Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Second Generation of the Gangster
Wang Huaqiang faintly expected this result when Changsun Sheng was looking for him for the first time, but at this time, Changsun Sheng said it himself, which still made his heart sink, and Pei Shiju's face on the side also changed, but he has always been calm, and he didn't talk much, just frowned, and asked softly: "General Changsun, I heard that you were urgently canonized as a five-rank car riding general today, is this just for this?" ”
Changsun Sheng nodded: "Yes, because this Turkic envoy is not simple, we thought that this person just wanted to come to see the reality of our dynasty, but we didn't expect that this person also knew everything about my dynasty, and as soon as he entered Daxing, he found a way to get involved with Peng Gong Liu Chang." ”
Wang Huaqiang didn't know much about the high-level of the imperial court, and he felt very unfamiliar when he heard this name, but Pei Shiju lost his voice and said: "Peng Gong Liu Chang? Is it the Northern Zhou Shangzhu Kingdom who has been friends with the emperor for decades? ”
Changsun Sheng nodded, glanced at Wang Huaqiang, and said, "It seems that Wang Xiaoshu doesn't know much about Liu Chang's situation, Brother Pei might as well explain it to him." ”
Pei Shiju said "hmm" and briefly explained Liu Chang's situation:
This Liu Chang is a minister in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and Yang Jian is playing from childhood to adulthood, good enough to wear a pair of pants Iron buddy, when he was in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the two were both Shangzhu State, when Yang Jian was the prime minister, there were clans such as Zhao Wangyu Wenzhao in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and there were generals Chi Yu, or assassination, or raising troops, all wanting to put Yang Jian to death, and Liu Chang was the Shangzhu State at the time, holding heavy troops, but he fell to Yang Jian's side.
Because of this, Liu Chang was named the Duke of Peng after the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, but Yang Jian was apprehensive about Liu Chang, who was unwilling to be loyal to the ministers of the Northern Zhou Dynasty who fell to him during the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and gave these people a high title, but no longer gave real power.
Liu Chang has a son named Liu Jushi, because of his father's relationship, he went to the East Palace to be a seven-grade Qianniu Bei, this person is chivalrous, likes to make friends with heroes and heroes, and repeatedly runs amok lawlessly.
When he heard this, Wang Huaqiang nodded: "If you want to say this Liu Jushi, I will know, this person is a famous tyrant in the capital, ** first brother, although he is not very old, only in his thirties, but his reputation on ** is like the sky, by the way, Brother Pei, is this person still raising dead soldiers and gathering private soldiers?" ”
Changsun Sheng smiled: "Wang Jianshu, what he raised is not an ordinary dead soldier, but the son of the ministers and ministers in this Daxing City." This person is powerful, and there is also a group of fox friends and dogs who like to dance with guns and sticks, and they think that the emperor has just ascended the throne for two years, and he is doing evil in this Daxing city, bullying men and women.
Because of his father, the emperor pardoned his crimes several times, so this person became more and more emboldened, and simply hung up a false position in the East Palace, and came out to do the best business, half of the businesses in Daxing City had to pay him protection money, if it was too late to pay, he would send someone to smash the shop, and more than a dozen hundreds of years old brands were destroyed for him in this way. ”
Although Wang Huaqiang had heard of Liu Jushi's reputation, he didn't expect this person to be so ruthless, he shook his head in disbelief: "This is at the feet of the Son of Heaven, where did this guy get so bold?" With the current emperor's sage, can't he control him? ”
Pei Shiju sighed: "This is the power of this person, he is not relying on a group of ruffians to run rampant, but as General Changsun said just now, befriending the son of the minister, and in the name of making friends, he invited the specially selected, strong body, and superior arm strength of the officials-the second generation to the house, and then the healthy servants rushed up, captured it, and then used a big wheel to cover the head of the official-second generation, and beat him with a big wooden stick."
These officials - the second generation are often arrogant and domineering, but if they are really beaten like this, many people will show their original form, at first they will scold, and after beating dozens of sticks, they will cry and beg for mercy, if this is the case, Liu Jushi will let him go and give him a sum of money to seal, these people are often afraid that their own affairs will be spread out and embarrassed, so they hide it and do not report it.
But if he was given a person who did not give in after being beaten more than 100 times and still cursed, Liu Jushi would personally remove the wheel, make amends to him, and let that person beat him back with a stick, and become brothers with such a person. So relying on this method, Liu Jushi quickly pulled out a ruthless and bold second-generation official Yanei group. Since the fathers of these people were all ministers, Daxing Ling didn't dare to care about them at all. ”
Wang Huaqiang was speechless when he heard this, this trick is really ruthless, if this kind of official second generation plays gangster, then no one dares to care except for the emperor, but even if Yang Jian knows about this matter, as long as Liu Jushi's crime does not involve rebellion, it is unlikely that he will implicate so many ministers in order to fight the underworld, and he has not asked about Liu Jushi several times, I am afraid it is also out of this consideration.
Changsun Sheng smiled and said, "It seems that Wang Jianshu already knows about this Liu Jushi, but what I want to say next is that the Turks came to make peace with the family. ”
Wang Huaqiang just heard about Liu Jushi's matter, and he guessed that it was not far from ten, this person is too bold, since he dares to drive the son of the minister to mix with him in the underworld, it is not too strange to collude with the Turks and plot against him, but what is his motive for doing this, Wang Huaqiang is still a little puzzled, so he said: "Could it be that Liu Jushi wants to rebel and become the emperor himself?" ”
Changsun Sheng shook his head: "According to my information, it is not Liu Jushi who really has this intention, but the princess of Dayi." ”
Pei Shiju said with a smile: "How could Princess Dayi have anything to do with this Liu Chang?" ”
The eldest grandson Sheng said: "I also just learned about this, Liu Chang originally married the princess of Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty and the aunt of Princess Dayi when he was in the Northern Zhou Dynasty.
Liu Chang threw himself to the emperor back then, expecting to soar to the sky in the new dynasty, but he didn't expect this result, so he was naturally indignant in his heart, and his wife also blew pillow wind in his ears all day long, the righteous princess didn't know where she heard the news, and this time she sent An Sui's family to come, the main purpose was to secretly take Liu Chang's line, and then pass Liu Chang to contact other old ministers of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, thinking that it should be internal. ”
Wang Huaqiang nodded and asked in a low voice, "What is Liu Chang's attitude?" Does he really dare to rebel again? I don't think he will be so stupid, he can at least be a rich man in the Great Sui, and his son has been put up with the emperor by the emperor, even if he really helps the Yuwen family to restore the country, what good can he have? ”
Changsun Sheng sighed: "Liu Chang himself didn't see the people of the Ansui family, but his son Liu Jushi is very interested, this Liu Jushi is not trying to rebel, but wants to buy war horses and furs from the Turks, so that he can make money by opening a horse market here in Daxing, he is now playing bigger and bigger, and it is becoming more and more difficult to maintain the usual expenses just by collecting the protection fees of the shops here in Daxing, so he wants to do some big business." ”
Wang Huaqiang's heart moved, he didn't expect that this Liu Jushi was quite business-minded, and he actually thought of it with himself, it seems that this time he has to use the Turkic matter to bring him down, otherwise his future business will not be able to open in this Daxing City, anyway, this guy is not a good person, and he has the right to eliminate harm for the people, and he has no guilt.
Pei Shiju was silent for a while just now, and said slowly: "General Changsun, does Gao Servant already know about these things, and does the emperor know?" Where did you get this information? ”
Changsun Sheng said: "I have always had my own informant within the Turks, and this time I also came with the mission of the An Sui family, in fact, the details of this An Sui family, I am clear, he was promoted by Princess Dayi, this time the Turks sent this person to envoy, it is obvious that Princess Dayi wants to take the opportunity to make ghosts, how can I not keep an eye on it."
Sure enough, yesterday when his mission was in the post house, Liu Jushi's men took the opportunity to sneak into the post house and get in touch with their people, An Sui's family changed their disguise at night and went outside the city to connect with Liu Jushi, my people were ambushed at the junction site early, and I heard the content of their conversation clearly. ”
Pei Shiju smiled: "Since that's the case, why don't you take them down on the spot?" ”