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Chapter 907 Brutal killing without warning

In March, the winter wheat on the Shandong Plain is already half a foot high, and in two months, this crop of winter wheat will be harvested.

However, most of the winter wheat here is grown on dry land, which is still somewhat inadequate compared to the wheat irrigated by Chang'an's dense canals.

Yunchu got off his horse and came to the wheat field. He pulled up a clump of winter wheat. After looking at the root system, he found that the root system of the winter wheat, which should have a well-developed root system, was no better than that of the wheat sown in spring on the Chang'an Plain.

Just in time, Li Hong's car passed by here. Seeing Master standing in the farmland, he got out of the car and walked over, "Have you found anything, Master?"

Yunchu threw away the wheat seedlings in his hand and said, "Didn't it snow in Shandong last winter?"

Li Hong thought for a while and said: "There was a heavy snowfall in early December. I still remember that the officials in Yanzhou reported that the snow was causing disasters. My father also allocated [-] guan and asked the local officials in Yanzhou to make up [-] guan. People whose houses have collapsed build shelters from the cold."

Yunchu pointed to the winter wheat seedlings on the ground and said, "Obviously, there is no heavy snow in Yanzhou in December, at least, the disaster caused by the heavy snow is not enough to cause the people's houses to collapse."

Li Hong has been a farmer since he was a child, and he is familiar with the things in the fields. He glanced at the wheat seedlings that his master had discarded on the ground, then picked them up and said, "The taproot of winter wheat should be half a foot at this time, and it is less than half a foot here. It is caused by the lack of water in winter."

Yun Chu said: "I also remember the snow disaster appropriation in Yanzhou last year. I split the money from the profits of various state-owned stores in Chang'an. For this reason, many shopkeepers are quite dissatisfied. Now, if the snow disaster in Yanzhou does not exist If so, I would like to ask where did the eight thousand coins we allocated to Yanzhou go?"

Li Hong nodded and said: "Since this is the case, we must investigate. Come, someone, immediately investigate the growth of winter wheat in Yanzhou, and also go to the Taoist sect under the Sitianjian to check whether there was snow in Yanzhou last December."

Yun Chu said again: "This is a very serious problem."

Li Hong nodded and said: "I know, this is a clear proof that Yanzhou officials ignore the imperial power. They dared to fabricate the disaster situation casually and defrauded the disaster relief money from my father, and the imperial court knew nothing about it. This shows that Yanzhou officials, Rotten from top to bottom."

Yun Chu thought for a moment and said, "Do you dare to kill these people?"

Li Hongdao: "Master, do you think it's time for the disciple to stand up?"

Yun Chu said: "Go and discuss with Xu Jingzong how to do it."

Li Hong nodded and went back.

The gentle former army Sima was deprived by the emperor, so now he has joined the army of Yunchu's middle army. He saw Yunchu leave the brigade and ran to the wheat field to look at the wheat seedlings, and even chatted with Li Hong for a long time. Di Renjie said: "Xue Changfeng obviously went to Youzhou, why did he leave so many secret reports in Yanzhou?"

Di Renjie said: "Xue Changfeng is actually a very cautious person. The reason why he wrote these things that the Baiqisi can detect as a secret report for us shows that the Baiqisi here is rotten. The officials are complicit."

Gentle yawned and said: "If such an official is in Chang'an, he is very suitable to be skinned and boned to be made into a skeleton man, and given to the Imperial Hospital as a teaching tool."

Di Renjie glanced at Wen Wen angrily and said, "If the entire Tang Dynasty follows this approach, I think there will be a mountain of skeletons in the Imperial Hospital."

Gentlely shook his head and said: "Forget what you can't see. Since you have seen it, then don't let it go. Our brothers have killed hundreds of evil people in Chang'an in the past ten years, and only then have we reversed the atmosphere in Chang'an. Do it, and always It’s better than not doing it.”

Di Renjie sighed and said, "It's not legal after all."

Yunchu led the army around the emperor's car and drove on the land of Yanzhou for three days before arriving at Yanzhou City.

The officials of Yanzhou, big and small, had already greeted the emperor's car a hundred miles away.
Just when these officials were thinking about how to serve the emperor well so as to further their future, the soldiers and horses led by Prince Six rushed past them like a tide.

This crushing is not an adjective, but a real crushing. These cavalry horses trampled over these officials.

After the [-] heavy armored cavalry swept across the site where the welcoming officials were, only the stumped limbs and broken arms and dilapidated corpses were left on the ground.

Prince Li Hongduan sat on the horse, his eyes were icy cold, the war horse walked around the land full of corpses, and then said to Xiao Siye behind him: "One person from 220?"

Xiao Siye clasped his fists on the horse and said: "From the governor to the eighth-rank palm guard, one is not bad, and the other is not bad. There are three people who complained, and they also cancel the complaint and come here."

Li Hong said again: "No innocent people were hurt, right?"

Xiao Siye said: "When they come, the last general will strictly order them not to bring any servants with them."

Li Hong nodded and said: "Then go to the city, start searching and confiscating the house according to the list, and seize people."

Xiao Siye licked his dry lips, and gave an order to lead the prince and six others to rush towards Yanzhou City, a hundred miles away, and kill anyone who encountered obstacles along the way.

For Prince Li Hong's sudden violent killing, the accompanying civil and military officials were only stunned for a moment, and countless officials from Shandong took off their official hats, tied their hands, and knelt down before the emperor Luanjia to plead guilty.

Li Jingxuan and the rest of the officials were silent and silent. Until now, they still don't understand why the prince would do such a beast in Yanzhou.

Seeing the crazy appearance of those officials related to Yanzhou, Li Zhi slowly got off the Luanjia, stood among the group of courtiers and asked, "Are they really wronged?"

Kong Zhixuan slowly raised his dusty head, and said to the emperor, "Your Majesty, the crown prince will be punished for refusing to teach."

Li Zhi held the jade belt with both hands, and said to Kong Zhixuan: "You should be lucky, instead of continuing to make noise here, those people are dead, and the matter will end here.

Mencius told King Xuan of Qi, saying: When the king regards his ministers like brothers and feet, the ministers regard the emperor as his heart;

The situation is not like this now. I regard the officials of Yanzhou as my heart, but they regard my lord as a bandit. If this is the case, should I treat them kindly? "

Kong Zhixuan said: "What crime did they commit, so that they were trampled into meat by the prince's troops?"

Li Zhi looked at the place where the tragedy happened in the distance, and said indifferently: "Don't talk about the prince, he is actually helping you get rid of future troubles, and he is not cruel. If he doesn't act, you will see an even more cruel one." I!
Kong Zhixuan, I'm here to ask you, are the bandits in Liangshan really nothing to do with your Kong family? "

Kong Zhixuan looked up at the emperor slowly standing up, and said calmly: "I really don't know, Kong really doesn't know."

Li Zhi looked at Kong Zhixuan and said, "I would like to believe that you are a descendant of the master, but now you explain to me the blizzard in Yanzhou last December. There is no waiting for a moment to fight the fire, so I bypassed the cumbersome appropriation process of the Ministry of Accounts and directly ordered Chang'an to allocate [-] guan to Yanzhou... I have saved the people like fighting a fire.

Kong Zhixuan, come and tell me, did Yanzhou really encounter an unbearable snowstorm in December last year? "

Kong Zhixuan said with a puzzled face: "The emergency report from Zhang Dazuo, the governor of Yanzhou, first came to the hands of my ministers. The emergency report said that it was snowing heavily in Yanzhou. In the wilderness, countless people died of freezing, could it be, could it be that... this is not true?"

Li Zhi looked at Kong Zhixuan with a wry smile and said, "On the morning of December [-]th last year, it was indeed snowing in Yanzhou. It started to snow from the quarter of the Mao hour, and stopped at the second quarter of the Xu hour. -"

Kong Zhixuan was dumbfounded, and after a long while he roared: "Zhang Da is a thief, how dare he deceive this old man to this point, Your Majesty, it's a humble minister who didn't investigate, and made His Majesty ashamed, Kong Zhixuan, death penalty!"

Li Zhi waved his hand wearily to the seventeen officials kneeling on the ground and said, "Forget it, forget it, the crown prince has already killed people for you, so let's let this matter go. I only hope that you can still respect my father, and know that you are the king. The Great Tang court served, and I remember your beliefs when you entered the officialdom."

It wasn't until Luanjia started to move forward that the people who escaped from death got up from the ground and looked at the direction of Yanzhou City one by one, with indescribable seriousness and dignity.

Li Jingxuan came to Kong Zhixuan at this time and said viciously: "Kong Zhixuan, if His Majesty can forgive you, do you think the princes in the court can be as magnanimous as His Majesty?"

Facing the emperor, Kong Zhixuan really felt ashamed, but when facing Li Jingxuan, Kong Zhixuan put his hands into his sleeves and said indifferently: "Go ahead and impeach him."

Li Jingxuan said with a sneer: "This time, it is the Kong family who took the initiative to cooperate with His Majesty in the land reform and saved your Kong family. Your Majesty only spared your life because you valued the pioneering role of your Kong family.

That being the case, if His Majesty has forgiven you, you should repay His Majesty well. If there is another disturbance in it, there will be no place for you in the whole world. "

Kong Zhixuan said: "Go ahead and impeach me."

Li Jingxuan sneered and said: "Who will go to the book to impeach you and talk to you about the effort, next time, if your Kong family makes a mistake, you will definitely not face the face of the old man, but the face of the Tang Dynasty. The iron hooves of soldiers.

At that time, no matter how many years or generations your Kong family has lasted, it will all be wiped out under the iron heel of the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty. "

Without saying a word, Kong Zhixuan got into his carriage, slowly closed his eyes, and two lines of tears flowed down his cheeks.

Yunchu's army passed by the place where the massacre had just taken place. At this moment, the corpses on the ground had been collected by Prince Liu's men and thrown into a big pit, and were being buried.

The place smells awful.

Wen Rou opened his eyes, and said to Yun Chu; "Before, the crown prince was always against His Majesty's New Deal, and His Majesty was dissatisfied these days. Now, the Crown Prince is working hard to share the fate with His Majesty, and there should be no more troubles." Are you disrespecting your father's bastard words?"

Yun Chu said: "It's pretty good, it's better than everyone just chewing my tongue."

(End of this chapter)