Fu Tang

Envoy Hong Ling knelt down after going up to the hall and said, "Your Majesty, there is an urgent report from the front line that the rebels have already begun to evacuate to Wuzhou, and the previously occupied Weizhou and Xinzhou have been slaughtered."

Li Congjia tightened his hand on the armrest of the throne, and asked in a deep voice, "What?"

After Hongling envoy finished his report, he directly submitted the memorial. After Li Congjia opened it and read it, he handed it over to Chun Sheng who was beside him. He blushed in anger and said, "It's unreasonable!"

Compared to Fan Zhi, Li Congjia looked calmer, but Zhao Pu, who was very familiar with him, could tell at a glance that his majesty was holding back his anger.

Zhao Pu stood on the side as quietly as a chicken, waiting for Li Congjia to get angry, but Li Congjia forcibly endured it and said, "Retire."

Everyone:? ? ? ? ?

They are still waiting for His Majesty to reveal the case and roar a few times, so they retreated?Wait, how to solve it?

How else can it be solved? Li Congjia wants all the Khitan people in the six prefectures of Yanyun to die, but can he directly say it at the Great Court Meeting?If he said it, Yu Shi would probably jump out again. Now Li Congjia's perception of Yu Shi is almost the same as that of keyboard warriors in later generations.

After the court, of course they didn't just rest there. The cabinet ministers agreed to do their own work and didn't ask Li Congjia how to solve it. Anyway, it was useless to ask, because they would probably go to the Privy Council if they wanted to find Li Congjia.

At this moment in the Privy Council, because of boredom, Shi Xueting was doing a sand table deduction with Li Ping and others, and then saw Li Congjia Shen coming in.

When Shi Xueting saw Li Congjia walking aggressively, he knew what he was swearing, so he couldn't help asking: "Who messed with you?"

Li Ping and Zhu Yuan looked at Shi Xueting very enviously. Except for Zhao Kuangyin who occasionally convulsed in the entire court, when talking to their majesty, only the national teacher can be so casual.

Li Congjia sat down and said with a sullen face, "The rebels have begun massacring the city."

Shi Xueting immediately understood Li Congjia's point of view, and immediately said: "It seems that Ye Luxian is behind the scenes."

Everyone knows that Ye Luxian is doing something, but they can't directly attack Khitan with force, or even condemn them. After all, the six prefectures of Yanyun have returned to Datang, and the people there are people from Datang Ah, who else can be responsible for Datang's own internal problems?

Li Congjia thought about it for a long time and said, "Pan Mei... Even if I secretly ask Pan Mei to kill all the Khitan people in Yanyun Six States, he wouldn't dare to do anything, would he?"

Shi Xueting looked at him speechlessly for a while and said: "Unless you make a clear order, no one would dare to do this."

Li Congjia said with great regret: "Whoever said that, brother and Zhao Kuangyin must dare."

Shi Xueting: ...

Comparing Pan Mei with two people who are almost indestructible?Is his heavy light going mad with anger?

Shi Xueting said: "Let's put this matter aside for now, and we'll talk about it after the Yanyun Six States are settled down."

What?put aside?If he could put it aside, why would he come to the Privy Council?He just came here to discuss how to deal with Khitan!

Li Congjia looked at Shi Xueting and found that Shi Xueting shook his head at him, so he could only hold back his words and said, "Li Ping told Pan Mei not to tie her hands and feet. As long as there is no problem with the strategy, I will take care of what happens."

Li Ping nodded vigorously, and then watched Li Congjia and Shi Xueting leave the Privy Council. The more he thought about it, the more he was wrong. He remembered that their Majesty was not such a talkative person?

Of course, no one expected that after Li Congjia returned to the study, before he could speak, Shi Xueting came over to wrap his arms around his waist and leaned into his ear and said, "As long as you nod your head, none of the Khitan people in Yanyun Six States will be able to live. "

Li Congjia wanted to push him away at first, but Shi Xueting's murderous look stopped him. After a while, he realized and said, "Will it be too dangerous?"

He knew that Shi Xueting was referring to dispatching people from the intelligence department. Although the intelligence department did have assassination training, but letting the people Shi Xueting trained with great difficulty to fight those ordinary people to death, isn't it a sledgehammer? ?If something unexpected happens, Li Congjia still feels sorry for his own people!

Seeing Li Congjia's hesitation, Shi Xueting said: "It doesn't matter if you don't want to do it, just don't think about it, leave it to me."

Li Congjia took his hand and said: "It's not that I can't do it, but that this kind of thing is really... impossible. The Khitan people who really have problems must run faster than rabbits. Now I'm just waiting to see what they will do." I won’t run back to Khitan, if I do, then I have an excuse.”

Yes, the reason why Li Congjia was able to suppress his temper was mainly because he was waiting. As soon as these people stepped across the border and took a step towards Khitan, he would immediately send troops to attack Khitan directly, no matter what the previous agreement was or was not. , let's talk!

In the past, Li Congjia thought that using violence to control violence was not a good way, but now he found that using violence to control violence is really wonderful.

Shi Xueting patted Li Congjia's head and said, "Don't be mad at yourself."

Li Congjia nodded. It was fine if some things were vented out of anger at that time. If they were not vented, they would be recorded in the little black book. Of course, Ye Luxian’s name probably already topped the list in Li Congjia’s little black book.

In the following time, Li Congjia didn't have the time to fight Khitan again, because Li Hongji and Zhao Kuangyin were coming back, even if they had decided not to award these two people before, the return of the army, especially the return of the army that opened up the territory, still needs to be grand Li Congjia paid close attention to this point of etiquette.

There is no way, this kind of matter is under the control of the Ministry of Rites. Previously, the civil official group expressed dissatisfaction with the large number of casualties in this expedition, and said that it would hurt the peace. Li Congjia was worried that these people would make trouble at the ceremony. Didn't it make the soldiers who went out and finally returned home feel disappointed?

But even in this busy state, Li Congjia still noticed that Shi Xueting was strange. He found that for at least ten days in a row, he could not see Shi Xueting during the day, and only at night would Shi Xueting come to accompany him. He sleeps together.

Even when Shi Xueting was busy, he was not so busy. Li Congjia felt very strange, but he couldn't find the opportunity to ask. After all, every time Shi Xueting came over, he either directly executed him on the spot or looked tired. Li Congjia forgot to ask because he looked so listless.

What's more, Shi Xueting told Li Congjia about something, and then disappeared without a word for half a month!During the past half month, Li Congjia's temper was very unstable, which made all the ministers a little bit unbearable, but no one thought about the absence of the national teacher, and they all speculated whether the Khitan massacre made Li Congjia angry.

Half a month later, when Shi Xueting came back, Li Congjia looked at him with a serious face, and decided to ask him carefully. He disappeared for so long after leaving a message, how courageous he is!

Li Congjia looked at Shi Xueting maliciously, and decided that if he didn't explain clearly, he would let Shi Xueting feel like kneeling on the washboard!

However, before Li Congjia could speak, Shi Xueting put a bloody waist card on the imperial case, and then sat there waiting for Li Congjia to ask questions.

Li Congjia's attention was diverted. After looking at the waist card on the imperial case through the silk handkerchief, he was sure that the waist card should belong to a Khitan. From the perspective of regulations, this person's status should not be low, so he asked: "How is this going?"

Shi Xueting said calmly: "There is no chance to kill Ye Luxian now, so let's use his brother to calm you down first."

Li Congjia: =口=

So this guy disappeared for so long because he was busy assassinating Yelu?And got it?

Even if Yeluzhi didn't have any sense of existence in Khitan, he was Yeluxian's younger brother anyway, and Yeluzhi was not abolished by Yelujing, blinded in one eye, and was castrated, but because of this, Ye Luxian raised him in the palace without burden, and was assassinated by Shi Xueting just like that?

Li Congjia looked up at Shi Xueting and asked, "Did you do it yourself?"

Shi Xueting nodded, and Li Congjia immediately stood up and said anxiously: "If you want to kill him, then send someone there. What risk do you take?"

Shi Xueting heaved a sigh of relief in his heart, just now he didn't dare to speak and he wasn't sure if Li Congjia was angry, but now he looked fine, not to the point of being particularly angry, so he came over and hugged Li Congjia again, resting his chin on Li Congjia's shoulder The boss said vaguely: "I did want to send someone to go there before, but I missed it, so I had to go there myself."

Li Congjia touched his bald head, he was angry and moved for a moment, so he could only say, "Don't do that next time."

Shi Xueting didn't speak, and held Li Congjia with his eyes half closed. He knew that although Li Congjia spoke fiercely, once a minister advised him not to fight, and many soldiers would die in vain, Li Congjia would usually hold back his temper , this time is the same, because there is no decent excuse, everyone thinks that it is enough to get rid of the rebel leader, and Li Congjia usually can only compromise.

It's the same this time, because it's not really the Khitan who launched the war, but the Khitan people who stayed in the six prefectures of Yanyun. If you really want to care about it, the Khitan can completely deny it, so what else can we do besides destroying those rebels? .

Shi Xueting also felt that Li Congjia was so angry with the Khitan not once or twice, and if he was not allowed to vent his anger, he would probably get sick from holding back his anger. Whether Yelu was dead or alive didn't have much impact on Khitan, at most it was Feel slapped in the face.

In the end, I didn't expect that such a simple thing would almost go wrong, and Shi Xueting went there in person to settle the matter, and also took away Yeluzhi's life.

Shi Xueting didn't speak, Li Congjia also hugged him in a daze, the two of them hugged each other for a while and didn't speak for a moment, after a while Li Congjia felt his shoulders sink, and Shi Xueting's long breath came from his ears, for a moment Between quite a little helpless.

Khitan killed a King Ning, because he was stabbed to death in the palace, which caused an uproar at the time. Of course, the point is that the palace guards let the assassin in because of negligence. For this reason, Khitan executed a group of people. As for Yelu, no one died. Concerned, even Ye Luxian buried him lightly and according to the rules, without showing much sadness.

Ye Luxian was obviously much more ruthless than Li Congjia. There was an assassination incident in the palace, even if he was not assassinated, he would have cleaned up the entire palace confinement team and beheaded everyone.

The soldiers of Tiance Mansion: I feel that I love my work even more.

Li Congjia's focus was different from theirs, and his first reaction was to ask Shi Xueting: "Are all of us safe?"

Shi Xueting said: "Two were exposed, the rest are fine."

Li Congjia let out a long sigh, knowing without asking that he must have been sacrificed.

Shi Xueting immediately comforted: "I have arranged the homes of the two of them, and the children have also been arranged to enter the academy, so people will take care of them. On the bright side, the two of them have cheated the guards of the entire Khitan Palace. The army is considered worthy of death."

Since of course he also understands this truth, and since those two people chose this profession, Shi Xueting must have explained the dangers to them clearly.

There was an assassination in Khitan, and there was a big turmoil in the entire imperial guard system, which affected thousands of people. The Khitan rebels on the side of the Yanyun six states suddenly lost control, and the Khitan rebels suddenly became extremely vulnerable. It even allowed Pan Mei to obtain evidence that the Khitan rebels had contact with the Khitan court.

The Khitan side reacted quickly after knowing about it, saying that those Khitan people had already disobeyed the imperial court when the Yanyun Six States were returned to Datang, and they were unwilling to return to Khitan, but because the Yanyun Six States were already affiliated to the Tang Dynasty , so those people have already been counted as the people of the Tang Dynasty, so they don't care anymore.

To sum up, the Khitan rebels have nothing to do with them.

The reaction of the rebels was also very quick. The news came back that they did not have any relationship with the Khitan, and they were avenging the Koreans!

When Li Congjia first heard about it, he thought his ears were broken, so he asked in disbelief, "Wait? What did they say? Revenge for the Koreans?"

Shi Xueting nodded speechlessly, and Li Congjia said with a smile: "Look at it, the great discovery of the century, the Khitans helped the Koreans to avenge, are the Koreans their father or their mother?"

Nima, dare to say some reliable reasons?Even if you say that you have no revenge for Yelu, it is more reliable than revenge for the Koreans, right?Is this a lie?

Of course, these rebels certainly wouldn't say that they didn't take revenge for Yeluzhi, otherwise, wouldn't that mean that they were actually related to Khitan?

Shi Xueting was already immune to the unfamiliar words that popped out of Li Congjia's mouth, and everyone else thought Li Congjia was dumbfounded and said nothing.

However, Li Congjia only said that, and quickly calmed down and said: "Since they are the descendants of Goryeo, I would rather kill them by mistake than let them go, so let's just kill them."

Everyone:? ? ? ? ? ?

Li Congjia suddenly became happy again: "Hey, the excuse they made is really good. Well, go and tell Pan Mei that since these people are all Koreans, then don't hold back. Anyone who follows him will be killed!"

Everyone: Your Majesty is going crazy.

Fan Zhi just wanted to say that you can’t do this. Since ancient times, even the heinous rebels have not killed all the rebels. Oh, this dynasty before the Han Dynasty has been wiped out since ancient times. After all, it was still very barbaric at that time, and Confucianism had not yet It is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and they also believe in reincarnation and rebirth, so they don't take human life seriously, but it's different now, especially since the Qin Dynasty, the end result of a dynasty's excessive killing is the death of the second generation, and no one wants to work hard to accompany the boss to create It's not a foundation, and then turn around and die, okay?

Even if they can't see it themselves, they have to think about future generations!

Li Congjia said: "They are all Khitan people. Even if their lives are spared, it will be a hidden danger in the future. They don't admit that they have a relationship with Khitan. If they send them back to Khitan, Khitan will definitely not accept them. Then what should we do? Should we keep them?" Are you wasting food? You might as well kill them all, since there aren’t many people anyway.”

Everyone: It seems very reasonable.

Wei Renpu suddenly asked: "Your Majesty is not afraid of being called a tyrant?"

Li Congjia waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, if you really want to say that I am a tyrant, I would have been called a tyrant if I instigated rebellion, so what about a tyrant? I didn't do anything for that reputation."

The cabinet ministers immediately turned off their fire. As long as Li Congjia was firm in his work and didn't even care about his reputation, it meant that no one could oppose him.

Fan Zhi still tried hard: "Maybe there will be bewitched Han Chinese among the rebels, what should we do with these people?"

Li Congjia said: "Since you have been bewitched, you must be used to obeying those people. Why do such people come here?"

Fan Zhi was a little impatient: "How can Your Majesty do this? Since they are all citizens of the Tang Dynasty, of course we must save them!"

Li Congjia: I never expected that the first assistant he selected would be a real gentleman.

A true gentleman is always contagious, so even if he didn't want to, Li Congjia said, "I'll let Pan Mei pay attention."

However, Li Congjia didn't have any expectations for this. The less educated the easier it is to be brainwashed, not to mention the people in the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun have been ruled by Khitan for many years, and the ten prefectures of Yanyun returned to the Tang Dynasty after so many years It was only gradually integrated with the entire Tang Dynasty. For the Yanyun six states... Li Congjia was so hungry that there was still a long way to go.

Pan Mei is also spiritual. After receiving the order, there is no problem with the order. However, in the process of execution, if there are Han people who can be captured, they will naturally be arrested first. When the time comes, it will be up to the higher authorities to decide whether to release or chop.

As for those who stubbornly resisted and planned to follow the Khitan all the way to the dark, Pan Mei did not give up at all, and chopped off directly. When the Han people returned to the Tang Dynasty, they actually cut off all those people when they withdrew!

When Li Congjia heard the news, he couldn't help but take a look at Fan Zhi. Seeing Fan Zhi's face twitching and about to explode, he knew that these people had no reason to believe in Pan Mei.

But Pan Mei gave the reason, and it is impossible for them to hold on to it. What's more, there used to be civil servants in the army, such as marching commanders, but now although there are these positions, they have all been converted into The military position, that is to say, the entire army is colluding, and the civilian officials can't get any evidence that Pan Mei lied!

Li Congjia held back his laughter and said seriously: "It seems that these Khitan people were bewitching the Han people in the first place just to use shouters as cannon fodder. It really is very hateful, but I believe that General Pan will be able to teach these Khitan people a lesson."

Fan Zhixin glanced at Li Congjiaxin and said: Don't think we don't know that you instigated this, forget it, whoever asks the soldiers to listen to the emperor, they really can't control it.

It was through this time that the civil servants fully realized that the era when they could influence generals seems to have passed. This kind of cognition is extremely uncomfortable for the civil servants, so now they hope that there will be no wars and world peace. It will develop according to their will.

Now the entire cabinet is holding an idea: Can you conquer the world immediately, and can you rule the world immediately?

So they are very resistant to war now, feeling that as long as Datang is fighting, it seems that their achievements will be easily obliterated, and historians will also pick the key points!

Concerning the conflict between civil servants and generals, Li Congjia didn't want to change it in the past, and he didn't know how to change it. He could only comfort himself that this could be regarded as another check and balance strategy.

Pan Mei was very successful in chasing down the rebels, and these rebels were really stubborn. Li Congjia had been waiting for them to run to Khitan when they couldn't bear it anymore. For this reason, he specifically told Pan Mei not to kill them so quickly.

As a result, these people would rather run here and there than take a step towards Khitan. Li Congjia was anxiously waiting for news in Chang'an.

Seeing that he was anxious, Shi Xueting said, "Now that they refuse to bow their heads, it means that they are not at the end of their rope, or that Khitan has something they can't resist."

Li Congjia said disconsolately: "At first I thought I could trick the Khitan."

Even if they don't fight, with such an excuse, they can threaten Khitan, at least some cattle and sheep will come over, who would dislike having too many supplies?

Shi Xueting had no choice but to say: "It's fine as it is now, the wool has not been received yet, let's talk about it after receiving it."

Only then did Li Congjia nodded and said, "If it really doesn't work, forget it. The suppression of the rebellion took too long, and if this continues, Yushi will jump again."

While talking, Li Congjia sent Pan Mei a handwritten letter, but before the handwritten letter reached Pan Mei, the news that Pan Mei almost died in Wuzhou Governor's Mansion came back, along with Wuzhou The news that the city was burned.