Chapter 33 Beat the Distinguished Guest

I saw a team appear in front of me, about 100 people in front of the road, all riding high-headed horses, wearing crimson green silver-trimmed brocade robes, leather belts around their waists, wearing oolong gauze hats, and everyone carried silver knives, which was the attire of the palace guards.

Behind them was a pavilion-style shoulder inlaid with gold and jade, carried by eight strong men, eight cavalry guards on each side of the shoulder, followed by sixteen Taoist priests, lined up in two teams, walking vigorously.

Yang Yuanqing's eyes fell on his shoulders, and he saw an old Taoist priest wearing a jade crown and a crane sitting on his head, with snow-white hair, ruddy complexion, and slightly closed eyes, quite a fairy-like temperament.

When the people on both sides saw the old Taoist priest appear, they saluted one after another, and even some older people knelt down, Yang Yuanqing asked a soldier guarding the city gate sideways, "Who is this?" ”

"This person is the chief of the Songyang Palace, and he has a life span of three hundred."

Yang Yuanqing nodded, it turned out that this person was the demon Dao that Yun Dingxing said, King Qi respected him like a god, and secretly thought in his heart, it was a little useful for this person to stay by King Qi's side.

Yang Yuanqing's mind turned, and he had a countermeasure, and immediately shouted: "Lie Yanyue Arrow Array!" ”

As soon as he gave an order, the five hundred cavalry quickly lined up in a half-moon formation, three rows in the front and back, with bows and arrows, aiming at more than 100 horseback soldiers and the old road on the shoulders.

The sudden change made the sergeants guarding the Taoist priest panic for a while, and they retreated one after another, and the people around them were even more frightened and ran in all directions, far away, but refused to leave, and gathered around the street to watch the excitement.

"Bold!"

The leader of the guards shouted, "This is the distinguished guest of the King of Qi, where are you from the miscellaneous army, do you want to make trouble?" ”

Yang Yuanqing urged the horse out and said coldly: "I am Yang Yuanqing, have you heard of it?" ”

Yang Yuanqing's reputation has long spread all over the world, and everyone in the capital knows it, the leader of the guards was stunned, he also recognized Yang Yuanqing, and secretly complained in his heart, how could he meet such a killing god, he didn't dare to provoke, and hurriedly stepped forward and bowed down and saluted: "I don't know if it's General Yang, it's a lot of offense, we are on the order of the King of Qi to escort Pan Daochang back to the palace." ”

Yang Yuanqing saw that although they were wearing the guards of the Qi Palace, the bronze medal on their waists was a military medal, not a silver medal for the guards, and there were only hundreds of guards in the Qi Palace, and there was no army, and these soldiers with military cards on their waists were obviously not the guards of the Qi Palace.

Yang Yuanqing asked, "Are you the guards of the Qi Palace, or the East Palace leading the army?" ”

The guard officer saluted, "We are the left guard sergeant of the East Palace." ”

Yang Yuanqing snorted heavily, "Do you know what my official position is?" ”

Yang Yuanqing's will to serve as the general of the left and right guards of the East Palace had arrived yesterday, but only the King of Qi and a few high-ranking generals knew about it, and these left guard sergeants in front of him did not know, and the guard officer smiled bitterly: "I don't know about my humble duties!" ”

"I have been ordered by the Holy Lord to serve as the general of the left and right guards of the East Palace, do you want to commit the next offense?"

The guards looked at each other, not knowing what to do, but the leader of the guards knew in his heart that no one dared to falsely pass on the holy decree, Yang Yuanqing was also a high-ranking official, and he did not dare to pretend to be the general of the East Palace, this was a capital crime, and more importantly, they couldn't afford to provoke Yang Yuanqing, and hundreds of bows and arrows were aimed at them in four or five weeks, so it was better to take the opportunity to step down.

He hurriedly turned over and dismounted, knelt down on one knee and saluted, "Humble Left Leader Wei Gong Cao Zhao Yue See General Servant!" ”

The other guards dismounted one after another, at this time, the old Taoist Pan Dan slowly opened his eyes, and glanced at Yang Yuanqing coldly, it happened that Yang Yuanqing was also looking at him, the two looked at each other, Yang Yuanqing sneered, and said to the soldiers: "The imperial court has its own laws, since you are a soldier of the left guard, you should not wear the guard robe without permission, and you should not take it off quickly!" ”

The soldiers had no choice but to take off the guards' brocade robes, revealing the tight-fitting military uniforms inside, Yang Yuanqing shouted again: "Return to the camp immediately, soon I will order Mao, anyone who leaves the camp without permission will have a hundred rods!" ”

He said to Gong Cao Zhao Yue again: "Go and inform the others on the left and right, after an hour, I will go to the barracks to order, and those who are not in the camp will be severely punished." ”

Zhao Yue didn't dare to disobey, he saluted Yang Yuanqing and waved his hand, "Go!" ”

More than 100 soldiers of the left guard of the East Palace turned their horses and galloped away, and the old Taoist Pan Dan's side suddenly became empty, leaving only eight people and sixteen Taoist priests, and their majesty disappeared, looking quite embarrassed.

Yang Yuanqing showed a mocking smile on his face, and when he saw that the soldiers had run away, he immediately turned around and smiled: "Brothers, give me a beating, and beat these stinky Taoist priests hard!" ”

The cavalry dismounted one after another, rolled up their sleeves and rushed up, hundreds of burly soldiers surrounded more than a dozen Taoist priests punching and kicking, poor fairy-like old Taoist Pan Dan was overturned to the ground, was beaten to the nose and swollen face, black purple, Yang Yuanqing watched the battle with a smile on the side, and saw that the fight was almost over, so he ordered his subordinates: "It's okay, get on the horse!" ”

The soldiers got on their horses one after another, followed Yang Yuanqing and left, leaving only a group of Taoist priests who were groaning in pain all over the ground, and the people around were all shocked, and actually beat Pan Shangxian, and many people wondered in their hearts, why didn't Pan Shangxian cast spells to protect himself?

A middle-aged Taoist priest helped Pan Dan up, and saw that the master's teeth were knocked out a few times, and an old life had been lost seven points, and his heart ached. ”

Pan Dan cast an extremely hateful gaze at Yang Yuanqing's back, he sighed, trembled and said, "Go back to the Qi Palace!" ”

The Taoist priests supported each other, and a young Taoist priest who was not injured carried Pan Dan on his back, and a group of people limped towards the Qi Palace.

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Yang Yuanqing had a thorough understanding of the mission of his trip, on the one hand, to control the chaotic situation in the capital, and on the other hand, to seize the military power of the 20,000 troops in the East Palace, and prevent the King of Qi from using the 20,000 troops to cause trouble in the capital.

The East Palace army is called the Six Rates Mansion, which is actually the Ten Guards Army, including the left and right guard rates, the left and right Zongwei, the left and right Yu Hou, the left and right internal rates, the left and right prison gate rate mansions, etc., among which the left and right guards are the most important, and the two guards have a total of 6,000 soldiers.

The 20,000 troops of the East Palace were originally stationed in Chang'an, but due to Yang Zhao's death, Yang Guang ordered the 20,000 troops to be transferred to Luoyang, and the army was stationed in the military camp outside the city, but the government was in the imperial city.

Five hundred soldiers were waiting outside the imperial city, Yang Yuanqing led ten soldiers to rush to the front of the military office, the left and right guards of the East Palace were in the same huge building, a central axis was divided into two halves, one on the left and one on the left, and there were dozens of officials such as deputy rate, long history, Sima, and records to join the army.

Yang Yuanqing turned over and dismounted, he looked up at the plaque above the gate, 'East Palace Left and Right Mansion', this is the place where he is about to take office, and the holy decree should arrive first.

For him now, controlling the army is the most important thing, and only by firmly grasping the army first can it be possible to talk about controlling the situation in the capital.

As soon as he walked up the steps, a group of officials heard the news and greeted him, everyone was smiling, led by two middle-aged officials, who stepped forward and said with a smile: "Welcome General Yang to his post, Shi Weihuan, the commander of the left guard!" ”

Another official also smiled and said: "In Xia Zhang Wensi, the right guard chief history, see the general of the squire!" ”

Changshi is the highest civilian officer in the army, including the resignation and succession of the old and new leaders, all presided over by Changshi, after the arrival of the holy decree yesterday, the two attendants have been resigned and went to him, and now wait for the new attendants to take office.

Yang Yuanqing smiled at everyone in return: "Has the holy will arrived?" ”

"It arrived yesterday, and the appointment of the military department also arrived at the same time yesterday, and we are waiting for General Yang to arrive, and we are looking forward to it!"

"In that case, I will take office first, and then I will talk to you about my colleagues."

"General Yang, please, go to our right guard first."

"How can you go to the right guard first, left and right first!"

In the enthusiastic laughter of everyone, Yang Yuanqing was embraced by the officials like stars and moons into the gate of the left and right guards.

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Ten days have passed since the Fengdu incident, and not only dozens of grain shops in Fengdu have closed, but even the entire private grain shops in the capital have closed, so that the price of rice has not risen and has stopped at the level of 600 Wen for rice.

Three days ago, Yang Guang's holy decree arrived, and he ordered Chang Ping to put 300,000 stone of grain and 400 pieces of rice on the market to stabilize the price of grain in the capital.

But the 400 Wen of Doumi only made most of the local families in the capital barely afford to buy food, but for the hundreds of thousands of displaced people who poured into the capital, this was still a price that they could not afford, and the government's pacification of the displaced people was obviously weaker than that of the local people in the capital, only a small amount of porridge was given every day, in addition to the government, only the monasteries were given relief to the victims.

Coupled with the suppression of the army and the hatred and discrimination of the locals in the capital against the displaced people, the dissatisfaction of hundreds of thousands of displaced people accumulated day by day, and finally broke out in the middle of the night on the day Yang Yuanqing returned.

Chang Ping is located in the north of the city, the north city is half of the Fengdu, because most of the poor families in the capital live in the north of Luoshui, so the shops in the north city are mainly to sell the necessities of life, there is no tea, peach wine, jewelry such luxury, mainly salt, rice and cloth.

At this time, there was also a depression in North City, almost all shops were closed, and the Fengdu Rice Store tragedy caused the merchants in North City to fall into a panic, transfer money and goods, dismiss their friends, and close their homes.

Only the Changping rice shop next to the gate of the North City is open as usual, Changping is a huge warehouse covering an area of nearly 20 acres, which can store 200,000 stones of grain, and is sold by the six shops attached to Changping, and the people who come to buy rice every day are lined up in a long line, each person is limited to one bucket, and the result is often the whole family and the young come together to line up to buy rice, so that the queue is several miles long.

After dark, Chang Ping closed the door, and hundreds of soldiers patrolled the surroundings, and there were thousands of people in line who did not want to leave, and stayed outside Chang Ping for the night.

At about one watch, the soldiers who were guarding the position began to change the guard, and several soldiers felt strange and gathered together to discuss.

"That's not right! Tonight, it should be 2,000 guards from Youyu to guard Chang Ping, why are there only more than 300 people now? ”

"Who knows! I heard that Youyu Houwei was transferred to Shoufeng City today. ”

"It's kind of funny! The food in Fengdu has been robbed, the gate is closed, who will go to rob Fengdu among those displaced people? Now only Chang Ping has grain here, but only three hundred people are sent, which idiot made the decision above. ”

"Shhhh Listen to the orders of the King of Qi. ”

Hearing that it was the order of the King of Qi, no one dared to speak anymore, but soon, the soldiers guarding Chang Ping heard the abnormal report and rushed to the gate of the North City.

Outside the gate of the North City, I saw tens of thousands of displaced people gathered around the gate from all directions, and the square outside the North City was full of black and oppressive people, no one spoke, and everyone's eyes flashed with a bright light of hunger.

I don't know who shouted, anger and hunger caused the crowd to explode suddenly, and tens of thousands of displaced people rushed open the gate of Beishi like a river bursting its banks, and rushed towards Chang Ping.

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