By the time I was done, the effects were starting to show up. The pale cheeks of the white-clothed Li Yi began to blush slightly, and his hands and feet trembled slightly, and after a while, his closed eyes slowly opened. As he gradually saw my face, his eyes were filled with incredulity, and when he turned his head to see the scene in the room, a look of surprise filled his face.

I was afraid that he would be too surprised and fall into a coma again, so I hurriedly said, "You are still alive now, don't move, otherwise the injury may be aggravated, and after a few days of recuperation, maybe you will get better." ”

After a pause, he continued: "I passed by here just now, and I saw you being tied up and beaten by these two thieves, and I also heard the conversation between you, and I knew that you were a good and honest official. So I killed these two thieves, but it was too late to save each other, but I still let you be hurt by the thieves. If you take care of it for a while, you should be able to recover almost. ”

"Oh! Thank you! But, God pity, who are you? But I ...... You...... Why do you look so much like ....... and me, do you...... Are you sent from heaven to save me, or... Or am I already dead? He said in fits and starts, with a myriad of questions on his face.

"Don't think nonsense, you are fine now, as long as you raise it slowly, you will get better soon. Also, cough! My name is Li Yi, but I don't know how I got here. Where the hell is this place now? And why did they hurt you just now? I had to comfort him, and at the same time, seeing that he was in good spirits, I raised many of my questions.

Hearing my series of questions, the white-clothed Li Yi looked at me in disbelief, sighed deeply, and then muttered: "Rescue the righteous man, alas! Listen...... You don't seem to be a local anymore, since we're both ...... So fateful, then all this... All this should be arranged by God, otherwise there is no ...... in the world There is no such bizarre thing. Don't comfort me, I ...... Knowing the extent of your injury, it's hopeless, cough! Cough! ”

I shook my head and thought to myself: Although this Li Yi is a little pedantic, everything that is happening now is really difficult to explain, with the same name and surname and exactly the same appearance, and he came here at the moment of his life and death, no wonder he is so firm that I am sent by God. It's better to wait until his injuries are better.

He coughed weakly, and his expression suddenly softened when he looked at me, and a slight smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. "Although Li's time is short, I also want to thank the grace of the princess for saving the great virtue, in the next only... Only the next life will be reported. However, there is still a no... Reluctantly invited, Brother Wanwang don't shirk, even if... Even solace me, a dying man! ”

I hurriedly comforted him and said: "Don't talk about anything to repay or not, no one will stand idly by when they see the wicked committing murder, you just need to recuperate with peace of mind now." By the way, if you have anything important, just say it, and if I can do it, I won't let you down. ”

Li Yi in white was silent for a while, and then shook his head, as if there was something that was difficult to decide, and after thinking about it for a long time, he finally smiled bitterly, as if he had made up his mind, his earnest eyes stared at my face, and said softly: "This matter is true... It's too dangerous, and it's too difficult to be gracious, but... However, at present, only Eun Gong is the most suitable candidate. I'm running out of time, and I still have a lot to tell you, you just have to... Just keep it in mind. After saying this, he coughed violently, and a lot of blood oozed from the wounds on his body. I quickly applied some more medicine to him and bandaged it briefly again. And fed him some mineral water and multivitamin functional drinks.

It may be that hormones have played a role, and the eyes of Li Yi in white gradually glowed, and this dying life temporarily regained some vitality. He struggled to get his spirits together and spoke in fits and starts......

Through his laborious descriptions and his constant questioning, the veins in my mind gradually became clearer. It turns out that the era I am in now is not the Han Dynasty, but the Later Tang Dynasty of the Five Dynasties, and there are eight years of the Southern Han Dynasty in the Ten Kingdoms. I still know this historical knowledge, the Southern Han Dynasty occupied part of the land of Liangguang and Yunnan, and was the southernmost of the five southern countries during the Five Dynasties period. The place where we are now is in Yunnan, the westernmost part of the Southern Han Dynasty.

And Li Yi's background surprised me even more, because according to him, his great-grandfather turned out to be the famous Tang Dynasty Prime Minister Li Deyu, who was one of the protagonists of that partisan dispute. And his father Li Yinheng was exiled to Lingnan after the fall of the Tang Dynasty, and is now the secretary of the Ministry of Rites of the Southern Han Dynasty.

And this Li Yi, probably inherited the excellent genes of his ancestors, since he was a child, he was well-read, smart and studious, and at the age of seven he was able to familiarize himself with the subset of scriptures and history and be able to recite them, so he won the praise of the court and the opposition doctors, and people called him 'an unborn prodigy'. Therefore, Liu Yan, the founding emperor of the Southern Han Dynasty, also loved him very much, and when he was seven years old, he summoned him into the palace to study with the princes, and treated him like a parent. Sometimes Liu Yan said something in front of the ministers, 'I can't hate it for my son', and even had the idea of accepting him as a righteous son. However, Liu Yan, who already had more than a dozen sons, his whim idea was naturally opposed by the ministers, and he had to give up in the end. Through this incident, it can also be seen how popular the little Li Yi is in the Southern Han Dynasty.

In the third year of the Southern Han Dynasty, the eighteen-year-old Li Yi participated in the Jinshi examination, and lived up to expectations and won the top prize in one fell swoop, which made Liu Yan love him even more since then, and regardless of the opposition of the ministers, he continued to promote his official position. Originally, at this rate of development, the youngest prime minister of the dynasty should be him. But an incident that happened that winter changed his fate completely.

According to the regulations of the Southern Han Dynasty, at the end of each year, all ministries will conduct year-end evaluations of officials at all levels, and the Imperial Historical Observatory will also conduct random inspections and audits of money and grain, prisons, and civil lawsuits in various places. As the chief Jingcha imperial historian, Li Yi discovered an astonishing case of money and grain deficit when he was investigating Duanju in Gyeonggi. Tens of thousands of stones of grain in the official warehouse in Duanzhou have disappeared, and all the 40,000 taels of fine ingot silver in the official treasury have been replaced with leaded coarse silver. Such a big deficit shocked the young Li Yi very much, and immediately began to investigate while quickly reporting to the imperial court.

However, the investigation went unexpectedly smoothly, as Zhao Chengye, the treasurer of Duanzhou, provided an important clue under torture. That is, Duanzhou Tongju Lian Chengxin had secretly entered the warehouse half a month ago, and brought four empty carriages at the same time. Because the general judge was the highest administrator of a state second only to the history of the assassin, Yang Sanchuan, the head of the official treasury at the time, did not conduct a careful investigation. A few days after the incident, Yang Sanchuan and more than a dozen guards on duty at the time also suddenly disappeared.

After getting this important clue, Li Yi did not dare to slack off, and quickly arrested Lian Chengxin in prison, and seized more than 10,000 taels of fine ingots of official silver from his private residence outside the city. Although Lian Chengxin flatly denied it, it could not change the fact that everyone had obtained all the stolen goods, and this shocking case seemed to have been successfully concluded.

While easily cracking such a big case, the careful Li Yi found many flaws in the case after reflection.

First of all, through private visits, I learned that Lian Chengxin has a very good reputation and has a very high prestige among the people of Duanzhou. This man has always loved the people like a son and sympathized with the people's feelings, and he often used his salary to help the poor people when he was not well-off. Although he lived in the official office, his home was very simple, and his private property was only four cottages in the countryside and some simple furniture, and the furnishings in his home were not even as good as those of ordinary low-level officials. Moreover, he has not been reborn since the death of his wife, and his only son has not lived at home since he was a child, and only an old servant is in charge of his daily life. How can such an official who is willing to be poor and endure loneliness be corrupt?

Secondly, Lian Chengxin was born as a Jinshi in the previous dynasty, and he was a person who read poetry and books, and even if his IQ was poor, he would not bury the stolen money in his private house, and he was also in time for the critical moment when the year-end audit was about to be conducted, unless he was fully confident that he would not find out about his head. But how could he, as the chief officer of the matter, escape the involvement?

Moreover, through careful investigation, Li Yi learned that because Lian Chengxin himself was too honest and honest, he inevitably offended quite a lot of officials, and was abused and accused by many officials, and even threatened and intimidated. In particular, two months ago, Lian Chengxin had just withstood the pressure and executed Chen Hongfei, the third son of Chen Wei, the head of the household department, who was flying and domineering and raped and murdered the people's daughters, which made the voice of criticism in the government and the opposition more and more intense, and it was even regarded by some officials as a thorn in the flesh, and it has reached the point where it is necessary to get rid of it as soon as possible.

Based on the above analysis, all kinds of indications indicate that it is very likely that someone pretended to be Lian Chengxin before the year-end audit, and even colluded with the upper and lower levels, inside and outside, to deliberately create this big case of loss of money and grain, and the purpose was nothing more than to take the opportunity to frame Lian Chengxin and intend to put him to death. Therefore, when the case was discussed, Li Yi put out his thoughts and asked the emperor to remand the case for retrial. But Liu Yan, who had been overwhelmed by this matter, although he knew what was involved, but for various reasons, he didn't want to make any more extraneous branches, so he politely rejected Li Yi's proposal.

Li Yi has a stubborn personality, as the chief Jingcha Yushi, in line with the purpose and responsibility of Zhaoxue's unjust case, of course, he is not willing to end this unjust, false and wrongful case hastily, so he constantly asks for a retrial, and in just three days, he actually has four folds, which makes Liu Yan very angry, and reprimanded Li Yi a few words during the court discussion. Unexpectedly, it was also Li Yi who was young and vigorous, and relied on the emperor's favor, so he quarreled with the emperor in court, and finally smashed Chao Wat on Dan Jue.

This kind of thing has never happened since the opening of the Southern Han Dynasty, and it is a great crime of disrespect that can destroy the nine clans. Liu Yan, who was in a fit of rage, was stunned by Li Yi's actions, and ordered the warriors to drag Li Yi out and beat him to death with a stick.