Chapter 54: Meritorious Service for Guilt
The Liu brothers used to rely on their power to make a fortune in Fuzhou City, but now they are unlucky, and the people have come up with evidence, and Yang Lian handed over the matter to Cha Wenhui to handle. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Cha Wenhui was very efficient, and in the afternoon, there was evidence and witnesses, and Liu Shangning and Liu Shangren were imprisoned and became prisoners.
The people applauded, Yang Lian let the people go back with peace of mind, and distributed rice and grain tomorrow, when it was spring ploughing, Yang Lian asked the Zhang brothers to go back, buy cattle, seeds and farm tools, and at the same time persuade some people to come to Fuzhou to develop.
This day passed in a busy way, in the evening, Yang Lian and Cha Wenhui discussed for a while, decided on the specific steps of Fuzhou, Yang Lian planned to another four or five days, after Fuzhou stabilized, he escorted Li Hongyi, Hu Qing and others back to Jinling, the raid on Fuzhou has been perfectly resolved, reached the predetermined strategy, it is time to go back.
The next morning, he got up early and led the soldiers to build a shed and prepare to distribute rice and grain, and Cha Wenhui also came to help. Yang Lian observed, and saw that the people were in order under the maintenance of the soldiers, and watched for more than an hour, and hurried out.
At this time, most of the garbage outside the sub-city had not been disposed of, and after Hu Qing's letter of surrender was sent, only a small number of people surrendered, and most of the Wu Yue soldiers fled, and Fuzhou City was temporarily no longer threatened, and it was time to clean up Fuzhou City. Such a thing was naturally handed over to Wu Yuebing's captives to do, and rows of Tang soldiers were fully armed and patrolling on the side.
The city was almost empty by the fire, it took a lot of time to clean up the garbage, and nothing else, many corpses were charred, which looked quite scary, and many Wu Yuebing couldn't help but vomit when carrying the corpses of Paoze, and they couldn't eat lunch if they wanted to.
When Yang Lian was busy, dozens of miles outside Fuzhou City, more than a dozen warships were heading south along the Minjiang River, and Chen Xu, the assassin of Jianzhou, was standing at the bow of the ship. Chen Zhi is also a Fujian people, when the civil strife in Fujian, he went through twists and turns, and later Cha Wenhui pacified Jianzhou, the Tang Dynasty Son of Heaven accepted the suggestion, in the south of Jianzhou, divided three counties Yanping, Fusha, Jianpu for Jianzhou, the purpose is to strengthen the control of the new region, Chen Zhi because of Cha Wenhui's appreciation, was able to take office as the history of Jianzhou.
Later, Cha Wenhui returned to Beijing to serve as a privy envoy, and then transferred back to Jianzhou to serve as a marquis, actually governing Jianzhou, Jianzhou and other places, and presided over the attack on Fuzhou. This time, Cha Wenhui was in the plan, and Chen Yu was also among them, but he was lucky and escaped by luck, and after returning to Jianzhou, he rectified the soldiers and horses to prevent Li Hongyi from counterattacking.
Yang Lian came to Jianzhou, expressed his attitude, and asked him to prepare his troops, once Yang Lian captured Fuzhou, he led his troops to support and take over the defense of Fuzhou. However, due to the recent defeat in the battle, morale was low, and Chen Zhi also called for helplessness. In addition, a more important point is that Chen Yu thought that Yang Lian only brought so many hundreds of people, and it was impossible to capture Fuzhou, so he was relatively slack in this matter. When Yang Lian took Fuzhou, caught Li Hongyi, and sent someone to inform him, Chen Zhi regretted it too late.
He immediately gathered his troops and prepared to go south. But because he had not made preparations in advance, there was a shortage of food, and there were not enough ships, and by the time he had collected the ships, he was already two or three days late in going south. These two or three days don't seem like a long time, but after all, Chen Zhi has led troops and knows that there are too many things that can be decided in these two or three days. Wu Yue's army is more than 100 miles outside Fuzhou, and there are also Wu Yue's troops stationed in Fu'an County, with a number of about 20,000.
Chen Zhi was a little worried, if this battle led to the defeat of Fuzhou because of him, he had an unshirkable responsibility, if it was more serious, Yang Lian was killed or captured, Chen Xu's career may come to an end.
The ship took advantage of the water to go down to the southeast, but the southeast wind had already begun to blow in the south at this time, which greatly slowed down the speed of the ship and made Chen Xu's heart more and more anxious. At noon, the lookout could already see Fuzhou City, but at such a distance, he couldn't see what the situation was in Fuzhou City, and the flag planted on the head of the city was the flag of that country.
After walking for another half an hour, the lookout saw a black area outside Fuzhou City, obviously, something big happened in Fuzhou City. When Chen Zhi heard the news, he was even more anxious, stopped on the shore, he took dozens of his own soldiers and horses, and went to investigate the situation first.
Riding a war horse and galloping all the way, when he arrived outside the city of Fuzhou, it was close to dusk, the sun was already slanting in the west, and in the distance, Chen Yu saw the camp of Wu Yuejun's army erected, he did not dare to approach, but approached Fuzhou City from the west, and when he arrived at the city of Fuzhou, Chen Yu was stunned.
Although he has led troops for many years and fought many tough battles, he did not expect that the corpses outside Fuzhou City were piled up like a hill, and these corpses were all charred, and the remnants were piled up indiscriminately, and the stench emitted made people sick to their stomachs, and they almost vomited out of their overnight meals.
What happened in Fuzhou City? How tragic is it? Chen Yu couldn't understand, he glanced back at the camp of Wu Yuejun, obviously, he didn't think that Yang Lian could stop Wu Yue's army, Wu Yuejun's camp was at least 20,000 people in terms of size, how could Yang Lian be able to stop it?
So there is no doubt that these corpses are Tang Bing's, but, how could they be burned like this? Could it be that Yang Lian knew that he couldn't do anything, before the city was broken, Chen Zhi was uncertain, and at this moment, a group of cavalry of about fifty people came in the distance.
Chen Zhi had a sense of vigilance and ordered the soldiers to prepare for battle, and at this time, one of the knights in front rushed over, waving his arms, as if he was still shouting loudly. Chen Zhi fixed his eyes and saw that it was actually Chen Tie.
Although both of them are surnamed Chen and have also worked for the same country, they are not actually relatives, but the two know each other and have a decent relationship. Seeing that Chen Tie was still alive, Chen Yu immediately rode his horse and rushed over, and the cavalry behind him followed closely.
"Chen Tingshi, you're here." Thinking that he was an old man, Chen Tie spoke politely.
Chen Zhi looked Chen Tie up and down, and saw that he was in good spirits, so he hurriedly asked, "You, are you okay?" ”
"What can I do?" Chen Tie laughed, then shook his head again, sighed, and said, "But there are a lot of things, the corpses in the city are piled up, and the stench makes life worse than death." ”
Chen Yu was very surprised in his heart, so he asked, Chen Tie didn't mind, and called the group to run towards Zicheng while talking about things. Looking at the city along the way, Chen Yu couldn't help sighing. Fuzhou was originally the capital of Fujian and had a large population, but with the civil strife in Fujian, the Wang clan proclaimed themselves emperors one after another, and after some people attracted Tang people, Fuzhou began to last for several years of war. Today's Fuzhou City, I am afraid that it will not have been in the past for decades, and it will not be able to restore the atmosphere of the past.
When he entered Zicheng, Chen Yu understood that the battle of Fuzhou City was indeed very dangerous, and what surprised him even more was that Yang Lian could actually think of such a ruthless trick, taking advantage of the greed of Pan Sen, Bao Xiurang and others, calmly introducing them into the city and setting them on fire.
Such a means proves that Yang Lian is not only a scheming, but also a vicious person, Chen Xu's body can't help but shake, he is guilty of delaying the military plane, how will Yang Lian treat him?
In the Jiedu Embassy's mansion, Yang Lian and Cha Wenhui sat opposite each other in the courtyard, and a pot of tea was placed between the two.
"With the distribution of grain, the people's will can be won, and with the people's will, there will be a foundation, and it will be much easier to hold Fuzhou." Yang Lian said.
Cha Wenhui thought so, he hesitated slightly, and said, "Yang Jiedu, then Liu Shangning wants to kill?" ”
"If the evidence of the crime is conclusive, he should be punished. Even if it is not enough, he must be killed, first, to win the hearts of the people, and second, to make an example of chickens and monkeys. Yang Lian said.
Cha Wenhui is good at political affairs, and he has done today's things properly, and the Liu family, including the family maids, has more than 400 people, and they have all been controlled. The case has been tried, and there are many maids in the Liu Mansion who have been robbed or forcibly bought, and he does not intend to pursue these people, but the Liu clan has different sins, some people deserve to die, some people should be exiled, some people should be punished, and so on.
Liu Shangren mainly bullied men and women, and did a lot of bad things. Liu Shangning mainly colluded with Li Hongyi to make profits and seize a lot of land from the people. Cha Wenhui's decision was to punish Liu Shangning in addition to returning this part of the land to the people.
Cha Wenhui has an opinion, that is, Fuzhou City needs to be appeased now, and he doesn't want to kill people. On this point, he and Yang Lian have some differences. But he knew that Yang Lian was right, Fuzhou was initially decided, not only to show grace, but also to deter lawbreakers, and in the past two days, there were Tang soldiers patrolling the city day and night, in order to prevent people from making trouble. Yang Lian made a private visit on the street, and this is the purpose.
While the two were talking, Chen Tie led Chen Zhi in, and Chen Zhi saw Cha Wenhui at a glance and had a complicated mood.
"Jianzhou Assassin Chen Yu has seen Yang Jiedu, Cha Liuhou." Chen Zhi gave gifts.
Cha Wenhui didn't care, smiled, waved his hand, and said, "You're here." ”
Yang Lian raised his head and looked at Chen Yu carefully. Chen Yu was furious by Yang Lian's heart, a little nervous, and sweat broke out on his forehead. In any case, Chen Yu came late, and this is the great crime of delaying the military plane. Yang Lian was able to block Cha Wenhui, and even promised to propose that he take charge of Fuzhou, but he would not necessarily be gracious to Chen Xu.
Just when Chen Yu was uneasy, Yang Lian retracted his gaze and asked, "Chen Tingshi, you are finally here." ”
"If you come late, I hope that Yang Jie will forgive your sins." Chen Yu knew that people had to bow their heads under the eaves, although Yang Lian was not his direct boss, but this time he came on the orders of His Majesty, and he was in charge of the attack on Fuzhou, which was equivalent to the minister of Qincha, and he had the power of life and death.
Yang Lian paused and said, "According to the plan, you will arrive in Fuzhou as early as two days ago, but if you don't come for a long time, Fuzhou City will almost be breached." Do you know the grave sin of delaying military aircraft? ”
"The lowly man knows, and is willing to accept the sin." Chen Yu said.
Yang Lian nodded, took out a fold from his arms, handed it to him, and said, "This is an excerpt written by myself, you can take a look, if there is no opinion, that's it." ”
Chen Yu was in a low mood, took over the excerpt, opened it and read it hurriedly, and said in a lost voice: "Yang Jiedu, this ......"
"After all, you have been in Fuzhou for many years, and you know a lot about the situation in this place, although you are only a soldier in Fuzhou, but Fuzhou will definitely be one of the bridgeheads for attacking Wu Yue in the future. Yang Lian said.
Chen Yu had mixed emotions in his heart, Yang Lian recommended him as the envoy of Fuzhou soldiers and horses, although the position was reduced, but as Yang Lian said, Fuzhou's opportunity is much greater than that of Jianzhou, and Wu Yue people see that Fuzhou has fallen into the hands of the Tang Dynasty, and the probability of coming to invade is very high, if so, he has a chance to be promoted. Thinking of this, Chen Yu arched his hand and said, "Thank you Yang Jiedu." (To be continued.) )