Chapter 55: A Great Victory (Part II)

Li Longji imagined many possibilities after Wang Ji arrived, either trying his best to quibble, or pleading guilty and begging for forgiveness, but he never thought that he would sue as soon as they met, and he also bit back on the auxiliary minister, Li Longji was a little stunned.

Chen Xilie, who was on the side, really couldn't look past it, and reprimanded loudly: "Rebel thief king, you conspire to cause chaos, kill the imperial family, steal and sell weapons, since you have been defeated and captured, you should confess and confess to Your Majesty." But I didn't want to bite the Hou of Shouchang County until now. It's really innocent to die without repentance, and I've never seen such a brazen person! ”

"Chen Xilie!" Wang Jie's eyes widened in disbelief at Chen Xilie, he was just a response insect of Li Linfu, he usually saw himself respectfully and flattering, and now he dared to loudly reprimand himself as a traitor in front of the emperor. What the hell is wrong with this world?

"You dog dare to bully someone! Have you forgotten how you stammered so-and-so before......"

"Enough! Now you dare to spill, Wang Jie, and dare to be so presumptuous in front of me! No wonder you dare to kill even my nephew and even my son-in-law. Li Longji was furious: "Palm! ”

The two eunuchs standing on the left and right immediately walked over, grabbed Wang Jiao's collar, and crackled.

"Your Majesty, the minister didn't, it's Xiao Quai's dog thief who wronged my minister, and he wants to kill the minister today!" The beaten Wang Ji burst into tears and shouted in great misery.

Li Longji waved his hand, and the two eunuchs retreated.

"What did the assistant minister wrong you? Do you still refuse to confess your sins? Your younger brother Wang Weld plotted to rebel, and asked a warlock to see if there was an emperor, and was he also wronged by the auxiliary ministers? ”

Wang Ji was stunned for a moment, as if he had been struck by lightning, he had already taken care of this matter, how could the emperor know? No wonder Xiao Qubing is so fearless today, just because he caught this one? Wang Jie's cold sweat flowed out.

"Your Majesty, that warlock is talking nonsense, it's all nothing!" Wang Jiao thought that Ren Haichuan was dead, but there was no proof of death, as long as he didn't admit it, no one could do anything.

"Anyway, Ren Haichuan has been killed by someone you sent, and there is no proof of death, right?" At this time, Li Longji was not so angry, he wanted to see how treacherous and shameless this Wang Ji could be: "Then you instructed Jia Jilin, the commander of Chang'an, to arrest and kill my nephew Wei Hui, and then killed my son-in-law Wang Xuan, and the auxiliary ministers wronged you?" ”

"The minister has no ......"

Wang Ji was terrified to the extreme, how did Li Longji know about this? He begged for help as if he looked at Li Linfu, Li Linfu knew that the emperor was really angry at this time, how could he dare to speak out to help him intercede, just made him a quick confession look, and quickly turned around.

"Hmph, it's hard-mouthed. Wang Weld stole and sold weapons and emptied my arsenal, and the auxiliary ministers wronged you? You opened the door for him beforehand, and afterwards you cleaned up the mess for him, and the auxiliary ministers wronged you? Or will you say you don't know? ”

"Minister......" Wang Ji was so frightened that he couldn't do more.

"Your younger brother Wang Weld secretly befriended the Longwu Forbidden Army, Wanqi Guoyi, raised the dead, launched a coup d'Γ©tat today, rebelled and wanted to assassinate General Longwu, and then forced the palace to hold me hostage, and the auxiliary ministers wronged you?" Li Longji's tone suddenly increased: "While Wang Jian was making trouble in Huaqing Palace, you and Xing Wei besieged the house I gave to the auxiliary ministers in Qinrenfang, and wanted to kill the auxiliary ministers, but the auxiliary ministers wronged you?" You still dare to bite the auxiliary minister and say that he wants to kill you. If he really wanted to kill you, you would still be alive until now. ”

"......" Wang Ji was so shocked that he lost consciousness and collapsed to the ground.

Li Longji said to Gao Lishi: "Lux you say." ”

Gao Lishi said respectfully: "Back to Your Majesty, when the old slave arrived at Qinrenfang, Wang Jiaozheng commanded hundreds of thieves from the Axe Gang to attack Xiao's house in a hurry, and kept saying that he wanted to set fire, but fortunately we arrived in time!" ”

Li Longji grabbed the teacup on the imperial case and threw it heavily on Wang Jie's head: "What else do you have to say?" ”

However, Wang Ji had already fainted, and the teacup smashed on his forehead and blood flowed, but he didn't snort.

Yang Guozhong seized the opportunity and hurriedly stood up: "Your Majesty, Wang Jiao still denies it in every possible way when the matter is approaching, which shows that his nature is bad, and it is really not a pity to die." But since he dared to do this, wouldn't he have no fear, and the minister saw him and the left servant just now. ”

Li Longji's face was gloomy and terrifying, just now in front of everyone's eyes, Wang Jiao asked Li Linfu for help, Li Linfu responded with his eyes, of course he also saw it. At the moment, Li Linfu said in an unkind tone: "Brother Li, you have something to say." ”

Li Linfu and Wang Ji colluded with each other to control the government, and Li Longji also knew it, especially before they joined forces to deal with Xiao Quai, and falsely accused him of wanting to support the prince and rebel, Li Longji also knew it in his heart.

If it weren't for the confession of Wang Lintian and Cao Yu Wang Weld before, Li Linfu was also the target of their troops to be eliminated, and Li Longji almost suspected that Li Linfu was also involved in this rebellion. But just now, the two of them dared to use their eyes to convey the news, which made Li Longji very unhappy in his heart, and while he was extremely disgusted with Wang Jie, he also began to dislike Li Linfu.

Li Linfu's heart sank, and he hurriedly stood up nervously: "Your Majesty, the minister didn't expect Wang Ji to be such a jackal, and the minister was also deceived by this traitor. ”

"Wang Gong Jackal Heart, how good are you. Just a few days ago, you and he repeatedly falsely accused the auxiliary ministers of secretly befriending the Longwu Forbidden Army with the intention of rebellion. Now it is he and Wang Jian who have befriended Long Wu Wanqi and Guo Yi with the intention of rebelling. After a pause, Li Longji said loudly: "Hmph, if it weren't for the auxiliary ministers this time, would you still have this head to talk to?" From now on, I don't want to hear you say a bad word about your servants! ”

"Yes, the minister knows that he is wrong." Li Linfu trembled and trembled, came to Xiao Quai, and bowed to the ground: "Shouchang County Hou, I was blind before, I was deceived by Wang Jie's traitor, and I offended you a lot. ”

Li Linfu's words were sincere, his demeanor was quite sincere, and he looked guilty when he knew his mistakes. If it weren't for the fact that he knew the fame of his honey-bellied sword, Xiao Qubing would almost believe it.

However, although he knew that this was the case, Xiao Quzhi still made a conciliatory attitude, helped him up, and said in a flat tone: "What did Li Xiang say, Li Xiang has been in charge of the government for so many years, and his prestige is unmatched, how dare he hate Li Xiang when he is sick." As long as Li Xiang no longer says that he has the intention of rebelling against him, he will be thankful for going sick. ”

Li Linfu hurriedly said: "Don't dare, don't dare, never again." ”

Xiao Quzhi said with a smile: "Even so, as long as Li Xiang no longer deliberately embarrasses the disease, the illness will naturally respect Li Xiang." ”

Except for Wang Jie, an arrogant villain, Xiao Qu fell ill and didn't want to continue to be an enemy of Li Linfu, firstly, his energy could not be used all the time on the court fight, and secondly, although Li Linfu was indeed guilty of a great crime and should be cut with a thousand knives, but unless he died and the position was replaced by himself, he would eventually make a wedding dress for Yang Guozhong.

Compared with Li Linfu's scheming, insidious and cunning, Yang Guozhong's frivolous and chaotic behavior is more harmful to Datang. Although Li Linfu is bad, he is basically a person who abides by the rules and abides by laws and procedures.

All his tricks to harm people are carried out within the framework of the law, but Yang Guozhong is a person who ignores the rules and destroys the laws and procedures. In another time and space, it was because of his selfishness that he directly forced An Lushan to rebel, or because of his selfishness, Ge Shuhan buried the 200,000 army under his command. And before that, it was because of his greed and incompetence that he had conquered Nanzhao several times, and had consumed more than 100,000 elites in the Tang Dynasty.

In comparison, it is much more harmful to let Yang Guozhong be the prime minister than Li Linfu to be the prime minister. Now that Wang Ji has fallen, and Li Linfu has expressed the intention of reconciliation, why should he not do it?

Li Linfu was a good person, and he saw the sincerity of Xiao Quai's reconciliation from Xiao Quai's eyes, and went back satisfied. However, Yang Guozhong was a little depressed in his heart, what about the united front that he said? Then he secretly thought in his heart with his own subtle thoughts, maybe the assistant minister was just perfunctory to Li Linfu temporarily. Well

Wang Ji was already caught in the cold, and he fainted with shock, and Li Longji was so angry and disgusted that he didn't want to look at him more, so he immediately made a will.

dismissed Wang Jiao from all his duties, and imprisoned Wang Jie, Wang Zhu, Wang Zhun, and Xing Wei and other key criminals of the Axe Gang, plus Wan Qi Guoyi, Cao Yu, Ge Chun, and the dozens of surviving 10,000 knights; ordered Xiao Quai, Yang Guozhong, Chen Xilie, and the superintendent Yushi Pei Mian to try the case, headed by Xiao Quai.

At the same time, the palace was seized, all family members were slaves and maids, and the property of the palace was confiscated; Xiao Qubing is still taking the lead, investigating and arresting all those involved in this case, so as not to let go of a fellow thief.

After the two Flying Dragon Forbidden Army tilted their heads and dragged Wang Ji down with disgust, Li Longji was a little tired, but for the first hero of this quelling rebellion, Li Longji still cheered up, and while several ministers were there, he decided to reward Xiao Quai.

"The assistant minister is really thanks to you this time, if you don't come to report the news, and you know the conspiracy of these thieves in advance, the consequences are really unimaginable. You've done so much this time, tell me what reward you want. ”

Xiao Quzhi said respectfully: "This matter is all because of Your Majesty's blessings, how dare the minister take credit?" No reward for the ministers! The minister just has something to say to His Majesty, and I hope that His Majesty can think about it, even if it is His Majesty's reward to the minister. ”

Well, that's shameless enough, flattering enough. But Xiao Qu couldn't help it, he was surrounded by traitorous ministers, and the emperor was too confused to indulge in pleasure, forcing him to say something against his will.

Sure enough, Li Longji was very happy when he heard this, laughed and said to the other courtiers: "Look, what is a loyal minister? The merit is high but not self-conscious, and he still thinks about the king's affairs all the time, and he is really sincere and trustworthy. Well, if you have anything to say, I should think about it. ”

Xiao Quzhi looked around at everyone, looked at Li Longji again, and said respectfully: "Please forgive Your Majesty for being bold, the minister wants to make an assumption." ”

"What assumption?"

"The minister never thought that the Longwu Forbidden Army, which guards His Majesty's thoughtfulness, would be such a combat power, the Longwu Forbidden Army is like this, and it should not be much better if you think about it." He looked at Chen Xuanli: "Old General Chen, going to the sick is not aimed at you. Instead, I want to make an assumption that such a big event happened today, and it won't be long before the whole world will know about it. Before, everyone didn't know that the Longwu Forbidden Army was like this, but now everyone suddenly knew. Please put yourself in the shoes of the Jiedu envoy of the border town, or the ordinary general of the border town or the ordinary side army, when you know that the combat effectiveness of the Chang'an forbidden army is so low, what will you think in your heart? ”

Everyone, including Li Longji, looked shocked, and their brows furrowed. I didn't expect Xiao Quzhi to suddenly talk about this, but what he said was all the truth, putting himself in the shoes of a border town festival envoy, or even an ordinary general in a border town, seeing that Chang'an was so empty, and Chang'an was so prosperous and rich, how could he not have an idea in his heart.

Seeing that no one spoke, Xiao Qubing continued: "The minister's assumption is that there are still more than ten days to go, and the team of the Anxi Army will arrive in Chang'an. Because of the need to escort more than 10,000 camels with gold, silver, jewelry, and a large number of prisoners of war, the team of 8,000 people was presented. When the minister was on the mountain, he heard the master say that the combat power of the Anxi army is the best in the world, and the minister has also stayed in the Anxi army for so long, and the combat power of the Anxi army is very well understood.

The minister dared to be sure that if it was played normally, the 1,000 Anxi army would be able to easily break the 2,000 Flying Dragon Forbidden Army, and the combat effectiveness of the Flying Dragon Forbidden Army would be several times that of the Longwu Forbidden Army and the Yulin Army. ”

Seeing everyone's shocked expressions, Xiao Quzhi hurriedly said: "Of course the Anxi Army will not do this, the minister from the Anxi Army and the Anxi Army have fought bloodily in the river for more than a month. The minister knows that every one of the Anxi Army, from the general to the soldier, is a brave and loyal man, loyal to the monarch and patriotic, and the minister can use his life as a guarantee for this! ”

"However, the minister said that if the Anxi army had a different heart this time and took this opportunity to enter Chang'an and hold the emperor hostage, what would it do? Of course, this is just a hypothesis, and of course the Anxi army will not do this. But the problem is that the Anxi army does not have this mind, it does not mean that other armies will not have this mind, in case there is a border town that has this mind, such as Hedong, such as Shuofang, such as Fanyang. They would think in their hearts, even Wang Weld and Xing Xuan, the two young people, almost succeeded with only a rabble of more than a thousand; They are sitting on tens of thousands, how can an army of more than 100,000 not lead troops into Chang'an and become the emperor himself, anyway, the name is ready-made, Qing Jun's side. Speaking of Qingjun, Xiao couldn't help but laugh.

Li Longji's face turned pale suddenly, he used to have political blind spots, because he started with a palace coup, and the entire Tang Dynasty started from the Xuanwumen Revolution of Emperor Taizong to the time when he became emperor, and almost every emperor experienced a palace coup.

Therefore, Li Longji has always only guarded against palace coups and only guarded against the crown prince, and what he feared most was the collusion between the army and the crown prince. But this coup d'Γ©tat between Wang Weld and Xing Wei clearly told him a fact, it turned out that if you want to launch a coup d'Γ©tat, you don't need the crown prince, it's the same, and it is still the name of the Qing monarch.

Li Longji felt that cold sweat was dripping down, and he heard Xiao Quzhi continue: "In fact, Chen thinks that there is indeed such an army, Wang Zhuo emptied the arsenal, and he only left a very small part of so many ordnance, so where did most of it go?" It must have been bought by a certain army! ”

Li Longji reacted when he arrived: "Auxiliary minister, I have entrusted you with full authority in this matter, and I will investigate it, and I must find out this traitor with wolf ambitions!" ”

Xiao Qu was sick and bowed down to receive the order: "The ministers are ordered, dare not be unsatisfied!" "The heart said An fat man, you are not dead now, you don't need to check Lao Tzu to know that these ordnance was bought by you as a dead fat man, and it is hidden in Xiongwu City.

Li Longji asked again: "The problem of ordnance is easy to handle, but the problem of the low combat effectiveness of the Chang'an Forbidden Army, since you have raised it, there is a way to solve it." ”

Xiao Quai's heart was overjoyed, and he said that he could wait until this day: "Your Majesty, the minister told Your Majesty before, this matter is easy to solve." It is to establish martial arts on the one hand, and start training on the other hand! ”

Li Longji thought about it for a while, when Li Linfu and Wang Ji framed the auxiliary ministers, the auxiliary ministers said this method. At first, I thought it was a good way, but unfortunately it was later mixed up by Wang Ji and Li Linfu.

As soon as he thought of this, Li Longji felt a little sorry for Xiao Quai, he was so suspicious of Xiao Quai's illness at the beginning, but Xiao Quai's illness was still loyal to him, this time not only saw through the conspiracy of Wang Welding, Xing Xuan and others, but also calmed down the chaos in an instant. So far, he doesn't want any rewards, he still thinks about state affairs, and in the final analysis, he still thinks about himself and protects his own safety.

At this time, Gao Lishi also hurriedly said: "The old slave also thinks that this method is very good, but the soldiers in Chang'an and Guannai need to practice." Establish His Majesty in Martial Arts as the Commander of Martial Arts, and then teach him words of loyalty in addition to ordinary training, and then put these martial arts graduates into various armies, so as to ensure that the army will always be loyal to His Majesty. ”

Li Longji nodded, but this matter still needed the support of the prime minister and courtiers, so he asked, "What do you think?" ”

The emperor has expressed his position, what else can they say, especially Li Linfu reconciled with Xiao Quzhi before, and now he can only support it if he doesn't support it, and he really can't find a reason to oppose it. So under the leadership of Li Linfu, these close ministers of Li Longji also showed the great goodness of this law.

Li Longji nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile: "Fuchen I remember that you once said that your greatest ability is not to charge on the battlefield, but to train soldiers. ”

Xiao Quzhi said loudly: "As long as Your Majesty trusts the minister, the minister is willing to train an invincible strong army loyal to Your Majesty, loyal to the Tang Dynasty and invincible!" ”

Li Longji laughed: "The auxiliary ministers are loyal to the monarch and serve the country, of course I trust." I have all agreed to the establishment of martial arts, and you have full authority to handle it. Everything gives you the right to act cheaply. Not only that, but the proceeds from your confiscation of Wang Jie's property this time do not have to be handed over to the state treasury, and all of them will be used to establish martial arts and military training! ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Xiao Quzhi hurriedly nodded and thanked him, and his heart was even more happy. Wang Jie's family property, others don't know, but he knows too well.

When Wang Jie's family property was confiscated in another time and space, the officials in charge of counting the grades did not finish it for a few days, so it is conceivable how much Wang Jiao embezzled, maybe it was a Heshen of the Tang Dynasty. I really made a lot of money this time, not only did I have the name and authority to train the troops, but I also got quite a huge amount of money at once!

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