Thief Emperor

Chapter 938 Welcome Master Wang
Rebellion is not a rare thing.

After all, Li's origin had been announced to the world by the Wu Zhou court, but there were still many people who were not convinced, and naturally many people wanted to be emperor.

Since he ascended the throne this year, there have been five or six rebellions in the past six months, but they were all quickly suppressed by the Tang army in various places, and the suppression was quite easy.

But this time the unrest in Lingnan seemed to be quite serious.

At least from the information obtained by the Nine Departments, the incident happened ten days ago. Ten days ago, a rebellion broke out in a county in Lingnan Road, and they raised a banner claiming that they wanted to support King Min and revive the Great Zhou.

By the time the Nine Departments reported the incident, the local county government office had already been lost.

"King Min..."

Li Yun narrowed his eyes, put down the document in his hand, and just said lightly, "I know." Then he looked at the palace servant and said, "Let Jiusi inform the Ministry of War and send troops to suppress it."

"Yes."

The palace servant immediately lowered his head and retreated in small steps.

Li Yun looked at Wu Yuanyou who was kneeling on the ground and asked, "King Wu, the former King Min of Zhou, is he close to your family?"

Wu Yuanyou was stunned, then looked up at Li Yun. He seemed to have guessed something. After taking a deep breath, he spoke for a long time: "Your Majesty, the first generation of King Min in the lineage of King Min is my great uncle..."

"Now it is the second generation of King Min. I have never seen this generation of King Min before."

He wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "I heard that he died in the war."

Emperor Li helped him up and said with a smile, "Then he must be King Wu's cousin?"

"Yes Yes."

Wu Yuanyou hesitated for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, has something happened?"

"It seems that your cousin has a good reputation in the southeast."

Emperor Li smiled and said, "Someone is using their banner to plot a rebellion."

Wu Yuanyou was startled, his legs softened and he knelt on the ground, lowering his head and saying: "Your Majesty, I know nothing about this..."

Li Yun helped him up again and motioned him to sit down. After Wu Yuanyou sat down, Emperor Li touched his chin, thought for a while, and said, "I haven't paid attention to your brother in this period of time. You two brothers often interact with each other. Has anyone contacted him recently?"

"Has anyone contacted you?"

Wu Yuanyou's face turned pale, and he shook his head repeatedly: "I have absolutely no contact with outsiders, and I have no idea about my elder brother's affairs."

"Yes."

Emperor Li smiled and said, "The Nine Departments have assigned a lot of people to your two residences. It should be difficult for anyone to contact you. How about this."

"I will go back and say hello to Jiusi and ask them to relax some of the restrictions."

As he spoke, Li Yun looked at Wu Yuanyou and said slowly: "In the future, if someone contacts you, don't worry, you can contact them. It would be best if you could find out who is behind it."

At this point, although the world is not yet in great order, the overall situation is improving, and there is no doubt about that.

If people rebel at this time, it is probably because their vested interests have been damaged, which means that there is a high probability that big investors are supporting them from behind.

Wu Yuanyou wiped the sweat from his forehead and bowed his head and said, "Your Majesty, I can do these things for the new dynasty, no problem at all, but my elder brother is not very smart, I think Your Majesty should send more people to watch him..."

Li Yun smiled dumbly: "You two are brothers with deep affection."

He patted Wu Yuanyou on the shoulder and said calmly, "Okay, you can go now. I will send someone to inform you when I leave for Guanzhong in a few days."

Upon hearing this, although Wu Yuanyou wanted to say something, he opened his mouth but could not utter a word. He could only bow his head and retreat cautiously.

After he left, Emperor Li sat back on the main seat, narrowed his eyes, and said, "Call Meng Hai into the palace."

The palace servant at the door immediately bowed his head and responded with "yes".

Half an hour later, Meng Hai hurriedly appeared in Ganlu Palace, knelt before Li Yun, bowed his head and kowtowed, "Your Majesty."

Li Yun looked at him, raised his hand and said, "Stand up."

"Yes."

After Meng Hai stood up, Li Yun took a deep breath and said, "The rebellion in Lingnan Road must be supported by a big family or even a local clan."

"Or, it is the remnant of the old Zhou Dynasty."

He looked at Meng Hai and said calmly: "This matter cannot be suppressed hastily. The Nine Departments must send people to investigate and find out the truth. Then, arrest the people who should be arrested and punish them according to the law."

Emperor Li had already written the document. He took the seal from his desk, stamped it on the document, handed it to Meng Hai, and said in a deep voice: "Take my edict and investigate and deal with it strictly!"

Li Yun's seal in Ganlu Hall is not a formal imperial seal. In a sense, it can be said to be his private seal. In other words, it has no formal legal effect.

However, the Nine Departments were also institutions independent of the imperial court. For them, documents with this private seal might be more useful than those with the imperial seal.

Meng Hai took it with both hands respectfully, then bowed deeply to Li Yun: "Your Majesty, should I go to Lingnan?"

"Aren't there people from Jiusi in the southeast as well?"

Li Yun said this first, then looked up at Meng Hai, touched his chin and thought for a while, then said: "Forget it, you haven't been out for a long time, you can take this imperial edict and go there in person."

"When necessary."

Emperor Li looked calm and said, "You are allowed to temporarily mobilize the local garrison."

Meng Hai took a deep breath, bowed his head and said, "I obey your command!"

After saying this, he stood up and bowed his head and said, "Your Majesty, I will definitely complete the task and live up to your majesty's trust!"

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In the middle of September in the first year of Zhangwu, the weather was clear and crisp.

At this time, Chen Da had already led his troops into Guanzhong, and even the capital was in sight.

His process of attacking Guanzhong was more difficult than Su Sheng's attack on Tongguan. It took General Su only four or five days to capture Tongguan and defeated the Tongguan defenders, forcing them to flee north in panic.

It took Chen Da almost ten days to capture Wuguan.

But after taking Wuguan, Chen Da encountered no more resistance and had a smooth journey all the way to the vicinity of the capital.

Chen Da first used a telescope to look at the distant capital city, and then asked his subordinates to go closer to take a look at the current situation of the capital city.

At the same time, he immediately sent a letter to Luoyang to inform Li Yun of the situation of his troops.

Before he had finished writing a military report, someone hurried into his tent, bowed his head and clasped his fists in front of him and said, "General, there are about ten people outside my camp asking to see me, claiming to be from the capital..."

"They said they were here to welcome the Royal Master."

The messenger hesitated for a moment, then said, "They can open the gates of the capital for you, general."

Hearing this, Chen Da's face darkened.

Damn it, it was clearly my credit for conquering the capital of the previous dynasty, but you took the initiative to open it, so doesn’t that make it your credit?
Although he thought so, Chen Da still knew what was important and what was not. He snorted, "What Beijing people? Is this still Beijing?"

After cursing like this, Chen Da calmed down and said in a deep voice: "Let them come in to see me."

"Yes."

Soon, more than a dozen people filed into Chen Da's tent. After entering the tent, they looked at Chen Da and called him "General".

Someone bowed to Chen Da with a smile on his face, "General Chen, we are here to welcome the royal division into the city."

He bowed his head and said, "We have already had contact with Prime Minister Du. Inspired by Prime Minister Du, we have already submitted to the Holy Dynasty long ago."

Chen Da was too lazy to talk nonsense with them, but when he heard the three words "Mr. Du", he was startled and asked, "Is it Mr. Du Shouyi?"

The man was delighted and quickly replied, "Yes, yes, it is Mr. Du."

"We are old friends of Lord Du. Following Lord Du's arrangement, we will cooperate with the king's army in Guanzhong..."

Chen Da sneered in his heart.

What a good combination of inside and outside!
He glanced at these people. Although he knew that they were all fence-sitters, at this moment, for Du Qian's sake, he could only pinch his nose and ask, "How is the capital of Guanzhong now?"

"Reply to General Chen."

Someone immediately bowed his head and replied, "After the king's army broke through Tongguan, Wei the bandit had already fled north with his troops."

Some people wiped their tears and said, "The thief Wei has been doing all kinds of evil in Guanzhong in the past few years. If the king's division doesn't come again, we will all have no way to survive!"

When they said this, they actually started to sob and cry.

Chen Da just felt a headache and asked, "Is there no Shuofang Army in the capital of Guanzhong?"

After receiving an affirmative answer, Chen Da glanced at the documents in his account and did not hesitate.

"Inform His Majesty immediately."

(End of this chapter)