The clan's children in the village were quickly besieged and killed by the attackers. With the followers of Wu You and Li Jing'an, it was impossible for these low-level monks to escape.
Because tonight's attack was mainly aimed at Li Ye, the other clan disciples did not have much trouble. Even Li Ji, who was already injured, survived by luck, but his injuries aggravated a lot.
After experiencing two battles in one day, the clan children who reunited together lost their previous coddling spirit, and honestly sat around a campfire in a slightly spacious farmyard, not daring to separate again.
After Wu You introduced the real identity of the assailant and Li Guanshu's sinister plot, the sons of the clan were all indignant and clamored to tear Li Guanshu's body into pieces.
They were originally the favored children of heaven, but this time they were used by Li Guanshu as if they were fools, but they were really deceived by him. It is inevitable to become angry from embarrassment.
Li Ji was the most furious, because he suffered the heaviest losses in the attack, and even his followers died. He kept scolding Li Guanshu angrily, wishing to eat his flesh and skin.
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After scolding Li Guanshu bloody, everyone thanked Li Ye one after another.
This time, if Li Ye hadn't noticed Li Guanshu's calculations in time, I'm afraid they would have to count the money for him if they were sold by Li Guanshu. The thieves' identity of the Taoist Temple was confirmed through their hands.
Therefore, everyone's thanks to Li Ye were sincere and without any water.
After Song Yuanqiao took Li Jingan's Peiyuan Pill, he finally came back from the ghost gate, but his complexion was not good, and he was better than dying, but his life was saved for the time being, and everyone could interrogate him.
The people were used by Li Guanshu, and somehow got into the battle between Li Guanshu and Niu Shoushan Taoist temple. Of course, they had to find out the reason of this matter.
"I won't say it!" Song Yuanqiao's breath was weak, but his eyes were fierce, with a look of death, "If I say it, Li Guanshu will not let me go!"
Li Ye said contemptuously, "If you don't tell me, you will die now."
Song Yuanqiao stiffened his neck and said, "If you kill me, no one will be able to testify against Li Guanshu, and your grievances will be in vain!"
His thinking is quite clear.
"Straight mother thief! Give him torture, skin cramps, if you don't believe him, he won't tell!" Li Ji shouted, now he hated Song Yuanqiao and Li Guanshu to the bone.
A look of panic flashed in Song Yuanqiao's eyes, but he quickly calmed down, and said with a ferocious expression: "The big deal is that I will blow myself up and kill myself, and everyone will not be able to please anyone!"
Li Ji was furious, and wanted to say something, Li Ye waved his hand and asked Song Yuanqiao, "Tell me, what do you want?"
Song Yuanqiao was stunned: "What does King An mean? Want to bribe me?"
Li Ye smiled and said: "Don't be stupid. Li Guanshu is dead, even if you die, there will be witnesses in the Niu Shou Mountain Taoist Temple. Besides, we have a prince, a princess, and a son here. Isn't it full of weight? Back in Chang'an City, Li Guanshu can't beat us. The reason why we want you to explain is because your words do have some weight, but if you insist on dying, we won't let you be a mere county captain, wanton Offend our majesty."
Song Yuanqiao's lips moved.
Li Ye continued: "Just now you also saw that if I hadn't saved you, you would have died under the sword energy. It can be seen that the people who came were going to kill you, and they have already abandoned you. After all, you are just a petty official. Now The reason why I am willing to talk nonsense with you is because you know what I want to know, not how important you are, Li Guanshu can kill you at will, I can even more."
Speaking of this, Li Ye took out Lu Jujian: "Li Guanshu is dead. If you confess honestly, everyone present is a person of status. It will be easy for you to have a bright future. If you don't confess, then die now. "
Saying that, Lu Gujian fell down.
"I said!" Seeing Lu Jujian approaching, Song Yuanqiao hastily shouted, because he saw Li Ye's determination and indifference to his life and death.
Lu Gujian had already reached his forehead and touched his eyebrows. If he was one step late in yelling, he would really die.
Song Yuanqiao's face was pale with fright, and Li Ye's decisive killing made him terrified.
"His Royal Highness King An... Can you really save my life after this incident? May I have a bright future?" Song Yuanqiao swallowed. Of course he is not afraid of death, and he is not a dead man. He said so much, He just wanted to get more bargaining chips for himself. To put it bluntly, it was actually what he said earlier, asking Li Ye to bribe him, but the price was higher.
Song Yuanqiao also wanted to understand that if Li Ye and others could return to Chang'an, Li Guanshu would really be finished.
"I'm the prince of the dynasty, so do you still doubt my words?" Li Ye raised his jaw slightly, with a look full of arrogance, and then showed impatience, "If you want to say it, say it quickly, I have never been very patient."
Song Yuanqiao had no room to struggle, so he had to be obedient, and he quickly explained the whole story clearly.
The officials in Hu County were all promoted by Li Guanshu, so this is his land, and he has a lot of land here-Li Guanshu is Wei Baoheng's right-hand man, with great power, he has been amassing money and annexing good land.
Some time ago, Li Guanshu took a fancy to the thousand acres of fertile land by the Laoshui River. The owner of the land was a member named Fang, that is, a small landlord. He sold it at a low price, but the other party refused to agree, and his attitude was surprisingly tough. Insulting Li Guanshu as a treacherous official angered Li Guanshu, so he sent monks to assassinate several farmers in the other manor, and then colluded with Hu County officials to plant Fang Yuanwai and put him in prison.
These things were all handled by Song Yuanqiao. He thought that after Fang Yuanwai was arrested, the other party's family would give in. Unexpectedly, Fang Yuanwai had a clan brother who practiced in Niushou Mountain Taoist temple. The family members outside the party members went to Chang'an to sue the imperial court.
Of course, Li Guanshu and Song Yuanqiao would not allow such a thing to happen. Li Guanshu sent a confidant of the fifth level of qi training, that is, the officer in soap clothes, to kill the Taoist priest of Niu Shou Mountain halfway. This is a sure thing, but the Taoist priest He was also thoughtful, and even let his fellow disciples follow him secretly. In the last scuffle, although the Zaoyi officer killed many members of Fang Yuanwai's family, he let Fang Yuanwai's wife run away with the Taoist priest.
Afterwards, Song Yuanqiao went to the Taoist Temple of Niu Shou Mountain, hoping to rely on Li Guanshu's power and authority to make the other party hand over Fang Yuanwai's family brother and wife, but the Taoist temple didn't buy it at all, and almost arrested Song Yuanqiao, and threatened to escort Fang Yuanwai's wife to Chang'an.
Among the monks on Niu Shou Mountain, there were several powerful figures, and Li Guanshu was not sure that he could surround and kill them all, preventing any one from running away.
Li Guanshu was furious, so he just kept on doing nothing. On the one hand, he sent people to make excuses with the Taoist temple of Niu Shou Mountain, and on the other hand, he sent people to block the road on Niu Shou Mountain. Shan Taoist Temple does not give the other party a chance to tell the truth, and as long as the other party's identity as a traitor is determined, no one will listen to what they say at that time.
After hearing Song Yuanqiao's confession, everyone was very indignant and condemned Li Guanshu's shameless behavior of corrupting the law and disregarding human life. "This Li Guanshu is absolutely audacious. He bought by force at a low price and annexed other people's properties at will. He even dared to send people to pretend to be thieves and harm hundreds of people in several mountain villages! He really thought that Wei Gong was behind him. Can you act recklessly, turn black and white, and disregard the king's law?! This kind of treacherous minister is really a crime that cannot be punished!" Li Jing'an was so angry that the veins on his forehead popped out.
"This kind of person should be hacked to pieces!" Wu You also clenched his fists and said angrily.
Everyone was filled with righteous indignation, but there was no wave in Li Ye's heart.
The so-called struggle for power and profit is just a common phenomenon. Is there any minister of power who has never harmed the public and enriched himself, and has never collected money
If it was a peaceful and prosperous age, it would be fine, and the behavior of the officials would be much restrained, but in the current Tang Dynasty, the government is dim, and the treacherous and sycophantic power, this phenomenon will naturally intensify to the point of "appalling" - if the officials and the people live in peace, the rich and the common people There is harmony, everyone lives well, and there will be no chaos in the world.
"Why doesn't His Highness King An speak?" Li Jing'an was a little strange seeing that Li Ye had been silent and his expression was indifferent.
Li Ye said: "If there were no such things as land annexation in the world, the land equalization system and the government military system would not be destroyed, and there would not be so many refugees in Kyushu, and there would not be so many feudal towns that gather people to make chaos and expel Jiedu envoys at every turn. It is not worth making a fuss about because of the forced purchase of land property."
When he said this, everyone was stunned.
Those of them who have not yet become official and have not experienced much in the world naturally do not know that the soldiers and generals in the feudal town are actually mainly refugees—these people who were rich and noble, lost their livelihoods and were forced to leave their homes after they seized the land by various means. People, of course, will have resentment and hostility, and after being recruited as soldiers by various feudal towns, they will not be so kind, and it is only natural to become a proud soldier.
For the time being, Li Ye has no plans to say much about these political secrets. They are issues that he will really face after he comes to Sunrise Town. Right now, he said to everyone: "Let's discuss it and go to Niu Shou Mountain Taoist Temple." Come on, I always feel that Li Guanshu will not let it go so easily."
In a valley thirty miles away from Luoping Village, the Zaoyi officer who had followed Song Yuanqiao before was standing respectfully behind a man, who was silent for a long time on the rocks facing the deep and empty valley with his hands behind his back. .
It was Li Guanshu.
"This subordinate really didn't expect that Li Ye was able to see through the Duke's arrangement, and in a very short period of time, he set up a trap for his subordinates and others, so that those clan children were all involved in this matter Come here, and stand on his side." The officer in soap clothes clasped his fists to Li Guanshu and pleaded guilty, "This subordinate is ineffective, please be punished by the Duke!"
Li Guanshu didn't speak for a while, he was angry and thinking.
After a long time, Li Guanshu said in a deep voice: "Wei Tianhe, I have always trusted you, that's why I sent you to Hu County to help the leader Song Yuanqiao deal with the affairs here. But now that more than a month has passed, you have missed one after another, which makes me very sad." Disappointed. If it wasn’t because I was worried and decided to take a look, the situation would have gotten out of hand!”
Wei Tianhe, who was pretending to be an official servant, changed his expression slightly. He knew that he had failed in the matter of intercepting and killing the Taoist priest of Niushou Mountain and the other family members of Fang Yuan, and now he missed in Luoping Village again, and he needed Li Guanshu to rescue him. The other party had treated him very well dissatisfied.
"Damn this subordinate!" Wei Tianhe knelt down on one knee.
Li Guanshu was silent for a while, and asked: "The matter has come to this, what should be done next, what do you think?"
Wei Tianhe gritted his teeth: "Please ask Duke Wei to discuss with Duke Wei a few masters. They will not stop doing anything, and surround and kill King An, Princess Li and others, as well as the Taoist priests of Niu Shou Mountain Taoist Temple. middle!"