The two prime ministers led a group of officials to run up and down the dirt road, going from house to house to buy dry food. Official robes of various colors were stumbling back and forth, looking both funny and bitter.
Yang Guozhong came to a house with adobe walls, knocked on the door, held money in both hands, and said to the old man in front of him: "Old man, just sell me some dry food."
The old man looked down at his attire and asked in surprise: "Are you a high official of the imperial court? How come you came to our small place?"
Yang Guozhong just lowered his head and kept silent. The old man's family brought some biscuits from the kitchen. He put the money into the other person's hand and ran away.
"Hey! We don't need so much money."
Yang Guozhong came back with Hu biscuits and presented them to the emperor and the imperial concubine. Li Longji was hungry all morning, so he ate a piece of biscuit with dried water and finally filled his stomach.
Wei Jiansu and others also returned with food, followed by a large group of people carrying baskets and ceramic basins. They knelt in front of the palace and offered coarse grains, rice porridge, and some fine bran.
The concubines, the kings, and the emperor's grandsons rushed over to take the food, and stuffed it into their mouths with their hands. However, because there were too many people accompanying them, most of them were not full, and most of the Longwu Army soldiers did not eat.
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Several of the concubines burst into tears and cried miserably, and soon the disease spread to a large number of people. All the kings, emperors, and grandsons began to cry, and officials and imperial guards also wiped away their tears.
The old emperor cried and said: "Cry, but you can only cry today. It will cheer me up in the future. Oh, don't cry anymore."
After a mournful cry, the depressive atmosphere in the team seemed to have been reduced a lot. Li Longji asked Yang Guozhong to distribute the food money to the people according to the price, and asked the village elders who organized the food donation to come forward to meet the saints.
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This old man named Guo Congjin was very courageous. He came to the emperor with his white hair on crutches, crossed his hands and said to him: "Sage, Anlu Mountain has harbored evil intentions and has been plotting rebellion for a long time. During this period, some people came to the imperial court.
Reported his conspiracy, but your Majesty often killed these people, allowing An Lushan to succeed in his conspiracy, and your Majesty fled."
"I heard that the emperors of the past generations sought to visit loyal and good people to widen the audience, just for this reason. I still remember that when Song Jing was the prime minister, he dared to offend Yan Zhijian, so the world was safe. But since Tianbao, the imperial court
All the ministers in the country are taboo about speaking out and giving advice? No one dares to tell the truth anymore? They just blindly flatter and please His Majesty."
"Your Majesty is unaware of what is happening outside the palace gates? And those subjects who are far away from the imperial court had known that this day would happen? But due to the strict palace restrictions, they are far away from your majesty? The mere loyalty cannot be reached. If it were not for An Lushan
Rebellion, things have reached this point? How can I see His Majesty and tell him face to face!"
Li Longji nodded haggardly: "Are you right? These are all my fault, but it's too late to regret."
He comforted Guo Congjin and said: "Mr. Guo, please rest assured that our country of the Tang Dynasty will not end like this. Are all my sons still there? Are all the ministers who are loyal to the country still there? When we arrive in the middle of Shu, we will definitely meet
If we work hard and show compassion to our soldiers and officials, it won't be long before we can take back Guanzhong? Take back Luoyang and take back the world."
Old Man Guo just sighed: "Your Majesty, please use these words to encourage yourself."
The emperor waved the old man to leave, and ordered the soldiers accompanying him to go to the countryside to buy and search for food, and agreed to gather at a later date to set off.
Officials and soldiers continued to flee along the way. When a team of nearly 10,000 people arrived in Jincheng County late at night, only more than 4,000 people were left. Even the emperor's favored eunuch Yuan Siyi also escaped under the cover of night.
The magistrate and the people of Jincheng County have disappeared? The rice jars and pots in many houses are still there. The soldiers and officials started to light fires to cook. The princesses and princesses went to collect firewood, regardless of the dirty Luoqun smoked by fireworks.
Their faces were darkened and their hair was unkempt.
It was the windy season of spring at this time. The team was stationed at the county government office and the nearby Jincheng Station. Everything was dark and the wind and sand from the loess plains blew into the Diao Dou. Gao Lishi brought Li Longji a bowl of porridge mixed with sand and dust.
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The emperor was not in a hurry to eat. Instead, he stood up and looked around. Seeing which of the accompanying officials had no food in his hands, he shouted for someone to prepare it.
"The soldiers and officials have worked harder than me, so let them eat first! The princes will wait later! Eat less and you won't be hungry!"
After everyone repeatedly advised him, the emperor retreated to the thatched hall of the inn. Yang Yuhuan took a bowl of porridge and ate one or two mouthfuls, then ran to the door and vomited, clutching his stomach. Li Longji picked up the bowl and tasted it. He felt bitter and had a hard time chewing his teeth.
He couldn't swallow it, but he squatted beside the pillar as if nothing had happened and drank the entire bowl of porridge.
After eating, everyone began to gather together to rest and lie down around the houses near the inn. At this time, no matter how high or low they were, they slept on each other's legs. The female relatives gathered together and ran out to the fields to relieve themselves.
, four or five concubines and princesses squatted in a circle, looking around warily.
They continued on their journey the next day, but as they traveled, food became increasingly scarce, and the soldiers complained incessantly.
On the 14th, the escape team arrived at Maweiyi. The team was extremely exhausted and their morale was extremely low.
At this time, it was almost dusk, and there were crows crows in the mountains and forests on both sides of the post station. Li Heng squatted under a pine tree with a smile on his face. Li Jingzhong stood in front of him and whispered: "Your Highness, the time has come. The angry Longwu Army soldiers
It's like a fire, as long as it's stoked a little, they can do anything."
Li Heng said hesitantly: "Is this good? Then our father and son will really be strangers."
"Your Highness! If we don't do it now, we will wait until later. When we reach Jiannan, it will be Yang Guozhong's territory! By then we will have nothing to do."
Li Heng finally made up his mind: "Go and ask General Chen Xuanli to come over, we need his support."
After a while, Chen Xuanli also came under the tree, bowed towards Li Heng and crossed his hands and said: "Your Highness, today's disaster is all caused by Yang Guozhong alone. An Lushan is indeed harboring evil intentions, but without him adding fuel to the flames, how could it have happened so quickly?
!For his own power, he prevented the saint from summoning Li Siye, the military governor of the three towns, to lead troops into the court, and forced Ge Shuhan to lead troops out of Tongguan, but was ambushed by An Lushan and the entire army was annihilated. This happened one after another, even if he
Even if one bad thing happens, we won't end up like this."
Li Heng raised his head and looked into his eyes: "What do you think the general should do?"
Chen Xuanli said word by word: "Today, here and now, is the day when the Yang family will be destroyed."
Li Heng pursed his lips and just replied lightly: "Okay."
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The sun was about to submerge in the mountain forest, and the mountain roads were filled with white smoke from cooking stoves. The south gate of Mawei Posthouse began to change its defenses. Longwu Army Zhonghou Zhang Xiaojing led dozens of soldiers to replace the sentry post during the day. He communicated with his subordinates with his eyes,
Then he leaned against the doorpost and chewed leaves.
Yang Guozhong took the officials to buy some food from nowhere, wrapped it in yellow silk cloth and rode into the south gate. A dozen Tibetan envoys standing in the open space blocked Yang Guozhong, and one of them grabbed Yang Guozhong.
The horse reins shouted loudly: "Right Chancellor, give us some food! You can't let us foreign envoys starve to death with you! Isn't this disrespectful to the Tang Dynasty!"
Yang Guozhong pulled back the reins and said angrily: "No! Even His Majesty and the princes haven't had enough to eat, so how can you get them!"
"What's in here!"
Zhang Xiaojing, who was leaning against the doorpost with his arms folded, looked at Yang Guozhong and the envoys quarreling with disdain, spit out the leaf residue in his mouth, and suddenly shouted loudly: "Yang Guozhong has rebelled against the Hu people!"
More than a dozen Longwu Army soldiers drew their swords and rushed forward. The Tibetan envoys were so frightened that they hurriedly ran away with their heads in their hands. Yang Guozhong also reacted very quickly, shouting and riding his horse to escape towards the west gate of the post station.
A soldier took out a long bow from behind, fully pulled the string and fired it, hitting Yang Guozhong's saddle with a bang. The guy lay on the horse's back and waved his whip, and fled faster.
"Bring it here!" Zhang Xiaojing snatched the bow and arrow from the soldier, pulled it full as full as the moon and raised it slightly. The arrow drew an arc in the air and hit Yang Guozhong's back shoulder blade.
Yang Guozhong groaned in pain. Although his life was not injured, the horse's speed obviously slowed down. The soldiers of the Longwu Army swarmed after him, dragged him off the horse, cut his body into pieces with knives, cut off his head, and hung it on a long spear.
It was erected outside the west gate for public display.
The soldiers took the opportunity to shout: "Yang Guozhong has been executed! We should continue to suppress his cronies!"
At this time, there was no need for anyone to command, and chaos broke out outside Mawei Post. The Longwu Army rushed to the hut where the Yang family rested, dragged out Yang Xuan, the son of Yang Guozhong, and killed him. Mrs. Qin, Mrs. Korea and their children were killed.
They were chopped to death with random swords and their bodies were arranged in a row.
Wei Fangjin, the imperial censor, blushed with shock and shouted: "You are so brave, you dare to murder the prime minister!"
A school lieutenant turned around with a bloody knife and stabbed him in the abdomen: "Fuck you!"
The other party stepped on his body on the ground, pulled out the blade, and wiped it on his cuff.
The surrounding officials and their families were horrified, huddled together like lambs and shivered.