Chapter 45 Chapter Forty-Fifth: Zhou Cruel Officials Framed the Innocents Di Renjie Scolded Zhang Guangfu

Between a tragic death and a heroic death, Li Zhen hesitated. At this time, Xincai ordered Fu Yanqing to recruit more than 2,000 warriors for Li Zhen, which gave Li Zhen some confidence.Li Zhen's determination was reversed, he calculated, and with the dozen or so people he had on hand, at least there were more than two thousand people, not bad, not bad.When the imperial army pressed down on Yuzhou, Li Zhen announced a piece of news in the city: "Guo Han sat quietly in the tea shop, he finally confirmed one thing, the official who was in charge of Dali Temple back then really lived up to his reputation.

Dear elders, King Langya has conquered Weizhou and Xiangzhou, with 200,000 troops, and they will arrive in no time. " This frightened the 100,000 officers and soldiers who were besieging Yuzhou, and also inspired the common people in Yuzhou. Everyone signed up to join the army. Li Zhen's number reached 5,000, and he was divided into five battalions.Sixty-year-old Li Zhen had seen her grandfather Li Yuan with her own eyes, and had also heard about the past when Li Yuan was appointed an official.In order to motivate the masses, on this day, he pretended to be excited and named officials above rank nine in Yuzhou city as public ministers, whatever sounds good.

But the 5,000 troops were still unable to raise their spirits. In order to boost morale, he invited Taoist priests and monks to recite a few sutras for everyone, and gave each soldier an invulnerable amulet.The 100,000 troops of the imperial court quickly marched to a place 40 miles east of Yuzhou City. Li Zhen was a very thoughtful person. He refused to shrink back and submit, so he sent his son-in-law and son to join the battle. Go back to the city and stay behind closed doors. Li Zhen knew that the situation was over. The subordinate asked: "Your Majesty, you are waiting to be slaughtered and humiliated?!"

Li Zhen shook his head. He gathered his family and committed suicide together with his wife, son, son-in-law and others. The officials in the city offered their heads, and the bodies of Li Zhen, Li Chong and others were sent to the east capital Quexia (Palace Gate) Xiaoshou.The main reason for the defeat of the kings' army was Li Chong. He did not set a specific time for his army, and he acted immediately after raising only 5,000 troops, regardless of the progress of others.All the kings raised their troops hastily, but Li Zhen was prepared and responded in embarrassment. In the end, he was defeated by the army and committed suicide.

Zhao Gui, governor of Shouzhou, received a secret letter from Li Zhen. His wife, Princess Changle, said something to Li Zhen's envoy: "Tell the king of Yue for me that in the past, Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty usurped the Zhou family, and Wei Chijiong was only outside the Zhou family. In the sea, you are loyal. Besides, you are the kings and the children of the first emperor. How can you not care about the country! Today, the Li family is in danger, and all the kings are willing to sacrifice their lives for righteousness, but you are hesitating here. What do you want to do? The disaster has come to the head, the man should be a ghost of loyalty, not a soul of death!"

Wu Zetian began to massacre Li Tang's clan, and she asked Su Xuan, the supervisory censor, to check the secret letters between them.Su Xuan went up and said that the reason why most of the kings did not fight was because they did not want to rebel, so the crime did not amount to death.Wu Zetian was very upset, so someone wrote a secret letter, suing Su Xuan for conspiring with King Han and King Lu.Su Xuan is a very refined person, and he argued hard. Finally, Wu Zetian, who was left speechless by the question, sighed and said: "Aiqing is a refined person, so I should arrange you to do other things. Just leave it alone."

On this day, Su Xuan was assigned to Hexi to serve as the supervisor of the army.The one who succeeded him was a capable person whom Wu Zetian relied on very much. The new special envoy for prison was indeed happy to take office, and he was the cruel official Zhou Xing.Like Su Xuan, Zhou Xing is also a very delicate person, with a professional background in law. As early as Emperor Gaozong was alive, he was known for his aggressive handling of cases. Li Zhi repeatedly wanted to promote him.However, after inspection, the prime ministers thought that this person was of bad character, so they did not approve it.

Zhou Xing remembered all those who opposed him, and he begged the prime ministers to give him a chance.In the end, Prime Minister Wei Xuantong was kind. He couldn't stand it anymore and persuaded Zhou Xing, "Magistrate Zhou is really not selected, so you can leave now." Zhou Xing remembered, he hated Wei Xuantong's hypocritical appearance. One day, I will let you people die badly, and you will pay the price for looking down on me! Zhou Xing is like this, he likes to figure out everyone with his own thoughts.He also hated Zuo Shi Jiangrong, this Jiang Rong was praised by the people in the capital because of his kindness, Zhou Xing hated the way the people supported him, and even more hated the way Jiang Rong looked down on him (he imagined it himself).So in the year Xu Jingye rebelled against him, he sent people to drag Jiang Rong into the water and kill him in the city.On the day of Jiang Rong's execution, the market was crowded with people. Everyone should have seen such a scene.

Jiang Rong asked Wu Zetian to summon him, but Zhou Xing refused, and Jiang Rong angrily said, "You can't find evidence if I'm dead, so I can't spare you!" Zhou Xing was furious, and ordered Jiang Rong's head to be beheaded immediately. Jiang Rong's head fell to the ground, leaving only his torso still kneeling on the ground.At this time, a shocking scene appeared: Jiang Rong's body suddenly stood up and walked in the direction of the supervisor (Zhou Xing). The executioner was shocked and kicked him down.The corpse got up and walked again, kicked down again, and got up again... After doing this several times, the corpse fell down. This incident caused a sensation in the capital and was recorded in the annals of history.

Zhou Xingcai was not afraid of karma, and he started to make Jiang Rong's friends again.Wei Yuanzhong was a teenager who learned thaumaturgy from Jiang Rong, and Pei Yan was also Jiang Rong's friend. This time the King of Yue raised troops, and he was able to pull out many people he hated.According to the plan, Zhou Xing found the people who were locked up, tried every means to force the kings and princesses to commit suicide, and then announced to the public that all these people committed suicide in fear of crime.Wu Zetian admired Zhou Xing's ability very much. Since all the kings and princesses admitted that they had rebelled, all their pro-parties should also be killed.

Zhou Xing continued to work hard, involving six or seven hundred families in one breath, and as many as five thousand men, women and children were framed to death by him.These 5,000 people were nothing more than a hook to Wu Zetian, the Holy Mother of God.But for the beheading officer, it's really hard to control.A department sent many people to supervise the execution, and the vegetable market became a sea of ​​human heads. Killing 5,000 people and flowing blood into rivers, the so-called "bloody revenge" is nothing more than that! The executioner picked up the big knife, and amidst the crying, the scene that often appeared in TV dramas and made people laugh was staged.But seeing a person galloping towards him on horseback, he shouted: "Sword—down—stay—the person!" The person was saved.The crowd who were originally in despair suddenly burst into cheers. They didn't know until a long time later that the person who rescued them was Di Renjie, Wenchang Zuocheng who Wu Zetian trusted more and more. Di Renjie hates writing secret letters the most, but this time, he wrote a secret memorial to Wu Zetian: "All of them have been wronged. I want to talk about it in the open, but it feels like a rebellion. It seems like someone is stretching. But knowing without speaking, I am afraid that it will go against His Majesty's great feelings of benevolence and compassion!" What a Di Renjie! The incarnation of wisdom, light, and justice also knows how to flatter? Wu Zetian laughed, and immediately pardoned more than 5,000 people, and commuted the sentence to exile in Fengzhou (Urad Front Banner, Inner Mongolia).The mighty migratory team went from Luoyang to Fengzhou, from east to west, and then all the way to the north, and the distance became more and more remote.When the team passed by a place called Ningzhou, these exiled people suddenly saw that there were countless people gathering in the suburbs of Ningzhou.what is that?What are they here for? The scene in front of them made the exiles feel strange. When they approached, they were stopped by the elders of Ningzhou. The eyes of the elders were moist, and they asked excitedly: "Did our envoy Di save you?" Liuren listened and cried together, "Yes, yes!" The elders in Ningzhou also started to cry, and the crying quickly spread to everyone. They hugged and wept with these criminals, crying in the suburbs, and finally couldn't stand up, and even supported each other.After a request, they came together to the stele of virtue and government erected specially for Di Renjie. The exile followed the folks in Ningzhou to fast for three days and prayed for Di Renjie before continuing to move forward.This is the people, the people who never lie. When something happened in Yuzhou, Di Renjie was sent by Wu Zetian to take care of it. Di Renjie, the governor of Yuzhou, encountered a rare embarrassment, because Comrade Zhang Guangfu, who had come here to fight, felt that he had made great military achievements, so he ran to the state capital many times to ask for rewards, and he was insatiable.Zhang Guangfu was very dissatisfied with the governor of Yuzhou, because he sent someone to ask for things, but Di Renjie refused to answer him.Zhang Guangfu became angry. He ran up to Di Renjie and yelled at him: "Is the governor looking down on the marshal?" Di Renjie laughed out loud, and deliberately annoyed Zhang Guangfu and said, "The only one who messed up Henan is Li Zhen, King of Yue; now that Li Zhen is dead, tens of thousands of Li Zhens will jump out!" Zhang Guangfu was furious. He pointed at Di Renjie's nose and cursed, "Aren't you farting? Your mother's shit!" Di Renjie told Zhang Guangfu in a slow but sonorous tone, "Duke Ming (Zhang Guangfu) commanded an army of 300,000 troops for the sole purpose of killing Li Zhen, king of Yue. Everyone loves you. But Mr. Ming, you indulged the soldiers to search for money and plunder, and Mr. Ming killed the villagers and reported them as criminals. Do you think you have meritorious service? Go and see, the common people Your blood has completely stained the field, so what are you if you are not ten thousand Li Zhens! I wish I could have a horse-slaying sword and cut off Duke Ming's head, even though Renjie died!" Zhang Guangfu was almost wept by this seemingly weak civil servant. After returning to the court, he played to Wu Zetian how Di Renjie insulted the imperial court official.A few days later, Empress Wu Zetian left Di Renjie as governor of Fuzhou (near Xiantao, Hubei).Soon after, Zhang Guangfu died, and he died very uselessly. Here's the thing -- Xu Jingye's younger brother Xu Jingzhen did not participate in the uprising, but was exiled to Xiuzhou.In order to prevent Wu Zetian from settling accounts after autumn, Xu Jingzhen fled and wanted to go to Turkic.However, the student's work can be said to be relentless. He was afraid that there would be no money to spend on the road, so he ran to Luoyang to borrow money.Sima of Luozhou and the county magistrate of Luoyang had a good relationship with him, and they supported him, gave him a fast horse, and gave him money. But later, they thought it was a better choice to stay in the Central Plains and contact court officials to start a revolution. So, they started extensive activities, contacted everyone they knew, and sent a secret letter to each of them.This move really hurt everyone in the government and the opposition who knew the two of them. After the incident, many people were executed. Before dying, Zhang Siming, the county magistrate of Luoyang, figured it out. He was determined to drag a few villains to die with him, anyway, the cruel officials were cold-blooded. Therefore, Comrade Zhang Guangfu was honorably selected. Zhang Siming confessed heartily that the biggest fish that was shaken out was Zhang Guangfu.He said that he has a very good relationship with Zhang Guangfu, but outsiders can't see it. He also knows that Zhang Guangfu has several special hobbies. On the day he went to Yuzhou to suppress bandits, he discussed prophecy and astronomy with others, and asked someone to look at his yard. Wang Qi, do not know what he wants to do.The cruel official yelled: "Idiot, he is trying to conspire!" Zhang Siming acted like he had a sudden realization, and said repeatedly: "Oh, yes, yes, yes, it's treason, and he has two ulterior motives!" Therefore, Zhang Guangfu, who was arrogant and domineering and disregarded the life and death of the people, just died like this, without his whole family.Thanks to the efforts of the cruel officials, the rebellion case still made some progress. History is a great playwright. Qiuguan Shangshu Taiyuan Zhang Chujin, Shanzhou governor Guo Zhengyi, Fengge servant Yuan Wanqing, Luoyang magistrate Wei Yuanzhong and others were identified as participating.On this day, they were escorted to the execution ground together. What is certain is that Di Renjie will not appear in front of Wu Zetian. On the execution ground, the autumn wind was blowing, and the clouds were everywhere. The expressions of the few people were resolute, and they looked at death as if they were at home. The executioner raised his big fleshy hand, and a sharp knife gleamed frighteningly in the cold wind.At this moment, I saw a person rushing towards me and shouted: "Sword—down—stay—people!", and the person was saved.This time Wu Zetian wanted to understand.Zhang Chujin and others were rescued, wept with joy, stood up and shouted long live, and cheered for joy.Under the cloudy sky, there was only one person sitting comfortably. After everyone celebrated, they noticed this unusual Wei Yuanzhong.