Duan Yao was so excited that he couldn't help shouting: "How could this happen? How could this happen?" The prisoners of the Sun family, Zhao family and other Shilin families heard Duan Yao's cry and followed the sound one after another. There was resentment in his eyes. He was immediately taken away by the city defense soldiers and imprisoned in seven or eight other rooms in the courtyard.
Soon after, Yang Jiumei came. People from the Sun family, Zhao family and other Shilin families all begged for mercy. Then a young man from the Sun family pointed at the room where Duan Yao was being held and shouted angrily: "It's all Duan Yao who instigated us, it's all him!" Others also shouted angrily at Duan Yao. Duan Yao heard these words in his ears, his face turned blue and white, angry and scared at the same time.
Yang Jiumei's eyes showed contempt. She walked outside the room where Duan Yao was detained, glanced at Duan Yao who was standing behind the window, and asked: "Others say you are the mastermind, what do you say?"
Duan Yao snorted angrily and said, "Those guys who are greedy for life and afraid of death will naturally put the blame on me!" Yang Jiumei looked at Duan Yao and asked, "Then do you admit that you are the mastermind?"
An impulse suddenly surged in Duan Yao's heart, and he wanted to say loudly: "I am the mastermind, please kill me!" However, when the words came to his mouth, he could not say them, and a huge fear that he had never felt before suddenly surged into his mouth. It hit his heart, filled his chest, and filled his head, giving him a suffocating feeling. His lips trembled, but no words came out.
There was a look of contempt in Yang Jiumei's eyes, and she sighed and murmured: "Now I know that what the elder brother said is indeed correct! The more books people read, the more useless they are! It is said that reading makes sense, and reading makes you dignified. "Studying shows integrity, but among so many scholars today, none of them show even a little bit of integrity!" Everyone couldn't help but feel ashamed when they heard this, but no one wanted to change themselves in order to show their integrity. The attitude is that scholars are smart people and will naturally not do stupid things.
Duan Yao was thinking in his mind: 'We have all failed, what is Xiao Yu's situation now? From the beginning of the operation to the time he was captured here, there was no sound of fierce fighting. What was going on? Could it be that Xiao Yu also failed? It shouldn't be, he persuaded Xiao Feng, at least 5,000 city defense troops rose up, even if they failed, it shouldn't be so silent! ’ Then his mind moved, and he thought to himself: ‘Could it be that he realized that the situation was not good and gave up halfway! 'As soon as I thought about this, I felt that it must be like this. I couldn't help but feel extremely annoyed, and cursed secretly: 'Damn guy, you don't follow moral principles! It's all your fault! '
Then I thought: I might as well confess Xiao Yu and Xiao Feng, maybe I can save my life. After thinking about this, he hurriedly said to Yang Jiumei: "Sir, I have confidential information to report to you. This situation is related to the safety of the entire Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures!"
Yelu Hanyu said: "Tell me." Duan Yao said: "The villain will naturally tell the truth about this confidential matter. However, the villain hopes that the adults will be merciful and spare the villain's life for the sake of the villain's crime and meritorious service. !”
Yang Jiumei glanced at Duan Yao coldly, and Duan Yao's heart trembled, and he quickly said: "I will never dare to bargain with an adult, but I just hope..." Yang Jiumei smiled, and the coldness on her face disappeared instantly. Said: "If what you said is the truth and it is indeed valuable, I will naturally ask King Yan to spare you. It is not impossible even without confiscating your Duan family's property!"
Duan Yao was overjoyed and said anxiously: "Everything the villain said is true and very valuable!" After a pause, he lowered his voice and said: "Sir, in fact, Master Xiao Yu and General Xiao Feng also participated in the conspiracy!"
Yang Jiumei smiled. Duan Yao was surprised to see her expression and looked at her blankly. Yang Jiumei asked: "Is there any more?" Duan Yao shook his head.
At this moment, there was the sound of footsteps, and Duan Yao subconsciously looked up, and suddenly saw Xiao Feng, who was wearing armor and majestic strides, striding towards him. His expression changed drastically, and countless thoughts flashed through his mind.
Xiao Feng walked to Yang Jiumei, bowed and said: "Sir!" Yang Jiumei pointed at Duan Yao and said with a smile: "Master Duan said that you participated in the rebellion. Come and tell him what is going on." Duan Yao was stupid. Looking at Xiao Feng stupidly.
Xiao Feng glanced at Duan Yao mockingly and said: "My lord has long been aware of Xiao Yu's treacherous plot. In order to catch you all, my lord ordered me to pretend to agree to Xiao Yu's request. You decided to rebel tonight three days ago. Master Yang already knew it at that time." Duan Yao was stunned for a moment, he never dreamed that Xiao Feng, who they considered their biggest support, was actually a chess piece arranged by Yang Jiumei. Suddenly, Duan Yao felt that this beautiful woman Yang Jiumei was more cunning and terrifying than the devil. All his actions were under her control!
Duan Yao asked puzzledly: "Since you have mastered our situation, why, why did you wait until today when we launch the action before taking action against us?" Yang Jiumei smiled and said: "Isn't this a bad time today? All conspirators All the rebellious people have gathered here, so they can be caught in one fell swoop without missing a single one!"
Duan Yao suddenly realized, smiled bitterly, and murmured: "I originally thought that my arrangement was very clever, but I didn't expect that everything is under your control!" Then he thought of the people at home and asked urgently Said: "My father, my wife and children, they, they..." Yang Jiumei glanced at him, showed approval, nodded, and said: "You are not useless, at least you care about your family very much. . All your family members are under house arrest in their respective mansions. How to deal with it is up to King Yan to decide!" Duan Yao said urgently: "Please, please let my family go!"
Yang Jiumei sighed and said, "If I had known today, why would I have done it in the first place!" She turned around and Xiao Feng followed. Duan Yao screamed several times, and the others also screamed and begged for mercy. Yang Jiumei ignored them and went straight away. …
In the dead of night, Yang Peng was immersed in sleep with Chai Yonghui in his arms. "King Yan, King Yan..." Xiaofang's soft cry came from outside the bed curtain. Yang Peng woke up, turned his head and looked outside, saw Xiaofang's vague voice, and hissed. Xiaofang immediately stopped calling.
Yang Peng gently freed himself from the entanglement of Chai Yonghui's pink legs and jade arms, untied the bed curtains, and walked off the bed. Xiaofang quickly brought a robe and put it on Yang Peng. Yang Peng gestured to Xiaofang and walked downstairs. Xiaofang understood and quickly followed.
The two came downstairs. Xiaofang lit two lanterns beside the desk, then bowed to Yang Peng Yingying and said, "To the King of Yan, an urgent report has been sent from Yanjing. The messenger is waiting in the study now." Yang Peng said: "Go and bring the report and ask the visitor to wait in the study." Xiaofang responded and retreated. According to Yanyun's rules, except for specific personnel, no one is allowed to have access to military intelligence reports without Yang Peng's orders. Therefore, Xiaofang must report to Yang Peng and obtain Yang Peng's authorization before she can go to the study to pick up the reports. Report.
Yang Peng leaned back on his chair, looked at the ceiling and murmured: "Emergency report from Yanjing? What will happen over there?"
Soon after, Xiaofang came back with a letter stamped with a red seal in her hand. Yang Peng was a little surprised when he saw the red seal, because the red seal would only be used in the most urgent situation. . Xiaofang walked up to Yang Peng and presented the letter with both hands. Yang Peng received the letter, opened the envelope, took out the letter paper, unfolded it and read it. As soon as he saw the beautiful words, Yang Peng knew that it was a letter written by Yang Jiumei. He couldn't help but smile. He read on, and his expression became more solemn as he read.
After reading the letter, Yang Peng placed the letter on the desk, stood up, paced back and forth, frowning slightly.
Xiaofang did not dare to disturb Yang Peng's thoughts, so she quietly retreated, and asked several maids on night duty to go to the cupboard to prepare ginseng soup cakes. The maids responded and left, while Xiaofang gently returned. In the small hall. At this time, Yang Peng was standing in front of the window, looking out the window, thinking about things.
There were soft footsteps on the stairs. Xiaofang looked towards the stairs and saw the young lady wearing a robe walking down the railing, and quickly went up to help her. When they came down the stairs, Chai Yonghui saw Ai Lang standing in front of the window, seemingly worried, and couldn't help but become worried. He turned to look at Xiaofang and asked in a low voice: "What happened?" Xiaofang shook her head. I don't know, so I whispered: "I just sent an urgent military message from Yanjing, with a red seal."
Chai Yonghui was surprised and asked; "Red seal?" Xiaofang nodded. Chai Yonghui felt uneasy.
Yang Peng turned around and saw that Chai Yonghui had gotten up. He smiled, walked over, held Chai Yonghui's hands, and said softly: "Why are you up?" Chai Yonghui said: "I didn't see my elder brother when I woke up, and I was worried. , and got up." The light words clearly contained a sea of deep affection. Yang Peng was moved and gently held Chai Yonghui into his arms. At this moment, a cry suddenly came from upstairs. The two were startled, then looked at each other and smiled, and hurriedly walked upstairs, with Xiaofang following closely behind.
When I came upstairs, the crying became louder, coming from the cradle next to the big bed. Several people hurried over and saw little Yang Rui crying loudly with her mouth wide open. The three of them couldn't help but smile. Infinite love surged in the hearts of Yang Peng and Chai Yonghui. Yang Peng stretched out his hand to hug little Yang Rui and coaxed her, but the little guy didn't give any face to her and cried louder. .
Yang Peng raised his eyebrows and said depressedly: "Little guy, can you give dad some face?" Yang Peng was just joking, but he didn't expect that the little guy actually closed his mouth and stopped crying, but tears hung on his face. Go up, look at Yang Peng very innocently, it's so cute. Yang Peng was very happy, kissed little Yang Rui's fat face, and said with a smile: "Our little fat girl is so good!" The little guy suddenly grinned and stretched out a pair of fat little hands to touch Yang Peng's cheeks. , he was babbling, and he didn’t know what he was shouting.
Chai Yonghui on the side felt warm and soft in his heart when he saw their father and daughter being so intimate and harmonious.
Yang Peng coaxed the little guy for a while, and then he fell asleep. The sleeping little guy was even cuter, and Yang Peng couldn't bear to let go. Gently put the little one into the cradle, covered her with a small quilt, reluctantly looked away at Chai Yonghui, and whispered: "Let's go downstairs to talk." Chai Yonghui nodded, Glancing at the child. Several people quietly left the upstairs and came to the small hall downstairs.
Yang Peng sat down and couldn't help but laugh and said: "The little guy is so interesting!" He glanced at Chai Yonghui with a gentle smile and said very curiously: "I don't know if this little guy will look like me when he grows up, or... Little sister?"
He glanced at Yang Peng and said, "She is the quietest today. She usually cries most of the night. Hey! I heard from several wet nurses that they have never encountered a girl like Ruier! I I'm just worried that Rui'er won't look like a girl when she grows up." He glanced at Yang Peng, pursed his lips and smiled, and said, "I'm just afraid that his personality will be similar to that of my elder brother!"
Yang Peng chuckled and said: "It seems that our Rui'er's appearance will follow yours, and her personality will most likely follow mine! Tsk, tsk, a gorgeous beauty wielding a sword, wielding a gun and shouting to kill, what could that be? What does it look like?”
The two women couldn't help but smile. Xiaofang smiled and said: "King Yan, isn't a woman like this just like Miss Han Bing and Miss Guanyin?" Yang Peng's heart moved, he nodded and smiled, "Nine times out of ten, she will be like those two!"
Chai Yonghui sighed and said distressedly: "Our Chai family has been a scholarly family for hundreds of years. If there is a female general, I'm afraid our ancestors will be shocked!" Yang Peng laughed, Xiaofang He also laughed. Yang Peng suddenly remembered what happened at Yanjing, and couldn't help but restrained his smile and frowned slightly.
Seeing this scene, Chai Yonghui couldn't help but become worried and asked: "Brother, did something happen?"
Yang Peng glanced at Chai Yonghui with a smile and said: "It's not a big deal, it's just that there was a huge earthquake in the northern part of Yanyun Sixteenth Prefecture!" Chai Yonghui and Xiaofang both showed shock, and Chai Yonghui immediately revealed With a strong look of worry, influenced by the so-called Confucian thought of telepathy between heaven and man, she subconsciously worried whether this huge natural disaster would be related to her eldest brother. What she was most worried about was whether this sudden huge natural disaster was a sign of what would happen to her eldest brother. What great disaster? ! As soon as I thought of this, I couldn't help but turn pale, my heart was palpitating and I couldn't calm down.
Yang Peng noticed Chai Yonghui's expression, walked over, held her delicate hand, and said softly: "Don't worry, natural disasters happen all the time, no one can predict it, and it has nothing to do with people! The Confucian concept of heaven People feel it's just farts!"
Chai Yonghui felt a little relieved, but still very worried. Yang Peng continued: "Didn't Confucians advocate that the three emperors and five emperors in ancient times were simply holy kings and emperors who were comparable to gods? However, during the period of the three emperors and five emperors, there were never any major natural disasters. The most well-known of them was the great flood during the Dayu period. That The great flood was so huge. According to Confucianism, the great flood at that time could be described as flooding into the vast ocean. Such a terrible flood has never occurred in later generations! So according to the Confucian theory of the induction of heaven and man, how can it be It’s not that Dayu was the greatest tyrant, so God wanted to send a great flood to destroy him, but it’s just that Yu was very smart and God couldn’t destroy him!”
Xiaofang chuckled, and Chai Yonghui glanced at Yang Peng.
Yang Peng smiled and said: "According to Confucianism, this question cannot be justified. If Dayu is said to be a wise king and a holy lord, then why did God bring such great natural disasters? If it is said that Dayu is a cowardly king, not only does Confucianism not I will admit it, but I am afraid that no one in the world will agree! So, the correct answer is that Confucianism is farting, how can there be such a thing as telepathy between heaven and man? Things like natural disasters can happen at any time, and they have nothing to do with humans. It’s about money!”
Chai Yonghui couldn't help but nodded, glanced at Yang Peng, and smiled.
Yang Peng asked with a smile: "Are you not worried now?" Chai Yonghui nodded, and then said worriedly: "With such a big natural disaster, I'm afraid the people of Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures will suffer! I don't know how many people were killed or injured. People, how many houses have collapsed!" Yang Peng frowned and said: "What I just received is only the initial report. The situation is already very grim. I estimate that this earthquake will cause huge losses to the Yanyun Sixteenth Prefecture." Chai Yonghui After listening to Yang Peng's words, he became even more worried. Yang Peng smiled and said: "The natural disaster is not a big deal. All parties will do their best to provide disaster relief. Little sister, you don't have anything to worry about."
Chai Yonghui sighed and smiled bitterly: "It's useless for me to worry anymore!" He raised his head and looked at Yang Peng's face, and asked with great concern: "Brother, do you think I'm particularly useless? "
Yang Peng said gently: "Don't think too much. You gave birth to Xiao Rui'er for your eldest brother. That is the greatest contribution. No one else can compare with you!" Chai Yonghui was very happy when he heard this and couldn't help but snuggle into Yang Peng's arms. In my arms, I just feel that I am the happiest woman in the world. Seeing this scene, Xiaofang quietly stepped back and went out. Just as a few maids came with midnight snacks, Xiaofang immediately stopped them and asked them to wait at the door. …
Early the next morning, Yang Peng convened all civil and military meetings in Tianjing New City. At the meeting, Yang Peng told the contents of the urgent report from Yanjing received last night, and everyone was shocked. Yelu Hanyu asked: "Brother, I wonder how serious the disaster is in Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures?" Everyone looked at Yang Peng, and they were also eager to know this situation.
Yang Peng said: "This is only an initial report, and it will take some time to find out what will happen. However, according to the initial intelligence, this natural disaster must be very serious." He looked at Huang Guang and said, "Open the treasury immediately and arrange transportation. All kinds of materials, go to Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures for disaster relief!" Huang Guang came out and bowed to promise. Yang Peng thought for a moment and then said to Huang Guang: "Instruct all the roads in Hebei and Shanxi to support the Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures in disaster relief as much as possible. Those with money will provide money, those with food will provide food, and those with people will provide people." Huang Guang promised. He made a sound, but did not leave. He was still waiting for whether King Yan had any other instructions.
Yang Peng said to Huang Guang, "Go and do your work." Huang Guang responded and ran down. Yang Peng stood up and walked to the center of the lobby, holding his hands behind his back and looking out of the lobby. Everyone looked at Chen Xiao, thinking that he was thinking about something, so they didn't dare to say anything.
Yang Peng glanced at the crowd and said, "What I just mentioned is just the impact of natural disasters on the people. In fact, the impact of natural disasters is far more than that!..." Everyone didn't know what was going on and looked at each other. Yang Peng turned around and walked to the map stand. He said to the two sergeants standing next to the map stand: "Replace with the map of the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun." The two sergeants bowed and agreed, and then took down the map from the map stand. It was rolled up, put into a cloth bag, and then placed on the bookshelf behind the map stand. Then he took out another cloth bag, opened it, took out a roll of maps, unfolded it, hung it on the map stand, and fixed it. The city topography of Yanyun's Sixteenth Prefecture appeared before everyone's eyes.
Yang Peng pointed at the Gubei Pavilion and said: "This earthquake caused huge changes in the terrain of this area. The mountains no longer exist. Our Gubei Pavilion fortress completely collapsed, and more than half of the 10,000 soldiers and horses were lost!" Everyone Frowning, Han Bing asked: "In other words, the situation we originally occupied no longer exists?" Yang Peng nodded and said: "It no longer exists and has become a plain that is fifty or sixty miles wide. zone!"
At the same time, in the palace in Zhongjing of the Liao Kingdom, the Empress Dowager and the Queen Mother also received reports of a major earthquake in the south. The states and counties in the south near the Gubei Pavilion suffered heavy losses. What surprised the monarchs and ministers of the Liao Kingdom was that they were originally insurmountable. The high mountains and ridges completely collapsed during the earthquake and turned into flat land. This is really the joy of God!
Zhang Chang, the Minister of Rites, said excitedly: "Your Majesty, this is God's help for us in Liao Dynasty! One of the very important reasons why we failed to conquer Yanyun many times before was because of the natural barriers! Now that the earth's turmoil has calmed down the natural barriers, we The Daliao cavalry can go straight down from the direction of Gubei Pavilion and sweep across the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun in one fell swoop! As long as the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun is captured, the offensive and defensive situation with Yanyun will be reversed immediately!" Zhang Chang was originally just a saint. A county magistrate under the prefecture was later promoted to the magistrate of Fengsheng Prefecture. Not long ago, he was promoted to the imperial court by the king and became the Minister of Rites. There have been many similar promotions recently, mostly for talented Han, Khitan, Goryeo officials who hold local posts, and of course Jurchens.
After hearing what the battlefield said, everyone was convinced and very excited. Only Wang Yue, the wandering emperor of Goryeo, objected: "Yanyun is not an ordinary opponent. Even if they don't have the natural barrier of Gubei Pavilion, they still want to seize the sixteen states of Yanyun." It is not an easy task..." The battlefield immediately said: "Now that the disaster has just begun, and the Yanyun Army has been relying on the natural barrier to shield it, and has not stationed heavy troops in the Yanyun Sixteenth Prefecture, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! "
What happened after all, let’s see what happens next.
