Chapter 80: Lord Zhao Wuan
Meng Tian's expression made Meng Ao understand.
His most proud grandson didn't listen to his words at all.
Chang'an Jun has already entered the court to participate in politics. If Tian'er still has this attitude towards Chang'an Jun, she is likely to be like that birdman Li Si and ruin the plans of Chang'an Jun and Your Majesty.
Tian'er has always been rude to those who have come to her for good fortune .
Those past events had a huge impact, so I couldn't tell him everything. But if I wanted Tian'er to change his impression of Chang'an Jun, I just needed to let him know that Chang'an Jun was not the waste he pretended to be.
Meng Wu said that Tian'er had been in close contact with the boy from the Li family in recent days. She must have met Zhao Wuanjun at Changanjun's place...
"You've been visiting the kid from the Li family quite often recently, but have you discovered anything?"
Meng Tian did not hide anything and said, "My grandson met a man in the Chang'an Palace and I have some doubts about his identity. I will come back to inform you after I find out the truth."
It is true.
"No need to check." Meng Ao looked at Meng Tian with affirmative eyes.
Meng Tian was surprised and puzzled when he saw this. He was sure that he had never told anyone about this.
He stopped and turned his head to ask, "Father, do you know who I'm investigating?"
"Lord Zhao Wuan."
Meng Ao uttered these four words lightly, and his expression showed that he already knew it and it was not just a random guess.
"Don't tell anyone else about this, just keep it to yourself." Meng Ao left Meng Tian standing there in a daze and went back to the house.
Although he had guessed it in his heart and had been investigating for such a long time, Meng Tian was mentally prepared.
But when he was really sure that the drunkard who had hit him so hard that he could only defend himself but had no power to fight back was Zhao Wu'an Jun, Meng Tian still found it incredible.
What does Wuan mean?
The explanation given in "Historical Records Commentary" is: It means that he can take care of the soldiers, win every battle, and make the people live in peace, so he was called Wu'an.
In fact, we can understand it just from the literal meaning, Wu'an Wu'an, military power can stabilize the country.
There were four Wu'an Juns in history.
Su Qin, Wu'an Jun of Zhao and Qi, Xiang Yan, Wu'an Jun of Chu, Li Mu, Wu'an Jun of Zhao, and Bai Qi, Wu'an Jun of Qin.
Su Qin's title of Wu'an Jun is highly exaggerated. His title of Wu'an Jun was conferred by Qi and Zhao when the five states united to attack Qin and Zhao, Yan and Qi served as prime ministers. He is the only person who obtained the title of Wu'an Jun by virtue of his strategy rather than fighting.
Xiang Yan got his title by fighting. He defeated Li Xin's 200,000 Qin troops in one battle and was named Wu'an Jun by the Chu State. Unfortunately, his last battle was against Wang Jian, one of the four famous generals of the Warring States Period. He was defeated by Wang Jian and died on the battlefield, and his integrity was lost.
The remaining two Wu'an Jun, Li Mu and Bai Qi, were very powerful. In short, they never lost a battle in their lives, and truly lived up to the six words "military power can stabilize the country".
All military strategists are right about Bai Qi. Li Mu highly respects him, and Meng Tian is also one of them.
Didn't Zhao Wu'an Jun die at the hands of assassins sent by Guo Kai? Even if he didn't die, how could Zhao Wu'an Jun, whom Your Majesty had been seeking so much, appear in Chang'an Jun's mansion?
My father must know the reason, but he won't tell me. But in any case, Ying Chengjiao must have something extraordinary to be able to recruit Zhao Wuanjun as his retainer.
Thinking about it carefully, Chang'an Jun's casual and rude style is similar to Mengchang Jun, who entertained many guests and had 3,000 guests. Perhaps it was because of this that he was favored by Zhao Wu'an Jun.
No wonder my grandfather favors Chang'an Jun so much. My grandfather only cares about fighting. The fact that Chang'an Jun was able to recruit Zhao Wu'an Jun can increase his points in my grandfather's eyes.
Chang'an Jun has such ability that he would not just recruit Zhao Wu'an Jun alone. The eldest son has told me about the number of Chang'an Jun's retainers, who number no less than four.
Entering the Chang'an Jun's army is equivalent to being used by Qin. In this way, the title of Chang'an Jun is well-deserved. Although his achievements are not obvious, he is definitely not a lucky person. From now on, I can no longer look down on him.
"Hurry up and go to the palace!"
Meng Ao’s roar was loud.
"only!"
Meng Tian responded loudly.
He really couldn't persuade his grandfather, so he could only walk out of the gate of Meng Mansion with a wry smile on his face, looking in the direction of Xianyang Palace and sighing.
“I hope I can come back alive this time.”
This was of course an exaggeration, but Meng Tian did not think that this trip to the palace would have a good outcome. From ancient times to the present, ministers who directly asked the monarch for his opinion would never have a good ending.
Tap tap tap
The sound of orderly footsteps is getting closer.
"There are about 200 people. What happened? Why did so many troops gather together?"
Meng Tian was a general during the war and could judge the number of people just by listening to the footsteps. He frowned and looked into the distance.
Teams of city defense troops, armed to the teeth with sharp weapons, marched in neat steps from outside Meng Tian's sight.
Surrounded by these city defense troops were nobles who were dressed in fine clothes and looked terrified, some even had wet crotches. Meng Tian also saw the figure of a member of the Meng family among them.
"Could it be that Chang'an Jun has arrested someone on the tower again?"
Meng Tian was about to go over to find out what was going on when he suddenly noticed that all the houses within his sight were dyed orange by the afterglow of the setting sun. He could not help but stop and turn back to the mansion to prepare the horses.
"It's more important to go to see His Majesty first. If you're late it will be curfew and it will be very troublesome to return."
There is no Meng Tian blocking the way.
Two hundred city defense soldiers marched without stopping and escorted dozens of nobles to the gate of the Supreme Court.
The Chief Justice was coming out personally, with a very serious look and an impartial look.
"Take him to the prison and keep him under guard."
The servants of the Supreme Court rushed forward, took the nobles from the city guards, and took them to the prison.
"Why did you only arrest us? Why not Zhang Han? Why not Ying Chengjiao?"
"Ying Chengjiao was instructing Zhang Han to kill people in the tower, why did he lock us up?"
"The murderer is innocent, but the murdered is guilty. When did Qin law have such an absurd law?"
The nobles shouted one after another on their way to the Tingwei Prison.
The Tingwei was standing between two stone statues of Xiezhi in front of the Tingwei Mansion, ignoring the nobles' cries. He stood with his hands behind his back, looking very dignified, as if he, like the legendary Xiezhi, could distinguish between loyalty and treachery, good and evil.
The 200 city guards completed their mission, and their leader bowed to Tingwei Zheng and said goodbye.
The next second when the city guards disappeared from his sight, the Chief Justice rushed back to his mansion.
Inside the Court of Censors, a man with his hands and feet tied and a clean cloth stuffed in his mouth was struggling desperately with fire in his eyes, whimpering non-stop.
"Li Zuojian, I will take the cloth out of your mouth, and let's talk calmly." The Chief Justice said to the tied man.
The man stopped struggling, looked much calmer, and nodded.
"Remember not to talk nonsense or scream."
The Chief Justice was warning him again, and when he saw that the Left Supervisor nodded again, he carefully took out the cloth strip from the Left Supervisor's mouth.
"Ying Chengjiao and Zhang Han killed four people without authorization! Dang Yisan, woooooooooooo!"
The Chief Justice was sweating profusely, and there was a deep bite mark on his hand - he was too hasty in stuffing the cloth strip into his hand, and was bitten hard by the Chief Justice's Left Supervisor.
But at this moment, he didn't care about the pain in his hand at all. He said to the officials of the Imperial Court on his left and right with an anxious look: "Go to the Imperial Court and invite the Lord Imperial Court!"
