Chapter 176 The Emperor's Charter
Secretary and Supervisor Wei Zhengxin Jiamenxia Province to advise the doctor, but he rode a donkey to Yiguo Duke's Mansion early in the morning.
"How come Wei Canzheng is free to visit the humble house today?"
Qin Lang stepped forward.
Standing at the door, Wei Zheng looked 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 Wei Gong come here for disaster prevention?" Qin Lang asked straight to the point. In his opinion, 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 disaster.
Who knew 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 the word?
"The **** Qin Lang listens to the oral instructions!"
Qin Lang hurriedly got up.
"I received a secret report from Baiqi. In recent days, the king of Changle, Li Youliang, has repeatedly spoken disrespectful words to the emperor, and frequently conspired with his subordinates, and secretly recruited rogues to flee. The envoy Qin Lang immediately took over the investigation and respected it."
Qin Lang came back to his senses, he didn't expect Wei Zheng to pass such a decree.
"Why is Duke Wei coming?"
"This matter is very serious. There can be no clan chaos in Chang'an now. You should investigate it 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, "In fact, Li Youliang has turned against him a long time ago. It is not now, nor is it because of the reason for the reduction of the nobility." Dude. After Li Yi was established in the Tang Dynasty, he was posthumously named King Xun.
Li Yi's six sons, Uncle Zhong Jide's younger order, Youliang is the sixth son, and he was crowned as the king of the county with his elder brothers. Later, because his elder brother Shuliang defended against Turkic arrows in the fourth year of Wude, he died. The emperor treated Li Youliang's brothers A few are more rewarding.
But Li Youliang is arrogant and extravagant, 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 reprimanded him in public in the hall, and asked Li Gang, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, to summon the ministers and publicly reprimand him with a stick.
Because of this incident, Li Youliang secretly harbored resentment, and began plotting rebellion ever since.
Later, the emperor appointed him 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 left among the six kings of his brothers. 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. These secret words were secretly detected by Baiqi.
This kind of interrogation should have been the responsibility of the Zhenfu Envoy, but now Baiqi has to investigate first, which is undoubtedly a dereliction of duty of the Zhenfu Division.
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 directly summoned Wei Chang. He was in charge of monitoring this area. It stands to reason that all the officials in the capital and the generals and schools should be watched by his secret agents.
Every move of these people, but any rash action should not escape 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!"
"Is there such a thing?" 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. "
It was originally 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 colluding with the Turks and wants to mutiny himself to become the emperor, and the other is colluding with the generals of the Forbidden Army and wants 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. He was not originally a clan. When he offered Yongfeng warehouse, one of the six largest warehouses in the Sui Dynasty, to the Tang army, he gave great support to the Li family and his son at the beginning of the army.
This case involved a lot. The eldest grandson Anye was the half-brother of the eldest grandson empress. Without any definite evidence, Wei Chang didn't 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 princes want to rebel?"
"You continue to stare at Li Xiaochang and the others, and give me some of the evidence that has been found. I will let Lin San take his people to watch 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.
"What courage!"
"Your Majesty, the Zhenfu Division has been focusing on this case recently, and there is a shortage of manpower, which leads to not having enough energy to watch Changle King, and failed to discover his plot in time. I plead guilty."
"You guys did a good job." Li Shimin said.
Compared to Li Youliang's treason case, Li Shimin was undoubtedly more secretly startled by the rebellion of Li Xiaochang and his group. 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.
"Jingzhou Li Yi, is he implicated in these two cases?" Li Shimin always remembered Li Yi.
"It has not been found that these two cases are involved."
"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 precisely 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 incident of Xuanwu Gate, Li Xiaochang began to plan, preparing to rescue Li Yuan and help him recover.
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.
A 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 will not be 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 tough.
It's a pity that such a loyal minister is not loyal to himself, so 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 is also Li Youliang, there is no need to investigate further, we will arrest him first and then try again."
"Go!"
"The minister leads the decree!"
Walking out of the East Palace, Qin Lang heaved a sigh of relief, the furious Li Shimin was truly terrifying.
Rushing to Zhen Fusi, Qin Lang called Wei Chang and others.
"According to the emperor's will, 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, first arrest and then trial, dare to resist, first kill and then play!"
"Do it!"
(end of this chapter)