Li Chengqian of the Tang Dynasty: Please say long live His Majesty

Chapter 557: His Majesty's Order: Dig Three Feet Deep (Part )
The horse neighed, Qiu Xinggong held down the old man under him slightly and turned his head to look into the yard.

Beyond the courtyard gate, there is the inner door.

Qiu Xinggong saw Yuan Tiangang sitting in the middle hall.

Yuan Tiangang is only one person.

The densely packed Jinwu Guards have completely surrounded the entire yard.

Torches lit up on the wall.

It clearly illuminated the face of Yuan Tiangang in the middle hall.

Qiu Xinggong met Yuan Tiangang.

During the Zhenguan period, he was the General of the Left Guard and one of the most trusted generals around the late emperor.

So when Yuan Tiangang was summoned by the late emperor, he met him.

Therefore, Qiu Xinggong recognized Yuan Tiangang at a glance.

In an instant, his eyes became gloomy.

Thinking of the last few years of the late emperor, who was still tormented by that unfortunate prophecy, Qiu Xinggong's eyes were filled with murderous intent.

He raised his right hand, and the next moment, all the archers aimed at Yuan Tiangang.

Yuan Tiangang, who was sitting in the middle hall, looked up in surprise. The next moment, he saw Qiu Xinggong suddenly waving his hand downwards.

Countless crossbow arrows shot towards Yuan Tiangang like heavy rain.

The crossbow arrow even broke the window and then stung Yuan Tiangang tightly.

At this moment, Yuan Tiangang suddenly raised his left and right hands, and his sleeves danced wildly in front of him like an iron curtain.

Countless crossbow arrows fell on his sleeves, making a "bang bang bang" sound, and all of them were blocked.

The Jinwu soldiers in the courtyard saw this scene and were extremely horrified.

But his hand remained steady, and three waves of crossbow arrows were shot out continuously.

Qiu Xinggong stood outside the courtyard gate and sneered when he saw this scene.

After three waves of crossbow arrows were fired, the house was filled with crossbow arrows.

Yuan Tiangang was still sitting in the middle hall. Although his chest looked fine, his shoulders, lower body and legs were all pierced by crossbow arrows.

The soldiers outside the courtyard were stunned.

"Come in!" Qiu Xinggong's cold voice rang out.

The Jinwu Guards in the courtyard advanced without hesitation, their spears drawn. They strode into the room in rows, while the sword and shield soldiers on both sides rushed towards the windows.

The next moment, more than a dozen people rushed into the room.

Three long spears stabbed at Yuan Tiangang's chest at the same time.

Without hesitation or holding back, he was just trying to kill him.

There was still disbelief in Yuan Tiangang's eyes. Wasn't the emperor curious at all about the secrets he knew?

He raised his sleeves again and hit the three long spears hard. The powerful force was so strong that the three soldiers holding the long spears retreated involuntarily.

At this moment, three more long spears came from behind and stabbed Yuan Tiangang's heart fiercely.

Three more long spears came up from below and stabbed towards Yuan Tiangang's lower abdomen.

The three long spears that had been forced back suddenly stabbed up again. In an instant, Yuan Tiangang's iron sleeves were unable to stop them.

With a "swish" sound, three long spears stabbed directly into Yuan Tiangang's body, and then the remaining six long spears could not stop it.

Blood overflowed from the corner of Yuan Tiangang's mouth and dripped onto the nine long spears on his body.

Yuan Tiangang struggled to look up and looked at Qiu Xinggong outside the yard.

Qiu Xinggong was still sitting on his horse indifferently, he had not even stepped into the courtyard.

Seeing this scene, Yuan Tiangang smiled miserably.

The next moment, his right hand dropped directly.

A flame emerged from his sleeve and burned rapidly, and in an instant the flame covered his entire body.

"Retreat!" Qiu Xinggong's voice came from outside the courtyard gate, and then all the Jinwu guards in the room retreated at this moment.

The flames spread from Yuan Tiangang's body to the tables, chairs, and books beside him, and then burned violently throughout the entire house.

I could faintly smell the scent of kerosene.

"Burn my body, raging fire." Yuan Tiangang's body suddenly rushed towards the door. The moment he blocked the door again, he fell to the ground with a "thump" and never got up again.

The soldiers standing outside the window saw everything extremely clearly. It was not until they were forced back by the flames that they turned around and looked at Qiu Xinggong behind them.

Qiu Xinggong raised his hand, and everyone retreated, watching Yuan Tiangang's body being completely burned in the flames.

Only Yuan Tiangang's eyes, looking out in the flames before his death, still remained in Qiu Xinggong's mind.

Yuan Tiangang died, his death was worse than a blade of grass.

The night passed.

Under the watchful eyes of countless Jinwu Guards, the flames finally slowly died out.

All that was left was a pile of ashes.

There were two more bodies.

Qiu Xinggong said calmly, "Dig up the body and parade it through the streets in the name of the leader of the Zoroastrian cult."

"Yes!" All the Jinwu guards in the courtyard bowed and accepted the order.

After they dug out the bodies of Yuan Tiangang and Xuan Ge and sent them away, Qiu Xinggong said to the remaining people, "Your Majesty has ordered us to dig three feet underground."

"Yes!" Everyone bowed.

……

In front of the Taiji Hall, Li Chengqian stood in front of the jade railing, looking at the entire Chang'an city.

Cheers came from the streets of Chang'an.

One rises, that one falls.

Changsun Wuji stood behind Li Chengqian, looking at his expression without any joy, and his face became solemn.

A burst of rapid horse hoof sounds came from the Suzaku Gate, then quickly approached the Chengtian Gate, and finally rushed straight to the Taiji Hall.

Qiu Xinggong, dressed in red and golden armor, dismounted, walked up the steps, and bowed to Li Chengqian, saying, "Your Majesty, we have dug three feet underground, and there is no secret passage below."

Li Chengqian nodded and said, "Secretly monitor the gates of Chang'an for three days. If no one with suspicious movements leaves Chang'an City after three days, then Yuan Tiangang will be considered truly dead."

"Yes!" Qiu Xinggong bowed, then quickly turned and left.

Changsun Wuji asked in a low voice, "Your Majesty, are you worried that Yuan Tiangang is not dead yet?"

"Is it strange that I doubt a man who died once is still alive?" Li Chengqian shook his head and said, "There are many things that are not necessarily true when seen with one's own eyes, not to mention that I only heard them."

Changsun Wuji nodded slowly and said, "Your Majesty, are you worried that everything that happened today is just a setup?"

"Yuan Tiangang has never been alone." Li Chengqian sighed lightly.

"What about the Yang family?" Changsun Wuji raised his head and asked seriously, "This time, it was the Yang family who transmitted the message. Could it be that they are working together with Yuan Tiangang, or does Your Majesty think that Yuan Tiangang is using them?"

Li Chengqian chuckled softly and said, "The Yang family probably didn't know about it, otherwise they wouldn't have asked a fifteen-year-old marginalized member of their family to come forward and claim that they had accidentally seen it."

This time, the reason why Yuan Tiangang was locked down, at least in Changsun Wuji's case, was because a fifteen-year-old child from the Yang family said that he saw someone entering an abandoned courtyard with strange movements.

Afterwards, the Hundred Cavalry Division came looking for him.

The arrangement of the secret guards was Li Chengqian's responsibility.

"What they're thinking is nothing more than getting rid of Yuan Tiangang in the future. When they find out about them, they'll use this incident to clear their suspicion." Li Chengqian sighed and said, "As for Yuan Tiangang, the Yang family must have made up their minds to completely turn against him. Even if Yuan Tiangang is not dead today, they will hunt him down to death."

"Yuan Tiangang is no longer a threat." Changsun Wuji suddenly looked up.

"When the Yang family realized that I suspected them and Yuan Tiangang, and I had no intention of cleaning out the Yang family, it was destined that Yuan Tiangang would be abandoned by the Yang family." Li Chengqian nodded lightly.

"Your Majesty is very capable." Changsun Wuji sighed in admiration.

From dismissing Yang Shidao, to forcing Yang Sijing to come to Beijing, to finding the whereabouts of Yuan Tiangang, and finally suddenly letting go of Yang Shidao and the Hongnong Yang family.

This all of a sudden gave the Hongnong Yang family a great sense of luck.

Once this lucky opportunity arose, the Hongnong Yang family naturally had to take action to eliminate the problem.

At present, Yuan Tiangang, who has been exposed to the emperor's eyes, is the only and necessary option.

However, Yuan Tiangang's assassination in Da Ci'en Temple was surprising.

However, it was precisely because of this that Yang made up his mind to take action against Yuan Tiangang.

At the same time, this is also a disguised way to express loyalty to the emperor.

The Yang family of Hongnong may have engaged in some despicable deeds, but they absolutely had no intention of rebelling against the Tang Dynasty.

That's enough.

At least that's the case with Li Chengqian.

Li Chengqian smiled lightly and said, "What I really care about are some unknown secrets of Yuan Tiangang.

In fact, even if he survived, he would no longer pose any threat.

Especially today, that prophecy has been destroyed by me."

Changsun Wuji nodded in agreement.

Today, Yuan Tiangang's body was paraded through the streets of Chang'an City.

Li Chengqian did not make his name public, and used the name of a Zoroastrian leader or even the leader of the sect. But in fact, all the noble families in the entire Chang'an City who knew that Yuan Tiangang was still alive understood that Yuan Tiangang, who created the prophecy, was dead.

It was not the person that the prophecy corresponded to who died, but Yuan Tiangang himself who fabricated it.

This means that the prophecy was a conspiracy from the beginning.

From now on, no matter who uses this prophecy, they are plotting a conspiracy.

This prophecy no longer has any value.

Li Chengqian looked up and smiled, "If he really died in that fire, that would be the best. If not, we can figure out all the secrets surrounding Yuan Tiangang in the future... Actually, fundamentally, I still have some instinctive suspicions in my heart."

The emperor's suspicion.

"Your Majesty is right to think so." Changsun Wuji nodded in agreement and said, "If Yuan Tiangang is still alive, although the danger is minimal, it will still cause trouble. The sooner we catch him, the better."

"I don't mind killing him." Li Chengqian shook his head and said, "I don't care about Yuan Tiangang as much as I care about those people behind Yuan Tiangang."

Yuan Tiangang's assassination at Da Ci'en Temple easily resulted in the death of nearly a hundred men. Even Changsun Wuji would not be able to sleep well unless their identities were clarified.

"The one who's connected to them now is the Yang family." Changsun Wuji's expression grew serious, and he added, "At least they're more controllable."

"Yes, the Yang family has no intentions. Without the Yang family's cooperation, those people can't actually do anything." After a brief pause, Li Chengqian looked at Zhangsun Wuji and asked, "Uncle, what do you think of those people? Who are they?"

Zhang Sun Wuji breathed a sigh of relief, glanced at Chang'an City ahead, and said, "If I were to guess, they are undoubtedly those who are against the Tang Dynasty, not the group led by Prince Yin, otherwise they would have fought among themselves."

Although Li Jiancheng's group still refused to acknowledge the outcome of the Xuanwu Gate Incident, they acknowledged the Tang Dynasty. Naturally, they were not the same group as Yuan Tiangang and his people who wanted to completely overthrow the Tang Dynasty.

"Although Yang Guang died in Yangzhou, there were still some people loyal to the Former Sui Dynasty." Zhang Sun Wuji looked up and said, "For example, Yang Guang's imperial guards. Although Wang Shichong, Dou Jiande, Yu Wenzhi, and the Tang Dynasty purged many of those loyal to the Former Sui Dynasty at the end of the Sui Dynasty, some still survived."

Although Yang Guang incurred the wrath of heaven and people because of his three expeditions to Goguryeo, and eventually his country was destroyed and his family was ruined, there are a group of people who will not blame Yang Guang for this.

Those were the imperial guards that Yang Guang had raised at great expense.

There are always three nails in a rotten ship. Even if they have been purged, their people have dispersed, or they have simply died of old age over the years, these people still exist.

"Not to mention, Empress Xiao and Yang Zhengdao are still alive." Changsun Wuji glanced at Li Chengqian cautiously and whispered, "This may be the reason why the Hongnong Yang family and those people are still unwilling to give up."

Empress Xiao, the queen of Yang Guang.

Yang Zhengdao, Yang Guang's grandson.

Although it doesn't cause much trouble, the human heart can never be broken.

Li Chengqian's eyes.

He narrowed his eyes slightly.

(End of this chapter)