Chapter Seventy-Four: Retirement
In fact, Li Longji hid something from Pei Min, of course, it was not because of distrust, but because he couldn't say it.
In Li Longji's eyes, Pei Min has always been a direct minister.
It is the kind of minister who can dare to give direct advice for the sake of justice and morality, not a caring courtier like Gao Lishi.
This is not only what Li Longji admires about Pei Min, but also one of the reasons why he is not as good as Gaolis.
Pei Min has his own bottom-line principle, while Colliers does not.
As long as it is requested by Li Longji, although it is not in line with reason and law, Gao Lishi will also do it for Li Longji.
Pei Min won't be here, it really hurts the overall situation, he will say it bluntly without any scruples.
Li Longji would never put himself in a dilemma, so he didn't tell Pei Min about Queen Wang, Wu Jieyu and Monk Mingwu.
However, Li Xian knows these things.
Although Li Xian is not as obedient to Li Longji as Gao Lishi, as an elder brother, he can tolerate his younger brother's mistakes.
Li Longji also told him about Wu Jieyu.
Regarding his younger brother's infatuation in this regard, Li Xian had no choice but to help him hide the matter.
Listening to Pei Min's detailed words at this moment, Li Xian gradually had an idea in his mind:
Because of Zhanpeng, Cui Cheng and Cui Hong targeted the Qingyu League, but the Qingyu League was protected by Pei Min. Even if he himself is not in Chang'an, not many people are willing to provoke him.
So the father and son of the Cui family deliberately fabricated the enlightened monk, voted for Li Longji's favor, used Li Longji's feelings for Wu Jieyu, and borrowed Li Longji's hand to deal with the Qingyu League.
No matter how great Pei Min's influence in Chang'an is, it is not as great as the emperor.
Li Longji wants to clean up a gang, who dares to stop it?
Originally, it was a seamless plan to use Li Longji's hand to deal with the Qingyu League, but because of Feng Chan, Pei Min came to Chang'an, and a new accident occurred.
In a temporary emergency, Cui Cheng and Cui Hong could only point the finger at Pei Min.
Pei Min is much more difficult to deal with than the Qingyu League, and only a major case of rebellion can he be taken down and punished.
They began to set up a situation against Pei Min.
But because the Qingyu League saved Zhanpeng, they had the evidence of Cui Cheng and Cui Hong's crimes.
Time was pressing, and they could not be carefully planned, so the dog jumped over the wall in a hurry, and staged such a farce in a clumsy way.
Li Xian said: "I expect that there should be some things about witchcraft in Pei's mansion, and Guogong will go back and search every place in the mansion." Cui Cheng and Cui Hong dared to be sure that the Guogong colluded with the witch master to rebel, and they must have been prepared for a long time. It's just that they didn't expect that Guogong was unexpectedly absent from the mansion, which led to a lack of success and no use for evidence. ”
Pei Min's face changed, and he immediately responded: "I was negligent, and I will investigate everything in the house immediately after returning to the house." ”
In fact, he already knew that someone had infiltrated Pei's Mansion and hid the paulownia puppet engraved with Li Longji's birthday behind the archway of the Sword Pavilion's "Unparalleled in the World".
Just pretending not to know, lest the limelight be too prevalent and make it seem that everything is under his control.
This is also where he is clever, his rhetoric is eight points true and two points false.
This kind of lie is the most difficult to guess, and only this kind of rhetoric can convince Li Xian and Gao Lishi, so as to satisfy Li Longji.
At the same time, he also drew up the suspicion of conspiracy with Queen Wang, and said that the behavior of the Qingyu League to mobilize the people was to save Zhanpeng, not to enlighten the monk.
Classify the monk Mingwu as a fictional character made up by Cui Cheng and Cui Hong from the beginning in order to frame Pei Min and Qingyu League.
In this way, both Pei Min and Qingyu League have cleared their relationship and become victims completely.
As for Cui Cheng and Cui Hong, who know the truth, they have already been branded as rebels, and they have the intention of destroying the relationship between Li Longji and Pei Min's monarchs and ministers, and no one will believe their words.
The more you talk, the worse it will end.
If it leads to the matter of their collusion with Wu Jieyu, it is equivalent to pouring oil on Li Longji's head and dying faster.
Immediately afterwards, Zhan Peng also said everything he investigated, of course, telling the truth.
When the internal guard was passed into the hands of Princess Taiping, a qualitative change had already taken place.
Princess Taiping, with her charisma, collected and recruited a group of subordinates who were loyal to her.
Cui Xiang was able to command them back then because of the rights given by Princess Taiping, and they were loyal to Princess Taiping from beginning to end.
This part of the people is anti-Li Longji and regards Li Longji as an enemy.
Cui Cheng and Cui Hong were not enough to order these people, and they only won their allegiance under the banner of avenging Princess Taiping.
In other words, Qinglong in the shadows is a rebellious organization against Li Longji, and this organization involves members of the five surname families.
Li Xianzhong understood why Pei Min smiled bitterly and said that he would rather have a smaller harvest.
The five surnamed families have no intention of rebelling, but Qinglong is a rebellious organization, and the core members of the action are all anti-Li Longji.
Jumping into the Yellow River, the five surnamed families can't wash all this.
In response to the information provided by Zhanpeng, as well as the Qingyu League, some clues were found.
Li Xian and Pei Min locked the stronghold base camp of Qinglong, Qinglong Temple.
The news of Cui Cheng and Cui Hong's detention was not publicized, and only a few escaped with details.
Most of them were caught and became prisoners.
Along the way, four families with five surnames were involved.
There are also some families with five surnames, who have also been bewitched and participated in it.
Pei Min was worried that the Pei family was also involved, but he unexpectedly found that there was indeed a share of the Pei family, but because of him, the Pei family was forced to change its appearance.
The Pei family changed its banner and formed a family group dominated by Mrs. Huayang.
The Cui family did not trust the new head of the Pei family enough, and the original agreement was invalidated, and it was not counted, and they planned to investigate one or two and make a decision.
However, Pei Min has repeatedly acted detrimental to the interests of the family.
The clans involved agreed that they would not take the Pei family to play, so that the Pei family escaped by luck.
Five surname families!
Cui, Lu, Li, and Zheng are all among them, and as for Wang, they are excluded.
Because the influence of the Wang family has declined in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and in the Tang Dynasty, Wu Zetian hated the surname Wang because of the relationship between the queen and the queen, and it was even more declining. ”
The so-called "smelt" is silver and gold ornaments, saying that the Wang family has a false name, just like gold plating, so it is not mixed in it.
Pei Min is only in charge of the investigation and how to punish him, but he only asks half a sentence.
Li Longji doesn't take the family whose strength has been greatly damaged seriously, but he can't tolerate them doing such nonsense.
Under the conclusive evidence, the Yushitai, the Criminal Department, and the Dali Temple also participated, and a bloody storm arose.
At the same time, Li Longji didn't let people know too much of Qinglong's privacy, and he didn't want to add fuel to the fire in Wu Jieyu's affairs, so he completely cut off Wu Jieyu's way out of the cold palace, and ordered Cui Cheng and Cui Hong to be executed.
As for the tragic Lu Qi, Pei Min didn't want him to talk nonsense, so he begged for a trick from Pear Lao and turned him into a madman, because he was the mastermind, and he was also sentenced to death.
With the death of Cui Cheng, Cui Hong, and Lu Qi.
Pei Min and Qingyu Meng also cleared their suspicions, whether it was a enlightened monk or a witch master, they had nothing to do with them.
Pei Min retired.