The celebration banquet ended in the atmosphere of the king and his subjects having fun together.

The next day, the ninth day of the first lunar month.

The soldiers and civil servants and advisers were still in the process of recovery from fatigue after continuous bloody battles.

Especially because the just-concluded New Year's Eve battle delayed everyone's New Year holidays. After finally getting Cao Cao's head, why don't he take a break and make up for the leave?

Although there are still two and a half states in the world that have not had time to occupy military occupation and the pseudo-Emperor Liu He has not yet taken over the move, Liu Bei's camp felt that it was not bad these few days.

The news of Cao Cao's death spread throughout the states and it took time. It was too urgent to go there, and maybe the local area had not received any news. It was thought that the Han army came to cheat the city, so it would inevitably cause more murder and increase unnecessary casualties.

However, when everyone was relaxing and leisurely, Li Su, the prime minister of the Han Dynasty who had just arrived in Qiao County, got up early and worked very hard.

He was so diligent that even his disciple Zhuge Liang was sleeping in and making up for leave, but he had already started working.

The reason why this is abnormal is that Li Su felt that he could play again in the end. He was the first to know the talented talents of today. He was the last to cheat on personnel appointment, removal, reward and punishment for the Han Dynasty.

After this cheating was opened, history has completely changed and the prophets' understanding of people has been fully utilized.

In the future, we can only rely on real skills to govern the country.

And the specific content and methods of this cheating are easy to think of:

Li Su wanted to take a look at how many civil and military talents in Cao Cao's camp died, how many were captured, and how many were about to make a forced landing.

Who should punish this, who can reuse it, and who should prevent problems before it happens.

That's right, Li Su's main thing to beware of was Cheng Yu and Sima Yi. These two people were not right. Among the dangerous strategists in Cao's camp in history, Jia Xu had already deserved the crime and died many years ago, but these are still there.

As for other strategists like Guo Jia, they can only be said to be their own masters, and there is no question of war crimes. Moreover, Guo Jia is still alive for a few years, so there is no need to make things difficult for him.

If Xun Yu had been interviewed by Li Su personally, he would confirm that the other party was indeed loyal to the Han ministers, and he would use it if he could use it.

But after all, he was captured at the last moment and he had no contribution. He also paid attention to seniority and had the severity of his achievements. It was impossible to be promoted to a high position just because he had talent.

This is not a game. We must consider the unity and cohesion of the court. We cannot directly give it to high officials who have high abilities and data.

As for making clever names, woven charges, and cracking down on political enemies and potential disasters, it is very convenient. The war has not yet ended. Who is the deadly traitor of Cao Cao's faction? Is Li Su still not easy to organize evidence?

This is also for the sake of the country's good, so why not make arbitrary decisions?

Li Su's mentality at this time is a bit like the killer who travels back in the movie "Terminator" and wants to kill the Terminator inventor scientist:

I know he hasn't invented Skynet and Terminator yet, and hasn't committed the crime of helping destroy mankind. But I just know that he will do it in the future, so what if he kills him first?

With Liu Bei's full trust in Li Su, as long as he does it with reasonable and well-founded, he will definitely be able to listen to any Li Su's actions on the small person.

...

With the mentality of doing everything he wants, Li Su was very motivated to get all the files of Cao army captives, and some of them had preliminary interrogation records. Li Su wanted all of them and carefully looked through them one by one.

After all, many of the people here were captured when Qiao County changed hands. It has been seven or eight days since then. The other civil servants around Liu Bei are idle these days, so many people have been arraigned before Li Sulai.

When Li Su looked at the files, many of them were asked by the Minister of Justice. Some bad and despicable elements were forced to confess by Fa Zheng using sticks or whippings.

It seems that Fa Zheng, the Minister of Justice, has been serving for so many years, and has not diminished his anger at all. He personally interrogated the defeated and captured high-ranking officials of the hostile camp and was punished at all times.

Fa Zheng, Li Su suddenly felt much less guilty, and felt that what he was about to do was simply kind and no big deal.

"Cheng Yu is still in Juancheng behind... It has not been taken down by the royal army yet, and the pseudo-Emperor Liu He is also in the city. If Juancheng finally surrenders, how can we deal with Cheng Yu? It is not easy to find an excuse to kill him.

However, this kind of person was originally engaged in large-scale and organized military rations. In the final stage of Cao Cao, the blame for those crazy and powerful men to quickly expand the army could indeed be counted on him.

According to the confessions provided by other captured civil officials in Cao's camp, a large number of poor people in Jizhou were forced to move to the south of the Yellow River. When they retreated, they were destroyed and robbed in Jizhou. These accounts could all be counted on Cheng Yu's head. Yes, that's enough.

Hum? It turns out that these people were involved in Cao Cao's decision to loot Yecheng last year? This confession is easy to use and harms the scholars and people in Hebei. This is atrocities against the people. Anyone who should be severely punished can be severely punished."

Li Su roughly sorted out the file and arranged Cheng Yu first.

Then, Li Su began to look at Xun Yu's materials.

Xun Yu was captured in Qiao County. It is said that when he was arrested, he was originally under house arrest by Cao Cao and deprived of power. The reason seemed to be that Xun Yu's cousin and nephew were both officials from Liu Bei, and the peace talks failed. Cao Cao took the opportunity to blame Xun Yu for the peace talks.

When Li Su saw this, he thought to himself: "It turns out that Xun Yu finally helped the court to win Cao Cao's surrender. That's a good attitude. Although he didn't succeed, this is also a way of appointment.

Then we will give him a chance to persuade him to surrender to Yanzhou and the remaining areas of Qingzhou. Although no matter who persuades him, he will have a great confidence in opening the city without blood, and if Cao Cao dies, they will have no point in resisting it. But after all, this is also a great contribution to those who persuade him, and it will facilitate promotion."

When Li Su thought of this, he couldn't help but think of some similar high-level generals of the enemy battalion in modern history, who were finally sent to the peace negotiations, but the negotiations were not completed. But as long as the senior executives of such enemy battalion could send telegrams to persuade some states (provinces) to make a peaceful transition, they could be given senior positions.

While arranging Xun Yu, Li Su looked at the previous stage of trying peace negotiations and exchanged official documents between the two parties. Then Li Su discovered an unexpected surprise:

Sima Lang and Sima Yi brothers were actually in Xun Yu's mission, and there was another Dong Zhao, who were both deputy envoys and followers.

Li Su thought while watching:

"Sima Lang has indeed helped Cao Cao deal with some foreign affairs. Judging from the current confession, in order to surrender to Yuan Shao, Cao Cao pretended to surrender and even bought Xu You through Sima Lang's bribe.

Well, Xu You also has many years of historical problems. If you deal with them well, he will now be in the third king of the pseudo-gong, and he will not be allowed to leave after taking Juancheng.

Let’s talk about it too far, let’s look at Sima Yi first... Sima Yi has been an official in Cao’s camp for two years and has no experience on missions. He mainly helps his brother with documents. Why did Cao Cao insist on sending Sima Yi to the other party this time?

Could it be that Xun Yu persuaded Cao Cao to negotiate, which aroused Cao Cao's intention to follow the situation and use tricks to lure the enemy, but he did not trust Xun Yu and needed someone to monitor him?"

There was no problem with Li Su thinking this way. He looked at Sima Yi's words after being captured. He was just a so-called man and did nothing in the mission.

Fa Zheng hadn't acted badly about Sima Yi before, and he thought this was a useless little person. He asked a few questions and then closed the case and let it go.

However, Li Su followed the idea of ​​"Cao Cao and Xun Yu's internal conflicts", and naturally he discovered a possibility of "fraudulently accusing" Sima Yi:

"Since Cao Cao may have asked Sima Yi to monitor Xun Yu, when the mission returned, Sima Yi might have reported all Xun Yu's words and deeds in the Han camp to Cao Cao, right?

This kind of thing can be big or small, but if it is said that Sima Yi revealed to Cao Cao that the situation that was not conducive to Xun Yu and Cao Cao's relationship led to further decline in Cao Cao's trust in Xun Yu, which indirectly led to Cao Cao's distrust of the peace talks brought back by Xun Yu, and ultimately led to the breakdown of the negotiations. It cannot be considered unjust to him, right?"

Thinking of this possibility, Li Su immediately felt energetic, and he felt that no matter how legitimate his actions were, he was no longer able to do so. After all, he was a reasonable speculation. If it was true, Sima Yi was indeed guilty.

If he could help Xun Yu work together and ask Cao Cao not to fight the last battle, wouldn’t the world die 200,000 people? Of course, Cao Cao was the main evil person who made the decision, but even if Sima Yi just made a slander that promoted his decision, he could be properly punished.

Of course, now there is no evidence, so it is impossible for Li Su to get the iron evidence. Fortunately, in ancient times, there was no emphasis on "not forcing confessions to induce confessions", no matter how he collects evidence, just have clues.

Thinking of this, Li Su ordered his aides Zhang Song and Wang Fu to prepare materials, and the Prime Minister wanted to personally review some prisoners.

The Prime Minister wanted to interrogate the prisoners in the enemy camp, of course it was not difficult. His subordinates were extremely quick to do things and they were all handled in less than half a quarter of an hour.

Li Su also took advantage of this time to prepare some documents to induce offerings and fake confessions.

After a while, Sima Yi, who was only twenty-four years old and only two years old, was brought to Li Su. Sima Yi was two years older than Zhuge Liang, but his official career was obviously not very good in this life.

Because Cao Cao and Yuan Shao had no future, Sima Yi did not come out of the mountain at the age of 20, so he worked at home and did some private chores for his elder brother.

At this moment, Li Su was also wary of Sima Yi knowing martial arts, so there were iron-armored guards and Dian Wei. Sima Yi stood at least twenty steps away from him.

Sima Yi looked confused and worried, but on the surface he was still calm and contemptuous. He was not sure why he, a small official of 600 stone, was personally questioned by the prime minister.

Li Su didn't talk nonsense to him. He had originally hoped to have an emotional raid to see the other party's flaws.

So Li Su directly threw out several forged silk confessions, which were said to be confessions of Guo Jia, Li Dian, Xu Chu and others.

Anyway, it was just the confession of some people who accompanied Cao Cao to the last moment.

"Look at it for yourself. Before Cao's death, he was still sighing with the people close to him, saying that he regretted not to believe your slander that attacked Xun Yu. If he had heard Xun Yu's bitter advice and gave up the idea of ​​fighting for his life in the last battle, even if he died, he would have left more good relationships for his descendants!"

Sima Yi was shocked. In the last one or two days of escape, Cao Cao really regretted his conscience and discovered it? Why did he say it out and complain to the people around him? Didn’t this cheat my own people who were careful and secretly doing his job for him?!

He was frightened and didn't know how to deal with it for a moment. He forced himself to calm down and made excuses, but he couldn't help but reveal his flaws.

The twenty-four-year-old Sima Yi has not yet reached the peak of his cunning cultivation in terms of cunning!

Observing words and expressions, human feelings and worldly ways are all learned from the officialdom. Talent in emotional intelligence is very important, but talent cannot be directly integrated without being tempered and practiced.

He has only been a idle little official for two years, and this lack of experience has given Sima Yi a heavy blow.

In contrast, Li Su has been in a high position for a full fourteen years! The prime minister has been working as a 2-year-old. Li Su's human nature and observation of people's attitudes have been terrible by his qualifications.

Li Su was happy: I guessed correctly! Sima Yi revealed a flaw when he was cheated! He really said something bad about Xun Yu to Cao Cao! Of course, it is also possible that he just felt that he didn't know anything and didn't want to offend Cao Cao, so he completed the task safely, which may be a kind of self-protection.

But no matter whether it is a self-protection or not, if you do this, you can be an accomplice, or at least a "provoking accomplice" (threatened by Cao Cao's authoritarianism, which undermined the peace talks)

"Sima Yi! What crime should you be punished by your loyal and good deeds? The person who came, characterizes this matter into a document and transfers it to the Secretary of Law for specific treatment." Li Su did not have a groan, but could only pretend to be angry and smash an inkstone and let someone push Sima Yi down.

As the prime minister, he is not suitable for interrogating trials in person, nor is he suitable for convicting specific prisoners of enemy camps, which would cause him to lose his identity.

It’s like the highest-level court, if you find that the people below don’t do it well, most of them are “sent back to retrial” and rarely change the judgment in person.

Li Suya only needs to supervise and find the problem. He sends the person to Fa Zheng and tells Fa Shangshu, "If the Prime Minister discovers new problems in this case, you can do it yourself." With Fa Zheng's character, he will definitely be intimidated and clean up well.

Sima Yi's face was ashamed, and he wanted to complain but couldn't make a sound in his throat, because his mind was still confused and desperate: Only Cao Cao and I know about this, why did Cao Cao talk so much?

Why can Li Su be so insightful that he can discover these small things? Didn’t he worry about many big things every day? Even the confession of the captured small official 600 stone was asked in person?

...

Sima Yi and his confession were sent to Qiao County to travel to the outer palace. When Fazheng was staying in Fazheng, Fazheng was still sleeping in during the holidays.

After all, he is still Liu Bei's army and the duties of the Minister of Justice are not heavy, so he lives very close to Liu Bei's residence.

When he was woken up, Fa Zheng was very annoyed and tried to vent his anger. But after seeing that the person coming was Cao Zheng, the chief of the Prime Minister's Office, Zhang Song, Fa Zheng changed his expression instantly.

Although Zhang Song is just a clerk Cao, he is also the most talkative official around the prime minister!

Since Deng Zhi, the chief clerk of the Prime Minister's Office, was released from the Bingzhou Governor, Zhang Song has made up the case and has vacancies to replace Deng Zhi, and may become the new chief clerk of the Prime Minister's Office at any time.

"Why did Zhang Cao come from?" Fa Zheng asked kindly.

Zhang Song also bowed politely: "State Secretary of Fa, some things will delay your rest. The Prime Minister interrogated several captured fake officials this morning. Sima Yi, the fake Grand Master of the Rites, seemed to be suspected of slandering Cao Cao and destroying the peace talks with us that Xun Yu presided over.

The Prime Minister is busy with all kinds of troubles and is not convenient to personally ask about the conviction and sentencing, so he will leave the person to you. After the handling is done, he will reply to the Prime Minister. Just act according to the law and be fair."

Fa Zheng was immediately excited and woke up: "Last night, Your Majesty just gave the ministers a celebration banquet. The Prime Minister has gotten up to work diligently this morning?

Ashamed! Ashamed! As the Secretary of the People, we are still lazy and have no face to deal with it. Zhang Cao, please reply to the Prime Minister, so we will tell you to handle the case today and give him a reward!"

As soon as Zhang Song left, Fa Zheng immediately filled his anger. All the pressured aroused energy to vent, and he gritted his teeth and ordered:
Chapter completed!