It’s the ninth day of July, and one day has passed since the chaos in Huaqing Palace.
Although Xue Bai was resting in bed in the official residence of Taile Department, he could still feel a tense atmosphere around Lishan.
This feeling was very strange. He clearly hadn't taken a step out of the house. In front of him, only Xie Aman was caring for him.
"Don't you feel uncomfortable with your dirty body?" Xie Aman peeled off a lychee, handed it to Xue Bai's mouth, and asked, "Shall I ask someone to get you some water to wipe your body?"
Xie Dianshi is not a palace official, so why do you need to do this?"
“You saved the imperial concubine, there must be someone around to take care of her. Eat quickly.”
If Xie Aman hadn't been here, Qinglan and Mingzhu would have taken better care of her.
Xue Bai had to bite the lychee carefully to avoid touching her hand.
“Is the number one scholar here?!”
At this moment, Guo Qianli opened the door and walked in. Seeing this scene, he quickly covered his eyes and wanted to exit.
General Guo, is there anything wrong?" Xue Bai asked.
“If Mr. Xue’s injury is better, come with me.” Guo Qianli smiled and said, “I want to ask some questions.”
Xie Aman said: "He was seriously injured."
"Haha, we suffered more serious injuries on the battlefield, so we had to go back to camp. One time my intestines fell out, so I held my stomach and returned to camp. When I got to the tent, I saw that it was someone else's intestines that had stuck.
It’s on me!”
“I will go with General Guo.”
Xue Bai managed to stand up. Guo Qianli stepped forward to support him and went to the martial arts hall outside the palace wall.
After leaving the official residence of Taile Department, the dignified atmosphere hit me even more.
Along the way, Guo Qianli also talked about some new developments in the case.
"Those traitors, we have taken thirteen alive, and have accidentally killed six of them. They are still being interrogated, and the others who should be under temporary supervision have also been put under supervision."
Xue Bai asked: "Including me?"
"Don't worry." Guo Qianli said: "No one will doubt you, let alone you have made meritorious service. The saint and General Chen believe in you, so I came to invite you, but there must be something to ask."
“About Fahai?“
"Probably not." Guo Qianli shook his head, "In my opinion, someone bit you. Otherwise, if it was just Fa Hai,
Let me ask you a few questions: why do I need to invite you over?"
Judging from this detail, he is loyal and not stupid... He is just a quick talker. Xue Bai pondered and asked: "Who will judge this matter?"
"Such a big matter cannot be tried by General Chen alone." Guo Qianli said, "But I don't know who the saint will send to join the trial. It depends on which of the princes and ministers from up and down Lishan Mountain wins the trust of the saint first. "
Xue Bai nodded, thinking in his heart that no one should believe in saints.
ˆˆVn
“Meet me?”
Yang Zhao rubbed his hands uneasily, fearful in his heart.
He then took a few steps forward, quietly put a few pieces of gold into the hand of the eunuch who delivered the order, and asked in a low voice: "Do you know what it is?"
“This old slave has received too much money from Zhongcheng. It’s enough. I really don’t know what to do today...please.”
This attitude made Yang Zhao even more uneasy.
He couldn't help but start to think about whether this major case might involve him. Could it be that Concubine Yang was beginning to lose power now?
I hate those demon thieves to shout "Liu's Lord" and split this "Golden Sword" to the saint. All ??????????????????????????????????????????
It happened that he had never thought of changing his name before. After all, his "Shi" only had a golden sword, which was missing one "Mao" from "Liu".
“O minister, I pay my respects to the saint and pray for the saint’s long life.”
When he arrived at the palace, Yang Zhao quickly prostrated himself and gave an exaggerated salute, but he didn't even dare to say his name.
Li Longji actually didn’t wake him up and shouted: “Change my name!”
"I...are guilty!""
Cold sweat immediately flowed down Yang Zhao's forehead. He was a little at a loss. After a pause, he thought that maybe the saint was waiting for him to mention a new name?
“I, I, I remember my name, I am loyal to my country,” and I beg your Majesty to sanction it.”
“Guozhong?“
“I am absolutely loyal and I would like to be named after this.”
"allow."
“I obey the decree! From now on, my name will be Yang Guozhong!”
“Get up.”
Yang Guozhong then raised his head, stood up carefully, and stood there with a bow.
Li Longji glanced at him lightly and said, "On the seventh night of the seventh lunar month, there were a few demon thieves causing trouble. What do you think?
"Chen." Yang Guozhong was too nervous and didn't have much opinion at the moment. He could only say bitterly: "These monster thieves! They deserve death! The golden sword is just empty talk, and it is just used by some wildly ambitious monsters."
“Who is so ambitious?”
“I am incompetent and I don’t know.”
“You go and check.“
Yang Guozhong was stunned, but he didn't react for a moment. Li Longji said: "You are the censor Zhongcheng. If you don't want to check, who will check?"
“I accept the decree! I will definitely live up to your majesty’s trust!”
Yang Guozhong responded loudly and felt excited.
He completely did not expect that at this time when the situation was so tense, he would be the first to gain the trust of the saint. And it was also when his name was wronged by the golden sword... he couldn't help but shed tears of gratitude.
“Your Majesty trusts so much, trusts so much... Your Majesty.
Yang Guozhong's eyes turned red, he shed tears, and he knelt on the ground again, crying loudly.
“Go.” Li Longji said warmly and waved his hand.
After receiving the imperial edict, Yang Guozhong had already received advice from Gao Lishi. After leaving Huaqing Palace, he went straight to the Jiangwu Hall. He saw Xue Bai from a distance and greeted Xue Bai warmly.
“Abai!“
“Brother?“
"Is your injury getting better? Brother Wei has always wanted to visit you, but I was afraid that the name would hurt you. But now it's better. I have changed my name to "Yang Guozhong" and I am going to visit you."
"Thank you very much, brother, for remembering me." Xue Bai looked at the imperial edict in Yang Guozhong's hand and asked, "Brother, I have an errand."
Yang Guozhong gave Guo Qianli a warning look, put his arm around Xue Bai's shoulders, took two steps, and started discussing in a low voice.
"I have been wondering just now, why didn't the saint leave this job to King Qi and Prince Consort Zhang to me? When I saw you, I understood that the saint actually trusted you. Knowing that you are Yang The brains of the family."
Xue Bai quickly humbled himself and said, "No, I trust my brother."
Yang Guozhong said even more affectionately: "You have to help me to catch the instigator behind the scenes. You are the most important in this matter. Your rise to prominence is just around the corner."
“I still need qualifications, and I don’t dare to ask for great achievements. Updates are faster xs520.co, remember the whole ~ this ~ 520 reading, but if I can do a little bit, I will not shirk it.”
“Okay! Now you and my brother are going to do something big!”
Xue Bai smiled faintly, but in his heart he disagreed. He didn't believe a word Yang Guozhong said.
Because Li Longji did not choose Yang Guozhong for the "Yang family think tank", there was only one reason - when all the officials were suspicious, he chose the one who was easiest to see through and the least threatening.
ˆˆNN
Jianwu Hall has almost become the Beiya Prison.
When Xue Bai and others entered the hall, they saw Chen Xuanli talking to Zhang Zan, as if asking Zhang Zan.
“I have never discussed the expansion of Huaqing Palace with my brother, and when he took over, the southwest section of the palace wall should have been repaired.”
"The prince-in-law has misunderstood, and he has no doubts about the prince-in-law." Chen Xuanli smiled and said, "But does the prince-son-in-law know? How many of those rebels were laborers building the Huaqing Palace."
"I do not know."
“Please, Prince Consort.”
ification
Zhang Zan had a gloomy look on his face again. When he went out, he saw Xue Bai, straightened up his appearance, nodded politely, and walked away.
Yang Guozhong looked back and asked: "General Chen doubts the prince-in-law?"
"Just ask." Chen Xuanli said: "Those traitors were released outside Fangguan and sneaked in during the time when Zhang Jun took office."
Yang Guozhong handed over the imperial edict in his hand and asked: "Who let them sneak in?"
Chen Xuanli took it and glanced at it, but did not answer and looked at Xue Bai.
“I have a few words to ask the Number One Scholar.”
“General Chen, it’s okay to ask.
“Are Zhuang Yuan Lang and Zhao Ying Wei Da Xi Fu friends?”
Xue Bai shook his head and replied: "I want to seek the position of Zhaoying County Lieutenant and have some contacts with him."
“How long have you been in the secretarial department before you plan to be promoted?”
"People go to higher places." Xue Bai said: "As soon as the report came out, some important officials in the court were afraid that they would not tolerate me. Chen Xuanli smiled again in Chang'an and asked again: "What kind of deal did you make with Da Xifu?
"
His grandpa will rate my exams well, and we will recommend each other."
After Xue Bai finished speaking, Chen Xuanli nodded and looked at the recorder behind him.
A memorial was taken out.
“Fortunately, Zhuangyuan Lang is honest, otherwise it would be really troublesome. Da Xixun has already sent people to repay your merits.”
“I must be honest.”
“Okay, that’ll be fine.” Chen Xuanli asked again, seemingly casually: “By the way, what else do you have to do with Da Xifu?”
“It’s time to go away.“
"Really? Then why didn't you report to the court that he hid his funeral without reporting it?"
Xue Bai hesitated for a moment and replied: "I don't know whether it is true or not, and there is nothing in the officialdom to report colleagues' private affairs... I am not a censor after all."
Chen Xuanli said: "I thought that Zhuangyuan Lang was friends with Da Xifu and helped him cover it. It turns out that I knew there was a trap in this matter, so that's good."
Xue Bai was surprised and asked: "What trap?"
“I really don’t know?”
"I really don't know."
Xue Bai felt that everything Chen Xuanli said was a trap.
He had to make it clear that he didn't understand Da Xi Fu to the extent that he even knew about Da Xi's family affairs.
During this process, Yang Guozhong didn't say a word, but felt a little in danger.
They can all see that Da Xifu has recruited a lot of things.
ˆˆNn
At the same time, behind the martial arts hall, in a newly renovated torture chamber,
Da Xifu was hung on the execution rack and kept talking non-stop. He talked more than the people who asked him.
Sometimes the other person doesn’t ask, he just talks about it directly.
"Li Xi, the magistrate of Zhaoying County, did not want to deal with me. He sent people to Luoyang to investigate, saying that I had concealed my funeral without paying tribute... But in fact, my mother-in-law passed away in the 29th year of Kaiyuan, and her relics were enshrined in Longmen.
Tianbao was buried in Beishan Mountain in the sixth year of his reign."
Your mother-in-law still has relics?"
"yes."
“You just said that Xue Bai also knew about this, why didn’t he report you?”
"Xue Bai showed his kindness to me. I felt that he was trying to win me over. He also deliberately told me about "The Legend of White Snake". Otherwise, I would never have known that there was a Fahai missing in the opera."
When Da Xifu said this, he suddenly realized something and shouted: "I understand!"
“What do you understand?”
"They are all using me. Xue Bai deliberately presented a play; Wang Zhun, Xing and others deliberately recommended Liu Hua; and Li Xi, he was originally the magistrate of Yucheng County, and most of those monsters and thieves came from Henan Prefecture.
.It was Li Xi who arranged for the demon thief to come to Huaqing Palace!"
Q7
In the hall, Chen Xuanli had almost finished asking Xue Bai and went to Huaqing Palace to see him.
It seems like he has no doubts about Xue Bai. How can he, a general, still check these things?" Yang Guozhong muttered, "I must have seen a lot of conspiracies."
Yang Guozhong nodded and said: "We have to go and interrogate the demon thief Liu Hua."
Only then did Xue Bai find out that Liu Hua was not dead yet. He didn't want to get involved in this matter. It would be very troublesome if someone wanted to take advantage of it. In addition, Chen Xuanli probably sent someone to keep an eye on him to see if he had anything to do with these demon thieves.
Coming and going.
But since Yang Guozhong invited him, he agreed to go to the trial together.
Liu Hua had been tortured to a state of disgrace. Not even a single piece of flesh on his body, including his scalp, was intact.
Yang Guozhong took a look at the door, shook his head and said: "Beiya's skills are still not good enough. If it were handed over to Yushitai, it wouldn't be such a miserable situation."
After he entered the Yushitai, he obviously learned a lot of skills from the cruel officials. At this time, he was still talking and laughing in the dirty and smelly execution room.
Xue Bai is not in such a mood. As of now, it is possible that this major case will be blamed on anyone, including him and Yang Guozhong.
“Abai came to ask?”
“That’s good.“
Liu Hua heard the sound, raised his head, and stared at Xue Bai with his only eye.
And his other eye socket was bleeding with pus and blood. "Do you regret it?" Xue Bai asked: "As long as you are loyal to the saint, you may be a famous figure in Chang'an by now."
“Am I... majestic on the stage?”
Liu Hua's voice was hoarse, probably because the torture made him hoarse.
His singing skills have probably been ruined for the most part.
I mean, when I assassinated the Hunjun, was it majestic? Hahaha, so happy!"
"Snapped!"
Yang Guozhong directly picked up the whip, rewarded Liu Hua heavily, and shouted: "Don't slander the saint!"
"You... Although your body has not been castrated, your brain has been. Saint? Hahaha, the eternal wise king of Mount Hua, go and ask how many people want to kill him! The Li family will be destroyed.
The lucky master of the Liu family!"
"This madness is nothing to talk about." Yang Guozhong said, "I'll do it."
He didn't need any new torture tools. He only needed a thick hemp rope and a bamboo board. He tied the two bamboo boards to Liu Hua's abdomen, pulled them with the hemp rope, and stirred the abdominal organs tightly on the left and right sides. This was not just clamping,
As the rope twists, the bamboo board will also twist back and forth, exacerbating the pain.
“Say! Who told you to do this?”
"I said..
"remember."
Liu Hua groaned in pain and murmured: "Henan Yin Pei Dunfu...
Yang Guozhong was stunned. Pei Dunfu returned to Beijing last year and caused some trouble, but he was already dead because of party strife.
"The imperial court stipulated that the people should pay two liters of grain per mu" to store grain in the charity warehouse. It was clearly stated that it was set up for famine relief and was not allowed to be used by others. Pei Dun returned to Henan Yin and paid four liters of grain per mu... That's it. He fled the household.
The more he got, the more he got, and there was nothing we could do about it, that's all... However, there was a long drought in Henan, and when the disaster relief mission wanted to open a warehouse to help the people, they discovered that he had moved the warehouse privately."
Although Liu Hua’s voice was hoarse, he became more and more sober as he spoke.
“My grandpa and the villagers always store grain in the charity warehouse, which has become a regular tax! But why is it diverted, misappropriated, and completely transformed?!
The imperial court sent disaster relief missions, so why did we change the word "relief" to "relief loan"? It is said that the imperial court first borrowed food from us, and then waited for a good year to repay... That's it. Why should we borrow three liters when we borrow one liter?
How can we live through two disaster years in one disaster year? It is obviously the food we paid, our food!"
Yang Guozhong keenly discovered the clues in his words and shouted: "Who is your grandpa?!"
"Hahaha, my grandpa's name is taboo...Liu Dinggao!" Liu Hua raised his head and laughed, "This is the hero who led the army to attack Luoyang in the 13th year of Kaiyuan!"
Xue Bai sighed slightly in his heart, knowing that Liu Hua had deceived him before.
Yang Guozhong scolded: "Liu Dinggao has been executed long ago. Who in the hell instigated you?!"
"Okay, I said." Liu Hua said: "The people who instruct me include the governor of Shaanxi County, the land and water transport envoy, Wei Jian; and the right minister of the court, Li Linfu!"
“How dare you talk nonsense?!”
"In the twenty-fifth year of Kaiyuan, Li Linfu rebuilt the free warehouse method. Before the rebuilding, those who had land paid for grain and stored it in the free warehouse. After the rebuilding, those who had no land also received grain. The corn supply in the free warehouse increased greatly, and the past prosperity was restored.... However, my adoptive father had no land and was forced to
The government officials plundered and plundered him until he died! This Kaiyuan granary, in the prosperous period of the Tang Dynasty, has a share of the credit of my adoptive father! Grant him a Zen title, you can grant him a Zen title of Xiyue. When I send this faint king down, my adoptive father will grant him a Zen title...
“There is also Wei Jian, who also transports grain from the southern warehouses to Chang’an by canal. He has good strategies to govern the country. But he still requires us to pay a foot fee, which is more than the grain. He strips the rope twice a year...ah!”
Liu Hua said, feeling severe pain.
He was still shouting.
"Is there any fee for footwork...I will give you my eggs! I will give you my eggs! Those who force me to rebel...Ji Longji is the one...Ji Longji is the one! Liu's lucky master!"
Hearing this, Xue Bai suddenly understood that the golden sword was actually not superstition, but a kind of faith.
Without this kind of knowledge, how can a commoner in this world dare to call the emperor by his name?
On the other hand, if the situation does not get worse and worse, how can we have such knowledge?
Today it is the lucky lord of the Liu family, and tomorrow it may be the lucky lord of the An family.