When all the soldiers were slaughtered by the black-armored cavalry, Li Xiaochang suddenly screamed hysterically.
As soon as he opened his mouth, everyone knew what happened.
Obviously, he planned this assassination.
Li Shentong was riding towards the field. Hearing Li Xiaochang's roar, he didn't even blink and ordered coldly: "Get them!"
A group of troops led by Li Shentong swarmed forward in an instant, surrounded Li Xiaochang and Li Xiaochang's family members, and then tied them up.
"escape!"
Someone shouted, and six or seven figures emerged from the crowd and fled in four directions.
The civil and military ministers who were about to rush to the carriage to protect the king were stunned when they saw the figure running away in embarrassment.
If they read it correctly, three of them are county kings, and three are above the fifth rank.
"Take them all! No one is allowed to let go!"
Yu Wenbao waved the horizontal knife in his hand and shouted loudly.
In an instant, all civil and military ministers with some martial arts skills and some manpower pounced on the seven or eight fleeing figures.
For the civil and military ministers of the Tang Dynasty, there was no need to think too much about arresting a few treasonous criminals.
Because almost all of them know martial arts, and their martial arts are not weak.
"Plop!"
While everyone was busy catching the treasonous murderer, the leader of the black-armored cavalry led a group of cavalry and carried several soldiers whose armor and stomach had been removed and threw them in front of Li Yuanji.
The leader of the black-armored cavalry lifted up his visor, revealing a weathered face with many wrinkles and age spots. The beard and hair on the temples were all white.
"Your Majesty, Shi Wanbao, has lived up to the king's orders and has captured all the villains. Please make your decision, Your Highness."
The leader of the black-armored cavalry, Shi Wanbao, bowed his hands slightly and saluted, and then spoke in a voice that had experienced many vicissitudes of life.
"Your Majesty, Zhao Chengyong, has lived up to the king's orders and has captured all the villains. Please make your decision, Your Highness."
Behind Shi Wanbao, there was another black-armored cavalry who also raised his visor, imitating Shi Wanbao's example and arching his hands as he spoke.
Li Yuanji nodded, with a smile on his face and said: "Thank you for your hard work, Mr. Yuan..."
Shi Wanbao laughed and said boldly: "It's rare that Your Highness still remembers the old minister and is willing to use the old minister. The old minister is not hard at all."
For people like Shi Wanbao, who was born as a general and became a ranger in the middle, a heroic sacrifice blooming in the sky like fireworks, leaving the most beautiful symbol, and then quickly withering, this is what they want.
It is the saddest thing for them to do nothing and stay alone in the house until they die.
Therefore, Shi Wanbao was not afraid that the imperial court would use him, a veteran minister who was in his seventies and almost eighty years old, but he was afraid that the imperial court would not use him because of his old age, and would let him die alone in the palace.
Li Yuanji smiled and nodded, then looked at Zhao Chengyong and said, "Is the injury healed?"
Zhao Chengyong smiled unnaturally and said: "I have been raising them for almost half a year, and they are all ready."
This time, Shi Wanbao led Zhao Chengyong's subordinates, the Yanyun Cavalry that Li Yi devotedly built.
Li Xiaochang didn't know how many people with evil intentions he had contacted, where they were hiding, and what positions they held, and it was difficult to check them blatantly.
Therefore, in order to avoid leaking the news, the Twelve Guards cannot be used, nor can other troops be mobilized.
It's just right to let Zhao Chengyong, a force that is about to be forgotten, take action.
Li Yuanji nodded again and said: "Bring the people you captured to Dali Temple for interrogation. You can take a group of soldiers back to rest first. After everything is found out, I will reward you for your merits."
When Shi Wanbao heard this, he laughed loudly and said: "Your Highness will take care of the matter of rewards based on merit. I only hope that Your Highness will use my old ministers more often in the future, so that they will not get rusty while staying in the house."
Li Yuanji smiled and said: "Definitely!"
Shi Wanbao didn't waste any more nonsense, greeted Zhao Chengyong, took the black-armored cavalry and left with a cheer.
It really comes like the wind and goes like the wind.
Don't be sloppy or procrastinate.
"Li Shentong, why did you betray us? Don't you care about the life and death of your wife and children?"
At this time, Li Shentong grabbed Li Xiaochang and arrived in front of the carriage. Li Xiaochang was still yelling at Li Shentong because the matter was exposed.
It's a pity that Li Shentong ignored him from beginning to end and didn't say a word.
After Li Shentong threw Li Xiaochang under the carriage's shaft, Li Yuanji stared at Li Xiaochang condescendingly and asked: "Uncle Wang of Yi'an, I asked myself that I didn't offend you, why did you do this?"
When Li Xiaochang heard this, he no longer bothered Li Shentong. He slowly raised his neck and said with a ferocious face: "You have not offended me, but you are doing the opposite and destroying my Li family's empire?"
Li Yuanji slowly raised his chest and said loudly: "Since I came to power, my country, the Tang Dynasty, first defeated the Turkic invasion, recovered six and a half states, and re-registered the household registration for hundreds of thousands of people who had escaped from hiding.
, which expanded the population of our Datang Dynasty.
Our Tang Dynasty is developing towards a more prosperous and prosperous situation, so why did it become a retrograde move and destroy our Li family?
If making the Tang Dynasty prosperous is considered perverse, then what is considered upright?"
Li Xiaochang said with a ferocious smile: "You ignore the ethical principles, usurp the power that belongs to your eldest brother, and destroy the family rules that my eldest son inherits the family business that my family, Li, has always followed. Isn't it perverse?"
Li Yuanji chuckled and said, "So if you let me watch my eldest brother and my second brother kill each other, and in the end kill both of them, until the Tang Dynasty falls apart, is this a good act?"
Li Xiaochang straightened up slightly and said confidently: "If your eldest brother and your second brother are at odds, you should support your eldest brother and get rid of your second brother. This is the right thing to do."
Li Yuanji said funnyly: "My eldest brother can't even tolerate my second brother, so how can he tolerate me? How can such a brother be a role model for our generation?"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Li Xiaochang said without hesitation: "So you usurp power and seize the throne and destroy the family rules that my family, Li, has always followed? You still say that you are not rebellious?"
Li Yuanji found it even funnier, "Uncle Wang, whose power have I usurped? All the power in my hands was given to me by my father, not taken from me.
Whose throne have I usurped? My father is still the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and my eldest brother is still the prince of the Tang Dynasty."
Li Xiaochang was stunned for a moment and sneered: "This is where you are dangerous! You want both life and profit, and you just want your eldest brother to stand in front of you and be your puppet!"
Li Yuanji shook his head and smiled: "Uncle Wang, you underestimate me too much. If I think so, then I am as unambitious as you."
Li Xiaochang was stunned again, and then yelled angrily: "What do you mean by this?"
Li Yuanji said with a smile: "I mean, you are all dead!"
After saying this, Li Yuanji ordered without hesitation, "Come here, take all the people back and hand them over to Zongzheng Temple and Dali Temple for interrogation.
After thorough interrogation, all those involved will be arrested and brought to prison, and then convicted in accordance with the law."
"Li Yuanji!"
Li Xiaochang still wanted to speak.
Li Yuanji was too lazy to listen to Li Xiaochang's speech, and directly waved his hand and asked Li Shentong and Yu Wenbao to take everyone away.
Yang Miaoyan, who had been hiding in the carriage, poked his head out at this time, but was driven back by Li Yuanji. Then Li Yuanji told everyone to disperse and continue doing whatever they were supposed to do.
As if everything that just happened was nothing.
But smart people all know that the officialdom of the Tang Dynasty is about to face a major earthquake.
The assassination has ended, but the series of turbulence caused by the assassination has just begun.
There are four county princes and three high-ranking officials involved in the incident this time. It is obvious that they have jumped out, and I am afraid there are more who have not jumped out.
After this thorough investigation, not only the royal family and nobles, but also civil and military officials will probably undergo a general purge.
Li Yuanji handed this matter over to Zongzheng Temple and Dali Temple and never asked about it again.
After returning to the palace, Li Yuanji immediately ordered the general to recruit people to build a corridor behind the Zhuming Gate that ran through the east and west of the Tai Chi Palace, completely dividing the Tai Chi Palace into two halves.
From now on, the area to the north of Taiji Palace belonged to the palace city of Taiji Palace, where Li Yuan, Li Jiancheng, and Li Shimin lived, as well as all the Yingying Yanyans in the palace.
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The area south of Taiji Palace is the imperial city of Taiji Palace, and will be the office space in the future.
The inner palace and the outer palace are completely separated and do not interfere or disturb each other.
From now on, foreign officials will not be allowed to enter the inner palace, and it will not be easy for the people in the inner palace to get out.
This is equivalent to building a big cage to enclose Li Yuan, Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin.
Li Yuanji has wanted to do this for a long time, but he has never found a suitable opportunity.
After all, Li Yuan is only in his fifties, Li Jiancheng is only in his thirties, and Li Shimin is less than thirty. They are all at their most energetic. Letting them stay in Liangyi Palace or Anlimen will put them at risk.
I can't hold back my madness.
Therefore, dividing more living areas for them can also make them live more comfortably.
But at the same time, they also have to endure a life of imprisonment.
Now Li Xiaochang, together with a group of princes and ministers, carried out the assassination, which just gave Li Yuanji an excuse.
Li Yuanji could just use this excuse to accomplish what he had wanted to do for a long time.
After the convicts began to work, Li Shentong, Yu Wenbao, and the newly appointed Minister of Justice Shi Wanbao had already completed the examination of Li Xiaochang and others.
A total of more than 100 people involved in the incident were interrogated, including more than ten senior officials and nobles.
Faced with these people, Li Yuanji did not hesitate and killed all the evil leaders, and sent the remaining people and their family records to Jiaozhou, Liangzhou, Daizhou and other places respectively.
