Li Shimin

Chapter 822

Hearing this, Wang Xi's face changed, and he stared at Li Xuan closely.

Suddenly, his eyes narrowed, he seemed to feel that Li Xuan looked familiar, but he couldn't figure out where he had seen this person before!
"Who the hell are you?"

It stands to reason that the patriarch of a powerful family like the Langya Wang family has visited Chang'an City so many times, so he should have visited Li Xuan.

However, Li Xuan lived in Lijiazhuang all the year round, even if there were patriarchs of aristocratic families who came to visit him, except for the few patriarchs of aristocratic families who had to meet, no one else would see him.

Therefore, Wang Xi only had a portrait of Li Xuan in his hands, and it was a portrait handed down from Chang'an City.

Therefore, Wang Xicai did not recognize Li Xuanlai.

As for Li Chengqian, Li Chongyi and others, Wang Xi had never seen them before.

Li Xuan didn't answer Wang Xi's words, but turned his head and looked outside the street.

Similarly, Li Chengqian, Cheng Chusi and the others couldn't help but look outside.

A burly general wearing a black iron-colored turquoise silk sash armor, led a large group of soldiers, squeezed through the crowd from outside, and rushed in hastily.

"The generals are Captain Jiang Ning Zhechong and Dewu, put down your weapons quickly!"

After saying that, He Dewu saw the members of the Wang family being escorted by Zheng Fu and others, and then saw Zheng Fu and others wearing fine armor, and couldn't help but shrink their pupils.

After that, seeing the tragic scene of stumped limbs and broken arms all over the ground, He Dewu gasped subconsciously, it was so cruel!
At this time, a few more vermilion officials broke in from the crowd, followed by two classes of yamen servants!

"I am the governor of Jiangning, who is the thief who dares to cause chaos in Jiangning City?"

After shouting, he looked straight at Li Xuan, Li Chengqian and the others.

However, all the stumped limbs and broken arms on the ground, as well as the gate of the Wang family that was blown into ruins, all the officials who had never seen such a tragic scene, subconsciously rolled in their stomachs.

After a while, several people tried to calm down, but their faces were still very pale.

"You are so bold. The Patriarch of the Wang family is the King of Dandong who was conferred by His Majesty himself. You are so tyrannical? Now that our Jiangning army has arrived, why don't you quickly bind your hands and surrender?"

However, after seeing that Li Xuan and the others didn't even look at them, Jiang Ning's governor's face darkened, and he turned his head and shouted at He Dewu who was beside him.

"General He, these thieves dare to be so rude to King Dandong, please also General He quickly order someone to take them down!"

He Dewu didn't pay attention to these officials, but got off his horse directly, bowed his hands slightly to Li Xuan, Li Chengqian and others.

"I don't know who you are? This is Jiangning City, and the Patriarch of the Wang family is the King of Dandong canonized by His Majesty. Please order your soldiers to put away their weapons, and don't accidentally injure the King of Dandong!"

"He Dewu, whoever used swords against the prince of the Tang Dynasty, what is the crime?"

Cheng Chusi took a step forward and shouted directly.

"The crime of treason!"

He was surprised by Dewu.

Immediately, his face changed again, "I am the prince of the Tang Dynasty?"

On the side, the faces of Jiang Ning and other officials also changed drastically.

"Impossible, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is accompanying the Supreme Emperor, and His Royal Highness Prince Jin is patrolling the world instead of His Majesty, how could he suddenly appear in Jiangning..."

Wang Xi, who was still being escorted by several guards, also said hastily.

However, when he mentioned King Jin, his heart was shaken, and he subconsciously looked at Li Xuan.

"Jin... King Jin...?"

The more you look, the more desperate you become!
Although the Wang family of Langya is an old powerful family, in the southern part of the Tang Dynasty, they completely dominate and dominate!

However, the veteran family has a fatal flaw, that is, it is not very trusted by His Majesty, and even the children of the family do not have much official position in the center.

Therefore, no matter how big a network they weave in Jiangning, even the governor of Jiangning has a close relationship with the Wang family.

But it's just a prefect!
As long as a dignitary comes to Chang'an, his Langya Wang family must serve him with food and drink in Jiangning, for fear of causing dissatisfaction among the dignitaries and even His Majesty.

But now, King Jin, the most powerful and irritable in the Tang Dynasty, and the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty, together with so many generals, slaughtered him at the gate of the Langya King's family, and even arrested him, the King of Dandong stand up?

Could it be that this King Jin has enmity with their family surnamed Wang?

His Langya Wang family must be the same as that Jinyang Wang family?
Wang Xi was shocked and frightened!

"This king is the king of Jin, and the person next to him is Li Chengqian, the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty. Do you have any doubts?"

Li Xuan glanced at Wang Xi in surprise, then said to He Dewu.

Among the people present, only this person can make Li Xuan face up to it!
"I don't know if His Royal Highness King Jin and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince can prove their identities?"

He Dewu said solemnly.

"You want me to prove my identity?"

Li Xuan was startled.

On the side, Li Chengqian, Cheng Chusi and others also had weird faces. They patrolled all the way, and this was the first general who didn't know them and dared to let them prove his identity.

"He Dewu, do you know me?"

This is, Li Chongyi took two steps forward and asked He Dewu.

"This young man..."

He Dewu was startled.

"In the seventh year of Zhenguan, when you came to Chang'an, you visited me, Aye, and I happened to meet you once, do you remember?" Li Chongyi said.

"Seven years of Zhenguan..."

He Dewu hurriedly frowned and thought, and after a while he remembered something, his eyes lit up, he looked Li Chongyi up and down, and hurriedly asked: "But the little county king in the general's mansion?"

"It's me!"

Li Chongyi nodded slowly.

He Dewu looked happy, and then quickly looked at Li Xuan and Li Chengqian, and bowed his hands in salute.

"The next official, Jiang Ning Zhechong Duwei and Dewu pay respects to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and King Jin!"

Behind him, a group of Jiangning officials were shocked, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute.

"The lower official Jiangning Inspector Xie Lang paid his respects to His Highness the Crown Prince, and met His Highness Prince Jin..."

Hearing these words, the surrounding children of the aristocratic family who were watching the excitement and the busy people in Jiangning City all looked shocked.

"It turned out to be King Jin and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who led the soldiers to attack the Wang family?"

"Is that possible? Then the Patriarch of the Wang Family is the Dandong King personally conferred by His Majesty?"

"Did King Jin and the crown prince come to Jiangning?"

"..."

No matter how shocked these Jiangning family members and those meddlesome people are.

And the villagers from the major villages around Jiangning City who hurried over were all happy.

That thing is really true!

The Langya royal family has done a lot of evil these years, and the retribution has come. It turned out that His Royal Highness King Jin and the crown prince led soldiers to tear down the gates of the Wang family, killed so many royal guards, and captured the head of the Wang family!

Thinking about it, some villagers ran out happily, and they must let more villages know about this great event!
Those villagers who were harmed by the Wang family have all been saved!

At this time, in front of the gate of the Wang family, the civil servants and military generals with the highest official positions in Jiangning City all paid homage to Li Xuan and Li Chengqian.

The identities of Li Xuan and Li Chengqian are completely confirmed!

Whether it was the guards of the Wang family, or the servants of the government office and the generals of the Zhechong government who had just arrived, they all put away their weapons in a hurry.

But the housekeeper of the Wang family, Guanshi Qian and others were frightened and weak all over.

Only then did they realize what a stupid thing they had just done!
"I don't know why King Jin and His Royal Highness the Prince attacked the gate of my royal family like this?"

Thinking of the time when the Wang family in Jinyang was destroyed a few years ago, Wang Xi asked hastily.

"You don't know?"

Li Xuan looked at Wang Xi mockingly.

Wang Xi was startled, just about to speak.

A voice full of resentment came from the ruins of the Wang family gate.

"Report to Your Majesty, we will eventually find dozens of poor people from the Wang family's backyard!"

Wang Xi, Li Xuan and others all looked up.

Suddenly, everyone was shocked.

"Beasts!"

"A hog dog is not as good as..."

Cheng Chusi and Li Chongyi cursed directly.

Dozens of miserable-looking civilians, including men, women, and children, were all covered in tattered clothes and scarred.

The most important thing is that these dozens of people are all sallow and emaciated, with dry lips and weak breath. It is obvious how much torture they have suffered!
"Report to Your Majesty, these people were found in a woodshed in the backyard of the Wang family, and they seem to have been hungry for several days!"

The headed personal guard reported again.

"Hurry up and find some water, and get some porridge!" Li Xuan said.

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

The personal guard responded, and hurried to the backyard of the Wang family.

"Wang Xi, as a famous family, you should pass on the fragrance of books to the family, protect the environment and the people, and treat the people kindly. I didn't expect your Wang family to become a devil's den!"

Li Xuan reprimanded coldly.

"Prince Jin, the people are all disobedient servants of my Wang family, and there is nothing wrong with the Wang family's punishment of the servants, right?"

Wang Xi said quickly.

"Old man Wang Xi, how did they become servants of your Wang family? And what mistakes did they make?" Li Xuan asked.

"This..." Wang Xi was taken aback.

At this time, several personal guards came out quickly carrying two buckets of water and two buckets of thick porridge.

Seeing this, dozens of people who had been frightened by the scene of hell with mutilated limbs and arms around them, their eyes lit up, they struggled to sit up, and crawled around the large barrels.

Regardless of the dirt, he picked up a little thick porridge with his hands and put it in his mouth.

"Here's a bowl, here's a bowl!"

Seeing this, several guards quickly stuffed the bowls aside into the hands of those common people.

The people were not polite, they took the bowl directly, put a bowl of porridge in the bucket, and poured it into their mouths.

Li Xuan, Li Chengqian and others stood quietly aside, watching these common people eat.

He Dewu, Wang Xi and others did not dare to disturb them.

It wasn't until the two big barrels of thick porridge bottomed out that the common people gradually calmed down.

Afterwards, several older men and women slowly turned their heads, kowtowed to Li Xuan, Li Chengqian and the others with gratitude on their faces.

"My villain, thank you nobles for your help!"

"This is the prince of the current dynasty. Let me tell you why you have suffered such a crime?"

"Prince world?"

Hearing this, the eyes of the common people kneeling on the ground could not help but light up, and they looked up at Li Chengqian.

"Gu is the crown prince Li Chengqian. If you have any grievances, just tell Gu, and Gu will definitely avenge you!"

Li Chengqian nodded lightly.

Hearing this, all the people were overjoyed.

"His Royal Highness, the villain is wronged. The villain was originally from Liushu Village outside the city. Because of the drought two years ago, he borrowed money from the Wang family to survive. Last year, the gentleman in the family had already returned the money to the Wang family. I didn't expect to pay it back this year." The Wang family has five strings.

The villain's family couldn't afford it, and under the persecution of the Wang family, he planned to sell an acre of land.But, who would have thought that the Wang family would only pay one hundred Wen for an acre of fertile land, His Royal Highness, that is fertile land, and it is only one hundred Wen...

The villain wanted to sell it to others, but when those people heard the villain's name and land, they all avoided the plague...

In the end, the villain couldn't pay back the money, so the steward of the Wang family and a group of guards took the villain's family back to the Wang family forcibly, and made the villain's family servants of the Wang family!

The villain refused, and asked his servants to go to the Wang family to cultivate land for the Wang family and pay off the debts. But the villain heard that the Wang family's kingdom was in Goguryeo, thousands of miles away, so the villain dared not go there, even if he was killed. dare not go...

Seeing that the villain didn't go, the Wang family beat the villain and locked the villain's whole family in the woodshed. They were starving for three days!
The villain is very grateful to His Highness the Prince for saving his life! "

"Wang Xi said that you are servants of their family?"

Li Xuan asked again.

This made his face change drastically, and he hastily explained with grievances on his face: "Your nobleman, we were forced. They wrote the contract themselves, and then a few guards forced the villain to press his fingerprints!"

"Beasts!"

Li Chengqian cursed at Wang Xi.

Then, he looked at the crowd of people on the side.

"His Royal Highness, the villain was also wronged, and the villain was also persecuted by the Wang family..."

"His Royal Highness, the lady's husband was taken to Goguryeo by these royal families..."

"His Royal Highness..."

All the common people cried to Li Chengqian one by one.

The more he listened, the paler Li Chengqian's face became.

On the side, Wang Xi, He Dewu, Xie Lang and others were also silent.

"What a Langya Wang family, what a Dandong king!"

Li Chengqian snorted coldly.

Li Xuan turned his head and asked: "He Dewu, can the Zhechong Mansion soldiers under your command be under your control?"

"His Royal Highness King Jin?"

He Dewu was startled.

Seeing this, Li Xuan looked at Li Chengqian again: "Gao Ming, go and send five hundred soldiers from Yangzhou and Luzhou!"

"Yes, Uncle Three Kings!"

Li Chengqian responded, and looked at Yuchi Baolin and Li Chongyi beside him.

"Baolin, Chongyi, the captains of Zhechong Mansions in Yangzhou and Luzhou, should be the old men of Su Guogong and Uncle Wang of Hejian. Please also bring my fish amulet and imperial edict, eight hundred for each state." Soldiers come here!"

"Yes!"

The two agreed, took the fish talisman and edict handed over by Li Chengqian, took their own guards, got on their horses and galloped away.

When Li Chengqian left Chang'an, Li Shimin gave Li Chengqian several orders to dispatch troops in order to prevent accidents.

Unexpectedly, it was useless along the way, but this will be useful!

Seeing this, Jiangning Inspector Xie Lang's eyes flashed, he cast a vague glance at Wang Xi, and slowly shook his head.

"Your Highness the Crown Prince and His Royal Highness the King of Jin have something to do, but the last general's Jiangning Zhechong Mansion soldiers can still control it!"

He Dewu blushed and said loudly.

"If that's the case, please arrest all the direct descendants of the Wang family and the owners of the various branches in Jiangning City with the captain!"

Li Chengqian said quietly.

"Yes!"

He saluted with Dewu, turned around and began to give orders to the group of soldiers he brought.

"Prince Jin, Your Highness the Crown Prince, although this old man is at fault, he is still the King of Dandong personally conferred by His Majesty!"

Wang Xi couldn't bear it anymore, and said anxiously.

"Old man Wang Xi, from the time your royal family used all kinds of dirty means to force those people to go to your royal family to seal the kingdom, you are no longer the king of Dandong!"

Li Xuan said coldly.

"This old man is His Majesty who canonize Dandong King himself, unless His Majesty orders..."

Wang Xi refused to accept.

"According to the agreement to seal the country, after all the families seal the country, we are not allowed to harm the people of the Tang Dynasty, especially those who force the people of the Tang Dynasty to go to the other families to seal the country, they will directly withdraw their princes and seal the country!"

Li Xuan shouted.

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(End of this chapter)