The first month has not yet passed, and there is already a storm in the court.
The British Duke Li Ji took command of the Western Expedition and served as the protector of Anxi. He mobilized a hundred thousand elite soldiers from Guanzhong and marched into the Western Regions. The chariots were sparkling, the horses were dancing, and the pedestrians were carrying bows and arrows at their waists. They wanted to drive away the light cavalry, but the heavy snow covered their bows and knives!
This expedition to the Western Regions is inevitable. If the Western Regions are unstable, Guanzhong will be unstable. The Tang Empire cannot sit back and watch the Turks muddy the waters of the Western Regions. Although maritime trade has gradually replaced the Silk Road as the economic pillar of the empire, the strategic position of the Western Regions Still irreplaceable.
It's just that the Guanlong Group didn't get any advantage in this western expedition. Li Ji was cunning and cunning. Although he didn't use a large number of Shandong's powerful team, he also widely used royal forces in the army. The most obvious one was to invite Li Er. His Majesty appointed King Li Tai of Wei as the deputy general manager of the march.
This made Guanlong Group extremely disappointed and the situation was very passive.
Of course, this is not the most passive.
On the twentieth day of the first lunar month, the Jingzhao Mansion accepted a case in which 13 people from Guanzhong families sued the Yuan family for murdering a total of 16 lives in their family members, which immediately pushed the Guanlong Group to the forefront. The Yuan family is the backbone of the Guanlong Group, and even more so. Like the Wang family in Taiyuan, they are representatives of the Guanlong Group. The Jingzhao Mansion concluded this case because they wanted to confront the Guanlong Group openly and openly!
What kind of family is the Yuan family?
The fact that Fang Jun dared to accept the petition showed that he had completely ignored the Yuan family's reputation and had already suspected that there must be something fishy about these sixteen lives.
A mere life of a lowly slave can make a wealthy family suffer dust and stain their lives!
Who can not watch the progress of the situation with wide eyes?
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In traditional Feng Shui, topography is the primary factor in choosing a cemetery. "The tomb is a ghost house", which is the destination of the soul and the place where people live in another world. Therefore, the place where a person is buried after death has great influence on future generations. The prosperity of blessings and misfortunes is crucial...
Chang'an is located south of the Wei River and north of the Qinling Mountains. It is surrounded by several rivers. It is known as "Eight Rivers Surround Chang'an". The entire Chang'an area is high in the southeast and low in the northwest. To the north of the city is the east-west Longshou Plain, and within the city are distributed the northeast The six high hills running southwest are also called the "Six Slopes of Chang'an". These six high hills pass through the city, and together with the cutting of the surrounding rivers, they form several small original areas around Chang'an City.
To the north of Chang'an City is Chang'an City in the Han Dynasty. Although the old city gradually became desolate because "the Han camp will be 800 years old and the water is salty and brine, which is not very pleasant", the Sui and Tang dynasties did not completely abandon it, but included it in the Forbidden Garden.
Chang'an City is a place of eternal beauty, with excellent Feng Shui and numerous tombs.
It extends to Dizhang Bay north of the Wei River in the north, Shenheyuan and Shaolingyuan in the south, Longshouyuan, Bailuyuan, Changleyuan and Tongrenyuan on both sides of the Bahe River in the east, and Gaoyangyuan and Xiliuyuan in the west. , are all the places where tombs have been concentrated since ancient times.
The Shaolingyuan and Fengqiyuan areas in the south of the city have high terrain and beautiful scenery. They were ideal burial places in the eyes of the ancients, so there are a large number of high-standard cemeteries distributed here.
The Yuan family's ancestral tomb is here...
The sky was gloomy and windless. Heavy snow fell from the sky, covering the vast mountain slopes of Shaolingyuan. Chang'an City in the distance looked like a dormant giant beast, lying on the ground in the heavy snow, watching. China!
A group of dozens of people walked quickly up the mountain and stopped in an open area on the hillside. The leader, a dignified young official in a purple robe, waved his hand, and there were more than ten people holding shovels, pickaxes, wooden rakes, etc. The tool came forward and cleared away the snow on a mound, revealing a new grave that had obviously just been piled up recently...
The young official raised his head, and heavy snow fell on his slightly dark face. His resolute and tough face remained unchanged. He waved gently, and the dozen or so people responded in unison: "No!" The tools in their hands were lowered, and the pickaxe was lifted.
The frozen-hard soil is dug up, the shovel lifts away the debris, and the wooden rake sweeps away the living soil.
The soil had all been recently filled. Only the top layer was frozen hard, and the bottom layer was obviously much softer. The excavation progress accelerated. After a while, a pickaxe made a muffled sound when it was lowered.
He bounced up Lao Gao and used a shovel to dig away the floating soil, revealing a tomb door made of huge stones.
The leader of the soldiers holding the pickaxe raised his head and asked for permission to continue.
The rest of the people also know that the matter is very important, this is the ancestral tomb of the Yuan family!
Digging up the Yuan family's graveyard, this is simply an unending feud!
Is it worth it?
The policemen in black looked solemn, and even if they had thoughts in their hearts, they did not dare to express them. The other twenty or so farmers who looked like men in simple clothes looked at each other, knelt down in front of the young officials, and bowed.
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One of them said: "The governor is willing to redress our grievances, and we are very grateful. This is the ancestral tomb of the Yuan family. If you touch it rashly, you will definitely have a deadly feud. Although we are country people, we are not ignorant people. For
To avenge our family, Fu Yin has openly opposed the Yuan family, how can we allow Fu Yin to form such a deadly feud with the Yuan family? Let us take action. If the Yuan family wants to retaliate, we will
Let him take this untouchable thing. But if there are indeed the bodies of our family members in this tomb, please ask the governor to judge the case impartially and seek justice for our family members who died tragically!"
The rest of the people kowtowed and cried miserably. They all expressed their unwillingness to involve the governor. They would dig the grave and bear all the consequences themselves!
The young official is naturally Fang Jun...
He listened quietly, with a stern look on his face.
Digging graves has been one of the most immoral things since ancient times...
As one of the "Eight Pillar Kingdoms" of the Yuan family, the backbone of the Guanlong Group, and a wealthy family for many generations, if someone had their ancestral grave dug up, what kind of shame would it be? Even if the emperor came to dissuade him, he would definitely fight to the death!
Fang Jun naturally did not want to form such a deadly feud with the Yuan family.
But looking at the miserable and sad expressions of the people in front of him who had just lost their daughters, how could he bear to let these victims who had no ability to resist bear the Yuan family's anger?
Under the overwhelming anger of the Yuan family, they will surely turn into powder!
It’s better for me, who has a little bit of resistance, to bear the Yuan family’s anger...
Fang Jun looked stern and said calmly: "This is within my responsibilities. You are just the victims. You don't need to say more about how to investigate the case and how to collect evidence."
Having said this, he glanced at Li Junxian next to him.
The disappearance of so many people this time has naturally shocked His Majesty Li Er, so he sent the spy chief Li Junxian to assist Fang Jun in trying the case. All the information and clues were obtained by the investigation of "Baiqisi", Fang Jun thought.
I need to ask Li Junxian for confirmation one last time.
After all, if the news is wrong, then he will have to face the overwhelming anger of almost all noble families, and even His Majesty Li Er cannot protect him!
Is there any greater revenge than digging up someone's ancestral grave?
Li Junxian cursed in his heart!
If you hold this position yourself, nothing good will happen all the time!
I am always afraid that His Majesty Li Er will silence me about the royal secrets I have divulged, and I have to cooperate with Fang Jun in digging graves and other immoral things...
The most irritating thing is Fang Jun. If you say you will investigate the case, you will investigate it. Why do you have to dig up other people's ancestral graves?
However, he also knew Fang Jun's temper. He was a young man with a big heart and a sense of responsibility. Asking him for confirmation at this time was not to throw the blame on himself, but to confirm the situation in the tomb for the last time.
Li Junxian was naturally confident in the news from his men, so he nodded with a dark face.
Fang Jun was convinced that if the source of the information was not confirmed at this time, Li Junxian would never dare to nod.
He immediately waved his hand and gritted his teeth and said: "Dig!"
"promise!"
More than a dozen soldiers responded, spat hard in the palm of their hands, held one end of the crowbar and inserted it into the stone crevice of the tomb door, waiting to pry open the tomb door.
"stop!"
Suddenly, a loud shout came from afar. Everyone was startled and stopped their hands to look up.
I saw a group of knights rolling in from the direction of Chang'an. The leading knights had already galloped up the hill. They came closer while panting. Before the horse could stop, the knights on the horse had already thrown off their stirrups and jumped off their horses.
Stepping in front of Fang Jun, he shouted angrily with his halberd finger: "Fang Jun, you are so brave! This is the ancestral tomb of my Yuan family. You actually dare to disturb the peace of my ancestors here. You really think that the horizontal sword in my Yuan family's hand is not good."
no?"
While he was talking, the knights behind him rushed over one after another, jumping off their horses with a roar, each holding a sword, gun and stick in their hands. There were fifty or sixty people in total, surrounding Fang Jun and others.