At the end of March, Cheng Chumo, Wei Chi Baolin, Liu Renliang, and Liu Renyuan embarked on the return journey with the men and horses they came, and Wu Yuanqing and Liu Dewei also took the soldiers of the Eastern Expedition who stayed in Qizhou to rest and the soldiers of the Right Wuhou to escort Qiu Xinggong, Quan Wanji, Yin Hongzhi and other prisoners on the way back to Chang'an.

There was also Li You with him, Li You wanted to go back to explain the problem, and ask his father Li Shimin for his guilt, who let him not only rebel under his rule, but also his uncle and his subordinates who rebelled.

Originally, Li You could go back to Chang'an alone, but Li You felt that the wife and children had not returned to Chang'an for several years, especially the youngest child had never been to Chang'an at all, and he had never seen his imperial grandfather.

The wives and children also followed, and they must bring maids, servants, and guards, but the number of people increased, and when they boarded the boat, they looked from the shore and found that the mighty fleet was drained out of the river for almost ten miles.

Although the waterway is definitely slower than the road, there is no need to go around the mountains and mountains like on land, so don't look slower, but the road is too short, and they don't delay time, they don't stay at any time, and they won't go ashore to play or anything, so they go back to Chang'an faster by waterway.

However, this is also the ability of people like them to have such speed, day and night there are shipwrights at any time to take charge of the ship, almost all the time towards Chang'an, so Qizhou, which left at the end of the month, entered Chang'an City on the fifth day of the fourth month.

The vast majority of prisoners were imprisoned in the prison of the Criminal Department, while those like Yin Hongzhi and Qiu Xinggong and Quan Wanji were imprisoned in the Dali Temple prison.

There's no way, the others are all small minions, there are criminal department Shangshu who have tried it before, and Zongzheng Temple and Dali Temple have also participated in the entire interrogation process, so naturally there is no need to retry.

However, Qiu Xinggong, Quan Wanji, and Yin Hongzhi are considered high-ranking officials in the imperial court, so they can't be treated casually.

Like Yin Hongzhi has been interrogated in Qizhou, but when he returns to Chang'an, he still has to go to Dali Temple, and after Dali Temple re-trial, and then report to the Criminal Department for review and then no problem can be decided, of course, if it is a death sentence, it must be reported to the emperor, and the emperor's imperial pen can be approved in person.

The functions of Dali Temple and the Criminal Department are different, although Dali Temple is basically a single yamen, Dali Temple Qing is ranked in the Nine Qing, but in fact, strictly speaking, Dali Temple is under the Criminal Department, just because of the function, Dali Temple is often regarded as an independent system.

Dali Temple is equivalent to the Supreme People's Court in later generations, responsible for the trial, and the Criminal Department is responsible for the review, and the case that can reach the Dali Temple must be serious or involve high-ranking officials and nobles.

In ancient times, it was said that the person who was in charge of punishment was also said to be reasonable. When Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty added big characters, he took the prison of heavenly officials and nobles and said the righteousness of Dali.

Therefore, Wu Yuanqing was imprisoned several times in the Dali Temple prison, not the prison of the Criminal Department. And Yin Hongzhi, Qiu Xinggong, and Quan Wanji were also imprisoned in Dali Temple for this reason, and they needed to be tried again and then reported to the Criminal Department.

Yin Hongzhi's retrial doesn't matter if it's retried or not, it's just a formality, he's dead.

But Qiu Xinggong and Quan Wanji are different, these two must be retried, because the emperor did not give any instructions in the holy decree, but only let him be escorted back to Chang'an and handed over to Dali Temple for trial.

Qiu Xinggong had angered the Manchu Dynasty before the civil and military, and framed Li You, the king of Qi, for rebellion, not only framed but also framed, if there was no accident, he would die, but whether Qiu Xinggong died or not depends on the emperor's intentions and how the emperor deals with this life-saving benefactor.

The most difficult thing to do is Quan Wanji, this person's reputation among officials is very good, although Wei Zheng reprimanded him for being a villain, and Fang Xuanling and these Zai Fu don't like this hypocrite who uses himself to brush up his reputation, but there are still quite a few officials who eat his set of pretending to be very honest, very hard-necked, and daring to scare the powerful.

Among the middle and lower-level officials, Quan Wanji is also a small idol, and the reputation of this guy among the people is even better.

Dare to scold King Wu, King Wu trampled on the crops and was sued by him in front of the emperor, so that King Wu was punished, how rare such a clean official, the people are widely praised for the glorious deeds of the power of Wanji.

Although such a guy slanders and even slanders King Qi for rebellion, but if you have to study it carefully, it is said that people are not afraid of the powerful, and in order to avoid the King of Qi following Yin Hongzhi and they make irreparable mistakes, so they will say that, then it is not slander, but just to plan for the worst, so it seems that it can barely be said in the past.

Then, this is troublesome, how to convict, to tell the truth, you must know that Quan Wanji is slandering and slandering King Qi, but this is from a neutral position, if you stand in those officials who are biased towards Quan Wanji, or even among the people, if you don't get it right, people still think that Quan Wanji is not only right, but even meritorious, and being arrested is that the court is blind and wronged Quan Wanji.

Dali Temple will definitely feel very pressured when interrogating and judging the case, and Wu Yuanqing himself feels that if he considers his reputation, Hu's case is very difficult to judge.

So after returning to Chang'an, Wu Yuanqing went to Dali Temple with Liu Dewei non-stop, and slipped away after the criminal department handed over the prisoner, of course, Wu Yuanqing made an excuse to send King Qi to the palace.

But in fact, after Wu Yuanqing and Li You arrived at the gate of the palace, Wu Yuanqing did not enter the palace at all, and Li You did not enter the palace to see his father.

Li You's wife, children, maids, servants and other people entered Chang'an and went back to Li You's previous palace directly, he was the son of the Tang Emperor, and he was a person with property in Chang'an.

Which prince has a palace in Chang'an, depending on the degree of attention.

Wu Yuanqing didn't enter the palace, he slipped home at the gate of the palace, but before he could get out of the gate of the imperial city, he was caught up by the inner servants.

From afternoon to evening, seeing that the palace gate was about to be locked, and the summons from the emperor had not yet arrived, Wu Yuanqing stood outside the Taiji Hall with a sore waist and legs.

"Hey, what are you doing here?" Li Chengqian asked with a smile on his face.

Looking at the gloating guy who didn't know where to turn out, Wu Yuanqing rolled his eyes widely.

"Don't say you kid, you don't know why, your son Li Ju circled around my brother and me for an afternoon, and he was called back by Li Xiang when it got dark."

"Hey, hey." Li Chengqian smiled cheaply: "How does it feel to think about this wall, is it refreshing?"

"Cool Your Sister"