Chapter 242: Assassination

It is said that at this time in the pavilion post in Yangzhou City, a small thing happened, Li Shimin sat in the middle of the lobby of the pavilion in anger, and a few local officials knelt down in front of him.

"You are an official in Yangzhou, why don't you care about the lives of the people? Is it because you are officials that they are the people? Then what's the use of me asking you to be this official? If you take it, you should do something, you have received it, but you don't care about the people, and the grain in Yicang has been greedy for ink, Li Shan. Li Shimin sat on the couch, pointed at the few officials who knelt in front of him and cursed, and shouted out to the commander of his personal guard.

"The end will be." Li Shan walked over from the side of the house and responded to Li Shimin with his fists clenched.

"Take my post, go to the United Military Mansion, and let Chen Wenze lead the army, I want to see if the entire Yangzhou Mansion is rotten?" Li Shimin casually handed a post he often used from his waist to Li Shan, and told Li Shan to go to the Tongjun Mansion to find someone.

The few officials who knelt on the ground were swinging all over their bodies at this time, and they didn't dare to speak at all, let alone get up, if Li Shimin had the intention to draw his sword and cut them on the spot, it is estimated that the bodies of these officials must be filthy.

After Li Shimin and his wife left Fangjia Village, they went down the Han River from Jinzhou, passed through Xiangzhou, Chuzhou, and Ezhou, and then turned into the Yangtze River, and went down the river to Yangzhou.

But just yesterday, as soon as Li Shimin and his wife got off their boat, they found some displaced people from the north, scattered by the city wall of Yangzhou New Town, and there were many shacks built everywhere, which made Li Shimin and his wife very annoyed.

Although these shacks are not the first time they have been seen, but at the moment Li Shimin himself controls the world, how can the people be treated like this, not to mention that the DPRK and China have already issued an edict a few years ago, if there are displaced people, they must properly press it, and they can open a righteous warehouse to release grain, solve the problem of eating the displaced people, and the grain will be repurchased or filled in the future.

After arriving at the post house, he sent Li Shan to check in Yicang, but found that he had never seen a grain in Yicang, and Li Shimin was all angry.

No, today I called all the local administrators over, and asked them one by one about the situation in Yangzhou City, and then asked how the displaced people outside the city were placed, and the answer they got was that they were all very good, and there was no loss, and they also reported that all the grain in the Yicang was used to help the displaced people.

It wasn't that Li Shimin was easy to deceive, but fortunately, after Li Shimin got off the boat, he had already sent someone to investigate the situation, otherwise, Li Shimin might really be deceived by this group of officials, which made Li Shimin furious.

When the commander of the Yangzhou Unified Military Mansion led rows of soldiers in a row, they surrounded the entire post house, but Li Shan walked towards the post house with two generals.

"Holy Lord, Chen Wenze, the commander of the Yangzhou Unified Military Government, don't come to Weng Shi." After Chen Wenze and Weng Shi were brought into the post house by Li Shan, the two saluted Li Shimin.

"The two generals are exempt, I went to Yangzhou yesterday, and I didn't inform you and others, I believe you know each other, I want to ask, can the unified military government participate in the grain distribution of Yicang? If the military government is involved, you two don't need me to say anything, do you? Li Shimin stared at the two generals and said.

"The last general has never known about Yicang, may I ask the Holy Lord, what happened to this Yicang?" Chen Wenze was led over by Li Shan with Li Shimin's post, although he knew that Li Shimin suddenly arrived in Yangzhou City, but when dealing with Li Shimin, he still needed to be careful to reply.

Although Chen Wenze is now the commander of Yangzhou, he used to be Li Shimin's general, and he was only stationed in Yangzhou two years ago to serve as the commander of the unified army, although he has only been in office for about two years, but he is still very clear about the wealth of Yangzhou, whether it is taxes or other taxes, it is basically more food and more money.

"Okay, if you Chen Wenze really go along with this group of people, I will not forgive, fortunately, you didn't resell the grain in Yicang with them, and I Li Shimin didn't look at the wrong person." Li Shimin knew the general idea from Chen Wenze's tone and expression, and shouted loudly, and then explained the situation to Chen Wenze and Weng Shi.

"Please give an order from the saint, and I will order only the saint." After Chen Wenze listened to Li Shimin's story, he estimated in his heart that Li Shimin was going to clear out the corrupt officials in Yangzhou City.

"Chen Wenze, Weng Shi, I order you two to check the entire Yangzhou Mansion, be sure to find the whereabouts of the grain in the Yicang, all the officials involved, no matter how big the official position, take it down on the spot, put it in the government prison, and take care of it, if there is any resistance, correct the law on the spot, but do not disturb the people." The fire in Li Shimin's heart was already bubbling up, and he commanded Chen Wenze and the others loudly.

"Holy Lord, spare my life, I know ...... wrong"

"Holy Lord, it's not me, it's not my idea, Holy One, spare your life......"

"Holy ,......"

A group of kneeling officials opened their mouths and shouted, shouting out one by one, the catastrophe is coming, who cares who you are, but at this time, it is a dog eats a dog, a mouthful of hair.

"The last general commands." Chen Wenze and Weng Shi hugged their fists and ordered their lives, and then shouted the soldiers from outside the post house to come in, escorted several officials who knelt on the ground, and dragged them out, shouting vigorously to spare their lives.

Li Shimin hated in his heart, and he was angry, as soon as he arrived in Yangzhou, he found this group of moths, completely treating the people as pigs and dogs, and even treating Yicang as their own granary. How to make the people of the Tang Dynasty live a happy life? And how to make this Tang rich and strong?

That night, Li Shimin and his wife stayed in the post house, and near midnight, in a courtyard across a few streets of the post house, nearly 50 black-clothed people, covered with black cloth and swords in their hands, stood in the courtyard in unison, waiting for the door of the house to be opened by candlelight.

The door of the house, lit by candlelight, opened two quarters of an hour later, and out of the room came a strong man with a sturdy body and a fleshy face, and behind him came a slender woman with white hair, blocking the flickering candlelight in the room, which was extremely beautiful.

"The sect leader discussed with me just now, tonight is the day for us to act, and we must kill the dog emperor in Yangzhou City to avenge my brothers and sisters in the sect." The strong man spoke.

"Revenge." A group of black-clothed people, holding swords, followed the strong man and said, his voice was not loud, probably for fear of being known by outsiders.

"Brothers and sisters, today's events are only allowed to succeed, not to fail, and I will be ashamed of my brothers and sisters who have died." The white-haired woman whispered softly, and after saying a word, waved her hand.

The strong man led a group of black-clothed people, jumped out of the hospital one after another, and ran quickly towards the Yangzhou City Post House, and each had its own rules, scattered differently, a group of three or five people, some responded, some sentinels, some defended, and more attacked, looking completely more like a group of well-trained soldiers.

Although there are a lot of soldiers guarding and guarding the post house, the soldiers of the United Military Mansion are guarding the outside of the post house, and there are at least 200 people, but in the courtyard of the post house are some guards brought by Li Shimin from Chang'an, and the number is only about 100 people, and in the post house, where Li Shimin and his wife are on the bed, there are nearly 50 personal guards who serve as guards.

After all, this post house is not the imperial palace of Chang'an City, and it is impossible to have many patrol sergeants, but there are also some patrol sergeants outside the post house, but the number is scarce.

At this time, when the middle of the night is approaching, the soldiers are also the most sleepy time, and many soldiers outside the post house are squinting and dozing off, even the guards and guards in the courtyard are also the same.

At the corner not far from the post house, several men in black quickly ran into the soldiers, and with one knife killed the two guards outside the post house, and at the same time, the other guards outside the post house were also silently attacked by the men in black.

A quarter of an hour later, there were no soldiers guarding the entire post house, and this group of black-clothed people quietly finished the two hundred or so soldiers of the United Army Mansion within a quarter of an hour, but they did not wake up the guards and personal guards in the post house.

After the black-clothed men finished off the soldiers outside the post house, they jumped into the post house one after another, and one of the black-clothed men accidentally stepped on a tile and made a 'click', and the guards in the post house courtyard were awakened.

"Who? Enemy attack, forehead ......" As soon as one of the guards shouted a word of enemy attack, he was shot into the throat by a crossbow arrow in the hand of a man in black, holding the crossbow arrow in both hands, and fell backwards.

"If there is an enemy attack, kill me, go and inform the saint and the queen, the other party is well-trained." One of the guards shouted behind him, drew his sword, and charged the men in black with the other guards.

The sound of "jingling" shouting and shouting and killing came into the ears of Li Shimin and his wife from the courtyard of the post house, Li Shimin woke up in shock, quickly called out to the queen, and quickly put on his clothes.

"Holy Lord, Queen, please leave with me, a group of well-trained assassins have come to the courtyard of the post house, and they have killed many of our soldiers, Holy Lord, Queen, please leave quickly." Li Shan went directly into the bedroom where Li Shimin and his wife stayed, and eagerly told Li Shimin what he had discovered earlier.

"Who dares to be so bold? Send someone to the unified military mansion to ask Chen Wenze to lead the army. Although Li Shimin was shocked, he was not afraid, this small formation would not make him afraid, Li Shimin could be regarded as a person who had fought for half his life, and he had never seen any formation.

"Saint, I'm afraid there is a problem with the United Army Mansion, the hundreds of soldiers outside the post house have no sound, in addition, such a big thing happened in the post house, this street patrol sergeant should have known about it a long time ago, but there is no news from the United Army Mansion so far, I want to come to the United Army Mansion There is a problem, the Holy Lord, the queen, please leave as soon as possible with me." Li Shan analyzed the situation so that Li Shimin could make a decision.

"Okay, get out of town and go to the boat." Li Shimin took a suit of armor from Li Shan's hand and put it on, took a long sword and handed it to the queen, took a horse lance from the other two guards, and followed Li Shan and them to the side of the post house.

The road was smooth, and he had been hiding from being discovered, until he got out of the post house, and only then did he meet several black-clothed people outside the post house, Li Shan didn't say a word, shouted and followed some of the guards to meet him, and continued to trot towards the south gate of the city with Li Shimin and his wife.

Li Shan's personal guards took Li Shimin and his wife to the south gate of the city and trotted to the south gate of the city, and called the general guarding the city gate to open the door, but the general guarding the city gate needed to get a token from the unified army to open the city gate in the middle of the night.

"The Holy Lord and the Queen are here, do you dare not open the city gate, are you not afraid that we will kill you?" Li Shan drew his long sword and prepared to go up to the city tower to kill the guard.

"Without the token of the general of the United Army, no matter who it is, we will not open the door, otherwise, we will be collaborating with the enemy, leave quickly, otherwise we will have to release arrows." The generals guarding the city gate don't care about the emperor and queen, they only listen to the generals of the Yangzhou Tongjun Government, and it is impossible for them to listen to anyone's words.

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