"Your Majesty is indeed in trouble. If you are not careful, you can easily be fooled by villains; and if you are really fooled by villains into ruining state affairs, you will be ridiculed by such villains behind your back for no reason!"
"Fortunately, in the current government, there are people like Fang Shuxiang and Ji Guogong who are familiar with border affairs, and people like Liu Ge, who understand the suffering of the people, participate in the government affairs. Because he didn't know the truth, he was intimidated by officials and others."
Shen Shixing nodded and said, "It's just as your Majesty said, the court can't just kill people, it also has to govern and employ people."
"If the court wants to make good use of Marquis Ningyuan, it must deal with a matter that has not been dealt with since the Ministry of Punishment reported it. This is the matter of Ningyuan Marquis' nephew Ningyuan Deputy Commander Li Rubin suspected of colluding with Zhang Siwei and Zhang Sijiao to illegally sell smuggled salt to the Tatars. "
"His Majesty!"
Fang Fengshi also stood up at this time and said: "What Yuan Fu said is absolutely true. Some officials should be killed, but some ministers in border towns should also be killed!"
"If the imperial court wants to make good use of Marquis Ningyuan, it must let Marquis Ningyuan know that his achievements will not be buried by the imperial court, but if he or his descendants do anything that is disgraceful to the imperial court, the imperial court will not indulge them either!"
"It can even be said that as a border minister, since the court has shown enough trust in him, he must also show enough loyalty to the court, otherwise, the court must be on guard against him!"
"In fact, I would rather kill him unjustly than let him ruin other affairs!"
"Then deal with it according to the law!"
"Send a few bold Jin Yiwei to go to Liaodong to capture Li Rubin. Although the Privy Council has dismissed him from his post, it is time for the Jin Yiwei to arrest him and bring him to Beijing, and let the Third Law Division investigate his crime!"
"I want to see how Li Chengliang behaves."
Zhu Yijun said.
…
Liaoyang.
The Li family mansion.
After the decree to impeach Li Chengliang for raising the bandits was spread to Liaodong in the Military Affairs Bureau, Li Chengliang immediately held a housework meeting.
Li Chengliang, who was sitting on the main seat, glanced coldly at his nephews at home.
"Rubin, please ask the court for the death penalty."
Li Chengliang looked at Li Rubin, who was kneeling in the middle and had been dismissed from his post by the Privy Council and went home, and said.
Li Rubin hurriedly kowtowed to the ground: "Uncle, you have always loved your nephew as your own child, why do you have to ask your nephew to plead guilty? What's more, the court has not issued a decree to punish your nephew for death!"
"Everyone tells you that Zhang Dingsi has been executed by the emperor for impeaching our Li family! Do you think you can still live?!"
Snapped!
As he spoke, Li Chengliang patted the eucalyptus, stood up, stared at Li Rubin and said:
"The emperor has given great trust to generals like us, and this trust has been so great that we will be watched even more closely by civil servants! Do you understand?"
Li Rusong stood up from the side and said, "Father, do you mean that we really can't even think about raising bandits?"
"That's right!"
"The purpose of raising bandits is to prevent them from being impeached and oppressed by the civil servants once they are no longer needed by the court! But now, the emperor will not let the civil servants impeach and oppress us wantonly, which proves that the emperor attaches great importance to military preparations and will not decentralize military power. And in this way, if we continue To support bandits is not to protect yourself, but to bring disaster upon yourself!"
Li Chengliang said.
Li Rubin raised his head at this time: "Nephew, I don't understand! My uncle is afraid that the civil servants will kill the donkeys, so isn't he afraid that your majesty will also kill the donkeys in the future?"
"If you want me to die, I have to die!"
"If His Majesty really wants to deal with our Li family, or even wipe out our entire family, do you think that if our Li family really makes all the barbarians in Liaodong willing to fight for our Li family, we can stop His Majesty from doing this?"
"Don't forget, in the Chenghua Dynasty, without our Li family, the court with wise kings and wise ministers can still plow the court and clear the holes!"
Li Chengliang said at this time.
"What my father said is that when His Majesty cannot control hundreds of officials, there is no need to worry about the safety of the family, but if the emperor is wise and can control hundreds of officials, he will really be asking for death!"
Li Rusong followed at this time.
Li Chengliang nodded, looked at Li Rubai, Li Ruzhen and other nephews and said, "Remember what your eldest brother said!"
Li Rubai, Li Ruzhen and others said yes.
Then, Li Chengliang looked at Li Rubin: "Not only do you have to apologize, uncle, I also have to apologize for lax discipline, because it is impossible for my uncle to risk the lives of the whole family because of you! And there is another advantage for you to apologize now. First, Bring out the evidence yourself to prove that you did this alone behind the Li family's back, and avoid being bribed by some people who hate us to bribe the factory guards and torture you. Unless you are smuggling, you are smuggling for our entire Li family. "
"yes!"
Li Rubin started crying, then kowtowed and said, "My nephew is sorry for my uncle's teachings, and also sorry for the Li family!"
Li Chengliang then looked at Li Rushu, who had been holding the knife: "Li Rushu! Give the second master the written apology letter to copy it over!"
Seeing this, Li Ruzhen knelt down with tears in his eyes: "Please, sir, spare the life of the second master, and let Ruzhi live in his place, and go to Beijing to be beheaded in his stead!"
After hearing this, Li Rusong quickly looked at Li Rushu.
"No!"
"If he has done something to disgrace the court, he has to bear the responsibility himself. Letting him commit suicide is the only thing the Li family can do."
Li Chengliang said in a deep voice.
Li Rubin had already stood up at this time, and personally copied the apology letter. After using the seal, he suddenly took advantage of the Li family's disciples not paying attention and pulled out the knife Li Rushe held in his hand:
"Who wants a slave like yours! I can only do things for myself, and I'm just a dead man!"
Then, Li Rubin drew his sword out of its sheath, knelt down and said to Li Chengliang: "Uncle, please remove my nephew from the family tree, so as not to bring shame to the general Li family!"
After saying that, Li Rubin stabbed himself to death and fell to the ground, blood flowing out along the blade.
Li Chengliang's eyelids twitched, and after a while he said: "Put the coffin in, and wait for the court to come and take his head!"
Then, Li Chengliang left here.
Li Rusong followed and said, "Father!"
Li Chengliang asked: "What else do you want?"
Li Rusong asked: "Do we really want to serve the court wholeheartedly?"
"Why do you ask?"
"I hired a famous teacher for you, did I teach you in vain?!"
"Do you really want the world to think that the Li family is not as loyal as the Qi family, so they can't become honorary relatives?!"
Li Chengliang suddenly changed his expression and scolded Li Rusong sternly.
"That's what my father blamed!"
Li Rusong cupped his hands, and then said in a low voice: "Since we are no longer raising bandits, we must be on guard against Li Ruzhen! I think this person has great ambitions, and he actually intends to win over the hearts and minds of the children of my Li family!"
"You're right!"
As he spoke, Li Chengliang smiled at Li Rusong and said, "You have been studying in Beijing for a few years, and you have indeed made a lot of progress."
"Father is so complimentary!"
Li Rusong handed over his hand.
Li Chengliang said: "Okay, you go down first. My father is going to the ancestral hall to talk to the grandpa about this matter. He forced Rubin to commit suicide. He has to give an explanation to his ancestors no matter what!"
Li Rusong said goodbye and left.
But after Li Rusong left, he went to the Liao Town camp, found Ma Shilong and said: "Call the brothers in the army who have enmity with the Jurchens, and tell them that I am going hunting!"
"yes!"
After a while, in the Liao Town camp, all the officials who had enmity with the Jurchens gathered in front of Li Rusong.
"The prey is in the Marquis Mansion. Those people with rat tail headgear, kill them all as a way to clean up the house for me!"
Li Rusong said in a deep voice.
"yes!"
So, Li Rusong came to the Hou Mansion with dozens of official schools and high spirits.
The people in the Hou Mansion did not stop him, nor did they dare to ask. After all, Li Rusong was the eldest son of the manor.
After Li Rusong and these people entered the Hou Mansion, they went straight to where Li Ruzhen and other Jurchen nobles who had been adopted and trained by Li Chengliang gathered.
"You mean the Li family shouldn't let our Jianzhou left guard rise again?"
Nurhachi's grandfather Jue Chang'an asked Li Rushu.
Li Ruzhen nodded: "It's very possible! At least for now, they won't let us rise again, and they may even let us go to Yunnan to die!"
"We have to find a way to escape! Go to other Jurchens or Mongols!"
"It just so happens that I have already bribed many craftsmen and slaves in the Li family. I won't worry about helping them rise after joining them!"
…
"uncle!"
As soon as Li Rushe finished speaking, he saw Li Rusong walking in and knelt on the ground.
But Li Rusong directly hit Li Rushe on the head with a copper hammer.
Peng!
Li Ruzhen fell to the ground on the spot, motionless.
Li Rusong struck again with the hammer, and Li Rushe, later known as Nurhaci, had his head split open on the spot.
】
Nurhachi's grandfather Jue Chang'an and Nurhachi's father Takshi hurriedly asked: "Why did you kill Ruzu?"
Li Rusong ordered in a deep voice: "Kill them all! Including those in the courtyard!"
"yes!"
The border military academies brought by Li Rusong were busy fighting.
As a result, these Jurchens were all washed with blood.
Jue Changan and Takshi were also executed.
Even Nurhachi's younger brother Shuerhaqi was not spared.
Li Chengliang didn't know about this until after dawn, and hurried over.
As soon as he arrived, Li Chengliang saw all the Jianzhou Zuowei aristocratic children he had taken in lying dead in the courtyard. He asked Li Rusong in a cold voice: "What did you do?"
"Yes! Father!"
Li Rusong raised the sledgehammer with great dignity and said, "I went to the camp to call dozens of border army brothers and asked them to help me clean up the Li family."
Li Rusong said: "As the saying goes, soldiers are valuable and quick. If we don't kill now, then when? And they do have different aspirations. The child had already heard it when he came. Since the father does not intend to raise bandits, and now Jianzhou You Now that the guard has been eliminated, there is no need to keep the Jianzhou left guard!"
Snapped!
Li Chengliang slapped Li Rusong directly on the face.
"Treason!"
"How could you not ask me first! Just make your own decision!"
Li Rusong was stunned: "Didn't father say that our Li family should be as loyal ministers as the Qi family?"
"Keeping a few tigers in a cage is nothing like raising bandits, and they haven't been released!"
Li Chengliang gritted his teeth and asked Li Rusong in a low voice:
"Besides, our Li family must be meticulous and loyal ministers now, but what if His Majesty, who trusted the military ministers, suddenly disappears?"
"The new His Majesty trusts those civil servants again. What should the Li family do then?"
"Kill them all! Is there any way out for our Li family?!"
Li Rusong blushed.
"oh!"
