During the period of the rebellion, the Holy Mother and Emperor obtained a large amount of information through various channels and collected the content of the letters exchanged between Li Tang's relatives. The information shows that the Li Tang clan is extremely dissatisfied with her, and the contradiction has reached the point of irreconcilability, so she must get rid of the Li Tang clan and clear the obstacles on the road to the throne.

After the Boyu Rebellion was pacified, the Holy Mother of God sent the superintendent Su Jue to interrogate the prisoners, and when he left, he insinuated that he would implicate Li Yuanjia, the king of Han, Li Lingkui, the king of Lu, and other Li and Tang kings when handling the case.

Su Jue sympathized with the kings of Li and Tang and did not extort confessions effectively, or maybe he was worried that he would get into trouble in the future, and reported that he could not find evidence of the rebellion of the kings of Li and Tang.

Our Lady and Emperor said to him: "Qing is a man of great grace, I should not be driven, this prison does not need to be tried by Qing!" ”

Our Lady of God and Emperor transferred Su Jue to Hexi to supervise the army, and sent Zhou Xing, the chief of punishment, to interrogate the prisoners.

Su Jue is a Confucian bachelor, Zhou Xing is a cool official, the things that are implicated in melons can only be done by cool officials, and Confucian scholars are elegant people, so they can't do this. In order to achieve his own goals, the Holy Mother and Emperor are very disciplined in employing people.

Zhou Xingxian did not check the evidence of the rebellion of the kings of Li and Tang, and directly led the captains and soldiers to surround the palace and arrest the kings.

Zhou Xing first led his troops to the Han Wangfu in Jiangzhou, surrounded the palace, smashed open the Zhu Gate, and rushed in to search. Rummaging through boxes and cabinets, smashing bottles and broken bowls. The servants and ladies of the royal palace screamed in fright and scurried around.

Li Yuanjia, the king of Han, was so frightened that he hid in the stable and shivered, and was discovered by a soldier first. The soldier grabbed him by the brocade robe on his chest and pulled him to his knees in front of the lobby.

Zhou Xingduan sat on a tiger skin chair in the middle of the lobby, looked down majestically at Li Yuanjia, the king of Han, and said with a smug smile: "I didn't expect that the famous Han King Li Yuanjia would also kneel at the feet of labor and management and sing conquest Wow, haha!" ”

Zhou Xing ordered his subordinates to strip off Li Yuanjia's purple brocade robe, put on prison clothes, register the property of the palace, and return it to the government. He also arrested all the family members of King Han and did not enter the official mansion as slaves.

Pity these royal family members suddenly changed from being served by others to serving people, the psychological gap is huge, some are assigned to Wu Sansi, and some are distributed to Wu Chenghe, washing and folding quilts for them, serving tea and water, cleaning, and being beaten if they are not satisfied, one by one, like purgatory on earth!

Li Yuanjia, the king of Han, who changed into prison clothes, was stuffed into a prison car, paraded along the street, escorted to the Shendu, and tortured in the prison. The jailer poured vinegar into his nose and made him sleep in a straw nest, without food or a commode, and allowed him to pull feces and urine around the straw nest, making the cell stinky and unpleasant.

Li Yuanjia, the king of Han, regretted 10,000 regrets in his heart, regretting that he would not die early, so that he couldn't die now, and life was better than death. The jailer tried to rectify Li Yuanjia again, making him kneel down and hold the flail with both hands, and put adobe bricks on top of the flail.

After only three adobe bricks were laid, Li Yuanjia couldn't stand it, fell to the ground with a thud, and was whipped by the jailer. The jailer reprimanded him and said, "This is called the immortal offering fruit, if you don't offer it well, how can the immortal spare you?" ”

Li Yuanjia wailed: "I now know that the jailer is very noble, please be great, kill me!" Even if I give a rope, I can't thank enough! ”

The jailer laughed out of the pig and said, "Haha, I didn't expect that the prince would also kneel down with lowly people and beg for mercy!" It's a pity that Zhou Shaoqing didn't give the order, you can't die yet, just eat some pickled sand porridge and overnight leftovers! ”

Zhou Xing found a large number of letters from the palace between Li Yuanjia and Li Zhen, Li Chong and other clan relatives discussing the army, returned to Shendu, and interrogated Li Yuanjia.

Li Yuanjia has been tortured to the point that he is not human, and he only wants to die quickly, do whatever he wants, sign when he is called, and draw a charge when he is called, so he was convicted of rebellion and reported to the Holy Mother and Emperor for processing.

Next, Zhou Xingyi painted a scoop with a gourd, rushed to King Lu's Mansion in Xingzhou, and arrested Li Lingkui, King of Lu, and asked for his guilt! Then Li Lingkui was stuffed into the prisoner car and displayed along the street, Li Lingkui also regretted not being at the beginning!

He went to the Tongzhou Mansion to arrest Huang Guogong Li Wei, and found his forged emperor's seal book when he searched his house.

Zhou Xing rushed to the Princess Mansion of Shouzhou and led his troops to surround the Princess's Mansion. Princess Changle and Zhao Gui, the assassin of Shouzhou, were worried that Zhou Xing would hit the door, and the husband and wife both opened the Zhu door and came out to meet each other.

Zhou Xing saw that the princess and the concubine not only did not salute, but ordered his subordinates to arrest the princess and his wife. Princess Changle was furious, blushed and said: "I am Gaozu's daughter, Taizong's sister, Gaozong's aunt, what are you people who dare to touch me?" ”

Zhou Xing laughed and said: "You used to be noble, that's because you cast a good baby, you were born with a golden key, and you can enjoy the wealth of the world without doing anything!" It's a pity, time has passed, you have offended the Holy Mother God Emperor, and conspired with the kings of the Li clan to rebel, and now you are just my prisoner! Haha, come on, take it for me! ”

The captain and the soldiers stepped forward to arrest the princess, Zhao Gui and his soldiers pulled out their swords together, and shouted angrily: "Who dares to do it? Zhou Xing gave a look, and the captain led a large number of soldiers to surround Zhao Gui and his family corps.

Zhao Gui swung his sword and struggled, was cut by several soldiers, fell to the ground and was captured, and the other soldiers threw down their weapons and were captured. Several soldiers went to arrest Princess Changle, who slapped them a few times and prevented them from touching her.

Zhou Xing went up and grabbed her hair, dragged her out, threw her into a cage, pulled her by a carriage, and paraded along the street, like a wild beast! Princess Changle regretted it a lot at this time, regretting that she didn't commit suicide earlier like Li Zhen, so that she was subjected to such a **, it is really better to live than to die!

Zhou Xing led his troops to rush into the princess's mansion to raid the house, arrest her relatives, confiscate her property, and found many letters between the princess and her husband and wife and Li Zhen and Li Chong from the secret cabinet.

The princess and his wife were escorted to Shendu and were mistreated like Li Yuanjia, the king of Han. The jailer hung Zhao Gui upside down on a beam, with his feet up and down his head, and tied Zhao Gui's long hair to a big stone.

This time Zhao Gui was uncomfortable, after a long time, his head was dizzy, his whole hair was torn off by the stone, Zhao Gui became bald, and he screamed in pain.

The jailer also made Princess Changle stand on a high platform and pulled the flail around her neck with a rope from behind.

Princess Changle could only stand with her head up, her neck was sore for a while, her head fell from the high platform, her foot was broken, she twisted her breath, and it was very painful, but no one heard her, and she cried bitterly.

When Zhou Xing interrogated her, he showed her bold words recorded by Li Zhen's envoy. Princess Changle was very ashamed, she had been insulted at this time, and she regretted it so much that she just wanted to die quickly.

Princess Changle persuaded Li Zhen to move forward and not to retreat, but she herself was greedy for life and afraid of death, and refused to commit suicide early, but as a result, she was insulted, and she was in pain, and life was worse than death.

It can be seen from the words she relayed to King Yue that she has a mouth that only talks about others and does not look at herself, which is what the Holy Mother God Emperor hates about her the most.

Zhou Xing reported the case file signed by Princess Changle and his wife to the Holy Mother of God, and the Holy Mother and Emperor quickly approved it, and praised Zhou Xing for doing things.

Zhou Xing prepared a pot of poisonous wine and poured it for Li Yuanjia, the king of Han, Li Lingkui, the king of Lu, Li Xun, the prince of Huang Guo, and Princess Changle and his wife. They had all been tortured to the point that they were not human, and at this time they were relieved and only wanted to be freed as soon as possible, and they all did not hesitate to take a bite out of their necks, and then collapsed and died in the cell.

Our Lady of God received a secret letter from Tongxuan Tongxuan, saying that Jeju Assassin Shi Xue Yi sent a record to join the army Gao Su secretly built weapons and recruited soldiers, preparing to respond to the rebellion of Li Chong, the king of Langya.

Our Lady God Emperor sent an envoy to Jeju to give an order, ordering Xue Yi and his brother Xue Xu to meet in Luoyang. Xue Yi was panicked, and had an ominous premonition, fearing that once he left Jeju, Gao Su, who had joined the army, would betray him in order to protect himself!

Rather than this, it is better to strike first, kill people and kill people, and it will become safer to enter Beijing because there is no proof of death.

Xue Yi set up a table for dinner and invited Gao Su to the banquet. Gao Su didn't know it at all, and thought that he had worked hard and made a lot of achievements, and Xue Yi held a banquet to comfort himself, so he came happily.

As a result, as soon as the cup was mentioned, Xue Yi stopped drinking, and the soldiers who had already been ambushed under the tent swarmed out and tied up Gao Su Wuhuada. Gao Su shouted: "Wronged, Xue Yuanjun, what is my crime? ”

Xue Yi ignored him and directly signaled to launch the beheading. Before he died, Gao Su scolded Xue Yi 10,000 times in his heart, saying that this was done by people? At least that's not what smart people do, it's the work of fools who are greedy for life and afraid of death! Labor and management died unjustly, and labor and management went to the underworld to sue you, and let you go to the bronze pillar hell to be tortured by cannons!

After killing Gao Su, who had joined the army, Xue Yi and Xue Xu were relieved to ride into Beijing together. Who knew that as soon as they entered Luoyang, they were arrested by the guerrilla general Suo Yuanli, who had been waiting for them for a long time.

Suo Yuanli escorted them to the Luozhou Pastoral Prison and let them see the torture instruments that tortured and intimidated people, suggesting that they confess honestly and say whatever they want, otherwise these torture instruments will be used on their bodies.

After Xue Yi and Xue Xu visited these torture instruments, their hairs were all on the ground, and their legs were sifting through the chaff, so frightened that they were paralyzed on the ground and could not walk.

Suo Yuanli laughed, laughing at them for not being hard-hearted, and ordered his subordinates to take the prisoners' confessions of rebellion and let them confess. Xue Yi and Xue Xu both drew honestly.

Suo Yuanli asked again: "Did Xue Shao, the commander of the horses, ever conspire with Li Chong, the king of Langya?" Xue Yi said tremblingly: "Captain Horse has been living in the Shendu, how could he conspire with Li Chong?" ”

Suo Yuanli shouted: "Fetch my iron cage!" The official took the iron cage and threw it in front of Xue Yi, which startled Xue Yi with a bang.

Xue Yi changed his words and said: "Conspire, he and Li Chong conspired!" Suo Yuanli shouted: "Okay, take the paper!" "The official took the pleadings and asked Xue Yi to sign and draw them, and implicated Xue Shao in the conspiracy case!

Suo Yuanli reported the case file of the rebellion, and the Holy Mother and Emperor sent Jin Wuwei to the princess's mansion to arrest Xue Shao, the commander of the horses. Princess Taiping shouted angrily: "Wait! Wait for the princess to enter the palace and ask A-Niang. ”

Jin Wuwei didn't dare to make a mistake and waited in the mansion. Princess Taiping entered the palace to see A-Niang and asked: "Xue Shao is my lover, I love him and I have given birth to two sons and two daughters, why did A-Niang break us up?" ”

The Holy Mother and Emperor said, "Daughter, Xue Shao participated in the rebellion of the clan and committed a heinous crime!" If you want to control the world, you must do justice and kill relatives, and enforce the law fairly, so as to serve the public! ”

"As women, we are going through unprecedented changes, and we can't let men catch on to our flaws. How can a daughter give up her small family to take care of everyone and help her mother achieve a shocking cause? ”

Princess Taiping pouted and said, "I don't care, I want Xue Shao!" The Holy Mother God Emperor said sharply: "Do you want Xue Shao, or A-Niang?" ”

Princess Taiping was startled, and fell on the Holy Mother and Divine Emperor and cried. Our Lady of God comforted her and said, "If you want a mother, you must listen to your mother." There are more good men in the world, do you think which man in the martial arts family is not stronger than the Li family? Whoever you fancie, just recruit it! ”

"Our mother and mother are grasshoppers in the same boat, one is prosperous, one is lost, if A-Niang fails to start a business, you will not have a good life. So you have to have a heart with your mother! ”

Princess Taiping sobbed and agreed. Our Lady God Emperor sent Su Chang out of the palace and went to the princess's mansion to announce the arrest of Xue Shao. Jin Wuwei took Xue Shao into a relatively clean prison.

A few days later, Xue Yi and Xue Xu were beheaded, and Xue Shao starved to death in prison because of Princess Taiping's sake, and starved to death in prison. At that time, it was also a grace to be able to keep the whole corpse.

A jailer saw Xue Shao's twisted corpse, looked up to the sky and sighed: "Hey, noble Captain of the Horse, do you still remember the night when the torch was withered in the autumn of the second year of Yonglong?

How exciting! Zaiya once held a torch high to participate in the luxurious and peerless Allure wedding, and seven years later, it still has an endless aftertaste. But ......"

The jailer came to the window, looked at the sunset in the distance and continued: "The green mountains are still there, and the sunset has been red several times. What do you say, 'Fang period Liuhetai, enjoy the spring of ten thousand years', the result is 'last night the mandarin duck lying at the bottom of the red light tent, tonight the loess Longtou sent white bones', 'Jun's birthday said kindness, Jun died and went with others'. Sad, lamentable, pity, salvageable! ”

The Holy Mother and Emperor received another whistle-blowing letter, saying that Li Yuanliang, the king of Huo, also had correspondence with Li Zhen, the king of Yue, and plotted to raise troops. More importantly, Li Yuanliang's eldest son, Li Xu, the king of Jiangdu, was talented, and he had a relationship with Pei Chengxian, the eunuch of the palace, and secretly corresponded in private.

The palace supervisor is in charge of the service of the Son of Heaven, and the commander-in-chief is still food, medicine, clothes, Shangshe, Shangshe, Shangshe, and Shangran's six bureaus.

Pei Chengxian is the grandson of Pei Lian, the founding father of Wei, so he can serve as the supervisor of the palace from the three products.

Our Lady God Emperor was shocked, he didn't expect that the people around him were also spies, it seems that no one can believe it! Anyone is suspicious! Those who were loyal to themselves in the past may also betray themselves as the times change!

Therefore, if the people of the Son of Heaven want to keep the great treasure, they must tremble every day, as if they are on the edge of the abyss, and they must walk on thin ice!

Our Lady God Emperor sent Zhou Xing to lead troops to arrest Li Xu, the king of Jiangdu, and Li Yuanliang, the king of Huo, raided the homes of the two kings, and found a lot of evidence. He also ordered Jin Wuwei to search for Pei Chengxian, the prison supervisor in the palace, and put him on death row.

After investigation and verification, Pei Chengxian leaked a lot of secret information in the palace, and Li Xu, the king of Jiangdu, spread this information to other Li Tang clan relatives, causing a bad impact.

Li Xu, the king of Jiangdu, and Pei Chengxian, the eunuch of the palace, were both killed in the bustling vegetable market.

Huo Wang Li Yuanliang only wrote a letter, and did not take any practical action, and the Holy Mother and Emperor dealt with him lightly and deposed him to Qianzhou.

Li Yuanliang, who used to be clothed and fed, was transported along the way by a threshold car, just like transporting wild beasts, for the vast number of grass people to watch curiously along the way. Li Yuanliang was embarrassed and indignant, and committed suicide when he arrived at Chencang.

Next, there were constant whistleblowing letters about the Li Tang clan, including the late Li Wei, the son of Li Yun, the king of Jiang, Li Wei, the king of Runan, Li Xu, the son of Li Yuanqing, the king of Taoism, and the descendants of Li Yuanli, the king of Xu, and Li Ming, the king of Cao, were among the defendants.

In April of the first year of Yongchang, the Holy Mother sent Zhou Xing to kill 12 members of the clan, including Chenzhou Beijia, Li Wei, King of Runan, Lianzhou Beijia, and Li Xu, Duke of Poyang, and exiled their families to the remote city of Shanzhou.

The wife of Li Xu, the Duke of Poyang, was the daughter of Deng Xuanting, a heavenly official and a servant, and Li Xuan tried to establish Li Zhe, the king of Luling, as the emperor, and consulted Deng Xuanting.

Li Wei, the king of Runan, was a friend of Deng Xuanting, and once asked Deng Xuanting: "How about implementing an emergency plan for rebellion at a critical moment?" ”

Deng Xuanting remained silent and did not answer Li Yan and Li Wei's questions, is this all right?

No, under the reign of the Holy Mother, it is not allowed to be silent and neutral, and it is necessary to show one's attitude: obedience or rebellion. Those who follow me prosper, and those who oppose me die, do not tell the opposite, keep silent, and also be punished.

Therefore, after killing Li Yan and other clansmen, he killed Deng Xuanting, the servant of the heavenly officials, and forced the courtiers to express their attitude: support her as emperor or oppose her!

Support her to claim that the emperor has a good reception, and oppose her also has a sword and axe, in short, it will not be in vain.

Fan Lubing, a scholar from the North Gate, is loyal and outspoken, not afraid of power, although he has been promoted and reused by the Empress Wu, but when he faces the situation that the Empress Wu wants to revolutionize and become the emperor, he is also worried.

Because a woman dared to revolutionize and claim the title of emperor, Ji Si Chen, which is contrary to his Confucian ideals and beliefs.

Fan Lubing once said to his colleague Wei Yuan in private: "The Tang family will decline, and the henchmen of the Empress Wu are increasing day by day, and they are about to usurp and rebel, and the world is in danger!" ”

Wei Yuan replied: "This kind of thing should be observed from time to time, the current emperor Li Dan seems to be smart and handsome, but it is difficult to know what his plan is!" Wait for the time! ”

Fan Lubing said: "I'm afraid that time won't wait!" ”

Wei Yuan replied: "The matter of Empress Wu is unclear, if Empress Wu acts against the sky, then the Li Tang clan will not be able to tolerate her." We'll take advantage of the opportunity. Fan Lubing nodded in agreement and said, "That's the only way!" ”

In the spring of the first year of Zaichu, most of the Li Tang clan had been killed, and seeing that no one could stop the footsteps of the Holy Mother God Emperor from ascending the throne, the Chunguan Shangshu and Tongping Zhangshi Fan Lubing couldn't help it, and wrote a direct letter to dissuade the Holy Mother God Emperor from becoming the emperor.

The Holy Mother Divine Emperor said angrily: "This is the second betrayal incident of the people around him after Pei Chengxian, the supervisor of the temple!" After saying that, on the charge of recommending a rebel by Fan Lubing, he was arrested and imprisoned, and Fan Lubing was soon killed.

Our Lady God Emperor was slaughtered, how could he forget the offspring born to Gaozong and other concubines?

Wu Chenghe, the left minister of Wenchang, figured out his aunt's thoughts, and sent the cool official Zhou Xing to falsely accuse Luo Zhi of Suizhou Thorn History, Ze King Li Shangjin and Shuzhou Thorn History, and Xu King Li Sujie of rebellion, and recruited the two kings to the Shendu, which were judged by the Imperial History Observatory.

Under the escort of Zhou Xing, Li Sujie set off from Shuzhou, and just walked a short distance, when he heard someone crying bitterly because of the death of his relatives, and sighed: "Some people can't even get sick and die, it's even more miserable than your family, why are you crying!" ”

On May 12 of the first year of Zaichu, Li Sujie traveled to Longmen Station, was hanged by Zhou Xing's men, and was hastily buried with the gift of the Shuren. Li Sujie's sons Li Ying and Li Qi were killed together, and the remaining four sons, Li Lin, Li Xuan, and Li Qingu, were still young and imprisoned in Leizhou for a long time.

Li Shangjin, the king of Ze, set out from Suizhou, and heard that Li Sujie was hanged and killed on the way, and his sons and relatives were ambushed, so frightened that they sifted through the chaff and did not dare to move forward, so they simply took three feet of white silk and hanged themselves.

Li Shangjin's seven sons were exiled to Xianzhou, of which six sons, Li Yipu, Li Yizhen, Li Yimei, Li Yizhang, Li Yihuan, and Li Yijin, all died there, and only Li Yixun survived.

Li Yuan, the king of Shu, is famous and noble, rarely asks about his family's industry, does not levy tyranny, is reserved and solemn every morning and evening, and the court is clean. In Shizhou for 20 years, enjoy the spring water of the mountains and forests, and have the style of a hermit.

Li Yuanming admonished his son Yuzhang King Li Kang and said: "Fate is determined by heaven, and good conduct comes first, and the vassal king should not worry about not having money and official positions, but worrying about not doing good deeds and accumulating virtue." Try to do more good deeds every day, be loyal and filial, this is also my ideal and belief! ”

After Li Zhi served as the assassin of Jiangzhou, he did good deeds every day and was famous for his good governance.

A feudal king with such a noble character should have died well, but at the time of the Wuzhou Revolution, he could only break the jade and not destroy it! The cool official Qiu Shenqi falsely accused Li Kang of rebellion and arrested him and imprisoned him in the Imperial Prison.

In the autumn and July, he killed Li Kang, the king of Yuzhang. The assassin of Huazhou and the king of Shu, Li Yuanming, moved to Lizhou and was killed soon after.

Someone also sent a whistleblower letter to Tongkuanli, reporting that Li Ying, the son of the late secret king Li Yuanxiao, had rebelled. In August, he killed 12 members of the clan including Li Ying, the king of Nan'an.

The Li Tang clan was slaughtered at this point, and the young and weak survivors of their descendants were exiled to Lingnan and lived a lonely life. Hundreds of their pro-party members were also killed.