Chapter 40. Make a clean sweep of

Xu Zheng returned to the palace with more than 100 personal guards, walked in front of King Wei step by step, knelt down respectfully and said: "The forbidden army has all been taken into custody, waiting for the king's fate!" ”

King Wei breathed a sigh of relief, stretched out his hand to help Xu Zheng with relief, and said gratefully: "General Xu turned the tide and tilted the general of the building, he is a loyal minister of my Great Wei, please get up quickly!" ”

Xu Zheng still got up with a guilty face, without any proud look, and said with shame: "On the way here, the minister encountered the old general Huang blocking the way to assassinate Wu Kui, and the minister had no choice but to kill the old general. ”

King Wei was stunned for a moment, and then sighed lightly and said: "General Xu, don't blame yourself too much, you are also trying to hide from Wu Kui's ears and eyes, if General Huang has a spirit in the sky, he will also recognize your good intentions, and he will definitely not blame you." ”

Xu Zheng's look of shame did not decrease, but he still looked at the hundreds of officials in the hall who were trembling and surrounded by more than a hundred personal guards, and then asked: "What should I do with these people, I hope the king will show me." ”

King Wei looked at the trembling ministers in the hall, his eyes full of hesitation.

Seeing this, the hundred officials hurriedly knelt on the ground and kowtowed, and kept saying, "The minister should die, I hope the king will open the net!" ”

King Wei watched the hundred officials behave like this, and a touch of sarcasm flashed across his face, and then he looked at an official and asked aloud: "Doctor Zheng, you once assisted my father and the king, and you are an old minister of the Three Dynasties, why did you rebel with Wu Kui!" ”

Doctor Zheng couldn't stop kowtowing and explained: "Wu Kui used my family as a threat, and the minister really had no choice!" ”

King Wei sneered and said, "Lie! Slashed! ”

A soldier stepped forward and swung a knife and killed Dr. Zheng.

King Wei then looked at a general wearing a general's uniform and asked, "General He, you are the deputy commander of my Great Liang Forbidden Army, and your duty is to protect the safety of the widows, but why do you want to go to the palace with Wu Kui, Zhang Zuohu and others today?" ”

General He saw that Dr. Zheng died of his death without a word, and he was already scared into a cold sweat, he could only say: "The forbidden army has always been controlled by General Zhang, no, no, no, it is Zhang Zuohu, a traitor, who controls it, after all, the minister is the deputy, and he doesn't know that he wants to force the palace!" ”

King Wei sneered: "Lie! Slashed! ”

Another soldier stepped forward and wanted to swing his knife and slash away, but after all, General He was a military attachΓ©, and when he saw that the situation was wrong, he also reacted smartly, dodged and avoided a knife, and then pulled out the knife at his waist, ready to resist.

However, more than a dozen armor soldiers had already stepped forward to surround him, and General He was finally invincible with two fists and four hands.

King Wei then asked the ministers in the palace one by one, not a single official was missed, but when the hundred officials were frightened, they did not expect that such a young king, who paid little attention to the government affairs, would remember the names of everyone present.

One rebellious official after another was beheaded, until the front of the temple was covered with blood, and none of the hundred officials stood on the temple.

King Wei looked at the blood flowing all over the hall with some abruptness, looked at the corpse of a minister on the ground, sighed, ordered Wu Xu and a few people, turned his head and left.

Behind the King of Wei is a hall full of corpses, those who fell should have been the ministers of the Great Wei, all of them were in a different place at the moment, it should be a pity, but the figure of the King of Wei was extremely decisive.

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After turning around and leaving, King Wei did not choose to return to his dormitory first, but went straight to Chen Ziyou's residence to recuperate.

Chen Ziyou, who had been standing outside the door, saw the figure of King Wei gradually approaching, and finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the stone hanging in his heart was finally put down.

Now that the King of Wei has returned safely, Wu Kui's rebellion must have been quelled.

King Wei, who approached him, knelt down with a thud, but this kneeling startled Chen Ziyou.

Chen Ziyou hurriedly helped King Wei up and said, "Why does the king need to make this great gift. ”

King Wei stood up gratefully, took Chen Ziyou's hand, and said, "My Great Wei Sheji has been continued, thanks to Mr. Wei's planning, and the widow's kneeling is quite light." ”

Chen Ziyou scratched his head, and it was not easy to refuse, and he entered the house hand in hand with King Wei.

The two sat facing each other, King Wei looked like he wanted to speak and stopped, Chen Ziyou smiled and said, "If the king has something to say, he might as well say it directly." ”

King Wei smiled awkwardly, and finally said his question: "Although the hundred officials echoed Wu Kui, after all, they were held hostage, why should they be killed?" ”

Chen Ziyou sighed and said: "I understand the king's concerns, the execution of such a large number of officials will inevitably lead to the collapse of the Wei State for a long time, after all, they are the backbone of the Wei court. ”

King Wei nodded and said, "What Mr. said is right, when Mr. instructed me to kill all the hundred officials, the widow even suspected that Mr. was trying to weaken the national strength of my Great Wei. ”

Chen Ziyou said with a smile: "The king is sincere, but after all, I am the minister of Zhongshan, and it is not unreasonable for the king to speculate like this, but he has never had this idea in Xia, on the contrary, killing all the officials is to stabilize the Wei country." ”

King Wei looked at Chen Ziyou puzzled, and Chen Ziyou continued: "It's good to kill a hundred people, but it's not enough to just kill Wu Kui and Zhang Zuohu. Today, Wu Kui forced the palace to rebel, and the hundred officials dared to echo it, not only because they were controlled, but also because there was no fear of the Wang family in their hearts. If he didn't kill all these ministers who had no sense of awe, Wu Kui could rebel today, and he couldn't guarantee that there would be no second Wu Kui in the future. ”

King Wei suddenly realized, and said with some apologies: "It's a widow who spends the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain." ”

Chen Ziyou's words are true, but Chen Ziyou's heart is open, persuading the King of Wei to kill all the ministers can certainly deter future officials, but the price brought by this is indeed extremely painful, today's trouble, within ten years, the Wei State will surely collapse, the consequence of this massacre is that for a long time the Wei court is a shortage of talents. weakened the temples of the Wei State, and then weakened the strength of the Wei State, which was actually one of Chen Ziyou's purposes.

The best way to combine the vertical and vertical is to be incomparably similar in strength, Wei is too prominent in the five central countries, and can almost use the strength of one country to oppose the other four countries, and the five-nation alliance formed in this way is still difficult to say that it is extremely stable. And the best way is to weaken the strength of Wei, so that there will not be a situation in the Five Nations Alliance.

Naturally, this thought could not be known to King Wei, and only Chen Ziyou was the last one to kill two birds with one stone.

Wu Kui's rebellion can be resolved, I have to say that there is still luck, when Chen Ziyou was injured and entered the palace, his game with Wu Kui has fallen into a comprehensive disadvantage, and at the last moment he chose to bet on Xu Zheng's body, betting that he is full of blood and loyalty, which is already a dangerous move.

Human nature is often the most unpredictable thing, no matter how loyal a person is on the outside, it is difficult for you to be sure of his heart, Chen Ziyou bet right this time, but it is difficult to guarantee that he will not make a mistake next time.

In the eyes of King Wei, Chen Ziyou is strategizing, but only Chen Ziyou himself has been awakened by nightmares in the middle of the night every few days, and he was afraid when he woke up in a cold sweat.

Your luck, it seems good?

Chen Ziyou smiled self-deprecatingly in his heart, the calculation of the temple was not his forte.

In any case, from this moment on, Chen Ziyou is the first person to contribute to this counterinsurgency, and with King Wei's previous promise, the plan must be further.

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Three days later, the news of Wu Kui's rebellion and execution soon spread, and the citizens in the streets and alleys felt pity for this well-known minister at first, but when Wu Kui was accused of collaborating with the enemy, the people's caliber immediately changed, and they were all one-sided and spitted.

The people of Sanjin have long suffered from the division of the country, and they hate those thieves who betrayed the country the most, and Wu Kui can be said to have committed the most unforgivable sin.

At the same time, the 100,000 Qin troops on the Wei border stopped their march and left under the watchful eyes of the defenders of the Wei border cities.

Although Li Xin, the commander of the army, felt very pity, but since the matter had been revealed, he also knew that he could not do anything, so he chose to return to China.

Li Xin, who was riding on a tall horse, looked back at the land of Wei for the last time before leaving, and secretly vowed in his heart that sooner or later he would lead the army to level Wei again.

No one knew about this vow from the bottom of my heart, but it was finally fulfilled ten years later.