Great Tang Southern Emperor

Li Zhen was caught in a tangle, and after thinking for a long time, he finally made up his mind - the fleet must be dispatched, otherwise he would not be able to explain to the sailors of the Saren fleet and the families of the deceased.However, you can’t just be so ignorant. You must at least figure out the identity of the other party before sending the fleet. Even if you don’t understand, you have to wait until the Saren fleet returns and bring back more information...

"Why is the atmosphere in the city so strange recently?" Feeling the oppressive atmosphere around her, Li Zhen asked very curiously.

After convalescing in bed for more than a month, the injury on Li Zhen's buttocks finally healed. After finishing her official duties in a hurry, she couldn't wait to leave Wuzhuang Temple. She packed lightly and entered Yuezhou City with two attendants and a few guards. ——He has been lying on the bed these days, which can be regarded as boring him, and he no longer has the comfort at the beginning, and almost got sick. Now that his body is finally healed, he naturally can't wait to let himself go, good Get some air outside.

But as soon as he entered the city, he noticed that something was wrong in the city. Although Yuezhou City was still as lively as before, with countless people coming and going, he could clearly feel that the faces of the people who came and went did not have any smile.

"It's not the subordinates who did it." Xiao Anzi snorted next to him, "Because of the matter of the Saren fleet, His Majesty was very angry, so he transferred his anger to the officials, and the officials transferred their anger to the subordinates. In his hands, the subordinate staff naturally didn't want to suffer from this sulking, so they transferred their anger to the common people. It's just that the subordinate staff have gone too far-there have been several incidents of subordinate staff hurting people in the past few days. Several people died at the hands of the subordinate staff."

"Damn it, why didn't anyone tell me?" Li Zhen said with a gloomy face, "Didn't I tell them? No matter how big or small, as long as there is a fatality, you have to report it to me. What are they?" mean?"

"Your Highness, the whole court is now stimulated by the matter of the Saren fleet. From His Majesty to the Ninth Grade Sesame Officer, their faces are getting worse and worse. Who of them dare to touch the moldy heads of you big men at this time?" Xiao Anzi smiled wryly and said: "Don't think about it, you are in a bad mood. If I tell you this kind of thing again, won't you be even worse? Once you feel uncomfortable, who knows what will happen? If you get angry If there is another major cleansing... the subordinates are not clean, who knows if the fire will burn on their own heads? So we can only suppress this matter temporarily and wait for the Saren incident It will be reported to you after it has passed or when your mood improves..."

"So, it's still our fault?" Li Zhen's face became even more ugly.

"Shut up, can you talk?" Little Mozi kicked Xiao Anzi, and said to Li Zhen with a smile: "Of course it has nothing to do with you, His Highness. In fact, even if Your Highness is not angry, they moths It's not much better.

Your Highness, you don’t know how hateful the people below are. It’s fine if the other servants didn’t see it with their own eyes. Let’s say the day before yesterday, when the servants went out to buy fruit, they saw a group of subordinates beat up a small vendor selling sugar cane juice. The reason is that the group of subordinates drank his sugarcane juice, but insisted that the sugarcane juice was sour. He took all his money and beat the peddler seriously. If no one treated him, he should be dead by now. "

"This should be regarded as a normal dispute." Li Zhen asked back: "Even if the subordinates' methods are a little more drastic, if you pay a little compensation and punish the mastermind, it will be over. With money in hand, how could there be no one to deal with it?" Treat him?"

"Where is there any compensation?" Xiao Anzi yelled: "The group of petty officials didn't even pay for the sugarcane juice themselves. They came here to make trouble because they said afterwards that the sugarcane juice was too sour."

"What? How could such an evil thing happen in Yuezhou?" Li Zhen couldn't believe it. It would be fine if this kind of thing happened in other places. Li Zhen came from a later life, and he has seen more weird things than this. Although this incident is weird, it is not uncommon, but Li Zhen finds it unbelievable that this kind of thing happened in Yuezhou.

You must know that Li Zhen knows that the lower the officials are, the more harmful they are. On the contrary, those high-ranking officials will not hurt ordinary people so obviously-although their level of harm is at the national level.

It is very terrible for subordinate officials to harm people, and they can ruin their families at every turn-the family is ruined, the county magistrate who ransacked the house, and the magistrate who destroyed the family, this sentence is not just for words.

Therefore, after the last major purge, Li Zhen paid special attention to the appointment of subordinate officials to ensure that these people's character was decent.

However, he didn't expect that even after using such a method, such a problem would still arise. Is this because of a change of heart, or because he has no eyes?

Xiao Mozi realized that he had said something wrong, and quickly corrected him: "Your Highness, don't be depressed, this subordinate official has been harming people since ancient times, and this matter cannot be stopped, and didn't you also say it? Governing the country is governing Officials, etiquette, integrity and shame, the four dimensions of the country, the four dimensions are not open, the country is not the country. The low-level officials are born in poverty, and they naturally have no scruples when they become powerful. However, they are at the bottom of the country, and they are large in number. , It’s like a dog biting a hedgehog—it’s impossible to bite.”

It's rare that little Mozi can say such a big truth, but it's a pity that he did nothing this time. Seeing the lifeless appearance of the people in the city, Li Zhen knew how hard Yuezhou City was tossed by those bastards. If the people in the village don't clean up and don't give the people a channel to vent, then once the atmosphere is suppressed to the extreme, when the people can't bear it anymore, maybe something will happen.

"Huh, it's difficult to govern? I just don't believe in this evil." Of course Li Zhen knows this truth, not to mention now, even in the later generations with extremely advanced information, various problems in the lower management units are emerging one after another, even if the country wants to govern, It is also often pulled a large piece, not daring to move at all.

"This palace can't govern the whole world, can't it govern a Lingnan?" Li Zhen said coldly, compared with the whole world, Lingnan is much more convenient to govern - aren't you afraid of the Great Cleansing?Then I will let you have another taste of the feeling of the head falling to the ground.

"..." Xiao Mozi and Xiao Anzi were speechless, but they clearly smelled a strong smell of blood from Li Zhen's plain words, and for a moment they could only worry about those officials who were about to usher in the bloody horror again. They mourned in silence, and at the same time breathed a long sigh of relief in their hearts—someone finally cured them. It would be best if these bastards who harmed the people were all dead.

"What's going on over there? Why are the people running there?" Just when Li Zhen was thinking about how to carry out another big cleaning, she suddenly felt that people on the street suddenly started running in one direction, and she couldn't help being curious. asked.

"Your Highness, wait a moment, I will ask my subordinates to take care of others." A guard following Li Zhen grabbed a commoner who was running and asked aloud: "Brother, what happened over there? Are you all running there?"

Chapter 936 The fleet is back

Chapter 295 The Fleet Returns

Suddenly being held back by someone, the man was about to get angry, but suddenly he felt a bright silver coin appear in the guard's hand, and he immediately smiled: "This man is so generous, but I don't know the specifics. But from what they said, it seems that the fleet that the imperial court has been looking forward to has returned, this is great, the officials and lords of the imperial court finally don't have to get mad, and our life can finally be easier."

Li Zhen felt ashamed in her heart when she said this. After all, the depressive atmosphere in this city is inseparable from himself and others. If he and others were not angry, the anger would not be transferred layer by layer, and finally transferred to the people. , It is really a big mistake.

But now is not the time to feel guilty. Hearing what the man said just now, Li Zhen has a more important task...

"I'm finally back, I hope you don't suffer too much loss..." At this time, there is only one fleet that the court is looking forward to, and that is the Saren fleet. Now that they have returned, some questions should be answered. I hope they can get more information, otherwise the court will have to temporarily abandon the Spice Islands...

"What's the matter? What happened to your face?"

When Li Zhen saw Sa Lun, she was startled, because Sa Lun's face had been cut more than a dozen times, and the originally handsome face had completely changed its shape, and the ravines on it were horrible. .

"Your Highness, I am ashamed of Your Highness's trust. One-third of the 150 ships brought back, and countless partners died. I really have no face to see you again." Sa Lun cried and said: "Your Highness, please punish me, as long as If you don't kill me, let me have a chance to fight back to Rome, even if you abolish me to enter the palace, Saren will admit it."

After such a long time, Saren knew what he should know. In fact, he was really guilty. Therefore, when he learned the specific number of casualties on the fleet, he almost died of guilt, and used The knife cut his face, expressing that he was ashamed to see Li Zhen again - if he didn't still have the belief in his heart to fight back to Rome, I'm afraid he would have killed himself to thank the world.

"Why are you bothering? This is a natural and man-made disaster, so what does it have to do with you?" Li Zhen said bitterly. Of course he was upset that he had lost so many ships and people at once, but now that things have happened, Sa Lun There was nothing too wrong in what he did, and of course Li Zhen couldn't blame him.

"Forget it, father is in a hurry to see you, hurry up and bring your evidence and follow me."

"Yes."

Saren brought back a lot of things this time, especially the corpses of those enemies, there were hundreds of them, and the weapons they used...

"Your Majesty, here are a few more blood-drinking spears..." Qin Qiong walked over with a few more blood-drinking spears, and said solemnly: "Some of our guesses may have come true."

When he saw the blood-drinking spear, Li Shimin had already realized something, but there was only one blood-drinking spear, which could not be used as evidence, so his guess could only be guesswork and could not be confirmed.But now it is different, Qin Qiong found a few of the same blood-drinking spears from the captured weapons, so Li Shimin's guess can also be verified.

"I just don't know which 'old friend' is our enemy?" Li Shimin gritted his teeth when he mentioned the word 'old friend'.

The reason why she is gnashing her teeth is that Li Zhen knows that there are only three factions that can use blood-drinking spears in large quantities: the first one is naturally the descendants of Yang Guang. Not everyone rebelled when Guo Yi's army rebelled. He was still very loyal to Yang Guang, but with Yang Guang's death, this Guoyi army could only break out of the siege, escaped from Jiangdu City, and has been lost since then.If a descendant of the Yang family finds this group of old Guo Yi soldiers, they might be able to get their support.It's just that the descendants of the Yang family should have been captured by Li Zhen, so this possibility is not too great.

The second force is the descendants of Li Mi. In the Battle of Tongshan, Guo Yi's army and Li Mi's powerful soldiers fought for both sides. Later, a considerable part of Guo Yi's army defected to Li Mi, but because the two sides were enemies before, and He also seriously injured his own elite killing, so in order to take care of the emotions of the Wagang people, and also to be wary of the combat effectiveness of the Guoyi army, it was not long after the Guoyi army took refuge in Li Mi that they were dismantled and banned under Li Mi's means. Bloodspear was also destroyed together.

However, this is just a rumor from within Wagang, and its authenticity is still open to question. It is hard to guarantee that Li Mi has obtained the training method of Guo Yijun, and privately withheld some blood-drinking spears.Coupled with the loss of his own elite, Li Mi realized that he might fail, and it is not ruled out that he will use the training method of this batch of blood-drinking spears and Guo Yi army to train himself a batch of elites for the future.It's a pity that Li Mi died in the hands of Master Sheng Yan, and this group of elites lost their controllers, and were later taken out of the country by Li Mi's descendants in an attempt to make a comeback.

The third and last force is the descendants of Yu Wenhuaji. He was defeated in the Battle of Tongshan and still had 2 troops in his hands. In the end, this batch of Guoyi army may also be taken out of the overseas by the descendants of Yuwen, and left for the future.

Originally, this was just Li Shimin's speculation, but now that he suddenly saw so many blood-drinking spears, this speculation immediately became affirmative.

"By the way, there is this." Qi Bin next to him suddenly remembered something, and quickly found a box from a pile of sundries: "Your Majesty, this is what Captain Du Bin desperately left behind. He should I noticed something, maybe this is left to His Majesty."

"Dubin..." Li Shimin closed his eyes in pain. This is the old man beside him. He has followed him since he was the son of Tang Guogong, and he has blocked many times for himself. When he was about to retire He even visited him once, but Du Bin couldn't leave the battlefield and followed Li Zhen to the battleship. However, Li Shimin didn't expect that Du Bin never came back after this trip, and even his body was never found.

Seeing what Du Bin left behind at this time, Li Shimin couldn't help being even more sad.

"Crack!"

The box is opened.

"Ah~"

Everyone was shocked. No one thought that the box contained a human head. Although it was among the dead bodies at this time, the sudden appearance of the human head still scared many people.Especially those newly promoted civil servants, they have no experience in the battlefield, their faces were already pale in the pile of dead bodies, and the two sides were fighting. Now when they suddenly saw this human head, they were shocked and couldn't help screaming He made a sound, and even a few of them were scared to pee, and a smell of urine wafted out, making many people frown.

Chapter 937

Chapter 296 The Remains of Li Mi

Li Shimin was also terrified by the head, his hand shook, and he almost threw it out, but fortunately he held his hand at the last moment, otherwise he would make a fool of himself.

"This is……"

When Li Shimin came back to his senses and set his eyes on the human head, he was suddenly stunned, because this human head gave him an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

"Shu Bao, come and see, do you know this person?" After thinking about it carefully, Li Shimin couldn't think of who this person was, but he was sure that he had definitely seen this person before, and Du Bin knew it very well I knew this person, so I desperately sent the head out, just to show myself.

But after all, it's been a long time, and Li Shimin couldn't remember it for a while, so he could only call Qin Qiong over, hoping that he could remember something.