Vol 2 Chapter 2484: Death of Li Shimin (Part 1)

Chapter 2484 Death of Li Shimin (Part 1)

Chapter 2480: Death of Li Shimin (Part 1)

Li Shimin's defeated army fled back to Chang'an from Ximen.

 Under Li Yuanba's forcible intervention, the massacre of the aristocratic family by the violent army in Xicheng was quickly stopped.

However, it is obviously too late to stop it at this time.

It took Li Shimin two days to lead his army out of the city for a decisive battle, and it took two days for the Tang army in the city to massacre the aristocratic families in the city.

 In these two days of killing power, the main members of the Xicheng family have been killed by the Tang Dynasty's violent army, leaving only a few old, young, women and children.

Li Yuanba did not want to contact the families of those who died in vain. First, he did not know how to face them. Second, he did not know how to arrange these people. Third, he still needed to deal with 30% of the atrocities in the northeast and south.

Li Yuanba saw that Ji Fa had also fled back, and he had heard from Li Shimin that Ji Fa, the son of Ji Chang, the prefect of Longxi, had outstanding abilities in both civil and military affairs, so he handed over the mess to Ji Chang, and he himself led the troops. Stop atrocities in three other urban areas.

I don’t know if I don’t go here, but I’ll be shocked when I go.

The situation in Xicheng District has been settled, but the worst situation was in Nancheng District, where all the aristocratic families, men, women, old and young, were all slaughtered by Li Tang's violent army.

After the Tang army in Xicheng killed all the wealthy families, they did not stop killing. Instead, they aimed their butcher knives at wealthy households and businessmen, and started a new round of massacres.

Seeing this, Li Longji, who was responsible for suppressing the rebellion in Nancheng, and the rest of the Tang army who stayed behind, also realized that the situation was a bit out of control. After all, wealthy households and businessmen essentially belonged to the common people.

 The aristocratic family launched a rebellion, so they killed the aristocratic family.

But the people have not rebelled, so how can they start killing lightly?

Many generals headed by Li Longji sensibly stood up to stop them, but their soldiers were already red-eyed and did not listen to their orders at all.

 Several generals saw this and decided to enforce the order, but were killed by their out-of-control soldiers.

Since then, the situation in West City has completely gone out of control. It has been ravaged by the violent army and turned into a **** on earth, with blood flowing like rivers.

When Li Yuanba saw Li Longji, he went up to him and picked up his collar, roaring: "Li Longji, what do you do for a living? You are still a soldier, but you can't even control your own troops."

Li Longji looked defeated. He wanted to say that he did not want to be a military general, but a scholar, but his current identity was after all a general of the Tang Dynasty.

“Cousin Yuanba, it’s my cousin who is incompetent. The soldiers are furious. Longji really can’t control it.”

Li Longji decisively chose to admit his mistake, because if he refused to admit his mistake, he might anger Li Yuanba, and the other party might accidentally crush him to death, and his death would be in vain.

Li Yuanba also lost his temper when he saw this. Li Longji admitted his mistake and his own lack of ability. He couldn't really kill him.

“When the second brother wakes up, go and apologize to him yourself.”

Although Li Yuanba wanted to kill Li Longji, he finally let him go and immediately led people to stop the atrocities in Nancheng District.

Shortly afterwards, the violent armies in Dongcheng District and Beicheng District were also put down by Master Wei Hu and his disciples.

 After statistics, it was found that Li and Tang's rebels had been executed recently, which stopped the riot, and the total number of people who died in the riot reached one hundred thousand.

 Half a day later.

 “Second brother, second brother…”

 Amidst Li Yuanba’s concerned shouts, Li Shimin slowly opened his eyes.

"Yuanba, second brother had a nightmare. He dreamed that we were fighting to the death with Wang Jian at the Haojing ruins, and you were facing Yuwen Chengdu. But in the dream, second brother was defeated, and it was a miserable defeat, but not I don’t know if you’ve won or not.”

 This was the first thing Li Shimin said after waking up. It was obvious that he could not accept what had happened, so he wanted to use dreams to excuse and anesthetize himself.

 What can Li Yuanba do about this? After being silent for a while, he said: "Second brother, that was not a dream, it was because Yuanba was useless and failed to defeat Yuwen Chengdu."

When Li Shimin heard this, he no longer had any luck in his heart, and he wailed in pain.

"Ah...Wang Jian, Wang Jian, I, Li Shimin, will kill you."

After scolding Wang Jian, Li Shimin had to accept the fact that he was defeated, and then said: "Tell me, how many men and horses were lost in the battle of Haojing? Tell the truth, I can withstand it."

 The generals below looked at each other in confusion, and finally Yuwentai stood up and reported:

"My Lord, our army suffered a disastrous defeat in the Battle of Haojing. Only 15,000 of the 60,000-strong army fled back to Chang'an. We lost 45,000 infantry and cavalry troops, including 38,000 infantry and 7,000 cavalry. ”

Li Shimin's face turned a little paler when he heard this.

 He guessed that the losses in this fiasco would be considerable, but he did not expect them to be so great, and this was obviously not all.

 “What about the losses to the generals?” Li Shimin asked tremblingly.

“More than seventy generals including Changsun Wuji, Xu Rong, Ma Shanwei, Xin Wenli, Kang Anyu…all failed to return to Chang’an.”

Hearing this, Li Shimin could no longer bear the blow. He spat out a mouthful of old blood with a 'pop' sound, and then fainted. It took two hours for him to wake up again.

 After waking up again, Li Shimin became even weaker. He kept telling himself not to think about the loss of Haojing, that was a thing of the past, but the chaos in Chang'an still needed him to solve.

Li Shimin was very puzzled. He had clearly arranged everything before leaving, so why did it end up in this situation now?

For Li Shimin, the top priority is to find out what happened in Chang'an after he left. How did the Tang army, which had always been strict in military discipline, slaughter aristocratic families like crazy? Even attack civilians?

Li Shimin asked about Li Yuanba next to him, but Li Yuanba was clumsy and hesitated for a long time, but he still couldn't explain clearly.

This is not to blame Li Yuanba. Although his intelligence has recovered, it is still above the level of ordinary people.

As for the game between the various forces in Chang'an City, the situation is so complicated that even a first-rate counselor can't think clearly, let alone Li Yuanba.

Li Shimin saw that Li Yuanba could not explain the situation, and the other generals estimated that the situation was not much different, so he called Li Chunfeng, Li Kui, and Li Si to question him, but only Li Chunfeng and Li Si came.

 “Where is Li Kui?” Li Shimin asked in confusion.

Before Li Chunfeng could speak, Li Si rushed to reply: "Reporting to my lord, Mr. Li Kui's father-in-law was also bribed by the violent Qin Dynasty and became one of the aristocratic families that launched a rebellion, and was suppressed and exterminated by our army.

Mrs. Li, who was pregnant, died of an accidental miscarriage after learning the news. Mr. Li Kui could not bear the blow and fell ill. "

Li Chunfeng couldn't help but frown slightly when he heard this. What Li Si said was tantamount to directly labeling Li Kui's father-in-law and his family, who were suspected of being traitors, as traitors.

However, Li Chunfeng didn't say much in the end. After all, everyone was already dead, so what was the point of talking about it?

So many things have happened in the past two days, and Li Chunfeng has been exhausted physically and mentally. Now he just wants to report to Li Shimin as soon as possible. He never wants to be exposed to this dirty politics again.

When Li Shimin heard this, his expression changed instantly, and he asked in a solemn voice: "You two, please tell me everything that happened in Chang'an after I left."

 “No.” The two of them responded in unison.

In the next two hours, Li Si and Li Chunfeng told Li Shimin how the Chang'an family colluded with the Qin army's spies to launch the rebellion, and how the Tang army suppressed the rebellion.

 Li Si was mainly talking, while Li Chunfeng provided supplementary explanations.

 What came out of Li Si's mouth has naturally been processed and deleted to a certain extent.

Li Si exaggerated the scale of the family rebellion and the danger of the situation at that time, so he had to follow Li Shimin's order of "I would rather kill the wrong than let go". However, he did not expect that the army would completely lose control after the red eye.

Li Si completely brushed off his own responsibilities and put the blame on the rebellious family, the lurking Qin army spies, generals such as Li Longji who could not restrain the army, and Li Kui, who had been hesitant.

As for those families who were wronged and were exterminated, this was the price they had to pay to put down the rebellion.

After paying an extremely painful price, the rebellion that had been planned by Da Qin for a long time and the hidden dangers hidden in the city were finally eliminated by the Tang army.

If Li Kui was there, he would definitely be able to tell it at a glance, but he was ill in bed and could not expose Li Si.

As for Li Chunfeng, his intellectual attributes are not low, but his political attributes are not high. He cannot see the loopholes in Li Si's words at all. On the contrary, he thinks there is nothing wrong with Li Si's words.

Li Shimin's political attributes were as high as 103 points, so he shouldn't be deceived. However, the information he knew was one-sided and limited after all. In addition, the two confidants were of the same opinion. Although he had some doubts in his heart, it was over. I believed most of it.

I have to say that Li Kui's fall greatly facilitated Li Si's actions. After all, even Li Shimin was tricked by him because of poor information. This was something Li Si didn't even dare to think about before.

Seeing that Li Shimin was not suspicious, Li Si was secretly relieved.

 After hearing this, Li Shimin's face turned extremely ugly.

Although he asked Li Chunfeng to face the rebellion and would rather kill the wrongdoer than let go, he did not expect to kill so many people this time.

In Li Shimin's view, the Qin army hidden in the city was so careful that even if it really colluded with aristocratic families and rebellious generals to trigger a rebellion, it would involve thousands or tens of thousands of people at most.

 Among the forces that are still standing today, apart from Li Tang, which one has not made a fortune?

Compared with Ying Hao, Cao Cao and other monarchs, who would confiscate and exterminate the family at every turn, Li Shimin already had the best attitude towards the family. However, during his reform, the Guanzhong family still made trouble and tried every means to obstruct his new plan. levy.

 In the past two years, the reason why Li Tang's development has been so slow is not only the intervention of Da Qin, but also the constraints of local aristocratic families.

But even so, Li Shimin still did not take action against the Guanxi Family. It was not because he didn't want to, but because the Guanxi Family was too powerful and Hu Qifan was moved.

Li Shimin thought that he was good enough to the Guanzhong family. He could not find another monarch in the world who had a gentler attitude toward the family than him. However, he did not expect that Li and Tang had not been completely defeated. These families would not hesitate. Betrayed him.

After Li Shimin understood the cause and effect, he finally understood why the Chang'an City defenders massacred all the aristocratic families in the city.

It is because there are too many aristocratic families participating in the rebellion and the scale is too large, and the Kansai between the major aristocratic families in Kansai is extremely complicated. Even Li Si and Li Kui cannot tell who is traitorous and who is loyal, and they do not have time to distinguish one by one, but The rebellion is getting more and more intense, so we can only kill the wrong ones rather than let them go.

  Chang'an city, with the concentration of Guanxi, became a big family, and the Chang'an garrison was slaughtered 90% at one time. Including the wealthy businessmen and common people affected, a total of nearly 100,000 people in China died in this rebellion.

You must know that the total population of Chang'an City is only 700,000.

Within two days, one-seventh of the population of Chang'an was killed by the Chang'an defenders themselves, who were clearly dozens of miles outside the city but knew nothing about it.

In response to this, Li Shimin felt dizzy and almost vomited blood again. He also felt headache and... despair about the situation in Chang'an.

Although the atrocities in Chang'an City have ended now, they have left a lot of mess to deal with.

How to arrange the family members of those aristocratic families and common people who died unjustly so that they will not cause turmoil?

 After the resettlement is completed, do you want to rehabilitate the families who were wronged and exterminated?

If the case is rehabilitated, how should the money and food obtained from the seizure of the family be distributed? Should it be returned to the original family?

How much will you pay back?

etc.

Each of these things is not a small matter. If they are added together, even Li Shimin, who is in Politics 102, will feel at a loss for a while, not to mention that the Tang army has just been defeated in Haojing and the Qin army is about to attack the city.

Of course, this is not the biggest headache for Li Shimin. What really gives him the biggest headache is that the Hongnong Yang family is also among the families that were exterminated this time, and there is a high probability that they were wrongly accused.

 At that time, there were only two families with the honor of four generations and three lords, the Yuan family of Runan and the Yang family of Hongnong.

Before the Yellow Turban Uprising, Li Shimin’s hometown in Longxi was not even worthy of carrying shoes for the Yang family.

But the Yang family did not support Yang Guang, who was born in his family. Instead, they chose to support Li Shimin and helped Li Shimin greatly.

Yang Jian, Yang Xiu, and even Yang Biao himself all held high positions in the Tang state and contributed a lot to Li Tang.

The Yang family has paid so much for Li Tang, but what will be the outcome in the end? They were actually exterminated by the Tang army.

Yang Biao’s son Yang Xiu died in unknown circumstances.

Yang Jian’s brother-in-law Liu Yanchang was killed in front of his wife and children.

Except for Yang Biao and Yang Chan’s mother and son, no one in the Yang family was killed alive.

Yang Jian values ​​​​his disciples, family and sister the most. If he knew the news that the Yang family was exterminated and his brother-in-law died tragically, how would he face Li Tang? Will he directly rebel against Tang and surrender to Qin?

Li Shimin didn't know and didn't dare to think that at this time, he had no choice but to live without love, because his future was already dark and there was no longer any hope.

In the near future, the whole world will know about the atrocities committed by the Tang army in Chang'an, and Li Shimin will follow in the footsteps of his father-in-law Dong Zhuo, and will be spurned by everyone in the world and will be infamy for thousands of years.

 (End of this chapter)