Tiantang

Chapter 263 The Death of Li Fuguo

Chapter 270 The Death of Li Fuguo
On the morning of the second day, Zhang Xuan went to ask questions in the mighty Shuai Hall of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion. Longshuo's Wen and Wu were divided into two sides, with Zhang Xun as the head of Wen and Feng Changqing as the head of Wu Ze.

Zhang Xuan sat behind Shuai's desk with a serious look on his face.But Li Tan, the king of Jianning, set up another case, which was on the side of Zhang Xuanshuai's case.

Zhang Xuan cupped his fists at Jianning King Li Tan, and Li Tan stood up and cupped his fists awe-inspiringly, "On the court, but it's up to King Pingxi to issue orders."

Zhang Xuan smiled lightly, and suddenly shouted loudly, "Bring the criminal Li Fuguo!"

As soon as Zhang Xuan finished speaking, Shi Zhou Xuchu, the Chief of the Metropolitan Government standing behind him, summoned loudly: "The commander-in-chief has an order to bring the criminal Li Fuguo!"

Not long after, two Longshuo soldiers who looked like wolves and tigers dragged Li Fuguo, who looked ashen, into the hall.

Li Fuguo was already desperate and knew that his life was cut off, and he was even more frightened when he entered Zhang Xuan's murderous handsome hall; but when he suddenly caught a glimpse of Li Heng's son, Jianning Wang Li Tan, there was a glimmer of hope in his heart.

He suddenly struggled to break free, and crawled in front of Li Tan wearing an iron chain, crying bitterly while hugging the table in front of Li Tan, and said in a trembling voice, "His Royal Highness, King Jianning, help me! The villain has always been loyal to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." Geng Geng...the villain is supervising the army in Longshuo under the order of His Highness the Crown Prince...Your Highness, help me!"

Li Fuguo was crying hysterically intermittently, while Zhang Xuan watched coldly without saying a word.

Li Tan frowned in embarrassment, and reprimanded in a low voice, "Li Fuguo, you acted recklessly in Longshuo, violated the criminal laws of the Tang Dynasty and the military discipline of Longshuo, and committed serious crimes. What else can you say? Step back!"

Li Fuguo's heart sank when he heard Li Tan's words.

Only then did he realize that Li Heng sent his son to Longshuo not to save him, but—

Thinking of this, Li Fuguo's mind was agitated and his face twitched ferociously. Anyway, his death was imminent, so he calmed down and no longer feared.He knelt there and suddenly sneered, and the sneer sound became more and more thin and high-pitched.

He turned his head suddenly, looked at Zhang Xuan, his eyes projected a crazy and distorted brilliance of hatred, and growled hysterically, "Son Zhang Xuan, our family has been wronged, and we will not accept it until death! ... Our family is under Jiuquan , even a ghost will not let you go!"

"Li Fuguo, are you still arguing in front of my commander? You disobeyed my commander's orders, abused the government's orders first, and frantically accepted bribes for personal gain. After all, the evidence is solid and conclusive. How dare you keep yelling for grievances?"

"Zhang Xun, present the evidence file of Li Fuguo's crime, and see what this eunuch has to say!"

Zhang Xuan waved his hand, and Zhang Xun hurriedly signaled the officials to present the various physical evidence cases that had been prepared and put them on Zhang Xuan's desk.

"Show it to him!" Zhang Xuan said in a deep voice.

Chief Shi Zhou Xuchu hurriedly held a thick stack of files, took it down and showed it to Li Fuguo page by page.Li Fuguo's face was ashen, his body trembled, and he gradually collapsed to the ground.

"Li Fuguo, don't cry for injustice? Has this commander ever wronged you?!"

"Not to mention anything else, you have been acting as the governor of Longshuo for less than a month, and you have accepted bribes of thousands of taels of gold and thirty thousand guan in money. You deserve death for being so corrupt and perverting the law! For this alone, this commander can arrest you Behead first and play later!" Zhang Xuan's voice became cold and stern, he waved his hand resolutely, and shouted, "Come here, push Li Fuguo out and behead him! Hang Li Fuguo's head on the gate tower of Lingzhou City for three days. !"

As soon as Zhang Xuan's words fell, several soldiers like tigers and wolves rushed in and dragged Li Fuguo down fiercely.

Li Fuguo struggled feebly, his crotch was incontinent and stained with urine, and he was so angry that everyone in the hall could not help frowning and covering their mouths.

"Your Highness, please help, Your Highness King Jianning, please help!"

Li Fuguo's shrill and shrill shouts echoed over the Dudu's Mansion, and all the civil and military officials belonging to Longshuo felt awe-inspiring.

Zhang Xuan was silent for a moment, then turned his head and cupped his hands to Li Tan, "His Royal Highness, Zhang Xuan should report to the imperial court and ask the imperial court to appoint another supervisor to Longshuo!"

Li Tan gave a wry smile, and replied, "Prince Pingxi, the court has made a clear decision. From then on, there is no one to supervise the army in Longshuo!"

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Li Fuguo died, and his death was tragic, but he was not wronged.

His head hung above the gate tower of Lingzhou city, shaking the whole Lingzhou.Of course, the common people are talking about it at most, but they are applauding about it, and those who are really touched are some civil servants and military generals who are not innocent.

This matter of supervising the army originated in the early Tang Dynasty.From the early Tang Dynasty to the Empress Wu period, the censors were mainly dispatched to supervise the army.After the old emperor Li Longji ascended the throne, eunuchs were reassigned to supervise the army. On the one hand, eunuchs were appointed as the capital supervisor or capital supervisor of the expeditionary army, and on the other hand, military supervisors were set up in various towns to supervise the generals and control the army.

Because the supervising army is generally an internal prison trusted by the emperor, and has the power to report to the emperor in secret, the supervising army has great power in the local vassals and towns, and they are also very domineering.

Eunuchs took power and intervened in local government and military affairs, which had almost no positive effects, but the negative effects were unparalleled.It can be said that the reason why the Tang army gradually went from strength to decline was related to the decline of national power, but it was also related to this deformed military supervision system.

Zhang Xuan moved the butcher knife to sacrifice the military flag to the supervising army Li Fuguo, which directly impacted and triggered the demise of a kind of supervising army system.This is what Zhang Xuan didn't expect.

Just half a year after Li Fuguo was beheaded by Zhang Xuan to show the public, Li Heng issued edicts one after another, recalling the internal supervision army in the army of each town. From then on, the power of eunuchs gradually withdrew from the army, and a new era came.

The reason why Li Heng made such a decision was Zhang Xuan's advice.And a more important factor is that these eunuchs stationed in the army of each town are all cronies of the old emperor Li Longji. Li Heng worried that he would not be able to really control these people. Recall and plan again.

Later, when these local eunuchs who were arrogant and domineering returned to Chang'an, they were all charged with crimes by Li Heng at will, either killed or misplaced, and ended badly.

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After two days of probing and contacting, Shi Siming's son Shi Kai finally spent a lot of money to buy Zhang Dalang, a small leader of the Shence Army.Through Zhang Dalang, Shi Yan learned some relevant information about firearms, but this kind of information was of little use to Shi Yan. What he really wanted was the core production technology of firearms.

Under the lure of a lot of money, the leader of the Shence Army quietly contacted a township party member who served in the firearms camp, the firearms chief named Gu San'er.

Even though Gu San'er was just a small fire chief in charge of ten soldiers in the Huoqi Battalion, he was not in the top class at all, but because of the irreplaceable important position of the Huoqi Battalion in the Shence Army and in the Longshuo army system, he was not in the top class. Once Xiao Huo Zhang left the firearms camp, he held his head high and his chest was full of confidence.

Gu San'er was secretly invited out by Zhang Dalang, and got together with Shi Kai in a private room of a restaurant in Lingzhou City.

After a few glasses of wine, Gu San'er, who was originally reserved and somewhat airy, heard that Shi Kai had the idea of ​​firing a firearm, and suddenly broke out in cold sweat, with the wine cup in his hand heavily placed on the desk, tremblingly said, "Mr. Shi, this can't be done, absolutely can't be done! Firearms are sharp weapons that King Pingxi strictly controls. Without King Pingxi's handwriting and commander's seal, even General Nanba couldn't get out firearms, let alone me. Long fire!"

"Once King Pingxi finds out, it will be a death penalty of beheading!"

Shi Yan smiled, and signaled his subordinates to untie a small bundle, which was filled with golden golden cakes, totaling hundreds of taels.

Shi Yan pushed the little burden forward, "Brother Gu, this is a trivial matter, not a respect. If Brother Gu is willing to find a way to help me steal some firearms, even if there is only one, I will definitely thank you very much!"

The purchasing power of hundreds of taels of gold in Datang is quite large. With these golds, it is enough for Gu San'er's family to live a life of luxury and good food for a lifetime.

The so-called money touches people's hearts.Gu San'er greedily looked at the batch of gold cakes that were readily available on the table, his eyes flickered, his greed gradually rose, and he immediately dispelled most of the fear in his heart.

The greedy look on Gu San'er's face cannot be disguised, it would be a lie to say that he is not tempted, he has never seen so much gold in his life.But if you want to be tempted, he also understands in his heart that stealing firearms from the firearms camp's secret storehouse is not only risky, but also quite difficult.

Seeing that Gu San'er was still a little hesitant, Shi Jie smiled coldly in his heart, and simply showed his biggest hole card.

He smiled softly, took out his father Shi Siming's token and said, "Brother Gu, to be honest, my younger brother is Shi Yan, the son of Shi Siming, a general under the King of Fanyang'an County... As long as Brother Gu is willing to help my younger brother with this favor, my younger brother will not only have I will be rewarded with a lot of money, and I am willing to take Brother Gu and flee to Fan Yang's army, and treat him as a school lieutenant!"

Zhang Dalang let out a long breath, finally moved his eyes away from the pile of gold cakes, and persuaded in a low voice, "Old Gu, you just think of a way, as long as you steal the finished firearm, we two brothers will immediately steal it." Follow Mr. Shi to leave Lingzhou and go to Fanyang... Even if it is leaked in the future, you and I have already gone far away, so what can King Pingxi do to me?"

"Wealth and wealth are in danger... After passing this village, there will be no next shop... Lao Gu, you have to think about it!"

Gu San'er pondered hesitantly, but it was still difficult to make up his mind for a while.

Although he is greedy for money, he is also worried that things will be revealed and there will be no place to bury him.Gold is a good thing, but you have to live to leave flowers.

Shi Hao stopped talking, quietly watching Zhang Dalang and Gu San'er whispering to each other.

He turned his head and glanced at the two attendants standing behind him, a trace of murderous intent flashed away in his eyes.The two attendants nodded silently knowingly, but their hands were quietly placed on the sabers at their waists.

If Gu San'er refused to agree, then Shi Jie would not be able to let these two go back, and could only kill them without hesitation.

(End of this chapter)