Great Tang Dynasty

Chapter 606
Early morning again.

Early in the morning, neither Qin Tian nor Wei Zheng mentioned anything about taking action against the monastery.

Many officials in the DPRK feel that this matter may just be left as it is.

After all, moving the monastery involves too many aspects. If Li Shimin is not courageous enough, he really dare not do it, not to mention there are still people who oppose it.

But when everyone was thinking like this, Wei Zheng suddenly stood up.

"My lord, I want to impeach you."

Seeing that Wei Zheng stood up and said that he wanted to impeach him, all the court officials shrank their necks and trembled all over.

The impeachment of Wei Zheng can be said to be the most frightening thing in the court, because he might turn the finger on himself at any time.

Li Shimin was very relaxed at this moment. He glanced at Wei Zheng and said, "Oh, what is Wei Aiqing going to impeach?"

"Your Majesty, I want to impeach Huang Dayu. Your Majesty Huang received money from Monk Kongming of the Great Buddha Temple, which is about a thousand coins. This is evidence. Your Majesty, please have a look!"

When Wei Zheng said this, everyone was taken aback for a moment, and then they realized that it wasn't that Qin Tian and Wei Zheng gave up on the temple, but that they were looking for opportunities these days.

Now, they've clearly found their moment.

After the evidence was submitted, Li Shimin stared at Huang Dayu after a brief glance. Huang Dayu was sweating on his forehead, and quickly retorted: "My lord, the frame-up, this is all frame-up by Mr. Wei. The minister is innocent, and he has a clean hand. The theory of taking bribes..."

Huang Dayu quibbled below, Li Shimin snorted: "The evidence is solid, you still want to deny it?"

After speaking, Li Shimin ordered again: "Come here, go and bring all those stolen goods to me."

As soon as the order was given, a guard ran out immediately, and after a short while, a large box was carried into the main hall. After opening, it was full of copper coins.

After seeing the box, Huang Dayu suddenly slumped down on the ground.

"My lord, spare me, spare my life, minister... I was also confused for a moment..."

Huang Dayu kept begging for mercy, Li Shimin snorted: "I think it's strange, before I took action against the Great Buddha Temple, no one stood up, but suddenly someone stood up, and after checking, I found out that someone took over the Great Buddha Temple. Good thing."

Li Shimin didn't give his name or surname when he said this, but those people who stood up to speak for the Great Buddha Temple before were trembling all over, for fear that Li Shimin would call them all out.

They are not clean after all.

Everyone was terrified and terrified. Huang Dayu was still begging for mercy. Li Shimin glared at him and said, "I think it's your first crime, and I don't want your life, nor demote your official position."

When these words came out, Huang Dayu was stunned for a moment, then burst into tears of joy, and quickly kowtowed to Li Shimin, but at this time, Li Shimin added another sentence: "However, the crime of living is inevitable, this box of money..."

"Confiscation, all confiscation..." At this time, Huang Dayu took the initiative to confiscate the money, and Li Shimin snorted: "Of course it must be confiscated, but I want you to take this box of money and walk around Zhuque Street. The people of the Tang Dynasty will all see how you are greedy for ink."

As soon as the words fell, Huang Dayu's face turned pale and purple. He was an official of the imperial court after all, and his official position was not small. Is it really okay to let him make a fool of himself like this?
The other officials in the DPRK were also afraid for a while. If they were to do the same, they would really have no face to live on.

This is a shameful humiliation. As a man of Datang, how can he endure such humiliation?

Huang Dayu felt unwilling, but in the face of this situation, he had no other way. If he didn't do this, he might lose his official position and his life.

Compared with life, what is face?
He can only answer.

At the same time, Li Shimin ordered: "Take people to arrest Kong Ming, and behead him immediately at the gate of the vegetable market."

Those who take the initiative to bribe will be severely punished. When the officials heard this, their hearts trembled again. This...is too harsh.
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Big Buddha Temple.

Kong Ming has been meditating in the Great Buddha Temple all the time, and he never seems to feel that danger will suddenly befall him.

He was just a monk, so what danger would there be, not to mention that he was surrounded by a pure-hearted abbot.

But when he was thinking this way, a group of guards rushed into the Great Buddha Temple.

"What... are you going to do?" Kong Ming looked at the guards, a little angry, the court officials had already collected their money, didn't they settle the matter yet?
Could it be that someone really wants to move the Great Buddha Temple?
He had a feeling that the money was fed to the dog, and it was someone else's dog.

However, when he asked angrily, a guard had already stepped forward and grabbed him, saying: "Someone reported that you bribed Huang Dayu with a thousand guan, the Holy Majesty ordered that you beheaded, let's go."

Hearing the word beheading, Kong Ming suddenly had an illusion, why did he beheaded all of a sudden, is giving money a capital offense?

Before that, he had always felt that offering bribes was not a crime at all, but why did he suddenly want to behead him?

He couldn't accept this fact.

Immediately afterwards, he was suddenly scared to pee.

In all these years in the Great Buddha Temple, he has never encountered such a thing.

"Host, help..."

Kong Ming shouted loudly, but Qing Xin didn't come out, several guards dragged Kong Ming out of the Great Buddha Temple, and when they were rushing towards Caishikou, they passed Zhuque Street.

At this time, Huang Dayu was walking on the street with difficulty pulling a box of copper coins, surrounded by many people who were pointing and talking about Huang Dayu.

"I heard that he was the one who took bribes. Oh, I didn't expect that."

"I didn't expect His Majesty to punish him like this. It's really... shameful."

"Who says it's not? From now on, the three characters of Huang Dayu will be remembered for thousands of years..."

The common people were discussing and humiliating recklessly, Huang Dayu now wished he could find a mouse hole to get in, he was really ashamed to be a human being in this life.

Whoever came up with the method really makes people unable to survive or die.

Kong Ming was being escorted, and when he saw Huang Dayu, he suddenly shouted: "Master Huang, save me..."

Huang Dayu was pulling the box, when he looked up and saw Kong Ming, he suddenly burst into anger, without saying a word, he put down the box and kicked Kong Ming.

"Save you, I owe it to you to be here today..."

Huang Dayu was cursing on Zhuque Street, he already lost face anyway, and now he let go, and used all the vicious words he could think of on Kong Ming.

In this way, when the two of them were almost yelling at each other, the guard finally took Kong Ming to the vegetable market, went straight down and chopped off his head.

The onlookers were shocked when they saw this scene.

"In the future, please, please, don't pay bribes. Bribery means death..."

(End of this chapter)