Sun Aying led the squad of guards, Zhang Yanling and other generals were waiting outside the north gate of the palace.
After waiting for a long time, a fast horse came from the direction of the palace.
When the messenger on horseback saw Sun Aying, he dismounted, knelt down on one knee, took out letters, military orders, tokens and other items from his arms, and raised them above his head.
Sun Aying took the letter first, opened it, took a look, and said to the other generals: "Shilang Kong and General Uncle Shen have wiped out the rebels, and there is no danger in the palace."
All the generals breathed a sigh of relief.
Sun Aying continued to read the letter, and the more he read, the more frightened he became. When he saw the end, he couldn't help but ask the messenger: "Is Minister Kong really going to do this?"
The messenger raised his hands and said, "Shilang Kong asked me to bring you four words."
Sun Aying: "What four words?"
Messenger: "Military orders are like mountains."
When Sun Aying heard this, he was silent for a moment.
After a long time, Sun Aying picked up the military order and token and said to the messenger: "Please go back and reply to Minister Kong. Just say that someone knows about it."
Seeing the messenger leaving, all the generals gathered together and asked Sun Aying: "Military envoy, what did the government say?"
Sun Aying took out several pieces of paper from the letter and said to the generals: "The prominent families on this list are all involved in tonight's rebellion. The government has issued a military order to close the gates of Liangzhou City, and then divide the troops to rush there.
Surround the houses of the clans on the list to ensure that no one can escape, read out the crimes on the spot, and then execute the clan members who rebelled against the party on the spot."
When Ban Weizheng heard this, he couldn't help but be startled and asked Sun Aying: "Military envoy, what does the entire clan mean...?"
Sun Aying closed his eyes and sighed: "Rebellion and clan crime, all members of the clan, regardless of men, women, old or young, no matter how far or near the clan branch, will be razed without leaving a single person."
Ban Weizheng took a breath of cold air.
Sun Aying opened his eyes and distributed the general's order to the generals: "The Dou Army has eighty teams with four banners, and the Guiyi Army has two and forty teams. They each go to the city squares in the southeast, northwest, block the gates, and then surround them.
When you live in the house of a rebel clan, don’t let anyone escape! After the incident, remember to count the bodies and record them in a register. The household department has the household registration list of each major clan and the members of the clan. If one person is missing afterwards, the whole city will be killed.
The search, by then, will probably be laborious and time-consuming."
When the generals heard this, they sang loudly.
Ban Weizheng and Zhang Yanling led a group of soldiers and rushed to the mansion where the Pei family was located.
The sound of horse hooves trampled on the long street, and there was a rapid and heavy sound, just like the death bell of Yama in hell, which made people shudder.
Arriving at the door of Pei's house, Ban Wei Zheng shouted an order on his horse, ordering several groups of soldiers to go around to the back house and light torches every ten steps to illuminate the street to ensure that no one in the house could escape.
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After arranging everything, the squadron guard took out the military order and shouted loudly in front of the house: "Pei Sizhao is a jackal, a wolf and an ugly man. He dares to go against the rules of nature. He doesn't know the kindness of being exposed, and he often resorts to rampant tactics. He robs the government, leads troops into the palace, and plots murders.
Your Majesty, you are so cruel and evil that you will never forgive..."
Before the book was finished reading, the door of Pei's house suddenly opened, and an elderly man in his eighties walked out tremblingly, leaning on a cane.
"I am Pei Biao, the head of the Pei family. The family is unfortunate, and Pei Sizhao has caused trouble. I am willing to donate all the belongings of the Pei family, a total of six million guan, in order to ask for mercy from the superior and spare the lives of the whole family."
Ban Weizheng looked at Pei Bing and shook his head slightly: "Pei Sizhao committed a crime of not being able to forgive the death penalty. How can he use his wealth to survive if he is as good as the Yi people?"
Zhang Yanling on the side was a little impatient. He drew his weapon directly and said to Ban Weizheng: "Why bother talking nonsense with him? After dealing with this family, there are still many things to do next!"
After saying that, Zhang Yanling took a step forward and, amid the screams of the Pei family members, slashed Pei Bing to death.
Upon seeing this, Ban Weizheng put away the order, nodded to his subordinates and said, "Let's do the work."
A group of soldiers rushed into Pei's house, searched each courtyard and house one by one, and killed whoever they saw.
Half an hour later, there was no one left alive in the huge Pei family.
Stepping on the blood all over the ground, Zhang Yanling lowered himself, wiped all the blood stains on the blade of the knife on the clothes of the deceased, and said to Ban Wei Zheng: "Wang Liulang has become the Lord's personal guard, which is considered to be prosperous.
It’s not like us, doing all the dirty work here.”
Ban Weizheng looked at the body of a man at his feet and said: "When I was a child in Chang'an, someone told me that people from well-established families are born to be noble people, and they are not comparable to lowly families like us. Now it seems that,
Under the sword, no one is different."
Hearing this, Zhang Yanling smiled and said: "I used to meet those noble families on the road, and I always dreamed of joining them. Even being a groom, I thought it was lucky. After joining the army, I came to understand that a man's life is a good one."
Between heaven and earth, you should achieve great things, how can you rely on others?"
After the military officers counted the corpses, compared their appearance and age, they were recorded in a book and handed over to Ban Wei Zheng.
The latter put away his books, stepped out of Pei's house, and got on his horse again.
In the streets not far away, there were shouts of killing and screams again. It must be that other generals were cleaning up the rebels.
Zhang Yanling wiped the blood on his hands with the dry cloth beside his horse sack, got on his horse and came to Ban Weizheng's side. He looked back at Pei Zhai and said, "Three hundred and seventy-five people, not a lot of them."
Ban Weizheng looked not far away and said quietly: "After tonight, I don't know how many people will die in the city."
Zhang Yanling snorted: "Back then, there were frequent floods and droughts in Guanzhong. The village I was in, as well as the surrounding prefectures and counties, often thousands of people died of hunger, disease, and murder every day. Walking in
On the country road, wherever you look, there are corpses that have not been taken away."
"But those aristocratic families with a mountain of wealth are driving up the price of food and watching the people change their sons to eat. At that time, who will show mercy to us victims, and who will persuade those nobles to show mercy?"
Hearing this, Ban Weizheng nodded slightly: "Would this world be better off without these prominent families?"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Zhang Yanling said: "Whether this world would be better without those prominent families, I don't know. But I know,
If there is no commander-in-chief in this world, we refugees will definitely live in a life worse than death."
Ban Weizheng nodded slightly and said: "Let's go, it's almost dawn, we still have many things to do."
One night in Liangcheng, blood flowed everywhere.
The aristocratic families in the city, including Pei, Wei, Xue, Fang, Liu, Cui, etc., a total of seventeen surnames, participated in the rebellion in the palace and the attack on the princess's mansion.
Pei Sizhao, Xue Yide, Wei Jun and other key conspirators were executed by Lingchi, and their heads were hung on the top of Liangzhou City.
Clan families with the six major surnames of Pei, Wei, Xue, Fang, Liu, and Cui were punished for the crime of conspiracy, the Yi clan was sentenced, family properties were confiscated, and genealogies were burned.
The remaining 11 surnames were punished as accessories to the rebellion, and the family members were executed. The remaining members of the clan were made slaves and sent to Anxi as coolies. The family properties were confiscated, the genealogy was burned, and the old surnames were not allowed to be used.
Officials from the Ministry of Revenue will conduct statistics after the incident subsides.
On the night of the rebellion in Liangzhou City, more than 5,300 people from various surnames (including tribesmen, retainers, and private soldiers) were massacred. In the next ten days, more than 1,200 people were involved.
In the case, because they were found guilty of the same crime, they were questioned and sentenced to beheading.
Taken together, the number of clan members who died as a result of the Liangcheng Incident exceeded 6,500.
Because of this incident, the entire clan of Liangzhou City was almost uprooted; the number of civil and military officials in the DPRK and China was also reduced by almost half.
Due to the lack of official positions in the three provinces and six ministries, they even had to temporarily hire military staff to serve as their replacements.
After this incident, when the nobles in the country talked about Liangzhou, they all became wary and their expressions changed drastically.
Kong You's name spread like wildfire, and no one dared to call him "Kong Chi".
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