Chapter 859 Remaining brave to chase the poor bandits
Li Youdao stood in the golden palace with a pale face, his eyes lifeless, and his body almost collapsed to the ground.
The confession that Wu Minzhi was forced to sign a few days ago finally exploded.
He can deny it, but the matter will not be that simple. Whether it is his autograph and fingerprints, he only needs to call in the chief clerk of the Ministry of Punishment to identify the authenticity. Then, Li Youdao will be slapped with the label of "deceiving the king" again.
"The hat adds insult to injury."
Li Qinzai stood in the crowd, his expression a little surprised.
Li Qinzai didn't know anything about Wu Minzhi forcing Li Youdao to sign a confession. He was busy dealing with the aristocratic family in the past few days and had no time to see Wu Minzhi.
So he had no idea that this confession was Wu Minzhi's masterpiece.
It is a very magical crazy critic who likes to use all kinds of unimaginable methods of coercion to make the opponent leave evidence in black and white. For example, Prince Teng and Li Youdao both suffered heavy losses at the hands of Wu Minzhi.
What Li Qinzai is thinking now is, what the hell kind of villain is this? He actually signed a confession himself, for fear that his death would not be strange enough, right?
The confession was in Li Youdao's hand at the moment, and Li Zhi handed it to him generously, not afraid of him tearing up the evidence.
In fact, Li Zhi didn't care whether he admitted it or not, because the moment the confession was handed to Li Youdao, Li Zhi found the answer from the expression on his face.
As a result, Li Zhi's expression gradually became weird. At this moment, the same thought as Li Qinzai came to his mind. Do all villains nowadays seek death like this?
After thinking about it, the eunuch said that this confession was the work of Wu Minzhi. Thinking about what happened to Prince Teng when he was forced to sign the marriage contract, it seems...reasonable for Li Youdao to sign the confession. After all, anything weird has nothing to do with Wu Minzhi.
The relationship has become more reasonable.
Seeing Li Youdao's face pale and silent, the officials became more and more confused. Judging from Li Youdao's expression, this confession seemed to contain some gold.
Then the ministers also had the same thought as Li Youdao at this moment. Isn't this simply seeking death? Even the King of Heaven can't save him.
After a long time, Li Youdao suddenly shouted sharply: "Your Majesty, it is clear that this is Wu Min's persecution. My life was threatened by Wu Min's, so I had to give in and sign a confession. Your Majesty, the evil person is not a fool, how can he not be beaten?"
Are you bringing it on yourself and admitting your guilt?"
In the crowd, Li Qinzai suddenly sneered and said: "Before the evidence was produced, I refused to admit it and said it was slander. After I produced the evidence, I also said that I was forced. The truth is all on your side. Be a good person."
With this kind of virtue, Li Shaoqing, do you want to reflect on yourself?"
Li Youdao was so angry that his body was shaking, but he could not argue.
Li Zhiruo looked at him thoughtfully and said with a smile: "In other words, does Li Shaoqing not admit to this confession? The charges mentioned above are also false and should not be accepted by me?"
Li Youdao hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth and said, "Yes, it's all fake!"
Li Zhi smiled again: "When the matter has reached this point, if I don't investigate it strictly, I'm afraid even the civil and military officials in the court won't agree to it, right?"
Then Li Zhi said: "Go to the Ministry of Punishment, and the Censor of Xitai will investigate the case, get to the bottom of the matter, and then report it to me. If anyone deceives you, I will punish you severely!"
Li Youdao trembled, sweating like rain.
At this moment, there is no hope for his followers. With Li Youdao being beaten everywhere, only a fool would stand up and openly stand on the same front with him.
As if in order to immediately change the unfavorable topic for him, Li Youdao immediately turned around and pointed at Li Qinzai and said: "Your Majesty, the facts of the case are the facts of the case. Li Qinzai is not qualified to be the chief of the Ming Calculation Department, and his qualifications are still relatively young. Please consider it, Your Majesty. This is not the case.
What I think is that the public opinion of the scholars in the world is like this."
Li Qinzai sighed and had no choice but to stand up and say: "Your Majesty, I have something to say."
Li Zhi said happily: "You say."
Li Qinzai walked to the center of the hall, turned around, looked around at the ministers, and said loudly: "Say that I am not worthy of being the examiner, that my virtue is not worthy of the position, that Your Majesty should not give the position of examiner to me, a child with a yellow mouth, okay, I only have one thing to say
talk……"
Li Qinzai raised his voice and said: "Today in this court meeting, we are discussing matters. We only explain the knowledge of one subject. If some of my colleagues in the palace think they can surpass me, they might as well stand up and let's compete in front of the emperor."
"If I lose, I will resign on my own and go away. If I win, everyone in the world will shut up and just wait for me to come up with a question and decide my future!"
There was silence in the hall again.
Li Qinzai's knowledge in Mingshu is well known to the world.
So many powerful people sent their children to Ganjing Village to study, including four princes and princesses. Could it be that all the officials were deaf and blind?
Over the years, Li Qinzai invented the pulley block, hydraulic press, cement, three-eyed gun, and many other things, all of which are related to the science of calculation and investigation.
Rumors abounded in both the government and the public in Chang'an, saying that he had low morals, that he was too young, and that he had insufficient qualifications. Among thousands of reasons, no one dared to say that he was not knowledgeable enough.
Because Li Qinzai was knowledgeable enough, even his enemies could not slander him at this point.
After Li Qinzai finished speaking, there was silence in the hall.
No one dared to say anything, and no one dared to compete with him.
After a long time, Li Qinzai sighed and said: "The scientific examination is about real knowledge, a clean matter, and you have to bring out morality to disgust people. Does the question setting in the scientific examination have anything to do with morality?
Is it because the candidates are able to answer the questions because they have high moral standards?"
"Everyone obviously has their own selfish agenda, but they still use a righteous fig leaf to cover their ugly faces. Isn't it disgusting?"
The ministers in the palace looked at each other in shock, many of them blushed but were speechless.
In this golden palace, Li Qinzai unceremoniously tore off their fig leaves, and those widely circulated reasons became jokes at this moment.
Li Youdao's complexion alternated between red and blue, and his red eyes stared intently at Li Qinzai.
Li Zhi suddenly put his hands on his hands and laughed, then gritted his teeth and said: "Yes, Jingchu said it so happily! What I hate most in my life is to use morality as a banner in everything!"
Li Qinzai glanced at him and said, shut up.
The bad thing you did is no longer a moral matter, but has risen to the legal level. Don't you think you are aware of it?
If you were not the emperor and no one dared to touch you, you would have been immersed in a pig cage and sunk into the river. Accompanying you in the river were your queen, Mrs. Korea, Mrs. Wei...
Others use morality to describe things as disgusting. If you mention the word "morality", morality should be disgusting.
As if feeling the distant look from Li Qinzai, Li Zhi blushed, and then said with a calm expression: "It has been decided today that Li Qinzai, the Marquis of Weinan County, will serve as the chief examiner. This decision is not easy!"
The ministers were silent for a long time, but in the courtroom, Qi Bi Heli, Xue Rengui, Liang Jianfang and others suddenly said in unison: "Your Majesty is wise, and I have no objections!"
Someone took the lead, and today's situation was indeed doomed to be irreversible, so the officials had no choice but to follow suit and salute.
Li Youdao's face was miserable, and he stood in the hall in despair, as if he had aged ten years in an instant.
However, things are not over yet.
Having fallen out with the aristocratic family to this extent, how could Li Qinzai let Li Youdao go?
The discussion about the examination had just settled down, and when the ministers were breathing a sigh of relief, Li Qinzai suddenly stood up again and said: "Your Majesty, I still have something to report."
Li Zhi was stunned and said: "You said it."
"I report twelve counts of major and minor crimes including the enclosure of land by the Li family in Zhao County, harming farmers, keeping slaves, and exorbitant taxes!"