Chapter 279: Dead Place

(2-in-1, the update is late, forgive me.) As soon as the book came out, everyone was shocked.

When Xuanzong immediately interrupted his summer trip to Lishan and returned to the capital, many officials in the court and China were already ready to play. The case of Wei Jianhuang Fu Weiming and the case of Li Shizhi and Li Yong have allowed Yang Shenjin to accumulate a large number of opponents in the court. It is only because Yang Shen is in the middle of the day, and Li Linfu also does his best to defend him, that this emotion can only be suppressed in his heart.

And now, the appearance of this prophecy has given them a chance to take revenge and vent, they don't dare to fight the tiger, but the tiger has become a sick cat after being injured miserably, they will no longer leave their hands, and the snowflakes are handed over, counting all kinds of sins of Yang Shenjin, and even some small details have been dug up to connect with the case, a posture of rats crossing the street and everyone shouting and beating.

Even Li Linfu didn't expect this, before he racked his brains to think about how to solve this problem, but when the twists and turns came up, Li Linfu suddenly found that he was also in a very awkward position. Yang Shenjin has an accident, these officials are like this, once something happens to him, I am afraid it will be even more violent than the situation in front of him. To put it simply, in the Wei Jian case and Li Shiyi's case, he and Yang Shenjin have already offended a lot of people, and if they want to think of some excuses for Yang Shenjin, they will have to go in.

After careful consideration, Li Linfu also wrote a letter and submitted it. Xuanzong seemed to have been waiting for Li Linfu's recital, and after Li Linfu's recital was presented, Xuanzong read it out in front of the ministers.

“…… I stand in the Tang Dynasty, the first emperor is benevolent and kind, the heart is as broad as the sea, and the relics of the royal family of the previous dynasty care for the grace regardless of the previous suspicions, and the subjects of all directions are worshipped. But some people are ambitious, repay virtue with grievances, regard benevolence as nothing, regard grace as a matter of course, and try to subvert our Datang foundation all the time. On the surface, he is hypocritical and loyal, but in secret. Fortunately, my Datang has the blessing of heaven, teaching these wolf sons to have nothing to hide, and publicizing their evil schemes to the world, this is the luck of my Datang and Your Majesty. Yang Shenjin is a family, he was able to continue the bloodline by the grace of the Tang Dynasty, he is not grateful, he rebels against the current, and blinds everyone......

sprinkled with thousands of words, the writing was brilliant and generous, and the dog who was scolded by Yang Shen was bloody, he simply shouldn't have been born in this world.

As soon as this concert was held, it was announced that Li Linfu and his party had given up Yang Shenjin, and then Wang Ji and others also handed over the recital, and the Tang Dynasty shared the same hatred, and no one dared to say a good word for Yang Shenjin.

On May 15, the tripartite trial between the Criminal Department of Dali Temple and the Yushitai ended, and after reporting to Xuanzong Yulan, Yang Shenjin's crime was concluded. In fact, the result is not unexpected, and the crime of 'secretly possessing and plotting to restore the country' must be a capital crime, depending on how big the implication is.

Wang Yuan has been paying attention to the outcome of the case, although death is inevitable, but Wang Yuan still doesn't want to involve the innocent, if there is a result of the Nine Clans, then there will be too many people involved. In the final analysis, Wang Yuan just wanted to get rid of Yang Shenjin, remove obstacles to Yang Zhao's left-hand road, and eradicate one of Li Linfu's arms. If innocent people are involved, it is equivalent to killing them indirectly, and I will definitely be very uneasy in my heart.

But fortunately, Xuanzong did not want to kill, and the holy decree only gave Yang Shenjin and his two brothers Yang Shenyu and Yang Shenyu the names to commit suicide, and copied the homes of these three brothers, although the seven or eight families of the Yang family associated with them were also implicated. But it was only the punishment that was expelled from the capital by raiding the family like the Yang family, and he was never allowed to hire his descendants into the office, except for the three Yang brothers, no one would lose their lives, which also made Wang Yuan also relieved.

On the night of May 15, the weather was hot and humid, and Qin ordered Wang Ji in the Imperial History, Yang Zhao of Du Zhilang and Du Zhilang of the Household Department, and Wang Yuan, a bachelor of Hanlin and a servant of the Imperial History, to go to the prison of the Criminal Department to announce the execution of the decree.

Wang Yuan was reluctant to get involved, because there was some pimple in his heart. Speaking of which, this is the first time that Wang Yuan has participated in the factional struggle of the imperial court in a real sense, and personally designed to send the opponent to a dead end, and it is difficult for Wang Yuan to accept such a self for a while. Although Wang Yuan persuaded himself countless times, everything was to better live and develop in this era, but this kind of persuasion only strengthened his mind, but it was difficult to soothe some emotions.

However, Yang Zhao and Wang Ji both dragged Wang Yuan in, and it was originally determined that Lu Xuan, the secretary of Dali Temple, was one of the three people who carried out the decree, but Yang Zhao and Wang Ji suggested that it be changed to Wang Yuan in front of Xuanzong. Their reason was that Wang Yuan was the first to discover Yang Shenjin's scheme, and it was natural to send him to follow, and no one was qualified to be the person who heralded the decree, and Wang Yuan was the most qualified.

But in fact, Wang Jie's real intention was to drag Wang Yuan on the board and determine in front of Yang Zhao whether his deal with the Yang family was valid. And Yang Zhao needs Wang Yuan to escort him.

The prison was hot and dark, the light of the oil lamps hanging on the walls shimmered, and unknown moths and mosquitoes flew around the bean-sized fire, sometimes hitting people's mouths, eyes and nostrils.

The dimly lit staircase descends all the way, and the footsteps of the crowd echo through the corridor, monotonous and harsh. The two jailers opened a huge wooden door leading to the prison, and as soon as the door opened, a fishy and pungent hot smell came to his face, making Yang Zhao, who was walking in front, hurriedly stretch out his hand to cover his nose.

"Damn, the smell is so rushing, and I don't clean and rinse it, it smells worse than a pigsty." Yang Zhao scolded.

The cell boss nodded with a smile and said: "What Du Zhilang scolded is that he must let someone get it when he turns around, but we can't help it, the underground felons in the prison of the Criminal Department are all people who have committed the most heinous crimes." But anyone who is imprisoned in this Tianzi ** is a capital crime, and these people are so scared that they can't help but feces and urine, and it is inevitable that there will be such a bad smell. The brothers are understaffed, and they can't come and sweep here every day, so isn't this all a sweeper? ”

Yang Zhao frowned and said, "I'll allocate some money and materials to your prison when I go back, and hire more people for you." The people at the border here are all people, not pigs, you know? ”

"That's great, thank you Duzhilang, thank you for the little one first." The cell boss hurriedly bowed down and thanked him.

Wang Ji smiled and said, "Du Zhilang has money on hand, you can be regarded as lucky." ”

"That's, that's."

Several people walked into the prison, the torches lit up the surrounding fenced cells, Wang Yuan deliberately looked at the appearance of these people who were imprisoned in the cells, and found that the people there could not be called people at all. Unkempt and black-faced huddled together, occasionally looking up at people with dull eyes like dying, some babbling to their own self-care and not knowing what to say, and some people walking around naked, shaking the things below.

The hairs on Wang Yuan's body stood up, and he secretly told himself that he would never come in such a place for the rest of his life, even if he was locked up here for a second, he would go crazy. If you become a victim in the future and want to be locked up here, it is better to die outside.

"Brother, the people who are locked up here are all repeat offenders, and the Tianzidi ** cell of the Criminal Department is either a heinous thief, or some murderous bandits and villains. Of course, there are many officials who turned out to be the DPRK and China. This is a place where everyone in Datang is afraid, and to tell you the truth, I am now sweating on end, and there are not a thousand but eight hundred dead people in this cell. If there are ghosts, I am afraid that there are ghosts floating here. Yang Zhao walked forward slowly, talking to Wang Yuan.

Wang Ji smiled and said, "Yang Duzhi, do you think we will also be locked up here one day?" ”

Yang Zhao spat a few mouthfuls of foam, and said unhappily: "If you want to come in, you Wang Zhongcheng will come in, but I won't come." ”

Wang Ji smiled and said, "I'm in, can you Yang Duzhi still escape?" It's okay, if you enter, you will enter, if Wang enters this place, he will accept his fate, but it is not like you Yang Duzhi does not accept his fate. ”

Yang Zhao said: "I also accept my fate, but even if I accept my fate, I don't want to come here; Wang Zhongcheng, let's not talk about such an obscure topic, okay? ”

Wang Ji laughed and said, "Okay, don't mention it." That one...... Boss Zhang, where is the cell where Yang Shenjin is being held? Is it the ** room in the **prison of the Son of Heaven)? ”

"Back to Wang Zhongcheng, it's that room, no one has lived in it for many years, and the brothers have specially cleaned it." The cell head pointed forward.

In the distance, twenty or thirty paces away from the passageway, there was a cell with two lanterns hanging from the frame of the door, so that the lights were brighter there than elsewhere. It was a separate cell separated from the rest of the cell by more than ten paces, and it seemed to be a special one.

Wang Ji nodded and said: "Sure enough, it is the one that can be locked up there, which can be regarded as giving him face." ”

Wang Yuan didn't understand, and Yang Zhao didn't understand either, but Wang Ji told the mystery himself: "Which one there has imprisoned many big people, many years ago, there were eldest grandsons Wuji, Liu Wenjing and so on." When Empress Wu was in power, there were more people imprisoned there, and every name was deafening. But I had never heard of it coming out of that cell alive. ”

Wang Yuan's heart shook dramatically, looking at the dark doorway of the cell at the far end, which looked like a huge mouth swallowing people, and his spine was chilled in horror.

"Cell boss, take your people out, I don't need your help here for the time being, you will be busy for a while." Yang Zhao said coldly.

"Okay." The cell boss agreed, and with a wave of his hand, several jailers hurried away after his buttocks.

……

The three of them stood side by side outside the cell of the Son of Heaven, and the surrounding entourage raised the lantern torches closer, so that they could see the pattern in the empty cell. A pile of hay was spread out on the heel of the wall, and a urine bucket or something in the shape of a slag bucket was placed in the corner. A small table is placed next to the hay.

"Yang Shenjin, Yang Shenyu, Yang Shenming, take the order." Yang Zhao unfolded the holy decree in the firelight and shouted loudly.

Suddenly there was movement in the grass that seemed empty, and three figures got up in the midst of the chaos, rushed to the door of the cell, and grabbed the pillar and looked out, their faces dirty and their hair more messy than the grass on the ground.

"Let me out, I was wronged, Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I want to see Your Majesty." Yang Shenjin screamed, it was only seven or eight days before and after, his cheeks were already thin and not human, and the pockmarks on his face couldn't be seen clearly.

"Yang Shenjin, Yang Shenyu, Yang Shenming, take the order."

Yang Zhao repeated again majestically, Yang Shenjin and the other three people hurriedly knelt down on the wooden pillar, and Yang Shenjin shouted with a crying voice: "The minister receives the order, the minister accepts the order." ”

Yang Shenyu and Yang Shenming were also busy kneeling aside.

"Investigate Yang Shenjin, Yang Shenyu, and Yang Shenming, who did not read the grace of the Tang Emperor's protection, secretly tried to restore the ancestral industry, and after the trial of the three halls, the evidence was true, and I was heartbroken. The Yang family received my Tang Dynasty's grace, did not want to repay the favor, but had a different heart, and it was absolutely unforgivable. But thinking of the benevolence of the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and the Yang family also worked for the Tang Dynasty, since Yang Shenjin and his parents and ancestors were able to keep to themselves and serve my Datang, I can't bear to punish too harshly. Yang Shenjin Yang Shenyu Yang Shenming three cups of sake, the Yang family property was confiscated, the descendants of the clan were driven out of Chang'an, and they were not allowed to be hired as officials for eternity. ”

Yang Zhao's cold voice echoed in the cell, listening to it made people's hearts rise endlessly. Yang Shenjin was paralyzed and lay on the ground and almost fainted, but his two younger brothers hurriedly helped him up to wipe his chest for him.

Not far away, there was a loud laugh from the prisoner's cell, and someone laughed: "It's over, haha, it's over." It's going to kill again, hahaha. ”

Wang Ji frowned and shouted, "Go and see who's laughing." ”

Two attendants walked over with torches, and after a moment came back and said, "It looks like a crazy prisoner." ”

Wang Ji shouted: "Beat him until he shuts up." ”

The two attendants answered, turned to the cell and opened the door, and after a while the screams and shouts stopped, and after a moment they stopped.

The two attendants replied, "The man was knocked unconscious. ”

Wang Ji nodded slowly and looked back at the three brothers in the cell.

Yang Shen woke up slowly, got up from the ground and shouted: "Why don't you let me see Your Majesty, I want to see Your Majesty to avenge your grievances, I want to see Xiangguo...... I was wronged. ”

Yang Shenjin ...... Don't make trouble, it's useless to make trouble, the holy decree has been issued, let's go on the road. Yang Zhao said coldly.

"You...... It's you, it must be me who you framed, you coward who relies on women to get on top, you have the ability to talk to me Yang Shenjin really knife. The gun came, secretly playing a conspiracy and framing him, what kind of ability is it? Yang Shenjin pointed at Yang Zhao's nose through the fence and scolded.

Yang Zhao said coldly: "Yang Shenjin, how bright and upright are you?" How did Wei Jianhuang Fu Weiming die? You don't have a share? In Beihai's case, did Liu Ji frame others? How did Li Shizhi die? Are you stupid when we are? Who doesn't know who's doing, the crow stands in the ash heap, and no one can say who is white. In these cases, if you don't turn black and white upside down and don't use means to frame others, you are qualified to accuse me. ”

Yang Shenjin yelled: "You are spewing blood, these things Yang is an upright case, an upright ......."

Yang Zhao interrupted him and said: "Save it, you are upright, there will be no upright people in the world." Look at the three people in front of you, Wang Yuan followed you to Beihai to handle the case, do you dare to say that you are upright in front of him? And this one, your cousin Wang Zhongcheng, you dare to say that you are upright in front of him? They all know the roots, whoever has today will accept their fate, and whoever will consider themselves unlucky. Why are you so unwilling? ”

Yang Shenjin saw that Wang Ji was also present at this time, and hurriedly shouted: "Cousin, Wang Jie, Wang Zhongcheng, help me, go and tell Xiangguo, I was framed, go and tell Your Majesty, someone is harming me, go quickly." ”

Wang Ji slowly stepped forward, looked at Yang Shenjin's distorted face and said quietly: "My cousin, why don't you understand? The gods can't save you. And even if I could save you, my cousin and I wouldn't help, you know? ”

"Why? Why? Who brought you up? Who recommended you to the Imperial Observatory? How can you be so ungrateful? ”

"That's right, it was Uncle Cousin who brought me along, but ...... If you promote me, will I be suppressed by you for the rest of my life? You think you are my elder, you think you are kind to me, you don't pay attention to me when you call me on weekdays, and you are behind your back...... Behind my back, he still speaks ill of me. I've just got a little secret, and you've spread it all, without caring about my feelings. I can't stand you anymore, I really can't stand you. ”

Yang Shen said angrily: "You...... Will you not save me for all this? What's good for you if I'm dead? In the future, you will also end up with me, can this Yang Zhao let you go? After me is you, you fool, you idiot. ”

"Shut up, don't scold me anymore, I don't want to hear you scold me in this life. And let me tell you, not only will Yang Duzhilang not deal with me, but we are still very good friends, and we will be good allies in the future. You are dead, the position of your criminal department secretary is mine, and the position of the imperial doctor will also be mine in the near future, you can rest assured, I will live a good life, better than before. ”

Yang Shenjin was shocked, pointed at Wang Ji and opened his mouth wide, "It turns out ...... So you've ......"

Wang Ji sneered and was silent.

Yang Zhao sighed and said, "I'm most afraid of seeing the scene of cannibalism in my life, I'm sad." But Yang Shenjin, I have something more sad to tell you, do you want to hear it? ”

Wang Yuan suddenly realized what he was going to say, and hurriedly said softly: "That's it, don't say it." ”

Yang Zhao shook his head and said, "Why don't you say it?" Let him die clearly, otherwise his unjust soul will haunt us. ”

Wang Yuan shook his head slightly, Yang Zhao and Wang Ji are also ruthless, and it seems a little inhumane to torture Yang Shenjin at this time, but he can't stop them, so he can only watch this scene play out in front of him.