Tang Dynasty detective

Chapter 412 Retrial the old case
"You said someone chased and killed the Sanfa Division back then?" Li Longji frowned.

"If your Majesty doesn't believe what I said, you can personally ask the imperial censor, Mr. Luo Zhongluo!" Li Canghai bowed deeply to Li Longji.

"Luo Zhong? Where is he now?" Li Longji stroked his beard in surprise and asked.

Li Canghai clapped his hands, and suddenly an old man walked out of the crowd. The old man was sallow and thin, with a haggard appearance, but he was dressed very neatly and neatly. Although he was old and frail, he gave off a sense of righteousness and arrogance.

This old man is none other than Luo Zhong, the imperial historian 14 years ago.

At this time, Luo Zhong was supported by his son and daughter-in-law, and beside him was his granddaughter, walking tremblingly towards the court.

"Old minister...Luo Zhong, join Your Majesty!" Luo Zhong was so excited that his voice was choked up, and he knelt down to Li Longji.

"Luo Aiqing? Is it really you? Hurry up and give me a seat!" Li Longji seemed to have never expected to see Luo Zhong. Seeing that Luo Zhong was unable to move, he hurriedly ordered someone to move a chair over.

"Old minister... Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness!" Luo Zhong said to Li Longji with tears in his eyes.

After Luo Zhong sat down, Li Longji asked, "Luo Aiqing, is what Li Canghai said true?"

Luo Zhong wiped away his turbid tears, and said tremblingly: "Your Majesty, what Master Li said is true. When I was ordered to investigate Qin Fu, I found that the so-called evidence was suspicious. I wrote the memorial , intending to file a joint petition, but was threatened by others to sign and confirm the false case statement, resulting in Qin Fu's family being confiscated and exterminated. Afterwards, the ministers felt ashamed and decided to resign and go into hiding. But unexpectedly, they were chased and intercepted Killed, after many life and death, I had to hide my name here in Luoyang."

When Li Longji heard this, a trace of anger appeared in his eyes.

"Who is so bold? How dare you intercept and kill the imperial court official?"

Li Canghai stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, if you want to know who is chasing and killing the imperial court official, you will know at a glance after the minister has finished speaking."

"Say!" Li Longji was obviously a little angry, and he dared to chase and kill Sanfasi. This was a slap in the face of his emperor, and it was very loud.

"Luo Yushi hid this case statement for 14 years in order to reveal the truth to the world one day. It also illustrates one thing, Qin Fu was wronged!" Li Canghai suddenly raised his voice and said seriously .

As soon as this statement came out, it immediately caused an uproar.

Except for a few people, the officials and common people were shocked, and even Li Longji was shocked.

"Li Canghai, is this the result of your investigation?" Li Longji looked a little furious.

When Li Canghai said this, it was tantamount to saying that he killed Qin Fu by mistake and did something stupid.

If intercepting and killing the court official was a slap in the face, Li Canghai slapped him in public after that, and this slap was much louder than the previous one.

"Your Majesty, calm down. Since Master Li said that, he must have found something. It is better to listen to him." Yang Guozhong bowed to Li Longji.

Li Longji frowned, snorted, and said, "Okay, I want to see what you found!"

Li Canghai looked at Yang Guozhong in surprise, Yang Guozhong smiled at him, cupped his hands, and said, "Master Li, if you find anything, just tell me!"

Li Canghai nodded to him symbolically. Although he knew that Yang Guozhong must have a purpose in speaking for him like this, but now is not the time to think about it.

Li Canghai thought for a while, and said, "Your Majesty, the minister said that Qin Fu was wronged. It's not just empty words, but evidence to prove it."

"What evidence?" Li Longji asked displeased.

"Before Luo Yushi and others resigned, they kept all the witnesses and material clues that identified Qin Fu, and kept them hidden in the Luoyang mansion. The minister just took out these things a few days ago. It can be said that these things show that The strongest evidence that Qin Fu was framed!" Li Canghai clapped his hands, and Xiao Wu immediately walked up with a tray.

Everyone stretched their necks to look, and found some papers and a few small objects on the tray.

"These are the evidences you said?" Li Longji asked with a frown.

Li Canghai nodded. He picked up the paper with the names of the people on it, presented it to Li Longji, and said, "Return to Your Majesty, the people on the list are the ones who accused Qin Fu of collaborating with the enemy and treason. They are all important officials in official positions now." , flourished, but 14 years ago, they were all ordinary captains under Qin Fu. It records their testimonies against Qin Fu back then, but these testimonies are full of loopholes."

"They said that Qin Fu had disclosed to them the matter of taking refuge in Tubo, and that he knew all the plans of Qin Fu's collusion with Tubo. These are simply nonsense." Li Canghai shook off his voluminous official robe and sneered: "These people were all drawn from other military branches to the border. The longest time was no more than two years, and they were all assigned to station in different places on the border. It can be said that Qin Fu is not familiar with them. In this case, Qin Fu Why would you tell someone you don't know about such an important matter as collaborating with the enemy and treason? If you do this, isn't Qin Fu looking for his own death?"

Everyone nodded, feeling that what Li Canghai said was very reasonable.

No one would trust someone who has just been transferred to the border and is unfamiliar, let alone such a big matter as collaborating with the enemy and treason.These people are usually scattered all over the place, I'm afraid even Qin Fu can't meet a few times, Qin Fu is not a fool, why did he tell them about collaborating with the enemy and treason?

"Besides that, these people have one thing in common, they are all disciples of the same person." Li Canghai said.

Li Longji looked at the list, he had already guessed who Li Canghai was talking about, his body trembled with anger, he crumpled the list into a ball, threw it towards Li Canghai, and said angrily: "Li Canghai! Hello! How dare you frame the deceased prime minister?"

When the emperor got angry, everyone was shocked, and all the officials and people knelt together.

Only Li Canghai stood quietly at the same spot. He looked straight at Li Longji with neither humility nor condescension, and bent down to pick up the list at his feet.

"How does Your Majesty know that the minister is framing him?" Li Canghai was not afraid of Li Longji, but was extremely calm.

Li Longji said angrily: "Although these people are Lin Fu's disciples, what do they have to do with Lin Fu? Lin Fu is loyal to me and Tang Dynasty, how can you allow you to slander me like this?"

Li Canghai sneered in his heart, treating treacherous ministers like Li Linfu as treasures, no wonder the Tang Dynasty was in decline.He is still dreaming of a prosperous and prosperous age. He never imagined that in a few years, Datang would turn into a chaotic world because of his reuse of treacherous officials.

"Your Majesty, calm down. Please let Lord Li finish his sentence. If he can't produce evidence, he is really framing Li Xiang, and it will not be too late to convict him." Yang Guozhong rolled his eyes and cupped his hands.

Officials from six ministries including Cui Huan and Gao Luochuan also posted comments one after another.

Li Longji's face was a bit ugly, he waved his hand and said, "Okay, I'll give you a chance!"

Li Canghai exhaled deeply, picked up a small, strangely shaped pale yellow tiger amulet from the tray, and said: "This is the military amulet given to Qin Fu by the Tubo general, and it is the evidence of his collaborating with the enemy, and it has been preserved until now. However, as far as I know, the Tubo military talisman is made of pure gold, with a standard weight of 7.12 coins, and the weight of this soldier talisman is only more than half of the standard weight."

In order to verify what he said to everyone, Li Canghai ordered someone to bring a scale and weighed it on the spot.

Sure enough, the soldier talisman weighed only 5 coins.

"Master Li, you mean that this soldier talisman is a forgery?" Yang Guozhong asked, stroking his beard.

"That's right, the slight difference in weight is hard to find. What really makes me sure are the spots on this soldier talisman." Li Canghai said.

Everyone stretched their necks and tried to look at the soldier talisman in his hand.

However, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with this soldier talisman.

"What's wrong with this soldier talisman?" Yang Guozhong questioned.

"Maybe it's far away, adults can't see clearly, but if you get closer, you will find the problem." Li Canghai said.

Yang Guozhong hesitated, looked at Li Longji, and asked for his opinion.

Li Longji also wanted to know what was wrong with this soldier talisman, so he waved his hand.

Yang Guozhong hurried to the court, took the military amulet from Li Canghai, and looked at it carefully.

Looking at it, he found some light green spots on the soldier talisman.

These spots are not obvious, if you don't look carefully, it is easy to be overlooked.

"What are these spots?" Yang Guozhong asked suspiciously.

"Brass green." Li Canghai simply said two words.

"Brass green?" Yang Guozhong was stunned.

"That's right, it's the patina. It's the patina that makes me sure that this soldier talisman is a forgery. The reason why there is patina is because this soldier talisman is made of gold and brass." After Li Canghai finished speaking, He couldn't help sneering, and said: "In order to bring down Qin Fu as soon as possible, some people are impatient, so there will be such a big flaw."

"You said that Qin Fu was wronged, and by whom?" Yang Guozhong suddenly realized, but he knew the reason.

Li Canghai said indifferently: "Your Excellency must know better than anyone else, why do you ask questions knowingly?"

Yang Guozhong stroked his beard and said with a chuckle, "Master Li is wrong, and he has not participated in the truth of this case, how can he know who wronged Qin Fu?"

"Oh? Master Yang really didn't participate in this case?" Li Canghai stared at him and said meaningfully.

"Lord Li, the most important thing right now is to find out who is wronging Qin Fu?" Yang Guozhong said with narrowed eyes.

Li Canghai took a deep look at him, and then said: "Framing Qin Fu was not done by one person. But if it is said that the whole plan against Qin Fu is due to one person, that is Luo Xishi!"

Li Longji's face darkened, and he said, "Li Canghai, do you think that I am a three-year-old child who can be played around at will? Luo Xixi has made great contributions to the court in rectifying the officials, and you actually said that he framed Qin Fu?"

Li Canghai really didn't want to say anything more, but he said that Li Longji had become fatuous since the founding of the Yuan Dynasty, which is not wrong at all.

He is greedy for pleasure, reuses treacherous ministers, and what is even more tragic is that he regards treacherous ministers as heroes.

"Your Majesty, Luo Xishi is in Luoyang now, Your Majesty can let him confront him in court." Li Canghai did not confront him fiercely, but bowed deeply to him and said calmly.

Li Canghai was not a fool. Since ancient times, emperors were often narrow-minded, and it would definitely not do him any good to offend the emperor.

"Isn't Luo Xishi supposed to be in Si'an County? Why is he in Luoyang?" Li Longji frowned, waved his hand, and said in a deep voice, "Send him to the court!"

Soon, Luo Xishi was taken to court under the guard of several Jinwu Guard soldiers.

When Luo Xixi saw that the court was full of ministers, he was secretly surprised. When he saw Li Longji sitting in the warm pavilion, his eyes rolled and he knelt down on the ground with a plop, crying loudly: " Your Majesty! Li Canghai imprisoned my minister for no reason, I beg Your Majesty to make decisions for my minister!"

Li Longji saw that Luo Xishi was unkempt and haggard, as if he had been tortured. He slapped the dragon chair and shouted: "Li Canghai! What's going on?"

Li Canghai glanced at Luo Xishi, but found that Luo Xishi was flashing a glimmer of complacency, he couldn't help but sneered.

He had known for a long time that Luo Xishi deliberately refused to eat or drink, and made himself look haggard, just to pretend to be miserable in front of Li Longji, so as to win sympathy.But Li Canghai did not dismantle him. For Li Canghai, Luo Xishi's self-abuse was a kind of atonement, and he was very happy to see it.

"Return to Your Majesty, Luo Xixiu left his post without authorization and is responsible for dereliction of duty. He was imprisoned by the minister."

At this time, Gao Luochuan, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, came out and said respectfully to Li Longji.

Li Canghai didn't expect Gao Luochuan to come out to rescue him, so he nodded slightly at him.

The Minister of the Ministry of Officials is in charge of the evaluation and promotion of officials all over the world, and Luo Xishi is also within his jurisdiction. According to the regulations of the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Officials has the right to deal with officials who leave their posts without reason.

Luo Xixi was stunned for a moment, and he glared at Gao Luochuan with hatred, looking at that expression, he wished he could go up and strangle him to death.

"Luo Xishi, I said that I will let you meet the Holy Majesty. Now that the Holy Majesty is in front of you, you can say it!" Li Canghai said calmly.

Luo Xishi rolled his eyes and said, "I don't understand what you are talking about, what do you want me to say?"

"Of course it's how you designed to frame Qin Fu back then." Li Canghai glanced at him and said.

Luo Xixi laughed. After laughing for a while, he suddenly said righteously: "Qin Fu's collusion with the enemy and treason, the evidence is solid, it is indisputable. You said I framed him? I see clearly that you are framed me!"

Li Canghai looked at him deeply, and said leisurely: "Luo Xixi, I will give you another chance. Sometimes, life and death are only a matter of thought, you have to grasp it well."

Luo Xixi didn't take it seriously, he was about to open his mouth to sneer at Li Canghai, but he suddenly found that Li Canghai looked at him with a look of pity.

Luo Xishi is arrogant, thinking how majestic he was when he was in charge of the prison?

Not to mention anything else, let's just say that when he targeted Prince Li Heng, he, as the supervisory censor, massacred and relegated officials. It was all the way from Qingzhou to Lingnan. Even the former Prime Minister Li Shizhi was afraid of his own name and did not wait When he went by himself, he was so frightened that he took poison and committed suicide.

Now, Li Canghai showed pity to him, how could he, who is so proud, bear it?

"It's an indisputable fact that Qin Fu colluded with the enemy and treasoned the country. I never framed him!" Luo Xixi said proudly, puffing out his chest.

(End of this chapter)