In Jingzhao Mansion, the corps commander Du Xingmin led a group of soldiers and horses and rushed away from the surrounding rebels, taking the lead.
From the time when rebel soldiers besieged and massacred the Marquis' Mansion in Lishan County in Dongshi, the situation of the battle had turned around, and now it was now about officers and soldiers besieging and suppressing the rebels.
It is really audacious to do such a thing in Chang'an City.
The officers and soldiers of the Wei Mansion are not just decorations. They only give the rebels as much time as a cup of tea. If they fail to succeed in a short period of time, they are doomed to fail.
Not to mention that Long Wujun was already prepared.
The chaos in Dongshi is coming to an end.
On the other side of Chang'an City, in an alley of the West Market, is the residence of Gong Qiu Xinggong of Tianshui County.
At this moment, Jiang Wang Li Yun was pacing back and forth in the mansion. He asked anxiously: "Is Zhang Yang dead?"
Qiu Xinggong said with an unruly smile, "This boy's life is really tough. There is no news yet."
"Qiu Xinggong! Come out quickly and die!"
Another shouting sound came from outside the mansion. It was Li Xiaogong, the prince of Hejian County, shouting.
Li Yun's legs went weak and he almost fell down on the spot, "You said it, as long as Zhang Yang dies, nothing will happen to us."
Linghu Defen's old face was also worried, but his words were still comforting: "Cui Renshi once said that all emperors in the world are the same. They don't have the courage to lift the cover of land annexation. This is the case with Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty. Since the Han Dynasty,
All emperors are like this, and so is Li Shimin."
"As long as Zhang Yang dies, everything will return to its original state. Since he wants to rectify the land annexation, he must die!"
Li Yun smiled bitterly, opened the bookcase in front of him, and said: "If Zhang Yang doesn't die, we will die!"
"It's life and death. Unless Zhang Yang dies, we will all die. Do you need to say anything?" Qiu Xinggong picked up the knife and struck it on the table.
Li Yun was so frightened that he trembled again.
Li Xiaogong led the soldiers and horses of the Longwu Army around Qiu Xinggong's mansion, not to mention the other princes of the clan. This Qiu Xinggong was not a member of the clan, but he was a general with military power, and now there were soldiers and horses in his mansion.
garrison.
Li Yi's Mansion had already sent several groups of people but failed to attack. Seeing that it was about to break out, he said, "Prince Hejian, how about we attack again when reinforcements arrive?"
Li Xiaogong looked impatient, "Damn, where are the soldiers and horses? They have all gone to Dongshi."
There are not many soldiers and horses in Chang'an City. The Longwu Army and Jinwu Guards are used to the maximum extent.
Both the Habayashi Guards and the Crown Prince Youshou will protect the palace.
After careful consideration, Li Xiaogong shouted towards the mansion again: "Qiu Xinggong, come out quickly!"
The sound of words echoed around, but the response was still silence.
His heart trembled, Li Xiaogong said: "Bring the artillery!"
"Here!"
Cannons were pushed out one after another.
Li Yifu quickly stopped him, "Prince Hejian! This can't be used."
Li Xiaogong didn't care about that. He gritted his teeth and said, "I just want to blow these people into ashes."
Li Yifu panicked and blocked the cannon hole with his body, "There are strict orders from the Central Government. Artillery cannot be used against Chinese civilians. If this cannon goes down, it will really be impossible to recover."
"What are you trying to do? They want Zhang Yang's family to die! A certain family wants him to break his bones and raise ashes!" Li Xiaogong mentioned the weak Li Yifu, threw it aside, and shouted: "Load the bullet."
Li Yifu fell to the ground and shouted in embarrassment: "No! The King of Hejian County cannot use artillery."
At this time, Li Xiaogong had already lost his mind, and three artillery pieces were aimed at Qiu Xinggong's mansion.
"They are so arrogant just because we don't dare to use artillery."
Li Xiaogong kicked away Li Yifu again, who had runny nose and tears streaming down his face.
After the artillery was loaded, the fuse was ignited. Li Yifu watched with dull eyes as the fuse burned into the barrel.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
The sound of cannons exploded, three artillery pieces spit out tongues of flame, and shells came out in response. The walls and gates in front of them were immediately blown open.
There were originally many people inside the mansion guarding the gate, but the explosion caused huge casualties.
Before the opponent could react, he reloaded, and there were three more cannon shots. The artillery shells fell into the crowd. In the face of hot weapons, human life was really worthless.
In front of his eyes, earthworks and rubble flew across the sky, exploding with countless pieces of meat.
Li Yifu sat on the ground dejectedly, muttering to himself: "It's over, it's all over!"
As soon as the artillery fired, the people guarding Qiu Xinggong's mansion put down their weapons one after another. They did not want to die under the gunfire. This was not something that human power could contend with. In the face of hot weapons, they were not qualified to talk about life and death.
More and more people dropped their knives and knelt on the ground begging for mercy.
This is the deterrent of artillery.
To them, this is nothing.
Li Xiaogong stopped the soldiers who were about to reload and said in a deep voice: "Take someone!"
Linghu Defen, Jiang Wang Li Yun, and Tianshui County Gongqiu Xinggong were taken out.
Qiu Xinggong still had a fierce look on his face, and he said coldly: "Li Xiaogong, if I don't die, I will chop you into pieces, eat all your flesh first, and then feed your bones to the dogs."
"Hahaha!" Li Xiaogong suddenly laughed, took out a slender iron cylinder, lit the fuse and put it into Qiu Xinggong's arms.
The surrounding Longwu troops quickly retreated.
Qiu Xinggong hadn't recovered yet. He picked up the slender iron tube in his arms and looked at it curiously.
Li Xiaogong stood far away and said loudly: "This is a newly made firearm from Lishan. I reward you."
"Bang!"
The iron cylinder exploded and after the smoke cleared, Qiu Xinggong fell to the ground and was no longer human. His arms had been blown off and his chest was burnt black.
Li Xiaogong spat, "What the hell."
Glancing at the corpse with disgust, he ordered: "Pack it up and throw it far away to feed the dogs!"
"Here!"
Most of the corpses in the mansion were fragmented and mixed with the rubble.
Li Yifu covered his chest in fear. He had seen this scene before in Goguryeo, and seeing it again now, he stood up with his hands on the wall and vomited violently on the spot.
I swore in my heart that I would never lead an army in a war in my life.
Li Xiaogong patted Li Yifu on the back and said, "Look, as long as there are artillery, things in this world will be much simpler."
Li Yifu wanted to say something, but he vomited violently again.
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Shangguan Yi and the officers and soldiers of the Jingzhao Mansion were still hunting people everywhere in Chang'an City. The sky gradually became brighter, and the morning sun shone in. The eastern sky was as clean as a piece of blue jade.
In Chang'an City, Cheng Chumo came to the residence of Jiang Wang Li Yuanxiang with a knife.
Fan Hong was worried about letting General Chu Mo act alone at this time, so he followed him anyway.
Cheng Chumo held a knife and first stood in front of Jiang Wang Li Yuanxiang's mansion. He hesitated for a while, scratched his head and asked, "Is anyone else here?"
Fan Hong replied: "I came back from the fiefdom at the beginning of the new year. I have been in Chang'an City these days."
"Um."
Cheng Chumo nodded, feeling more at ease, and kicked the door of the house with his foot.
The door was very strong and could not be opened with a kick. The concierge in the courtyard cursed a few times but did not open the door.
Cheng Chumo rolled up his sleeves, looked at the courtyard wall, patted Fan Hong, "Come on, climb the wall."
"Ah... um." Fan Hong quickly helped to serve as a ladder.
"You need to use some wisdom when doing this." Cheng Chumo had already climbed up the wall as he spoke.
Listening to the young general's words, Fan Hong asked doubtfully: "Actually, as long as you tell them that the young general is Qiu Xinggong's man, you might be able to get in without climbing the wall."
"Huh? Why didn't you tell me earlier?"
"I just thought of it now."
After saying that, Cheng Chumo climbed into the wall and saw several people holding sticks in front of him.
After his feet landed on the ground, he remembered that the knife was still outside the wall. Seeing the other party surrounding him, he didn't care to think so much, so he rolled up his sleeves and started fighting them with his bare hands.
The residence of Jiang Wang Li Yuanxiang was very lively, with dozens of people coming and going in silence with Cheng Chumo.
However, Cheng Chumo is covered in tendons, and his boxing and kicking skills are not as good as before, but he is better at resisting a beating.
Half an hour later, when it was completely light, the officers and soldiers broke into Prince Jiang's residence. Shangguan Yi was surprised to see a group of people lying on the ground in a mess.
Looking at Cheng Chumo eating someone else's meal, Jiang Wang Li Yuanxiang was serving him politely, adding porridge and water.
Cheng Chumo chewed the cake and handed him a rope, "You know the rules, do it yourself."
"Why."
Li Yuanxiang's nose was bruised and his face was swollen at the moment, but he took the rope very honestly, wrapped his hands around the rope, not very well, lowered his head and left with Shangguan Yi.
Ordinary people don't know what happened today. They just think that the government officials seemed to be crazy last night and people were arrested everywhere.
Today's morning was very quiet. The officials stood in the Tai Chi Hall without saying a word. There were many empty seats. Some of the officials who had empty seats did not dare to come, and some were arrested.
Li Chengqian's eyes fell on Zhang Yang.
None of the ministries reported the matter, and everyone's silence made Tai Chi Hall feel like it was falling into an ice cellar.
Li Chengqian was about to speak when he heard someone reporting in front of the palace.
"Shangguanyi, please see me!"
As soon as he swallowed the words he was about to say, Li Chengqian nodded.
A eunuch said loudly: "Enter the palace!"
Shangguan Yi walked into the palace with small steps and quickly. He handed over a file and said: "The crimes of all the kings of the clan have been recorded in the file."
Everyone in the hall immediately started talking.
The sound was like the chirping of mosquitoes, which kept ringing in the hall.
Seeing Li Chengqian's gaze, Zhang Yang stood up and said to the class: "Read it."
"Here." Shangguan Yi saluted first, then opened the file and read: "Li Yuanying, the king of Teng, was granted the title of Shandong. He was arrogant and extravagant, levied excessive taxes, and built a lot of construction projects! Three thousand good people were beaten to hard labor to build the Tengwang Pavilion for the selfish desires of the king of Teng. The people dare to be angry and dare not be angry.
It is said that the magistrates of various counties in Hongzhou were either coerced or imprisoned. King Teng built the pavilion and used 3,000 hard laborers. Some were exhausted or beaten to death. The pavilion of King Teng was five feet and six feet! In order to compare with Lingyan Pavilion, some officials inquired.
, the villagers of Hongzhou were shunned, the officials and the people were alienated, and there was no need to cure it, and His Excellency Prince Teng’s corpses were piled high.”
"Li Yun, the king of Chiang Kai-shek, had a fiefdom in Anzhou with a settlement of 1,000 households. He conspired with Qiu Xinggong to occupy 600 hectares of land in Anzhou. The villagers lost their land and were displaced. They had no way to sue. He was greedy and unbridled."
"The king of Jing, Li Yuanjing, invaded three hundred acres of land. He first checked the three hundred acres, and after further investigation, he found out that the wife of the king of Jing, the Pei family, joined forces with Qiu Xinggong, the king of Jiang, Li Yun, and the king of Guo, Li Feng, to put pressure on the local state government.
The report cannot be delivered to Chang'an."
"Li Yuanxiang, the king of Jiang, provided Qiu Xinggong with money and food totaling more than 5,000 stones to raise a private army."
"Tianshui County Gongqiu Xinggong worked for tigers, mostly for King Chiang. King Teng eradicated dissidents, used vicious methods, acted rampantly and violently, cannibalized and dismembered corpses, and also raised a private army of 30,000 soldiers for King Teng Li Yuanying."
"People in the clan eradicated dissidents, colluded, exploited the villagers, and cooperated with each other to cover up their crimes. Hou Junji, the Minister of the Ministry of War, was in charge of the military register and concealed the affairs of the private army for Qiu Xinggong and others. There was chaos in the east city of Chang'an City last night. It was also Qiu Xinggong who
After planning, Hou Jun sent his son-in-law Helan Chushi to the east palace to lead the army, with the intention of treason."
…
Shangguan Yi raised the gun in his hand and read out the accusations one by one. Several members of the clan, several powerful families, they covered each other, supported each other, and were in the same spirit. No matter who got into trouble, the other side
They can provide timely help.
The Tang Dynasty has only been established for twenty-seven years, and already there have been so many bad things.
It's worrying and heartbreaking.
Some of these accusations are the result of information sent by Li Junxian, and some are the result of inquiries by Pei Xingjian and Shangguan Yi over the years. After Di Zhisun became the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, he consulted the files and verified them.
After reading, Shangguan Yi held up the file and stepped aside.
Li Chengqian's body was trembling slightly, and he said in a deep voice: "Zhang Yang, please tell me."
"Here." Zhang Yang walked out of the courtroom and smiled in front of everyone, "Everyone should be more relaxed. It has nothing to do with you anyway. All the ones we wanted to arrest were caught last night."
Some even actually smiled in a relaxed manner.
"but……"
As the words came out, some people's face tightened and they immediately put away their smiles.
Zhang Yang folded his hands and said: "It's a pity that Prince Teng Li Yuanying is not in Chang'an City. He has sent people to the fiefdom to arrest them. The Ministry of Education will definitely give an answer on how to deal with these people."
"You also know that I, Zhang Yang, have always been ruthless and disorganized in my behavior."
"..."
Everyone was silent.
"But there is something I must say in my heart. In the twenty-seventh year since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty has become more and more powerful, but I dare not relax my vigilance against internal dangers. Most of you come from the masses. You
He is also the child of thousands of ordinary people."
"We were born here and grew up here. Since we are in the court, we cannot forget our roots. Since ancient times, the people's hearts have determined the country. I have always advocated that the court should go to the masses and take the masses as our foundation. The masses are the foundation of the country. I want our family to
Prosperity of a country is a very difficult thing, but don’t you think about the prosperity of your family and country?”
"We need to go among the masses. We should make less empty promises and more practice. We should think more about the thousands of the most ordinary people, even if they can live in peace of mind."
Zhang Yang's words echoed in Tai Chi Hall, and he said loudly: "I will restructure Zongzheng Temple from supporting the clan to supervising the clan."
Zhang Yang's tone was firm and a lot more excited. His tone became more intense. He suppressed the anger accumulated in the past few days and said loudly: "The masses don't have much. If you take away what the common people have, will they still be human?"
"Occupying people's fields is appropriating the country's assets and is considered a national traitor!"
"Whoever dares to occupy half of the people's fields in the future will be an enemy of the Tang Dynasty and will be regarded as treason. This is an absolute red line and there is no room for tolerance or muddle-through."