Chang He froze for half a stick of incense, but he couldn't withstand the increasingly heavy murderous aura in the room, and finally said dejectedly: "I'll tell you." Li Shimin suddenly appeared in front of me on the street, and he didn't say at first that he was here to assassinate King Yue, but only arranged for me to go to quell the rebellion; I am a dead soldier of the Li family, and the deed is in Li Shimin's hands, and he said that he will return the deed to me after doing this. Before leaving, I asked for a note to go to my father-in-law's military workshop to get two sets of cavalry repeaters. ”

Yang Gongqing asked in disbelief: "It's so simple, but when you come out of prison, you're tossing, that's why you'll be transferred to Hetao; Li Tang is destroyed, you should be glad that there is no evidence, no one from Li Tang has contacted you all these years, what are you running for Li Tang? ”

Chang He laughed miserably: "I haven't been able to get rid of this matter, it turned out that Guanyin and I contacted, until Guanyin died, I was transferred to the Hetao area, only to stop for a few years, I thought everything was over, but I didn't expect everything to just start, Li Shimin suddenly appeared again." ”

Ma Zhou asked softly: "Brother Chang, have you ever met people like you in Chang'an?" ”

Chang He shook his head and said: "Three thousand dead soldiers, there are few people who know each other, and after Li Tang won Chang'an, most of them joined the army and forgot about it." ”

Yang Gongqing knew that Ma Zhou didn't tell the truth, and he didn't break it, so he said coldly: "Give you a chance, tomorrow you will publicly behead those nineteen people, and you will be the executioner; As long as you kill those nineteen people, you will be reinstated. ”

Chang He fell into silence, he had heard of this practice of casting his name, but he didn't expect it to fall on his head today, it was all the old brothers from the same township who followed his own start, three hundred people joined Wagang, more than ten years of fighting, ten deaths; Some of them went home with disabilities, some complained about leaving, but these nineteen people never left them, and even after two years in prison, they still stayed in Chang's house and took care of their families.

Ma Zhou instructed an officer to pour a glass of water for Chang He, Chang He took it, drank two sips with a chain, and looked up and asked Yang Gongqing: "Why don't you ask about the assassination of Feng Zhiji?" ”

Yang Gongqing replied: "Li Tangyu's assassination of Lord Feng was to provoke a war between Lingnan and Chang'an, and his heart can be punished; Your nineteen subordinates are the good hands arranged by Li Shimin, and after the assassination, all the insiders will be killed. Therefore if you kill them, you are cleansing yourself, or you will be the one who presides over them. ”

Chang He shook his head and said, "The people of Lingnan won't believe it. ”

Ma Zhou smiled slightly: "We said that Lingnan naturally didn't believe it, but Feng Zhiji said that Lingnan would definitely believe it." Feng Zhiji saw the whole process at the scene, the prisoners did not know Feng Zhiji, only the carriage and clothing, they killed a stand-in of the same age and appearance; Feng Zhiji has already written back. ”

Chang He regretted in his heart, since Yang Chong knew about this, how could he let Li Shimin's people really kill Feng Zhiji, if Feng Ang received Feng Zhiji's letter, those who fled to Lingnan would be lucky to be kidnapped and sent to Chang'an. Yang Gongqing stood up and said, "Chang He, give me a happy word, do you want to live, or do you want to be a hero?" ”

"I want to live." Chang He only felt that his world was dark, and he had regarded himself as a hero since he was a child, but he was defeated before he was executed. Not long after Yang Gongqing went out, Qi Hui walked in in a fairy manner, and Chang He's eyes were about to burst with anger: "What are you doing here?" ”

Qi Hui closed the door, motioned to Chang He to calm down, and said, "Don't you have anything in your house, and don't keep the letter or gift that Lu Jian gave you?" Yes, there must be, I heard Lu Jian praise you a few times, saying that you are a person who knows how to repay kindness, how you respect him, and a bronze mirror he gave you, you are enshrined in the study like a treasure. You wouldn't think that Meng Fu and Tianqi couldn't recognize Lu Press's things, right? ”

Chang He was speechless, how could these two outcasts of Louguan not recognize Lu Press's things, and they could find out if they checked it; Chang He thought about it and asked, "How is my master?" ”

"Good." Qi Hui said in a deep voice: "I will lock him up and punish him for ten years." Your masters and apprentices are all people who are missing a tendon, and now it is Yang Chong's world, isn't it good to be your real high-ranking official? I also have to follow Li Shimin to fool around. I read your confession, do you think you've gotten through the cracks? No, it was me who reached an agreement with Yang Gongqing, and he helped you make that confession. You have to remember that if you kill one less person tomorrow, the one who is not killed may kill you. ”

Chang He wanted to say that he didn't believe it, but when he thought about his own performance, his faith in his brothers suddenly disappeared without a trace. Chang He asked suspiciously: "Why did Yang Gongqing agree?" ”

Qi Hui said disdainfully: "Because they want to solve the troubles in Lingnan without bloodshed, it is best for Li Tang's people and Yang Dong's people to be served by Feng Ang and sent to Chang'an in a carriage." Do you know how I know you're in trouble? In Li Shimin's plan, two hundred prisoners participated in the riot to kill Feng Zhiji, and the other two hundred people would take the opportunity to seize an armory, disguise themselves as Sui officers and soldiers to burn and loot in the counties near Xianyang, and the person who responded was your master, but your master waited for two hundred real elites, and then there were masters like Zen masters, and all the people who bought were arrested, and your master was abolished from martial arts. ”

Chang He didn't expect such an ending, no wonder Qi Hui would take the initiative to make peace, I'm afraid that if it weren't for the relationship between Zhang Guolao, Jiang Duo and others, Lu Jian would have been chopped into meat at the scene, and now there is already a sea of fire on the building. Chang He asked bitterly: "Uncle Shi, what conditions did you promise?" ”

Qi Hui resumed his chic attitude and said: "Yang Chong already knew that I would come, and asked Fang Xuanling to tell me that as long as this person who colluded with Li Shimin is found, everything will be settled." This matter is not difficult, so that Feng Zhiji's itinerary and the prisoner's itinerary in Chengxi Prison meet at the post house, and he can also know the transfer time of the temporary storage armory, and get the waist card for the army to enter Chang'an City. This is something that Li Shimin can't do, only that person can do it, and I have already arranged for someone to investigate. ”

The next day, Chang He cut off the heads of nineteen old brothers on the execution ground, and the officers and soldiers who stood nearby to supervise the beheading all saw that Chang He was full of tears in the end, and the killed people were angry and scolded before they died. Although it was not enough to complete, most people understood that it was Chang He's order to kill the prisoner, but in the end he threw the responsibility to his subordinates; The onlookers sighed, and a man wearing a hat had just squeezed out of the crowd and was about to leave, when he heard someone laugh and say, "Ruan Junming, you don't take us too seriously." ”

(End of chapter)