The situation turned out as expected by Xiao Wanding and others. The Jin army set up four camps outside the city, and more than 200,000 troops surrounded Luoyang City. At the same time, Dugu Mingren, the Minister of Civil Affairs, led dozens of officials to Henan.
The government quickly took over the counties in Henan Prefecture, appeased the people, and reduced taxes and labor.
The king of Jin, Guo Song, had also set off from Chang'an and came to Luoyang to lead the final siege.
The Jin army did not attack Luoyang City for the time being, which caused the tense atmosphere in the city to ease slightly. Under Xiao Wanding's suggestion, Qianniuwei began to search for food from house to house. No matter high-ranking officials or civilians, no matter businessmen or aristocratic families, all grains must be collected.
Of course, Liu Feng, Xiao Wanding and other powerful relatives also symbolically handed over a little food.
There is a small school ground next to the palace of Prime Minister Liu Feng, which has now been converted into a small military camp with hundreds of tents set up. This is where the internal guards of Prime Minister Liu Feng are stationed, and Zhou Fei and his 500 men are stationed here.
This time Zhou Fei led the crowd to sneak into Luoyang City first, not just to cooperate with the inside and outside, he also had some special tasks to complete.
Peng Wang Li Ji was made emperor by Zhu Si. After he abdicated and abdicated, he was taken to Luoyang by Zhu Si. Li Ji was dead, but his three sons were still in Luoyang, and he also had two grandsons. Although his three sons
They all had publicly written declarations to withdraw from the clan, but after all, they had written the declarations under Zhu Si's coercion, and people in the world did not take their declarations seriously.
Li Zhen, the eldest son of Li Yu, was granted the title of Prince of Nanyang by Zhu Sim, and was appointed as the Minister of the Ministry of Etiquette. In addition, Li Yu also had two concubines, Li Zhao and Li Tie. The three brothers all lived in a 30-acre mansion in Jishanfang.
Inside, Zhu Si also sent a team of soldiers to conduct surveillance in the name of protection.
One of the tasks Zhou Fei received from King Jin was to get rid of Li Ji's children and grandchildren in the name of Zhu Si.
Although Ying Caihe could also complete this task, Guo Song thought over and over again and decided that it would be better to let Zhu Si take the blame.
In the big tent, Jiang Min said to Zhou Fei and deputy general Zhang Yuanzhi: "We have been investigating for almost a month. A group of soldiers stationed by Zhu Si were bribed by Li Zhen. Now only Li Zhen and his two sons live in the mansion.
, Li Zhao and Li Tie have already moved out, and we bribed the maid inside. Li Zhao and Li Tie moved out the year before last. According to the information we have, they are probably no longer in Luoyang."
Zhou Fei was really worried. If Li Zhao and Li Tie were not in Luoyang, this task would not be completed. He was a little annoyed and asked: "Didn't Zhu Si notice it at all?"
"That's not the case. Li Zhao and Li Tie are just concubines. They are the two sons born after Li Ji arrived in Luoyang. They have low status and are less than ten years old. They basically have no sense of existence. Zhu Si does not
Paying attention to these two people, he only paid attention to Li Zhen. Then Li Zhen found two young beggars of about the same age and asked them to pretend to be Li Zhao and Li Tie. In addition, he bribed the guards, so Zhu Si did not notice that they had been replaced.
."
Zhou Fei walked a few steps with his hands behind his back: "Is there any record in the official archives of the Zhu Si court?"
"There are records. According to the official archives of the Prime Minister's Mansion, there are three brothers living in the mansion."
"If the three of them were killed, would the Prime Minister's Mansion have records?" Zhou Fei asked.
"You can ask Yang Mi to record it!"
Jiang Min suddenly understood what Zhou Fei meant, "The general means that as long as Li Zhao and Li Tie are dead in the official records, even if they appear in the future, they can be said to be fake."
Zhou Fei nodded, "There is no other way."
"Can that team of soldiers be transferred?" Zhou Fei asked again.
"That group of soldiers are palace guards. To transfer them requires Wang Xianzhong's order, but I can think of a way."
"Are you trying to forge Wang Xianzhong's order?"
Jiang Min shook his head, "It's not a forgery, it's a real order. Liu Feng has already bribed the eunuchs around Wang Xianzhong. It's not difficult to get a transfer order. Now is a chaotic period, and Wang Xianzhong has too much time to take care of himself, so he won't go to verify such small things.
true or false.”
"When can it be ready?" Zhou Fei asked again.
"I guess it will be fine tomorrow and the day after tomorrow!"
Zhou Fei nodded, "Now the whole city is searching for food. I hope to complete the task before the end of this operation!"
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Zhu Si's condition became more and more serious, and he was in a coma most of the time. He could barely survive on some liquid food and medicine. With the Jin army besieging the city, people in the palace were panicked, and everyone was thinking about life-saving strategies.
Queen Xiao held her son and cried all day long, while Concubine Liu looked on with cold eyes. Wang Xianzhong controlled the entire palace. Wang Xianzhong was greedy for money. His current mind was not on maintaining the stability of the palace, but on racking his brains on how to get rid of the treasures in Zhu Si's inner treasury.
Get it into your own hands.
He had already used his authority to steal thirty boxes of jewelry from the inner treasure room and hid them in his own secret vault, but he was not satisfied yet and wanted to steal all the more than a hundred boxes of treasures in the entire treasure room.
Another thing Wang Xianzhong was worried about was how to transport out the treasures he had harvested for more than ten years. Wang Xianzhong was from Jianzhou, so he wanted to transport his treasures back to his hometown, so that he could spend the rest of his life anonymously.
It's just that Wang Xianzhong was very suspicious. He didn't trust his subordinates, especially when it came to his own money, so he didn't send his wealth away for a long time. Now that the Jin army was besieging the city, it was too late for him to send it away even if he wanted to.
Wang Xianzhong was extremely anxious, but he still thought of a way. He could store his wealth anonymously in the Baoji Cabinet. Even if the city was destroyed, the Jin army would not raid the Baoji Cabinet.
So he has been busy with this matter for the past two days and has been away from the palace most of the time.
The eunuch Liu Feng bribed was called Jiang Chun'er, a young eunuch who organized Wang Xianzhong's study. Wang Xianzhong had three such young eunuchs around him. They took turns on duty, and they were all illiterate. Wang Xianzhong was not afraid of important information being leaked.
Although Jiang Chun'er is illiterate, he knows what Wang Xianzhong's troop mobilizing seal looks like and where it is placed. There are only twenty surveillance soldiers in Li Zhen Mansion, less than fifty. There is no need for the troop mobilizing tiger talisman, nor
If you need a troop dispatching order, just make a troop dispatching order.
The troop transfer order is a printed, ready-made order. You only need to fill in which army to transfer and where to send it, and then stamp it with Wang Xianzhong's troop transfer seal.
That afternoon, when Jiang Chun'er was cleaning up his study, he stole a blank troop transfer order with a seal. After handing over, he went out of the palace and gave the troop transfer order to Yang Mi.
Liu Feng would not do such trivial matters personally. All contact with the palace was left to Yang Mi. After Yang Mi analyzed the situation, he could just tell Liu Feng the results directly.
Of course, there are risks in this matter. Although this small transfer of twenty people will not be verified by Wang Xianzhong, but just in case, once Wang Xianzhong finds out that this transfer order was not signed by himself, the three eunuchs will be severely tortured.
It is very likely that they will explain it and if they trace it step by step, Yang Mi will be exposed.
But if you are afraid of the wolf before you and the tiger behind you, then nothing can be done and everything is possible, so everything has to be about probability. What is the possibility of being discovered? If there is a high probability that you will not be discovered, then go for it decisively.
Do.
If it were normal times and Wang Xianzhong was very free, he might ask about all the troop deployment situations, but now the situation is very chaotic and Wang Xianzhong is too busy with his own affairs. How can he have the time to care about such trivial matters? What follows?
No one would report such a small transfer of twenty people to him.
Therefore, the probability of being discovered is very small. Even if it is discovered, it is very likely that it is a fake transfer order printed by someone outside. If you can print a fake transfer order, why take the risk to steal the real transfer order?
Jiang Min was very efficient in doing things. Early the next morning, twenty soldiers from Li Zhen's mansion were transferred to guard the Changle Gate of the palace. Now every place was in urgent need of manpower. Of course, their arrival was deeply welcomed by the palace guards.
welcome.
Li Zhen is about forty years old. He is the eldest son of Peng Wang Li Ji and the grandson of Tang Suzong Li Heng. Among the few remaining Li and Tang clans, he is also the only royal family with the right to inherit the throne. Although his father is
He was the false emperor of Zhu Si, but he had nothing to do with him. Many court ministers and aristocratic families were familiar with him and knew that he was smart, capable and of good character. If the Tang Dynasty was to be maintained, he would be the emperor of the Tang Dynasty.
Guo Song was a minister of the Tang Dynasty. If he wanted to replace the Tang Dynasty, he would first have to cross the moral bottom line of seeking to usurp the throne. Therefore, he acquiesced in the rampant power of the eunuchs in the Southern Tang Dynasty and allowed Zhu Si to proclaim himself emperor for a long time. The consequence of this was that the Tang Dynasty
The prestige of the Tang Dynasty was wiped out step by step, so that no one in the world missed the Tang Dynasty anymore.
This is not enough, it will also lead to a dead situation in which the Tang Dynasty has no royal successor. The massacre of Anlu Mountain, the massacre of Zhu Si, and the massacre during the eunuch palace chaos. The royal family of Li and Tang Dynasty has almost disappeared. The original royal family of Chang'an
There are five children left, all of them young sons. Except for the idiot little emperor, the other four young sons all died in infancy or died of illness in five or six years.
There was originally a lineage of Li Si in Lingnan, but Li Si had no children and only had a few adopted sons. After Li Si's death, they all returned to their original surnames and had nothing to do with the royal family. The lineage of Lingnan was also extinct.
According to folk rumors, Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji still have children who survived the Xuanwu Gate Incident and are living among the people. However, the internal guards have been searching for a year and have not found any clues. In fact, even if they found it, there is no official basis and they do not approve it.
That’s it.
This situation of cutting off imperial heirs also occurred in the Song Dynasty. The royal family of the Northern Song Dynasty was abducted by the Jin people. Song Gaozong Zhao Gou had no children. After his death, the Zhao Guangyi line was cut off, and he had to trace his origins from the descendants of Zhao Kuangyin.
Looking for a successor.
Now the only heirs of the Tang Dynasty are Peng Wang and Li Ji, especially Li Zhen. His existence had a great influence on Guo Song's rise to power.
Since they have been monitored by Zhu Si, according to the usual practice, Zhu Si will kill Li Zhen and his son before his death. This is the best opportunity to pass the blame to Zhu Si. Guo Song has been waiting for this opportunity.
Li Zhen also understood this danger, so the twenty soldiers suddenly evacuated. He immediately packed up his belongings and prepared to escape with his two sons.
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