Liang Jun strictly prohibited indiscriminate killing, but it did not mean that he would not kill.
On both sides of the post road in front of the South City Tower in Chuzhou, dozens of cedar tree stumps were lined up, with two or three corpses hanging on each for public display. In order to prevent the corpses from quickly rotting under the scorching sun, these were killed on the battlefield or executed after the war.
The hanged corpses were specially dehydrated with quicklime in order to survive the fifteen-day public display period, but they looked particularly hideous when hung.
At this time, four carriages slowly drove out from the south gate of Chuzhou. Although the weather was hot, the carriages were well covered.
A dozen generals who were on duty at the city gate came over vigilantly. The carriage at the head opened the front curtain, and a woman in aqua green jacket came down, took out a special pass and showed it to the leading military attaché.
Seeing that the special pass was printed by the Secretariat of the General Staff Office and signed by the Commander-in-Chief Han Donghu, this also meant that no matter who was in these carriages, they had no right to interfere. The leading military attaché immediately ordered that all the people outside the city gate be pulled away.
Open row.
The woman in green did not board the carriage again, but accompanied the group of carriages to walk more than a hundred steps outside the city gate, and then said to the leading carriage through the curtain: "This is where the fragrant clouds send you off. From now on, Princess
If you keep your name anonymous, no one will trace your whereabouts, but the princess will no longer be a rich person, I'm afraid she will have to endure some hard work - if you really have any difficulties, just write to Xiangyun."
The car curtain was lifted, revealing a haggard and frightened face, showing that she had experienced a lot of inner suffering in the past few days; even so, it still did not hide her extremely beautiful and hard-to-look-at beauty.
Her appearance seemed to have been left by the slightest traces of time, which did not detract from her beauty at all, and she had an indescribable charm - she looked sadly at the dozens of corpses hanging on both sides of the post road. The first corpse
He still looked so burly at this time.
"Han Qian's father also served in Chuzhou. Did he not care about his old feelings at all, was so stingy that he didn't even give him a coffin, and still humiliated his body like this after his death?" the middle-aged woman asked sadly.
"Only those who believe in the king and the crown prince will be spared the death penalty. If they resist, they will be strangled. Their corpses will be displayed to the public for fifteen days as a warning. This is an edict drawn up by the king himself. Even if Xiangyun holds the queen's decree, he can only take care of the princess and the eight princes.
——When the public display period has passed, Xiangyun will arrange for someone to bury King Xin and his friends at a place of choice. When the situation stabilizes, the princess can come back to pay homage if she wants, but don’t worry about it anymore." said the woman in green clothes.
The beautiful woman sighed, retreated into the carriage, and headed south leisurely.
The woman in green strolled back to the city.
The war did not last long. After the North City was breached, the defenders in the city basically gave up their resistance and detained tens of thousands of prisoners of war in prisoner-of-war camps outside the city for reorganization.
Except for the patrols that can be seen everywhere, there is not much panic in Chuzhou City at this time. Even early this morning, the streets and alleys resumed the supply of basic daily necessities such as rice, noodles, vegetables, charcoal.
Han Donghu also ordered the patrols to strictly prohibit private residences, and the search for escaped war criminals was handed over to the emergency department.
The Chuzhou Criminal and Prison Department was urgently established to take charge.
The woman in green walked into the Xinwang Palace, which was serving as the commander of the second central battalion for Han Donghu at this time. She saw Han Donghu sitting in front of the case, reading an official letter with a yellow signature, and asked: "What new orders do you have from your Majesty?"
Come, when will we attack Yangzhou?"
"Your Majesty wants the Second Central Battalion to complete the resettlement of Chuzhou and other places. He has not asked us to go south for the time being." Han Donghu grabbed the hand of the woman in green and asked, "You sent Gu Meier away?"
"Send it away. It's better to send it away quickly, otherwise if you send it to East Lake or Luoyang, you might fall into someone's eyes," the woman in green said, "You said, the master has lived with Mrs. Xu in the past few years.
Yang Ye didn't make any noise, so why did he suddenly come up with such a bad idea? Do you think that the young lady is too leisurely in Luoyang, and must find a ruthless character for the young lady to be her opponent? A woman from Shenling Division, who is an easy character to deal with? "
"Otherwise, could it be that Emperor Gaozu carried out a bloody purge of the previous clan and Qingliu gentry, not even sparing women, children, the old and the weak?" Han Donghu shook his head and said, "Your Majesty is unwilling to use these too bloody and cruel methods. There are some ways.
It’s also a last resort…”
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The city of Chuzhou fell, and the news spread back to Jinling. The city of Jinling, which had been noisy for several days, suddenly fell silent.
At this time, in addition to Han Donghu leading the main force of the Second Central Battalion into the Chuzhou territory to reorganize and pursue the remaining forces of the Suxin Palace, Zhao Wuji had already led Cao Ba and Chen Qi to cross the Yangtze River and assembled in Jinling City to the east.
At the foot of Cuiluo Mountain, which is seventy miles away, we are ready to go.
To everyone's expectation, as soon as the court meeting started on the 26th, Zhou Qinian and Huang Huixiang walked into the palace first and praised: "Although what Yang Hou said on the 17th was shocking, if you think about it carefully,
When Han Qian, the leader of Liang Dynasty, served Chu, he was loyal and loyal, and he repeatedly made great contributions to the country. He was an important minister of Chu. But when the Hehuai River was in danger, Han Qian, the leader of Liang Dynasty, was ordered to take up the throne as the leader of Liang Dynasty.
The fact that they were not broken apart is also a result of good fortune. Thirty years ago, Liang and Chu were one family, but they were torn apart by the war, which was not what the world wanted. If the Liang Lord and the Queen Mother could get married, and reunite Liang and Chu, it would be a good story for eternity..."
The court meeting on the 26th was mainly attended by civil and military officials above the minister's level.
They all expected that someone would soon succumb to Liang Jun's power and come forward after Yang En. They just hoped that they would be as slow as possible to express their stance; they also thought about who would be the shameless second person after Yang En.
But the Huang family's performance at this moment still caught most people off guard.
The Huang family has always been the most determined war faction. In addition to Huang Huixiang, Zhou Qinian served as the Minister of Household Affairs in Beijing, and Jing Zhaoyin, who echoed the Empress Dowager Mingcheng in the palace, Huang Hua has been in charge of the Hunan Province for more than ten years.
With great military and political power, his son Huang Lu served as the commander of Zuowu Xiang Army and was one of the generals of the Forbidden Army.
The Huang family is the representative and leader of the Jiangdong family clan.
In the past few days, public sentiments have been raging, and more than one-third of the imperial eunuch students who wanted to catch Yang En and beat him to death were from Jiangdong aristocratic clans.
The Jiangdong family clan might not be the strongest in the military, but forget about Gu Zhilong and Shen Yang.
In the later period, Yang En thought about how to suppress the rise of the Jiangdong family clan in the court, but half of the officials in the court were still directly or indirectly involved with Jiangdong.
The Hunan clique headed by the two brothers Zhang Chao and Zhang Han, the Jingxiang clique headed by the Huang family, and the Jiangxi clique headed by Shou Wang Yang Zhitang were either because their literary style was not prosperous, their political power was not prominent, or they were devastated by war, or
Because it has been occupied by the Ma family for a long time, its strength is far inferior to Jiangdong, which is deeply rooted in all aspects.
In the eyes of many people, even if they have to surrender in the end, Huang is bound to persist until the last moment.
After Yang En, Marquis of Liyang, was the Huang family the first to propose marriage?
Or maybe Huang Huixiang and Zhou Qinian acted on their own without permission or instruction from Huang Hua who was far away in Yueyang?
However, after Huang Huixiang and Zhou Qinian, the general's seal was handed over to Zhang Feng, the deputy capital commander. Huang Liu, who had just returned to Jinling from Chizhou yesterday to discuss defense, now stood up to represent his father Huang Hua and urged Emperor Tianyou to persecute Emperor Gaozu.
Zhongliang, the late Emperor Yanyou was suspicious of the emperor's master, and allowed Shang Wensheng's son and the Jingnan family to persecute the military officials of Guangde Mansion, etc., which made countless officials and gentlemen dumbfounded.
"Your Huang family has received the emperor's favor. You are really shameless!" There were bloody officials in the court. They couldn't bear it anymore. They pointed at Huang Lu and yelled, "Dynasties have changed over thousands of years, and ministers have changed owners.
Yes, but I have never heard of anyone as shameless as you!"
Two of the imperial censors, who were originally responsible for the order of the court, also joined in the scolding. This caused chaos in the court - Qingyang could only announce his resignation with a pale face and the pale young emperor.
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"Are the Huang family too eager?" Today's court meeting caught Gu Zhilong, who still wanted to wait and see the situation, a little off guard. He retreated back to the mansion, pulled Fu Gengwen to sit down, and couldn't help but ask doubtfully.
"The Huang family is not too eager. If they don't express their position, I'm afraid they won't end up much better than King Xin,"
Fu Gengwen said slowly,
"Yesterday, another old friend came to Geng Wen's door and said that Han Qian, the leader of Liang Dynasty, had issued an order to update the list of war criminals. This new list of war criminals will be liquidated starting from the twelfth year of God's Blessing. All those suspected of rebellion or even relying on troops will not move.
, there are separatist areas, and those suspected of raising bandits are included in the liquidation. Once included in the new first-class list of war criminals, they will not receive amnesty even if they surrender. Although their sons and nephews will not be directly implicated, they will also be included in the list of war criminals.
The Supervisory Office and the corresponding local prison departments will thoroughly check whether the family has committed any evil crimes in the past few decades. As long as it is traced that they have committed evil deeds, they will be thoroughly liquidated and no longer granted a leniency period. Jinling Rebellion
At that time, Huang Hua used Huzhou to observe the situation in Jinling with ulterior motives, and also tried to prevent the Chishan Army from advancing eastward. The Huang family even conspired with Prince Shou's Mansion and Prince Xin's Mansion to fight on the Fanchuan River. They did not express their stance at this time, waiting for the fall of Jinling City.
Which one of Huang Hua, Huang Liu, Huang Huixiang, Zhou Qinian, etc. can survive? Of course, if we can hold Jinling, Liang Jun’s so-called list of war criminals will be ignored by Gu Hou completely, no matter how small it is."
Gu Zhilong was stunned for a long time, then suddenly sat up straight and asked: "How to write this marriage proposal form, please teach me Geng Wen..."