Tang Dynasty detective

Chapter 413
Li Canghai didn't speak, but the six ministers sighed and looked at Luo Xishi with pity.

"Lord Luo is really courageous. He speaks out of conscience, and he is able to keep his face unchanged. I admire, admire!" Li Canghai said with emotion, but then his tone turned cold in an instant, and he took out two testimonies, Said: "I think, after you read these, you should be able to recall some things."

Luo Xishi's eyes were slightly cold. He took the two testimonies and looked at them disapprovingly.

Seeing this, his pupils shrank extremely rapidly, and his face instantly turned pale.

"Lord Luo, I wonder if you remembered something?" Li Canghai said calmly.

Luo Xixiu's face changed for a while.

Everyone was curious, what was written on those two pieces of paper, and why did Luo Xishi look as if he had seen a ghost in broad daylight?
"Li Canghai, what's going on?" Li Longji asked curiously.

"Return to Your Majesty, these two are testimonies. One of them is the testimony of the witness who accused Qin Fu of collaborating with the enemy and treason, and the other is the testimony of the current imperial censor, Zhong Cheng, Wang Yu!" Li Canghai said loudly.

"Wang Yu? Why is he involved in this case?" The officials were even more surprised, and they started talking among themselves.

Li Canghai said: "The first testimonies are the two people who identified Qin Fu back then. They are the generals of the Left and Right Shenwu Guards, Xuanwei General Zhao Ye, and Mingwei General Feng Maodian. These two were originally Li Linfu's disciples. But they are upright by nature, and they have received Qin Fu's life-saving grace, so they respect Qin Fu. However, when dealing with Qin Fu, the two had no choice but to betray Qin Fu, open the border gate privately, and let the Tubo army enter. .”

"However, these two people have always felt guilty about this matter. I once asked them, and they also told all the things that happened back then. According to the two people, they were threatened by someone with the lives of their whole family. Only then was Tubo allowed to enter the pass, and Qin Fu was falsely accused." At this point, Li Canghai pointed at Luo Xishi, and said in a stern voice: "The person who threatens them is you, Luo Xishi!"

Luo Xishi's face was a little ugly, his forehead was covered with sweat, but his eyeballs kept rolling, as if he was thinking about a countermeasure.

He suddenly laughed: "Master Li, this testimony is just your one-sided statement. You said that I threatened them. Where is the evidence? Who knows if these two people are deliberately framing me?"

Li Canghai had already guessed that he would say that, so he smiled strangely, Li Canghai clapped his hands, Zhao Ye and Feng Maodian walked up with a package, with angry faces.

Seeing this, Luo Xixiu's face suddenly became even more difficult to look.

"Criminals Zhao Ye and Feng Maodian see Your Majesty!" The two knelt down and saluted Li Longji.

"Pingshen! What Li Canghai said is true?" Li Longji shouted angrily.

"What Mr. Li said is all true. Back then, the ministers were coerced and had no choice but to frame General Qin. And the person who threatened the ministers back then was Luo Xishi!" Feng Maodian pointed at Luo Xishi and said sharply.

Luo Xixi was stunned for a moment, and he suddenly burst out laughing.

"Ridiculous! When did I threaten you?"

Zhao Ye's face was gloomy, he threw the package over casually, and shouted: "Surnamed Luo, let's see what these are? These are the evidence that you threatened me back then! What else do you have to say?"

Luo Xishi opened the package and saw the yellowed letter inside, his pupils shrank immediately.

Li Canghai walked up to Luo Xishi with his hands behind his back, and said indifferently: "You can say that these are all false, Feng Maodian and Zhao Ye are deliberately framing you. It doesn't matter, I still have witnesses to prove you crime."

He picked up the second testimony from the ground, and said in a cold voice: "You should be familiar with this testimony, right? It has the signatures of Wang Yu, King Su, Minister Gao of the Ministry of Officials, and Master Cui, Minister of Rites. I don’t need to say much about the authenticity, right?”

At this time, Gao Luochuan, Cui Huan and Li Yu came out one after another.

"Your servants can prove that this testimony was spoken by Wang Hao himself, and there is absolutely no falsehood!"

Li Yu even explained in detail how Li Canghai planned to arrest Wang Jia, and of course Wang Jia wanted to assassinate him.

After saying this, Li Yu said very seriously: "Grandfather, Master Li is right. Wang Ji can prove that Qin Fu was indeed wronged, and the masterminds behind the scenes are Li Linfu and Luo Xishi!"

When these words came out of Li Yu's mouth, the credibility immediately increased a lot.

After all, Li Longji always loved Li Yu and knew that he never lied.

But he still couldn't believe that these were actually done by Li Linfu.

Li Canghai didn't seem to intend to give Luo Xishi a chance to defend himself, he said loudly: "If your majesty doesn't believe it, you can interrogate Wang Chi in person!"

"Bring Wang Ji to the hall!" Li Longji shouted angrily.

After a while, the distraught Wang Chi was brought to court.

He was straightforward. After meeting Li Longji, he told all the evil things Li Linfu had done like beans poured from a bamboo tube.

Wang Yu talked for a whole hour, but what he said shocked everyone who heard it.

In Li Linfu's mansion, there is a hall shaped like a crescent moon, named Moon Hall.Every time he wants to eradicate a certain minister, he has to think hard in the hall about how to slander him.If he walked out with a smile on his face, it meant that that person's family would be ruined.

During his reign, the party united against dissidents, eliminated dissidents, and served as prime minister for 19 years, which can be said to have harmed countless loyal and good people.

He once aimed at the crown prince Li Heng, and raised the idea of ​​destabilizing the East Palace, which resulted in the death of Huangfu Weiming and Wei Jian, the Jiedu envoy of Longyou. He took away his military power and was demoted to the prefect of Hanyang.

He framed Yang Shenjin, claiming that Yang Shenjin was the great-great-grandson of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, colluding with magicians, hiding prophecies secretly, and plotting to restore the Sui Dynasty.Li Linfu also framed and ordered Lu Xuan, the censor in the palace, to hide the prophecy book, claiming that it was found in Yang Shenjin's home.In the end, Yang Shenjin was exterminated by the clan.

In the eighth year of Tianbao, Zhao Fengzhang, the prefect of Xianning, exposed more than [-] crimes against Li Linfu.As a result, Li Linfu knew of the crime before he was presented, and ordered Yushitai to arrest him and kill him with a stick for the crime of lying.

In addition to these, Li Linfu also sent people to intercept and kill the former prime minister Zhang Jiuling who resigned from office and retired.

The list goes on and on.

Among them, Luo Xishi advised Li Linfu.Wang Yu followed the plan and carried out the implementation of the people Li Linfu wanted to get rid of. The two of them can be said to be Li Linfu's right-hand men.

After listening, Li Longji's face turned ugly.

The entire court fell into a deathly silence.

The silence is a little scary.

Li Linfu ruled the government for 19 years and persecuted so many loyal ministers, which is an unforgivable crime.

Li Longji, as today's emperor, let this kind of person serve as the prime minister for 19 years. If it is not stupid, what is it?
Even Li Canghai did not expect such a result.

In order to survive, Wang Chi confessed so many things, which was completely beyond his expectation.

At this time, Xiao Wu walked up to Li Canghai and whispered something into his ear.

After listening, Li Canghai nodded and said, "Bring him up."

Xiao Wu immediately retreated after hearing the words.

"Your Majesty, Qin Fu's guard, Hao Ren, has been imprisoned in Luoyang Prison for 14 years. He wants to see His Majesty." Li Canghai said.

Li Longji seemed to have aged a lot suddenly, he waved his hand feebly.

Seeing this, Gao Lishi hurriedly said: "There is a decree from the Holy Spirit, announce him to the church!"

Unkempt, like a madman, Hao Ren dragged his exhausted body to the court.

"Your Majesty! The culprit has evidence to prove that General Qin was framed!" Hao Ren came to the courtroom and fell to his knees with a plop, weeping.

Li Longji didn't seem to be in the mood to care about these things at this time, he was still thinking about what Wang Chi said about Li Linfu's doing, and his heart was complicated.

Seeing that Li Longji didn't respond, Hao Ren immediately took off his tattered clothes, revealing his dirty arms.

All the ministers were surprised when they saw this, and Yang Guozhong raised his eyebrows even more, and shouted: "You are so brave, how dare you be rude in front of the Holy One?"

Hao Ren hugged his clothes and cried: "Your Majesty, this is my brother, and I handed it over to my minister before he died. This is an imperial decree from your majesty! The imperial decree clearly stated that General Qin will be escorted back to Chang'an for trial. , didn’t say that General Qin’s entire family would be executed!”

Everyone was surprised when they heard this.

Li Canghai immediately walked over, opened the clothes he was holding, and found an imperial edict from inside.

The yellow silk of the imperial decree has turned gray, but the writing on the imperial decree has not been damaged in any way. It can be seen that Hao Ren has been carefully preserving it for more than ten years.

He picked up the imperial decree, looked at it carefully, and then presented it to Gao Lishi.

Gao Lishi has followed Li Longji for the longest time, and has drafted many decrees. He can tell at a glance that this is the imperial decree he drafted under Li Longji's order.

"Your Majesty, this imperial edict is indeed the one you issued back then." Gao Lishi presented the imperial edict to Li Longji and said.

Li Longji came back to his senses, he was pinching the imperial decree, his fingers trembling slightly in anger.

"Well, you Li Linfu, how dare you lie to others! Okay, okay!" Li Longji gritted his teeth, his body trembling constantly, as if he was very angry.

Only then did everyone understand that Li Longji did not order Qin Fu to be executed back then, let alone destroy his whole family.

The imperial decree he issued back then was to take Qin Fu back to Chang'an for trial in person.

But later, Li Linfu reported that Qin Fu had committed suicide in fear of crime, but he didn't care.

For 14 years, everyone thought that it was the emperor's will to kill Qin Fuman's family. Although some people doubted it, they dared not mention it because of Li Linfu's power.

"Your Majesty calm down, take care of the dragon body!" Gao Lishi said hurriedly.

However, the matter did not end there.

Seeing that the time was almost ripe, Yang Guozhong saluted Li Longji, and said solemnly, "Your Majesty, I still have something to tell you about Ming Sheng! Your Majesty still remembers that last year, Wang Jian, the younger brother of Wang Jian, and Xing Yi conspired to cause trouble, intending to kill the humble minister. He was also involved in the conspiracy. According to the investigation by the minister, Li Linfu was worried that His Majesty would reuse the humble minister, so he secretly ordered Brother Wang to do it!"

Hearing the words, Wang Chi suddenly screamed.

However, Yang Guozhong did not give him a chance to speak. He went on to say: "Besides, Li Linfu and the judge, Absi, formed a father-son relationship and planned to conspire to rebel. It was only because Li Linfu died of illness that this matter did not happen."

Absi, originally the leader of the Tiele Tongluo tribe with nine surnames, led his troops to the Tang Dynasty. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty canonized him as the King of Fengxin and named him Li Xianzhong. When Lushan Mountain conquered Khitan, he deliberately asked the court to transfer him as a deputy, intending to assassinate him, so he was forced to lead his troops to sentence Tang.

"Your Majesty, I have been wronged! I have absolutely no intention of rebelling. This is Yang Guozhong's false accusation. I hope His Majesty will see it clearly!" Wang Hao yelled.

"Injustice?" Yang Guozhong sneered immediately, and he bowed to Li Longji again, saying: "Your Majesty, I have been investigating this matter secretly, and Lie can prove it!"

After hearing the words, Zuo Prime Minister Lie immediately walked out, saying: "Your Majesty, what Xiang Yang said is true, and I have also found out that Brother Wang Yu is plotting to cause chaos, and intends to cooperate with Absili and capture Chang'an."

"You... you guys!" Wang Ji was trembling with anger, he stared, pointed at the two of them and cursed angrily: "Yang Guozhong, you two old foxes, you two really know how to turn against the wind and throw trouble into trouble Don't forget, you did a lot of evil things with Li Linfu back then! Do you think you can get away with it?"

Yang Guozhong sneered again and again, he looked at Wang Hao with pity, and said: "When death is imminent, you still want to frame the truth, hum!"

"Your Majesty, I can prove that Li Linfu intends to rebel..." Among the ministers, a middle-aged man walked out, knelt down and knelt down.

When this person walked out, all the ministers were surprised.

Wang Hao even jumped up directly, pointing at his nose and cursing: "Yang Qixuan! You are an ungrateful and ungrateful thing! You even framed your father-in-law together with others?"

Li Canghai stood where he was, with his hands wrapped in his sleeves, silently watching everything in front of him.

This sudden change was indeed beyond his expectation.

However, it is within reason.

Li Linfu has long since lost power, if Yang Guozhong didn't take the opportunity to eradicate his remaining forces, it would be a little abnormal.

Yang Guozhong's trick of "adding insult to injury" can be described as extremely vicious, and directly charged Li Linfu with treason and treason.

If this crime is confirmed, no one related to Li Linfu will be able to escape.

However, what surprised Li Canghai was that this Yang Qixuan was worried that he would be implicated, so he agreed with Yang Guozhong and identified his father-in-law. This is really a villain!
Yang Guozhong didn't seem to expect that Yang Qixuan would stand up and identify Li Linfu, which made him even more proud, knowing that Li Linfu's guilt was confirmed.

However, he didn't stop because of this, but planned to pour some oil on the fire to make the flame burn hotter.

The corners of his mouth turned up, and he said seriously: "Your Majesty, An Lushan discovered the whereabouts of Albus at the border a few days ago, and chased him all the way, severely wounding him. Now, Albus has gone west to the Ge Luolu tribe between the East and West Turks. However, Anlu Shan captured one of Abus's generals and was escorted to Luoyang yesterday, he can prove what I said!"

Li Canghai was secretly surprised, he did not expect An Lushan to be involved in this matter.

It seems that in order to completely eradicate Li Linfu's influence, Yang Guozhong and An Lushan, two people who have never been eye-catching, have joined forces to cooperate.

(End of this chapter)