Chapter 113 I'm going to hit you! (4k)
The Yulin Army made such a big fuss that Henan Prefecture, which was responsible for the security of the capital, naturally got the news.
At noon, Li Daoyuan put on armor and prepared to lead the palace guards to suppress the rebellion.
But before Li Daoyuan could leave Mingtang, he met a man.
"Mr. Cui?"
Li Daoyuan saw Cui Guang standing in front of the Mingtang. He was wearing a coarse brown robe and standing at the door, looking exhausted.
Su Chao stood behind Cui Guang, and Li Daoyuan looked at Cui Guang in confusion.
"Shanchang, you should stay in Henan Prefecture today."
Li Daoyuan's expression immediately changed and he said, "Mr. Cui! As the governor of Henan, I have the duty to maintain order in Luoyang! I must go!"
Cui Guang shook his head and said, "You can't go. The anger of the imperial guards needs bloodshed to be vented. I don't want you to die in such a meaningless place."
Li Daoyuan held the hilt of his sword and said to Cui Guang, "Mr. Cui, don't stop me."
Cui Guang straightened his back and said, "Then draw your sword."
Li Daoyuan held the hilt of his sword tightly. Seeing that he was not moving, Cui Guang said to Su Chao beside him, "Take off the armor for your master."
Su Chao helped Li Daoyuan remove his armor, and Cui Guang ordered two Henan guards to guard the Mingtang.
Cui Guang once served as the governor of Henan Province. His students and former officials were all over Luoyang, so he easily seized power in Henan Prefecture.
He ordered the Henan guards to occupy the government office and defend themselves. Cui Guang also sent messengers to notify the various neighborhoods in Luoyang that if they encountered the imperial guards, they should guard the neighborhood gates if they could, but if they couldn't, they should let the imperial guards in directly and never rush in.
Su Cho was beside Cui Guang, assisting him in issuing orders. Cui Guang then said to Su Cho, "You did a great job."
Su Chao lowered his head and said, "But the teacher..."
"If you don't do this, your teacher will die. The imperial guards are angry, and it's not something that a Henan prefect with no military prestige like him can stop."
Su Chuo lowered his head and said, "This is Brother Su who sent someone to tell me to invite Mr. Cui."
"Su Ze Su Zilin?"
"It is Brother."
"Where is Suze now?"
"I, I don't know."
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Princess Chenliu's Mansion, earlier.
Luzhu rushed into Princess Chenliu's bedroom in panic and reported to her the situation outside.
"Your Highness! The Imperial Guards are entering the city!"
Lu Zhu was surprised to see that Princess Chen Liu had changed into men's clothes. She quickly stepped forward and pulled the princess by her side and said, "Your Highness! It's not peaceful outside now! You can't leave the house!"
Princess Chenliu's face flushed abnormally, and she said hastily: "If I don't go to such an interesting event, I will regret it for the rest of my life! No, I want to leave the house!"
Lu Zhu knew her own princess's character, and she suddenly said, "Your Highness, earlier, Commander Su sent a maid to deliver something."
"what?"
Lu Zhu tried her best to save the situation and said, "The man is still in the gatehouse and said he wants to show the thing to Your Highness in person."
"Let her in, and we'll leave after she's done looking at the things!"
After a while, an ordinary-looking maid came in, holding a wooden box above her head:
"Your Highness, my master has lent the princess an object called the Thousand-Li Eye. It allows you to see a thousand miles away from a height."
Clairvoyance?
The families of the powerful and wealthy in Luoyang were all keen on building towers. Princess Chenliu also had a first floor in her mansion. She hurriedly took the maid sent by Su Ze to the tall building in the mansion.
Soon Luzhu heard the princess' order: "Tell the guards in the mansion to guard the gate and not go out today!"
Luzhu let out a long sigh, thankful for the brilliant plan of General Su.
Princess Chenliu was like a child who had just got an interesting toy. She used her telescope to search among the imperial guards. Where was Su Ze now?
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At the same time, standing on the side of Du Shui Bridge in front of the Shangshu Terrace, Su Ze looked past the Shangshu Terrace and towards the palace gate on the north side of the Nan Ya.
The Yulin Rebellion ended here.
Beigong was the bedroom where the emperor and the empress dowager lived. Those who guarded Beigong were not ordinary Yulin guards like them, but sons of nobles who held official positions, such as Yulin Lang, Huben Lang, and Zhige Guards. For example, Su Ze's father had served as Yulin Lang and had guarded Beigong.
Langwei is different from ordinary Yulin. It is impossible for them to rebel with ordinary Yulin.
There are probably several thousand Yulin soldiers entering the Southern Court today, but these people have no armor and no weapons. Trying to attack the heavily guarded Beigong city gate is like hitting a rock with an egg.
Moreover, although the authority of the court was weakened, the authority of the royal family still existed. If there was really an edict from the emperor or the empress dowager, many Yulin would be dispersed.
The fact that Empress Dowager Hu was given the posthumous title of "Ling" is enough to show how low her level of political skills was.
Faced with the rebellious Yulin, Empress Dowager Hu neither sent important ministers to appease them nor sent prestigious generals to suppress them. Instead, she chose the worst option and closed the palace gates and acted like a turtle.
Appeasement is a soothing approach, and suppression is a repressive approach.
Without the Empress Dowager's order, the ministers in the Secretariat were unable to reach a consensus, and no one dared to leave the Secretariat to face the angry Yulin.
Seeing that there was no response to their curses, the angry Yu Lin began to pick up stones from the ground and throw them at the eaves, doors and windows of the Shangshu Terrace.
Seeing their companions' actions, other soldiers began to follow suit, hitting the Shangshu Terrace with tiles and stones. These tiles and stones fell on the glazed tiles of the Shangshu Terrace, making sounds like bells, and hitting the doors and windows like the sound of rapid military drums, so that no one dared to come out of the Shangshu Terrace.
Seeing that the sun had already set from its noon position, Su Ze took a breath and walked to the front row, saying to the Yu Lin:
"Everyone!"
Everyone looked at Su Ze. Since he joined the imperial guards, Su Ze had become famous in the imperial guards and many people knew him.
As the Yu Lin gradually quieted down, Su Ze said:
"Suppressing military men is not a matter of public opinion in the court, so what's the point of everyone gathering in the Shangshutai?"
After Su Ze finished speaking, everyone started to discuss. That's right! Zhang Zhongyu wrote a letter, but it wasn't written to the Shangshutai. What on earth was he doing around the Shangshutai?
Su Ze added: "The court has not approved Zhang Zhongyu's petition, so why should we make a scene at the Shangshutai?"
This woke everyone up, and someone shouted, "Marshal Su is right! Let's go to Zhang's house!"
"Go to Zhang's Mansion!" The ox cart pulled out from Hou Gang's Mansion began to turn. Hou Yuan, wearing a cloak, looked at Su Ze in despair. He was like a clay Buddha statue. He was carried forward by the angry Yulin soldiers and could not make any sound at all.
Not to mention that he had been rendered mute by the poison, even if he could still speak, he would not dare to come out and speak.
Didn’t you see that none of the ministers in the Secretariat dared to speak out?
But Hou Yuan also understood that if the imperial court took revenge on him later, he would be dead!
His brain had never worked so fast before, but he was already tightly surrounded by soldiers on the ox cart and could not move at all. He did not even have a chance to jump out of the cart to save his life.
The ox cart turned around, and the bright red cloaks led the Yulin soldiers to leave the Southern Court and head towards the residence of Situ Zhang Yi.
However, Su Ze did not leave. He left the soldiers of the Tunqiying Camp and ordered them to guard the Shangshu Terrace. He then crossed the Du Shui Bridge in front of the Shangshu Terrace and walked to the palace of the Shangshu Terrace.
Dushui Bridge is a bridge that only the Shangshutai officials can walk on. Su Ze shouted to the Shangshutai with its doors tightly closed:
"Su Ze, the commander of the Tunqi Battalion, is here. Please be at ease!"
After saying this, Su Ze didn't care how the Shangshu Tai responded. He stood on the Du Shui Bridge with his horse and sword, and assigned the soldiers of the Tunqi Camp to guard the road leading to the Shangshu Tai.
After Su Ze finished all this, he watched the Yu Lins gradually go away.
Some of the Yu Lin also calmed down and quietly came to Su Ze's team. Su Ze assigned them the duty of guarding regardless of which battalion they were from.
Su Ze has already gained the biggest benefit from this Yulin Rebellion. Whether those Yulin can break into Zhang's mansion and kill Zhang Yi and his son as they did in previous history is not something he considers.
Mu Shaoyou is going crazy!
From the moment he led the material officer battalion out of the camp, he never expected things to turn out like this.
Cao Wei, the officer guarding the camp of the military officer, did not stop them.
The gate captain guarding Luoyang did not stop them.
The imperial guards guarding the Nangong gate did not stop them.
They even came to the Shangshu Terrace and shouted and cursed, but no one stood up to stop them!
If Su Ze hadn't stood up just now, what would this group of angry Yu Lin do? Force him to attack Beigong Gate?
Mu Shaoyou knew that he had committed the heinous crime of genocide, and he raised his head and looked at the bright red cloak.
Oh, by the way, there is also Hou Yuan!
Hou Yuan is the commander of the Caiguanying Brigade and his superior!
As long as Hou Yuan is here, I am an accomplice!
Mu Shaoyou hurriedly ordered his confidants to keep Hou Yuan under tight control and never let him escape!
The Yulin came out of the Southern Court and returned to Tongtuo Street. This time they rushed towards Situ Zhang Yi's residence.
Zhang Yi's mansion is very famous in Luoyang and covers a large area. The Shamen Temple next to the mansion was funded and built by Zhang Yi. The white pagoda of the Shamen Temple is very eye-catching, and many Luoyang people will go to the Shamen Temple to pray.
The sun was setting, and under the setting sun, thousands of Yu Lin marched silently towards Situ Zhang's mansion. However, their anger had been suppressed for a day and was about to explode.
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Zhang Zhongyu woke up in the villa of Sikong Mansion. He pushed away the maid who was lying on him, looked at the guests lying in the banquet hall, and recalled the night before when he took pills and drank all night long. What happened next became a blur and dream, and in the end, only the feeling of bliss was left.
After that highly speculative memorial, Zhang Zhongyu suddenly became the rising star of Luoyang. The disciples from the aristocratic families were generous in praising him. They looked down on those warriors from the bottom of their hearts, and Zhang Zhongyu could be said to have spoken their minds.
His father Zhang Yi, who was ill at home, also called him to his bedside and said a few words of encouragement. He also said that his brother Zhang Shijun's father-in-law, the Minister of Personnel Cui Liang, had also sent a letter. In the letter, Cui Liang "complained" that Zhang Yi had two good sons but had always hidden Zhang Zhongyu. He also hinted that there would be several good positions vacant when the Ministry of Personnel selected officials next time, and he would help Zhang Zhongyu get one or two.
Zhang Yi also said that after his eldest son Zhang Shijun went to Jizhou, he would hand over the family affairs in Luoyang to Zhang Zhongyu.
At this moment, a trusted steward of my father rushed into the banquet hall and said to Zhang Zhongyu:
"Young Master! Jun Bo asked you to return to Sikong Mansion immediately!"
This trusted steward was named Jiao, an old man close to my father. He had once followed my father in Qinzhou to quell the Qiang rebellion. He refused the imperial court's military position and followed Zhang Yi to become the steward of the Zhang Mansion.
Zhang Zhongyu asked quickly: "Uncle Jiao, what happened?"
"Little Master, come with me quickly!"
Seeing Uncle Jiao's serious expression, Zhang Zhongyu had no choice but to put on his clothes and walk out of the banquet hall. He saw that the elite guards in the mansion were all holding weapons, and realized that something was wrong.
Originally, the villa and Sikong Mansion were connected, but in order to prevent his father from knowing that he was taking elixirs and feasting, Zhang Zhongyu built a high wall between the villa and Sikong Mansion.
Uncle Jiao brought Zhang Zhongyu to the high wall. Zhang Zhongyu had just taken the medicine, and his skin was very sensitive. He started to cry out in pain after climbing the wall for a while. The guards in the mansion who were protecting him had to stop. Uncle Jiao sighed and said, "Go back through the backyard door!"
At this time, the protesting Yulin had arrived at the gate of Sikong Zhang's mansion. The soldiers began to shout and curse, and threw stones at the gate of Zhang's mansion.
However, Zhang Yi's attitude was very tough. He stretched out a longbow from the wall of Sikong Mansion and shot and killed two Yulin who were near the gate of Sikong Mansion on the spot!
Zhang Yi had him carried from his sickbed to the front yard to supervise the battle in person. Some of his guards were from good families in his hometown of Jizhou, and some were Qiang people he conquered when he was the governor of Qinzhou. The former were loyal and the latter were fierce. In addition, the walls of the Sikong Mansion were strong. Zhang Yi was confident that he could wait until the court sent troops to quell the rebellion.
The important officials in the court have always looked down on the imperial guards. Zhang Yi had quelled the Qiang rebellion in Guanzhong and had led an army. These imperial guards didn't even have weapons, so as long as they couldn't rush into the palace, they would be safe.
No matter how slow the court is, it will send troops to quell this rebellion that is like playing house.
At the gate of Sikong Mansion, when blood was seen, the nature of the incident had changed.
From the time the imperial guards entered the city to the time they surrounded the Secretariat, in fact, no one died along the way.
Before the blood was shed, this was just a parade to demand an "explanation", but after the blood was seen, the wildness hidden in the hearts of the Yulin soldiers was finally ignited.
Even Hou Yuan felt the change in atmosphere. The sun was about to set, and he looked around desperately, trying to find a way out.
Suddenly, he saw Zhang Zhongyu who was protected by Uncle Jiao and a group of servants, and the hatred hidden in his heart rose up.
Who caused him to fall into such a situation? The imperial guards wanted to ask the Zhang family for an explanation, why did they want him to die?
It was you, Zhang Zhongyu, who started this whole thing!
Hou Yuan was speechless. He used all his strength to point at the group of people coming out of the courtyard and gestured frantically.
Mu Shaoyou, who had been watching Hou Yuan, also saw Zhang Zhongyu and his group. Although he did not know Zhang Zhongyu, he saw him coming out of the villa wearing gorgeous clothes and shouted to his men, "There are people coming out over there! Catch them!"
The Yu Lin soldiers rushed forward immediately. Although Uncle Jiao was good at martial arts, he could not stop so many Yu Lin soldiers. Zhang Zhongyu was still confused at this time and did not understand the situation outside. He shouted quickly: "Who are you! I am Zhang Zhongyu, the son of Zhang Sikong!"
The Yu Lin who was swinging his fist stopped. Zhang Zhongyu thought that his intimidation was effective. He said proudly: "Send me back to the palace quickly, and I will spare your death penalty!"
The guard laughed grimly: "So you are Zhang Zhongyu! Beat you up, it's Zhang Zhongyu!"
(End of this chapter)