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Chapter 1230: How Powerful Officials Are Made
The emperor is the state, and the state is the emperor.

Although Li Zhi did not say such words, he did it.

Yunchu had been in Jiucheng Palace for three days.

I played board games with the great Emperor of the Tang Dynasty for three days.

His Majesty Li Zhi had countless talented people under his command. People might not think of them as board games. However, after the emperor created the first board game, they developed seven or eight excellent board games in a very short time.

Each game is created quickly based on assumptions about the Emperor's safety and various possible events that he is concerned about.

On the third day, Yun Chu had undoubtedly become the disgusting villain again. In the Tang Dynasty world, conspiracies and tricks emerged one after another, and his vile and shameless vicious means frequently succeeded, forcing the Justice League headed by the emperor to struggle hard... Of course, the Justice League would win in the end, and the whole game ended with the evil villain Yun Chu being torn into pieces by five horses.

An angry Yun Chu threw away the script and roared, "Will I dig up the Yellow River and flood the Central Plains?"

As soon as he said this, the director Li Zhi threw a cup at him.

"You think I'm a dead man, right? Who are you going to be?"

Li Zhi was one-eyed, so he couldn't hit people accurately with the cup. Yun Chu didn't dodge at all, so the cup hit Ruishun on the left on the head.

Ruichun’s martial arts skills are very high, but he didn’t dare to dodge the cup thrown by the emperor.

"I was just torn into pieces by your majesty's newly designed five-ox dismemberment method. I am dead now."

Li Zhi laughed and said, "When Xue Rengui takes Hanzhong and cuts off the connection between Chang'an and Shuzhong, you will lose."

"But I blew up Jiange and blocked the road to Shu. If you can let Xue Rengui learn from Deng Ai and enter Shu once, I will definitely beat the shit out of Xue Rengui in the mountains."

Upon hearing this, Li Zhi ignored Xue Rengui's angry face and said to his attendant: "Continue to study how to better attack Shuzhong under the premise of sufficient gunpowder.

And Tongguan!"

Yun Chu said helplessly: "Tongguan has been abandoned..."

Li Zhi glanced at Yun Chu and said, "It can still be repaired."

"A city built on sand, with the Yellow River below. The Yellow River keeps cutting down, and Tongguan is getting higher and higher compared to the river level. Is there any need to rebuild it?

Your Majesty, how about you take control of Chang'an, and I will be the prince's vanguard..."

"Get out-"

When Yun Chu left Jiucheng Palace, he was sent out by Ruichun.

Ruichun looked at the dry mountain and said, "Your Majesty will believe it, right?"

Yun Chu sighed and said, "The troops besieging Chang'an have returned to the camp."

Ruichun said: "It's very dangerous."

Yun Chu said: "So I came."

Ruichun nodded and said, "That's right, your Majesty is a great leader, and only the truth can make him let down his guard."

Yun Chu shook his head and said, "Your Majesty is not worried, but afraid. He is old. However, Your Majesty will definitely go to Daming Palace."

"What?"

"Pick the tallest one among the short ones. After His Majesty has considered the people he can trust, he will find that Daming Palace is the best place for him to retire."

Ruichun said: "The Emperor and Empress live in two different capitals. Aren't you afraid that the Tang Dynasty will be divided?"

Yun Chu rolled her eyes at Ruichun and said, "Do you think the prince is dead?"

Ruichun let out a long sigh and said, "It's finally quiet."

Yun Chu sneered: "The current silence is just brewing for the next bigger turmoil."

After saying that, Yun Chu spurred his horse and galloped towards Chang'an.

When Zhou Xing executed prisoners, he liked to do so in crowded places. Only by allowing more people to see the fate of the prisoners would the execution have more educational significance.

The entrance to Xishi is such a good place.

Those executed today were the thirty-nine members of the family of Yang Jian, General of the Left Guard.

Those who had their entire family killed by the government were all very remarkable people, such as Yang Jian. People from the Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple seized two thousand kilograms of gunpowder and one hundred and twenty pieces of armor from Yang Jian's home. The armory in his home was no worse than that of the Zhechoufu.

As a general among the six generals of the crown prince when Li Zhi started his career, if it was just a matter of hiding military equipment, the most he would end up doing is dismissal from office and deprivation of his title. Unfortunately, this man always thought that he had made great contributions and was unwilling to explain the whereabouts of the gunpowder, armor, bows and crossbows, gunpowder bombs and kerosene bombs that were lost by the Zuowei over the years.

This made Zhou Xing very angry. Over the past decade, Zuowei had lost no less than 10,000 kilograms of gunpowder, not to mention other things.

Now, when he was about to be beheaded, the white-haired Yang Jian began to panic, pointing at Zhou Xing who was sitting on the execution platform and shouting: "Zhou Xing, if you dare to execute me without the third deliberation, His Majesty will not forgive you."

Zhou Xing seemed not to have heard what Yang Jian said. He just raised his head and looked at the sun in the sky. As soon as it was three quarters after noon, he was ready to throw the token on the table down and have Yang Jian's family beheaded when the sun was at its hottest and the yang energy was at its strongest, so that they would not even be able to walk as ghosts.

More than 10,000 kilograms of gunpowder, more than 300 sets of armor, no less than 500 standard military bows and crossbows, plus some miscellaneous things, these things are enough to deal with a medium-sized war.

He is the General of the Left Guard and has no less than 500 personal soldiers under his command. He has to get those things back now.

The criminals who were beheaded in the West Market in the past few days were of higher status than each other, and the number of their implicated family members was also increasing. As a result, when the people of Chang'an watched the criminals being beheaded, the scene became more and more spectacular.

Yang Jian was a third-rank official. In a sense, he was only one step away from the highest position among the officials of the Tang Dynasty. Killing such a person must have been a very cautious matter in the court. Even if the emperor wanted to kill him, he would need to discuss with his officials again and again to see if this person could be forgiven. If there was no possibility of forgiveness, the officials would also plead with the emperor, hoping to spare the lives of the elderly, the weak, women and children in his family.

Generally speaking, as long as it was not a serious crime such as treason, the emperor would often approve the ministers' requests and only the main culprit would be executed in the end.

Almost all the main criminals killed by Zhou Xing in the past few days were qualified for the "three discussions", but it was obvious that the emperor did not intend to give them this qualification. As long as the person was found guilty, he would be killed without mercy.

Seeing that it was already three quarters after noon, Zhou Xing excitedly picked up the token and threw it down. Amid the howlings of Yang Jian's family, the executioner picked up the token and asked his assistant to press the heads of the thirty-nine people on the wooden block. Six executioners took turns working and soon chopped off the thirty-nine heads.

The head was rolling all over the ground, but a clay pot was placed on the neck of the corpse to prevent the blood from flowing everywhere.

All 39 members of Yang Jian's family died, including his mother, his wife and concubine, four sons, their wives and concubines, and sons. As for the rest of the female family members, they were all taken to the Yunting Palace.

The scene was horrific, so Yun Chu did not watch it. He also deliberately avoided the West Market and went straight back to the Wannian County Government in the East Market from Zhuque Street.

He can save Yang Jian. He has the emperor's edict in his arms. As long as Yun Chu opens the edict, Chang'an will immediately return to peace. All the prisoners will have to wait for retrial by the Ministry of Justice, and everything will return from the emergency state to its normal rhythm.

In this way, Yang Jian might not die.

For Yun Chu, Yang Jian must die. Sixty percent of the gunpowder that spread to Chang'an City came from Zuowei, and some of the gunpowder used by Yun's guards also came from Zuowei.

Other generals would embezzle some military equipment and sell it away, and they would know to avoid people and the quantities would be small. Only Yang Jian was determined to make this business with no capital bigger and stronger. When buying and selling military equipment, he only cared about money and not people.

So, people like this are dead when they die.

As soon as Yun Chu returned to the government residence, he saw Li Xian sitting in his seat and scolding his officials.

Yun Chu did not disturb them, but listened outside for a while. Only when Li Xian gave the order to attack Zhang Jia did Yun Chu push the door open.

Without waiting for greeting, Yun Chu said to Li Xian: "Hurry up and pack up, let's go to Jiucheng Palace right away!"

Li Xian's heart tightened as he looked at Yun Chu and said, "My father is angry?"

Yun Chu sighed and said, "Your Majesty has been torturing me these past few days. I was almost torn into pieces by five horses several times."

Li Xian's face turned visibly pale, and he asked in a trembling voice, "But is there something wrong with my visit to the troops these days?"

Yun Chu nodded and said, "Go ahead. His Majesty is just about to discuss with you what will happen to the Tang Dynasty if you seize control of Chang'an."

Li Xian's legs went limp and he immediately fell to the ground. He stretched out his hand to Yun Chu and said, "Sir, save me."

Yun Chu said coldly: "Only His Majesty can save you."

Li Xian was obviously frightened. He left the official residence with a wailing, running while shouting to prepare the horse, looking very anxious. It seemed that he really enjoyed playing board games with the emperor.

Ever since Yun Chu entered the house, Zhang Jia and his crew seemed to have regained their courage.

The servants outside the door were very considerate and helped the county lord to replace the water and tea sets with new ones. They even took down the calligraphy and painting with the words "Open and Honest" that Li Xian had hung behind him.

Yun Chu sat back in his chair, and the others left the official residence. Yun Chu said to Zhang Jia tiredly, "It's over."

As he spoke, he took out the emperor's decree from his bosom and placed it on the table and continued to say to Zhang Jia: "It is said that the matter has been settled. We still have a little power to choose the time to stop."

After reading the decree, Zhang Jia came close to Yun Chu and said, "I can change the order of executing the prisoners..."

Yun Chu seemed not to have heard the price increase. When he closed his eyes, he began to snore.

Zhang Jia carefully covered the county magistrate with a blanket. Seeing that the fire in the official residence was burning brightly, he opened the window a crack, left the official residence and went straight to the Dali Temple.

In a few days, Yun Chu ran back and forth for 600 miles, and was forced by the emperor to play a high-intensity terrorist rebellion game for three days. Such hard work must be rewarded accordingly.

Yun Chu didn't like to have too many contacts with people in official circles, because the more he contacted with these people, he would find that the personal relationships were extremely weak, and the mainstream view of friendship was the exchange of interests.

Since it's all his fucking business, Yun Chu naturally doesn't want to be a person who only gives without asking for anything in return. The officialdom of Chang'an used to be a divided place, and now that the emperor is crazy, everyone needs to stick together to resist the danger that will come at who knows when.

Since the emperor has determined that he is the biggest culprit in Chang'an, Yun Chu feels that he must be the biggest culprit. Otherwise, it would be too unfair for him to be labeled a thief in vain when the emperor chops off his head in the name of the biggest culprit.

The emperor is almost unable to control the current Tang Dynasty, which is why the emperor is so crazy.

For the first time, Yun Chu discovered that many powerful officials might not be willing to be powerful officials, but were forced to do so.

(End of this chapter)