Great Tang Dynasty

Chapter 1576
Just after Li Chengqian imprisoned people like Zhao Bao and Han Lao, Changsun Wuji sent someone to spread the news.

When disseminating, he also tried his best to praise Li Chengqian.

Immediately, the people in Chang'an City knew about these things.

After they knew about it, their evaluation of Prince Li Chengqian was naturally not good.

"Okay, it's really great. His Royal Highness is willing to punish corrupt officials and be the master for our people. He is really a good prince."

"Who says it's not? In the future, when the Tang Dynasty is handed over to His Royal Highness, our life will definitely be easier."

"That's right, those corrupt officials should be dealt with properly. His Royal Highness has done a very good job."

"That's right, that's right, we all support His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

"........."

Because of Zhang Yuan's affairs, the common people already had a good impression of Li Chengqian, and now that the incident of punishing corrupt officials happened, the common people's trust in Li Chengqian was even higher.

In addition to trust, everyone also advocated that Li Chengqian did a good job in these two things.

When Li Chengqian heard the news in the East Palace, he was a little proud.

These things can be said to have helped him win the hearts of the people.

With these people's hearts, it is tantamount to building momentum for his future enthronement.

However, when Li Chengqian was proud, Changsun Wuji also smiled slightly.

Now, he used these remarks to build momentum, and raised Li Chengqian very high. After being so high, he wanted to jump down, but it was not easy.

Facing the next storm, Li Chengqian could only continue, he had no choice but to destroy everything he had worked so hard to get, but would he be willing?
He valued the hearts of the people, so he would try to destroy the hearts of the people.

Han Lao and others were greedy for ink, because the number of people involved was relatively large, and they had to be severely punished. Some had to be beheaded directly, some had to be dismissed from office, and they had to be exiled and so on.

And just after Li Chengqian dealt with and punished these five people one by one, there was a sudden storm in the court.

This morning, a spokesperson stood up and said: "His Royal Highness, Han Lao is greedy for ink and accepts bribes. He not only colluded with Zhao Bao of Shanyang County, but ten officials in Chang'an City had such bribes with him. Going back and forth, outside Chang'an, there are officials from [-] places colluding with Han Lao, their situation is similar to that of Zhao Bao, they deserve death."

After the official finished speaking, there was an uproar in the hall.

One person's corruption of ink actually involved more than 30 people, this is considered a very serious matter in their Tang Dynasty, right?
After all, the ink corruption case involving so many people is the first time they have appeared in the Tang Dynasty for so many years.

However, when everyone was shocked, another spokesperson also stood up.

"Your Majesty, apart from Han Lao, several other officials related to the Zhao Bao case also have connections with them and are corrupted by ink. Here is the list compiled by the minister and the evidence of their corruption and bribery. Please check it out, Your Highness the Crown Prince. .”

When the spokesperson submitted the list, he also mentioned some of the officials involved.

The court officials listened, and their eyes became a little dignified. There are too many people involved in this list, there are more than a hundred people.

There are more than [-] officials from other places, and more than [-] officials from the capital city. The positions of these officials are not very high, but their existence is very meaningful.

But these people are all related to the Zhao Bao case. It is really shocking that so many people were involved all at once.

I'm afraid that such a major case never occurred in the Sui Dynasty, but it is really unimaginable that such a case occurred when Prince Li Chengqian was in charge of the country.

The officials looked at each other and chatted, some were nervous, some were indignant, and some were silent.

This case is destined to cause some turmoil and uneasiness in the entire Tang Dynasty.

Tang Jian stood in the main hall with serious eyes. Now many people are shocked by this big case, but he is wondering why this big case happened, why did it happen at this time?
Is someone deliberately trying to punish Prince Li Chengqian?
This is obviously the case, but who is behind it?

Discussion, discussion, noisy, noisy.

After reading the list, Li Chengqian couldn't help but shudder. He was deeply immersed in it, and naturally he quickly noticed the difference. If it was just Han Lao, the five capital officials, it would be nothing if he chopped and killed them.

But with so many officials involved all at once, where does he still have such courage?
He was a little disturbed, not only the difficulty of this matter, but also the suddenness of this matter.

Li Chengqian, who should have been angry when he saw so many people greedy for ink, just had a gloomy face in the hall.

Above the main hall, there are various forms.

However, Li Chengqian was not in a hurry to speak. It was not until these people had said the same thing that Li Chengqian finally spoke, saying: "I didn't expect so many people to be involved in this case. It's really a bit unexpected. I ordered the Ministry of Criminal Justice to cooperate with Dali Temple to conduct a thorough investigation." For all those involved in the case, if the matter is true, the Crown Prince will never tolerate it."

There were a lot of people involved in the case. Letting go of these people without even investigating Li Chengqian would make people feel too cowardly. The image he had established before would no longer exist.

So it should be investigated, and it still needs to be investigated. As for the result, we will wait for the result to come out.

After Li Chengqian gave such orders, the people from the Ministry of Punishment and Dali Temple took orders immediately.

After that, Li Chengqian didn't say anything else, and waved his hands back.

Not long after returning to the imperial study, Tang Jian, who was secretly intercepted by someone he sent, rushed over in a hurry.

"Master Tang, this ink corruption case is completely out of control, what should we do?"

Tang Jian's expression was also dignified. When he came, he had already guessed the reason why Li Chengqian stopped him from coming here.

"Yeah, so many people are involved at once, it's not right to do it, and it's not good to not do it."

When it comes to not doing it, Tang Jian raised his head and glanced at Li Chengqian. At the beginning, Li Chengqian insisted on punishing those people for the sake of reputation and popular support, but now he is being lifted up by the people. The current situation is probably not easy to handle. right?
"The most important thing is that when the Holy Majesty was here, he didn't find out about this corruption of ink, but the crown prince supervised the country, but he found out. Does this mean that the Holy Majesty is incompetent and can't see these things about Datang?"

After saying these words, Li Chengqian suddenly felt a chill.

His father wanted to become an emperor for the day, but this kind of thing happened. Isn't this a slap in the face?
He is still just a prince, his father can abolish the prince at any time, if he slaps his father in the face like this, is his position as prince still safe?

Things are more serious than he imagined.

(End of this chapter)