Great Master of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 30 30 Li Shimin gave a bottle of unknown medicine

Zuo Ming and Niu Jinda naturally understood the meaning of his words. Niu Jinda was fine, but his face was gloomy, but Zuo Ming already had veins popping out of his forehead.

However, this matter was a local government affair, and he had no right to intervene as a supervisor, so all he could do was stare blankly at Chen Zhenghong leaving with a victorious expression on his face.

However, the development of the matter was far beyond the expectations of Zuo Ming and Chen Zhenghong.

Not long after the notice was posted, a bearded man swaggered into Wuzhou City, and surrendered himself to the sergeant next to the notice.

Those sergeants were not fools, they naturally knew why this big man did what he did, and they felt sympathy and admiration at the moment.

With the exposure of the gold mine incident, a group of Han people also developed some sympathy for the Liao people, of course, mixed with a trace of guilt.

After all, they have all insisted that this matter is the fault of those bureaucrats.

However, while sympathizing with them, they actually envied those bureaucrats.

Liao people are too united!

This time not only more than 1000 Liao people died, but also [-] Han soldiers, but the Liao people rioted, but none of those soldiers stood up for them, and even their relatives chose to calm down.

This phenomenon has already explained everything.

The Liao people may be weak, but they know how to form a group, while the Han people are used to compromise, accustomed to making concessions, they are smart and cunning, but why not stupid?
Chen Zhenghong was used to intrigue and selfishness among people. He never imagined that someone would turn himself in like a fool.This made him feel very ridiculous and very helpless.

Zuo Ming, on the other hand, went to the prison immediately to visit the strong man.

When the man saw Zuo Ming coming, he raised his lowered head, "But Mr. Zuo?"

Unexpectedly, the other party knew him, Zuo Ming nodded, "It's my official. A hero! Don't you fear death?"

Zuo Ming's expression was complicated, with admiration, regret, and a little sympathy.

"Murder pays for life! It's only right and proper! I don't care if I'm right or not, I don't care if I'm afraid or not! Master Zuo, do you think I'm right?"

The bearded man asked with a hearty smile.

This sentence "I don't care if I'm right or not, I don't care if I'm afraid or not" deeply hit Zuo Ming's soul, and he realized that he had always underestimated the people of Tang!

People at this time may be ignorant or ignorant, but they do not lack wisdom, and they even have courage that many people in later generations will not have.

Confucius said to achieve benevolence, Meng said to obtain righteousness!Killing for benevolence, giving up one's life for righteousness!It turns out that these are not just words!
At this moment, Zuo Ming really didn't know how to speak, he just looked at the big man, his lips trembling, but he couldn't say a word.

The big man in front of him was doomed, even if Zuo Ming said he was going to break the sky, he would not be able to save his life.Be it the past life or the present life, it is an eternal truth that killing people pays their lives.Even if you kill the person who deserves to be killed, it's the same.

After a long time, Zuo Ming said in a hoarse voice, "It's not worth it! Chen Guangyou's life like a dog is not worthy of you!"

He hated it, hated the Chen family's coldness and selfishness, and at the same time hated himself for being helpless.

He thought Chen Guangyou was a dog!Chen Zhenghong is a bastard!Their entire Chen family is a bunch of beasts!
"Of course it's not worth exchanging lives with Chen Guangyou's son of a bitch! But what we exchanged was not his life, but the lives of hundreds of people in our village! If he doesn't die, we have to continue mining, we have to People continue to die, so we have to kill him! I didn’t turn myself in to pay for his life, but just to keep the folks from being implicated! How can he replace Lao Tzu’s life with something like Chen Guangyou’s dog!”

The bearded man patted his chest and said boldly.

"Lord Zuo, don't be sad for me! I lost a bowl-sized scar on my head, and after 18 years, I will be a good man again!"

After hearing this, Zuo Ming forced a smile, said a word of care, and walked out of the dungeon in a daze.

The more calm the big man is, the more uncomfortable he feels. He is very afraid of facing such a person, because facing him, he will feel that he is useless, powerless and even weak.

Originally, he was still complacent about saving many Liao people, but at this moment, he found that his so-called achievements were so pale, so powerless, and even a little shameful!
The bearded man has done so many things, and finally took his own life. He just felt that he should do it, and he was never proud of it. However, he did nothing but a small thing, right there. Complacent, thinking how much merit has been established.If there is no comparison, there will be no harm.

Under the sun-like brilliance of a bearded man, Zuo Ming has been reduced to a small [-]-watt light bulb
After returning to Daying, Zuo Ming wrote a letter pleading for the big man, and entrusted Niu Jinda to send it back to Beijing.Although there is little hope, Zuo Ming still wants to try again.

A month later, the imperial decree arrived, and it was brought by a Beijing official named Zhao Heng, who was also Li Shimin's newly appointed Sima of Wuzhou.

Li Shimin didn't say much, he just asked Zuo Ming to return to Beijing, and he didn't even mention the matter of the bearded man.

What happened in Wuzhou surprised Li Shimin and at the same time he was very angry. He thought that Zuo Ming was thinking too much, so he was sent to Wuzhou to frustrate his spirit, but he did not think that the rebellion of the Liao people in Wuzhou was really serious. What is hidden, and it is also involved in such a major event.

From mining gold mines without authorization to killing government soldiers without authorization, this is beyond boldness that can be described.

Last year, Feng An represented the three major families in Lingnan to the capital to show his loyalty to him, and he even rewarded him generously!But he didn't expect them to play this kind of trick under his nose in the blink of an eye!Do you take him for a fool?
With boundless anger, Li Shimin sent spies one by one to Lingnan, Annan, and even Jiannan Road!He is a sensitive person who cannot be stimulated. As long as one person provokes him, he will implicate everyone.

And it was precisely because of his sensitivity that he finally realized the corruption of the entire southern border.

The Liao people in Wuzhou in the south of the Lingnan rioted, but where did Jiazhou and Lingzhou in Jiannan Road go?According to reports from the spies, the Liao people there are already unstable. The local officials drive the Liao people like pigs and dogs. The riots are only a matter of time!
Of course, Li Shimin will not allow this kind of thing to happen. He has big things to do in two years. Although the national treasury is full now, it is absolutely impossible to consume national power in such unnecessary civil strife!

At the moment, a series of personnel transfers and secret bloody clean-ups are staged in the entire Jiannan Road!
The three major families in Lingnan are lucky. They have controlled too many resources over the years, and the matter of the gold mine has all been pushed to the dead Chen Guangyou. Li Shimin has no reason to touch them on the surface, but secretly They can't be moved, so their current situation is very safe.

Of course, this is only temporary!

Now that it has been discovered that the three major families in Lingnan are too big to lose, Li Shimin will definitely not allow their existence.Although Feng An is now said to be the uncrowned king of the entire southeast region of the Tang Dynasty, he is nothing more than a bigger ant to a peerless emperor like Li Shimin.

You, Feng An, can enjoy the blessings in the southeast obediently, but you'd better not show any dissatisfaction, or I, Li Shimin's hundreds of thousands of troops, will immediately turn you into ashes!
Feng An obviously knew this too, and when he knew what the Chen family had done, he was really furious.The Chen family not only kept Li Shimin from the matter about the gold mine, but also kept Feng An from it.

What are they up to?Use this gold mine to recruit troops and buy horses, to create a rebellion against Feng An?
Feng An had reason to think so.Today, the three major families, headed by his Feng family, occupy far more territory and resources than the other two major families. He does not believe that those people will not have the idea of ​​replacing them!

Out of rage, the first thing Feng An did was to hurry to the capital himself.

He wanted to express his loyalty quickly before Li Shimin became suspicious.Because he knew Li Shimin well, once Li Shimin had doubts about a person, even if it was just a little doubt, he would get rid of him without hesitation!

Feng An is very satisfied with his current status. He has a strong army and has over ten thousand wives and concubines. Li Shimin trusts him even more. Just because of this, he is absolutely unwilling to break with Datang.He had already thought about it, this time no matter what, he had to separate himself from the Chen and Ning families.There is only one Feng family in Lingnan. For the sake of balance, he can leave the Chen and Ning families alone, but from now on, the Feng family is the Feng family, not the Feng family of the three major families!

Li Shimin was very happy about Feng An's arrival, which showed that Feng An, an old guy, was still loyal to him and Datang.

Hearing that Feng An was going to rectify Southeast by himself and asked for his own opinion, Li Shimin was very happy again, so he gave him a good meal at that time, and then rewarded him with a lot of new wealth.

However, Li Shimin didn't mention anything about rectifying the southeast.

If Li Shimin didn't mention it, Feng An naturally didn't dare to speak.He knew that Li Shimin was still thinking about using Chen and Ning to check and balance him.Since you make them make noise, let them make noise!Anyway, I, Feng An'an, can feel at ease when I am the Duke of Shangzhu Kingdom and Yue Kingdom in Lingnan.

In November of the sixth year of Zhenguan, Emperor Taizong issued an order to pardon the accomplices of the Lingnan Liao Rebellion, and Wu Dazhu, who killed the assassin without permission, will be executed in the autumn of the following year!

So far, the entire Lingnan bureaucratic chaos has come to an end, there are no piles of corpses, and no red-stained sand.

However, it is worth mentioning that our protagonist Zuo Ming did not return to the capital immediately, but got sick in Wuzhou Prefecture on the grounds that he was not acclimatized to the climate and occasionally caught wind and cold.

Any fool could see that Zuo Ming was pretending to be sick, but no one knew why.Isn't it good to go back to the capital?For such a great contribution, the emperor must be rewarded heavily.

Everyone thinks that Zuo Ming is a weirdo!

However, when everyone was very puzzled, Zhao Si, the eunuch who held a pen in the palace, came and brought Zuo Ming an imperial decree in recognition of his meritorious service, as well as a special reward.

It was a white jade porcelain bottle with a bright red cork on it.The imperial decree did not say what it was, only that it was a reward for Zuo Ming.

This reward not only made Zuo Ming puzzled, but even Niu Jinda and others were stunned.

But then, Niu Jinda, who thought too much, and a group of sergeants made up some things that were not suitable for children.

Medicine for half an hour?Well!No wonder!This is reasonable!

right!That should be the case!
What a good medicine!Ask him back.

(End of this chapter)