Lai Junchen was escorted into the iron cage carriage by the internal guard warriors, and four warriors sat beside him to prevent him from committing suicide, and the battle of the Thousand Cavalry Camp in the distance was over, Dou Xianyun galloped over, and smiled at Li Zhen from afar: "A group of rabble, all have been resolved, what else does Commander Li need me to do?"

Li Zhen said with a smile: "I still need to clean up the manor, and I ask General Dou to escort Junchen back to Beijing and hand him over to Dali Temple for detention." ”

Dou Xianyun knew that Li Zhen still had the secret decree of the Holy Lord, so he nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go first."

He immediately ordered his men to assemble and escort the carriage containing Lai Junchen and the captured black officials and warriors back to Luoyang, and the 2,000 cavalry marched towards the capital.

When Dou Xianyun was far away, Li Zhen immediately ordered the women and maids and servants in the manor to be concentrated in the Guanyu Building, and there were only four hundred internal guard warriors left in the manor.

Pei Jinyuan hurriedly stepped forward and kowtowed, "Villain Pei Jinyuan, knock on Commander Li"

Li Zhen saw that he was about forty years old, polite and polite, but he was thin and small, and he looked like Yao Xi, so he smiled and said, "Mr. Pei, please get up." ”

At this time, Lu Jin stepped forward and whispered to Li Zhen: "This person is a well-known master of organs in the capital, and many of the secret rooms of princes and nobles were built by him. ”

Li Zhen nodded, stepped forward and smiled at Pei Jinyuan: "We were ordered to dig up the treasure of Junchen, and we also asked Mr. Pei for more advice." ”

Pei Jinyuan created a treasure trove for Lai Junchen last year, but he didn't expect Lai Junchen to kill him, but fortunately, there were too many treasure vault organs, and Lai Junchen almost missed, so he left him alive and put him under house arrest in the manor.

Lai Junchen's treasure vault is located at the bottom of the lake, made of huge stones, a total of thirteen mechanisms, the last of which is extremely dangerous, as long as the slightest mistake, the entire lake will be poured into the treasure house, the treasure house will be completely swallowed, unless the lake water is drained, it is difficult to see the light of day.

Dozens of internal guard warriors followed Pei Jinyuan to carefully crack the mechanisms one by one, and it was not until dawn that all the mechanisms were completely cracked, and the warriors began to carry out the huge wealth that Junchen had collected in the past ten years.

Boxes of gold and silver, all kinds of priceless jewelry, piles of copper coins, more than a dozen corals about a foot high, and tens of thousands of acres of fertile land deed, so that everyone was dumbfounded, Li Zhen initially estimated that the gold jewelry alone is worth more than 300,000 yuan, not to mention the value of tens of thousands of hectares of fertile land, it is simply a rich country.

Li Zhen couldn't help but sigh softly, Lai Junchen made so much wealth, but finally made a wedding dress for Wu Zetian, maybe Wu Zetian was waiting for a moment.

As soon as dawn, Lai Junchen committed a felony of murder and was arrested by the internal guards began to spread in the liquor shops near Nanshi, the news was like a storm, just one morning swept the whole city of Luoyang, became the focus of attention, countless people cheered, countless crying and kneeling to thank the sky for opening their eyes.

Even inside and outside the court, the ministers did not have the mind to deal with court affairs, gathered together and whispered, everyone was excited, and soon the news came out from the criminal department, Lai Junchen has been escorted to the Dali Temple prison, the rumors were finally confirmed, and there was a cheer inside and outside the court.

Li Yuanyuan, the secretary of Dali Temple, walked quickly to the official room of Xiangguo Lou Shide, and happened to meet Lou Shide who was cleaning the fallen leaves in the courtyard, Li Yuanyuan smiled: "How can Lou Xiangguo still have the heart to clean up the fallen leaves?"

Lou Shide is about sixty years old, and his long-term experience in the Western Regions makes him dark-skinned, but he is tall and mentally strong, Lou Shide puts down the broom and smiles: "Sweeping the floor can calm me down, so that I don't get carried away."

"It's rare to have such a happy event, so what about being wild once?"

Li Yuan took out a bottle of fine wine from his arms and winked at Lou Shide, who laughed, "Li Siqing, please"

The two walked into the official room, Lou Shide ordered the tea boy to send a cup, Li Yuan poured two glasses of wine, picked up the wine glass and said with a smile: "For today's good news, we have this cup."

Lou Shide raised his glass and touched him, and the two drank it all, Li Yuan still had a trace of worry in his heart, and asked again: "Does Lou Xiangguo think that Lai Junchen will be pardoned by the saints."

Lou Shide smiled and said: "If Lai Junchen was arrested by Dali Temple, there may be such a possibility, but he was arrested by the internal guards, whose will does Li Siqing think this is?"

Li Yuan nodded, in fact, he also thought that it must be the will of the Holy Lord, he sighed and said: "It's just that the good thing came too suddenly, I can't believe it, and yesterday morning the pilgrimage was still angry at our petition." ”

Lou Shide filled the wine glass again, and said with a smile: "There were a lot of things yesterday, and the saint was actually shaken in the early pilgrimage, but she finally made up her mind that it was the persuasion of Princess Taiping and Shangguan Sheren in turn, especially Li Zhen grabbed the handle of Lai Junchen, so that Lai Junchen could be specifically convicted, and the saint decided to eradicate Lai Junchen." ”

"But the murder of Qiao Zhizhi's wife?"

Lou Shide nodded, and said with emotion: "Lai Junchen doesn't know how many officials' wives and daughters he has insulted, but none of these can convict him, after all, these women finally obeyed him out of fear, but Qiao Zhizhi's wife was extremely strong, and would rather die than obey, was killed by Lai Junchen himself, and buried his body in the back garden, Li Zhen grabbed this handle, chased after him, and the human and material evidence was complete, and finally Lai Junchen was arrested for homicide, and the saint also had a step. ”

Li Yuan pondered and said, "What I'm most worried about is that Wu Sansi is an ally of Lai Junchen, will he come forward to protect Lai Junchen?"

Lou Shide laughed, "Didn't Li Siqing see it? Liu Guangye revealed Junchen, wasn't it Wu Sansi who shot behind his back?"

Li Yuan was taken aback, then his face turned red, and he said with a wry smile: "I really didn't expect it-"

"Actually, I didn't expect it at first, but today Wu Sansi recommended Liu Guangye to the Holy Lord to be the Zhongcheng of the Imperial History, and I suddenly realized that Wu Sansi abandoned Lai Junchen and was ready to support Liu Guangye. ”

Lou Shide's smile disappeared, and his face showed a look of worry, "Liu Guangye is also a notoriously cool official, I am worried that if I go to one Junchen, another will come to Junchen, I am afraid that it will be even more troublesome." ”

"So what to do?"

Lou Shide's eyes gradually became serious, he held the wine glass, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Li Yuan asked cautiously, "I heard that Xiangguo is going to recommend Xu Yougong as the middle prince of the imperial history?"

Lou Shide sighed after a while: "Xu Yougong is Di Xiangguo's hand, upright and strict, bright and fair, he is the emperor in the imperial history, and he is the blessing of hundreds of officials and social institutions, we must persuade the saint to select Xu Yougong as the imperial history of the emperor." “

Having said that, Lou Shide thought of Wu Sansi's power, and thought that the Ming Hall was about to be completed, and Wu Sansi would definitely be favored, and the situation was very unfavorable to them, which really worried him

Lai Junchen's interrogation can be called a god, just after dawn, the first interrogation was completed by the three divisions composed of Dali Temple, the Criminal Department and the Yushitai, although Lai Junchen resolutely refused to admit that he had killed someone, but in front of a large amount of evidence and witnesses, Lai Junchen had no way to justify, and had to reluctantly admit that Qiao Zhizhi's wife died of suicide, and it was definitely not his intentional homicide.

In the afternoon of the triage of the three divisions, several presiding judges reached an agreement that Lai Junchen, who had joined the army in the same state, was guilty of kidnapping the wife of the imperial court and intentional homicide, and should be sentenced to capital punishment.

In the imperial study, Wu Zetian looked at the request for Junchen's music several times, but the Zhu pen was never able to hook it down, at this time, she put down the pen and asked, "Has Li Zhen, the commander of the internal guard, come back?"

A eunuch bowed down and said: "Back to Your Majesty, just now the front palace came to report, Li Zhen has returned, waiting outside the palace for His Majesty to summon him"

Wu Zetian was stunned, and said with some dissatisfaction: "Why didn't you report it earlier and summon him to come in to see him?"

The eunuch was so frightened that he rushed away, and after a while, he reported outside: "Your Majesty, Li Zhen has been brought." ”

"Announce Him In"

"Your Majesty has a will, Xuan Li Zhen will see you-"

Hearing only a rush of footsteps, Li Zhen walked in quickly, bowed down and saluted: "Minister Li Zhen, give your Majesty an order." ”

"Li Aiqing has worked hard. ”

Wu Zetian smiled, Fengmu saw the gold plate held in the eunuch's hand, the eunuch immediately presented the gold plate, the plate is her gold medal for troop transfer and the record of the raid of Luming Villa, Wu Zetian accepted the gold medal, and picked up the scroll and slowly unfolded it, which was full of dense inspection details, 55,000 taels of gold, 47,000 taels of silver, 53,000 taels of money, 10,000 hectares of fertile land, and countless treasures.

Wu Zetian smiled and narrowed her eyes, although the amount of wealth of Lai Junchen was beyond her expectations, but such a lot of money, coupled with Li Yuanjia's huge wealth before, completely solved the huge military spending gap, she put away the list and asked, "Are they all here?"

"Back to Your Majesty, all of them are here, the money has been put into the inner treasury, and Weichen and his subordinates have not taken a penny without permission. ”

"Well done"

Wu Zetian said to Li Zhen with approval: "Commander Li is really my blessed general, how should I reward you?"

"It is the duty of a minister to serve His Majesty, and the minister does not dare and should not ask for a reward. ”

Wu Zetian nodded, "Li Qing is my good general, and he has made great contributions to me, although some people say that you have a little less qualifications, but I would rather be able to be a short minister, rather than a mediocre appearance, you go down to rest first, I will have a reward." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty"

Li Zhen retreated, Wu Zetian pondered for a moment, and drew a circle on the chapter of Lai Junchen.

The time gradually came to dusk, the wine shop on the left bank was noisy and lively, the guests were full, almost everyone was talking about the case of Lai Junchen, an old man said: "It is said that Lai Junchen has been condemned to death, I don't know if the Holy Lord can approve it." ”

"There should be no problem, everyone in the world shouts to kill Junchen, the saint will not lose the hearts of the people in the world for this cool official."

"Brother Liu, everyone knows this truth, but the saint has lived in the deep palace for a long time, she may not understand the people's feelings."

The crowd was gossiping, and someone shouted: "Even if we don't consider the thoughts of our small people, what about the hundred officials of the imperial court?

While everyone was discussing, suddenly a bartender rushed in like a gust of wind and shouted excitedly: "The latest news, Lai Junchen has been hanged outside the end gate."

The wine shop suddenly boiled, slapping the table and shouting, smashing glasses and plates, hugging and crying, and an old man looked up to the sky and cried, "My son's revenge has been avenged, and the sky has finally opened its eyes"

In an elegant room on the third floor, Li Zhen and Di Yan were sitting opposite each other drinking, when they heard a boiling shout outside, Di Yan pursed her lips and smiled: "Guess what's going on?"

Li Zhen smiled faintly, "If I'm not mistaken, it should be the news that Junchen was killed." ”

"Now you will become a hero in the hearts of Luoyang people, come to the little girl to toast you. Di Yan smiled and raised her glass and smiled.

Li Zhen raised his eyebrows and said leisurely: "Not only is it a hero in the hearts of Luoyang people, it should be a hero in the hearts of people all over the world." ”

"you cheeky and punish you with three glasses. ”

Li Zhen poured three glasses of wine, drank one by one, and said with a smile: "I don't drink when others toast, but I want to drink your penalty wine, isn't this just a toast and don't drink and drink a penalty wine?"

Di Yan covered her mouth and smiled, and said with joy: "If my father is here, he will definitely give you a glass of wine, and even my mother will praise you, when will you go to see her?"

Di Yan's eyes fluttered, and he looked at him expectantly and asked.

Li Zhen was overjoyed and hurriedly asked, "When is it better for me to go?"

"My grandmother won't be here tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, she will come to my house for dinner the night after tomorrow. ”

"Then what kind of greeting gift should I buy, or how about buying a fine silk?" Li Zhen asked with a smile again.

Di Yan's face suddenly turned red, according to Luoyang customs, the future son-in-law needs to offer a piece of silk to her mother-in-law for the first time, but she is very happy in her heart, she lowered her head and whispered: "Since you want to send it." It's up to you."

Li Zhen's heart was beating wildly, he slowly moved his seat, approached Di Yan, and was about to hug Di Yan's shoulder, but at this moment, the door was suddenly pushed open, and he saw the shopkeeper of the wine shop walking in with excitement on his face, kneeling down and kowtowing to Li Zhen, "Commander Li has eliminated Lai Junchen, please accept the villain's worship."

Li Zhen hurriedly walked to the door to help him up, and asked with a smile: "Could it be that Lai Junchen also did something hurtful to the shopkeeper?"

Shopkeeper Wang sighed and said: "Last year, Junchen inspected the people who talked about the Son of Heaven, arrested a few people in the small shop, and arrested the villain and squatted in prison for a few days, and the proprietor of my family spent two hundred yuan to ransom me, I witnessed how they killed the innocent, although I was not tortured, but I could hear that Junchen was killed, and I was also very grateful to Commander Li. ”