Chapter 119: From the army to the Western Regions

Dugu Yanjing endured the pain on his body, and wanted to pretend to be righteous and awe-inspiring in front of Wei Wei, but just as he was about to speak, the muscles on his face moved, and his whole body was in pain. So, the righteous and awe-inspiring hero couldn't pretend, so he could only grin and say:

"The imperial court wants me to make meritorious service before the battle, so why should I do this? The Son of Heaven will definitely look at the scenery from the ...... when he summons an edict."

This is Dugu Yanxi's heart, he has always felt that as a child of a family, it is his innate destiny to serve in the army and kill the enemy. However, now that he has ended up like this inexplicably, I really can't say how sour I feel in my heart.

Wei Wei also sighed, he raised his hand and gently stroked the top of Dugu Yanjing's head.

"It's not that I want to embarrass you, it's really that the chronic illness of the family has reached the point where it is difficult for the court to continue, but Dugu Yanxi instigated civil unrest again, your family is fighting to be the rafters, who can you blame?"

He is also telling the truth, although Qin Jin feels that the family has reached the point where he has to rectify, but the rectification is also divided into three, six, nine and so on, as long as he is willing to cooperate, of course the court will give generous compensation to comfort people, but if he thinks that he wants to challenge the court with the prestige and strength of the family, then the wishful thinking is wrong.

Without waiting for Dugu Yanjing to speak, Wei Wei said again:

"As far as Wei knows, Doctor Qin intends to vigorously manage the Western Regions, and you will also be very useful in the Western Regions in the future, as long as you are willing to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions...... The glory earned by this knife and one shot is more stable than that of the ancestors after all, listen to a word of advice, don't make any more trouble, do you have to make trouble to the point of being out of control to know repentance?"

After that, Wei Wei no longer waited for Dugu Yanjing to react, and left the courtyard of the execution with his entourage.

Soon, Dugu Yanjing was dragged back to the courtyard where the Dugu clan was imprisoned like a dead dog, and the clansmen were surprised to see him being dragged back alive, but they saw him tightly wrapped in a linen bandage, and they were slightly surprised, and for the first time they saw the executioner actually bandaged and sent back.

"Is Twelve Lang still tough? Look, this time it's a fight, you don't know the east, west, north and south, no matter how strong you are, I'm afraid you're going to lose your head......"

"Who said it wasn't, our Dugu family is all cowardly soft eggs, just you are an iron bone, see if your muscles are hard, or the leather whip is strong......"

Sneering words poured in from all directions, making the yard seem to be boiling water, Dugu Yanjing's spirit had withered, after all, he was injured, so he didn't have the experience to continue arguing with the clansmen. However, the chaotic situation attracted the attention of the guards of the Shenwu Army, and several times someone pushed the door and entered the hospital with forcible warnings:

"Be honest, which one is tired and crooked, you can stand up!"

The warning was immediate, and the people of the Dugu family immediately lost their voices, which one dared to go against the soldiers of the Shenwu Army? After all, the twelve langs of the Dugu family, who were once favored by three thousand, were all whipped into this virtue, and they all didn't have the ability to ask themselves, so they all clamped their tails and didn't want to eat the loss in front of them.

Seeing that the people of the Dugu family were all moving, the soldiers of the Shenwu Army silently inspected again before turning around and leaving.

Early the next morning, officials dressed in green robes entered the Qinglong Temple one after another, began to register, and spread out a thick stack of books. However, many people did not understand what the officials of the imperial court were going to do, and even thought that this was to be the final screening, and then the execution should be carried out, and the exile should be exiled.

Like the Dugu family and the Dou family, they don't have much illusion about their fate, and they plot to incite rebellion behind their backs, which is a crime of killing their heads from any point of view, maybe they can only pray for one thing, that is, they will suffer less when they are beheaded and executed.

However, the development of things was not as they expected, and soon there were officials in scarlet robes entering and leaving the Qinglong Temple, and these high-ranking officials above the fifth rank already had considerable status and right to speak, and the prisoners also became cautious and expectant.

In the past, the children of the powerful families would not have looked at the officials of the five grades squarely, but now their identities have been judged to be the same as before, where is the qualification to look down on others? What's more, the officials who enter and leave the Qinglong Temple must have official affairs on their bodies, and maybe any one of them will hold the power to decide their life and death.

Therefore, anyone with some brains will do his best to stammer, and even the most despicable flattery of the past is not taboo.

It's just that whether it is a blue-robed official or a scarlet-robed official, their attitude towards the prisoners of Qinglong Temple is the same as cold, and any flattery, even bribery and inducement, will not make them change in the slightest.

After a busy morning, all kinds of officials still haven't solved the mystery of their frequent comings and goings today, some people are anxious, and they are desperate for the future, but some people smell something strange from it, and an elder of the Dugu family secretly came to Dugu Yanjing's side and asked in a low voice:

"Twelve, to be honest, did you hear any rumors yesterday?"

In his opinion, although Dugu Yanjing was whipped, despair and anger completely disappeared from his eyes, replaced by an irrepressible expectation and longing. From this, it can be judged that Dugu Yanjing must have learned some information that can fundamentally reverse his fate.

Dugu Yanjing originally didn't intend to pay attention to these clansmen who only knew intrigue, but he couldn't stand their continuous pleading, so he had to say in a weak voice:

"The policy of the imperial court has changed, and in the next few years, we will focus on running the Western Regions, if we prisoners who should have been executed do not want to die, we will all be confiscated to Anxi, and if we want to come back at that time, we will have to earn a reputation with a knife and a gun......"

Today, Dugu Yanjing had a low-grade fever, and he was already very weak after talking about it, so he closed his mouth and didn't say half a word. It's just that these words are still too small for those people in the Dugu family, such as whether they can go to Anxi with a military force, or whether they can be punished with fines, etc......

Of course, their ideas were too extravagant, that is, shortly after noon, a scarlet-robed official began to announce the edict of the Son of Heaven in public, and all the prisoners who were to be convicted had only one choice if they wanted to get a lenient result, and that was to confiscate the army to Anxi.

There are still some differences between these prisoners of noble relatives and ordinary prisoners, that is, they don't have to start as ordinary soldiers, at least they can be a military commander, and if they have the experience of serving in the army or have made meritorious contributions, they can be appointed as town generals.

This is tantamount to rebirth for those death row prisoners who are waiting for the autumn decision, and after the people of the Dugu family and the Dou family learned that they could avoid death, they all claimed to praise Doctor Qin's mercy.

The people present are not stupid, everyone knows who is in charge of the imperial court, although it is in the name of the Son of Heaven who issued the edict, but it is Qin Jin, the imperial historian, who is really in charge.

Wei Wei saw this scene in his eyes, and couldn't help but be full of contempt for these so-called children of the family, although he was also from the children of the family, but this kind of shameless thing, he still couldn't do it.

There are very few people who are willing to die, and the vast majority of them hope to replace the death penalty with the army, and even those prisoners who are about to be confiscated to the smoke and miasma of Lingnan are also enthusiastically requesting, planning to go to the Western Regions to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions. It has always been a tradition of the Tang Dynasty for border generals to enter the court, such as Gao Xianzhi and Ge Shuhan, who were former border army generals, and it was by virtue of their outstanding military exploits that they could enter the political hall, even if Feng Changqing, who failed to enter the political hall, was not he also a prisoner who was assigned to the Western Regions.

These near-mythological examples are all vivid, and who doesn't want to glorify the lintel in this way? Especially after going through the mental journey of mortality, it is enough for them to get a chance to be reborn.

The work of registration is cumbersome, and the officials in the green robe have to search the archives and records of these people in the vast register, from the name of their place of origin to whether they have made meritorious deeds, and only after everything is verified in the register will they be truly registered in the register.

Once the names of these great families are registered in the register, their fate is already certain, and the Western Regions will be their destination for the next ten or decades.

Dugu Yanjing dragged his injured body to the registration team, but when it was his turn, there was still an accident, and the green-robed official in charge of registration said that he was unwilling to register his name because he was physically injured and did not meet the conditions. But it is not completely unreasonable, and it is clearly told that even if it cannot be confiscated to the Western Regions, it will be spared death, and as for what kind of punishment to replace the confiscation, it will have to wait for notification.

"No, I must go to the Western Regions, even if I climb, I have to climb over!"

Dugu Yanjing was really anxious, he really couldn't imagine that he would face the danger of being disqualified, yesterday Wei Wei obviously agreed to him, how could he change his hexagram today? Knowing that his opportunity might be fleeting, he opened his throat and shouted loudly:

"I want to see Wei Wei, Wei Wei clearly promised me yesterday, how can I regret it today? I want to see Wei Wei......"

As soon as he made such a fuss, he violated the taboo of the Shenwu army, and the civil unrest and mutiny were all due to this seemingly coincidental and unexpected situation, especially after the Katoriji civil unrest incident, they were even more cautious and strict about making trouble in public. Immediately, someone rushed into the crowd, dragging Dugu Yanjing out like a dead dog, because he struggled too hard, the wound on his body that was intended to be scabbed burst out, and the red blood gradually leaked out.

Dugu Yanjing's status in the Dugu family is not low, even in the circle of Chang'an elites, he is second to none, but today he ended up in such an embarrassing end, everyone who saw it sighed and sighed......