Li Ye concealed his inner disappointment. Liu Xun made him so sad. Li Ye asked him to serve as Xuezheng. He originally wanted to sharpen his edges and temper his arrogance, but he didn't expect that he couldn't accept it and actually became a traitor.
If he wanted to leave and seek refuge with Li Huan, he could give him a sum of money or send someone to take him to Songzhou. In fact, that was fine. But he actually surrendered to An Lushan and betrayed Jing Xiang's information. How could he tolerate him?
Li Ye paced back and forth with his hands behind his hands, thinking of Liu Xun's old father, wife and children, and ordered him to be executed. He couldn't bear it, but if he was not executed, how could he convince the public?
Li Chenghua was a woman with a delicate mind. She knew that her lord was in a dilemma, so she whispered: "Leave this matter to the humble position. The humble position can kill people with a borrowed knife!"
"Can Qiu Ming know the news in time?"
"Absolutely. Beizi had already suspected that two of Liu Xun's close men were also incited to rebel. Just now, Beizi conducted a surprise interrogation of one of them. He admitted that he had accepted money from Qiu Ming, the boss of Fuman Restaurant, and leaked some secrets."
"Who is it?" Li Ye asked.
"Jiedu Fuhu Cao is engaged in Pan Yang!"
Li Ye had no impression of Pan Yang, but he understood what Li Chenghua meant and asked Pan Yang to send a letter to Qiu Ming.
Li Ye nodded and said that this was the only way. He would give Liu Xun's wife a sum of money afterwards and let her raise her son well!
In the afternoon, Liu Xun was summoned by the Supervision Office in charge of Wang Changling, who interrogated him for an hour. Liu Xun came out in a state of despair. He made up his mind to seek refuge with Li Huan. Xiangyang was no longer the place for him to stay, and he had to leave overnight.
At this time, a carriage stopped in front of him, the door opened, and someone waved to him, but Liu Xun had no choice but to get into the carriage.
In the carriage, Qiu Ming asked with a cold face: "Are they starting to doubt you?"
"No no!"
Liu Xun waved his hand quickly, "It was the Supervision Office who asked me. If they suspected that I was betraying intelligence, then the internal security would take action."
"What does the Inspectorate want from you?"
Liu Xun was really surprised, how could Qiu Ming get the news of his interrogation so quickly?
But he didn't dare to ask more questions, so he sighed and said: "My concubine's father lost two hundred taels of silver in gambling last month. The news spread and he was targeted by the Supervisory Office. They suspected that I had taken bribes when I was the chief official.
Let me explain the source of the money."
"Then what do you say?"
"I insist that it was Huai Wang Li Huan who rewarded me. There is nothing they can do. They can't go to Songzhou to confront Li Huan!"
Qiu Ming nodded, "Have you ever revealed to anyone that you got money from me?"
"Absolutely not. I didn't even dare to tell my wife. My concubine always thought I was a corrupt official."
Liu Xun felt a little guilty. In fact, his father knew that he was selling out information to get money.
Qiu Ming nodded and said calmly: "Two thousand taels of silver is enough to buy your life!"
"What?"
Suddenly, a big man appeared from behind, covered Liu Xun's mouth from behind, and pierced his back with a sharp dagger.
Liu Xun struggled painfully, and the luster of life gradually disappeared from his eyes.
"Take his body out of the city, dig a hole and bury it!"
"Follow the order!"
Qiu Ming got off the carriage directly, closed the door, and the carriage sped towards Nancheng.
It was still a little far away from Fuman Restaurant. Qiu Ming stood on the roadside and looked around, trying to find an ox cart.
At this time, an ox cart slowly stopped in front of him, and an old man asked: "Where are you going, guest sir?"
Qiu Ming thought the bullock cart was a bit shabby, but he couldn't wait for other bullock carts, so he had to hold his nose and get on the bullock cart, "Let's go to Fuman Restaurant!"
As soon as he got on the bullock cart, he found two big men with big smiles sitting in the bullock cart. He suddenly felt something bad. He turned around and was about to jump out of the bullock cart, but he only felt a sharp pain in his head. Qiu Ming's eyes went dark and he couldn't see anything.
knew.
The internal guards immediately launched a thunderous operation, surrounded Fuman Restaurant and arrested seven waiters.
Hundreds of internal guards surrounded another independent courtyard, which contained thirty internal soldiers of the Yan army. They originally planned to cooperate with the Yan army to seize Xiangyang City.
However, the Yan army was never able to cross the Han River, leaving them useless. The failure to assassinate Li Ye's wife and daughter also meant that they were at the end of their rope.
Thirty internal soldiers desperately resisted the breakout, and twenty-four of them were killed by dense crossbows. The remaining six were injured and unable to move, and were captured by the internal guards.
At the same time, the spies and the coachman who went to dig a pit to bury Liu Xun's body outside the city were also caught by the internal guards who were following them. They dug up the Yan army's intelligence spies and internal soldiers hidden in Xiangyang City.
Not only that, the internal guards also formally arrested two low-level officials of the Jiedu Prefecture who had been bribed. The news of Liu Xun's arrest and interrogation was passed to Qiu Ming in time by one of them, Pan Yang.
In the official room, Li Ye was listening to Li Chenghua's final report.
"The humble official has repeatedly checked the roster. There are a total of forty spies plus three officials who were instigated to rebel, plus the two people who were arrested when assassinating the princess and the monk Yuan Hui. No one has slipped through the net. Please give me your instructions, how to deal with it in the end?"
Li Ye said coldly: "All of them will be executed!"
Li Chenghua hesitated and said: "Qiu Ming said that he was willing to provide the secrets of Yan Jun's intelligence point in Yangzhou in exchange for his life."
"Has he stayed in Yangzhou?"
"He said he had stayed in Yangzhou for half a year and was the head of the Yangzhou Intelligence Point!"
Li Ye nodded, "Hand him over to Qiu Xuan! The other Pan Yang has made some small merits and can avoid death. The others will all be executed."
"I humbly obey orders!"
Just as Li Chenghua was about to retreat, Li Ye stopped her again, "When Liu Xun's body was handed over to his family, what did they do?"
"His wife cried bitterly, and the concubine packed her things and left. But his father was very calm and asked his grandson to pack his things and prepare to return to Chang'an."
"Do they know that Qiu Ming killed Liu Xun?"
"They know, I told his wife and father."
Li Ye nodded, "This case ends here, you can go ahead!"
After Li Chenghua left, Li Ye took out a thousand gold coins, put them in a bag and handed them to a soldier.
"Go and send it to Liu Xun's wife so that she can make a living and educate her children well."
The soldier took the gold coins and hurried away.
Li Ye walked to the window with his hands behind his back, staring at the north, with a murderous intention in his eyes. An Lushan assassinated his family again and again, which is unbearable!
Li Ye immediately said to his soldiers: "Go and invite Mrs. Gongsun to me!"
On the fifth day after Li Ye returned to Xiangyang, Li Heng led more than 100,000 people including their family members, guards, maids, eunuchs and escort troops from Hanzhong to Chang'an, ending their half-year wandering life.
The people of Chang'an still welcomed the return of the new emperor with great enthusiasm. They put all the responsibilities on the Supreme Emperor, favored Wu Yang, favored traitors, and believed in An Lushan, which led to the ruin of the Tang Dynasty.
The people of Chang'an placed all their hopes on reviving the Tang Dynasty on the new emperor.
Li Heng was indeed more diligent than the Supreme Emperor Li Longji, and he began to ask questions about politics the day after he returned to Chang'an.
Li Heng was most concerned about three major issues. The first was defense. He ordered Prince Li Yu to rectify his troops and redeploy the defenses in the Guanzhong area to prevent An Lushan's bandits from attacking Guanzhong again.
The second step was liquidation. The liquidation department was established, with the second son King Zhao Li Xi as the general manager, and the eunuch Cheng Yuanzhen as the deputy general manager to assist Li Xi in the liquidation.
Including the officials who surrendered to the enemy and their families, the families of Chen Xilie and Zhang Jun were all in Chang'an. Although Li Ye controlled Chang'an for a period of time, he did not liquidate their families. Although he and Zhang Jun had deep personal grievances, he did not kill Zhang Jun.
's children and grandchildren.
But when they arrived at Li Heng's place, they would not let anyone go. They were all taken into prison and tortured, and all their property was confiscated.
The second step is to liquidate the houses, shops and other rich and powerful properties that have been seized by the bandits and return them to their original owners.
The third is to liquidate those people who entered the palace privately and stole property, and order the people of Chang'an who have committed theft to hand over the stolen goods. If you hand over the stolen goods, you can forget the blame. If you refuse to hand over, once you are reported, you will be severely punished.
The third major thing Li Heng was concerned about was Chang'an's retained property.
In the afternoon, Li Hunter summoned Yu Chaoen, Cui Guangyuan and Wu Qi to inquire about the status of the retained property.