Prince of Tang Dynasty

Chapter 141 Make waves again
With the support of the crown prince Gao Ming, Li Goudan's protection fee has been extremely high, and now he is quite well-known on Chang'an Avenue, even if he is wearing casual clothes, it is easy to walk on the street If someone recognizes him, the other party will respectfully call him "Master Li".

This feeling of being respected made Li Goudan feel very comfortable.

"This is really a good job!"

It was not the first time he said this sentence, and often when he said this sentence, it was when he had just given the order to beat someone up.

Under Li Goudan's "high pressure", the gangsters in Chang'an City have now restrained a lot, and basically dare not cause any trouble anymore. There are still many gangsters who can't hang out in Chang'an City, so they ran away Jingzhao Mansion, tens of kilometers away from Chang'an City.

As a result, the city of Chang'an suddenly became much calmer.

However, such a peaceful day only lasted less than half a month and ended, because a major event happened-Li Goudan beat someone to death!

The person who was beaten to death was called Wu De, and he was just a very ordinary little ruffian. He belonged to the kind of ordinary character who couldn't be found in the crowd, but what was suspicious was that the timing of his appearance was very problematic!
As we all know, this time was when Li Goudan was in the limelight, and many local ruffians avoided him one after another, but this Wu De happened to fall into Li Goudan's hands, and was beaten half to death.

The soldiers of the Hundred Cavalry Guard who beat people, and Li Goudan who gave the order, everything is the same as before, there is no difference, even Zhou De's bruise after being beaten is different from the previous one. Those punks are not much different.

But the result was completely different, because Zhou De died not long after returning home, and Wu Zuo also judged that he was beaten to death!

Although the person who died was just an ordinary gangster, according to the laws of the Tang Dynasty, a person like Zhou De could only be dragged into the yamen and beaten with a dozen sticks at most, and then thrown into a prison for ten days and a half months before being released. , for he is not worthy of death.

But such a person who was not worthy of death was beaten to death by Li Goudan!

If Zhou De had died in other places, I am afraid it would not have had much impact, but he died in Chang'an, at the feet of the emperor, so the matter became serious.

On the night of Zhou De's death, the Criminal Ministry sent people to Li Godan's house to take him away, and interrogated him overnight. So when Li Shimin went to court the next morning, the Minister of Criminal Justice sent Li Goudan's The confession was presented in front of Li Shimin.

"Your Majesty, I have impeached His Highness the Crown Prince for allowing his subordinates to beat people to death in the street. This is the confession of Li Goudan, a member of Zhongshushe. Your Majesty please read it!"

"Liu Bing, bring it up!"

"Yes!"

After Liu Bing brought up Li Goudan's confession, Li Shimin began to read it carefully, but as the reading deepened, a hint of anger appeared on Li Shimin's face.

"Liu Bing, go to the East Palace and find the prince for me!"

"Yes!"

Liu Bing knew that Li Shimin was in a hurry at the moment, so after receiving the order, he trotted towards the East Palace.

At this time, Gao Ming was leading Su Wan'er and others to do radio gymnastics.

"One two three four, two two three four, three two three four, one more time, one two three four..."

When they were working hard, Liu Bing stumbled in and ran in, shouting while running,

"It's not good... huh... His Royal Highness is not good..."

Seeing him running out of breath, Gao Ming couldn't help but smile at him.

"Haha, the prince is fine, that's all, don't worry, sit down and talk slowly!"

As soon as Gao Ming finished speaking, Liu Bing shook his head.

"No... no, it's too late, His Royal Highness, something serious happened!"

Then, Liu Bing told Gao Ming everything he knew, and Gao Ming frowned immediately after listening to his words.

"You said Li Goudan killed someone?"

Having said that, Gao Ming shook his head immediately.

"Impossible, that guy Li Goudan is smart, he can't make such a mistake, and as an official of the fifth rank, he is also a member of Zhongshushe in my East Palace. There is no reason for the criminal department to arrest people without telling me, there is something wrong with this!"

Hearing Gao Ming's words, Liu Bing also reacted.

"What does the prince mean, someone deliberately wants to deal with him?"

As soon as Liu Bing finished speaking, Gao Ming smiled and shook his head again.

"No, you think highly of him. What is there to deal with as a small Zhongshusheren? The other party's goal is probably me!"

Hearing Gao Ming's words, Liu Bing's eyes widened immediately, and then he took a deep breath.

"Hiss... to deal with you, Your Highness..."

Seeing Liu Bing's shocked look, Gao Ming smiled again and patted him on the shoulder.

"But it's too early to draw conclusions. Since my old man asked you to call me, let's go there. When we get to the court, we will understand what we should understand, and even if someone wants to deal with me, who will die?" It’s still unknown, hahahaha!”

Gao Ming laughed and walked outside, looking at Gao Ming's back, Liu Bing also showed a smile on his face.

"As expected of His Royal Highness, just like His Majesty 15 years ago..."

Liu Bing still remembers how Li Shimin laughed like this when he left Qin Palace with his troops just before the Xuanwu Gate Incident. At this time, Gao Ming's back seemed to overlap with Li Shimin's 15 years ago.

Thinking of this, Liu Bing suddenly muttered to himself.

"I'm afraid I'm going to bleed again..."

When Gao Ming's back disappeared out of the yard, Liu Bing came back to his senses. He quickly saluted Su Wan'er, and then trotted to chase Gao Ming.

After a stick of incense, Gao Ming and Liu Bing came to the entrance of the main hall of the court hall. Facing everyone's surprised eyes, Gao Ming walked in with a smile on his face, stood in the center of the main hall, and then bowed his hands towards Li Shimin. A salute.

"My son has seen his father!"

Seeing Gao Ming arrived, Li Shimin nodded immediately, and then handed the confession to Liu Bing.

"Take it to the prince to see."

"Yes!"

After Liu Bing took the confession of Li Goudan from Li Shimin's hands, he carefully held it in front of Gao Ming and handed it to Gao Ming.

"His Royal Highness!"

"Well, thanks!"

Gao Ming nodded, picked up the white paper full of confessions, and looked at it calmly.

Although Gao Ming is not very good at writing traditional characters, it is not a big problem to understand them. In less than a cup of tea, Gao Ming read the entire confession.
The moment he read the confession, he burst out laughing.

"You actually said that I encouraged Li Goudan to kill people in the street? Haha, interesting, very interesting...so interesting, hahahaha..."

While laughing, Gao Ming tore up the confession in his hand and threw it away.

"This joke is very funny, and it successfully amused the prince. Who made it? Come out, and I will give you a few pennies as a reward."

As he said that, Gao Ming took out his money bag from his pocket, as if he really planned to use the money to reward him.

Seeing this scene, Shangshu Xingbu immediately stood up.

"His Royal Highness tore up the prisoner's confession, is it because of a guilty conscience?"

Hearing the other party's words, Gao Ming stopped laughing immediately, and then turned to look at him.

"Prisoner? Who is the prisoner?"

"Naturally, it is the prince's close minister, Li Goudan, a former member of Zhongshushe!"

Speaking of this, Shangshuhe of the Ministry of Justice snorted coldly, then turned his head to stare at Gao Ming.

"A few days ago, His Highness the Crown Prince asked this person to plunder people's wealth in Chang'an City. If he didn't follow suit, he would fight with him. Now that he killed someone, what else can His Highness the Crown Prince say?"

At this time, the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment spoke in a righteous and strict manner. As soon as his voice fell, the surrounding ministers immediately began to discuss.

"Is this true?"

"It's really shocking that this happened."

"It's, it's..."

Just when everyone was discussing, Gao Ming laughed again.

"Hahahaha, good, very good, your story is very good, by the way, I remember your surname is Zheng, right?"

Hearing Gao Ming's words, Shangshu of the Ministry of Justice immediately raised his chin.

"That's right, the name of the official is Zheng Yunyin. His Royal Highness asked the name of the official. Could it be that he intends to take revenge on the official?"

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a sound of breathing all around, and Gao Ming also showed a look of horror.

"Oh my, Mr. Zheng, don't get me wrong. I just want to know how to call you by your surname. I don't dare to retaliate against you. Otherwise, if you kill someone casually like you did with Li Goudan, you will arrest me in the middle of the night. The Ministry of Punishment, I have been tortured to make a confession, so I have to die unjustly?"

Having said this, Gao Ming shook his head with lingering fear.

"At any rate, Li Goudan is also an official of the fifth rank. If you want to arrest someone, even if you don't get the approval of the Holy Spirit, you must at least get the approval of the Ministry of Education. Then I would like to ask Mr. Changsun Wuji, Minister of the Ministry of Justice Before Mr. Zheng arrested him, did he obtain the consent of the Ministry of Education?"

Hearing Gao Ming's question, Changsun Wuji immediately smiled at Gao Ming.

"His Royal Highness, you may have misremembered. According to the laws of the Tang Dynasty, the Ministry of Punishment does not need the consent of the Ministry of Education to arrest people, and the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment is an official of the third rank. Even an official of the fifth rank is eligible to arrest. As long as the court Just report to His Majesty."

Changsun Wuji's words were not vicious, he basically put Zheng Yunyin on the opposite side of civil and military officials, just imagine, how many officials of the third rank can there be in the entire court?

Zheng Yunyin was not a fool either, and immediately pointed at Changsun Wuji with wide eyes.

"Mr. Zhao, you..."

Before Zheng Yunyin finished speaking, Gao Ming suddenly interrupted him with a look of horror.

"Oh, I misremembered it, everyone heard what I said just now, Mr. Zheng can arrest whoever he wants? I dare not offend you, even civil and military officials in the court dare not offend you."

Hearing Gao Ming's words, the ministers on both sides of the court became more noisy, but this time the object was not Gao Ming, but Zheng Yunyin.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Zheng Yunyin suddenly became a little anxious, and his eyes immediately wandered to Li Tai who was not far away from him.

And at the moment when Zheng Yunyin's eyes drifted away, Gao Ming just caught it!
"It was him!"

Seeing that familiar figure, Gao Ming narrowed his eyes immediately.

(End of this chapter)