The Eastern Expeditionary Army captured Luoyang, Dou Jiande, the king of Xia in Hebei, died, and Wang Shichong of Luoyang surrendered.

In May of the fourth year of Wude, the Tang Eastern Expeditionary Army under the leadership of the commander Li Shimin, the king of Qin, destroyed the Xia and Zheng kingdoms, and the largest battle in the Tang Dynasty's unification war ended, and the Tang Dynasty was invincible in the entire Central Plains from then on.

However, in Luoyang Palace, there are many soldiers, tens of thousands of people, and the entire palace is besieged.

The soldiers and horses of the King of Qin, the soldiers and horses of the King of Qi, the soldiers and horses of Dou Jiande and Wang Shichong recruited by the King of Taiyuan County.

King Qin said: "Luoyang is an important city in the world, how can it be handed over to outsiders, Dou Jiande's soldiers and horses and Wang Shichong's soldiers and horses must be broken up and reorganized immediately and fall out of Luoyang City."

Although Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, did not deal with Li Shimin, compared with Li Shimin, Li Yuanji did not believe in Dou Jiande and Wang Shichong's people even more. He originally intended to support it, but Li Chengzong reminded him that if there were only the soldiers and horses of the King of Qin in Luoyang City, he was afraid that the King of Qin would come to be the king in the future. At that time, even if the crown prince Li Jiancheng ascends the throne, as long as Li Shimin controls Luoyang, Li Jiancheng's order will not be able to get out of the Tiger Prison Pass, at best, Li Jiancheng will be the emperor of Guanzhongtu.

Li Yuanji was noncommittal.

Li Chengzong said: "Wang Shichong has less than 70,000 defeated soldiers, and although Dou Jiande has 100,000 people, there are only 30,000 people in Luoyang City. Our crusade army is a victorious army, and its soldiers and horses far outnumber them. Besides, Dou Jiande has been killed by the second uncle, there are countless generals in Hebei, and Wang Shichong is also under house arrest in the palace by the second uncle, I think he is about to die. Luoyang City can garrison hundreds of thousands of soldiers, I don't think there is a need to pull them out of the city for reorganization, just reorganize on the spot. ”

"You are talking nonsense, Dou Jiande was not killed by me, Wang Shichong and I will be escorted to Chang'an. Also, I will say it again, Luoyang City is an important city in the world, I will never trust outsiders, they must go out of the city and reorganize before entering Luoyang. I will hand over this matter to Qin Qiong and Li Shiji, and I don't need you to get involved. Li Shimin said with wide eyes.

Li Chengzong did not admit defeat, took out the holy decree and said: "I am the Luoyang Xuanfu envoy appointed by the emperor's grandfather, and I have the right to supervise Luoyang's military affairs. I will personally be responsible for the disbandment and reorganization, I have borrowed Wei Zheng, Wang Gui and others from my father, and the King of Qin only needs to recuperate and return to Chang'an in a few days. ”

"Are you going to fight me?" Li Shimin scolded loudly.

Li Chengzong was frightened, he was still afraid that Li Shimin would be mad.

Suddenly, Shan Xiongxin held Li Chengzong's shoulder, Li Chengzong looked back and saw that a group of generals, including Xue Wanche and Shan Xiongxin, were looking at him.

Li Chengzong's teeth were about to burst, and he said with a red face: "I am the Xuanfu envoy of Luoyang, and I will take care of the military affairs in Luoyang." If King Qin is not convinced, he can play a copy of my book. ”

With his hand pressed on the horizontal knife, Li Shimin looked like he was about to explode.

Li Yuanji suddenly stood up and said: "Why bother, what the second brother said is right, Chengzong also has his own responsibilities." I don't think it's as good as this, you each transfer 50,000 people to the outer city, and then the remaining people in Luoyang City should be reorganized and cultivated, and then the soldiers and horses inside and outside the city will be replaced in a few days. What do you think?"

"I'm not against that." Li Chengzong said first, joking that he was about to kill, so let's take a step back! Now is not the time to play with Li Shimin.

Li Shimin thinks that the cost of turning his face now is too great, although he has a great victory and has many generals, but he may not be able to stand the joint efforts of Dou Jiande and Wang Shichong's subordinates, and then look at Shan Xiongxin, who is staring at him with an angry face, and his heart is even more bottomless.

"Just do it." Li Shimin said helplessly.

Cheng Yanjin and Wei Chigong received a death order, except for the emperor himself, no one could approach the Luoyang Mansion.

Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui were so anxious that they were sweating in the treasury, they didn't understand how such a large Luoyang treasury had so little property, according to the records in the account books, the existing property was less than half.

Du Ruhui said: "I don't think there is any need to turn it over, I must have let the king of Taiyuan take the first step."

Fang Xuanling shouted anxiously: "What about the evidence? I also know that Li Chengzong moved his finances away, but there is no evidence!"

Du Ruhui said: "Don't worry, think about how many people Li Chengzong was around in Luoyang at that time?" Someone must have helped him if he wanted to swallow the property. ”

Fang Xuanling thought about it and said, "Wang Shichong?"

Du Ruhui said: "As long as this is possible, you will know if you catch him for trial."

When Li Shimin, the king of Qin, heard that the two had reported, he immediately recruited Wang Shichong.

Li Shimin asked, "Where did you hide the things in the Luoyang Mansion Treasury?"

"Wronged! I have never touched those belongings, and the king of Taiyuan can testify for me. Wang Shichong sobbed aggrievedly.

Li Shimin said angrily: "You really don't shed tears when you don't see the coffin, the king of Taiyuan County can't save your life now, and he is talking nonsense with me in circles, and I immediately scraped you alive."

Wang Shichong was still crying, but when he heard this, he suddenly burst out laughing.

"What are you laughing at?" Li Shimin was puzzled.

Wang Shichong said with a smile: "The king of Taiyuan County told me that you just killed Dou Jiande, and you will never kill me now, so I don't have to be afraid of your threat."

"What? Do you think you should believe the words of a yellow-mouthed child?" Li Shimin's eyes were full of murderous aura.

Wang Shichong said: "I don't believe him, but I believe what he says." You Li Shimin boast that you have both virtue and talent, but I heard that your virtue has been greatly damaged in recent months. first refused to save the refugees who defected to you, and then poisoned Dou Jiande, who refused to accept your surrender. Now because I don't know the whereabouts of your wealth, you disobey the holy decree and want to kill me, of course you can do it, but how can you block the mouth of the people, and where is the prestige of your King Qin?"

Li Shimin was no longer angry, and said with a gloomy smile: "You said well, I really can't kill you." Then I won't kill you, I'm going to make your life worse than death. ”

Seeing that King Qin's guards were about to pull him out with one hand and one foot, Wang Shichong roared and shouted, "What are you going to do, what do you want to do?"

Li Shimin said: "It's just chopping off your hands and feet, don't worry, I guarantee that you won't die."

Wang Shichong scolded Li Shimin for being a despicable villain, and when the shiny knife was raised at the end, Wang Shichong was still soft.

"I said, I'll tell you the whereabouts of those belongings, you can spare me!" Wang Shichong cried.

Li Shimin said: "Can you be more cheap, you have to force me to be punished."

Wang Shichong took Li Shimin to an abandoned courtyard and opened a secret passage.

Fang Xuanling said after reading it: "That's right, it is indeed the thing recorded by the Luoyang Treasury."

Li Shimin kicked Wang Shichong away and told him to get out.

Wang Shichong dared to delay, and fled to Li Chengzong's mansion with a twist.

Li Shimin was ready to take out these belongings and reward the Eastern Expeditionary Army. Unexpectedly, not much of the property was moved, but the generals under him arrived first.

Li Shimin was still puzzled and asked, "Why did you come here?"

The generals looked at each other, and finally Qin Qiong stood up and said: "Some people say that His Royal Highness the King of Qin secretly swallowed the property of the Luoyang Mansion and wanted to keep it for himself, so he asked me to come here and catch the stolen goods."

After Qin Qiong finished speaking, she hurriedly retreated, not daring to look directly at King Qin.

Li Shimin said: "First move all the belongings back to the Luoyang Mansion Treasury and tell the soldiers to distribute the rewards tomorrow."

The backward information station of this era has made Li Chengzong pick up a lot of cheap, as the so-called three people become tigers, no matter what you do, as long as you find hundreds and eighty people to talk about, you will definitely be able to turn him into a real.

Of course, the soldiers of the Eastern Expedition were happy to receive the silver taels, but one by one they did not think of the good of the King of Qin, because the King of Qin embezzled property and was caught red-handed.

There are no less than a dozen versions of this kind of rumor, but each version is quite realistic, which makes people despise King Qin's shameless behavior after listening to it.

Li Shimin knew that it was useless to say anything now, and he was tricked by Li Chengzong's design again, this time he didn't hide well, and a layer of skin was about to be peeled off by him.

Li Shimin said: "Catch the people who spread the rumors and put them all to death."

Also, Li Shimin said: "It is forbidden for everyone to spread this matter in the barracks anymore."

The eldest grandson Wuji said: "Only half of Luoyang City is in our hands, and the other half is in Li Chengzong's hands. King Qin, do you think we're going to do something?"

"No, I think the holy decree of the father and the emperor will arrive in the past two days, and Luoyang will soon have an answer."

"Yes."

Li Shimin knew that the financial affairs of the Luoyang Mansion Treasury would definitely be exaggerated and spread to Li Yuan's ears, and according to Li Yuan's temperament, he must have thought that he was secretly raising money and had other plans. Therefore, Li Shimin has concluded that Luoyang City will fall into the hands of the prince and his son.

It's just that things haven't reached the last step yet, and Li Shimin still doesn't want to give up!