But it was said that the imperial court mobilized a large number of forbidden troops to encircle and suppress the city, even using artillery. In the end, after paying the price of thousands of deaths, Li Gui and others were still allowed to fight their way out of the city gate and escape.
Someone has to take responsibility for such a big thing.
Officials are definitely infallible, and so are the princes in the court. The prefect of Kaifeng Prefecture is dead, so the only person who bears responsibility in the end is the general who led the army to suppress the bandits.
The general was not a military general, but a civil servant. He was a Jinshi and had a good foundation.
He was originally the county magistrate of Ye County, Laizhou. Because of his meritorious examination, he was promoted to the general magistrate of Dengzhou. He went to Beijing to see the emperor on a routine basis, but this happened.
At the right time, Li Gui killed and dispersed the Fourth Army and captured Dali Temple. Everyone in the military department was afraid and did not dare to lead the troops to suppress the bandits. They all made excuses to shirk the situation. Then one smart person proposed to go to the household department to capture some new people to support the army.
So this man was selected because of his knowledge of the army and temporarily served in the Ministry of War. He led the imperial army to capture Li Gui and rescue his colleagues in Dali Temple.
He had also heard about Li Gui's martial prowess beforehand, so he mobilized Ling Zhen's artillery to deal with it. Unexpectedly, Li Gui failed and the artillery could not defeat him. He destroyed Dali Temple to pieces and killed so many people. Custodes.
On the battlefield, military orders were like mountains. He ordered his soldiers to go up and die. Others could not disobey him. But when the war was over, the counterattack came.
There are many officials in the capital, even among the ordinary Forbidden Army. It is unlikely that a relative of a certain official was seeking a stable meal in the Forbidden Army, but ended up dying in front of the Dali Temple Heavenly Prison because of his order.
So all of a sudden, all kinds of bullets flew into the palace like snowflakes.
There are all kinds of crimes including poor command, lack of respect for soldiers, destruction of buildings, and letting prisoners go...all kinds of crimes.
Of course, the most serious crime here is that he failed to catch Li Gui, the murderer of Xiao Zhao.
Song Huizong was furious and ordered him to be imprisoned and dealt with severely.
Fortunately, Li Gui's purpose was to go to Tianlao to rescue people. Before the officials of Dali Temple could kill him, half of his mission was completed, and his crime was partially reduced. In addition, he was a Jinshi, and the old Zhao family never killed him. Scholar-officials, therefore, death penalty can be avoided, but living crime cannot be escaped.
The original Dengzhou Tongpan was gone and became the Dengzhou Distribution.
Emperor Daojun was still upset, and even made a decree to arrest Li Gui throughout the world, vowing to capture Li Gui and avenge Xiao Zhao.
Unexpectedly, not long after, news came from Daming Mansion that several large armies were encircling and suppressing a dozen or so bandits, but they actually lost their troops and generals, and thousands of people were killed.
Zhao Ji was shocked and angry, but refused to believe it.
How could there be such a brave general in this world?
When he was assassinated that day, he was awake for a while and then fainted from the shock.
When he woke up afterwards, although he knew that nearly a hundred people had died, he only thought it was the joint work of Li Gui and his group. Others told him that Li Gui did it alone, but he firmly refused to believe it.
The ministers knew his attitude, so they threw all the responsibility for the Dali Temple massacre on Li Gui and his gang. In order to weaken Li Gui's influence, even those imperial prisoners who escaped or died in the battle were included in the list. Got in.
Looking at it this way, doesn't it sound much better that Li Gui and his gang abandoned the bodies of dozens of his comrades and fled in a hurry?
More than a hundred people worked together to kill more than a thousand Imperial Guards. Although it was still a bit unpleasant, it was easily accepted by the officials. After all, the dead imperial prisoners were all military generals. It is reasonable to treat one as ten, right?
It has to be said that officials are very good at figuring out their superiors' intentions, and Song Huizong really believed it.
Because of this, Zhao Ji was particularly unable to accept the battle damage ratio of Daming Mansion.
In his opinion, there must be something wrong with this data. The local generals must have taken this opportunity to report battle losses to the soldiers who had been left without pay, and then defrauded the imperial court of a sum of money.
The general who died in the battle must have been a drunkard. He surrounded and suppressed more than a dozen thieves and actually took his life. This shows his extreme incompetence.
So at Song Huizong's insistence, all soldiers who were injured in the war were given a pension of 20%.
In his opinion, a dozen thieves can kill two to three hundred soldiers, which is already very impressive. As for the surprise attack that led to the bombing of the camp, and the trampling on each other, it was all nonsense, all made up to deceive him.
He was kind enough not to send anyone to conduct a detailed investigation and investigate those people for their crime of deceiving the emperor.
He will no longer pursue those idiots who died in the battle, but those who still lie about the military situation while still alive must be completely eliminated from the army.
Damingfu is Tokyo's northern barrier, and we can't let a bunch of corpses occupy such an important position.
Since the officials had this intention, the Ministry of War was of course ordered to start handling it. However, after further investigation, it was discovered that the guard in Daming Prefecture was the son-in-law of Cai Taishi, and the magistrate of Gaotang Prefecture was the uncle and brother of Gao Taiwei. How to deal with this?
Hey, there’s always something that doesn’t matter!
For example, the tiger cavalry of Dongchang Prefecture, named Zhang Qing, suffered heavy losses as his army was attacked and bombed. Now he has no soldiers and generals, so it doesn't matter if he gets rid of them.
OK, it’s you!
If he loses the battle, he will not die, he will be dismissed from his post and questioned, and he will be assassinated in Jiangzhou!
After handling the follow-up affairs of Daming Mansion, the court began to consider Li Gui's problem again.
This thief dared to assassinate the emperor, and successfully rescued the imperial prisoner from the Dali Temple's heavenly prison. He also broke out of the encirclement of the Daming Mansion army by killing six generals in five passes. Each one of them was like a crazy fight. The face of the imperial court.
What is most intolerable to the court is that this guy's reputation among the people is actually very good.
That day in front of Kaifeng Mansion, Li Gui tore apart all the dark things secretly and laid them out in front of all the people present.
Not only did the people know how many powerful people secretly harmed the people, they also saw with their own eyes how the emperor "gave poisoned wine" to the heroes who saved people.
If in the past the people only thought that the emperor was deceived by treacherous ministers, now the people in the capital have doubts about whether the emperor is a good person or not.
There are those who are suspicious, and those who have been victimized in their families, and even doubt whether there are official backing behind these powerful people who secretly control the "Wuyou Cave" to harm people.
The worst thing is that although the court also knew about the list, it could only claim that Li Gui was framed and could not punish the people on the list.
There may be secret reprimands, but it is absolutely impossible to bring them to justice.
Too many people!
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What's more, they are all powerful people!
As for the people, they can only continue to prevaricate and fool around.
Don't ask, there is no evidence if you ask!
The Song Dynasty ruled the country by law. How could the case be easily settled just because of the one-sided words of a rebel?
In order to eliminate Li Gui's influence, the Kaifeng government began to send a large number of government officials to post notices in the streets and alleys to promote Li Gui's "great achievements".
What about assassinating the emperor, the rebels in Yushan, the "Heavenly Killing Star", killing people with no calculation, loving to eat human flesh, robbing women of the people...
In short, there are all kinds of stigmas.
There are true and false in it, and it is difficult to distinguish between true and false.
The people did not witness any killings, cannibalism, or raping women. They only saw that he saved hundreds of women and children, and they did not believe what the court said.
As for rebellion and assassination of the emperor, everyone believed it. However, after this incident, everyone no longer respected the emperor. They did not like to hear the story of Li Gui assassinating the king and killing the emperor. However, Li Gui killed Xiao Zhao, which is popular among the public. But I can't say anything about it.
When a court has no credibility, the more publicity it promotes, the more people will understand it in the opposite direction.
Therefore, unknown to Li Gui, the title of "Exorcist True King" was confirmed by the people of the capital.
After the Imperial City Secretary reported these contents to Song Huizong, Zhao Ji was immediately furious. He is the only true god in the world. The Emperor Shenxiao descends from heaven to earth. The unique Yuqing leader Wei Daojun Emperor, a mere grass bandit, has what qualifications to compare with him? ?
So after learning about Li Gui's whereabouts, he issued a decree and ordered Cheng Wanli, the governor of Dongping Prefecture, to immediately send troops to conquer Liangshanbo. The required manpower and materials were fully supplied by the Ministry of War.
Guess who this unlucky guy is?
(End of chapter)
