Chapter 58 Listen to the People
"Erchen is here!" Li Chengqian readily agreed.
"Rebel!" Li Shimin was so angry that he was about to lose his mind, so he jumped down from the throne with a loud shout, reached out and grabbed Li Chengqian's collar, and lifted Li Chengqian up with all his might.
Face to face shouted, "Say! Why are you doing that?"
"What did the son-in-law do wrong, please ask your father to make it clear!" Li Chengqian said without showing weakness.
"Your Majesty is angry, what do you have to say." The eldest grandson Wuji, Yang Shidao and Gao Shilian hurriedly stepped forward to persuade them.
"Get out of the way!"
Li Chengqian's attitude made Li Shimin want to strangle him.
"Say, why do you want to arrange so many disaster victims to stop Liu Xun's coffin?" Li Shimin asked loudly again.
"He Liu Xun has done a lot of evil, the people hate him to the bone, what is it to stop other people's coffins, if no one comes forward to appease the people, what if the angry people still whip his corpse?" Li Chengqian retorted directly.
"You!" Li Shimin was about to wave his hand and whip him, but found that his hand was being held.
"Your Majesty often says, 'The king is the boat, the people are the water, the water can carry the boat, and the boat can also overturn the boat', then Liu Xun is cruel and unkind, and the people hate him to the bone, what can't he do?
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has been busy with disaster relief these days, and he has more contact with the victims to know what the victims are thinking, so he has always advocated severe punishment of Liu Xun, which is also taught by His Majesty. Ma Zhou held Li Shimin's hand while quickly admonishing.
Over there, Zhu Suiliang went to break Li Shimin's hand that grabbed Li Chengqian's collar.
"Hmph" Li Shimin was persuaded by everyone, and finally snorted angrily and let go of the hand that grabbed Li Chengqian.
Li Shiji and Zhu Suiliang hurriedly blocked Li Chengqian behind them.
"Your Majesty is angry, at this time, the outside matter must be dealt with immediately, and the matter cannot be let get worse." Zhu Suiliang said busily.
"Huh" Li Shimin was so angry that he flicked his sleeves and said: "Let Baiqi go and seal the place where the victims gather, don't let the victims disturb the entire Chang'an City, and then send someone to persuade the victims to go back first. ”
As he spoke, he saw that Li Chengqian, who was standing behind the person, was still calm and relaxed, so he said angrily: "Let the prince go!" ”
"I'm afraid that Erchen won't be able to persuade these victims, so I have to let the Shangshu and Shilang of the Criminal Department go with Erchen and let them tell the victims why the sentence was changed?" Li Chengqian directly made a request.
Li Shimin glared at the frightened cow when he heard this, and gasped.
"Your Royal Highness the Prince, just say a few words!" The eldest grandson Wuji explained.
Li Chengqian looked indifferent, not in a hurry at all.
Li Shimin sighed and said: "Except for Liu Yi's normal burial, Du Chuke and Fang Yiai's death in Anzhou, the other prince's judgment was executed according to the prince's judgment. After Li Shimin finished speaking, he turned around and left.
The ministers who stayed in the Taiji Hall all gasped, and Li Shimin's last words were too shocking, which meant that Li Shimin had succumbed to Li Chengqian.
Li Chengqian finally breathed a sigh of relief.
In fact, although Li Chengqian, the emperor of the first day of December, used means to force Li Shimin to agree to let Li Tai become a vassal domain, everyone could see that Li Shimin had no intention of disposing of the rest of the Wei Wang's party.
Although these people support Li Tai, they also have Li Shimin's tacit approval, so Li Shimin still thinks that they are still his loyal ministers, but can Li Chengqian believe that these will not harm him?
In the past few days, Li Chengqian first wanted benefits, and then directly tried the case, all in order to crack down on Li Tai and his party and consolidate the fruits of the victory of the last great dynasty.
But no one took Li Chengqian seriously, Li Chengqian sent Yan Liren to Li Shimin, and Li Shimin just asked the eldest grandson Wuji to appease him.
The eldest grandson Wuji went to appease Li Chengqian on behalf of Li Shimin, and Li Chengqian's request was not finished before the eldest grandson Wuji brushed his sleeves away.
Li Chengqian put pressure on Fang Xuanling to write poems, hoping that he could come forward to mediate, but Fang Xuanling did not respond.
Liu Xun's death is inseparable from Li Chengqian, so Li Chengqian must trample on Liu Xun and engrave the poem "Official Hamster" on his tombstone.
In order to threaten Li Chengqian, Li Shimin also took Du He to the Criminal Department, which is to tell Li Chengqian that I can try out the evidence of your crime of framing Li Tai at any time.
If it weren't for the help of the victims, Li Chengqian's biggest victory this time would probably be to bring down Fang Xuanling.
Thinking of this, Li Chengqian showed a little victor's smile slightly, and then said to everyone in the posture of a superior person: "It is definitely not possible to persuade the disaster victims to go alone, so please ask Cen Zhongshu, Zhang Shilang of the Criminal Department, and all the counselors to go with the Gu Wang to meet the disaster victims!" ”
"The ministers in the province still have important matters, and they can't go with His Royal Highness the Prince." Cen text pushed back very directly.
"It's okay, the lonely king is waiting for you, but if the disaster victim can't wait to split Liu Xun's coffin and roast it, don't complain about the lonely king." Li Chengqian lightly threatened Cen Wenwen, and then turned back to the old ghost and said, "Move the lonely king's recliner in, and the lonely king will wait for Cen Zhongshu in this Taiji hall." ”
"Cen Zhongshu should go quickly!" The person next to him persuaded.
Cen Wenwen sighed indignantly, hugged his fist at Li Chengqian and said, "The minister is willing to go with His Royal Highness the Prince." ”
"Let's go!" Li Chengqian said that he walked out of the Taiji Hall first.
Liu Xun's family lived in Jingshanfang on the east side of Zhuque Street, which was the same road as Li Chengqian's Shengdaofang to resettle the victims, one near Zhuque Street and the other near the east city wall.
According to the rules of going out from the east to the west, their funeral procession happened to go out from the Yanxing Gate next to the Shengdao Fang.
Liu Xun's coffin was stopped by the victims and nearby people on the edge of the Shengping Workshop in front of the Shengdao Workshop.
When Li Chengqian's car arrived, Cen Wenwen and Zhang Chengxing had already arrived first, but now the outside was surrounded by tens of thousands of disaster victims sent by Li Shimin and the officials of Wannian County, and they couldn't enter at all.
Li Chengqian got out of the car, Xue Rengui, Yan Shigu, Xu Jingzong, Hao Chujun, Pei Xingjian, Wang Fangyi and other members of the East Palace, Zhu Suiliang and Zhang Chengxing immediately surrounded Li Chengqian in the middle, and Cen Wenwen just followed not far away.
Cen Wenwen thinks that this is because he has a backbone, but in the eyes of Yan Shigu, Zhu Suiliang, Zhang Chengxing and others, he thinks that he has no courtiers and should have etiquette and loyalty, and other Li Chengqian's henchmen needless to say, it is a life-and-death relationship.
Li Chengqian walked to the periphery alone and asked the hundred horsemen and the servants to get out of the way, and the victims standing inside saw Li Chengqian and his party.
Seeing Li Chengqian standing in the middle, he immediately exclaimed: "His Royal Highness the Prince!" The voice was full of surprise.
Then the exclamations continued, and the crowd knelt down one by one like the waves, shouting everything from their mouths.
Li Chengqian pushed Xue Rengui away, walked to the front and shouted, "Get up quickly, get cold on the ground." ”
No one could hear it, Li Chengqian had to pull up a few people in front of him, and a few guys didn't know to give way when they looked at Li Chengqian's vigorous smile.
Li Chengqian had no choice but to say loudly: "I'm going to go in, and you make a way for me." ”
"Alas," a few young men hurriedly agreed, and then turned around to open the way for Li Chengqian, and soon a path was given way in the crowd.
As Li Chengqian and his entourage walked forward, the men, women, and children standing on both sides of the path greeted him warmly.
Li Chengqian also greeted them happily, some Li Chengqian can still be named, Li Chengqian has a problem with his feet, so he walks more slowly.
Xue Rengui was tall and stood beside Li Chengqian, looking back and forth, left and right, and seeing that there were fresh faces in the crowd, he was a little relieved to see that there were basically no fresh faces.
Pei Xingjian and Wang Fangyi had never seen these people because they had come out, so they had been following Li Chengqian nervously, for fear that something would go wrong.
Yan Shigu, who followed behind, sighed to everyone: "The ancient holy kings are nothing more than this, and the emperors of later generations are afraid of getting close to the people when they travel, but our Royal Highness the Crown Prince is not afraid of the people at all when he walks among the disaster victims."
Those boys are still nervous, and if someone makes trouble at this time, it is useless for all of us to tie them together. ”
Everyone nodded and sighed when they heard this, no wonder this old man praised His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in the palace, and his face did not change when he was sarcastic.
Only Cen Wenwen stood on tiptoe and saw Liu Xun's coffin parked in front of him, but he couldn't walk for a long time, he was anxious and didn't notice the things around him.
Li Chengqian and his entourage walked while talking, and finally came to Liu Xun's coffin, where there was a vacant lot with few people, and several representatives of the victims of the disaster were confronting the people of the Liu family.
When the victims saw Li Chengqian coming, they all knelt down to greet Li Chengqian, and Li Chengqian asked them to get up and say hello briefly.
Seeing Li Chengqian coming, Liu Zhao also hurriedly ran over to hold Li Chengqian's hand, Li Chengqian bent down to talk to him and told him to bring snacks to the car behind.
At this moment, Kung Fu Cen Wenwen has already begun to talk to the Liu family.
Li Chengqian said with a calm face: "Cen Zhongshu Lonely King brought you here to persuade the victims. ”
Cen Wenwen listened gloomy, walked two steps to this side without speaking.
"Your Majesty has asked me to tell you about it, but I would like to hear your sufferings and thoughts first. Find some people to come out and stand in front of you, and tell me one by one. Li Chengqian said loudly to the victims.
Then he turned back to Cen Wenwen and said: "Cen Zhongshu, you are responsible for recording, these records must be compiled into the actual record, and they can also be used to repair Liu Xun's biography when revising history, and a part of it must be sorted out as a preface to criticize Liu Xun's poetry collection." ”
Cen Wenwen nodded and knelt down to make a record a few days ago, but when the first person started to speak, Cen Wenwen's face turned dark, because what these people said was scolding Liu Xun, Cen Wenwen and the Liu family's faces were pale when they heard it, but they couldn't refute it.