Sadly, this is how the world works, and it has always been this way.
When you gain sole benefit, many people would like to confiscate your home and exterminate your family.
After the benefits are equally shared, those people will be your bravest defenders.
This is the human heart, an extremely complex yet simple human heart. Good and evil, right and wrong, wrong and right are all related to the human heart and interests.
When we praise someone, perhaps, this person is just sitting back and enjoying the success. The person who really achieved all this and protected all this is nameless and no one knows.
Chu Qing was lucky. Although he did not take all the credit and let a group of courtiers with impure motives enjoy the success, at least, at least, Tao Ruolin protected his glory and pride.
The refugees know that their employer is called Chu Qing. One day, one day in the future, or even at this moment, the refugees know that all this has nothing to do with the courtiers, or even the emperor. Only that they can see, The boss who could be heard running wildly and yelling, called Commander Chu, was their benefactor.
No matter how big the plaque is, no matter how many words are written on it, it is still cold. The real warmth is the flesh and blood boss called Commander Chu's boss.
Li Wenli, the left minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, a big shot in the court who stomped and trembled three times, went to court for the first time in two months, and once again had to go home to wait for a visit, or in other words, to wait for a visit.
Li Wenli, Zhou Youwei, and Zhou Pengfei, the three of them, were not worthy of their virtues and did not take off their official robes and hats. They went home to be punished and awaited trial.
But everyone knows that these three people are finished. Anyway, Zhou Youwei and Zhou Pengfei are finished. As for Li Wenli, there is still a chance, because there is another heavyweight in the Li family, the patriarch of the three dynasties, Li Ke, although he is still in his old age. , and everyone knows that Li Ke’s influence is still there. As long as this person is alive and far away in the county, no one will kill Li Wenli, including the emperor.
The emperor did not tell these three people to get out immediately, but asked them to watch and see what the southern suburbs of Zhuangzi looked like.
Yes, the emperor is humiliating them.
The courtiers all dispersed, happily going to the building marked with their names, pretending to be close to the people, pretending to be down-to-earth, pretending to care, and looking forward to the day when they would receive praise.
Li Wenli lowered his head and stood there alone.
There are no teammates anymore, not even a front line. The officials who had been extorted money and followed them to impeach Chu Qing steadfastly "rebelled" and changed their words on the spot. They were forced, by Zhou Youwei, saying They didn't like Chu Qing's good deeds, so he contacted them. But they were in Cao's camp and their hearts were in Han, and they were preparing to expose Zhou Youwei.
The emperor didn't pay attention, but his disgusted eyes revealed an accurate message. These real wallflowers have no chance of promotion in this life. During their term of office, they must not make mistakes, even if they are the first to enter the political palace. feet, they will lose their official positions.
Li Wenli was unwilling to give in, but he was not desperate yet, because he still had his father, Li Ke, the patriarch of the three dynasties!
He doesn't need his father to go from his hometown to the capital to seek mercy from the emperor. He only needs his father's influence in his hometown. As long as his father doesn't die, those barbarians will all obey his Li family's orders!
This night was extremely long, but Li Wenli didn't know that there was another person in the Chu family. The younger one would torture him till he was covered with bruises, but the older one would kill him and his whole family!
The emperor left Zhuangzi with his ministers and planned to come back in a few days.
It was too dark, which affected his performance. He would show his face again in a few days when the sun was shining brightly. Furthermore, he had many questions to ask Chu Qing.
The group came to the south of the city, met the guards, and the gate was pulled up.
Huang Laosi was riding on the horse, feeling good or bad.
It was originally bad, but Chu Qing did it beautifully, and the Li family was almost doomed.
It was originally good, but Zhuangzi in the southern suburbs has the names of a bunch of losers, but it doesn't have its own name.
Therefore, the fourth child is in a good or bad mood.
Seeing that the emperor, who had gathered the imperial guards, was about to enter the city, he suddenly found a group of people, a group of cavalry, and more than 20 people at the city gate.
Huang Laosi's expression changed slightly: "Sun An."
"The old slave is here."
"I ordered the imperial guards to call those cavalry, but the military report..."
Huang Laosi was stunned mid-sentence. Because he was closer, he saw that in addition to more than 20 cavalrymen, there were also prison cars, more than a dozen prison cars, with prisoners wearing inner clothes inside.
The cavalry also noticed the slowly approaching guards, and the leader stepped forward to greet them with his horse under his belly.
Several generals of the Ministry of War looked at each other in confusion. The cavalrymen of the army did not take prisoners, but they were not the cavalry of the army. What did these dusty cavalry do?
The lone cavalryman quickly arrived at the front of the team. Without waiting for the guards to report, Huang Laosi waved: "But the military report, please bring me here."
Sun An ran to the front and brought a cavalryman wearing armor in a moment.
The cavalryman quickly ran to the horse, knelt on one knee, lowered his head, and spoke loudly.
"My lord, Chu Wensheng, the left minister of the Ministry of Industry, pays homage to Your Majesty."
Huang Laosi almost fell off his horse: "Chu Wensheng?!"
Chu Wensheng took off his helmet and raised his head, his face expressionless and full of weather.
The courtiers behind Huang Laosi were also dumbfounded.
Not to mention that Chu Wensheng forced the three major tribes to rebel and absconded in fear of crime. What the hell, he returned to Beijing. Is this... returning to surrender?
Huang Laosi opened his mouth and didn't know where to start the question.
Chu Wensheng was still the same Chu Wensheng. He had no good feelings towards the emperor. He just knelt there on one knee without any unnecessary expression on his face.
Looking at the expressions of the emperor and the ministers who had seen a ghost in the day, Chu Wensheng spoke expressionlessly, and as soon as he opened his mouth, there was a roar of thunder.
"Your Majesty, I am fortunate to have lived up to my command. The Li family in the county planned to rebel and colluded with the three Fanman tribesmen to attack the mansion at a discount. After hearing this, I led twenty generals to attack Naimu, Tahu and Shenshu at night and capture the rebels alive. The leaders of the three divisions and their families raided the Li family overnight, captured the leader of the thief Li Ke, and his family members. They confessed personally and signed the documents with their own handwriting. There was a mountain of ironclad evidence, and the prisoners were escorted to the south gate."
The night wind was gentle and silent, and the whole world seemed to be pressed by a pair of invisible hands to pause the pause button.
After a long time, a long time passed, and the sound of gasping for cold air came one after another.
Emperor Chang Chengyou, who did not change his expression even when Mount Tai collapsed before his eyes, was dumbfounded.
Sun An grinned so much that he could see his back molars.
Wei Changfeng and other important ministers first looked at Chu Wensheng, then looked past Lao Chu and towards the prison cars in the south of the city. Their eyes returned to Chu Wensheng again, and then looked at the prison cars again. Repeatedly, it was like seeing a ghost in the daytime.
With a "plop", from behind, a man in official robes fainted and fell to the ground. It was Li Wenli.
"You... captured Li Ke?!" Huang Laosi's voice was a little wavy: "And the chiefs of the three major tribes in the county and city, and their families?!"
"Yes." Chu Wensheng's voice was as calm and cold as ice. He slowly put his right hand covered with dried blood into his arms and took out a pile of documents covered with handprints.
"This is where Li Ke's letters from his affair with the barbarians were found. The Li family's mansion was set on fire, many letters were burned, and I only took the key evidence."
Huang Laosi's eyes widened: "The ancestral home of the Li family was burned down by you?"
Chu Wensheng's face finally showed a change of expression, showing reluctance.
"It was not completely burned down. On the second day, it rained heavily and half of the wing rooms were left unburned. Only forty-five houses were burned down. I set fire to it again, but after lighting it for a long time, it could not be ignited."
Sun An subconsciously asked: "Then the Li family won't stop..."
Halfway through, Sun An realized that he was stupid, ridiculously stupid.
If the Li family could stop it, how could they have forty-five houses burned down first?
Lao Chu is a real person. If you want to burn down your house, then you must leave no tile behind.
There was still half of the wing room that had not been burned. Lao Chu felt that it was a pity that it was not perfect.
At this moment, the courtiers present finally recalled that Chu Wensheng, before serving as Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Industry, was a general of the border army. The legend of this general of the frontier army was as horrifying as a fantasy.
Now that I think about it, those horrifying rumors are probably true!
Twenty cavalry raided the three major tribes in the mountains, burned Li's house and captured Li Ke alive. Isn't it also so terrifying?
