"If!"

Cai Cong replied immediately, and then took the fritters and continued to eat. Li Shimin handed him a bowl of minced pork porridge, and said in a consultative tone: "Let Dai Zhou close the case in Sanjia Village, right?" I will pay tribute to the fallen soldiers, what do you think? ”

Cai Cong immediately stood up, saluted Li Shimin with a solemn face, and said: "Your Majesty is the Ninth Five-Year Honor, if you want to close the case, directly make a will, no one dares to disobey." ”

Li Shimin's face was stiff, even the Son of Heaven could not act alone, otherwise sooner or later the monarch and the ministers would be separated. "Am I the kind of person who is self-determined? It's just that this matter implicates Princess Yongjia's concubine Dou Fengjie, and if I continue to investigate, I'm afraid it will damage Yongjia's reputation. ”

"So? The Crane Dao people are now in the Yongjia Princess Mansion, and His Majesty's ministers ask the Crane Dao people and Dou Fengjie to be taken to the priest for questioning. Cai Cong said in a daze, the angry Li Shimin blew his beard, what he was most afraid of was Cai Cong's character who couldn't rub sand.

"Didn't I just say that if I continue to investigate, it will damage Princess Yongjia's reputation, my sister is not only very favored by me, but the emperor is also very concerned, do you understand?"

"The minister doesn't understand, the Tang law was set by you and the Emperor Taishang, and it represents the supreme majesty. If you make it clear in the Tang Law that the children of the royal family cannot be checked, then Weichen will never dare to continue to investigate. However, there was no such article in the Tang law, so the minister could not obey the order. ”

"I usually praise you for being shrewd, why have you been like a pig for the past two days?" Li Shimin slapped his chopsticks on the table and said angrily.

"The minister originally thought that His Majesty was recruiting ministers to discuss Turkic affairs, but he never thought that he wanted the ministers to give up seeking justice for the victims and many refugees, and the ministers would rather be rigid in this matter." Cai Cong stalked his head, but he didn't want to let go, not to mention how much suffering the people who lost their land, but to say that the innocent soldiers who were killed, what should his family do in the future?

"I am the honor of the Ninety-Five, isn't it enough for the noble to say good things to you?" Li Shimin said bitterly, his sister was favored by these brothers when she was a child, and Li Shimin was really reluctant to dispose of her.

"Then please ask Your Majesty to give the minister a decree, otherwise the minister will not have the face to face his subordinates when he goes back." Cai Cong said expressionlessly, Li Shimin wanted to lift the table, but in the end he restrained himself, and his chest rose and fell like a blower.

"I don't know if the minister wants to say something to His Majesty?"

"Say!"

"The Legalist has clouds, the law is unforgiving, Your Majesty is the supreme of all generations, every word and deed is the law, since you formulated the Tang Law, the Tang Law is the code of the people of the world, and no one can violate it, including Your Majesty. If you ignore the majesty of the law because of your own feelings, then the officials will be the same, and the people will be the same, and the majesty of the Tang law will be gone.

If the law loses its deterrent effect, then the country will inevitably breed many criminals, and these criminals will have reasons to commit crimes for various reasons, so what should the officials do when the time comes? ”

Cai Cong's words made Li Shimin silent, and he continued: "Last year, Li Xiaochang rebelled, and all the participants were killed, only the eldest grandson Anye, His Majesty ignored the many exhortations of Lord Dai Xuan and Lord Wei Zheng, just imprisoned him, and promoted him to an official this year, which has made the hundred officials quite confused, and now Your Majesty will come again, will the emperor's relatives and relatives be able to trample on the law wantonly in the future?" And hundreds of officials are not allowed to ask? ”

"It's because I didn't think about it, and I don't interfere in the case of Sanjia Village anymore. Thou hast spoken this day, but thou hast spoken against thee, and thou shalt speak more. Li Shimin said sincerely, Cai Cong waved his hand and said: "Since ancient times, Zhengchen died early, if it weren't for the loss, the minister wouldn't have said such things, let's leave this to Lord Wei to say!" ”

"Melon cowardice, come and die." Li Shimin was originally waiting for Cai Cong to praise him for being able to listen to Mingjun, so the historian on this side would look better to write it down. didn't expect Cai Cong to say such nonsense, so angry that he pinched the fritters and slapped his head and face towards Cai Cong.

On that day, Dai Xuan personally led people to Princess Yongjia's mansion to get people, but he didn't expect to be beaten out by the people of the princess's mansion, and Princess Yongjia dared to offend again, and killed no matter what.

Dai Zhou was sad and angry and wanted to go back to Chang'an to find Li Lao Er to complain, but halfway through the road he met Cai Cong with elite soldiers passing by, heard what happened to Dai Zhou, he was angry, and made a heroic poem on the spot that the wild man was angry and saw the injustice, and wore the ancient knife in his chest, and took his soldiers to fight with Dai Zhou to the Yongjia Princess Mansion.

In the panic, the crane people wanted to escape over the wall, and were shot into hedgehogs by random arrows, Dou Fengjie accidentally fell and rolled into the battle circle, was slashed twice on the back, and the ribs were trampled off a few times, if it wasn't for Princess Yongjia being scared out, maybe the horse's two legs would have to be trampled off.

The suspect is dead, the horses involved are crippled, and the luxurious princess's mansion is covered in blood, as if it had been ransacked. Things are a bit big, Cai Cong and Dai Xuan looked at each other, leaving people to protect the princess, and the two returned to Dali Temple with the dead Hedao people, and sent many land deeds from the princess's mansion to the palace together with their confessions.

The two of them directly put themselves in prison, the new army is okay, Meng Baolai has long been accustomed to Cai Cong's indirectness, Dali Temple is in chaos, and his own chief official is locked in his own cell, what is this? The jailer trembled, shouting and drinking on weekdays, but now he did not dare to speak loudly.

He Daoren and Dou Fengjie have been convicted, and Cai Cong and the two are charged with ramming the princess's mansion, causing the princess to faint in fright. Wei Zheng wrote a letter with extremely sharp words to impeach Princess Yongjia, and took the imperial envoy to sit quietly in front of the palace gate. The hundred officials took off their official hats and put them beside them, and the government affairs had to be dealt with, and then ...... Hats for people.

On the same day, a decree was issued without going through Shangshu Province, Cai Cong, Dai Xuan offended the majesty of the heavenly family, but the incident was punished for half a year. Hedao people, Dou Fengjie took advantage of the famine year to invade the people's fields, killed the herald, and exiled Lingnan. The land they had taken was returned to the people. Princess Yongjia ignored the majesty of the law, shielded criminals, and was grounded in the mansion without a will.

Cai Cong and Dai Zhou had to be personally taken out of the cell by the hundred officials that day, and someone proposed to go to Taibai Building to set up a banquet for the two to wash away the bad luck, and everyone applauded. Cai Cong's face changed greatly, they are all colleagues, or are they embarrassed to accept money for themselves?

Li Shimin sent Yan Dong to send two handles of jade Ruyi, and highly praised Cai and Dai for their spirit of not being afraid of power and pursuing justice wholeheartedly. I made a special decree that I could be on duty one hour later tomorrow, so that everyone could let go of the drink.

Looking at the three pulps that were lifted up from a jar, Cai Cong was sure that this group of animals was taking revenge on him for his usual arbitrariness, and some people were clamoring to eat a piece of incense, and they were almost kicked downstairs by Cai Cong.

Li Gang held his wine glass and said to Cai Cong with a smile, if you are not ready to accept you, you may not be able to carry these people even if you take eight sedan chairs.

Cai Cong was stunned, looking at the unscrupulous and noisy officials, some of whom had quarreled with him, but now they were toasting to him from afar.

"The Tang law you gave to Your Majesty has let your colleagues know one thing, not only are you not a member of the military, not a person from the civilian side, and even less a person from Your Majesty. You are you, the man who is responsible for the rise and fall of the world. ”

(End of chapter)