Chapter 788: Cui's Case
Seeing Li Jing handing over military achievements and the emperor wanted to personally give the enemy a reward, how could the people of the Boling Cui family to tolerate it?
The head of the Cui family stepped forward and walked and said, "Your Majesty, Cheng Zhijie slaughtered more than a thousand Cui's children. Please ask Your Majesty to make a decision for us."
Um?
Li Er was obviously very unhappy when he was interrupted for the second time. This Boling Cui was so ignorant and he was so entangled?
In desperation, he had to press his anger in his heart, and Li Er asked: "The bloodline of the Goguryeo branch you mentioned is the clan that you applied to the court last winter? I have heard of this.
Why? General Cheng is busy fighting against Goguryeo. Could it be that he has a grudge against you, Cui? Will he kill their whole family?"
Cui Dunli replied: "Your Majesty, based on our evidence, General Cheng acted without regard to military orders and rushed to kill people when he saw them. He did not have a grudge against me, Cui, but slaughtered all the nobles in the Pyongyang city of Goguryeo.
Including the Cui clan we agreed in advance, so we are wronged."
What?
As soon as this was said, the whole audience was in an uproar. The massacre of the city? The Tang Dynasty's army massacre was simply rare and too harsh. Many people were indignant, especially the Chinese scholars and scholars in the court, who were the most stubborn.
Cheng Yaojin was in a situation where thousands of people pointed out, but he still didn't realize it, and he looked like he was not wrong.
Li Er understood everything after thinking about it for a moment, and secretly gave Cheng Yaojin a big thumbs up. He did a pretty job, but this trick would not leave any trouble.
When Cui proposed to recognize his ancestors and return to his hometown, he was willing to act as an internal supporter, he reported to the emperor. Emperor Li Er didn't think it was a big deal. He was just a nobleman in a different surname. Even if he surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, Cui was just a third-rate family. It was a good thing to be able to reduce casualties in the city as a destruction force, so he quickly agreed.
But Li Er didn't know the situation on the front line, and Li Jing did not resist the order, but avoided the surrender of Pyongyang, so that Cheng Zhijie was secretly attacked, and the case today was caused.
"Pharmacist, is there any such thing? As the commander of the entire army, how did you lead the troops? Did you let Cheng Zhijie kill innocent people on the battlefield?" Li Er asked.
Before Li Jing could speak, Cui Dunyi, who followed the head of the Cui clan, stood up.
"Your Majesty, Cui Dunyi, Cui Dunyi, is not blamed by Marshal Li. He went to Dachang to report to the Marshal about his clan members on that day. Marshal Li was very happy and promised commendations in public, and ordered all troops of the army not to be killed indiscriminately.
Who knew that Cheng Zhijie took action ten days later and started a murderous act. When we arrived, there were already corpses everywhere."
This man is also a good actor. With Clan Choi, he seemed to be sad about his tragic death by his clan. He immediately cried and bowed.
So, everyone's eyes stopped at Cheng Yaojin.
Cheng Yaojin shouted angrily: "Yes, I killed the person, why are you?
Even if I do it again, I will still kill it. If Jingde and Junji hadn't pulled me, the entire Pyongyang City would not have a living experience. I would have to pay my life for the 60,000 dead brothers in Liaodong."
"Knowing the truth, what are you talking nonsense?" Li Jing shouted softly.
Then Li Jing stood up and bowed to Li Er and said loudly: "Your Majesty, there is also a hidden story in this matter.
The matter involved General Cheng disobeying military orders and sending troops without authorization, so the minister conducted a detailed investigation afterwards.
It is true that General Cheng sent troops without authorization, but he sent troops to Pyongyang three days in advance to kill people and avenge people. He missed my messenger, so he did not receive any military orders that were not allowed to be killed randomly, and he did not know that there were internal supporters in the city.
He and General Yuchi acted without permission, and I have already dealt with it in the camp in accordance with military laws.
As for his murder in Pyongyang, I thought at that time that he was eager to avenge his robbery, and we and Goguryeo were divided into enemy countries. Although it was inappropriate to kill people in the city, it did not violate military law."
What... what to do? Cui Dunyi is stupid. Old Man Li Jing, you are playing fairy dance with me. This is not the case that day. You looked like you were going to kill Cheng Zhijie. How did you defend him today?
He didn't know that all this today was actually under the control of Li Jing and Du Ruhui. They had already agreed to help him take the blame because Cheng Yaojin sacrificed his life and made meritorious service.
After hearing this, Li Er suddenly realized, "Oh, so this is the case. I understand it. Zhijie, you, a fool, is it useful to avenge the robes and kill civilians? He is really confused. Even if the massacre of the city is useless, it will be useless. Instead, it makes the people feel afraid and punished for one year.
As for Cui's murder, it is difficult to distinguish between the enemy and me in the battlefield. I know a little, but I am really unlucky. Who would have thought that this situation would happen? I feel deeply sympathetic to Cui's death.
Let's do this, the Tang Dynasty's military acts in a wrong way and leads to in vain death. The military headquarters pays money to compensate these people for their funeral expenses, and also pays 10,000 yuan as compensation. We cannot disappoint the people's hearts."
Li Er settled the matter with just one sentence, and Li Jing and Cheng Yaojin quickly bowed and apologized.
And the Cui family of Boling was about to curse, and sent us away for ten thousand yuan. Do we think we were begging? Besides, are we Cui family's money short?
However, no one dared to say these words. Although the Tang Dynasty has become rich in recent years, ten thousand coins are still not a small amount. The Cui family of Goguryeo was completely destroyed, and a side branch was still dead. Compensation was enough to be sincere. No one wanted to cause trouble for the emperor again because of this, so he could only sigh and accept it.
Cui was ready to come, but left in disgrace. Although he failed to punish Cheng Yaojin this time, the two sides had a long life since then. The emperor could cover you up openly. Will he still protect you everywhere? This is Cui's idea.
However, after this incident, Cheng Zhijie's reputation can be said to be mixed. He has become a new famous general killer in the military, and has even surpassed the black evil god Yuchi Gong and the war god Qin Qiong, which of course refers to the killing aspect.
On the civil servant side, Cheng Yaojin is basically completely unpopular. A general who can massacre the city will basically not be liked by people who will learn the way of benevolence and righteousness all their lives.
The Tang Dynasty destroyed the North and the Peninsula with lightning speed. This move completely shocked all directions. The most shocking one was the Western Turks. The Tang Dynasty came to surrender that day, and the Western Turks fought back strongly. The Tang Dynasty made a harsh statement that it wanted to destroy the country and take revenge. Now that the peninsula is done, will the next target be the Western Turks?
Another one on thin ice is Japan, the Allied Powers. Although it did not participate in the plan to send troops to the Tang Dynasty last spring, Japan is an allied logistics country. Now the entire Allied Powers have been destroyed. Will the next one be Japan? I heard that the Tang Dynasty's naval fleet is invincible in the world, what should I do? The evil god of Japan and Su Wojiu had insomnia at the same time.
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