Brother Song Taizu

Chapter 96 The best general Cao Bin
The secretary in front of the palace is within the banzhi.

In front of the palace, the new noble Shi Hanqing was having a feast. Facing a group of worried subordinates, his face turned red after drinking, and he loudly consoled: "What are you doing with such shameless eyebrows? The sky hasn't fallen, isn't it just a purge?" , Supervisor, is it possible that he can find out about us? You are all my people. If you touch you, you will touch me. If you touch me, you will touch His Highness King Qi. Who has such courage? Then play music, and then dance."

After everyone heard this, they felt a little relieved, picked up their wine glasses and started to drink with him.

But I heard a crash, the door shattered, and a group of high-spirited soldiers rushed in without saying a word and arrested people. Everyone in this group had a hammer. If they resisted even a little, they would just hit their teeth with the hammer. A mouthful of blood came out.

Shi Hanqing was horrified when he heard this: "You are so brave, how dare you come to the front of the palace to act wildly??"

The leader looked as usual, but slightly clasped his fists and said: "General Cao Bin, I was ordered to do something, but I was offended."

"Cao Bin! You are too arrogant. I am from the King of Qi. Do you want to go to war with us on behalf of the King of Qin's lineage?"

"Haha, I am not worthy of representing the King of Qin, but you are not worthy of representing the King of Qi either. Take me away."

With that said, he didn't care about the occasion at all, just ordered people to take them away and left. In full view of everyone, no one dared to stop them.

"Oh my god, this is already the eighth large-scale arrest this month, right? Where did this Cao Bin come from and why is he so aggressive?"

"Who among the officials in front of the palace doesn't know that Shi Hanqing is a member of His Royal Highness King Qi, and is very popular with the officials. King Qi has just made him a prince, and he turns around to arrest his people. This is obviously a slap in his face. Yeah, let me see, King Qin might have a falling out with King Qi this time."

"I heard that Zhang Qiong has now surrendered to His Highness King Qin."

"Hey~, there is actually some unrest among the front ministers of this palace."

After a while, Zhang Qiong came after hearing the news, and she and Cao Bin clasped their fists and saluted each other. Seeing that Cao Bin had caught Shi Hanqing, he hesitated for a moment and couldn't help but ask: "Is the evidence conclusive?"

Cao Bin curled his lips disdainfully and said, "Do you think I arrested him because of you? The general was ordered to clean up military discipline. He only looked at the evidence. I didn't look at other things, and I don't know."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Qiong cupped his fists and saluted, then retreated humbly.

Of course, whether outsiders believe what he said is another matter.

Shi Hanqing was Zhao Guangyi's personal minister. He was a confidant who came in when he was the Duke of Yu in front of the palace. Since Zhao Kuangyin stepped down from this position, he has been at odds with his successor Zhang Qiong, and he was always at odds with Zhang Qiong. Be against.

It is precisely because of this that although the Du Yuhou in front of the palace has been replaced, through Shi Hanqing, Zhao Guangyi has actually been interfering. Zhang Qiong and Shi Hanqing are nominally superiors and subordinates, but in fact they are enemies of each other. Kou, Zhang Qiong was pushed to the forefront of public opinion due to tax inspections and other matters. Naturally, Shi Hanqing had to jump up and down, falsely accusing Zhang Qiong of raising soldiers and deliberately putting him to death. This is how Zhang Qiong was accused in history.

Of course everyone knew that Cao Bin was carrying out a purge, and many people had been arrested one after another during this period, but everyone really didn't expect that as a member of the King of Qin, he actually dared to arrest Shi Hanqing directly. , and was sent directly to the military court without any prosecution.

For a moment, everyone felt that something big had happened.

Then the next day, Zhao Guangmei was called to the palace and asked to have a dinner and a family banquet.

Then at the dinner table, Zhao Kuangyin asked, seemingly unintentionally: "What did Shi Hanqing commit? Why did you arrest him?"

"Huh? Shi Hanqing? Who is that? I didn't make it."

Zhao Guangmei spread her hands and looked confused.

Zhao Kuangyin was stunned and frowned: "Yesterday at noon, Cao Bin took people directly to the front office of the palace to arrest people. Wasn't this based on your instructions?" "Cao Bin? Oh, then he should have broken the law. Isn't that right? Are you asking Cao Bin to clean up the imperial army? But I really don’t care how. What’s wrong? Is there anything special about this person? I know that Cao Bin has been arresting people recently, and he seems to have arrested a lot. We have it with the Guards Department, but I don’t have time to ask about specific matters, you don’t know, I’ve been so busy lately.”

Zhao Guangyi threw his chopsticks on the table angrily and said, "Shi Hanqing is my man. If you didn't support Cao Bin behind his back, how could Cao Bin dare to arrest him?"

"Ah... your man, but based on my understanding of Cao Bin, he really dared to arrest him. I really don't know about this, but second brother, I believe that since Cao Bin has been arrested, there must be a reason to arrest him. , I must have some tangible evidence. Could it be that my second brother can’t arrest your people? Your people are more powerful than Li Chuyun and Wang Jixun?"

Zhao Guangyi sneered when he heard this, and said sullenly: "Shi Hanqing is loyal to his duties, what crime is he guilty of? You arrest him whenever you want, without even saying hello to me. Do you still have me as your second brother in your eyes?"

"I didn't know. Ask Cao Bin. Second brother, you don't understand Cao Bin. It's not that he doesn't give you face, he doesn't even give me face."

Cao Bin is such a person. The biggest characteristic of this person is that he is selfless, upright, and not afraid of offending others. He has almost all the good qualities of a general except that he is not very good at fighting.

Regarding this matter, Cao Bin really didn't say hello to him beforehand.

But I have to say, things were done beautifully!
If this matter had been told to him in advance, he might have really been in trouble, but since he had already settled the matter without telling him, he believed that with Cao Bin's stability, he would definitely handle the case. At least there won't be any fault.

Who wouldn't like such a sensible subordinate? No wonder he became the best general in the early Song Dynasty.

Zhao Kuangyin also frowned at this moment and said: "Do you really not know anything about this?"

"I really don't know. Brother, you know me. If I really instigated this matter, there is no way I wouldn't admit it. If you arrest an unknown little person, do I need to play tricks with you?"

Hearing this, Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Guangyi glanced at each other unconsciously, and were shocked for a moment.

Zhao Guangyi said in disbelief: "You mean, this is all the intention of Cao Bin? Is he really so brave?"

Zhao Kuangyin simply ordered Wang Jien to go to the prison and bring Shi Hanqing to him. After all, this was his chief minister, and he did not want the conflict between the second and third sons to develop to an irreversible point.

Unexpectedly, after a while, Wang Jien ran back in a panic, his face dripping with sweat.

"The official... the official family, he... he..."

"Why are you panicking? What happened?"

"Cao Bin, Cao Bin, he...he...he refused to hand over the person. I heard that the official wanted to interrogate him, and he...he killed the person in front of me. He, he is outside the door, please Please...please forgive me."

"what?
Zhao Kuangyin was furious when he heard this and slammed the table: "Who is this, giving him such courage?"

After saying that, he glared at Zhao Guangmei fiercely.

"Hey~"

Zhao Guangmei sighed, stood up and said: "Who else could it be? It's me, but it's not just me. It should be the trading company. It should be the thousands of tooth soldiers under the trading company."

(End of this chapter)