Chapter 329: A Riding Equipment
Although the Liu family is from Hedong, after all, the fourth prime minister, who has been an official in Chang'an for several generations, has already taken root here.
Liufu is also in Shengyefang, not far from Li's house, but people's houses are much larger than Li Xiao's houses, Li Xiao's house is only eighteen acres, and people are more than several times.
The Liu family has many other houses in Chang'an and Gyeonggi, and it is not easy to search them one by one. But the Hundred Horsemen Division has gained a lot in the willow mansion of Shengye Fang, and the Liu family's mansion has many secret rooms.
In fact, many mansions in Chang'an have secret rooms, and even underground secret rooms. But the Baiqi Division is specialized in listening and monitoring, and the Liu family already has their eyeliner hidden piles, coupled with their professional methods, they soon discovered several secret rooms.
After opening it, the harvest is huge.
In the underground secret room, a large amount of gold and silver money is stored, as well as many land deeds and land deeds.
Of course, these are nothing, which century-old famous family doesn't have this at home. But what is really amazing is that in one of the underground secret rooms, hundreds of sets of various armors were found, as well as a large number of horse lances, spears, crossbows, longbows, and so on.
It's literally an underground arsenal, enough to arm an army of a few hundred men.
What amazed the captain of the hundred cavalry the most was that they also found eighteen boxes, sealed and locked. After opening it with great difficulty, it turned out to be a complete set of armor riding equipment.
What is a riding outfit?
That is the equipment of the heavy armored cavalry, the human armor and horse armor of the heavy cavalry and the war horse, and the combat weapons of the knights.
Eighteen sets of armor and riding equipment do not seem to be much.
But don't forget, the equipment of the heavy cavalry is extremely expensive. Each set of equipment can be called a general's armor cost. Each piece of heavy armor was carefully crafted, and the men and horses were draped in, a true one-way cloak, and they were able to charge without the enemy's defenses.
Although this kind of heavy cavalry also has many disadvantages, such as insufficient endurance, short charging time, such as the high cost of equipment, such as high requirements for war horses, such as the long training time of knights, and it is difficult to quickly replenish the loss of men and horses.
But these can not hide the ferocity of the hoplites, when the two armies are fighting, the hoplites at the critical moment, a charge, can often change the situation of the entire battlefield, they are the sharpest tip of the entire army.
Their task is very simple, just rush at a critical time, as long as they finish a while, they can break through the enemy formation, and they don't have to worry about the future.
When Li Shimin was still the king of Qin, he fought in the south and the north and the east and west, and had a sharp heavy cavalry, known as the Xuantie cavalry.
There is also Luo Yi, who defected to the Tang Dynasty and was crowned king, and he also had a Youzhou Iron Cavalry under him.
No one would have imagined that in the secret room of the Liu family of the fourth prime minister, there would be eighteen sets of armor and riding equipment.
Privately hiding the three-collar leather armor should be hanged, daring to hide more than 100 sets of Mingguang armor, and hiding 18 sets of armor and riding equipment, this is really dead.
In fact, Liu Shuang's mother didn't know that there were still these armor weapons in the house.
She really didn't lie, this batch of weapons has actually been hidden here for a long time. It can be said that when the Sui Dynasty was first established and the capital was moved to the new Chang'an City, the Liu family built a mansion here, and then this batch of armor was moved from the old mansion, and then it has been locked in a box in the underground secret room and has not seen the light of day.
As for who first purchased these armor weapons and why they purchased them, in fact, there is no way to know.
But it is not difficult to guess that the fourth generation of the Liu family has experienced four dynasties and was the prime minister of the four dynasties, and the last years of the Northern Wei Dynasty happened to be a period of great turmoil, and the north and south were divided for hundreds of years after the Jin Dynasty, and the north and west were turbulent at the end of the Northern Wei Dynasty.
Perennial wars and turmoil, even the landlords in the countryside have built forts to protect themselves, but whoever has a little strength, which one is not armed.
At the beginning of the founding of the Western Wei Dynasty, there were soldiers, and the Eight Pillars were the soldiers in charge of the whole country. It was also at the beginning of the Sui Dynasty that these were finally reformed, and there were no more private soldiers, and the troops of the Twelve Guards Mansion were separated.
With the previous strength of the Liu family, it is indeed normal to have more than 100 sets of armor hidden at home, even if there are eighteen sets of precious armored horses, it is nothing.
Those Guanlong nobles and scholars, which family doesn't have this kind of family background?
However, this kind of thing can't be put on the table.
After all, when the imperial court reformed the system, those privately owned armor weapons were limited to the amount of private collection, and many equipment were included in the list of those who were not allowed to be privately collected.
The Liu family didn't hand it over back then, it was their problem, and now that it has been investigated, it is naturally their crime.
Of course, not only did I find these in Liufu, but also found a lot of account books.
Some are normal ledgers, some are ledgers such as lending, and some are related to some black ledgers when Liu Zheng was an official in the past.
In addition, Baiqi even found several imprisoned women in the underground secret room of a rockery.
When asked, these girls were all daughters of good families in Chang'an City, but because of their beautiful appearance, they were robbed by Liu Shuang and imprisoned here, a total of eight women, of which the longest one has been imprisoned for three years.
According to the girl, there had been other girls here before, but many of them were taken away. It is said that there are more than a dozen girls who have been taken away before and after.
And these girls all testified against Liu Shuang, accusing him of kidnapping, kidnapping, raping and harming them.
"It's not a pity to die!"
Li Zhi faced the report of Master Zhang, the commander of the hundred horses, and slapped the table again angrily.
Piles of weapons and armor were laid out in the open space of the courtyard in front of the hall, along with eight poor women.
All this has firmly nailed the Liu family to the pillar of shame.
Liu Shuang is dead, but he can't let it go. Li Zhi ordered that he should not be restrained, cut off his head, and hang it on the city gate of Chang'an to show the public.
In addition, Liu Zheng's grave will also be opened, his coffin will be opened, and Liu Zheng's bones will be dug up and the corpse will be exposed to the sun. Liu Zheng's wife, Cui Shi, was taken from her life and punished to serve in the court.
Raid the house!
All the houses of the Liu family were confiscated, all the fields and properties were confiscated, and the men of the Liu family were all exiled to Lingnan, and all the female dependents of the Liu family were not enslaved in the court.
The Liu family is the queen's uncle's family, since the Western Wei Dynasty, through four dynasties, the four generations are all prime ministers, but once they collapsed.
"Give me a good check on the Wang family and the Cui family, and check it thoroughly!"
Li Zhi took this opportunity to chase to the end and completely wipe out the queen's mother's family.
"Your Majesty, the Wang family is the queen's maiden family, do you want to save a few faces for the queen?" Li Daozong spoke up.
According to this situation, the Wang family will definitely find out the problem, and the result is obvious, the queen's position is difficult to protect, and the crown prince is difficult to protect.
The Guanlong group has always been on the side of the queen and the crown prince Li Zhong, and he, the representative, had to speak.
"Do I use it to give face to anyone? Who has saved my face? Secretly hiding so many armor and weapons, and even armor and cavalry, what are you preparing for, do you want to mutiny and rebel in Chang'an City? If it weren't for this investigation, I really wouldn't have known that such a thing would have happened. ”
"Check, check it for me, if you really can't find out the problem, then I will personally apologize to the prince and the queen, and if you find out the problem like the Liu family, then don't blame me for being welcome! The law of the land is ruthless! ”