On the fifth day after the early dynasty, General Xue led his troops and Zhang's caravan from the junction of western Beijing and Hebei.
Above the open space, thousands of people gathered, and the sound of drums and gongs sounded, and the sound was magnificent, resounding between heaven and earth.
Gu Yuanbai put on the emperor's dress, toasted the heaven and the earth one by one, and prayed for the soldiers.
After he finished praying, it was General Xue's morale-boosting oath.
General Xue has a lot of experience, and even if he picks it up at random, it makes people feel excited.
But this time General Xue was obviously very excited. When he was talking about what the border nomads had done, he had already clenched his fists and gritted his teeth.
The grassroots officers in the queue will pass on every word of General Xue one by one to ensure that everyone can hear what the commander has to say.
After the oath was over, General Xue strode to Gu Yuanbai and said with tears in his eyes: "This minister will live up to the entrustment of the Holy One!"
Gu Yuanbai's blood boiled when he heard it, and he wished he could ride his horse into the battlefield. He calmed down, smiled, helped General Xue, and said loudly: "Then I will wait for the general to triumph!"
After sending General Xue and the caravan away, because of the emperor's request, the Zhang clan, who was in charge of the bookstore, strictly followed the holy order. forever everywhere.
When the tyrants from all over the country saw this newspaper, they saw that the rebel army comrades who were clearly written on it sent out an envelope to win over the tyrants from all over the country before they were wiped out.
They were completely cold.
Because of the time difference, more than ten days after Gu Yuanbai moved to the summer palace, this issue of "Daheng Guobao" was rushed across many mountains and rivers and dangers, and sent to the hands of the tyrants. And at that time, this proves that the envelopes sent by the tyrants in Jingnan and Jiangnan have been in the hands of the saint for almost a month.
Almost the moment they saw the newspaper, all the tyrants had the idea of going to the capital in person and wanting to meet the saint. Whether it's self-innocence or uneasy, they have to see it for themselves.
But not everyone can squeeze into the capital.
So the tyrants from all over the country elected representatives from various places, and specially selected tyrants who were famous enough and had a deep enough relationship with Jiangnan and JingHunan, so that they hurried to the capital.
These tyrants rushed to the halfway, and heard that Shengshang had moved to the Summer Palace, so they changed their route halfway and hurried to the Hebei Summer Palace.
Therefore, after staying comfortably in the summer palace for 20 days, Gu Yuanbai finally welcomed dozens of tyrants who came from all directions.
No matter how rich these tyrants are, they will not be arrogant in front of the emperor.
Each of them is very cautious, their eyes do not look around, and there is no standard clothing and accessories that should appear on them. They are clean, and even appear in front of Gu Yuanbai in a simple way, for fear of being careful with one step. will offend the nobles.
As for Gu Yuanbai, someone put them on a brazier.
The tyrants couldn't help but look towards the brazier, showing some doubts on their faces.
Gu Yuanbai smiled slightly, and gave an order, Tian Fusheng put a bag of snow-white envelopes beside the brazier.
"When I sent troops to crusade the rebels in southern Jingnan and Jiangnan, many local tyrants had become comrades of the rebels. Fang's support and win over," Gu Yuanbai was not in a hurry, "and this big bag is the letter that these tyrants once sent."
The eyes of the tyrants moved to the envelope, their hearts were extremely anxious, and their breathing could not help but stagnate.
Gu Yuanbai smiled and said: "I know why you are here. I have never opened these envelopes, and I do not want to wrong my subjects with the remarks of the rebel army. Since you have arrived here, it is just right, Tian Blessed."
Tian Fusheng said respectfully, "The little one is here."
Gu Yuanbai wrote lightly: "I burned these envelopes."
"Yes." Tian Fusheng took out letters from the bag and threw them into the brazier without blinking. The sparks in the brazier suddenly rose, and the fire was reflected on the ground, and the surrounding tyrannical eyes were full of shock.
The saint burned so cleanly? !
There are many people with sharp eyes, who can see at a glance that these envelopes are indeed in a state that has never been opened. Some tyrants who had a close relationship with Jiangnan recognized the notes on the letterhead. After recognizing it, they were shocked, and their legs could not help but soften. Because they knew in their hearts that these envelopes must be sent to themselves.
But this will see that after the letters are swallowed up by the flames, all the tyrants inevitably raise a sense of happiness that they have escaped from the dead.
They all started to tremble with fear, and they kept thanking the saint for his generosity and generosity in their hearts.
Gu Yuanbai said with a gentle attitude: "I said that I will not pursue it, and a gentleman can't chase after a horse, so don't worry."
This method of buying people's hearts simply made the hearts of the tyrants agitated. They honestly greeted Gu Yuanbai and left the summer palace, still in disbelief.
The panic that I had when I came was completely gone all day long, and was replaced by a staunch admiration for the Holy One.
With such a mind and determination, these envelopes who take the opportunity to rectify their envelopes will burn if they say they are burned. What a graceful look this is!
In the palace, Gu Yuanbai sipped a few sips of tea and asked Tian Fusheng to clean up the brazier and ashes, and then began to take care of government affairs leisurely.
Historically, there were only two people Gu Yuanbai remembered who had done this kind of burning of letters. One was Cao Cao, King of Wei, and the other was Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu.
Both of these two officials sent letters of surrender to the enemy because the situation was not good for them. But after they won, they found these letters in the enemy's mansion, and they both chose to send these letters in front of the officials. Burn them all to show that they will no longer be held accountable.
There are many advantages to doing this, one is to avoid a situation where people are in a panic and suspicious of each other in the future, and the other is that this is a good means to win people's hearts, it is clever, and it can also reflect the broad mind of the superior.
The third is Gu Yuanbai's plan to take back the land from these tyrants. But now that the inside is still developing, and there are still enemy countries eyeing on the 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 hands. Jiangnan is a bustling interest field for businessmen all over the world, and because of the anti-corruption issue, the tyrants are uneasy. At such a time, they need a means to maintain stability.
To do things step by step, the goal cannot be completely put on the surface.
This is the best way to soften their attitude first, calm their mood, make them trust the emperor, and completely let go of their guard against the emperor.
Gu Yuanbai put the teacup aside, and corrected the word "read" on the memorial.
After a while, the chief guard walked in, saluted Gu Yuanbai, and said, "Your Highness..."
He hesitated.
Gu Yuanbai raised his eyes to look at him, and said lazily, "Speak."
"I just went out and heard a very delicate poem," said the captain of the guard with a straight face. "This poem is catchy to read, has a profound meaning and is in harmony with the rhythm. This poem was written by Mr. Chang Yuyan Chang. I asked about it. Fan, I heard that it is a good work that Master Chang has come up with over the past twenty days."
Gu Yuanbai became interested, "Read it again and listen."
The captain of the guard read it out word by word.
The first four sentences were fine. They were euphemistic and subtle, and the words were vivid and beautiful. Gu Yuanbai could only vaguely figure out that this was a poem written by a man. When the captain of the guard read it again, he was silent.
Really catchy, really brilliant. The more Gu Yuanbai listened, the more familiar he felt. Finally, he interrupted the captain of the bodyguard directly and asked, "Who is this poem written for?"
The captain of the guard said implicitly: "I heard that the title of this poem is "Giving a Friend: A Night Talk with Xue Jiuyao on the 21st of July".
"..." As soon as Gu Yuanbai heard Xue Yuan's name, he knew where the familiarity in the verse came from.
He couldn't help feeling a sense of irony and laughter. 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?"
The sage's tone was indistinguishable between joy and anger, and Tian Fusheng, who was on the side, had a very strange expression when the long guard was reading the poem. Hearing the sage's question at this moment, he couldn't help but think of the rebellious words that Xue Yuan once said, and his back suddenly turned After a while of chills, he lowered his head in a hurry to reduce his sense of existence.
When the sage went to see Xue Yuan before, the captain of the guard took the brothers to do something for the sage, and they were not there at the time. Later, when he came back, those who had been warned by Tian Fusheng again did not dare to say a word about the matter, so until now, the head of the bodyguard did not know Xue Yuan's ill-intentioned thoughts towards the sage.
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 been with the Holy Master for so many years, and he can't see what the Holy Master is thinking now. It stands to reason that Xue Yuan has said such things, and the execution should be executed. But the Holy Master not only did not execute anyone, but also suppressed this matter. It can be seen that his attitude towards Xue Yuan is unusual. In such a thing, they, who are slaves and ministers, really cannot get along.
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 saint, I met the servant of Xue's house on the way back," said the chief guard, "The servant of Xue's house was reading this poem, and this minister recognized the words in the poem. Who is the person, I went up to ask, and after saying a few words, I followed the servant to see Lord Xue."
The guards who executed the executions were tall and big, they ate a lot, and they were strong enough. As soon as the big board fell, the meat was 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 something like that to him.
Thinking of this, Gu Yuanbai was distracted for a while, then 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.