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Chapter 414 Calm down the storm
The long night passed, and a ray of dawn appeared in the east,
In the governor's mansion of Youzhou, Li Chongjiu sat in the mansion without closing his eyes all night, while Xu Wu and Wang Mahan sat on the chairs with their helmets on.

Wang Mahan had already drunk the teacup upside down, showing a bit of impatience.

Xu Wu looked at Li Chongjiu, stood up and cupped his hands and said, "I'm here to tell you, it's already dawn, as long as you give an order, I will immediately lead the army to surround Lu's mansion, and Bao Zhun will not be able to escape."

Li Chongjiu glanced at Xu Wu. He knew that as long as he nodded his head, thousands of heads would fall to the ground in half an hour.With great power in his hands, one word decides life and death, and thousands of lives are his own words. The longer Li Chongjiu stays in a high position, the more he fears that he will become indifferent to life.

Li Chongjiu is not easy to do everything by staying on the front line. He has already given the opportunity to the Lu family, but if the Lu family does not know what is good or bad, and resists to the end, at this point, it will not be a line, but a real act of extermination. , cut the weeds and eradicated the roots.

At this moment, a notice was issued outside the mansion: "Jun Sima Lu Chengqing, please bring Lu Ziqian's body to see him."

Li Chongjiu heard the words and said: "Please let him in."

Immediately, Lu Ziqian walked into the hall in white clothes, and said: "Lu Chengqing, a lowly official, pay homage to the governor."

"Exemption," Li Chongjiu asked, "Why did Lu Juncheng come here in white?"

Lu Chengqing wept and said: "Reporting to the governor, my uncle knew about Dou Jiande's conspiracy. After knowing about it, I tried to persuade him, but my uncle insisted on going his own way. I couldn't bear my uncle's mistakes to go deeper, so he was imprisoned and killed. My uncle conspired against him, and Lu Knowing that it is difficult to get rid of the responsibility, so I dismissed myself as an official, and begged the governor to punish me."

Wang Mahan and Xu Wu looked at each other, and both could see the surprise in each other's eyes.Unexpectedly, Lu Chengqing was ruthless enough to kill his relatives righteously and poisoned his uncle.

Li Chongjiu didn't speak, Lu Chengqing then took out a piece of paper and said: "This is the list of people involved in the rebellion in my Lu family, all the above people have participated in this matter, and now I have taken them down together, waiting for the governor to deal with it. "

Li Chongjiu took the letter paper, scanned the name on it, and looked at Lu Chengqing, only to see a look of grief on his face.

Li Chongjiu sighed, stepped forward to help Lu Chengqing, and said: "I know that you have a deep relationship with Lu Gong's uncle and nephew. This time, you must be deeply saddened and have no choice."

Lu Chengqing felt even more sad when he heard the words, he shook his head, weeping uncontrollably.

Li Chongjiu said: "I will hand over this matter to Chen Sima, and Lin Sima and Lin Sima will thoroughly investigate and convict you. Not only will I not dismiss your officer, but I will continue to use it in the future, but Dou Jiande is already under pressure from the army. Get rid of the post of county Sima and cooperate with Chen and Lin to thoroughly investigate this matter. This is also to help you avoid suspicion. As for the people in the Lu family who have nothing to do with this rebellion, I will not pursue them. Not only will they be safe, but also in the future. We will treat all people equally and recruit virtuous people, what do you think?"

Hearing this, Lu Chengqing knelt down and said: "Thank you for the kindness of Lord Shanggu for not killing you, for making you benevolent and righteous. My Lu family is very grateful. In the future, I will only report it with grass. I have no objection to this matter. My Lu family has thousands of people. All of them are subject to Shanggu Gong's orders."

Li Chongjiu nodded. Lu Chengqing is a generous person. It is impossible to personally poison his uncle. This Lu Ziqian committed suicide after knowing the failure, and used his own death to protect the Lu family. .

For Li Chongjiu, Lu Chengqing's attitude and sincerity in pleading guilty on behalf of the Lu family this time have already been achieved.
To be tolerant to the enemy is to be cruel to oneself, and to accept it as soon as it is good, and to give an explanation to his subordinates.In other words, killing them all will add a reputation of injustice to themselves, and there will be no gentry willing to vote for themselves in the future.

I am inside the Lu family, destroying Lu Ziqian who opposes me, and using Lu Chengqing again in the future, so that I can control the killing to the bottom.Otherwise, if you really want to do everything wrong, because the Lu family has been operating in Youzhou for hundreds of years, and there are many old students and officials, Li Chongjiu wants to completely eradicate the Lu family, and his own vitality will also be damaged. For the decisive battle with Dou Jiande and the struggle with the Li family The world is very unfavorable.

Seeing Lu Chengqing's expression, Li Chongjiu couldn't help feeling relieved, the matter was handled quite satisfactorily, and he finally cleared away the internal troubles before the decisive battle with Dou Jiande.

Not long after, Lin Dangfeng and Chen Xiaoyi entered the lobby and asked, "Mr. Shanggu, what's the important thing about calling me humble?"

Li Chongjiu handed the list to Lin Dangfeng, and said: "You two go to Lu's mansion to get someone according to the list, and Lu Sima will cooperate with you to go together."

Lin Dangfeng glanced at Lu Chengqing, guessed most of the matter, Wang Mahan said: "A certain soldier will go with you, and they are all idle."

"Wait," Li Chongjiu glared at Wang Mahan and said, "Who wants you to go?"

Wang Mahan immediately sat back on the chair and said, "If you don't go, you won't go."

Li Chongjiu said: "You are all vulgar people, rushing into the inner house, what if you alarm the female family members of the Lu family, transfer people from the county government, if not enough, then transfer people from the county government."

Lu Chengqing showed gratitude when he heard the words. After Lin Dangfeng and Chen Xiaoyi heard Li Chongjiu's order, they immediately went to the Jixian county government to mobilize hundreds of arrests, government servants, archers and others, and went to Lu's house together with Lu Chengqing to arrest people.

When the two arrived at Lu's house, the whole Lu family didn't dare to resist at all. They knew that they were the policemen, and the yamen servants were fine, but if they were officers and soldiers, they would really be ransacking their homes.

Lu Chengqing directly called all the members of the Lu family into the compound.

For convenience, the two picked people according to the list, while Lin Dangfeng himself monitored the Lu family for many days, and took more than a dozen people. These were all on the list, and the only fish that slipped through the net that was not recorded was Lu Zi. Qian's wife and children all committed suicide by taking poison.

Lin and Chen had no choice but to send these people back to Li Chongjiu with the corpses of Lu Ziqian's wife and children.

In the governor's mansion, Li Chongjiu was very satisfied after hearing the report from the two, and immediately asked Wang Gui, the secretary, to draft a list of documents for himself and post them everywhere in the city.It is stated in the letter that Lu Ziqian's rebellion is already a matter of punishment, and it is said that if the criminal is left behind and willing to surrender, he will be given a lighter punishment.

The notice also included a list of more than 30 people who were arrested in the Lu family. The notice stated that these people will be investigated and convicted. At the same time, Zhao Heran, Gao Xudao, and several famous figures from the Youzhou gentry were invited to attend the trial.

As soon as the notice came out, the news spread throughout the city. Li Chongjiu's open and honest approach won unanimous approval from the people of the gentry, and those who were panicked by the Lu family's rebellion and feared that there would be more chaos were also relieved.

A turmoil that was originally a catastrophe dissipated without a sound, making all parties feel relieved in the midst of this change.

At the same time when the Lu family was settled down, the news came that Dou Jiande sacrificed to heaven on the fifth day of the ninth lunar month. During the three expeditions to Liaodong, the Li people suffered, so they had to raise troops and raise righteousness to save the people from the fire and water.Later, five birds came to court, and auspiciousness appeared in Jincheng. Dou Jiande was appointed by heaven, ascended the throne as emperor, and was ordered to cut off the fierce.

However, Li Chongjiu of Youzhou stole the land of Luoyi, Marquis of Jingbian, proclaimed himself the governor of Youzhou, and launched a military campaign.

Immediately after Dou Jiande offered sacrifices to heaven, he went up to the altar to worship Gao Shida as the leading vanguard, Luo Cheng as the deputy vanguard, Wang Fubao, Gao Yaxian, Liu Heita, Su Dingfang and others were all named generals, Song Zhengben, Ling Jing joined the army as a marching army, his wife and brother Cao Dan of Daxingtai and Zhang Xuansu, the servant of the Huangmen, stayed behind to provide food and grass. They raised 20 troops, claiming [-] to crusade against Youzhou.

After Dou Jiande offered sacrifices to the heavens and worshiped the general, all the soldiers of the Xia army cheered. Daxia obeyed the destiny and crusaded against the rebels.

This time Dou Jiande mobilized more than [-] troops, marching from Leshou.The formation of the army stretched from Leshou all the way to the foot of Gaoyang City, and the formation stretched for tens of miles.Xia Jun came in an endless stream and walked along the road. Lin Dangfeng's detailed work was reported three times a day. After hearing the news, the counties near Hejian in Zhuo County were all shocked overnight, and they all sent urgent reports to Li Chongjiu. Call for reinforcements.

After hearing the news, Li Chongjiu also fully mobilized, and at the same time convened all the officials in the governor's mansion to discuss the strategy of protecting the Xia army.

(End of this chapter)