Chapter 846 Ugly
The rebel soldiers killed everyone in the post house, but there was nothing to rob. Anyway, they just wanted to breathe a sigh of relief. However, some of the palace maids were robbed by these people.
A few people who came from martial arts also grabbed one, and ran home with the woman on their shoulders.
Once you go out, doesn't it become a small home?
The rebel soldiers also knew that they were in trouble. After being sniped by Yu Linlang in the post house, they dispersed into the woods and prepared to run towards Hanzhong.
They decided to join Li Jue in Chengdu. They were all one family anyway.
After the rebels retreated, Liu Xie finally got out from under the bed and walked out of the hall. Looking at the blood stains all over the courtyard, he couldn't help crying anymore:
"Do you really want to give up on the big man?"
Everyone who heard it burst into tears.
Our Majesty, we are really in trouble.
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The emperor over there fled the capital with some of his ministers, while the entire city of Chang'an here has completely fallen.
After all the Hedong soldiers and Liangzhou soldiers had withdrawn, Yu Jin ordered the Taishan army to enter the city and begin to clean up the remaining rebels in every village and village.
Attack all the rioters and rangers wandering the streets with heavy blows.
As the Taishan Army entered the city one after another, the news quickly spread throughout the city. Those ministers and children of the aristocratic families who were still resisting at home felt a mixture of sadness and joy when they heard the news.
After the Taishan Army entered the city, Yu Jin quickly moved to the front hall of Weiyang Palace with all the shogunate members of the Western Expeditionary Army.
When Yu Jin and others came, the tragic scene in front of them was unbearable. There were corpses of ministers in crimson clothes and blue ribbons everywhere. The mutilated corpses were all over the front hall.
Obviously, the group of ministers who did not go with the emperor did not escape death, and were killed by the Liangzhou army who were killed in the palace.
Yu Jin disliked the smell of blood in the front hall, so he had the shogunate set up in the Xuanming Hall next to the front hall.
Surrounded by Zhao Yun and other generals of the Western Expedition, Yu Ban's first military order was to divide the armies and clean up the city, arrest all rioters, and kill the remaining Liangzhou generals, Hedong generals, and Qiu Taishan. All the officials of the army were arrested.
Yu Jin gave full power to the generals, and any rebel soldiers or knights who took advantage of the chaos to burn, kill, and loot would be killed without mercy.
The generals took the order and rushed to their respective defense areas with murderous intent, preparing to restore law and order in Chang'an City.
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Chang'an at this time was simply a hell on earth.
In two days, the city of Chang'an was littered with corpses, and all the ministers' houses were broken down and destroyed, crying in mourning.
During the chaos, many ministers chose to die for the country in order not to be humiliated. Some are more extreme and even ask the whole family to commit suicide together.
When the officers of the Taishan Army were cleaning up the rioters in the streets, they could occasionally catch a glimpse of the ruined courtyard walls.
Those high-ranking ministers who used to be extremely wealthy were fully dressed and hung themselves from the rafters together with their families.
Later, because the Taishan Army had too many cleaning tasks, many of the corpses of those who committed suicide by hanging from beams had no one to pick them up.
Over time, the neck is broken, and the body is often hit on the ground, with the head still hanging on the rope. Someone came to collect the body from behind. Seeing this scene, everyone had nightmares at night.
The tragedy of the times falls on everyone, and it is an unbearable burden.
Although the dead are extremely miserable, the living continue to suffer.
The place where the chaos first broke out was the arsenal, and Jing Zhaoyin's mansion was to the south of the arsenal, so the first people to know about the chaos were the people in Jing Zhaoyin.
But at that time, Jing Zhaoyin was Song Yi. He was just a Confucian scholar, and he could talk things out with ease on weekdays. But when the big change came, he panicked and stayed in the rear house for a long time.
When he finally figured it out, he saw that there were no officials in the office for a long time. Then the disciples came and told him that it turned out that the Liangzhou Army had gone completely crazy and was heading towards the inner quarters of the ministers. .
All the officials were worried about their families and ran away.
When Song Yi saw that things had gotten so out of hand, he didn't hesitate, just took off his robe and ran home.
When he arrived at home, Song Yi did not hesitate, gathered all the servants and tribes, and fled with his family into the house of his friend Zhao Jian.
Zhao Jian came from a wealthy family in Guanzhong and had a deep foundation in Chang'an City. Not only was his house built solidly, but his family also had hundreds of people, which was much safer than Song Yi's home.
Later, as Song Yi expected, rebels did come to attack Zhao Jian's family, but they were repelled by Zhao Jian. When the rebels withdrew, Zhao Jian's family was safe and sound.
But soon they understood why all the rebel soldiers ran away, because the Hedong soldiers came in. They were much more ruthless than the Liangzhou soldiers, and they immediately started burning Zhao Jian's house.
As a last resort, Zhao Jian and the others had no choice but to escape into the back house and use the water pavilion to block the fire.
Everyone who was about to be roasted alive was saved because Taishan's army entered the city.
After entering the city, the Taishan Army stabilized the city on the one hand, and also began to arrest prominent officials in the court.
As Jing Zhaoyin, Song Yi is naturally on the list.
At first, Zhao Jian and the others were still covering him, but as more and more people were arrested later, Song Yi knew that he would definitely not be able to escape, so in order not to implicate his friends, he decided to commit suicide.
Song Yi told his third son, Mr. and Mrs. Song:
"I am Jing Zhaoyin. Now that the country has been destroyed and the city is in mourning, I should die. Your eldest brother is also a member of the imperial court, so he should die too. After we die, you can go back to your hometown to live in seclusion, teach your children to study and farm, and never become an official again. ”
After saying that, he let his youngest son go out and asked his old servant to tie two knots on the beam, one on the left and one on the right. He used the left one and left the right one for his eldest son.
But who knew that after Song Yi left, his eldest son would regret it and was unwilling to commit suicide and die for his country.
At that time, the Taishan Army had been in the city for several days, and the general order had been restored. At that time, Song Yi's eldest son did not dare to directly mourn his father, so he could only have a hasty burial.
He also falsely claimed that his father died for his country as soon as the city was broken, hoping to gain a loyal name to protect himself, and then he explained it in simple terms in order to survive.
But this man's behavior made Song Yi's good friend, Zhao Jian, furious.
He himself had not served as an official, so he was not on the list to be dealt with by the Taishan Army, so he surrendered to the Taishan Army as soon as possible.
In the end, Song Yi's eldest son was arrested, especially when it was later found out that this man had participated in espionage activities when the Taishan Army fought the Battle of Yiluo, and he clearly hated the Taishan Army.
Therefore, he was eventually arrested and worked.
In fact, the job wasn't that heavy. He was just responsible for moving the corpses out of the city. But this man couldn't stand such a job and wanted to escape.
Later, when he escaped at night, he was shot to death by a sharpshooter on the corner tower.
There are many others like Song Yi who have encountered this.
There has been no war in Chang'an for two hundred years, and the wealth in the city has been accumulated to such an extent that some of the officials are also quite extravagant in style, completely divorced from the simplicity and purity of Kansai.
Several of them are considered to be the richest people in Chang'an, and they are also the most miserable in the turmoil.
Empress Fu's brother Fu De came from a wealthy family in Chang'an City. He was particularly particular about fine clothes. The family had more than 30,000 pieces of beautiful clothes. It can be said that if you wear one piece a day, you will never be able to wear it all in a lifetime.
Of course, as the family of the Fu family, it is also the first-class Confucian scholar's family in Qingzhou. It is natural for them to be rich. Who says that you can't enjoy reading the books of sages? When the chaos started, Fu De was at home and got news about his father and sister, but because he wanted to bring too many things, he fell behind.
By the time he went out, Ximen's way of survival had long been cut off.
As a last resort, Fu De could only rush to the Changle Palace in the southeast of the city with his female relatives and hundreds of children, where many of the ministers' children were already there to protect themselves from the disaster.
But again, Fu De is too famous, and those Liangzhou rebels have been in the capital for many years. Who knows whose family is the most luxurious?
At first, the rebel soldiers went to rob the West Market and the East Market. The remaining Liangzhou soldiers and knights were waiting and watching, hoping to see the rebellious officials suppressed.
But when they saw that those who robbed two houses had made a fortune, these people began to become unable to sit still and began to join the robbery team.
Don't be afraid if the two cities are completely robbed, as well as the wealthy officials and wealthy people in the city.
Among them, the Fude family is the most luxurious in this area, so of course I went to rob him.
At that time, Fu De led more than a hundred tribesmen and rushed to Changle Palace in a car. Because he really liked beautiful clothes, Fu De still had clothes in the car when he fled, and he even held two silk embroidery silks in his hands.
When these rebels, led by local rangers, caught up with Fu De, they started killing him.
The team of less than a hundred people was directly killed and dispersed. The rebels frantically looted clothes and silk. Just as Fu De himself was about to hide under the car, he was stabbed to death by the chasing soldiers.
Before he died, Fu De still held the piece of Sichuan embroidery in his hand, but it was also snatched away in the end.
Blood stained this piece of top-notch Shu embroidery, unintentionally witnessing the rise and fall of a family.
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Not all ministers are guilty of original sin, at least not Zhao Qian.
When the emperor and his brother Zhao Wen walked to the rooftop together, Zhao Qian stayed.
At that time, the ministers who stayed in the front hall were all running around in panic, trying to think of ways to escape. Now when they saw Zhao Qian sitting leisurely on the throne, they thought that the minister had a way to escape, so they ran over one after another.
They kowtowed to Zhao Qian and cried loudly asking him to save everyone.
On the contrary, Zhao Qian was very indifferent and said calmly:
"We are all ministers of the Han Dynasty. Everyone has seen this situation. What's the use of running around? There will never be a happy ending. The left and right are just the word death."
Suddenly there was a burst of crying in the crowd.
But some people were unwilling to die and cried and shouted:
"This catastrophe is all due to Dong Cheng and those people who bewitched Your Majesty. What does it have to do with us? In the end, Dong Cheng escaped during the chaos that paralyzed the sky. How unfair is it for us to die for our country."
Then Zhao Qian sneered and scolded:
"Unfair? You have been enjoying wealth and honor for decades, what's the injustice? You said that the chaos has nothing to do with you, but does it have anything to do with those who have been favored by the Han Dynasty and enjoyed great blessings for generations? Stop yelling and be decent. Isn’t it just death today?”
Now there was only crying in the crowd, and there was no longer any excuse.
It's not that they really agreed with Zhao Qian's words, but they were trying to find a way out of the palace.
In the chaos, Zhao Qian walked to the pavilion by himself, and there were several young people beside him, all of whom were his students.
Zhao Qian turned to several people and said:
"At this time, I knew that the big man would die, but I was so kind to him that I couldn't bear to see this scene, so I could only walk in front of Guo Zuo. I couldn't bear all this."
At this moment, Zhao Qian looked to the southwest. There was Yizhou, Chengdu, and the Xiegu Road.
That year, at a young age and arrogant about his talents, he entered the pass from Shuzhong and entered the colorful stage of the Han Dynasty.
At that time, he was studying for his studies, thinking that he was born with talents and had the ability to support the great men and rule the world.
That year, he climbed to the ninth level for the first time, and at the highest place in the empire, he met the group of people he would deal with for the rest of his life.
It was also that year, after witnessing the most bizarre struggle in Kyoto, he went to Yuzhou, thinking he could accomplish something.
But that same year, a massive Yellow Turban Rebellion broke everything, and he finally defeated Shaoling and tasted defeat.
Since then, time has passed too fast, and often before he can get familiar with the present, the future has already hit him unstoppably.
It was also from then on that he finally understood that they were just playthings of fate.
Finally, he glanced at the southwest again, and then jumped down from the high platform.
How I wish time could stay in that year!
With satisfaction and regret, Zhao Qian fell to his death on the stone steps of the front hall at the age of fifty-six.
After the teacher finished dancing, several students also bowed in the direction of their hometowns, and then jumped down from the high platform.
The sound of them falling on the stone steps was no different from the sound of water bags hitting the ground. The fleeing ministers only took one more look before looking for a way out again.
But where is the way out?
Soon the corridor leading to the front hall was breached, and every one of those present died here.
If we had known that we would all die, why would we waste so much time? It's better to give yourself some dignity and die in a decent way.
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Later, after the Taishan Army entered the city, someone spread the news that the Taishan Army did not fly the apricot-yellow flag on the house, so whether they believed it or not, they hung the apricot-yellow flag outside the house.
Even Changle Palace, which was still in the hands of Han soldiers, saw apricot and yellow flags erected all over the city, so it ignored them and directly withdrew the yellow flags to save itself.
In the hell on earth of Chang'an, Changle Palace can be regarded as a paradise.
But there is still no escape from human tragedy here.
After the Emperor of Heaven escaped from the capital and the news of the Taishan Army's advance into Chang'an reached Changle Palace, some people were about to die.
Among them, Liang Shao, a great craftsman, was one of them.
At that time, Liang Shao had already dressed up all his clothes and was preparing to die for his country by throwing himself into a well. Because everyone knows that Changle Palace cannot be defended now, and it will still be humiliated by the Taishan Army.
But Liang Shao wanted to die, but he was unwilling to do so because he felt that none of the people who escaped with him were dead, so why was he anxious.
So he wanted to wait first. When others died, it would not be too late for him to die.
But Liang Shao's son Liang Gao was urging him, saying:
"Being loyal to your ministers and filial to your sons is a matter of course. Now that the country is broken, what will happen to the father if he doesn't die? If the father is not loyal, how can the son die?"
With that said, Liang Gao personally pushed his father into the well.
After doing this, he ordered all the female relatives in the side hall to commit suicide by swallowing gold. Among them was his father's old concubine, and he pointed at her and said:
"We are already seventy years old, how can we regenerate little moth thieves?"
After saying that, he personally strangled his father's concubine to death.
After doing this, as if he had done nothing, he went directly to the palace gate, where people from the Taishan Army had already come to negotiate.