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Chapter 238 Blood Stained Xi'an Mansion This Day 【Order】

Yang Yiqing's face was full of seriousness, as if he didn't hear what Qiu Ju said.

Qiu Ju came to Jishui Pass only yesterday. As the emperor's close attendant, he came here suddenly, obviously with the emperor's will.

It's just that the emperor's will is clearly for Li Huan, but Li Huan is still on the grassland, even the angel Qiu Ju can't see Li Huan.

Especially when Qiu Ju learned from Yang Yiqing that the Li Huan people were actually blocking the Tatars on the grassland, Qiu Ju almost exploded at that time.

Qiu Ju's reaction was that Yang Yiqing was a little surprised. After all, in Yang Yiqing's view, Qiu Ju was a close servant of the emperor, and under normal circumstances he would definitely maintain a certain relationship with foreign ministers like Li Huan.

Even if the two have a deep personal relationship, they will not reveal it to outsiders.

But Qiu Ju's reaction showed no scruples, which surprised Yang Yiqing.

Even after a day, Yang Yiqing never forgot that Qiu Ju almost pointed at him and yelled at him.

Fortunately, Qiu Ju still had some scruples about his status as the governor of the three sides, and he did not react too aggressively, but Yang Yiqing remembered that Qiu Ju told him at that time that if something happened to Li Huan, his third Governor Bian will be buried with Li Huan.

Listening to Qiu Ju's words now, Yang Yiqing's eyes were still looking at the prairie beyond the wall, and his heart was also full of worries.

Not long ago, Li Wu came back with more than a thousand men and horses. From Li Wu and others, Yang Yiqing learned that Li Huan had gone to attack the Heihe tribe's camp, and at the same time, the Heihe tribe had given up their journey to the south. Forget, return to the Heihe Tribe.

This made Yang Yiqing heave a sigh of relief, but at the same time, he also felt a little worried about Li Huan and the others.

The power of the Heihe tribe is worse than that of Hulibu. They even wiped out Hulibu. It is said that they are not afraid of the Heihe tribe.

But Yang Yiqing knew one thing, that is, they relied on a surprise attack and caught the inside of the pot by surprise, so they easily wiped out the inside of the pot without paying any price.

However, the Heihe Tribe was different. If Li Huan and the others were bet by the Heihe Tribe, a fierce battle would be inevitable.

Even if Li Huan's strength is amazing, but in the chaotic battle, no one can guarantee that Li Huan will encounter any accidents. If there are no accidents, that's all. Just looking at Qiu Ju's reaction, Yang Yiqing could imagine that under the emperor's wrath, he, the governor of the three sides, would definitely bear the emperor's thunder and wrath.

Suddenly, Li Wu, who was standing beside Yang Yiqing, shouted with surprise on his face: "Look, sir, there is someone, it seems that someone has returned from the grassland."

In fact, without Li Wu opening his mouth, all the people standing above the gate could clearly feel the shaking of the earth and the dark shadows that were getting closer and closer in the distance.

As the distance got closer and the movement became louder, Yang Yiqing and the others showed a bit of seriousness on their faces.

Only Li Wu said solemnly: "This... this movement is too loud, even if it is tens of thousands of horses, it is nothing more than that."

As he spoke, he didn't know what he thought of, Li Wu said with a bit of panic: "My lord, it can't be the Tatars who have come."

Such a big movement, especially the darkness in the distance, overwhelming the sky and covering the sky, such a movement, only when the Tatars marched south to invade the border.

Standing there, Yang Yiqing's face was full of seriousness, even Qiu Ju couldn't help but stepped forward, looked at the black shadow in the distance and said in horror: "If these are adults, what about Master Li? "

At this time, a group of fast horses came rushing forward, the leader was a small banner officer of Jinyiwei, followed by several Jinyiwei, and went straight to the pass.

Above the city gate, there was no fear of fear on the faces of the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, only calm, but their hands were clenched tightly to the weapons in their hands.

Tatars went south to Kouguan, they have experienced it once or twice. Although there may be more Tatars this time, they are desperate.

When that group of people appeared at the bottom of the city, the arrows had already targeted these people, suddenly a flash of light flashed in Yang Yiqing's eyes, he looked at the bottom of the city and shouted: "Who is here?"

Hearing Yang Yiqing's voice, the little banner officer of the Jinyiwei who had just stabilized his figure raised his head and looked over the city gate, and immediately shouted: "The next official, Lu Qi, the little banner officer of the Jinyiwei, is ordered by your lord to come first to communicate with you." Bing, please quickly send someone to meet me and escort them into the city."

Everyone heard it clearly, and they were all subconsciously taken aback, but soon Li Wu and many other generals who had gone out with Li Huan before reacted.

Looking at the black shadows that were getting closer and closer in the distance, it could be vaguely seen at this time that those black shadows were not the Tatars they thought they were before, but groups of cattle, sheep, and good horses.

At a glance, there are countless cattle, sheep, and war horses, probably no fewer than tens of thousands of them. Driven by horse herders and shepherds, they are rushing towards Jishui Pass. If you don't know, just look at the battle. I really thought that tens of thousands of troops were approaching the city.

Li Wu said excitedly: "Your Excellency, it's not Tatars, but the cattle, sheep, war horses and other things captured by the Imperial Envoy. In this way, the Imperial Envoy must be safe and sound."

Needless to say, Li Wu, everyone can think of this point. Just imagine, if Li Huan was in a difficult situation, it would be impossible for him to escort so many spoils back.

Yang Yiqing took a deep breath, glanced at Li Wu and said: "Li Wu, you take someone to stay at Jishui Pass to prevent accidents, and the rest of the people will go with me to meet the imperial envoy."

While speaking, Yang Yiqing strode towards the city gate.

Except for some generals who stayed to cooperate with Li Wu to sit at Jishui Pass, the rest of the generals seemed to want to show their faces in front of Li Huan, and followed Yang Yiqing to the Chengguan.

A servant beside Qiu Ju said to Qiu Ju, "Superintendent, let's..."

Qiu Ju took a look at several people and said, "Follow our family to meet Mr. Li."

Following Yang Yiqing leading thousands of soldiers and horses out of the Chengguan and setting up a battle outside Jishui Pass, tens of thousands of cattle, sheep and war horses were also driven by the crowd to come under Jishui Pass.

After seeing Du Guang and other hundreds of Ming soldiers, Yang Yiqing confirmed the identities of the crowd, and then ordered Li Wu to close the door and open it.

At this moment, Qiu Ju was staring at Du Guang and said, "Du Guang, where is Mr. Li, why don't you see Mr. Li?"

I thought that Li Huan should be in this team, but they never thought that they didn't see Li Huan at all.

Du Guang and Qiu Ju were no strangers. When Du Guang saw Qiu Ju, he couldn't help being stunned for a moment, and he quickly saluted Qiu Ju and said, "I've seen Chief Supervisor Qiu. Isn't the Chief Supervisor serving His Majesty in the capital? Why... "

Qiu Ju said indifferently: "Our family is here to see Brother Li and deliver the order for His Majesty."

As he said that, Qiu Ju stared at Du Guang and said, "Why didn't Brother Li go back with you?"

When he didn't see Li Huan, Qiu Ju's restless heart once again hung up, and he stared at Du Guang even more.

Du Guang hurriedly said: "Return to Supervisor Qiu, my lord took me to slaughter the Heihe tribe and seized these spoils of war, so my lord ordered me to bring some people to escort the spoils back first, and my lord will lead people to guard against the Heihe tribe. What's going on right now, I don't know the officials."

Qiu Ju frowned when he heard this.

The grassland is the territory of the Tatars, and without seeing Li Huan, Qiu Ju was naturally worried that something would happen to Li Huan.

But at this moment Yang Yiqing suddenly said: "If the old man's prediction is correct, Mr. Li probably wants to ambush the people of the Heihe tribe who are going to rescue the people of the Heihe tribe in the pot, so that they can once and for all avoid the people of the Heihe tribe. Chase all the way down south."

Du Guang nodded and said, "What the governor said is true, that's what my lord means."

Qiu Ju couldn't help but muttered, "It's okay to send other people to do such a dangerous thing. Why doesn't Brother Li cherish himself? If something happens..."

Yang Yiqing coughed lightly and said to Qiu Ju: "Chief Qiu, you can rest assured, if nothing unexpected happens, Mr. Li will be on his way home now."

Qiu Ju couldn't help snorting coldly when he heard the words: "I hope everything is as Governor Yang said, otherwise, our family will definitely refer you to His Majesty."

Although being threatened by Qiu Ju again, Yang Yiqing didn't care at all.

At this time Yang Yiqing raised his brows, looked at Qiu Ju and said, "Does Supervisor Qiu dare to go with this governor to meet Mr. Li?"

Dazed for a moment, Qiu Ju couldn't help but look at Yang Yiqing in surprise, as if he was very surprised by Yang Yiqing's proposal.

On the other hand, Yang Yiqing stroked his beard and said confidently: "The old man has confidence in Mr. Li. If we infer from the time and everything goes well, Mr. Li may not be far from Jishui Pass at this time."

Qiu Ju nodded and said, "Okay, our family will go to meet Brother Li."

After giving some orders, Yang Yiqing took more than a thousand elite troops and rushed towards the prairie.

More than an hour later, Yang Yiqing and others had penetrated into the grassland for dozens of miles. At this moment, under Yang Yiqing's order, the brigade stopped and sent out all around, while the rest of the people led the horses to let them drink water.

At the same time, more than a dozen miles away from Yang Yiqing and the others, a group of cavalry with fierce aura was coming at a steady speed.

At a glance, this cavalry team is almost one man and two cavalry, thousands of cavalry, nearly ten thousand horses, the momentum can be described as not small.

Although it is said that because of the ambush of the Heihe Tribe at night, there were no troops who could wipe out the Heihe Tribe, but after checking it, it is possible that no more than [-]% of the Heihe Tribe escaped. Even if these frightened birds can gather together, it is absolutely impossible Threatening Li Huan and others.

Therefore, when Li Huan led his troops south to return to Daming, he seemed quite relaxed along the way, giving people the feeling of marching in the green, without worrying about the enemy chasing him.

"My lord, my lord, Governor Yang Yiqing will lead people to welcome your lord back."

With a bit of excitement, Chen Yao led several scouts sent by Yang Yiqing excitedly towards Li Huan Tongbing.

Li Huan couldn't help raising his brows when he heard this, as if he didn't expect that Yang Yiqing would bring people to meet him, but he thought that he would send Du Guang to lead people to escort back the loot from the Heihe tribe.

Presumably Du Guang had already returned smoothly, so Yang Yiqing brought people to greet him.

Li Huan nodded slightly, and said with a long roar: "Soldiers, Governor Yang and his people are waiting for us in front, everyone, speed up and go home!"

A group of soldiers cheered loudly when they heard the words, and speeded up one after another. All of a sudden, thousands of horses were galloping, and the momentum was astonishing.

It was just a cup of tea, and Yang Yiqing and his group, who were taking a rest, clearly felt the shaking of the ground, but Yang Yiqing and the others had already learned the news from the sentry, and knew that the person who came was none other than Li Huan. The people and horses naturally did not panic.

Otherwise, on this prairie, such a big commotion would definitely make Yang Yiqing order everyone to gather immediately.

Even so, Yang Yiqing quickly assembled his troops and quietly waited for Li Huan and others to arrive.

Not long after, a dark torrent swept in from a distance, and as the distance got closer, a wave of evil spirit rushed towards his face.

Qiu Ju had never seen such a majestic army before, his expression changed, his eyes flashed with a strange look, and he said: "What a mighty army."

Li Huan stepped forward and glanced at Yang Yiqing. When he saw Qiu Ju riding on a horse beside Yang Yiqing, Li Huan couldn't help being stunned for a moment, obviously a little flustered by the sudden appearance of Qiu Ju. stupid.

Qiu Ju didn't serve the emperor in the capital, so why did he suddenly come to this prairie? Could it be that something happened in the capital?
Thinking of this, Li Huan was inexplicably worried.

Although Li Huansi thought about it, he couldn't think of any accidents that would happen to Zhu Houzhao, but those people who dared to murder the emperor directly and mobilized people to attack the frame of the emperor, such things can be done, so what else? It's what they dare not do.

Taking a deep breath and suppressing the worries in his heart, Li Huan went straight forward, cupped his hands at Yang Yiqing and said, "Thank you Governor Yang for coming to greet you."

Yang Yiqing said with a smile: "Congratulations to the imperial envoy for his triumphant return. Your Excellency slaughtered the two Tatar tribes in one battle. It can be said to be an outstanding feat. It is really gratifying to congratulate."

Li Huan smiled lightly and said: "This is not the work of Li, but the work of all the soldiers fighting to the death."

As he spoke, Li Huan glanced at the thousands of soldiers behind him, and said with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "This time Li will definitely ask for credit for all the soldiers."

"My lord is mighty, my lord is mighty!"

Li Huan had promised to give them silver rewards before, and now Li Huan said to help them ask for credit. For these big soldiers who don't know a lot of characters, their biggest dream is to be able to get promoted and make a fortune.

Now that Li Huan said that he would ask for credit for them, naturally the soldiers cheered loudly.

After appeasing the excited soldiers, the brigade slowly headed towards Jishui Pass.

At this moment, Li Huan was riding with Qiu Ju, and Li Huan couldn't help but said to Qiu Ju: "Brother Qiu, why did you suddenly appear here? It can't be that something happened to the capital."

Li Huan had been enduring the worry in his heart just now, so he couldn't help but ask Qiu Ju now.

Qiu Ju saw the worried look on Li Huan's face, smiled and shook his head, "Brother Li, you don't have to worry, nothing happened in the capital."

Li Huan breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the words, with a relaxed expression on his face, as long as there is no accident in the capital, then Li Huan said with a little curiosity: "Then your majesty sent you to come, brother Qiu, but what does your majesty want?" Will it?"

Qiu Ju nodded with a smile and said, "Your Majesty has something to bring to Brother Li."

Li Huan's expression became serious when he heard the words, and he was about to get off his horse to receive the order, but Qiu Ju hurriedly said: "Your Majesty ordered that brother Li needn't be like this."

As he spoke, Qiu Ju said with a smile: "Your Majesty said, he already knows about the affairs of Shaanxi, those officials are greedy and devoid of conscience, since His Majesty has given you the right to behead them first and then play them, you are allowed to declare the canon of these officials on the spot." There is no need to take him to the capital for execution."

Li Huan's expression was serious. Although Zhu Houzhao had given him the right to kill first and then report, after Li Huan took down many corrupt officials in Shaanxi, he confiscated the property of these officials to help the victims, and at the same time sent people to confiscate the criminal evidence about these people. Send it to the capital and hand it over to the emperor.

Li Huan did not directly exercise the right to kill first and then act. The emperor can give that kind of power, but Li Huan used it cautiously.

Although the emperor trusted him very much, Li Huan also worked hard to maintain the majesty of the emperor.

Li Huan cupped his hands in the direction of the capital and said, "I would like to obey His Majesty's will."

Seeing this, Qiu Ju smiled and said: "Your Majesty also said that he has dispatched a group of officials from the Ministry of Officials to take over the vacancy in Shaanxi. Now that the disaster situation in Shaanxi has recovered under Li Qing's full relief, Li Qing also It's time to go back to Beijing."

Obviously, Qiu Ju said the last sentence in the tone of the emperor.

Li Huan took a deep breath, bowed in the direction of the capital, and said, "Your Majesty is deeply concerned, and Li Huan deeply appreciates your majesty's grace."

Qiu Ju looked at Li Huan at this moment and said, "Brother Li, Your Majesty asked our family to come here this time. One is to convey His Majesty's will, and the other is to let our family accompany you back to Beijing with Brother Li."

Li Huan was stunned for a moment, and after he realized it, he looked at Qiu Ju with some amusement and said, "Brother Qiu, is Your Majesty afraid that I won't return to Beijing! He even sent you to supervise me."

Qiu Ju couldn't help giggling and said: "Brother Li, it's not you. When His Majesty ordered you to patrol Shaanxi, he thought you would return in ten months, but now it's been a few months. If you don't go again, I'm afraid I may not be able to return to Beijing this year."

Speaking of this, Qiu Ju joked: "Your Majesty regards you very much, Brother Li. He has asked Brother Li many times why you haven't returned to Beijing."

Li Huan smiled wryly and said: "It's not that Li didn't return to Beijing. It's really the matter of Shaanxi. One after another, most of the officials in Shaanxi were sacked. I have to make up my mind on many things. Before the officials sent by the imperial court arrive, If I leave, Shandi may soon fall into chaos."

Although Li Huan said that he would not deal with specific matters, but with him in charge of the chief envoy and the inspector of Yan'an Prefecture, those officials, large and small, who had escaped the catastrophe could be said to be conscientious under Li Huan's fierce power, and broke out. Do things with full potential, and handle the government affairs in Shaanxi in an orderly manner.

But this is obviously under the deterrence of Li Huan. If there is no Li Huan, it is equivalent to a group of dragons without a leader. Once Li Huan leaves, no one will accept him, and the civil affairs in Shaanxi will inevitably be in chaos.

Qiu Juwen said with a smile: "Brother Li, don't worry this time. His Majesty has hand-picked more than a dozen officials from Shaanxi, and they have now arrived in Yan'an Mansion to take up their posts. So you can return to the capital with our family at any time, Brother Li."

Li Huan nodded slightly.

The brigade successfully entered Jishui Pass and returned to Daming.

After handing over to Yang Yiqing, Li Huan took Guan Zheng and other Zhenwei battalion soldiers on two horses and headed for Yan'an Mansion.

On this day, Yan'an Mansion was a sensation

Li Huan, the imperial envoy, personally supervised and killed 130 and eight corrupt officials in Shaanxi, ranging from the chief envoy to the chief executive, participating in politics, and down to the county government for inspection and instruction.

These are only officials with official ranks, and there are thousands of officials involved in the case.

It can be said that in this major corruption case in Shaanxi, the number of officials and relatives implicated totaled thousands.

On the huge execution ground, densely packed thousands of soldiers stood around the execution ground under martial law.

Thousands of soldiers and horses were mobilized for martial law at a time, so it is conceivable how many people came to watch around the execution ground.

As the disaster subsided, under Li Huan's arrangement, a large number of victims had been allocated land and dispersed separately.

In this era, the problem of land annexation was extremely serious. Li Huan confiscated a large number of acres of land by ransacking his family and exterminating his clan. In addition, a large number of refugees died, leaving a lot of unowned land.

Under Li Huan's statistical arrangement, no less than hundreds of thousands of refugees were resettled by using these lands, effectively alleviating the problem of land annexation in Shaanxi.

It's a pity that compared to the whole of Shaanxi, the redistribution of hundreds of thousands of people and millions of mu of land has nothing to do with the overall situation.

But that's all Li Huan can do. Otherwise, unless the world is changed, or all the gentry class in Shaanxi are massacred, it will not be possible to completely change the situation of land annexation in Shaanxi.

Faced with this situation, even Li Huan knew that before he was absolutely sure, if he really wanted to move the land of the entire gentry class, the whole of Shaanxi would dare to turn against him as soon as he made a move. up.

Sitting on the high platform at this moment, Li Huan looked at the officials who were being escorted to the execution ground, and inexplicably sighed in his heart.

These officials are only some of the corrupt officials who were found out by him. Compared with the entire bureaucratic system in Shaanxi, there are definitely more corrupt officials hidden in it.

It's just that if he really stays in Shaanxi to investigate and deal with corrupt Mexican officials, I'm afraid it won't take a year or so, and if there aren't hundreds or thousands of reserve officials, there's nothing he can do about it. Take it down.

The dozen or so unfamiliar faces sitting next to Li Huan were the officials appointed by the imperial court not long ago to be in charge of the Shaanxi Chief Commissioner and the Procuratorate.

These officials can be said to be third-rank and fourth-rank officials, and they are definitely high-ranking officials in this place.

But at this moment, all the officials looked solemn, their faces were slightly pale, and they sat there nervously with a bit of fear.

These people have long heard that Li Huan ransacked his family and exterminated his family in Shaanxi, and Li Huan almost emptied most of the top officials in Shaanxi.

The first time Li Huan returned to Yan'an Mansion, these people were busy visiting Li Huan, but unexpectedly they were brought here by Li Huan.

Li Huan actually wanted to take them here to personally monitor and kill these officials.

Looking at all the officials who were in such a state of embarrassment and put on the prison beheading platform, these people inexplicably felt a little bit sad and hurt their kind.

Li Huan didn't care what these people were thinking, just looked at the time, and shouted in a deep voice: "By His Majesty's order, Wu Wei, the governor of Shaanxi Province, and other officials who have owed the emperor's favor, should be punished for their crimes, beheaded!"

A beheaded word exploded in the ears of the surrounding people and all the prisoners like a thunderbolt.

The executioner, who had already made preparations, only sprayed a sip of strong wine on the gleaming ghost-headed broadsword, and then shouted.

Immediately, heads rolled to the ground one by one, and blood spurted out.

As a weeping, howling, and cursing official and his relatives were brought up for the official punishment, more than half an hour passed, and hundreds of corpses had already fallen on the entire execution ground.

At the beginning, the people around were applauding, but as more and more corpses piled up, even these people who hated corrupt officials were overwhelmed by the momentum.

Who has seen such a scene of beheading hundreds of criminals at once?

The dozens of officials who took over the vacancies in Shaanxi were all pale at this moment, almost sitting there, obviously terrified by the killing that was so close at hand.

Li Huan watched a criminal officer being killed calmly, without any fluctuation in his eyes, and Li Huan's expression was seen in the eyes of those officials, which naturally deepened their fear of Li Huan.

Naturally, Li Huan could see the reaction of these officials. The reason why he brought these people here to supervise and execute them was to let them see the fate of corrupt officials with their own eyes, so that they could have a long memory. Well, under normal circumstances, within three or two years, few of these people should dare to be greedy.

At dusk, all the people waiting to be beheaded were counted out, and the bloody atmosphere was soaring. Even the executioners changed several times, and more than a dozen ghost knives were chopped off, which shows the prosperity of today's killing.

With a light cough, Li Huan got up and said to the newly appointed chief envoy headed by Cheng Wei and the officials of the procuratorate department: "Everyone, the people of Shaanxi have been entrusted to your lords. I hope you can learn from them and live up to them." The emperor's grace, the herdsmen, benefit the common people."

Cheng Wei and the others stood up and tremblingly cupped their hands towards Li Huan and said, "Your Majesty... I will do my best to benefit the people and never disappoint Your Majesty's great grace."

Li Huan took a deep look at Cheng Wei and the others, and suddenly a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "I hope you adults can remember what you saw and heard today. Li does not want to send you adults on the road one day."

After Li Huan finished speaking, Cheng Wei and the others trembled with cold sweat on their foreheads: "I dare not wait."

Li Huan waved his long sleeves and ignored Cheng Wei and the others, but said to Qiu Ju who was sitting beside him, "Brother Qiu, we're back to Beijing."

Qiu Ju, who had gone through the killing just now, still felt sorry for him at the moment. Hearing this, he hurriedly came back to his senses, and said solemnly, "It's time to go back to Beijing!"

[Well, ask for a monthly pass. 】

(End of this chapter)