Traveling through the early Tang Dynasty starts with hanging

Chapter 188
In the land of Shandong, there is the largest family power in the world today.

Among the top aristocrats, Qinghe Cui, Boling Cui, Zhaojun Li, and Fanyang Lu, four of the five surnames are in Shandong.

But at the same time, in the troubled times of the former Sui Dynasty, the land of Shandong was also a place where heroes rose together, and the situation was the most chaotic.

Dozens of warlords before and after, you attack and defend, one ebbs and another, there is almost no moment of truce. Even Dou Jiande really ruled Hebei Road in October of the third year of Wude... the next year he was defeated and died.

Even now that Hebei Road has completely returned to the land of the Tang Dynasty, it still retains Gao Kaidao, Xu Yuanlang and other separatist forces, as well as Youzhou Luoyi who listens to the tune but does not listen to the propaganda.

This is also a common thing. Since ancient times, the land of Yanzhao has many generous and tragic people.

After Liu Heitai was captured and killed, Beizhou... Countless forces and many Dou Jiande and Liu Heitai's former troops focused their attention here.

On the one hand, because Dou Jiande and Liu Heita are both from Beizhou, and a considerable part of the old tribe is also from Beizhou, such as Qi Shanxing who led the vote to Tang after the First World War at Hulaoguan.

On the other hand, what happened to Fang Shilang recently, the emissary promised to be innocent, but Fang Silang's family property was taken away, his wife died tragically, and he was arrested, imprisoned and tortured.

However, within ten days, there were commotions in Beizhou, as well as Jizhou, Xingzhou, and Zhaozhou around Beizhou.

Of course, the most important thing is Beizhou... Just as Li Shan guessed, what happened to Fang Silang is by no means an exception.

Quite a few of Dou Jiande's and Liu Heita's former departments have encountered similar things...just not as miserable as Fang Shilang's.

Can it not be miserable?

The home was taken, the property was taken, the wife was robbed and killed, and he was arrested and tortured...

Under such circumstances, hundreds of old soldiers surrounded Zhuangzi.

There was chaos in the village, but the rebels did not attack Zhuangzi, but confronted hundreds of Tang cavalry hundreds of steps away.

"Huiren, I just received a report from the soldiers." Xue Zhong said in a low voice, "The Jingcheng mutiny caused more than a thousand soldiers to rebel. During this period, the Cui clan plundered property."

Wei Zheng with a complicated expression added: "South Zhang is unstable, and there are also riots in several counties in Jizhou."

Two hours ago, Su Dingfang, who led [-] cavalry to hunt down Cui Bo, sent someone to report that the civil disturbance had broken out and surrounded Zhuangzi.

Cui Hao's first reaction was to immediately send troops to quell the chaos...but Li Daoxuan, Marshal of the Hebei Road Army, ignored him at all.

What kind of role did Li Jiancheng play in the first battle of Xiabo... Li Daoxuan also knew it well. If he was only partial to the line of King Qin before, he can be regarded as Li Shimin's direct descendant now.

Anyway, there was chaos, and the leader Li Daoxuan was not responsible... Cui Hao and Wei Zheng were all responsible.

Therefore, Li Shan and Xue Zhong only led a hundred personal guards to gallop out of the city. Apart from Ma Zhou and Ling Jing, the only ones who dared to come together were Wei Zheng and Cui Xin.

Looking from a distance, Li Shan said with a blank expression: "This civil disturbance is a last resort, and people are coercing...Brother Xuan Cheng?"

Both Wei Zheng and Cui Xin remained silent, the current situation was in front of them, if Fang Silang's case was not handled properly, there might be riots everywhere.

This is a crater about to erupt!
The most terrible thing is that if there is a civil disturbance, Li Daoxuan, the king of Huaiyang, probably won't intervene at will... It is very likely that he will wait until the riots break out and things become a little bigger before sending troops to quell the chaos.

Anyway, Wei Zheng and Cui Hao who appease Shandong are the prince's people... Don't you want to snatch it?
Let you grab!
I grabbed it, but I messed it up, let's see how you explain it when you go back!

It also depends on how the prince Li Jiancheng explained to the sage Li Yuan!
A horse galloped up ahead, shouted a few times, Li Shan glanced at Wei Zheng, "Brother Xuan Cheng, please."

It has been more than half a day since Su Dingfang and his personal guards arrived, and he did not attack until he received a clear order. Anyway, it has been found out that Cui Bo did not escape.

A considerable part of the hundreds of old strokes gathered were former captives outside Wei County, and two of the leaders even assisted Li Shan in managing the wounded barracks.

Su Dingfang led twenty bodyguards, while Li Shan and Wei Zheng drove forward slowly.

"Brother Xuan Cheng, you must have sent someone out of the city to tell you."

After a while of silence, Wei Zhengweng replied angrily: "The King of Huaiyang is on good terms with you."

"Could it be that the King of Huaiyang will bow down to someone?" Li Shan said with a sneer, "He can't wait to make this mess and embarrass the East Palace!"

Li Shan felt...Although he had just come up with the abacus, Wei Zheng must have been very proficient in the abacus.

In the case of civil unrest, Wei Zheng was nothing more than exerting pressure on the Qinghe Cui family on the one hand to force the other party to make concessions, and on the other hand, using Li Shan to influence Li Daoxuan so that the scope of the civil unrest would not expand and calmly quell the chaos.

But Li Shan first saw through the inside story with sharp eyes, and then flipped the table unruly.

And Li Daoxuan also clearly stated that he would not get involved in this matter, and only asked Xue Zhong to lead fifty cavalry guards, but he himself refused to come forward.

"It seems that the government is forcing the people to rebel...in fact, it involves everything in Chang'an..." Li Shan murmured, "The sage didn't act decisively...the Turks will go south in the future, why do you think so, why do you think so?"

Wei Zheng was also deeply touched. Since July, the Turks have moved southward in a large scale, invading Hedong and Guannei, and borrowed troops from Liu Heita to invade Hebei Road again.

From the beginning to the end of this battle, there are shadows of Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin's struggle for succession.

From the prince's expedition to Guannei Road to drive away the Turkic partial divisions to Li Shimin leading troops into Hedong to face the main Turkic forces head-on.

From the candidate for the Hebei Road Marching Chief to Shi Wanbao's hesitation led to the defeat of Xiabo.

From the prince's intention to personally conquer Shandong to suppress the King of Qin to Li Shimin's secret tricks, Li Jiancheng lost a lot of face.

The same is true of Li Daoxuan's position on chariots and horses today... Obviously, Wei Zheng can also see this.

It's just that what Wei Zheng didn't know was that Li Daoxuan's position was clear, but whether to intervene in this matter... Li Shan could have an influence on it.

The problem is that Li Shan does not intend to use the army to quell the chaos as a solution.

Ever since he saw Fang Shilang, who was tortured to the point of death and barely recognizable in human form three hours ago in the county government office, the anger in Li Shan's heart has been suppressed all the time, just waiting for the moment to vent.

Li Shan is unwilling to demonize the powerful families, but he overestimates the bottom line of these powerful families.

Seeing more than ten riders galloping ahead, Li Shan narrowed his eyes to look carefully, and suddenly shouted loudly: "Qi Lao Liu, you did a good job!"

The leading young man reined in his mount, got off his horse, and fell to the ground, "Greetings to Mr. Li Lang."

The rest got off their horses and bowed down one after another, "Greetings to Mr. Li Lang."

Li Shan whipped Qi Laoliu's back casually, but the force was limp, "It takes an hour to ride a horse from Qinghe to here!"

Qi Laoliu laughed and said, "Li Langjun, it's really..."

Everyone in the distance, Ling Jing and Xue Zhong didn't change their expressions, but Cui Xin's expression moved slightly. At this moment, more than two hundred Tang cavalry are facing nearly a thousand enemy troops. It's hard to say whether they can win with one blow. And Li Shan dared to whip the enemy leader like this before the battle...

Cui Xin couldn't help thinking in his heart, is this audacious?Or courageous?
The next moment, Cui Xin put his hand on his forehead, unbelievable.

Li Shan hesitated for a while, and Qi Laoliu, who had just been whipped, rushed up and squatted beside the horse.

"You haven't forgotten." Li Shan snorted, stepped on Qi Laoliu's shoulder and got off the horse.

In the captive camp that day, everyone knew that Li Shan was not good at riding a horse, and every time he got on and off the horse, Qi Laoliu and others who received his kindness all stepped on their feet.

(End of this chapter)