Chapter 155: How Powerful Officials Are Made

The emperor is the country, and the country is the emperor.

Although Li Zhi didn't say such words, he did so.

Yun Chu came to Jiucheng Palace for three days.

I spent three days playing board games with His Majesty the Great Emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

There are countless talented people under His Majesty Li Zhi. People may not be able to think of board games among them. However, after His Majesty the Emperor created the first board game, they developed it in a very short time. Seven or eight excellent board games came out.

Each game is quickly produced based on assumptions about the safety of His Majesty the Emperor and various possible events that may occur.

On the third day, Yun Chu undoubtedly became a disgusting villain again. In the world of the Tang Dynasty, conspiracies and schemes emerged one after another, and dirty and shameless vicious methods were frequently used. The Justice League headed by the emperor was forced to have no choice but to Don't hold on hard... Of course, in the end, the Justice League must win, and the whole game ends with Yun Chu, the evil thief, being cut into pieces by five horses.

The angry Yunchu threw away the script and roared: "Will I dig up the Yellow River and flood the Central Plains?"

As soon as he finished speaking, director Li Zhi threw a water glass at him.

"You think I am a dead person, right? Who do you think I am?"

Li Zhi was one-eyed, so he couldn't hit people accurately with a cup. Yun Chu didn't dodge at all, so the cup hit Ruishun on the left on the head.

Ruichun's martial arts skills were very high, but he didn't dare to dodge the cup the emperor threw at him.

"Your Majesty has just been torn into pieces by His Majesty's new five-ox dismemberment method. At this time, I am a dead person."

Li Zhi smiled and said: "When Xue Rengui captured Hanzhong and cut off the connection between Chang'an and Shuzhong, you lost."

"But I blew up the sword pavilion and blocked the road into Shu. If I have the ability to let Xue Rengui learn from Deng Ai and enter Shu once, I will definitely beat the shit out of Xue Rengui in the high mountains."

Hearing this, Li Zhi ignored Xue Rengui, who looked angry, and said to Sheren beside him: "Continue to study how to better attack Shu with sufficient gunpowder.

And Tongguan! "

Yunchu said helplessly: "Tongguan has been abandoned..."

Li Zhi glanced sideways at Yun Chu and said, "You can still repair it."

"A city built on sand, with the Yellow River below it. The Yellow River keeps cutting down, and Tongguan is getting higher and higher compared to the river surface. Is there any need to rebuild it?

Your Majesty, how about you seize control of Chang'an, and I will serve as the crown prince's vanguard..."

"Get out-"

When Yunchu left Jiucheng Palace, he was sent out by Ruichun.

Ruichun looked at the fucked mountain peak and said, "Your Majesty, will you believe it?"

Yun Chu sighed and said, "The soldiers and horses besieging Chang'an have returned to camp."

Ruichun said: "It's very dangerous."

Yunchu said: "That's why I'm here."

Ruichun nodded and said, "That's right. Your Majesty, the next generation of heroes, can only let him down his guard if it is the truth."

Yun Chu shook his head and said: "Your Majesty is not worried, but scared. He is old. However, Your Majesty will definitely go to Daming Palace."

"Why?"

"The shortest man is taller. After His Majesty weighs the people he can trust, he will find that Daming Palace is the best place for him to retire."

Ruichun said: "The Emperor and the Queen live in two capitals, aren't they afraid that the Tang Dynasty will split?"

Yun Chu rolled his eyes at Ruichun and said, "Are you a dead person when you become the prince?"

Ruichun let out a long breath and said, "It's finally quiet."

Yun Chu sneered: "The current tranquility is just to brew the next bigger turmoil."

After saying that, Yunchu galloped towards Chang'an with his whip raised.

Zhou Xing prefers to kill criminals in crowded and lively places. Only by letting more people see the fate of criminals can the execution of these prisoners be more educational.

The entrance to the West Market is such a good place.

Today, thirty-nine members of Zuowei General Yang Jian’s family were beheaded.

Those who could have their whole families killed by the government were some very remarkable people. For example, Yang Jian, a member of the Ministry of Punishment, and the people of Dali Temple copied two thousand kilograms of gunpowder and one hundred and twenty armors from Yang Jian's house. The government arsenal is in short supply.

As a general who was one of the six princes when Li Zhi started his career, if it was just a matter of hiding weapons, he would be dismissed from office and seize the title at most. Unfortunately, this person always thought that his hard work was so successful that he was unwilling to continue to explain to Zuo even if he was beaten to death. Wei's whereabouts of the gunpowder, armor, crossbows, gunpowder bullets, and kerosene bullets that have been lost over the years.

This made Zhou Xing very angry. Over the past ten years, Zuo Wei had lost no less than ten thousand kilograms of gunpowder, not to mention other things.

Now, when he was about to be beheaded, the white-haired Yang Jian started to panic. He pointed at Zhou Xing who was sitting on the beheading platform and shouted: "We haven't discussed it three times before, Zhou Xing, you dare to behead me, Your Majesty." I won’t spare you.”

Zhou Xing didn't seem to hear Yang Jian's words. He just raised his head and looked at the sun in the sky. As soon as it reached three quarters noon, he was ready to throw down the token on the table and let Yang Jian and his family watch the sun when the sun was at its strongest. They were beheaded when their yang energy was at its peak, making it impossible for them to even walk away as ghosts.

More than 10,000 kilograms of gunpowder, more than 300 pieces of armor, no less than 500 standard military crossbows, plus some random things, these things are enough to cope with a medium-sized war.

He is a general of the left guard, and he has no less than five hundred soldiers under his command. It is impossible not to recover those things now.

The prisoners who were beheaded in the West Market in the past few days had higher status than the others, and the number of family members implicated was also increasing. As a result, when the people of Chang'an watched the scene of the prisoners being beheaded, the scene became more and more grand.

Yang Jian was a third-rank official. In a sense, he was only one step away from the highest position of the Tang Dynasty officials. Killing such a person must be a very cautious matter in the court. Even if the emperor wanted to kill him, he would need to discuss with the officials again and again to see if this person could be forgiven. If there was no possibility of forgiveness, the officials would also plead with the emperor, hoping to spare the lives of the elderly, weak, women and children in their families.

Under normal circumstances, as long as it was not a serious crime such as treason, the officials' requests would often be granted by the emperor, and only the main culprit would be killed in the end.

Almost all the main criminals killed by Zhou Xing in the past few days were qualified for the "three discussions", but it was obvious that the emperor did not intend to give them this qualification. As long as the person was found guilty, he would be killed without pardon.

Seeing that it was already three quarters after noon, Zhou Xing excitedly picked up the token and threw it down. Amid the screams of Yang Jian's family, the executioner picked up the token and asked his assistant to press the heads of the thirty-nine people on the wooden block. Six executioners took turns to work and soon chopped off thirty-nine heads.

The heads rolled all over the ground, but a pottery jar was placed on the neck of the corpse to prevent blood from flowing everywhere.

All thirty-nine members of Yang Jian's family died, including his mother, his wife and concubine, and his four sons, their wives and concubines, and sons. As for the rest of the female family members, they all entered the Ye Ting Palace.

The scene was horrible, so Yun Chu did not watch it, and deliberately avoided the West Market and went straight back to the Wannian County Government Office in the East Market from Zhuque Street.

He could save Yang Jian. He had the emperor's edict in his arms. As long as Yun Chu opened the edict, Chang'an would immediately return to peace. All the prisoners would have to wait for the retrial by the Ministry of Justice, and everything would return to the rhythm of the past from the emergency state.

In this way, Yang Jian might not die.

For Yun Chu, Yang Jian had to die. Sixty percent of the gunpowder that flowed into Chang'an City came from Zuowei, and part of the gunpowder used by Yun's guards also came from Zuowei.

Other generals embezzled some military equipment and sold it, and they knew to avoid people, and the quantity was small. Only Yang Jian was determined to make this business with no capital bigger and stronger. When buying and selling military equipment, he only recognized money and not people.

So, such a person would die.

Yun Chu just returned to the official residence and saw Li Xian sitting in his seat and scolding his officials.

Yun Chu did not interrupt, but listened outside for a while, until Li Xian ordered to beat Zhang Jia, Yun Chu pushed the door in.

Without waiting for greeting, Yun Chu said to Li Xian: "Hurry up and pack up, let's go to Jiucheng Palace immediately!"

Li Xian's heart tightened and he looked at Yun Chu and said: "Is my father angry?"

Yun Chu sighed and said: "I have been tortured by His Majesty these days. It's unbearable. I was almost torn apart by five horses several times."

Li Xian's face turned pale with the naked eye, and he trembled and said: "But there is a problem with my military service these days?"

Yun Chu nodded and said: "Go, His Majesty is preparing to discuss with you what will happen to the Tang Dynasty if you secede Chang'an."

Li Xian's legs softened and he immediately fell to the ground. He stretched out his hand to Yun Chu and said: "My Lord, save me."

Yun Chu said coldly: "Only His Majesty can save you."

Li Xian was obviously frightened. He wailed and left the official residence, shouting to prepare horses while running, looking very anxious. It seems that he likes playing board games with the emperor very much.

Since Yun Chu entered the house, Zhang Jia and his party seemed to have regained their courage.

The servants outside the door were very considerate and helped the county lord to replace the water and tea sets with new ones. Even the calligraphy and painting of "Zhengda Guangming" hung behind Li Xian was removed.

Yun Chu sat back in the chair, and the others left the official residence. Yun Chu said to Zhang Jia tiredly: "The matter is over."

As he spoke, he took out the emperor's decree from his arms and put it on the table and continued to say to Zhang Jia: "It is said that the matter has been settled. We still have a little power to choose the time to stop."

After reading the decree, Zhang Jia came to Yun Chu and said: "The subordinates can change the order of executing the prisoners..."

Yun Chu seemed not to hear the words of the price increase. When he closed his eyes, he snored.

Zhang Jia carefully covered the county lord with a blanket. Seeing that the fire in the official residence was burning vigorously, he opened a crack in the window, left the official residence, and went straight to the Dali Temple.

In a few days, Yun Chu ran back and forth for 600 miles, and was forced by the emperor to play a high-intensity terrorist rebellion game for three days. Such hard work must be rewarded accordingly.

Yun Chu didn't like to make too many contacts with people in the officialdom, because the more he made contact with these people, he would find that the human relations were extremely weak, and the mainstream view of friendship was the exchange of interests.

Since it was all his mother's business, Yun Chu naturally didn't want to be a person who only contributed and didn't ask for anything in return. The officialdom of Chang'an used to be a fragmented place. Now that the emperor was crazy, everyone needed to stick together to resist the danger that would come at any time.

Since the emperor had already determined that he was the biggest black hand in Chang'an, then Yun Chu felt that he must be the biggest black hand, otherwise when the emperor chopped off his head in the name of the biggest black hand, he would bear the name of a thief in vain, which would be too unfair.

The emperor was almost unable to control the current Tang Dynasty, which was why the emperor was so crazy.

Yun Chu discovered for the first time that many powerful officials might not be willing to be powerful officials, but were forced to do so.