Chapter 62 Hanging on someone else’s city wall?

That afternoon, after leaving Xianyang City, Yan Xingchuan headed straight for Pingzhou City and entered the city in the middle of the night.

When the next morning came, everything was quickly arranged.

He ordered Shangguan Tong to guard Pingzhou City, and then ordered Chen Mo and the head of the Cui family and others to recapture various places in Pingzhou.

Wherever he went, he would inspect the performance of the magistrates and county magistrates. If there were anyone who was immoral or unkind, he would replace him with a newly selected scholar.

Yan Xingchuan, on the other hand, led Shen Sui, Cui Jing and others eastward and confronted the imperial army at Wuchang Mountain on the border of Yuanzhou.

The Northern Yan army had been fighting with the imperial court for many years, and the resentment was extremely deep. Yan Xingchuan himself had a blood feud with the royal family of the Great Zhou. Therefore, after less than three days of confrontation, the two sides started fighting.

The second battle had just ended, and the soldiers returned from the battlefield with murderous looks on their faces, the blood on their robes not yet dried.

"It's nothing, something happened to my fiancée." Seeing that he asked, Cui Jing couldn't help but answer, but he didn't want to say more, so he just said this vaguely.

fiancée?

Yan Xingchuan remembered that Cui Jing had a fiancée, and had an affair with his cousin before getting married. After the marriage, if Cui Jing had not realized that the baby was born in the wrong month, the child might have been given to someone else to raise.

Yan Xingchuan suddenly thought of Cui Si again. Since she had returned to the past, she would definitely solve the matter and save Cui Jing from this disaster.

After calculating the age, Yan Xingchuan's mouth twitched when he thought that Cui Jing's wife was still a baby of three or four years old.

Otherwise, can we just give it to him to raise?

"By the way, my lord, what do you think about the matter of Censor Yang?" Cui Jing changed the subject.

At the beginning, Yan Xingchuan and Shen Mo captured the imperial censor Yang Yushi in the Cui clan's territory, and later took him to Pingzhou City and brought him here. Everyone had their own opinions on how to deal with Yang Yushi.

Censor Yang said that he was willing to tell the Northern Yan army everything he knew, but he asked to die and asked that his body be hung on the city wall to dispel the old emperor's suspicion of his loyalty to the Yang family and protect the entire Yang family.

The ministers held different opinions on this.

The supporters said they could agree. The imperial army was now led by Duke Ping, so it would not be easy to fight. If they could get some reliable information, Yuanzhou should be easier to fight, not to mention the long-term consequences.

Besides, Yan Xingchuan is a man who wants to do great things. In the future, there will definitely be some people who are not as blindly loyal as Yang Yushi and are willing to turn from evil to good. This can be used as an example to let him escape by faking his own death in order to protect their families.

The opposition said they could not agree to this. If Censor Yang's body was really hung on the city wall, it would inevitably arouse the anger of the enemy soldiers. If the enemy soldiers were not afraid of death, the Northern Yan army would suffer greater losses.

After careful consideration, it is best not to agree. However, if I don't agree, I won't get the news that Censor Yang has "bought his own death", and I always feel a little bit at a loss.

Things just stayed there.

Hearing Cui Jing mention Censor Yang, Yan Xingchuan frowned: "I can't agree to it, but Censor Yang is a stubborn person who is determined to die. It will not be easy to pry open his mouth."

"Since you asked, do you have any good ideas?"

Cui Jing said, "Actually, it's not a bad idea to agree to it. As for hanging it on the city wall, you can think about it from another perspective. It doesn't necessarily have to be hung on the city wall of Northern Yan, right?"

Everyone present: “?!”

Someone suddenly remembered something and slapped his head: "Cui San, you, you mean, hang it on someone else's city wall?"

This, this, this...is it possible?

"That's right." Cui Jing bowed and said,

"I heard that the Prince of Xiling wants to advance westward. Pingzhou is just two states away. He is also extremely ruthless and even massacred an entire city not long ago."

"If Censor Yang went to Prince Xiling for some unknown reason and was killed by him and hung on the city wall, it's not impossible."

"Great, great!" A general slapped his thigh, "If this is the case, firstly, it satisfies Censor Yang's request, and secondly, Northern Yan doesn't have to bear any risks.

Thirdly, if the conflict between the imperial court and the Prince of Xiling intensifies and the fighting becomes more ferocious, we, Northern Yan, can sit back and watch the tigers fight, and when the opportunity arises, we can draw our swords and kill both tigers."

After saying that, the soldier made a killing gesture with a fierce look on his face.

At the end, he laughed heartily, stood up and patted Cui Jing's shoulder vigorously:

"Hahaha, Cui San, everyone says you're smart and resourceful. I didn't believe it at first, but now it seems you do have some talent. Well done. From now on, you and I are brothers."

Cui Jing staggered and nearly fell to the ground after being hit by him. He couldn't help but yell, "Be gentler, please let go of a weak scholar like me!"

Everyone burst into laughter and the atmosphere was very good.

However, the corner of Yan Xingchuan's mouth twitched slightly. The man who kept saying that he wanted to be brothers with Cui Jing was none other than Cui Jing's father-in-law in his previous life, Xu Dazhi.

His daughter, Xu Jianjia, who is only four years old this year, is Cui Jing's future wife.

Yan Xingchuan felt... well, if the two of them became brothers in this life, then that marriage would probably be completely off.

Yan Xingchuan stretched out his hand and frowned, putting these romantic matters behind his mind.

He said, "Jingzhi, this is a brilliant plan. Jingzhi, I'll leave it to you to talk to Censor Yang. Make sure he reveals everything he knows."

Cui Jing bowed and said, "Jingzhi obeys your command."

"As for who will take the people to Xiling..." Yan Xingchuan thought for a moment, "Let's leave this matter to Chen Mo. After he pacifies all parts of Pingzhou, he will first be stationed at the border between Pingzhou and Changzhou and take care of this matter along the way."

"yes."

"Jingzhi, let me read the letter from home."

Cui Jing: "...!!!"

Cui Jing held the letter in his hand, feeling somewhat reluctant.

But when Yan Xingchuan said this, everyone present looked at him, so how could he dare to refuse?

What?

The master wants to read your letter from home, but you refuse?

Is this a letter from home?

Is there something shameful going on?

As for why the Lord wants to read the letters from my subjects?

Sorry, I didn’t see it, I don’t understand, I don’t know, and I don’t want to know.

Cui Jing's mouth twitched slightly, and he cursed Yan Xingchuan in his heart, but he still handed over the letter.

He secretly sighed in his heart: It’s great to be a king. Sometimes I can do whatever I want, and my subjects can’t refuse.

Really... I'm so envious that I'm going bald.

Yan Xingchuan took the letter, glanced at it, and saw that it was indeed Cui Si's notes.

He read it carefully and saw that Cui Si talked about Wang Xiuzhu's situation. She also asked Cui Jing whether he wanted to choose another girl from the Wang family or marry someone else, and let him decide for himself.

I talked about Cui Hao again.

Because Cui Hao was going to get engaged to Shen Mo, the second branch of the Cui family wanted to rank Cui Hao in the family tree, and the Cui family originally agreed.

But Cui Hao, who has always been soft-hearted, actually proposed that the Cui family bring her mother back to the Cui family and bury her with her father, but the Cui family disagreed.

Things came to a standstill here.

Yan Xingchuan watched with great interest, but at the end, he felt empty inside.

There was no mention of him at all...