Tiantang Splendid

Chapter 2784
Wu Meiniang is well aware of her husband's behavior style. Behind the seemingly wanton and arrogant, he absolutely strictly abides by the bottom line. In the world, a man must do something and not do something. Sometimes even at the expense of his own interests, he must maintain fairness and justice.

It is absolutely impossible to do whatever it takes to achieve a certain goal, or even ruin the interests of the empire.

Encountering an assassination and narrowly surviving, with the temperament of a gentleman, he will inevitably take revenge. How could it be the "stick" who let the mermaid go?But no matter how retaliated, it is absolutely impossible to have no bottom line, and to attack the prestige of King Jin by delaying the transportation of ordnance and disrupting the preparations of the Liaodong army.

But if they didn't plan to use these ordnance, why did they sneak and mix among the ships coming from Jiangnan?
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In the middle of the night, the loaded ships in front left the pier, turned their rudders to the channel in the center of the river, sailed eastward, and moored at the front of the fleet, and the vacant berths were successively entered by the ships behind.

It's just that there are too many ordnance, the berths at the dock are limited, and the loading speed is not fast. According to this speed, it will probably not be able to be loaded until noon.

More than a hundred ships were parked on the river, and the line stretched for nearly a mile. Except for the lights shining on the berths of the ships in front of the pier, most of them were shrouded in darkness, and the cold wind howled past. , The boats dangled on the water, like ghostly shadows.

These ships loaded with ordnance stopped quietly by the river, and all the lights were turned off. The sailors on the ship and the "supervisor" of the "Hundred Knights" took the time to catch up on sleep, otherwise they would wait until dawn and set sail. For half a month, it was impossible to sleep peacefully.

After all, although the Yellow River has not been frozen yet, there are already large pieces of icicles appearing in many places one after another. A little carelessness can lead to death...

Under the vast darkness of night, the water waves under the side of a ship swayed, and a circle of ripples rippled away, and then a dozen figures in black water tanks emerged from the water like water monkeys, and climbed the side of the ship lightly and swiftly onto the deck , and immediately sneaked into the cabin.

These people sneaked into the cabin, first went up to test the sleeping sailors, and saw that all of them were in a deep sleep, and there was no response when they patted their faces, so they were completely relieved. A simple bracket was erected on the bar, and the other end of the rope firmly tied the ordnance tightly wrapped in tarpaulin at the bottom of the bilge. Several people worked together to slowly hoist the heavy ordnance up with the help of the principle of the lever.

When a large package of ordnance was hoisted onto the deck, several people took advantage of the darkness to push it to the side of the ship, and again used the principle of leverage to slide the general boots and package into the water bit by bit.

Nuo Da's armory bag sank slowly to the bottom of the river, and the ripples were immediately dispersed by the waves of the cold wind blowing on the river surface, without anyone noticing.

After throwing all the three ordnance packages in the cabin into the river in a row, these people carefully removed all traces, then retreated and dived into the river again.

The cold wind swayed the boat slightly, and the dark river was rippling.

After these people re-entered the water, they did not leave immediately, but dived into the bottom of the river and used a simple cart with wooden wheels to support the ordnance bag. The heavy ordnance bag was very light under the buoyancy of the water. A few people dragged out for a distance of tens of meters, then returned, surfaced to catch their breath, and dived again.

This happened three times, and all three armory packages were dragged away from under the ship.

After confirming that it was correct and destroying the traces, these people swam away from the bottom of the water like fish, and swam directly out of the observation range of the leading ship before they emerged from the water. The river embankment, and then ran forward for about half a mile, before arriving at a densely packed warehouse, and drilled into a warehouse familiarly.

It was cold and windy outside, but inside the warehouse was warm as spring.

There is no goods in the empty warehouse, but a stove is lit in the middle, and a wooden box is placed in the middle to act as a table. Several people are drinking tea and talking about something around the wooden box, and the rest are all A burly man in a black suit stood all around.

First, a man wearing a water jacket lifted the mask made of buffalo leather on his head, let out a long breath, stepped forward and gave a military salute to the slightly dark-faced young man sitting in the middle with a big horse and a golden knife, and said in a deep voice: "The last general Luckily, the mission is accomplished!"

The black-faced young man was naturally Fang Jun, and he said, "It's hard work!"

He took a large bowl, picked up the kettle and poured half a bowl of hot water, handed it over and said, "After drinking the hot water, warm your body!"

"Thank you, handsome!"

This person was bought by the Royal Navy General Xi Jun, and it turned out to be a big bowl. He took a sip to test the temperature of the water, and then after a few gulps, a warm current spread from his stomach to his whole body, dispelling a lot of the cold air in his body.

Fang Jun waved his hand and said, "Take off the water tank first before talking, lest the cold air invade and hurt your body."

"Here!"

Xi Jun bought the order, took everyone to a corner of the warehouse, took off the water prop, someone handed a dry cotton cloth to dry his body, changed into the same black clothes as Fang Jun and others, and then returned to Fang Jun I found a place to sit down, and recounted the action process in detail.

Fang Jun listened carefully and felt that there was nothing wrong, so he asked Pei Xingjian who was beside him: "Is there any omission in keeping the contract?"

Pei Xingjian stroked his beard under his chin, pondered for a moment, then shook his head and said, "As long as the dose of the drug is not too large, causing the sailors and supervisor's 'Hundred Knights' masters to wake up too late, there will be no suspicion."

Fang Jun clapped his hands and said with a smile: "In that case, let's proceed to the next step!"

Pei Xingjian laughed and said: "His Royal Highness must have thought that we would do our best to destroy the transportation of ordnance, but he didn't expect that we would be so busy that he would be overwhelmed."

Fang Jun snorted coldly, and said disdainfully: "Treat the heart of a gentleman with the heart of a villain. They can be selfish and disregard the interests of the empire, and think of everyone as nasty as they are. Tao is the body, and art is the use." Those who have the Tao can last long, and those without the Tao will fail. Academics must first understand the Tao before they can achieve great results. For the purpose of the law, the way is the foundation, and the art is the end. If the cart is turned upside down, the whole life will be lost! Guan Long only understands power and tactics but does not understand the righteous way, only cares about self-interest and disregards righteousness. , the king of Jin is eager for quick success and instant benefits, he is impetuous, and thinks that he can control the world with his wealth, but one day he will suffer backlash and suffer from it."

It is true that after Gaozong Li Zhi came to the throne in history, his national power became strong, he conquered the barbarians, and he also fulfilled the long-cherished wish of His Majesty Li Er's life-the destruction of Goguryeo, but Fang Jun didn't take it seriously.

The strong national power is because Li Zhishang inherited the rule of Zhenguan, which almost completely continued the policies of His Majesty Li Er's later period, and had the legacy of Zhenguan.In the later period of Emperor Gaozong, the government was almost controlled by Wu Zetian. After Wu Zetian ascended the throne, Wu Zetian's political views were always followed, which laid a solid foundation for the prosperity of Kaiyuan.

Even the most epoch-making policy of suppressing aristocratic families in history was developed and carried forward by Wu Zetian.

However, Li Zhi sought the position of prince with sincerity, benevolence and filial piety. After he ascended the throne, he treated his brothers and brothers with kindness and love on the surface, but in fact all the brothers died tragically one after another.

After ascending to the throne, he suppressed the Guanlong nobles who supported him to the top with one hand, and even in order to protect his own reputation, he did not want to bear the infamy of "crossing the river and tearing down the bridge". Push Wu Zetian out to fight the Guanlong nobles.

After eliminating the monopoly of powerful ministers and powerful officials, all the crimes will be attributed to Wu Zetian...

It has to be said that Li Zhi can be said to have mastered power tactics. There are not many emperors in history, and there are countless outstanding ones, but there are only a handful of people who can surpass Li Zhi in terms of power skills.

However, blindly advocating "skills" while ignoring the role of "Tao" limited Li Zhi's final achievements.

Otherwise, relying on the legacy left by the rule of Zhenguan, and there are no other powerful countries around except Tubo, why did it only win the evaluation of "Zhenguan Legacy"?

If he had a longer-term vision and stronger courage, why would the power of the whole country have no choice but to be in a corner of Tubo, who was finally killed by Tubo on the plateau, shaking the foundation of the Tang Dynasty, and planting the evil consequences of the collapse of the Tang Empire?
To put it bluntly, Li Zhi is certainly capable, but his realm is not enough...

(End of this chapter)