A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 355 Hunting Wang Junkuo

Wei Xiangfu.

"What are you always looking at next door?"

Mrs. Pei saw that her husband was a little out of his mind today, holding a Beijing newspaper in his hand, but he took it down and didn't pay attention.

Wei Zheng stroked his goatee, "Wu Jia Erlang has been back to Beijing for three days, why didn't he come to sit and sit?"

"He's been away for about a year, and he must be busy when he just comes back. If you want to see him, just come and visit."

Wei Zheng stroked his beard.

"Why, the prime minister is so arrogant?"

"Bring me two jars of sake brewed on the Winter Solstice, and I'll come and have a sit."

Wei Zheng was carrying two jars of fine wine brewed by the Wei family, and even changed into a new robe on purpose. He just went out and saw a row of carriages parked in front of the Wu family next door.

Qiu Xinggong, who had just been rehabilitated as General Youwuhou and Duke of Tianshui County, was standing at the gate of Wu's house, and servants of Qiu's family kept carrying gifts down from the Ma's house.

"My Erlang went hunting in the countryside early in the morning." Wu Cheng, the hunchbacked porter, told them.

Qiu Xinggong tidied up very neatly today, with the newly tailored purple robe and a goldfish amulet, the brutality on his body has also subsided a lot.

Yesterday old man Qiu called him into the study for a midnight talk, told him to restrain himself, and told him to come to Wu's house to visit in person today.

Qiu Xinggong was very unconvinced, but the old man glared, Qiu Xinggong, who was fearless and fearless, felt his bones were sore and limp. When he beat Xiao Qiu Xinggong, he was afraid of his father. It was the fear of being whipped since he was a child. In the bones.Don't look at the old man who is old now, but the old man was very brave when he was young, and he can still wield a big knife even now.

"Please inform Duke Yi that Qiu Xinggong is coming to visit."

As he spoke, he directly took out a golden bean and handed it to Wu Cheng.

Wu Cheng looked at the golden beans and was very moved, but the Wu family has many rules, he dared to accept ordinary small things, but he did not dare to accept random things like this.

Had to reluctantly refuse.

"My Erlang really went out early in the morning, and he won't be back for two days,"

Qiu Xinggong didn't quite believe it, and felt that the Wu family was rude.

At this time Wei Zheng came forward with a drink, "Is Erlang really not at home?"

"Go to Lishan to hunt Shun and soak in warm soup," Wu Cheng knew Wei Zheng very well, and he also respected the old man with the goatee, after all, he was the prince of the court.

Qiu Xinggong discovered Wei Zheng at this time, and hurriedly crossed his hands and bowed to see him.

"That's a bad coincidence,"

Wei Zheng nodded to Qiu Xinggong and then turned back, Qiu Xinggong followed a few steps, wanting to visit Wei's house by the way, but Wei Zheng said it was inconvenient and left directly.

Qiu Xinggong was left stunned.

After a long time, he blushed from holding back, opened his mouth, and finally shut up after looking at the Wu family servant beside him.

I remembered Wei Zheng in my heart.

Too shameless.

"Go home."

Qiu Xinggong asked the servants to leave all the carts of presents at the gate of Wu's house, and rode away directly.

Wu Cheng looked at those large carts of gifts, secretly speechless.

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Tongzhou, Shayuan.

Zuo Guanglu, the doctor of Shangzhu Kingdom, left the leader of the army, the general of Youzhou, the governor of Peng Guogong, Wang Junkuo, entered the capital and passed through this place, and Chang'an was in sight.

Several riders arrived.

Seeing Wang Junkuo's team, he ran straight to the front.

Immediately roll off a dusty knight.

"Aye,"

Wang Junkuo almost didn't recognize that this person was his son Wang Yongan.

"What happened?" Wang Junkuo was surprised.

Wang Yongan didn't care about the dust, hugged his father's leg and cried, "Something happened."

"What's the matter?"

Wang Yongan approached his father and said in a low voice, "Aye, please stay away from the left and right."

The father and father were alone, and it was only then that Wang Yongan hurriedly told his father that it was impossible to go to Chang'an.

"In the past two days, many new faces have appeared around our house, and the nearby street shop Marquis Wu has added a lot of manpower,"

"My son also found out that Li Xuandao's son Li Yun will quietly return to Beijing."

"General Li Yun, isn't he in Youzhou? When I came back, both Master Li Xuandao stayed in Youzhou, and he asked me to bring a letter to Fang Xuanling."

Li Xuandao is the chief history of the Governor's Mansion in Youzhou. He was originally the master of the Qin Palace and one of the 44 scholars.

Emperor Li Shimin also honored him as Uncle Sheng.

In addition, Li Xuandao is also the brother of Fang Xuanling's mother, so he is Fang Xuanling's cousin, and both Li Xuandao and Fang Xuanling are married to the Lu family.

After Li Yuan was punished for treason, the emperor asked Li Xuandao to go to Youzhou to serve as the chief historian. Wang Junkuo also knew very well that this was to monitor him. The two had been together for more than a year, and they had always had conflicts. As usual, Shi stayed behind.

Li Xuandao asked him to bring a family letter to Fang Xuanling, but he didn't think much about it.

But now his son said that General Li Yun had returned to Beijing secretly, that he had arrived in Chang'an before him, and that he was even hiding his whereabouts and acting in secret, something was wrong.

"What else did you find out?"

"My son heard that many new faces appeared near the palaces of King Changle and Prince Yi'an."

When Wang Junkuo heard this, his face changed drastically, "It's too bad."

He quickly called his followers and asked him to find out the letter from Li Xuandao to Fang Xuanling.

Looking at the wax-sealed envelope, Wang Junkuo gritted his teeth and tore it open, but it was all in cursive script. Wang Junkuo, who didn't know a few characters, didn't know it at all, so he gave it to his son to read, but his son was also ignorant, no better than him. where to go.

He also called two confidantes, but they were also rough and didn't know each other.

Li Xuandao's calligraphy is very good, and the cursive script is also very good, but ordinary people really can't recognize it.

"It must be Li Xuandao's bad words about his father. If it is really a family letter, how can it be written like this? This is a secret word in secret words, just to prevent his father from checking." Wang Yong'an didn't read much, but he had a lot of bad brains.

Wang Junkuo, who has always been cunning and suspicious, also thinks it makes sense.

"How to do?"

"Chang'an can't go back."

"Then hurry back to Youzhou." Wang Yongan said angrily, "Why don't we go back to Youzhou instead."

Wang Junkuo's face was cloudy, and he finally shook his head, "Youzhou can't go back either. I guess Li Xuandao has already taken control of Youzhou. If we go back, we'll be a sheep in the mouth of a tiger."

"Li Shimin, Li Shimin, you are going to kill them all."

Wang Junkuo is like a frightened bird, and there is a reason for his uneasiness.

At the end of the Sui Dynasty, he was a mountain with his own territory and troops. He surrendered to the Sui army in a feigned surrender, and later voted for Li Yuan, but then changed to Wagang Li Mi.Li Yuan treated him not badly. He used to enjoy the same treatment as Qin Qiong, and he was directly appointed as the Duke of Shangzhu.

He even gave him the special treatment of riding a horse in the Golden Temple.

Therefore, Wang Junkuo was indeed very convinced of Li Yuan. Later, Prince Jiancheng deliberately wooed him, and even matched him to make him and Lujiang Wang Li Yuan a son-daughter relative, and arranged for him to go to Youzhou to assist Li Yuan as the governor of Youyi Zhuzhou.

Of course, Wang Junkuo was indeed brave, and once set a brilliant record of leading thirteen cavalry to defeat ten thousand troops, although he also committed the crime of letting Luo Shixin enter the city to replace him when he was in Pinghebei, but eventually lost a general.

But Wang Junkuo, a cunning guy, was volatile and difficult to fight, and he was once very loyal to Li Yuan and Li Jiancheng.

But after June last year, these have also become reasons for his uneasiness.

Wang Junkuo is a ruthless man, and even a villain. In the face of a crisis, he deliberately instigated the cowardly Li Yuan to rebel.

Although this matter made him very proud, in fact, he was always very uneasy in his heart, for fear of being exposed.

And with Luo Yi being punished, Wang Junkuo became more and more uneasy.

Last year he found a reason not to join the court, but this year the emperor called him to join the court again and again, and he dared not not come.

But it has been dawdling.

Unexpectedly, something went wrong.

Especially when he heard that Li Xiaochang and Li Youliang were about to have an accident, he no longer dared to go to Chang'an, because he knew that these two people were really plotting a rebellion.

Of course, in the words of Li Xiaochang and Li Xiaochang, it is not actually treason, because they are not trying to become emperor themselves, but are planning to restore the Supreme Emperor and return to the court, to bring order out of chaos.

They contacted Wang Junkuo and invited him to do this great event together.

Originally, Wang Junkuo pretended to agree, but he actually thought that he would report them after entering the court this time, and wanted to borrow their heads as a stepping stone for his promotion.

But who would have thought that Li Shimin moved so fast.

Even if the first report is made now, it is estimated that Li Shimin may not be able to believe it, and with his keenness, he feels that Li Shimin already knew what he did with Li Yuan before.

Now dig a hole and wait for him to jump into it.

"Aye, what should we do then?"

Wang Junkuo sighed, "It seems that the Central Plains has no place for me and my father. Let's go to Saibei and join Jieli Khan."

"Then what about our little one?"

"It's about time, so I don't care about those things. The green hills are here, so I don't worry about running out of firewood."

Wang Junkuo became ruthless.

This guy used to be a rascal, he likes to gamble, and when he loses all his money, he takes fish dogs on the road, puts them on the heads of merchants, and then steals their money.Later, at the end of the Sui Dynasty, he pulled a team to rebel and wanted to pull his uncle to break up his family and fund the team. His uncle was hesitant, but this guy framed his aunt for adultery and tricked his uncle into killing his wife and that innocent neighbor in anger. , Then there is no way out, so I have to raise troops.

At this time, women are like clothes, no one cares so much, even his other children can't care about them.

After some planning, he packed up some things, and then left the team and ran away. He broke into a family's house on the way, killed the family, and then changed into their ordinary clothes, even abandoning his own good horse. He changed into an ordinary mule and donkey and ran away. Before leaving, he did not forget to throw all the corpses into the well, then fill it up, and then set fire to the house.

The father and son fled north in panic all the way.

But they didn't know that Wang Junkuo's whereabouts were completely watched by the six gates as soon as he crossed the Pujin pontoon bridge and before he reached Shayuan.

When Wang Yongan rushed from Chang'an to Shayuan, Wu Huaiyu took Chen Sheng and Zhao Xin and other troops to a sand dune not far from him.

When he abandoned his followers and fled, Wu Huaiyu and the others were hanging not far away.

late at night.

On a wild beach by the Luoshui River in Tongzhou, Wang Junkuo and his father were sleeping in the open, and Wu Huaiyu led more than a hundred elite riders to surround them quietly.

There was a sound of arrows, countless torches were lit, and many knights were killed.

Wang Junkuo woke up vigilantly, pulled his son and was about to jump on the horse and run away, when there was a sound of piercing through the air, and countless sharp arrows whizzed towards him.

Wang Junkuo and his son, who had just got on their horses, shot both men and horses into a hornet's nest.

The hero was shot dead by the Luoshui River in Tongzhou before he even had time to confess his last words.

In the light of the fire, Wu Huaiyu came slowly on his horse, looking at the two who shot like hedgehogs.

Several knights stepped forward, holding torches to examine carefully.

"Report to Duke Wu, these two thieves are Wang Junkuo and Wang Yongan's father and son, and the two thieves have been killed!"

Huaiyu looked at the miserable father and son, and ordered coldly, "Keep their bodies and bring them back to Chang'an!"

This mission went very smoothly, much smoother than Zhu Luoyi last time.

Wang Junkuo, the third official hero, couldn't die anymore, and his ranking of Wu Huaiyu's hero automatically moved up one more place.

(End of this chapter)