kvmb Chapter 797: Wu Youji accepts defeat and Chen Ziang appears
Chapter 797: Wu Youji accepts defeat and Chen Ziang appears
At this moment, through analysis and combining all the clues he knew, Di Renjie roughly guessed the prince's intentions.
After ruling out the possibility of the crown prince raising an army to force the emperor to abdicate, the only option left was to imitate the Liu kings' campaign against the Lu kings and stage a historic event in which the Li kings campaigned against the Wu kings.
It was not until this moment that Di Renjie finally discovered the real reason for the death of Prince Li Dan amidst the heavy fog!
He entered the game personally and defeated God by half a step. He disrupted the court and abolished the military power of the two princes of the Wu family. Therefore, when the prince raised an army, the Right Jinwu Guard and the Right Jianmen Guard were unable to resist without Wu Yizong and Wu Sizong.
With only the left gate guard left, Li Yan only needed to send a deputy general to lead the attack after entering the city to easily eliminate this hidden danger.
Crown Prince Li Xian could easily defeat all the Wus and anger the emperor to death. If he were even more ruthless, he could completely destroy all of Wu Zetian's achievements over the years and make her a complete tyrant!
"Prince, why do you have to do this?"
Di Renjie hoped that the throne could be transferred smoothly, but now it seems that it is basically impossible for the throne to be transferred smoothly.
If his guess was correct, before dawn, the prince would bring dozens of heads of Wu princes to meet the emperor in Taichu Palace.
He reached out and opened the curtain, looking outside. Among the civil and military officials who had arrived tonight, there was no sign of a Wu minister. Even Wu Chengsi and Wu Yanhao were absent.
"His Royal Highness..."
At this moment, the Minister of Rites Wu Youji was at the mansion.
The soldiers of the Right Feathered Guard rushed into the mansion, killed all the guards and servants who blocked the way, and then went straight to the main hall.
Wu Youji, who had long noticed that Luoyang City was different from before, put on his favorite third-grade court robe and sat upright in the main seat.
Facing the group of Right Feathered Guards who filed in, and then looking at the deposed Crown Prince Li Xian who walked out from the crowd after it parted, Wu Youji sat up straight.
At the age of 33, he had relied on the power given to him by Wu Zetian to act tyrannically for several years. Now he knew that this was his last moment.
There was no trace of remorse on his face, only the composure of someone willing to accept defeat.
"Wu Youji, I pay my respects to His Highness!"
He sat down and just bowed to Li Xian.
Li Xian's expression was expressionless as he ordered, "Immediately kill Wu You and his entire family. Leave no one alive!"
"I want Wu Youji to watch his entire family die before his eyes!"
General Jing Hui of the Right Imperial Guard waved his hand, and soldiers immediately rushed into the back hall, dragged out the people in the back hall and killed them.
Afterwards, a large number of soldiers rushed into the second courtyard and massacred the people in Wu Youji's mansion.
Wu Youji sat on the chair, and heard faint screams in his ears.
He seemed indifferent and sat quietly.
In a full quarter of an hour, all the people in several courtyards were killed. A lieutenant general squeezed in with several human heads and threw them on the ground.
These heads belonged to Wu Youji's wife and children, thrown casually on the ground. Judging from their expressions, one could tell how panicked they were before they died.
"How is it, Wu Youji?" Li Xian asked indifferently.
Wu Youji sat cross-legged on the chair with an indifferent expression.
"Your Highness the Crown Prince dared to openly raise an army and attack my residence. He must have known that His Highness Prince Liang and I were conspiring to split the Great Zhou."
"At this point, I have nothing more to say. We are the ones who connect the five Turkic Duolu tribes and the Khitan militant faction."
"I admit it, Your Highness."
"We did this. We had to do it. You, the Li family, were too fierce. We had to do this."
"Although I have ended up like this, I have no regrets. I, Wu Youji, can afford the gamble, and I am willing to accept the loss!"
Wu Youji bowed his hands and wished to die.
"Cut off his head and tie it together with the other Wu family princes. We will go to the next one."
Wu Youji was stunned for a second. He thought Li Xian wanted to kill him because he discovered that he was colluding with the Turks and Khitans.
He really didn't expect that Li Xian wanted to kill not only him, but also other members of the Wu family.
but……
He was already a dying man, and these things didn't seem to have much to do with him anymore.
There weren't many people in their small group, so let the others die.
The knife flashed, and Wu Youji's head fell to the ground.
This talented man from the Wu family, who was supposed to be Princess Taiping's husband, was eventually separated from his head, which was picked up by Jinghui and taken away.
Li Xian did not stop, nor did he need to sigh. He and the other party were people on two different paths, and he still had a long way to go on this path tonight.
Before dawn, he still has to deal with a few tough guys.
At the same time, Yang Zaisi brought the Left Yulin Guard to the residence of Prince Jian'an Wu Youyi. Without any effort, he dragged Prince Jian'an out and killed all the people in the mansion in front of Wu Youyi. Only then did he chop off Wu Youyi's head when Wu Youyi was in collapse.
Chen Zi'ang, a famous scholar in the court who had been under house arrest by Wu Youyi for a long time, was found out of a cellar, looking at everyone with lifeless eyes.
Yang Zaisi stepped forward and brushed away the dirt on Chen Ziang's face, only then was he able to recognize his identity.
"But is it Chen Zi'ang, the official in charge of Lintai, Chen Boyu?"
Yang Zaisi was good at flattery and knew the ministers in the court very well. Chen Zi'ang passed the imperial examination in the first year of Emperor Ruizong's reign. Wu Zetian, who was not the emperor at that time, admired Chen Zi'ang very much and thought that he was full of scholarly spirit, so she kept him as the official in the Lintai.
Yang Zaisi had paid attention to this unique ninth-rank official back then.
It's nothing, this person is just too talented.
A few years ago, after the Youzhou case ended and most of the Youzhou officials were beheaded by the imperial commissioner Di Renjie, this man went north with the officials who were sent to supplement the Youzhou officialdom.
After arriving in Youzhou, this person did not go to see the governor Ma Fang immediately. Instead, he traveled around Youzhou and finally wrote a famous poem.
The title of this poem is "Song of Climbing the Tower in Youzhou".
“The ancients will never be seen in the past, and the newcomers will never be seen in the future.
Thinking about the long journey of heaven and earth, I burst into tears with sadness! "
Yang thought again, Chen Zi'ang had asked to resign and return home several years ago because Prince Xiang had requested to be exiled to Fangzhou.
After not seeing each other for a few years, we finally met again here.
"I've suffered." He patted Chen Ziang's dirty clothes, "But it will be fine in the future. This world is about to change."
When Chen Zi'ang saw the outside world again and so many soldiers, he knew that the world was about to change.
He was extremely excited and asked, "Is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince going to force the emperor to abdicate and take back the throne?"
"No, he wants to bring endless infamy upon Your Majesty."
Yang Zaisi turned around and said, "I will send someone to take you to a safe place. You will stay there until tomorrow. At noon tomorrow, you will be ready and someone will take you to Taichu Palace."
"What about you?"
"We? Go and take care of Wu Youxu, Prince of Chengping, Wu Chonggui, Prince of Gaoping, Wu Shangbin, Prince of Hejian, and Wu Zaide, Prince of Yingchuan."