I directed the Xuanwumen Incident

Chapter 546 The emperor has nothing to do to teach death row criminals?
Just at this moment, there was a voice from outside.

"Report to Your Majesty, Murong Lin, the envoy of Tuyuhun, brought it here."

"Tell him to come in!" Li Shimin said in a deep voice.

In an instant, a middle-aged man wearing a fancy dress with obvious plateau features walked into the political affairs hall.

"Murong Lin, envoy of Tuyuhun, see His Majesty Tian Khan."

"May Your Majesty remain young forever and live forever."

Murong Lin clasped his palms together, and performed a salute unique to Tuyuhun.

"Get up."

Li Shimin said displeasedly,

"Murong Lin, I have something to ask you."

"You said that you came to pay tribute with the sincerity of your lord Murong Fuyun, and I will naturally accept it."

"But why is your Tuyuhun army invading Liangzhou in Tang Dynasty when you paid tribute and proclaimed your vassal?"

"Is being Datang easy to bully?"

"Let me tell you, the grass on the grave of the last Turk who was so obedient and vicious was already three meters high! Now the Turkic Jieli Khan is still dancing in Chang'an! Why, Murong Fuyun is also very good at dancing, and wants to come to Chang'an to dance too?"

What stands out in these words is a domineering attitude, showing Tian Khan's intimidation to the fullest!

When Murong Lin heard this, he was shocked.

"It's... impossible, right?"

He looked a little apprehensive, and said,

"Your Majesty Tian Khan, maybe there is some misunderstanding here?"

"Our lord respects you from the bottom of his heart. How could he do such a thing?"

"I thought, could it be a mistake? It's not my soldiers from Tuyuhun, but some other rogues?"

Li Shimin frowned.

"Why, you still refuse to admit that you have done something nasty?"

He sulked,

"My guard will be wrong? Even if he is wrong once, will he be wrong three times!"

"Wear your Tuyuhun clothes, speak your language, have weapons and war horses, you call them rogues? Who are you fooling!"

"Look, do I look like a fool?"

You bastard, just put it here and pretend to be confused!

"This...I..."

Murong Lin had nothing to say now, and said with a troubled expression,

"Your Majesty Tian Khan forgive me, I really don't know about this..."

"How about this, the minister wrote back a letter, asked the king about the situation, and then came to see His Majesty and explain to you?"

Li Shimin snorted coldly.

"Confession? Confession is fine!"

Li Er tapped his finger on the table and said angrily,

"Let him come to Chang'an in person to apologize in front of me!"

"If this can be achieved, I might give him a chance to treat him as the lord of a vassal state."

"If you can't do it, then don't blame me for being rude! Datang's sword has not been used for a long time, and some people may have forgotten how sharp it is!"

Murong Lin: "!!!"

He could clearly feel that when Tian Khan finished speaking, several people in the hall began to gear up!

Needless to say, everyone knows...it must be a general of the Tang Dynasty!
They are all looking forward to fighting and making meritorious service!
A country as big as Turkic was wiped out by these horrible generals, not to mention their Tuyuhun.

Lord, Lord, are you out of your mind?
You are fine, why mess with Datang?Really itchy neck? !

"Yes, yes! As ordered!"

Murong Lin claimed yes, nodded and bowed, with a humble posture.

"Go!"

Li Shimin waved his hand and said,
"I'm waiting for him to come to Chang'an! I want to have a good talk with him!"

Murong Lin retreated in embarrassment.

All the ministers in the political hall laughed.

"Ok?"

Li Shimin stroked his beard and said,

"My loves, why are you laughing?"

Fang Xuanling replied:
"Your Majesty treats foreign envoys with a bit of arrogance."

"If the minister is that Murong Lin, he must be scared to death, and he won't be able to sleep tonight!"

It is necessary to use troops at every turn, and the use of troops still directly destroys one's own country!

This is equivalent to your neighbor looking at you, sharpening his knife, and smiling evilly at you.

Who can stand this?

"Hmph, that's natural!"

Li Shimin said proudly,

"My kindness has always been towards my own people!"

"Outsiders, of course they have to be domineering! What's more, these barbarians have no literacy and have always surrendered to their fists. Whoever has a big enough fist, they will submit to whoever they are!"

"Fearing power but not being virtuous, it is natural for them to establish prestige!"

When all the ministers heard the words, they all praised him.

Xu Fenglei also nodded in approval.

This is the demeanor of a king.

I don't know how much better it is than those monarchs who are "promising externally and attacking internally" and "measuring China's material resources and making friendly friends"!
"Your Majesty, let alone this annoying Tuyuhun."

Changsun Wuji took out a piece of paper from his pocket and said,
"This is the list of this year's autumn finals. Take a look, it has been reconsidered three times."

"If there is no objection, let the people from the Ministry of Punishment supervise and execute him."

Li Shimin frowned, and opened the list of autumn contests to have a look.

Good guy, densely packed, with three or four hundred names!

Among them, Hou Junji's name was impressively ranked first!
Hou Junji, in fact, was originally sentenced to be beheaded and waited for, and his sentence has never been changed to permanent imprisonment, so his name is included in the list of autumn judgments every year.

It's just that every time Li Er would find a reason for him to renew for one year, one year.

This has been going on for two years.

Regarding this, he and Xu Fenglei had also reached a tacit understanding, so Xu Fenglei didn't say anything, as long as Hou Junji was not released, he could say anything.

This time...it's time to find excuses for Hou Junji again.

"So many death row prisoners?"

Li Shimin frowned and said,

"There are so many people who committed crimes in my Tang Dynasty?"

"What crimes did these people commit? Murder and arson?"

The laws of the Tang Dynasty were originally relatively strict, but since the "Law of Zhenguan" was changed, it has become much more relaxed, and the number of death row prisoners has naturally been greatly reduced.

But even so, there are still a large number of people in the annual autumn competition!
"Return to Your Majesty, yes, they are all felonies."

Fang Xuanling said,

"It's not murder and arson, rape and robbery, some people's behavior is even worse than the enemy!"

"Of course, most of them are revenge killings and love killings."

"Kill people to pay for their lives, and debts to pay back money. This is a matter of course. If they kill someone, they must pay for their lives."

Li Shimin looked at the list again and again, and nodded.

"You're right, killing people pays for their lives."

Li Er supported his forehead and said,
"However, I was thinking... death row prisoners are human beings, can we give them a chance to reform themselves?"

"If they can be educated by the imperial court, they can start a new life...can it be passed down as a good story?"

Changsun Wuji was slightly taken aback.

"...That's right."

he said,

"If they are given a chance, and they can really reform themselves, it will definitely be an achievement of the imperial court and an achievement of His Majesty's enlightenment."

"But it's very difficult... just like a beast becomes aggressive after eating blood, it is difficult for a death row inmate who has killed a person to change. Maybe one day they will have the idea of ​​killing again, and they will be violent again. Start killing people..."

Li Shimin shook his head.

"How do you know if you don't try? I am very interested in educating death row prisoners."

He got up and said,

"When I was fighting, many of you were not my subordinates. Not only were you not a subordinate, but you even stood on the opposite side of me, which caused me great trouble! The loss of soldiers will be more than a thousand?"

"But I won the war, but I didn't kill you, but reused you."

"After you turned from the dark to the bright, didn't you also be extremely loyal to me and do your best for me?"

"From this point, it can be seen that people can be reformed! There is nothing to do recently, let's go to the prison! Who of you has free time, go to teach with me!"

After finishing speaking, Li Shimin got up, took strides with great interest, and headed towards the Ministry of Punishment.

The remaining ministers all looked at each other in blank dismay.

"This...what kind of style does His Majesty smoke?"

"Who knows... Anyway, I'm not going to educate the death row? It's better to educate a few more children, at least the children can be shaped."

"It's just... let's go, let's go to work after the meeting..."

The ministers whispered and left one after another.

The generals Li Jing and Li Ji didn't fight, so they were naturally in a waning mood, so they made an appointment to drink together:
"Pharmacist, go to my house later, the sand table in my house is quite big."

"Oh? Did you pile up Tuyuhun?"

"Naturally piled up! Mainly the border of my Tang Dynasty! Are you interested in deduction with me?"

"Ha! That's what I mean, let's go..."

"..."

The two generals hooked their shoulders.

There is no actual battle to fight, deduction and deduction, playing games is also fine!

Xu Fenglei also wanted to get up and leave the table, but was stopped by Changsun Wuji.

"Teacher, you really don't say a word at all now, are you practicing closed-mouth meditation?"

Changsun Wuji asked with a smile,
Xu Fenglei shrugged.

"I think your wisdom is enough, and I don't need to make suggestions."

He casually said,

"Besides, it takes brains to come up with an idea, and if it is adopted, it has to be implemented. How tiring is that?"

"It's better to fish around, one day has passed, and I plan to spend another ten years like this, and then I will retire and return to Moyu Mountain to retire... Coincidentally, my fief is also there."

Li Er is still considerate in this regard.

The fiefdom is a food city, and basically all respect the minister's own choice, and he can be there wherever he wants.

Then of course he chooses his hometown, Moyu Mountain!

Changsun Wuji: "..."

"If I remember correctly, you are only in your early thirties, right? Even if it takes another ten years, you will still be in your forties, which is the prime of life!"

He couldn't help saying,
"It's not shameful to get old at that time!"

In the past thousands of years, I have never seen a person who returned to his hometown at the age of 40, and his beard is still not white!

It must be more than sixty!
"Then I don't care. Anyway, the prince and the others have grown up, and the teaching is almost done. My mission has also been completed."

Xu Fenglei raised his hand and said,

"gone!"

After all, he will leave.

"Hey, Grand Master, why don't you follow me to the prison?"

Changsun Wuji pointed to the door and said.

"Why do you want to see it?" Xu Fenglei was a little surprised.

Isn't this increasing the workload for yourself!

"Why do you think His Majesty is so interested in going to the prison?"

Fang Xuanling stroked her beard and said in a low voice,
"The first one on the Autumn Judgment list is Hou Junji!"

"He misses his old love and wants to visit him! Can you rest assured if you don't follow?"

Xu Fenglei was taken aback.

Hello Li Er!He also said that he wanted to educate the death row inmates. It turned out that there was such a hidden purpose!
It is false to educate death-row prisoners, but it is true to go to see Hou Junji!

However, he didn't care.

"Just go, I can stop him for a while, but can I stop him for a lifetime?"

Xu Fenglei spread his hands and said,

"At that time, it will arouse his rebellious heart even more..."

"Go, go, my bottom line is there, as long as I don't release Hou Junji, I don't care about anything else."

In fact, what Li Er did was really annoying.

His character of nostalgia and never forgetting is a good thing for all heroes.

If something really happened in the future, at least the emperor would think about the old love and make amends.

If he is mean and ungrateful, killing him will make people feel chilling.

Hou Junji's condition... life imprisonment is the best.

"What if Hou Junji's nose and tears move His Majesty, and His Majesty wants to release him?"

Changsun Wuji followed suit and said,

"It's not that you don't know that our Majesty is the most soft-hearted master."

"Speaking of using soldiers today, I reckon he's thinking of Hou Junji's bloody fight for him back then. After all, that guy's contribution is still great."

I have to admit that when launching the Xuanwumen Change, Hou Jun put in a lot of effort!
In the meantime, it was also a battle between the South and the North, and he followed Li Shimin early on, and his qualifications are also deep!
Xu Fenglei pouted.

"Then watch it for me. If you really want to let him out, stop it for me."

He hummed softly,

"At that time, it's a big deal to quarrel with the emperor!"

"The reason is there. No matter how you say it, if you talk about it for one year or ten years, it's my reason!"

After finishing speaking, Xu Fenglei turned around and left.

The remaining grandson Wuji and Fang Xuanling looked at each other in blank dismay.

"Then let's... go along?"

Fang Xuanling said,

"The grand master is right, if he clings, it's not suitable."

"Let's take a closer look. As long as you don't release Hou Junji, you can talk about anything. I'm afraid that His Majesty will be confused for a while, and the Taishi's temper will inevitably make a big fuss again."

Changsun Wuji nodded approvingly.

"That's right, let's go!"

He said helplessly,

"Your Majesty has been too busy recently. I have nothing to do, and I'm thinking of going to the prison to educate the death row inmates!"

"Isn't this in a hurry? With this time, I hope he will give birth to more princes and princesses..."

When Fang Xuanling heard this, he immediately laughed.

"Isn't that what we do at night? Our Majesty is not that Yang Guang, who can't do ridiculous things like prostitution in the daytime!"

"Hahaha……"

These two chatted without being afraid of being overheard.

This is Li Shimin's lenient and benevolent, and the control of public opinion is extremely loose. If the sensitive emperor of another dynasty is replaced, just these few words of the emperor's words can directly cut off the head of the person!

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(End of this chapter)