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Volume 1: Saving the Three Thousand Beauties of the Harem Chapter 412: Purge Storm

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    King Hua was assassinated on his wedding day, and the assassin turned out to be King Xin Zhao Zhen!

    This explosive news triggered an earthquake in Chang'an and even Tianshu forces.

    The assassination of a king often heralds a political conspiracy, and the failure of the conspiracy will also indicate that there will be a great purge.

    When everyone was panicking, King Hua really took action.

    ¡°However, unlike the white terror scenes that everyone imagines, with city gates closed, massive manhunts, people holding shackles, and families wailing, the manhunt was very low-key and restrained.

    Wuling Simou, the envoy of the Jin Kingdom who was on an envoy to Chang'an, witnessed the political turmoil of the Tianshu forces and recorded the entire process he witnessed. After returning to the country, he handed it over to the chief ministers of the country.  In this semi-diary article titled "Tianshu Rebellion", Wuling Simou described in detail what he saw and heard:

    "I suddenly saw several spies from the Tianshu Secret Bureau, leading more than ten government officials from Wannian County (Chang'an County) to drive to an official's residence in a van. They went to the lobby, announced the charges, and convicted the offenders. The officials confessed their crimes and were removed from office.  Wear plain clothes and say goodbye to your family. If you are not shackles, please get into the carriage and drive away. The family members weep, and the neighbors ask about it, and they say that there is no injustice"

    "This manhunt operation lasted for five days and then stopped. It moved like thunder and collected like rain. The target was extremely clear, and there was almost no indiscriminate arrest and killing. It shows that before the assassination, King Hua was loyal and rebellious to his subordinates, and he had a clear understanding of fire.  . The most shocking thing is the arresting method, which is gentle and courteous, which is the essence of the ancient saying that "the punishment is not as good as the doctor". Therefore, the prisoners and their family members did not behave excessively and cooperated with him. This is true.  For me to serve as a teacher"

    As Wuling Simou saw, Di Lie demonstrated for the first time the concept of civilized law enforcement borrowed from later generations.

    From the overall situation, Tianshu's power is in a prosperous turning period.  At this time, it is absolutely inappropriate to do so because of an attempted assassination.  Hunting and killing.  The whole city was in turmoil, people were in panic, and a good situation was ruined in one day.

    ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????izing her in a shackles, being tied to a cage, and being paraded through the streets, which is a complete violation of one¡¯s personality?  It is an insult to these former Tianshu officials.  How could he not be insulting Di Lie, the supreme leader of Tianshu?

    to be honest.  These clan officials are just political prisoners, not heinous criminals, and there is no need to be chained in shackles.  In a relatively civilized manner.  Please get into a sealed van, save his face, and go straight to the state prison.  By arresting in this way, no matter whether the arrested officer feels wronged or not, it will not generate strong confrontational emotions and lay a good foundation for the next interrogation.

    After the assassination incident, Di Lie quickly investigated and found out that this was Zhao Zhen's personal behavior, so it was not appropriate to expand the attack.  At present, there are only a few officers of the Fifth Horse Division who have close contacts with Zhao Zhen. It is unknown whether they are involved in this matter, but based on their closeness to Zhao Zhen, they must be taken down and expelled from the military just in case.

    As early as the second year of Jianyan, when the imperial seal incident occurred, many members of the clan and officials jumped out and believed that the imperial seal should be returned to the Jianyan Dynasty.  As a result, Di Lie was very passive. From then on, he kept hiding the jade seal and did not dare to use it.  Since then, the Secrecy Bureau began to set up a blacklist, and A Shu was responsible for setting up evaluation levels for civil and military officials and clan members.

    This star rating was drawn up by Di Lie himself. It is divided into five levels, from five stars to one star: five stars are the most loyal, four stars are also reliable, three stars are considered neutral, and below two stars, those with ulterior motives will be blacklisted.

    In the star rating method, A Shu uses secret agents from the Secrecy Bureau to collect a large number of words and deeds of civil and military officials and clan members through bribery, use of time, surveillance and other means, and compiles the materials into materials, which are then initially reviewed and evaluated.  Afterwards, the preliminary evaluation and selected materials will be submitted to Di Lie for final review.  Finally, Di Lie determined the final star rating for each general and official.

    In this way, Di Lie has a clear understanding of the loyalty of all the civil servants, generals and clan members in Tianshu's power, as well as his personal knowledge and ability, and based on this, he will consider it as an important parameter when appointing and removing officials and promoting and demoting generals.  This ensured that most of the important positions in the Tianshu forces were reliable generals who were loyal to Di Lie and capable.

    This star rating is top secret. If a large Tianshu force has access to this core, only Di Lie, A Shu and a few officials from the Secrecy Bureau responsible for the preliminary review will be able to access it.

    In this rating system, more than 90% of the generals in the Tianzhu Army have received five-star ratings, including Zhao Zhen; Zhao Neng has four stars; Zhao Bangjie was originally three stars but was recently raised to four stars; the rest, Yue Fei, Wang Gui, Xu  Qing, Guan Sheng, Zhe Yanwen, Zhang Yong, Ding Jin and others were also promoted from three stars to four stars.  The generals of the Western Army, the Jinning Army, the Zhejia Army, the Shaanzhou Army, and the Wangwu Village were also officially included in the assessment.In terms of civil servants, they are much inferior to military generals. Less than half of them get five stars. Most of them are early followers, such as Zhang Jiao, Hou Fangjing, Liu Erping, Wang Youzhi and the group of great craftsmen from the Military Industry Department. There are also many four stars, such as Chen Gui and Ma  Kuo and Zhao Si both fall into this category; three-star officials are the most numerous, and among the Tianshu forces, this type of officials and clans are the mainstream.  If Di Lie is strong, they will naturally behave obediently; if Di Lie falls, they will follow the wind and fall to the new forces.  Officials with two stars and below are the focus of this purge.

    The clans and officials rated as two stars have more or less publicly or privately expressed their disapproval of Di Lie and Tianshu's power; the clans and officials rated as one star have even openly accused Di Lie of "  "I have no superior", and strongly opposed Di Lie's appointment as king.

    Among the clan figures, the Yuanji King Zhao Xu, Yongan County Duke Zhao Zhen, Xiangcheng Bo Zhao Gong and others fall into this category; among them, the Xin King Zhao Zhen is even a one-star figure.  These people are all under surveillance by the Bureau of Secrecy.  When Zhao Zhen was active in the palace, the spies were unable to enter and monitor, so they were unable to grasp his whereabouts.  Zhao Zhen had been under surveillance for nearly a year, and no matter how stupid he was, he could detect it, so on the night of the operation, he suddenly took action and, together with the servants, knocked down the spy who was monitoring him.

    Due to Di Lie's wedding, Chang'an City gathered more than 70% of the civil servants and generals in Tianshu's power, which greatly increased the workload of the Secrecy Bureau.  There is a shortage of manpower, so we are focusing on one thing and not the other.  As a result, by the time the Secrecy Bureau discovered that the agent was missing and found the agent's body after a lot of trouble, it was already too late

    In August, Di Lie issued a ban to freely return to the Southern Dynasty. Most of the clans and officials below two stars, including some three-star officials, chose to leave Tianshu and return south.  But no matter what era you are in, there are always people like this who don¡¯t agree with your ideas and don¡¯t recognize you as your boss.  But he couldn't let go of his job.  Whether it¡¯s time to leave or not, weird words keep coming, and eventually they become rat excrement in a pot of good soup.

    Di Lie¡¯s order to Ah Shu was very clear: not to expand, not to be implicated, not to be in vain, not to indulge, to be polite and proper, and to get rid of all the rat shit below two stars in one pot.  Just right.  Most of the people on the list are gathering in Chang'an to congratulate.  There is no need to ride around.  Just take people directly.

    This group of guys on the blacklist, the shit without a butt?  In the archives of the Secrecy Bureau, you can easily pull out a pile of charges against Di Lie himself and the policies of Tianshu City.  It's just that the Song Dynasty has never been punished for words.  The Tianshu forces also value freedom of speech and lack a suitable excuse to make it inconvenient to take action.

    Now, the incident of Zhao Zhen assassinating the king can become the best excuse to clean up Tianshu's political arena.

    Starting with the two-star and lower clans and officials related to King Xin, all the usual dissatisfaction with Di Lie during this extraordinary period have become evidence of resentment and evil intentions.  The handing over of criminal evidence aroused great indignation among Queen Yuansheng and the military. The government and the public demanded severe punishment.

    The Secrecy Bureau struck while the iron was hot, constantly expanding the scope, tightening the net tighter and tighter, including all clan officials below two stars one by one, and caught them all.  It only took five days to complete the "general cleaning" required by Di Lie.  The most rare thing is that it did not cause major turmoil in the court and the army. Even Chang'an City was not under martial law. People's lives continued as usual without any impact.

    In any past dynasty, the arrest of nearly a hundred officials in the city would have caused uproar in the city, with a flood of spectators and panic.  The humane arrest action taken by Di Lie minimized this negative impact. When the action was over, people felt at peace.

    The reason why such remarkable results can be achieved is not only that the Secrecy Bureau has complete information and conclusive evidence, which ensures the accuracy and timeliness of arrests, but more importantly, as a latecomer, Di Lie has too many historical experiences and lessons to learn from - in the past  Three hundred years later, there will be harm from factory guard hawks and dogs; another eight hundred years, there will be the pain of rectification.  These are profound lessons that must arouse sufficient vigilance.

    Although the Secrecy Bureau is easy to use, it is a double-edged sword.  In times of war, you must not use it; in times of peace, you must use it carefully to avoid hurting others or yourself.  Therefore, Di Lie never granted the Secrecy Bureau law enforcement power.  In other words, secret agents of the Bureau of Secrecy only have investigative powers but no law enforcement powers.  There are only two ways to enforce the law: to enforce the law secretly, Di Lie must personally sign the order. If Di Lie is not in the imperial capital, Zhang Jiao and A Shu will sign the order jointly; to enforce the law publicly, the Chang'an Prefecture and County Yamen are requested to cooperate and dispatch yamen servants.

    Such a large-scale raid was the result of a joint operation between the Secrecy Bureau and the yamen in Chang'an Prefecture.

    Attacking one group, shocking another group, without expanding or linking others - is equivalent to sheathing the sharp sword of the Secrecy Bureau to prevent random stabbing. While cutting off the rotten flesh, it also damages the good skin.

    Judging from the results, the operation was successful and Di Lie was quite satisfied.

    The clan officials dealt with it happily and quickly, but when it comes to the army, they have to be cautious.

    In early November, two envoys with special missionsDeparting from Chang'an, we went to the headquarters of the Five Horse Division stationed in Yan'an Prefecture and the headquarters of the Fifth Reorganized Division stationed in Lintong.

    Two days later, Zhao Neng, the commander of the 14th Mixed Brigade of the Fifth Reorganized Division and the commander of the chariot and cavalry, prayed to heaven on the grounds that he was old in the high hall at home and had difficulty getting medicine. As a son of a human being, he should perform filial piety in front of his bed.  The Ministry of Military Affairs submitted his resignation.

    In mid-November, Zhao Bangjie, commander of the Fifth Horse Division and general of the Hussars, submitted his resignation to the Tianzhu Military Headquarters on the grounds that old wounds had recurred and he was unable to unite the army.

    Di Lie unanimously approved and signed an order to transfer the two generals to the Tianzhu Army Staff Headquarters and serve as deputy chiefs of staff respectively.  Only Ling Yuan had held this position before. It was considered a high promotion for both Zhao Bangjie and Zhao Neng, but they no longer held military power.

    Di Lie believes that these two people have absolutely nothing to do with Zhao Zhen, but within the framework of power, there is no absolute trust, only relative checks and balances.  Only by handing over the general power can the second general eliminate the knots in the military including Di Lie - not because they suspect you have this intention, but because you have the ability to have this intention.

    On the same day, Wang Zhongzhi, deputy commander of the White Horse Division, was appointed commander of the Fifth Horse Division.  Wang Zhongzhi is a five-star general who is loyal and unscrupulous. At the same time, he is from the Taihang village. He comes from the same origin as the Five Horse Division, so he is easily accepted by the officers and soldiers of the Five Horse Division.  In addition, Wang Zhongzhi's reputation in the Taihang Mountains was not inferior to that of Zhao Bangjie, and this prestige was enough to suppress the old man of the Five Horse Division.  The mid-level officers of the Fifth Horse Division are basically monopolized by the first batch of Taiyuan Military Academy graduates.  Working together, the old people in the original Wuma Village became a sandwich layer and could no longer jump.

    As for the 14th Mixed Brigade, it is Di Lie's direct unit. There is no mountain-headism. The change of brigade commander will not cause any disturbance at all.

    By the end of November, spies reported that the Fifth Horse Division and the 14th Mixed Brigade were mentally stable.  At this point, the military's problems have been successfully resolved.

    Later, Zhao Zhen, the last Song Dynasty prince in Tianshu's power, also asked for dismissal, but was rejected by Di Lie - a leader of a hundred people can hardly achieve anything. One more of him is not more, and one less of him is not too much. Let him go  In the army, it can also play a good political role in uniting with the previous royal family.

    Yue Yun also requested to be punished, but was also rejected by Di Lie, but his status as a guard was lifted and he was demoted to the first reorganized division as an ordinary soldier - this future warrior was fourteen years old, and it was time to let him use it.  With the sword and gun in his hand, he can gain fame and a future for himself.

    A major political incident that could have caused huge waves was solved by Di Lie quickly.  He also took the opportunity to attack, turned bad things into good things, cleaned up the court, and finally eliminated all dissidents within Tianshu's influence.

    Di Lie, you are one step closer to that seat.  (To be continued)
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