There were too many courtiers who were attached to Zhu Wen, and many of them were really forced to helpless. For example, if all the officials of the Ministries of Menxia Province, Zhongshu Province, and Shangshu Province are investigated, the entire imperial court system may be paralyzed.

These officials trembled as if they were on the edge of an abyss. When Zhu Wen was in power, they were forced to help deal with many government affairs, such as the appointment and dismissal of officials, and the promulgation of edicts, all on the orders of King Liang.

However, today the son ascends the throne and the imperial power returns to Zhengshuo, who knows if His Majesty will ask for guilt. Once Long Yan blames this, I don't know how many officials will fall to the ground. If it is more widely implicated, I don't know how many people will be unlucky.

In order to avoid the doubts of the ministers, Li Ji issued an edict, and all the ministers in the case of Zhu Quanzhong's rebellion were not implicated, and only the first evil was eliminated.

Except for Jiang Yin, the supervising imperial historian, Zhao Yinheng, the counselor, and Wu Yegui, the servant of his subordinates, who were beheaded outside the palace, the rest of the ministers were innocent.

In this way, everyone's hanging hearts were finally relaxed, and the reason why Li Ji no longer pursued the rest of the party was to stabilize the situation in the court as soon as possible.

Ge's army broke the Shenwu army, capturing more than 20,000 people, and Hezhou, Zhengzhou, Bianzhou, Chenzhou, Weizhou, and Xuzhou all belonged to the territory of Ge's army, and the power of the imperial court rose sharply.

But the situation is still not optimistic, Zhu Wen fell, and the generals in his sphere of influence, such as Zhang Guihou and Zhang Guiba, the brothers, Zhu Youqi, Zhu Youzhang and others, broke away from the jurisdiction of the imperial court, and actually formed their own small feudal towns.

But in general, the imperial court finally got rid of the coercion of the vassal king, and the scope of Li Ji's actual control was not large, but he was the orthodox son of heaven, and the vassal kings from all over the country wrote to congratulate the son of heaven on killing the traitor Zhu Quanzhong.

Li Keyong, the king of Jin, is now the most powerful of all the feudal towns, and this person will also be the biggest confidant of the imperial court in the future.

The news of Zhu Wen's punishment spread all over the world, and the feudal towns in various places were really taken aback by the ability of this little emperor to act vigorously and resolutely. I couldn't see that the young emperor was so powerful, and he quietly brought down the most powerful Zhu Wen.

Weizhou, Yang Shihoubu.

The matter of Li Ji's capture of Zhu Wen has long been spread all over the world, and Yang Shihou is restless in the Weizhou camp.

"General Yang, what should we do next?" General (military service) Jia Wenqing asked.

Yang Shihou didn't know how to decide, whether to continue to belong to Li Keyong, or to submit to the imperial court.

He has always occupied Weizhou, and after his surrender, Li Keyong still placed him in Weizhou, in order to recruit more Zhu Wen's subordinates. It makes people feel that you will enjoy the same treatment as before when you surrender Li Keyong, Li Keyong did not send a prison envoy to insert it, which means that the suspect does not need to be used.

But what Li Keyong didn't expect was that Zhu Wen would be so vulnerable and was destroyed by the emperor.

As soon as Zhu Wen is extinguished, the imperial power is orthodox, then Yang Shihou in Weizhou will be in danger, and what Li Keyong is most worried about now is that Yang Shihou, who finally submitted to him, will suddenly turn his face and return to the imperial court.

Another general, Yi Shuihan, is quite wise and has won the trust of Yang Shihou. Yi Shuihan saw the situation in front of him very thoroughly, and he persuaded: "General Yang, Li Keyong is the king of the domain after all, and no matter how powerful he is, he is not orthodox in the Tang Dynasty. With such a power as King Liang, he was broken by the Son of Heaven with his hand, which shows that His Majesty is not trivial, and the only way to submit to the court is to be the best choice. ”

Yang Shihou didn't want to return to the imperial court, but he offended Li Ji, and immediately told everyone about Luoyang: "I have offended the Son of Heaven, I am afraid that once I surrender, I will be jealous of Your Majesty."

Yi Shuihan shook his head: "General Yang is too worried, according to what the last general has heard, even the number one talent in the world has returned to the imperial court, and I think that the Son of Heaven is not a narrow-minded person." If the monarch does not have the courage to have the world, how can he move to King Liang so easily. Looking at the edict of the Holy Emperor of the Son of Heaven, His Majesty admires Taizong's legacy, don't you hear that Taizong Mingjing got Wei Zheng back then. ”

At that time, Wei Zheng was the advisor of the crown prince Li Jiancheng, and he advised Li Jiancheng several times to find a way to deal with Li Shimin, but Li Jiancheng did not listen. After the Xuanwumen Mutiny, Li Shimin not only did not blame, but reused Wei Zheng to make it a Ming Dynasty through the ages.

Yang Shihou's heart moved, although the matter of loving concubines was inseparable from the emperor. But there is a debtor and a master, and it is the dog thief Zhu Quanzhong who insults his concubine. Thinking of this, Yang Shihou ordered: "Come here, offer a letter of surrender, I, Yang Shihou, am willing to return to the imperial court and take the Son of Heaven as my allegiance!"

Li Keyong's department, Zhang Chengye, the military envoy of the Tang Hedong Supervision Army, was in Li Keyong's camp.

The last loyal minister in history who was willing to serve the end of the Tang Dynasty turned out to be this old eunuch Zhang Chengye. After Zhu Wen built the Liang, he always respected the name of "Tianyou" and never forgot the Tang Dynasty; He has always held the position of "Tang Hedong Supervisor Military Envoy", and is determined to revive the Tang Empire. He has a dream in his heart and looks forward to one day being able to return to Chang'an and Luoyang, where he has been absent for a long time......

In the third year of Zhaozong, Zhu Wen bloodily purged the eunuchs, not only killed all the eunuchs in Chang'an City, but also issued a holy decree to all feudal towns in the name of Zhaozong, demanding that all the eunuchs of the feudal towns be killed, and the first Beijing division should be passed on within a time limit.

These eunuchs were originally sent to various feudal towns to be the prison army, and the vassal kings were eager to get rid of these dead eunuchs as soon as possible.

Zhang Chengye is generous and benevolent, and is admired by the generals. At that time, Li Keyong was stationed in Jinyang, and Zhang Chengye was very panicked, knowing that his fate would not be long.

Li Keyong also sympathized with this old eunuch very much, so he thought of a way to find an old and bearded man from death row, cut off his head, and sent the head to Chang'an to save Zhang Chengye's life.

"The History of the New Five Dynasties" records: The king of Jin took pity on the industry, could not bear to kill, and hid the Hulu Temple. Zhaozong collapsed, but out of the inheritance, reinstated as a prison army.

At this time, Zhang Chengye learned that the Son of Heaven Li Ji had killed the traitor Zhu Wen, and his joy was beyond words, and he said to Li Keyong: "King Jin, but today the son has captured the thief Zhu Quanzhong, and the Tang Dynasty has returned to Zhengshuo." As a courtier of the Tang Dynasty, the king of Jin should sacrifice his surrender and return to the imperial court. ”

Li Keyong had great respect for the old eunuch, but it was impossible for him to submit to the imperial court, so he resignedly said: "The envoy of the prison army, if the king is unwilling, in fact, the generals below are dissatisfied, let's talk about it in the future."

Zhang Chengye sighed: "Alas, since the King of Jin has this plan, I have nothing to say. I only ask the King of Jin to be gracious, and let me return to Luoyang to see the Son of Heaven, and I will have no regrets even if I die. ”

Li Ke was startled: "The prison envoy is leaving?"

"I'm old, it's useless to stay in this army, I just want to be able to return to Luoyang one day and meet the Son of Heaven. Tell Your Majesty that the minister did not live up to the expectations of the first emperor, and the king of Mengjin did not give up, so that I could be in the army for many years, but when I am old, I want to return to the Son of Heaven. ”

In fact, he is just a name, Li Keyong admires Zhang Chengye's personality, he thought about it and said: "Since the military envoy has this idea, then the king will send someone to send the military envoy back to Luoyang."

PS: Push the book "Zhenguan Taishanghuang".

Thanks to Lei Yunluo for the tip.