Volume 2 Debt Repayment Chapter 153 Dali Temple Confrontation
Entering the door of Dali Temple, what catches your eye is the Xuanjia Army who is waiting for the battle, the original Dali Temple officers are aggrieved and shrunk in a corner of the field, their hands are empty, the original water and fire sticks and torture instruments have been cleaned by the Xuanjia Army, and they can only act as an onlooker in the field.
Li Shimin led the way and walked in the front, and a group of eunuchs behind him surrounded him tightly in the middle, and Li Shimin was followed by Li Chengyang, who followed Li Shimin stupidly with a huge white gauze tent, and escaped the stupid son of a landlord's family.
"Pay attention to your feet, there is a threshold", Li Shimin reminded him in a low voice, and Li Chengyang nodded the gauze tent to indicate that he knew.
Li Shimin didn't know whether to cry or laugh, the dignified prince was so styled, it was really a big shame, but since Li Chengyang said that it was useful, there must be no problem.
Li Chengyang was still tripped up, saying that it was a gauze tent, but it was just a few thick pieces of silk, and he could vaguely see something, but it was not so clear after all.
Stretched out his finger and buckled a hole in the gauze tent, only then did he barely see the road clearly, and followed Li Shimin to the bottom of the lobby.
"The minister of Dali Temple Shaoqing Dai Xuan see Your Majesty, see His Royal Highness the Prince", an old voice came, full of energy, loud and powerful, worthy of being the head of this Dali Temple, as soon as I heard it, it was a master who did not enter the oil and salt.
"Excuse me" Li Shimin spoke, Li Chengyang saw the Shaoqing of Dali Temple through the hole, and shook the gauze tent at Dai Guan.
"Your Majesty, what is this?" , Dai Xuan pointed to Li Chengyang's yarn tent, he just received the news that Li Shimin and the prince came together, for today's case, who knows if it is coming, who can explain to him what this white tent is.
Li Shimin closed his eyes and said: "This is the prince", and then there was no follow-up, and Dai Zhou was not good to continue asking, since everyone is here, let's make up and come, the prince was sued in Dali Temple, this is the first time since the founding of the country.
"Your Majesty, it's not as good as you", Dai Xuan pointed to the public case, wanting to ask Li Shimin if he wanted to interrogate him personally.
Li Shimin waved his hand, looked around, moved a chair and sat next to Dai Guan: "You interrogate yourself, don't consider my opinion, today I just came to see this rebel, I will enforce the law impartially, the Son of Heaven is still guilty of the same crime as the people, not to mention the prince?" ”。
Dai Zhou raised his eyebrows and understood, Li Shimin is here to support the field, he doesn't care, no matter if he can put down so many state affairs and come to this small Dali Temple to watch in person, the more Li Shimin says that he wants to enforce the law impartially, the more he has to work hard to protect Li Chengyang.
"Since that's the case, then the old minister will begin, come, bring someone to commit the crime, no, bring the plaintiff", Dai Xuan slapped the stunned wood, and almost said what he thought in his heart.
There was no "mighty" sound of Li Chengyang and others, only the sound of Suo Suo's walking, and the footsteps got closer and closer, directly to his side.
"Who is coming, what grievances do you have, come quickly", it is still the same old thing, Dai Xuan drank at Wang Xiao who had just been brought up.
Li Chengyang followed the voice and looked through the hole, so he didn't laugh out loud, how can this Wang Xiao still be dressed as a san, how high and how high is the tie up, it looks like it has been carefully taken care of, and the one tied one by one is called a neat.
"My name is called." Wang Xiao was about to open his mouth as soon as he clenched his fists, but was interrupted by a startled sound from Dai Guan.
"Bold, you are not a lord, not an official, and you dare to call yourself me here, come, give me thirty boards first, and give him a long memory."
Wang Xiao knows that he is wearing an official body, but since Wang Xiao didn't say it, then pretend not to know, looking at Wang Xiao's appearance, his thinking is clear and confident, this is not good, it is better to scare him first, interrupt his train of thought first.
Wang Xiao hadn't spoken yet, and Li Shimin had been coughing when he arrived, which made the second monk of Dai Zhou and Zhangzhang confused, why did he command before he started, why don't you come?
Dai Zhou looked at Li Shimin, Li Shimin had to speak: "It's okay, I just suffered a little cold in the morning, Dai Qing don't take it seriously, I really just came to see it today, you just need to enforce the law impartially."
Li Shimin is crazy like the eyes of the messenger, this Dai Zhou was very clever in the past, why did he take off his hind legs now, if this is really hit, the Wang family will make another trick and refuse to admit it, then it will be a bamboo basket to draw water.
Dai Xuan slapped his head, knowing that he had understood wrongly, His Majesty really didn't plan to meddle in this matter, and then looked at Ling Jian on the ground a little worried.
"I don't accept it, no, I don't accept it", this reflects Li Chengyang's cleverness, Wang Xiao was still in a daze, Li Chengyang jumped out and said to the hall: "This person is the eldest son of the second room of the Wang family, and he has an official body handed down from his ancestors, but he is not old enough to take office, this beating, he can't beat it."
Dai Xuan was overjoyed, and immediately borrowed the slope to get off the donkey: "In this way, the official is sloppy, this big board will be exempted, the bitter lord of the hall, tell me what you are here for."
Wang Xiao came back to his senses at this time, and when he heard that the person next to him was his target prince, he immediately rose angrily with confidence: "I am Wang Xiao, a native of Taiyuan, and I am here today to disregard the etiquette and law, compete with the people for profit, and use his power to loot the people's fat and ointment, please Shangguan to make the decision for me."
Dai Xuan nodded: "There is evidence for what you said."
"Yes", Wang Xiao replied categorically: "There is a Yuelai restaurant in the East Market, not long after the store opened, the dishes in the store cost five taels of silver a table, but it is just some ordinary food, there are no expensive ingredients at all, so the restaurant, but it is full every day, and the guests come and go like water, Shangguan doesn't think it's a little strange."
"It's really a bit strange that some ordinary food can be sold for five taels of silver, but today I'm talking about the prince, why are you still talking about the restaurant" Dai Xuan touched his chin and continued to ask, hoping to find out some loopholes in Wang Xiao's words, and kill him with one blow.
Wang Xiao pointed to the white gauze account beside him: "Because the backstage of that restaurant is the prince, or the restaurant is opened by the prince, with his identity, he forcibly let those people go to the restaurant to spend money, so this makes such a black store can have so many people come to the door every day."
"Evidence, I'm talking about evidence, it's nothing if you can't get evidence", Dai Xuan was quietly shocked, now there is no evidence for what Wang Xiao said, and he can't make any judgment just by relying on these two points.
Wang Xiao pointed to himself: "I am the evidence, a few days ago I spent so much money in his restaurant not far away, but was forcibly carried out by his people, and I was not allowed to step into the restaurant from now on, and then the people around me died inexplicably, my housekeeper Lao Mu was shot to death in front of me, using this arrow, this is an arrow that only exists in the palace, others can't fake, this is from Lao Mu's body, only half of it is left, but it is enough to prove that it is the prince's person who killed my housekeeper."
Wang Xiao took out a broken arrow from his cuff, which was clearly engraved with the words "East Palace", and asked people to hand it to Dai Guan.
Dai Xuan picked it up and looked at it, and sneered: "You can't use this as evidence."
"Why, it's not because he's the prince that you're afraid of him", Wang Xiao was furious.
"Presumptuous, how can this be what you said, your arrow is indeed the East Palace's yes, it is indeed the East Palace arrow from a long time ago, it has been more than ten years, you look at this arrow shaft, it is obviously not the arrow used by the Tang Dynasty now, it should be left over from the previous dynasty, and such an arrow alone cannot do any proof."
Wang Xiao panicked now, this half of the arrow was broken when Lao Mu fell to the ground after he was shot, and he picked it up as a souvenir, thinking that today's evidence was enough for Li Chengyang to drink a pot, but he didn't expect it to have no effect at all.
Can't panic, Wang Xiao comforted himself, if he panicked now, it would be all over.
"By the way, the shopkeeper of the hotel is the prince's person, you can check him, he must be the prince's person, you can know it by checking", if it can be proved that the shopkeeper of the restaurant is the prince's person, then the prince will definitely not be able to get rid of it.
Li Chengyang was happy in the gauze tent, and finally waited for this time, shook it, stretched out a hand from under the gauze tent, and shook it outside with a piece of paper in his hand.
Someone came to fetch the piece of paper and handed it to Dai Guan.
Dai Zhou read it carefully, and then sent the paper to Li Shimin.
Finally, this piece of paper arrived at Wang Xiaona.
"You've seen everything written on it," Dai asked in the hall.
"Impossible, how is it possible", Wang Xiao looked at the words on it and doubted his life.
"How is it impossible, it is written in black and white on the paper, Zhao Dayou got rid of his slave status as early as two months ago, and the household registration given to him by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is my Chang'an people, since I am a citizen of the Tang Dynasty, it is normal to open any store, and the title deed of the restaurant is also written in Zhao Dayou's name, the white paper and black words are clear, how can you deny it", Dai Xuan was shocked, and sighed that this prince is really broad-minded.
Yuelai Restaurant he has also heard, it is indeed a restaurant that can make a lot of money, there is no slightest restriction on the surface controller of the restaurant, and he got rid of the slave status, which is really not something that ordinary people can make, such a big restaurant, that person said that he can take it away, and he doesn't have to pay any responsibility, and the risk in this is of course not ordinarily large.
Give someone a courtyard house in Beijing now, and by the way, like everyone else, declare that the courtyard is his, and finally take out a completely legal document and send it over, still hoping that person can return the courtyard?
To be honest, if Lao Zhao wasn't Li Chengyang's retainer, Li Chengyang wouldn't dare to do this.
But who made the credibility of the ancients more credible than any contract, and it is very appropriate for a retainer to exchange for Li Chengyang's unconditional trust.
"No, it's impossible, you must have colluded, I prepared all these things last night, but I saw with my own eyes that the prince killed my people in the restaurant, yes, I saw it with my own eyes", Wang Xiao was a little blind, he had never heard of someone would hand over the biggest property in his hands to someone else to take care of, and now he can't accept it.
"Bastard, how did you do it in black and white, seeing that you are also a reader, whether the ink on the paper was made overnight in a hurry, or if it was left for several months, you can't tell it."
It's all written with a brush, and the ink in one night is naturally different from the ink in a month, needless to say, Wang Xiao also knows this, but he can't believe it.
The white gauze account on the side shook, and Li Chengyang's voice came out from inside:
"Lao Zhao worked as a cook in my East Palace for a while, and then I let him out of the palace, and opened a restaurant with the skills he learned in the palace.
Wang Xiao glared angrily at the white gauze account: "Just because you killed six of my subordinates, just because you made me bankrupt, but it's a pity that you didn't act secretly, let me grasp your mistakes and omissions, I saw you kill my little wine fairy with my own eyes, can you recognize this?" ”。
"Oh?" , Bai Sha Tent shook, and Li Chengyang's voice came: "You said you had seen me with your own eyes, so you said, what do I look like?" ”。