Wentang

Chapter 636: Court Discussion
Wang Zhen suddenly jumped out and said that he was guilty, which really shocked many people.What's wrong?
But before they figured it out, something more impactful happened.

Gao Shilian also stood up and said: "I don't know people well and employ people improperly, which eventually led to today's disaster. I really have no words to list above the court. Please allow me to beg for bones, sage."

"Om." Even though the atmosphere in the court was very depressed because of the prince's attack, Gao Shilian's resignation still caused a sensation, and everyone whispered to each other to find out what was going on.

"Quiet, quiet." In the end, the dog leg Zhao Meng immediately stood up and reprimanded loudly, and it took two consecutive sips before everyone gradually quieted down.

It can be seen how much impact this matter had on them.

Gao Shilian is the queen's uncle and number one relative. Does his resignation cause disharmony between the queen and the queen?Or did the sage finally feel that the queen was too powerful and wanted to curb it?
Li Shimin could roughly guess what these people were thinking, but he just didn't bother to pay attention.However, Gao Shilian was the prime minister or the queen's uncle after all, so he still had to give face, and he couldn't just resign directly.

So he comforted him: "Chi Dengsong is guilty of this matter, and has nothing to do with Xu Guogong and you. The court cannot do without a veteran like you. It's best not to mention the matter of begging for bones after taking office."

Gao Shilian said gratefully: "Thank you saint for your kindness, I am grateful."

He did not continue to resign.

Three words and three concessions, once yesterday and only twice today, if you force the emperor to approve your resignation, you will lose face and face.Wait until tomorrow to ask for resignation once, and make up three times to be considered etiquette.

First, Wang Zhen said that he was guilty, then Gao Shilian said that he had to resign because he did not know anyone well, and the emperor said that Chi Dengsong was guilty...Could it be that the case of the Chi family is going to be retried?
The ministers began to guess the whole story in their hearts.

But I don't think it should be. It's been two months since this matter was revealed again?Could it be that Yue Shan was dissatisfied with the verdict and reversed the verdict again?

Up to this time, no one had guessed that this matter was related to the attack on the prince.

Only a small group of people who attacked the prince had something to do with the case of buying Liangren from the Chi family two months ago.

Either they are big shots from the DPRK and China, they naturally won't talk too much and spread the news casually.

Or it was the officials who came into contact with this matter. Those officials were all people who knew the way of survival. Even if they were given ten guts, they would not dare to talk about it. At least no one dared to spread it before the matter was a foregone conclusion.

Without being reminded, it is difficult for the average person to connect two things together.

But soon someone explained their doubts for them.

For the face of the eldest grandson Wugou, Li Shimin would save some face for Gao Shilian, but he was not so polite to Wang Zhen.

After dealing with Gao Shilian's request for resignation, he looked at Wang Zhen coldly and said, "You are indeed guilty, it is a heinous crime."

"Yue Cuilan, tell the ministers what happened, so that no one will think that I am stupid and wronged the ministers."

"Here." Yue Shan stood up and explained the whole story in detail.

"Wow." The court room became noisy again, this matter is incredible, who would have thought that a trivial case of buying a population two months ago would evolve to the point it is today.

Now everyone knows why Wang Zhen pleaded guilty, and also why Gao Shilian resigned.

Everyone looked at the two with sympathy and... gloating.

These two people are really unlucky, but if they are not unlucky, which round will we get ahead, unlucky last.

There is only one person, his face is ashen, and that is Zhou Chi, the servant of the Ministry of officials.

He has not forgotten what Yue Shan said to him in front of the officials two months ago, it doesn't matter if Gao Shilian protects him... Even Gao Shilian is gone, and his status as the servant of the official department is not very important. Afraid of Yueshan.

Even though the emperor trusted Yue Shan very much, he would not dispose of ministers according to his preferences.

But it's different now. This incident involves the attack on the prince.

Although he had no direct relationship with the prince's attack, the emperor, who was in a rage, obviously would not listen to his explanation.Now the emperor has not taken care of him, or has forgotten what happened back then.

But as long as someone stands up and mentions...

Just when he thought of this, he found that Yue Shan showed him a bright smile, and he yelled in his heart that he was not good. Before he could respond, Rao Gaosu, the judge of Dali Temple, stood up:
"At the time when Marquis Yue impeached Chi Dengsong, Zhou Chi, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, came forward to obstruct it. I suspected that the two had an shady relationship, so we should investigate strictly."

"The saint is wronged, I'm just...just..." Zhou Chi originally wanted to say that he only stood up after following Gao Shilian's orders, but when the words came to his lips, he realized that if he really said that, he would be courting death, so he quickly changed his words:
"I just thought that Yue Hou didn't show up in court on leave and it was not in line with etiquette, so I stood up and corrected him. Everything was done out of public interest and I didn't dare to show favoritism. Please learn from the sage."

Only then did Li Shimin remember that there was another fish that slipped through the net, and said with a sneer: "You will find out if you have selfish intentions. The matter of Yueshan is left to the Six Doors. You must pay Minister Zhou justice."

"Here." Yue Shan accepted the order happily.

"Remove Wang Zhen from the post of Minister of Dali Temple, and first imprison him in the six-door prison. After the matter is found out, he will be punished together."

"Sun Fujia, I order you to take the position of Minister of Dali Temple temporarily, and fully cooperate with Qing Shuihou in investigating this case."

Li Shimin issued several orders one after another. Some were promoted, some were demoted, and some were sent to prison. In short, some families were happy and others were sad.

After these matters were dealt with, Zhao Meng shouted that there was no reason to retreat from the court, and none of the officials stood up.

In fact, most of the courtiers today have a memorial in their sleeves, which is basically about the solar eclipse, but there is no need to take it out now.

If there is no memorial in the court, it is not allowed to stand up and make a statement. If the prepared memorial is not used, naturally there is nothing to say.

At this time, Yue Shan stood up again.

"Saint, the minister has his own play."

"Say."

"I sent people to investigate after Chi Dengsong's son's case of buying a lover happened. It is common practice for people to buy a lover. Among them, less than [-]% of the official sales were made, and [-]% were illegally sold by lunatics who robbed and robbed the beloved..."

"Take the capital city as an example. Thousands of young children and daughters from good families are lost every year. Looking at the whole country, it is even more uncountable."

"Thousands of people in Gyeonggi are sold off every year?" Li Shimin was terrified and couldn't believe his ears.

Under his rule, the Tang Dynasty became stronger and stronger day by day, the people became richer day by day, and there were voices of praise everywhere, and he also thought that the country was really peaceful and the people were safe.

But now someone told him that so many human tragedies happened in the richest place in the country, Gyeonggi, how could he believe it.

"Wannian Order, Chang'an Order, can you tell me what Qing Shui Hou said is true?"

The two county magistrates of Chang'an Wannian stood up with bitter faces. They wanted to say it was a lie, but they knew better that once they said that, the person might be gone, so they had to bite the bullet and say:
"It's not exact, but it's not far off."

Li Shimin's blood surged to the point that his lungs were about to explode: "Why didn't you talk about it before?"

Zhang An Wannian and the two county magistrates had nothing to say, they could only bow deeply: "The minister is guilty."

Fortunately, Li Shimin has not lost his mind yet, knowing that this is not a matter of the capital, he is not holding on to the two of them, but angrily shouted at the officials:
"I didn't know about such a serious matter until Qing Shuihou said it today. What's the use of asking you all?"

"The minister is guilty, please be punished by the sage."

"I'm very obedient at this time. Everyone knows how to block the hearing of the saints and sing praises. You wish I were blind or deaf, unable to hear or see anything, and then you bully the people and ruin the country as you please."

"..." All the officials bowed their heads in silence.Some people disagreed, some felt aggrieved, some felt that Li Shimin's words were too heavy and disrespected them, and some were resentful.

Yue Shan never minded adding fuel to the flames, he continued, "Saint, I can guess why the ministers didn't report this matter to you."

Hearing this, all the ministers wanted to gag his mouth, so stop talking.But just thinking about it, no one dares to do it.

"Oh, why?"

"Because they think that they are born noble, they are superior to others, and only their lives are their lives. As for ordinary people, they are just a group of pariahs, and they should be enslaved by them."

"The life of the untouchables is nothing but the weeds on the side of the road. It's not as precious as the cats and dogs they raise. It doesn't matter how much they die."

"That's why they can ignore the tragedies that are happening in the world before them. It's like the case of the Chi family's purchase of a benefactor two months ago. No one takes the innocent man who died seriously."

"Wang Zhengqing released the group of human traffickers openly and aboveboard, and none of the officials felt that there was anything wrong. On the contrary, Rao Gaosu and others' actions of upholding justice seemed to make a big fuss and not know good or bad."

"As long as there is a person who takes the life of the good family who died tragically, the prince will not suffer this time."

After saying this, Yue Shan has been observing the officials, originally thinking that they would feel ashamed, but he realized that he was thinking too much.

This group of people looked at him with strange eyes, as if they were asking him, "Untouchables" are worthless, we are noble, what's wrong?

Seeing this, a feeling of powerlessness rose from the bottom of my heart. Can he really change such a deep-rooted class thinking?

At this moment, I heard someone say:
"Okay, what the dean said really speaks to the hearts of the students."

"Yes, I have something to say, the world is not benevolent and treats everything as a straw dog. We are all straw dogs. How come we are so different."

"Counting up 100 years, 500 years, 1000 years, they all have the same background. Now that they are rich, they start to forget their roots..."

He opened his eyes and looked, and found that supporting him was a group of young officials standing at the end of the court.From what they call themselves, they should be students of the academy, or supporters of their own studies.

Looking at this group of energetic young people, the haze in Yue Shan's heart dissipated immediately.Although there are many diehards, he is not alone. He also has like-minded people.

The road ahead is full of twists and turns, but as long as you persevere, there will always be a day of victory.Maybe I can't realize my dream in my life, but the fire has been ignited, and one day a single spark can start a prairie fire.

Thinking of this, his heart was full of fighting spirit again.

"Chi..." Someone in the crowd burst out laughing, but quickly disappeared, Yue Shan took a look and didn't find who it was.

He didn't bother to pursue it, most of the people present were probably laughing at him, there was no need to pursue it, and we'll see in the future.

Others did not speak, but Li Shimin uttered the famous saying with deep sympathy: "The king is the boat; the people are the water; water can carry a boat and also capsize it. I hope you will keep in mind what Qingshuihou said just now. ,learn a lesson."

"Here." All the ministers said in unison.

As for how many people will listen to it, only God knows.

Li Shimin nodded in satisfaction, and said to Yue Shan: "The trend of buying people across the country must be suppressed, and this matter will be left to the six sects. I wonder if you can do it well?"

Yue Shan said happily: "I'm just imagining that the sage is asking for this job. But if we want to really suppress this trend, we can't do it by relying on the six doors alone. We need the assistance of various local yamen, and even the military." strength."

Li Shimin immediately said: "Okay, I will order the local government offices to fully assist the six departments in investigating this case, and the local police officers and arresters are at your disposal."

"As for the army... less than a hundred people can go to the local governor's office, and more than a hundred people can report to the Privy Council for approval."

Yue Shan was overjoyed and said: "Here, I will live up to the saint's high expectations."

The court meeting was over, but the matter did not calm down, but became more lively.

A Zaifu, a minister of Dali Temple, and a servant of the Ministry of Officials, all of them listened to the key departments, and there were three vacancies at a time, and many people were moved.

Especially Gao Shilian, he can affect the whole body with the influence of Zaifu.Among other things, he has a large group of supporters behind him. What if he retreats from those who follow his example?
There is also Dali Temple, which was originally only a supervisory and procuratorial organ. Its main duty is to review cases tried by the Ministry of Criminal Justice to avoid unjust, false and wrongly decided cases.

Yue Shan proposed to reform and establish the Judiciary to separate the judicial power from the administrative area. Dali Temple became the highest institution of the judiciary, and its power surpassed that of the Ministry of Punishment.

Instead, the original Ministry of Punishment became a procuratorial review and legislative body.

As I said before, most of the grassroots judicial officials are related to Weishui Academy. Now the vice-president of the academy’s law school, Sun Fujia, serves as the Minister of Dali Temple, which basically means that the academic school has officially begun to dominate the operation of Dali Temple.

And Yue Shan is the dean of Weishui Academy, with this relationship, the judiciary can be regarded as his iron ally in the future.

This also allowed his faction to rapidly expand from the original two or three kittens to the point where he could wrestle anyone's wrist.

For example, this is equivalent to a person having the support of the entire court system.In fact, the authority of Dali Temple is greater than the current court.

Through this move, Yue Shan has also changed from gaining power only by relying on the emperor's favor to a full-fledged court boss.

Only the officials care about these changes in the political situation, and the common people are more concerned about other things.

The incident in the court spread throughout the city of Chang'an within a day. It turned out that the celestial phenomenon was really related to the attack on the prince.

The crown prince is the lord of destiny, which means that the Tang Dynasty will last forever, and the common people are blessed.At least you don't have to worry about changing the dynasty every few years as before. People in troubled times are not as good as Taiping dogs.

Then the group who attacked the prince were arrested for human trafficking two months ago, and were released by the officials of Dali Temple...

In an instant, Wang Zhen became a rat crossing the street, and became a dog official in the mouth of the people, and the Chi family was pulled out of the whip again.

Gao Shilian was also scolded by many people, but after all, he didn't stand up to defend Chi Dengsong, so not many people scolded him.

The story of Yue Shan scolding the princes of the court was also spread, which immediately made him a good and honest official in the eyes of the people.

Knowing that he not only speaks for the people, but also insists on cracking down on human traffickers, the people can't wait to confess him as their ancestor.

I don't know how many people started to ask where the six doors are, they have important intelligence reports about human traffickers.

The reputation originally accumulated through the children of the gods, the hen turned into a male, and the great masters of the literary world, etc., also quickly cashed out and turned into good reputation.It is not an exaggeration to say that he is the official with the best reputation in Chang'an City.

Let's talk about Yue Shanxia rushing back to the six gates non-stop, and quickly called together the high-level officials in Beijing.

In the anticipation of everyone, he took out a copy and said: "The sage has agreed to my request, and the work of cracking down on trafficking will be carried out nationwide from now on. This is the holy edict."

(End of this chapter)