Section 24: Killing servants and persuading wives
Our history has always demonized wisdom, this is the conclusion that Yun Ye came to after experiencing it personally after arriving in the Tang Dynasty, Li Jingxue's surprise attack on Jieli at night was just taking advantage of the cold weather and running a hundred and ten miles to attack Jieli's camp, and there is only one core content, that is, to be unprepared.
Most wars do not have any tricks, relying on the strength of the battlefield and the use of combat skills, whoever can use their strength to the maximum may win, which includes courage and skill.
Xue Wanche's plan is to let the emperor and empress see their invincible generals, and now it is enough to humiliate the hands of slaves, on the one hand, to let the emperor and his wife see their incomparable respect for the imperial power, and on the other hand, to tell the emperor that the glory he has received in exchange for his past exploits is not as good as a slave who is favored by the princess.
His plan is so simple, now he has succeeded, just entered the princess's mansion, there is a strong smell of blood inside, as a fierce general on the battlefield, he is most familiar with this smell, this human blood, the blood of other animals does not have such a strong fishy smell, and the smell will not spread so far.
The old servant who had been serving him since he was a child took the reins of the horse in Xue Wanche's hand, and just as he was about to speak, Xue Wanche ordered: "This is the horse of the Yunhou family, it is a good horse, feed it more beans, put a blanket on it, I ran too fast just now, and the sweat on my body has not gone down, don't slack off." ”
The old servant bowed and retreated, Xue Wanche shook his horsewhip and entered the inner house, there were five or six tattered corpses piled up under the plum tree, and at a glance he knew that he had been killed by a rod, a chamberlain wearing a black gauze stood in the courtyard with his hands crossed, staring at the trembling slaves in the courtyard with cold eyes, and on the ground next to him were six servants who were pressed on the ground to be punished, and sixteen eunuchs of the inner court who were in charge of the execution. The executions were carried out in turn, and the slave remained silent because a wooden walnut wearing a rope was stuffed in his mouth, and he could only make a whining sound, and the water and fire sticks hit the slave's buttocks and backs like a sack full of grain, making only a snapping sound. Xue Wanche was very satisfied with this voice, this was a watch that did not spare his hand at all.
Danyang is a delicate woman in the end, she has not experienced these cruel scenes, and wants to dodge, but she is tightly held by two eunuchs, and guarantees that she can see such a cruel execution scene.
When Danyang saw Xue Wanche coming back, he opened his mouth and shouted: "Husband...... "She wants to ask Xue Wanche to beg that eunuch to let go of the groom who is being tortured, she likes this person very much."
Before he finished speaking, Xue Wanche intercepted him and said, "Princess, don't care, I have already had breakfast in Yushan." Now I'm not hungry, I've been out of the army for a long time, I'm no longer familiar with these punishments, I didn't expect to be able to appreciate such a skillful technique at home, it's really not easy, and the princess should take a good look, they are all good at torture. ”
The chamberlain, who didn't have two taels of flesh on his face, listened to Xue Wanche's words and said with a smile: "Xue Hou doesn't know, the means of execution in the army are different from those in the palace. I saw the execution in the army, when our family accompanied His Majesty to fight in Liaodong. “
Xue Wanche laughed and said, "It turns out that he is still a person who has been on the battlefield. My Majesty's Eastern Expedition and my old Xue are also guarding His Majesty in the army, but we haven't met. Maybe it's my old Xue's blessing, Lao Xue has seen countless executions in the army, and the execution methods in the palace are still the first time to see it, so I have to listen to the high opinion of the inner servant. ”
The chamberlain pointed at Xue Wanche with a smile and said, "You are fortunate to abide by the law in the army and did not touch the fire of Your Majesty." Zhang Liang, Zhang Houye, you know, a stick beating is bitter, and this is still His Majesty's request not to be killed. Let's let you see the methods in the palace. ”
After speaking, he flicked his fingers, and saw that the executioners suddenly increased the frequency of waving their sticks. The rod struck the tortured slaves with a popping sound, interspersed with the sound of slight bones breaking.
Xue Wanche listened attentively for a while, and said to the smug waiter: "This is obviously a light on the outside and heavy on the inside, the skin and flesh are intact, but the bones will be broken inch by inch, a good method." ”
The chamberlain smiled and flicked his fingers again, only to see that the landing points of those sticks began to gradually move upward, and the wooden walnuts in their mouths had been taken out, but they could not make a sound at all.
The chamberlain proudly said to Xue Wanche: "Xue Hou, this trick is called driving out the lungs, practicing to the extreme can drive all the five organs and six lungs out of the mouth, the children can't practice at home, they can only drive the lungs." ”
Xue Wanche laughed, deliberately squatting in front of the groom's eyes, his eyes were as cold as a piece of ice, he was going to see how this person's lungs were driven out by the stick.
The chamberlain didn't tell a lie, the groom was no longer able to ask the princess for help, blood kept gushing out of his mouth, mixed with some pink internal organs, and he tried to straighten his body up, and a large lobe of the lung spurted out more than a foot away, and his head hung down heavily, and he never moved again.
Xue Wanche kicked the lung lobe with his foot and said to the chamberlain with a smile: "But I don't know what is the difference between this man and a woman's punishment, old Xue, I have only seen men tortured in the army, but I have never seen a woman tortured." ”
"What's so difficult about this, Niang Niang only ordered a punishment, His Majesty said that he was killed, only the men were punished, and it was not like a woman if he didn't punish the woman.
Danyang looked at the chaotic screaming maids, and then looked at Xue Wanche, whose eyes were cold, and pleaded: "If you want to punish, punish me, don't kill them." ”
Xue Wanche said to Danyang with a smile on his face: "You thank Yunhou, if he hadn't dragged me to his house for breakfast, the people around you would have died, people like Lao Tzu and Yun Hou fought three times on the battlefield, killed countless enemies, and only then did they get today's glory, how can they be humiliated by the hands of slaves, Yunhou is kind, Lao Tzu is not, if you see Lao Tzu on the battlefield, you will definitely think that it is an evil ghost crawling up in hell."
This father-in-law has also been on the battlefield, if you ask him, you will know what it is like for Yunhou to come down from the battlefield, the occasions experienced by Lao Tzu are ten times more tragic than those experienced by Yunhou, and human life is not even grass in our eyes. “
Danyang shrank back desperately, she thought that Xue Wanche seemed to be going to eat her, and she found out for the first time that Xue Wanche was so terrible.
"Quack, Yun Hou began to slaughter the city after breaking through the city in the battle of Anshi City, he came down from the front to pay the order to His Majesty Xià when the old slave was in the big tent of the Chinese army, Yun Hou was stained with mud and blood, and the bloody atmosphere was so heavy that it was disgusting, at that time, Yun Hou, it was not that you saw Yun Hou who was smiling all day long, how Xue Hou fought the old slave has not seen, just those battles in the merit book, that time was not a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, Her Royal Highness the princess, Niang Niang ordered the old slave to come to admonish today, the old slave will not be anything else, he will be executed, In other words, Niangniang and His Majesty are ready to let the old slave take his life to admonish the princess. ”
It was very troublesome to execute the woman, the two sticks went down and the feces and urine flowed, and there was no sound at all in less than twenty sticks, the chamberlain smiled and said goodbye to the princess and Xue Wanche, Xue Wanche sent the chamberlain out of the princess's mansion, and when he parted, the chamberlain touched his heavy sleeve and was very satisfied, according to his experience, it would definitely not be less than fifty gold coins.
Xue Wanche returned to the courtyard and looked at the dead people in the courtyard, helped Danyang who collapsed on the ground up, and sent him into the inner room.
After Li Yuan's death, Li Er was very cold to his brothers and sisters, in addition to participating in Princess Changping's sacrifice activities every year, Danyang They have not been received by the emperor for a long time, the main reason is that Li Er is very dissatisfied with their arrogant temperament, especially when he heard that his sister was actually introducing his niece, he was even more angry in his heart, and he did not move to kill, Li Er was already lenient.
"Danyang, you have been growing up in the deep palace, you have been pampered and grew up, I don't know how difficult it is to beg for a life outside, your money is easy to come by, there will always be beautiful men around you, do you know, those men who can survive by eating soft rice are not even ants in our eyes, you are a princess, your status is noble, you should at least find a tiger, there is no tiger to find a wolf, I Xue Wanche is not so angry, what are you looking for an ant? Do you want the descendants of those ants to take my place in the name of a hundred battles? Are they worthy?
Do you know, you were able to be arrogant before, because the Emperor Taishang was still there, you look, if you are still like this, Your Majesty will definitely take you under the knife, and you dare to introduce Gao Yang to the face? Do you think all the princesses are as shameless as you?
Who is Fang Xuanling? Well? You don't know that he is the prime minister of the dynasty? When he became majestic, all the officials in the court were silent, and the prime minister of fifteen years, how dare you humiliate him? You're looking for your own death.
Our husband and wife, in fact, are a husband and wife on the surface, behind the scenes, you are no different from passers-by in my heart, you want to find death, why should I accompany you? Why?
To tell you the truth, it doesn't matter to me how many children you find, I'm just a concubine named by the Emperor Taishang, this is an official position, not your husband. This shot is not out of hatred, but you are not allowed to implicate me recklessly, to make it clear, we will live a good life in the future, you can continue to find a face, have children, you like to make yourself notorious, whatever you want.
But ah, don't go to the scourge of Gao Yang and them, once you do something that kills yourself, I will definitely not be merciful next time, Lao Tzu doesn't need to see blood to kill, you are frightened, lie down for a while, I will tell Lao Wu and them to boil you a bowl of cold medicine to suppress the shock. “
Xue Wanche smiled fiercely at Danyang, then went out of the room, looked at the servants kneeling on the ground and told them to get out, and he personally went to the kitchen to fry a bowl of herbs, ready to ask Danyang to take it, this is what the captain of the horse should do, Xue Wanche has always been a conscientious courtier. (To be continued......)
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