Qin Jin didn't embarrass Li Yongchen too much, he just looked at him coldly.

"If you do this, how is it different from a mayfly shaking a tree? If you don't think about yourself, don't you want to think about future generations?"

He could see that Li Yongchen's eyes were in a trance for a moment, and immediately became resolute again, and his tone was very tough.

"How could Li spare his life to kill the national thief? The children were born in the Li family, and since they came to this world, they have enjoyed too much glory, and now is also the time for them to make sacrifices!"

Qin Jin is awe-inspiring, there is more than one person like Li Yongchen in the Li family, but they are all tigers in captivity in the Ten Princes' Mansion now, and there is no difference between them and raw pork and cattle.

However, although Qin Jin admired Li Yongchen's courage and determination, their different positions doomed them to be hostile.

"It's a pity, it's a pity, there are no characters like you in the near branch of the Son of Heaven, they are just living in peace in order to protect themselves, the world is big, but there is no ......"

"Fart! The Li family inherits the fortune of heaven and shepherds all the people in the world, Qin Jin is just a clown who steals the country, can An be able to last for a long time? Look at it, even if I die without a place to be buried, I can't change the fate of your demise sooner or later......"

Li Yongchen's swearing made Qin Jin suddenly feel funny, as if he was the villain of those traitors in historical dramas, and Li Yongchen was a man with lofty ideals who was abused.

Qin Jin felt that he had brought humiliation on himself when he came to see Li Yongchen, it was impossible for such a person to change his attitude through a sentence or two, and it was just a waste of time to do so.

"Since you have chosen to die with the children of your clan, what reason does Qin have to stop you?

Li Yongchen cried, although he did not spare his own life, but he was really distressed and sad for his son and grandson, but as he said before, these are all destined fates from birth.

Qin Jin no longer paid attention to Li Yongchen, and summoned Li Yongchen's five sons in the Prime Minister's Mansion.

Although Li Yongchen and his people are a little heroic, the sons they gave birth to are all unindisputable, standing in the side hall of the Prime Minister's Mansion, they are all shaking like chaff.

"Tell us about yourself!"

Qin Jin roughly glanced at the five Li children who were different in height, shortness, fat and thinness, the oldest was roughly around thirty, and the youngest was fifteen or sixteen years old, and there was still childishness on his face.

"The sinner Li Tong, although he is guilty, but his heart is towards the prime minister, and he begs the prime minister for forgiveness......"

One of them took the initiative to stand up and reply, but it made Qin Jin's scalp tingle, such brazenness, ignoring his biological father, and praying for his life alone, which is despised by anyone.

Qin Jin was noncommittal, his eyes glanced at the other four sons, and the remaining four people shrank their necks as if they had been pricked by needles.

"Sinners ......"

Among the remaining four sons, three of them all begged for forgiveness in unison, and even knelt down.

Only one stood and did not kneel.

Qin Jin looked at him with interest.

"Why don't you kneel?"

The man bowed and stammered:

"The sinner Li Yu, don't ask for his life, hope, hope that the prime minister can spare his father from death......"

Yan Zhuang beside Qin Jin sneered.

"It's really naïve, Li Yongchen committed the crime of rebellion, and even you will be punished, do you still want to exchange your own body for your father's life?"

Although Li Yu was timid, he still insisted on fighting.

"The father of the sinner is only suspected of plotting to assassinate the prime minister, with the Tang Dynasty law, which one is enough to plot rebellion?"

"This ......"

Yan Zhuang never expected that these dying people would dare to question it like this, in fact, according to the laws of the Tang Dynasty, this is indeed not enough to rebel, but if you want to kill someone, are you afraid that the crime does not match the truth?

"Clever words and quibbles when disaster is on the horizon will only make your father and son more troubled!"

Yan Zhuang no longer reasoned with him, and made bold words and threatened, Li Yu was only in his early twenties after all, and he was not a man of the world, and in the end he was still frightened and didn't know how to refute it. After all, the education he received was all based on the classics and laws, and he didn't know how to deal with such a murderous and innocent person like Yan Zhuang.

Qin Jin waved his hand, signaling that Yan Zhuang didn't need to scare them anymore.

"Li Yongchen is guilty, and it will not affect his descendants, and I summoned you today to see who is qualified to inherit the title of King Yong'an!"

As soon as these words came out, Li Yongchen's five sons immediately had different faces, and their eyes revealed a complicated gaze, and their respective ghost fetuses seemed to be exposed at this moment.

"Really?"

From the Jedi who thought they were going to die, to suddenly being able to inherit their father's title, this gap and change was enough for them to ignore the question of what kind of punishment Li Yongchen would receive. Because there is a more realistic question in front of them, who will Prime Minister Qin choose as the successor to the title of King of Yong'an County?

Everyone was eager to let Qin Jin choose themselves, but they couldn't say anything, who could guarantee that this was not a joke? In case their hopes were disappointed, this kind of cruelty was unacceptable to none of them.

Suddenly, the entire side hall fell into a strange and awkward silence, and Li Yongchen's five sons buried their heads and stopped talking. However, Yan Zhuang didn't intend to let them go, and pointed at Li Yu and asked playfully:

"Li Yu, aren't you willing to exchange one death for Li Yongchen's life? Now you can die, Li Yongchen can also live, but one of your brothers will inherit the title of King of Yong'an County, are you willing?"

This is really a cruel question, no one is born a fearless and perfect person, Li Yu did intend to die on behalf of his father, but this choice and result are unacceptable.

However, he was already ready to fly, so Li Yu had to bite the bullet and say:

"Li Yu is willing!"

Yan Zhuang immediately laughed, and instead suggested to Qin Jin:

"If this son is willing, why not fulfill him?"

Qin Jin nodded, and with a wave of his hand, the left and right military officials pulled Li Yu out.

At this moment, Li Yongchen's five sons had different expressions on their faces, some were gloating, some were relieved, and some were pitiful and sad...... But after all, no one dared to stand up and say a word for Li Yu.

Li Yu was completely dragged out, and Qin Jincai threw down a sentence lightly:

"How can the title of the king of Yong'an be inherited by the disloyal, unfilial, unkind and unrighteous people?"

It wasn't until Qin Jin walked out of the side hall for a long time that the remaining four sons recalled the meaning of this sentence, feeling that Prime Minister Qin was just playing with them just now, and the relatively loyal Li Yu actually became the inheritor of the king of Yong'an County in a daze.

Several people lamented their belongings, completely forgetting what fate their father was about to face.

Of course, Qin Jin did not kill Li Yongchen, but only put him under house arrest in an abandoned mansion in the Ten Kings' Mansion, and his heirs were allowed to visit him once a month.

The case of Li Yongchen, the king of Yong'an, assassinating Qin Jin, soon spread in the upper circles of Chang'an, and Qin Jin's practice of treating Li Yongchen well and repaying grievances with virtue was also mixed. Some people think that Qin Jin's doing this just proves that he is a gentleman who repays grievances with virtue, and the Li family cannot face the reality, but they want to sacrifice the stability of the world for personal gain, and they should be scolded by thousands of people.

However, some people privately thought that Qin Jin was just planning to deceive the world and steal his name, which just proved that he had the intention of usurping the throne.

And so on and so forth. But no matter what kind of public opinion, it shows a common denominator, the prestige of the Li royal family has disappeared bit by bit at a speed beyond ordinary people's imagination in just a few years.

The various discussions about the elite class in Chang'an were soon compiled into a book in the form of words and placed on Qin Jin's desk.

From these discussions, Yan Zhuang keenly saw this, that is, the focus of people's attention was no longer sympathetic to the Li family's power, which was definitely good news for Qin Jin.

"Congratulations to the Prime Minister, congratulations to the Prime Minister...... The discussion of the powerful is not mainly sympathetic to the Li family, and the prime minister may or can go further!"

Qin Jin shook his head and refused. If he goes any further, it can only be crowned king, but he doesn't want to be so soon. In just one or two years, the transformation of the human heart is not convincing enough.

Compared with going any further, there are more thorny problems waiting for Qin Jin to solve.

If you become king now, you will only add another big problem to the many unresolved problems.

"Li Yongchen's rebellion case has come to an end, and there are still ranger assassins in the Great Wall who have not been caught, urging Jingzhao Mansion to arrest them as soon as possible, and never let the important ministers be threatened again!"

Yan Zhuang responded one by one, but he felt that the treatment of Li Yongchen was still light. Even after Li Yongchen was arrested, he still had luck and did not recognize the assassins who had been sent out.

In fact, he hoped that these dead soldiers could fulfill their previous promises, but as soon as those so-called dead soldiers found out that Li Yongchen was arrested, they all scattered, and finally they could not escape the fate of being captured by Qianniuwei.

Based on this alone, Yan Zhuang felt that it was not too much to kill Li Yongchen. However, Qin Jin deliberately downplayed many details in the assassination case out of the consideration of encircling the clan and reducing the influence, making the method of imprisoning Li Yongchen look unsurprising, and it did not even cause panic in the clan, and he could not even see a little wave.

This is exactly what Qin Jin wants to see, strictly monitoring the clans, and then indulging their extravagance and decay to satisfy any of their needs for life pleasures, so that for a long time, the vast majority of people will have a kind of underlying consensus, who else would risk the extinction of the clan for the sake of a throne that has little to do with it?

Including Li Heng's heirs, not everyone is bitter and hateful. Li Rong, the king of Yun, sang and feasted every day, and some people once wrote poems to satirize his forgetfulness, but the prince said indifferently:

"Life is too short to be happy!