive the general? The general is extremely intelligent, how can I deceive him?"
Tian Zili sneered and waved his hand, "Since the general has forgiven you, I won't say more and leave quickly!"
He Shikai thought of something, stepped forward, and whispered: "In the prison, I met an acquaintance. This person is a good friend of mine in the past. I wonder if Mr. Tian can help and let me take him away?
"
"Oh, what do you think this place is?? You are allowed to leave by yourself, and you still want to leave with others??"
He Shikai hurriedly said: "Don't misunderstand me. The crime this person committed is not serious. He just needs money to redeem it. I am willing to pay for him!"
"No! Let's go!"
Tian Zili immediately turned around and was about to leave, and He Shikai said: "When I first came here, I heard that the general's administration was strict and the officials did everything in accordance with the law. I never thought that it would actually happen because of my own behavior."
Those who ignore the law for their private affairs will not be redeemed.”
Tian Zili was furious and immediately stopped and looked at He Shikai.
I could see that there was some confusion on his face. He was silent for a long time, and then he squeezed out one word from his mouth, "Okay."
The warrior laughed.
Soon, Tian Zili took him to the prison. When he entered here again, He Shikai's mind was filled with those humiliating memories, but he did not dare to delay and quickly brought Zheng Daoqian out. Zheng Daoqian was so moved that he pulled He Shikai
hands wailing.
Tian Zili waved his hand impatiently, signaling them to leave quickly.
He Shikai took Zheng Daoqian and fled quickly without looking back.
After they left, Tian Zili looked at the soldiers on the left and right, "Let them go."
The soldiers quickly moved out and opened all the fence doors. From each fence, everyone slowly walked out. The soldiers lit a few more torches to illuminate everyone's faces.
Tian Zili saluted them gently.
"I have really wronged you all, so I have prepared some gifts."
"Don't dare, it's our honor to work for the general!"
He Shikai was lying on the carriage at the moment, and Zheng Daoqian was sitting beside him, treating his wounds.
"These thieves were beaten really hard."
The knight grimaced in pain, and the violent shaking of the carriage made him fly out of the sky.
"I'll never come again. Never again."
"Thanks to Mr. He for this. If it weren't for you, I'm afraid I would have died in prison."
"Don't say that. I can come out thanks to you. From now on, you will stay by my side and give me more advice. Sooner or later, major events in the world will be in our hands!!"
He Shikai became optimistic again.
With his back injured, he naturally could no longer ride the horse. The carriage was simply a torment, and he could only endure it.
The two chatted about what was going on here and moved forward. Just when they walked out of the Beishuo border and arrived at the familiar valley entrance where the two armies were confronting each other, they met a group of people from Shuozhou.
Both sides stopped immediately.
Guo Yuanzhen poked his head out of the carriage and asked loudly: "But He Jun is here?"
He Shikai heard the voice, let Zheng Daoqian help him get out of the car, and limped to see him.
"Kuo Jun!!"
"Hejun! What's wrong with you??"
When the two met, He Shikai shed tears of grievance again and complained about all the things he had suffered. Then he took his hand and asked, "Did the governor send you to save me?"
Guo Yuanzhen was about to speak, but then looked at Zheng Daoqian aside.
The monk laughed and said: "This man is the great master of Yecheng, Zheng Daoqian, Duke Zheng. He was the one who divined fortune and misfortune for Emperor Wenxuan of Yecheng."
Guo Yuanzhen was shocked and hurried to meet him.
Another round of high-level pleasantries.
After learning what happened to the other party, Guo Yuanzhen couldn't help but shook his head, "How do the people here know anything about divination? They just mess around with some stones and wood. They don't know Yi, let alone Taixuan. Their divination,
It’s just a trick to deceive the stupid people, you shouldn’t come here.”
The gentlemen of the Central Plains think that the frontier warriors are very superstitious because they do not use classics for divination.
The three of them got into the car together, and He Shikai said slowly: "Liu Taozi has not killed me, which shows that he has not turned back. However, he is recruiting troops here, and the people in the countryside have been mobilized by him.
You must be on guard against it.”
"From now on, when you are in Shuozhou, you will have to keep an eye on these people properly."
"It would be best to send some people to keep an eye on him secretly."
"His side is most in need of officials."
The two chatted in low voices, and the carriage continued to rush towards the city.
From time to time there were cries from both sides.
There were soldiers escorting the civilians who failed to escape to Beishuo, and drove them in groups towards the city.
Zheng Daoqian sat aside, listening to the noise outside and what these two people said.
At this moment, a scream was heard in the distance, interrupting the conversation between the two people in the carriage.
He Shikai rolled up the car curtains suspiciously, and saw several people outside the dense forest in the distance, fighting with the soldiers. Several people took the opportunity to rush towards the border fortress, and some knights reacted.
, shouting and charging to kill.
There was chaos in the distance, but He Shikai did not dare to stay long and hurriedly urged his servants to speed up.
He complained: "When I passed through that dense forest earlier, I felt someone was spying on me. Sure enough, there were thieves hiding in this dense forest!"
"The frontier fortress here is really chaotic, and Liu Taozi doesn't know what tricks he's using!"
Guo Yuanzhen said: "Not only Shuo and Heng, but also other places further away, there are dead people running thousands of miles towards him."
"In order to recruit troops, this guy took great pains to fabricate many lies to deceive people from all over the country. It would be fine if he just deceived the dead. But many of these people originally had their own industries and had no worries about food and clothing. After hearing those false rumors,
They abandoned their cultivated land and houses and fled to Beishuo and Beiheng. Not long ago, the tyrant prince of Hengzhou wrote a letter to complain, saying that nearly 30,000 people under his command fled, and many villages and towns were deserted."
"This General Anxi really doesn't care about the lives of the people at all."
He Shikai nodded, "Yes, these people are so innocent. Liu Taozi can resettle them now only because he plundered a lot of things. But Beishuo and Beiheng are both bitter and cold places. To trick so many people there,
What will he do if the stolen goods are not enough?"
"Look, now the common people dare to fight with the soldiers. If they commit a capital crime, they have to go to Beishuo. How unbecoming is it?"
Guo Yuanzhen stroked his beard and nodded slightly.
Zheng Daoqian suddenly smiled and said: "When I came here, I saw the spirit of Wuchuan General's Mansion."
The two of them were stunned and looked at him.
Zheng Daoqian said: "The momentum is overwhelming, but he is strong on the outside and weak on the inside. General Anxi is short-sighted and has no foresight!"
“I traveled around Beishuo and discovered a big problem: insufficient farmland and housing!”
"oh?"
"The reason he can accept these people now is because these two places don't have much population. Just let him lie like this. Sooner or later, the cultivated land there will be insufficient, and the people will gather in the wild without food. After learning
If you are deceived, you will cause a big mess sooner or later!"
Hearing Zheng Daoqian's words, He Shi's eyes lit up, and he looked at Guo Yuanzhen aside.
"Guo Jun, I suddenly had an idea."
Guo Yuanzhen shook his head, "I know what you are thinking, but the people in Shuozhou cannot escape too much, otherwise it will be detrimental to the governor."
"Then look for someone else!"
"Didn't he want people? Give them to others! There are many dead people in Sizhou, Xianzhou, Yanzhou, and Nanyingzhou! These people just don't have the ability to reach Liu Taozi's territory alive!!"
"Why don't we help him?"
The two were chatting in low voices, but Zheng Daoqian did not participate in their chat anymore. He just looked into the distance.
Those people in the distance seemed to have successfully escaped, and all they could hear were roars and the sound of horse hooves.
He looked there.
All I saw was the dragon energy soaring into the sky.
The knights galloped on their horses, pressing their bodies, arrows kept flying over their heads, and they rushed into Beishuo's territory.
When the knights guarding the opposite side saw them, they hesitated for a while.
I saw them jump off their horses.
The leader quickly walked up to them and bowed his head in salute.
"General!! We are from Cheng'an, here to see Mr. Tian!"
"Tian Gong??"
Those knights immediately had a plan and hurriedly sent people to send them to the rear. A moment later, the Shuozhou knights were already in front of them.
"Where are the people?!"
"Someone killed our knight!! He escaped into your territory!! Catch him quickly!!"
While they were still arguing, those few people were already being led in the direction of Wuchuan.
Wuchuan, Pingshan Town.
Tian Zili was wearing official uniform. There were more than forty cavalry stationed in the distance, and beside him, there were seven or eight officials walking beside him with their heads bowed.
"Mr. Tian, ​​this is our school. It is governed by the prince. There are nineteen students at the moment."
Ahead was a simple courtyard, where a scribe led many young people, standing here at a loss.
The scribe seemed to be elderly, he looked to be in his fifties, with gray hair and a stooped figure. The young men standing behind him were all very restrained, with their heads lowered timidly, not daring to look at Tianzi.
Li, wearing tattered clothes, exudes a frontier smell.
"Meet Tian Gong!!"
The old scribe saluted greatly, and Tian Zili hurriedly helped him up.
"Don't be too polite, sir. Judging from your accent, you are not a local?"
"The sinner came from Tianbao in the third year of Jinshan. I came here from Yingzhou to work as a corvee. In the spring of the fourth year, I was sold to the Weiwei people. Later, I made a living under the Weiwei people's tent. Later, I was robbed by the Xi people until Qian
I was able to escape only in the first year of Ming Dynasty."
Speaking of this disgraceful deed, his voice became weaker and weaker.
However, Tian Zili held his hand and said gently: "I am a very lucky man to be able to escape from the creeps!"
The officials around him nodded, "That's true."
"Is there anyone else giving you trouble here?"
"No, no."
"If so, just let me know."
"Thank you Mr. Tian!"
Tian Zili looked at the junior students in the distance again. An official came forward, pulled one of the junior students forward, and said with a smile: "Mr. Tian, ​​this man is quite outstanding among all the students. He learns the fastest.
He is going to the law school next month."
Tian Zili asked him again with a smile while the two were chatting.
A knight walked up quickly and whispered a few words in his ear. Tian Zili nodded slightly and continued to ask and chat.
After walking around like this for a long time, he finally decided to leave. The officials sent him all the way to the outside of the town and did not dare to neglect him.
Tian Zili led everyone back to Wuchuan. As soon as he came back, someone brought in the few Cheng'an people who wanted to see him.
The thieves walked into the official office and looked around secretly. When they saw Tian Zili in official uniform, they did not dare to recognize him for a long time.
When Tian Zili returned to Cheng'an before, he always wore casual clothes, not as formal as now.
When Tian Zili saw them, he was shocked.
"Why are you here?"
These people are all Tian Zili's old brothers in Cheng'an.
The leader saluted and cried: "Brother, we have been traveling for a long time without passing through, hiding everywhere. When we arrived at Shuozhou, soldiers blocked the road, so we hid in the woods and waited for several days. Today,
An official escorting the carriage passed by, so we took advantage of the chaos and ran out."
He quickly talked about Cheng An again.
"Brother, the king showed up again not long ago. He brought some people and said he wanted to do something big."
"He told us that King Gao Jun of Pengcheng is the son of Emperor Shenwu and has a great reputation. If we can take him hostage and raise an army, and the world will respond, we will definitely be able to conquer Jinyang. He also said, let us be prepared, saying that King Pengcheng is very good.
He will go to Yecheng soon. When he arrives in Yecheng, he will arrange for us to go to his house so that we can kidnap him. They will set fire inside and outside the city in response."
"When did this happen?? I need a specific date!!"
"It's been fifty-three days, brother, we've really been traveling day and night."
Tian Zili's face became extremely solemn, "Okay, the others will go to rest first, you come with me."
He led this person and hurried to Liu Taozi.
Chapter completed!