1569: C1569

C1569

That night, Tang Yin held a banquet at the plaza outside the main hall of the palace.

This time, the local officials that were entering the capital were present, and some officials from the imperial court were present as well. The scene was extremely lively, and noise rose and fell one after another.

Local officials seized this rare opportunity to toast their ministers, hoping to find a firm backer in the court.

There were many people gathered around the Right Prime Minister, Shangguan Yuanji the Minister of the Left, and all the officials from various places did their best to flatter and flatter him. Although the Censors was also at the same level as the officials, and was on the same level as Qiu Zhen and Qiu Zhen, there were very few officials around him.

Everyone knew that Zhang Zhe's temper was weird, and that he was smelly and hard. If they didn't try to curry favor with him, perhaps he would be fine. Everyone shared the same opinion towards such a person. They would avoid him as much as they could. The further they hid, the better it was for them.

Every County Head, County Commandant, and County Commanders in the Feng Country were mostly generals. As the Minister of the Left, Qiu Zhen was the head of the military officials, he could be said to be their old superior. Through the attitudes of the officials towards Qiu Zhen and Shangguan Yuanji, they could tell the difference.

To Shangguan Yuanji, other than flattery, there was also a sense of familiarity and respect. When talking to him, there were a lot of pleasantries and a lot of private words that came out of flattery.

Just as the hall was abuzz with activity, a guard shouted, "The King has arrived!"

With the singing, the venue immediately quieted down. Officials hurried back to their seats and sat upright, not daring to glance at them.

Very quickly, Tang Yin walked into the plaza under the escort of a group of guards and palace maids. Seeing that the King had arrived, the officials all left their seats and knelt down, kowtowing to him.

Tang Yin's seating arrangement was also set up in the plaza, and was at the center. As he walked towards his seat, he smiled and scanned the people on both sides.

After taking his seat, he waved his hand and said, "Everyone, get up!"

"Thank you, King!" Everyone stood up and carefully sat down.

Tang Yin laughed and said: "No need for everyone to be so reserved, we are all not outsiders, just treat this banquet as a family banquet."

Hearing the king's relaxed and amiable tone, everyone heaved a sigh of relief.

Tang Yin looked down at the table in front of him, and then picked up the wine pot to pour wine. Ah San rushed forward to grab the jug of wine from his hands, but Tang Yin waved his hand, signalling the two of them to come over.

He poured himself a cup of wine, raised it high, and loudly said, "Everyone, you have travelled a long distance to come here. It has been a long journey. Let me toast everyone first!"

"Your subjects toast to the king!" Everyone quickly picked up their wine cups and raised it towards Tang Yin, then drank all of the wine in it in one gulp.

After drinking a cup of wine, Tang Yin poured another cup, and said: "This second cup of wine, I want to toast to those brave warriors who went through life and death with us back then but were unable to leave the battlefield alive. The reason my Feng Country is able to have such a vast territory today, is all because of these brothers risking their lives and fighting with all their might!"

"To the glory of Windy!" When everyone raised their wine glasses again, many of their eyes had already turned red. Back in the days of war, they had all climbed out of piles of dead people. Recalling their old comrades now that the heavens were separated from the earth, they couldn't help but feel sad.

Tang Yin raised his wine cup for the third time and said: "This third goblet of wine is to toast everyone. Everyone has worked hard to achieve your position here, I toast you all."

"Your Majesty, your subjects do not dare to accept this title!" Everyone anxiously poured wine and drank a third cup with Tang Yin.

After drinking three cups in a row, Tang Yin's cheeks flushed red, he raised his sleeves and wiped the corners of his mouth, then waved: "Everyone can eat if they want, but we cannot keep drinking!"

Following Tang Yin's call, the atmosphere immediately became lively again. Joyous laughter could be heard without end.

After three rounds of drinking and five tastes, Tang Yin suddenly stood up, hands behind his back and frowned as he walked slowly along the aisle in the middle of the banquet.

Seeing this, everyone stopped talking and laughing. They all put down their wine cups and chopsticks and focused their gazes on him. "Hahahahaha!" "Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!"

Tang Yin strolled around for a while, then stopped in the middle of the aisle and asked the people around him: "Everyone, tell me, after going to a place to be an official, how was your performance?"

"With the blessings of the great king, everything is going well, and this humble subject's territory is also flourishing day by day!" When the nearby officials heard Tang Yin's question, they spoke in unison.

"Is it getting better every day? But that's not what I heard! " Hearing this, the expressions of everyone present changed. They looked at each other, and many had slowly lowered their heads.

Tang Yin said faintly: There was once someone who came to me to seek an audience, to tell me that the various County Head and county officers are mostly from the military, to say that they are the best in the world and the people on the battlefield, but they do not know how to manage the situation, nor do they know how to govern a side of water and soil, and their people are all proud of their achievements, and depend on themselves to be the military's meritorious officials, acting tyrannically in a domineering manner, acting without respect to the laws and being lawless than a tyrant, don't you guys think so?

When he said this, no one answered. There was complete silence.1

Narrowing his eyes slightly, Tang Yin looked at the people around him and continued to speak, "But I don't believe it, you guys are all veterans and veterans who have experienced much in the battlefield. Back then, no matter what kind of strong enemy or dangerous situation you faced, you could still deal with them easily. How could my brothers, who have shed blood and sold their lives for my mountains and rivers, become the tyrants of this place? "

Hearing Tang Yin say that, Shen Zhichen's face flushed red. He stood up abruptly and shouted loudly: "There is someone lusting after the King, provoking the relationship between the King and her subjects, such a person has ulterior motives, the King cannot let him off lightly!"

With him taking the lead, the other officials were also in an uproar as they clamored, "Sir Shen is absolutely right, saying that we don't know how to handle matters, that we are greedy for money, that is pure bullshit!"

"Exactly! All the officials in the army can command the Chiliarch to attack the enemy, attack the city and rob the land. All of them are willing to risk their lives just for the sake of saving my life, so why does this official keep saying that I will become a useless scum when I reach the place? This is outrageous, outrageous to the extreme! "

Listening to the crowd cursing, Shangguan Yuanji raised his wine cup and calmly took a sip. Back then, it was him who proposed to Tang Yin that the position of military officer change from that of a general to that of a deputy, and those words that Tang Yin had just said were basically the exact words that he had said at the time.

Tang Yin laughed and glanced at him without leaving a trace, then waved his hand at the crowd, signalling them to quiet down, and said: "At that time, I was also very angry, and similar to everyone's thoughts, I felt that the audience had other intentions, but after thinking about it, I felt that what he said made sense. Brothers are all soldiers, it is my duty to be tactful and to deploy troops, but governing a place is indeed not something everyone is good at, it is something that should be done by civil servants. "

"Your Majesty, do you feel that your subjects have not managed their territory well?"

"All the brothers present here naturally have a good grasp of the situation."

Tang Yin clasped his hands behind his back and paced back and forth, then said slowly: "I have a suggestion, all of you listen carefully. Let the civil servants do what they have to do. After fighting in the army for so long, it was time for everyone to return home and live a peaceful and comfortable life. If there were brothers who proposed to return to their homes, County Head and County Commandant would earn a hundred thousand silver taels, three thousand mu of fertile land, five thousand silver taels for the county magistrate, and fifteen hundred mu of fertile land. I wonder what your thoughts are, brothers? "

His words were like a bomb that exploded in everyone's hearts. In an instant, many people's faces turned pale. In addition to the three thousand mu of land, the future generations would be able to eat and live without worries. Tang Yin's conditions were already good enough, but for officials at the county level, these benefits were nothing. Being the head of a county or the head of a county army was like sitting on a mountain of gold and silver.

"Your Majesty, this subject and the rest have never passed, how can Your Majesty and the rest give up their seats and return home? Your Majesty, you must not listen to such slanderous words! " The County Head of Tian Yang County, Zhao Yu Ting, knelt on the ground and said with a trembling voice.

It would have been better if he did not come out to speak. Seeing him speak out wrongly, Tang Yin's heart was immediately set ablaze.

The corner of his mouth raised up, and he coldly said, "Gargle? Do you think these 'slanderous words' are wrong? Zhao Yuting, do you think that I do not know about the things you did in Tianyang County? "

He took out a wooden box from under the table, removed the lid and took out a stack of paper from inside. He walked over to Zhao Yu Ting and said in a deep voice, "In your place, greed is the law, you don't even know how many people have died. You better take a good look for This King! " As he spoke, he viciously threw the piece of paper in his hand at Zhao Yuting's head.

With a crashing sound, the paper scattered on the ground. Zhao Yuting, who was kneeling on the ground, shivered as he hurriedly collected the papers that were scattered on the ground. Then, he lowered his head to take a closer look, and the color of blood on his face instantly faded.

On the paper, the illegal activities that he usually did were laid out clearly, one after another. Even the specific times, locations, and characters were recorded in detail.

"Ignoring everything else, just the shrine you built, the purple sandalwood Ancestral Hall, is made of rosewood. Even a mountain of gold and silver is not as valuable as your family's Ancestral Hall. Tell me, where did you get these purple sandalwood?"

"This... "This ?"

"You can't tell? When you were building the palace, the imperial government asked the counties for sandalwood. At that time, in the name of the imperial government, you took advantage of the situation to get this much sandalwood in Tianyang County, but in the end, you didn't even send a single piece of it to the imperial government. All of it was used by you to build the ancestral hall. This King will not tolerate someone who is not as greedy as a pig or a dog! " The more Tang Yin spoke, the angrier he got. He turned his head and shouted, "Men, lift the guillotine!"

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