In the military tent by the river, Wang Qi and others, who had not slept all night, were anxiously waiting for the result.

Here you can see that everyone's relatives are estranged and close, and last night they abandoned their previous suspicions and worked together to help each other, and after writing the congratulatory table, they returned to the state of taking care of each other. In the small tents, standing or sitting, they all divided their own little piles.

Wei Zheng was originally a force on the Shandong side, but now, he was sitting alone in the corner, his eyes were a little straight, someone talked to him, he didn't react, as if he had been in a Gu, I don't know what he was thinking.

Wei Zheng didn't know what he was thinking, his instinct told him that there must be a problem, but he didn't know which part was wrong.

Are the Assassins fake? By no means, as one of the presiding judges, Wei Zheng believed in his eyes, these assassins were definitely not fake, they were assassins. But they are definitely not the ones who assassinated Li Shimin, they are here for Li Mu. But Li Shimin's bite to death of these people was the assassination of him, and it cannot be argued, after all, he was injured, and the assassin also admitted that the knife was committed by him, which is ironclad evidence and cannot be overturned.

If you want to say that this is a bureau, then there can only be two people in the layout, one is Li Shimin, and the other is Li Mu. But all of this has a premise, there must be assassins. But how did they know that the Assassins would come? It can't be collusive, right?

What Wei Zheng couldn't understand the most was that the assassin named Wang Zhi had lost half of his tongue. asked the father-in-law Gao who handed over the person, and the father-in-law said that this person couldn't bear the torture and bit it off by himself, and asked his assassin accomplices, but they said that they didn't know, and when they were tortured together, Wang Zhi still had a tongue, and when he saw Li Mu and came back, his tongue was gone.

Then, it is very likely that Li Mu cut off his tongue. But why did he do it? Does a mortal man know something that he should not know?

Wei Zheng frowned, and was about to exercise the power of the presiding judge again, calling Wang Zhi up for careful interrogation. Suddenly, a lieutenant got into the tent, and the conversation in the tent stopped abruptly.

The lieutenant came to the four chief judges, bowed down and said, "Report, the assassin Wang Zhi, who wants to escape, has been ordered by General Cheng to be shot." ”

Wei Zheng Huoran stood up: "Why did you die?" ”

The lieutenant looked at him with a confused expression, thinking that he hadn't heard clearly, and repeated it again, "Assassin Wang Zhi, he wants to escape, that's why he ......"

"There's a problem here!" Wei Zheng was furious and shouted: "It must be Li Mu who wants to cover up, why did Wang Zhi break his tongue?" He must know some secrets that he shouldn't know, and before the secret is dug up, he will die, and someone must have killed him! How can this be, O faint king! Faint! ”

Wang Zheng's face changed, and he hurriedly came over to cover Wei Zheng's mouth.

The eldest grandson Wuji waved his hand, and the captain retreated. Wang Qi let go of Wei Zheng's mouth, stopped talking, stomped his feet, and said: "Duke Wei, Wang Zhi is from my clan, I didn't say anything, what are you shouting, at this critical juncture, you offend Your Majesty again, everyone's efforts have all come to naught, what happened, can you afford it?" ”

Wei Zheng glared at Wang Qi and said, "Shuju, why do you talk like this, you still know that Wang Zhi is your clansman?" Don't you want to get to the bottom of it? You ......"

Wang Jue turned his head and said in a sullen voice: "Wang Zhi, this person, dare to assassinate His Majesty, such a rebellious person, he is no longer worthy of being the son of the Taiyuan Wang family, and the lord has already expelled all the branches he is in," After a pause, Wang Jue said again: "But no matter what, you have nothing to do with Duke Wei, and please don't make any extraneous branches." ”

Wei Zheng gritted his teeth and said, "I really can't imagine that you can fall to this point, Shuju!" You don't ask, but I want to ask, guilty can be punished, but you can't die in vain without knowing it, I want to go to see Your Majesty......"

Before the words fell, someone spoke outside the tent: "Who wants to see me? ”

Everyone in the tent was startled, and they all hurriedly bowed down and shouted, "Welcome Your Majesty." ”

Gao Gonggong opened the curtain, Li Shimin walked in a tiger step, Li Mu followed closely, the two ignored everyone and walked straight to the tent. The eldest grandson Wuji gave up his seat, and Li Shimin sat down. Seeing Li Mu standing next to him, he also pointed to the chair next to him and said, "Aiqing is also sitting." ”

Li Mu pretended to be polite, sat down with a smile, he had already written the script, and Li Shimin had memorized the lines, he had just shot Wang Zhi to death, and the plot was completed.

Li Shimin glanced at everyone, and finally stopped his gaze on Wang Qi and Wei Zheng, and said: "The two Aiqing seem to be quite controversial just now, and everything must be said to others, since it involves me, don't hide it, stand up and talk about it, and see whose problem it is." ”

Wei Zheng's face turned red, but when he reached this joint, he couldn't retreat, and the injustice in his chest also made him unable to retreat. He took a step forward, as if he was playing on the top of the main hall, bowed down and said, "Your Majesty, the minister wants to ask, why did Wang Zhi die?" ”

Li Shimin did not answer, but said: "Xuancheng bites the gold to see you." ”

Gao Gonggong turned around and went out, and after a while, Cheng Yanjin walked into the military tent, and just about to give a salute, Li Shimin said: "No courtesy, Aiqing, Wei Aiqing has a question, you can answer it for him." ”

Cheng Yanjin looked at Wei Zheng, Wei Zheng asked again, Cheng Yanjin snorted, and said, "Wang Zhi intended to escape, but was discovered by the patrolling lieutenant and shot to death with arrows." At least more than 20 people witnessed this, and if Wei Gong didn't believe it, he could call them over to give circumstantial evidence. ”

Wei Zheng glared and said, "If it was all arranged by you, what is the use of circumstantial evidence?" ”

If other people in the court may be afraid of Wei Zheng's three points, Cheng Yanjin is not used to him. He has always been known for 'Hun', and his qualifications are there, saying that the Qin Wangfu, the people are from the Qin Wangfu, and the Xuanwu Sect is from the dragon, and they are also the first, which can be said to be the leader in current affairs, and the status of the court does not dare to be called the first and second, and he is also the best person, and he has won the trust of Li Shimin, otherwise he would not have been announced to escort him.

The two factions of the DPRK and the Chinese and the armed forces have always been not very coping. Cheng Yanjin heard Wei Zheng's tone, as if he was questioning, and immediately snorted coldly and said, "Is Wei Gong slandering my old Cheng?" Arranged? Whose arrangement? My old Cheng's arrangement? If I let the assassin escape, he will flee? Does he listen to me so much? ”

Suddenly, Cheng Biting Jin looked suddenly enlightened, and said: "Ha, I understand, Wei Gong is not talking about assassins, this is saying that I am the mastermind behind the scenes!" Cheng, the assassins are all sent by me, my sins are unforgivable, come and come, surnamed Wei, you take an axe and chop me! ”

As he spoke, he shoved the axe in his hand into Wei Zheng's hand.

Wei Zheng couldn't carry Cheng Biting Jin's axe, quickly pushed it away, and said hurriedly: "Cheng Biting Jin, don't make trouble with me!" I don't mean to blame you, I'm asking why the Assassin died so coincidentally! ”

Cheng Yanjin glared at the bull's eye and shouted, "Who are you asking?" He wants to run, how do I know? He ran away, can I still not catch it? Seeing that someone is about to escape, is there anything wrong with shooting him? It's all nonsense because you're so old! ”

Wei Zheng couldn't make sense with Cheng Yanjin, so he simply ignored this hun man, and bowed down to Li Shimin and said: "Your Majesty, the assassin Wang Zhi, when he was interrogated by the ministers, found that his tongue was broken, and according to other assassins, when he was interrogated in the woods that night, his tongue was intact, but when he saw Zhuluhou, his tongue was cut off in half. According to this, the minister has reason to infer that Wang Zhi's broken tongue is inseparable from Zhuluhou! There must be a reason for this, and when the minister thought of this and wanted to figure things out, the news that Wang Zhi was dead came out, how could there be such a coincidence? Your Majesty, isn't that strange enough? ”

Li Shimin sneered and asked, "Wei Aiqing is really an upright person, fighting for an assassin who assassinated me to this point, and it also involves my Maxima, this kind of thinking is worthy of admiration." ”

Wei Zheng couldn't hear the sarcasm, his old face turned red, and said: "The minister is not excusing Wang Zhi, assassinating His Majesty, the crime deserves death, but the minister thinks that the guilty can be punished, and even killed, but he can't die in vain, and some things still have to be figured out." ”

"Huh!" Li Shimin sneered, stretched out his hand and pointed at Wei Zheng, and said, "Wei Zheng, Wei Zheng!" You have always been a tolerant and measured person, but today, it seems that this is not the case. Compared with Li Mu, your narrowness is really an eye-opener! ”

Wei Zheng pursed his lips and was silent, the matter had come to this point, and he could only persevere to the end.

Li Shimin looked at Li Mu and said, "Aiqing, Wei Zheng questioned you, do you have anything to say?" ”

Li Mu got up and said respectfully: "The minister has nothing to say about this, although the minister knows the truth of the matter, but because he promised others, he will keep it secret, the letter is as important as Mount Tai in the minister's heart, and the minister must not violate the faith." Therefore, if the Duke of Wei thinks that Wang Zhi's tongue was cut off by the minister, then the minister will admit the crime. ”

When Wei Zheng heard Li Mu say this, he was a little dumbfounded. Before he could speak, Wang Jue suddenly knelt down and wept bitterly: "Your Majesty, the Hou Yi is thin and cloudy, the old minister can't let him take care of it, and the old minister confesses!" Your Majesty, please! ”

Li Shimin looked at Wang Qi and said, "What does this have to do with Aiqing?" ”

"Your Majesty!" Wang Qi pestle the ground with his head and cried: "Wang Zhi's tongue was cut off by the minister!" When Zhuluhou interrogated Wang Zhi, the minister also went to see Zhuluhou, and just halfway through it, he was worried that Wang Zhi would implicate more people in the family, so he was confused for a while, snatched the murder weapon that Zhuluhou took out to identify the assassin, and cut out Wang Zhi's tongue. The Hou Nianchen thought hard for the family, and had the good idea that if one less person could be implicated, one less person would be implicated, and he promised to hide the matter for the minister. Since the incident happened today, how can the minister let him be treated by the minister, the old minister confesses his guilt and confesses his guilt! ”

Wang Qi slammed his head on the ground and couldn't stand for a long time. Wei Zheng was completely stupid, snorted, had nothing to say, and had to kneel.

Shepherd Li sighed and took over the words: "Your Majesty, the minister concealed this matter at that time, but he had a moment of pity, and thought that Wang Zhi was already a mortal person, and he had already confessed what he should say, and it didn't matter if he had this tongue or not, so he agreed to conceal it." I wanted to tell Your Majesty, but since I had already promised the king's servants, the letter was not a word, and the minister could not disobey it, and it was really a bully to hide it from Your Majesty. As he spoke, he also knelt down and said, "Please punish Your Majesty." ”

Such a twist and turn reversal made the bigwigs of the three provinces and six departments standing next to them dumbfounded. Those who react slowly can't keep up with the train of thought.

Li Shimin helped Li Mu up and exclaimed: "Aiqing Xinyi comes first, how can I bear the punishment?" It's Wei Zheng, looking at his words and deeds today, I'm afraid it's not as good as what Aiqing praised, and I should reconsider. ”

Li Mu immediately said: "Your Majesty, one thing is one thing, the candidate for that position, the minister still thinks that Duke Wei is the most suitable, you have no jokes, how can you change the candidate that Your Majesty has already decided!" ”

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and even Wei Zheng himself was confused, what kind of candidate, as for such a dispute?

Li Shimin sighed, raised his hand, and said, "Let's get up first." ”

Wei Zheng and Wang Qi got up, Li Shimin sat down again, pursed his lips and said nothing, and after a while, he spoke, "Gao Gan, read my will." ”

Gonggong Gao took out a holy decree from his arms, opened it, and said loudly: "The edict says: ...... Since I ascended the throne, I have eaten and clothed only for the prosperity of all industries and the prosperity of my people. Correct...... At the time of Yao Shun, the people all took Yao Shun's heart as their heart, and gave it as the king, and the people took their hearts as their hearts, and they were in pain. What the bureaucrats say, I am all wrong. I am now edicting ...... guilty of my own crimes."

When the crowd heard half of it, they understood what this decree meant, and it turned out to be a sinful edict!

The eldest grandson Wuji knelt down one by one, and tears flowed down in the blink of an eye as if he was carrying them in his pocket. The others also learned the same way, and they all knelt down and wept bitterly. The king sinned against himself, and the officials could not escape the blame, even if it was a formality, they had to do it.

After reading the edict, Li Shimin took the edict and handed it to Ling Cen in the Chinese book, saying: "Aiqing, write everywhere, and tell the world." ”

Cen Wenwen cried: "Since Your Majesty ascended the throne, he has worked hard to make the country prosperous, but now he has been injured by thieves, and he has to issue an edict to punish himself, how can there be such a truth in the world!" ”

Everyone persuaded them, but Li Shimin was resolute and said: "I have made up my mind, and I don't need to persuade you again." After that, he said, "Gao Gan, the second will." ”

Gao Gonggong wiped away his tears, took out another holy decree, and said: "The edict says: Fa Ming, there is no danger of chaos in the interior; If you have it, there will be no death or captivity. Therefore, those who survive the country are not benevolent and righteous, but also according to law. Now the ten thieves are assassinated in me, and according to the law, the three tribes should be razed. Involving tens of thousands of people, I can't bear it. But the law does not tolerate human affection, in order to save innocent lives, I now issue an edict to rebuild the Tang Dynasty law, preserve the foundation of benevolence and righteousness, and remove the root of cruelty. Recruit the world's wise scholars, and appoint the imperial historian Wei Zheng as the chief administrator for a period of three years, so that everything can be based on the law and live up to my expectations. ”

After Gao Gonggong finished reading, he handed the holy decree to Wei Zheng and whispered: "Wei Gong, I just knelt for an hour to get this result. It was he who tried his best to ensure that you were to preside over the cultivation of the Fa, and your words just now really made you a little bit of a gentleman's belly with the heart of a villain. ”

Wei Zheng looked at Li Mu in surprise, Li Mu smiled, without the slightest intention of showing off his bearing, as if he had just done a trivial thing.