Chapter 11 Killing Chickens and Monkeys
When the clouds first arrived in Chengdu, the weather in Chengdu had never been clear.
It doesn't rain, but the sky is always gray, and when you stretch out your hand, you can even touch the water in the air, which is obviously heavy, and you just stubbornly stay in the air, unwilling to become rain on the ground.
The rammed earth city wall of Chengdu is made of rammed earth, which is very different from the rammed earth city wall of Chang'an, which is earthy yellow, and the rammed earth city wall here will show an ugly pig color in the daytime, and only the death row prisoners before their execution wear pig clothes in the Tang Dynasty.
Yun Chu sat under a shed, and less than a hundred meters away from him was a high platform, on which knelt fifty-six sinners to be slaughtered.
These fifty-six people were all people whom the emperor had confirmed to kill, and no one could save them.
The eight thousand iron armor in Shuzhong were defeated at the hands of the southwest barbarians, which made the officials in Shuzhong ashamed for a long time, although Sima Zhangqiu Xiaofang of Rongzhou fought and died, his wife and children could not escape death.
Meizhou Sima He Rudao rescue was ineffective, He Rudao and the third son, beheaded.
Danzhou Sima Liu Hanyuan retreated, Liu Hanyuan and his two sons were beheaded.
In addition, the three armies folded the captain, the school captain or something, and Yang Wenhua, the governor of Chengdu, prepared a total of fifty-six people for Yun Chu to sacrifice the flag.
Yun Chu glanced at Yang Wenhua, the governor of Chengdu, who was standing aside, and said: I haven't heard of a general who died in battle and then beheaded his family.
Yang Wenhua said: Defeat the teacher and humiliate the country, kill him, and follow suit.
Yun Chu said again: These people have worked hard to escape with their lives, what's the matter, do you still want to give Sheng Luopi greater military exploits?
Yang Wenhua said: You can't defend the land and the people when you retreat, and you can't kill the enemy to serve the country when you advance, kill them!
Yun Chu didn't talk to him anymore, slowly got up and came to the high platform, looked at Zhang Qiu Xiaofang's eighteen-year-old eldest son and said, "Do you think you're doing your best?"
Zhang Qiu Xiaofang's eldest son, Zhang Qiu Xianliang, said: I heard that the corpse of my father was eaten by the barbarians, and the barbarians did not eat people in the past, if they didn't hate my father very much, they would definitely not do this evil thing.
Yun Chu nodded, and came to Meizhou Sima He Rudao again and said: Do you think Zhang Qiu Xiaofang did his best?
He Rudao said sadly: Sin will be dragged in Luchuan by the 7,000 people led by the master of the Silver Wind Cave, Ma Lai Aqu, Luchuan and Jiangchuan are only two miles apart, Sin will fight desperately for two days, and Zhang Qiu Xiaofang is also fighting fiercely on the other side,
Yun Chu came to a brigade commander without making a sound and said: You are the former army overseer, and the soldiers of the first brigade were killed, why do you exist alone?
is about to be beheaded, and the brigade commander said boringly: God doesn't accept it.
Yun Chu asked the executioner to tear open his pig clothes, glanced at the two terrifying scars on his chest that had not yet fully healed, and then looked at his smooth back, nodded and said: The battle is quite brave.
After that, he pointed to the rest of the lieutenants, captains, regimental commanders, brigade commanders, and executioners who immediately stepped forward and tore open their clothes, but anyone who had not healed wounds on his body was dragged aside, but anyone who had no scars on his body continued to stay on the platform.
Yun Chu finally came to the state Sima Liu Hanyuan and said: You are the most deserving of killing, say a reason for me not to kill you.
Liu Hanyuan first glanced at Yun Chu suspiciously, and then lowered his head in frustration, but his gaze inadvertently swept over Yun Chu's extremely uncomfortable left foot, and he was stunned for a moment, and then looked at the position of Yun Chu's toes, and found that Yun Chu's toes were pointing at Yang Wenhua, the governor of Chengdu.
It is said that the wisdom of people before death is outstanding, and he roared loudly without thinking about it: "Boss, the guilty minister is wronged-
Yun Chu said with satisfaction: You were wronged there, who wronged you again?
Liu Hanyuan said loudly: Marshal Qiyu, the criminal minister was originally a promoter, and his duties were originally for the use of the herdsmen of the Son of Heaven, this Yang Wenhua knew that the criminal minister was not familiar with military affairs, but because the former Sima Yang Wenyu was impatient to fight hard in the mountains, this Yang Wenhua withdrew his brother Yang Wenyu, and insisted on promoting the small promoter of the criminal minister to Sima, appointed the day before, and ordered the criminal minister to go to Tongrup River to take office the next day.
Dashuai, the criminal minister was wronged, it was less than three days after he arrived in Tongyi River, and the barbarian Wangjiang Cave Master Manlong led the sixteen cave masters to kill him.
The criminal minister ordered to fight, but helplessly, the soldiers under his command saw that the barbarians were all over the mountains, one by one
They were all afraid, and the criminal had no choice but to order a retreat, where did he think, the barbarians were chasing in a hurry, and there were barbarians intercepting and killing halfway, so the army was in chaos, and the criminal had no choice but to flee in the wilderness, so in order to save a life, wait for the marshal to come and expose Yang Wenhua's lawlessness.
Yun Chu glanced at Yang Wenhua, who was pale, and said to Liu Hanyuan: What other lawlessness does he have?
Liu Hanyuan said loudly: Corrupt the law, withhold military rations, deceive the superiors and subordinates to take the merits of the soldiers, occupy the official land for their own use, rob the women for the next Chen, and plunder the southwest merchants, destroy the corpses and destroy the traces, among them, the three caravans of the Shengluopi Department were plundered by Yang Wenhua, and the owner of one of the caravans was the eldest son of Shengluopi, so to speak, the root of the Southwest Rebellion was in his Yang Wenhua.
When Yun Chu heard this, he looked at Yang Wenhua and said: What he said is true?
Yang Wenhua held his head high and said: It's nonsense.
Liu Hanyuan said loudly: This matter is not unknown in Chengdu City, and the marshal will know it as soon as he investigates.
Yang Wenhua hurriedly came to the stage, kicked Liu Hanyuan over, and said to Yun Chu: Dashuai, noon is about to pass, please Dashuai order to punish people on the spot.
Yun Chu looked up at the gray sky, shook his head and said: It doesn't matter if you can kill people at noon, as long as there are no unjustly killed ghosts under Ben Shuai's knife, even if they miss noon, it doesn't matter, their souls don't dare to come to Ben Shuai's trouble.
Yang Wenhua said in a low voice: Please ask the marshal to execute immediately, and the lower officials will report the situation.
Yun Chu said with a smile: How much money are you going to take out to plug Ben Shuai's mouth?
Yang Wenhua stretched out two fingers.
Yun Chu Dao: Two million?
Yang Wenhua's face was like earth.
Yun Chu smiled and said: If you can take out two million yuan, Ben Shuai will personally write to His Majesty, no matter what kind of crime you commit, you can also write it off?
Yang Wenhua said with a pale face: 200,000 yuan, please be gracious.
Yun Chu sighed and said: The prince of the Yang clan in Shuzhong, when the Western Jin Dynasty, your brother Yang Bohou in Shuzhong was rich in the world, and for hundreds of years, you couldn't even take out a mere two million guan, which was really stingy.
Yang Wenhua looked at Yun Chu with a resentful look on his face and said: The great commander is in power to the southwest, and the last general is not a person without roots.
Yun Chu smiled indifferently and said: Zhenguan twenty-one years, Wei Chi Gong destroyed Shu Zhongcheng, Yao, Guo, Shi, Zhang, Ji, Li, Zhao Ba, how can you get rid of the Yang family?
Yang Wenhua heard Yun Chu say this, and he didn't know what terrible things he thought, his body fell to the ground weakly, and he kowtowed again and again: Please have mercy on Your Majesty, please have mercy on Your Majesty.
Yun Chu said to Zhang Donghai, who came over: Cut Yang Wenhua and Yang Wenyu's brothers together with those guys who fled from the battle, and the rest of the sinners will be punished by eighty rods.
Zhang Donghai agreed, and ordered the soldiers to go to work, Yun Chu slowly got off the high platform and returned to his seat, and said to Chengdu Yin Guozi, whose body was like chaff: Does Ling Yi think that this handsome man is too rude?
Guo Ziping shook his head again and again and said: Very good, very good, the commander is decisive in killing, and the lower officials are far behind.
Yun Chu's face turned cold all of a sudden, and he said in a low voice: The Chengdu Flowing Water brand has not been able to operate normally so far, this is all caused by you people making trouble behind your back, right?
In the twenty-first year of Zhenguan, although your Shuzhong Guo family has been cleaned up, in Ben Shuai's opinion, the Eguo Gong was not clean enough back then, so you are so arrogant, do you want to be cleaned up again?
After speaking, Yun Chu's cold gaze swept over a group of Shuzhong officials, and in an instant, seven or eight people's bodies fell to the ground and fainted.
Yun Chu is now stationed at Qixingqiao in the west of Chengdu with 50,000 soldiers, and no one dares to think of any other way out in front of Yun Chu, a famous general of the Tang Dynasty.
Guo Ziping said in a trembling voice: Xiaguan will order people to fully support the reproduction of Chengdu's flowing water brand to be prosperous in the past.
Yun Chu said bluntly to Guo Ziping: Ben Shuai has always disliked killing his own people, and the main reason for killing Yang Wenhua is that this person is too greedy, as long as you are a good official and support Ben Shuai to pacify the southwest, not only will you have no fault, but you will have merit.
Guo Ziping whispered: Does Your Majesty really want to do the things of Zhenguan for twenty-one years?
Yun Chu Dao: Your Majesty is exempted
The three-year tax of Jiannan Road means that Tibet is rich in the people, but I didn't expect that after Ben Shuai entered Shuzhong, he found that the people did not get rich, but you all ate your brains full of fat.
If you don't kill some people, you really can't curb the greed of your Shu rats.
Ben Shuai even wanted to suggest that His Majesty should send officials from Shuzhong to supervise the officials of the East and West once every five years.
Guo Ziping sighed and said: It's okay, so as not to make Shuzhong head up again.
As he spoke, Zhang Donghai and the people of the Chengdu Baiqi Division had already tied up the newly arrested prisoners with Yang Wenhua, plus some prisoners who escaped from the battle, and there were also enough fifty-six prisoners.
Yun Chu glanced at the incense on the table that had burned to the end, it should have arrived at three o'clock in the afternoon, looked up at the gray sky, and ordered in a deep voice: Beat the drum!
With Yun Chu's order, the heavy war drums were beaten by two strong men, knock, knock, knock...... The drums were heavier and heavier, and the drums were more hurried than the others.
The sound of the drums melted into the air, and the water in the shaking air also gathered together, and at first it only fell a few times, and when the three-way drum sounded, the rain poured down.
The executioner standing in the rain, wiping a handful of rain that covers his eyes, hears the herald's slash! With all his strength, he slashed the machete in his hand fiercely.