Li Yuan looked at Li Rukun and snorted coldly, "Li Rukun, do you know what crime should be committed to framing the ministers of the DPRK and the Central People's Republic of China?" ”

Li Rukun was already panicked at this time, and muttered in his mouth: "Impossible, I obviously saw him move things in!" ”

Subsequently, Li Rukun seemed to understand something, and said loudly: "Your Majesty, it must be the eldest grandson Shunde who transported those things in the palace elsewhere in advance, or ...... Or maybe he has already bought Pei Hongzheng, the secretary of Dali Temple, and Pei Hongzheng's report is untrue! ”

In the end, Li Rukun was already a little hysterical, like crazy.

Pei Hongzheng, the secretary of Dali Temple, thought that the official was famous for his honesty and integrity when he was in Sui, and he had never had private dealings with other officials in the court, and he was a real lonely minister.

As for Li Rukun's saying that the eldest grandson Shunde transported all the things in the palace to other places in advance, who can he convince without evidence?

"Come on, put Li Rukun in prison for the time being, and hand over the case to Dali Temple for trial, be sure to find out clearly!" With Li Yuan's order, a soldier had already walked towards Li Rukun.

Li Rukun's face was already pale, his legs and feet trembled, and he looked at Li Gang, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, who was in the forefront of the hundred officials, with a pleading face, but Li Gang looked straight ahead without squinting, and did not pay attention to Li Rukun's request for help.

Although the eldest grandson Shunde was resentful on his face at this time, his heart was dark.

In fact, Li Rukun's guess just now was not wrong, the eldest grandson Shunde had secretly moved all the palace utensils he received last night back to the palace warehouse early this morning.

It may be a little difficult for others to do this, but for Sun Shunde, the general of Zuo Xiaowei who is in charge of the palace guard, it is very easy, which makes Pei Hongzheng, the secretary of Dali Temple, search.

More than ten days later, the results of the trial of Li Rukun's false accusation against Changsun Shunde were announced, and Li Rukun was sentenced to be dismissed from his post as a young craftsman and assigned to Yulin because he did not have any evidence to prove that Changsun Shunde had stolen things from the palace.

Yulin is located in a remote and barren place, which has always been a place for criminal officials, and is still under the control of Guo Zihe, but nominally subordinate to the Tang Dynasty, Li Rukun was assigned to Yulin, which can be described as a heavy sentence.

The night before Li Rukun was escorted to Yulin, someone passed a sentence to him through the jailer's mouth: "Hold on to your teeth, when the sky changes, it will be the day you return to the center!" ”

After Li Rukun heard this, he smiled bitterly again and again, hating that he should not have taken risks for the sake of high-ranking officials and titles, and once he lost, he would become an outcast.

And when the jailer who delivered the message left, a jailer who delivered food came over, and the jailer who delivered food said in a very small voice: "The person behind you wants to intercept you in the middle of the road, and someone can save your life, but you need to confess the person behind you, is the deal?" ”

After Li Rukun heard this, cold sweat suddenly broke out on his forehead, and the person behind him was Li Gang, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites and the prince of Zhan, and standing behind Li Gang was undoubtedly the prince of the East Palace, "I have been exiled to Yulin as tight-lipped, are they still worried about me?" ”

"Since you are so unkind, don't blame me for being unjust!" Li Rukun gritted his teeth and said, after saying this, he wanted to agree to the jailer who delivered the food, but in a blink of an instant, he seemed to think of something else, and suddenly became extremely depressed.

Li Rukun said dejectedly: "You are the person of King Jin, you help me tell him, I understand his kindness, but I have other concerns, and I can't cooperate with him." ”

When the jailer who delivered the food heard this, he didn't say anything more, and immediately turned and left, disappearing into the dim prison.

In the end, what prompted Li Rukun not to agree to the prison guard who delivered food was that he knew the consequences of betrayal, if he hadn't done anything to be sorry for the East Palace, he would have died alone at most, but if he betrayed the East Palace, he was afraid that the whole clan would suffer.

"When I first entered the career, my grandfather was strongly opposed, and I laughed at him for being too ignorant, but now I know that I am the one who is ignorant!" Li Rukun's heart burst with emotion.

The next day, Li Rukun began to be escorted to Yulin. Since he knew that he would be intercepted and killed in the middle of the road this time, Li Rukun was terrified every moment, tormented and tormented by fear.

However, when Li Rukun was escorted all the way north, leaving Gyeonggi, entering Fangzhou, and crossing Luoshui...... In the end, he arrived in Yulin unharmed, and he didn't meet anyone to intercept and kill him.

At this time, Li Rukun suddenly understood, "The jailer who delivered the food is lying, and the East Palace has no intention of killing me at all!" ”

"Okay, you King Jin, if you weren't afraid of injuring the people of the family, I would have really fallen for your way at that time! In vain, I let the jailer want you to express his gratitude. Li Rukun's heart was afraid for a while, and at this time, he really realized the danger of the power struggle, this is really a careless person, and he doesn't know how to die.

Time is gradually approaching the end of the first year of Wude, although Li Rukun's case has gradually been forgotten, but as long as you are a person with a heart, you can know through this incident that the battle between the princes of the Tang Dynasty has kicked off, and the Tang Dynasty is destined to be not as calm as before.

Li Yuan was also a little upset about this, but Jean's upset was not limited to this one, recently there was an urgent report of eight hundred miles, Nanyang and other places in the Tang Dynasty were actually captured by Zhu Cang, the king of Jialuo!

Jingxiang area, also known as the land of Shannan, at the beginning, Li Yuan sent Ma Yuangui to comfort and pacify Shannan, many counties and counties surrendered, only Shannan's most populous, geographically important Nanyang County Cheng Lu Zizang according to the county did not return to Shun, Ma Yuangui sent several people to persuade him, were killed by Lu Zizang.

It was not until the news of Yang Guang's murder came that Lu Zizang completed the funeral and asked the Tang Dynasty to surrender, and Li Yuan appointed him as the assassin of Dengzhou and the duke of Nanyang County.

Zhu Can, the king of Garuda, since the incident, has been in Jingxiang, Bashu and other places to wander and plunder, during the period also to Li Mi to claim the minister, although Ma Yuangui sent troops to defeat several times, but the overall mix is not bad, after Li Mi defeated and fled to Hanoi County, he surrendered to the eastern capital by sending envoys, and was also named the king of Chu by the emperor Tai, Zhu Cang is also quite satisfied with this.

However, last month, Zhu Cang knew that there was another person besides him who was named the king of Chu by the Eastern Capital!

It turned out that when Yu Wenhua and set off from Jiangdu, Du Fuwei, who had worshiped Jianghuai, was Liyang Taishou and wanted to recruit him, but Du Fuwei did not accept Yu Wenhua's appointment, and turned to the eastern capital to call the minister, and the emperor then worshiped Du Fuwei as the governor of Jiangnan Dongdao and named the king of Chu, but later the eastern capital did not know whether to forget this matter or how, and named Zhu Cang as the king of Chu.