Chapter 375: The Disposition of Hou Junji

"Junji, ah......" Hearing Li Zhen's inquiry, Li Shimin sighed a little, to be honest, Li Shimin's mood at this time was undoubtedly very complicated, at the beginning of hearing that Hou Junji was going to rebel, Li Shimin was naturally very angry, especially the article "Hou Junji Li Rebellion", Li Shimin was scolded thoroughly from the eighteenth generation of his ancestors to the eighteenth generation of his descendants, and Li Shimin was even more eager to skin Hou Junji alive.

But when Hou Junji's army of more than 100,000 was really burned to ashes by Xue Rengui, Hou Junji was captured alive and escorted back to Lingnan, when he saw the tragic situation of Hou Junji with his own eyes, Li Shimin's mentality suddenly changed - after all, the two have been partnering with each other for decades, especially in the early years, Hou Junji also saved Li Shimin's life on the battlefield, to say that there must still be feelings......

Although later, Hou Junji was more and more disliked by Li Shimin, but even in the end, he still gave Hou Junji a chance - the general of Nanyang town guard is a very important position, at that time, Nanyang was initially decided, there were people everywhere who rebelled, and the town guard general must not only be loyal to the imperial court, but more importantly, he must have super combat ability and ruthless and decisive means to be competent. To be honest, in the imperial court at that time, there were not many people who agreed with these conditions, not to mention Li Jing and Li Ji, except for Hou Junji, the rest of the Sixteen Wei generals could easily be qualified for this position.

At that time, there were many people competing for this position, but Li Shimin still chose Hou Junji, but unfortunately, Hou Junji did not understand Li Shimin's good intentions, and after arriving in Nanyang, he completely let himself go. At the beginning, Li Zhen was there, and he could still restrain a little, but when Li Zhen also went back to Lingnan, no one could control him, from the beginning of selling precious resources, to the final smuggling of weapons, and finally came to the road of rebellion, which fully proved a sentence - God is evil, it is forgivable, self-inflicted, and cannot live.

Half a month ago, Xue Rengui and Fang Yiai escorted Hou Junji back to Lingnan, Li Shimin personally met him, thinking about the friendship between the two at the beginning, but now they meet again in this environment, it is really embarrassing.

"Father, it's not a son who said, this Hou Junji must not stay, he is a white-eyed wolf, he has always taken it for granted that others are good to him, but once others are a little sorry for him, he can hate you for a lifetime, the best way for such a person is to beat him to death with a stick at one time, otherwise if you give him a little way to live, he will definitely fight back against you." Li Zhen said solemnly, it's not that he wants to fall into the well or something, he doesn't need this with his status, but Hou Junji is really this kind of character, and he will definitely retribution in the future.

And there is another point, if Li Shimin really forgave him so easily this time, it will inevitably give others a false impression - can even rebellion be forgiven so easily? This will definitely lead to a decrease in the cost of rebellion, and those who have long been ambitious will not have different intentions, and then the situation may get out of control, and even if the court is ruthless again, it will be very difficult to quell the turmoil.

"When will I forgive Hou Junji?" Li Shimin squinted at Li Zhen: "Hou Junji committed a rebellion, and his crime is unforgivable, there is no doubt about this, just now I was just thinking, how should Hou Junji's family deal with it?" ”

"Kill together, of course." A trace of ruthlessness flashed in Li Zhen's eyes: "Father, this kind of thing can't be soft-hearted, Erchen also knows that Hou Junji's rebellion is just his own idea, and Erchen also believes that his family is innocent." But after all, it is necessary to defend people, and if you kill their father and husband, who knows what they will think? It's okay to be sensible, the question is that Hou Junji is this kind of character, do you think his children will be the kind of reasonable people?

It's impossible, they won't remember that their father and husband were rebels, they only know that you, Li Shimin, are the culprits who killed their father and husband, even if you can forgive them, they won't be grateful to you, but will bury this hatred deep in their hearts, and then wait for the opportunity to take revenge, once they wait for this opportunity, they will not hesitate to show up and give us a fatal blow. ”

"Enough...... Li Shimin snorted lightly and looked at Li Zhen: "Can you say this too?" No matter how Hou Junji is not, after all, he has also made great contributions to the Tang Dynasty, and he has made great contributions to the world of our Li family, others can say so, as the crown prince, it is a bit inappropriate to say this - I know that you deliberately said this because you want to destroy Hou Junji's Manchus, and Hou Junji's full door I will not stay...... But Zhen'er, my father really doesn't like you like this. ”

"Yes, the son is guilty." Li Zhen hurriedly bowed down and pleaded guilty, he also knew that what he said was a bit too much, others said this to show that he had a bad relationship with Hou Junji, but he purely wanted to make Hou Junji die. However, Li Zhen did not regret it, because what Hou Junji did in Nanyang, just condemning him to death was no longer enough to clear his guilt. Not to mention that the guilt of his rebellion is enough to extinguish the whole door, let's just say what he did in Rili City - he slaughtered tens of thousands of Tang people in Nanyang.

How innocent are the people?

They came to Nanyang just to earn a piece of land, when Hou Junji hit Ri Licheng, the people there had just stabilized, they did not resist Hou Junji's conquest, and did not have any favorable support for the Tang Dynasty's army, as a result, because in order to curry favor with his own indigenous army, Hou Junji acquiesced to the massacre of Ri Belvedere...... This alone, even if it is the eighteen clans of the Destruction of the Hou Junji, it is enough.

"Don't talk about that." may have involved Hou Junji, Li Shimin's mood was not very good: "Let's talk about Xue Rengui, he has made such a great contribution, how do you think I should reward him?" ”

"This ...... It's inconvenient for the ministers to say, it's better for the court to decide. Li Zhen smiled, everyone in the world knew that Xue Rengui was his person, where could he answer this question, no matter what he wanted, it was inevitable that he was asking Xue Rengui for reward. What's more, Xue Rengui is only thirty years old now, and he is already a general of the First Guard, and he has reached the peak of the position of military attaché, and then he is a general, and the position in Datang is usually a false position, and the title has reached the level of a county marquis, and then it is a county prince, which is also not something that Xue Rengui can bear today.

(End of chapter)