Chapter 5 Wuming (Part 1) knew that she could not keep Hongfu, and Li Waner no longer tried to keep her. As a woman who had been abandoned by her husband without hesitation as a burden, she knew that there were some injuries in this world that could never be cured. Maybe
Time will slowly dilute the blood on the wound, but at any time, even if there is a hint of wind blowing up, the hidden wound will still hurt.
The only way to temporarily forget the pain is to find other important things and fill up all your free time. Just like her now, she is busy in the army from morning to night every day, and has countless orders to give.
Countless chores had to be sorted out. Even if Chai Shao came to talk to him deliberately, the two people who were still husband and wife in name would have to spend a lot of effort to change the topic from military affairs to private matters. Often at this time, new military information came to them.
After entering, both sides had to immerse themselves in military affairs again.
"I have asked Duke Tang to send me troops. After the capital is conquered, I will lead an army and go north!" Looking at his wife who lowered her head again, Chai Shao whispered that the direction to go north was naturally the direction of the Turkic invasion. He knew that his wife
I must be happy that I did this, but I couldn't see the slightest emotion in the other person's eyes that were focused on the official document.
"I analyzed it carefully. It is impossible for the Turks to choose only one road to go south. They have many tribes, and each of them is afraid that the other will take advantage of them. So, the most likely possibility is that there are multiple roads going at the same time, and Zhuojun is just one of them. Taiyuan...
.." Chai Shao deliberately stopped talking, wanting to test whether Wan'er was listening to his analysis. The person in front of him just raised his eyebrows, and then turned his attention to official duties again.
"The Liang division on the west side is weak. Although Honghua County is crucial to the Li family, it is far away from Chang'an!" Chai Shao sighed softly and continued, "So, I'm not going to go to the West Road. I'm going to go there."
In the Yanmen area, if the Turks come over from Liu Wuzhou's territory, I can use my cavalry to compete with him!"
"Then be careful! Yuanji is still a child, don't expect him to help you at all. If the war doesn't go well, you can always retreat to the Wutai Mountains where the terrain is undulating and unsuitable for cavalry. Even if the Turks want to chase you,
You may not be able to find a way into the mountain!" Li Waner finally answered, but her words were limited to military opinions.
Even so, Chai Shao was overjoyed. He didn't expect to be completely forgiven by his wife, but the two of them were officers under Tang Gong's account. It was really not an option to always be at a standstill. Besides, the current wife was not the same as before, which could only drag him down.
Wan'er, who lost her life, now has tens of thousands of tigers and wolves standing behind her, and a father who may become the emperor in a short time. For a man who aspires to further his career, what dowry can be better than these tens of thousands of troops?
Is it thicker than Shortcut to Babel?
Thinking that the relationship between the two might take a turn for the better, Chai Shao spoke in a gentler tone. Although deep down, doing so made him embarrassed, but as a man is alive, he has to face reality. "Wan'er..." He said
Calling his wife's name in a low voice, his face full of love and prayer
"Is there anything else?" Li Waner looked up from the official document, her bright eyes like the cold moon on a winter night.
"No, there's nothing else. I just want to ask this time. If the Detachment of Women enters the city first, do you really plan to be the commander-in-chief of the troops going north?" Chai Shao looked a little nervous and asked stammeringly.
"Then my women's army must be the first to enter the city! We have been attacking for nine days..." Li Waner also sighed softly. She knew that Chai Shao was trying to make up for the rift between the two, but the more he made up for it, the more she felt.
The clearer the crack, perhaps, this crack existed before the two got married. It was just that she was young and thought that most men in the world had shoulders as heavy as mountains. Only after experiencing it did she know that at a critical moment, they could go through mountains and seas of fire.
A man who won’t give up on you, once you miss him, it’s impossible to find another one
According to worldly standards, what Chai Shao did at that time was absolutely right, and even considered rational. Instead of being caught and beheaded together, the couple might as well have escaped separately, at least that way, those who survived might have a chance to die.
But Wan'er doesn't want to live under the same roof with a rational man anymore. At least, she doesn't want to be abandoned rationally again.
"Chang'an City can't hold out for much longer. The defenders are at the end of their tether!" Chai Shao saw the irritability on Wan'er's brows and smiled to explain.
"I won't have time to think about other things until the city is broken!" Li Waner shook her head gently, her words filled with determination. "After the city is broken, whether the Detachment of Women is the first to enter the city or not, I will lead the troops northward!" Deep in her heart, she said
, she also made a decision
No matter for the kindness of saving each other or the happiness of her sister Qier, she would not watch Li Xu face hundreds of thousands of wolf riders outside the Great Wall alone.
As corpses piled up in Chang'an City, which had been unable to be conquered for a long time, a gap was finally opened by human blood. In November, Bingchen, Lei Yongji, the brigade commander under Li Jiancheng, led more than a hundred brothers to stand firm on the north wall of Chang'an City and followed.
, Dou Cong, the Third Army of the Left Army, personally led his guards to attack, dispersed the exhausted defenders, and successfully captured the North Gate of Chang'an.
Immediately afterwards, the Detachment of Women entered the city from the west gate and captured Jingzhao Yin Guyi alive, and learned from him, who was trying to make atonement, why the people supported the defenders. In order to avoid conflicts between his soldiers and the people, Li Waner dispatched his own
Li Shentong, the clan uncle, patrolled the streets holding an autographed order from his father Li Yuan. Anyone who deliberately disturbed the people would be killed without mercy. A few bad apples who robbed people's property were beheaded in public before they could warm up the stolen property. Some of them had not yet spread.
The atrocities were also promptly framed on the defeated and disorganized defenders. The people in the city, who were originally determined to die, not only did not kill innocent people after Li's army entered the city, but also maintained a certain degree of restraint. They immediately gave up the idea of coexisting with the Sui Dynasty.
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After more than ten days of bloody baptism, the city of Chang'an regained its tranquility. In Renxu, Li Yuan proclaimed the thirteen-year-old acting king Yang You as the emperor, and changed his name to Yi Ning Yao.
, Yang You appointed Li Yuan as the Grand Governor, in charge of all internal and external military affairs, Shangshu Order, and Prime Minister, in charge of internal and external government affairs.
There is no high or low, there are rewards and punishments in the charter, and everyone returns to the prime minister's house." Only "sacrifice to heaven and earth in the suburbs" needs to be reported to the royal family.
Li Yuan accepted the order to express his gratitude, and immediately rewarded the ministers with great rewards. They named Li Jiancheng the prince of Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin the Duke of Qin, Yuan Ji the Duke of Qi, Li Wan'er the princess of Pingyang, Pei Ji the Duke of Wei, the warriors Xun Taiyuan County, who rewarded thousands of hectares of fertile land in Guanzhong, and the Duke of Taiyuan, who rewarded thousands of hectares of fertile land in Hedong.
Liu Hongji was granted the title of Dr. Zuo Guanglu and the Duke of Xihe County for his "leading military merits from entrepreneurship". Chai Shao, the third-rank Huaihua general, was granted the title of Duke of Linfen County for his "honorable righteousness and courage to fight".
, Jiang Baoyi, Qian Jiulong, Chen Yanshou, Ma Sanbao and others were all awarded high positions, rewarded with houses, gold and silk, and fertile land.
"This really agrees with what Hong Fu said before he left!" Seeing her father move all the capital's treasury in an instant, Li Waner thought with a wry smile, but she couldn't accuse her father of doing something wrong if he didn't reward them generously.
Those who have meritorious service in "Cong Long" may be shot by a sudden stray arrow next to their horses as soon as they come out of the Prime Minister's Mansion one day. The person who can bring more benefits to everyone will become the new Prime Minister.
Tang Gong, in charge of internal and external military and political affairs
To a certain extent, rebellion is what bandits do to seize territory, money, and women. When the rebels do it in the name of Qing Junzi, it sounds more high-sounding, but the difference is not big in essence. But in terms of dealing with the aftermath,
Her father Li Yuan did it better than any other green forest hero. The refugees inside and outside Chang'an were properly resettled, and the ordinary people affected by the war when the city was destroyed also received compensation. Chen rice was continuously transported from Yongfengcang.
, to a certain extent, alleviated people's panic about the war. By confiscating the properties of the officials left behind in the capital, the Li Jiajun raised enough military resources without increasing the burden on the people.
In addition, after entering the city, Li Yuan referred to the story of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty entering Xianyang, abolished the harsh rule of the Sui Dynasty, and established the Twelve Articles of Civil Contract Law, which also won him great fame. Today, both officials and common people in the capital praise him.
Tang Gong is a kind, wise and good prime minister. Let him take charge of the government. The benefits to the court and everyone are almost immediate.
Beneath these short-lived happiness and prosperity are huge sacrifices. Of course, everyone thinks that those who were sacrificed deserve their punishment, including Wan'er. Although she has some sympathy for the final fate of Gu Yi, no matter whether she becomes an official from now on
Judging from the degree of greed and the crimes he committed when resisting the army, Tang Gong Li Yuan only punished him by beheading his family and confiscating his family, and the punishment of exile from his clan had fully taken into account his last-minute meritorious service.
The fate of the other city defenders was more miserable. General Zuo Yiwei, Yin Shishi, was the first to kill the Li family, and resisted the righteous army at the back. They were sentenced to death, just like how Yin Shishi led people to break into the Li family a few months ago.
There were more than two hundred members of the Yin family, no matter male or female, master or servant, all those over the age of fifteen were killed, and those under the age of fifteen were sold into official slaves.
Yang Bao Bao, another garrison general, was executed by beheading, his property was confiscated, and his family members were made private slaves of Pei Ji. A dozen other generals whom Li Waner was not familiar with were also executed, their family members were made slaves, and their family properties were confiscated and returned.
Several wealthy civil servants who stayed behind in Chang'an were also punished to the point of ruining their fortunes on charges of greed, extortion of bribes, and harsh treatment of the people.
Even Wei Wensheng, who had been dead for more than a month, Li Yuan did not let him go. He ordered people to pull Wei Wensheng's body out of the grave, crush the bones and scatter the ashes. But the crime was not to resist the rebels, but to "ingratiate with the prince and frame him".
Meritorious soldiers!"
When Wei Wensheng's body was burned, several officers from the former food protection team who had returned alive from Liaodong arrived at the scene. Wang Yuantong, who had become General Xuanwei of the Sui Dynasty, lit the first dry wood with his own hands through the sudden thick smoke.
, Li Waner saw Wang Yuantong’s eyes were red and vaguely crying.
