Chapter 576: Iron Fist
"Commander, we are about to go to Youzhou, are you going to contact Minister Yang? Discuss what to do? On the train, the secret guard asked Biaozi. But then he was vetoed by Biaozi, who shook his head and said: "You will immediately prepare all the information of all the families and individuals involved in Youzhou and Bianzhou and the Central Plains generation, and Minister Yang is afraid that a plan has already been formulated." Biao Zi smiled coldly and said: "For this kind of thing, we only need to prepare the preliminary information, and the follow-up thing is to assist the army." It's just that I didn't expect that this empire has only been peaceful for many years, and some people want to make big waves, and they dare to assassinate the emperor and plot to subvert the government, which is really innocent. That is, our emperor is merciful, and he is willing to hold a public trial and give them a chance to understand the death. ”
After Biao Zi and his party got off the bus in Tianjin, they immediately went straight to the station of the second battalion, and Yang Tiancheng had been waiting for half a day in the tent. In recent years, the position of Minister of Defense has made Yang Tiancheng a lot more low-key, originally this position was Wan Yi's, but the Western Expeditionary Army has been in the formation for a long time, so Yang Tiancheng has been holding the position of Minister of Defense. However, this does not mean that the killing spirit of this former famous general of the Tiance Army has been smoothed out, but it is more introverted, but it is precisely because of this introverted that he is more calm and wise than Xu Tianxiang and Wang Houchun, so when Biaozi was in Chang'an, he heard Hu Xiaosi say that Yang Tiancheng and the second battalion were in Youzhou, so he directly put down all his thoughts. With this famous general present, I am afraid that all I can do is to prepare all the information in the early stage, and Yang Tiancheng will do everything in the future.
Therefore, after seeing Yang Tiancheng, Biao Zi didn't say much, and directly sent all the information and intelligence he had in hand to the other party and said: "Minister Yang, I, Xuan Yingwei, have been ordered to come to assist the minister in handling this matter, but Minister Yang is the first to look forward. ”
"Come on, don't be so polite, and you're not an outsider." Yang Tiancheng beckoned Biaozi to sit down and said with a smile: "It seems that you are very well prepared, but I want to hear your opinion." ”
"This?" Biao Zi hesitated for a moment, but when he saw the smile on Yang Tiancheng's face, he immediately understood that the minister was only afraid that he already had a solution in his heart, and at this time, he was asking for his own opinion, which was only a test. So after calming down, he said: "Minister, my suggestion is to start the two provinces of Bianzhou and the Central Plains now, cut off the Zheng family's vain attempt to subvert the two provincial governments, and at the same time block the news, and then turn around and cut off the reactionary forces in Youzhou led by the Cui family in Qinghe after the affairs of the two provinces in the Central Plains are dealt with." ”
"You mean to hand over the Cui family to the law court for a public trial, right?" Yang Tiancheng nodded thoughtfully: "Reactionary forces, it seems that you have almost thought about their crimes." Unfortunately, my original plan was to hand over both of them to the Second Battalion. Yang Tiancheng's words almost startled Biaozi, and he handed it all over to the second battalion? This is going to wield a butcher's knife and kill them directly. According to the information that Xuan Yingwei has here, I am afraid that this butcher knife will be raised in the Central Plains and Youzhou land, and I am afraid that it will set off a boundless bloody storm. At the thought of the rolling head falling to the ground, Rao is Biaozi was already in the first rank of Xuanyingwei, and he couldn't help but shudder, and his eyes were looking at the Minister of Defense who was beside him as if nothing had happened, and there was a shudder in his eyes. Only the famous general in front of him who is the pillar of the Tiance Army can talk about this matter so plainly, as if he is casually chatting with you about a trivial matter.
"What's wrong? Do you think I'm too cold-blooded? Yang Tiancheng saw Biao Zi suddenly stand up, and knew what the other party was thinking, so he patted the latter's shoulder and said in a solemn tone, "You are also the founding father, you should understand how many people in the Tang Dynasty today have exchanged their lives and blood for it, this Lang Lang Qiankun not only represents the wishes of all the people in the world, but more importantly, it is obtained by hundreds of thousands of Tiance soldiers fighting on the battlefield." I will not allow anyone or any force to try to subvert it, because it is not just an empire, but a hope, a hope that thousands of loyal souls will defend to the death. Yang Tiancheng said: "Although your Xuanyingwei is not under the jurisdiction of the General Staff, you are also a member of the Tiance Army, so you can naturally understand that since the day the Tiance Army was formed, this army has been entrusted by the emperor with the important task of guarding the empire to quell the rebellion, and it has inherited the military soul of the two imperial border armies of Lingwu and Anxi. Destroy the thousand-year blueprint planned by the emperor for our Chinese nation? Yang Tiancheng's voice was suddenly filled with a killing intent that soared into the sky, shocking this imperial territory that he had pacified in the past, and also making the surrounding guards who followed him to fight in the south and north instantly stand upright, and all the soldiers in the huge military camp stood solemnly, and their solemn eyes and resolute courage were even more venting their fighting intentions.
"As a member of the Tiance Army, this kind of thing about the killer reported by his own family is not glorious, but what I want to say is that as long as you dare to go against the empire, dare to live up to the wishes of all the people in the world, and dare to shake the foundation of the Tang Dynasty, it is not my compatriots, but enemies, enemies of the entire empire. The Tiance Army shoulders the heavy responsibility of protecting the family and defending the country, can it still show mercy to these people? Yang Tiancheng is upright, standing proudly like a green pine, his words represent the hearts of all the soldiers of the Tiance Army in this era, when this empire has such a group of iron-blooded loyal soldiers, who can't rub a little sand in their eyes, they will not allow anyone to try to subvert. So when Yang Tiancheng's words were finished, the biaozi around him finally understood why this general of the Tiance Army, who was like a pillar in the northern sky, appeared in Youzhou in person at this time, not only to command the army to quell the rebellion, but also to see with his own eyes how these traitors were exterminated by the imperial guards.
"The emperor once said that the military and the government are separated, and the army cannot interfere in local government affairs, but now this is beyond the scope of government affairs, this is a battlefield, a real battlefield." After Yang Tiancheng finished speaking, he patted Biaozi on the shoulder again and said, "Come with me to Bianzhou, it's time for the Zheng family to withdraw from imperial history." Yang Tiancheng took Biaozi, who was shocked by his words for a long time and did not react, as well as the troops of the second battalion and two battalions specially transferred from the Tianjin Logistics Department, took the train overnight, and rushed south without anyone knowing, and at this time, the local military court and the special branch of the legal court in Youzhou also began to put all the information sent by Xuan Yingwei about the Cui family and other forces involved in the case in Youzhou. In this way, after Yang Tiancheng took the lead in getting off the bus in Bianzhou, this major incident that was later known as the Central Plains Rebellion in the history books began, and the 10,000 people of the second battalion who got off the bus with Yang Tiancheng directly uprooted the Zheng family in the next three days, and dozens of families and forces involved were all killed, and Bianzhou was once again immersed in a pool of blood after the Central Plains War. This even involved a lot of local officials, and when the soldiers of the Tiance Army came to the door with the information of Xuan Yingwei, some of these people were frightened by the sudden arrival of the army, and explained their affairs in a few words. These people Yang Tiancheng directly ordered people to take them away as part of the facts of the trial of the law court, but more of them were defeated and tried to resist or escape, and were directly beheaded by the soldiers of the second battalion. When Bianzhou was immersed in the bloody storm, the other battalion led by Biao Zi was the same in the Central Plains, but the forces and families involved in the Central Plains Province were relatively small, but I don't know if it was because of listening to Yang Tiancheng's words or because this long-lost intelligence officer really found the scene of the year in this land, so the killing on the Central Plains side was no less than the movement in Bianzhou, and the soldiers of the second battalion almost killed all the people involved in the Central Plains. So much so that everyone in the Security Department and the National Guard who rushed to the scene to prepare for the aftermath gasped, secretly looking at the soldiers of the second battalion who had just finished killing around them with strange eyes, and they didn't seem to be able to look at this group of hell messengers.
However, after Biaozi and Yang Tiancheng dealt with the Central Plains, news also came from Youzhou, and what surprised Biaozi was that Yang Tiancheng actually started in the Central Plains at the same time, and Youzhou was also doing it simultaneously, and even the remaining three battalions directly took action in addition to arresting all the families involved in the conspiracy such as the Cui family, and all those who had infiltrated into the key departments such as the army and logistics were all killed on the spot, and they didn't even have the intention of persuading them to surrender. Those troops who were originally stationed in Youzhou saw that the second battalion had arrested so many traitors from their own troops at once, and the officers and commanders of those troops didn't even know what to do for a while, but they gradually understood what was going on under the appeasement of Wang Yongnian, the president of the military court who came later. In the subsequent operation, these people began to obey the command of the second battalion throughout the whole process, and even took the initiative to catch all the remaining fish that slipped through the net. According to their opinion, as a member of the Tiance Army, loyalty to the Tang Dynasty is the foundation of the survival of the imperial soldiers. Therefore, without the active cooperation of these people in Youzhou, it is more difficult than in the Central Plains, after all, in addition to the vast area, it also involves military industry and logistics departments, and many of these people are even in important positions, and all of these people must be arrested and handed over to the military court for trial.
But fortunately, when Yang Tiancheng rushed back to Youzhou, this fifteen-day suppression of the rebellion gradually ended. The iron-blooded skills of the soldiers of the Tiance Army led by Yang Tiancheng in this turmoil made everyone feel frightened. And as the Youzhou Law Court began to announce the truth of the turmoil, as well as the media group's continuous disclosure of the turmoil these days, those ordinary people began to gradually understand what role these families and forces involved in the turmoil played. And with the gradual deepening of the incident, the news that Li Xuanqing was assassinated near the border of Youzhou Province before did not know how to be dug up by the people, and this time the entire empire began to boil gradually, when His Majesty the Emperor, who gave peace and peace to all the people in the world, and now is busy with their rich life, was actually assassinated by these people, all the people began to be unwilling. Even many people in the Central Plains even began to write to local governments demanding that they must severely punish these sinners and sinners of the empire, and many people went to Tianjin to see if the imperial law court would let these people go.
And when the voices and deeds of these people reached Chang'an, Li Xuanqing and everyone's faces began to relax, and the new prime minister Zhang Jianzhong finally began to issue a long-lost decree and began to shift the cabinet's attention to economic construction.
"Your Majesty, Si Ji and I plan to go to Youzhou, take advantage of the boiling public sentiment, develop a political party, and pass on the emperor's thoughts for the country and the people to the people, so that no one will follow these traitors to continue to endanger the country." Cen Tianshi said to Li Xuanqing with a serious face.
Before Li Xuanqing could answer, Qiaoxi next to him spoke: "Big brother, Mr. Cen's idea is very good, I think we should also rush over, on the one hand to supervise the justice of the law, and on the other hand, to tell all the people that the purpose of the empire's punishment is to protect the people and clear the fog for the people, so that they can see the truth." ”
"Well, it's longer than I thought." Li Xuanqing nodded and said, "That's fine, this time let the law court do all the evidence solidly." Only fairness and justice can convince the people. And I need to let all the people understand what the ultimate purpose of Datang's various national policies is. ”
"Big brother said it well." The clever and playful words made the atmosphere of the scene relaxed, in fact, what Cen Tianshi was most afraid of now was that Li Xuanqing ordered the army to speak again, because if this matter continued to dig deeper, he was afraid that everyone in Youzhou and other places would be in danger, and it would even further evolve into a strong atmosphere of terror. However, if Li Xuanqing personally intervened, then relying on his prestige in the eyes of the people and the explanation of the new policy of the empire, then all the people would come to their senses from the massacre and support the empire even more, which would turn a bad thing into a good thing.
"Without further ado, let's go right away." Li Xuanqing naturally knew what Cen Tianshi was thinking, not to mention that the massacre presided over by Yang Tiancheng could be stable for at least twenty years, and the political situation of the empire would become more stable at that time, and at that time, if anyone really dared to risk the world's condemnation, then Li Xuanqing would not mind raising the butcher's knife again. Its own thousand-year-old empire does not allow anyone to pry for any purpose. So when Li Xuanqing and his party began to set off on the train, this time the empire also ushered in a new opportunity.