People in the early Tang Dynasty: I compete with Wu Zhao for the throne

Chapter 621 Those who spy on military aircraft, behead!
Light snow fluttered and sprinkled all over the land of Yuhang.

In Hangzhou in December, the weather suddenly became cold, and within a few days, it snowed.

In the second year of Shangyuan, in winter, the twelfth lunar month, the first snow in Hangzhou, and possibly the only snow.

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In the south of Hangzhou City, hundreds of soldiers escorted more than a dozen wounded silent black soldiers, walking across the southern city in the light snow.

Li Xuan was dressed in ordinary black chain mail, walking in the front, carrying a heavy long lance on his shoulders.

A handsome face seemed to be freshly washed, very clean, but the black clothes on his body seemed to have been soaked with sweat, and now they have dried out.

It dries out before it snows.

Not only Li Xuan, but the hundreds of recruits in black behind him all looked the same.

Hundreds of black-clothed recruits lined up in threes and threes, armed with long spears, bows and arrows, armor, helmets, long and short knives, shields, and everything was missing.

Although each of them raised their heads high and their chests high, they were full of energy, but they could still see a trace of fatigue while walking.

All the people around couldn't help pointing at this scene.

On the city wall, two headhunters, one tall and one short, dressed in black brocade clothes, frowned as they watched Li Xuan lead the people away and return to the navy station.

"The king of Nanchang entered the mountain this time, and it seems that he has captured a lot of lifeless black soldiers." A short headhunter turned sideways, looking solemnly at his companion beside him.

Another tall head catcher held the horizontal knife in front of his chest, and said calmly: "Hangzhou government didn't stop us from entering the mountain, and the arresters from Hangzhou Facao tried their best to help. We entered the mountain several times, and we also found Silent black pawns a few times, but what a result!"

Of course, there was no result. Every time they found the black pawns, the arresters of the governor's mansion in Hangzhou started shouting from a distance, running slowly and shouting loudly. Before they ran over, the group of black pawns had already moved.

"That's because those catchers are timid and unwilling to work hard." The short catcher sneered, he could see through the nature of these Hangzhou catchers at a glance.

"Are you able to pay others, or can you promote them?" The tall head catcher gave him an annoyed look, and then said with a sneer, "You don't really think that Master Shangshu sent us two to Hangzhou. Are you really going to catch Wen Xu and get rid of that young master?"

"Isn't it? Our good Zhang Gu of the Ministry of Punishment came to Hangzhou to arrest the traitor so that he could escape for that young master?" The short head catcher couldn't understand.

The tall head catcher sighed, cast a sideways glance at his companion, and said helplessly: "If you say you're smart in handling cases, you're really smart, but if you say you're a fool, you're really foolish, so what if that young master gets away? His future in Hangzhou is ruined, and he can't go back to Chang'an, so he can only stay in Hangzhou until the end of his term, and then he will be transferred to another place, it doesn't matter if that traitor is caught or not."

The short man immediately became a little dissatisfied: "Then what do you think we are doing in Hangzhou?"

"Of course, keep an eye on the King of Nanchang, don't let him use this matter to stir up trouble again, Master Shangshu really suffered a disadvantage this time, even the holy family has lost a lot in Tianhou." The tall arrester The first sentence clarified the matter and also pointed out Li Xuan's difficulties.

The short head catcher seemed to be digesting these things, and after a while, he asked slowly: "Then what should we do next?"

"Of course I want someone, let's go, go to the navy to ask for someone, the soldiers of the King of Nanchang can only arrest people, we don't wait for the trial, we want people here, don't let him really catch Wen Xu, lest You said something you shouldn't have said." After the tall head catcher finished speaking, he turned and left.

The short head catcher hurriedly followed, and at the same time said in a low voice: "What do you think the king of Nanchang is doing? Three thousand soldiers, either go into the sea to hold their breath, or keep climbing mountains. What's the use of it?"

The tall head catcher stopped, looked at his companion with stern eyes, and said in a cold voice: "I don't know the reason, but I understand that there are some things that you shouldn't ask. Don't ask them. If you ask too much, you will lose your head." .”

Those who spy on military aircraft, behead!
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The Hangzhou Navy is stationed, the cold wind is biting, and the snow is light.

On the pier, [-] shirtless soldiers jumped directly from the bank into the Qiantang River.

It wasn't until he couldn't breathe that he floated out from the bottom of the river.

Around the school grounds, [-] soldiers carried thick logs on their shoulders, striding fast.

Even though they were drenched in sweat, they didn't stop at all, they kept gritting their teeth and persevering.

In the center of the school field, six hundred thick-clothed soldiers all had long spears in their hands, stabbing forward continuously.

After a whole day, my wrist is almost swollen but it continues.

In the back building of the school grounds, six hundred soldiers were resting casually, and from time to time someone brought hot fish soup, which was very pleasant.

Occasionally looking at the companions who were brutally training outside, a group of people immediately let out bursts of laughter.

Outside the school grounds, Li Xuan brought [-] soldiers back from outside the naval garrison, escorting more than a dozen Wusheng black soldiers.

"Put them all in the dungeon, tell Qianniuwei's brothers, and greet them well." Li Xuan turned sideways to Commander Guo Yi Li Yang.

"Here!" Li Yang immediately turned around and sent him to the dungeon without the slightest hesitation.

Li Yang is a member of the Li family in Yangzhou, and he originally worked in Youzhou. This time, the Li family in Yangzhou deliberately transferred him to the south to work under Li Xuan.

Li Xuan waved his hand, and the soldiers who came back with him immediately went back to the back house to rest.

For the whole day, except for the long-distance raid at the beginning to capture Wusheng black pawns, they were almost climbing mountains, climbing mountains, and climbing mountains during the rest of the time. down.

Like everyone else, Li Xuan did not have any privileges because of her status.

He even deliberately didn't use his cultivation, just to let his body quickly adapt to the thin air environment in a very short time.

This is Li Xuan's special plan to prepare for altitude sickness.

Leaving aside whether it is useful or not, at least under extreme exhaustion, the state of extreme hypoxia made some soldiers who had been to the Tubo Plateau feel very real.

Back in his courtyard, Yu Ze, who was sorting out his daily training status, immediately stood up: "My lord!"

"How are those two people?" Li Xuan walked over, poured a cup of hot tea from the teapot, and drank it all in one gulp.

"Still wandering around in the city of Hangzhou, look at this one, stare at that one, the major families in Hangzhou have completely stared at them to death, they are doing the same thing every day for the past half month, without any Harvest." Yu Ze smiled lightly.

"Yeah!" Li Xuan nodded, and said, "I went to the mountain a few times without gaining anything, and even complained all over. Naturally, they won't go again."

"It's a good thing they didn't go again, otherwise they wouldn't even know when they died in the mountains." Yu Ze couldn't help feeling amused when he thought of what happened in the past half month.

"No, luckily it's not them, it's us." Li Xuan looked up at Yu Ze, and said softly, "Actually speaking, the really smart person is our Pei Shangshu, who uses only two small chess pieces It is a good way to suppress all the grievances of the Hangzhou family and the bureaucrats!"

Li Xuan made a soft sound, thinking of Pei Yan who dealt with everything calmly and coldly in Chang'an City, he felt a burst of emotion in his heart.

It's really an old fox!

At the beginning of October, the news that the Zhoushan pirates attacked Hangzhou city at night and were wiped out reached the court, and the court was immediately excited.

Without the pirates in Zhoushan, Yuezhou, Taizhou, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Changzhou and other southeast coastal states, there is no need to worry about the threat of pirates for the time being. Not to mention that the money and food spent on it every year are greatly reduced, and the annual tax payment of each state can also be relaxed. many.

However, without waiting for the central ministers to relax for a moment, an official from Hangzhou followed up with the account of Hangzhou Facao's joining the army and colluding with thieves, which immediately surprised everyone.

It is clearly stated in the memorial that the salary and silver from the governor's office in Hangzhou were stolen, and later found under the water in the house of Xue Zhongzhang, the new cao who joined the army.

Moreover, Xue Zhongzhang's mansion was given by Xiaoshan Xiaoshan Xiaowei Wenxu.

Xiaoshan school captain Wenxu, the former deputy head of the Yuhang Hall of Tianyin Sect, is now under the command of the King of the East China Sea.

On the night Xue Zhongzhang was attacked at night in Hangzhou, he happened to be drunk by Wen Xu, and then stayed on the flower boat for the night.

What surprised me the most was that after finding out the stolen salary from the Governor's Mansion in Hangzhou, he took out a secret order from the Ministry of Punishment asking him to thoroughly investigate the thieves in the families and clans of officials from top to bottom in Hangzhou.

The governor of Hangzhou, Lai Jingye, Shi Huyu, Sima Yuanyi, the recorder joined the army Guan Mi, and Liu Cao joined the army, and signed the memorial jointly.

There is no exaggeration in the memorial, and it tries to restore the truth of what happened that day as much as possible.

The words spoken by each person are recorded in the memorial.

Hangzhou officials asked the central government to thoroughly investigate whether the Ministry of Punishment had this official document and secret order.

The court has not yet investigated the origin of this official document, and in a blink of an eye, there is already a censor impeaching Xue Zhongzhang for his incompetence.

Immediately afterwards, a large number of officials from the southeast complained of grievances. At the same time, they impeached Pei Yan, Shangshu of the Ministry of punishment, for nepotism, wronged Zhongliang, and begged the court to return their innocence.

For a moment, all eyes of the government and the public were on Pei Yan.

There is obviously insufficient evidence to say that Xue Zhongzhang had an affair with the King of the East China Sea, but no one can deny that he is incompetent in handling the case.

But everyone knew that the real focus of this matter was not on Xue Zhongzhang, but on Pei Yan.

Pei Yan didn't know people well, and let others be incompetent. This hat had been firmly put on his head.

Everyone understands that Pei Yan must have issued the secret order, but the reason why the secret order is a secret order is that it must not be released easily.

But at the critical moment, Xue Zhongzhang sold Pei Yan directly in order to protect himself.

However, although this incident greatly reduced Pei Yan's family, it did not bring him down. After all, it is a fact that Hangzhou has the remnants of the King of the East China Sea.

Wei Wenxu of Xiaoshan County is a member of the King of the East China Sea, which was reported by Hangzhou himself.

Therefore, although the Ministry of Punishment handled things improperly, it was still right in essence.

Pei Yan was arguing with reason in the court, but the strange thing was that at this time, the governor's mansion in Hangzhou did not pursue this matter fiercely, but quietly quieted down.

In the end, Empress Wu came forward to protect Pei Yan, but asked the Ministry of Punishment and the Hangzhou government to arrest Wen Xu as soon as possible to find out Xue Zhongzhang's culpability in this case.

Afterwards, Pei Yan sent two Zhang Gu from the Ministry of Punishment to Hangzhou, but unfortunately, nothing was found until now.

"Although the Southeast family is wronged, Pei Yan is right. They do have problems." Li Xuan looked up at Yu Ze and sighed softly: "Although we only saw these two people, who would dare Surely, Pei Yan only sent these two people?"

With one word from Li Xuan, Yu Ze choked back all the rest of his words.

Although Pei Yan, Minister of the Ministry of Justice, was born as a scholar, his eyesight has already been sharpened in the position of Minister of the Ministry of Justice for many years.

His countermeasures are not that simple.

At this moment, footsteps sounded outside the door, Zhou Gan stood at the door and cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty, people from the Ministry of Punishment and Hangzhou Mansion are here, and they want to arrest criminals."

Li Xuan stood up calmly, nodded towards Yu Ze, and Yu Ze immediately left.

Only then did Li Xuan look at Zhou Gan, and said, "Let's go, let's go to the dungeon first, and see how the interrogation of Qianniuwei's brothers is going?"

(End of this chapter)