Chapter 681

That evening, Tang Yin held a banquet 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.

The right prime minister, Shangguan Yuanji, and the 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 the imperial censor Zhang Zhe.

There are very few officials.

Everyone knows that Zhang Zhe has a weird temper, is smelly and tough, and if you don't try to please him, nothing will happen to you. If you try to please him, you will get yourself into trouble. Everyone has the same mentality towards such a person, and can avoid it.

Just avoid it, 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 attitude of the officials towards Qiu Zhen and Shangguan Yuanji also became clear.

You can see the difference.

To Shangguan Yuanji, people were more than complimentary and polite. To Qiu Zhen, the compliments also showed a bit of respect and intimacy. During the conversation, there were a lot less formal words and more greetings and short private 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, and the officials hurriedly returned to their seats, sitting upright without 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 hand 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, just treat this banquet as a family banquet."

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

Tang Yin lowered his head and looked at the table in front of him, then picked up the jug to pour wine. On the side, San and Si hurriedly stepped forward to take the jug from his hand, but Tang Yin 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 toast you all first!"

"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 one for himself and said: "This second glass of wine is a tribute to 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

, it all depends on the sacrifice of life and death of these brothers and the bloody battle!"

"Here's to me, the heroes of Gale!" When everyone picked up their wine glasses again, many people's eyes were already red. Back then, when they were fighting in the army, they all crawled out from among 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, put his hands behind his back, frowned, and walked 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 strolled by himself for a while, then he 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 prospering!" 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. When it comes to conquering the world and fighting on the battlefield, they are the first-class experts, 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 these words, 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 veterans who have been on the battlefield for a long time. No matter what kind of strong enemies and dangerous situations they face, they can calmly deal with them.

How come you can't manage a mere county, a county or even a city? Brothers have all shed their blood and sold their lives for my country, how could they become bullies who cause trouble to the place?"

Hearing what Tang Yin said, Shen Zhichen's face turned red, he stood up suddenly with indignation, and said loudly: "This is someone who is slandering the king and sowing discord 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 nonsense!"

"That's it! The ministers in the army are able to command thousands of troops, break formations to kill the enemy, attack cities and seize territory, and go through life and death for the sake of my Gale Mountains. They bleed and sweat. How come in the words of the minister, I will become a waste when I get there?

Are you a bully? This is simply unreasonable and extremely abominable!"

Listening to everyone's insults, Shangguan Yuanji picked up his 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

The above are 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 then said: "I was also very angry at the time. Like everyone else, I felt that the person who met me had ulterior motives, but after thinking about it,

I also think there is some truth in what he said. Brothers are all soldiers. It is their duty to strategize and deploy troops, but governing the local area is indeed not what everyone is good at. Those things should be done by civil servants."

"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 they 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 taels of silver and one fertile land.

Fifteen hundred acres. I wonder, brothers, what do you think?"

His words were like a bomb that exploded in everyone's hearts. In just an instant, many people's faces turned pale. There was already a lot of silver, plus three thousand acres of fields.

, future generations can have no worries about food and clothing. The conditions offered by Tang Yin are generous enough, but for county-level officials, these benefits are only a drop in the bucket. Being the head of a county and the commander of the county army is like

They are sitting on a mountain of gold and silver. Now they are asked to retire and return to their hometown. Who can accept it?

"Your Majesty, I have nothing wrong with you. How can I force you to abdicate and return home? Your Majesty, you must not listen to 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, took out a stack of paper inside, walked back to Zhao Yuting, and said in a deep voice: "Where are you?

It's so trivial to violate the law, and you don't even know how many people's lives are taken away from you? Please give me a good look at it!" 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, and 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 will not talk about anything else. Let me just talk about the ancestral hall you built, the red sandalwood ancestral hall. The entire ancestral hall is made of red sandalwood. Even if it is a mountain of gold or silver, it is not as valuable as the ancestral hall at 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 plundered Tianyang County and obtained such a large amount of red sandalwood. As a result,

You haven't given one to the court, but you have used it all to build the ancestral hall. In your eyes, there is still a court and a king like me? How can I tolerate you if you are greedy and inferior to pigs and dogs?" Tang Yinyue said!

Getting more and more angry, he turned his head and shouted: "Come here, raise the guillotine!"
Chapter completed!