Chapter 402 I can get you out
Wang Ping'an did not know Su Dingfang's deeds particularly. In modern times, he had heard Su Dingfang's name. It seemed that he had destroyed the Turks, and he also destroyed the Baekje country. He was a very powerful general, but for some reason he was so devastated now.
He didn't ask, just sat aside with him. Su Dingfang didn't say anything. He let go of his mouth, ate and drank hard, and had enough food. He wiggled his mouth and said, "Wine is good wine, but it's a little less!"
Wang Ping'an said: "Wait a moment and there will be good wine to come."
Su Dingfang nodded, looked at Wang Ping'an, and asked, "Why did you become a third-rank official at a young age? How could you be a third-rank official? How many levels higher than me, a person who has been in the life of a hundred battles?" Although he has the position of General of the Central Army, he is at the fourth-rank, and he is indeed several levels younger than Wang Ping'an!
Wang Ping'an smiled. Su Dingfang had been imprisoned in Dali Temple for a long time and didn't know what he was outside, so he asked this. He said, "It's just luck. I don't have other skills, but I'm lucky!"
Su Dingfang shook his head and said, "I'm lucky, can I be locked up here? Look, this yard is good, no matter how good it is, it is used for house arrest!"
Wang Ping'an smiled and said, "When I lost my horse, maybe after I go out, the official will become bigger and bigger!"
After a moment of silence, Su Dingfang sighed: "My ability is not big or small, but it is just bad luck!" He sighed heavily.
At this time, someone outside the yard said, "Brother, the food you want is here!" As he spoke, Di Renjie walked in, followed by more than a dozen yamen runners outside, carrying food boxes in his hands.
Seeing that Su Dingfang was in the house, Di Renjie didn't know who the person was, so he just nodded and said hello. He said to Wang Ping'an: "Brother, do you think the wine and food are not suitable for your appetite? When do you want to eat the Jizhou flavor?"
Wang Ping'an pointed at Su Dingfang and said, "This is General Su Dingfang and Su, so he lives in the next yard. Have you seen it before?"
Di Renjie had never met Su Dingfang. He was just a tutor in Dali Temple. Even if he was valued, Qin Shaoqing would not let him contact someone like Su Dingfang. He shook his head and said, "I met you for the first time, young actor Di Renjie, I have met General Su."
Su Dingfang smiled and thought to himself: "Why are you so young? Could it be that I am already so old?"
The yamen runners removed the leftovers and replaced them with steaming new dishes. Di Renjie said: "Hamiti was afraid that the dishes would get cold, so he sent a horse team and came with food boxes. He didn't dare to delay the time at all."
Wang Ping'an nodded and said, "Where is the wine?"
Di Renjie hurriedly said: "I brought eight jars of wine in total, seven jars are famous wines outside the Frontier, and one jar is our own spirits!"
Su Dingfang looked at the busy yamen runners and felt that today's incident was incredible. He said, "Wang... Marquis, are you here to go to jail or come here to be the great master? I think you live a more comfortable life than the Dali Temple Minister!"
There was too much wine and food, and the table was not set up, so the yamen runners moved another table.
Wang Ping'an glanced at him, shook his head and sighed, "What's the comfort? This is not my own home, just deal with it." He waved his hand to Di Renjie and said, "Go and prepare hot water and bathtub. After eating, I want to take a shower!"
Di Renjie said, "Okay, I'll prepare now. I have to send someone to send me some clothes to change my brother." He smiled at Su Dingfang again and turned around and went out with the yamen runners.
Su Dingfang laughed a few times, and suddenly, he burst out laughing, pointed at Wang Ping'an, and said with a smile: "You are either here to go to jail, you are here to be the great master. I have been here for quite some time, but the people I see, in terms of style, are less than 10% of yours!"
Wang Ping'an smiled and said, "Luck, just luck!" He opened a jar of wine, smelled it, and said, "This is my own brew. The wine is very strong, and it matches your name, so you should try it?"
Su Dingfang said: "How strong can it be? Let me drink it in one breath!" He snatched the wine jar from Wang Ping'an's hand, and took a big mouthful of it to the mouth of the jar!
Wang Ping'an immediately stood up, hid aside, and shouted: "Spray!"
With a loud bang, Su Dingfang obediently sprayed out the wine and kept coughing: "This, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this?"
For the first time, a person who drinks strong alcohol can't stand it even if he drinks well. Besides, he is so anxious that it is really not easy to not spray!
Wang Ping'an took out his handkerchief, wiped the wine that he sprayed onto the chair, and said, "It's not wine, is it still a charcoal?"
Su Dingfang took a long time to recover and said, "It's not really like charcoal!" This time he took a closer look, and took a sip and said, "It's so exciting. Even Sanle Powder is far less than this wine!"
"Then drink more!" Wang Ping'an smiled. The two of them whipped up their glasses and started drinking.
As soon as he was drunk, Su Dingfang's words opened. Under Wang Ping'an's intentional guidance, he talked about why he was locked up here.
It turned out that Su Dingfang was a hero at the time. He rebelled with Dou Jiande and Liu Heita. After Dou Jiande failed, he went home to live in seclusion. Later, he could not stand the loneliness and came out to serve the Tang Dynasty again.
More than ten years ago, he followed Li Jing to the grassland. After a great battle, as a vanguard, he stepped on the tent of the Turkic Khan and made great contributions. But the Tang army let go of the robbery at that time, and robbed whatever he saw. After returning, Li Jing was impeached by the ministers, saying that he was plundering the troops!
As for war, killing and setting fires often. Not only Li Jing led his troops to rob him, but other generals had done this, but Li Shimin himself had done it. Cheng Zhijie even killed prisoners. No one would think there was anything wrong with this!
But the army of the Celestial Empire is a benevolent and righteous army. If we do something unbenevolent and righteous, we have to admit our mistakes! Therefore, no one of the monarchs and ministers cares, and intends to act and show them the scared people of the foreign countries. If we have any mistakes, we will admit it and make another statement.
Li Shimin planned to raise it high and let it go gently. He personally held Li Jing accountable. Li Jing was so smart that he didn't argue and directly pleaded guilty. Yes, I was a plundering army, please punish the emperor!
Admitting mistakes is a good minister, and Li Shimin did not do anything to him. But when asked about Su Dingfang, Su Dingfang was a little confused, but he didn't admit it! Su Dingfang said that he did not plunder the troops and did not do anything, so he would not plead guilty!
As a result, if you want to learn to be an official, you must first learn to be a human being! Not to mention how Su Dingfang will be a human being in the future, he will be quite good at being a human being, but more than ten years ago he was quite ignorant of being a human being. He learned from his mistakes and gained wisdom. At that time, because he had never taken this disaster, he did not gain this wisdom!
The generals who plundered the troops admitted that they had done something wrong, but everyone was fine. But Su Dingfang, a man who did not plundered the troops, refused to "accept", so he was the only one who had something to do!
He "don't admit his fault", so the case could not be settled, and it was delayed for more than ten years. In fact, it was more than twenty years. When Wang Ping'an saw him, the case was not over. The case could not be settled, so Dali Temple had to continue to be tried. After a while, Su Dingfang was brought in and put under house arrest. This time, the house arrest lasted a little longer, for several years!
But Su Dingfang just refused to admit his guilt. He just refused to admit what he had never done! So Wang Ping'an met him!
However, Su Dingfang's ideas were constantly changing. When it came to Wu Meiniang's era, he finally figured it out and followed Xu Jingzong's path. Xu Jingzong recommended him to Wu Meiniang. At that time, Wu Meiniang was in a difficult period, and the famous officials and generals in the court did not listen to her. She had to find those capable but unsuccessful generals. When Xu Jingzong talked about Su Dingfang, he was the one who broke through the tent of the Turkic Khan. Wu Meiniang immediately activated him!
Su Dingfang was really amazing. Once the military power was in control, he directly destroyed the Turks and then pacified the Pamirs. This was the rebellion of the current generation of Tajikistan and Afghanistan, and then destroyed Baekje!
When it comes to war, Su Dingfang is better than Cheng Zhijie, and is one of the best super generals in the Tang Dynasty at that time! However, later generations did not have a high opinion of him because Su Dingfang and Xu Jingzong, a treacherous minister, were good, and Li Yifu, the number one bastard in the court at that time, was also very nice to him, so later generations deliberately forgot about Su Dingfang, and his fame was far less than Cheng Zhijie and Li Ji and others!
But then again, I was neglected for more than 20 years, from youth to old age, and then I was taken seriously. If anyone had anything to do, no one would have been able to swallow this. Su Dingfang just followed Xu Jingzong's path, but he was not a treacherous minister and had never done anything bad. Instead, he made great contributions to the country!
Su Dingfang didn't know what would happen in the future, but he just said the past. After hearing this, Wang Ping'an couldn't help but sigh. This is really hard for a good person to do!
He said, "Brother Su, you must have been very distressed over the past ten years, but why don't you follow the advice and say good things? Just say that you snatch the Turkic people, it's not a big deal. You will be restored to your post, so why stay here? You have worked hard, and your family may not be as comfortable as you do, right?"
Su Dingfang drank all the jar of strong wine and sighed: "Even if you admit it now, it's useless. In more than ten years, the emperor has forgotten me. What can I do if I go out? It will only make my former colleagues look down on me and have a ruined future. It's better to stand firm to the end, and at least you can still gain a good reputation!"
Wang Ping'an tilted his head and looked at him, and suddenly laughed: "If you want to close the case and get your official position to be restored, you don't have to admit it. You can just keep it up!"
Su Dingfang was spraying with alcohol in his mouth and said, "It's nonsense. If it's very useful, I still have to be as angry as a petty official here!"
Wang Ping'an said: "I will persuade His Highness the Crown Prince and ask him to issue a handwritten order to conclude this case!"
Su Dingfang nodded and said, "It's nonsense, the prince doesn't recognize me..." He was drunk and before he finished speaking, he lay on the table and fell asleep.
Chapter completed!