The monarchs and ministers were silent all of a sudden, they were really confused, and they even needed a child to remind them.

"Today, the old man said nothing, and I ask Cai Cong to forgive me, and the old man will definitely come to the door to apologize another day." An old master like Li Gang, one is one, he will not do anything against his will, since he is wrong, he simply apologizes to Cai Cong.

"Don't be like this, Master Li and the elders are also indignant and will forget everything and become obsessed. The boy is not a talent, and his subordinates are all those crippled servants and women who are ashamed to see people, and I promised them that one day I will set foot in the Turks, and I am counting the days with my fingers, just waiting for the right time and place, and I will wait for a year and a half. ”

"That makes sense, in that case, let's discuss how to deal with the envoy of Tuli, Cai Cong, you go down first!" Li Shimin said calmly, and anyone could hear the estrangement in his words.

Cai Cong ruined Li Shimin's great opportunity to be ashamed, he suppressed the news last night and didn't let anyone leak it, so he wanted to wait for the ministers to be angry, and then make a decision to go on the expedition, who knew that Cai Cong, the person whose brain is most prone to fever, is the most sober this time.

"The minister will retire first." Cai Cong walked out after calmly speaking. No matter what Li Shimin thinks, at this moment, he, the emperor, cannot act alone, even if everyone is hot-headed and agrees today, but when discussing grain and grass, they will inevitably raise objections, which is inevitable.

When Cai Cong left the palace, Xu Jie came over and said, "Did you find that brother?" The man was dead, dug out of a grove halfway down the road. ”

"Have you caught the murderer?"

"Caught, but ......" Xu Jie didn't know what to say, this was not a single person, but a collective action of a village. Originally, no one could be found, but when I checked, I found that the county was all worshipping the locust god, and only a small village kept hunting locusts, which attracted Xu Jie's attention.

"But what? Murder pays for life, even if it is a royal family and nobleman. ”

"It wasn't killed by some big person, this brother was mistakenly killed by a group of villagers passing through a small village."

Xu Jie didn't know what to do, killing people paid for their lives, but there was no reason to ask 100 people to pay for their lives, right?

"To kill is to kill, and there is no such thing as manslaughter. Transferring people to Dali Temple and killing soldiers caused the entire county to be delayed in controlling locusts, which was a major crime and handed over to Dai Zhou for trial. Let's go, Ben Hou is going to observe. ”

Cai Cong said that he got on the sedan chair, this is a hot potato, no one can take it, the sentence is light, and he can't convince the public, how to sentence 100 people heavily?

The new army carried coffins and 100 people in ragged clothes through Chang'an Street, which immediately attracted the onlookers of the people.

When Cai Cong arrived at Dali Temple, Meng Baolai happened to arrive with people. Cai Cong nodded, and he went up to beat the drum, and the muffled voice was irritating.

Seeing this kind of scene, the official also knew that something was wrong, so he didn't dare to come forward to ask, so he trotted forward to report, and after a while, he walked out with a dignified face.

Seeing Cai Cong, he smiled: "What kind of wind blew Chang'an Hou here." ”

"So that Lord Dai knows that it was the bleak wind that blew Benhou to your Dali Temple." Cai Cong replied with a solemn face, Dai Zhou put away his smile, nodded solemnly, and invited Cai Cong in.

After ascending to the hall, Dai Zhou looked at the person kneeling on the ground, and patted the shocked wood: "Who is in the hall?" ”

"Wronged! Wronged! Master, this group of soldiers is bullying the common people. ”

The kneeling people below immediately shouted, no one saw them kill people, as long as they bite to death and don't admit it, the officials can't ignore people's lives, right? Not to mention that there are still so many people watching.

"One by one, the plaintiff said first." Dai Xuan looked at it majestically, and everyone was so frightened that they didn't dare to speak.

"This official sued this group of Diao people for attacking and killing the disaster relief herald, and burying the corpses in the mountains and forests." Meng Baolai said with a murderous face, if it weren't for the military law, he would have ordered the slaughter of the village.

"Is there any evidence?"

Dai Xuan is not the kind of person who does not distinguish between right and wrong, and there is no evidence to say that it is useless to break the sky.

"Naturally, the official brought the corpses of his comrades, and found many sticks in the corpse pit that belonged to one of the murder weapons, and there were many wounds on the corpses that resembled rake hairpins, which are believed to be rake of villagers."

"Sir, we have been wronged! This soldier didn't know where to get a corpse and some sticks, so he said that our village had killed people, and our village had been loyal for generations, how could he do such a thing? ”

The old man stood up and hurriedly knelt down after speaking, deceiving others first and deceiving himself, he now believes that people were not killed by their village.

"General Meng, just this doesn't mean that they killed people, is there any other evidence, is there anyone who testifies?"

"When the whole county is worshipping locusts, only the people of Sanjia Village demolished the altar and the whole village went out to catch locusts.

Meng Baolai said sharply, if it weren't for this, they wouldn't know where to find someone in the vast sea of people!

"What do you explain?" Dai Xuan said expressionlessly, now it is certain that even if they don't kill people, it has a lot to do with them.

"This ...... We...... We feel sorry for the food, we feel sorry for the crops! The old man thought about this question, and didn't know how to answer it for a while, so he had to talk nonsense.

"Bastard, if you don't tell the truth, this official will be punished."

Dai Xuan glared at this group of villagers, if they didn't know that locusts were demons, give them a few guts, they wouldn't dare to do this to the locusts.

"Your Excellency! My lord! We are just a group of ordinary people, how dare we treat an official like this? Let us not be scapegoats because they are also officials! ”

"Bastard! Is this the man of this ruler? Tell us the truth, or ......."

Before Dai Xuan could finish speaking, he walked in and said, "Lord Qiyu, the corpse has been experienced, and the deceased has one hundred and four wounds, including ninety-three on sticks, six on rakes, and the remaining five wounds are caused by sharp weapons such as hoes. ”

"The people who came immediately sent people to Sanjia Village to retrieve all the hoes and check whether there were any traces of blood one by one."

"Chang'an Hou, it will take time to retrieve the hoe, if it is not too simple, how about going to the back office to drink a cup and rest for a while?"

"Meng Baolai is just an official in the same dynasty as Lord Dai, and the suspect has already claimed that the officials protect each other, and Ben Hou, as the chief official, should avoid suspicion, so he is waiting for the result here. Lord Dai's mouth to defend the people is more than Sichuan! Cai Cong said leisurely, squinting at the person kneeling on the ground.

At this time, there was a commotion in the crowd of onlookers, Zhang Liang came from the crowd, and said with a laugh: "I heard that the new army, which is famous for its bravery, was killed by the people, and my father came to listen to the case." Yo! Chang'an Hou is also here, Chang'an Hou has always thought that it is his duty to ask for the people's lives, but now his subordinates have been beaten to death by the people, I don't know how he feels? ”

Zhang Liang sat on the chair with a big grin as he spoke, looking at Cai Cong with a mocking expression. After Li Xiaochang's rebellion was suppressed last year, Li Shimin strictly forbade Cai Cong to suppress Zhang Liang's family's livelihood.

Seeing that Cai Cong didn't speak, he leaned forward to look at the villagers of Sanjia Village, shook his head and said, "Even this group of people can kill the soldiers of the New Army, it seems that the New Army should also die, it is useless." ”

Cai Cong slowly stood up and picked up the chair, slammed a semicircle directly on Zhang Liang's back, Zhang Liang stumbled forward a few steps, turned around and angrily raised his fist at Cai Cong.

(End of chapter)