Sent away Yao Jing's name, Zhao Ziliang said goodbye to Ma Zhenyuan and came to the interrogation room, at this time Wang Can was interrogating Jia Luolin, standing outside the door and watching for half an hour, this Jia Luolin is like a dead pig who is not afraid of boiling water, he didn't open his mouth in front of the conclusive evidence, Zhao Ziliang instructed one of the soldiers guarding the prison door: "Go and tell Wang Can to come out!" ”

Wang Can was quickly called out and bowed to Zhao Ziliang: "General, the last general is incompetent, no matter what method he thinks, Garoline will never speak."

Zhao Ziliang pondered for a moment and ordered: "Ryuichi Sakai has already confessed, right?" If you go and investigate a few court officials who he confessed to colluding with him and helped him steal the imperial court's weapon manufacturing technology, we can't believe his words all, if he bites people indiscriminately, and we arrest people indiscriminately without verifying the facts, won't it cause an unjust case? So-and-so came to interrogate Galoline, you go."

Wang Can hurriedly said: "What the general said is extremely true, the last general is gone!" ”

Zhao Ziliang walked into the interrogation room and sat on the stool behind the desk, saw Garolin raise his head, and said: "Your Excellency Garolin, first of all, let me introduce myself, my name is Zhao Ziliang, the general of the left Jin Wuwei and the right guard, maybe you don't know what kind of official position this is, what are the main responsibilities, let me introduce it to you, it is equivalent to your magistrate of Constantinople, but there is only one magistrate in Constantinople, and we have two in Chang'an City, I am one of them, mainly responsible for the security of Chang'an County, The other one is in charge of the security of Wannian County, I say this, can you understand? ”

Garoline nodded involuntarily, indicating that he knew very well.

"Good!" Zhao Ziliang continued: "Since His Excellency Garolin came to Chang'an, in addition to arranging for the affairs of the mission, most of his time has been engaged in collecting political, military and economic intelligence on my Tang Dynasty, especially stealing the weapons and bow and arrow manufacturing technology of our Tang Dynasty, and the main means adopted is to buy off the officials who manage these technologies on our side. According to their confessions, you have repeatedly obtained some relevant technologies from them through some means such as soliciting relationships, giving gifts, and bribes, do you want me to invite them over to confront you one by one? ”

Garoline shrugged his shoulders, "Whatever! ”

"Alright, come on. Bring them in one by one! Zhao Ziliang ordered.

Soon, several officials who had been bribed by Garolin were brought in one by one to confront him, but he flatly denied them all, and each time he said that the other party was slandering and planting blame.

There were only Zhao Ziliang and Galolin left in the interrogation room, and Zhao Ziliang saw that he didn't admit it, so he took out the small book from Galolin and the diary found in his residence from his bosom and shook it in front of him: "Your Excellency, look at what these two things are, don't think that no one in our Tang Dynasty understands Latin, do you want me to find someone to translate it for you?" There are several entries in this diary that you have written that you are engaged in a very secretive operation to bribe our officials. A lot of money and jewelry were sent, and this notebook was found from you, which recorded some related technologies for the manufacture of a variety of weapons, although it is not a complete manufacturing process technology, but these are enough to prove that you are stealing the weapons manufacturing technology of our dynasty by bribing our officials, and now the human and material evidence is complete, Your Excellency Garolin, it doesn't matter if you admit guilt or not. With the current evidence, we can convict you. We can use extremely cruel punishments to inflict on you, and we can even directly and secretly execute you, but what I want to say is that our Tang Empire is a highly developed civilization, and we will not casually wronged a good person, but we will definitely not let a bad person go. With your crimes, in the Eastern Roman Empire, I am afraid that you will be tied to a torture stake and burned alive, am I right? ”

Jia Luolin's face turned pale by Zhao Ziliang's words, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and at this time he knew how powerful the person in front of him was. He asked tremblingly, "You—why do you know so many things about our Eastern Roman Empire?" ”

Zhao Ziliang spread his hands: "We Datang have a broad mind, we are good at or keen to learn good things for other nations, and we will abandon what we think is bad!" Why did Lord Garolin ask? Could it be that we in the Tang Dynasty should know nothing about your Eastern Roman Empire? ”

Garorin swallowed and asked, "What will you—what will you do to me?" I am the deputy envoy of the Eastern Roman Empire, you can't kill me! ”

Zhao Ziliang said expressionlessly: "How to deal with you, I don't know, because I don't have this right, I will report your matter to His Majesty the Emperor, according to the custom, the emperor will order the three divisions to conduct a trial, since you are a foreign envoy, maybe the officials of Honglu Temple will also participate." Of course, in order to maintain the impartiality of the trial, the head of your mission may also be allowed to attend the hearing! In addition, what I want to tell you is that your attitude of confession is very important, because with the evidence we have collected so far, you are not required to admit guilt at all, and these evidence are enough to prove that you are guilty, and the purpose of our law is not to kill and punish, but to tell people what can and cannot be done, to prevent crimes from occurring, so that the guilty have the opportunity to change their self-confidence, and let those who have not yet committed a crime take warning, because the ultimate purpose of the existence of the law is to make social order stable and let human beings live and produce in a stable manner. This allows civilization to move forward! It takes a lot of courage to admit a mistake as a form of repentance, and we have always been lenient with those who dare to admit it! So, you should understand how important your attitude is! I'll give you an hour to think about, if you figure it out, you can tell the guards, and I'll come again, and if you still don't want to say it after an hour, then I can only report to the emperor that you are stubborn and unrepentant."

As soon as Zhao Ziliang returned to the squad from the interrogation room, Chen Qing came over to report: "General, the palace has sent someone to inform you to attend the court meeting tomorrow."

Tomorrow is the first day of the first month of March, there is a small court meeting, although Zhao Ziliang is the general of the left Jin Wuwei and the right guard, but the military rank is the fifth grade, and he is not qualified to participate in the small court meeting, but the emperor specially sent someone to inform it is different.

"Okay, got it!"

After an hour, Galoline finally couldn't resist the huge psychological pressure to confess, in addition to the officials who had been arrested, he also confessed to several officials who had been bribed by him, and Zhao Ziliang immediately sent someone to investigate.

Early the next morning, Zhao Ziliang also went to the court with some ministers, and there were not many people who participated in the small court, only a dozen people were ministers of three grades and above, of course, there were many ministers of three grades or more in the court who did not participate, and those who participated in the small court meeting were ministers with specific functions and the emperor's trust.

As soon as the court meeting began, the smell of gunpowder was full, and Li Linfu and his family attacked Tian Renwan, the envoy of the four towns of Anxi, saying that Tian Renwan had done nothing and made no achievements since he became the envoy of the four towns, and he was defeated and lost in the battle of leading his troops to attack Xiao Bolu! He should be dismissed from his post and held accountable.

Tian Renwan does not belong to the prince's line, nor does he belong to Li Linfu's line, and Li Linfu is the protector of Anxi, he has always believed that Anxi was originally his family's own land, of course, he can't allow Anxi not to be controlled by himself, so this time after Tian Renwan failed in the battle against Xiao Bolu, Li Linfu's line began to attack Tian Renwan, wanting to take him from the position of the envoy of the four towns of Anxi, and then install his own people.

Since Tian Renwan did not belong to the prince's line, of course the crown prince Li Heng and others would not stand up for him, so as not to start a war with Li Linfu again and make the emperor unhappy.

However, Li Linfu and the crown prince Li Heng and others all ignored one point, the border area Jiedu envoy is under the direct jurisdiction of the emperor, and the appointment and dismissal are determined by the emperor himself, without going through the three provinces, although Xuanzong is becoming more and more enjoyable, but he is not completely slack, how can he not understand the struggle between Li Linfu and the prince over the years? How could he not understand the thoughts of Li Linfu and his family?

After thinking for a long time, Xuanzong issued an order: "Tian Renwan, the envoy of the four towns of Anxi and the Beiting Festival, rushed to Hedong to serve as the envoy of the Hedong Jiedu, and the Anxi soldiers and horses envoy Meng Lingjing took over as the deputy capital protector of Anxi, and the envoy of the four towns and the Beiting Jiedu!" ”

With just one sentence, Li Linfu's plan was frustrated, and Li Linfu was suddenly a little discouraged. In the past few years, he has not only served as the prime minister of the DPRK, but also served as the protector of Anxi, but he is only a remote leader, and does not actually deal with the military and political affairs of Anxi, which makes him feel very regretful, so if he wants to actually control Anxi, he must send a person who is completely obedient to him to be the deputy capital protector and the envoy of the four towns and the Beiting Festival.

After this matter was discussed, several important ministers stood up one after another and threw out several political matters, and the emperor and the important ministers discussed and resolved them together.

Before the court discussion was over, a eunuch rushed in and bowed to Xuanzong and said: "Your Majesty, the envoy Hemar is outside the imperial city, saying that there is an urgent matter to see, and it is related to the diplomatic relations between the two countries."

Although Xuanzong had never taken the Eastern Roman Empire seriously, when he heard that it was about the diplomatic relations between the two countries, Xuanzong did not dare to ignore it, so he raised his hand: "Xuan!" ”

Soon, a eunuch led a slender middle-aged white man wearing a Western-style robe, a metal cross on his chest, and short blond hair into the Zichen Palace.

This person is Hemar, the minister of the Eastern Roman Empire, and I saw him walk to the middle of the main hall and bow slightly to Xuanzong and say, "Hemar see His Majesty the Supreme Emperor!" ”

Xuanzong raised his hand and said, "Your Excellency the envoy is exempt, I don't know if you have anything important to see me?" ”

Hemar said: "Your Majesty, this time I came to ask to see Your Majesty, because yesterday I found out that my deputy envoy, General Galolin, was missing, after many inquiries, I learned that General Garolein was captured by His Majesty's Zuojin Wuwei, which is a major event that seriously undermines the diplomatic relations between the two countries, so that Your Majesty can know that to do something to our diplomatic envoys is to openly fight against our country, and please also ask Your Majesty to give us justice, otherwise our Eastern Roman Empire will never give up." (To be continued.) )