At dawn, Li Shiniang came over and asked, "Brother sent someone here last night. Did something big happen to my twelfth brother-in-law?"
"Yeah." Li Xiu nodded and sighed: "I can't save him anymore, so I can only give up on him and save the Prime Minister's Mansion."
"It doesn't matter if it doesn't implicate the family." Li Shiyiniang felt relieved knowing this and said: "If you give up a Yuan Miao, just give it up."
Li Xiu said: "Tell Twelve Niang that she and Yuan Miao have reconciled. I have arranged for people to prepare the paperwork. The only thing I must remind her is that she is not on good terms with Yuan Miao."
"Brother is worthy of being appointed as a supervisor." Li Shiyiniang clapped her hands and laughed, "Yuanzhen has nothing to show for his skin, but he is actually a fool. I have annoyed him a long time ago, and it is just in time for Twelfth Niang to remarry someone better."
"Go ahead."
"Brother, don't worry. Do you really think that Yuan Zhen is a relative of our prime minister? He is just the plaything of Twelve Mothers. If you lose it, you will lose it."
Li Xiu sighed and waved his noisy sister away, his brows still furrowed.
"Juro!"
Suddenly, Cang Bi, the steward of the Prime Minister's Mansion, hurried over and said in a panic: "Shiro, a visitor comes to see you, claiming to be a judge of Dali Temple."
Li Xiu frowned, walked out of the hall and looked outside, and saw an official wearing a light green official robe walking on the corridor of the Youxiang Mansion without taking off his boots.
Normally, such a person would inevitably be sent to Lingnan. Today, Li Xiu didn't care about such a trivial matter.
"Deng Jingshan, the judge of Dali, may I ask who will be the supervisor of the right school, Li Xiu and Li Shilang?"
"Exactly."
"Please Colonel Li, please come with us to Dali Temple."
"What's the matter?"
"There is a case involving a prisoner. This is an official document. Please..."
~~
Because it was a joint trial of three divisions, there were many officials in the Dali Temple.
Yuan Zhen knelt in the hall, and the witnesses around him changed one after another, testifying against him for various crimes.
"It is said that Li Xiu will be the supervisor of the right school!"
Following this shout, Li Xiu walked into the court accompanied by the government officials.
As the son of the Right Prime Minister, this was the first time he encountered such a situation. He looked around the courtroom, but before he could see the whole picture clearly, his eyes had already fallen on one person and he couldn't move away.
Xue Bai is here today, standing next to Yuan Ming, looking like a gentle gentleman. There are many people around him, including Du Wulang, Da Xi Yingying, Yan Quanming, and Yan Jiming.
"Li Xiu." Yang Shaoxuan, the young minister of Dali Temple who was presiding over the case, asked, "Do you know about Yuan Zong's purchase of rattan materials?"
"I don't know."
Xu Hao, a doctor in the Ministry of Punishment, asked, "Are you sure you don't know? Yuan Miao is your brother-in-law, and you two are quite close to each other."
Li Xiu said: "Yuan Ming has reconciled with his sister-in-law, and we are not close..."
Yuan Zhen was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at Li Xiu, who looked calm, in disbelief.
However, Xu Hao asked again: "If you don't know, why did you send craftsmen from General Supervisor to go to Yanxi to harvest vines with Yuanzhen's people?"
"No." Li Xiu said calmly: "There is absolutely no such thing. It is just a rumor with no solid evidence."
"have!"
It was Yan Jiming who spoke.
Yan Jiming stood up in two steps, raised his finger and pointed at Yuan Ming, and shouted: "In order to pursue your own selfish interests, you sent people to Shanxi, hired carpenters, cut with knives and axes, and peeled off skin and muscles at all hours of the day and night, but you did not care about the number of Shanxi.
Hundreds of miles of vines are now almost extinct. This move has made everyone in Yanxi angry, and people of insight have criticized it. An still dares to quibble here?!"
Li Xiu squinted his eyes and looked at Yan Jiming with some doubts.
Of course he knew that all the vines in the hundreds of miles of Shanxi River were about to be cut down, so he obeyed his father's order and sent officials from the general supervisor to protect them. From then on, the general supervisor supplied official documents to the government.
Is this, as Yan Jiming said, colluding with Yuan Ming for personal gain?
Even though those officials had been bribed, which aroused Yanxi's anger, he had not yet received the news. How did Yan Jiming, the son of a Hebei official, learn about it first?
"This is a false accusation..."
"This is a fact!" Although Yan Jiming is young, he speaks with impressive momentum. "Today, the tribute from Shengzhou Township has arrived in Chang'an. He has satirized this matter with poems and essays. He has written more than ten poems and essays with the title "Sorrowful Ancient Vine of Shanxi River". You wait.
Still want to quibble?!"
Li Xiu opened his mouth and was about to speak.
"The vine has its limit, but the writer has no limit!" Yan Jiming stopped him talking and immediately shouted, "Although the vine is a plant, it is warm and prosperous, and cold and withered. It lives when it is nourished, and dies when it is damaged. It seems to have a destiny in heaven and earth. Now because of evil
What the officials cut down cannot happen. It is the power of heaven and earth that has been slandered by people, causing things to be as flawed as this! If it is a matter of writing, then it is greedy, causing poetry and literature to be folded into licentiousness and debauchery, and destroying the principles of nature.
, you still dare to write on paper?!"
Unlike Xue Bai, Yan Jiming was really angry.
He originally listened to Yan Zhenqing's words and accompanied Xue Bai to the Jingzhao Mansion to hear the trial. He knew that Yuan Ming would have to be the one to reverse the case, so he started investigating from Yuan Ming.
During this investigation, he quickly found out about the Yanxi Teng, and he was furious about it.
It should be noted that no matter how fast bamboo paper is made, it will take at least several years to decades to popularize it. However, Yuan Ming and others rely on their power to monopolize the rattan material and cut it down at will regardless of the season, causing the price of rattan paper to skyrocket. How will it help?
World literature?
"Tell me! How can you have the dignity to write on paper?!" Yan Jiming asked again.
Li Xiu took a step back, saying that he didn't know about this and was deceived by Yuan Zhen.
However, when the words came to his lips, he remained silent.
The scribe sitting nearby raised his head and took a quick look and wrote down these confessions.
~~
Just behind the screen wall in the courtroom, Gao Lishi and Li Linfu were sitting, listening to the proceedings of the trial.
Afterwards, after hearing that Li Xiu was taken away, the people in the hall began to question Xiao Jiong about his misappropriation of taxes. Finally, Xu Hao asked Yuan Miao if his right relative knew about all this.
"Know...know..."
When Yuan Zhen's answer fell into his ears, Li Linfu finally showed a look of anger and whispered: "General Gao clearly knows that this son is resentful because of his separation from his little girl, so he deliberately bites her."
"Don't be anxious, Prime Minister." Gao Lishi said with a smile: "I just need to report back to the sage what I heard. As for the reason, the sage can tell it by himself."
"yes."
Li Linfu knew that what Gao Lishi wanted now was stability.
Previously, the right prime minister's office was powerful and he was determined to depose the prince. Gao Lishi refused to help, but now it is not appropriate to let the situation expand.
"I am not good at discipline, so I should be dismissed. I am afraid that the battle of Xiaobolu and the battle of Shibao City have not yet been won. If the military expenditure is insufficient..."
When Li Linfu rarely asked for help, he bowed and spoke softly.
Gao Lishi did not respond. He looked through the gap in the screen wall and looked at Xue Bai.
Li Linfu then understood what he meant. Rather than expecting others to help put out the fire, it would be better to ask the person who set the fire to stop burning it.
This case involved a lot, and the trial lasted from early morning to afternoon.
The three divisions found out the facts of the case and did not dare to make a verdict, but asked for a holy judgment.
Gao Lishi led Xue Bai and Li Linfu to the palace city, but did not take Xiao Jiong with him.
This third-rank Jingzhaoyin was imprisoned like this, and even the right minister could not save him.
"Xue Bai."
On the way to the palace city, Li Linfu lowered his attitude and said to Xue Bai in front of Gao Lishi: "In the past, there were some misunderstandings and personal grudges between you and me. How about letting go of the grudges with a smile?"
This was the winter of the fifth year of Tianbao, the famous prime minister of a country. Whether to kill Xue Bai or not could only be decided in his second thought.
Xue Bai looked at the palace city in the distance and said: "Yesterday, the Right Prime Minister said that the case should be handled impartially and without any selfish motives. If this is the case, how can you say that you can smile and forget all grudges?"
~~
The royal couch was placed under the sweet-scented osmanthus tree.
Li Longji was half-leaning and eating.
Seeing Gao Lishi leading the people back, he motioned to the palace lady beside him to put down the cup, listened to Gao Lishi's brief description of the case, smiled smartly, and picked up a memorial on the imperial case.
This is the method proposed by Li Linfu to increase revenue and reduce expenditure.
The small characters on the white rattan paper are spread all over, reflecting the frugality of the country's prime minister.
But it was this prime minister who allowed his son-in-law and Jing Zhaoyin to misappropriate taxes and seize hundreds of miles of vines in the Yan River.
Reading a memorial yesterday and reading it today have completely different feelings.
After a long time, Li Longji finally looked away from the memorial and glanced at Li Linfu. He could see that Li Linfu was suffering extremely at this moment.
"Xue Bai."
"exist."
"You have made great achievements in making paper. What reward do you want?"
Xue Bai said: "Why don't you ask the saint to grant me an official position? I make weapons and bamboo paper, so I can be a general and supervise the right school."
Hearing this sentence, Li Linfu felt a little resentful, secretly thinking that Juro was obviously quite good to Shuzi, but this Shuzi wanted to stab Juro in front of the emperor.
Li Longji said: "You are still young. After next year's imperial examination and your appointment, and after a few more years of hard work, I will let you serve as general supervisor concurrently, so don't worry."
"According to the decree."
"I will give you a mansion." Li Longji said: "General Gao will arrange this matter, so I must not appear stingy."
"Old slave obeys the order."
Li Longji drank from the wine glass and said with a smile: "Go and ask the officials in the court, who doesn't know that I treat my ministers well and I am never stingy with rewards."
This saint was indeed famous for his generosity. Every minister who pleased him was generously rewarded. The Yang family's brothers and sisters, Anlu Mountain, and Wang's mansion were all rewarded by him. They were extremely magnificent.
It can be said that they regard gold and silk as dung and use them like sand.
Before Xue Bai could answer, Li Longji said again: "I just want to say to you, Prime Minister, that I will grant 300 households a real seal. If you have a meal in the imperial palace that is shameful and delicacies from afar, the people in the middle will declare the gift. If I have a share, I will give it to you Prime Minister."
…”
"His Majesty."
Li Linfu was so frightened that he fell to the ground, cried bitterly, and said: "I have failed to restrain myself, and I deserve death!"
In fact, he has no guilt.
The whole thing is not serious, just like he said that the little milk cat on the ground was a man-eating tiger, and wanted to kick it away, but the saint found out that it was the treasure that the little milk cat had in its mouth, and he wanted to swallow it for himself.
The problem is that he might lose the saint's trust because of this.
Sure enough, Li Longji didn't say he wanted to punish him, but said calmly: "Right Prime Minister, get up. It was Xiao Jiong and Yuan Ming who committed the crime, and it has nothing to do with you. I still need you to take care of state affairs for me."
"I have betrayed my divine grace, and I feel ashamed."
"Get up, you, the great prime minister, are crying and making Xue Bai laugh, which is detrimental to the face of the country."
Li Linfu was so unwilling that he glanced at Xue Bai, but he knew that he could not expose this son's conspiracy in front of the saint, so he had to stand up and said: "I know the crime, and I obey the decree."
"You are also wrong." Li Longji pointed at Xue Bai with a smile and asked, "Do you know where you are wrong?"
Xue Bai said: "I made bamboo paper. If things go on like this, the lower the price of paper, the easier it will be for poor families to study. I am afraid of offending the rich and powerful families in the world. Therefore, being framed by the right prime minister, I have my own way of causing trouble."
"Sage, I did not frame Xue Bai, but..." Li Linfu admitted with difficulty: "I was deceived by Xiao Jiong, Yuan Miao and others."
Xue Bai said: "The right prime minister is a little too trusting. He was first deceived by Ji Wen and then by Yuan Zhen."
"enough."
Li Longji was too lazy to listen to their criticism anymore. He took the file from the three-level trial and signed the verdict with his pen.
He doesn't have the patience to tell whose heart is more dirty. They are all dirty anyway. Compared with the truth, he cares more about the balance between the government and the opposition, and about having everything under his control.
Li Linfu has lost his trust, but it is true that no one can replace him as prime minister for the time being.
The names Yang Zhen and Wang Zhen came to mind, but Li Longji quickly rejected it. Yang Zhen was not talented enough, and Wang Zhen was not qualified, so they were not the best candidates for prime minister.
But it's time to limit Li Linfu's power.
Left Prime Minister Chen Xilie is too weak, so appointing someone to restrain Li Linfu in the position of Left Prime Minister is also a kind of blow, and Yang Wei is suitable.
"Summon Yang Zhen to see me."
"According to the decree."
When Li Linfu heard this, he felt a sharp pain in his heart. He had lost a son-in-law, a position in the capital, and yet another left prime minister in this case.
However, at this time, the saint did not ask his opinion, and he could not raise objections yet.
It was originally a good opportunity to deal with the East Palace, but why did it end up causing heavy losses to the Right Prime Minister and his entire family?
Li Linfu glanced at Xue Bai and thought that Yang Wei was a mediocre person. His current success was all due to the support of Xue Bai and the forces behind him. At present, his position was on the verge of collapse and the situation was critical, so he could not care much anymore.
Although he was still reluctant, he still said: "Sage, I have a request. Seventeen girls in my family fell in love with Xue Bai. However, I was narrow-minded and beat the couple because of some personal grudges. Now I repented and begged the saint to grant me a marriage. "
When Gao Lishi heard this, he couldn't help but smile.
He stood behind the saint and saw the saint's judgment on the case, so he thought to himself, what a slave, he lost a son-in-law, but he immediately wanted to get a son-in-law back.
If Yuan Ming was replaced by Xue Bai, wouldn't it mean that Ge Nu would also make money if this happened?
He can only talk nicely to see if he can ask the saint to marry him, otherwise Xue Bai will not agree to it now.
Xue Bai saluted and said: "Sage..."
Li Longji yelled and said, "Shut up."
Li Linfu had previously thought that Xue Bai was the son of his enemy and was unwilling to marry his daughter in every possible way. Now he saw the saint drink Xue Bai and hint at a marriage, and he felt overjoyed.
Going round and round, the marriage that was determined to be ruined at the beginning is now working hard to get it back.
"I know that I made a mistake, and I did miss the state affairs due to personal grudges." Li Linfu said: "The reason why I asked the saint to marry me is because I know that I made a mistake and can correct it. I am willing to make peace with Xue Bai and ask the saint to make it happen."
However, Li Longji actually waved his hand, pondered for a moment, and said: "Xue Bai is still young, so there is no rush to marry him."
Even Gao Lishi was surprised. The saint didn't even hesitate to judge major cases, but he hesitated just now. Why was he so embarrassed?
Li Longji waved his hand and asked Li Linfu and Xue Bai to step back, and they indeed started discussing with Gao Lishi.
"General Gao, do you know why I rejected Ge Nu's request?"
"But the right prime minister indulged his family and made the saint angry?"
"No." Li Longji murmured: "Today, Yue Tu came into the palace and told me personally that she wanted to marry Xue Bai."
Gao Lishi's eyes narrowed and he became a little worried after hearing this.
Sure enough, Li Longji said: "Genu made a mistake and was so anxious to win over Xue Bai in front of me. Why is the prince? Is he just greedy for the credit of this bamboo paper?"
Gao Lishi whispered: "It seems that the prince made a mistake. It should be that those Uighurs are related to him. As the prince, he secretly maintained the caravan and made money and spent it?"
"go on."
"Now that everything has been found out, the prince is still lucky. It's really shameless."
"General Gao, are these all from your heart?"
"No, they all follow the wishes of the saint." Gao Lishi said with a smile: "If the old slave wants to speak his mind, it can't be because Xue Bai is holding the hand of the East Palace, right? When asking your majesty to grant a marriage, the prince must be thinking
I tried to win over Xue Bai while he was in trouble, but the news was too slow, and Xue Bai had already harmed the right prime minister."
Li Longji smiled slightly and waved to the palace officials to send the verdict of the three-division trial back to Dali Temple.
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Dali Temple.
Yuan Zhen was dragged out and took off his robe.
"Snapped!"
He received a hard blow on his buttocks, causing severe pain.
"I was unjustly accused! I already committed the crime, and I promised to be given a lighter sentence..."
"Snapped!"
The whipping with the cane continued, but some officials were willing to pay attention to him and said with a smile: "I was merciful and gave him a lighter sentence. You committed such a serious crime and only received a hundred canes."
"Snapped!"
After a while, Yuan Zhen was no longer alive.
"puff."
The body was thrown aside, still like a sack on the ground.
The government official clapped his hands and felt quite emotional in his heart, feeling that people really have to go to higher ground.
For example, for the same crime, the eighth-grade Qingpao was killed with a cane, while Jingzhao Yin Xiaojiong was only demoted to the rank of Beihai Yuanwailang to join the military because he was a third-grade purple-robed official. This is the difference.
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Xue Bai left the palace and watched Li Linfu, who was wearing purple robes, leaving surrounded by Jin Wu guards, knowing that the prime minister had worked very hard to put out the fire.
The fire in the bamboo paper case was indeed extinguished after scorching Xiao Jiong, Yuan Ming and others, but maybe there are still flames elsewhere?
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