Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 613 Judgment
When Wei She got all the evidence submitted by Shan Tao, Wei She looked at the confession in horror. He raised his head to look at Shan Tao, the usually low-key Dali Temple Sizhi, and his voice trembled a little. .

"These, these are the ones you tried last night?"

Shan Tao crossed his hands and said: "Siqing, this was all obtained by Shan and his brothers working overtime yesterday, and all criminals signed and signed."

Wei She wanted to tear these things off on the spot, but Shan Tao's next words made Wei She give up this idea.

Shan Tao said: "The matter is of great importance, so Shan also made two rubbings and sent them to the Ministry of Punishment and Yushitai respectively."

Wei She was discouraged all of a sudden, no matter how powerful the prince is, it is impossible to control the three justices at the same time.

One must know that those mad dogs at Yushitai, how could they let go after such a confession?It is sure to turn the court upside down.

Wei She took a deep look at Shan Tao, and it took him a long time to hold back a word: "You are fine."

I don't know whether this Shan Tao has a low EQ or is pretending to be confused, but he said overjoyed: "Thank you Si Qing for your compliment!"

Wei She almost held his breath, he waved Shan Tao out, and ordered his subordinates to call some of his cronies in.

These Dali Temple priests have been busy for a whole day, and finally let the key prisoners arrested by Wang Chengwei change their mouths. The most important thing is that through a night of "teaching", Shen eunuch, the key witness, changed his statement. Proudly ready to boast to Wei She.

As soon as they entered the door, they saw that Wei She's expression was not right, and these cronies immediately quieted down.

It took Wei She a long time before he said, "Did those criminals change their words?"

A Si Zhi said with a smile: "Return to Siqing, those criminals have changed their minds, they know that they should not gnaw at random."

Wei She shook his head and said, "Tell them not to change it, and keep the confession in Wannian County."

Several cronies have been punished. Why did they suddenly change after a busy night yesterday?
Wei She threw the things presented by Wang Chengwei to the ground, and said to his subordinates, "Look for yourselves."

These directors leaned over, picked up the confession and looked at it, and their expressions immediately changed.

They are all old criminal names. These confessions can be said to be quite beautiful, and all of them have attached evidence.

These household officials and craftsmen rubbed the money fan and sold the money fan to the dignitaries in Chang'an. These are all inexcusable evidence.

Coupled with Eunuch Shen's previous confession, the entire case of privately minting fake money was connected. What if the revised confession was sent to the Ministry of Punishment?

Sweat began to drip from the foreheads of several Sizhis. Although Wei She belonged to the Eastern Palace faction, this case was jointly heard by the three courts.

The case has reached this point, and it is impossible to completely remove Donggong.

Wei She shook his head. He ordered to maintain Wang Chengwei's statement obtained in Wannian County, and then copied it to Yushitai and the Ministry of Punishment. Then Wei She simply claimed to be sick and stayed at home behind closed doors.

The Yushi Terrace in Chang'an City is like the eye of the storm in a storm, and it is extremely quiet at the moment.

The evidence sent by Shan Tao has been circulated in Yushitai, and all the young censors are filled with righteous indignation. The new money was originally created by the court to solve the money shortage in Chang'an, and there is not much opposition from the ruling and opposition parties.

But I didn't expect that all the princes, relatives, nobles and powerful ministers were thinking of casting fake money to make money!

This includes not only the crown prince and the king of Qi, but also three nobles with titles and two ministers above the third rank!
This list can be said to be shocking. The young censors didn't say a word after reading it, but just returned to their desks and began to draft impeachment memorials.

Wei Yingwu and Gu Kuang trembled after reading the list. Gu Kuang said: "When I was reading the Zizhi Tongjian, I saw that at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the nobles and relatives of various vassals and relatives cast Sui five baht privately, and the prices soared. I didn't expect such a thing to happen to me, Tang Dynasty!"

Wei Yingwu was born in a big family, so he knew something about such dirty things, but he didn't expect that the two princes of the current dynasty would participate in this case.

Wei Yingwu sighed and said: "This is still because the new money has not been issued. Many people can't get Qian Fan. If the new money is issued, there will be more than this number of people privately cast."

Gu Kuang said angrily, "I want to present the memorial!"

Memorials like snowflakes were sent to the palace and piled on top of Emperor Li Heng's imperial case.

When Li Heng saw these memorials, he felt a splitting headache. He didn't expect that a counterfeit money case would become so big.

Even King Qi was involved!

Seeing such a shocking list, Li Heng felt cold in his heart.

Luoyang is still under siege, Tongguan is still rectifying the army, and the princes behind are taking the lead in casting fake money. Li Heng has a strong self-doubt. Is it my fault that the son is not the fault of the father?
But after being angry, Li Heng sat on the dragon chair for a long time. From the perspective of the emperor, this case had to be dealt with.

If it was in peacetime, it would be fine to cover up the past, but Tongguan is only a few hundred miles away from Chang'an, and now is the time when the hearts of the army and the people are needed. If these people are not dealt with, the people will definitely be alienated from Datang.

Li Heng remembered the tragic situation when he left for Chang'an that night, he picked up the imperial pen, and quickly wrote down his opinions on how to deal with it.

In the Eastern Palace at this moment, Dou Shen was trembling.

He was the one who arranged the counterfeit money workshop, and he also went to the Quchifang workshop where the accident happened in the end.

It can be said that he created the private casting of fake money.

Since the incident happened, the prince didn't see Dou Shen's cronies, so he stayed behind closed doors in the house.

Dou Shen knew from the eunuch who served the prince that the prince had broken several expensive vases in the past few days.

The only thing that can make Dou Shen feel relieved is that six workshops were set up to mint money as soon as possible, and the money was transported to each workshop separately, so Donggong only lost one-sixth of the money.

But this is also a huge sum of money!
Dou Shen walked up and down the room in despair. This is not because he messed up with Fang Guan last time, but now he messed up in front of the prince. Is there any place for him in this Tang Dynasty?
"No! Join the army! The East Palace is besieged!"

Dou Shen was so frightened that he almost fainted. He hurriedly followed the eunuch who reported the letter to the door, and he saw a row of brightly dressed Shence soldiers surrounding the East Palace.

It's all over!
Dou Shen couldn't hold on any longer, and sat down on the ground.

At this time, the emperor's opinion on the handling of the counterfeit money case had been sent to the Zhengshitang. Without hesitation, several prime ministers quickly stamped the Zhengshitang's seal, and this imperial decree had legal effect.

Immediately afterwards, the Hanlin scholars immediately polished the imperial decree, quickly sent it to Zhongshumen to announce the decree, and copied it to various departments.

Prince Li Chu and King Qi Li Xi were not strictly controlled, and they were imprisoned in the East Palace and Prince Qi's Mansion respectively. The relevant persons involved in the case, whether they were officials of the East Palace Office or the Prince of Qi's Mansion, were all sent to the Three Jurisdictions for joint interrogation!
The other three nobles and two ministers were all suspended, and they were also transferred to the three jurisprudence departments for joint trial.

For this result, the whole court expected it, but the following sacred order surprised people.

The emperor decreed to merge the Donggong guard rate into the Shence Army, completely stripping the military power of Donggong.

But King Qi disqualified him from opening a mansion and building teeth, and merged King Qi's guards into the Shence Army.

At the same time, all the officials of the Eastern Palace, including Zhan Shi, were relegated from Beijing. Even Cui Huan, who was the prime minister, was fined by the emperor for half a year because he concurrently held the position of a prince's junior teacher.

At this time, the ministers suddenly discovered that the prince who still has military power in his hands is only the king of Yue left!

Even the emperor ordered the clan minister Li Lin to directly take over the power of appointing officials in the East Palace, which completely emptied the power of the East Palace.

Is this going to be stored easily?
The direction of the wind in the court changed accordingly!
But before anything could be done, the results of the interrogation of the officials from the East Palace and Prince Qi's Palace by the Sanfa Division came out.

Dou Shen, who joined the army in the East Palace, minted fake money under the guise of the prince's name, and was sentenced to exile for three thousand miles, Changliu Lingnan Bao'an County.

The Prince of Qi's Mansion also confessed to a steward of the Prince of Qi's Mansion, who also traveled three thousand miles, Changliu Lingnan Bao'an County.

At the same time, Jing Zhaoyin was also under the confession of these two people, which led to the destruction of three privately minted counterfeit money workshops by Jing Zhaofu, and seized tens of millions of Kaiyuan Tongbao that had not yet been minted, as well as millions of newly minted counterfeit money. .

And the most unlucky thing this time is the Ministry of Household Affairs. From Shangshu to Shilang, to Duzhilang Zhuqian Ambassador Wuqi, they were all fined for half a year because of the lack of strict control, which led to the leakage of Qian Fan.

As for the meritorious personnel this time, Wang Chengwei was promoted from Wannian County Chancellor to Wannian County Magistrate. Although his official position was only promoted by half a rank, becoming the chief official of one party meant that he had truly become the official master of Wannian County.

The meritorious director of Dali Temple, Shan Tao, was promoted to the magistrate of Dali Temple. Although Wei She, the minister of Dali Temple, hated him deeply, it was an order from the court, and Wei She could only endure his disgust and praise Shan Tao.

However, when assigning work, Wei She also deliberately handed over the most troublesome part of the review of the death penalty to Shan Tao.

This work often requires going out of Beijing, and most people are unwilling to do it, so it happens to be handed over to Shan Tao.

After some actions, the East Palace and Prince Qi's Mansion still lifted the blockade. In the backyard of Liu, Zhang Leyan sighed and said:

"It seems that the emperor doesn't want to abolish the crown prince."

Shang Bo nodded and said: "Isn't this natural? If you really want to abolish the prince, you will also encounter the prince's counterattack. Now that Luoyang is still under siege, the Tang Dynasty cannot withstand civil strife."

Zhang Leyan sighed and said, "It's a pity such a good opportunity, and that fellow Dou Shen was only sentenced to exile."

Shang Bo said: "Sentencing Dou Shen to exile is to save face for the crown prince and a warning to the ministers, that's all."

Zhang Leyan sighed: "It's a pity such a good opportunity."

Shang Bo said with a smile: "If it weren't for the situation, this matter would not have been handled in this way. I'm afraid it will be put down when there is a lot of thunder and rain. It is precisely because the false Yan besieged Luoyang that the court wanted to give the people an explanation. The investigation involves such a wide range of cases, otherwise such a case would at best end with a few small officials to take the blame."

Zhou Shi sighed and said, "The law of the Tang Dynasty is like paper to wipe your ass. Such serious crimes can also be commuted at will? And Dou Shen, a small Donggong, can have so much money to join the army?"

Shang Bo was much more optimistic than the two. He said: "We can see it, but can't the soldiers and civilians in the world see it? And this time the Eastern Palace has been deprived of military power, which is already a great victory. Look, the task reward is here!"

(End of this chapter)