The white flags on the door lattice of the former right minister Li Linfu's residence in Pingkangfang are messy in the wind. The yard is littered with hemp paper money and no one has cleaned it. Some family members of the Li Mansion are still wearing white hemp mourning clothes. Li Linfu's eldest son Li Xiu is kneeling in the mourning hall of the mansion.
Within three years, he began to live a boring life at home.
His wife's eyes were still red, and she was wiping her tears with her handkerchief. His three sons, from eldest to youngest, sat in a row. The eldest son was quiet and quiet, while the two younger sons were a little restless and lively. If not for
The stern father suppressed his temperament, and they had already become a quarrel.
The chief steward of the Li Mansion, with only a white mop on his head, hurried in and shouted with a worried look: "It's not good! Da Lang, lead the ladies and children to run away! If you don't run away,
I’m afraid it’s too late!”
Madam Li Xiu's face instantly turned pale, and her bloodless hands tightly grabbed her husband's sleeves. Li Xiu's eyes firmly reassured her to calm down. She stood up and asked the steward: "What happened? Please tell me slowly first."
,Do not worry."
"Yang... Yang Guozhong slandered Alang for colluding with Abu Si to rebel, and brought all the witnesses back from Anlu Mountain! And Yang Qixuan, that bastard! Back then, the third wife who married the third wife relied on Alang's care to reach a high position. Now in order to avoid
Being involved, he took the initiative to seek refuge with Yang Guozhong and falsely accused Alang of treason. I should have killed this shameless thief long ago. Dalang, now that they have witnesses on both sides, it seems that Alang's grievances cannot be washed away, and it will also implicate you!
How to do how to do?"
The housekeeper was shaking his sleeves and circling back and forth anxiously on the ground. Li Xiu was calm at first, but grief slowly appeared on his face. He had already expected that their family would experience something like this today.
Remembering that when his father was so powerful, he was worried about the danger of overflowing. In the past, when the father and son were visiting the garden, they met an old servant pulling a heavy cart passing by. He took the opportunity to kneel on the ground and cried to Li Linfu, saying: "
The Lord has been in the position for a long time and has made many enemies, so that the future is full of thorns. Once disaster strikes, it is impossible to be like him." Li Linfu was unhappy, tugged on his beard and sighed: "The situation is like this, what can we do?
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Now that Li Linfu's retribution had finally been paid to his sons, Li Xiu did not bother to complain about his father. After careful consideration, he remembered what his father said before he died. He quickly turned around and held his wife's shoulders and said: "You take the children first
Go to Hexi...go to Li Siye, the governor of Liangzhou and Li Siye, the governor of Hexi, go to him to avoid the limelight and tell him that you are a descendant of Prime Minister Li."
The lady begged miserably: "Li Lang, no, how can I abandon you and leave? You can come with us too."
Li Xiu shook his head resolutely: "I am the eldest son of the Li family. I can't leave no matter what. I think the saint will remember that my father has served him for many years and will not cause too much trouble to us. If I escape now, I will sit down instead."
Convicting my father of treason."
He turned to the steward and said: "Fifth Uncle, take your wife and children to Hexi. If I survive, I will go to Hexi to find you in the future!"
"no, do not want……"
After an old routine of farewell and sorrow, the wife cried, the children knelt in front of their father and cried, and the old steward also shed tears of sympathy. Only Li Xiu was hard-hearted and refused to cry. In the end, he drove away his wife and children, and there was only one person in the mourning hall.
When I was left alone, I couldn't help but shed tears.
On the 11th day of the second month of the twelfth year of Tianbao, Li Longji ordered to cut off Li Linfu's official titles, and all his descendants who had officials were removed from their names and exiled to Lingnan and central Guizhou. They were only given clothes and food, and all other property was deprived of official positions. Li Linfu's close relatives and party members were
There were more than fifty people who were demoted. They also ordered people to cut open Li Linfu's coffin, pick out the pearls in his mouth, strip off his gold and purple clothes, and bury him in a small coffin like a commoner.
If we talk about karma, there are not two hundred officials and their family members who were unjustly killed by Li Linfu, but a hundred. Even the treatment he received after his death was considered light. Because he was a member of the clan, Li Longji was particularly merciful, and only ransacked his house and had no officials.
In exile, none of his relatives and children were sentenced to death. The final experience of Yang Guozhong and the Yang family was far worse than this.
But when it comes to the incident itself, it is nothing more than Yang Guozhong's struggle to drive away Li Linfu's influence in the court, and it is completely a frame-up with no excuses to incriminate others.
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Compared with the frame-up and struggle launched against former right-wing prime minister Li Linfu in Chang'an City, what happened in the northwest was a bit insignificant, even unspeakable.
The Western Region Commercial Bank has been out of stock for nearly a month. When agents from various places who purchased goods from the Chamber of Commerce arrived, they were faced with an empty warehouse in the commercial bank. While these agents were making a lot of money, they were also used to this kind of situation.
The flow of money suddenly stopped one day, as if the sky had fallen. He spent the whole day blocking the fortress of the trading company, asking Dai Wang to give an explanation. The vice president and second shopkeeper would only shout "Give us some" from the top of the city wall.
We have time to deal with it, President Dai has personally gone to the Western Regions to solve the problem."
Dai Wang did have some shortcomings in thinking about the problem. He only controlled the inventory of the business bank within ten days, but he never expected that some problems could not be solved in ten days.
He was so anxious that he led his entourage on horses and white camels, and it took only twenty days to inspect the entire pepper trade transportation route. It turned out that the problem really was at the source.
The thing is very simple. He, a fake North Indian Kshatriya noble, was able to build fortresses and open up fiefdoms. He relied on the relationship of King Yesabhaman, the ruler of North India. But Yesabhaman was in a hierarchical Brahman society.
, is just a spokesman for Brahmin.
Dai Wang's team drove slaves to plant pepper in and around the fiefdom, cut down sandalwood, destroyed the local natural environment, and plundered spices. Then they packaged and transported them to the Tang Dynasty through inns without spending a penny. This behavior naturally caused
The real anger of the ruling class Brahman Temple, these monks and priests ordered Yesa Poman to take back the noble title granted to Dai Wang, and sent troops to arrest Dai Wang's men, and successively destroyed several outbound transportation stations.
Prevented the loss of state-owned assets in North India.
But Dai Liulang, the instigator, didn't know it yet. He led his people across the Indus River. Seeing that the inns along the way were empty, he rushed directly to the vicinity of Qunu City and returned to the castle in his own territory.
When he saw North Indian soldiers standing on the city wall instead of his own swordsmen, he finally realized the seriousness of the matter and quickly retreated with his men.
Yesapoman's army was also waiting for him to be arrested. They discovered Dai Wang and his group who were acting suspiciously, and immediately sent people out of the city to pursue him. The two sides staged a thrilling pursuit and escape battle. The swordsmen protected Dai Wang and arrived at Xiaobolu.
At that time, only six of the hundreds of followers he brought were left alive.
Dai Wang's men were captured and beheaded, and all their heads were hung on the walls of Qunu City, which showed the determination of the Brahmin Church to resolutely defend the national wealth.
But Dai Wang himself was very angry and unwilling. In order to become a Kshatriya and obtain plantations, he spent a lot of money to bribe Yesabhaman, and also spent huge sums of money to build castles and inns in northern India.
It was Dr. Li Siye's family fortune. He had trained so many swordsmen and followers, and then he died in front of his eyes. How could Asan take all these things back in vain?
But now he is alone, and all the followers around him are dead and wounded. How can he regain this place?
At this time, he suddenly thought of the Quy Nhon Army stationed in Xiaobolu. This was a Tang Dynasty armed force composed mainly of Tang troops and mixed with Xiaobolu people, with a total strength of 3,000 people.
The military envoy of the Quy Nhon Army is Zhao Congfang. The section of the Pepper Logistics Trade Road in Xiaobolu is transported by the Quy Nhon Army. Dai Wang often travels between the Western Regions and India and has a close relationship with Zhao Congfang. He wants to meet
After Zhao Congfang, he will definitely lead troops to North India to regain his position.
But what Dai Wang didn't expect was that the Quy Nhon Army's dispatch of troops to North India involved an issue of principle, which caused the two to disagree and quarrel.