Chapter 2483: Li Shimin''s Death (Part 1)


    Chapter 2480: Li Shimin''s Death (Part 1)


    Li Shimin''s defeated army was fleeing back to Chang''an by Ximen''s escape.


    Under Li Yuanba''s forced intervention, the violent army in Xicheng''s massacre of the aristocratic families was soon stopped.


    But it is obviously too late to stop at this time.


    Li Shimin led his army out of the city to fight for two days, and the Tang army in the city massacred the aristocratic families in the city for two days.


    In the past two days of killing efforts, the main personnel of the Xicheng family have been killed by the violent army of the Tang Kingdom, leaving only some old, young, women and children.


    Li Yuanba did not want to contact the families of those who died in vain. First, he did not know how to face them, second, he did not know how to arrange these people, third, he still needed to go to the atrocities in the northeast and south.


    Seeing that Ji Fa also fled back, Li Yuanba had heard Li Shimin say that Ji Fa, the son of Ji Chang, the prefect of Longxi, had both civil and military cultivation and outstanding ability, so he handed over the mess to Ji Chang, and he himself led his troops to stop the atrocities in the other three urban areas.


    I don’t know if I don’t go, I’m shocked when I go.


    The situation in Xicheng District has been calculated, and the worst thing is in Nancheng District. All the aristocratic families, regardless of men, women, young and old, were slaughtered by the Li Tang army.


    After the Tang army in Xicheng killed all the aristocratic families, they did not stop killing, but instead aimed at the rich households and merchants, starting a new round of massacre.


    Li Longji, who was responsible for suppressing the rebellion in Nancheng, and the other Tang troops who were left behind, realized that the situation was a little out of control, after all, the wealthy households and businessmen essentially belonged to the people.


    The aristocratic family launched a rebellion, so they killed the aristocratic family.


    But the people have not rebelled, how can they start killing lightly?


    Many generals led by Li Longji stood up rationally to stop them, but their soldiers were all red-eyed and did not obey their orders at all.


    Seeing this, several generals decided to force the order, but were killed by their out-of-control soldiers.


    Since then, the situation in Xicheng has completely lost control and has been ravaged by the violent army into a purgatory on earth, and blood has flowed into a river.


    After seeing Li Longji, Li Yuanba went up and picked up the other party''s collar and roared, "Li Longji, what are you doing? You are still a soldier, and you can''t even control your own army."


    Li Longji''s face was defeated. He wanted to say that he didn''t want to be a military general, but he wanted to be a literati, but his current identity was ultimately a general of the Tang Dynasty.


    "Yuanba''s cousin, it''s because his cousin is incompetent. The soldiers are so angry that Longji really can''t control it."


    Li Longji decisively chose to admit his mistake, because if he refused to admit his mistake, he might anger Li Yuanba, and the other party might accidentally pinch himself to death, and even if he died, he would be in vain.


    Li Yuanba was also silent when he saw this. Li Longji admitted his mistake and admitted that he was not capable enough and he could not really kill him.


    "When my second brother wakes up, go and apologize."


    Although Li Yuanba wanted to kill Li Longji, he finally let him go and immediately led people to stop the atrocities in Nancheng District.


    Shortly afterwards, the violent army in Dongcheng District and Beicheng District were successively pacified by Master Wei Hu.


    After statistics, the recent Li Tang rioters were executed, which stopped the riot, and the total number of deaths in the riot reached 100,000.


    Half a day later.


    "Second brother, second brother..."


    Amid Li Yuanba''s concerning cry, Li Shimin slowly opened his eyes.


    "Yuanba, my second brother had a nightmare, dreaming that we fought with Wang Jian at the Haojing site, and you met Yuwen Chengdu again, but in the dream, my second brother was defeated, and it was a crushing defeat. I just don''t know if you won."


    This is the first sentence Li Shimin said after waking up. Obviously, he couldn''t accept everything that happened, so he wanted to use his dream to excrete and numb himself.


    What can Li Yuanba do about this? After a while of silence, he spoke, "Second brother, that''s not a dream, it''s useless to be Yuanba, and he failed to defeat Yuwen Chengdu."


    When Li Shimin heard this, he no longer had any luck in his heart and started to wail with pain.


    "Ah... Wang Jian, Wang Jian, I, Li Shimin, will kill you."


    After scolding Wang Jian, Li Shimin had to accept the fact that he was defeated and immediately said, "Tell me, how many people have been lost in the battle of Haojing? Let me tell you the truth, I can withstand it."


    The generals below looked at each other in surprise, and finally Yuwen Tai stood up and reported:


    "Reported to the lord, in the battle of Haojing, our army was defeated in a crushing battle, with 60,000 troops left, and only 15,000 fled back to Chang''an, and lost 45,000 infantry and cavalry troops, including 38,000 infantry and 7,000 cavalry."


    Li Shimin''s face turned paler when he heard this.


    He guessed that the loss of this crushing defeat would be considerable, but he didn''t expect it to be so big, and this is obviously not all.


    "What about the general''s losses?" Li Shimin asked tremblingly.


    "More than 70 generals including Changsun Wuji, Xu Rong, Ma Shanwei, Xin Wenli, Kang Anyu... all failed to return to Chang''an."


    Hearing this, Li Shimin could no longer bear the blow, and spit out a mouthful of old blood with a "poof" sound, then fainted, and it took two hours to wake up again.


    After waking up again, Li Shimin became even weaker. He kept telling himself not to think about Haojing''s losses, as it had become a thing of the past, but the chaos in Chang''an still needs to be solved by him.


    Li Shimin was very puzzled. He had already arranged everything before leaving, but why has it become such a situation now?


    For Li Shimin, the most urgent task is to figure out what happened in Chang''an after he left. The Tang army, who had always been strict in military discipline, slaughtered aristocratic families in order to make them crazy? Even attacking civilians?


    Li Shimin asked about Li Yuanba around him, but Li Yuanba was stupid and hesitated for a long time, but still couldn''t explain it clearly.


    This is not Li Yuanba’s fault. Although his intelligence has recovered, it is only at an ordinary person’s level after all.


    The game between various forces in Chang''an City is so complicated that even the first-class strategists can''t understand their thoughts, let alone Li Yuanba.


    Seeing that Li Yuanba couldn''t tell me, the other generals probably had a lot of difference, so they recruited Li Chunfeng, Li Kui and Li Si to ask questions, but only Li Chunfeng and Li Si came.


    "Where is Li Kuiren?" Li Shimin asked in confusion.


    Before Li Chunfeng could speak, Li Si quickly replied: "Report to the lord, Lord Li Kui''s father-in-law was also bribed by the tyrannical Qin Dynasty, becoming one of the aristocratic families that initiated the rebellion, and was suppressed and destroyed by our army.


    Mrs. Li, who was pregnant, died of an accidental miscarriage after learning the news. Mr. Li Ke couldn''t bear the blow and fell ill. ”


    Li Chunfeng frowned slightly when he heard this. Li Si''s words were like directly declaring Li Ku''s father-in-law''s family, who was suspected to be a traitor, and directly designated him as a traitor.


    But Li Chunfeng didn''t say much in the end. After all, everyone is dead, so what''s the point of saying this?


    Too many things have happened in the past two days, and Li Chunfeng has also been exhausted physically and mentally. Now he just wants to report to Li Shimin as soon as possible. He never wants to get in touch with this dirty politics again.


    When Li Shimin heard this, his face changed instantly and asked in a narrow voice: "You two should tell me what happened in Chang''an after I left."


    "No." The two responded in unison.


    In the next two hours, Li Si and Li Chunfeng told Li Shimin all the Chang''an family, colluded with Qin''s spies to launch a rebellion, and the Tang army suppressed the rebellion.


    The main thing is Li Si’s statement, and Li Chunfeng made additional explanations.


    What Li Si said naturally has undergone some processing and deletion.


    Li Si exaggerated the scale of the aristocratic family rebellion and the degree of danger of the situation at that time, so he had to obey Li Shimin''s order of "I would rather kill the wrong than let go". However, he did not expect that the army would completely lose control after killing red-eyed.


    Li Si left all his responsibility and pushed the blame to the rebel family, the lurking Qin army spies, Li Longji and other generals who could not restrain the army, and Li Kui, who had been hesitating.


    As for those aristocratic families who were wrongfully exterminated, they had to pay the price to quell the rebellion.


    After paying an extremely painful price, this rebellion, which was planned by the Qin Dynasty for a long time and the hidden dangers hidden in the city, were eventually eliminated by the Tang army.


    If Li Kui was there, he would definitely be able to see it at a glance, but he was lying in bed and could not expose Li Si.


    As for Li Chunfeng, his intellectual attributes are not low, but his political attributes are not high. He cannot see the loopholes in Li Si''s words at all. Instead, he thinks that Li Si''s words are fine.


    Li Shimin''s political attributes are as high as 103 points. It is logical that he should not be deceived, but the information he knows is one-sided and limited after all, and the two confidants have the same caliber. Although he has some doubts in his heart, he has already believed most of them.


    I have to say that Li Ku''s fall greatly facilitated Li Si''s actions. After all, even Li Shimin was fooled by him because of his poor information. This was something Li Si didn''t even dare to think about before.


    Seeing that Li Shimin did not doubt it, Li Si secretly breathed a sigh of relief.


    After hearing this, Li Shimin''s face looked extremely ugly.


    Although he asked Li Chunfeng to face the rebellion and would rather kill him than let him go, he did not expect that he would kill so many people this time.


    In Li Shimin''s view, even if the Qin army hidden in the city really colludes with aristocratic families and rebel generals, it would be a big deal to involve thousands or tens of thousands of people.


    The power that still stands strong until now, except for Li Tang, has not made any fortune in aristocratic families?


    Compared with monarchs such as Ying Hao and Cao Cao, Li Shimin''s attitude towards aristocratic families was the best, but during the reform, the Guanzhong family still made many troubles and tried every means to block his new scramble.


    In the past two years, the reason why Li Tang''s development has been so slow is that in addition to the intervention of the Qin Dynasty, there are also factors that restrict local families.


    But even so, Li Shimin still did not attack the Kansai family. It was not that he didn''t want to, but that the Kansai family was too powerful and caused Hu to attack


    Li Shimin asked himself that he was good enough to the Guanzhong family. He found that there was no other monarch in the world who was more gentle than his attitude towards the aristocratic family. But he did not expect that Li Tang had not completely defeated, and these aristocratic families betrayed him without hesitation.


    After Li Shimin understood the causes and consequences, he finally understood why the defenders of Chang''an City slaughtered the entire city''s aristocratic families.


    It is because there are too many aristocratic families involved in the rebellion and are too large in scale, and the Kansai between the major aristocratic families in Kansai is extremely complicated. Even Li Si and Li Kui cannot tell who is treacherous and who is loyal, and there is no time to distinguish one by one. However, the rebellion is getting worse and worse, so we can only kill the wrong ones and not let go.


    In Chang''an, if Guanxi is concentrated, it will become a family. The Chang''an defenders slaughtered 90% at one time. With the influence of wealthy businessmen and people, the CCP will have nearly 100,000 deaths in this rebellion.


    You should know that the total population of Chang''an City is only 700,000.


    Within two days, one-seventh of the population of Chang''an was killed by the Chang''an defenders himself. He was obviously dozens of miles away from the city, but he knew nothing about it.


    In this regard, Li Shimin felt dizzy and almost vomited blood again without being angry. He also felt headaches about Chang''an''s situation and... despair.


    Although the atrocities in Chang''an City have ended, they have left a lot of messes to deal with.


    How should those families of aristocratic families and civilians be resettled so that they will not cause unrest?


    After the resettlement is completed, should we rehabilitate those families who were wrongfully destroyed?


    If rehabilitation is made, how should the money and grain obtained from the search for the aristocratic families be distributed, and should they be returned to the original family?


    How much will you pay if you pay it back?


    etc.


    Each of these things is not a trivial matter. If it comes together, even Li Shimin, who is in politics, will feel at a loss for a while, let alone the Tang army was defeated in Haojing, and the Qin army was about to come to the city.


    Of course, this is not the most troublesome thing that makes Li Shimin the most troublesome. The Hongnong Yang family is actually among the ranks of the family that was destroyed this time, and there is a high probability that they will be wronged.


    There are only two families in this world, with the honors of the three ministers of four generations, namely the Yuan family in Runan and the Yang family in Hongnong.


    Before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Li Shimin''s Longxi was not worthy of carrying shoes for the Yang family.


    But the Yang family did not support Yang Guang from his own family, but chose to support Li Shimin and helped Li Shimin a lot.


    Yang Jian, Yang Xiu, and even Yang Biao themselves all held high positions in the Tang Dynasty and contributed a lot to Li Tang.


    The Yang family has paid so much for Li Tang, but what will happen in the end? The Tang army actually exterminated the clan.


    Yang Xiu, the son of Yang Biao, died indecipherable.


    Yang Jian’s brother-in-law Liu Yanchang was killed in front of his wife and children.


    Except for Yang Biao and Yang Chan, no one of the Yang family was killed.


    Yang Jian valued the most the master, family and sister. If he knew the news that the Yang family was exterminated and his brother-in-law were tragically killed, how would he face Li Tang? Will he directly rebel against Tang and join Qin?


    Li Shimin didn''t know and didn''t dare to think about it. At this time, he had to live without hope, because his future was already dark and there was no hope for him.


    In the near future, the whole world will know that the Tang army will commit atrocities in Chang''an, and Li Shimin will follow in the footsteps of his father-in-law Dong Zhuo, and will be despised by everyone in the world for thousands of years.


    (This chapter ends)