Kang Yingqian was rejected and sat back down in his seat, drinking alone.
This was not the first time he had hit a wall. Thinking of the close relationship between Ping Liaohou and his teacher and friend, Kang Yingqian felt even more depressed.
What annoyed him was not the large amount of money spent. He had a vague feeling that he and this 21-year-old Shangguan had different paths and were destined not to collude.
Perhaps the gap between them had existed a long time ago, but things were complicated in Kaiyuan at that time, and many problems had not yet surfaced.
Yuan Chonghuan presented an ancient family book as a congratulatory gift to Marquis Ping Liao. Liu Zhaosun opened the wooden box and found the legend of Tang Dynasty written on the light yellow cover.
"Jin Yuji should like this book very much."
He was about to accept it when he suddenly remembered something and said to Yuan Chonghuan:
"Master Yuan, since this is your family's ancestral treasure, how can I keep it as my own? General Kaiyuan does not value jewelry and treasures. I have told you many times. This item cannot be accepted."
So Yuan Chonghuan's gift was also rejected.
Then everyone continued to offer congratulatory gifts to Marquis Ping Liao. The rest were some ginseng medicinal materials, and Liu Zhaosun accepted them with a smile.
When it was Ma Shiying's turn, his guards brought up two wooden boxes. Zhang Chao and several guards opened the wooden boxes, and the room was suddenly filled with golden light.
Two boxes full of jewelry, with all kinds of emeralds, cat stones and jadeite, dazzled Liu Zhaosun.
"General Liu's daily diet does not pay much attention to flavor, his clothes do not pay much attention to color, the saddle and horse are tired, and the bed is not warm. General Anyuan and Mrs. Gaoming also practice frugality. We all see it, and the lower officials are not talented in eight battles. You can't conquer thousands of miles, and you have nothing to gain. Only these yellow and white things can be used as gifts..."
Ma Shiying and Qiao Yiqi have similar backgrounds. They are both from prominent families in the south of the Yangtze River. They usually don't get along with each other in a luxurious way, but when they make a move, they are extraordinary.
Liu Zhaosun shook his head and smiled:
"I won't accept the jewels. It's useless for me to ask for these jewels. The two ladies are more..."
Before Liu Zhaosun finished speaking, he heard someone in the seat shouting:
"If you don't accept beauties, you don't accept books, you don't accept jewelry, what does Marquis Pingliao want?!"
Everyone was startled by the sound, and there was a sudden silence in the room. Following the sound, it was Kang Yingqian who interrupted Ping Liaohou.
Just now, when Liu Zhaosun was talking to others, Kang Yingqian was sitting there drinking heavily. After more than a dozen drinks, he was feeling drunk. Seeing Marquis Pingliao pushing him to the left and blocking him, refusing to accept this one or rejecting that one, he remembered what he had told the young man in the past two years. Dun taught me, but I didn't expect Liu Zhaosun to still be so stubborn.
In the old days of Kang Yingqian's city, he would never have been able to say such a thing.
For a long time, Lao Kang claimed to be Bole, the Marquis of Pingliao, but he never made it clear.
Back then in Saarhu, if he had not been willing to promote him, Mr. Liu would probably have turned into dry bones in the Hunjiang River and drowned in the weeds.
However, this man repeatedly insulted himself, saying that drunkenness was a coward. With the help of drunkenness, Kang Yingqian's resentment that had been suppressed for a long time finally broke out completely.
Seeing Liu Zhaosun's silence, Kang Yingqian thought he was afraid of him, so he said impassionedly under the influence of wine:
"No one is a sage. We have followed Marquis Ping Liao from Salhu to today. We have narrowly escaped death. We have finally captured Liaodong, and we are about to enter the Pass and win the title. In this situation, why do we still suffer like this? Are we mean to ourselves?"
"Those words of saints, about being benevolent and loving the people, and how to overturn the boat, are all the lies of scholars! They are all told by us scholars to deceive the people of the world! It is really ridiculous that you take them seriously!"
"I'll tell you the truth. If the Marquis of Ping Liao hadn't come out of nowhere and risen to open up the world, Nurhaci would have occupied Liaodong long ago. Whether he killed people or massacred the city, it would never affect Hou Jin's rise to power! Mr. Sun is in Hetuala In the first battle, he destroyed the two yellow flags, wiped out the slaves, and made immortal contributions. He only killed a few people while filling the trenches, and was treated like this by the Marquis of Ping Liao. On the other hand, the Marquis of Ping Liao was so stubborn that he was comparable to Duke Xiang of the Song Dynasty. !”
Kang Yingqian's beard trembled, his neck turned red, and he was out of breath at the end. Qiao Yiqi couldn't help but step forward and pat him on the back, for fear that the little old man would die suddenly in the middle.
Liu Zhaosun said nothing and waited silently for him to finish. He looked around and said without changing his expression:
"Do you all think so too?"
The noisy and lively banquet just now suddenly stopped, and even had a faint murderous look.
After asking twice in a row, more than a dozen people bowed their heads and remained silent.
Even Sun Chuanting, who was regarded by everyone as loving his people as his own children and who governed Fushun without closing his door at night, was able to massacre the city calmly on the battlefield of Hetuala.
There is no need to ask anymore about the true attitude of officials towards the people in this era.
Perhaps there really was an official like Lu Xiangsheng who would rather freeze to death and starve to death than plunder the people, but it seems that there was only one Lu Xiangsheng in the late Ming Dynasty.
Liu Zhaosun's gaze was like a sword, scanning all living beings. Under his sharp gaze, no one dared to raise their head to look at this eccentric Shangguan.
At this moment, the time traveler truly realizes how serious the gap between moral concepts and ideology has been caused by more than four hundred years of time and space.
This genetic estrangement cannot be solved by some time-travelers through some mindless deception or by bringing in some weird theory for on-site teaching.
Liu Zhaosun looked at Song Yingxing, who bowed his head and remained silent. This young magistrate of Anle Prefecture was recruited by him personally from the capital. Liu Zhaosun had always admired this man's moral conduct.
"Sir Song, don't you think it's good to work with me?"
The thin Song Yingxing slowly raised his head and looked timidly at Marquis Pingliao. He quickly glanced at his colleagues around him and then said:
"Marquis Ping Liao is joking, Xiaguan can be appreciated by Marquis Pingliao and live in Zhizhou. Your Excellency also brought Xiaguan's family to Kaiyuan. What extravagance does Xiaguan dare to ask for?... It's good, but it's just a little bit... tired····"
Liu Zhaosun chuckled and looked at Ma Shiying, Mao Yuanyi and others. Everyone nodded slightly and agreed with Song Zhizhou's point of view.
a bit tired.
Civil servants are not greedy for money, and military generals are not afraid of death. These can still be achieved, but it is unreasonable for one person to want millions of people to follow the laws of nature and destroy human desires, not to make money, and not to want women.
Kaiyuan's military discipline was very strict, and it became a crime for Sun Chuanting to kill several prisoners in Hetuala. Not only Kang Yingqian, but everyone else was dissatisfied.
Liu Zhaosun already knew everyone's thoughts at this time and laughed loudly:
"It turns out that it's a lie that you all came to congratulate Liu Zhaosun on his birthday today, but it's true that you came to Ping Liaohou to force him into the palace. Tell me, what do you want me to do?"
As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere in the room suddenly became tense. Zhang Chao and the guards drew their swords and moved forward. Liu Zhaosun yelled at Zhang Chao and said angrily:
"When things go wrong, it's the people below who always make assumptions! Today I am having a feast with a few adults, so please don't be rude! Back off!"
Zhang Chao looked at everyone warily and retreated angrily.
Liu Zhaosun raised his glass with tears in his eyes.
"I just said that we won't talk about military affairs or government affairs, we will only talk about friendship. It seems that this friendship is not worth a few pennies, so that's it! I will use this Japanese official's birthday banquet to clarify the new rules of Kaiyuan with you!"
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