The eldest grandson Wuji asked, "How does Your Majesty think this case should be heard?" ”

When Li Zhi heard the eldest grandson Wuji ask about the trial, he knew that it was his uncle who was probing his position.

Chu Suiliang didn't expect the eldest grandson Wuji to change so quickly, he wanted to take the initiative to nominate a few people, but the eldest grandson Wuji asked so quickly, he had to look at Li Zhi helplessly and listen to how he answered.

Li Zhi smiled and asked, "Xu Jingzong, what do you think?" ”

Listening to the name recommended by Li Zhi, Yu Zhining just wanted to stand up and speak, but was stopped by the eldest grandson Wuji with his eyes. As the secretary of the ministry, Chu Suiliang still knows a little about Xu Jingzong.

Xu Jingzong's father, Xu Wuben, was originally a subordinate official of Nan Chen, and after the fall of Nan Chen, he was killed by Yu Wenhua after serving in the Sui Dynasty, and was a famous loyal minister.

Xu Jingzong has been quite famous since he was a child, and after his father was killed, he once defected to Wagang. Later, he descended to the Tang Dynasty and became one of the eighteen scholars under Emperor Taizong, and Taizong called the emperor Xu Jingzong to become a scholar of the Middle School. Li Zhi was appointed as the crown prince and moved to the prince's right concubine, Yu Zhining was ill, Li Zhi appointed him as the secretary of the school rite department to replace Yu Zhining in charge of the rite department, and was Li Zhi's confidant.

This is not the most critical, the most critical thing is that Xu Jingzong's ancestor is a subordinate official of Nan Chen, which means that he is a scholar of the Jiangzuo family. If Xu Jingzong presides over the trial, I am afraid that the identity of Jiang Zuoshi alone will be enough for him to turn the entire northern system upside down.

If you add the emperor's instructions, the bloody rain in the court will not be able to escape, and at that time, I am afraid that the carpenter who made the coffin in Chang'an City will not even have time to turn around.

The corners of the eldest grandson Wuji's mouth twitched obviously, Yu Zhining glanced at him hatefully, and said in his heart: "You still treat Your Majesty as a child?" It's stupid! ”

Regarding Li Zhi's proposal, the eldest grandson Wuji's natural way is a way to bargain. Li Zhi knew very well that the trial of this case was not trivial, and his ideal candidate would definitely not be accepted by everyone, so he took it out first and waited for them to veto.

In this way, Li Zhi will really take out the candidates in his mind, and when the people he proposed are rejected several times, it is not good for the ministers to veto the candidates recommended by Li Zhi, and finally agree to Li Zhi's candidates to join.

Of course, the process of this compromise is more complicated, and it is necessary to stuff your own people in front of the old fritters such as the eldest grandson Wuji, and the accuracy of this heat is not easy to master.

After cleaning up the side hall of the Lizheng Palace, Zhang Wenyi and the others were tired and sweaty. Seeing that it was getting late, Li Zhi was about to come back, and several women hurriedly took a bath. Then he served Li Xin's brothers and sisters to clean it again, and then hurriedly lit a fire to cook.

Just after picking the vegetables and washing them, a eunuch came in to report that the emperor asked him to come and say hello, and he might not come back tonight. Zhang Wenyi called the eunuch into the kitchen and asked, and learned that Li Zhi had met with the ministers in the Liangyi Palace to discuss matters, so he didn't ask more and let the eunuch leave on his own.

This eunuch's name is Sun Shigui, and he is the eyeliner that the eldest grandson Wuji planted in the palace. His status was originally not high, so he never came close to the empress. The eldest grandson Wuji took advantage of this rebellion to replace some of the eunuchs and brought him to serve in the Liangyi Palace, so that he had the opportunity to come to the Lizheng Palace to see Zhang Wenyi.

It's just that Zhang Wenyi's impact on him is too great, the dignified queen, the mother of a country, actually cooks in person, not to mention, she is not like the other concubines who can't wait to ask the emperor about the bottoms she wears, just ask the reason why the emperor doesn't come, and it's over.

Where does this behavior look like a queen, even ordinary village women are afraid that they will ask a few more words. I have to say that this queen is novel, but her style is undoubtedly what men want and are most willing to accept. No wonder the emperor doted on her so much, and any man would probably do the same.

Since Li Zhi might not come back in the evening, Zhang Wenyi made a few fewer dishes, and then everyone happily ate dinner around a large table.

After eating, I checked the homework of the two children, and asked Li Qinglian to take the two children to go to bed quickly. The rest of the people began to learn some necessary knowledge and skills from Zhang Wenyi.

After teaching for about an hour, I saw that several people basically mastered it, and Zhang Wenyi also let them go to rest.

After everyone left, Zhang Wenyi took out the mold and began to make bullets. If you run out of bullets today and don't replenish some, that gun is equal to a piece of scrap metal.

After a while, Li Zhi came back here with a tired face, and was surprised to see that Zhang Wenyi hadn't slept yet.

Zhang Wenyi raised the bullet in his hand for Li Zhi to look at, and said, "If you don't come, I won't be able to sleep, so it's better to make some preparations." ”

Li Zhi asked Zhang Wenyi to make two more bullets so that he could see the process clearly, and Zhang Wenyi smiled and made two more. Seeing a set of delicate molds in Zhang Wenyi's hand, Li Zhi finally understood why the bullets were the same size.

Zhang Wenyi handed the pistol to Li Zhi and told him how to disassemble and maintain it. Li Zhi, who had seen the power of the pistol, knew that this thing was a weapon against martial arts masters who liked close combat, so he accepted it politely at the moment.

Nothing was said all night. The next day, Li Zhi was going to go to the morning court, Zhang Wenyi got up early, as in the past, and waited for Li Zhi to go out after breakfast.

According to the compromise between the two sides yesterday, the chief Shi He Wenlong, who was under the envoy of the Lingnan Jiedu, presided over the trial of the rebellion of Fang Yiai, Xue Wanche, and Chai Lingwu.

He Wenlong was a jinshi in the Zhenguan period, and because he had no family background, he did not have a real vacancy for a long time. He still went to take the exam when the Lingnan Jiedu envoy was recruiting, and the young Jiedu envoy directly appointed him as the chief of the Jiedu Embassy after reading He Wenlong's resume.

Since the Lingnan Jiedu Embassy is also a grass platform team, he is the only one like him who was born as a Jinshi, and the highest one is Xiucai. In these years, no matter how big or small, he has to hand over to He Wenlong to deal with decisions, and he has also greatly increased his knowledge in the process of dealing with specific affairs in Lingnan.

He can preside over this multi-party compromise, mainly because He Wenlong does not belong to any of the forces in the DPRK and China. At most, even if it is a member of the queen's family, but the queen does not care about politics. This makes the eldest grandson Wuji feel at ease to hand over the position of chief judge to him, as long as he is not from the emperor's side, the eldest grandson Wuji thinks that he can at least be invincible.

After nearly a year of preparation, the trial finally began in Dali Temple.

He Wenlong's trial of the case is refreshing, and there are not only bigwigs like Changsun Wuji, Yu Zhining, and Liu Zheng in the yamen, but also the county commanders of Chang'an Jingzhaoyin, Chang'an County, and Wannian County, as well as Fang Zheng, Bao Chang, and civilians.

He Wenlong used a large number of human and physical evidence to confirm the fact that Xue Wanche, Fang Yiai, and Chai Lingwu led troops to attack the forbidden and kill the palace people. and exposed the fact that Wei Chigong and others secretly connived at the cooperation of his subordinates, and then the Yang family, the biological mother of Li Ke, the king of Wu, and the Yang family, the wife of Rongguo, also surfaced one by one.

As the case deepened, Changsun Wuji panicked, he didn't expect that such a trial method would be very unfavorable to them. Originally, the eldest grandson Wuji didn't take these people to heart, but now he understands that since these people participated, the possibility of them using the literati to create public opinion is gone.

The rumors spread far faster than he could have imagined, and by the time the literati tried to confuse the public and tried to muddy the waters, the people had basically known the general situation of the case. The most direct consequence of their actions was that the reputation of the literati among the people plummeted, and many people suddenly found that the scholars were not reliable.

These literati who took refuge in officials and gate lords were also despised by those who were truly clear streams, and these people were despised as Sven scum.

What is amazing is that He Wenlong set up a banquet to entertain Xue Wanche and the other three, and the three of them were convicted of rebellion with ironclad evidence, and the emperor would be executed soon.

During the banquet, He Wenlong kept his mouth shut about the case and just drank by himself, which made the three of them gradually let go of their defenses, and finally all three of them were drunk.

Xue Wanche was fortunate to be able to hold it at first, and Fang Yiai and Chai Lingwu told the heads of several gate valve families in Gyeonggi and Qingji. In the end, Xue Wanche also confessed Cheng Zhijie, Helan Clan, Dugu Clan and others.

Looking at Li Zhi, who was sitting with a gloomy face, the eldest grandson Wuji and the others really regretted their decision to agree to let this He Wenlong try the case.

This old man really does not belong to any camp, and is not even the power of the queen. But this guy is really a blockbuster, and he pulls out so many clues in one meal.

And what made the eldest grandson Wuji crazy was He Wenlong and the execution of the Lingnan Army, they only obtained a confession on their side, and they had already begun to raid their homes and arrest people.

The result of the raid was a rich battle, and a large number of correspondence became evidence of the guilt of the head of a large family, and more than half of the court officials were also involved.

The case is snowballing bigger and bigger, and now it's not just the eldest grandson Wuji who has discovered his mistake, but even Yu Zhining and others are beginning to panic.

Li Zhi took advantage of this to firmly grasp the initiative in the trial of the case, and the eldest grandson Wuji had to start compromising with Li Zhi.

After half a year of trial, the case was finally concluded, and the case was finally concluded under the compromise of many parties.

The main culprits Li Yuanjing and Li Keci died; Wang Jingbo, the patriarch of the Langya Wang clan, was late, and the three clans were not allowed to take the imperial examination within a hundred years; Li Ke's biological mother Yang entered the cold palace; Rongguo's wife Yang died; The Xue family, the Fang family, and the Chai family won the title. Xue Wanche, Fang Yiai, and Chai Lingwu were pardoned and imprisoned for life, and their wives and three princesses also took away their names and were degraded to concubines.

As a compromise, the township and village levels were set up as imperial court officials, respectively from the nine grades and from the nine grades, and their subordinate officials were officials. As a result, the function of the family to maintain order at the grassroots level of the government disappeared, and although collusion with each other was still inevitable, the function of the family as the grassroots organization of the Chinese bureaucracy no longer existed.

The age of officials below the fifth grade is 55 years old, and the age of 55 and above is 65 years old.

The judicial department is divided into three departments: the Criminal Department, Dali Temple, and the patrol and arrest department, and the Criminal Department is in charge of litigation, Dali Temple is in charge of judgment, and Patrol is in charge of investigation.

Commercial taxation was established, and a tax administration department was set up under the household department to manage the world's tax revenue. Local governments at all levels no longer have the power to promulgate tax items.

After Li Zhi obtained the structure of the reorganization of the imperial court that he wanted, he gave up the position of continuing to pursue the civil and military officials in this rebellion, and no longer held accountable the manipulation of the various gate lords in this incident.