Great Tang Dynasty

Chapter 460 Old Party Rebellion
The emperor was angry and bled for thousands of miles.

Li Shimin just put Cui Tong and others in prison and confiscated their grain shop.

But just this one method has already made those wealthy and powerful families who have raised prices see Li Shimin's cruelty when facing the enemy.

Anyone who opposes him is an enemy.

Therefore, at the same time that Gao Shilian opened the warehouse to reduce the price, other powerful families also opened the warehouse to reduce the price.

They know that if they don't, they will become a second Choi family.

Perhaps, Li Shimin will not interfere with their grain prices, but from other places, is it not easy for Li Shimin to deal with them?
Grain prices in Chang'an finally returned to normal, even lower than before, and a stone of grain is always about the same.

Seeing the effect, the household department immediately began to purchase grain and grass, and then shipped it to Lingzhou.

On the Cui family's side, Li Shimin didn't really intend to kill them either. Cui Tong and the others were released after being imprisoned for a period of time, but the confiscated food and grass would not be returned.

Chang'an gradually regained its calm, and midsummer came to an end.

But at this time, a very bad news suddenly came from Luoyang.

This morning, at the very beginning, Changsun Wuji stood up.

"My lord, Zhang Danian, the governor of Luoyang, sent an urgent report saying that Li Jiancheng's old party Li Yiyu took advantage of the breach of the Yellow River Basin, and the people were displaced and starved of food. They took the opportunity to gather a large number of refugees and rebelled in Luoyang. Now there are more than [-] soldiers and horses. , they have even occupied some small county towns, and are now besieging Luoyang City."

After Changsun Wuji finished speaking, all the ministers were shocked, especially those who used to be Li Jiancheng, and now they suddenly felt a burst of panic.

Although they were not the ones who rebelled, if Li Shimin angered Li Jiancheng's old party because of this, their life would be difficult.

At this time, Li Shimin, with solemn eyebrows, shouted: "This Li Yiyu, the court has never found his whereabouts. I didn't expect him to be hiding in Luoyang, and he dared to rebel."

Speaking of this, Li Shimin suddenly asked: "Didn't the imperial court send food and grass to help those people? Why do those people still rebel?"

In Li Shimin's view, no matter in troubled times or peaceful times, the only reason why people rebel is that they can't eat enough and can't live happily. If they can survive, who will rebel?

"My lord, the food and grass sent out were robbed by a group of bandits on the way."

"What?" Li Shimin was shocked. During the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, there were bandits and robbers everywhere, but he thought that after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, especially after the other princes were wiped out by them in the past few years, there should be very few bandits in the Tang Dynasty. , I never thought that there would be bandits, and they dared to rob their court of disaster relief food.

"It's really bold, what kind of robbers robbed me of the relief food from the Tang Dynasty?"

"On the way to Luoyang, there is a mountain called Fengluo. On Fengluo mountain, there are two bandits, a man and a woman. , specialized in robbing houses, they were the ones who robbed our Datang’s disaster relief food.”

Hearing that a thousand or so little bandits were against Datang, Li Shimin was immediately furious.

"Reverse, these people have never rebelled, I will destroy them."

At this time, Fang Xuanling stood up and said: "My lord, the top priority is to send people to wipe out the bandits as soon as possible, and after getting back the food, we should wipe out Li Yiyu's rebels."

There are two rebels against Datang in a row. If they don't destroy them, I'm afraid that there will be more rebels in Datang. After all, Li Shimin has just ascended the throne at this time.

If he doesn't do something, the others will think he's easy to bully.

Therefore, after hearing Fang Xuanling's words, Li Shimin nodded and asked: "My dear friends, who is willing to lead the army to wipe out the rebels?"

After saying that, Cheng Yaojin suddenly stood up and said, "Your Majesty, the last general is willing to lead the army to wipe out those traitors."

Cheng Yaojin likes to fight the most, and he also likes to take credit the most. In his opinion, they are just some small thieves, and such credits should not be in vain.

When Cheng Yaojin opened his mouth, Li Shimin felt that he could handle this matter, and seeing that Cheng Yaojin was very enthusiastic, he nodded: "Since Lu Guogong is willing to lead the army, then I will order you to be the general who suppresses the thieves and leads the army to eliminate the thieves." .”

Hearing this, Cheng Yaojin was overjoyed, so he hurriedly asked: "I wonder how many soldiers and horses the Holy Majesty gave to the minister?"

Li Shimin said: "The war in Lingzhou has taken away a lot of our strong soldiers in the Tang Dynasty. On the capital side, there are still some guards left. What I can allocate to you is only [-] soldiers and horses. .”

"Three thousand soldiers?" When Cheng Yaojin heard this number, he immediately became a little furious. Li Yiyu had [-] soldiers, how could he fight him with three thousand soldiers?

And there are Luo Huang and Luo Feng brother and sister of Feng Luoshan, isn't this embarrassing him?

Cheng Yaojin regretted asking for orders hastily. If he knew this, he would not come out even if he was killed, but now that he has received orders, he can't retreat. The military order is like a mountain. If you dare to retreat, you are courting death.

The people next to him looked at Cheng Yaojin and smiled, quite proud, because they wanted to lead the army at the beginning, but they were robbed by Cheng Yaojin, only to find out that the imperial court only gave [-] soldiers and horses, so they gloated .

"What are you laughing at?" Cheng Yaojin rolled his eyes, but the others laughed more happily.

"Lu Guogong is my Great Tang general, and three thousand soldiers and horses are quite a lot."

"That is, three thousand soldiers and horses, under Lu Guogong's hands, that is equivalent to having thousands of troops, so the rebels will all be wiped out."

"........."

Everyone is still making fun of Cheng Yaojin. For a while, it is not true that Cheng Yaojin has a fit or not.

The courtroom was a bit chaotic, Cheng Yaojin rolled his eyeballs, and then stood up: "Your Majesty, this job is for the last general, but I hope His Majesty can assign the last general alone."

Three thousand soldiers and horses suppressed the bandits, it was indeed a little difficult for Cheng Yaojin, Li Shimin nodded and asked, "Who do you want?"

"Just that boy Qin Tian, ​​let him go with the minister."

Hearing that Cheng Yaojin wanted Qin Tian to follow, everyone suddenly stopped laughing. Li Shimin thought about it for a while, but quickly nodded: "Okay, let him follow you, but remember, for those who rob The robbers on Fengluo Mountain who were used by the court to provide disaster relief, I want you to not be lenient and kill them for me, as for Li Yiyu's rebels, if they are willing to surrender to my Tang Dynasty, I will not blame the past."

Li Shimin needs iron and blood methods, but at the same time he must be gentle. If he can persuade him to surrender, try his best to persuade him to surrender. This is the most beneficial for Datang.

In other words, what he needs most now is the stability of Datang.

Seeing that Li Shimin agreed to let Qin Tian follow, Cheng Yaojin was naturally very happy, and immediately agreed.

(It seems that there are two Zhang Da Nian...)
(End of this chapter)