Chapter 644: The Bloody Beginning
Ten days later, Chang'an's military ring was canceled, and the prosperous era came to Chang'an City again, as if the previous Chang'an City was in a dream.
There was quiet and peaceful inside and outside the court, but everyone knew that this was the tranquility on the eve of the storm, the ghosts were rampant under the feet of the Son of Heaven, and it would be strange if the emperor did not move, and everyone was waiting for Li Shimin's things.
Another half a month passed, and when the early dynasty was in the early dynasty, Baiguan Gangshan shouted long live, and he heard Xiao Jumper shouting in a sharp voice, "Chuan ~ Chang'an Hou Cai Cong met ~"
Everyone's hearts couldn't help but tremble, is the emperor finally going to show his hideous minions?
Cai Cong hasn't been to the court for a long time, he has been in the Ministry of Industry for a long time, and he didn't go to the court early, and he didn't go to the court early, and he left early after a few orders in the Ministry of Industry, and he suddenly appeared in the Taiji Palace, and the ministers still had a sense of strangeness.
After Cai Cong saluted, he stood straight in the middle of the hall, his eyebrows exuded heroism, and his eyes contained perseverance.
Chang'an Hou Cai Cong took the order. The emperor ordered Cai Cong, Marquis of Chang'an, to investigate the bad abuses in the world and lead 50,000 troops. But if there is any doubt, you can cut it first and then declare it, there is no one in the world who cannot be investigated. Khin Zhi~"
"Minister! Cai Cong commanded! ”
The holy decree that is short to the extreme, the holy decree that is magnified to the extreme, and Cai Cong's unhesitation shocked the hundred officials.
"Come and take down Lu You, Li Guoan, Wang Buwen, Cui Tongxi, Zheng Keji, Yang Youqing, and An Tong."
Cai Cong took the holy decree and stood up and ordered loudly, and the guards outside the hall immediately rushed in and detained the seven people under the horrified gaze of the hundred officials.
"Dragged out and beheaded outside the palace gate."
Cai Cong said lightly, the ministers immediately shouted, and Fang Xuanling even stood up to stop it, and said to Cai Cong, "Chang'anhou's move is too fierce and overbearing? ”
"Just act according to orders, can you know that there is a saying that everyone performs his duties? Please do not meddle in the affairs of your own officials. Your Majesty, the minister has something important to do, and he retired first. ”
Cai Cong said and saluted Li Shimin, and walked out of the Taiji Hall with his head held high.
The Taiji Hall was boiling in an instant, and hundreds of civil and military officials spoke one after another, asking Li Shimin to retract his will, so as not to endanger everyone in the world.
Li Shimin was frightened by Cai Cong's actions, and as soon as he got the right, he directly tore his face, and didn't even give a fig leaf to the enemy, which was simply a ruin.
There was a mess in the Taiji Palace, and at this time the guards came back and brought back a basket of evidence, except for Lu You, the other six people had evidence that they intended to steal the new grain.
As for Lu You, Cai Cong only had a simple sentence when he came back, he killed the wrong person, and asked the court to bury him.
"This Lu You is Lu Yuanxing's nephew, he Cai Cong is communiquing personal vendettas, narrow-minded, and he will revenge. Your Majesty~ Cai Cong is arrogant and arrogant, and he must not be entrusted with a heavy responsibility, otherwise the society will be in danger! ”
One of the ministers stood up and knelt on the ground to admonish hard, and the others remembered that Lu Yuanxing wanted to marry the crown princess to Tubo at that time, and they all thought that the matter had passed with Lu Yuanxing's death, but they didn't expect Cai Cong to stand up and take revenge at this time, and they were all indignant for a while.
"Hmph, there are thousands of thieves rampant at the feet of the Son of Heaven, whose world is this Datang? Today, Cai Cong patrols the Quartet on behalf of the Son of Heaven to eliminate evil and promote good. No one is allowed to discuss the matter again, and violators will be punished as treason. ”
Li Shimin said angrily, and then waved his sleeves and left the Taiji Palace. The ministers looked at each other, and finally the eldest grandson Wuji hugged his fists at Wei Chigong and asked, "Jingde, this time Your Majesty is traveling, how many rebels are there?" ”
"There were more than 6,000 thieves at the head of the thieves, and nearly 2,000 were scattered. There is such a big mess in Gyeonggi, and my old black is terrified! ”
Wei Chigong said fearfully, if his troops are not enough, with these 8,000 people, it will be enough to subvert the dynasty.
Everyone looks at me, I look at you, and there is a trance in their eyes. Eight thousand! If Chang'an didn't have an inner response, it would have been impossible to hide the eight thousand armored men outside the city.
"My Dali Temple has captured more than 1,000 thieves in the past few months, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has killed nearly 4,000 thieves on the side of the grain field. Ladies and gentlemen, how can Your Majesty not be angry with such an unsubordinated act? ”
Dai Xuan said solemnly, just now the Manchu Dynasty civil and military asked Li Shimin to take back his order, only the two of them plus Li Chengqian remained silent, because they knew that Li Shimin would never tolerate this kind of almost rebellious move.
"It's all gone! The old man reminds me here, don't wait for Cai Cong to come to the door, then it will be a raid on the house. ”
Fang Xuanling waved his hand in frustration, the emperor has been hiding such a big event from him, it can be seen that the emperor and him are still estranged. The emperor retreated and did not go to Mount Tai to seal the Zen, and now I think that it is not that he was moved, but that the time is not right now.
He sighed and shook his head, and returned to Shangshu Province to immediately convene the important members of various ministries to discuss how to deal with the emergencies that would occur. Cai Cong led an army of 50,000 and said that it was a patrol but it was actually a murder, he needed to check and fill in the gaps for Cai Cong, and even did a good job of increasing troops to suppress the rebellion.
At the top level, only the dignitaries of the third grade or above can participate, and those who are close to the gate valve and believe in Buddhism are directly excluded. Therefore, the meeting was attended by only a dozen people, and everyone's faces were extremely solemn, this was a hard battle, and it could be seen from the number of participants how huge the enemy's power in the court was.
The meeting lasted for a day and a night, and most of the time it was silent, and it was no less difficult to move the nine mountains that pressed on the backbone of the Tang Dynasty than to open the world!
When they dragged their tired bodies out of the office, Cai Cong's army had already walked out of the Chang'an territory.
Cai Cong only said one sentence to those officialdom rookies with a strong sense of justice, first Longyou and then Shandong, and set foot on Songshan Mountain.
Just one sentence made everyone's blood boil, they are all children of the poor family who have seen too much injustice in the world, and they also know that the sect of the gate valve has been in trouble for a long time, and the court wants to take action against them, and these rookies are scrambling to fight the front.
Such a big action can't hide from these families, Cai Cong went to Longyou for a month, killed thousands of bandits, all of them received money from the family to disrupt Cai Cong's pace, but these bandits didn't expect their small actions to send all the soldiers and horses under their command to the guillotine.
There were also some officials of the Li family who refused to provide food and grass for the army, and even blocked the way of the army on the grounds that they had not received the holy decree, and they were all clicked by Cai Cong.
Cai Cong declared his determination with iron-blooded means, and also told all the families that there was no room for maneuver in this matter.
Therefore, Li Jiajian of Longyou cleared the wall and field, and the killing of officials and the city was already an open rebellion. When Chen Yanjin, who was guarding Longyou, heard the news, he was furious and sent someone to tell Cai Cong that he could send troops to help him if needed.
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