The next day, they heard the news that an official in Luoyang City had been wiped out, and more than a dozen members of the family had their throats cut out.

"So cruel! It is said that the official was also dismantled!" Shao Hui felt that this kind of assassination was both exciting and terrifying, and although he was not present at the scene, he could still feel the bloody scene.

"This guy is too ruthless!" Gongsun Yu frowned slightly.

"After taking revenge, he should return the Youling White Jade Bracelet to us, right?" Chengshan didn't seem to care about the life and death of others, he felt that all of this was self-inflicted or fateful.

"Not necessarily, so many people can't catch him, who knows where he will hide?" Gongsun Yu had actually investigated the details of the official a long time ago, he was the whistleblower flying cavalry sergeant, and he was not happy after becoming an official, but he was still able to clear his opponent by constantly informing, and finally saved his life in the officialdom.

He was a martial artist, and his three sons were all strong, so it was absolutely impossible for an ordinary thief to cause such heavy casualties. According to the government's investigation, five or six bandits ransacked their home, but no property was lost in the house, and no trace of the bandits was seen at the scene.

In Luoyang City, there was a major incident of this kind of gang murder, and the suspect could not be traced, so the officials made this matter clear to Wu Zetian early on.

Chengshan and the three of them were chatting, Zhang Changzong ran in from outside the door in a panic, he had never been so panicked. "National teacher, please follow me into the palace quickly!"

"Me?" Shao Hui was a little surprised.

"Yes, let's go! Your Majesty has sent someone to call you and me into the palace. Zhang Changzong saw that Shao Hui had finished cleaning up, so he pulled him and walked out.

"Why are you in such a hurry?"

"Don't ask, let's go. ”

Chengshan and Gongsun Yu exchanged glances, probably for this matter.

Since Wu Zetian did not summon the two of them, Chengshan planned to go to the Xiuwen Pavilion to go around, maybe he could find any information and clues there, and Gongsun Yu also had to go to the Tai Hospital, and Yuan Yijie would be safer if he appeared there.

"What's going on?" Shao Hui and Zhang Changzong sat in the carriage and chatted.

"Haven't you heard? Last night there was an official who was killed and died a terrible death. Zhang Changzong's fair face was sweating slightly, he was indeed very handsome and handsome, with sword eyebrows and sideburns, eyes like stars, black and shiny hair, full of youth and vitality, so that anyone who saw it liked it very much. But although this guy is young, he is actually corrupt and perverts the law, selling official positions, no matter what happens to anyone's family, as long as he sends him a generous gift, he will definitely be able to help others settle it, so he has done a lot of bad things and broken a lot of bad cases.

Hearing the name of the official who was destroyed, Zhang Changzong was very familiar with it, if he was retaliated against by the enemy, would he have the same fate? Therefore, Zhang Changzong felt the coldness behind him.

"Didn't you catch someone?" asked Shao Hui knowingly.

"No, there is not even a trace, and now people in Luoyang City are panicking, and the murderer is being tracked down everywhere. Zhang Changzong wiped his sweat with his sleeve.

"Why are you scared like this?" Shao Hui smiled slightly.

"Aren't you afraid?" Zhang Changzong glanced at Shao Hui. "By the way, the national teacher, can you be invulnerable? If you encounter this kind of thieves and bandits, you shouldn't have to worry, right?"

"That's nature, I have a miraculous body. Shao Hui was triumphant.

"Let me try it?" Zhang Changzong also seemed to want to relax his tense nerves, he pulled out a dagger under the seat of the car, and it was very sharp.

"What are you going to do?" Shao Hui was shocked.

"I want to try it and see if you can be invulnerable?" Zhang Changzong looked at Shao Hui with a grin.

"No!" Although Zhang Changzong was a few years older than Shao Hui, Shao Hui was not afraid of this cream boy at all, he reached out and grabbed the dagger.

Zhang Changzong just wanted to scare Shao Hui, but he took it seriously, Zhang Changzong hurriedly withdrew the dagger, but it happened to slash Shao Hui's hand.

"Ahh

Zhang Changzong was also so frightened that he threw the dagger into the car. "What are you grabbing! I don't really want to try, I'm just scaring you. ”

While complaining, he pulled Shao Hui's hand over and took a closer look to see if it was hurt.

I saw that Shao Hui's tiger mouth was slightly slashed, although the knife edge was not deep, but it had already cut through the epidermis. Zhang Changzong was taken aback, he had been pampered all day long, he had never seen a wound, and he didn't know how to deal with it, seeing that Shao Hui was injured, he was a little overwhelmed, so he rummaged through the boxes and cabinets in the car, looking for any cloth tape that could be bandaged.

When he found a white silk scarf and was about to bandage Shao Hui, the wound on Shao Hui's hand was gone! Zhang Changzong looked at Shao Hui's other hand again, thinking that he had misremembered, but both hands were intact.

"The national teacher is so powerful, he can really be invulnerable!" Zhang Changzong was full of joy. "I've really seen it now!"

"You know, it's amazing, and I'm not going to be honest in the future. Shao Hui was triumphant, but sweat also broke out on his head, there were too many conditions here, if it weren't for the protection of the Youling White Jade Bracelet, he would be exposed.

The two of them were talking and laughing in the car, and after a while, they came to the palace, Wu Zetian was in the Yingxian Courtyard, accompanied by Zhang Yizhi to drink tea.

"See Your Majesty. The two of them hurriedly saluted when they saw Wu Zetian.

"No courtesy, no body. ”

Shao Hui stood aside obediently, he thought that Wu Zetian had asked him to accompany him again, and there was nothing to look for him.

"Can the national teacher do things?" Wu Zetian suddenly asked.

"Back to Your Majesty, the little monk knows a little bit about it. Shao Hui felt a little surprised.

"How about you go to the White Horse Temple to hold a water and land puja and overspend the undead?"

"Obey the order, I don't know who Your Majesty wants to exceed?"

At this time, Zhang Yizhi suddenly interjected beside him. "Recently, the New Year is approaching, everything is complicated, and it is inevitable that evil ghosts will come out to make trouble. ”

Shao Hui heard it, his so-called evil ghosts were the bandits who wiped out the officials' homes, Dali Temple and the Criminal Department should have gone to investigate, but they didn't find any traces, so they thought there were ghosts and gods.

"Worship ghosts and gods, it's better to be peaceful. Shao Hui has also learned literary crepe, and he has not read less Buddhist scriptures in the past few days.

"National teacher, how do you say this?" Zhang Changzong was a little puzzled, and he asked casually.

"Ghosts and gods are naturally to be respected, but the living also need to be appeased and appeased in order to prevent too much resentment from accumulating. ”

"What do you mean?"

"You can do a water and land puja, and at the same time, you can pardon the prisoners in Dali Temple and the Criminal Department who are relatively light-culpable, reduce their criminal responsibility, and go home for the New Year, so that you can also win people's hearts and pray for Your Majesty. ”

"Not bad. Wu Zetian nodded slightly. "Gorou, I'll leave the matter of pardoning criminals to you, and Rokuro, you accompany the national teacher back to the White Horse Temple to do a ritual. ”

"Yes. Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong hurriedly agreed.

"You go down first, I have something to say to the national teacher. ”

"Yes. ”

When they went out, Wu Zetian looked at Shao Hui with a smile.

"Did you do it?"

"Ahh

"You're playing dumb again. ”

"Little monk doesn't dare!"

"Killed more than a dozen members of a family, but left no trace. Apart from you, who else has this ability?" It turned out that Wu Zetian suspected them.

"Back to Your Majesty, this matter is definitely not the work of the three of us, I dare to vouch for it with the head of the item!"

"Didn't the three of you do it? Do you have any accomplices?"

"Your Majesty, the three of us have also heard the news, this matter is indeed the work of a master, but it must have nothing to do with us, and we will definitely help to find out about this matter. However, I heard that this official's political performance is very ordinary, and he has framed many good people by relying on the official position obtained by informing, as if he is the remnants of Zhou Xing and Lai Junchen. ”

The two people Shao Hui mentioned were both well-known cool officials during the Wu Zetian period. Zhou Xing was very ferocious, almost doing all evil, and was called "Grandma Bullhead". He invented horrific tortures such as "fixing a hundred pulses" and "not breathing", so that the prisoners broke out in a cold sweat when they saw these torture instruments, and confessed their guilt before they could be tortured. He often fabricated charges against others, then tortured them to extract confessions, or tortured them to death in prison.

Lai Junchen was good at figuring out Wu Zetian's thoughts, and he knew that Wu Zetian was very jealous of the Li Tang royal family and the court's ministers, so he specially designed to frame these people for rebellion. Lai Junchen's methods are also extremely cruel, no matter how serious the case is, when he interrogates the prisoner, he first pours vinegar into the prisoner's nose, does not give the prisoner food, and also makes all kinds of cruel torture instruments, before each interrogation, these terrible torture instruments are displayed one by one, and the prisoners will be frightened to confess their guilt.

What the cool officials did was more or less instructed by Wu Zetian. Because Wu Zetian was the first empress in Chinese history, in the era when the harem was not allowed to interfere in politics, Wu Zetian called the emperor can be said to be a great disapproval of the world, both the court and the people have a large number of opponents, Wu Zetian is these cool officials to suppress political enemies.

The White Terror of Cool Officials was so successful that even if many opponents were really opposed at first, they all shut up later, and the ministers of the DPRK and China became self-endangered and obedient to Wu Zetian. As the opposition was gradually eliminated and disappeared, Wu Zetian completely sat on the throne of the emperor.

However, these cool officials became more and more emboldened, and actually convicted the then prime minister Di Renjie and sent him to prison, Di Renjie was very smart, the first to confess his guilt and surrender to the law, and then secretly reported to Wu Zetian to shout injustice. Later, after Wu Zetian's investigation, he found that these cool officials did very much, and many people died unjustly in prison because of this. So, Wu Zetian put on a look of sudden realization and was deceived by the cool officials, dismissed and executed the cool officials, and rehabilitated the ministers who had suffered injustice.

She's really politically savvy.

Hearing Shao Hui mention Zhou Xing and Lai Junchen, Wu Zetian was thoughtful. "Is he to blame for his own death?"