Chapter 123: Killing Chickens and Monkeys
The uprising in the southern villages of Yuelong soon reached Tang Li's ears, and Tang Li's martial arts subordinates were all over the world, no matter where there was a disturbance, someone would definitely report it.
And I heard that the uprising in the southern villages expanded rapidly, swept up like a violent wind, and occupied several important cities in the south, so that the central government and various places were enough to make half a moon dragon uprising in less than three months, which is not a small peep.
Liu Xiaoran sat in the courtyard reading a book, Tang Li informed him of this, he put down the book in his hand, his face sank, and he secretly thought to himself how to deal with it?
When he was young, Liu Xiaoran held on to the sleeve of his robe and poured tea and asked, "Chen Feng hasn't arrived yet?"
Tang Li paused and said: "Chen Feng's turtle speed, when he arrives, the daylily will be cold, there is nothing to hope for." ”
"Sure enough, it's rubbish, did the leader of the uprising find out?"
Tang Li shook his head, put the long sword on the table and sat down, and said: "It was the woman who unified the bandits in Zhaonan first, but this woman doesn't seem to be a person in the rivers and lakes, or a big official and nobleman, as if she suddenly appeared, and her identity is incomprehensible." ”
Liu Xiaoran was slightly stunned and said: "I didn't expect a woman to be able to turn against the sky, I don't know what she relied on? I think the uprising is expanding very fast, if it is not suppressed, it will soon overthrow the imperial court, why don't you give them more disaster money to calm the people's hearts?"
"Lord Wang. Tang Li Zhengse, "The imperial court has no money, the treasury is empty, and the remaining money can only be kept for military salaries. ”
Liu Xiaoran slapped the table very fiercely, his face changed from mild to angry, this was the first time Tang Li saw Liu Xiaoran angry for so long and said: "After all, it is a corrupt official, the imperial court issued a lot of disaster funds in the past, why did it not fall into the hands of the people?
Tang Li glanced at him, of course, he knew that Liu Xiaoran was talking angrily, the so-called big beam is not right and the second beam is crooked, since Liu Er's death, the court has slowly become unformed, Liu Xiaoran is in the position of no one shouts to kill, fight and kill all day long, and those officials have also learned the bad atmosphere to fight and kill.
Liu Dan not to mention greedy for money and lustful, those officials also followed the greed for money and lust, and now this situation has been brought out by the imperial court, and now the dragons have no owner, and these officials are even more unscrupulous and corrupt.
More importantly, these officials colluded with the aristocracy and merchants to form a party, and the tenants in the aristocracy worked and collected the dealers to sell to the merchants, and the merchants had to supply the local officials in order to do things well, and once the officials rebelled, they could bring the nobles and merchants to rebel.
It is easier said than done to kill them, officials protect each other, nobles protect each other, businessmen cannot lose their umbrella and must be protected, the more so the officials are becoming more and more unscrupulous, and it is difficult to reverse the truth.
The two were silent for a long time, and Liu Xiaoran slowly calmed down and said calmly: "I want Chen Feng to stop coming up and turn back to suppress it, as long as the uprising is strong, many people will follow their hearts and revolt, and it will not work if they don't suppress it." ”
Tang Li hurriedly continued: "In this case, how can Qi Hongtian explain it, Qi Hongtian's character, no one will take it seriously when it comes to blame." ”
Liu Xiaoran thought for a while and said, "I want to find a way." ”
"If that's the case, I'm going to talk to Qing Ziyuan?"
"No need, Mingri will come to me and say, I will tell you one thing, kill Fang Dun, and I will see his head tomorrow. ”
Tang Li understood that Liu Xiaoran was killing chickens and making an example of monkeys, so he had to turn around and go to do something.
To say that this Fang Dun is the prefect of the southern Heishui City, the most severe drought area, the imperial court has issued disaster money many times, into his hands, this is nothing, what makes people grit their teeth is that he used the court disaster money to fornicate with merchants to buy grain, and sold it to the people at a high price Every piece of silver has to make a profit.
The nearby prefect saw it in his eyes and followed it, and secretly partnered, the people dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, there was nowhere to say, they had already had the heart of uprising, so Rong Qingcai lightly fanned the flames, it turned out that there were already signs, and the spark of the stars could stir up the plain.
It just so happened that the place where the uprising broke out was Heishui City, Qinggang Village, and now Heishui City was in an uproar by the people, and the guards on the prefect were trampled on by the people and beaten to death with hoes, and now Fang Dun fled north with his pants and money.
Tonight, he never imagined that in his sleep, the white light flashed, the head fell to the ground, Tang Li rubbed the blood-red sword, carried the head, and rode on the high horse slowly.
When he went to court the next day, Tang Li threw Fang Dun's head on the ground in front of the ministers, and those officials trembled, and a cold chill hit their necks.
Yan Lianyun sat on it and frowned slightly, thinking to herself, what the hell is Liu Xiaoran doing here?
Liu Xiaoran opened the folding fan and stepped forward with a smile: "Corrupt officials should be killed, greedy for disaster money, the people revolted, and finally fled, from now on, if all officials and ministers take a penny from the people privately, they will end up like this." ”
A few corrupt officials with great strength regard what Liu Xiaoran said as hearing a fart, it is not a loud fart, if he dares to kill, Lao Tzu will personally show you, which general has time to take care of these things now, everyone is burning their eyebrows to their heads.
Liu Xiaoran gave Tang Li a look, Tang Li stepped forward knowingly, held the long sword in his hand and said: "There are my people everywhere in this world, you don't know how to die, I, Tang Li, the leader of the martial arts alliance, are not in vain." ”
Those corrupt officials secretly became nervous, not afraid of bright death, but afraid of secret death, and the ministers were surprised! Before, they only knew that Tang Li was just a powerful subordinate by Uncle Liu Huang's side, but they didn't expect it to be so big.
Although these people in the martial arts are not as good as those in cultivation, but masters are masters after all, killing thousands of ordinary people is insignificant, and those corrupt officials feel that death is approaching, and they subconsciously swallow their saliva.
Liu Xiaoran didn't have to say anything, he turned his eyes to look at Qing Ziyuan on the side and said: "Great Master, I think it's better for Chen Feng to go back and suppress the people of the uprising, if the uprising is not suppressed, it will be difficult to deal with the expansion of the momentum, and Chen Feng is the responsibility of General Zhennan." ”
Yan Lianyun hurriedly coughed and said, "But how can Qi Hongtian explain it, and how will Ximang deal with it?"
"I'll give you an explanation. ”
Qing Ziyuan held his beard and said, "Okay, just let Chen Feng turn back." ”
Tang Li glanced at Qingzi Yuanfang and said with a smile: "I'm afraid that speed is too slow." ”
As soon as these words came out, he poked Qing Ziyuan's heart, and Qing Ziyuan pretended to be calm and said: "Chen Feng is like this, he writes slowly, he said that people who do things slowly do things more seriously, and they have developed a slow and logical style, I can't educate him many times, so I can only go with him." ”
Tang Li stepped forward and said: "I haven't seen him do anything, this time it's up to him to see if he can suppress the rebellious people, if the people can't suppress it, what's the use of this Zhennan general having a false name?"
After finishing speaking, he walked out with a light smile and said: "If you use Zhitian arithmetic to help him, I didn't say it, and this kind of thing is laborious to calculate, I don't know where to start, it's better to save a little effort, you take your leave." ”
Qing Ziyuan gritted his teeth and squinted at his back, Tang Li said so, what kind of face do he have to use Zhitian arithmetic, and he is right, I don't know how to calculate the other party in this kind of chaos, the key is that I don't know who to count from.