Chapter 915: Chang'an Rebellion
The next day, the second batch of messengers came from Liangzhou, and the entire Chang'an City was boiling all of a sudden, this time it was for Sun Simiao to go to Liangzhou immediately to treat His Majesty, and a dark cloud suddenly pressed over Chang'an City, as long as it was a little politically conscious, they knew that this time the emperor was going to be in danger, and actually asked Sun Simiao to give up Li Jing and go to Liangzhou immediately, which shows the seriousness of Li Xin's illness.
After the imperial court solicited the opinions of the general Li Jing, Sun Simiao finally hurried to Liangzhou with a few doctors, as for the general's illness, it was taken over by Yao Dongzhu, but people know that in terms of medical skills, only Sun Simiao is the person with the highest medical skills in the Tang Dynasty, and he is replaced by Yao Guozhang, I am afraid that the general Li Jing's illness will also recur.
"Haha, God help me!" After Pei Lin heard this, he immediately laughed, and said in the hall: "Li Xin doesn't know whether he lives or dies, and the general Li Jing is afraid that even if he knows something, he won't make a move, an emperor who casually abandons the lives of his courtiers, and which courtiers are willing to die for him?" If I lose Li Xin outside and Li Jing inside, there will be no one in the Tang Dynasty who will work hard for Li Xin, and the rest of the people will have no military power in their hands, how can they go against me. The heavens are on my side. ”
"Congratulations, congratulations." The subordinates beside him looked at him with a strange look in their eyes and said, "My lord, this time even God is on your side, you can make a move." ”
"Well, pass it on, invite them to come tonight, and do it tomorrow night. I believe that even if Chu Suiliang and they know, it doesn't matter. After the army entered the city, the first step was to surround the minister's mansion, and only after taking these people down could we get more support. Pei Lin rolled his eyes and said.
"My lord, the first step is not to take the imperial city, capture King Chen, and then in the name of the prison state, order the troops of Lantian and Bashang to be loyal to King Chen. Can you do anything else only if you have control of the army? The subordinate was stunned when he heard this, and said with some surprise.
"The old man is on the side of the Qing monarch, supporting King Chen to ascend the throne, not rebelling, understand?" Pei Lin said dissatisfiedly: "Assisting the Holy Monarch to ascend the throne, where can the old man do it alone, only many ministers and ministers can go out together, although there are some soldiers and horses in the imperial city, but where is our opponent." ”
"Your Excellency." The next person wanted to tell Pei Lian. Although the mansion of the Manchu Dynasty is not much away from the imperial city, it is not lived together, attacking each mansion will disperse its own strength, and Chang'an City also has a square wall, which is also a relatively difficult place to attack, as long as the gate is closed, the army will consume a certain amount of strength, and when the imperial city reacts, I am afraid that the imperial city will be able to immediately dispatch the imperial city and dominate the large battalion of soldiers and horses. It will only take three hours to reach the camp.
Just looking at Pei Lian's smug face, he knew that no matter what he said, Pei Lin would not do it, and he could only press his thoughts down at the moment.
That night. Pei Lin was in the inner mansion, and some people suddenly gathered together, including the captain of Chang'an City, the captain of the city gate, and some of them were still army commanders and brigade commanders. There are also officials of the six ministries, scattered among the imperial court.
"As you all know, our family has reached the most critical juncture. Although the emperor is a good emperor, but the courtiers around the emperor are not anything, this time the old man is to clear the monarch's side, assist the king of the sage, you are all by the grace of the major families, if you want to change this situation, you can only change the emperor, and you are also related to the interests. Pei Lin glanced at everyone, and a sneer burst in his heart, the Kanto family is still a little timid, some of them are side doors, and none of them are descendants. They all wanted to take advantage of this coup, but the old man's advantage was so easy to get.
"Boss, please give me orders." A triangular-eyed lieutenant said loudly.
"Good. Now Li Jing has been bad at the line, I'm afraid this day is not long, there is almost nothing to resist in Chang'an City, some of your soldiers and horses are in the city, some are outside the city, tomorrow, General Li opened the city gate, let the soldiers and horses outside the city enter the city, after entering the city, directly kill to the mansion of the minister, the number is not large, their mansion is just some family members, the rest of the soldiers and horses followed the old man directly into the palace, assisted King Chen to ascend the throne, with the order of the state of the three armies and the Manchu Dynasty, early the day after tomorrow, Just ask King Chen to ascend the throne, and we are also the founding heroes. Pei Lin was high-spirited, and he had the demeanor of a commander between his waves.
"Follow your orders." After hearing this, everyone's faces showed excitement, to be the founder of the country, those are all the roles of each who have been crowned princes of the country, and even can be crowned kings, everyone was moved by Pei Lian's words, nodded again and again, and couldn't wait to do it now.
"Remember, this is a matter related to your net worth and life, and there must be no leakage, otherwise, our lives will be lost together, and no one within the nine clans can live in the world." Pei Lian's eyes flashed with coldness, and he glanced at everyone.
When everyone heard this, their faces changed, and they all nodded, and at this time, everyone remembered what they had done, no matter what Pei Lin said, but it couldn't change the nature of this matter, that is, rebellion. Rebellion is to exterminate the great sin of the nine clans, once it is revealed, not only his own life is difficult to protect, but also the life of the entire clan is difficult to protect.
In the Wude Palace, Chu Suiliang and Cen Wenwen did not sleep all night, the candlelight around them flickered and jumped, Cen Wenwen took a small scissors, stepped forward to cut off some of the wicks, and sat down again.
After waiting for half a sound, I saw a sound of footsteps outside the gate, and I saw Duan Kuan and Ji Gang coming together, Duan Kuan's hair was gray, but he was full of tigers, where was he old. Ji Gang had a gloomy face and walked in front, as if he wanted to kill someone.
"Did you get the list?" Chu Suiliang couldn't wait to ask. These days, his pressure is much greater, although he has been prepared, if something really goes wrong, Chu Suiliang will be unlucky.
"My lord, I got it." Ji Gang hurriedly took out the list from his arms and handed it over.
Chu Suiliang stretched out his hand to take it, glanced at it, immediately breathed a sigh of relief, shook his head and said: "The emperor's grace is vast, these don't think about how to repay the emperor's grace, but they want to overthrow the country that His Majesty worked so hard to create, they are really a group of heinous people, they should be killed, they should be killed." He handed the list to Cen Wenwen again.
"It's all a bunch of unambitious and down-and-out people. Such people actually united to rebel. Tsk, look, first send some people to attack the minister's mansion, Pei Lin himself led an army of 1,000 people to attack the imperial city, when did the imperial city become so useless, a thousand people thought of being able to capture King Chen, this Pei Lin is really an incompetent person, such a person still wants to overthrow His Majesty's rule? Sure enough, it's a bunch of useless people. Cen Wenwen glanced at it, threw the list aside with disdain, and said, "These people have nothing to fear. Hehe, I'll go back to sleep first. Ji Gang, let those informants under your command tell the chiefs of each workshop and the like, close the door of the workshop tomorrow night, and let those people hold the gate, what can these rabble do. Kanto family, tsk. Today is the first step in the decline, let's eradicate the Gao clan first, and the rest will come slowly. ”
"Exactly." Chu Suiliang also shook his head disdainfully, if it was just these people. It can only be shown that some careerists pushed Pei Lin out to explore the way. Those big families such as the Cui family and the Zheng family did not participate, and the only one who participated in them was only the Gao family, so the number of people gathered was much less. It just happened that this time it was all in one go.
"If the general had known, he would have thought we were making a big fuss." Cen Wenwen stood up and said to Chu Suiliang: "But the Queen Mother and King Chen still need to go there." ”
"Gao is caught in the middle of it this time. I don't know what kind of decision the Queen Mother will make, and the Li family also has side branches, tsk, these people! The glory and wealth that you get for nothing don't know how to enjoy, but you are dying. Chu Suiliang waved his hand and let Ji Gang retreat, but he and Cen Wenwen walked towards the apse.
In Cining Palace, the Gao family had dinner under the service of Yuan Ziyan, and after freshening up, he was about to sleep, but he heard Chu Suiliang and Cen Wenwen coming together, and immediately knew that something big had happened. After someone woke up King Chen in the side hall, the two of them were let in.
"Wechen and the others have seen the Queen Mother, and they have seen His Royal Highness King Chen, the prison country." After Chu Suiliang and Cen Wenwen saluted the two, Gao let the two sit down on the brocade bench.
"The two lords are important ministers of the country, and there must be something important when they enter the palace late at night, so let's say it! How do you need to cooperate with this palace? Gao said with a wave of his hand.
"Queen Mother, there are people in Beijing who are preparing to make trouble tomorrow night, and they are ready to support King Chen to ascend the throne." Chu Suiliang and Cen Wenwen glanced at each other and said: "The leaders of them are Pei Lin and the Bohai Gao clan, and the ministers also found out that Pei Lin and the Bohai Gao clan also colluded with the Goguryeo, Turks, and Tubo people to assassinate His Majesty in Helan Mountain. The Turkic Ashina Simo was released by Pei Lian. Queen Mother, this is the list of rebels. Chu Suiliang handed over the list in his hand.
"Is there already proof?" Gao's face was stunned, looking at the list in his hand, his voice trembled a little. The Bohai Gao clan is also her relative, although there is no emotion, but there have been people who have come to meet over the years, but I didn't expect that it was actually involved in the rebellion, and it was also the mastermind, and the Gao clan was suddenly a little angry.
"We'll find out tomorrow night." Cen Wenwen whispered.
"Alright! This palace knows about this, so what to do! Since they thought of rebellion, they have to pay the price for this matter, no matter who he is, as long as he wants to seize the Tang Dynasty, it is a capital crime. Gao said without hesitation. No matter what happens, the mother is always on the side of the son. In the dark night, perhaps the people of Chang'an City have formed a habit of this matter, and that night, these people have closed the door early and started to rest, as for the outside things are no longer something they can consider, even if they lose their lives because of this, it is their own bad luck.
In the middle of the night, Chang'an City instantly fell into chaos, many people rushed out of the various doors, some were ready to go to Suzaku Street, some were ready to attack the dignitaries in their own square, and some people took advantage of the fire to rob, ready to attack their enemies, and Chang'an City suddenly fell into chaos.
On the tower of the Vermilion Bird Gate, Chu Suiliang and Cen Wenwen stood on the tower guarding Li Chengji, the king of Chen, and the old general Duan Kuan next to him, and Tan Zong, the head of the three armies, also appeared on the city tower.
"Although there has been chaos for a while, as long as these guys are killed, things will be much easier in the DPRK." Chu Suiliang said with a smile.
"Two adults, is this manpower enough? There are still a thousand Royal Forest troops in the palace, whether to gather them. Li Chengzong looked at Chang'an City in front of him with some worry, and said, "Poor people in the city are probably going to be unlucky this time." ”
"Your Highness, rest assured, the Imperial Forest Army in the palace is to protect the safety of the Queen Mother and Her Highness, as for the rebels in the city, Your Highness should not forget that there are still Jinyi Guards there, although Pei Lin has found some people, but if it is a ruffian ranger, it is okay to deal with ordinary people, but it is still a little worse to deal with Jinyi Wei." Cen Wenwen comforted.
The army with the largest number of people in Datang is not the soldiers and horses of the Lantian Bashang battalion, nor the government soldiers from all over the country, but the brocade guards hidden all over the country, these brocade guards include regular brocade guards, and some informants, etc., these people have all walks of life, and there are countless brocade guards in Chang'an City, and these brocade guards have become an important force at this time. was mobilized by Ji Gang to supplement the shortcomings of the Tang army.
These people were wearing embroidered spring knives, wearing brocade clothes, walking in the streets and alleys, dozens of people united together, killing on the streets, thinking that those bandits were mostly composed of family members, and the regular army was gathered by Pei Lin and prepared to attack the imperial city, and most of the people who attacked these ministers' mansions were composed of some family members or hooligans, where were the opponents of these brocade guards, and in less than a moment, they were killed by these brocade guards.
Pei Lin looked at the palace in front of him, he used to be afraid, but today he didn't, he had gathered more than a thousand soldiers and horses around him, in his opinion, the imperial city may have some preparations, but there are not many generals in the imperial city, only King Chen is inside, where can an effective command be formed, at most a charge can solve these problems.
It's just that soon his face deteriorated, the walls of the palace were already full of soldiers, under the yellow umbrella cover, there were Chu Suiliang and Cen Wenwen beside King Chen, and there was another person who was Duan Kuan who was idle at home, and there was one person who made him frightened, that is, Tan Zong, the head of the three armies, this person is strong in martial arts, and he may not be good at commanding the army to fight, but it is still possible to boost the morale of the army.
"Pei Lian, get off the horse and surrender at this moment, you can die more easily." Chu Suiliang pointed at Pei Lin and said loudly: "Your conspiracy has been exposed!" And you, if you can kill Pei Lian, the emperor will definitely be extra gracious and spare your family. (To be continued.) )