Jia Su
On December 17, the head of Li Xun (who had already been killed by this point), Wang Ya, Wang Fan, Luo, Guo, Li Xiaoben, and Wang Ya's fellow chancellors Jia Su and Shu Yuanyu, were paraded by the Shence Army soldiers to the imperial temples and altar, and then they were taken under a tree and executed by being cut in half at the waist. Their families were also massacred. It was said that because the people particularly resented Wang Ya for raising tea taxes, they cursed and threw rocks or brick fragments at him as he was paraded. Their bodies were exposed to the elements. In spring 836, the senior official Linghu Chu requested that their bodies be buried, and Emperor Wenzong ordered such burial. However, Qiu had the tombs then opened up and threw their bodies into the Wei River. The Shence Army soldiers pillaged these executed officials' mansions for wealth, and it was said that, because Wang was so wealthy such that even though the soldiers and other looters looted his mansion for days, there were still valuables left. In particular, it was said that Wang held a large collection of valuable calligraphic works and paintings — which he had amassed by purchases and by giving their prior owners offices — and that while the looters took the jewels studded on the rolls or jade used for the rolls, they left the artwork.