Wentang

Chapter 635

As soon as Li Shimin came out of the East Palace with a group of important ministers, he saw a warrior rushing over to report: "Saint, Sun Fujia, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, asked to see him, saying that there was an attack on the crown prince reported."

"Huh?" Li Shimin frowned, is it related to the attack on the prince?Isn't Wang Zhen responsible for this matter?Why did Sun Fujia come to report?
Could it be that he deliberately passed Wang Zhen to report the case in order to fight for merit?

It's not just Li Shimin who thinks this way, almost everyone else here thinks the same way, and their impression of Sun Fujia suddenly drops several levels.

If it was something else, Li Shimin would have refused to see him this time, but it was related to the attack on the prince, so after thinking about it, he was brought in.

It's just that his attitude became worse. After Sun Fujia saluted, he didn't respond at all, and said directly: "What about Wang Zhen? Isn't he responsible for this case? Why are you reporting the situation?"

Sun Fujia could also understand why Li Shimin had a bad attitude towards him, but he didn't panic, but said: "Wang Zhengqing is involved in this case, and the officials in charge of interrogating the prisoners came to this minister at a loss, and I dare not make decisions. Can come to see the saint."

"What?" Li Shimin suddenly changed color.

"This is the confession of the prisoner. Please read it to the saint." After all, Wang Zhen was his superior, and Sun Fujia didn't say much after setting himself aside, and directly presented the confession.

Li Shimin didn't care about his image anymore, and before Zhao Meng could turn around, he came to Sun Fujia in three steps at a time, grabbed the confession and quickly flipped through it.

The more you look at his face, the more gloomy and cold, and finally said in a piercing voice: "Wang Zhen, what a Wang Zhen, I must tear your body into thousands of pieces to relieve the hatred in my heart."

Everyone else showed expressions of disbelief. Wasn't it a few human traffickers who attacked the prince?How did you get in the car with Wang Zhen?Could it be that he still does the business of buying people in private?
Probably not. With his status and status, doing any business casually is more profitable than buying people. How could he risk the world's disgrace to do people trading.

Wait, traffickers?

All of the people present were bigwigs from the imperial court, with a seven-aperture exquisite heart, and soon thought of one thing.

The case of Chi Dengsong's son privately buying a good family as a slave is also the only chance for Wang Zhen to get involved with human traffickers.The one who attacked the prince and the one who sold him to the Chi family couldn't be the same group, right?It can't be such a coincidence, can it?

Gao Shilian obviously thought of this, his old face suddenly became extremely stiff.

After reading it, Li Shimin angrily threw the confession to Xiao Yu, saying: "Look at it too, this is Dali Siqing, does he still have Wang Fa in his eyes?"

Xiao Yu picked up the confession and flipped through it, looked at Gao Shilian and sighed, then handed the confession to Yang Shidao.Yang Shidao also took a look at Gao Shilian after reading it, and handed the confession to Wei Zheng...

At this time, even those who have not read the confession can almost guess what is written on it, and Gao Shilian's heart has sunk to the bottom of the abyss.

But he was still holding on to his last sliver of hope, he just hoped that things were not as bad as he thought.

Soon the confession was delivered to him, and he picked it up with shaking hands and read it with difficulty, closing his eyes in pain.

According to the confession, this group of human traffickers has been engaged in buying people for more than ten years, and they sold a good family to the Chi family as servants two months ago.

Later, it was discovered that the officials were sued, and the lawsuit went to Dali Temple. Wang Zhen suppressed this matter out of the unspoken rules of mutual protection between officials and officials.

There are fixed procedures for judging cases, and both the sufferer and the victim are indispensable, at least on the surface.

Since the Chi family was not punished, there was no way to punish this group of traffickers for the crime of buying people.

At this time, there are only two ways to deal with traffickers.One is to keep them in a big prison and leave them alone, and when they die, everything will be fine.Another way is for traffickers to pay for their lives.

Obviously, these traffickers chose the second method, so Wang Zhen let them go.The trafficker who injured Li Chengqian belonged to two of them.

This group of people lay dormant for a while, waiting for everyone to forget about the Chi family and come out to commit crimes again.As a result, this happened.

It can only be said that one drink and one peck is destined.

Does this matter have anything to do with Wang Zhen?Is it related to Gao Shilian?Strictly speaking no.

Isn't it just buying a few people and forcing a few ordinary people to death? This is nothing serious.

Wang Zhen was not wrong to protect the interests of the bureaucracy, and Gao Shilian was not wrong to protect his younger brother.This was the reason why Li Shimin was unwilling to punish Wang Zhen at the beginning.

If Yue Shan hadn't said in front of everyone that he wanted to fight the Chi family forever, Li Shimin would not even be willing to punish the Chi family.Later, in order to save face for his son-in-law, Chi Dengsong was demoted as an official.

However, people have double standards.

If your king really handled the case impartially and killed those traffickers, the prince would not be injured.If you, Gao Shilian, hadn't defended Chi Dengsong, these traffickers would have been sentenced to death long ago...

So the same thing and the same way of dealing with it, Wang Zhen and Gao Shilian were both normal behaviors before, but now they are heinous crimes.

At this time, Gao Shilian was also full of remorse. The prince is his grandson who is directly related to the prosperity and wealth of the Gao family, but now he is facing lameness because of his selfishness.

Regardless of how many coincidences there are, he cannot escape the blame.

Standing up tremblingly from the seat, he said with difficulty: "I don't know who I am, please be punished by the sage."

"What is Xu Guogong talking about? Isn't the matter investigated yet? Don't rush to take responsibility on yourself." Li Shimin said coldly, and then said to Zhao Meng:

"Go and tell Yue Shan to transfer the criminals to the six gates and make sure nothing happens to them. Sun Fujia, you also go to assist Qing Shuihou in handling this matter."

"Here." Sun Fujia and Zhao Meng led the order to withdraw and trot all the way to deal with this matter.

Although Wang Zhen may not dare to kill people to silence him, he has to guard against it.

When the two left, Li Shimin was not in the mood to continue the discussion, and said: "The war in the north will be carried out according to what was discussed just now, and the Privy Council is fully responsible, so you don't need to ask me for instructions."

After speaking, he turned and left, leaving only a group of people with different thoughts.

For Gao Shilian's experience, some people regret, some gloat, some are happy to see it, and some are worried.But no matter what kind of thoughts he has, he always looks sympathetic to his face.

Soon everyone dispersed, leaving only Gao Shilian and Changsun Wuji behind.

Changsun Wuji looked at his uncle, who had aged ten years in an instant, with complicated emotions.He also blamed Gao Shilian in his heart, but he was also a foreign relative and didn't want him to fall down, so he said: "Uncle, let's go see your mother."

Gao Shilian shook his head and said sadly: "I don't have the face to see my mother. I will formally resign tomorrow morning... From now on, my mother will rely on you to protect me."

"Have you decided yet?"

"I'm old and it's time to retire, and after I retire, the saint should let you take my place. It's the same for both of us, nephew and uncle."

"Besides, the prince's attack and the vision from the sky, you can't pass by killing two ruffians, you have to take a few important ministers to block the mouths of the world... There is no one more suitable than me. "

"But there is one thing I want to remind you."

"You say."

"Don't get into disputes with Yue Shan, the crown prince's safety is in his hands, even if there is a conflict with him right now, you have to give in, everything will wait until the crown prince recovers."

Speaking of this, he said meaningfully: "You must know that he has a way to retreat. The more we retreat, the greater our disadvantage."

What he said was endless, but Changsun Wuji knew it clearly.

There are many princes, but only two can be princes, Li Chengqian and Li Tai.

No matter which one is the prince, it is a good thing for their foreign relatives, but there are also close and distant relations among foreign relatives.

Li Tai's concubine is Yue Shan's younger sister, Yue Shui'er, and the only concubine.If he becomes the crown prince, then the status of the Yue family will be too prominent.So Li Chengqian being the prince is the best situation for them.

Right now, Li Chengqian's safety is in Yue Shan's hands, so Gao Shilian said not to conflict with him.If you force him to think that he shouldn't have, it will be troublesome.

To be honest, if it weren't for Yue Shan's good performance in the past and his high credibility, based on his relationship with Li Tai, it would be impossible for him to be fully responsible for Li Chengqian's treatment.

The emperor was worried, and neither were the ministers. Who knows if he would create some small accidents that would make Li Chengqian limping, so as to support Li Tai in power.

It was precisely because of his good performance in the past that he gained everyone's trust that everyone was relieved to hand over Li Chengqian to him.

It can be said that apart from Yue Shan, there is no one in the whole court who has such a high degree of credibility and can win the trust of everyone.

This is also the biggest achievement for him to act according to his heart and stick to the bottom line since time travel.

……

With six doors, Yue Shan is studying anatomy with Sun Simiao, Hong Ling, and a dozen specially selected radicals from the medical school—of course, he is only providing ideas, not participating in the actual operation.

In the prison, a spacious and bright room was specially selected to be transformed into a laboratory, and all kinds of urgently made equipment were neatly arranged.

A dozen of the best doctors of this era began to work around the five corpses.

For the imperial court, there are as many fresh corpses as there are... For example, the corpses of several death row prisoners just died in the prison and no one claimed them.

Yue Shan left before the autopsy began. He could watch the execution and beheading, but he couldn't stand the autopsy, which would make him feel the fear from his soul.

So he just gave some suggestions based on the superficial knowledge he learned in biology books back then, plus some scattered knowledge he read from the Internet.

For example, what is epidermis, endothelium (or inner skin?) He can't tell the difference, and then muscles, capillaries, large blood vessels, bones and so on.

Categorize these things to find out, and then study how to operate to minimize damage, most conducive to recovery, and so on.

Say what you know, and leave the rest to these doctors. It's useless for him to stay, and maybe it will be a disservice.

After he came out of the laboratory, he was not idle, and called Chen Yu and Wu Yuanqing over to ask about the situation of the six doors.

Naturally, it was Chen Yu who reported to him: "Except for a few particularly remote places, branches have been set up in most parts of the country, and they have tried to investigate and solve many cases, but..."

"Just what?"

"The local yamen refused to cooperate with our work, and even obstructed our handling of the case."

"It's not surprising that a nascent department is not so well received."

"The main thing is that there are overlapping functions and powers, and the court has not made it clear who is superior and who is inferior. When encountering a case, they either push each other's excuses or compete with each other."

"You don't need to put eye drops on those people. Even if the sage decreed that the six gates should be respected, it can't prevent them from stumbling in the ground."

"But if there is an order from the court, we will be famous for our teachers, and the work will be easier to do."

"Want more power? Yes, you can make achievements first so that the court can see the importance of you. It's useless to rely on words alone."

"What the commander-in-chief said was that I was about to ask you for instructions. The formation work has been completed. Can we start cracking down on abductions?"

"Haha..." Yue Shan laughed and said, "So you were waiting for me here. I thought I was in a hurry, but I didn't expect you to be more anxious than me."

"Brothers, you have been holding your breath and wanting to do something big, so you will be proud of yourself." Chen Yu smiled obsequiously.

"This matter is too involved. We can't do it with our six doors alone. I will ask the saint for his will in a few days. Remember, don't act casually to startle the snake." Yue Shan said.

"Don't worry, the commander-in-chief, brothers, be careful. They have been collecting evidence quietly all the time, and there is no plan to expose it." Chen Yu said.

"That's good."

The two were chatting, so they heard the news from their subordinates that Zhao Meng and Sun Fujia came to visit together.

How did these two get together?Yue Shan was puzzled, got up and went to the door.

When he saw that Zhao Meng knew the whole story, he also had a feeling that he didn't know what to say.

After going around and around, I finally returned to the original point.

He also knew the seriousness of the matter, and without wasting time, he ordered directly: "Wu Yuanqing, you personally go to the prison of Dali Temple with a team to bring the prisoner back. If anyone dares to stop him, kill him immediately."

"Here." Wu Yuanqing immediately ordered Qi's men and horses to go straight to the prison of Dali Temple under the leadership of Sun Fujia.

Just entering the prison, Wu Yuanqing, who took the lead, stopped suddenly.Sun Fujia was wondering, and when he looked up, his face became particularly ugly.

Because they suddenly saw Wang Zhenzhen sitting in front of the first door of the cell, watching them quietly.

"Hehe." Seeing them, Wang Zhen said with a smile: "You guys came a little later than I calculated."

"I've met Wang Zhengqing." Even though he felt that something was wrong, Sun Fujia still stood up and saluted.

Before the imperial court officially removed Wang Zhen from his official position, he was still the Minister of Dali Temple, and Sun Fujia, an assistant official, had to salute him.

"Sun Shaoqing, I, Wang Zhen, don't think I've offended you, but you dug a big hole for me today." Wang Zhen's face slowly sank.

"Current events force me to hope that Wang Zhengqing will forgive me." Sun Fujia straightened his waist and said solemnly.

"Indeed, I would do the same." Wang Zhen nodded, looked at Wu Yuanqing and said, "People from the Six Doors, are you here to pick up criminals?"

Wu Yuanqing said with a cold face: "Just know it, get out of the way quickly."

"The tone is really aggressive. I didn't guess that this should be Wu Yuanqing, the eldest son of Ying Guogong's family, right? You do have a reason to speak ill of me. If it were me, I would wish to draw my sword and chop him off." Wang Zhen was not angry, chuckled lightly.

"Stop talking nonsense, and quickly hand over the prisoner." Wu Yuanqing shouted.

After knowing the truth of the matter, he really hated Wang.After reconciling with Wu Chang's mother and daughter, he has completely entered the role of the prince's brother-in-law. Li Chengqian is related to the life and death of the Wu family.

Li Chengqian, who was harmed by Li Chengqian, was in danger of limping, and he wished to kill everyone involved.

Even though there was a huge disparity in status between the two parties, his attitude towards Wang Zhen was still very rude, and he did not treat the other party as a big shot at all.

"I know what you are worried about, don't worry, I will not do such a thing as silence. There are so many people involved in the case, killing them two will not help, it will only anger the saint." Wang Zhen said:

"I came here today just to see with my own eyes what kind of characters these two trapped me and the Jedi. To be honest, I am very disappointed."

Speaking of this, he smiled wryly and said: "I, Wang Zhen, never thought that I was not defeated by the backstabbing of political enemies, but fell into the hands of these two ruffians. It's time to die."

Wu Yuanqing sneered: "It's really sad that you don't know why you lost until now."

"Oh?" Wang Zhen said in surprise: "Could it be that there is a cause and effect that I don't know? I also ask Wu Dalang for advice."

Wu Yuanqing snorted coldly and said, "When Yue Shan impeached you for lax enforcement of the law, if you could realize your mistakes and correct them in time, you wouldn't be here today."

"There are gods in the three feet of giants. It's not that the time has not come, but now is your retribution."

Wang Zhen frowned, and said: "What does Wu Dalang mean by this? I don't understand?"

Wu Yuanqing didn't intend to continue explaining to him, and said: "You don't understand even if you say it, and people like you who never treat ordinary people as human beings will never understand."

After Wu Yuanqing led the people directly past him and walked to the depths of the cell, Sun Fujia cupped his hands at Wang Zhen and quickly chased after him.

Only Wang Zhen was left with a puzzled look on his face.

He understood what Wu Yuanqing said, but he couldn't understand it.Was it true that Yue Shan impeached him and Chi Dengsong just to seek justice for an unknown 'untouchable'?Instead of fighting for the control of Dali Temple?

He doesn't believe it.

Wu Yuanqing trotted all the way to the cell where the two prisoners were held, and was relieved to find that they were indeed still alive.

After checking the bodies of the two prisoners and confirming that there were no fatal hidden injuries, he immediately led them back to the six doors.

When I went out, I found that Wang Zhen was still sitting there with a puzzled expression on his face, as if he had encountered some difficult problem that he couldn't figure out.

Wu Yuanqing ignored him and walked out with the people.

Wu Yuanqing heaved a sigh of relief after successfully bringing the prisoner to the six gates, and then went to Yue Shan to return to his life.

Knowing that the criminal was brought, Yue Shan directly ordered: "Interrogate overnight and arrest the two accomplices."

……

Early the next morning, Yue Shan brought the materials he had prepared in advance to the Xuanzheng Hall to attend the small court meeting.

The atmosphere of today's court meeting is very serious, and the ministers who usually talk a lot have become taciturn, and there is not even a smile on their faces.

The news that the crown prince was attacked by a vision from the sky yesterday has spread all over the capital. Anyone who is not stupid knows that there will be great turmoil in today's court meeting, and it depends on who is unlucky.At this time, no one dared to jump out and be that fool.

"Haha..." Just as everyone was thinking this, they suddenly heard laughter from one part of the crowd.

Everyone looked around after hearing the reputation, and soon found that person, it was Xu Jingzong from Zhongshushe.

Those who were originally standing with him were like avoiding snakes and scorpions, and they all dispersed with a 'crash', for fear of being thought of as a gang.

Xu Jingzong didn't seem to realize what was wrong at all, he was out of breath with a smile, and said: "You... you guys... look quickly, the appearance of Bachelor Ouyang... is really strange, it's the first time I've seen him in my life. To such a wonderful man."

As soon as this remark came out, Ouyang Xun was so ashamed and angry, he raised his crutches and called Xu Jingzong: "You shameless boy, I will fight you."

Fortunately, he was stopped by the people around him, otherwise he didn't know if he could hit Xu Jingzong, and he might have injured himself.After all, I am an old man in his 80s, and it is difficult to do normal activities, let alone beat someone.

Seeing that Xu Jingzong was still laughing, some officials who couldn't stand it couldn't help scolding him: "If you don't even know how to respect the old and love the young, you are in vain as a scholar."

Xu Jingzong argued: "Hey, you don't want to wrong people. I said that Bachelor Ouyang's appearance is strange and not like ordinary people. This is a compliment. Don't wrong people."

"You...shameless." The official was also very angry.

At this moment, Wei Zheng and the others couldn't stand it any longer, and shouted: "That's enough, Xu Sheren, I will join you in the court to mock your colleagues for their inappropriate behavior, I hope you will take care of yourself."

"Wei Xianggong, I was wrong, please calm down, I will apologize to Bachelor Ouyang." Xu Jingzong was startled, and immediately changed his arrogance just now, and said flatteringly.

"No need, the old man can't bear it." Before Wei Zheng could answer, Ouyang Xun refused loudly, then walked aside and ignored him.

Yue Shan watched the farce from the side, very speechless.

How could Xu Jingzong not know, Wu Zetian's number one confidant, a famous treacherous minister in history.

He is a real treacherous minister, and he was not discredited because he took refuge in Wu Zetian.

During the Zhenguan period, he was responsible for compiling the history of the country. It was really a matter of deleting and commenting on the history of the previous dynasty at will. After his death, the court had to abolish the set of history books written by him and re-write a new set.

And this person is very strange, he can only use two words to describe what he does: self-willed.

The eldest grandson Wugou died of illness, he laughed at Ouyang Xun's strange looks at the funeral, and he was discovered by someone who was so loud when he was young, and then he was demoted.

But I have to say that he is indeed talented, the key is that he has no integrity, he was a bit accurate when he was an official, and flattered the emperor unprincipled.The emperor can do whatever he asks, and he can do things beautifully.

So later Li Shimin promoted him again.

If you are a normal person, you should learn a lesson from being demoted before.He didn't, when Li Shimin died, the stink problem happened again.

Li Zhi was so angry that he demoted him again.

Later, he ingratiated himself with Wu Zetian and regained his reuse, and he was Wu Zetian's confidant until his death.

In the original history, the eldest grandson Wugou was already sick at this time, but in this life, Yueshan brought Sun Simiao here, and gathered a large number of famous doctors to research the asthma medicine. Her body is very healthy.

It is unlikely that Xu Jingzong will be disrespectful at her funeral again, but he does not know whether it is fate or the inertia of history.This kind of thing still happened, but the context changed.

It's not the funeral of the eldest grandson Wugou, but Li Chengqian's injury and solar eclipse.

But no matter which background, for Xu Jingzong, the result is the same.

All the civil and military officials in the Manchu Dynasty were worried about the injury of the prince. You, Xu Jingzong, laughed and mocked an official in his 80s for being ugly. If you don’t demote your official, who will you demote?
For people like Xu Jingzong, Yue Shan didn't have any good impressions.In his previous life, he got up twice after being demoted. Yue Shan decided not to give him a chance to do sit-ups, but beat him to death once.

It's just that he didn't tell anyone about this idea, and he didn't act in a hurry. A person like Xu Jingzong can list dozens of crimes in a random search, and all of them are capital crimes.

It will be easy for him to be dealt with after he is demoted.

This episode didn't affect anything. It didn't take long for the palace gate to open and everyone lined up to enter the Xuanzheng Hall.

The first thing in the court was that Wei Zheng impeached Xu Jingzong for mocking his colleagues and behaving inappropriately.

In fact, Li Shimin already knew what happened outside the door, and he already had a plan in mind.Without hesitation at the moment, Xu Jingzong was demoted directly to Sima of Yizhou Dudufu on Lingnan West Road.

Xu Jingzong immediately begged for mercy on his knees as if mourning, but no one in the court spoke up for him, so the matter became a foregone conclusion.

After Xu Jingzong's matter was dealt with, he began to deal with the solar eclipse.

Although the imperial court had started to spread rumors yesterday that the astronomical phenomenon was caused by the prince's injury, it was after all a private rumor.

An official explanation must be given, and it must be interpreted by Tai Shiling himself. Only in this way can it have legal significance and be recognized by everyone.

Li Shimin personally called the names, Taishi ordered Fu Yi to stand up and say a lot of words that no one could understand, and finally came to a conclusion: the prince is a man of destiny, and the solar eclipse phenomenon appeared because of his injury.

No one dared to question this statement.

The crown prince was indeed injured, and the solar eclipse happened at that time, only this one explanation can make sense, and there must be only this one explanation, anyone who dares to disagree will die.

After reaching a consensus on the solar eclipse, it was natural to deal with the prince's attack.

Before Li Shimin could speak, Wang Zhen, the minister of Dali Temple, stood up and knelt down on the ground, saying: "I have committed a crime, please be punished severely by the sage."

　Seven thousand nine thousand words are updated every day, how about asking for a ticket in a low voice?

　　
　
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