The upstart of the Tang Dynasty, the dignified Zhou Guogong was fainted like this, and no one dared to believe it if it was put in the past. But the fact is that Helan Min really fainted when a mouthful of blood spurted out.

When Yang saw Helan Minzhi who was paralyzed on the ground, a look of unbearability flashed in her eyes, but she glanced at Li Hong with a cold face and didn't say anything.

Li Hong glanced at Helan Minzhi in disgust, and said in a cold tone, "Wake him up!" ”

After speaking, he moved his gaze to Zhang Bo, the county leader of Chang'an County, and said, "Zhang Xiancheng, you do it yourself." ”

When Zhang Bo heard the prince's order, his body trembled, he forcibly held back the fear in his heart, did not dare to look at Li Hong, and immediately got up and replied in a low voice, "No! ”

At this time, a guard had already brought a bucket of cold water to the main hall, Zhang Bo walked over tremblingly, lifted the bucket with great difficulty, hesitated for a long time, or gritted his teeth, and splashed the water on Helan Minzhi's body.

In February, Chang'an City was still bitterly cold, and a bucket of cold water soaked into Helan Minzhi's body, and Helan Minzhi slowly opened his eyes. But when he opened his eyes, he felt cold and piercing all over his body, and when he saw Zhang Bo standing in front of him with an empty bucket, he understood everything.

Helan Min got up angrily and shouted angrily at Zhang Bo, "Zhang Bo, you want to die!" Dare to break the cold water for me? ”

"Duchy Zhou-" Before Zhang Bo's words were finished, Helan Minzhi had already stepped forward in two steps and slapped Zhang Bo in the face.

"Smack-"

"Ahh But Helan Minzhi covered his right hand with his left hand, bowed his body, and kept his voice. In front of Helan Minzhi, Chen Gong was looking at this grandfather with a murderous face. Just now, it was he who blocked a slap from Helan Minzhi for Zhang Bo. Helan Minzhi swung out his right hand vigorously and slapped it on Chen Gong's armguard, which would make him so painful.

"Helan Minzhi, are you still so arrogant at this time?" Li Hong asked loudly.

Hearing Li Hong's voice, Helan Minzhi suddenly raised his head, stared at Li Hong coldly, and said angrily, "Your Royal Highness the Prince, what crime did Minzhi commit to make you want to bully me like this?" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he glanced at the Yang family beside Li Hong, knelt down with a "plop", crawled in front of the Yang family, and shouted in a choked tone, "Grandmother, the prince is private in the communiqué, and please make the decision for your grandson!" ”

Helan Minzhi is not stupid, he knows that the Empress Wu is far away in Daming Palace, and now if he mentions the Empress Wu with Li Hong, it is useless to press Li Hong after the Martial Arts, so he can only pin his hopes on the Yang family.

It's just that before his person climbed in front of Yang, Chen Gong grabbed his left ankle and pulled him to the place where he was lying just now.

Seeing Chen Gong treating Helan Minzhi so roughly, Yang couldn't bear it, but she didn't dare to intercede with Li Hong, so she could only stop looking at Helan Minzhi's miserable appearance.

Seeing that the Yang family had given up on himself, Helan Min yelled at Li Hong, "Prince, if you bully me so much, aren't you afraid that your aunt will blame you?" Aren't you afraid that my little sister will tell Your Majesty about today's events and let Your Majesty punish you? ”

The Yang family didn't work, and Helan Minzhi had no choice, so he could only use the two cards of the martial arts queen and his sister Helan Minzhi.

Li Hong sneered and said, "Do you think the queen mother and father will blame the lonely?" Zhang Bo, you can serve our Datang Principality of Zhou well. ”

"No!" Zhang Bo didn't dare to disobey the prince's order, so he ran out of the hall with a wooden barrel. After a while, he walked into the hall with a bucket of ice water panting, Chen Gong saw this, and motioned to the two guards to hold down Helan Minzhi, Zhang Bo gritted his teeth, and another bucket of cold water was splashed on Helan Minzhi's body.

"Ahh It's so cold, I'm going to be cold! ”

This bucket of cold water soaked Helan Minzhi's clothes all of a sudden, and Helan Minzhi's frozen teeth rattled, and he didn't have much strength to get angry anymore.

At this time, I saw two guards tying Helan Chong to the main hall, "Your Highness, someone has brought it." ”

Helan Chong knelt on the hall with an "ordinary" sound, crying and begging Li Hong for mercy, "Your Highness spares your life!" It's none of my business, Helan Minzhi instructed me to do this. ”

The hatred for Li Hong earlier and the arrogance when he followed He Lanmin are gone.

Li Hong ignored He Lanchong's plea, but asked Zhou Xing, who was nervous on the side, "Zhou Xing, did he arrest you?" ”

"Li Lang - His Royal Highness the Prince, yes, he arrested me." Zhou Xing stammered.

He didn't expect that Li Langjun, who occasionally came to their shop to eat green onion noodles and sat under the poplar tree with him to chat, would be the current His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. This made Zhou Xing both happy and a little nervous.

Happily, he has met the prince several times, and if he gets the prince's appreciation in the future, he will definitely soar. The nervousness is because the image that Li Hong gave him today subverted the gentleness and elegance he used to eat at the scallion noodle restaurant. Zhou Xing was a little afraid.

"Hmph-" Li Hong snorted coldly, "In broad daylight, dare to commit murder and arrest people in Chang'an County, Helan Chong, are you not small?" Zhang Xiancheng, you are the county governor of Chang'an County, in charge of Xing Prison and anti-theft, and maintain the law and order of Chang'an City. Tell me, what crime should Helan Chong be punished? ”

With a "bang-" sound, Zhang Bo suddenly threw away the barrel and knelt down in front of Li Hong and whispered, "Zhang Bo is guilty, Zhang Bo shouldn't have deceived His Royal Highness the Prince, he didn't dare to go along with Helan Minzhi, and asked His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to bypass Zhang Bo's life!" ”

"You know each other." Li Hong sneered.

As soon as his words fell, he saw two guards tie up another person to the main hall, this person was none other than the scribe who had just come to the Guogong Mansion to report to Helan Minzhi and secretly ran away.

"What do you think Lone wants to do today by giving advance notice to search Helan Minzhi's residence? Just to wait for you to send a letter to Helan Min to show your feet. Li Hong said lightly, "Before, Gu had suspected Cui Yuan, the commander of Chang'an County, and Liu Zhubo, the former of Chang'an County, but he didn't suspect you, but I didn't expect you to be the pawn arranged by Helan Minzhi in Chang'an County." ”

The moment Zhang Bo saw the scribe, he knew that he was finished, and the only chance to survive was to hug the prince's thigh and bite Helan Minzhi hard, so he begged loudly for mercy, "Your Highness, the lower official is willing to testify against He Lan Minzhi, the lower official is guilty, and please spare your life!" ”

"You are in the same league as Helan Minzhi, and you will send someone to interrogate you for those illegal and undisciplined things later, but now you tell me first, what crime should Helan Chong punish?" Li Hong asked impatiently.

"Yes, yes, it should be eighty rods, and ten years in the army." Zhang Xiancheng replied tremblingly.

Seeing that the prince was silent after he finished answering, he felt a gazin in his heart, could it be that he was light? But that's a lot of weight. After all, Helan Chong only arrested Zhou Xing and imprisoned him for two days, and he didn't do anything! However, in order to be able to survive, he didn't care so much, so he added, "But if the circumstances are serious, you can have a hundred rods and be in the army for thirty years." ”

After hearing this, Li Hong ordered without thinking, "Chen Gong, execution!" ”

"No!" Chen Gong received the order.

instructed the two guards to press Helan Chong on the main hall, and tore off a piece of clothing from Helan Chong's body to plug his mouth, and nodded slightly to the Chang'an County official beside him. The two Chang'an County officials received the order, raised the wooden stick, and smashed it into Helan Chong's buttocks.

The reason why Chen Gong let the officials of Chang'an County carry out the execution was because he knew that this group of officials were used to doing this kind of work, and they knew how to beat people to death with two sticks, and how to beat people without killing people.

"Bang-woo-"

"Bang-woo-"

Every time the stick landed on Helan Chong's ass, Helan Chong shouted. Ten sticks went down, and I saw that Helan Chong's ass had blossomed, and blood seeped out through his clothes.

When Yang saw this scene, she couldn't stand it anymore, she begged Li Hong to leave, but Li Hong didn't allow it, so she could only cover her mouth with a Jinpa and retch. When Helan Minzhi, who had already known how to search and tremble, saw Helan Chong's miserable appearance like a dead pig, his face was already blue with fright, and he softened on the ground.

"Ninety-seven—"

"Ninety-eight—"

"Ninety-nine—"

"One hundred—"

There were people counting around him, and when the hundredth stick fell, Helan Chong snorted weakly, and then crawled on the ground and didn't move.

He's dead!

This is the result that Li Hong wants, he not only wants to use the scene of Helan Chong's torture to deter the Yang family and Helan Minzhi, but also wants Helan Chong to die.

And this is also the reason why Chen Gong wanted the Chang'an County officials to be executed.

Because no one has as much experience as them, they can only kill the prisoner after the hundredth rod goes down, and the previous ninety-nine rods are only to make the prisoner suffer more.

"Drag this man down!" Chen Gong ordered to the officials of Chang'an County. The two officials took the order and left the hall by the ankle of Helan Chong.

"Zhou Xing, have you ever been satisfied with this?" Li Hong asked Zhou Xing.

"Full, satisfied, willing..."Is this killed? Zhou Xing was about to be scared silly.

"Who's next?" Li Hong said slowly.

Just as Li Hong's words fell, a person suddenly walked out of the crowd on the Zhou Guogong Mansion in front of the main hall and shouted, "Cao Min Zao Wou-ki, see His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." ”

"You are?" Li Hong asked puzzled.

Who is this man? What did he suddenly want to do?

"His Royal Highness the Prince, the grass people are Helan Minzhi's military advisors, and all the grass people know about the crimes He Lan Minzhi committed before, and the grass people are willing to come forward to testify against He Lan Minzhi." Mr. Zhao said with a flattering look.

Seeing that the crown prince was silent, he took two steps closer and whispered, "The grass people still know who His Highness's current enemy is?" How much strength do they have? As long as His Highness is willing to listen, the grass people must know everything. ”

"Mr. Zhao, you-" Seeing that Mr. Zhao dared to come out to testify against himself, Helan Minzhi was ready to surrender to Li Hong to continue to be a dog, angry and wanted to slap Mr. Zhao again, but he was already numb from the cold, and he was already scared, so he could only sit on the ground and scold, scolding and scolding, a mouthful of blood gushed out, and he fell to the ground unconscious.

No matter how Zhang Bo testifies against He Lan Minzhi, there are only a few charges against He Lan Minzhi, and his identity is not enough to cause death. But since Mr. Zhao is Helan Minzhi's military advisor, he naturally knows all the things that Helan Minzhi has done that no one can see. If Mr. Zhao testifies against He Lan Minzhi, even if the Empress Wu wants to protect He Lan Minzhi, it is estimated that there is nothing he can do.

Thinking of this, Li Hong nodded slightly. He agreed to the request.