Tiantang Splendid

Chapter 3417 Violent King
The heavy snow like goose feathers fell, but the palace was filled with steaming heat and white mist.

The soldiers brought boiling hot water and poured buckets of hot water on the bluestone slabs laid in the palace, and then used brushes to scrub off the dirty blood bit by bit.In the freezing weather, hot water was splashed on the ground and turned into mist, which cooled quickly and turned into ice balls. The soldiers quickly brushed them aside with brushes to prevent them from freezing.

Bai Xue covered up the crime, and the whole palace was filled with a strong smell of blood.The corpses of countless royal families, internal servants, and imperial guards were randomly discarded and piled up in the corner, and some soldiers took them away with carts and carts, and transported them outside the city for burial.

The subjugated clan no longer had the shocking and aloof status they had when they were alive, and the children of the royal family, who were usually well-clothed and well-fed, were abused like livestock after death, and their dignity was lost.

Inside the main hall, a minister was kneeling on the ground, trying his best to persuade Yuan Gai Suwen to treat the royal family well, at least to give respect after death...

"Your Majesty, the so-called 'the dead are the greatest'. Burying the corpses of the royal family at will will definitely chill the hearts of the soldiers and people in the world, and hinder the establishment of the prestige of the King and win the hearts of the people."

"Hehe," Yuan Gai Suwen, who was standing in front of the throne and letting the maid rearrange the crown, sneered and said disapprovingly, "The lonely throne relies on the prestige of the hearts of all people, and this prestige comes from the power of the lonely hand." The military power comes from defeating the mighty Tang Dynasty, causing hundreds of thousands of troops to go on an expedition and returning in defeat, and even shot the emperor in the eyes among thousands of troops! Treating the royal family's corpses kindly? It's a joke! If it weren't for the Gao family's stupidity How could the innocence and perverse actions attract the Han people to attack several times, causing countless damage to the city of Goguryeo, and hundreds of thousands of children were buried on the battlefield! Gu not only wanted to kill the royal family of the Gao family, but also abandoned the corpses in the wilderness. To be devoured by wild beasts, and to display the head of the treasure king Xiao to the public, and hang his head on the Seven Star Gate, so that the soldiers and civilians all over the country can watch, this is the fate of a foolish king!"

The minister was sweating profusely, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, absolutely not! Even though your Majesty's ascension to the throne is in accordance with the will of the people and God's will, it is a rule to treat the king who died in the previous dynasty well, so as to show the bearing of the new king. Your Majesty's insistence on this is not to let the people of the world ridicule him for being narrow-minded and violent?"

He thought to himself that the power of the kings of the past dynasties has changed, and the new king must leave a little room for the previous dynasty. After all, there has never been a dynasty with an unbroken succession. Treat yourself favorably.

Now that you are so harsh and mistreating the Gao family, aren't you afraid that others will follow suit and take revenge on you in the future?

The people of insight in Goguryeo all studied Confucianism, advocated the "golden mean" way, and believed that it is better to leave a thread in everything and not to do it...

The crown was already worn neatly, Yuan Gai Suwen flicked the sleeves of the robe inlaid with gold thread, and sat on the throne with a golden sword, his palms were dancing on the armrests, and he laughed loudly: "It's ridiculous! One life is only a few dozen cold and hot. If you are born in the world, if you can enjoy yourself in time and show your ambitions, it is enough. Is it possible that like the first emperor, even if the dragon controls the funeral, he must spend extravagantly, wait for death like a waiter, and dream of the afterlife? Do you also want to be powerful and lead the world? Sitting on this throne alone is what everyone expects, and you should devote yourself to the welfare of the subjects of the world. What about being narrow-minded? What about violent means? He is the king of Goguryeo, and he will die alone in the future, so it doesn't matter where he is buried or what his descendants will be like!"

All his life, he acted willfully and without restraint, and regarded morality and etiquette as nothing.When it is no longer possible for anyone to stop him from ascending the throne of Goguryeo, if he still raises the butcher knife against the Gao family, he will never suffer any future troubles, so how can he care what others say?
Things like fame and prestige are like an old woman's foot wrap. Although it has a little use, it's just that.In fact, from the day when he proclaimed himself Damolizhi and commanded the military and political power of Goguryeo, no one had ever said anything good about him.

So what?

He is still alive and well, and finally ascended to the supreme throne as he wished, but those who scolded him, hated him, and opposed him were all cut off by his ruthless hands, and the grass on the grave was already three feet high...

His prestige is accumulated bit by bit by the power in his hands and violent means. He doesn't care who speaks ill of him, as long as those people understand the price they will bear if they anger him.

Goguryeo is a country of alienation, and all the people in the country are Hu people who can't read big characters. The Han people have long understood the temperament of these people who "fear power but not virtue", and call them "Yi Di", who treat them like animals. Why bother to show your kindness and generosity?
Kindness is sometimes not a good thing, people are bullied by kindness...

Seeing Yuan Gai Suwen's surly expression, the ministers in the palace dared not persuade him any more. If he irritated him by talking too much, they would call the guards to kill them together without blinking an eye.

In the massacre just now in Ping Rang City, not only the royal family of the Gao clan suffered, but the tyrant killed everyone who had been able to get closer to the royal family, without any reason or charge.

The mass grave outside the city is probably already piled up with corpses...

Yuan Gai Su Wen was full of ambition, Ping Rang City was as solid as gold, the Tang army had already retreated, and they went straight to the Yalu River. The imminent crisis was completely resolved, and he ascended the throne again. There was a lot of joy in his chest and belly, just as he was about to promulgate a decree to clean up the mess, he saw General Jian Mu Cen hurried into the palace.

"Your Majesty, the big thing is not good. The Tang army's navy has already attacked outside the city. They will send cavalry to stop them and they will be wiped out. Now they are ready to attack the city!"

Everyone in the hall was shocked.

Didn't the Tang army have already retreated?Where did this sailor come from?

Yuan Gai Su Wen calmly said: "The Navy of the Great Tang is indeed invincible on the sea frontier, but when it comes to land warfare, is it possible that it is stronger than the hundreds of thousands of troops commanded by the Emperor of the Great Tang? No need to make a fuss."

Hundreds of thousands of Tang troops besieged Ping Rang City for two months and failed. How can a mere navy be stronger than hundreds of thousands of troops?
Jian Mou Cen was stunned for a moment, then with a bitter face, he said: "Your Majesty, all the troops in the city have already left the city to pursue the Tang army. Right now, the city is empty of troops, but there are only more than ten thousand... The Tang Navy has always been powerful in combat, and it is still very powerful. Please prepare early."

Only then did Yuan Gai Suwen remember that he had kept the agreement with Changsun Wuji, and when Changsun Wuji made the Tang army retreat, he would send troops to pursue the Tang army, slowing down the speed of hundreds of thousands of Tang troops returning home.

Feeling a little depressed, the Tang army had all withdrawn, so he felt no worries, and sent all the troops in the city to participate in the pursuit, but who would have thought that the navy would not obey the order and act against the order?

What a hell...

However, he was just depressed, and didn't take Datang Navy Division seriously, and ordered: "Close the city gates immediately, and all troops go up to defend the city. , Open the warehouse in 'Little Chang'an', distribute weapons and armor. Then quickly report to the army outside the city, ordering them to return to Ping Rang City."

The navy of the Tang Dynasty was only tens of thousands of people, and Ping Rang City relied on the fortified city to defend against the offensive of tens of thousands of people, so how could it fail in front of the navy?Mobilize all the forces in the city to participate in the defense of the city, and then the troops chasing the Tang army outside the city quickly return to help, and the crisis can be resolved.

Jian Mou Cen hurriedly said: "The king is wise, the navy division of the Tang army must have been reluctant to give up the meritorious service of destroying the city and destroying the country, so they violated the order and attacked rashly. With the king sitting in the town, I will teach him whether he can come or not!"

Yuan Gai Su Wen stroked his beard and laughed, and was about to speak, when he heard a muffled sound, which shook the roof beams of the main hall, and the dust accumulated on the beams for many years fell down.Then, the muffled sound became one, deafening for a while, the earth shook and the mountains shook, and all the monarchs and ministers in the palace were shocked.

Yuan Gai Suwen immediately thought of Tang Jun's firearms, whose power could indeed shatter landslides, stood up in shock, and said loudly: "Go and check, what happened!"

Before Jian Mou Cen and others went out, they saw a guard flying in, came to Yuan Gai Suwen, fell down on the ground, and said in a loud voice: "My lord, the Tang army attacked the city with artillery, and countless shells passed through the city." The city wall fell into the city, and its shells were filled with inflammable objects, and wherever it went, there was a big fire, and the water could not be extinguished!"

Yuan Gai Suwen came to the gate of the palace with strides, looked up at the heavy snow, and then at the flames and smoke rising into the sky from the west, his heart twitched suddenly, and he asked in a hissed voice: "Where did the Tang army's shells fall, but 'little one? Chang'an'?"

"Exactly! Right now, 'Little Chang'an' is on fire, and all warehouses are on fire!"

"Wow! Thief Tang is cunning and wants to cut off my life!"

(End of this chapter)