In the early morning, Lai Junchen returned to the official office of the Dongcheng Punishment Temple, and before he could order the interrogation of the prisoner Su Gan, he noticed that his subordinates were getting together and discussing, so he asked curiously: "Something happened?" ”

"His Royal Highness the Acting King led the North Ya Thousand Horsemen out of the city yesterday and broke through the White Horse Temple, the monks in the temple were killed and wounded, and the rest were sent to Si Nong as slaves......"

Wan Guojun, the judge of the criminal judge, stepped forward and replied cautiously.

"Is that so?"

Lai Junchen couldn't help but widen his eyes and asked in surprise after hearing this, he had been concentrating on pushing the case recently, and it could be said that he didn't hear anything outside the window, and he was at a loss for it. After a moment of silence, he hurriedly asked: "How did Huaiyi offend the acting king and be so ......?"

For this question, everyone also shook their heads and said they didn't know. The personnel of the Northern Ya were already relatively blocked, and even if there was any news coming out, it was far from being heard by them as torturers.

Lai Junchen could realize that there must be something hidden in it, and his heart was full of curiosity. Especially when he heard that the acting king was fierce again, it was inevitable that he would have palpitations. But after being silent for a long time, he still waved his hand and said: "You don't need to ask more about foreign affairs, quickly arrange for Su Gan to be arraigned." ”

After hearing this, the subordinates nodded yes, took the warrant handed over by Junchen, and then went to the prison of the Sixing Temple to take Su Gan to the court. Commentator Wan Guojun stayed, and only after everyone left, did he enter and whisper for instructions: "The king is arrogant, and then make a new enemy." Do you need to make a humble secret visit to Master Xue and ask for it? ”

After Lai Junchen heard this, his expression changed slightly, and he was silent for a while before shaking his head and said: "The powerful and powerful attack each other, and the internal situation is hidden, so it is not appropriate to intervene rashly." The acting king is narrow and fat, and if he touches it, he is angry, Huaiyi is just a vain scum, and he is not good at using it, so he is not good at using it. The top priority at the moment is to dig deep into Su Shi's party and expand the case, so that he can gain new favors. ”

Having said that, Lai Junchen was still a little unwilling, and after thinking about it, he said: "When you are free, you can visit His Royal Highness King Liang on my behalf, and you don't have to be overly courteous, as long as you let King Liang have a plan to miss me for three points." ”

The more depressed and deprived a person is, the more he can feel the benefits of power. Lai Junchen was kicked into the abyss by the acting king at the most beautiful moment of his life, and the hatred for the acting king in his heart is needless to say.

But whether to continue to be the enemy of the acting king, Lai Junchen is also full of contradictions in his heart. But one thing can be determined, whether it is the current time or the most glorious period of his life, the acting king has never put him in his eyes.

On his own, he is not qualified to be the enemy of the acting king, especially especially if he stands in front of the stage and directly bears the anger of the acting king. This is an empirical talk that has been tested with life and future, otherwise Lai Junchen would rather bury this resentment deep in his heart than provoke the acting king again.

Lai Junchen was still thinking about it here, and suddenly the subordinate torturers rushed into the hall in a hurry, looked panicked, and shouted loudly: "Oh no, it's not good, Su, Su Gan died, died in prison......"

"Silence!"

When Lai Junchen heard this, his face changed suddenly, first he took the case and stopped the shouts of his subordinates, and then he also stood up and whispered orders not to leak the news, and then went to the prison in person.

In the prison of the Sixing Temple, looking at the unkempt and bruised Su Gan hanging on the earthen wall, Lai Junchen's face was pale, and he cursed in his mouth and rushed forward to face Su Gan's corpse is a vent of punches and kicks.

On the surface, Su Gan took off his shirt, soaked it and tied it into a rope, tied it to the iron grille of the small window and strangled himself to death. But the small window is not high from the ground, at least it is not enough to make Su Gan's body hang in the air, no matter how resolute his will to die is, it is inevitable that he will have the instinct to struggle when he is dying.

Su Gan is a prisoner who came to Junchen to confess to the key guards, and the inner and outer guards are also Lai Junchen's own henchmen, in the case of excluding outsiders from sneaking in to kill, there is only one cause of death, that is, he used clothes that became pliable after being stained with water to stranch his throat, which shows that he is really bent on death.

When Lai Junchen vented, the jailer stepped forward to inspect Su Gan's body, and also determined that the cause of Su Gan's death was exactly this, his throat had been crushed by the cloth strip, and he died of hemoptysis rather than suffocation.

But after learning of this result, Lai Junchen couldn't help but be even more angry. He has concocted many prisons, and has a very deep grasp of the psychology of prisoners at different stages.

Since Su Gan was sentenced, he has been taken care of by him, and all kinds of torture have been used on his body, it can be said that Su Gan is already about to collapse, it can be said that as long as he works harder, he can pry open his mouth, follow the instructions of Lai Junchen to carry out a lot of slander, and drag more people in.

Su Gan also knew that his patience had reached the limit, and he chose to end his life with his own hands in despair, and he didn't want to completely become more of a tool for Lai Junchen to frame.

"Quickly clear the rest of the injuries!"

Su Gan's imprisonment has been the focus of attention from time to time, and various rescue methods have emerged in an endless stream.

Lai Junchen also understood that he was in a bit of a hurry this time, he should not keep torturing and exerting him, and he should gradually break Su Gan's bottom line between retraction and release.

Now there is no point in annoying about these things, and it is necessary to confirm Su Gan's charges as soon as possible and make sure that he is innocent of death, rather than being unjustly forced to kill.

Therefore, Lai Junchen directly summoned officials in prison to revise, delete and splice the previous materials that passed through the court, and convicted Su Gan of conspiring with King Li during the vertical arch period.

After reading this statement, Lai Junchen was still a little dissatisfied, and he framed Su Ganben not to investigate the old things in the Vertical Gong years, but to lead to more current times. If it is submitted like this, His Majesty the Holy Emperor will probably not be satisfied.

After thinking for a long time, Lai Junchen picked up the pen again and added eight words to the paper: Refuse to be punished, and hide evil with death!

Su Gan wanted to end the matter with his death, but Lai Junchen was unwilling to stop there, and would rather give up his life than be tortured again, which was definitely using his own death to hide a greater evil!

After the supplement, Lai Junchen asked the scribe to copy it again, and then instructed his subordinates to immediately send this charge and sentence to the ban, and he returned to the court full of anxiety and waited for the follow-up results.

At the same time, there was also a fierce debate going on in the Ouchi court.

Originally, the court meeting should have ended, but due to the generous speeches of several imperial historians, including other courtiers, the court meeting was repeatedly delayed.

Li Tong did not attend the court meeting today, but stayed in Renzhiyuan to make up for sleep. If he had attended the meeting today, he would have been able to see for himself that the situation had stubbornly turned to the worse after all.

Knowing that the White Horse Temple was copied, today's court, the courtiers beat like chicken blood, as soon as the early dynasty began, there was a royal history class to lead the topic here, constantly accusing Xue Huaiyi of many crimes of disobedience, and a posture of wanting to take advantage of his illness to kill him.

The courtiers of the imperial history hated to devour Xue Huaiyi alive, Wu Zetian was pale-faced when he heard it, and his eyes frequently looked at Wei Yuanzhong and several other important ministers in front of him.

Wei Yuanzhong was swept into a cold sweat by the unkind gaze, and he also had bitter words. After leaving the palace last night, he urgently summoned several Xiantai thorns, and moved them with affection and reason, so that they should not be entangled too much about it, once the Holy Emperor was provoked, the next situation may be even worse.

Several servant imperial historians also expressed their positions one after another, saying that they should focus on the overall situation and would not pursue too much of it.

But once you get to the court, it's a different situation. The siege of Xue Huaiyi was simply coming from all directions, and it was completely unstoppable. This is not to blame Wei Yuanzhong's incompetence, it is really Xue Huaiyi who is too hateful.

In his early years, he suddenly appeared, and he was so arrogant that he dared to beat the impeached imperial history to death on the street, and he had a long-standing grudge with Xiantai.

Moreover, the existence of such a person is to slap the face of the so-called Imperial Doctor, and he will be attacked if he has anything to do, even if His Majesty the Holy Emperor ignores it, impeaching Xue Huaiyi is no longer to purge the court, but a way for them to maintain their dignity.

This time, there was an order from the Holy Emperor and a move on behalf of the king, and the people and materials confiscated in the White Horse Temple were shocking, how could the courtiers let go of such a rare opportunity.

The ministers rushed to speak out, which created a situation, that is, if His Majesty the Holy Emperor disregarded the will of the people and wanted to shield Xue Huaiyi again, it would be on the opposite side of almost all the courtiers!

With such a public voice, this situation almost never appeared at the most tense moment of the Wuzhou Revolution, and Wu Zetian's mood at this time can be imagined. This is no longer a question of whether Xue Huaiyi can be guaranteed or not, but about her imperial dignity.

If she makes a concession this time, then the strong image she has been painstakingly maintaining will no longer exist, and such incidents will be repeated!

At this time, a female official in the side hall hurriedly walked in and handed over a recital to the eunuch of the Sigong Tai, and the recital was quickly passed to the imperial case.

Wu Zetian looked at it with some irritability, lowered his eyes and read it, his eyes suddenly lit up, and then he picked up the pen and book, especially the eight words in the future Junchen's judgment were excerpted from the note, and then handed it to the former prime minister to pass it to each other.

And after the prime ministers saw it, their expressions all changed drastically, especially Shi Dou Lu Qinwang in the Feng Pavilion, his fingers trembled and he almost couldn't pinch the note.

"Today's affairs, stop discussing, the ministers will return to the government and retreat!"

After seeing the change in the expressions of the prime ministers, Wu Zetian stood up from behind the imperial case and knocked on the case to express his position.

"Your Majesty, don't, ...... today"

Seeing that His Majesty the Holy Emperor was still delaying the discussion, a palace attendant named Wang Seeker immediately went out and shouted.

However, before his words fell, Prime Minister Doulu Qinwang also hurried out of the shift, raised his halberd and pointed at his people and said angrily: "I don't know the general situation!" The situation in Jinai is urgent, and the government affairs hall needs to be urgently discussed, and Cao can stop it! ”

After Doulu Qinwang finished speaking, several other prime ministers also expressed their support. And without the acquiescence and connivance of the prime minister, although there are many courtiers in the palace, they can only sigh and retreat gloomily, and at the same time, they can't help but wonder what happened, so that all the prime ministers have to give up this rare opportunity to hoe and rape?

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