I directed the Xuanwumen Incident

Chapter 547 In the prison, the monarchs and ministers cry!
The Ministry of Punishment, the prison.

Li Shimin looked east and west, not knowing what he was looking for.

The prisoners on death row were also hopeless right now, they didn't care what was going on outside at all, they all looked up at the dark ceiling with dull eyes.

Snapped!
"time to eat!"

The jailer held the food box and handed it all the way over, saying,

"Just wait for me! Don't wait for me to serve you one by one!"

"hurry up!"

Whoa, whoa.

There was the sound of iron chains dragging the floor inside the prison.

At this moment, the only way to arouse the interest of the death row prisoners is to eat... After all, the decapitation belongs to the decapitation, and this meal still needs to be eaten.

You can't be a starving ghost even if you die, so what a shame?
Li Shimin frowned, and looked at Changsun Wuji beside him.

"The jailer! Come here."

Changsun Wuji naturally understood and ordered,
"Bring the food in your hand, I have something to ask you!"

The jailer was taken aback... Where was the sound coming from in the prison today?
When he raised his head again, he was almost scared out of his wits!
The person in front of him is wearing a bright yellow dragon robe... that's clearly, that's clearly...

O king!
"See! See Your Majesty, see Your Majesty!"

The jailer panicked, knocked over the food box in his hand, knelt down and said,

"Long live my emperor!"

This movement caused all the condemned prisoners to look over. Seeing Li Shimin's shining dragon robe, it was like seeing the savior!
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I was wronged, Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty, please forgive me! I am a young one, I have seniors and juniors, if I die, what will they... what will they do!"

"Your Majesty, I am really wronged, I have a great grievance!"

"..."

For a while, voices of grievances and begging for mercy came one after another, making Li Shimin frown.

"You, come with me!"

Li Er shouted,
"Bring the food box! I want to see what this condemned prisoner eats!"

After saying that, he turned around and walked away quickly.

"Yes, yes, obey the order!"

How dare the jailer not respond?He tidied up the food box and kept up with the pace.

……

In the corridor, it was finally quiet.

"Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu... Who are you calling Lao Tzu in front of?"

Changsun Wuji took the lunch box and said displeasedly,
"If it wasn't for His Majesty's kindness, your head would have been chopped off!"

jailer:"!!!"

"Yes yes yes, the little one is talking nonsense, the little one should slap his mouth, he should slap his mouth!"

Snapped!
Snapped!
As he spoke, he slapped himself severely.

There is no way, with the way I looked in front of His Majesty just now, if I don't slap myself two big mouths, I will not have peace in my heart!

"Alright, alright."

Li Shimin waved his hand and said,

"Don't be so vulgar in the future, you are an official of the imperial court after all! Representing the image of the imperial court!"

"The food box is open."

The jailer nodded again and again, and thankfully helped to open the food box.

Inside the food box, there is steaming corn, not slippery, with gravel still visible.

There are a few vegetable leaves on the bedding, and there is nothing else.

"That's it? No more?"

Li Shimin frowned.

He casually grabbed a handful of corn and put it in his mouth.

click!
His precious 'dragon tooth' was knocked by a small stone in the corn.

"Pooh!"

Li Er bite the bullet and chewed, and swallowed part of it with difficulty, the rest was chewed into a ball and spit it out.

"Is this the meal for prisoners? It's too rough!"

He said displeased,

"Just a few vegetable leaves, and half of the corn rice with gravel?"

"Three meals a day, can you be full?"

Hearing this, the jailer looked embarrassed.

"Returning to His Majesty... not three meals, but two meals."

he responded.

Li Shimin: "???"

"Just this kind of thing, you can only eat two meals a day? Isn't it starving to death?"

Li Er asked.

The jailer's heart trembled, he lowered his head and dared not speak.

"Your Majesty calm down, this is actually normal."

Fang Xuanling said,

"Death row inmates... are all vicious people, what do you do if you feed them so well? Besides...they are still waiting to die."

"It's not bad to be able to have this meal, after all, this is what the imperial court allocated for them to eat."

"In other words, they can be regarded as eating the emperor's food."

Li Shimin: "..."

This sounds a bit awkward.

"Yep."

The jailer answered,
"Ordinary prisoners, with family support, will naturally eat better."

"However, most of the death row inmates have no family members to provide for them, so they can only be fed by the Ministry of Punishment. It can guarantee that they will not starve to death, and they can live until they are beheaded."

"If starving to death is also a punishment, we can simply starve them to death and save money..."

Li Shimin frowned.

"Bullshit!"

Li Er scolded,
"The imperial court has the imperial court's law! If a death row prisoner wants to die, he must follow the law!"

"Before beheading, let them live well! This is also in line with the saint's way of benevolence!"

The jailer was startled, knowing that he had said something wrong, he hurriedly bowed down, not daring to say any more.

"This kind of food, there are only two meals... After many years, people will definitely starve to death."

Li Shimin's eyes were deep, and he sighed softly,
"Do condemned prisoners allow their families to provide food and rice?"

"Then... Hou Junji, this is what he eats too?"

Changsun Wuji and Fang Xuanling looked at each other and winked at each other!
really.

His Majesty's thoughts are not on the death row inmates, he loves the death row inmates, but in fact, it is Hou Junji who is in love with him!

"Back to the emperor, Hou Junji was provided by someone, and his food is better."

The jailer replied honestly,
"It's similar to the food of ordinary people. The minister said that anyone who goes to the sky prison comes to suffer, not to enjoy happiness."

"So... no matter how much the supply is, Hou Junji won't be able to eat that. At most, it's better than ordinary prisoners. This is already the best food in the prison."

Li Shimin frowned.

"You, Li Shangshu, are quite fair and strict."

He snorted coldly,

"But let me tell you, if there is a family member who is willing to provide better food, you can let him eat better, so what's the problem?"

"Restricting personal freedom is already an extremely painful punishment in this small and dark prison!"

"It's okay to satisfy your appetite properly!"

"Xuanling, auxiliary machine, what do you think?"

Changsun Wuji: "..."

Fang Xuanling: "..."

"I'm asking you something!" Li Shimin looked displeased.

These two are very chatty on weekdays, why don't they talk to me today?

"Uh... Your Majesty said it should be, so it should be."

Fang Xuanling cupped his hands in response.

Changsun Wuji laughed and joked:

"The minister thinks it should be. It is also good for the minister and others to improve the treatment of the sky prison."

"Huh?" Li Shimin was surprised, "How do you say that?"

Changsun Wuji smiled and said:
"It's a good thing that the conditions in the sky prison are better. If one day, the minister commits a crime and falls into the sky prison, it won't be so difficult."

Li Shimin: "..."

"I made a joke, Your Majesty, don't blame me."

Seeing Li Shimin's unkind expression, Changsun Wuji quickly restrained his smile and bowed his hands repeatedly.

"Hmph! Is it funny?"

Li Shimin snorted coldly,

"My ministers, I don't even want to come to this kind of place!"

"This is not the place for a good hero to stay!"

"Your Majesty's words are very true." Both of them nodded in agreement.

Seeing the appearance of the two of them, Li Shimin felt inexplicably unhappy in his heart for some reason.

"that whoever……"

He turned to look at the jailer and said,
"Which cell is Hou Junji locked in? I want to meet him, so take me there to meet him."

"Observe the order." The jailer didn't dare to neglect, he fetched the cell key, and led the way for the emperor.

Under his leading the way, Li Shimin made several turns and turns, and finally stopped at the end of a passage.

In the cell on the upper left, there was a person lying on his side, motionless like a corpse.

"Hou...uh..."

The jailer yelled, and he wanted to call him by his first name, but felt that the emperor behind him would be unhappy if he called him like that, so he didn't know how to call him for a while.

But this sound, the people inside have already heard it.

"Leave it alone, I'll come to eat later."

When the hoarse voice came, Li Shimin's heart tightened when he heard it, and his gaze was completely on Hou Junji!
"It's not here to deliver food."

The jailer answered,
"Yes... His Majesty is here to see you!"

scoff!

Hou Junji in the cell froze, then turned his head suddenly!

When he saw Li Shimin's face, his eyes turned red instantly!
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty!"

"Sinful minister Hou Junji...Kowtow to His Majesty!!"

Boom!

Hou Junji climbed down from the wooden plank, dragged his shackles and fell to his knees, kowtowing to Li Shimin incessantly!

When the head is raised, the old tears are already flowing!

Li Shimin: "!!!"

He who is emotional, how can he bear this, his heart is also a pang of sorrow.

"Open, open, quickly open the cell door to me!"

Li Er shouted,
"quick!"

Whoa!
Under his urging, the jailer didn't dare to be negligent. He opened the cell door with a key and invited Li Shimin in.

"Your Majesty, be careful, he is a death row prisoner after all..."

The jailer reminded in a low voice, and looked at Hou Junji with a little vigilance.

It has been closed for two years, Hou Junji will inevitably have resentment, what if he does something that hurts His Majesty?

"Bullshit! Be careful!"

Li Shimin scolded,

"Junji will not hurt me!"

As he spoke, he walked quickly to Hou Junji, gently lifted him up, and saw his face.

"Junji...you, you have suffered!"

Looking at Hou Junji's disheveled hair and haggard face, Li Er's eyes became moist.

He really can't bear to see this!
When you can't see it, you can be more cruel.

Seeing it now, thinking of all the past, he has an urge to release Hou Junji!
"This is what the guilty minister should suffer..."

Hou Junji wiped away his tears, and said in shame,

"It was the guilty minister who failed His Majesty... The guilty minister knows that it is His Majesty who has been protecting the guilty minister, otherwise the guilty minister should have died two years ago."

"Sinner, thank Your Majesty for your grace!"

Pfft!
As soon as he got up, he knelt down for Li Shimin again.

Even Changsun Wuji and Fang Xuanling were a little moved by the love between the monarch and his ministers.

Could it be that Hou Junji has really reformed after being in prison for the past two years?
He didn't complain at all, and he took all the faults on himself... Is this really him?

It's like a different person!

Fang Xuanling stared at Hou Junji, trying to see some pretensions with those seasoned eyes, but after looking for a long time, he couldn't see anything wrong.

It seems that the truth is revealed...

"Oh, what are you doing? Get up."

Li Shimin said with some distress,
"With this heavy shackles, why do you still kneel? It's hard for you!"

"Junji, you... what's wrong with your thigh? Why is there such a big scar?"

Hou Junji got up slowly, stroked his thigh lightly, lowered his head and said:

"It's a prison sore, it's very common."

"After living in prison for a long time, such sores will appear... not only criminals have it, but everyone else has it too."

"Itches in autumn and winter, festers and rots in summer and long summer..."

Li Shimin frowned.

"Why are there sores in the prison?"

He turned to look at the jailer, and ordered,
"Tell me clearly!"

The jailer looked a little embarrassed, and said hesitantly:
"The dungeon is dark and humid, without sunlight for a long time, it will naturally breed pain..."

"The sores in this prison mainly occur when it is hot and humid. I don't know what they want, but most prisoners have it, and only a small number of them don't..."

Li Shimin's face darkened instantly.

"That small part should be next to the aisle, in a cool and ventilated area!"

He sulked,

"And here, I've only been here for a while, and I feel extremely hot and stuffy. What's wrong with it all year round?"

"This must be sick!"

"Since they have this kind of illness, why don't you find a doctor for them? Don't you just watch them suffer?"

jailer:"……"

This……

How can anyone find a doctor for a prisoner!

If you really want to be served with delicious food and drink, and have a doctor take care of you, will you still go to jail?
It's almost like a vacation!
"Returning to Your Majesty, the Ministry of Punishment does not have a doctor, so, so..."

The jailer looked puzzled, and he hesitated and couldn't speak.

He felt that he was very unlucky today.

Why is it my turn to deliver food to the prisoners today?Running into this obviously unhappy emperor...

"You don't need to say anything!"

Li Shimin waved his hand and said,
"Auxiliary machine, hurry up and arrange to find an imperial physician, the most dedicated imperial physician for treating sores!"

"Tell him to come and show Junji, hurry up!"

"Observe the order." Changsun Wuji responded quickly and walked out of the cell.

"Your Majesty... How can the sinful minister be able to receive such a great favor from His Majesty!"

Hou Junji shed tears and said,

"The sinful minister's injury is not a hindrance at all... It is a blessing to be able to save his life!"

How could Li Shimin bear this, he hurriedly said:

"No, no, I have treated you badly, I have been negligent!"

"Don't think too much, heal the sores on your body first, I have a lot to say...I want to talk to you!"

"Come, come, sit down..."

He turned his head to look at the jailer, and ordered:
"Bring the wine!"

(End of this chapter)