Chastity Layman 2

Chapter 176
Wei Zheng, the secretary supervisor, came to Yiguo's mansion early in the morning on a donkey.

"How come Wei Canzheng is free to visit the humble house today?"

Qin Lang stepped forward.

Wei Zheng stood at the door, looking at the lion in front of Duke Yi's mansion, "There are not many houses like yours in Chang'an City."

The host and guest enter the mansion and come to the hall.

"Did Duke Wei come here for disaster prevention?" Qin Lang asked straight to the point. He thought that Wei Zheng's coming should have something to do with his suggestion to Li Shimin to arrange some people to go out of customs in advance to avoid disasters.

Who knew that Wei Zheng shook his head.

"I'm here to convey His Majesty's oral instructions."

This made Qin Lang stunned, the emperor asked Wei Zheng to pass on the oral order?

"Suppressing envoy Qin Lang listens to the oral instructions!"

Qin Lang got up quickly.

"I received a secret report from Baiqi. In recent days, Li Youliang, the king of Changle, has repeatedly spoken disrespectful words to the emperor, and frequently conspired with his subordinates to secretly snare the rogues to their deaths. The appeasement envoy Qin Lang immediately took over the investigation, and hereby."

Qin Lang came to his senses, he didn't expect Wei Zheng to pass such a decree.

"Why did Duke Wei come here?"

"This matter is very serious. There can be no clan chaos in Chang'an now. You should investigate quickly."

In fact, Li Shimin, Wei Zheng and other ministers have already expected the fact that Li Youliang rebelled, but to win such a clan king, especially after the clan title has just been cut, if there is no solid evidence, it may trigger other clan clans. Or the dissatisfaction and suspicion of the heroes.

Li Shimin needs a sharp knife to cut through the mess, and more importantly, he needs hard evidence.

"Why did King Changle rebel?"

Wei Zheng said bluntly, "Actually, Li Youliang has turned against him a long time ago. It is not now, nor is it because of the reason for this reduction." Dude.After Li Yi was established in the Tang Dynasty, he was posthumously named King Xun.

Li Yi's six sons, Uncle Zhong Jide and Younger, Youliang was the sixth son, and he and his brothers were crowned as county kings. Later, his elder brother Shuliang died when he defended against Turkic arrows in the fourth year of Wude. The emperor treated Li Youliang's brothers A few are more rewarding.

But Li Youliang is arrogant, extravagant and dissipated, and his temperament is still irritable. The emperor named him Zuo Wuwei general, but he did many crimes.Someone stole his horse, and he sent someone to track it down. After finding out, he didn't report to the official, but directly sent someone to kill the horse thief and his whole family.

This incident aroused Li Yuan's great dissatisfaction. He once publicly reprimanded him in the hall, and asked Li Gang, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, to summon the ministers and publicly reprimanded him with a stick.

Because of this, Li Youliang secretly harbored resentment, and began plotting rebellion ever since.

Later, the emperor appointed him as the governor of Liangzhou. When Li Youliang left the border of the town, he secretly recruited many scoundrels to flee to his left and right sides, ran amok in Liangzhou, and secretly colluded with the Turks.

The people complained a lot.

But before he rebelled, Li Shimin launched a mutiny in Chang'an to seize the crown prince, and soon sent Qin Qiong to replace him as the governor of Liangzhou and sent him back to Beijing.

Li Youliang was not ready at that time, and finally returned to Beijing according to the order.

But during this time in Beijing, he was not honest.

Especially a few days ago after the imperial court demoted the clan and nobles, although Li Youliang was among the six kings who had not been demoted, Li Yi was the only one of his brothers and six kings. Kings or dukes, etc., also cut their titles this time.

Li Youliang was even more resentful.

He repeatedly conspired with his subordinates in the mansion, or threatened to rebel after drinking, and these secret words were secretly detected by Baiqi.

This kind of interrogation should have been the responsibility of the governor, but now Baiqi was the first to investigate it. This is undoubtedly the dereliction of duty of the governor.

Li Shimin will never tolerate this kind of treason, especially now that the disaster is coming, if it is not done well, it will be very troublesome.

Qin Lang took the oral order and didn't dare to delay, so he hurried to the Zhen Fu Division.

"Li Youliang, is there anyone watching?"

Qin Lang summoned Wei Chang directly, he was in charge of monitoring this area, logically all the officials of the capital, all the generals and schools should have his undercover spies watching over them.

Every move of these people, but any rash action should not escape from the palm of their hands.

Seeing Qin Lang's complexion, Wei Chang replied, "Recently, Sanlang, you don't come to Sili very often, and your subordinates failed to report some things in time. Sili recently found out that Lizhou Governor Yi'an Wang Li Xiao often had unusual movements. Before that, he served as King Qin. Li Xiaochang led his troops to Chang'an, but later the imperial court ordered the governors and governors from all over the country to return the troops, but Li Xiaochang refused to return them under the pretext of excuses. Conspiring in private, telling each other about fate, planning to launch a mutiny to welcome the restoration of the Supreme Emperor!"

"What else?" Qin Lang couldn't help being surprised.

"Because there was not enough evidence before, my subordinates have recently mobilized all parties to investigate the case comprehensively. Some progress has been made, and some evidence has been initially obtained, but the detailed list of conspirators and their detailed conspiracy have not yet been detected. "

Originally it was said that Li Youliang, the king of Changle, was going to rebel, but who knew that Li Xiaochang, the king of Yi'an, would also be rebelling.

One is to collude with the Turks and want to mutiny himself to become emperor, and the other is to collude with the generals of the Forbidden Army and want to launch a mutiny to usher in the restoration of the Supreme Emperor.

Li Xiaochang is also a clan, but he is actually the same as Li Yi, and he was not originally a clan. At the beginning, he offered Yongfeng warehouse, one of the six largest warehouses in the Sui Dynasty, to the Tang army.

In theory, Li Xiaochang is actually in the Youliang generation.

This case involved a lot, the eldest grandson Anye was the half-brother of the eldest grandson empress, without any definite evidence, Wei Chang did not dare to report it casually.

"Sanlang, could King Changle be involved?" Wei Chang asked.

"Li Youliang is conspiring against you, but it has nothing to do with your case."

Wei Chang was surprised, "Why do these lords want to rebel?"

"You continue to stare at Li Xiaochang and the others, and hand over some of the evidence you have found to me. I will ask Lin San to take his people to stare at Youliang."

After obtaining some evidence of Li Xiaochang's treason, Qin Lang assigned Lin San a task and hurried to the East Palace.

Xiande Hall.

After reading Qin Lang's report, Li Shimin was speechless for a long time.

"How dare you!"

"Your Majesty, the Zhenfu Division has been focusing on this case with all its strength recently, and there is a lack of manpower, resulting in not having enough energy to focus on King Changle, and failing to discover his plot in time. I plead guilty."

"You guys did a great job," Li Shimin said.

Compared with Li Youliang's treason case, Li Shimin was undoubtedly more secretly alarmed by Li Xiaochang's group's treason. They were preparing to restore the Supreme Emperor, and no one knew whether the Supreme Emperor was involved.

Li Youliang's rebellion, the possibility of success is too low, he just wants to die.But Li Xiaochang rebelled, but it's hard to say.

"Li Yi from Jingzhou, is he involved in these two cases?" Li Shimin always remembered Li Yi.

"It has not been found that these two cases have been implicated."

"Li Xiaochang was not originally my Tang clan." Li Shimin said slowly. According to him, Li Xiaochang's father was named Li Yuantong. He was originally a poor man in Guanzhong. During the Northern Zhou Dynasty, he served in Yang Jian's house. Yang Jian made great contributions in escaping from danger, so he became Yang Jian's confidant.

Later, Yang Jian proclaimed himself emperor, and Li Yuantong was granted the title of Xin'anbo. Later, he served as Minister of Internal History, Minister of Huangmen, Minister of Shangshu Zuocheng, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, etc., participated in the battle to destroy Chen, and was promoted to general because of his meritorious service. , and later became the Duke of Wan'an County.After Yang Guang succeeded to the throne, he served as Minister of the Ministry of War. After that, he stayed in the capital. Because he offended Yu Wenshu, he was dismissed from office and died of fear.

"Actually, there is another anecdote. Li Yuantong was originally the son of Li Jing, a general under Yang Zhong's family. Li Jing had an affair with a black slave girl from Kunlun in Yang Zhong's family and gave birth to Li Yuantong, but Li Jing refused to recognize him. "

Therefore, Li Yuantong's true identity is the family slave of the Yang family, so he is highly trusted and appreciated by the Yang family.

Li Yuantong had a very high status in the Sui Dynasty, and was appreciated by two generations of emperors as a slave of the Yang family. Although Li Yuan was a relative of the state at that time, he was deeply suspected and his status was not firm. Under Li Yuantong's intentional closeness, Li Yuan Working for Li Yuantong, he also got into the Longxi Li family, and the two became brothers.

It was because of this relationship that Li Yuantong's son Xiaochang later called him Uncle Li Yuan.

When Li Yuan rebelled, Li Xiaochang, who was the county magistrate of Huayin, donated Yongfeng warehouse to him, and Li Yuan gave this cheap nephew the governor of Shangzhu Kingdom and Lizhou, and the king of Yi'an County.

Li Xiaochang served as the governor of Lizhou for nine years, he is still very grateful to Li Yuan, anyway, he knows very clearly that he is not the real clan.

After the change of Xuanwumen, Li Xiaochang began to plan to rescue Li Yuan and help him restore.

From this point of view, Li Xiaochang is actually quite a good person. Since the fourth day of June, all courts have been forced by Li Shimin's influence, and no one dares to complain for Li Yuan.

Li Yuan, in fact, rebelled because he refused to hand over power and enter Beijing.

Only Li Xiaochang, in fact, as long as he does not rebel, his status will not be affected at all. The last time the kings were cut down, his fake clan was not affected, and his status is much more stable than Yan Wang Li Yi.

But Li Xiaochang is still planning and running around.

The strong wind knows the strong grass, and the loyal ministers see the swaying.

It's a pity that such a loyal minister is not loyal to himself, and Li Shimin can't tolerate it.

Li Shimin threw the secret book on the ground.

"It is enough to have these, there is no need to wait any longer, I order you to immediately lead people to take down all the people on this list, and send them to prison for interrogation."

The emperor's face turned livid.

This is challenging the emperor's limit.

"There's also Li Youliang, there's no need to investigate any more, arrest him first and then try again."

"Go!"

"The minister leads the order!"

After walking out of the East Palace, Qin Lang heaved a sigh of relief, the furious Li Shimin was truly terrifying.

When he arrived at Zhenfusi, Qin Lang called Wei Chang and others.

"Following the emperor's order, arrest the rebels Li Youliang, Li Xiaochang and others immediately."

"The evidence is not enough, will it startle the snake if we do it now?"

Qin Lang said bluntly, "Emperor's permission, arrest first and then interrogate, dare to resist, kill first and play later!"

"Go!"

(End of this chapter)