Great Tang Dynasty

Chapter 1428 Hou Junji returns to Beijing

The army quickly fell silent.

After Li Ke saw this situation, a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.

The more this is the case, the more it shows that his father is afraid of Hou Junji.

Logically speaking, among the many generals in the Tang Dynasty, Hou Junji was not particularly outstanding. In terms of fighting, he was no match for Li Jing and Qin Tian, ​​not even Xu Maogong.

But Hou Junji's prestige in the army is not low.

In this way, it is inevitable for his father to be afraid.

This is exactly what Li Ke wants to see.

Of course, if it's just these things, it's definitely not enough to make his father angry with Hou Junji, or do something about it, but it is very serious to allow his subordinates to hide gold, silver and jewels and kill him.

Making his father jealous of Hou Junji was just a foreshadowing for Hou Junji's return to Beijing.

Chang'an City was as lively as ever, but a few days later, the atmosphere of Hou Junji's killing of Xue Yantuo faded a lot.

Half a month later, basically not many people talked about it.

Chang'an City has returned to its previous situation.

And at this time, Hou Junji returned to Chang'an City with his soldiers and horses.

When I came back, it was mid-autumn.

Chang'an City has also become desolate, and everyone has become more sad.

Hou Junji's soldiers and horses arrived outside Chang'an City first, but no one came to greet them at the gate of Chang'an City.

This made Hou Junji somewhat disappointed. It stands to reason that Li Shimin should have sent someone to greet him outside Chang'an even if he did not come to greet him personally.
However, Hou Junji recovered quickly, thinking that Li Shimin might be waiting at the gate of the palace.

So, after ordering the soldiers to stay outside the city, he led some people into Chang'an City and went straight to Zhuque Street.

There were people coming and going on Zhuque Street, and the east and west cities were bustling. Hou Junji led the people walking quickly, and it didn't take long before they came to the gate of the imperial palace.

However, when he came to the gate of the imperial palace, he didn't see Li Shimin. What he saw was Prince Li Chengqian and some other officials.

As the crown prince, Li Chengqian can do many things in place of Li Shimin.

However, what Hou Junji wanted to see was not Li Chengqian, even seeing Wei Wang Li Tai was much better than seeing Li Chengqian.

"General Hou killed Xue Yantuo, which can be said to have made a great contribution. Father asked the prince to wait for General Hou here."

Prince Li Chengqian smiled sweetly, and his tone was calm, he didn't have the slightest prejudice or personal dislike for Hou Junji's meritorious service.

Even if they were rivals, Li Chengqian felt that a hero like Hou Junji should be rewarded and respected.

Hou Junji's disappointment deepened.

Looking up at Li Chengqian, Hou Junji smiled softly in his heart.

For this prince, he has always been unfavorable, not only because of his absurd things before, but also because of the benevolence of women later.

"Thank you, Your Royal Highness." Although he was displeased, the rules cannot be broken. After Hou Junji said a word, he followed Li Chengqian into the palace hall.

Above the main hall, all the officials are already waiting.

Li Tai's obesity was even very conspicuous in front of the main hall, he looked at Hou Junji with a gleam in his eyes.

"The last general, Hou Junji, fortunately did not disgrace his life, and pay homage to the Holy Majesty."

Li Shimin nodded, and said: "General Hou killed Xue Yantuo, he was a meritorious minister of our Tang Dynasty, now that you are back, I will reward you well..."

Just as he was about to talk about rewards, the civil official who had followed Hou Junji back to record the war suddenly stood up and said, "My lord, I have a report."

Seeing such a person stand up, Hou Junji's eyes froze.

This man was called Wen Zaitu, who was in charge of recording the matter in the army. He was regarded as a supervisor. After Hou Junji led the army to go out, he had already greeted him, and this man fully agreed.

However, now that Wen Zaitu stood up, it made him a little uneasy.

Li Shimin took a look and asked, "Wen Aiqing, what do you want to say?"

Wen Zaixu said: "My lord, what I want to say is related to General Hou. After the Tang army captured the city of Xueyantuo, General Hou allowed the soldiers to search and plunder the city. A lot of money went into the pockets of those soldiers. What's more, General Hou killed and surrendered, and more than 1 Xue Yantuo surrendered, and he slaughtered them all, it is really chilling."

After Wen Zaitu finished speaking, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty were shocked, and immediately after that, the whole interruption broke out.

"What, such a thing happened?"

"To kill and surrender is a serious crime. In the future, if the enemy knows that my Tang army is so virtuous, will they still surrender?"

"Your Majesty, if Hou Junji really did these things, it would be a heinous crime."

"My lord, please punish Hou Junji severely."

"........."

At first, the officials were just shocked and questioned, but soon they asked Li Shimin to punish Hou Junji, obviously they all thought it was true.

At this time, Hou Junji's eyes were wide open, he was a little nervous, and at the same time he was angry with Wen Zaitu. If he had known that Wen Zaitu was such a person, he should have found a chance to kill him during the war. he.

"Your Majesty, false accusations, these are all false accusations. After the soldiers rushed into the royal city, some of them became greedy and hid some money privately, but as long as someone reported it or found out, I would punish them severely. As for killing and surrendering, that is even more non-existent, those Xue Yantuo's surrendered soldiers suddenly rebelled after they surrendered, I have no choice but to suppress them by force, Wen Zaitu is framing my humble minister."

Although he is a military commander, Hou Junji's eloquence is very good. In a short time, he found an excuse for himself, and he said things like a good show.

After he finished speaking, Li Shimin's expression changed slightly, but at this time, Wen Zaitu said again: "Your Majesty, this matter is absolutely true. If Feichen didn't dare to jump out at that time, I'm afraid that General Hou would even kill him in order to silence his words." I'm going to kill you. Now, I'm risking my life to talk about this matter. I have no grudges with General Hou. It's just that I, as the record official, must be worthy of my conscience. If the Holy One can't do it, send someone down. Just investigate and ask, and see if General Hou has surrendered."

Wen Zaitu spoke neither humble nor overbearing, but Li Shimin's eyes became deeper and deeper.

Hou Junji killed Xue Yantuo, that was a great achievement, but if he really killed and surrendered, and all his soldiers plundered property, it would be a crime.

However, at this time, Li Shimin was thinking about more than just this.

What he was thinking was that Hou Junji was so powerful that he didn't pay much attention to the laws of the Tang Dynasty and his emperor. If he did, he dared to do such things as killing and surrendering and condoning his subordinates' plundering. Can it come out?
It has to be said that the remarks made by the Japanese army in the past few days still affected Li Shimin.

(End of this chapter)