Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 274 The Crowd ([-])
four months later
Luo Yang
Nangong
main hall
"Long live! Long live! Long live!"

According to the usual practice, the ministers came to the hall to go through the motions. Anyway, in the end, Liang Ji alone had the final say, and it was useless for others to object.

Several ministers who dared to oppose Liang Ji have been assassinated, and the remaining scholars will be honest as wooden people.

"Because the people of Yangzhou and Xuzhou rebelled, as a punishment, the imperial court increased taxes on the people of these two supervisory states to let them understand the fate of the rebellion. What do you think?"

As soon as the court meeting began, General Liang Ji was about to increase taxes in Yangzhou and Xuzhou.

Different from ordinary people's brain circuit, most people face areas that have just suffered from military disasters by reducing or exempting taxes to recuperate and recuperate. Liang Ji does the opposite, thinking that only by increasing taxes in areas that have suffered from military disasters can the local people be frightened, and the local people feel fear. Naturally, he didn't dare to rebel.

A group of ministers naturally dare not have opinions, and there is a high probability that Liang Ji will kill them if they have opinions.

"The general is wise!" Yuan Cheng, the young master of the Yuan family in Runan, took the lead in kneeling and licking Liang Ji.

"What the general said is true." Wang Guang of the Liaodong Wang family also followed Yuan Cheng in agreement.

"I have no objection." All the ministers said one after another.

Only Li Gu didn't say a word. He didn't want to submit to Liang Ji, but he also didn't want to lose his life in vain, so he just closed his eyes in a daze.

"Hmph!" Seeing Li Gufei's non-cooperation, Liang Ji snorted coldly, but he was concerned about the other party's reputation, so he didn't want to kill him directly in the hall, and planned to arrange assassins to assassinate Li Gu after he left the palace.

Just when all the ministers would only agree with Liang Ji, the little emperor Liu Yan, who had just ascended the throne for only a few months, couldn't stand it anymore. Although he was only eight years old this year, he was not afraid of tigers as a newborn calf. General!"

wow——

The hall was terribly silent, and everyone held their breath, waiting for Liang Ji to get angry.

Liang Ji's face was livid, and he looked at the little emperor viciously. He almost couldn't bear to draw his sword and kill the little emperor directly, but in the end, he still kept his sense, and didn't dare to kill the emperor directly in front of all the ministers, but secretly He said viciously in his heart: How dare a puppet emperor scold me Liang Ji, if I let you see the sun tomorrow, my surname will not be Liang!

The little emperor Liu Yan also began to feel scared when Liang Ji stared at him like this, and finally wept in the hall with a "wow".

"Whoa!—Whoa!—"

"Bad guy, he's a bad guy!"

The little emperor was still pointing at Liang Ji.

Ministers, you look at me and I look at you, not knowing what to do.

Finally, the Empress Dowager Liang took the little emperor away, and Liang Ji yelled at all the ministers: "Dismiss the court!"

A group of scholars left the hall one after another.

It wasn't until he left the palace that Li Gu reprimanded Yuan Cheng: "The domineering general despised the imperial power, why didn't Yuan Shaojun stop it?!"

"Zijian, the situation is forcing me to do nothing, alas..." Yuan Cheng lamented, very helpless, and seemed very innocent, but in fact he has been advising Liang Ji to help Liang Ji eradicate those opponents, with the help of Liang Ji , Secretly eradicate those gentry who are against the Yuan family.

It can eliminate the hostile families of the Yuan family without tarnishing the reputation of the Yuan family. Anyway, Liang Ji killed him, so why not do it?
The gentry were not monolithic either. The Kanto gentry looked down on the Guanxi gentry, the Henan gentry in the Kanto gentry looked down on the Hebei gentry, and the Yuan and Yang families in the Henan gentry looked down on other gentry.

There are layers of contempt chains here, and only Runan Yuan and Hongnong Yang are at the top of the contempt chain.

"Liang Ji is arrogant and domineering. If we don't get rid of him, the country will lose the country!" Li Gu shouted loudly.

"Zijian, keep your voice down." Wang Guang quickly persuaded him from the side, "Be careful that the walls have ears."

"So what if I have ears? Liang Ji killed me if he had the guts! I, Li Gu, would rather die than surrender to power!" Li Gu said angrily.

However, Yuan Cheng and Wang Guang looked at each other and laughed one after another. They had the same thought in their hearts: so what if the country is not a country?Even if the big man really dies, when the new dynasty arrives, our family will still be the founding hero. If it dies, it will die. Before it dies, just suck a little more blood, so why bother.

at night
A group of eunuchs and court ladies supported by Liang Ji broke into the little emperor's bedroom and threw off the quilt.

"What are you guys going to do?" the little emperor Liu Yan asked in confusion.

"Your Majesty, we will send you to see the late emperor." An eunuch laughed.

"You!" The clever little emperor understood the purpose of these people, and immediately wanted to escape from the palace.

however……

"Let go of me! Mmmmmmm—"

The eight-year-old little emperor was pinned down by the eunuchs, and a court lady stuffed a piece of poisoned cake into the little emperor's mouth, and comforted him while stuffing it: "The general said that you can't let your majesty see the sun tomorrow, Your Majesty, hurry up and reunite with the late Emperor."

The little emperor wanted to spit out the poison cake, but another maid directly stabbed the little emperor's throat with a wooden stick, and forcibly fed the poison cake into the little emperor's stomach.

Not long after, the little emperor spit out foam and gore, rolled his eyes, and lay dead on the ground.

……

A few days later

The news that the little emperor Liu Yan was accidentally "poisoned" and died spread throughout Luoyang City.

Yuan Mansion
"Your Majesty was clearly killed by Liang Ji!" Li Gu said angrily.

Yuan Cheng, Wang Guang and the others remained silent, with tears streaming down their faces, but they didn't care at all.

Isn't it just the death of an emperor? We don't have many other things in the big Han, and the Han family has the most clans. If one emperor dies, another one will be established. It's no big deal.

……

another day later
Nangong
main hall
"Unfortunately, the son of heaven died of poisoning, and the son of Marquis Liwu should be made emperor." Liang Ji was very domineering, and his tone of voice was like an order: "Who is in favor and who is against?"

Although a group of scholars knew that the so-called poisoning was just an excuse and that Liang Ji must have killed him directly, they did not dare to oppose Liang Ji, so they all remained silent.

"If you don't have any opinions, then..." Liang Ji hadn't finished speaking.

"No!" Li Gu finally couldn't bear it anymore, stood up and said: "The son of Marquis Liwu is not yet an adult, so he cannot be an emperor. He should be an adult from the clan."

Seeing that someone was willing to jump out to be the first bird, the rest of the scholars also looked at Liang Ji to see how Liang Ji was going to deal with it.

"I heard that Li Taiwei colluded with Yangzhou rebels a lot, is there such a thing?" Liang Ji began to frame Li Gu directly in front of everyone.

It was because Li Gu was a celebrity that Liang Ji wanted to find a charge before killing Li Gu. If he was an ordinary citizen, Liang Ji would not bother to find a charge and kill him on the street.

"I don't understand what the general is talking about." Li Gu snorted coldly.

"Come here, let's kill the traitor Li Guge!" Liang Ji was furious, and directly asked the imperial guards to kill Li Gu in public.

"General, calm down!" Yuan Cheng continued to come over to be a peacemaker.

"General, it's not too late to find out before dealing with it." Wang Guang also took the opportunity to say a few words to the celebrity, so as to gain some fame for himself.

"I hope the general will think twice!" The rest of the scholars also persuaded.

"Hahaha!" Liang Ji laughed loudly: "Well, first arrest Li Gu and put him in prison, and deal with him after interrogation!"

Immediately, the imperial guards dragged Li Gu away.

"Liang Ji, you domineering general, you will die!" Li Gu yelled at Liang Ji while being dragged by the imperial guards.

A group of scholars looked at Li Gu who was being dragged away, and felt unworthy of him.

A few days later, Yuan Cheng, Wang Guang and other scholars publicized Li Gu's affairs in Luoyang.

Although the scholars were a mob and did not dare to confront Liang Ji head-on, they still had the courage to fight a war of public opinion.

After hearing the propaganda of the scholars, the citizens of Luoyang cried for Li Gu, thinking that Li Gu was wronged.

"Kill kill kill!"

"Kill me!"

"Those who refuse to obey me, Liang Ji, kill them all! Kill! Kill!"

Hearing that the people in Luoyang felt pity for Li Gu, Liang Ji was furious, and became more determined to kill Li Gu, so he charged Li Gu with dozens of crimes in one breath, and then he was put in prison without trial. Put Li Gu to death.

As soon as this incident happened, the scholars were all afraid, and from then on they dared not oppose Liang Ji at the court meeting.

"It seems that to deal with these rotten scholars, it is useless to reason and play tricks. You can't talk to them, and you can't play with them. You have to kill them. Kill them until they are frightened and have psychological shadows, hahaha!"

Liang Ji felt that he had discovered the real way to subdue the gentry, and that was to become a God of Khorne and make the gentry feel fear.

(End of this chapter)