Fengshen: I can inherit the inheritance of my subordinates

Chapter 141
Hearing that the grand master was singing in the court, King Zhou still restrained himself. Since he heard that the grand master led an army to conquer Xiqi, he lost his fear and became more reckless in the palace. Killing, all the ministers were frightened, not daring to persuade them, for fear of harming themselves.

Over the past three years, the big merchants have accumulated many disadvantages. There are constant wars abroad, bandits are rampant inside, droughts in many places, food production has decreased, and the people are miserable.

But King Zhou turned a blind eye to this, and he was only greedy for pleasure, drunk and dreaming of death.

At the beginning of King Zhou's ascension to the throne, he was very wise. He inherited his father's last wish, Diyi, and was diligent in government affairs. Yi tribes, to quell the chaos in Beihai.

But since Daji entered the palace, his temperament has changed drastically, he is moody, slaughters Zhongliang, kills his wife and son, commits many crimes, and is even more brutal than Xia Jie.

King Zhou didn't pay much attention to hearing about the grand master's western expedition, but only occasionally went to the court to ask a question or two.

Perhaps out of belief in Grand Master Wen's ability, he believed that with him presiding over the overall situation on the western front, Ji Fa would not be able to make a big splash.

This day in court, King Zhou was listless. He hung out with Hu Ximei last night and stayed up all night. He yawned and then winked at the little yellow gate beside him. , retreat without incident."

According to King Zhou's original intention, he didn't even attend the court meeting at all. After all, there is a small court in three days, and a big court in five days.

With this time, it is better to spend more time with the beauties.

It's just that this matter was brought up by a confidant, and I wanted to test the reaction of the officials. As long as a few people support it, King Zhou dares to make a decision and settle the matter.After all, the three important ministers left to him by his father, Emperor Yi, Shang Rong fell into a pillar and died, Bigan died of heartbreaking, and the remaining one, Wen Taishi, was fighting in Xiqi and could not control himself.

No one can stop what you want to do.

But one stone stirred up thousands of waves, and the court exploded in an instant. Everyone objected unanimously, and the saliva almost drowned the confidant. King Zhou considered that he could not punish all the civil and military officials when he heard that the grand master was still there, so he gave up. He came up with the idea of ​​abolishing the court meeting.

"Your Majesty, I have something to announce."

In the [-] years since the founding of the Great Shang Dynasty, a large number of talents have gathered in the court, some fell down, and some climbed up.The person who played the role was Zhang Qian. After Yang Ren's death, he took over Yang Ren's position as the doctor.

King Zhou said, "What did you play?"

Zhang Qian was single-handedly promoted by King Zhou, besides him, there were Feilian, Elai, Zuojiang and so on.

These people are not all sycophants like Fei You, Zhang Qian and Fei Lian are quite talented, although they cannot become the leaders of the country, they are more than enough to be qualified for their positions.King Zhou's attitude towards Zhang Qian was not bad.

Although King Zhou was cruel, he was not stupid. He knew that the reason why he was able to seek pleasure in the palace was because of the help of these courtiers in handling state affairs.

Holding the battle report in his hands, Zhang Qian said loudly: "My lord, this is the battle report sent by Deng Jiugong."

"Bring it up."

King Zhou's face sank like water, and most of the battle reports sent from the front line of Xiqi were defeat reports.

Xiao Huangmen took the battle report and carefully sent it to King Zhou. According to the usual practice, every time Xiqi sent the battle report, the king would be depressed for several days. For the palace people, it was undoubtedly a disaster for the past few days.

After King Zhou finished watching, he couldn't help but look very happy, and said loudly: "Okay, Deng Jiugong is worthy of being a famous general in the world. He just came out of Xiqi and made great military exploits. It is very pleasing to the hearts of the people."

Hearing that Grand Master was injured, he went back to teach him to take care of his injury. In fact, King Zhou was not optimistic about Deng Jiugong. He only hoped that he would take over Wen Taishi's Western Expedition and stabilize the situation in Xiqi. Big surprise.

Wei Ziyan said: "My lord, but Deng Jiugong won the battle."

Hearing that the grand master was ineffective in fighting in Xiqi, Deng Jiugong was sent to reinforce it. This is known to all courts.

King Zhou put the battle report in front of him and said, "Look for yourself."

The princes of the southeast and southeast have rebelled for more than ten years, and they can't even take down a city of Dashang. On the other hand, in Xiqi, Ji Fa established himself as the king of Wu, accepted the traitor Huang Feihu, and started a war with Dashang, which is no different from raising the flag to rebel.

The person King Zhou hated the most was Ji Fa, and he wished to cut him into pieces to vent his hatred. He had won the battle this time, and he was looking forward to whether he could break through Xiqi City next time and arrest the rebellious officials and thieves.

All the ministers were curious, and those who were closer to Wei Ziyan leaned forward to look at it, while those who were next to Zhang Qian asked him in a low voice what was written in the battle report, but Zhang Qian just smiled and said nothing.

Over the years, Dashang's troubles have happened one after another, and everyone is worried that the big ship of Dashang will sink in the end.

Now that the news of Xiqi's victory came, it undoubtedly gave Chaotang a reassurance.

Wei Ziyan laughed loudly and said, "God bless the great merchant, God bless the great merchant!"

Wei Ziyan and King Zhou are half-brothers. King Zhou became the queen of Shang. With the policy of promoting the virtuous and not avoiding relatives, Wei Ziqi and Wei Ziyan were reused, although their status in the court was not as good as that of Shang Rong. , Bigan, but also an important minister.

It's just that after Bigan's death, Wei Ziyan knew that Daji was there, and it was almost impossible for King Zhou to restore his previous wiseness, so he rarely spoke in the court. It was clear that King Zhou's decision was wrong, and he held the attitude of being wise and protecting himself , nor persuasion.

After reading the battle report today, he almost cried with joy.

Fei Lian came out and said, "Your Majesty, for Deng Jiugong's meritorious service, he must be rewarded heavily to show the greatness of the emperor's grace."

But King Zhou said: "Deng Jiugong naturally made great contributions, but he emphasized one person in the battle report, which is the deputy general Deng Zhong. Dear friends, you know who this Deng Zhong is."

King Zhou also knew about the famous generals of the great merchants, but he had never heard of Deng Zhong.

The ministers shook their heads, expressing their ignorance.

King Zhou said: "You all don't know. It can be seen that Deng Zhong was originally from an unknown family. He had no defense. Heroes don't care about their births. They passed on the will of the widows. Deng Zhong was promoted to the commander-in-chief of Sishuiguan, and he was stationed in Xiqi. Han Rong was transferred to Chentangguan. "

Fei Lian said, "Your Majesty is wise."

All the ministers said in unison: "Your Majesty is wise."

Zhang Qian said: "Your Majesty, how should Deng Jiugong be rewarded?"

Among the military generals, the chief soldier has already reached a very high official position, and is on the rise, so he can only be transferred to Chaoge.

King Zhou murmured: "Although Deng Jiugong bluntly said that this battle was all due to Deng Zhong's contribution, Deng Jiugong had the knowledge of people and had to reward him, so he was promoted to Marshal of the Army and Horses. The five pass commanders will cooperate."

When the ministers heard this, they couldn't help being surprised, the power of the Marshal of the Army and Horses almost caught up with the Grand Master Wen, and now Deng Jiugong became the hottest figure in the big merchants.

"As for the meritorious officers and men in the war letter, they can be rewarded as they want, and we will discuss it before retiring from the court."

King Zhou issued an order and announced his withdrawal from the court.

(End of this chapter)