Chapter 13: The Reasonable and the Unreasonable
Xue Rengui entered the city last night, and finally entered the imperial city overnight, the White Tiger Hall of the Sixteen Guards is in the Imperial City, if nothing else, Xue Rengui at this time has already obtained the command of the Sixteen Guards with the talisman in his hand.
Last night, Yun Chu slept well, which means that Xue Rengui didn't do anything else uncontrollable last night, but just obtained the military power in accordance with the rules.
Judging from Yun Chu's understanding of the emperor, the number of government soldiers as high as 50,000, Li Zhi would definitely not hand it over to anyone casually.
Therefore, behind Xue Rengui's control of the sixteen guards and horses of Chang'an, there must be a clamping force, a monitoring force, and a person responsible for the implementation of the stop-loss regulations.
Layer upon layer, one trap on another, everyone colluding with each other and holding each other back, and finally forming a giant spider web whose strength cannot be used in one direction.
The magistrates of Chang'an City should have been frightened for a night, and now Chang'an, worthy of the target of Xue Rengui and other figures, it seems that there is only one person in Lantian Hou Yunchu.
As for the rest of the people, if the emperor wanted to dispose of anyone, the power that Jiang Tong of the Hundred Cavalry Division had in his hands was enough.
In order to calm people's hearts, Yun Chu rarely wore armor to work, and the accompanying generals naturally put on armor.
After the door of the fang was opened, Yun Chu rode a jujube red horse and left Jinchangfang.
Today's Chang'an is different from the past, there are few pedestrians on the streets, and no one can be seen on the wide Suzaku Street.
It's just that after Yun Chu appeared on Suzaku Street, there were gradually some people.
Yun Chu is like a key to open the city, wherever he goes, there are traces there, when Yun Chu deliberately walked around the city for a long time, the city returned to its former prosperity.
When Yun Chu returned to the Wannian County Office, Master Liu took all the officials in the county government to come out to greet him.
Yun Chu threw the reins of the jujube red horse to Master Liu, looked at the officials who were in a dark place, and said, "What are you doing when you come out, don't you have to sit in the hall one by one?" ”
Seeing that the county was still as strict as ever, everyone immediately dispersed, and returned to their official office in a noisy manner, and there were already people and merchants who had come to the county government to do business, and they could not be allowed to slack off.
After returning to the main hall, Yun Chu took off his armor, and wearing armor to go out was to give Chang'an people a long breath, and there was no need to return to the county office.
In April, Chang'an was already heating up, especially when he walked most of Chang'an City in armor, and Yun Chu was sweating, so Zhang Jia came in while washing his face, waiting for Yun Chu to call.
Yun Chu washed his face with cold water, and the whole person was refreshed, so he said to Zhang Jia: "Have you collected all kinds of taxes and fees on both sides of Suzaku Street clearly?" ”
Zhang Jia bowed down and said: "If you go back to the county, it will be cleared within ten days after the county government festival this year. ”
Yun Chu waved his hand and said: "Then take the next year's and the next year's together, and tell them that they will not issue invoices and will not be accounted for." ”
Zhang Jia was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and immediately said in a low voice: "County Zun, the tax is only a few dollars......
Yun Chu took a sip of tea and said regretfully: "The rules are to be talked about after all, let's get a little money back, and improve the treatment of the big guys, and the robbery of the open fire is not the behavior of the government." ”
Zhang Jia said again: "There are only 200 households on both sides of Suzaku Street, which is inevitably a little less, so it is better to expand it to all the rich households, do you think it is okay?" ”
Yun Chu couldn't help but smile while holding the tea bowl, and said to Zhang Jia; "Only collect the money of 200 households on Suzaku Street, and the rest, even if you take the initiative to send it over, you will return it to me, we don't want it, just exploit the rich households on both sides of Suzaku Street."
Zhang Jia still wanted to speak, but he was scolded by Master Liu, who stepped into the door: "Whatever the county respects want you to do, you can do it, ask more." ”
Zhang Jia immediately clasped his fists and saluted, and hurriedly went to do something.
Master Liu refilled the tea for Yun Chu, poured himself a cup of tea, sat down under Yun Chu and said, "The prince wants to protect those rich people this time?" ”
Yun Chu nodded and said: "Seriously, whether a city can be prosperous and rich, the rich households have more strength, and many, many people actually rely on working for the rich to survive."
We can exploit the rich, but we must not kill them all, if they all die, the matter of feeding the people will fall on us. ”
Master Liu arched his hand and said: "The county is wise." ”
Yun Chu said with a smile: "The rules are set by us, we must be the first to abide by these rules, even if there is a deviation, it can only be a slight deviation, even if it is to break the family, we can only put the scope of the broken family on the order of a very small number, and we must not form a general blow to them."
When I work in the future, I will grasp it according to this purpose.
There is another point, we must not make things miserable, the sky is angry and people are resentful, we must give others the least way to live, lest I Chang'an snow in June, and thunder in winter, we will be hacked. ”
After taking note of the instructions of the county honor, Master Liu asked in a low voice: "Xue Rengui came to Chang'an this time, does the county know what it is for?" ”
Yun Chu sneered and said: "The hand part of the Yingzhou incident, after the Liaodong War, the imperial court designated Yingzhou as a place for the education of immigrants from all over the world, and I hope that those immigrants will live in Yingzhou for a generation, and then officially include these people in the category of my Tang people."
As a result, some people took advantage of the fact that the people of Yingzhou were worthless and their lives were not valuable, and wantonly developed their own manpower among the immigrants in Yingzhou, and some of them were even bold, and even extended their hands to the Tieshan in Liaodong, the iron workshop, the armor workshop, and the bow and crossbow workshop.
Xue Rengui killed people in Yingzhou like a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, and now that the affairs of Yingzhou have been dealt with, he will come to Chang'an to clean up the mess, so as not to give some people a chance to take advantage of it. ”
Master Liu got what he wanted to know from Yun Chu, so he drank the tea and left on his own.
Yun Chu knew that Master Liu's words were asked for Lu Zhaolin, and Lu Zhaolin did not hide himself, so he stayed in the courtyard and waited for Master Book to return.
Seeing that Master Liu came out, he followed him back to the main bookkeeper's office, poured tea for the master book, and did not leave, waiting for the master book to take the initiative to tell him.
Master Liu sat on the chair with his eyes slightly closed, and after going through the words of the county zun in his heart again, he made sure that he had not heard the words and understood the words of the county zun wrong, so he opened his eyes and said to Lu Zhaolin: "Go to the Hucao Gongfang to help." ”
A smile appeared on Lu Zhaolin's face, and after saying goodbye, he went to Hucao with the footsteps of sending off the fast.
At noon, Xue Rengui's personal soldiers entered Chang'an City, with a full 2,000 personal guards, which is almost a configuration only available to the super manager of the Tang Dynasty.
The last time Yun Chu saw such a large scale of pro-guard troops was when he was conquering Liaodong from Li Ji.
An unpopular veteran like Liang Jianfang, with 500 pro-soldiers, is already considered an emperor's grace.
After watching the pro-soldiers and guards enter the city, Yun Chu said to Zhang Jia: "Send the fine to these people, bandits and robbers know to put dung pockets on horses when they enter the city, why don't these people care about it?" ”
Zhang Jia looked back at the bad people under his command, all of them were as earth-colored, and he puffed out his chest and said, "My subordinates will go now." ”
Yun Chu looked at Zhang Jia with satisfaction and said: "You go and tell the leader, if you don't pay this fine, don't blame me for being stingy with their rations, in short, this money must be there, if you don't pay it now, miss today, and be punished a hundred times." ”
Zhang Jia patted his chest and said, "My subordinates will put on their armor and go." ”
Yun Chu became more and more satisfied, patted Zhang Jia on the shoulder and said, "If there is a chance to be injured, don't miss it." ”
Yun Chu looked at the baskets of copper coins that Zhang Jia had just collected and said, "These money are all yours." ”
After that, he returned to Dongshi.
Zhang Jia looked at several large baskets of copper coins, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and said fiercely: "As long as you don't die, Lao Tzu will earn it." ”
When Gentleness came, Yun Chu was wearing armor, and this time he was wearing it very seriously, even inspecting every nail leaf, inspecting every bundle of armor silk, and even using a knife to carve out a few non-slip patterns under his cowhide boots.
The horizontal knife was pulled dozens of times to prevent the blade from being stuck by the tension spring, the short sword in the boots, the flying knife in the sleeve, the short crossbow on the waist, and the horizontal knife behind the waist, after they were arranged one by one, he said to the gentleness who had been watching for a long time: "Xue Rengui is killing all sides in Chang'an City, and we, as herdsmen in Chang'an, can't stand by and watch, right?" ”
Gently and solemnly nodded: "It depends on how Xue Rengui kills people, if one person makes a mistake and implicates many people, we have to protect many people." After all, Chang'an is a place of reason. ”
Yun Chu frowned and said, "If this temptation fails, you know what to do." ”
said gently: "Don't worry, you will go to court once, go to prison once, and go to Luoyang." ”
Yun Chu sighed and said, "Anyway, there are some risks this time, but the gains are too great, so I have to take a risk." ”
Said gently: "If this thing succeeds, the hearts of the people of Chang'an City will have a chance to unite together, and this risk is worth taking once." ”
Yun Chu buckled his helmet, tied the ribbon firmly to his head, and finally said to Wen Wen: "Tell Di Renjie that he should go to Luoyang to be an official." ”
Gentle said: "I will also tell Zhong Kui that if things are bad, he can take those swordsmen and get you out of prison." ”
Yun Chu stood at the door of the public hall and looked at the blazing sun of Chang'an City, and said to Wen Wen irritably: "Today's sun is really big. ”
Said gently: "The red sun is rising, and its path is bright." ”
Yun Chu said in surprise: "The river flows out of the subterranean flow and pours into the ocean. ”
Gentle said with some embarrassment: "You continue." ”
Yun Chu said proudly: "The eagle falcon tried its wings, and the wind and dust were blowing. ”
Gently dissatisfied: "I think so too." ”
Yun Chu picked up the horse lance leaning against the door, and said loudly as he walked: "Strange flower firstborn, look at the emperor." The cadres will be hairy, and there will be a man. The sky wears its blue, and the earth wears its yellow. Through the ages, there are eight wildernesses. The future is like the sea, and the future is long......"
Gently looked at Yun Chu's distant back and said loudly: "There's no need to say so much, it makes me feel cold, be careful that I refuse to come forward to save you." ”
Zhang Jia felt that he had been very careful, and tried his best to inform this group of arrogant soldiers that they needed to pay fines.
He was still beaten so badly.
It wasn't until he was hung on the flagpole by this group of Qiu Ba that he overlooked the tragic situation of the Cui family mansion next to him.
The situation in Cui's mansion, even for a person like Zhang Jia, who is used to blood, couldn't help but close his eyes.
If it was just the man who died, Zhang Jia couldn't say that he would think about how to calculate the Cui family's property in Chang'an, after all, where would this group of Qiu Ba know how many hidden industries the Cui family had, plan it, contribute a large share to the county zun, take a small share with Master Liu, and finally share some profits with his colleagues, it should also be a windfall for the boss.
Unfortunately, after seeing not only men, but also women, children, and five or six bloody white-haired heads in the piles of human heads, he immediately had no idea of making a windfall.
These people are very organized, and after surrounding a mansion, they began to kill from the front yard to the back yard, and at this time, the Lu family next door to the Cui family was experiencing the scene that had just happened to the Cui family.
"Ah, ah- you can't do this in Chang'an......"
Zhang Jia was hung very high, so he saw farther and wider, so his cry became more and more poignant.
A lieutenant standing under the flagpole looked at Zhang Jia, who was shouting, and said with a cruel smile: "Grievances for the anti-thief, it will be your turn in a while." ”
Zhang Jia said loudly: "A certain family is the county lieutenant of Wannian County, and he is in charge of the law of Wannian County, since you are killing people in Wannian County, why doesn't a certain family know?" ”
The lieutenant laughed, raised his crossbow and shot an arrow at Zhang Jia, and the crossbow arrow pierced through Zhang Jia's boot and came out of his instep with the sound of the wind.
"Ahh
He really wanted to shout "County Zun help", but when the words came to his mouth, he swallowed them alive and turned into a terrible scream.
Between the lightning and flint, Zhang Jia suddenly thought that even if the county zun came, he would not be able to control the current scene, and it was better to swallow it himself than to embarrass the county zun.
Seeing that Zhang Jia was shouting loudly, the lieutenant said to his subordinates: "People like pigs and dogs dare to collect any fines in front of their grandfathers."
Wait for this matter, and see how grandpa cleans him up. ”
The killing of the Lu clan continues, the same killing without asking for reason, the same killing of men and women of all ages, the same method of piling up human heads.
Zhang Jia watched his blood slip down the flagpole, in order to live for a while, he stopped struggling, he knew very well that the more he struggled at this time, the more blood flowed out.
As long as you can hold on long enough, maybe the county will come.
There has been no murder of the whole family in Chang'an City for many years, the thieves don't dare, the robbers don't dare, the swordsmen don't dare, I didn't expect that after the officers and soldiers came, they would dare!
At this time, Yun Chu was still on Suzaku Street, and in the mansions on both sides of the street, there were many people standing on the windows on the second floor and watching Yun Chu riding a horse slowly towards the mansion area near the imperial city.
Many people bent down to give salutes, and some fell to their knees and prostrated repeatedly.
Yun Chu didn't bring the government officials, didn't bring the government soldiers, and didn't bring bad people, so he rode a horse and walked towards the vicinity of the imperial city.
If the other party has few people, Yun Chu doesn't mind bringing some people, but unfortunately, there are 50,000 soldiers in the city, and his own manpower is not enough for Xue Rengui to swallow in one bite.
Therefore, this time, he was ready to reason with Xue Rengui and talk about the truth that innocents cannot be killed indiscriminately.
(End of chapter)