Chapter 333: Lan Yu Harmed the Country and Should Be Executed According to the Law (Part 2)

The appearance of Lan Yu was not because he was also involved in the huge smuggling network headed by Wuyi Bo Liu Ziyu, which entangled officials from four provinces, eight prefectures and thirty-two counties in the Tang Dynasty.

In fact, as a historical legendary general produced by the [Born to be an Emperor] system, Anxi Hou Lan Yu was 100% loyal to Emperor Zhaowu Chen Huaian.

In addition to his arrogant personality that easily caused trouble, it was impossible for him to do anything that would harm the Tang Dynasty.

In this evidence of the first "Tea-Horse Case" of the Tang Dynasty secretly obtained by the Loyal and Brave Marquis Lu Jiang while touring the country, the description of the Tang Dynasty Anxi Marquis Lan Yu is as follows:

"In April of the first year of the Zhaowu reign of the Tang Dynasty, the Anxi Marquis Lan Yu personally led the guards to Qiuci, one of the important towns of Anxi, and seized a smuggling caravan that violated the Tang Dynasty's tea-horse ban..."

"After layers of investigation, the mastermind behind this smuggling caravan was Liu Ziyu, the Wuyi Earl of the Tang Dynasty. The total value of the seized smuggled goods exceeded 100,000 taels of silver!"

Bang!

Seeing this, Emperor Zhaowu Chen Huaian could no longer hold back and slapped the memorial on the desk in the imperial study.

The Loyal and Brave Marquis Lu Jiang on the side was also frightened by this sudden slap and stood there, not daring to continue speaking.

Even if Chen Huaian didn't read the following content, he could guess the general idea, which was simply shocking!

Chen Huaian could not help but say angrily: "Lu Jiang, tell me, how dare these noble generals, important ministers and pillars of the court do this?"

"The court has laws, and there are supervisions in various places. They are openly shaking the ruling foundation of my Tang Dynasty in the court, under my nose. Aren't they afraid of being struck by lightning?"

"I ask myself, the rewards given to him after the founding of the country and the annual salary and rice are enough for them to live. They turn around and treat me like this. Do they still have a conscience?"

Hearing this, Lu Jiang thought for a moment and replied word by word: "Your Majesty, people's hearts are soft, but money is hard. Facing mountains of money, It's hard for anyone not to be tempted by the silver!"

"Moreover, according to the information obtained by my secret inspection, not all the founding heroes are satisfied with the emperor's rewards;"

"So, so--"

After hesitating for a moment, Lu Jiang finally gritted his teeth and stamped his feet, saying: "These arrogant soldiers and former ministers think that they have not received corresponding rewards from the emperor;"

"So, they secretly united to make a lot of money. They will eventually have a smooth career and wealth!"

"Since the emperor doesn't give it, they will take it themselves!"

"Asshole!"

Chen Huaian slammed the table in front of him again with a loud bang.

Even the eunuch Cai He, who was standing outside the imperial study and ready to serve the emperor, and the commander of the Jinwu Guard, the loyal marquis Xiao Po, were frightened by the noise coming from the imperial study.

This is a rare moment of the emperor's anger since he became emperor!

In the imperial study, Chen Huaian paced back and forth in the room in anger. He received too much information in his mind, forcing himself to calm down.

At the same time, he was also upset about his indecisiveness.

If he had known earlier, he should not have given face to his father-in-law Liu Xinwu after the award ceremony. He should have taken advantage of the fact that the brave generals of the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun were all in the capital and directly ordered the Ministry of War to let the generals of Longcheng be transferred to the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun.

If he had been more decisive at the beginning, he would not have buried such hidden dangers for himself and the Tang Dynasty, and caused the bitter fruit today!

What made Chen Huaian even more uneasy was that he vaguely felt that the rebellion in Xiaowan and Wusun that had just occurred in the Western Regions, as well as a series of events in which Lan Yu led his troops to destroy Wusun, were all related to the "Tea Horse Case" secretly investigated by the Loyal and Brave Marquis Lu Jiang.

Otherwise, why did Lan Yu just seize Liu Ziyu's goods and then the Wusun Xiaowan Rebellion broke out?

This is too much of a coincidence, isn't it?

Thinking of this, Chen Huaian immediately called over the loyal and brave Marquis Lu Jiang and whispered something in his ear.

The latter immediately knelt down to receive the order and said, "Minister, obey the order!"

Soon, the loyal and brave Marquis Lu Jiang left the imperial study in a hurry.

Chen Huaian then ordered outside the imperial study: "Eunuch Cai, immediately find the Minister of War Li Jingyu and Duke of Wei Chang Yuchun to come to me!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

......

Two days later, at the court meeting.

The "Tea Horse Case" that was still under secret investigation had not yet fermented in the court of the Tang Dynasty, but the incident of Anxi Marquis Lan Yu bullying the princess of the Wusun Kingdom and causing her to commit suicide when he was suppressing the Wusun Rebellion was the first to explode in the court.

The reason was that the Wusun King Tibes, on his way to the Arab Empire, sent several messengers to the Western Regions to spread the atrocities committed by Lan Yu against his queen in the Western Regions.

Moreover, he submitted the testimony of the captured soldiers and civilians of Xiaowan when he sent troops to Xiaowan, proving that the Xiaowan King Maimaiti and hundreds of royal family members did not die at the hands of Wusun;

While proving his innocence, he also put the hat of cruelty and stupidity on the head of Lan Yu, the Anxi Marquis of the Tang Dynasty, and accused the Tang Emperor of being stupid and treating the lives of the people of the Western Regions as worthless, and was not worthy of being the Khan of the Western Regions!

Once this news spread, it caused an uproar in the 36 Western Regions.

Especially those small countries with weak national strength, everyone was in danger, and they sent letters to their messengers stationed in Jinling City, and united to ask for an explanation from the Ministry of Rites of the Tang Dynasty.

Zhang Fu, the Minister of Rites, was originally an old Confucian scholar of the previous dynasty, and was influenced by Confucian culture since childhood.

After learning about what Anxi Marquis Lan Yu had done, he immediately publicly impeached Lan Yu at the court meeting.

Zhang Fu said: "Your Majesty, our Tang Dynasty is the Celestial Empire and a country of etiquette, but what Anxi Marquis Lan Yu did in Wusun State is smearing our Tang Dynasty, damaging the national prestige of our Tang Dynasty, and even damaging the image of Your Majesty as the Khan of the Western Regions;"

"I think that according to the laws of our Tang Dynasty, Anxi Marquis Lan Yu should be executed for this!"