Volume 2 Debt Repayment Chapter 194 The family is shameless
Early the next morning, today is the big court meeting, and all the officials who can come have arrived early.
Unlike the happy appearance of the past, almost most of the officials' expressions are bitter and hateful.
The eldest grandson Wuji rarely appeared in the court.
He originally planned to minimize the number of times he appeared in front of his ministers during the period when Li Shimin was in power.
After all, in addition to the title of the first civil servant under Li Shimin, he also has the identity of another imperial relative.
However, early this morning, he was the first to arrive at the court.
Li Xiaogong, Li Daozong, and the two princes of the Li family also appeared at the front of the crowd.
Lao Cheng had already begun to stare at the gathered civil officials at this time, and he was starting to get lucky, and there was a big battle waiting for him next.
At this time, the influence of the family can be seen.
Although Li Yuan and Li Shimin's two generations of emperors are suppressing the family as if they were nothing.
But the most people in this court are still from the family.
But it didn't play a role.
Most of the people in the family stood in the back, but Li Shimin's henchmen and some neutrals stood in the front row.
There are almost no high-ranking officials in the family, and more of them have empty titles and no real power, and they can't even appear in court meetings.
However, even if these officials are below the rank of four or five, under the absolute numerical advantage,
That gathering is not a small number in the court.
Both factions held their breath, looking at each other's expressions as if they were looking at the enemy who killed their father.
"Upper Dynasty"
A sharp and penetrating voice sounded, and the war broke out immediately.
"Your Majesty, the minister has something to do."
Li Shimin had just come out of the curtain, and before he could sit down, Lao Wang Jue was the first to stand up, holding a piece of music and saying.
Li Shimin pursed his lips, sat down slowly, and then looked at Wang Qi and said:
"Tell me, something."
"Minister, impeach the prince for trespassing on people's houses, wantonly killing, and killing people in front of his elders,
caused the tragedy of the white-haired man sending the black-haired man! ”
Wang Qi said tremblingly.
Li Shimin leaned on the dragon chair and looked at Wang Qi with interest: "Then what do you want the prince to do?" ”
"Please ask Your Majesty to take away the crown prince and set up another crown prince."
Li Shimin's fingers lightly tapped on the armrest of the dragon chair: "What about the rest, what else do you have to say?" ”
"Minister, impeach the prince for arsoning in the city, disrupting order, hurting the innocent, and misconducting, please Your Majesty take away the crown prince and set up another prince!"
This time, it was an official who came out of the household department.
"Minister, impeach the prince for profit with the people, scrape the people's fat and people's ointment, and be greedy, please Your Majesty take away the crown prince and set up another prince!"
This is from the Ministry of War.
"Minister, the impeachment of more than 400 people died in the prince's mine for no reason, this is obviously inseparable from the prince, please immediately put the prince in prison and severely punish him!"
"Ministers also have ...... impeachment"
……
The entire court has almost become a west market, and the officials who are in chaos have stood up.
It's like a hundred ducks croaking in your ears.
In the end, even the seven- or eight-rank petty officials standing outside the door shouted at the top of their voices.
The content of the impeachment is varied:
There is a prince who robs the daughters of the people,
There are those who plunder,
Some say that he is in a foreign country,
There are also those who rob the cattle and sheep raised in captivity in the farmers' homes.
In short, all the charges they could think of were detained on the crown prince's head.
I didn't dare to do this before, because no one is a fool, and it's obviously unreliable, aren't you making false accusations.
Don't worry now, everyone is making false accusations, and the accusations become true.
For the first time, the power of the family burst out in the court, and Lao Cheng and the others were speechless.
"Phew!"
In the end, Lao Cheng was the first to jump out, pointing to the old man who said Li Chengyang Niu and drank:
"You said that the prince stole the cow, go, let's go to the East Palace now to have a look, if the cow is still there, it's okay,
If not, Lao Tzu will find a cow to stuff in your stomach! ”
The eldest grandson Wuji also stepped forward:
"Impeachment is okay, you can come up with evidence, you are not the imperial history,
has the right to hear about it, and if you can't find evidence, don't blame me for not being emotional. ”
The people of the family fell silent for a moment.
I know what I say, it's just just making it up.
Now it is obvious that Li Shimin is going to arrest someone to come out and make an example of chickens and monkeys, so they can't just accept Li Shimin as soon as they make a fuss.
There will always be a few people who give their glorious and humble lives,
Then the rest of the people continued to resist with their necks in their hands, and began to show that they could not hold a trace of sand in their eyes.
Seeing that Li Shimin was about to find a few chickens to come out, everyone closed their mouths at the same time.
At this time, you can't attract the attention of others, otherwise if you are really caught, there will definitely be no good end.
Li Shimin laughed twice disdainfully: It's this set again, and I don't want to say a different way.
Everyone in the family kept their heads down, trying to tuck their faces into the clothes on their chests.
Lao Cheng jumped to his feet: "You go on, say, let me see how many others are not afraid of death!" ”
Seeing that the arrogance of these people was temporarily extinguished, Lao Cheng was ready to seize this opportunity to fight to the death,
Never give them a chance to speak.
Wang Jue looked at the people present and shook his head in disappointment, although he had prepared before, but at this time, he was still a little disappointed.
After adjusting his breathing, Wang Jue walked out of the queue again and shouted at Li Shimin:
"Your Majesty, the prince is unkind, but all the officials and people in the world know it,
Your Majesty must not be blinded by the prince,
And you can't protect the prince just because he is your son,
The old minister is not talented, and he is willing to use his own blood that has not yet cooled down to advise His Majesty,
The prince should be abolished, Your Majesty, everyone, the old man is gone. ”
After saying the last sentence, he broke free from the shackles of the people around him, closed his eyes and crashed into the pillar on the side.
Li Shimin stood up with a swish: "Stop him!" ”
It's a pity that it's too late, Wang Jue's head hit the pillar hard,
Immediately, a stream of blood spurted out and slowly flowed down the pillar.
"Come on, send Elder Wang to the imperial doctor."
Li Shimin waved his hand helplessly, people were still panting, and there was still salvation.
Lao Cheng was stunned again, if this person really didn't want to die, he really didn't have any good way.
The eyes of the rest of the family officials lit up, and they knelt down at Li Shimin:
"Your Majesty, the prince is unkind, the prince should be abolished, and the minister will go."
"Bang" "Bang" "Bang"
Everyone's head is in close contact with what is around them.
Hit the pillars, hit the floor, hit the door frame.
There are a few who really can't find a bump into it, so they just pull someone over and bump into someone.
Lao Cheng and the others were dumbfounded, how could they have become like this in the blink of an eye.
He hasn't had time to play yet, and you guys are rushing to die?
Not a single one died, but there were indeed officials in the hall who fell to the ground.
Li Shimin clenched his teeth, and his fists were bloodshot.
The worst feared thing happened.
The family is shameless.
People are shameless, and the world is invincible.
The tricks of crying, making trouble, and hanging himself were all taken out, just to get Li Chengyang off the stage.
This was something he didn't expect, he was just killing a son, and he didn't think it was a big deal.
It's just a punishment, and besides, what Wang Lin did.
Li Chengyang can't get any evidence, but if Li Shimin, who has a strong control over Chang'an, really wants to investigate, he can still find something.
originally thought that the Wang family would almost make trouble, and at most let him pull two allies and teach Li Chengyang a lesson.
Who knows that the Wang family doesn't know what method was used to tie the officials of this Manchu dynasty into a line.
This is a big problem.
Li Shimin believes that if he doesn't give them an explanation now, then he can figure out what will happen next:
Officials of the family line went on strike en masse, and even now there is even a reason.
Everyone went to build with Li Shimin, but everyone didn't die.
It's not dead or not, but it's hard to say how much time it will take to recuperate.
Anyway, there is a lot of blood on the skull, and it will take a while to heal the injury.
As for how long it will take? Then it depends on when Li Shimin will give everyone an explanation.
Li Shimin's eyes were already bloodshot.
At this moment, he really wanted to ignore everything and ordered to kill the lackeys of the Manchu dynasty.
But in the end, he let him endure it.
It's easy to kill them, but what about the vacated places after killing?
A county, no county order, no officials? So what will Datang be like?
Humming hatefully, Li Shimin slowly sat down and thought about how to explain to the family.
It's definitely impossible to drag it out.
It won't be long before the news gets out.
His Majesty was blinded and couldn't distinguish between good and bad, and all the officials forced each other to persuade His Majesty well.
Then Li Shimin's popular will drop to a precarious point.
"Call the prince and let him defend himself."
After thinking about it for a long time, Li Shimin didn't come up with a countermeasure, so he could only put his only hope in Li Chengyang.
Let's hope this kid can figure out something.
Not long after, the summoned person arrived, and Li Chengyang also appeared in the court.
"Prince, defend yourself."
Li Shimin said while frantically giving Li Chengyang's envoy a look:
Baby, dad can't hold on, you can do it yourself.
Li Chengyang received Li Shimin's meaning, and then turned his head to the official lying on the ground, frowning.
There's nothing he can do, who knew it would be so big.
Hey, these corpses all over the ground look like the real thing.
It would be perfect if you didn't open your eyes from time to time to see the situation.
Touching my chin, thinking of a solution.
Li Shimin has no way at all, if the family had abandoned his son like this in the past, Li Shimin would have compromised a long time ago.
This is the killer feature of the family, and it is also what Li Shimin is most afraid of.
But fortunately, the family also knew that this move was too lethal, and had never used this kind of killing move.
This kind of thing still needs to be used in the most critical things.
Can't use it more.
After using it ten times and eight times, Li Shimin may not be able to bear it, and with a wave of his hand, he will send troops to the family.
Therefore, this kind of thing must be cherished once less than once.
But now it's not a loss, as long as they can oust Li Chengyang from power and replace him with a prince they have cultivated, it's worth it.
Li Chengyang walked around the pile of corpses and slowly had some ideas.
However, this idea can't be said now, so I can only turn to Li Shimin: "Father, son-in-law requests an adjournment!" ”
"Adjournment?"
Li Shimin was stunned, what is this.
Li Chengyang scratched his head: "It's just to stop for the time being, Erchen still has some evidence to come up with,
It's not good to defend yourself in court, the key is that the evidence still knows where the minister is.
I also ask my father to forgive me for a while, it won't be long, two hours is enough,
Ministers can also take advantage of this time to take a good look at the Imperial Doctor,
You can also send someone with me to get some evidence.
Don't worry about using some small means,
In less than two hours, we will face each other here in court. ”
Li Shimin thought for a while and nodded: "I agreed, call all the imperial doctors up, and give my Aiqing a good look." ”