Emperor Wu Ding reined in his horse and stood in front of the Langlang River. In his ears, he could hear the rustling sound of the stream watering the ice. The sound was very pleasant.
The cavalry trampled the white snow into mud.
"What's the situation in the city now?"
The spy leader Liu Xingzuo, who was following behind and listening attentively, stepped forward quickly after hearing the words and said respectfully: "Return to your majesty, the two sides are still fighting fiercely, Qian Sanrui and the others have the advantage."
"Oh, I didn't expect that he, a businessman, can also fight,"
Liu Zhaosun admired sincerely, looked up towards the direction of Ninggu Pagoda City, and could vaguely see the black smoke rising over the city.
The Supreme Emperor couldn't help but cursed in a low voice: "A fight is a fight, don't burn the house down."
Liu Xingzuo didn't hear clearly what the Supreme Emperor was saying, he just stared at the black smoke in the distance with a ferocious expression.
"Where is Jiang Liu'er now?"
"Back to the Holy One, he went to Sakhalin Island yesterday to hunt down the Rakshasa ghost. He will not come back until at least ten days."
Liu Zhaosun was speechless for a moment. He began to feel a little disappointed with this young man who had placed high hopes on him.
"I only know that there is a war, a war, a thief comes out of the house, the backyard is almost burned down, and the war is still going on!"
Liu Xingzuo's throat moved slightly, and he wanted to say something, but hesitated for a moment, but finally did not dare to say it.
This detail was noticed by Emperor Wu Ding. He loosened the reins and rode the horse forward slowly with cold eyes.
"To achieve great things, some people have to be sacrificed. I can die, you can die. The two of them have fine clothes and fine food, play music every night, and live a more comfortable life than me. They deserve to suffer a little now."
Liu Xingzuo didn't dare to speak. The emperor said he would suffer a little punishment, but in the end he carried out the plan and killed the two people.
Of course, there must be more than just the two of them. The total number of officials, large and small, in Ningguta's yamen is not even one thousand but also eight hundred. How many people will be implicated.
"Let the artillery follow closely. No artillery fire is allowed without my order! Ninggu Pagoda was built with great difficulty. The people are rich and business is prosperous. If we fight, I don't know how much money will be lost!"
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The Ninggu Pagoda, which the Supreme Emperor had longed for, was now falling into huge chaos.
More than 300 Zhenfu soldiers brought by Yang Tong from Shenyang have blocked the north and south streets of Ningguta, and no one is allowed to let go.
Qian Sanruo, Shiyousan and their servants were all blocked in the middle of the street. The garrisons at the gates on all sides of the city had been taken away by Jiang Liu'er to chase the Cossacks. Now the only ones left are the old and weak and auxiliary soldiers. The auxiliaries were all composed of prisoners.
There was a low sound of cymbals and gongs in the distance, and the sentry horses of the First Corps were cruising in front of the moat.
"The Supreme Emperor has ordered you to open the city gate immediately!"
A sentry horse circled the city wall twice, and finally shot the edict into the city with a bow and arrow at the closest place to the city wall.
The auxiliary soldiers guarding the city neither dared to open the city gate nor shoot arrows at the city. These people had received orders from Qian Sanruo in advance not to let anyone enter the city. Anyone who approached the city gate would be shot without mercy.
However, the people who came in with the message were clearly Daqi soldiers and horses, and they also had the name of the Supreme Emperor, so they didn't look easy to offend.
"What are you doing standing still? The archer takes aim and shoots him to death!"
Two servants of the Qian family who were in charge of supervising the formation at the top of the city saw that everyone was beginning to hesitate and made a clanging sound. They pulled out their sabers and placed them on the last archer. One of them screamed hysterically at everyone.
Seeing this, the other archers at the top of the city naturally did not dare to neglect, and raised their bows one after another. Without taking aim at all, they loosened the bowstring, and the light arrows flew across the moat without knowing where they were going.
"Keep shooting, aim at Kaiyuan soldiers and shoot!"
The archers fired randomly at the moat, and most of the arrows fell limply into the river.
"Damn it, are you blind? You shot it into the river! Master Qian's money is not money!"
The servant swung his whip and whipped an archer while talking. He became angry and powerful. Every time the whip was struck, a burst of blood splashed on the archer's body. The other archers did not dare to release any more water and hurriedly opened their bows to aim at the target. However, he just shouted The sentry horse had already retreated dozens of steps and left the range of the bow and arrow.
"If you dare to shoot randomly again, be careful I will kill you..."
The servant's voice stopped suddenly, and he covered his chest with both hands, with an incredible expression on his face. Everyone looked at him and saw blood flowing out of the armor.
"Ah~!"
Only then did the servant react, holding his stomach and rolling around on the city wall, howling in pain.
Everyone dispersed in a hurry. Before escaping, the whipped archer picked up the tip of his bow and hit the servant in the face until his nose was broken...
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Qian Sanruo stared blankly at the sudden change, speechless for a long time.
"Yang Tong, what are you going to do? Go and block the city gate, don't let them in!"
Yang Tong looked at Qian Sanruo and Shi Sanyou in the alley with a blank expression, and suddenly found that both of them had a three-character character in their names.
"Yang Tong, how dare you betray me! How much money have you taken from Ning Guta over the years! You rip-off dog!"
Friend San let out a sigh of relief, pointed at Yang Tong and cursed angrily.
The situation took a turn for the worse.
Shi Yousan said to Qian Sanwei: "Didn't you say that he has surrendered to us?"
"Yes." Qian Sanruo looked confused, "Yesterday he said he would seek refuge with us, and he also told us the addresses of the Capricorn Guards hiding in the city."
The servants looked at each other in confusion. Wu Xiao was quite unfamiliar to them, but Yang Tong, the living Yama with only one arm, was familiar to everyone.
"Everyone put down their weapons. The servants will be exempted from guilt. Only Qian Sanruo and my friend Sanrui will be held accountable!"
Yang Tong, surrounded by a group of suppressing soldiers, waved the iron hook with a cold light. Under the sun, the sharp weapon made of iron looked particularly dazzling.
"Yang Tong! Don't think you can deal with me by bringing this few people...I will drag you with me even if I die..."
Before Shi You could finish his three words, a gun exploded across from him. After the white smoke cleared, Magistrate Shi looked at the bullet hole in his belly and looked at Yang Tong in disbelief.
"Yang Tong, you..."
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Liu Zhaosun stood at the top of Wengcheng, pointed at Qian Sanruo and Shi Sanyou who were kneeling in front of Wuhua Datie, and said seriously:
"Everything in heaven and earth is yours if I give it to you; if I don't give it to you, you can't take it away."
"Look, this cannon barrel is long and round, and this city wall is square and upright. What is this? This is called a round sky and a round place! As the saying goes, it is a rule to follow the rules of heaven and earth!"
"Without me, you don't know where you would be dead now! I will give you cannons to fortify the city, and let you work for Daqi. You must all occupy your own positions. Those who make money make money, those who fight fight, those who kill, those who rob. Robbery, this is the rule! Lord, minister, father and son, this is etiquette! The rules cannot be messed up! The etiquette cannot be lost! Do you understand?"
"I will obey the teachings of the Supreme Emperor!"
All the civil and military officials knelt down and saluted.
Emperor Wuding was furious and continued:
"You two, you have received Ning Guta's sleep in the 30th year of Taichu. You have allowed the people to live without food or drink for 30 years. They have worked hard and sacrificed their lives for you. You have borrowed money from the bank and dare not pay back a penny less every month. , if you don’t pay back, you will throw them into a small dark room. You have squeezed all the money out of the poor people! How can you still make money!”
The time traveler remembered the famous saying: "Leave the problems to future generations to solve, and believe in the wisdom of future generations."
However, no matter from which perspective, the little emperor Liu Kan performed worse than himself.
It would probably be even harder to expect my son to solve these problems.
Qian Sanruo was given poison and his voice became hoarse and he could no longer speak.
In fact, this is completely unnecessary.
Because even if Lao Qian can still speak, he doesn't dare to talk nonsense.
He would not say in front of everyone that he and Shi Yousan had been knocking bones and sucking marrow out of Ninggu Pagoda and plundering people all these years for the sake of Daqi.
Those precious ginseng, mink skins, and medicinal materials eventually entered the Daqi treasury, or were sold to Nanming and turned into nothing, and entered the Daqi treasury.
Qian Sanruo dare not say that every warship in the navy, every hot air balloon in the workshop, every artillery piece, every flintlock gun... every weapon is all dependent on corrupt officials like them. The dirty officials looted it from Ninggu Pagoda - of course, there are countless Ninggu Pagodas in the country - if he said that, Liu Zhaosun would definitely crush him to ashes and wipe out ten tribes of them.
Dongfang Zhu slowly unfolded a prepared imperial edict, looked around, and said loudly:
"The Emperor, who was entrusted by heaven, issued an edict: I have read through the history books and found that there are many corrupt officials in all dynasties. At the beginning of the founding of the Qi Dynasty, there was someone who had stolen ten taels of silver. I immediately peeled off the skin and pulled away the grass. It is not lax. Today you have it. Ningguta's deputy general Qian Sanrui. Ningguta's magistrate and his friends, the third class, invaded the country's property and swallowed up millions of people's wealth! Not only am I shocked when I read it, but also recorded in the history books, and future generations will be shocked to see all of them. By········"
Hearing this, Qian Sanruo was so frightened that he fainted.
The Supreme Emperor interrupted Dongfang Zhu.
"Don't read it anymore, take him back to Shenyang, interrogate him carefully, feed him good food and drinks along the way, and don't let him die!"
This last sentence saved Qian Sanwei's life.
Don't just throw the gloves away when you're done using them, otherwise no one will be willing to make gloves in the future.
As long as the charges of rebellion between the two are not proven, other charges are not a big problem.
"Okay, everyone, please step back and have a good rest today. Tomorrow, we will discuss how to deal with the Rakshasa ghosts with me. These Cossacks really regard this place as their home. It's time to send them home."
Wu Xiao always felt that something was wrong. Based on his understanding of the Supreme Emperor, he would never let his subordinates rebel as easily as he did today.
After Yang Tong saluted the Supreme Emperor again, he slowly withdrew. Seeing that Wu Xiao was motionless, he quickly pulled him out.
The two walked out of the Yamen, and Wu Xiao couldn't help but said: "Old Yang, what does the Emperor mean by this? Let that Qian go..."
Seeing no one around, Yang Tong pulled Wu Xiao to a corner:
"Do you know how much money Ning Guta has contributed to the imperial court these years by exploiting prisoners all over the world, breaking their bones and sucking their marrow? Daqi is at war every year. Do you know where the money comes from? You should have listened to me a long time ago. I advise you to tell the truth about everything here now, so that the Supreme Emperor will not come to power, then..."
Wu Xiao shook his head, nodded again, and did not dare to ask again.
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