The fox minister in the late Tang Dynasty

Chapter 195

".What are these people looking at? Haven't you heard the allusion of pleading guilty? I have no experience."

Zhang Huaiyi has a strong upper body, with a bundle of firewood on his back, and the skin of his diaphragm is tingling. He glanced at the guards and eunuchs around him, muttering, and walked up the stone steps of Wenzhao Hall step by step. He lowered his head and raised his hand. Half kneel down.

"Minister Zhang Huaiyi apologizes to His Majesty!"

The door of the palace was closed tightly and there was no response. After a while, an eunuch came out from the side, bowed to his side and said in a low voice, "Your Majesty is in the study, and all the servants come with you."

Zhang Huaiyi nodded, still carefully looked around, then got up and followed the smiling eunuch to the side hall, turning around the eaves of the corridor is where the study is.

When he entered, the emperor Li Ye was writing something at his desk, and after hearing the words "Chen Zhang Huaiyi pays homage to His Majesty." After a while, he raised his gaze from behind the desk, put down his imperial pen, stood up slowly, and let out a cold snort .

"Zhang Dutong is so powerful. Without a sacred order, he led his troops away from the capital without authorization. If he didn't know, he would think that I have a wronged minister."

"I also ask Your Majesty to forgive the crime. I know that I am guilty, but there are reasons for it."

The door of the study room is open, and the guards and eunuchs outside can hear the monarch and ministers talking.Li Ye glanced outside the study room, walked out of the dragon case with his hands behind his back, stood behind Zhang Huaiyi who was kneeling at the side, and nodded slightly: "Then I will listen to your defense."

"Yes."

On the side, Zhang Huaiyi lowered his head and cupped his fists towards the dragon case, "It was an accident that I led the troops out of the camp late at night the day before yesterday, but Qin Shilang suddenly visited and said that he saw with his own eyes a group of thieves abducting a mother and child in the street in Dongshi, and they chased them to no avail. I had no choice but to come to the minister's mansion for help."

The emperor frowned, what a bad reason.

"Abducting a mother and child in the street, he can go to the Yamen for this matter."

"Curfew in the middle of the night, the yamen is closed."

These words made Li Ye stunned. He didn't expect to be prevaricated by such words. He took a deep breath and suppressed his emotions, "Okay, let me ask you, it's the woman from the He family, what happened to the bandit after that?" Is it? Do you need to go out of the city overnight and lead troops to pursue it?!"

"Your Majesty, the woman is the sister-in-law of my brother, and she has been in contact with her in the past. Your Majesty knows that I have always been loyal, so why not go to save her? However, I know that I have committed a serious crime. After saving the woman, I came over to ask Your Majesty." Take the thorn and plead guilty."

"Since you pleaded guilty, let's punish you." Li Ye didn't hesitate, and shouted out of the study: "Come here, Zhang Huaiyi, the commander of the Northern Camp, led his troops out of the camp without permission. I will drag him down and chop him up."

Zhang Huaiyi's eyes widened, why is it different from what he thought?

Turning around hastily, seeing the guards in the palace come in, he knelt down again: "Your Majesty, I should not be alone if I am guilty, and Qin Shilang should also be punished. Who told him to know my loyalty and came to look for me? When the son met, the blood rushed to the head, and he fell on it without even thinking about it, I really can't blame it all on the minister."

Humph.
Li Ye hummed softly, quite satisfied with his expression at the moment, waved his wide sleeves, and told the guards at the door to go back, and immediately walked past Zhang Huaiyi and walked back to the desk.

"It's full of nonsense, it's best to tell the whole story honestly."

Zhang Huaiyi is in trouble, this is how things are, except for pressing the robber's name, he has already said what needs to be said just now.

Right now, he bit the bullet and said: "Your Majesty, what I just said is really everything."

"Okay then, let me ask you." Li Ye picked up the brush and continued to write, "Aside from you and Qin Huaimian, who else would dare to testify for you?"

"Yes, King Dongping was also there. At that time, he was not far from Tongguan. He happened to run into this group of robbers. He thought that the enemy was attacking the camp, so he killed them. When the minister led his troops, they were already corpses. If Your Majesty doesn't believe it, you can ask the general guarding Tongguan that day, and I even greeted him."

Li Ye raised his eyes, a little surprised: "Why is he there?"

"I don't know about this. I met him there anyway, and asked King Dongping for a drink, hehe, and then I came back."

The light flickered slightly, and Li Ye, who was sitting behind the desk, frowned even more. He put down his brush again and stood up, attracting a guard to say something in a low voice. After the guard left, he raised his hand to make Zhang Huaiyi speak.

"How many soldiers and horses did he bring?"

"This minister didn't look too much, but he looked at the camp, at most one or two thousand riders." At that time, the opponent had so many people, Zhang Huaiyi really didn't need to lie on this point, after all, if he really met, he knew that he was talking nonsense. Definitely be held accountable.

"I'm afraid it's to explore the reality of Tongguan Pass." The emperor stared at the candlelight and murmured.

Immediately, he suppressed the words and spoke again: "What else? How is the woman and child now?"

"There's nothing else going on. The woman and the child are doing well, and they're coming back in a carriage with my brother. It's just that I've received some shocks, and I'll probably return to Chang'an in a day or two."

Hearing what he said up to this point, Li Ye felt dizzy for a while, why couldn't he finish speaking in one breath?Toad, poke and jump!
Unable to hold back his suppressed anger, he yelled at Zhang Huaiyi: "Speak to me once and for all!"

Zhang Huaiyi was taken aback, plopped down on his knees again, and squeezed out a smile stiffly.

"Just now I said I forgot, the woman is my brother's sister-in-law, so naturally they came back together."

He paused for a moment, and then said: "By the way, my brother is called Geng Qing, he can speak well, has a good character, and is very good at doing things. When the late emperor was still alive, he used to be a doctor of the Ministry of punishment and a minister of the Ministry of punishment, but he didn't sit for long. His father passed away and went back to Feihu County to observe his filial piety, three years have passed in a flash, and he just came back to Chang'an, why don't you let him go back to court?"

"Geng Qing? I'm a little familiar with this name." The emperor over there stood in the light and shadow with his hands behind his back, without any expression on his face, "Zhang Dutong is in a hurry to recommend his brother before he is freed from the crime? Hehe , As expected, he was righteous."

"Hehe, Your Majesty thinks so too?"

Li Ye didn't even look at him, he raised his sleeve and snorted coldly, "Get out!"

Over there, Zhang Huaiyi shrank back, quickly got up from the ground, ran to the door, and was stopped by the emperor again.

"When that Geng Qing comes back, you tell him to come and see me in the morning."

"Thank you, Your Majesty! Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Zhang Huaiyi bowed and bowed excitedly, got the reply, let go of his feet and ran out. The man who was staggered with him was a very burly and tall man. People also fell to the ground.

"You don't have eyes when you walk!" He got up from the ground and cursed. Seeing the person in front of him, he was stunned for a moment, but the person didn't get angry, and raised his hands and fisted: "So it's Zhang Dutong."

Zhang Huaiyi gave a "cut" in his mouth, returned the gift, turned around and left, as for the burly man, he looked at his back, then at the firewood scattered on the ground, and stepped on it.

Walking up Wenzhao Hall, followed the waiting eunuchs to the study room of the side hall, and met the emperor inside, Li Ye sat behind the dragon table and fell into thoughts, and only raised his eyes when the big man came in.

"Shunjie, I want to ask you to do something."

The man below raised his thick beard and broad face, clasped his fists heavily, and said with a solemn expression, "Your Majesty, please make an order."

His original name was Hu Hongli, one of the adopted sons of Privy Envoy Yang Fugong, and he changed his name to Yang Shouli. He was brave and unstoppable, but his temperament was completely different from his heroic appearance. He was cold and cruel, and everyone in the Shence Army feared him. Win over to the side, give the surname: Li, name Shunjie.

"I think it's a bit strange that Zhang Huaiyi led the troops to Tongguan to chase the thieves just now. He ran into Zhu Wen on the way. Although he smiled like a fool, I didn't dare to treat him as a fool. You go to the Criminal Department and call the Tu Right and wrong, the two of you are working together to investigate this matter. Also, Cui Xiang has not been to the court for a long time, and the stewards of the mansion don't know where he has gone. When these two things come together, I don't investigate clearly. I really feel uncomfortable. "

When he said this, he paused.

"There is another one named Geng Qing. Don't touch him. After everything is found out, I will deal with it myself. Don't mess around. After this matter is over, I will make you the General of the Sixteenth Guards, as well as all the soldiers. make."

Li Shunjie pursed his lips and clasped his fists heavily, "I will never disgrace the holy order!"

"Go down and prepare, I will wait for the general to reply in the palace!"

After talking with the other party for a while, he was asked to go out of the palace to the Ministry of Criminal Justice to find Tu Shifei. Li Ye stood at the door of the study, looking at the back of leaving, with a strange expression on his face from beginning to end, and even the waiters around him liked to figure out Even a thoughtful eunuch can hardly figure out what the emperor is thinking.

Not long after, a group of soldiers and horses mixed with arresters stayed in the city for two days and came out from Chunming Gate. At the same time, in the afternoon of the same day, the carriages returning from the direction of Tongguan drove quietly into the city.

Walk through the courtyard where I used to live.

　I came a little late today, and Chunfeng needed to consult a lot of information, especially the official position.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)