Jiangdu Palace, Imperial Study Room
Yang Gao looked coldly at Pei Ji and Fang Baihua who were pinned to the ground, and sneered disdainfully. This Pei Ji is really arrogant. He has been jumping up and down in Jiangdu for so many days, and he really thinks that Jiangdu City is his back garden. If it weren't for the long-term goal of catching a big fish and digging out all the Chang'an spies among the scholars who participated in the imperial examination, Pei Ji would have been locked up in the prison of the Ministry of Punishment ten days ago.
When Pei Ji was escorted into the imperial study room, he still wanted to show off his strength and stand proudly without kneeling. But how could the guards in the royal study allow Pei Ji to be so rude? They immediately stepped forward and pushed Pei Ji to the ground. Pei Ji struggled to stand up and could only stare at Yang Gao with angry eyes.
Yang Gao glanced at Pei Ji coldly and sneered, "Isn't this Mr. Pei Jipei, the palace supervisor of Jinyang Palace? Why are you here in Jiangdu?"
The palace eunuch of Jinyang Palace was Pei Ji's official position in the Sui Dynasty. Yang Gao called him this just because he wanted to ridicule Pei Ji for being a traitor.
After all, Pei Ji is a scholar. The most important thing in a scholar's life is reputation. When he heard Yang Gao calling him like this, Pei Ji looked sullen and snorted: "My son, Yang Gao, I am no longer a minion of your Yang family. I am no longer a minion of your Yang family." He abandoned the secrets and surrendered to the Ming Dynasty and submitted to the Duke of Tang. He is now the right servant of the Tang Dynasty Minister and the Duke of Wei."
"Oh?" Yang Gao chuckled, "I didn't expect that Mr. Pei has already been promoted. Then I have to congratulate Mr. Pei. It's just that a small palace eunuch in our Sui Dynasty can become Li Yuan's prime minister. It seems that Li Yuan's men are in short supply. Human!"
"Hahaha!"
Several guards on the side couldn't help laughing.
Pei Ji's face turned red and he yelled: "Little Yang Gao, it's obvious that your foolish father, Yang Guang, doesn't know how to recognize people. This time, I, Pei Ji, am full of talents but have always been subordinated to his subordinates. The Emperor of Tang Dynasty knew people and made good use of them. , What’s so ridiculous about promoting educated people?”
Snapped!
When Yang Gao heard this, he immediately stood up and pointed at Pei Ji and cursed loudly: "Pei Xuanzhen, there are really shameless people like you in this world. Don't think that I don't know your background, just because of your political achievements, which one is worthy of you?" Are you full of talent? Zhan Xiongfei, slap this old thief for me!"
"According to the order!"
Zhan Zhao was born in the Jianghu and always hated evil. He naturally hated the shameless ministers like Pei Ji. After hearing Yang Gao's words, he rolled up his sleeves and walked towards Pei Ji without saying a word.
Pei Ji looked at Zhan Zhao who was walking step by step, his face turned pale with fright, but he still shouted unkindly: "Young son Yang Gao, I am the most important minister under Emperor Tang. How dare you humiliate me like this? Emperor Tang I will definitely not let you go!"
"You still dare to threaten me?" Yang Gao sneered, "Xiong Fei, give me a hard spanking. Wait until this old thief can talk properly. Stop!"
"Yes!" Zhan Zhao responded, raising his right hand high and swiping it towards Pei Ji's old face.
Snapped!
With a clear and resounding slap, Zhan Zhao's force value was as high as 96 points. The power of this slap can be imagined. Pei Ji fainted for a long time before he recovered. There was already a bright red blood mark on his face, and he was burning. pain.
"Little Yang Gao, I swear to you that I will never be the same...ah!"
Before Pei Ji finished speaking, Zhan Zhao had already slapped Pei Ji on the right cheek with his backhand. The force of this slap became a little stronger, until Pei Ji was hit with stars in his eyes, and he couldn't recover for a long time.
Yang Gao looked at Pei Ji who was slapped coldly, and felt a sense of relief in his heart. Among the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Yang Gao hated Li Yuan the most, followed by Pei Ji.
Pei Ji is a person with extremely poor abilities but a strong utilitarianism. He became the Prime Minister entirely through some shady means.
Pei Ji and Li Yuan were fair-weather friends when they were in Jinyang. In order to please Li Yuan, they even sent palace maids to him secretly. They often gambled and drank with Li Yuan day and night, and were extravagant. After Jinyang raised troops, Pei Ji sent five hundred palace maids to Li Yuan to lead the march.
Li Yuan himself was extremely lustful, and the things Pei Ji did naturally made him very satisfied. Therefore, after Li Yuan ascended the throne, he regarded Pei Ji as the first contributor to the founding of the country and rewarded him generously.
After all, the high position obtained by such despicable means could not last long. In the third year of Zhenguan, Emperor Taizong Li Shimin dismissed him, cut off half of his food, and asked him to return to his hometown.
Pei Ji was very unhappy about this, and wrote repeatedly asking to stay in Chang'an, which made Li Shimin extremely dissatisfied. He publicly accused Pei Ji, "Your merits and talents are not enough to hold your current position. It is only because of the favor of the Emperor that you are here." Ranked first. During the Takeru years, there were many flaws in politics and law, and local officials' governance was chaotic. You should also be responsible for this! I remember my old feelings and will not impose the death penalty on you and let you return to your hometown. What else do you have? satisfied?"
A prime minister who has been a prime minister for more than ten years was finally accused like this by the emperor, which shows how poor his abilities are.
Bang bang bang! ! !
One slap after another was slapped on Pei Ji's face. Pei Ji still pretended to be strong at first, but after more than twenty slaps, Pei Ji finally couldn't hold it in anymore. He fell to the ground and begged with blood spurting from his mouth: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty. , The guilty minister knows that he is wrong, the guilty minister knows that he is wrong, please don’t slap the guilty minister."
Yang Gao glanced at Pei Ji coldly and said sarcastically: "Master Pei, it would have been better if you had been like this earlier, so as to avoid suffering this kind of pain. Do you think you are a bitch?"
"The guilty minister is guilty of being humble, the guilty minister is guilty of being humble!" Pei Ji didn't dare to talk back at this time, so he just said it was right.
"Take him down and take good care of him!" Yang Gao waved his hand in disgust, "Choose a few more captured spies from Guanzhong, let them go and tell Li Yuan that Pei Ji is in my hands, and I believe Li Yuan will come to redeem him. "
At present, his strategic goal is Jiangnan. Pei Ji is worthless to him, so he might as well take the opportunity to blackmail Li Yuan. Moreover, if such a useless person with little success and more than enough trouble stays with Li Yuan, the disaster will definitely be considerable.
After Pei Ji was suppressed by several guards, Yang Gao turned to look at Fang Baihua and said coldly: "Fang Baihua, you also saw what happened to Pei Ji just now. I hope you better understand your identity. A woman is slapped like this." But it’s easy to lose sight.”
"The people...the people's daughter knows!" Fang Baihua was obviously frightened by the scene just now, her face was as pale as earth at the moment, and she replied tremblingly.
Yang Gao said expressionlessly: "I know that you are Li Zitong's subordinate, and I also know what you came to Jiangdu to do. I only want you to do one thing now, and do it well. When it is completed, I will let you go." !”
"I wonder what your Majesty wants the daughter of the people to do?" Fang Baihua asked cautiously.
Yang Gao said calmly: "What I want you to do is very simple. You just need to write a letter to Li Zitong and tell him that you have heard an important piece of information in Jiangdu. Li Yuan from Guanzhong sent an army of 200,000 troops south to Jingxiang. The main force of the Sui army has gone to Jingxiang to fight, and Huainan is empty!"
