Chapter 215: Innocent Killed
Liu Zhiyuan was unsure in his heart and asked, "My lord, what happened?" Shi Jingjiao put down the teacup, got up and walked around the room a few times, and then said, "Zhiyuan, do you really don't know or fake don't know?" Liu Zhiyuan was stunned. Shi Jingjiao www.biquge.info who brushed his eyes with a stern gaze and said, "There is going to be a big mess." A few days ago, the imperial court had made peace with the Khitan and was ready to cede Daizhou. Once this matter is announced, it will inevitably cause great chaos in the world. Liu Zhiyuan already knew at this time, so he pretended to be surprised and said: "There is such a thing, there is such a thing!"
Shi Jingjiao glanced at him and said, "At this time, you must not make any trouble with me." I heard that your brother-in-law Le Yuan wrote you a secret letter?" Liu Zhiyuan was very anxious in his heart, he didn't know how Shi Jingjiao knew these things, but seeing that he still kept looking at himself, he took a deep breath and sat there silently. Shi Jingjiao closed the door and said softly: "Zhiyuan, this matter is originally very important, but since you are here today, I will make it clear." The imperial court prepared to encircle and annihilate the rebellious army in the Central Plains in the past two days, and did not want any more chaos in Daizhou. Unexpectedly, Le Yuan did not agree with the proposition of the imperial court, which was tantamount to sabotaging the peace talks, and he had already been joined by Du Chongwei and lost his military power. Not only that, but it also implicates you. Zhiyuan, you and I are our own people, I won't hide it from you. The emperor has decreed that I will send you to Luoyang for trial. I have suppressed the holy decree, and you and I are friends of life and death, so naturally I will not embarrass you. ”
Liu Zhiyuan thought that Du Chongwei had already reported this matter to the imperial court, and still replied: "My lord, your great kindness to the humble position, the humble position is unforgettable. ”
Shi Chonggui happened to come back at this time, and when he saw Liu Zhiyuan, the two patted each other's chests and asked Hou. Shi Jingjiao coughed, and Liu Zhiyuan said: "It's not too early, my lord, retire first." Noble and virtuous brother, I will gather in my house another day. Then he looked at Shi Chonggui and smiled.
Liu Zhiyuan returned to the house, didn't think about tea and dinner, and thought about what to do. In the evening, Liu Zhiyuan took the big knife on the wall, left through the back door on horseback, and came to the agreed mountain forest. Murong Yanchao is Liu Zhiyuan's half-brother, who worked as a military academy in the military camp of Li Siyuan of Mingzong, and after Li Siyuan was killed by a mutiny, Murong Yanchao resigned from the military academy and came to Taiyuan to defect to Liu Zhiyuan.
Murong Yanchao came to the mountain forest early, saw Liu Zhiyuan coming in a hurry, and hurriedly greeted him. Liu Zhiyuan glanced at Murong Yanchao, and the two walked towards the woods.
After a while, a group of men dressed in brown clothes rode over. Murong Yanchao recognized that it was the costume of the Imperial Forest Army, and he didn't dare to startle the snake. One of them said: "What the emperor asked Shi Jingjiao to do has been delayed for half a month now, and I haven't heard any back, so I don't know what Shi Jingjin is doing." Another person said: "I heard that Shi Jingjiao and Liu Zhiyuan are friends of life and death, I don't know if Shi Jingjiao will do what the emperor orders." The man said angrily just now: "He Shi Jingjiao is bold, and he doesn't dare to disobey the emperor's holy decree, unless he doesn't want to be the envoy of this Hedong Festival." As he spoke, this group of people had already walked past Liu Zhiyuan and Murong Yanchao.
Murong Yanchao heard it clearly on the side, and he was puzzled in his heart, his brother Liu Zhiyuan was obviously contributing to the court in Taiyuan, why did he become a thorn in the side of the court for a while. Murong Yanchao glanced at Liu Zhiyuan, and saw that his brother looked calm. Liu Zhiyuan told the events of the day, and Murong Yanchao said: "Jiedu makes the lord intend to protect his brother, but now that the imperial court has sent people here, I don't know what to do?" Liu Zhiyuan said: "There must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, but it really can't be done, so I will resign from the military academy for my brother and swim in the rivers and lakes with you." Murong Yanchao said: "What my brother said is extremely true, Li Congke is mediocre and unreasonable, which makes the world restless, and it is not as comfortable as being on the rivers and lakes." The two talked for half an hour and went home.
Liu Zhiyuan instructed the housekeeper to close the door tightly. After a while, there was a violent knock at the door, and the housekeeper did not dare to open the door. The man outside the door shouted, "Open the door quickly, the son of the lord has an urgent matter to see your master." The housekeeper hurried into the house to report.
Liu Zhiyuan opened the door of the mansion and saw Shi Chonggui standing anxiously at the door, so he asked: "Brother Chonggui, did you come to the cold house so late, did Jiedu make the adult's illness better?" Shi Chonggui saw him open the door and said, "Brother Liu, everything is fine with my uncle." But Brother Liu is now in trouble. Liu Zhiyuan didn't expect Shi Chonggui's late-night visit just for this matter, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, holding his hand and asking him to get together in the mansion.
Shi Chonggui didn't have time to greet him, so he excused himself and said, "I'll go back to the house immediately, so as not to be suspicious of the Imperial Forest Army." Liu Zhiyuan saw that Shi Jingjiao was also involved, and hurriedly asked for details. Shi Chonggui replied: "When I returned to the house just now, I saw a group of Imperial Forest soldiers coming. These Imperial Forest Soldiers are arrogant, and they don't take their uncle, the envoy of Hedong Jiedu, in their eyes, and directly ask to arrest you and return to Luoyang. Uncle is now in a dilemma, and Brother Liu has to go out to avoid the limelight. Thousands of words, I'll talk about them later. I'll take my leave. With that, he hurried away.
Liu Zhiyuan hurriedly thanked him, but he didn't have time to tell Le Zhenxian the details, so he went out of the city alone to avoid the edge, but he accidentally intercepted the court messenger from Luzhou halfway. Liu Zhiyuan searched for the secret letter sent by the emperor Li Congke to Du Chongwei, the assassin of Daizhou, from him. After reading the recital, Liu Zhiyuan thought to himself: "I didn't expect the emperor to disregard the lives of 500,000 people in Daizhou and insist on handing over Daizhou to the Khitan. So he rode back to the city.
Shi Jingjiao looked at the secret fold handed over by Liu Zhiyuan, and said angrily: "Li Congke has misled the country! Although he is my brother-in-law, it is tolerable to do these things, which is unbearable!" So he ordered the three armies to be on strict guard and refused to obey the imperial court's decision to cede Daizhou.
Li Congke, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty in Luzhou, learned that Shi Jingjiao did not comply with the order in Taiyuan, and wanted to transfer troops to the west to exterminate Shi Jingjiao, but he remembered that he was his brother-in-law with Shi Jingjiao and could not bear to hurt his life, so he pardoned him for capital crimes, ordered him to resign from the post of envoy of Hedong Jiedu, and arranged for him to go to Luoyang to serve as the central minister.
After the holy decree, Shi Jingjiao expressed his gratitude to Li Congke, but resolutely disagreed to leave Taiyuan. Li Congke saw that Shi Jingjiao had different intentions, and spread the word that the troops were divided into various places to fight, and Shi Jingjiao ordered Liu Zhiyuan to be the general of the expedition to the east, and Murong Yanchao was the deputy general, leading the 30,000 Hedong army to block the Tang army west of Taihang Mountain. After the Tang Dynasty official army, there were worries about the rebel armies from all walks of life, and where the enemy could defeat the wolf-like Hedong Army, they could only retreat one after another.
Liu Zhiyuan led the troops to resist the officers and soldiers, and there was no time to save each other. In order to prevent long nights and dreams, Du Chongwei ordered the secret execution of Anxihou. Anxihou's wife, Lin Hanyan, did not know what to do in the chaos.
After Lotte Zang rescued the prince of Anxi, he went incognito on the border of Daizhou until he fought the Khitan soldiers again fourteen years later, and died in Death Valley at the same time as hundreds of Khitan soldiers.