Early Tang Dynasty: forge ahead

Chapter 161: Humiliating Zhongliang and planning to get rid of the cat
Yuan Gongyu's eyes showed unwillingness and dissatisfaction. Even though he was afraid of Li Yifu, he felt a sense of humiliation and humiliation in his heart at this moment.

Liu Rengui refuses to take hard or soft advice, so he is indeed difficult to deal with.

If he didn't handle the matter well, he deserved a few scoldings.

But he couldn't bear the humiliation.

A shabby prison boss?
The lowest existence.

He is the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, the number two person in Dali Temple.

Let a dog, a prison guard who knelt down and kowtowed without even a backbone, take over his task?
"Master..."

Li Yifu raised his hand to stop Yuan Gongyu's complaint and said, "You don't know how powerful this person is. You can listen to him and tell him how he plans to interrogate Liu Rengui."

He said before letting Wan Guojun, who was kneeling on the ground, get up.

Wan Guojun is tall and burly, but he always bends down in front of Li Yifu, forcing himself to be shorter than Li Yifu, who is of medium height.

"Yuan Shaoqing's method is good for dealing with ordinary people. However, it has no effect at all on people like Liu Rengui who believe in their aloofness. On the contrary, it makes him enjoy it and makes him famous."

Yuan Gongyu tightened his face, pretending to be calm and dismissive and said: "Then what can you do? Torture to extract a confession? Are the methods of the Ministry of Punishment used in our Dali Temple? Believe it or not, the whip just hit his body, the censors We can demolish Dali Temple."

Liu Rengui was a veteran of the two dynasties. He had a low-level position and was responsible for reviewing memorials to seal and refute imperial edicts. If he had objections, he could even directly revise and refute edicts and return them.

If such an official was tortured in Dali Temple and forced to confess, it would cause public outrage.

Wan Guojun said with a bit of mockery on his face: "Tools of torture are the most despicable method. Even if they succeed in the end, they will not be convincing."

Yuan Gongyu said: "Then I want people to know what Wan Chai can do to make Liu Rengui surrender."

He deliberately used the word "ten thousand servants" in a very strong way.

Wan Guojun said: "The method is the simplest, just ignore it."

Yuan Gongyu said with a mocking look on his face: "What a good idea. Where can I get someone like Liu Rengui to compromise?"

Wan Guojun's eyes flashed with excitement: "Ignoring it does not mean doing nothing. You can arrange heinous death row prisoners to be locked up around Liu Rengui. Order them to take turns to make a fuss and humiliate Liu Rengui with all kinds of humiliating curses. For eight generations of ancestors, Liu Rengui would not let Liu Rengui close his eyes and wear away his faith with sleepiness."

Yuan Gongyu was slightly startled and said: "It does have an effect in a day or two, but what if you fall down and faint when you are really tired?"

"Use urine to wake you up!" Wan Guojun said with a ferocious smile: "It's a good job to find a tool, it's accurate for the head and feet. Give Liu Rengui more water, and if Liu Rengui dares to sleep, just wet his face, and you can also throw shit at him to stun him... Such a noble person attaches great importance to his own image. If you want to make him compromise, you have to rub his noble character under your feet and let him know... He is not a lotus flower in the sky, but the smelly mud in the pond. "

The more he talked, the more excited he became, as if it was a very honorable thing to drag a noble and pure minister down to the ground.

Yuan Gongyu looked at Wan Guojun as if he were a demon, and said to Li Yifu: "Ms. Li, this method is too vicious and hurts people! If word spreads, it will be detrimental to Xianggong's reputation."

But Wan Guojun said with a strange face: "What is Yuan Shaoqing talking about? Did Xianggong Li ever use any means to deal with Liu Rengui? It is obvious that Xianggong Li believed that Liu Rengui was innocent and refused to interrogate him for the time being. Everything is because the death row prisoner knew that his death was coming. The insane behavior of a madman. If it really spreads, it’s just because of the poor care of the jailer.”

Liu Rengui's miserable appearance appeared in Li Yifu's mind, and he felt happy and said: "This method has nothing to do with us, it's very good!"

Yuan Gongyu did not dare to say anything.

Wan Guojun continued: "If Yuan Shaoqing doesn't like it, the villain has more ruthless ways..."

He was about to say something, but Yuan Gongyu was unwilling to listen and said, "I'll just listen to Mr. Li's arrangements."

Li Yifu nodded with satisfaction, his admiring eyes fell on Wan Guojun and said: "Work hard. If this is successful, I promise you a bright future."

Wan Guojun knelt down and kowtowed again: "I am willing to work as an ox or a horse for my husband to repay my kindness."

Li Yifu laughed proudly.

After leaving his home, Chen Qingsi went to the Imperial Academy. After routine disciplinary inspections, he returned to the office and thought of ways to bring down Li Yifu.

The only way to save Liu Rengui is to pull out the firewood and pull down Li Yifu.

The only emperor in Chang'an who had the strength to attack Li Yi's mansion was Li Zhi.This seems difficult and sounds funny.

After all, Li Yifu is the oldest minister beside Li Zhi and his most trusted arm.

Chen Qingsi knew that all this was just an appearance.

Li Zhi, the emperor, had a cold nature engraved in his bones.

There are only a few people he will treat sincerely, and the rest are just chess pieces in his hands. Use them when you can, and discard them at any time if you can't.

Although Li Yifu has followed Li Zhi for many years, the definition of his existence is still a chess piece and has not entered Li Zhi's heart.

I only pay attention to it because it is easy to use.

But some of the things Li Yifu did had angered Li Zhi, but he was still valuable. After Li Zhi made his choice, he did not pursue it.

Just because you don't pursue it doesn't mean you don't care.

Just suppressing dissatisfaction...

Li Yifu's ending in history was not good, and he was exiled to Xizhou.

When Li Zhi was enshrined in Mount Tai, he granted a general amnesty to the whole world and specifically ordered that Li Yifu not be allowed to return, which made him angry to death.

As Liu Rengui said, if Li Zhi can indulge Li Yifu once, he will not indulge him a second time.

As long as Li Yifu can be induced to make a mistake, he can borrow Li Zhi's knife to kill him.

The key lies in how to seduce.

Chen Qingsi's mind recalled the past of Li Yifu, and a set of plans gradually became clear in his mind.

"First of all, we have to give Li Mao enough pressure to let him know that although he is insignificant at the moment, he is chasing behind him step by step. If he stops moving forward, he will catch up from behind."

"It's only when he's in a hurry that he makes mistakes."

"Mr. Changli, I'm sorry!"

Chen Qingsi recited a sentence silently, then he wrote at his desk, writing quickly, and a piece of "Teacher's Statement" jumped on the paper.

"Linghu offers wine!"

Chen Qingsi came to Linghu Defen's office.

Linghu Defen was not a qualified Imperial Academy supervisor, but he was a well-deserved university scholar.

Every time Chen Qingsi came to look for Linghu Defen, the Imperial Academy priest was engaged in learning, repairing ancient books and works, and reappearing the hard work of his predecessors in the world.

"What's the matter?" Linghu Defen raised his head and said: "There are some things that you can make your own decisions on. You don't have to ask about everything. Regarding policy reform, I am far inferior to you. I can't give you a pertinent answer even if you ask. .”

There was reproach in his tone for being disturbed.

Chen Qingsi hurriedly apologized and said: "Sir, you have wrongly blamed the student. The student has been in the Imperial College for a long time and saw the behavior of the students in the prison. He felt it for a while and wrote an article for your comment, sir."

He knew that Linghu Defen preferred to be called sir, so he decisively changed his name.

Linghu Defen's eyes lit up, Chen Qingsi was an unparalleled poet, but he didn't know how well he wrote the article.

His dissatisfaction disappeared, and he said impatiently: "Quick, bring it quickly!"

　It should have been released a long time ago, but because my wife is about to give birth, I can’t update it at the same time, so I’ve been putting it off.Now it can’t be delayed any longer, so it’s on the shelves.I'll try my best to have more...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)