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Chapter 460: Going to the Sea Again

"Take him down first, and then deal with Yunze who is captured by Yanfu Temple." Compared to Yang Lianzhenjia, a foreign monster monk, Li You hated Yunze even more. Yanfu Temple is in Lin'an Mansion. It is believed that he has not received much worship from the people around him. Maybe the Song Dynasty officials also reward Yanfu Temple, but he repaid his graves and instead digs out the graves of the emperors of the Southern Song Dynasty and the gentry of Lin'an. Such sins must have made him get the retribution he deserves.

When they arrived in the palace, everyone saw the white tower built by Yang Lianzhenjia that suppressed the fortune of the Song Dynasty. Without waiting for Li You to give the order, everyone rushed forward to completely demolish the tower and took out the bone colony pressing under the tower. Unfortunately, they didn't know how many of these bone colony were from emperors of the Southern Song Dynasty, and how many were from cattle and horses.

Later, the people of Lin'an, who were named Song Dynasty, secretly came to report to them, telling them that Tang Jue, a righteous man from Shaoxing, had already collected the bones of the previous emperors and buried them in front of the Yintianzhang Temple in Baoshan, with holly trees planted as a symbol. When Wen Tianxiang heard this, he immediately took people to rush to the Lanting Pavilion in Shaoxing to check, and indeed he saw the holly trees in front of Tianzhang Temple.

He ordered people to dig carefully. Soon after, he dug out several wooden boxes, with yellow silk signs on them, and signed the name of God and the name of the tomb. Everyone knelt down and cried. When they saw these things, they hated Yang Lianzhenjia and Yunze more and more.

He thanked Tang Jue and others who came here many times and asked him to bring his family and return to Liuqu. Tang Jue felt very sorry when he heard that the Song army had no strength to defend Lin'an City. However, in the end, he followed Wen Tianxiang and others' advice, went home to clean up the details and take his family and leave with them.

Wen Tianxiang and other civil officials personally carried the wooden box containing the bones of emperors of the Southern Song Dynasty and returned to the camp. Now these cannot be kept in Lin'an. They can only be brought back for a while, and then they will be buried with them after they are liberated from Tokyo Bianliang.

Wen Tianxiang finished this and it was the third day that the Song army had revived Ren'an. At this time, Yunze, the monk from Yanfu Temple, had also been captured by the Song army. However, Yunze didn't look very good now. He limped and could smell a wave of stench when he approached him.

After asking for a long time, Yunze explained the reason. It turned out that when he was digging out the body of Emperor Lizong, Monk Yunze was at the scene and kicked Lizong in the head to show that he was not afraid of evil and had no fear in his heart. But shortly after that, he began to experience strange pain from the soles of his feet, and after a while his thigh began to decay. He searched all the famous doctors in Lin'an Prefecture without any help. He did not respond to the Buddha when he recited scriptures and prayed day and night. So Monk Yunze regarded these as the ghosts of Emperor Lizong, and was restless day and night, and was frightened all day long.

Wen Tianxiang and others said they were unhappy in retribution when they heard this, but Li You didn't read it like this. He read many tomb robbers in later generations, and probably knew that most of the large tombs like this had poisons to protect the tomb owner's corpse from being violated. I guess this Monk Yunze was a poison left by Emperor Lizong in the tomb.

Since Yang Lianzhenjia and Monk Yunze have been arrested, it is time to deal with them now. Even Wen Tianxiang and others, who had previously been committed to repaying grievances with kindness, had no idea of ​​forgiveing ​​them when they saw this situation. Instead, they repeatedly strongly demanded that they never let the two of them die cheaply.

After discussing the tortures such as Lingchi, car splitting, and halving, Li You finally finalized the punishment measures for tomb robbers such as Yang Lianzhenjia, Yunze, and listened to the two of them offering sacrifices to others. The reason for digging out the tombs of emperors of all dynasties was because of greed for money. If this is the case, let them enjoy the happiness brought by gold and silver.

Li You ordered people to set up a big pot outside the Southern Song Dynasty Palace, and melted the silver found in it from the houses of Yang Lianzhenjia and Yunze. They tied these tomb robbers to the big pot, used a funnel to stretch their mouths and penetrated them deep into their throats. When the silver melted into juice, they then filled it with a spoon and slowly poured it into the funnel. The metal liquid flowed into their throats along the hole, and suddenly emitted a stench of burning blood and flesh.

Due to this torture, Yang Lianzhenjia, Yunze and others were in pain, and they were filled with feces and urine, hoping to die quickly. Unfortunately, Li You and others did not make them get what they wished so easily. He could instruct those officials who poured them silver juice to control the speed and measurement of the infusion, and they had to torture them.

These minor officials are all torture masters in the Jinyiwei, and this small problem cannot be at all difficult for them. Yang Lianzhenjia, Yunze and others have been tortured by them for more than an hour before they could not breathe.

Unfortunately, even if they died, these people did not intend to let them go. After burning the bodies, they would throw the ashes directly into the most filthy toilet in Lin'an City, so that they would never turn over.

These are just a small episode when Li You occupied Lin'an. In the past few days, they searched the Lin'an treasury and the residences of officials and generals in the city, left all the seized weapons to the local rebels, distributed the food and money that they could not take away to the local people, and took the young and strong men who were willing to join the army and their families to board the treasure ship again.

"I finally got back to the liberation and left like this?" Wen Tianxiang and others were quite unwilling to leave.

"There are many Yuan troops around Lin'an Prefecture. If you don't leave, you may not be able to leave." Li You did not have as much complex mentality as them. He saw the form around Lin'an Prefecture very clearly. He escaped tens of thousands of troops last time when he attacked Lin'an Prefecture. In addition, the surrounding troops were garrisoned, the Yuan army was far stronger than them. If he defended Lin'an Prefecture to the death, he would inevitably have a bloody battle. Even if he finally won, he would have consumed all the power he had accumulated, which would be too much of a loss.

"If you have land and people lose people, then people lose land. If you have land and people lose land, you will never be able to get it in the future." Li You said this and made these people reluctantly accept this decision.

The fleet sailed into the sea from the Qiantang River mouth and looked back at the shore. It seemed that countless people could be seen watching them leave. Wen Tianxiang and others were tearful and didn't know when they would truly regain the city.

When he arrived at the sea, Li You divided the fleet into two groups, one led by Wen Tianxiang, and brought the bone colonies of emperors of the Southern Song Dynasty back to the river for resettlement. The fleet also included useful materials collected from Lin'an Prefecture, the young and strong people who joined the army, as well as Tang Jue, a family of Shaoxing Yimin who restrained these bone colonies.
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