The Emperor ordered Zhao Tang

Chapter 24: The drunkard forgets to go home, and the gangster comes to the house at night

The Jinwu Guards went to catch the thieves, and finally saw these gangsters fleeing into an official residence in Yanfuli, which was exactly the Jinzouyuan of the Zhenguo Army stationed in Beijing.

The Jinwu Guards said that they had originally planned to accept these people into the Jinzouyuan, but they were seen by several Jinwu Guard knights who had chased after them, so they hurriedly closed the door.

"Snapped!"

Li Ye closed the memorial and put it on the table.

Zhao waved her hand to let the palace maid go out, and said, "There have been many cases of the governor sending assassins into the capital over the years. I think someone in the court leaked the news, and the officers of the state defense army learned that the saint wanted to attack Huazhou, so he took the risk."

She emphasized the words "leaked the news", saying that there were spies in the court who tipped off the local governors.

Li Ye stood up.

In history, Li Maozhen also did this. He sent soldiers to the capital in disguise and almost beat several prime ministers to death in the street. It was not just him. Whenever there was a decree that was not favorable to a certain vassal, his Jinzouyuan would get the news in advance and then plan a riot in Chang'an to show his power to the court. So when the court issued a decree, it would send people to the Jinzouyuan early to ask for instructions.

Many judges of the Jinzouyuan of the vassal states were even given the title of minor prime ministers.

Li Ye stroked his chin and pondered for a while before whispering, "Send an envoy to visit the two ministers. Also, go and invite the Privy Councilor."

Ximen Chongsui had just finished inspecting the military camp and was returning to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to rest when he saw a female official hurriedly summoning him, saying that the sage had something important to discuss. Ximen Chongsui came to see the sage immediately because he was so impressed by the sage's words.

"The prime minister was attacked and barely escaped with his life." Li Ye gave Ximen Chongsui a cushion to sit on and spoke briefly.

Ximen Zhongsui's expression relaxed, and he said casually, "I don't think it's a big deal. As long as no one was killed in the street, it's fine. Order the Jinwu Guards to step up patrols."

He knew immediately that it was the Zhenguojun Jinzouyuan who did it, but he did not bring it up.

What can be done.

Do we have to send troops to kill all those bastards?

Isn't this telling the local warlords that if they dare to cause trouble in the capital again, we will kill your lackeys?
You can afford to offend one person, but you can't afford to offend a group of people.

"This kind of thing depends on the Jinwu Guards and Jingzhao Yin..." Li Ye paced back and forth with his hands behind his back, his voice almost inaudible: "There are dozens of hooligans, all of them are strong and healthy, and they advance and retreat in an orderly manner. I think they should be the strongest in the army. If it weren't for the officers who fought desperately to cover them and the nearby people who drove them away, the general would have been killed. Fortunately, they didn't succeed, otherwise they would be afraid of being killed. Who in the court would dare to talk about using troops in the future?"

"The Saint wants to..."

"Since you have already fallen out, I intend to arrest and execute the Huazhou Jinzouyuan."

"No!" Ximen Chongsui sat up immediately after hearing this: "Their crimes deserve death, but the towns of Bian, Qi, Wu, Xia, Jing, and You have all done dirty things to varying degrees. If those military governors know about this, the trouble they cause in the future will probably be even more violent and difficult to quell."

"Han Jian must not be tolerated in this matter. I will send a son of the royal family to do it myself. The success or failure, disaster or happiness, will have nothing to do with the Privy Councilor." Li Ye had made up his mind.

It doesn’t matter whether Ximen Chongsui agrees or not.

He didn't care about the life and death of court officials, he was just worried about being implicated and pushed to the forefront.

Now that Li Ye has sent his own people away, what else does he care about?

"Take care of yourself." Ximen Zhongsui patted his butt, glanced at the emperor with his eyes slanted, and left coldly: "If you want to kill, kill them all, don't leave any alive, understand. The matter must be done in secrecy, it's best to surround the Jinzouyuan in the second half of the night."

When he was out of the door, the sage raised his hand and Zhao put her ear close to his mouth.

He just said in a serious tone: "Secretly summon Li Yanzhen, the tenth general of the Left Shence Army, to come to see you at midnight tonight. Be careful not to be seen by anyone."

Of course he understood what Zhao had just hinted, and Li Ye was not surprised that there were spies in the court who tipped off the vassal states.

In the late Tang Dynasty, the trunk was weak but the branches were strong. Many people in the southern and northern courts relied on the Jiedushi for their support and acted as the talkers of the vassal states in the court, but were disloyal.

hateful.

……

The palace was very quiet at midnight, but a candle was still lit in the Penglai Palace.

Li Ye knelt under the mural, staring blankly at the half-open palace door swaying in the wind in the darkness, as if there was a ghost there.

"Squeak."

The door was gently pushed open, and a man and a woman walked in quickly.

Li Yanzhen, a descendant of Crown Prince Li, came to the bedside under the guidance of Zhao.

"No need..." Li Yan was about to salute, but he saw the saint stretched out his hand and pressed: "I summoned you here late at night because I have something important to tell you."

Li Yanzhenye was very familiar: "We are all family, but please explain."

"I want you to surround the National Defense Army's Jinzouyuan immediately, regardless of life or death."

"This..." Li Yanzhen looked around and confirmed that no one else was present. He asked in a low voice, "May I ask if the Privy Councilor knows about this?"

The saint nodded and said: "I summoned you immediately to prevent the news from leaking out and the thieves from escaping."

Li Yanzhen said nothing more, bowed and left: "I will go back and reorganize the soldiers, and present all the heads of the rebels before dawn." ...

"when!"

The night watchman stopped.

In front of him, a seven-story red mansion with lights on came into clear view.

The night watchman thought about it and took a detour.

Next to the pond garden in the official residence, the imperial court official Cai Jingsi was holding a banquet. He was a scholar who failed the imperial examination and joined the army. He was good at calligraphy and writing, and was also good at commanding troops and fighting. Therefore, he was loved by Han Jian and was appointed as an imperial court official to serve as Han Jian's eyes in Chang'an.

The composition of the people at the banquet was mixed. There were not only common people laughing and cursing, but also officials enjoying themselves with beauties. However, at this time, the civil and military officials seemed to be in harmony.

The military men did not despise the weakness of the civil officials, and the civil officials did not despise the crudeness of the military men. They were like fellow travelers who were doing great things. Harmony brings wealth. Cai Jingsi was also very happy and kept urging people to drink. Everyone ate and talked, and they were very happy.

"It's a pity that old dog Du Rangneng was not killed."

"It's also our fault. Although we are officials in the court, we can't even find out the whereabouts of the prime minister."

"He was the one who instigated the Saint to attack Lord Han, wasn't he? I think the court is finished. We have no way out. I hope Lord Zuo Shi will take us in."

"The sacred artifact has changed, who will take it in the end? Lord Han has always been a good government official. If he manages the military affairs, the throne will belong to him."

"Ha ha!"

"My, my, my dog's feet!"

The more they talked, the more they got along. Led by several civil officials, everyone happily played the game of tossing pots and drinking wine.

"Swoosh, whoosh, whoosh!" Suddenly there was a sound of breaking through the air.

Dozens of rockets flew into the courtyard, knocking down several people on the spot.

The wounded civil servant who was not dead shouted in pain: "The drunkard forgot to go home, and the criminals came to the door at night!"

The warriors were in a commotion, grabbing their armor and putting it on, while the clerks hurriedly fetched weapons and distributed them. Only a well-trained army could fire such a dense and regular rain of arrows in the capital.

In the panic, more than a dozen nimble armored men jumped down from the courtyard wall using ladders. The leader said without further ado, raising his hand and chopped off the head of a minor official: "Kill them all."

Behind him, more warriors were setting up ladders to climb over the wall.

They formed a line, half-knelt at the foot of the wall, and shot arrows at the crowd.

They rushed all the way to the gate and killed anyone they saw, without caring whether they were men or women. Several beautiful singers who were previously in men's arms were already dead.

"Li Yanzhen? You want to rebel!" A civil official exclaimed, recognizing this royal warrior who was the descendant of the Crown Prince. But before he could say anything more, Li Yanzhen threw out his long spear and stabbed it into the man's throat at lightning speed, shouting, "I will not rebel, but I want to kill those who do."

"This is the Zhenguo Army's memorial office. Do you want to be an enemy of Lord Han?" The sound of swords and shields clashing was heard at the gate, and a memorial clerk shouted.

"I don't care who you are!" He was responded with an even more fierce spear strike.

Teams of warriors armed with long spears stabbed out one after another, and in a few rounds they stabbed the gate to pieces.

Bang!
With a loud bang and accompanied by smoke and dust, the door was kicked down by a soldier.

"Kill!" Dense numbers of infantrymen rushed in. The hundred or so men in the Jinzouyuan who were both civil and military professionals were obviously no match for the well-trained Shangchen Army. The yard was soon littered with corpses. In the pond, on the rockery, at the door, on the table, there were steaming trickles of blood everywhere.

When the people nearby heard the noise, they thought that war had broken out again.

But this time, it was the Shangchen Army under the Zuoshence Army that organized the capture and killing of the rebels in Huazhou Jinzouyuan.

Just after the hour of Chou, Li Yanzhen knelt down behind a table surrounded by his personal soldiers, picked up the honey water on the table and drank it all, then threw the copper cup into the pond and glanced at the officers beside him: "What's going on?"

"The only thing left is the seven-story watchtower." A lieutenant pointed at it and said, "Cai Jingsi and more than 30 officials are hiding up there to resist. We might as well set it on fire."

"Setting fire would make too much noise, so attack and kill these clerks."

Then another lieutenant added: "We also captured some wives and daughters of the rebels. There are about 40 men and women."

Li Yanzhen waved his hand and said, "Kill them all."

Teams of soldiers carrying shields hurried into the watchtower, and from time to time one could see someone being thrown away from a certain floor by a long spear.

Soon, dishevelled Tsai Jing-si poked his head out from the seventh-floor corridor and looked down: "Who hurt me?"

"Swoosh!" Li Yanzhen shot an arrow accurately through his mouth.

Cai Jingsi fell off the building.

Li Yanzhen put away his bow, his interest waning: "Cut off his head and put it away."

(End of this chapter)