si-mexico Chapter 755 The Big Trouble Left by Emperor Chuan
Chapter 755 The Big Trouble Left by Emperor Chuan
"Run away? You let them run away?"
Bai Wuan narrowed his eyes.
Damn it! All the princes and nobles have run away. We’re in big trouble!
Capturing fewer prisoners and seizing fewer supplies is no big deal, but if these people run away, who knows how much trouble they will cause in the future.
Bai Wuan immediately realized the seriousness of the matter.
The larger the dynasty, the more aristocratic families there are. These families have a high prestige in the local area. If you don't take the opportunity of destroying the country to wipe them out, there will be countless troubles in the future.
Xiao Quan shook his head calmly.
"No, it was because I surrendered too early, and they all escaped at night, the very night you wrote me your reply.
If you don't believe me, General, you can ask every soldier guarding the city."
Xiao Quan was also telling the truth. He knew that the Yan army would definitely hunt down those princes and nobles. Anyway, they had already escaped, so there was no need for him to take the blame and bear the responsibility.
Bai Wuan gritted his teeth and said,
"You can't even keep an eye on your own ministers. What a useless emperor you are! Do you know how much trouble you've caused us?
That's it, don't even think about asking us to plead for you with the Emperor!"
"I know. I've said it before. I'll leave it to the general to do whatever he wants. I just hope he won't harm the people."
Bai Wuan resisted the urge to kill Xiao Quan with a sword. He knew that the whole city was watching him at this moment, and any unreasonable behavior on his part would arouse the rebellious mentality of the people of Chengdu.
He looked at Xiao Quan, put his right fist on his chest, but did not bow his head. He just gave a half military salute and then took the jade seal with both hands.
"The Great Yan Kingdom, accepting the surrender of the Emperor of the Chuan Kingdom, must treat the people of Chuan with kindness, unite the people and treat them equally, so that the people can live and work in peace and happiness and live long and healthy lives!"
Bai Wuan shouted loudly, and the soldiers behind him also shouted "Da Yan" loudly.
On the city wall, the soldiers saw that the handover ceremony was completed, so they laid down their weapons and lowered the national flag of Sichuan.
The Yan army entered the city, took over the city defense, and sent the remaining Sichuan troops into the military camp.
Xiao Quan was still sitting in his carriage, while Bai Wuan followed him on horseback.
There were many civilians kneeling on the roadside, but the Yan army did not harm them at all.
They arrived at the gate of the imperial palace, where the imperial guards surrendered and the Yan army took over the palace.
After entering the hall, Bai Wuan looked at the dragon throne with the jade seal in his hand for a long time.
Xiao Quan also looked at him and asked with a smile,
"Master Bai has never sat on the throne, right? Why don't you try it?"
Bai Wuan turned his head to look at him, then handed the jade seal in his hand to the deputy commander Huan Qi, then raised his hand and slapped Xiao Quan in the face, knocking him to the ground.
Xiao Quan's face was swollen from being beaten, and blood was oozing from the corners of his mouth.
Bai Wuan said coldly,
"You're still up to no good, aren't you? You're letting me sit on the throne with the Imperial Seal in hand, so that the Emperor can get the news and chop off my head, right?
Even Prince Lanling didn’t dare sit on the dragon throne, and you want me to sit on it?
court death?"
At this moment, Xiao Quan witnessed Bai Wuan's arrogance and tyranny.
Bai Wuan continued,
"Get up and tell Jiang Wei to surrender!"
"I sent a fast horse this morning to deliver the imperial edict, ordering him to surrender."
"What did you call yourself?"
"I...I, it's me."
"Humph!"
The soldiers escorted all the people in the harem out.
There were many concubines, palace maids, eunuchs, and princes and princesses.
There are eight princes and five princesses, and the oldest is no more than eleven years old.
A captain said,
"General, everyone in the harem is here. I just asked, because the Emperor Chuan is young and his children are young, the princes haven't set up their own residences yet and are all living in the palace."
Bai Wuan nodded and asked,
"Which one is the prince?"
The group of women and children lowered their heads and kept silent.
The captain walked over, slapped a woman on the face, and shouted,
"I'm asking you, which one is the prince?!"
"The prince left long ago!"
"Where have you been?"
The woman glanced at Xiao Quan and cried,
"Several days ago, His Majesty sent him to Nanzhong to borrow troops, and he never returned."
Bai Wuan's head buzzed again.
The prince also ran away?
He kicked Xiao Quan hard on the chest and said angrily,
"You bastard, did you do this on purpose?!
Now that the crown prince of the fallen country is in exile, all the civil and military officials in the court are away, and the aristocratic families are supporting it, all the conditions for restoring the country are in place, right?
As soon as our army leaves Chuan State and marches south to fight, you can establish another Chuan State in the blink of an eye, right?!"
Xiao Quan coughed up blood violently and fell to the ground.
Bai Wuan himself was a cruel and violent person. He pointed at Xiao Quan and said with gritted teeth,
"Don't worry, even if I stay in Sichuan for the rest of my life, I will kill all the princes, nobles, and powerful families in your country. I will also capture your crown prince alive and skin him alive!"
"Come here, take all these people away and have the imperial physician treat the Emperor Chuan's injuries. He must not die before reaching Shengjing!"
"As ordered!"
Afterwards, Bai Wuan sent people to guard the imperial palace and the capital, and to keep under surveillance the surrendered soldiers.
Then he sat down and wrote a letter to Guan Shouchang personally, explaining the current situation and the seriousness of the matter.
Please ask him to immediately send the White Horse Army to radiate out from the periphery of Chengdu to search for the escaped princes and nobles and capture them.
After all, the people had been running for two or three days and they still had carriages. His men were all infantry, so they couldn't catch up even if they wanted to. It would be better to settle Chengdu City first and get it back on track quickly.
Bai Wuan was not a lustful man. He did not touch any of the women in the palace. He locked them all up together and waited for Guan Shouchang to arrive before arranging for them to be escorted back to Shengjing.
After finishing these things, he quickly arranged people to search for gold, silver and treasures in the palace, and asked literate soldiers to look through the memorials and materials in the imperial study, to find out the useful things, organize them all and bring them back to Shengjing to hand over to the civil servants and historians.
After doing this, he ordered all soldiers not to harass the concubines and palace maids in the harem, then left the palace. He found someone nearby to go to the empty palace and live in it, using it as the temporary command center of the Yan army.
He also sent a supervision team to patrol the streets to see if the Yan army was harassing the people.
The Longxiang Army was the most disciplined army. Soldiers also took time off to go shopping, buy food, eat and drink, but there was no harassment or beating of civilians.
Seeing that the Yan army had not harmed them at all and that the benefits were no different from usual, the people of Chengdu hurriedly resumed their business and lives. Many merchants with a keen sense of smell hurriedly displayed souvenirs and other items with Sichuan characteristics and sold them to the Yan army, making a fortune.
The Yan army settled down in Chengdu, and the flag on the city wall was replaced with the Yan flag, announcing the change of ownership of Sichuan.