Before gaining absolute overwhelming power, before gaining sufficient strength to protect themselves, those who stand up for the collective good are generally called victims by future generations.

For many years as an official eunuch, whether in the past life or in this life, Yun Chu has a very deep understanding of the fact that the eyes of the masses are blind.

Therefore, before doing a lot of things, Yun Chu is willing to take three steps back and then look at the situation to measure what he wants to do next.

The victims received nothing but a great reputation, and people remembered and praised the victims, but they never followed the examples.

It is precisely because of the scarcity of righteousness that the victims are particularly precious.

Yun Chu never felt that he was a victim, on the contrary, he was a good bureaucrat, a good politician.

Bureaucrats and politicians manipulate people's hearts, and they have always been the highest hunters and devourers in the world, and even more so the distributors of profits.

If you want to get something from Yun Chu, you must pay something, and only in this way can his contribution be worthwhile.

- "The Weakness of Human Nature"

Politics is never static, but it is constantly changing with the times, and if a person can consistently implement his ideas, he is basically not a good politician.

The Cui family thought that they had the strength to wrestle with the emperor, but after the confrontation, they found that when the emperor had become supreme, they basically had no capital to fight against the emperor.

The family is actually a huge contradiction, some hope to fight against Li Zhi, some are ready to merge with Li Zhi, and some hope to wait for the opportunity to stretch the timeline to see if the Li family can continue to be strong.

In fact, there is no right or wrong choice for each choice, it is just a choice made by judging the situation.

In Yun Chu's view, the resistance that chooses to resist is not resolute enough, there is ambition in the surrender that chooses to surrender, and the heart is full of ambition when it chooses to be latent.

So impure, not resolute, they are doomed to failure.

When Yun Chu saw Zhang Jia, Zhang Jia naturally saw Yun Chu, one was angry, and the other was in tears.

At first, it was the small soldiers who came to stop Yun Chu from approaching, and Yun Chu was drawn on the armor with a horse lance, and the small soldiers who were drawn vomited blood.

Even the captain who was extremely arrogant in front of Zhang Jia, in front of Yun Chu, lost his bad attitude, hugged his thumb with both hands and intervened in the salute: "The prince ......"

Before he could finish speaking, Yun Chu's horse lance was pumped in his face, but fortunately the wide side of the horse lance was used, not the blade, so the blow broke the lieutenant's neck and pulled his face to the back of his head.

The captain fell to the ground softly, like a beautiful dancing girl dancing a soft dance, jumping to the most passionate place, spinning and landing, and looking back and smiling, the curtain slowly fell.

The surrounding government soldiers surrounded Yun Chu and pointed their spears at him, and the horn blew loudly, but no one dared to step forward.

Yun Chu was on guard for a while, thinking that there would be a fight, but as a result, nothing happened, and those government soldiers under the command of the brigade commanders only surrounded Yun Chu and did not fight.

Although Yun Chu is a civilian official, most of his reputation comes from the army, and he is the only famous Tang general in the current army who can compete with Xue Rengui and Pei Xingjian.

The most important thing that Datang lacks is famous generals, and only Yun Chu, a famous general, gave the soldiers of Chang'an the most secure arrangement.

In the grain inns, inns, workshops, wine shops, and even gunpowder workshops all over the city, the people who worked were soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, who did not obtain Yongye Tian and Kou Divide the fields, but obtained housing in Chang'an City and wages that were not affected by the good or bad business.

The life of these soldiers was generally better than that of the peasants, because their wages were based on the standard of harvesting per acre.

In addition to not plowing the fields and farming, the rest of their treatment and obligations are the same as the previous government soldiers, who are still government soldiers, but they have become purer and more ferocious.

This is the most envied thing for the soldiers of the Sixteen Guards, Chang'an, the soldiers of the two counties of Wannian who "participated", and now they are counting the remaining days of their "participation" with their fingers.

As long as the day comes, you can go to the county lieutenant to see if you have been assigned to work there.

The soldiers of the Sixteen Guards didn't care about Yun Chu's current official position, but they were very worried that one day they would fight under Yun Chu's command.

Yun Chu looked at the captain who was facing down and landed on the ground with his back, and said lightly to the surrounding soldiers: "Let's bury it." ”

After that, he used the horse lance to provoke the captain's horizontal knife, and shook it, and the horizontal knife cut the rope pulling Zhang Jia, Zhang Jia's body quickly landed, and was caught by several government soldiers, and did not untie the rope, but someone began to pull out arrows for Zhang Jia to heal his wounds.

A veteran who looked like a brigade commander intervened in the distance and clasped his fists and said: "Junhou, this matter is beyond our means, the horn sounded, compared to General Xue, who will arrive soon, please stay for a while." ”

Yun Chu nodded and jumped off the horse, came to Zhang Jia to look his subordinates up and down, and then said: "Don't worry about going back to recuperate, everything has me, and a certain family will definitely seek justice for you." ”

Zhang Jia looked at the captain who couldn't die anymore with his neck twisted, licked his dry lips and said: "The lowly ministry is small, and the prince has no choice but to deal with the lower officials." ”

Yun Chu smiled, and then said to the brigade commander: "Send someone to send him to the hospital of the Imperial Medical Department, your skills are too rough." ”

The brigade commander pondered for a moment, and when he saw that Yun Chu seemed to be smiling, but in fact his eyes were cold, he sighed, knowing that he had no room to refuse, this company captain would kill him if he said it, and he would not care about killing him as a brigade commander again.

Immediately, two government soldiers were sent to carry Zhang Jia away.

At this time, the sun had already risen high, and the heat was wrapped in a thick bloody breath that made people breathless, but neither Yun Chu nor the jujube red horse that was bored gnawing on the trunk of the elm tree showed the slightest discomfort.

Yun Chu opened the spear in front of him with his fingers, looked at the immature little mansion soldier in front of him and said, "From that Zhechong Mansion?" ”

Xiao Bing didn't know for a while whether he should continue to point his spear at Yun Chu or answer his words, just when he hesitated, Yun Chu smiled and said, "Huizhou Zhichong Mansion, right?" ”

The brigade commander walked over and then intervened and hugged his fists and said: "Hui Junhou, it is the Huizhou Zhichong Mansion, and now he is listening to orders in the right military guard." ”

Yun Chu kicked the dead lieutenant and said, "This person's accent is not Huizhou. ”

The brigade marshal said: "I came from Qinzhou." ”

Yun Chu smiled dumbly and said: "I'll just say, if it's a local lieutenant in Huizhou, you won't be so peaceful, it seems that this lieutenant likes to drink soldiers' blood?" Can the bandits who are suppressed on weekdays receive a reward for their seizure? ”

The brigade commander hurriedly said: "It's okay, it's okay." ”

Yun Chu smiled and said, "It's okay, it's okay, everyone says so, whether it's good or not, only God knows."

The land of Huizhou is criss-crossed, with many wastelands, forests, and wild beasts, and it is already a fluke for people to have a full stomach, which is not a good word.

However, there are many male soldiers in difficult places, and you can know by looking at the armor of the men that there is no shortage of battles, and it is hard. ”

The brigade commander hurriedly said: "It's not hard, it's not hard." ”

Yun Chu raised his hand and tapped the brigade commander's armor and said, "This armor doesn't match your majestic body very well, is it ancestral?" ”

The brigade commander straightened his chest and said, "It's been four generations." ”

"Hey, your family was a government soldier in the former Sui Dynasty?"

The brigade commander said: "It can be extended to before the former Sui." ”

Yun Chu glanced at the old face of the brigade marshal who had experienced the vicissitudes of life and said: "Generation of government soldiers, you can still live to this age, it seems that it is a family history, it is not easy, I will fight with your general for a while, don't go forward, don't die on the battlefield, but in the end die in a brawl, it's not worth it."

Have a son? ”

The brigade commander turned a deaf ear to Yun Chu's words, and still replied respectfully: "I already have three sons and two daughters. ”

Yun Chu sighed and said: "The eldest son guards the family business, the second son is a government soldier, and the third son is a blind stream, this is the life of the government soldiers." ”

The brigade commander suddenly said: "It's not as good as the soldiers of Chang'an." ”

Yun Chu glanced at the brigade marshal in front of him and said: "There are very few people in Chang'an City who have nothing to do, everyone has something to do, and now, after being killed so much by you in one go, there are many vacancies for work."

However, Chang'an's work is only arranged for Chang'an people. ”

Just as Yun Chu was talking to the soldiers, a group of bloody people came out of the Lu family's house, these people were not rules, they still carried a lot of property in their hands, and they were all smiling, and they didn't have a bad mood after killing their own people.

Yun Chu got back on his horse and said to the brigade commander, "This is a group of thieves. ”

The brigade commander grabbed the reins of Yun Chu's war horse and said, "Junhou, think twice, this is not appropriate." ”

Yun Chu said with a smile: "Xue Rengui's merits are high, and this is not the reason why he can slaughter the people in Chang'an City at will. ”

The jujube red horse crashed away from the brigade commander, and rushed towards the place where the smell of blood was strongest with Yun Chu on his back.

Yunchu's horse lance was made by a master craftsman in the Western Regions, and it was extremely sharp, and when the horse's very elastic pole drove the horse's head to swing, the horse lance became a long-handled broadsword.

Those soldiers who had just finished raping and plundering came out of the Lu family's house, and they bumped into the fangs and claws of Yun Chu, a fierce beast.

The jujube red horse speeded up quickly, and one person and one horse passed through the crowd, and after Yun Chu waved the horse lance with his backhand and cut the neck of a government soldier, the broken corpse of the Lu family fell to the ground at the gate.

This time, Yun Chu was very ruthless, and he didn't give these guys who had become cannibal vultures the slightest hope of survival.

The sizzle of a horse lance cutting through leather armor is indistinguishable from the sound of cutting through the flesh and skin, and sometimes it mixes with the sound of the iron armor being pierced, as if there was a cobbler shop here, and the cobbler is working with a sharp cutter.

After Yun Chu finished killing people, he dismounted, and let the brigade commander lead people to continue to surround him, he squatted by the canal on the side of the street, picked up the water in it with his hands, washed his hands, washed his face, scrubbed the horse lance, and the blood stains on the horizontal knife.

The killing just now was more cruel, so the horse lance and horizontal knife only entered the water, and the originally clear canal water was stained red with blood, but after flowing for a while, it recovered as before.

Although there is not a single outsider here, anything that happens here has spread all over Chang'an City in the shortest possible time.

Lu Zhaolin hugged his grandfather's leg and was reluctant to leave, but he was forcibly torn off Lu Zhaolin by the old Lu to be a slave, and he was about to be sent to Wannian County Government by holding him hostage.

Lao Lu firmly believed that the Lu clan would not be purged by Xue Rengui, but there was never a guarantee that this kind of thing would be foolproof.

Xue Rengui slaughtered Xiangzhou City in Hebei, which is something that others can't believe at all, but this incident really happened.

So far, not many people know the process of the slaughter of Xiangzhou and the reason, Lao Lu only knows that after Xiangzhou was slaughtered, there was a fire, and it burned for six days before it was destroyed by heavy snow.

Just because of the experience of Xiangzhou, Lao Lu thinks that the safest place in Chang'an City today is Wannian County.

Lu Ting himself is the strongest capitulation faction in the wealthy family, and after Lu Zhaolin was sent away, he took off his hat, scattered his hair, and took the whole family to sit quietly at the door of the house, waiting for the fate.

After Lu Ting did this, the rest of the family did the same, sitting quietly at the door, and even children didn't dare to cry.

One by one is very quiet on the surface, but in fact, they are so panicked that they scratch their hearts, only when they keep hearing the news of Yun Chu's murder, they can be a little quieter, no matter what, there are still people trying to protect them.

At this time, Chang'an City was extremely weird, and the small families were still working, selling, preparing meals, and living their lives as usual.

The rich and noble families all over the city were silent, and even at noon, there were still no fireworks in the two rows of squares near the imperial city.

Yun Chu had already washed his hands, face, horse lance, and horizontal knife by the canal for the third time, but after the canal water turned red, there was no way to immediately return to clarity.

The fifty soldiers who entered the Lu clan to kill people had been killed by Yun Chu, and Xue Rengui had not shown up until now.

Killing fifty guards, even Yun Chu felt tired at this time, he wet his handkerchief and covered his hot face, and lay down directly on the stone slab to rest.

The old brigade commander also lost interest in pointing his spear at Yun Chu, and after sending his subordinates away, he sat next to Yun Chu and helped the sleeping Yun Chu drive away a strange number of flies.

Again and again, Yun Chu was allowed to slaughter his colleagues, but they were indifferent, this old brigade commander could no longer live.

Therefore, he drove all his subordinates away, leaving only himself to accompany Yun Chu, just to give his subordinates a chance to live, and a chance to get a good life in Chang'an in the future.

When Xue Rengui came to the door of the Lu family, Yun Chu had already slept for an hour, and at the moment when Xue Rengui appeared, the old brigade commander pierced the knife into his ribs, he was a very experienced person, this knife was inserted from the gap between the second and third ribs, and it was accurately pierced into the heart, without the slightest deviation.

Xue Rengui ignored the dead old brigade commander and said directly to Yun Chu: "The reason why I came late is that I hope you can run farther." ”

Yun Chu stood up, moved his waist and said incomprehensibly, "Why should I run away?" ”

Xue Rengui took out a will from his arms and shook it in front of Yun Chu and said, "I didn't kill people for no reason, I was ordered by the emperor." ”

Yun Chu asked for the gist, but Xue Rengui didn't give it to him, and said sarcastically: "I always thought that you had been a county magistrate in Chang'an for so many years, and it should be a situation where your protégé was all over Chang'an, but I didn't expect your popularity to be so bad."

Staying in the house, the left and right pavilions, the sixteen guards, the Dali Temple, the criminal department, the military department, and the official department, all know that I hold the imperial order, and I also know the content of the emperor's order, only you and gentleness don't know. ”

Yun Chu took a mouthful of cold water in his mouth, spit it it out after rinsing his mouth, and said to Xue Rengui: "This is because Your Majesty knows that I will not tolerate your indiscriminate killing of innocents in Chang'an City, so he deliberately did not tell me, so that I can kill all of you thieves who are remnants." ”

Xue Rengui said: "I am a soldier, not a thief of the remnants. ”

Yun Chu took another sip of the cold water in the kettle, muttered a few times in his mouth and spit it out again: "It's okay, from today onwards, you are, if you don't believe it, just wait, your name won't be in the biography of the prince after you die, and ninety percent of them may be crowded with the cool officials." ”

Xue Rengui thought for a while and said: "What you said is very reasonable, I have killed a lot of families, that is to say, I have offended a lot of scholars, and my reputation may be degraded after my death, which is not something I can control." ”

Yun Chu poured the remaining water in the kettle on his head, and watched the water beads dripping down from the hem of the battle armor, Yun Chu looked at Xue Rengui and said, "How about a fight?" ”

Xue Rengui shook his head and said, "Your Majesty's will has not been completed, I will not fight with you, especially not with you at this time." ”

Yun Chu smiled: "I killed a bunch of your guards just now. ”

Xue Rengui said: "These people are the people I conquered in the Western Regions and Liaodong, and their role is to help me do dirty work, and finally I killed them."

You kill them, and I'll have a convenient place here.

Why, can't you get out of the fire in your heart? Do you want me to find you some more guards to kill, so that you can vent the war spirit in your chest? ”

Yun Chu waved his hand and said, "Old Xue, you have to be reasonable." ”

Xue Rengui said with a smile: "Your Majesty's will is my greatest truth, and those people can't not take any responsibility after hurting Your Majesty and Datang, and continue to enjoy the peace and joy of Datang happily in Chang'an."

How pleasant they enjoyed on the pile of the dead, and how painful it should be when they returned, only then would it be fair, don't you say? ”

After Yun Chu listened to Xue Rengui's words, he sighed, he knew that it was such a result, over the years, he thought that he had grown, and in the same way, Xue Rengui was also constantly growing, and he had changed from a simple military general to a politician with his own ideas.

When attacking politicians, you are the most unreasonable, and others have more truth than anyone else, so Yun Chu raised his horse lance and pointed it at Xue Rengui and said, "Let's fight between the two of us." ”

Xue Rengui laughed sneeringly and said to Yun Chu: "Since you want to fight, why didn't you fight me last night, I remember that I challenged you at that time." ”

Yun Chu shook his head and said, "I didn't wear armor last night, and I didn't have a blade to take advantage of. ”

Xue Rengui laughed and said, "It's because you didn't have the courage to kill last night, right?" Today, after taking advantage of my people, I used a lot of specious reasoning to raise my momentum, and I also took the opportunity to hit my mind with the bullshit of killing innocents indiscriminately.

Yun Chu, Lao Tzu's advantage is not so easy to take advantage of, you didn't fight with the imposing Lao Tzu last night, today, Lao Tzu doesn't fight with you, you see, no one who has contacts should suffer. ”

Yun Chu looked at Xue Rengui, who was as immobile as a mountain, and smiled bitterly and said, "Can you give a little thin noodles, at least don't touch the people on both sides of Suzaku Street."

After all, all their money has been forged into bronze bulls by me to give to His Majesty, even if they are redeemed with money, it is enough. ”

Xue Rengui thought for a moment, and suddenly smiled: "Do you want to pick up what Your Majesty discarded for your use?" ”

Yun Chu shook his head and said: "Don't slander me, there are still many truths about a rich country and a strong people in it, which is not something that a dead Qiu Ba like you can understand."

In the eyes of our officials, we should not look down on the poor, let alone despise the rich, and we should not say that other people's meat eaters are despicable because they live well.

This needs to master a good degree, as long as you master this degree, it will be the blessing of my Datang. ”

Xue Rengui raised the will in his hand and said, "There is no way, Your Majesty's will must be carried out to the end." ”

Yun Chu shook the horse lance, let the red tassel under the blade of the horse lance turn, pointed at Xue Rengui and said, "Then there is no way, Lao Tzu has to kill you." ”

Xue Rengui said irritably: "If you want to kill me, come up, you always stand in place, and you want to kill me without moving, and others don't believe me." ”

Yun Chu said angrily: "Your wife is an illiterate peasant woman, and my wife is a beautiful lady full of splendor, killing you, I will die, it's not cost-effective." ”

"The ...... of the Mother"

"My Mother's ......"

So, under the eyes of a group of Datang soldiers, the two fierce generals of Datang began to scold the street like shrews.

No matter how ugly the two scolded and how they didn't save face for each other, the hooves of the war horses under the crotches of the two of them were motionless.

"Okay, let's not hurt each other's mothers and relatives, they are really innocent, we have set the atmosphere to this point, if the person who can solve the matter still doesn't come out, how about the two of us scold him together?"

Yun Chu's mouth was dry when he scolded, and he took out a kettle from his horse bag and drank some water, and came up with a new solution.

Yun Chu firmly believes that whether it is the emperor, the queen, or the ministers in Luoyang, as long as they have a little brain, they will not deliberately make Chang'an the end of Xiangzhou.

Luoyang is now as terrifying as a hundred ghosts walking at night by them, and then making Chang'an look like Luoyang, this is a bastard thing that can't even be done.

Sure enough, as the scolding battle between Yun Chu and Xue Rengui ended, a two-horse carriage with a cyan curtain slowly followed the root of the imperial city to the gate of the Lu clan.

The coachman who drove the carriage drove the carriage to a stop between Yun Chu and Xue Rengui, and a beautiful hand as white as white jade lifted the curtain of the carriage, and then revealed a white-haired head.

"After a long time, the prince has always been good?"

Yun Chu looked at the white-haired Xu Jingzong and said suspiciously: "Aren't you demoted, and you have been used by Your Majesty again?" ”

Xu Jingzong got out of the carriage with the help of the beautiful woman with a white veil on his face, first looked at the large pile of messy corpses that had been cut by Yun Chu in front of the Lu family's gate, and then sniffed the fishy smell sent by the wind from the Lu family's courtyard.

"It seems that His Majesty has won."

(End of chapter)