When Xing Xing saw an outsider breaking into the yard, he didn't panic. He just frowned, stood up and covered his face with a curtain, then turned around and entered the house. When Hou Renbao saw Xing leaving, he wanted to chase after him quickly. But Yang Yanzhao blocked him firmly. Yang Yanzhao said in a cold voice with a gloomy face: "Master Hou, please respect yourself."
Hou Renbao glared at Yang Yanzhao angrily and cursed: "Yang Yanzhao, don't be shameless. Death a hundred times will not be enough for the things your Yang family has committed. I just want a concubine, so I am willing to help your Yang family." Xiang, I have already given you face. If you stop me again and ruin my mood, I will give you a copy of the Yang family to help you die faster. When your Yang family is slaughtered by everyone, I will be the concubine. After being exiled to the official training center, she will still be at the mercy of the official."
"That's enough." Yang Yanzhao shouted loudly and said in a deep voice: "Master Hou, I respect you as an angel sent by the imperial court, and I will give you three points in everything. But don't push yourself too far. How can you get your hands on my son's people? "Yes." Hou Renbao laughed angrily, "Okay! You Yang Yanzhao, you have been deprived of your official position. In front of me, you are just a pariah. Even you dare to threaten me. I We must make sure that you, the Yang family, have to walk around without food."
"Master Hou is so powerful!" The quarrel between Yang Yanzhao and Hou Renbao was overheard by Princess Chai who was settling accounts in the room. Princess Checha walked out of the small building and shouted sarcastically. Princess Chei, with a big belly, first bowed to Yang Yanzhao and saluted, "I have met the master."
Yang Yanzhao rubbed his brows, waved his hand and said, "You are pregnant, so there is no need to be polite." Princess Chai looked at Hou Renbao, and Hou Renbao also looked at Princess Chai. Hou Renbao was not polite to Princess Che. He scolded sarcastically: "A woman is shameless in public." Princess Che raised her eyebrows disdainfully, "You are just a dog, why can't I be with you?" Appearing in front of you? Remember back then, when you took the imperial examination and failed twice. Holding an article in your hand, you knelt in front of our eighth prince's house and asked my father to support you.
Please tell me how you looked different from a dog at that time. Now that you have an official status and wear official skin, do you think you are no longer a dog? In front of our Zhao family, you are still a dog. Hou Renbao was angered by the past humiliation, and immediately cursed angrily: "You bitch." Princess Chechai raised her eyebrows and said coldly: "Slap me." "
Following Princess Che's order, dozens of women in fancy clothes emerged from the bamboo forests on both sides. Someone stopped Hou Renbao's guard, and someone stopped in front of Yang Yanzhao. When a woman in red came in front of Hou Renbao, she raised her hand and spoke loudly.
Princess Chei stared at Hou Renbao coldly and cursed: "My master Renyi always gives you three points. Do you really think of yourself as a character? Whether in the eyes of our Yang family or in the eyes of my Zhao family, you They are all just dogs. To be a dog, you must have the awareness to be a dog.
If you dare to bark at us, your dog will die. "Hou Renbao has never suffered such humiliation. Ever since he worshiped under Xue Juzheng's door, he has been rising through the ranks, relying on Xue Juzheng's protection, and he was a figure wherever he went. After entering the imperial court, he tried to figure out the holy will everywhere. He soon became Zhao Heng's confidant.
Even the prince had to give him some respect when he saw him. Hou Renbao stared at Cao Lin with red eyes, and said viciously: "Bitch, if you humiliate me today, the Yang family will be destroyed tomorrow, and I will definitely play tricks on you to death." Yang Yanzhao's expression immediately changed, and he stared. Zhuzi said coldly: "Hou Renbao, are you bullying me, the Yang family?"
The person who woke up in the Yang Mansion just now was just the concubine of the Yang Mansion. Although Yang Yanzhao was angry, he was just angry. But Princess Chai is Yang Yanzhao's first wife, and humiliating Princess Chai is humiliating the Yang family. How could Yang Yanzhao not be angry? If Hou Renbao didn't have the identity of an angel, Yang Yanzhao would have beaten him to death on the spot.
Upon hearing Hou Renbao's words, Princess Checha's face changed, and her voice suddenly rose to a higher pitch, "Okay, very good. Just by your words, everyone in your Hou family will die." Princess Checha said to Hong in a cold voice. The woman in red said, "Jiayi, you lead a team of people and send Hou Renbao's family on their way." The woman in red, codenamed Jiayi, is the leader of the Volcano Guard newly formed by Princess Che.
She heard Princess Chei's order and nodded without hesitation: "I obey my orders." Hou Renbao said crazily: "Little bitch, I am an official of the imperial court. If you dare to understand my family, you will die too. You all. The Chai family will not be easy either." Princess Chai sarcastically said: "My Chai family has the iron scroll of the elixir given by the late emperor. As long as we don't rebel, who can do anything to my Chai family?"
Hou Renbao wanted to talk back, but Princess Che didn't give him any chance. Princess Chei directly ordered: "Break his legs and send them to Shengzhou to my son Yang Dezheng. Just say that my mother and sister Xing were bullied by this person. Let him take care of it." People from the Volcano Guard , carried out the order of Princess Che without hesitation.
As Hou Renbao screamed, his legs had been interrupted. Yang Yanzhao wanted to stop him, but he didn't have time.
Yang Yanzhao said with a horrified look on his face: "Princess, you have caused a big trouble." Princess Chai said softly to Yang Yanzhao: "Master, my son is responsible for all these things. You should not let him suffer. Since they are looking for my son, then leave them to me. Please forgive me for taking over."
Yang Yanzhao was stunned for a moment and sighed, "Hey~" Yang Yanzhao left the bamboo forest quietly without saying a word. Princess Chei did not hesitate to send people to pack up Hou Renbao and the people who came with Hou Renbao and send them to Shengzhou to Yang Dezheng.
Although Princess Che could not guess how Yang Dezheng would deal with these people, she could conclude that with Yang Dezheng's temperament, Hou Renbao would not end well after learning what Hou Renbao had done. Anyway, Yang Dezheng robbed a lot of money and could afford to support them. Yang Gui and Yang Dezheng divided the people into two parts. One section was responsible for continuing the construction of the wall.
In Yang Dezheng and Yang Gui's plan, the future Fuxing Pass will be a pass with 50,000 troops stationed there. Therefore there can never be only one wall. The other group of people began to help prepare for war. Some people were sent to the weapons workshop, some set up a cotton armor making workshop, and some led the troops to help the army at the top of the city prepare weapons such as rolling logs and stones to defend the city, and even carefully delivered them to the top of the city. Stocked up.
What surprised Yang Dezheng was that there were so many hidden dragons and crouching tigers among the people. During this division of labor, many craftsmen were discovered. There are those who can make strong bows, those who can make crossbows, and those who can forge weapons... There are even those who can forge all kinds of armor. Yang Dezheng opened several workshops in succession without hesitation.
In order to win the war against the Liao Kingdom, Yang Dezheng did not hesitate to pile up all the money he robbed. Of course, Yang Dezheng also has his own wishful thinking. There is no way he would let his subordinates use the same equipment.
The equipment of his subordinates will only become more and more sophisticated. Similarly, Yang Dezheng will not throw away the eliminated equipment. He has even thought of a place for the equipment. Yang Dezheng is now racing against time to prepare for all the battles, without thinking about anything else. However, just because he didn't have time to think about other things didn't mean that nothing happened to him.
When Yang Dezheng was about to move his camp to the basket at Fuxingguan City Gate, he was blocked at the entrance of the military camp by a group of people. Women of all colors stood at the entrance of the military camp, all of them very beautiful, which made them particularly eye-catching. The soldiers, who had been training all day long in the camp and were already going crazy, began to howl when they saw this group of women appear.
When Yang Dezheng saw this group of women, he guessed their identities. The volcano guard was re-established by my mother, Princess Chai. Yang Dezheng also couldn't understand why Princess Chei was so fond of using women as spies. The leader was a beautiful-looking woman in red with a frosty face.
She is under the command of Princess Che, codenamed Jia Er. After Jia Er saw Yang Dezheng, he ordered people to throw Hou Renbao in front of Yang Dezheng. She said in a stiff tone: "Mother said that this person has insulted her and Miss Xing, and you have to take care of it yourself." Yang Dezheng looked at Hou Renbao who was beaten into a pig's head, frowned and said: "Who is this? Why did he get beaten up? Beaten so badly?"
Jia Er did not reply, but asked people to throw the rest of the tied people in front of Yang Dezheng, and then left in a hurry. Yang Dezheng stared at the new volcano guard who left gracefully. Suddenly, I felt the urge to push down Jia Er and spank him. He really wants to catch Jia Er in front of him and ask Jia Er who is the head of the family. However, he just wanted to think about it.
The top priority is to figure out who this guy who was beaten into a pig's head is. Since this man offended Princess Che, I did not execute him, but sent him to her side. That means this person's identity is unusual. I couldn't make up my mind for a while, so I sent it to him to deal with. Yang Dezheng knelt down and took off the smelly thing stuffed in Hou Renbao's mouth.
Before Yang Dezheng could ask a question, he heard Hou Renbao yelling in a lung-splitting voice: "Yang Dezheng, you are dead. And Princess Che, that little bitch, is dead too. Your Yang family is also dead. . You dare to beat me and try to kill me. You are all dead. All of you in the Yang family will die."
Yang Dezheng's face darkened, he stared at him expressionlessly, and asked: "Whether I die or not is up to you. First, tell me who you are and what kind of identity you have. How can you make everyone in my Yang family Are they all dead?" Hou Renbao shouted: "I am the imperial envoy, Hou Renbao."
"Hou Renbao?!" Hearing this name, Yang Dezheng raised his eyebrows, approached Hou Renbao with a smile, looked at Hou Renbao's cheek carefully, and said, "Are you really such a idiot?" Hou Renbao shouted: "Yang Dezheng, you Insulting an officer will be punished with an additional penalty."
"Pa!" Yang Dezheng gave Hou Renbao a big mouth, and sneered: "Didn't you just say that my whole family will die, then I will be afraid of getting a second grade for every crime?" Yang Dezheng said from the bottom of his heart. I hate this guy Hou Renbao.
Ever since he witnessed this guy throwing 100,000 imperial troops into Jiaozhi and running away, Yang Dezheng wanted to kill this guy with his own hands. In Yang Dezheng's opinion, this kind of person should be executed in a hurry. It is simply blind that the imperial court still appoints such a person as a minister.
Therefore, Yang Dezheng was not polite to Hou Renbao at all. Yang Dezheng grabbed Hou Renbao's ears and warned him coldly, "You'd better be more honest with me, or I will kill you." Hou Renbao was also a master who would not shed tears without seeing the coffin. He was not afraid of Yang Dezheng's threat at all, "If you dare to kill me, your whole family will be buried with you."
"Pah!" Yang Dezheng rewarded Hou Renbao with a big mouth again, and sneered: "Are you worthy of saying this? Are you considered an official? If I guessed right, the imperial court sent you here, and you should have found out. What I did in Linzhou, Shengzhou, and Fengzhou. So I wanted to recruit me... No, no, no, to be precise, I wanted to give me a random title. Then I picked peaches from my hand and took away Lin. Three states.
Do you think my guess is correct? Hou Renbao cursed: "So what if you guessed it right?" Even if you want to join the imperial court, I will not let you do so. Yang Dezheng, you are a thief who harbors evil intentions, splits the land and seals the territory, and intends to rebel. Everyone will find it and punish you. I won't give a thief like you the slightest chance. "
"Pa!" Yang Dezheng continued to give Hou Renbao a slap in the face and said sarcastically: "I say you are stupid, but you are still really stupid. I now hold the three states of Shengzhou, Fengzhou and Daizhou, and I have formed a relationship with the Zhe family. Alliance. The Zhe family holds Fuzhou and Linzhou, as well as the five counties of Yinzhou.
Our two families can summon 200,000 troops and horses at any time to compete with the imperial court. Do you think the imperial court sent you to Shengzhou to show off your power under such circumstances? The court wanted to appease me and win over me. But you are pretending to be a big tailed wolf here. Do you really think of yourself as a character? Even if I kill you today, the court will not say another word to me. "Hou Renbao exclaimed: "Impossible, everyone can find and punish traitors like you. "
Yang Dezheng sneered and said: "If you don't believe it, if you don't believe it, I will send two people to deliver a message to the court, saying that Hou Renbao is disrespectful to me and has been chopped off by me." Yang Dezheng blocked Hou Renbao with the dirty thing again. Q. Then he selected two of the captured golden-armored guards to deliver a message to Zhao Heng.
Yang Dezheng said to the two golden-armored guards carelessly: "You will go and tell His Majesty that our Yang family will not rebel against the Song Dynasty. But Your Majesty promised my father to obey the tune but not Xuan's decree, but he has never fulfilled it. Now my Yang family You can only get it back by your own ability.
As for the future Daizhou, Shengzhou, and Fengzhou, they will still be the land of the Song Dynasty. But from now on it will all be under the control of our Yang family. Anyway, I won Katsuzhou and Fengzhou by myself. I manage it myself, no one can fault it. After paying taxes every year and deducting the food and drink expenses of 50,000 soldiers and horses in each state, I will also send them to Bianjing City to Your Majesty. "
"This..." When the two golden-armored guards heard Yang Dezheng's words, they looked obviously embarrassed. According to the practice of the Song Dynasty court, the total number of Xiang soldiers, Fan soldiers, and rural soldiers in one state should not exceed 30,000. Yang Dezheng opened his mouth and expanded the number by another 20,000.
In the Song Dynasty, except for some prosperous cities that were upgraded from prefectures to prefectures, the tax revenue of a prefecture could only support 50,000 horses at most. The reason why each state capital supports 30,000 horses is because there is still some money left to put into the national treasury. Yang Dezheng is now threatening to support 50,000 horses and horses in every state under his governance. This means that he will not give a penny of tax money to the court in the future.
How is this different from self-reliance? The two golden-armored guards had never seen anything like this since they entered the palace as servants. I didn't know what to say for a while. Yang Dezheng seemed to have seen what the two people were thinking. He smiled and said: "Of course, in addition to paying a certain amount of taxes and silver to the imperial court every year from our five states, additional tributes will be sent there."
One of the golden-armored guards had the courage to ask in a low voice: "I wonder how much money Dalang prepares to pay tribute to the court every year?" Yang Dezheng smiled happily and said: "It is vulgar to talk about money. I believe that with a little money, the court is still You won't take a fancy to it. Our land of five states basically has no specialties. It is close to Dangxiang and Liao people and has enough horses. Every year, I will pay tribute to the court of 5,000 war horses and three horses. A thousand foals.”
The two golden-armored guards nodded subconsciously. Five thousand war horses, plus three thousand ponies, were sold to the Song Dynasty, which was worth hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. The tribute of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver is indeed not a small amount. The two golden-armored guards clasped their fists at Yang Dezheng at the same time and said, "Please rest assured, Yang Dalang. We two brothers will definitely tell His Majesty Yang Dalang's words verbatim.
Please also Yang Dalang, take care of our other brothers and don't hurt them. Yang Dezheng glanced at the other detained golden-armored guards and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I will serve them well." Once your message is delivered, I will let them go. "
"Thank you." After the two golden-armored guards said goodbye to Yang Dezheng, they borrowed two war horses and hurried to Bianjing City. The golden-armored guard who went to report the news left.
Yang Dezheng immediately had the armor removed from the other golden-armored guards. The armors worn by these golden-armored guards are all fine products made by the generals of the Song Dynasty. They are not only gorgeous, but also very practical. What Yang Dezheng wants now is armor.
Nearly twenty sets of golden armor were stripped off and sent to the military camp. The officials in the military camp who were generals and above were reluctantly wearing decent armor. Yang Dezheng threw the golden-armored guards to the weapons workshop and let these guys who had been fattening in Bianjing City all day long to work as coolies. Only Hou Renbao was tied to the horse's tail with a rope and hung up.
Yang Dezheng has deep resentment towards Hou Renbao, so he will never deal with Hou Renbao easily. When Yang Dezheng dragged Hou Renbao to Fuxing Pass. Chen Yao hurried off the wall and reported to Yang Qi, "General, according to the reports from his spies, the Liao people have gathered 150,000 soldiers and horses to go south. They are led by Brother Yeluxiu, the king of the South Branch of the Liao Kingdom, and they have arrived in Shangjing. "
Yang Dezheng threw the reins of the horse in his hand to Wang Xing and said solemnly: "One hundred and fifty thousand Liao troops, the Liao people are determined to give me a blow. There are still five days to go to the capital from Chenjiakou. distance. Go and pass on my military order, ordering Yang Gui to lead 20,000 Fuxing infantry and Yang Xin to lead 50,000 Jin troops to climb the city wall and defend Fuxing Pass. At the same time, order Fan Long to lead 30,000 Fuxing Rangers to leave the pass. The walls will be strong and the fields will be clear. Outside the pass, all Han people within twenty miles will be withdrawn into the pass."
Chen Yao immediately went down to convey Yang Dezheng's order. Almost as soon as Yang Dezheng's order was issued, Fan Long led 30,000 Fuxing Rangers and rushed out of Fuxing Pass, implementing the policy of strengthening the walls and clearing the country. Yang Xin also led 50,000 Jin soldiers to the Fuxing Pass.
The three-mile-long city gate was almost filled with 70,000 soldiers and horses. Under the leadership of Yang Gui and Yang Xin, the soldiers began to set up heavy crossbows on the city wall. Since the number of heavy crossbows was insufficient, many additional archers were deployed where there was a shortage of heavy crossbows. The entire Fuxing Pass has entered a pre-war state.
The civilians who were responsible for building the city wall in Fuxing Pass could clearly feel the tense atmosphere in Fuxing Pass. Just when everyone was nervous. Yang Dezheng took 20,000 civilians to the outside of the city wall and did something incredible. On the city gate tower, Yang Gui and Yang Xin stood side by side in armor, looking at Yang Dezheng and his fellow servants busy outside the city with some astonishment.
Yang Gui frowned and asked Yang Xin beside him, "What is Yang Dezheng doing?" Yang Xin hesitated for a moment and said, "It seems like digging a hole." Yang Xin did lead the peasants to dig a hole, but what was he digging a hole for? He wasn't very clear, so he hesitated. Yang Gui folded his hands in front of his chest, and the armor on his arms hit the breastplate on his chest, making a crisp sound of gold and iron colliding.
He grimaced, shook his head and said with a smile: "Is Dezheng digging a horse trap? This method may be effective on the plains, but it won't have much effect below the city. As long as the enemy sees these holes, he will Bury them in the first place. So it's just wasted effort."
Yang Xin nodded in agreement, then sniffed and said: "After all, Dezheng has been involved in too little war, so it is understandable that he made some strange actions." However, in the next two days, , Yang Dezheng's performance was even more strange.
He hid in a makeshift workshop almost every day. Occasionally, he would send people to pull out one cart after another of things, and then pull them out of the customs at night. Two days later, Yang Dezheng sent people to cover all the holes dug outside the city. It seems to hide the fact that potholes once existed in this place. He even sent Fan Long, who spent most of the day leading the Renaissance Rangers, frequently running through the open space outside the city.
This time, Yang Gui and Yang Xin were confused again. Yang Gui also stopped Yang Dezheng to ask him what medicine he sold in the gourd, but Yang Dezheng told him a secret. After that, Yang Gui characterized all Yang Dezheng's actions as nonsense. He was too lazy to pay attention to Yang Dezheng's actions. He and Yang Xin focused on strengthening the defense of Fuxing Pass on the top of the city.
What happened after all, let’s see what happens next.
