Volume 12 The Complete End Chapter 18 The Beginning of Chaos Emerges
In the spring of the seventh year of Zhenguan, when the head of the Taiyuan Wang family went to the Cui family in Qinghe to negotiate the marriage between the two families, there was an accident, and at the foot of a mountain outside Qinghe City, he was directly killed by a thousand catties of boulders, causing an uproar. And this incident also directly led to the war between the Qinghe Cui clan and the Taiyuan Wang clan. After collecting the remains of the head of the family, the dozens of guards of the Taiyuan Wang clan left quietly, without the slightest drag and water, and rushed back to Taiyuan directly, and after they returned to Taiyuan, the Wang clan directly listed the Qinghe Cui clan as the family's number one enemy.
In this year, the situation in the Tang Dynasty became treacherous, and the Taiyuan Wang clan entangled nearly 10,000 private soldiers, ready to go to Qinghe to seek justice for the death of the head of the family. This move directly stirred up the string in Li Er's heart, making the emperor who was in charge of the Tang Dynasty artifact restless, with an army of nearly 10,000 people, this is completely trampling on the dignity of the Tang Empire, as a local hero, even if it is five surnames and seven hopes, it has absolutely no power to raise so many private soldiers, is this to rebel? Therefore, Li Er was furious at the Jinluan Palace and directly ordered a suppression.
"Why are the Wang clan so unwise? Actually came up with such a stupid trick? This is simply a blatant provocation, how can the emperor sit still? If you don't show some majesty, the country will not be a country! "A wise man analyzed that as a king of an empire, the people under his command have quietly developed such a huge armament, which is simply a sign of the destruction of the country, only in troubled times, such a thing will occur, the major families are independent, and they are completely small independent kingdoms. And now Datang is thriving, and the prosperity is beginning to appear. At this time, such a thing broke out, and it was simply a slap in the face of the emperor.
"They're furious, too. You might as well think about it, all this is actually completely in the conspiracy of the Qinghe Cui clan! If it weren't for Qinghe Cui's first throwing an olive branch. How could the Taiyuan Wang clan come forward like this? And after getting up, the two families collapsed, and the Qinghe Cui clan directly slaughtered the head of the Taiyuan Wang family, no one can bear this breath, if such a humiliation is endured, what face does the Taiyuan Wang family have to survive in the Tang Dynasty? "There is speculation.
"In fact, there is still the shadow of the royal family in it, and the first reason for this incident was that Empress Changsun proposed to the Cui family, asking the Qinghe Cui family to marry their seventh miss to His Royal Highness the King of Chu, as the head of the five surnames and seven hopes. The Cui family also has their own pride, they have always believed that the royal blood is not an authentic Han family, so this is why there is a series of things in the latter series. So it's actually very strange! The royal family knew that the Cui family would never marry their daughter to the royal family, but they still proposed it like this, and the Qinghe Cui family would not directly refuse the royal family, so they could only use the power of the rest of the family to prevaricate. And this is exactly the situation that the royal family wants to see, because at this time, the big men of the rest of the families who went to Qinghe to negotiate will be directly killed in Qinghe County, so that the families will be completely torn apart. Let the royal family take advantage of it! "There is always no shortage of speculators in this world, who have far more information channels than ordinary people, who also have an identity and status where they can make different voices, and who can speak freely. Everyone is speculating about what kind of real stories are hidden behind these things, so that they can play a series of games in the court in exchange for the political capital they need. So whether it's Wenchen or not. is still a military general, all of them are quietly and privately discussing the hottest topics in Datang recently.
"Your Majesty suppressed the revenge of the Wang clan this time. So isn't all this back to square one? Or an irreconcilable contradiction between the imperial power and the family! ”
"This is different, in the past, the family was completely huddled. Refuse the royal family's solicitation and infiltration, but now Qinghe Cui's is rejected by all the family circles, you look at this time, not only the Taiyuan Wang family sent troops to Qinghe, but the rest of the family is also shouting for the Wang family, after all, this is directly killing the head of the family, such a thing has never happened, so the rest of the family is also afraid that such a thing will happen to their own heads, and together they put pressure on the Qinghe Cui family in the hope of exploring the mystery, The Qinghe Cui clan will definitely not offend another family that is not inferior to their own for no reason! Gradually, these people came to some conclusions that were close to the truth. It's just that they don't know that all this is actually caused by Li Kuan's nonsense, as His Royal Highness the King of Chu of the Tang Dynasty, this guy actually appeared in the Cui family of Qinghe quietly, and trampled the head of the Wang family in Qinghe to death directly, don't be too bold! And this dumb loss is what Qinghe Cui has to swallow, because now the 'His Royal Highness the King of Chu' of the Tang Dynasty is swaggering towards Qinghe County in the welcoming procession, which is witnessed by countless people of the Tang Dynasty along the way.
Therefore, the Qinghe Cui clan only knocked out their teeth and blood, they would not be so stupid to tell the truth, because there is no witness, their own family members cannot be used as witnesses, and it is the most undesirable way to poke out the truth of the matter, because this has no effect except for letting the royal family directly send troops to push the millennium Cui clan horizontally, who doesn't know that His Royal Highness the King of Chu is coming to the Qinghe Cui clan in order to marry the seventh lady of the Qinghe Cui clan. For this reason, there will be this negotiation between the Wang father and son, and then there will be this major event. And the posture of the royal family this time is to have a fair competition, didn't you see that the welcoming team has already reached the halfway point. So at this time, the royal family will definitely protect the Wang family in order to avoid suspicion, and it is too late to protect the Wang family's father and son, how could they make such a stupid move.
Of course, there are also reasons for Li Kuan, because Li Kuan, this guy really doesn't care about anything when he goes crazy, this time he can step on the head of the Wang family with one foot, then next time he can also slaughter the head of the Cui family without mercy, his skills are so high, if you want to guard against this guy's assassination, I'm afraid that Qinghe Cui's family won't sleep in the future, and it may not work. So I still carried it myself, and I was sure that it was just an accident, and no one would take them. Because after the Wang father and son went out of the Cui family's mansion, they went around several times in Qinghe County. There were not a hundred or eighty people who saw them, and these people can prove that these two people were still in good shape at that time and were still in the mood to go shopping. So they were stoned to death when they left the city, and they can only be blamed for their bad luck.
In this way, the situation in Datang has become delicate, and everyone is speculating whether Datang will become chaotic in the world because of this time, and everyone is inferring whether this time the major families will become divided and then directly annexed by the royal family. No one knows how many banknotes are surging under the situation that all this seems to have been suppressed, and nearly 10,000 private soldiers of the Taiyuan Wang family were suppressed by the imperial court, and the imperial court used this as an excuse to directly conduct a large-scale investigation of the major families of the entire Tang Dynasty with lightning speed, and the hidden weapons of the major families were all cleared by the imperial court.
Under this further intensification, the Tang family also began to rebound, they were used to being soil emperors on their respective territories, and now suddenly most of the armed forces used for self-protection were taken away by the imperial court, which has touched the bottom line of the family, although the major families still have hidden deeper strength, but it is really nerve-wracking. Because if they want to use these powers in the future, they will no longer be as unscrupulous as they are now. So a web of dark alliances began to intertwine, colluding underwater, and a vast plan began to take shape.
In the southwest of the Tang Dynasty, among the rolling mountains, no one knows how many secrets are hidden in them. In this era of primeval forests everywhere, it is almost a forbidden area for ordinary human traces, but there are still countless people hiding among the mountains, they are either fleeing the war, and they have to migrate here, and there are defeated armies in the battle for the world, all the way to here, these people gradually formed tribes here, and carried out a hard war for survival.
In this area where the rule of the Tang Dynasty was marginalized, a force was gradually formed, and these people were also very dissatisfied and resentful of the rule of the imperial court. And this gives the suppressed and resentful families a chance, a buffer zone for them to sit down and negotiate the distribution of all the benefits that cannot be accommodated in the court. In this spring, almost all the suppressed families came here in order to discuss the confrontation between the family and the imperial court this time, whether to compromise or carry it to the end, whether to compromise or fight up. Everyone is fighting for each other's red faces, and everyone is constantly testing each other's bottom line. The people sent by each family are all people with excellent minds, and they are all old foxes with bent eyebrows.
After continuous consultations, continuous compromises and temptations, the last huge plan was formed under their planning, and they felt that the current court was no longer suitable for the survival of their families, so the monkey sitting in the court with a stick in his hand was no longer suitable to sit there. All the representatives of the family reached a consensus on this point, and unanimously decided to change to someone who could meet their needs, and also decided to make their voices heard, to fight for their own interests when the four Yi surrendered, so that the monkey who sat at the top of this tree of power, eating the most delicious fruit, knew that the smiling face it saw when it looked down was actually only to give it face, not the stick in its hand that made the monkeys below feel afraid.
The dark tide is surging, Li Er also has a headache, his sensitive political sense of smell makes him know that under all this seemingly calm situation, what is hidden is the storm that is coming positively, Datang has hundreds of thousands of troops, but compared to the entire huge empire, it is absolutely impossible to guard against every place, this is the fatal weakness of Datang, and this is also a weakness that has no room for recovery, because there is not so strong national strength to feed enough troops. There weren't so many soldiers to guard against the storm of rebellion that might arise in various places. Datang has only been stable for a few years now, and in such a short period of time, the population has withered, which is an absolute shortcoming. Therefore, if the people are excessively recruited to join the army, then it will definitely shake the country's foundation, but if the army is not expanded, there will be no way to deal with it, and Li Er will be worried about this. Datang is about to fall apart at this time, which is definitely a change that Li Kuan can't even imagine, and it is also something that no one can predict, Datang is in the biggest crisis. (To be continued......)