Chapter 307: When you draw your sword, you will see blood
Author: Muzi Blue
Chapter 307: When you draw your sword, you will see blood
Lingzhou City has been put under martial law.
The Dudu Mansion is even more heavily guarded.
The atmosphere in the yamen was tense, and officials from Lingzhou, big and small, rushed over.
But now Xue Wanche doesn't trust anyone, and he thinks everyone is the murderer behind the scenes, especially the former officers and generals.
Wu Huaiyu threaded the needle and thread with skillful movements. Xue Wanche drank the pain-relieving decoction but felt nothing. Ke Ren was awake and watched Wu Huaiyu suture stitch by stitch, and he couldn't help but feel cold.
He wants to drink.
He had seen Wu Huaiyu's suturing skills before and deeply admired him. When he was assassinated in Chang'an last year, it was Wu Huaiyu who sutured him.
But this time it was my life that was hurt.
"alright."
"Can I still use it in the future?" Xue Wanche felt weak all over and asked with trembling lips, a look of expectation on his face. He was still young, he was less than thirty.
"Don't worry. Eat a light diet for a hundred days. It's best to stay away from women first and don't drink alcohol. I will remove your stitches after seven days. This plaster promotes healing and can remove scars. Remember to apply it every day and be careful not to get water on the wound.
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Xue Wanche looked at the thing wrapped in gauze into a big ball and breathed a sigh of relief.
Then he became angry again, "Damn it, if you dare to attack us, you are acting against the will of heaven. This time we must uproot them."
Doulu Huairang was sitting there, and the suturing scene just now made him feel a chill somewhere. Fortunately, he was loyal, otherwise he might have become a corpse.
"We have no idea who did it."
Xue Wanche said fiercely, "But we all know who it is."
As long as there is a suspect, no evidence is needed.
"If you arrest people first and then interrogate them one by one, I won't believe that they all talk so hard."
Huaiyu just shook his head at his impulsive suggestion.
The other party is not just a cat or a dog, they are all civil servants and generals of the Dudu Mansion. In addition to the powerful local families, they may even be involved with some powerful people in Chang'an. There are many people in this chain of interests.
However, Huaiyu believes that it is impossible for everyone to participate, and it can only be said that some of them acted boldly.
This time the assassination was carried out on three people at the same time. Although Doulu Huairang and Wu Huaiyu were lucky enough to escape, they were also seriously shocked.
What's more, since the opponent has taken action, it means that there is no room for relaxation in this matter.
When you draw a sword, you will see blood, and it is difficult to put the sword into its sheath.
"Now that we know who did it, what more evidence do we need? Just mobilize the troops and raid all the workshops that sell money to make tools and privately mint copper coins, and capture all those involved."
You know they did it, and they know you know they did it.
Xue Wanche wants to fight head-on.
Wu Huaiyu still suggested that he recover from his injuries first, "It's better to leave this matter to me and Doulusima first."
"What are you going to do about it?"
"We can't act too hastily. The more urgent the matter, the more slowly. We can't let others change things, otherwise we will easily fall into a trap."
After leaving the back office, we came to the front hall.
There are too many people waiting here.
Huaiyu sealed off Xue Wanche's injuries, saying only that he was seriously injured and that he was unconscious and might not wake up, and would not allow any officials to visit him.
The affairs of the Dudu Mansion were temporarily in charge of Shi Dai, the second assistant official.
Wu Huaiyu asked Huai Liang and Huai Yun brothers to bring out the double banners, double knots, and jade swords given by the emperor. Anyone who dared to cause trouble would be killed first and then played.
"You all go back to your posts and perform your duties. Governor Xue is seriously injured, but there can be no chaos in Lingzhou. We must find the person behind the scenes immediately.
Although Lingzhou is outside the Great Wall, it is still within our territory of the Tang Dynasty. This is not a place outside the law. It is unreasonable to have two assassinations of imperial officials in a short period of time."
After sending away the group of officers and generals with different thoughts, Wu Huaiyu immediately issued an order.
Yanzhou Sima Su Dingfang and the commander-in-chief Niu Jianwu were urgently transferred to Lingzhou with two thousand soldiers and horses.
Having these two thousand of our own soldiers is our real confidence. These Yanzhou soldiers were all transferred from Guanzhong with Huaiyu, unlike the soldiers here in Lingzhou.
Li Dejiang sat there with a broad sword in his hand, his expression stern all the time.
Li Sanniang almost had an accident today, which made him furious. Sanniang was the apple of the Yongkang palace, but this time she was stabbed in front of him.
Doulu Huairang asked Huai Zhu what his plan was.
"We can't be in a hurry, let alone be chaotic. We must stabilize our position at this time. At least the city gates and the Governor's Mansion in Lingzhou are all our soldiers, so there is no need to worry for the time being."
In fact, everyone knew in their hearts that the assassin was most likely carried out by some of the people who just came to visit.
The reason is naturally that the governor's office is preparing to crack down on the selling of money to make utensils and the making of private money.
The stakes involved are huge, and some people are so anxious that they jump over the wall.
"These people are really brave."
Huaiyu also sighed.
Now he even began to suspect that the last time he was attacked was also done by these people in Lingzhou. They even killed two birds with one stone. Not only did they assassinate Huaiyu, the new governor of Yanzhou, but they also blamed Li Daozong, the governor of Lingzhou and the king of Rencheng.
Although he has been in Lingzhou for five years, he is probably still an outsider in the eyes of those people.
Some of those Lingzhou tycoons have been powerful for generations, and have been local snakes for hundreds or even hundreds of years. Just like the An Yuanshou family has been ruling the roost in Liangzhou for more than a hundred years, although such tycoons will also choose to cooperate with the imperial officials, but if
These people will not be polite if their fundamental interests are touched.
When the conflicts of interest are too deep and cannot be reconciled, they will naturally resort to all possible means and directly destroy them physically.
"I think this thing must have been done by those people, but the people who did these things are definitely just the private actions of a few people, and they cannot represent the entire group of people,"
Doulu Huairang seemed to hear something, "Erlang wants to divide them?"
"The best way is to let them fight while we sit back and watch."
"That's unlikely, isn't it?"
"Is there any possibility? We may indeed be a threat to them now. But if, when some of those people behave in a way that threatens the foundation of all of them, don't you think those people
Will you fight among yourself?"
A dead Taoist friend will never die a poor Taoist. This is a general rule that can be applied at any time.
The key is to trigger these prerequisites first.
Just like Xue Wanche did, if he just ignores them and starts attacking all the local forces in Lingzhou, then he is making everyone an enemy and forcing them all to unite and resist.
They must be scored.
Later, Wu Huaiyu called the four chief executives of his Shuofang Division.
In the public room, Huaiyu closed the door.
The door is guarded by soldiers and no one is allowed to approach.
He tapped his fingers lightly on the desk, his face expressionless, and he did not yell loudly. However, the four principals felt great pressure and could not raise their heads.
"There was no warning, no defense."
"It has been several months since the Shuofang Bureau was established. I have allocated money and grain to you, and issued rewards and subsidies, but you have done nothing."
"In such a big assassination operation, assassins attacked Governor Shi and Sima at the same time. More than twenty assassins were dispatched. You didn't get any information in advance. What do you think you did?"
Li Wujie turned pale with fright.
"It was my subordinate who neglected his duty." Li Dejiang admitted his mistake through gritted teeth.
"I called you here not to hear you admit your mistakes. Now is not the time to hold people accountable. I want you to take action immediately. Even if you make up for it immediately, you must make up for it quickly and investigate. A comprehensive investigation. I need to know some information.
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The four people left.
Huaiyu sat alone for a long time.
The water in Lingzhou is really too deep.
Pick up the pen.
Wu Huaiyu wrote a secret report to the emperor of Chang'an about the shocking events that happened here, including the results and their speculations.
After the secret letter was sent, Wu Huaiyu began to act as the governor and met with officials from the governor's office and the governor's office, as well as local powerful people.
The powerful forces in Lingzhou are very strong.
In fact, since the Qin and Han Dynasties, the imperial control has been stronger in the heart of the Central Plains. In remote places, whether it is Longyou in Hexi, Shuofang in Fortress, Liaodong in the north, Bashu in the south of Lingnan, etc., the powerful forces in those places are very powerful.
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For example, Feng An, the current representative powerful man in Lingnan, although the Feng An family was a branch of the Northern Yan Dynasty and defected to the Southern Dynasty, in just a few generations, it formed a powerful force in Gaozhou and other areas in Lingnan, and through generations of marriages with the local Li clan
The Xian family, the leader, united with powerful forces and became the local emperor.
The Ning family in the Hepu Port area of Qinzhou to the west of Lingnan is in a similar situation to them. They are also the local emperors who control several states.
Another example is the Cuan family in Nanning (Yunnan), which is more powerful and has a larger territory, and has repeatedly fought against the central dynasty.
In the late Sui Dynasty, many of the rebel kings who separated themselves from the throne were actually local powerful families, or local officials were supported by local powerful families. For example, Li Gui in Hexi established Xiliang with the strong support of the An family in Liangzhou.
Li Gui later collapsed because the An family took the lead and defected to Li Tang.
Later, the Tang Dynasty sent officials to select officials to control and govern Hexi. As a result, the interests of powerful local tyrants were touched, which triggered a series of rebellions.
The situation in Lingzhou is similar to that in Hexi, both are outside the customs.
The mixture of Hu and Han, being located on the border, and some historical issues left over from the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China have created a strong tail of local forces in Lingzhou.
They annexed land, exploited farmers, controlled industry and commerce, smuggled trade, and even subordinate officials in government offices at all levels belonged to them.
Even if the officials are dispatched by the imperial court, and even if locals are not allowed to serve locally under the avoidance system, they control all aspects, and a few temporary officials are just idle.
Moreover, Lingzhou's situation is special. It has only been ten years since the founding of the People's Republic of China. Many middle- and lower-level officials in Lingzhou are directly held by local powerful people.
These are all issues left over from history. Among the garrison in Lingzhou, there are many locals, not to mention the local powerful local soldiers who control Lingzhou's united native soldiers and the Tibetan soldiers in the city.
The force of force in their hands is actually no less than the garrison troops and state and county soldiers mobilized from the mainland on a rotating basis by the imperial court.
I wanted to figure it out slowly, but now it seems that I can't.
Huaiyu sent someone to inform Liu Cao of the Dudu Mansion to join the army.
The Dudu Mansion of Lingzhou has six Cao Cao: Gong Cao, Cang Cao, Household Cao, Bing Cao, Fa and Shi. In addition to the Bing Cao, there are two Bing Cao who join the army, and the rest each have one to join the army.
These seven people who joined the army were all promoted from the seventh rank, and they had mansions under them. There were several people in history, and each was assigned a Cao.
Of the seven Lingzhou Dudufu soldiers who joined the army, six were local powerful men, representing the six major families in Lingzhou including Cao, Liu, and Han.
Although these six people are not of high rank, in Lingzhou, a small land, sometimes words are more effective than those of the governor.
Among the six, the Cao family is the strongest. The ancestors of the Cao family were originally Huns. When the Northern Wei Dynasty split the Eastern and Western Wei Dynasties nearly a hundred years ago, Cao Ni, the ancestor of the Cao family, was the governor of Lingzhou and occupied Lingzhou connected with Gao Huan. Later, the Yuwentai faction
Li Hu and others besieged Lingzhou and dug the Yellow River to force Cao Ni to surrender. Later, he still made Cao Ni the governor of Lingzhou.
But later, Cao Ni secretly communicated with Gao Huan. When Gao Huan sent troops to attack Xiazhou, Cao Ni rebelled again. Yuwentai was furious and sent Zhao Gui and Li Bi to lead troops to attack Lingzhou again.
At the critical moment, Gao Huan also sent a general with 30,000 cavalry reinforcements. After the Western Wei army retreated, Gao Huan asked Cao Ni to move 5,000 households from Lingzhou to Fenzhou for resettlement. After the Western Wei Dynasty took control of Lingzhou, all the remaining powerful households were taken away.
Moved to Guanzhong for resettlement.
At that time, the Cao family went to Hedong, but later Cao Liu and other major families returned to their hometown in Lingzhou one after another and rose again.
At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the Cao and Liu families also quickly surrendered to Li Tang, and they all received many rewards. After that, although many people from the Cao and Liu families entered the court as officials or served abroad, the governor of Lingzhou was not the one.
The six Cao Cao who joins the army, including the six Cao Cao who joins the army in Lingzhou Prefecture, are basically the children of these six major families.
If one person is transferred, someone will take over immediately.
From the governor's office to the governor's office, to the county government, and then to the countryside, there are powerful local children headed by the six major families everywhere. They are also basically in actual control of Lingzhou's local groups and the city.
These people are the biggest suspects in this attack.
Invite six people.
Wu Huaiyu got straight to the point, "Someone has reported that you were the instigator behind the two assassinations of imperial officials in Lingzhou,"
Cao Xuan, a descendant of the Xiongnu who joined the army, was a young man in his thirties. He also had the title of Marquis Sanjue of Lingwu County. His father was the governor of Sichuan and was also a county official.
He didn't panic at all when faced with Wu Huaiyu's words.
"Wuchang Shi, this is a false accusation. Please allow us to confront him in front of the court. I want to see why he can slander others with such bloodless accusations."
"Yes, false accusation and rebellion."
Liu Xian, a soldier who joined the army, is also a descendant of the Huns. His ancestor was Cao Ni's son-in-law. The Cao and Liu families have been married for generations. Now Liu Xian is Cao Xuan's brother-in-law. This strong Huns shouted unceremoniously.
The other four who joined the army had the same attitude and wanted to be confronted in court.
"No, you don't understand the current situation," Wu Huaiyu said coldly, "In Lingzhou City, in less than three months, two serious attacks occurred, and the victims were the governor and the governor.
Even the county prince, the county prince and the prince-in-law, haven’t you understood the seriousness of this matter?
As long as there is any report or suspicion, we would rather kill him by mistake than let him go.
Do you know how bad these two assassinations were and how serious the consequences were?
This is rebellion and rebellion, we should kill it first and report it later."
"Wuchang Shi Mo has wronged us," Cao Xuan said without any fear.
Ke Huaiyu chuckled twice, "Now someone has reported to me that you are the mastermind behind the two assassinations, and that you are deliberately plotting rebellion. I will give you three days. If you can find out who you call the real mastermind,
If you can prove your innocence, then this matter is easier to talk about.
Otherwise, after three days, the Gyeongju Governor's Office, Huizhou Governor's Office, Xiazhou Governor's Office, Yanzhou Governor's Office, and Yanzhou's army will arrive one after another, and then you will know how the imperial court suppresses local rebellions."
Cao Xuan's expression changed drastically,
"Chang Shi, we were wronged."
"I don't know whether you are unjust or not, but anyone who dares to assassinate the imperial court's golden and purple ministers, national ministers and royal consorts must suffer the wrath of thunder, otherwise where is the majesty of the imperial court?"
