Chapter 81: Taking advantage of the fire to rob and ask for help
An Lushan's expression on his face was wonderful, Xiao Quai's illness was equivalent to scolding himself for being a pig and a dog in front of the emperor, in front of civil and military officials, and in front of envoys from various countries.
After scolding the pig and dog, it is better to scold himself for being a mongrel, and he also told the ugly story of stealing sheep and being caught, losing the army, and finally asking himself if he was right.
But the situation is like this, he doesn't dare to say that it's wrong, what Xiao Quzhi said is all the truth. He dared to say that His Majesty and Datang were not kind to him? Can't!
Does he dare to jump up and quarrel with Xiao Quai? Can't! He was afraid that Xiao Qu would die with him, so he told all the evidence of his crimes, and finally gave the emperor a trump card, killed An Lushan, and I will let you prolong your life!
An Lushan pretended to be very moved and grateful as if he had eaten a hundred flies: "You are right, Your Majesty and Datang are very kind to me, so how can I conspire to rebel?" ”
Li Longji's face is not good-looking, Xiao Quzhi is so presumptuous, isn't he talking like this to make a mockery of his lack of employment? Is there no principle for An Lushan, is the grace too much?
On the other side, An Lushan burst into tears, and said to Li Longji sincerely: "Your Majesty, the minister is willing to swear to the Great Light God, if the minister has two hearts for His Majesty, he will let the minister be cut by a thousand knives, and he will fall into the dark hell forever after death." ”
An Lushan thought in his heart, it's a big deal to wait for you Li Longji to die, and Lao Tzu will rebel against your son (in fact, if it wasn't for Yang Guozhong's persecution in the previous time and space, An Lushan really wanted to wait for Li Longji to die and then rebel), so I am still loyal to you Li Longji.
Li Longji's face sank, and his expression was uncertain; "Lushan doesn't have to be like this, I believe in you. Xiao Qing, you don't have to always worry about King Dongping, let's talk about the results you found. ”
Xiao Quzhi sneered in his heart, sure enough, there is a difference between intimacy and intimacy, call the fat man Lushan, call me Xiao Qing, and be so impatient. Xiao Quzhi smiled and said:
"Your Majesty, the minister is not trying to catch the king of Dongping, but it is really a matter of snake teeth that involves the henchmen and generals under the command of the king of Dongping. Therefore, the minister must determine whether the king of Dongping is involved, or is he aware of it, or is he not aware of it? ”
Although Li Longji felt that Xiao Quai's words just now were a bit presumptuous, he would not be very angry, and Xiao Quai's words did make sense, and they did not leak;
Second, although he is wary of Xiao Quai, he is a little inseparable from Xiao Quai, plus Xiao Quai's illness can make him money, and he is Yuhuan's righteous brother, so he still has to give him face.
He thought to himself, maybe he didn't reward Xiao Qu's illness just now, he was unhappy and was losing his temper. Well, it's better to send Gao Lishi to appease him in private. Just talk about his age and let him not be emotional.
Xiao Qubing walked to the side of An Lushan and asked with a smile, "I don't know which of the three the Dongping King belongs to?" ”
One of the two people was standing, with a long body and a jade body, floating like a fairy, and the other was kneeling, as if it was a mountain of meat, looking like a fat pig kneeling in front of an immortal and wagging its tail and begging for mercy. The stark contrast made the civil and military officials and envoys of various countries couldn't help but want to laugh.
An Lushan gritted his teeth and said, "I don't know!" ”
"Is that true?"
"It's true!"
"That's good!" Xiao Quzhi turned around and saluted Li Longji and said: "Since the King of Dongping has no idea, it will be easy to do, the minister has already found out that the leader of this group of snake teeth is the henchman general Ashina Chengqing under the command of the King of Dongping!"
He has a base camp in Chang'an, and in Yanshoufang, there is a big boss named Kang Heinu. There is a small stronghold in Shengye Fang, Guangzhai Fang and Changshou Fang, and there are three small leaders, named Sun Sancao, He Tietou, and Shi Murong. ”
An Lushan couldn't help but sweat again, and he said it exactly right. Kang Heinu and Sun Sancao and others, they really deserve to die, they also reported how stupid they were when they said that Xiao Qu was sick, they really thought that the assassin was sent by Wang Jie, and they couldn't find out some clues about the ordnance case, but he had already found out clearly, and he would only wait for the Anxi army to come back before launching it!
This Xiao Quai's illness is really insidious and cunning, it seems that he should have known that the assassination was a snake tooth, but he still wronged Wang Jie. not only hit Wang Ji with this, but also confused his own side. At the beginning, they laughed at Xiao Qu's stupidity, but now they know that he is pretending to be stupid, and he is really stupid on his side!
On the other side, An Lushan's eldest son An Qingzong, who accompanied An Lushan to Danfeng Tower, his righteous brother Zhang Xiancheng, a white-clothed swordsman, Yan Zhuang, a confidant strategist, and his henchman eunuch Li Zhu'er couldn't sit still, so they wanted to sneak out to report the news.
But he was stared at by several meritorious soldiers of the Anxi Army and hundreds of Flying Dragon Forbidden Army, so he could only sit there motionless, in a hurry.
In the whispered discussion of the civil and military officials, Xiao Quzhi continued to report: "The four leaders of this size have raised a total of about 219 outlaws, and the 280,000 pieces of weapons leaked from the arsenal have all been bought by this gang of snakes.
All of these 240,000 went to Xiongwu City, Hebei Province, which was the big stronghold of the snake's teeth; Another 40,000 pieces went to Youzhou, Kannai Province, and Huaide County, Liuhu Prefecture, which was their small stronghold. The one who sent people to attack and kill King Wuwei (Gao Xianzhi) was the snake tooth of Liuhu Prefecture.
On the one hand, the snakes of the two strongholds controlled the horse bandits on the Silk Road, blocking the roads and robbing them, and on the other hand, they formed caravans and trafficked goods over long distances to accumulate money for the snakes;
At the same time, they used the money they had to hoard a large number of soldiers, horses, and ordnance. The ministers roughly checked their accounts, and hoarded a total of 23,000 war horses and 280,000 pieces of ordnance.
The wealth and goods hoarded in the two strongholds of Chang'an, Hebei and Liuhu Prefecture are innumerable, all of which they have robbed on the Silk Road, obtained from business, and also killed people and sold goods in Dugi Province in Guannei! According to rough estimates, it adds up to four or five million! ”
An Lushan's heart is dripping blood! Fucking Xiao Quai, this dog thief, is simply a robber! Where does Snake Fang have so much money!
Most of this money is their own legal income, such as the tax production of Hebei, such as the regular caravan business.
Now that Xiao Quai, a dog thief, touches his red mouth and white teeth, he has become the stolen money of the snake teeth. It's just robbing yourself of your own money.
But he can't refute it yet, otherwise the other party only needs to say: "Good nephew, didn't you say that you were stupid and didn't know anything about snake teeth?" So how do you know that Snakefang doesn't have that much money? "I was speechless, and I begged for my own hardships.
An Lushan was so angry that he trembled all over, but many ministers were unspeakably happy.
Li Longji spoiled An Lushan to the limit, naturally, An Lushan flew high, except for Li Linfu, everyone else had been insulted, bullied or despised by An Lushan. Now seeing An Lushan deflated, these people feel extremely happy.
Li Longji was angry and shocked: "There are so many? ”
Xiao Quzhi took out a letter and affirmed: "According to the news that the minister has gotten, I'm afraid there will be a lot more." This is the detailed information that the minister has discovered, please give an order to Your Majesty, and the minister can immediately send someone to arrest all the snake teeth in Chang'an City and bring them to the front of the emperor, and Your Majesty can personally interrogate them! ”
Li Longji took over the song from Gao Lishi, still shocked and angry. What was surprising was that Xiao Quai's writing process was sparse, and he began to plan to eradicate the snake's teeth as soon as he arrived in Chang'an, and he also got the support of the Persians of Liquanfang Persian Hu Temple.
It is said that the snake tooth believes in Zoroastrianism, so it has close contacts with the Persian Hu Temple, and secretly woos more than a dozen Hu monks. As a result, as soon as Xiao Qu's illness arrived, these Persians immediately obeyed Xiao Qu's illness.
The ten Hu monks took advantage of the situation to join the snake tooth, and pretended to promise to help the snake tooth steal the holy relics of the Persian Hu Temple, the holy flame platform, in exchange for the trust of the snake tooth leader, but in fact, they secretly spied on Xiao Quai.
Xiao Qu's illness has endured so far, and he only waited for Gao Xianzhi to arrive before he suddenly launched. This plan, this scheming, is simply scary, who knows if he has planned himself? Li Longji's jealousy of Xiao Quai's illness instantly increased a few points.
What is angry is that what the snake teeth have done, pile by pile, is really outrageous! In the past few years, eighty percent of the major cases that have occurred in the vicinity of Chang'an, Guannai, and Dugi Province have been done by this group of snake teeth, and even the former four town jiedu envoys are suspected to have been killed by snake teeth.
The two people who were finally tracked down also made Li Longji extremely angry, one was Ashina Chengqing, a descendant of the Turkic royal family and the chief of the Turkic tribe in Yingzhou; One is Kang Shennu, the chief of Hu, the six states of Youzhou.
The tribe of the two had launched a rebellion before, and after quelling the rebellion, they were forgiven by themselves, but they didn't expect that after decades, more than ten years, they would still be dead and want to start a rebellion again. It's really unbearable!
Li Longji did not hesitate at all, and said loudly: "Yes." Xiao Qing, go arrest! ”
Xiao Quzhi laughed, came to the side of the Danfeng Gatehouse, and said loudly to Bai Xin, Yang Nan, An Baozhen, Nan Jiyun, and the four hundred Flying Dragon Forbidden Army who were already ready to go in the square:
"Go ahead, arrest as planned, but there is resistance, and there is no mercy! I don't want to escape one, and bring the four leaders Kang Heinu, Sun Sancao, He Tietou, and Shi Murong here! ”
The four of them each led a hundred flying dragon forbidden troops and immediately roared away, and on the way, there were dozens of Xiao Quai's personal guards, as well as Linghu Liuyun with more than a dozen famous Louguan Taoist priests to join.
Of course, Xiao Quzhi knew that the four leaders and more than a dozen of their cronies should have been captured by Saruman and them by now. Now the Snake Fang's stronghold in Chang'an is leaderless and unprepared. I am well prepared on my side, and I should be able to wipe out all these snake teeth if I have a plan or not.
After Xiao Qu gave the order, he came to the kneeling An Lushan again, and bowed to Li Longji: "Your Majesty, then Ashina Chengqing secretly hoarded so many weapons in an attempt to rebel.
The minister asked for orders to lead the army, go to quell the rebellion, capture Ashina Chengqingsheng alive, and sacrifice it to His Majesty; Destroy all the tribes of the rebels, and those who resist will not be killed, and those who surrender will not die and be slaves forever! Your Majesty's permission! ”
An Lushan was suddenly frightened, if this Xiao Qubing led the troops to Hebei to arrest Ashina Chengqing and his subordinates, then he would either want to kill whoever he wanted to kill in the army under his command?
Although An Lushan's mind also flashed, thinking that he had nearly 200,000 soldiers and horses, he could kill Xiao Qubing in Hebei, and then kill Ashina Chengqing to avenge Xiao Quai's illness, everyone was very happy.
But as soon as he thought of Xiao Qu's unfathomable plan and being so fearless, An Lushan was immediately frightened and vetoed the idea. Don't you dare to let Xiao Qu sick and lead the troops to Hebei!