Zhao Defang's road to the virtuous king

On the second day, I received news from the imperial court, saying that Defang asked to go to Qinzhou to supervise the imperial wine. She was very nervous and sent a letter to Li Yiyi in Qinzhou. At that time, Li Yi had already started preparations, but Defang and his party After arriving in Qinzhou, he did not go directly to Changdao County. Instead, he stayed in the city for 2 days at the request of the general Wang Tongda. So for many years, he has been intercepting his letters to the imperial court, making him trapped in Qinzhou so that he can control him, but Wang Tongda told Defang about the letter. If Defang returns to Beijing to report, the matter will be exposed, and Xing Changyuan will send Someone followed Defang and his party. Unexpectedly, Defang sent a messenger back to Beijing, so Xing Changyuan arrested the messenger and found that Defang had already started investigating the matter. He knew that if it dragged on, disaster would be imminent, so Xing Changyuan immediately notified Changdao County Li Yi.

Li Yi had long been dissatisfied with Wang Tongda. He knew that the emperor had always distrusted military generals. In order to make him submit, he had spread rumors that he was suspected of supporting the soldiers. However, Wang Tongda heard some rumors and met lower-level officers. Rather than having frequent contacts, he knew that Li Yi must be behind the scenes, but he didn't want to be their enemy, he just wanted to go back to Beijing, but he didn't know that his letters had been hidden many times.

On Li Yi's side, he learned that Defang was investigating the dili, and he would definitely implicate himself, and after all, the imperial wine was not made by him, so he made a bold decision to immediately notify the dili Shi Bo, and asked him to write to the court, saying that Defang A group of people disappeared in Qinzhou, and they did it for Wang Tongda, and wrote a letter in the name of Xing Changyuan. Kill Defang, then hand over the body to the court, and finally receive the credit himself.

When Defang arrived at the wine shop, Li Yi was checking the situation in the dungeon. He also saw Defang beating the supervisor with a cane, and felt that the matter should be dealt with as soon as possible. He brought Defang into the mansion that day, drugged the wine, and Defang and others were imprisoned. , but he didn't expect that because Defang beat the supervisor with a stick, the wine worker would want to call for help, and he didn't expect that the wine worker would risk his life to rescue Defang and the others, so Li Yi searched desperately, and saw him again on the street. He realized that Mrs. Feng, whom he hated the most, had people come forward to beat him and threaten him.

A few days later, they learned that the imperial army was about to arrive, so they forced the arrested wine worker to tell where Defang was. Unexpectedly, Defang ran out in a moment of anxiety. Just when Defang was about to be arrested, Wang Tongda arrived in time.

A few days after Defang left, Wang Tongda found that the lower-ranking officers had been interacting more frequently with government servants, so he asked the deputy general to follow him, and even intercepted Xing Changyuan's letter. Ignoring the matter of Li Yi and others, the general officer was secretly captured, and he led people to monitor Xing Changyuan. He led the troops to Changdao County by himself. So he led his troops up the mountain and rescued Defang and others in time.

Shi Bo in Beijing wanted to escape, but was betrayed by his wife Fei Shi. Fei Shi was originally the woman Li Yi dedicated to the official Shi Bo, but Fei Shi was extremely disgusted with their affairs. When he saw Defang that day, he wanted to tell What, but was followed by the housekeeper all the time. Later, she accidentally saw the correspondence between Shi Bo and Qinzhou, so she hid the letter. When Shi Bo was arrested, she handed over all the evidence to Yushitai, plus The evidence presented by Qinzhou, Yu Shitai wrote the auspicious case to Emperor Taizong. After reading it, Emperor Taizong was not only angry, but also a little scared. Thinking that a little Li Yi could do this, if there were more such people, wouldn't the court Therefore, he ordered all those involved in the case to be dismissed from office and exiled, their children and grandchildren were not allowed to enter the court, all their property was confiscated, Li Yi was sentenced to beheaded, and all the evil slaves and servants were sentenced to death.Li Shiheng, the son of Li Yi, had been a Jinshi and now serves as the prime minister of Guanglu Temple. Emperor Taizong decreed that he be dismissed from office.