Jia Zhi was dragged away like a dead dog by two soldiers.
He was Yuan Zai's good friend and right-hand man.
Yuan Zai originally wanted to stand up and stop him, but he had no reason or excuse.
People who play politics are not street gangsters.
Street gangsters will copy someone else and start doing it if they disagree with others.
However, no matter what you do in politics, you must have a name.
Although Yuan Zai is the prime minister, his real official position is not high.
His official position is Zhongshu Shilang.
The reason why he is the prime minister is because his official position is followed by the title "Tong Zhongshu Menxia Ping Zhangshi", which means Tong Zhongshu.
The province and its subordinate provinces negotiate to handle government affairs.
The governors of Zhongshu, Menxia and Shangshu, Zhongshu Ling, Shizhong and Shangshu Zuopushe, are naturally prime ministers.
However, the emperor often ordered other officials to participate in confidential matters of the court.
For those with lower official positions, "Tongzhong" was added.
Everything under the Shumen is in order."
He is also the prime minister.
Therefore, Tong Zhongshu's Ping Zhangshi is not an actual official position, but a temporary assignment.
In the Tang Dynasty, during the Xuanzong period, Shangshu Zuopushe had been completely excluded from the ranks of prime ministers and no longer participated in major decisions of the court.
The emperor liked to use people with lower official positions and Tong Zhongshu's Ping Zhangshi as prime ministers to handle government affairs.
The Anshi Rebellion took advantage of the situation.
After the end, Zhongshu Ling and Shizhong were only used to confer titles to heroes and generals, and gradually became empty titles.
Therefore, in the middle and late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, "Tong Zhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi" was the real prime minister.
In addition, those who hold the title of Jiedushi and so on and also serve as ministers, ministers, or Tongpingzhangshi are also fictitious titles and are called envoys.
Although "Tongping Zhangshi" is usually selected from officials of the fifth rank or above, when he is appointed to this position, he is usually transferred to the position of Minister of Zhongshu or Minister of Menxia.
This is because Zhongshu and Menxia are always important institutions of the imperial court.
Pei Zunqing and Jia Zhi, one was scolded to death, and the other was dragged away as a suspect in the scientific examination fraud case.
This greatly shocked the court ministers and princes and nobles, and no one dared to stand up rashly to dissuade Zhao Ziliang.
All the rebellious Fengxiang soldiers and generals are to be executed, because everyone is worried that Zhao Ziliang will catch them.
If they stand up against him, wouldn't they be asking for death?
"Who else wants to stand up and risk their lives to remonstrate?"
Zhao Ziliang said with a sneer, "If anyone wants to stand up and risk their own life to remonstrate, of course I welcome it and am very pleased.
After all, only loyal people have the courage and courage. , sense of responsibility, but I also want to advise you, before you stand up, check whether your butt is clean."
These days, who in the officialdom dares to truly say that there is nothing wrong with him?
If we really want to investigate, I am afraid that everyone is full of shit and cannot be wiped clean.
The scene fell silent for a while, and the civil and military ministers and princes and nobles fell silent.
At this time, Li Xian, the Minister of Civil Affairs, stood up and said with his hands in his hands: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I agree with your Majesty's decision.
This is an extraordinary period.
As the saying goes, heavy rules should be used in troubled times.
Only killing one person to make a hundred people can shock the world.
If a person makes a mistake, he does not have to be punished. , if everyone knows that the law does not punish everyone, then the military law and the court law are in vain.
So the old minister believes that all these people should be beheaded to serve as a warning to others."
When Yuan Zai saw it, he couldn't help but cursed in a low voice: "Fool on the wall, shameless person" Li Xian was originally from the prime minister's faction, so Yuan Zai's scolding of him seemed normal to others.
In fact, many people thought that Li Xian was a man who acted according to the prevailing circumstances, and his political stance was vacillating, which was too unscrupulous.
But Li Xian Xian didn't care.
After joining the camp of the Regent's Palace these days, he realized that he was really doing the right thing this time.
Another person stood up next to him.
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Everyone knew him.
Yan Zhenqing, Minister of the Ministry of War, raised his hands and said: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I also believe that extraordinary things should be done in extraordinary times.
The court is in such an embarrassing situation that it cannot be tolerated anymore."
Human beings are benevolent, and they must not be soft-hearted when they are ruthless.
Otherwise, how can we clarify the world and pacify the world?"
After Yan Zhenqing came out to express his support, other officials who had defected to the Regent's Palace either openly or secretly all came forward to express their support.
For a time, the situation was completely reversed.
In addition, some grassroots who acted according to the prevailing situation supported Zhao Ziliang's court.
More than half of the ministers, officials, princes and nobles expressed their support for Zhao Ziliang's decision.
Zhao Ziliang turned to look at the emperor and said: "Your Majesty, so many people support my decision.
It seems that my decision is correct.
If your Majesty has no other objections, I will order it to be implemented tomorrow."
The emperor understood Zhao Ziliang's strength for the first time, which made him a little worried, but now he had no other choice but to let Zhao Ziliang act according to his own intentions.
On the morning of October 27th, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses from inside and outside Chang'an City gathered on the south bank of the Weihe River.
Suddenly, people roared and horses neighed, war drums and horns were heard in all directions, and smoke and dust rose from the river bank into the sky.
Endless banners of various colors swayed as far as the eye could see, and there were many swords and guns.
The cold wind blowing from the Loess Plateau made the flags on the river bank whistle.
If we follow past rules, executions are generally carried out at noon, when the Yang energy is at its strongest.
However, more than 8,000 people have to be killed at one time.
In order to frighten the armies and kill chickens and scare monkeys, the procedures and rituals cannot be simple, so we can only start with The execution started in the morning, otherwise it would not be too late in the day.
The weather today is not very good.
It was gloomy early in the morning and it looked like it was going to rain.
This made Zhao Ziliang and others a little worried.
If it rained heavily during the execution, it would be difficult to handle it.
Except for the officials who had to stay in the various yamen of the imperial court to take turns and work, the civil and military officials of the imperial court and the princes and nobles all came.
The emperor originally did not want to come, but when he thought of the scene of countless heads falling to the ground, he just felt sick and worried that he would have nightmares when he slept late at night.
He woke up with a start, but Zhao Ziliang strongly urged him to come to the scene.
He had no choice but to bite the bullet and sit down and come again.
Gao Shang turned to look at the hourglass next to him, and said to Zhao Ziliang, "Your Majesty, it's almost time."
Zhao Ziliang waved his hand and said: "Then let's get started."
Gao Shang immediately shouted loudly: "Your Majesty has an order to bring up the rebels from the Fengxiang Army."
The first group of 500 Fengxiang Army rebel soldiers with their hands tied behind their backs were escorted to the river bank.
Five hundred executioners with broad waists were already standing at fixed positions with knives waiting.
In order to find so many executioners, the government went to great lengths to find them.
It took a lot of effort.
Zhao Ziliang raised his head and looked at the sky.
It was so gloomy that it was like water coming from below.
This was not a good sign in the eyes of many people.
They thought that such a large-scale massacre by Zhao Ziliang would definitely arouse the wrath of heaven.
Zhao Ziliang thought for a long time and shouted to Ma Sui: "Ma Sui, send 500 escort soldiers to replace these executioners."
Ma Sui didn't know why Zhao Ziliang was in the clinic, but he still resolutely carried out the order and immediately ordered 500 soldiers from his command to quickly go to the river to replace the 500 executioners.
The rebel soldiers who were escorted to the river bank were all so scared that they howled and cried.
Many of them struggled hard to escape, but how could they escape with their hands tied?
"What an injustice, what a huge injustice.
We were coerced by Shazhali and the thieves.
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We did not intend to rebel."
"Spare my life, spare my life, I don't want to die, I don't want to die."
The soldiers in custody cursed: "Who said you wronged Shazhali for rebelling, so you followed him?
Why didn't you kill him and claim credit from the court?
You are afraid of Shazhali, but not the court.
Now it's too late to regret." , I hope you will be smarter in your next life."
There was a commotion on the riverbank with cries and cries.
Many of the civil and military ministers who were watching the execution couldn't stand it anymore and turned away.
Just as the dying rebel soldiers were crying out for mercy, swearing, and cursing, an extremely dazzling lightning suddenly appeared in the sky, followed by a loud "bang" and lightning and thunder.
Several dark clouds gathered in the sky very quickly, colliding one after another, and lightning and thunder kept coming.
Seeing this strange phenomenon, many civil and military officials and princes and nobles screamed in fright.
The emperor was also trembling with fright.
His body was trembling constantly in the imperial chariot.
The soldiers with poor military discipline among the hundreds of thousands of troops who came were so frightened that they broke into riots.
Soon, a knight galloped over on horseback and reported to Zhao Ziliang: "Reporting to your Majesty, there was a riot in the Jingyuan army.
Some soldiers were frightened by the thunder and vision and ran away."
Another cavalryman came to report: "Your Majesty, there is a riot in part of the Liangzhou army."
When Zhao Ziliang heard this, he slammed the table and became angry: "How dare you, a few lightning bolts and thunder will scare them away.
Can such an army still fight?
Where is Zhao Bei, the leader of the vanguard army?"
Upon hearing this, Zhao Bei immediately flashed his sword and clasped his fists, saying, "I'm here."
"I order you to lead the vanguard and capture all those soldiers who escaped."
"Accept the order."
Zhao Bei agreed with his fists clasped, turned around, fetched the war horse Pegasus and rode away.
After a while, he saw the vanguard troops under his leadership dividing into several groups and rushing towards the location of the commotion.
Zhao Ziliang shouted again: "Zhang Bi, the commander of the Huya Army, orders you to lead the Huya Army as a military police force to maintain order on the scene.
Anyone who violates military discipline will be arrested immediately.
If there is resistance, he will be killed without mercy."
"Take orders" Zhang Ben led his troops to patrol among the armies, and after killing some roving soldiers on the spot, the commotion was gradually calmed down.
Zhao Ziliang saw that it was getting late and said to Gao Shang: "Start the execution."
Gao Shang nodded, turned around and made a gesture to the herald, and the semaphore messenger began to use the small flag in his hand to keep semaphore.
After the on-site supervisor saw this, he was about to give an order.
Suddenly it started to rain heavily.
The cold rain fell on everyone, making everyone shiver involuntarily.
Some people in the army panicked again.
Zhang Bi immediately led his troops to suppress it. , and killed more than a hundred people in succession to calm the situation.
Zhao Ziliang was furious: "If you pass on the order, if there is any riot in the army, I will kill the leading general first, and then the rioting soldiers."
"yes" After this order was conveyed, the leading generals of each army determined to rectify military discipline themselves, sent soldiers to inspect the military discipline of each department, and carried out severe suppression.
Despite the heavy rain, the execution continued.
The executioner raised his sword and slashed with his sword.
All the first group of 500 rebel soldiers were beheaded
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