Prosperous Tang Dynasty

Chapter 154 The Catastrophe of Prince Li Heng ([-])
Liu Ji was waiting at home for the news that the prince had been overthrown, when a large group of soldiers rushed in and captured him.

"What are you doing, why are you arresting me? I'm innocent—" Until he was arrested in the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, Liu Ji was still in a daze, not knowing what happened.

"Prime Minister, Your Excellency Prime Minister!" Seeing Yang Guozhong, Liu Jicai's eyes widened.

"Cao Liuji, the guard of Zuo Xiao, you framed the crown prince. You have committed a heinous crime. Hurry up and plead guilty!" Yang Guozhong shouted coldly. He didn't mention to Liu Ji that he and Du Youlin were both involved in the conspiracy of rebellion, only that he framed the prince. Prince this 'fact'.

"Yang Guozhong, you betrayed me!" Liu Ji was furious. He only thought that his false accusation against the prince had been revealed, but he didn't know that Yang Guozhong had also framed him. After losing his chess piece, he still used his chess piece to pull the prince into the water.

"Come here, help Liu Ji draw a detainment!" Yang Guozhong instructed the people to bring the written evidence in front of Liu Ji and force Liu Ji to detain him.

Liu Ji was forcibly restrained by several yamen servants, no matter whether he wanted to be restrained or not.

"No, no, Yang Guozhong, you're going to die!" Liu Ji cursed in grief and anger. He never thought that he would follow Yang Guozhong's words and come out to falsely accuse Du Youlin and the prince, and he would end up like this. Yang Guozhong was using him at all.

No matter what Liu Ji thought, how much he yelled and cursed, Yang Guozhong turned a deaf ear to it, and when he got the criminal evidence of "passing" Liu Ji's painting, Yang Guozhong smiled.

This is the power that his prime minister, Yang Guozhong, now has!
Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty enjoyed himself in the palace, and kept his ears to the outside world. He handed over most of the government affairs to the prime minister. This is not only because he trusted the prime minister he elected, but also handed over too much power to the prime minister.

It would be fine if Tang Xuanzong selected a prime minister who was upright, truly capable, and loyal to the country.Unfortunately, he met Li Linfu and Yang Guozhong successively.

That's right, if he was an upright and truly talented person, he would never look at Tang Xuanzong as tired and lazy, and would definitely persuade Tang Xuanzong, such as Zhang Jiuling back then.

Only people like Li Linfu and Yang Guozhong who have a strong desire for utilitarian rights would wish that Tang Xuanzong would fall, so that he could delegate power to them.

Compared with the prime ministers before the Tang Dynasty, Li Linfu's Yang Guozhong has much greater power.

Li Linfu in the past and Yang Guozhong monopolized the court, but no one dared to oppose them. The reason was Tang Xuanzong's excessive trust in them and their much greater power than normal prime ministers.

They can fabricate excuses at will to destroy a person, such as Liu Ji now, Yang Guozhong didn't even bother to interrogate him, and took the evidence he had drawn up to force Liu Ji to be charged, and he was directly convicted of Liu Ji's crime.

Why this is so, because Liu Ji is just a small person, even if Yang Guozhong fabricated criminal evidence, as long as Tang Xuanzong didn't personally interrogate Liu Ji, Liu Ji would have nowhere to complain.

At the beginning, Li Linfu had no choice but to take Yang Guozhong. Apart from Concubine Yang, Tang Xuanzong valued Yang Guozhong. Yang Guozhong, what he needs is ironclad evidence that Yang Guozhong cannot deny.

Like the current Li Fei, he is also protected by Concubine Yang Gui. Tang Xuanzong also valued Li Fei more, and had a good impression of Li Fei.

No matter how powerful Yang Guozhong is, once Li Fei has something to do, not to mention whether Tang Xuanzong will intervene, once Yang Guifei intervenes, Li Fei will have to be convicted with ironclad evidence that Li Fei cannot deny his grievances in person, so Yang Guozhong can't be like now Just like slandering Liu Ji at will, he designed to slander Li Fei.

Don't talk about Li Fei.

Li Bai was often called into the palace by Tang Xuanzong to help Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei write poems. He was treated as a strange person by Tang Xuanzong.Once something happens to Li Bai, there is a [-]% to [-]% possibility that Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei will intervene in person, so although Li Bai's official position is low, Yang Guozhong also dare not frame him at will.

Of course, in Yang Guozhong's eyes, Li Bai was just a "scholar" with a low official position, and he couldn't even go to the imperial court. Yang Guozhong hated him the most.

Only Li Fei is the thorn in Yang Guozhong's side.

Oh, it seems that there is one more person now, Li Fei's father-in-law Lin Siming just stepped into the court not long ago.As Li Fei's father-in-law, he was naturally categorized by Yang Guozhong as Li Fei's gang. He was also the object of Yang Guozhong's suppression and disgust, but Lin Siming was relatively low-key, and Yang Guozhong's energy was mainly concentrated on Li Fei, bringing Li Fei down. Lin Siming is just an ant.

After Liu Ji 'confessed and pleaded guilty', he 'suicided himself in fear of crime' that night.

On the second day, the criminal evidence of "passing" Liu Ji's painting appeared in front of Tang Xuanzong.The above stated unabashedly that Liu Ji and Du Youlin had indeed falsely claimed to be a prophecy in private, talked about Tang Xuanzong's fault, wanted to support the crown prince, and so on, which was almost the same as rebellion.

"Your Majesty, I don't know if the crown prince will participate, or he can be removed, but Du Youlin and Liu Ji have conclusive evidence of their crimes. I would like to ask your Majesty how to deal with it, and whether to continue to investigate?" Yang Guozhong said cautiously. The so-called continued in-depth investigation is natural. It is to point directly at the prince Li Heng, and directly investigate the prince Li Heng.

Tang Xuanzong trusted Yang Guozhong too much, and he didn't doubt Yang Guozhong's words at all.

Tang Xuanzong frowned, his face very gloomy.

If the investigation continues, the final result is likely to have to abolish the prince.Tang Xuanzong was old, and he didn't want to abolish the prince and cause Chaogang chaos.He didn't want the prince to have too many delusions that he shouldn't have, he just hoped that the prince would be his own prince honestly.

Tang Xuanzong would be unable to make a choice for a while.

Yang Guozhong didn't dare to urge him, so he retreated quietly with interest.Anyway, he has already dug a hole, the important thing depends on Tang Xuanzong's wishes.If Tang Xuanzong felt that Li Heng was no longer qualified to be the prince and wanted to change the prince, he would then be able to overthrow the prince Li Heng.

Outside the palace, due to Liu Ji's "suicide in fear of crime", Liu Ji and Du Youlin's charges of "falsely claiming to prophesy and intending to coerce the prince into treason" have been confirmed.

Although the prince Li Heng has not been implicated at this moment, it is enough to make Li Heng feel uneasy, unable to sleep at night, for fear that when he wakes up, he will wait for the imperial father's decree to abolish the prince.

The princes who were deposed in the past dynasties did not have a good end, how could Li Heng not be afraid.

"Father, my son has never been against you. Why are you always jealous of my son, allowing Li Linfu and the current Yang Guozhong to suppress and frame me. If you didn't believe me, why did you entrust me to do it?" This prince!" Li Heng was filled with grief and indignation.

Li Heng sat paralyzed on the threshold of the East Palace hall, and remained silent.His expression was sad for a while, and then dark for a while.
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(End of this chapter)