With the ministers leaving the court and the emperor's disposition of Li Hao being made public, the news of Lei Xiang's assassination soon spread. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Hearing that Li Hao was suspended from his post because of this, many righteous people immediately understood, and it seemed that this matter was true nine times out of ten.

As a result, many righteous people immediately flocked to Li Hao's door. Most of these people are mainly peddlers and pawns, and of course there are some upright scholars.

As for whether there is a black and strong young man, a slender young man in the north of the city, and a young man named Ergouzi among these righteous people, it is unknown.

These people did not come forward and knock on the door in order to have a confrontation with Li Hao, but blocked the door of Li Hao's house, not allowing anyone to enter or exit, and silently expressed their attitude.

At the very least, they won't have any riots until the Criminal Department decides, but when the Criminal Department decides, it's hard to say.

At the beginning, the servants of Li Hao's family tried to walk out of the gate, but they were immediately squeezed in by the crowd, and no one knows how many times he was kicked and punched in secret.

At this point, Li Hao's house became silent, and no one dared to go out again.

Seeing this situation, the officials of the Criminal Department who were selected to preside over the case did not dare to delay, and hurriedly interrogated Lei Xiang and a prison officer and some of the Kaifeng Prefecture arrests.

After examination, the officials of the criminal department determined that Lei Xiang had suffered a knife wound, and that he had been injured in the past one or two days, and although the officials in the cell did not admit that it was their hands, Lei Xiang bit two of the officials to death, saying that it was the people they brought that day who had cut him.

The officials were speechless, after all, the thunderous knife wounds were clearly there, and no matter how they defended, none of the officials of the Criminal Department believed their words.

But the officials of the Criminal Department could not find evidence to prove that Lei Xiang was indeed assassinated. In desperation, they had to put the case aside for the time being and start trying Zhao Gu's case.

As Li Hao guessed, this case was much easier to try, and many people in the same cell with Zhao Gu at that time could prove that Zhao Gu was indeed a Han Min from Liaodi, and after being called by Li Hao for questioning, he was knocked unconscious from behind and was in a coma for seven days.

After torture the two officials who carried the unconscious Zhao Gu back to the cell, they finally confessed to everything and confessed.

On the same day, after Li Hao called Zhao Gu for questioning, he ordered the official to knock Zhao Gu hard in the back, trying to kill people.

When they found out that Zhao Gu was killed by this blow, in order to avoid being beaten, they sent the unconscious Zhao Gu back to the cell to wait for death, and the external excuse was that Zhao Gu accidentally fell on his head.

After that, Zhao Gu survived and successfully escaped from prison, Li Hao was worried that the news would leak out, so he sent a quick arrest to kill people, and offered a reward of 20 copper coins, and finally burned Zhao Gu to death in the reeds.

As for the important information that Zhao Gu brought in the rumors, the officials were completely unaware that Zhao Gu had already died, so it was difficult to conclusively.

But just killing Zhao Gu twice was enough to convict Li Hao.

As the governor of Kaifeng Prefecture and the second-in-command of the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, Li Hao raised a butcher's knife against the suspect who had not yet been convicted without any trial, and even issued an order to murder the suspect twice.

Coupled with the assassination of Lei Xiang and why Zhao Gu was ordered by Li Hao to exterminate his mouth, although there is no evidence for these two things, if it is really as the rumors say, Li Hao will not be able to escape as a traitor and collaborator.

At this point, it's really a big deal.

As some of Li Hao's charges in the rumors were confirmed, even the officials of the Criminal Department couldn't help but wonder if the other charges that had not been confirmed were also true?

The officials of the Criminal Department did not dare to be arbitrary, so they handed over the results of the trial to the palace that afternoon.

According to the speculation of the officials of the Criminal Department, Li Hao could not turn over properly this time, and the death sentence was already light.

If His Majesty intends to investigate whether he is really a spy of the Liao State, maybe Li Hao will face countless punishments until he can't stand the execution and dies.

However, what the officials of the Criminal Department did not expect was that only the word derogatory was written on the official document about Li Hao's reply!

What is derogatory, to put it bluntly, is to reprimand an official and then delegate him to other places to be officials.

The result of such a light treatment? The officials of the Criminal Department were a little surprised, it seems that someone saved Li Fu, could it be ...... That guy made a move?

Several officials of the Criminal Department did not announce the results of Li Hao's trial, but sent a small official into Li Hao's mansion to convey the trial of the Criminal Department.

According to the thoughts of the officials of the Criminal Department, Li Hao's matter has become known to the government and the public, although he has been saved, but the public sentiment is turbulent, and it is better not to announce the results of his handling to the public.

In Li Hao's study, as soon as the officials of the Criminal Department left, Li Hao immediately couldn't wait to open the official document and read it.

After reading it, his face finally improved, he laughed, and a hint of pride flashed in his eyes.

Then he summoned a group of guards to open the door and strode out.

"Li Hao is out."

I don't know who shouted, and all the people blocking the door of Li Hao's house looked at him at the same time.

Li Hao swept over everyone with cold eyes, took out the official document and threw it out, and said loudly: "I don't know who wants to harm me, and I don't know if this person is among you, but I, Li Hao, want to tell this person, even if I kill Zhao Gu, what if I kill Zhao Gu?" It's just a lowly Han people in Liaodi, and the court didn't punish me for it. As for the other charges you spread, the court has confirmed that they are all false, you didn't expect it, hahaha....... ”

Li Hao has been suppressed too hard these days, and after a long time, he not only has gray hair, but also messes up his mind, so that after learning that he was just being belittled, he got a little carried away.

These days, he has been worried that he will die and be deprived of his official position, but the court only gave him a punishment that is not light, which is quite a means of avoiding the limelight.

Obviously, his backer used his energy in the court, and he knew that he was only temporarily dormant this time, and as long as the backer did not fall, he would eventually rise again.

He didn't think that Zhao Gu, the Han people of Liaodi, was despicable, and where could these ordinary people in front of him be noble?

Everyone is of the Han nationality, with a strip of water, who can be more noble than whom?

In front of Li Fu's gate, as soon as Li Hao finished saying this, the mood of the people blocking the door became obviously irritable, and they stared at Li Hao as if they were about to breathe fire.

Originally, the people didn't know whether the rumors were true or not, they came here just to wait for the results, and it wasn't until Li Hao said these words that they confirmed their guesses.

It turned out that Li Hao really instructed someone to kill Zhao Gu.

So why did he kill Zhao Gu?

What did Zhao Gu come all the way to the Great Song Dynasty for?

Does he really have the information to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun?

The people thought of a lot, and the rumors that had been told by countless people echoed in their minds over and over again.

The scholar picked up the official document on Li Hao and read it aloud.

When the people heard this, they were all angry, since Zhao Gu is really a Han people, and he is also a descendant of Yan and Huang, even if he is from Liaodi, but when he has not committed a crime, why can the government kill him at will?

Why was this fellow intellectual, who was so arrogant that he looked down on ordinary poor people, only received such a small punishment?

At this moment, the people were completely angry!