Chapter 1088: Kill the chicken and scare the monkey
When the clouds first arrived in Chengdu, the weather in Chengdu never became clear.
It doesn’t rain either, but the sky is always gray. If you stretch out your hand, you can even touch the moisture in the air. The moisture is obviously already heavy and stubbornly stays in the air, unwilling to turn into rain and fall to the ground. .
The city wall in Chengdu is made of rammed earth, which is very different from the rammed earth city wall in Chang'an before. The rammed earth city wall in Chang'an is earthy yellow. The rammed earth city wall here will show an ugly ocher color in the daytime. In the Tang Dynasty, only death row prisoners wore ocher clothes before execution.
Yunchu was sitting under a shed. Less than a hundred meters away from him was a high platform. On the high platform were fifty-six sinners waiting to be slaughtered.
These fifty-six people are all people the emperor has confirmed to kill, and no one can save them.
The eight thousand armored soldiers in Shu were defeated at the hands of the barbarians from the southwest. This made the officials in Shu feel ashamed for a long time. Although Rongzhou Sima Zhang Qiu Xiaofang died in the battle, his wife and children could not escape death.
Sima He Rudao of Meizhou failed to rescue him, so He Rudao and his three sons were beheaded.
Junzhou Sima Liu Hanyuan retreated from the battle, Liu Hanyuan and his second son were beheaded.
In addition to the fact that the three armies turned against the captains, school captains and so on, Chengdu Governor Yang Wenhua prepared a total of fifty-six people for Yun Chu to sacrifice the flag.
Yun Chu glanced at Chengdu Governor Yang Wenhua who was standing aside and said: "I have never heard of a general who died in battle and then beheaded his family members."
Yang Wenhua said: "If you defeat an army and humiliate the country, kill it to serve as a warning to others."
Yun Chu said again: "These people have worked so hard to escape with their lives. Why, do you still want to give Sheng Luopi greater military exploits?"
Yang Wenhua said: "If you retreat, you cannot defend the land and bring peace to the people. If you advance, you cannot kill the enemy and serve the country. Kill them!"
Yun Chu didn't speak to him anymore. He slowly stood up and came to the high platform. He looked at Zhangchou Xiaofang's 18-year-old eldest son and said, "Do you think you, Aye, have tried your best?"
Zhang Qiu Xianliang, the eldest son of Zhang Qiu Xiaofang, said: "I heard that my father's body was devoured by the barbarians. The barbarians did not eat people in the past. If they had not hated my father so much, they would never have done such an evil thing."
Yun Chu nodded, then came to Meizhou Sima He Rudao and said, "Do you think Zhang Qiu Xiaofang gave his best?"
He Rudao said sadly: "The guilty general was dragged to Luchuan by seven thousand people led by Malai'aqu, the master of Yinfeng Cave. Luchuan and Shuangjiangchuan were only two miles apart. The guilty general fought to the death for two days. Zhangqiu Xiaofang also fought fiercely on the other side. On and on, you could still hear the explosion of gunpowder bombs coming from the Jiangchuan side on the first day, but you couldn't hear it on the second day. When Ma Lai'aqu appeared in front of the guilty general's formation with Zhang Qiu Xiaofang's head on his spear, The guilty general then knew that Zhangchou Xiaofang's entire army had been wiped out, so he had to retreat back and look for an opportunity to fight again."
Yun Chu said nothing when he came to a brigade commander and said, "You are supervising the battle for the former army. The soldiers of the first brigade were killed. Why are you alone?"
He was about to be beheaded, so the brigade commander said lifelessly: "God won't accept it."
Yun Chu asked the executioner to tear off his ocher clothes, took a look at the two horrific scars on his chest that had not yet completely healed, then looked at his smooth back, nodded and said: "The battle is quite brave."
After that, he pointed to the other captains, captains, regimental commanders, brigade commanders, and executioners and immediately stepped forward and tore off their ocher clothes. Anyone with unhealed wounds on their bodies would be dragged aside. As long as there are no wounds on the body, they will continue to stay on the stage.
Yun Chu finally came to Junzhou Sima Liu Hanyuan and said, "You are the one who deserves to be killed. Tell me a reason why I won't kill you."
Liu Hanyuan first glanced at Yun Chu in confusion, and then lowered his head dejectedly. However, his eyes inadvertently glanced at Yun Chu's extremely uncomfortable left foot. He was stunned for a moment, and then followed Yun Chu's toes. Looking over from his position, he was shocked to find that Yunchu's toes were pointing at Yang Wenhua, the governor of Chengdu.
It is said that people's wisdom before death is extraordinary. He shouted loudly without thinking: "Commander, the guilty minister was wronged——"
Yun Chu said with satisfaction: "You were wronged there, who has wronged you again?"
Liu Hanyuan said loudly: "Commander Qi, the guilty minister was originally an official, and his duties were for the emperor's herdsmen. This Yang Wenhua knew clearly that the guilty minister was not familiar with military affairs, but because his predecessor, Sima Yang Wenyu, could not bear to fight hard in the mountains, this Yang Wenhua So he withdrew his younger brother Yang Wenyu and promoted him to the post of Sima. He appointed him one day and ordered him to go to Tongjiuchuan to take up the post the next day.
Commander, the guilty minister has been wronged. In less than three days after arriving at Tongji River, the barbarian cave master Manlong of Wangjiang Cave led the masters of the sixteen caves and came to kill him.
The guilty minister ordered a battle, but had no choice but to see the barbarians all over the mountains and plains, and all of his officers were frightened. The guilty minister had no choice but to order a retreat. Unexpectedly, the barbarians were chasing after them in a hurry, and some barbarians intercepted and killed them on the way. So, the army There was chaos, and the guilty officials had no choice but to flee, just to save their lives and wait for the commander-in-chief to come and expose Yang Wenhua's illegal activities."
Yun Chu glanced at Yang Wenhua, whose face was livid, and asked Liu Hanyuan, "What else is he doing illegally?"
Liu Hanyuan loudly said: "Corruption and perversion of the law, deprivation of military rations, deception of superiors and deceitful subordinates to seize the merits of officers and men, occupying official fields for one's own use, snatching women of common people for subordinates, plundering southwest merchants, destroying corpses and traces, among them, Sheng Luopi Three caravans from our army were plundered by Yang Wenhua, and the owner of one of the caravans was the eldest son of Sheng Luopi. It can be said that the root of the Southwest Rebellion lies in his body, Yang Wenhua."
When Yun Chu heard this, he looked at Yang Wenhua and said, "Is everything he said true?"
Yang Wenhua held his head high and said: "That's a bunch of nonsense."
Liu Hanyuan said loudly: "This matter is not known to anyone in Chengdu. The commander will know it once he investigates."
Yang Wenhua hurriedly came to the stage, kicked Liu Hanyuan over, and said to Yun Chu: "Commander, at noon, please order the prisoner to be punished on the spot."
Yun Chu raised his head and glanced at the gray sky, shook his head and said: "It doesn't matter whether you can kill people at noon. As long as there are no unjust deaths under my sword, it doesn't matter even if you miss noon, their souls will not dare to come to me." He’s so handsome and troublesome.”
Yang Wenhua said in a low voice: "The commander-in-chief has been asked to execute the execution immediately. I will report the situation to you if I have any information."
Yun Chu said with a smile: "How much money do you plan to spend to stop this handsome man's mouth?"
Yang Wenhua stretched out two fingers.
Yun Chu said: "Two million strings?"
Yang Wenhua's face was earthy.
Yun Chu smiled and said: "If you can come up with two million guan, I will personally write a letter to Your Majesty. No matter how serious a crime you have committed, how about it be written off?"
Yang Wenhua said with a pale face: "Two hundred thousand yuan, please show mercy to me, Marshal."
Yunchu sighed and said: "The Yang family in Shuzhong has been a prince for many generations. During the Western Jin Dynasty, your brother Yang Bohou in Shuzhong was the richest in the world. For hundreds of years, you can't even afford a mere two million yuan. You are really stingy.
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Yang Wenhua looked at Yun Chu with a look of resentment on his face and said: "The commander-in-chief has power in the southwest, and the general is not without roots."
Yunchu smiled nonchalantly and said: "In the 21st year of Zhenguan, when Yuchi Gong destroyed Shu, there were eight surnames: Yao, Guo, Shi, Zhang, Ji, Li and Zhao. How did your Yang family escape?"
When Yang Wenhua heard what Yunchu said, he didn't know what terrible thing he thought of. His body fell softly to the ground, and he kowtowed repeatedly: "Please have mercy on your majesty, please have mercy on your majesty."
Yun Chu said to Zhang Donghai who was following him: "Behead brothers Yang Wenhua and Yang Wenyu together with those who ran away from the battle. The remaining sinners will be punished with an eighty stick as a warning."
Zhang Donghai promised and ordered the soldiers to go and do things. Yun Chu slowly got off the high platform and returned to his seat. He said to Chengdu Yin Guo Ziping, who was as thick as sieve chaff, "Does Ling Yi think that this commander is doing things too much?"
Is it crude?"
Guo Ziping shook his head repeatedly and said: "Very good, very good. The commander-in-chief is decisive in killing and killing, and the subordinate officials are far behind."
Yun Chu's face suddenly turned cold, and he whispered: "The Chengdu Liushui brand is still unable to operate normally. Is this because you people are causing trouble behind the scenes?
In the 21st year of Zhenguan, although your Guo family in Shuzhong was cleaned up once, in my opinion, the cleanup done by Duke E was not clean enough. You are so arrogant, do you want to be cleaned up again?"
After saying this, Yun Chu's cold gaze passed over a group of Shuzhong officials. In an instant, seven or eight people fell limply to the ground and fainted.
Yun Chu currently has 50,000 troops stationed at Qixingqiao in the west of Chengdu. No one dares to think of any other way out in front of Yun Chu, a famous general of the Tang Dynasty.
Guo Ziping said in a trembling voice: "I will order my people to fully support the Chengdu Liushui brand to regain its former prosperity."
Yun Chu said bluntly to Guo Ziping: "I have never liked killing my own people. The main reason why I killed Yang Wenhua was that he was too greedy. As long as you serve as officials well and support me to pacify the southwest, not only will you not be guilty, but you will
Meritful."
Guo Ziping whispered: "Does Your Majesty really want to carry out the 21st year of Zhenguan?"
Yun Chu said: "Your Majesty reduced the taxes in Jiannan Road for three years, which means to hide wealth among the people. Unexpectedly, after I entered Shuzhong, I found that the people have not become rich, but you are all eating up.
Without killing some people, we really can't curb the greed of you Shu rats.
I even want to suggest that Your Majesty send officials from the east and west stations to monitor the officials in central Shu every five years."
Guo Ziping sighed and said: "That's good, so as not to cause heads in Sichuan again."
While he was talking, Zhang Donghai and the people from Chengdu Baiqisi had already tied up the newly captured criminals with Yang Wenhua. Together with some prisoners who escaped before the battle, they also had fifty-six prisoners.
Yun Chu took a look at the incense on the table and it had burned to the end. It should be three quarters past noon. He looked up at the gray sky and ordered in a deep voice: "Beat the drum!"
Following Yunchu's order, the heavy war drums were beaten by two strong men, boom, boom, boom... The drums sounded heavier and heavier each time, and each one sounded faster than the last.
The sound of the drums merged into the air, and the water in the shaking air also gathered together. At first, there was only a few drops of rain, but after the sound of the three-way drum, heavy rain poured down.
The executioner standing in the rain wiped a handful of rainwater from his eyes, and when he heard the herald's cry of "cut"! He used all his strength to chop down the machete in his hand.