After listening to Zhao Ziliang's words, this Liao general catcher did not buy it, and immediately said: "Okay, Liao temporarily agrees with what Zhao Ziliang said, your own weapon fight on your own territory has nothing to do with our Jingzhao Mansion Yamen, and we can't control it, but your weapon fight has caused panic among the people, making innocent people suffer from pond fish, which is related to our Jingzhao Mansion Yamen, our Jingzhao Mansion Yamen can't ignore it, otherwise the people and hundreds of officials will say that our Jingzhao Mansion Yamen has nothing to do."

Zhao Ziliang looked at the head arrester of Mr. Liao, weighed it and said: "Okay, you can send someone to participate in our handling of this incident throughout the process, and participate in our negotiation with the innocent victims and their families on the issue of compensation, but you have no right to decide, if you think that we have handled this incident unfairly, you can appeal to His Majesty the Emperor!" ”

After saying this, Zhao Ziliang didn't care what the other party's reaction was, turned to Chen Xuanli and said: "General Chen, this place will be handed over to you, if some people dare to hinder us in performing official duties, don't be polite, if there is something, we will bear it together!" ”

These words made Chen Xuanli feel a little resentful of the same enemy, he nodded solemnly, and returned the salute: "General Zhao go slowly!" ”

Seeing Zhao Ziliang taking people away, Mr. Liao hesitated, and immediately said to a person next to him: "You take two people over to watch and see how they deal with this matter, and report immediately if there is news!" ”

"No!"

The matter finally calmed down temporarily, which made Zhao Ziliang and Chen Xuanli temporarily relieved, Chen Xuanli stayed in Tonghuamen and immediately began to rearrange the prison captain and soldiers on duty and arrange for people to clean up the scene, while Zhao Ziliang took the men and horses back to the left prison guard mansion.

The city gate is generally very empty, and because the flow of people is much larger than other places, so there are a large number of vendors set up stalls to do business in the open space near the city gate every day, this time Liang Chao, the captain of the Tonghua Gate Gate, led the soldiers to resist Gong Ren and lead people to arrest people, so there was a fight, which made many vendors who set up stalls suffer from unwarranted disasters, not only people were injured. The stalls were also trampled and overturned, the business could not be done, and the losses were not small, and the ground was full of trampled small goods, and it was quite troublesome to clean up.

After Zhao Ziliang returned to the Left Prison Guard's Mansion with his men and horses, he immediately said to Chen Qing: "You go and call all the squad leaders of the prison Cao soldiers who didn't go to the door with Gong Ren just now!" ”

"No!"

Soon, more than a dozen supervisors and squad leaders came to the front hall of Zhao Ziliang's official business under the leadership of Chen Qing, "Subordinates wait to meet the general!" ”

"Let's all be exempt!" Zhao Ziliang raised his hand.

"General Xie!"

After everyone got up, Zhao Ziliang said: "I guess you have all heard about the weapon fight incident that happened in Tonghuamen just now. One of the two sides of the incident is your top boss Gong Ren and the prison Cao soldiers led by him, and the other side is Liang Chao, the captain of the Tonghua Gate, and dozens of Tonghua Gate guards, before General Ben and General Chen Xuanli personally interrogated this matter, General Ben wanted you to do the first round of interrogation and investigation, originally in order to avoid suspicion, this matter should not be let you take over, after all, you are Gong Ren's subordinates, and he is one of the direct parties, but General Ben believes that you will not show favoritism. The purpose of the establishment of the prison guards is to crack down on all the unhealthy tendencies of our left prison guards, to make the implementation of the door registration system more thorough, to supervise the military discipline of all the generals, captains, soldiers, and soldiers under the control of the left prison guards, and to supervise and verify the training of the army. Let the army under the command of the Left Prison Gate Guard have the ability to protect the safety of His Majesty the Emperor, the Imperial Court, and all the common people and officials in the capital of Chang'an, and you tell General Ben, can you do it without favoritism? ”

The squad leaders looked at each other, bowed their hands together, and said in unison: "Thank you for the general's trust." We will fulfill our duties and will never bend the law for personal gain! ”

Don't look at the guards on the left and right who are only in charge of the city gates, but they are also the second of the Beijing garrison. All the troops of the left prison guards added up to 20,000 horses, and even reached 40,000 at the most, but it was peaceful in recent years, and the sixteen guards of the Beijing Division have reduced a lot of troops, some guards only have 15,000 people, and some have 25,000 people.

Of course, there are special military judges in the army to supervise military discipline, and there are also guards on the left and right, but the situation of the guards on the left and right is special, these two guards are only in charge of the city gates, and the daily work and drills are not very hard, so the military salary is much lower than the other guards, the generals, captains, military leaders and soldiers have to find ways to get oil and water, and the guards of the city gate can undoubtedly get oil and water from the people who enter and exit the city gates. Therefore, Zhao Ziliang wanted to set up a special prison Cao who was in charge of the captain of the gate and the soldiers guarding the gate.

"Very good, General Ben doesn't have too many incidents for you, you go to divide the labor yourself, which people will interrogate the two sides of the fight, and which people will go to the vicinity of Tonghuamen to ask eyewitnesses to obtain testimony, and you will discuss and decide by yourself, and start work overnight, you must figure things out before dawn tomorrow, collect evidence and testimony sufficiently, so that others can't speak, do you understand?"

"No!"

If this kind of thing happened in other places in the Tang Dynasty, it would not be a big deal, but if it happened in Chang'an, the capital of Beijing, the nature of the matter became very serious, because this is the political center of the Tang Dynasty, where the emperor and the court are located, and the army cannot make any mistakes.

Zhao Ziliang is not too worried, the only thing he is worried about is that this matter will be spread to the ears of the emperor by someone with a heart, and then fan the flames, if the emperor is not alarmed, there will be nothing to do, just solve it within the left prison guard's mansion, but if the emperor is alarmed, I am afraid that this matter will not end so well.

Things really developed in the direction that Zhao Ziliang was worried about. At midnight the next day, Chen Qing sent the results of the investigation to Zhao Ziliang, and Zhao Ziliang didn't read them in advance, so he took the results and immediately came to Chen Xuanli's room, and he didn't sleep all night.

The results of the investigation that the two men looked at separately showed that the confessions of the two parties were basically the same, and they were also roughly the same as the testimonies of the people who witnessed the whole incident.

After a long time, Zhao Ziliang looked at Chen Xuanli and asked, "General Chen, on the side of the innocent people who were victimized, someone has already sent someone to negotiate with them and their families, and the matter of paying some silver, there is nothing to say from the Jingzhao Mansion." The key is that Liang Chao and Gong Ren on both sides of the parties, as well as their subordinate commanders and soldiers, how do you think they should be handled? ”

Chen Xuanli pondered for a moment, raised his head and said, "General Gong Ren went to enforce the law, judging from the results of the investigation, he is not wrong, and he should be commended." As for Liang Chao and General Zhao, can this matter be dealt with lightly? I think you also know, that Liang Chao is my nephew-in-law, this child has no father and mother since he was a child, and he was brought up by the cheap, and when something like this happens, I don't know how to explain to the cheap! ”

Chen Xuanli and Zhao Ziliang, who have read the results of the investigation, have already known that the main mistake in this incident lies with Liang Chao, Gong Ren led people to enforce the law, and Liang Chao openly resisted law enforcement and took the lead in drawing a knife to attack his comrades, Gong Ren was forced to defend himself, no matter where this kind of thing is placed, Liang Chao is a big crime, and Gong Ren should not only not be punished, but should also be rewarded and comforted.

Zhao Ziliang couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard this, and sighed: "General Chen, if it is another time, and it is the internal affairs of our left prison guards, it is not impossible to punish lightly, as long as the prestige of purging military discipline and erecting law enforcement agencies is achieved, but I am afraid that this matter is already beyond us!" ”

Chen Xuanli felt a little bad in his heart when he heard this, and immediately asked, "Why did General Zhao say that?" ”

Zhao Ziliang knocked on the desk, looked at Chen Xuanli and said: "The grievances between our left prison guards and the Jingzhao Mansion Yamen, presumably General Chen should know better than me, if this kind of thing happens, then the Jingzhao Mansion Yin will sit back and watch me and others settle the internal affairs?" I'm afraid that he will already sue the emperor in the court! Besides, General Chen doesn't have a few opponents in the DPRK? In addition, I, Zhao, have been in the capital for so long, and I have offended a lot of powerful people, these people are eager to put the two of us to death, if we don't protect ourselves, let alone our nephew? ”

Chen Xuanli listened to Zhao Ziliang's words, and also realized that the problem is serious, today is the fifteenth day of this month, every first day and fifteenth day of the new year, there is a big court meeting, at this time is the time when the emperor is in charge of the court, at that time, the ministers and generals of the entire capital with a slightly higher grade will go to the court, rain or shine, of course, today is no exception, if someone takes this matter to today's court meeting to say, who knows what will happen?

Both of them were silent for a long time, and Chen Xuanli asked, "General Zhao, how do you say this matter should be handled to be foolproof?" ”

Zhao Ziliang thought for a while and said: "If no one in the palace has come to announce that I will wait to enter the palace before the end of the court meeting, it means that no one has stabbed this matter to the court, and this matter can be dealt with lightly, but in order to deter others, and let Ling nephew learn some lessons, he will never dare to fight against law enforcement agencies like this in the future, and the punishment must make him feel afraid, I mean temporarily suspend his post for self-examination, beat thirty military sticks, confinement for ten days, and confiscate half a year's military salary, when did he realize his mistake, Depending on the situation, whether to be demoted or reinstated, what does General Chen think? ”

Chen Xuanli breathed a sigh of relief in his heart and nodded: "Okay!" So what if someone from the palace comes to announce before the end of the court meeting, let me wait to enter the palace to face the saint? ”

Zhao Ziliang slowly spit out a few words: "Then you can only give up the car to protect the handsome!" ”

Chen Xuanli was already prepared in his heart, but when he heard Zhao Ziliang's words, he was still extremely uncomfortable, if this really happened, it would not be unacceptable to deal with Liang Chao, as long as he could keep himself, what would it be to die of a nephew, and he was not his own nephew, but even if he dealt with Liang Chao, there were still people in the court who pointed the finger at him.

"General Zhao, although I feel sorry for this nephew, I also know the seriousness of the matter at this time, what I am worried about is that even if I abandon my nephew, if those people still don't stop in the court, and still aim at you and me, what should I do at that time?"

Zhao Ziliang understood that Chen Xuanli's worries were not unreasonable, he said: "General Chen, if this happens, I will deal with these people at that time, His Majesty the Emperor should not have a big problem, after all, you have been his trusted general for many years, the emperor should not be so unkind, as long as you shut up those disgusting guys, I will deal with this, and then you just need to insist on righteousness and destroy your relatives!" ”

"Good!"

The two reached an agreement on this and decided to face the difficulties together. (To be continued.) )