Li Jing got the best jadeite, let the best craftsman, carve a seal for him, and the rest of the jadeite, Li Jing planned to reward the minister.

Such a good thing, it is natural to set up a banquet, invite everyone to be happy together, and by the way, let everyone also appreciate the beauty of jadeite.

The banquet was held in the evening, and the princes and nobles who received the invitation, and the ministers of civil and military affairs, rushed to the Linde Hall one after another.

The hall was built in the reign of Emperor Gaozong Linde, and was a place for the emperor's banquet, informal reception and entertainment, and it was also the venue for the banquet.

Why should the banquet be held at night, mainly because you need to work during the day, there is no reason why a group of royal princes and nobles, civil and military ministers have a party during the day, but the people below are still tired and tired!

As an emperor who has always paid attention to treating everyone equally, how could he allow such an unjust situation to happen, except for the emperor himself, of course.

Therefore, this party body is selected to be carried out at night, go to work normally during the day, open the party body at night to relax and relax, after the party, go back to sleep well, and get up the next day is full of energy.

Everyone was happy to drink, and Li Jing asked people to take out the jade seal for everyone to see.

After seeing it, everyone was amazed and praised the jadeite.

They had never seen jade of such a good texture, its texture was delicate and pure, without a single blemish.

The color of jadeite is pure, bright, rich and uniform emerald green, and under the irradiation of light, it is transparent, and the sound quality of striking jadeite is crisp.

"I really didn't expect that the small barbarian country of Bi Country would have such a good treasure."

A minister couldn't put it down, his eyes exuded a greedy light, and finally reluctantly passed the jade seal to the next person to watch.

In the end, the jade seal returned to Li Jing's hands, and looking at the envious eyes of everyone, Li Jing smiled with satisfaction.

"I heard that since Empress Wu came to power, Zhou Xing and Lai Junchen framed the ministers of the court and the central government for rebellion, which was very involved, and Empress Wu turned a blind eye to it, so that many loyal ministers were murdered." 33

"Didn't these people who were falsely accused think of pleading to the Empress Wu, and didn't the Empress Wu allow them to report and denounce?"

Li Jing took back the jade seal, and the conversation changed sharply, talking about the instability of the court caused by the reign of Empress Wu under the politics of cool officials.

During the reign of Empress Wu, he made a copper squeam, placed it in front of the eastern capital palace, accepted his subordinates at any time, and opened the wind of whistleblowing, anyone could tell the secret, and it could not be stopped.

Could it be that those who were falsely accused by Zhou Xing and Lai Junchen, his relatives and friends, would not denounce Zhou Xing and Lai Junchen?

The originally lively Lin De Hall suddenly quieted down.

Everyone is speculating, what is Li Jing suddenly mentioning this for?

How can it be so decent, and suddenly bring up the old thing, this is not in someone else's scar?

In Li Jing's words, he focused on the inaction of the Empress Wu, which led to the tragic death of many people at the hands of cool officials.

"Most of the people who have been convicted of plotting against the dead since the vertical arch are pulled by Zhou and Lai, in order to invite merit and receive rewards."

"At that time, Empress Wu was bent on eradicating dissidents, and anyone who might threaten her, even if it was chasing the wind and shadows, would never let go."

"It was at this time that the cool officials appeared, Zhou Xing and Lai Junchen also collected money for themselves in order to invite merit, fabricated the crime of rebellion, and forced the ministers of the court to death, and the Empress Wu turned a blind eye to this matter."

Someone stood up and said.

At that time, in order to be able to ascend the throne, Empress Wu carried out a purge of some heroes loyal to the Tang Dynasty, which led to many people being implicated.

Some people have only talked to loyal ministers before, or have met, and they have been blacklisted and purged, because the military queen is suspicious.

She was worried that these people might collude with those who opposed her, and she would rather kill the wrong person than let it go, even if she looked at anyone who opposed her, they should all be executed.

Cool officials Zhou Xing, Lai Junchen and others took the opportunity to falsely accuse innocent people, as long as they said that the other party had rebelled, the Empress Wu would hand over these people to Zhou Xing and others for interrogation.

Zhou Xing, Lai Junchen and others took advantage of the use of torture, and the falsely accused could not bear the torture, and in the end they could only torture themselves and sign the confession paper.

"Could it be that the Empress Wu has not sent someone to verify? Are there any unjust, false and wrongful convictions in this? ”

Li Jing asked again.

Although Empress Wu has a grudge against his family, her political skills are still very good, how can she believe in the words of the cool official?

Is it because she opposes her, so no matter whether the other party is wronged or not, as long as it is linked to the anti-her, whether it is true or not, she would rather kill them all than find out whether she is wronged or not.

"Empress Wu did send someone to verify it, but Empress Wu's close ministers, with Zhou Xing, Lai Junchen and others, how could they overturn the case for others?"

"Those who have been unjustly imprisoned will be subjected to more severe torture if they do not accept their confessions, which makes life worse than death, and in such a case, it is better to die quickly."

"Di Xiang has also been framed by the cool officials, has learned the punishment of the cool officials, and once wrote a confession, if Di Xiang's son risked death to admonish the martial queen, Di Xiang is afraid that he has already become a dry bone in the grave."

The minister just now said again.

The atmosphere of the banquet became more solemn, many of these ministers had been framed by the cool officials, and many of them could not stand the torture and had to choose to confess.

They are lucky to have survived until now, but their relatives and friends are not so lucky, and many of them have died at the hands of cool officials.

Not only were the families ruined, their wives separated, and even the Nine Clans suffered, and their family wealth was all embezzled by the cool officials.

The cool officials were the shadow that they once lingered over, and even now they thought about it, they were terrified.

They don't want to go through that kind of suffering again, it's so painful that even if they just think about it, they can't help but tremble.

"I see, I have also used cool officials, is there such an unjust, false and wrongful case?"

Li Jing asked again.

"The sage was discerning, and although he had used the cool officials, he found it in time and did not cause any major damage, so there was no chaos when he was the queen of the martial arts."

"This is also a minister's request for a saint, to be able to listen to both, only by listening to the opinions of others, will not be taken advantage of by people with bad intentions!"

"Since the sage governed the Tang Dynasty, the four seas have been peaceful, people have been able to live and work in peace and contentment, politics is clear, and all sages have been able to listen to the opinions of their subordinates."

Yao Chong opened his mouth to comment, thinking that Li Jing was still doing well, and Datang was indeed leveling down.

"Aiqing, your analysis is deeply in line with my intentions, I hope that in the future, you Aiqing, if you have any good words, you can speak to me bluntly!"

Yao Chong's words made Li Jing very happy and rewarded Yao Chong with thousands of copper coins.

Some people died, but not completely......