Datang: Starting from a fortune-telling stall, Wu Zetian was suddenly abducted

Chapter 68 Hou Junji who seeks death along the way

The next day, above the court.

Not long after the court meeting started, there was a censor,

"I have my own report. During the impeachment of Chen Guogong, Hou Junji made a lot of money and filled his own pockets. The amount of corruption reached tens of millions of silver. The amount has never been seen before."

After hearing this, Li Shimin didn't react at all.

This is actually a common practice. Every time a general comes back from a battle, the censor must impeach him.

I still remember that when Li Jing came back from conquering the Turks, the censor's memorials to impeach him were flying all over the place, which made it impossible for him to step down for a while.

On the other hand, Li Jing took it calmly. In addition to actively cooperating with the investigation of Dali Temple, he thanked guests behind closed doors without saying a word.

After a while, if you don't pursue it, no one will mention it again.

It's just that this is the job of the censor, so I can't say anything.

He planned to wait until after the court meeting and arrange for someone to notify Hou Junji and ask him to imitate Li Jing and keep a low profile during this period.

Seeing Li Shimin's expression, the censor knew that he didn't take the matter seriously, so he immediately read his memorial out loud again.

After reading it, he looked at the other censors.

Those people also stood up immediately, and said one after another: "The minister seconded the proposal."

Li Shimin knew that these people wanted him to express his position, so he smiled helplessly and asked someone to take the memorial. Xiang Doo read it carefully.

Immediately ordered the Ministry of Household Affairs to inventory the spoils obtained from the expedition to Gaochang and hand over the list to him.

Guo Xiaoke was also ordered to thoroughly investigate whether Hou Junji's corruption was true.

The censors saw that Li Shimin was so serious, so they gave up.

When the court came later, Li Shimin immediately sent people to appease Hou Junji and told him to rest at home and cultivate himself while waiting for the reward.

At this time, Hou Junji was drinking and having fun with Queen Gaochang at home. When he heard that the eunuchs around the emperor were visiting, he didn't take it seriously.

She just asked Queen Gaochang to hide behind the screen, and then directly called the eunuch into the inner hall to ask what was going on.

The eunuch who came to summon this time was named Ding Yu. He was very upright in Su Lai. Seeing that Hou Jun could not come out to greet him, he felt a little unhappy in his heart.

After entering the inner hall, I saw Hou Junji, half undressed, lying on a brocade couch, with countless fine wines and delicacies placed on the table in front of him.

There were more than a dozen scantily clad Hu girls in the hall, singing softly and coquettishly, making them feel increasingly unhappy.

With a cold face, he conveyed Li Shimin's oral instructions.

After Hou Junji listened, he didn't care about the first half of Li Shimin's sentence. Instead, it was the second half that aroused his interest.

He lazily asked Ding Yu: "Ding Naiguan, has your Majesty told me the specific time for the reward?"

Ding Yu originally wanted to tell him Li Shimin's true intentions, but seeing Hou Junji's arrogant appearance, he didn't bother to remind him.

He just shook his head, "I don't know."

Hou Junji didn't take it seriously at all. He waved his hand to the servants and asked them to seal Ding Yu 100 taels of silver.

He said: "Please ask Neiguan Ding to reply to His Majesty, and Hou Junji will definitely do things according to his arrangements."

Ding Yu turned around and left without comment.

After returning to the palace, he ignored Hou Junji's treatment of him, but told Li Shimin about Hou Junji's extravagance.

After listening to his story, Li Shiming didn't take it seriously. Instead, he excused Hou Junji:
"It was really a lot of hard work to march thousands of miles, capture Gaochang in one go, and guard against sneak attacks from the right Turks."

"After coming back, it's reasonable to have good food, drink, and relax by listening to some singing and dancing."

But when Ding Yu handed over the reward given to him by Hou Junji to Li Shimin, Li Shimin let out a light sigh and signaled to him to just keep the money.However, Ding Yu still saw a hint of worry in Li Shimin's eyes.

Let’s talk about Hou Junji, he was still running wildly on his way to death.

On this day, after listening to music and watching dancing at home, he felt that it was really boring, so he took his soldiers to Lishan to hunt.Li Shimin's instructions had long been forgotten by him.

Nali Mountain is located south of Chang'an and belongs to the Qinling Mountains.It is also a place for royal hunting, and no one except the royal family is allowed to enter.

Although Hou Junji was arrogant, he really didn't have the courage to go hunting in the royal gardens.

However, the Qinling Mountains spread for more than 1000 kilometers, and there were many places to go. Hou Junji found a place with abundant water and grass near Li Mountain and started hunting.

Hunting with war flags, people shouting and horses neighing, prey scattered in all directions
Hou Junji galloped on horseback, bent his bow and arrow, and with a whoosh sound, the wolf-tooth arrow shot out of his hand, directly hitting a sika deer that was running for its life.

Seeing the sika deer whining and falling to the ground, Hou Junji also laughed loudly and continued to gallop to hunt the next prey.

Until the sun was setting in the west, Hou Junji looked at the pile of prey in front of him. He was also very satisfied and was about to give the order to return to Chang'an.

But he saw Hou Liang coming in a hurry, saying that he had accidentally caught a few poachers in Lishan Mountain, and one of them had a special identity, saying that he was the pretender of Changping County Duke Zhang Liang.

He was also difficult to deal with, so he came to ask the general how to deal with it.

After Hou Junji heard Zhang Liang's name, he had an idea in his mind. It turned out that he and Zhang Liang had some issues.

Once drinking with Zhang Liang, he talked nonsense after drinking, saying that without his performance in Xuanwu Gate, Li Shimin would never be the emperor.

As a result, Zhang Liang reported this matter to Li Shimin, and the two had a bad blood from then on.

Thinking of this, he asked Hou Liang to escort these people in front of him.

Just looking at the person in front, with the head of a deer and the eyes of a rat, and his playful smiling face, Hou Junji felt unhappy.

The man came forward with a smile, cupped his hands towards Hou Junji, and said nonchalantly:

"Lin Kang met the general. My adoptive father is Zhang Liang, Duke of Changping County. He has been feeling a little unwell recently."

"I just wanted to feed him some game to replenish his health. I didn't want to collide with the general's cavalry, so I asked the general to atone for his sins."

He didn't mention a word about his poaching in Lishan Mountain.

Hou Junji smiled coldly and said:

"You, Lin Kang, are full of nonsense."

"My soldiers saw you coming out of Lishan Mountain with countless prey. That is a royal garden, and even I dare not enter it."

"Do you know that you have committed the crime of deceiving the emperor?"

Lin Kang did not expect that Hou Junji would put a big label on himself as soon as they met, and he quickly begged:

"General, please spare your life, General, please spare your life."

"Also ask the general to look at my adoptive father's face and let the villain go."

Hou Junji said with a sneer:

"It is said that Zhang Liang has five hundred false sons, who knows if what you said is true or false."

"Furthermore, the Son of Heaven commits the same crime as the common people when he breaks the law. If I don't pay attention to you poaching the prey in Lishan, wouldn't I be guilty of the same crime as you?"

"Come here, take him down for me and serve him with severe punishment. Ask him who ordered him to come to Lishan to poach?"

Hou Liang naturally knew the grudge between him and Zhang Liang. After listening to Hou Junji's words, he immediately understood what he meant.

He dragged Lin Kang to a secluded place and tortured Lin Kang severely.

(End of this chapter)