Chapter 0382 Head-to-head confrontation (1)
Li Dan sat down in the room, he looked at the room and smiled, "How can a dignified general live in such a house? It's so cold!"
Su Honghui smiled bitterly and said, "Your Highness is joking. Bei Zi has been dismissed from his post, and now he is just a civilian."
"Oh-this is very unfortunate!"
Su Honghui could no longer help but kneel down and said with tears in his eyes: "I am really unfair. Please ask Your Highness the Prime Minister to make the decision for me."
"Get up! Get up! Sit down and talk." Li Dan quickly asked Su Honghui to get up and sit down.
At this time, Su Honghui's concubine brought in two cups of tea. Su Honghui sat down and wiped away her tears and said, "Your Highness is ignorant of his duties, and you are laughing at me."
The concubine retreated, and only Su Honghui and Li Dan were left in the room. Li Dan said lightly: "I heard that General Su was dismissed because General Wang Xiaojie died in battle, but General Su seemed to be calling for injustice every year. Is there really any injustice here?"
Su Honghui did not cooperate with Wang Xiaojie in the battle as agreed upon, which led to Wang Xiaojie being surrounded by the Khitan army and almost wiped out the entire army. The responsibility was clear, but Su Honghui knew in his heart that it was not that he did not want to rescue Wang Xiaojie, but that Wu Sansi did not allow him to rescue him, and he also sent someone to monitor him.
Afterwards, Su Honghui went to Wu Sansi to report, but Wu Sansi ignored him at all and didn't even let him in. He came to the capital every year to report, hoping that Wu Sansi could discover his conscience and give him a future. His family had no savings and would be very miserable in his later years, but the end result still made him disheartened. Wu Sansi said that he didn't know him at all and ordered someone to drive him away with a stick.
At this time, Su Honghui had already made his promise, so he explained the situation that Wu Sansi secretly received him and ordered him to defeat Wang Xiaojie, but he was not allowed to rescue him. Li Dan nodded repeatedly. This was indeed an extremely vicious trick. Li Zhen still remembered this incident. Once the case was revealed, Wu Sansi would really not be able to bear it.
After listening to Su Honghui's statement, Li Dan said again: "I am willing to help you. If you need evidence, it will be difficult for me to convince the emperor with your own words."
Su Honghui hesitated. Once this matter was opened, he would completely offend Wu Sansi. Wu Sansi would definitely kill him. He was repeatedly weighing, could he really offend Wu Sansi?
Li Dan saw Su Honghui's hesitation, and then he understood why Li Zhen had to convince Su Honghui himself. Only when he took action could he offset Su Honghui's fear of Wu Sansi.
Li Dan smiled and said, "I will give you a promise too! Once Li Tang recovers his country in the future, I will recommend you as the General of the Left Guard and the Duke of the Founding County. What are the conditions?"
Su Honghui was excited. King Xiang was most likely the future emperor. His personal promise was his last hope in his life. He made a fuss in his heart and decided to put his life on King Xiang. He kowtowed twice, then took out a wooden box from the small box next to him and solemnly presented it to Li Dan.
"The box is a letter written by Wu Sansi to me by himself, and I must make Wang Xiaojie defeated. At that time, I was cautious and burned the fake letter in front of Wu Sansi's people, but kept the true letter and hid it for five years. I am willing to hand it over to Your Highness."
Li Dan was overjoyed. With this letter, Wu Sansi was saddened by this...
This spring is destined to be a chaotic spring. The struggle caused by Wu Sansi's impending ascension to the crown prince gradually became fierce. Not long after the city gate was closed, hundreds of Qianniu Guard soldiers surrounded the Luling Prince's Mansion. The Censor Ji Xu strode into the Prince's Mansion.
Li Xian's two sons, Li Chongrun and Li Chongjun, came up and shouted, "Ji Zhongcheng, what are you doing? You dare to use your army to surround us?"
Ji Xu smiled and said, "Please don't be angry, two young masters, please give Ji Xu a hundred courage, and I dare not disturb His Highness King Luling. I am following the will of the emperor and say a few words to you, I want to see His Highness King Luling."
Princess Wei walked out of the lobby and said coldly: "The prince is in poor health and cannot meet foreign guests. If you have anything to say, just say it to me!"
Ji Xu hurriedly saluted, "Secretary of the Lord, please see Princess Wei."
Princess Wei snorted, "You don't have to pretend, just say anything if you have anything!"
Ji Xu laughed dryly and said, "The princess made the embarrassing me. I did come with the order, because the death of Zhang Jingxiong of the Central Secretary involved His Highness the King of Luling. The emperor asked me to tell the King of Luling that if he was willing to admit it, then he could be given a lighter sentence. If he refused to admit it, once the evidence was conclusive, she would not consider the relationship between mother and son. This is the original words of the emperor. I told the truthfully and asked the princess to tell the prince. As for the search of the mansion, although the emperor agreed, I did not have the courage to leave first."
Ji Xu bowed and slowly retreated. Princess Wei seemed to be nothing on the surface, but in fact she was very panicked. Of course, she heard about the murder of Zhang Jingxiong, and knew that there were blood words on the scene pointing to King Luling. Once the emperor really thought that Zhang Jingxiong was killed by King Luling, then their family would be over, and all her hopes and dreams would be gone.
Princess Wei was so angry that she gritted her teeth. Seeing Ji Xu going to exit the door, she hurriedly shouted: "Ji Zhongcheng!"
"Is there anything else to do with the princess?" Ji Xu stopped and asked with a smile.
Princess Wei said slowly: "I heard that Li Zhen has returned to Beijing to report his work. As soon as he comes back, there are so many things happening in the capital. Don't Ji Zhongcheng find it strange?"
Princess Wei had already vaguely guessed that this matter was related to Li Zhen. She didn't know whether Li Zhen framed him to King Luling, but in order to protect herself, she did not hesitate to offer Li Zhen out.
Ji Xu was slightly stunned, then smiled and said, "You are understanding, thank you for your reminder."
He turned around and walked quickly. Princess Wei gritted her teeth, "Li Zhen, you are unkind first, so don't blame me for being unrighteous."
Ji Xu walked out of the gate of the palace, then turned over and walked towards the gate with hundreds of soldiers. At this time, a follower stepped forward and whispered: "Your Highness the Princess has an order, and you are not allowed to involve Li Zhen at this time."
Ji Xu nodded, "I understand in my heart, you don't need to remind me."
As soon as I arrived at the fangmen, I saw someone walking out of the fangmen and bowing and saying, "Please stay with you, Ji Zhongcheng!"
Ji Xu was stunned. He looked carefully and recognized the person. He was Wei Bo, the nephew of Princess Wei. He had some friendship with him. Ji Xu smiled and said, "So it's Mr. Wei. Is there anything wrong?"
"Ji Zhongcheng, please speak with me."
Ji Xu turned over and got off the horse and walked to the corner with him. Wei Bo whispered: "The murder of Zhang Jingxiong is indeed not related to King Luling, but it may be related to the eldest son."
"Li Chongrun?" Ji Xu was stunned.
Wei Bo nodded, "It's him. He often said that the emperor was lewd and unruly, favored Er Zhang, and was inconsistent with the common people. One day he would kill Er Zhang. Even if he couldn't kill Er Zhang, he would still kill Li Jingxiong and others. On the day Li Jingxiong was killed, I saw him bring dozens of people out with his own eyes and didn't come back until late at night."
Ji Xu was really surprised in his heart. How much hatred would be needed to make Wei Bo secretly report Li Chongrun.
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A huge notice was posted on the wall of the Luoyang Xingshanfang. Nearly a thousand people surrounded the notice. Someone was reading aloud. Liang Wang Wushen Si had many evil deeds and had lost virtue in the world. Why did he become the prince? The evil deeds were disclosed as follows: In the first year of Shangyuan, a fire in Tongtufang in Luoyang affected 327 households and burned 155 people to death. This was actually caused by Wushen Si's arson. In order to plan for his land, the places where the fires are now all are Wushen Si's separate houses.
In the first year of Guangzhai, Liangzhou was famine. Wu Sansi took the opportunity to plan a field and seized 12,000 hectares of land with five liters of rice per mu of land. It was named Liangwang Tianzhuang, which still exists today.
"It's true!" someone shouted, "My 20 acres of Yongye Field in Liangzhou were forcibly exchanged for two stones of rice. It turned out that it was Wu Sansi's work."
"Shameless!"
Everyone shouted angrily. Many older generations recalled the fire in Tongtufang that year, which was very bad. It turned out that Wu Sansi sent someone to set fire. This was simply unscrupulous. Such a person still wanted to be the prince? At this time, several yamen runners came over in panic and prepared to tear the notices on the wall. The crowd was angry and they smashed stones at several yamen runners. Someone shouted: "Wu Sansi's lackey, get out of here!" Several yamen runners were beaten to run away with their heads in their arms.
Not only the Good Job House, but at least thirty buildings in Luoyang City had similar notices posted, and Luoyang City was infuriated for a moment.
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Before dawn the next day, there were carriages going to court on Luoyang Street, with orange lanterns hanging, which were particularly conspicuous in the dark. Today is the fifth day of the March lunar month. On the fifth day of every month, the court will hold a grand ceremony. All officials in Beijing who are above the fifth rank will attend court.
Li Zhen is no exception. He is a left-behind person in Xijing and has been a third-rank senior official, so he naturally has to attend the court meeting.
Before dawn, he got up, and Di Yan also got up early, packed his official clothes and arranged food and food, so busy that he was not stuck in the ground.
Li Zhen ate a little casually and then changed into the government office. He smiled at his wife and said, "No need to be so troublesome. I'll just go with my father-in-law."
Di Yan tidied up his clothes and sighed again: "Dad has already taken one step first. He told you to go early and not be late."
Di Yan complained a little, "I don't understand why I went to court so early. It was not dawn yet, so why can't we let everyone sleep for a while and hold a court meeting in the morning."
"There is nothing to do. If the court will be delayed too late, then everyone will not do anything for the whole morning, so they have to work harder. If the court is not at dawn, the court will end after dawn, which will not affect normal official duties."
While wearing boots, Li Zhen explained with a smile: "In fact, being an emperor is even harder. He can't stand it when he goes to the morning court every day. What should he do? Promote a few prime ministers who understand his thoughts, and then he doesn't have to go to the morning court. However, most prime ministers who indulge the emperor and do not go to the morning court are treacherous, and treacherous ministers come out like this."
"According to what you say, the root cause of the treacherous minister's misleading the country is because the emperor wants to sleep for a while and doesn't want to go to the morning court?"
"It's almost the case!"
Li Zhen kissed Di Yan on the face and said with a smile: "It's getting late, I'll set off first."
Di Yan blushed and sent Li Zhen out of the mansion, watching him get on the carriage. More than a dozen personal guards rushed towards the direction of Tianjin Bridge.
Before dawn, the square in front of the Mingtang was full of ministers. They gathered together in groups of three or five, whispering something in their own circles. Indeed, too many things have happened in the past two days. Zhang Jingxiong was killed, and prophecies that were not conducive to Wu Sansi were heard in the market, which made people have to think a lot.
"In my opinion, Zhang Jingxiong's killing and Wu Sansi's prophecy is actually one thing, and the planner's technique is very clever."
"Brother Wenzhi is thinking too much! Zhang Jingxiong is Er Zhang's brother, what does it have to do with Wu Sansi?"
"Think about it again? Whose support Wu Sansi has to be the crown prince? Isn't it just Er Zhang? Killing Zhang Jingxiong is actually a warning to Er Zhang not to betray the world. If Er Zhang's arrogance is suppressed, Wu Sansi loses support, and adds prophecy, do you think Wu Sansi will succeed in ascending the crown prince?"
Several people suddenly realized and gave thumbs up, "Gao! Brother Wenzhi's analysis is very thorough, it's really the case."
"What's going on with Wu Sansi's prophecy?"
"I think many of the prophecies are true. Do you still remember the death of Li Jinzhong back then? It was very strange and left unresolved. At that time, someone pointed out that two days before Li Jinzhong's death, Khitans went to Wu Sansi's mansion. I think this matter must be related to him, and I also remember Bingyu. Do you remember? Wu Sansi once showed off that he had a rare piece of extreme northern ice jade, and I suspect it was given to him by the Khitans."
"Brother, and those announcements from Luoyang neighbors are extremely guilty and the public is too angry."
Everyone nodded, and the prophecies and notices revealed many of Wu Sansi's old secrets. Even if Wu Sansi strongly denied it, how could the emperor do not care about everyone's doubts and force him to take over the throne? A prince who has lost his virtue will be despised by the world.
"Wu Sansi is here!"
Chapter completed!