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Wei Zheng, Li Xiaogong, Wang, Sun Fujia, and Liu Zhenghui rushed into the palace to meet Li Shimin and had three issues to report: First, Zhang Zhong’s false testimony proved that there must be a powerful person behind him. The queen and the noble concubine are related to the poisoning case.Second, Zhang Zhong's perjury evidence shows that this case is very responsible, not as simple as imagined, and there may be third-party forces involved.Third, Han Wang Li Ke may have been framed and wronged.

Therefore, when Wei Zheng, Li Xiaogong, Wang, Sun Fujia, and Liu Zheng told Li Shimin the conclusion they got at the coroner's room of Dali Temple today and their guesses in the imperial study room, Li Shimin's face changed rarely, but he still didn't speak. , just silently looking at the autopsy report in front of him.Li Shimin didn't speak, and everyone in the imperial study didn't dare to speak. They didn't know what the emperor was thinking, and they were afraid that they might say the wrong thing, so they could only express silence.

After a long time, Wei Zheng still broke the silence. He asked in a low voice, "Your Majesty, what do you think about this case?"

"Xuan Cheng!" Li Shimin looked at Wei Zheng and sighed, "I leave this case to you to handle, and you tell me what you think."

"Investigate" Wei Zheng's firm tone did not allow others to question, "First of all, we will start to investigate from the palace. Your Majesty, even the servants in the palace can give false testimony to trap the King of Han. What else can they do? Besides, the maid Xianglan was killed in the palace. In the palace, it can be seen that the murderer must have an internal response in the palace, if there is no internal cause, then his power is huge, for this person who can use such a great power to do whatever he wants, the emperor cannot condone and raise rape, and cannot let him go."

Wei Zheng's words are as firm as his person and his style of doing things. At the same time, his words also made everyone in the imperial study sigh in their hearts. After all, everyone is not stupid. They know that there are not many people in the palace who can order the servants to give false testimony. And it is even more difficult for a servant like Zhang Zhong who has a certain level in the medicinal food room to instruct him. If he wants to investigate to the end, it will definitely be difficult, and even so many people will be implicated.Therefore, although Wei Zheng's words were firm, everyone did not agree with him, even Li Shimin did not agree with him in time.

"Your Majesty, what Secretary Wei said is right, this matter must be thoroughly investigated to the end, we can't condone traitors!" Sun Fujia said when Li Shimin was silent.

He was not in a hurry to express his attitude after Wei Zheng had finished speaking. He weighed in his heart whether a strict investigation of this matter would be beneficial to Li Ke, and he only spoke to support Wei Zheng after he found that the strict investigation would do Li Ke more good than harm.

"Your Majesty, please rest assured. As the Minister of Dali Temple, Dali Temple is also in charge of the prison affairs of the Tang Dynasty. I will cooperate with Secretary Wei to find out the real culprit. I will never condone the adulterer. After all, I will bring him to justice." Sun Fujia continued.

Sun Fujia's words are not expressing his own attitude, nor proving his own determination, but proving his innocence to Li Shimin and the innocence of Dali Temple. At the same time, the hidden meaning in his words is unspoken And Yu just wanted to tell Liu Zhenghui that if he didn't support a strict investigation to the end, then there must be something wrong with the Ministry of Punishment and Liu Zhenghui.

Liu Zhenghui is naturally not a fool, and he could hear the meaning of Sun Fujia's words. When Sun Fujia finished speaking, he did not hesitate to say hastily, "Your Majesty, I will cooperate with Secretary Wei to investigate to the end, and we must find out The real mastermind and real murderer."

"Your Majesty, I support the strict investigation!" Li Xiaogong said.

"Your majesty, I also support the strict investigation to the end!" Wang said.

When Wei Zheng spoke, Sun Fujia and Liu Zhenghui supported him, and Wang and Li Xiaogong hurriedly expressed their attitudes.

The five people in front of them, except Liu Zhenghui, have not been with Li Shimin's monarch and ministers for a long time, so they naturally don't understand what Li Shimin is thinking now. There is nothing I can do if I don't support it in my heart, I can only order a strict investigation to the end.

"As Xuancheng said, check!" Li Shimin said in a deep voice, he bit the word "check" very hard, which also showed his own determination.

"The minister leads the decree!" Wei Zheng hurriedly bowed and shouted.

Then, Wei Zheng said again, "Your Majesty, since Zhang Zhong dared to frame His Highness the King of Han, I believe that someone must have intentionally framed His Highness the King of Han. Therefore, I implore the Emperor to lift the ban on His Highness the King of Han and allow him to freely enter and leave the palace. "

Wei Zheng is a person who hates evil, but he is also a person with overflowing sympathy. When he saw Li Ke being wronged and framed, he knew that this case might be a deliberate attempt to put Li Ke to death. Now that Li Shimin promised to investigate to the end , he asked Li Shimin and Li Ke to lift the ban.

"Xuan Cheng, this case hasn't been clarified yet, so it's not appropriate to lift Li Ke's ban on the mansion now, let him stay in the mansion first!" Li Shimin said lightly, "It's okay for me to lift it after the case is fully investigated and the truth is revealed." Not too late."

However, Li Shimin, whom Wei Zheng and everyone did not expect, did not agree to Wei Zheng's request at all. The meaning of Li Shimin's words is obvious. He thinks it is too early to judge that Li Ke has been wronged and framed.

Since Li Shimin didn't agree, Wei Zheng didn't force him anymore, and he bowed and agreed, "I understand!"

Li Shimin admired Wei Zheng's character and talent very much, but he just didn't expect that Wei Zheng would suddenly intercede with Li Ke today, so he couldn't help but look at Wei Zheng a few more times, seeing that Wei Zheng was still the same Wei Zheng, he stopped thinking about it.

"Xuan Cheng, I will entrust this case to the five of you. From now on, I will not inquire about this case during your investigation process. I only want the result. As for who you need to interrogate and use during the investigation, You don't need to ask me for instructions, I will give you privileges." Li Shimin said suddenly.

He naturally knew that his servant Zhang Zhong was so bold as to frame Li Ke, there must be someone behind it who had premeditated, and the mastermind who could instruct Zhang Zhong must have a lot of power and power. If he asked too much in the process of investigating the case, he might affect the outcome of the investigation.Therefore, he handed over the rights to Wei Zheng and others, and he believed that Wei Zheng would not let him down.

"Your servant understands that he will definitely live up to the high expectations of the emperor!" Wei Zheng and other five people did not understand Li Shimin's intentions, and said with a bow.

"Then you all go down!" Li Shimin said lightly, and Wei Zheng and the other five bowed out of the imperial study.Li Shimin still stood where he was after the five people left the imperial study room. He watched the door of the imperial study room being gently closed, and thought of what Li Ke and he had said in the imperial study room alone last night.

Wei Zheng, Li Xiaogong, Wang, Sun Fujia, and Liu Zhenghui and other five people came out of the imperial room and began to discuss how to proceed. In the end, the result of everyone's discussion was to go home for dinner first, and then gather at Dali Temple for a sudden trial at night Zhang Zhong.Everyone knew in their hearts that since the emperor dared to delegate power to them and bluntly said that he only wanted the result and would not ask about the process, then his decision was self-evident, and at the same time he was telling himself to solve the case as soon as possible.Therefore, Wei Zheng, Li Xiaogong, Wang, Sun Fujia, and Liu Zhenghui didn't dare to be negligent. They went home for dinner after they came out of the palace.

At the time of Xu, the carriage frames of Wei Zheng, Li Xiaogong, Wang, Sun Fujia, and Liu Zhenghui appeared at the gate of Dali Temple at the same time. After getting off the carriage, the five smiled at each other and gave way to each other. In the end, Wei Zheng and Li Xiaogong met Under the leadership, he strode into Dali Temple.

The guards of Dali Temple saw the five people and hurriedly saluted. Dali Temple Qing Sun Fujia was not hypocritical, and ordered Zhang Zhong to be escorted to the lobby in public, saying that Zhang Zhong would be tried again in the lobby. In the end, the guards did not dare to neglect. Five people came to the lobby, and the rest went to the dungeon to escort the prisoners.Wei Zheng, Li Xiaogong, Wang, Sun Fujia, Liu Zhenghui and other five people sat down in order of priority, and the guards stood up step by step. Wei Zheng suddenly said, "It is thanks to Dai Zhou, Shaoqing of Dali Temple, that we can make such outstanding progress in today's case. No, besides, Dai Zhou is proficient in law, punishment and prison, I want to summon him to the hall for trial, what do you guys think?"

Wei Zheng served as the presiding judge, and almost no one objected to his words, so Sun Fujia ordered the guards to summon Dai Zhou, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, and the guards took orders to leave, and Shao Qing led Dai Zhou to the lobby.Dai Zhou came to the lobby to salute everyone, Wei Zheng told him the details, Dai Zhou bowed to accept the order, sat on a chair that had been prepared and waited for the hearing.

As soon as Dai Zhou took his seat, he saw an officer stumbling into the lobby, but before he could speak, Sun Fujia, who was sitting in the second seat from the right, was dissatisfied with the officer's behavior and reprimanded, "How decent is it for you to rush in the lobby without any courtesy?"

"Secretary Superintendent Wei, all jurors, the prisoner Zhang Zhong died in his cell!"

"What?" Wei Zhengteng stood up from his chair and asked sternly, "Say it again?"

The rest of the people such as Li Xiaogong, Wang, Liu Zhenghui and Sun Fujia also stared at the officer in disbelief. If Wei Zheng hadn't asked him to say it again, they would have said the same thing.And the one who was really surprised was Dai Zhou. He didn't think how could Zhang Zhong die silently in the heavily guarded dungeon that he carefully arranged and arranged?

"Zhang Zhong, Zhang Zhong, he died in the cell!" The guard stammered frightened by Wei Zheng's aura, "When we went to the dungeon to escort Zhang Zhong, he was sleeping quietly against the wall of the dungeon, but we We called him several times and he refused to answer us, and finally we found something wrong and went in to check and found that he was out of breath."

"Are you sure that Zhang Zhong is dead? How long has he been dead? Is he still rescued?" Dai Zhou said hastily. At this time, he also ignored Wei Zheng who was sitting in the main seat, and hurriedly asked.

"Hurry up and take us to the cell!" Wei Zheng also said hastily, and his people had already left the main seat in the lobby.