Chapter 25 Quelling Civil Strife
Although Xu Qing is accompanied by several stunning beauties in Shuguang Group, full of happiness, in fact, danger is always with him, and he has never left him for a day. Because he had a deep grudge with Cui Zhenhai, the second son of Cui Zhenhai, the former No. 2 person of the Black Wind Ridge bandit group. Cui Meng has had a crush on his cousin Yang Ziyan for many years, Xu Qing is not satisfied with Yang Ziyan's love, and he has a hot fight with Li Xiuer, Sun Jieyu, and Jinchi Jinzhu, and he complains about the woman he loves.
Cui Meng was the leading figure among the young generals in Heifengling before Xu Qing became the leader of the Heifengling group, and since his eldest brother died in the battle against the encirclement and suppression of the Tang Army, he was the leader of the young generals of the Heifengling bandit group, with 500 troops. Xu Qing was secretly annoyed that Cui Zhenhai played two-faced tricks and remained neutral when Yang Ziyan gave way to him, and did not reuse Cui Zhenhai after the establishment of the Shuguang Group, the former No. 2 person of the Heifengling Group, military advisor and law enforcement elder, Yang Ziyan's own uncle, and only got the official position of a battalion commander. Cui Meng was cleared out of the old Sui army by Xu Qing and put into the Ma Gang to be a petty official for him.
Yang Yi, the second leader of the former Heifengling bandit group, Luo Huiliang, the third leader, and Yang Xiongcai, the fourth leader, were all expelled from the power center and assigned to the horse gang and inn as petty officials because they took the lead in opposing Xu Qing as the big boss of the Heifengling bandit group.
Cui Meng contacted Yang Yi, Luo Huiliang, and Yang Xiongcai and reached an agreement on launching a mutiny and overthrowing Xu Qing, but there was no agreement on how to deal with Yang Ziyan after the mutiny was successful, and who would be the president of Shuguang Group and the head of the mighty dart bureau. After successfully contacting his accomplices, Cui Meng persuaded his father Cui Zhenhai to rebel, overthrow Xu Qing, and replace him. Cui Zhenhai was not only not persuaded by his son, but also scolded his son, scolding him for not knowing current affairs, Xu Qing's prestige is high, and he has sought a lot of benefits for his subordinates, and is deeply supported by his subordinates. Therefore, Cui Zhenhai wants to take the road of saving the country with a curve, and let his naturally beautiful daughter Cui Ling join the women's dart master camp, close to Xu Qing, with her appearance, with Xu Qing's grace and affection, sooner or later she will fall in love with Cui Ling. As long as Cui Ling marries Xu Qing, Cui Zhenhai's father will be able to make a comeback with his daughter. Cui Zhenhai's abacus is not sound.
Cui Meng's crush on Yang Ziyan was taken away by Xu Qing, he gritted his teeth with hatred for Xu Qing, and his military power was also taken away by him, and his father was also "fascinated" by Xu Qing, and he went against his own son, and wanted to marry his biological daughter to Xu Qing, who deprived him of his father's and son power, Cui Meng's hatred for Xu Qing deepened.
On November 13, in the evening, Xu Qing returned from an inspection of the Shuguang Group's property in Zhangye and was ambushed by more than 100 cronies led by Cui Meng. Cui Meng's cronies rushed out from the houses on both sides of the road and shot at Xu Qing and his party, especially at Xu Qing.
Xu Qing didn't know that he was Cui Meng's rival in love, and he was not guarded, so he only brought Nie Hu, Zhao Tuozhi and more than 30 personal soldiers with him, but he wore body armor, bulletproof pants, a bulletproof helmet, and carried a submachine gun and pistol.
In a moment, Xu Qing's cotton jacket made of ordinary fabric worn outside the body armor was shot through more than a dozen holes by the rain of arrows, which was very scary.
Xu Qing was caught off guard, except for Zhao Tuozhi and Nie Hu, nearly half of his men were killed or injured.
Xu Qing was furious, and he didn't care about saving bullets, so he strafed with a submachine gun, killing a large number of enemies in an instant. Cui Meng saw Xu Qing's martial arts in the world, and the arrows fell to the ground one after another, but he was unharmed, his weapons were evil and powerful, and the power was amazing, he regretted not listening to his father's words, and quickly took people away. Xu Qing killed 21 people and wounded 46 others. Nie Hu recognized that they were Cui Meng's former subordinates, Xu Qing's heart couldn't help but sink, because he secretly took Sun Jieyu and Princess Jinchi out of the Lanzhou Palace and became the enemies of Li Zhi and Wu Zetian, causing the Shuguang Group to fall into an existential crisis that has not been resolved, and the Shuguang Group has sent out civil strife again.
Xu Qing and others hastily treated their wounded, brought more than a dozen prisoners as witnesses, and hurried back to the Liangzhou Weiwu Dart Bureau.
Cui Meng committed a felony and ran home to ask his father, Cui Zhenhai, for help.
Cui Meng ignored the danger that the entire Shuguang Group was razed to the ground by the imperial army, regardless of the safety of his relatives and the life and death of more than 20,000 people in the Shuguang Group, could not understand the general situation, took into account the overall situation, and put personal grievances above the interests of his relatives and more than 20,000 people. Cui Zhenhai was in tears, kneeling down and asking Yang Ziyan to help plead with Xu Qing, for the sake of him being an uncle and raising her sisters and brothers, sparing the life of a single seedling of the Cui family.
Yang Ziyan hurriedly helped Cui Zhenhai up and said, "Uncle, what are you doing here, get up!" ”
Cui Zhenhai didn't get up and said, "If you don't promise to save your cousin, I won't get up." ”
Cui Meng tried to murder Yang Ziyan's husband's life, of course Yang Ziyan was very angry, but his uncle had the grace to nurture his sister and brother, and he did his best to assist him when he was in the Black Wind Ridge Cottage, and he should not be allowed to suffer the pain of losing his son in his later years. After thinking about it again, Yang Ziyan agreed to intercede for her cousin, and Cui Zhenhai got up.
Xu Qing returned to the General Bureau of the Weiwu Dart Bureau a little later than Cui Meng and immediately interrogated the prisoners. More than a dozen captives were interrogated separately, Xu Qing promised to confess to them leniently, and resist strictly, under Xu Qing's grace and power, these dozen captives all confessed, confessing that their mastermind behind the scenes was Cui Meng, they used to be Cui Meng's cronies, and were lured by Cui Meng with high-ranking officials, and heard Cui Meng say that he had contacted Yang Yi, Luo Huiliang, and Yang Xiongcai, as long as Xu Qing was killed, Cui Zhenhai was elected as the president of Shuguang Group and the head of the mighty dart bureau, and Yang Ziyan was deprived of all his positions. They were all deceived by Cui Meng, Yang Yi learned that Cui Zhenhai was unwilling to rebel against Xu Qing, so he knew that it was difficult to achieve a big thing, so he retreated, and Luo Huiliang and Yang Xiongcai were only Yang Yi's first look, and they also broke off cooperation with Cui Meng.
Nie Hu and Zhao Tuozhi wrote confessions and asked more than a dozen captives to sign and draw them. After that, Xu Qing passed on Cui Meng to confront the captive. There is no need to confront him, Cui Meng was tied up by Cui Zhenhai, and knelt down to Xu Qing under Cui Zhenhai's order, and Cui Meng confessed his crime. Yang Ziyan accompanied them.
In order to mitigate the crime, Cui Zhenhai asked Cui Meng to confess that he had contacted Yang Yi, Luo Huiliang, and Yang Xiongcai before assassinating Xu Qing. Cui Meng wanted to protect them, even if he was executed by Xu Qing, the three of them would be Xu Qing's enemies, and they would rebel in the future, maybe they could avenge him, so he said that he did not contact Yang Yi, Luo Huiliang and Yang Xiongcai, and it was completely his idea to assassinate Xu Qing, because he had a crush on the Yang family's cousin for many years, and he couldn't tolerate Xu Qing getting the love of the Yang family's cousin, and he was also entangled with other women, so he wanted to kill Xu Qing. This is a love killing, not a rebellion.
Xu Qing showed the confessions of more than a dozen of Cui Meng's old subordinates, and asked Cui Meng to tell his old ministry that he had contacted Yang Yi, Luo Huiliang, and Yang Xiongcai, and the four of them had joined forces to rebel to explain, Cui Meng said that there was no such thing at all, and he deceived the old department, because he was worried that the old ministry would not want to assassinate Xu Qing, so he lied to them that he had contacted Yang Yi, Luo Huiliang, and Yang Xiongcai, and that the forces that rebelled against Xu Qing were very strong and would definitely succeed, and concealed from them the fact that his father opposed his rebellion against Xu Qing.
Cui Meng was bent on death and took all the responsibility on himself, Cui Zhenhai was very worried, and asked Xu Qing to summon Yang Yi, Luo Huiliang, and Yang Xiongcai to come over and interrogate them.
Xu Qing agreed to Cui Zhenhai's proposal, temporarily interrupted Cui Meng's interrogation, ordered him to be put in prison, strictly guarded, and strictly prevented him from committing suicide, and immediately sent people to summon Yang Yi, Luo Huiliang, Yang Xiongcai, Yang Siqi, and Cui Ling.
Soon, Yang Yi, Luo Huiliang, Yang Xiongcai, Yang Siqi, and Cui Ling were taken to the interrogation room of the torture hall of the Weiwu Dart Bureau. Xu Qing, Yang Ziyan, Nie Hu, Zhao Tuozhi, Zhao Gain, and Zhao Mengchen were interrogated jointly, with Xu Qing as the main trial, and Yang Yi, Luo Huiliang, Yang Xiongcai, Yang Siqi, Cui Zhenhai, and Cui Ling were interrogated separately. As long as you confess, no matter how big the crime is, you can be exempted from the death penalty, but if you are lucky and refuse to confess, once you are found guilty of a crime, the punishment will be increased, and if it is a major crime of rebellion, the whole family will be executed. Under heavy pressure, Yang Yi, Luo Huiliang, and Yang Xiongcai confessed that Cui Meng had conspired with them and wanted to overthrow Xu Qing, but because Cui Zhenhai was unwilling to rebel against Xu Qing, they thought that they would not succeed and interrupted their cooperation with Cui Meng in time.
Cui Zhenhai never thought of rebelling against Xu Qing, he had no fault, the only fault was that he was not strict with his son.
Yang Siqi and Cui Ling were completely unaware of their relatives' rebellion against Xu Qing.
So far, the truth has been revealed. After Yang Ziyan, Yang Siqi, Cui Ling, and Cui Zhenhai interceded, Nie Hu, who was already considered to be Xu Qing's henchman, had a good relationship with Cui Zhenhai, Yang Yi, Luo Huiliang, and Yang Xiongcai in the past, but after Xu Qing came, he was estranged from them because of their different positions, and he didn't want them to be executed, so he interceded for them.
If Xu Qing executes these four people, it will bring great harm to the Shuguang Group, because they all have relatives and friends who have made friends with the old department, and they have deep roots in the Shuguang Group, if they are executed, they must be connected and their relatives and friends will be eliminated from the old department, which will greatly hurt the vitality of the Shuguang Group, and maybe it will perish, if only the four of them are executed, and they will not be connected, then in the future, their relatives and friends will be friends and old friends may avenge them and bury hidden dangers.
After careful consideration, Xu Qing decided to treat these four people leniently and sentenced Cui Meng to two years in prison, and Yang Yi, Luo Huiliang, and Yang Xiongcai to one year in prison. Cui Zhenhai had no way to teach his son, and was sentenced to one month in prison and dismissed Cui Zhenhai, Cui Ling, and Yang Siqi from their posts. Cui Meng's subordinates who participated in the mutiny were sentenced to 30 sticks each, and all of them were assigned to work in the caravans and inns under the Shuguang Group in Zhangye and Yumenguan, so that they could have bowls of rice to eat, and they would not have access to sensitive information, so as not to report to the government.
Since then, Xu Qing's residence has been on increased vigilance, and his travel has been strengthened, and at the same time he has set up an intelligence department.