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Chapter 738 A joke between heaven and man, a disaster on earth

Chapter 738 A joke between heaven and man, a disaster on earth

Before gaining absolute overwhelming power, and before gaining enough firm self-protection power, those who stand up for the collective interest will generally be called victims by later generations.

Having been an official for many years, no matter in the previous life or in the present life, Yun Chu has a deep understanding of the fact that the masses are blind.

Therefore, before doing many things, Yunchu is willing to take three steps back and then look at the situation to measure what he will do next.

The victim gets nothing but a great name, and people miss and praise the victim, but they never learn from the victim.

It is because of the rarity of never turning back that the victim is particularly precious.

Yunchu never felt that he was a victim. On the contrary, he was an excellent bureaucrat and a good politician.

Bureaucrats and politicians manipulate people's hearts. They have always been the most advanced hunters and devourers in the world, and they are also distributors of benefits.

If he wants to get something from Yunchu, he must give something. Only in this way can his contribution be worthwhile.

——"The Weakness of Human Nature"

Politics has never been static, it just changes with the times. If a person can consistently implement his ideas, he is basically not a good politician.

People like the Cui family thought they had the power to wrestle with the emperor, but after confronting, they discovered that after the emperor had become supreme, they basically had nothing to fight against the emperor.

The aristocratic families are actually a huge contradiction. Some hope to fight against Li Zhi, some are ready to join forces with Li Zhi, and some hope to wait for the time to extend the timeline to see if the Li family can continue to be strong. .

In fact, every choice does not matter right or wrong, it is just a choice made by judging the situation.

In Yunchu's view, the one who chooses to resist is not firm enough to resist, the one who chooses to surrender still has ambition in his surrender, and the one who chooses to hide is full of ambition in his heart.

So impure and unresolute, they are doomed to failure.

When Yunchu saw Zhang Jia, Zhang Jia naturally saw Yunchu, one was furious, and the other was in tears.

In the beginning, the soldier came to stop Yun Chu from approaching, but Yun Chu used a horse to whip him on the armor, and the soldier vomited blood.

Even the captain, who was extremely arrogant in front of Zhang Jia, lost his bad attitude in front of Yunchu. He hugged his hands and showed his thumbs to intervene and salute: "Your Majesty..."

Before he finished speaking, Yunchu's horse lance hit him in the face. Fortunately, the broad side of the horse lance was used and no sharp blade was used. Therefore, this blow broke the captain's neck, and the His face was pulled back.

The captain fell to the ground softly, like a beautiful dancer dancing a soft dance, jumping to the most exciting point, spinning and landing, and looking back with a smile, the curtain fell slowly.

The surrounding government soldiers surrounded Yunchu, pointed their spears at him, and blew their horns loudly, but no one dared to step forward.

Yunchu was on guard for a while, thinking that there would be a fight, but in the end, nothing happened. Under the command of the brigade commanders, those government soldiers only surrounded Yunchu and did not fight.

Although Yun Chu is a civil servant, most of his reputation comes from the army. He is the only famous Tang general in the current army who can stand shoulder to shoulder with Xue Rengui and Pei Xingjian.

The most indispensable thing in the Tang Dynasty is a famous general, and only Yunchu, a famous general, gave the most secure arrangement to the Chang'an soldiers.

In the grain stores, inns, workshops, wineries, and even gunpowder workshops all over the city, the people who work are the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty. They did not get the Yongye land and the Koufen land, but they got a house in Chang'an City. Earned wages that were not affected by good or bad business.

The life of these government soldiers is generally better than that of farmers, because their wages are based on the standard of harvested acres.

Except that they don't have to plow and farm, the rest of the treatment and obligations are the same as the previous soldiers. The soldiers are still soldiers, but they have become more pure and fierce.

This is what the soldiers of the Sixteenth Guards are most envious of. Chang'an, the soldiers of the two counties of Wannian who "attended" are now counting the remaining days of "attending" with their fingers.

As long as the day is up, you can go to the county lieutenant's office to see if you have been assigned to work there.

The soldiers of the sixteen guards didn't care about Yunchu's current official position, but they were very worried that one day they would fight under Yunchu's command.

Yun Chu looked at the school lieutenant who was facing down and laying on his back, and said to the soldiers around him indifferently, "Let's have a decent burial."

After finishing speaking, he picked up the captain's horizontal knife with a horse lance, swung it, and the horizontal knife cut off the rope that was pulling Zhang Jia. Zhang Jia's body fell to the ground quickly, and was caught by several soldiers, but he did not untie the rope. rope, but some people began to draw arrows for Zhang Jia to heal his wounds.

A veteran who looked like a brigade commander stepped in and clasped his fists in the distance: "Your Majesty, this matter is beyond our control. The horn is sounding. Compared with General Xue who will be here soon, please wait a moment."

Yun Chu nodded and jumped off the horse, came to Zhang Jia, looked up and down at his subordinates, and then said: "Don't worry, go back to recuperate, everything is up to me, a certain family will definitely seek justice for you."

Zhang Jia looked at the lieutenant whose neck was twisted to death and couldn't die any more, licked his dry lips and said, "The lowly job is small, so there is no other way for the junhou to deal with the lower officials."

Yun Chu smiled, and then said to the brigade commander: "Send someone to send him to the hospital of the Imperial Medical Office, your skills are too rough."

The brigade commander pondered for a moment, seeing that Yunchu seemed to be smiling, but his eyes were cold and cold, he sighed, knowing that he had no room to refuse, the company captain would kill him if he wanted to, and he wouldn't care about his brigade again. Shuai was killed.

Immediately, two government soldiers were sent to carry Zhang Jia away.

At this time, the sun had already risen high, and the hot air was wrapped in a thick bloody smell that made people breathless. However, neither Yun Chu nor the bored bay red horse gnawed on the trunk of the elm tree showed the slightest discomfort. feel.

Yun Chu pushed aside the spear in front of him with his fingers, looked at the immature little mansion soldier in front of him and said, "From that Zhechong mansion?"

Xiao Bing didn't know for a while whether he should continue to point the spear at Yun Chu, or should he answer his words. Just when he was hesitating, Yun Chu smiled and said, "Is it from Huizhou Zhechong Mansion?"

The brigade commander came over and then stepped in and cupped his fists and said, "Reporting to the Lord, it is Zhechong Mansion in Huizhou, and now he is listening to orders from Youwuwei."

Yunchu kicked the dead captain and said, "This person's accent is not from Huizhou."

Lu Shuai said: "He came from Qinzhou."

Yun Chu smiled dumbly and said, "Let me just say, if it was a local captain in Huizhou, you wouldn't be so peaceful. It seems that this captain is a person who likes to drink blood from soldiers? In normal times, the bandit suppressor is capable of eliminating evil." Did you receive the capture reward?"

The Lushuai hurriedly said: "It's okay, it's okay."

Yun Chu laughed and said: "It's okay, it's okay, everyone says so, whether it's good or not, only God knows.

The land of Huizhou is riddled with ravines, wilderness, forests, and wild animals. It is a good luck for a person to eat a full stomach, which is not a good word.

However, there are more heroic soldiers in difficult places, and you can tell by looking at their armor that they have fought a lot and worked hard. "

The Lushuai hurriedly said: "It's not hard work, it's not hard work."

Yun Chu raised his hand and tapped the brigade commander's armor and said, "This armor doesn't quite match your majestic body, is it inherited from your ancestors?"

The Lu Shuai straightened his chest and said, "It's been four generations."

"Hey, your family was a soldier in the pre-Sui Dynasty?"

Lu Shuai said: "It can be extended to before the former Sui Dynasty."

Yun Chu glanced at the old face of Lu Shuai who had experienced many vicissitudes and said: "For generations of soldiers, you can still live to this age. It seems that it is a family background. It is not easy. I will fight with your general in a while, so don't move forward. , Don't die on the battlefield, but die in a fight in the end, it's not worth it.

Do you have a son? "

Lu Shuai turned a deaf ear to Yun Chu's words, and still replied respectfully: "I already have three sons and two daughters."

Yun Chu sighed and said: "The eldest son guards the family business, the second son is a soldier of the government, and the third son is a blind soldier. This is the life of the soldiers of the government."

The brigade commander suddenly said: "It's no match for the Chang'an government soldiers."

Yun Chu glanced at the commander-in-chief in front of him and said, "There are very few idle people in Chang'an City. Everyone has something to do. Now that you have killed so many in one go, you have a lot of work to do." vacancy.

However, only Chang'an people are assigned to work in Chang'an. "

Just as Yunchu was talking to the soldiers, a group of bloody people came out from the Lu family's house. These people were not considered to be well-behaved, and they carried a lot of belongings in their hands, and they were all smiling, and they had never killed themselves in the slightest. Bad mood after person.

Yun Chu mounted his horse again, and said to the brigade commander: "This is a group of thieves."

The brigade commander grabbed the reins of Yunchu's war horse and said, "Your Majesty, think twice, this is not appropriate."

Yun Chu smiled and said, "Xue Rengui's meritorious service is unmatched, this is not the reason why he can slaughter people in Chang'an City at will."

The bay red horse ran away from Lu Shuai, and rushed towards the place where the smell of blood was strongest, carrying Yun Chu on its back.

Yunchu's horse lance was made by master craftsmen from the Western Regions, and it is extremely sharp. When the horse lance's very elastic pole drives the horse lance's head to swing, the horse lance becomes a long-handled sword.

Those government soldiers who had just finished raping and looting just came out of the Lu family's house, and bumped into the fangs and claws of Yunchu, a beast.

The bay red horse picked up speed very quickly, one person and one horse passed through the crowd. After Yunchu swung the horse backhand and cut off the neck of a mansion soldier, there were broken corpses lying on the ground at the gate of the Lu family.

This time, Yunchu's attack was very ruthless, and he didn't give these guys who had become man-eating vultures any hope of surviving.

The sound of Ma Qian cutting the leather armor is difficult to distinguish from the sound of cutting the fleshy skin, and sometimes it is mixed with the sound of the iron armor being pierced, as if a cobbler's shop has opened here, and the cobbler is working Work with a sharp paring knife.

After Yunchu finished killing people, he got off his horse and let the brigade commander lead his people to continue to surround him. He squatted by the side of the ditch by the side of the street, touched the clear water in it with his hands, washed his hands, face, and horses. , blood stains on the horizontal knife.

The killing just now was more cruel, so when he went up, Ma Qian, and the horizontal knife entered the water, the originally clear canal water was stained red with blood, but after a while, it returned to its original state.

Although there is no outsider here, anything that happened here spread throughout Chang'an City in the shortest possible time.

Lu Zhaolin hugged his grandfather's leg and was unwilling to leave, but Old Lu ordered his servants to forcibly tear Lu Zhaolin off him, and he was about to send him to the Wannian County Government.

Old Lu firmly believed that the Lu family would not be purged by Xue Rengui, but there was never a way to guarantee that such things would be foolproof.

Xue Rengui slaughtered Xiangzhou City in Hebei. This is something that others can't believe at all, but this thing actually happened.

So far, not many people know the process of Xiangzhou massacre, and the reasons why. Old Lu only knows that after Xiangzhou was massacred, a fire broke out, and it burned for six days before it was destroyed by heavy snow.

It is because of Xiangzhou's lessons learned that Lao Lu thinks that the safest place in Chang'an City today is the Wannian County Government.

Lu Ting himself was considered to be the most staunch capitulator among the aristocratic family. After Lu Zhaolin was sent away, he took off his hat, loosened his hair, and took the whole family to sit quietly at the door of the house, waiting for his punishment.

After Lu Ting did this, the rest of the family followed suit and sat quietly at the door, not even the children dared to cry.

Everyone was quiet on the surface, but in fact they were scratching their heads in panic. Only when they heard the news of Yunchu's murder could they be a little quieter. No matter what, there were still people working hard to protect them.

At this time, the city of Chang'an was very strange. The small families were still working, selling things, preparing meals, and living their lives as usual.

The rich and noble families all over the city were silent. Even at noon, there were still no fireworks in the two rows of squares near the imperial city.

It was the third time for Yunchu to wash his hands, face, horse lance, and horizontal knife by the ditch, but after the ditch water turned red, there was no way for it to become clear immediately.

The fifty government soldiers who entered the Lu family to kill were all killed by Yunchu, and Xue Rengui has not shown up until now.

After killing fifty of his personal guards, even Yun Chu felt exhausted at this moment. He covered his hot face with a wet handkerchief, and lay down directly on the stone slab to rest.

The old brigade commander also lost interest in pointing his spear at Yunchu, and after sending his subordinates away, he sat next to Yunchu and helped the sleeping Yunchu drive away the huge number of flies.

Again and again, he allowed Yunchu to slaughter his colleagues, but they remained indifferent. This old brigade commander could no longer survive.

Therefore, he drove all his subordinates away, leaving only himself to accompany Yunchu, in order to give his subordinates a chance to survive and a chance to survive in Chang'an in the future.

When Xue Rengui came to the door of the Lu family, Yunchu had already slept for an hour. The moment Xue Rengui appeared, the old brigade marshal plunged a knife into his ribs. He is a very experienced person. It was inserted from the gap between the second and third ribs, and it was accurately pierced on the heart without any deviation.

Xue Rengui ignored the dead old brigade commander, and directly said to Yunchu: "The reason why I came late is that I hope you can run farther."

Yun Chu stood up, moved his waist and said in a puzzled way: "Why should I run away?"

Xue Rengui took out a will from his bosom, waved it in front of Yunchu, and said, "I didn't kill someone for no reason, I followed the emperor's order."

Yunchu asked for orders, but Xue Rengui refused to give him, and said sarcastically: "I always thought that you have been the county magistrate in Chang'an for so many years, and it should be the situation that your disciples are old and old all over Chang'an, but I didn't expect that your popularity is so bad.

Liushou Mansion, Zuotai Pavilion, Sixteen Guards, Dali Temple, Ministry of Punishment, Ministry of War, and Ministry of Officials all know that I hold the emperor's order and know the content of the emperor's order, only you and Wenrou don't know. "

Yun Chu took a mouthful of cold water, rinsed his mouth, spat it out, and said to Xue Rengui, "This is because His Majesty knew that I would not tolerate your indiscriminate killing of innocent people in Chang'an City, so he deliberately didn't tell me, so that I can treat you disabled people Kill all the thieves."

Xue Rengui said: "I am a soldier, not a thief of the disabled."

Yun Chu took another sip of the cold water in the kettle, and after gurgling a few times, he spit it out again: "It's okay, from today onwards, you will be yours, if you don't believe me, just wait, your name won't be included in the biography of the king and marquis after death, There is a [-]% chance that they will be squeezed together with the cruel officials."

Xue Rengui thought for a while and said: "What you said is very reasonable. I have killed many aristocratic families, that is to say, I have offended many scholars, and my name may be derogated after death. This is beyond my control."

Yunchu poured the remaining water from the kettle on his head, seeing the drops of water dripping down from the hem of the battle armor, Yunchu looked at Xue Rengui and said, "How about it, let's have a fight?"

Xue Rengui shook his head and said: "Your Majesty's will has not been fulfilled, I will not fight with you, especially not with you at this time."

Yun Chu smiled and said, "I just killed a bunch of your personal guards."

Xue Rengui said: "These people are people I conquered in the Western Regions and Liaodong. Their role is to help me with my dirty work, and I silenced them in the end.

If you kill them, I will leave a convenience here.

What, the fire in my heart can't come out?Do you want me to find you some more personal guards to kill, so that you can vent your fighting spirit? "

Yun Chu waved his hand and said, "Old Xue, you have to be reasonable."

Xue Rengui smiled and said: "Your Majesty's will is my greatest reason, and those people cannot continue to enjoy the peace and joy of Datang happily in Chang'an without taking any responsibility after hurting His Majesty and Datang.

How happy they were enjoying it on the pile of dead people, how painful it should be when they return now, only in this way is it fair, don't you think? "

After Yunchu heard Xue Rengui's words, he sighed. He knew it was such a result. Over the years, he thought he had made progress. Similarly, Xue Rengui has also continued to improve. He has changed from a simple general to a A politician with a mind of his own.

When attacking politicians, the last thing to do is to be reasonable. They have more reason than anyone else. Therefore, Yunchu raised his horse, pointed at Xue Rengui and said, "Let's fight a battle."

Xue Rengui laughed mockingly, and said to Yunchu: "Since you want to fight, why didn't you fight with me last night, I remember I challenged you at that time."

Yun Chu shook his head and said, "I didn't wear armor last night, and I didn't have any weapons in hand."

Xue Rengui laughed and said, "Is it because you didn't have the courage to kill last night? Today, after you made fun of my people, you used a lot of plausible nonsense to raise your aura, and took the opportunity to kill innocent people indiscriminately." Bullshit reasoning to blow my mind.

Yunchu, I'm not that easy to take advantage of. If you didn't fight with the imposing Laozi last night, I won't fight with you today. Look, don't lose out to anyone who comes and goes. "

Looking at Xue Rengui, who was as immobile as a mountain, Yunchu smiled wryly and said, "Can you give me some noodles, at least don't touch the people on both sides of Zhuque Street.

After all, I cast all their money into copper bulls and dedicated them to His Majesty, even if they were redeemed with money, it would be enough. "

Xue Rengui thought for a moment, then suddenly smiled and said, "Do you want to pick up what His Majesty discarded and use it for you?"

Yun Chu shook his head and said, "Don't slander me, there are many principles of making the country rich and the people strong, which is not something you can understand.

The poor have the value of the poor, and the rich have the value of the rich. In the eyes of our officials, we should not look down on the poor, let alone despise the rich, and we should not say that people are carnivores because they live a good life.

It is necessary to master a good speed, as long as the speed is well mastered, it will be the blessing of my Tang Dynasty. "

Xue Rengui raised the will in his hand and said: "There is no way, His Majesty's will must be carried out to the end."

Yun Chu shook Ma Chan, made the red tassel under Ma Chan's blade turn, pointed at Xue Rengui and said, "Then there is no other way, I have no choice but to kill you."

Xue Rengui said irritably: "If you want to kill me, you will come up. If you keep standing still, you will kill me if you don't move. No one will believe you."

Yun Chu said angrily: "Your wife is an illiterate peasant woman, and my wife is a beautiful lady. If I kill you, I will die. It's not worth the calculation."

"The other mother's..."

"I am his mother..."

So, under the watchful eyes of all the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, the two powerful generals in the Tang Dynasty began to curse the streets like shrews.

No matter how nasty the two of them yelled and scolded, and how they did not save face for each other, the hooves of the horses under the two of them remained motionless.

"Okay, let's stop hurting each other's mothers. They are really innocent. We've already set the atmosphere up to this point. If the person who can solve the problem hasn't come out, how about the two of us scolding him together?"

Yunchu was so dry with cursing, he took out a water bottle from his horse bag and drank some water, then he proposed a new solution.

Yunchu firmly believes that no matter if it is the emperor, the empress, or the group of ministers in Luoyang, as long as there is a brain, they will not deliberately make Chang'an the fate of Xiangzhou.

Luoyang is now as terrifying as the night walk of ghosts they have organized, and making Chang'an look like Luoyang is a bastard thing that even Jie Zhou can't do it.

Sure enough, after the scolding battle between Yunchu and Xue Rengui ended, a two-horse carriage covered with a blue cloth slowly walked along the root of the imperial city to the gate of the Lu family.

The driver of the carriage drove the carriage between Yunchu and Xue Rengui and stopped. A beautiful white hand like white jade lifted the curtain of the carriage, revealing a white-haired head.

"It's been a long time, how has the lord always been?"

Yun Chu looked at the gray-haired Xu Jingzong suspiciously, "Didn't you get demoted and hired by His Majesty?"

Xu Jingzong got out of the carriage with the help of a beauty who thought his face was covered with white gauze. He first looked at the pile of messy corpses cut by Yunchu in front of Lu's gate, and then sniffed the wind and sent them out from Lu's courtyard. foul smell.

"It seems that His Majesty still won."

(End of this chapter)