Chapter 43: Self-inflicted
"Good, good......!"
Li Er had a gloomy face, pacing back and forth in the imperial study.
Yesterday, he wondered how Zhao Yin could be so kind to agree, as long as Chang'an County ordered the murderer to be arrested, he would no longer pursue it.
It turned out that he had known that Hou Junji had done this.
I also deducted this basin on me, the purpose of which was to avenge him by borrowing my hand.
Zhao Yin has a lot of ghost ideas, and he is used to it.
What really made him angry was Lu Guogong and Hou Junji.
The dignified prince of the country, the commander of the military department, and the pillar of the country, actually went to do those things of chickens and dogs for some food.
If it's something else, it doesn't matter, but it's the kind of food I want to promote.
If other people are like him, relying on themselves as the founding fathers, they will all go to rob.
If you have eaten all this little grain, everything you have done before will be in vain.
If potatoes cannot be promoted, the spring drought will not be solved, let alone increase income and war.
Then in the future, the Tang Dynasty can only watch other small countries come to carve up wantonly.
"Someone! dragged Zhang Cheng out to me and beheaded ....... ”
Li Er shouted loudly, and two guards rushed into the door.
"Your Majesty, the minister is wronged, the minister is wronged......!"
Zhang Cheng was suddenly so frightened that he collapsed on the ground and kowtowed.
"As the commander of Chang'an County, you let Goguryeo's spies run rampant in Chang'an City, but you don't care, this is a dereliction of duty, I ordered you to catch a murderer who grabbed potatoes, you can't catch it, this is a protest order, the two crimes will be punished together, and I will be dragged out!"
Li Er finished talking about his crime, waved his hand, and let the guards take him down.
This scene came too quickly, and before Dai Xuan could react, Li Er issued another holy decree that surprised him even more.
"Wang De, you take a group of people and throw Hou Junji into the prison of Dali Temple."
"Lu ...... Lu Guogong? ”
Wang De thought that he had heard it wrong, this was the founding general, just for a few potatoes...... Just hold on to the prison?
"Not yet."
"Yes"
Wang De didn't dare to hesitate any longer.
Dai Xuan saw that only Li Er was left in the imperial study, so he asked tentatively: "Your Majesty, although Hou Junji has done a little excessive, if he goes directly to prison, isn't it not good?" ”
After all, this Hou Junji is the founding father of the country, and he has made great achievements, and the emperor is a person who values feelings, what is wrong today?
"You think I want to arrest him? He started this head himself, and I must make an example of him. Li Eryue said the more angry he became: "That morning, you just proposed to fasting potatoes, although it has not yet been implemented, but everyone should also know that growing grain is scarce, but he just didn't listen, he had to rob it, if everyone was like him, the potatoes would not have been eaten, and what would be used as seeds." ”
"Well, it's the minister who is stupid." Dai Xuan nodded, and suddenly realized.
"Zhao Yin's kid said that I sent troops to grab potatoes, but in fact, he wanted me to take this breath for him, if I didn't severely punish Lu Guogong today, he wouldn't have said the method of keeping potatoes fresh, so what is the use of us even if we promote potatoes."
"Your Majesty is wise." Dai Xuan praised from the bottom of his heart.
Although what the emperor said was reasonable, Dai Zhou always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say what was wrong for a while.
"By the way, you take the time to go to Zhao Yin and ask again, see what else he wants, the most important thing at the moment is to solve the people's food and clothing, and everything else is not important."
"I don't know what Your Majesty is going to do with Duke Luguo?"
Dai Xuan suddenly remembered that when he was in Chang'an County, Zhao Yin put forward two conditions.
First, he wanted to cut off Zhang Cheng's head.
The second is to severely punish the person who grabbed potatoes, that is, Hou Junji.
At that time, he only thought he was talking angry and didn't take it to heart, but judging from now, this is definitely not angry words.
If he waited for Zhao Yin, he asked how to deal with these two things, and he couldn't answer what to do.
That's why I asked.
"Lock him up for a few days first, and when Zhao Yin is angry, let him out." Li Er said without thinking.
"Then I don't know how to make Zhao Gongzi angry?"
Dai Xuan heard the emperor's words mean that he already had a plan in his heart, so he simply asked at one time to understand, after all, Zhao Yin is related to the food problem of the people in the world.
"According to my understanding of Zhao Yin, first of all, I have to let him take this breath first, and then make up for some losses, and now this Qi I have helped him out, what about this money...... It depends on whether Hou Junji will be a man. ”
The first few times the eldest grandson Wuji was almost bankrupt by him, and now if Hou Junji wants to calm things down, he must have some blood.
At this moment, a small eunuch ran in from outside.
It should not be that he often goes to the emperor's side, and he said a little nervously: "Your Majesty, Dali Siqing asks to see you." ”
"Xuan!"
Li Er's face was a little ugly, Dali Siqing came at this time, it should be that the Goguryeo spy case has a result.
"Since the emperor has something important to discuss, the minister will retire first." Dai Xuan turned around to leave very interestingly.
"You have also served as the secretary of Dali Temple, so stay and listen to it together, and then go back to see your old subordinates later."
"Obey."
Dai Xuan has also been in the officialdom all his life, and of course he understands what the emperor means, and when his subordinates can't watch it, he just let him go at this time.
It's nothing more than wanting him to give that old rascal a little bit, so that he doesn't get out of the way.
Once you offend Zhao Yin again, make it difficult for the emperor.
"Your Majesty."
Dali Siqing walked in from the outside and saw the courtesy of the monarch and ministers.
"Aiqing is in such a hurry to come over, but there is progress in Goguryeo's case?"
"Your Majesty, the minister is indeed here for this matter."
Dali Siqing took out a pile of files from his sleeve robe and handed them to the little eunuch beside him, and then the little eunuch forwarded them to the emperor.
"This is a prisoner's oral confession, please read it for yourself."
"Hmm." Li Er couldn't wait to open the file.
As he flipped through the dossier, his face turned blue and black at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Okay...... Okay, this is my good prince, so Aiqing. ”
"What a bunch of fools, to be toyed with by a woman in applause."
"Goguryeo actually had a clear understanding of the number of soldiers and horses in our country, the building of weapons, and the storage of grain in the treasury."
"There are also seven families, which are even more hateful, I wanted to buy some grain and said no, and they were all sold to Goguryeo."
Li Er threw the file in his hand to the dragon shore hard.
The Dali Siqing and Dai Xuan in the hall were terrified, and they didn't dare to say anything.
"Dali Siqing, this time you will work with the Criminal Department to severely punish all the people involved in this according to the law, no matter what his identity is, he is not allowed to be biased."
Li Er looked at the file on the dragon shore with annoyance.
"Commandment."
Dali Siqing hesitated for a moment after receiving the order, and asked: "The others are fine, but how should these seven families deal with it......?" ”