Chapter 22: The Elephant of Taizong
Seeing that today's Shouwang wanted to kill Zhao Ke regardless of everything, everyone, including Li Yi, was shocked.
Although some people heard the news today, King Shou's temperament changed greatly after the assassination, and he was a lot more perverse than the polite bookish in the past.
But after seeing it with my own eyes, I still feel that some of it seems to be more exaggerated than rumors.
Seeing that he was about to rush up to make a move again, and when several big and rough people nearby rolled up their sleeves and planned to go up together, Li Yi coughed,
"Applejack, I'm sorry for the soldier in front of me, and I can't complain about him."
Li Jie turned to look at Li Yi, bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, this person is disloyal, unfilial, unkind and unjust, he really deserves to die, Huang Chao is not sent by others, but he sent this person here, I am afraid that it depends on our attitude!" ”
Pei Che's eyes narrowed, "What does Your Highness mean?" ”
Li Jie pointed at Zhao Ke,
"This person is my Tang Dynasty rebel general, if you choose to forbear because of his identity as an envoy, it means that the Taiji Palace has the intention of seeking peace, and Huang Chao will inevitably make more demands unscrupulously, and even force His Majesty to abdicate and choose another person to ascend the throne, or drive us out of Chang'an, exile to Lingnan, and seek to usurp the throne."
He paused for a moment and continued: "And the other meaning is to let this person be sent to death, if we kill him, they will justifiably trap the entire Chang'an to death, or even slaughter the city!" ”
Pei Che was taken aback, "Since His Highness thinks so, why did he kill him in the main hall, wouldn't he fall into the trap of the other party?" ”
Li Jie sighed,
"Compared with the second point, I am more afraid of the first type, when the Tang Dynasty is really gone, it is better to show the determination of you and my monarchs and ministers to live and die with Chang'an, so as to tell the world that the Son of Heaven and Sheji are still in the Daming Palace in Chang'an, only I am the orthodoxy of the Li family!"
Wei Zhaodu stepped out of the queue, first saluted Li Yu, and then looked around at the Manchu Dynasty civil and military,
"Everyone knows that Huang Chao hates the Tang Dynasty ministers, and every time he falls into a city, he will slaughter all the officials in the city, and now you know that Huang Chao is about to come to the city, but you still have not chosen to escape, which shows your sincerity to the Tang Dynasty and is willing to live and die with Chang'an."
He glanced at Zhao Ke, who was full of surprise, and smiled contemptuously,
"Since you are all prepared to burn the jade, are you still afraid of killing a rebel? You don't have the intention of showing favor to the Yellow Nest, right? ”
As soon as these words came out, everyone kept their mouths shut.
If you intercede for Zhao Ke again, I'm afraid that they will be the next to be killed.
Zhao Ke also heard the meaning of the words, and looked at everyone in the hall in horror,
"The old man is not convinced, the emperor does not send hungry soldiers, let me and us be hungry, with less than 20,000 troops to resist Huangchao's 600,000 army, what is the difference between this and sending to death, you still have words?"
Li Jie walked towards him with a calm face,
Step 1,
"Say that you are disloyal, you lead the court and the central government, and you don't think about Jun's grace, are you loyal to the grain or to your majesty?"
Step 2,
"Say that you are unkind, you are waiting for millions of people in the entire pass behind you, did you think about their lives or deaths when you surrendered?"
Step 3,
"Say that you are unjust, Zhang Chengfan, Wang Shihui is your robe, have you ever thought of sacrificing your life for righteousness?"
Step 4,
"Say that you are not filial, traitor to the king and serve the enemy, what is the crime of your parents and relatives! Oh, it's a sin, and the sin is to give birth to such a person as you, who has no loyalty, filial piety, and shame! ”
He grabbed Zhao Ke's collar, stared at the flustered guy and said: "And people are extremely stupid, they have become the touchstone of Huang Chao's attitude to test Chang'an's attitude without knowing it, and you will take the errand of sending people to the head as soon as they do it?" Staying in the world is just a waste of food! ”
After speaking, as soon as his waist was forced, he lifted his whole person up, and with a flick of his arm, he threw him to the side of the dragon golden pillar!
"Smack!"
Zhao Ke's skull was shattered, his brain was mixed with blood and sprayed Li Jie's body, and the new clothes he had just changed into were dyed red again.
"Hiss~"
The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty all gasped, and they all felt that Li Jie seemed to be acting too abnormally, and with Zhao Ke's actions, sympathy still accounted for most of the people.
After all, "the emperor is not bad for hungry soldiers"!
It's understandable that people have grievances.
But Li Jie understands that his judgment of good and evil is very different from this era.
That's because his father was a warrior, surrounded by heavy enemy troops, he drilled through damp and waterlogged cat's ear holes, endured all kinds of diseases, and faced the same dilemma of lack of water and food.
In the face of the other party's continuous persuasion, he still held the steel gun tightly, and never had the slightest idea of betraying the motherland.
Further back, the War of Resistance, the Civil War, the aid to Korea...
Countless ancestors have proved one thing to the world with their iron-clad blood,
A real soldier can only stick to his faith and fight to the end, not a mischievous species who surrender with resentment and surrender!
At this time, the Tang Dynasty was different, since the government military system existed in name only, from the Shence army to the local festival envoys, in order to increase the number of troops, the use of the conscription system.
To put it bluntly, the entire Tang Dynasty army is based on mercenaries, except for generals, soldiers are recruited with money and food, just for money, how can there be any loyalty?
"Faith!"
He suddenly set his eyes on Li Yi, who was sitting in the middle, and an evil light appeared in his eyes, and Li Yi couldn't help but shudder.
"Applejack, what's that kid looking at?"
Li Jie's actions in the Golden Palace today did not show any attitude, which already shows his true thoughts in his heart.
Everyone present also understood that with Li Yi's acquiescence, once Zhao Ke died, there was no possibility of peace between Datang and Huang Chao.
As soon as the two brothers sang and harmonized, they smashed the small abacus of some of them to pieces, and they could only choose to stand on the side of Chang'an and fight to the end with the peasant army of Huangchao.
Pei Che lowered his head, and a hint of gleam flashed in his eyes.
"At this time, Your Majesty has the momentum of Xuanzong's prime, but King Shou has the atmosphere of Taizong back then! I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse..."
Chen Zhuo shrunk his neck and began to think about how to repair his relationship with Li Jie.
My sister controls most of the palace maids in the harem for Tian Lingzi, and that nephew Tian Wen even changed his surname, and with Tian Lingzi's surname, his ancestors don't want it, what are you still coaxing here?
When Jin Wuwei carried Zhao Ke's body away, everyone focused on the letter.
Li Yi slowly unfolded the letter paper, threw it on the blue bricks of the main hall with just one glance, and slapped the table case with a "snap".
"Yellow thief bold!"
Although everyone had a hunch that what was written in it was not a good thing, they actually made Li Yi, who had always been happy, angry like this, but he was afraid that the content had reached the limit of what he could tolerate.
Pei Che picked up the letter from the ground, swept it in a hurry, and then smiled bitterly,
"Let's take a look, what a big helmet!"
Li Jie also leaned over curiously, and after a few glances, his heart was heavy.
This is not a war letter at all, but a document to ask the emperor to pay for it!