The night passed quickly, and at the dawn of the day, Liu Changgong, who received detailed instructions from his uncle Liu Jingye, specially put on the dazzling tiger benlang uniform, led Liu Shaodong and Liu Shaochi, Liu Jingye's two precious sons, and rode out on a tall horse. Without hesitation, he went straight to the camp of the Baoguo Army.
As the number one trump card army under Chen Sangliang's command, the Baoguo Army is of course the same as Chen Sangliang's Central Army. They are all stationed in Anxingfang, the right side of the imperial city. The soldiers of the Sui army lined up to guard, lest assassins sneak into the workshop to assassinate Chen Sangliang, who was greedy for life and afraid of death. It would be difficult for ordinary people to get close. Logically speaking, Liu Shaodong and Liu Shaochi basically have no chance of entering, but who is our Liu Changgong, General Liu? He rode his horse and rushed to the gate of Anxing Fang with a murderous look. As soon as the gate official came up to salute and inquire about the identities of Liu Shaodong and Liu Shaochi, General Liu's big leather shoes kicked directly on the gate official, and shouted: "Young man! Damn nonsense, take me to the barracks of the national army immediately, I have something urgent!"
Still the same sentence, General Liu's status is too good, Chen Sangliang's deputy recognized by the court, Chief Huben Lang of Youwuwei, the honorary chief general under Chen Sangliang's command, even Chen Sangliang's civil and military confidants met He had to respectfully address him as General Liu, so even though the gate official was a little dissatisfied, he obediently stepped aside and sent someone to lead Liu Changgong to the Baoguo Army camp.
The time when Liu Changgong came to Anxingfang was carefully chosen by his old fox uncle Liu Jingye. At this time, Chen Sangliang had already gone to work in the imperial city, and no one in Anxingfang could restrain Liu Changgong in his position. During the routine training, it was convenient and easy to call on them to do it. As a result, when Liu Changgong rushed all the way to the camp of the Nationalist Army, in addition to Yu Le’s team who followed Li Jing’s westward expedition to Fufeng, Guo Feng, Chen Ci and Zhao Yu, the three Nationalist Army teams Sure enough, they were practicing standing and walking on the school grounds. Seeing Liu Changgong charging into the school grounds, Guo Feng, Chen Ci and others temporarily stopped shouting slogans and came up to salute Liu Changgong.
"General Liu, you are a rare visitor. Why do you remember our place today? Do you want to invite us to drink and play money again?"
They are all acquaintances, and Liu Changgong once personally led the Nationalist Army. Guo Feng, Chen Ci and Zhao Yusan also had a very friendly attitude towards Liu Changgong. What they didn't expect was that Liu Changgong, who was addicted to alcohol in the past, rarely didn't get along with him today. This time, he shouted angrily: "Guo Feng, Chen Ci, Zhao Yu, tell your people to mount their horses and take them with me!"
"Take someone?" Guo Feng and the others were all taken aback, wondering when did the Nationalist Army serve as a yamen servant? Busy and confused, he asked: "General Liu, what happened? Who are you going to get?"
"What happened?" Liu Changgong yelled at the top of his voice, "Someone slandered Brother Ying Liang and wanted to rebel, and even killed Brother Ying Liang! Do you take such a person?"
There was an uproar in the audience, Guo Feng, Chen Ci and others were all taken aback, and hurriedly asked the reason, but Liu Changgong didn't explain, but just yelled: "Don't be wordy, I'll tell you on the way, fuck you and follow me right away, what happened to me?" Carry on! Hurry up, it will be late if it’s late, those fellows are colluding with each other, trying to pull people together to assassinate Brother Yingliang! Assassinate your Chen Jishi! It’s a brother’s, come with me, arrest people!”
After all, Chen Sangliang brought out his confidantes. After looking at each other, Guo Feng and Chen Ci immediately loudly ordered the soldiers of the Nationalist Army to mount their horses, while Liu Changgong kept urging loudly: "Quick! Quick! Hurry up! Brother Yingliang led us to work hard to restore Daxing, and those ordinary people even framed him for rebellion, saying that he wants to lead us to rebel, no matter how unhappy, brother Yingliang's head is in danger, and ours are also in danger!"
Intimidated by Liu Changgong's deliberately exaggerated words, the soldiers of the national defense army who have always been preparing for battle are naturally faster this time. In a blink of an eye, more than 600 people have all mounted their horses. Liu Changgong yelled again and followed me. , more than 600 riders rushed out of Anxingfang immediately behind Brother Liu Changgong, and the originally orderly Anxingfang suddenly became chaotic. The person who heard it told his companions, and it quickly spread among the soldiers of the Sui Army. After hearing these words, Kan Leng, who was on duty at Anxingfang, was also taken aback. Some people came to catch up with the Bao Guojun to check the situation.
According to Liu Jingye's instructions to make things as big as possible, Liu Changgong deliberately led the Baoguo Army to the most spacious and bustling Zhuque Street in Daxing City. Galloping on the street, in addition to causing chaos, it also naturally attracted the attention of countless passers-by. The general of the Sui army who was patrolling Zhuque Street with his subordinates came up to inquire about the reason, and was whipped on his face by Liu Changgong , "Go away! Those who stand in my way will die!"
Hurrying to step aside, rubbing their red and swollen faces, the officers and soldiers of the Sui Army patrol looked at each other, all of them were shocked, and all of them wondered, "What happened? Why are you so anxious to report to the National Army? It must be a big deal!"
All kinds of emergency reports flew into the imperial city like a snowflake. When he learned that Liu Changgong suddenly pulled the Baoguo army out of Anxingfang and galloped on Zhuque Street, Chen Sangliang, who was handling official business, was also shocked and dumbfounded, screaming what happened Then Chen Sangliang didn't dare to be negligent, and hurriedly led Yuchi Jingde and a group of Sui soldiers out of the city to personally check what happened. At the same time, the Daxing Imperial City was naturally full of chaos. The civil and military officials of Daxing who were working were all shocked, and either hurriedly dispatched manpower, or personally, they all rushed to understand the situation.
Liu Changgong is indeed a troublemaker who is very good at making troubles. He led the Baoguo army all the way to Chongyefang, where Huangfu Wuyi and others' posts were located. The army went straight to the posthouse, and then pointed at the posthouse and shouted: "Surround the posthouse, no matter who comes out, arrest them! Rebels, shoot and kill!"
Forced by Liu Changgong's aura, Generals Chen Ci and Zhao Yuer waved their hands, and the soldiers of the patriotic army under their command immediately rushed forward and surrounded the post house in the blink of an eye. Then Liu Changgong got off his horse and led Guo Feng, Chen Ci and other generals and Guo Feng's team strode into the post house. The post officer didn't dare to stop him, but asked Liu Changgong in a low voice what he was doing here. Liu Changgong grabbed him by the collar and asked loudly: "Wei Where do they live in Yijie? Tell me quickly, or I will kill you!"
Then, naturally, it was the turn of the hapless General Huangfu, Wei Shilang and others to be surprised. They were discussing how to persuade Liu Changgong to capture Chen Sangliang, but Liu Changgong kicked the door open suddenly, and a large number of people with knives and guns Soldiers of the Sui army swarmed into the room, almost scaring Huangfu Wuyi and Wei Yijie who had a heart attack on the spot. But fortunately, seeing that Liu Changgong brought all the soldiers of the Nationalist Army in white robes, Huangfu Wuyi and others were subconsciously overjoyed, and almost thought that Liu Changgong was going to bring the Nationalist Army to help them catch Chen. Mourn good.
At the same time, when Guo Feng, Chen Ci and the others saw Huangfu Wuyi still standing in the room, they were also taken aback. The Nationalist Army was formed with the support of Fan Zigai and Huangfu Wuyi. The origin is very deep, and the nine-ring machete in Guo Feng's hand was given to him by Huangfu Wuyi himself. So Guo Feng couldn't help but blurted out in surprise: "General Huangfu, why is it you?"
Fortunately, Liu Jingye, the old fox in the officialdom, had expected this a long time ago, and had given his nephew advice on how to deal with this matter. Liu Changgong strode forward directly, grabbed Huangfu Wuyi by the collar, and yelled viciously: " Huangfu Wuyi, you said Brother Yingliang conspired against him, where is the evidence? Show it to me!"
Huangfu Wuyi never dreamed that Liu Changgong would come up with such a trick. He was so shocked that he didn't know how to answer, but Liu Changgong shook him and asked: "Say, where is your evidence? If you can't show Brother Yingliang today Evidence of treason, I will never end with you!"
"I..., when did I say he conspired against you?" Huangfu Wuyi asked back, sweating profusely.
"You didn't say?" Liu Changgong was furious, and asked, "Then why did you want me to arrest Brother Yingliang for you? Why did you want to confiscate Brother Yingliang's military power? Why did you want me to escort Brother Yingliang to Dongdu? You yesterday Did you forget what you said last night?"
A few words left Huangfu Wuyi speechless, and Liu Changgong turned to Guo Feng and the others and shouted: "Old Guo, Chen Ci, what are you still doing? Take down all the idiots like Wei Yijie immediately, search their Luggage, in their luggage, there is evidence that they slandered Brother Yingliang for treason!"
Guo Feng, Chen Ci and others hesitated, but Liu Changgong yelled again: "Don't do it yet? Don't forget, I am Brother Ying Liang's deputy. This is my military order, execute it immediately!"
"Liu Changgong, how dare you!" Wei Yijie became even more astonished, pointing at Liu Changgong and shouting: "Liu Changgong, do you want to join forces with Chen Yingliang to conspire against him?"
"Haha." Liu Changgong laughed back angrily, and said with a big laugh, "Even I have become a traitor! Wei Yijie, you say that I conspired with Brother Ying Liang in rebellion, then show us the evidence of our rebellion! If you take If there are real evidence, I will plead guilty immediately, if I can’t get it out, then you won’t be able to get away with the crime of planting and framing today!”
Wei Yijie was speechless. Guo Feng and Chen Ci over there saw that his words had acquiesced in framing Chen Sangliang's rebellion, and they immediately stepped forward to arrest them in fright and at the same time sent people to search their luggage. The result was very fast. Yes, the Yang Tong secret edict that Liu Changgong had seen yesterday was searched out, and at the same time, there were two secret edicts that Liu Changgong had never seen before. One edict was to appoint Huangfu Wuyi as Jing Zhaoyin and Wei Yi The festival is the Daxing Order, jointly taking over the Guanzhong regime and military power. The other is to declare that Chen Sangliang has rebelled, and Liu Changgong will capture Chen Sangliang and take him to Dongdu for questioning. He also added that Chen Sangliang can be executed on the spot if he resists. .
The two edicts were naturally prepared by Yang Tong to deal with the aftermath. As a result, they would be found by Liu Changgong in advance, and they would naturally become the death certificate of their attempt to kill Chen Sangliang. Guo Feng, Chen Ci and other good friends of Chen Sangliang were furious after reading it. Liu Changgong was ecstatic when he saw it, he picked up the emaciated Huangfu Wuyi like an eagle catching a chick, and walked out, shouting: "Block all these people, and take them to see Brother Yingliang!"
There is no need to be so troublesome. When Liu Changgong rushed out of the post with Huangfu Wuyi in person, Chen Sangliang had already rushed to the scene with some Daxing civil and military officials. Seeing Liu Changgong dragging Huangfu Wuyi out, Chen Sangliang, who did not know yet Liang was also taken aback and asked in alarm, "Brother Liu, are you crazy? Why did you do this to General Huangfu?"
"Brother Yingliang, it's not that I think so." Liu Changgong replied loudly, "If I don't do this, you will die! You know that this Huangfu Wuyi was sent by His Highness Yue Wang to kill you!"
Finally it was Chen Sangliang's turn to be stunned. After quickly accepting the three secret edicts presented by Chen Ci, and carefully looking at the content of the three secret edicts, Chen Sangliang suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. Yang Tong will be suspicious of him to this point, and he will kill him decisively, arranging a Hongmen banquet to kill himself.
After the shock, Chen Sangliang's little head full of bad water immediately turned quickly, and he handed the three secret edicts to the Daxing Civil and Military Biography, and Chen Sangliang suddenly said to Liu Changgong: "Brother Liu, let go of General Huangfu!" , ask him to show evidence of my treason."
As he said that, Chen Sangliang took the Jiuhuan machete from Guo Feng's hand, handed it to Liu Changgong, and said, "Brother Liu, please hold this knife well. If General Huangfu shows evidence of my rebellion, Please cut me down."
Liu Changgong didn't even blink his eyelids, and immediately took the machete, raised the knife and yelled at Huangfu Wuyi: "Did you hear that? Bring out the evidence of brother Yingliang's treason, take it out, I'll cut him first, and then I apologize to you by killing myself!"
Under the gaze of countless angry eyes, Huangfu Wuyi, who was already in poor health, was sweating profusely, trembling for a long while before saying: "I didn't say you were rebellious, it was His Royal Highness, King Yue who said you were rebellious."
"Without the instigation and dissension of you treacherous ministers and thieves, how could His Royal Highness the King of Yue say that Brother Ying Liang conspired against him?" Liu Changgong asked loudly, "How big is His Royal Highness Yue, without your slander and frame, how could he have issued such an edict?"
He glanced at Liu Changgong in surprise, Chen Sangliang turned to Huangfu Wuyi and Wei Yijie, and said calmly: "General Huangfu, Wei Shilang, the king wants the minister to die, and the minister has to die. Logically speaking, since His Royal Highness the King of Yue suspects I am going to rebel, so I should be caught without a fight..."
"Brother Yingliang, don't be stupid!" Liu Changgong interrupted quickly, and said loudly with confidence: "You are a subject of His Majesty the Emperor, not a subject of His Majesty the King of Yue. You can only die if His Majesty wants you to die. Now there is no will of His Majesty the Emperor. , His Royal Highness the King of Yue has no right to deal with you, you don’t have to pay attention to his orders! I am only a subject of His Majesty the Emperor, and I only obey His Majesty’s orders, not the King of Yue’s random orders!”
"This guy suddenly became smart and said everything I wanted to say?"
Chen Sangliang was amazed, but the Daxing civil and military officials over there were talking all over the place, echoing Liu Changgong's words one after another, saying that he was only a courtier of Emperor Sui Yang, not Yang Tong's, and would never listen to Yang Tong's slander Some people shouted directly: "His Royal Highness Yue is overstepping his authority. His Majesty the Emperor is still alive. What qualifications does he have to appoint and remove Chen Liushou who was appointed by His Majesty the Emperor? He said that Chen Liushou rebelled. Where is the evidence? No Executing an important official of the court without evidence, he is the real usurper!"
The most terrible thing is the issue of evidence. Many people have seen through Chen Sangliang's double-mindedness, but Chen Sangliang has never made any substantive actions. He has not been caught by anyone. Therefore, Huangfu Wuyi and Wei Yijie can only talk about it and have nothing to do. At the same time, as expected by Liu Jingye, the old fox in the officialdom, Huangfu Wuyi, Wei Yijie and others still dare not expose Yang Yuer's affairs in public without any evidence, so they can only keep their mouths shut and let the current actual control of Daxing Chen Sangliang, both inside and outside, fell.
Fortunately, Chen Sangliang would only kill Huangfu Wuyi and the others if he was stupid, and would be charged with treason. At the same time, such a good opportunity to get rid of Yang Yu's control was in front of him. If Chen Sangliang didn't take advantage of it, it would only make him worse. Silly. After a little calculation, Chen Sangliang asked Huangfu Wuyi and his party to be invited into the Daxing Imperial City, and then summoned all the civil and military officials of Daxing in front of the Zhaoyang Gate, the main gate of the Daxing Palace City, to show Yang Tong's three secret edicts in public, He also ordered someone to bring a sword and put it in front of him, and asked Daxing Wenwu to express his position in public, saying that as long as one person can show his own evidence, he can step forward and kill himself, a rebellious minister and thief, and then use Yang Tong's edict to let Huangfu Wuyi and Wei Yi Jie and others took over Daxing Guanzhong.
Of course, no one came forward to show evidence that did not exist at all. Emperor Yang went up to impeach Yang Tong, and asked Emperor Yang of Sui to decide whether Chen Sangliang was guilty. He also said that if Emperor Yang of Sui thought Chen Sangliang was guilty, he would be willing to share the same crime with Chen Sangliang! —Of course, if Emperor Sui Yang, who had lost contact with Guanzhong for several months, could really send an edict convicting Chen Sangliang, and Chen Sangliang would be arrested without a fight. Whether these officials are guilty of the same crime as Chen Sangliang can still be discussed.
After asking again and again that no one could produce evidence, Chen Sangliang said to Huangfu Wuyi, Wei Yijie and others: "Huangfu, Wei Shilang, the king is the guide for the ministers, and the father is the guide for the son. If His Highness the King of Yue wants to seize my military power, Take my life. As a courtier of the Sui Dynasty, I should not have refused. But there is no way, I am a courtier of His Majesty the Emperor, and His Royal Highness King Yue is only the grandson of His Majesty the Emperor. No matter whether his edict comes from his original intention, or he promulgated it based on other people's slander , The military power in my hand and my official title are all given to me by His Majesty the Emperor, and only His Majesty can take them away, so there is no way, I cannot accept orders."
"Go back, please report to His Majesty the King of Yue on your behalf. Regarding the three secret edicts, I will explain to His Majesty the Emperor, and I will impeach him. Please His Majesty the Emperor personally decide." Chen Sangliang said loudly: "Also, in view of His Majesty the King of Yue There is no evidence to slander the minister for treason, and he wants to kill the minister innocently. From now on, His Highness the King of Yue will issue an order, no matter what the content, the minister will not accept it! If His Majesty asks for a crime in the future, I will bear it alone!"
"Come here, escort General Huangfu and Wei Shilang back to the Eastern Capital. Along the way, be a good servant and don't abuse them!"
Chen Sangliang ordered loudly again, and immediately some of his own soldiers came forward and respectfully invited Huangfu Wuyi and others to leave. Huangfu Wuyi and Wei Yijie, who had made a big scandal, did not dare to resist, but they refused to show weakness, and they all turned to Chen Sangliang. Said: "Chen Liushou, let's wait for His Majesty's will to decide, I hope you don't regret it!"
"Everything about me, including my life, is given by His Majesty the Emperor, and He can take it whenever He wants it." Chen Sangliang replied calmly, "However, His Majesty the King of Yue is not His Majesty the Emperor, so he can't take it." Walk."
Huangfu Wuyi and Wei Yijie flicked their sleeves and walked away, looking at their backs, Chen Sangliang snorted coldly in his heart, and said to himself: "We must act faster, if the Jiangdu mutiny does not happen, Yang Guang really sent the order, we will It can only be done directly, directly pulling the flag! Although it is unethical to do so, there is no other way."