Chapter 372 Smart Eyes
Concubine Shu Deng Yun washed again, put on clean new clothes, drank a few sips of sober tea, walked a few steps with the help of the palace maid, paced back and forth again, and finally jumped in place twice, right next to her. The eunuch Zhang Youcai said with a smile, "Look, I'm fine. In fact, I didn't drink much, but it was a little late. The chicken was okay, and the duck was a little greasy."
"It's all chickens and ducks raised by the queen, and we usually don't even dare to touch them."
"I know I'm wrong, don't scare me anymore, take me to see Your Majesty, I have to confess my guilt in person."
"Concubine Shu is here to attract His Majesty's attention, right?" Zhang Youcai said coldly, seeing through Concubine Shu's little trick long ago.
Deng Yun said sternly: "It was true at the beginning, but the roast chicken is so delicious, and when paired with good wine, I drank a little too much before I knew it. Vomiting in front of Your Majesty was definitely not my plan."
Zhang Youcai believed this sentence, but Concubine Shu said that she didn't drink much, and then said that she unknowingly drank too much, which made him shake his head, thinking that this concubine and the eccentric Deng Cui were really family.
Zhang Youcai couldn't refuse the emperor's order before, and said with a cold face, "Go to see Your Majesty with me, speak carefully, and don't cause trouble again."
Deng Yun obediently followed behind the eunuch, occasionally shaking her steps.
Han Ruzi was sitting in the room thinking about things, Deng Yun entered the room, walked a few steps to the emperor, knelt down and said, "My concubine has misbehaved, please forgive me."
"Are you convicted?" Han Ruzi said solemnly.
"My concubine is convicted, I... I ate all the roast chicken wings left to His Majesty, and there was not one left."
A palace maid in the room couldn't help but laughed out loud. Zhang Youcai's face was ashen, and Han Ruzi was also stunned. After a while, he said, "Look up."
Kneeling on the ground, Deng Yun raised her head. It was indeed a beautiful face, but there was something wrong with her. Her eyes were not afraid of people. She looked directly at the emperor with a slight smile, as if they were joking.
If there is a little more shyness in her eyes, her beauty will immediately increase by three or five points.
Jin Chuiduo is not afraid of people, but her "ruthlessness" has no effect on her beauty, and Han Ruzi doesn't know why.
"If you still pretend to be crazy and foolish like this, I will have someone send you back to the palace. You will never have to leave the palace for the empress dowager and the queen."
Han Ruzi knew what reduced Concubine Shu's beauty, she seemed too smart.
Deng Yun put away that little smile and said solemnly: "No way, it's all ... drinking and making trouble. My brother reminded me not to drink, but I couldn't hold back. The concubine was convicted, it was raised by the queen herself. Big chickens and ducks, I shouldn't kill them, let alone eat them, as soon as I return to the palace, I immediately go to the queen to ask for my guilt, and the queen will deal with it."
These words were finally quite normal, even Zhang Youcai nodded slightly, and the requirements for Concubine Shu should not be too high.
Han Ruzi actually knew very well in his heart that Cui Xiaojun didn't like these chickens and ducks, but to use them to commemorate the beautiful life in Juanhou's mansion.
He summoned Concubine Shu not to hear her confession.
"How do you know that I am discussing a strategy to suppress the bandits?"
"This is what Your Majesty does and thinks every day. I will listen to a sentence here, listen to a sentence there, and I will know it on the first day I come to the Marquis Mansion." Deng Yun's expression changed from serious to easy-going. The corners of her mouth were slightly upturned, and there was nothing funny about it. She was also brewing a smile, and she could switch between "concubine" and "me" freely.
"You said that I shouldn't just think about using soldiers, is there any other means of suppressing bandits?"
There were a lot of people in the room. There were four eunuchs and three palace maids. He was surprised to hear the emperor's words, especially Zhang Youcai, who never thought that the emperor would actually take Concubine Shu's drunken remarks seriously.
Deng Yun didn't pretend to be stupid this time, and replied: "It's not a day or two that Da Chu wants to exterminate the Yunmengze bandits. He has used troops many times, and his troops are much larger than now, but they have never been successful. This can only mean that This is a dead end. As for other means of suppressing bandits..."
Her normality lasted for a while, and suddenly she made a pitiful look, "Does your majesty let me kneel all the time? There is not even a cushion on the ground, if this is a punishment for the concubine's slaughter of chickens and ducks, okay? , I accept, I can kneel for as long as possible, if Your Majesty just forgot to let me get up - please, Your Majesty, let me get up."
Han Ruzi found it difficult to remain serious, so he waved his hand, and a palace maid immediately stepped forward and helped Concubine Shu up.
Deng Yun breathed a sigh of relief and showed a bright smile, even at this time, she seemed too smart instead of innocent and cute.
"Speak." Han Ruzi reminded.
"Use bandits to control bandits." Deng Yun's answer was simple and direct.
Han Ruzi had long thought that the answer he needed was more than that, "How to 'control bandits with bandits'."
Deng Yun put away her smile, and her posture was tall and straight, with a bit of a general demeanor, "There is only one imperial court in the world, but there are countless gangsters. If you say that they all obey the orders of a big boss, they are just as honorable and orderly as the imperial court, presumably Your Majesty also Do not believe."
"Um."
Deng Yun was encouraged, and her tone became faster, "The sources of bandits are different, some people are forced by life, some people are forced by officials to rebel, some people like leisure and hate work, some people just don't obey, born desperados, these people have their own share. Mountains and Zhanshui are the kings, so naturally they have their own concerns, and using bandits to control bandits is to prescribe the right medicine.”
"How to prescribe the right medicine?" Han Ruzi already had an idea in his mind, but he still had to listen to what Deng Yun had to say.
Deng Yun raised her right thumb, squeezed her left hand and shook it lightly twice, more like a man, "First, if your majesty builds a stronghold in Yunmengze, it is better to appoint a few more honest and capable officials, so that the people have surplus food. Some bandits naturally return to their hometowns to farm."
She raised her index finger again, "Second, there must be leniency and strictness. We must use both kindness and power, and the robbers also have family members. Find them and let them persuade their children to return. Those who succeed will be rewarded, and those who fail will be implicated."
"Thirdly, although the bandits are not monolithic, they also have big leaders. It is said that they call themselves a 'god-given general'. Previously, the government put a heavy reward on his head, but the higher the reward, the higher the status of this person among the bandits. The higher it is. It’s better to divide it up and increase the reward of other bandit leaders to be the same as or close to this person. If the government can create one leader, they can create three or five more and let them compete with each other.”
"Fourth, if you have a reward, you can buy it. Even if you can't buy it, it doesn't matter. From time to time, you will send troops to attack the cottage. If you get a reward, you will claim that it is an internal thief to help. In short, you must make the bandits suspicious of each other."
"Fifth..." Deng Yun had already raised all five fingers of her right hand, and after a while, she seemed to have forgotten what to say, "Fifth...fifth...it's not enough just by tricks, after a year or two, You always have to use troops, and you will get twice the result with half the effort, and your chances of winning are much better than simply taking a step by step.”
Han Ruzi stared at Concubine Shu for a while. For another person, even if it was a high-ranking official in the court, he would feel flustered. The gaze itself was nothing, but the gaze came from the emperor, which naturally had majesty, but Deng Yun was not afraid, but smiled again. "I'm done, is your Majesty still satisfied?"
Han Ruzi's eyes turned to Zhang Youcai, "You guys step back."
The emperor's majesty was very effective for them. The eunuch and the palace maid bowed out of the room, went outside, and looked at each other a few times. They never thought that the first person to stay in the bed was actually Concubine Shu.
Zhang Youcai snorted and drove everyone away.
Han Ruzi stared at Concubine Shu again and said, "This is your brother's idea. You spent a lot of time memorizing it, right?"
Deng Yun didn't deny it, and smiled: "Fortunately, I've memorized it once, only the fifth item, my brother said that from 'no soldiers' to 'must use soldiers', it takes a transition to make a deep impression on Your Majesty. Not doing well."
"What did your brother say to Donghai and Xiongnu?" Han Ruzi was angry and funny, only Deng Cui dared to do such a thing. He clearly guessed the emperor's mind, but he refused to say it before going to the Western Regions. He insisted on leaving it to his sister. used to please the emperor.
"No, oh, he said that it would take a year or two to exterminate the Yunmengze bandits. When that time comes... he will be back, and he will tell His Majesty what he has to say."
Deng Cui even arranged how to return to the capital.
Han Ruzi said coldly, "Do you brothers and sisters intend to play tricks on me?"
Deng Yun hurriedly shook her head, "Our brother and sister's actions are indeed unethical. If we change to another emperor, we would rather stay in Jincheng and never say a word in front of the emperor. It was His Majesty who led us out. My brother said that His Majesty is Mingjun, The most important thing is that His Majesty has great ambitions and wants to achieve a great cause, no less than the founding father of the country. Only an emperor like His Majesty can tolerate capable people and different people, instead of relying on ministers to stick to the rules. "
After a pause, Deng Yun added: "So what my brother and I did was not 'playing', but trying to get your Majesty's attention and use it for His Majesty's attention."
The strategy of managing bandits may be the idea of the elder brother Deng Cui, but how to please the emperor is the method of the younger sister Deng Yun.
Knowing this, Han Ruzi still felt useful, and he had to admit that it was not easy to tolerate such "talents" as the Deng brothers and sisters who behaved perversely. In the history of Great Chu, only Taizu had done it.
"Take off your clothes." Han Ruzi ordered.
"Huh?" Deng Yun was stunned, but this time, she was really stunned.
"Don't you want to serve the bed?" Han Ruzi gave birth to a fighting spirit, wanting to conquer this somewhat complacent Concubine Shu.
Deng Yun slowly undressed, but before taking off one piece, she asked: "So many women in the palace deliberately want to sleep, is your Majesty very proud? I am just one step ahead of others, I feel a little proud. "
"Anyone who is an emperor has this kind of treatment. It's not his own ability. What is there to be proud of? The only person who is qualified to be proud is Taizu. He left the throne to future generations, and the successor just enjoys the success."
Deng Yun took two steps forward, "So, even His Majesty is courting the 'Emperor'?"
Han Ruzi just hoped that he could be worthy of the status of the emperor, but he didn't want to tell Deng Yun, just stared coldly at those smart eyes.
Deng Yun's face blushed, and she whispered, "Can you blow out the candles? This kind of thing... this kind of thing is more difficult than I expected..."