Li You said: "Lord Wei, I am not satisfied with you, I have been preparing for this matter with Your Majesty for a long time, so let's go into the palace with me." ”

Liangyi Palace, study.

Li Shimin, Li Chengqian, Li You, Changsun Wuji, Hou Junji, and Wei Zheng discussed the plan of action, and a profound social change began.

Dengzhou Thorn Mansion.

Dengzhou Assassin Shi Yao Dong received a letter from his old partner Sima of Dengzhou, Wang Huairen, who is now a servant of the Criminal Department, with the seal of Li You, the king of Qi, and asked him to secretly send a group of county lieutenants, anti-thieves and arresters with strong case-handling ability to Jizhou Zhichong Mansion according to the list.

Yao Dong carried out the instructions of His Royal Highness the King of Qi and sent personnel according to the list. At the same time, experts in handling cases from Longzhou, Shaanzhou, Yuanzhou and other places also secretly concentrated in Jizhou Zhechong Prefecture.

As many as 1,430 people were mobilized this time, and these case-handling personnel were all people from civilian backgrounds who had nothing to do with the gate lord clan, and they didn't know what the imperial court was transferring them for, but they were ordered to go to Jizhou.

Wang Huairen also left Chang'an and went to Jizhou.

The Eastern Expeditionary Army regrouped to Dengzhou, and Hou Junji secretly mobilized a large army to Dengzhou, and their final destination was also Jizhou, with a total of more than 20,000 troops mobilized this time.

The mobilization of the army aroused people's attention, and Li Shimin announced in the early court that he would carry out the Second Eastern Crusade, and with the successful case of the First Eastern Crusade, there was no objection between the government and the opposition.

Everything was going on in secret, and no one knew what Li Shimin was going to do, and no one knew how determined Li Shimin was.

Cui Zixuan, the provincial servant of the door, is the second son of Cui Yan, the current head of the Cui family, and one of the representatives of the Qinghe Cui family in the court.

On this day, a guest came to his house. The person who came was a young man, and he said, "Second uncle, uncle asked the little nephew to say hello to you." ”

Cui Zixuan said: "Yin Yuan, what is the matter with you coming to Chang'an?" "The person who came is Cui Yinyuan, and he is Cui Zixuan's nephew.

Cui Huiyuan said: "Something happened in Qinghe, Uncle asked me to inform you." Then he told what had happened.

Cui Yunhe, the third brother of the Cui family in Qinghe, killed Wang Debao's entire family in order to forcibly occupy the homestead of villager Wang Debao, and the local government was all from their Cui family, and no one pursued the matter. However, there is a bookstore in Qinghe County, named Tang Hui, who has a marriage contract with Wang Debao's daughter. After the death of Wang Debao's family, he sent someone to Chang'an to deliver a letter to Wei Zheng, and after being detected, he fled Qinghe County and may have come to Chang'an.

Cui Yan, the head of the family, was worried that Tang Hui would cause trouble in Chang'an, so he specially sent Cui Huiyuan to Chang'an to inform Cui Zixuan, in case Wei Zheng wanted to investigate the matter, let him try to stop it.

Cui Zixuan thought for a while and said, "I will pay attention to this matter in the court, you send someone to keep an eye on Wei Zheng's mansion, don't let him see Wei Zheng." As long as Wei Zheng does not have any witnesses, even if he sends someone to Qinghe to investigate, it will be useless. ”

Cui Huiyuan said: "Yes, second uncle, I will go and watch this matter personally, but I don't know Wei Zheng's residence, you send someone to take me there." ”

Wei Zheng Fushang.

This morning, after Wei Zheng got up, he was about to go to the morning court, when the porter Phoenix ran in and said, "Master, it's not good, someone died in front of the door of our house, go and take a look." ”

Wei Zheng hurriedly came to the front of the mansion, and saw a man dressed as a peasant lying in front of the mansion, bleeding a lot under his body, and the person had been dead for a long time.

Wei Zheng saw that there were blood stains on the steps in front of the gate of his mansion, and even a few of them were stained with some blood. It can be seen that this person was killed when he tried to enter his house.

At this time, several Wuhou rushed over, and they examined the body of the deceased, but found nothing that could prove the identity of the deceased.

Wei Zheng intuitively felt that this person was looking for him, and he said, "You find out the identity of the deceased, and then report it to me." ”

The Wuhou carried the body away, and when they returned to examine it, they found a letter in the upper of his shoe.

Soon after, the Goshidai.

Wu Hou, who was in charge of handling the case, saw Wei Zheng and said to him: "Lord Wei, the identity of the deceased is clear, this person's name is Tang Hui, from Qinghe County, Beizhou, and he is the secretary of a county government, this is a letter written to you found from his upper. ”

Wei Zheng asked, "Who else knows about this?" ”

Wu Hou said: "Wu Chang knows that he has already reported to the Yamen of Jingzhao Mansion. ”

Wei Zheng regretted it very much, he felt that he should have let the Wuhou keep it secret, but the procedure handled by the Wuhou was like this, a case like this involving human life would be reported to the Jingzhao Mansion Yamen, and the Jingzhao Mansion Yamen would also report to the Criminal Department.

In other words, the content of this letter is already known to many people, and the people of the Cui family must also know it.

The imperial court had already decided to take action, and the deployment could not be put in place for a while, which gave the Cui clan time to destroy the evidence. Wei Zheng was very depressed and went to discuss with Li You again.

For example, what Wei Zheng thought, Cui Zixuan soon knew about it, and he secretly scolded in his heart: "Cui Huiyuan can't do anything anymore, a small matter is so uproarious." ”

Qi Wangfu.

Wei Zheng reported to Li You what happened, and said depressedly: "Your Highness, the minister is not doing well, and he has given the Cui clan time to destroy the evidence. ”

After thinking about it, Li You smiled: "What a big deal." It doesn't matter if you want this evidence or not, the matter of Cui's annexation of land is not limited to this one, there is evidence. They know it, this matter is also a good thing, and our next action will not be bothered to speak in the court.

Tomorrow you ...... like this."

The next morning, Taiji Hall.

After Wei Zheng discussed with Li You, in order to cover up the real actions of the imperial court, he simply made public what was happening in front of him.

He said: "Your Majesty, the minister has received a report that there is a murder case in Qinghe, Beizhou, involving a land dispute, and the minister asks to send someone to Qinghe to investigate this matter." ”

Hearing this, the ministers were talking for a while, and the officials of the Cui system had some worries on their faces.

Li Shimin said: "Yes, this matter will be led by Yushitai and investigated with the Criminal Department." ”

"Obey." Wei Zheng said.

In the mansion of Cui Zixuan, the provincial servant of the sect, several officials of the Cui clan were discussing the matter mentioned by Wei Zheng.

An official said: "If Qinghe makes such a fuss, if it is verified by Wei Zheng, it will damage the reputation of our Qinghe Cui clan." ”

"yes, yes." There was a lot of talking.

Seeing everyone's worried looks, Cui Zixuan asked, "What are you worried about?" Qinghe is our Cui clan's territory, and every grass and tree there is surnamed Cui, what can the people sent by Wei Zheng investigate? Let them go, and it won't be long before they come back in disgrace. ”

When everyone heard this, they laughed together.

At this time, an official said: "Ladies and gentlemen, do you remember that the household department held a printing art contest in order to print banknotes?" I heard the news that the banknote printing factory in Tobu had secretly imprisoned the craftsmen in charge of engraving in the banknote printing factory for the purpose of printing banknotes. Not allowing them to go home is effectively tantamount to imprisonment. What is the difference between this behavior and Qin Shi Huang's secret execution of those craftsmen who built the mausoleum in order to build the mausoleum?

This kind of behavior is despicable, can we make a fuss about it? ”

An official said: "It makes sense, let's poke this matter out, not only can we hit the arrogance of the Li family, but also improve the prestige of our family." Can you still disrupt their plans, and see if they still have the heart to investigate Qinghe's affairs? ”

"Hahaha, that's it. Just to poke this matter out, but also to mobilize our people to impeach Gao Jingming. Cui Zixuan said.

The impeachment of Gao Jingming is actually aimed at Li Shimin.

Li You didn't know that before his action against the Cui clan began, the blow from the Cui clan fell on his head, to be exact, on the heads of Gu Kun and Gu Ruoyu.