Chapter 582: Chengdu High Case
readx; In Chengdu Nanming Palace, a eunuch hurriedly walked into the palace, came to Li Heng's imperial study, and reported in a low voice: "Your Majesty, Gao Xianzhi is here." Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info”
"Announce his audience!"
During this time, Li Heng's mood was extremely bad, and the two major blows of sending troops to attack Jingzhou and the loss of Hanzhong put the Southern Tang Dynasty in an extremely passive strategic situation, especially the loss of Hanzhong made Chengdu up and down in an extreme crisis, but the real crisis was not a strategic passive crisis, but a psychological crisis, the Southern Tang army and the people were afraid of Li Qing'an like a tiger, and the Anxi army took Hanzhong within two days, which caused a strong impact on the Southern Tang army, and even a wave of soldiers fled, The civil and military people of the Manchu Dynasty talked about Li Qing'an's change of color, so that no one said a word when they discussed the recovery of Hanzhong.
This sense of fear includes Li Heng himself, although he keeps saying that he wants to recover Hanzhong and Guanzhong, but in fact he doesn't have the guts, he doesn't have the courage, he only wants to be able to rule the river with the Northern Tang Dynasty, and he has a trace of luck that the two sides are at peace.
This is only externally, but internally he is unambiguous, military power, this is the most unambiguous thing for Li Heng, but it is a pity that this trip to Jingzhou, his son still failed to complete the established deployment, killing Xi Yuanqing, Zhao Chongjun and Jia Chongjun, these three people still hold military power in the Jiannan Army, but one thing has succeeded, that is, Gao Xianzhi's sphere of influence has been compressed to 30,000 people, and most of the Jiannan Army has been under the control of the prince Li family, Xi Yuanqing and other three generals will stay in Yiling, although they have not completely uprooted Gao Xianzhi's power, At least now he is not as taboo against Gao Xianzhi as he used to be.
After a while, Gao Xianzhi hurriedly walked into the imperial study, bowed down and saluted: "Minister Gao Xianzhi sees His Majesty the Emperor!" ”
Li Heng didn't say anything, but his face fell, Gao Xianzhi dared not to bow down, hum! Does he still think he needs him as much as he did before?
Gao Xianzhi stood there for a long time, but he didn't hear Li Heng's reply, he secretly felt a kind of bad in his heart, and said: "Minister Gao Xianzhi see Your Majesty the Emperor!" ”
Li Heng finally spoke, he glanced at Gao Xianzhi coldly, and said, "General Gao, what does he want to see me?" ”
"Your Majesty! The minister was still the last request, and the minister was not in good health, so he begged His Majesty to let the minister go home to recuperate. ”
"Where are you going to recover?"
"The minister has a farm in Shuzhou, and the minister plans to go home and plow!"
"Zhuangtian!"
Li Heng sneered and said, "Is it the fertile land at the foot of Wangyu Mountain, which covers an area of 3,000 acres?" ”
Gao Xianzhi's forehead was a little sweaty, and Li Heng asked him what he was doing here? A bad omen was born in his heart, and he had to bite the bullet and say, "Exactly! ”
"But I don't seem to have ever rewarded you with such a large farmland, and your Yongye field should be in Anxi, so I'm a little confused, how did you get this farmland? You explain it to me? ”
At this time, Gao Xianzhi's back was already soaked, he completely understood what Li Heng wanted to do, Li Heng didn't want him to retreat at all, he wanted to kill people, he wanted to get rid of him by borrowing the matter of land, Gao Xianzhi's heart was sad, the cunning rabbit died, the lackey cooked, if he hadn't gotten rid of Li Wan at the beginning, would he have Li Heng today's throne?
He originally thought that Li Heng would be a little better than the old emperor Li Longji, but now it seems that Li Heng is more ruthless and vicious than his Lao Tzu, and the rumors that Li Heng killed his father are very likely to be true.
Under Li Heng's sharp sword-like gaze, Gao Xianzhi gradually straightened his waist, and he suddenly understood, if Li Heng wanted him to die, it would be useless for him to pray in every possible way, he said indifferently: "Back to Your Majesty, the minister's Zhuangtian was given by the first emperor, at the court meeting on the fifth day of December last year, Your Majesty can go to check the records of the court meeting at that time, and the minister does not dare to say anything." ”
"Really? But I've already checked, last year the emperor only rewarded you with 1,000 acres of fertile land, but now you are 3,000 acres of fertile land, how did the 2,000 acres of fertile land come from? ”
Speaking of this, Li Heng's tone was no longer yin and yang, but extremely stern, "You say! Where did those 2,000 acres of fertile land come from? ”
"Weichen doesn't dare to bully the king, those two thousand acres of fertile land ......"
Before he finished speaking, he 'brushed' the ground, and Li Heng threw a piece of holy decree in front of him,"
You can see clearly, is this a thousand acres of fertile land, will I wronged you? ”
Gao Xianzhi saw that Li Heng actually threw the holy decree of his father Li Longji in front of him, like throwing a piece of waste paper, his heart was desperate, Li Heng actually trampled on the will of the first emperor so much, he didn't need to look at him to know, it must be thousands of acres of fertile land, and the word 'three' in front disappeared.
At this time, he also let go, and stiffened his neck and said: "The minister is not guilty!" ”
"Not guilty?"
Li Heng sneered in a series of words: "It's not up to you to decide whether you are guilty or not, it's not me who has the final say, Datang has a law, whether you are guilty or not should be judged by the law, come on!" ”
Several big men suddenly appeared from behind Li Heng, surrounded Gao Xianzhi, Li Heng glanced at him, and said: "Take this person down, and the three divisions of the Punishment Department, Dali Temple, and Yushitai will be tried, and I will never protect him!" ”
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The news of Gao Xianzhi's arrest and imprisonment spread all over Chengdu the next day, and the charges were very clear, forcibly occupying the land of the good family, and the third division was tried, and the people of Bashu all applauded.
However, many officialdom were secretly frightened by Li Heng's manipulation, not only to get rid of the threat of military power, but also to give an explanation to a large number of landless peasant households, and to alleviate the violent contradictions caused by land.
Chang'an City, the sunset in late autumn smeared Chang'an with ten thousand golden yellow, there was already a bit of chill in the air, several men on horseback entered the Mingde Gate in the dust, Chang'an's prosperity and picturesque ladies did not have any attraction to them, they were worried, inquired all the way, and came to the gate of Xingdaofang Zhao Wangfu, a middle-aged man led by a middle-aged man stepped forward to the soldiers guarding the door and said: "We are the family of the girl from Gaowu, bring her a letter from Chengdu, does she live here?" ”
"Wait a minute!"
The soldier looked at them, then turned and went into the house, and after a while, Gao Mist, dressed in a bright red dress, ran out like a gust of wind, and asked urgently, "Where are they?" ”
"Fog Niang!" The middle-aged man saw Gao Wu and greeted her loudly.
"Uncle Qi!"
Gao Wu was stunned for a moment, hurriedly walked down the steps, stepped forward and asked nervously, "Is something wrong?" ”
This Uncle Qi's name is Qi Sheng, and he has always been her father Gao Xianzhi's personal personal military captain, and the few people next to her are her father's personal soldiers, they should be guarding her father's left and right, why did she come to Chang'an, she had an ominous premonition in her heart.
Qi Sheng sighed, took out a letter and handed it to Gao Wu and said, "This is a letter from Madame to the girl, take a look at it!" ”
Gao Wu hurriedly opened the letter, and she was stunned when she saw only half of it, the letter paper quietly fell from her hand, and she couldn't believe what she was seeing.
Qi Sheng picked up the letter paper, handed it back to her, and said: "Girl, the old general has been sent to the prison of Dali Temple, and now the emperor does not dare to kill the old general immediately, because he wants to see the reaction of the old general's old department, but according to the news we got by bribing Dali Temple Cheng with a lot of money, the emperor is very likely to kill the old general directly in prison after the incident has subsided a little, and then said that he committed suicide in fear of crime, girl, the situation is critical!" ”
Before he could finish speaking, Gao Wu hurriedly asked, "Then did you go and tell General Xi and General Zhao about them?" ”
"We've already had people go."
Qi Sheng shook his head and said gloomily: "But we are very worried that General Xi and they will not rebel, it's not that they don't dare, but the old general won't allow them to rebel, they are not strong enough, but we know the old general, and the old general will never involve his subordinates to rebel for themselves....."
Speaking of this, Qi Sheng hesitated for a moment, and then said: "We think that the only person who can save the old general is the girl." ”
"Me? Of course I want to save my father, but how can I save it? Teach me! ”
Qi Sheng looked at the soldiers guarding the door not far away, and said in a low voice: "The girl can't be saved, but Li Qingan can, does the girl understand?" ”
"Him!" There was a hint of confusion in Gao Wu's eyes, but soon her gaze became clear.
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Li Qing'an has learned about Gao Xianzhi's imprisonment through Chengdu's flying pigeon biography, it can be said that this matter is in his expectation, with his understanding of Li Heng, he knows that Li Heng will never tolerate Gao Xianzhi to continue to exert influence in the army, in the early years of the killing of Li Wan and Yang Guozhong, Gao Xianzhi was already at home at that time, but he was able to raise his arms and shout, and immediately regained military power, although that incident made Gao Xianzhi highly appreciated by Li Longji, but for Li Heng, it was undoubtedly a nightmare for him, Gao Xianzhi could seize power and kill Li Wan with a call, You can also seize power and kill Li Heng in the same way.
Gao Xianzhi's fate was already doomed the moment he seized power, Li Longji may not care with his status as an old emperor, but for the successor to the throne, no king can tolerate such a retired general.
Li Qingan also sent someone to hint at Gao Xianzhi and suggested that he could come to the Northern Tang Dynasty, but Gao Xianzhi responded with silence, which made him helpless.
At this time, Li Qing'an reviewed some major government affairs from Anxi in the study, including the completion of the basic construction of Tang Zhidao and the resettlement of 200,000 new immigrants arriving in Anxi, these two things are the most important events in Anxi in recent years, and they have been concerned by him for a long time, and now they are coming to an end, which undoubtedly makes him breathe a long sigh of relief, but he is more concerned about whether the Anxi political affairs hall has been resettled in accordance with the laws of Anxi, and whether there has been favoritism and corruption. But as time goes by, can the officials in Anxi still maintain their initial vitality and integrity, he believes that Wang Changling has no problem, but what about Pei Mian? Do they, the officials who went from Hexi, insist? He was very worried.
At this moment, Gao Miri's voice suddenly came from outside the door, "Shichiro, can I come in?" ”
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(To be continued)