"Yan Shaoqing, let's talk about the previous case."

Zheng Shuqing said to Yan Zhenqing with an expressionless face.

Today's triage is not interesting, everything is going through the motions. Afterwards, An Lushan was placed under house arrest or even imprisoned, which is a sure thing.

Afterwards, An Lushan will be summoned by the saint, and then he will be grateful for the saint's "magnanimity" and "heart-to-heartedness". After that, An Lushan will be pardoned, and the case will be shelved due to insufficient evidence, but this does not prevent it from becoming a stain and hidden danger on An Lushan's career.

In the future, when Brother Ji wants to rectify An Lushan, he only needs to say that he has found new evidence in Pei Kuan's case, and he needs to go back to Chang'an to report on his work and assist in the investigation, and he doesn't even need to find additional reasons for his dismissal and investigation.

"Okay, Zheng Zhengqing."

Yan Zhenqing nodded slightly, suppressed the crookedness in her heart, opened a dossier and read:

On the second day of Pei Shangshu's assassination, Jin Wuwei arrested the suspect in a cake shop in Pingkangfang, and sent him to Dali Temple for interrogation by Zheng Zhengqing himself.

During this period, the suspect confessed that Li Linfu, the right minister, was the main envoy, and Fang Chongyong, the envoy of Hexi Jiedu who returned to Beijing to report on his work, planned the assassination as a whole, and then took advantage of the unpreparedness of the errand to hit the pillar and died.

At this point, the case came to a standstill.

Since there is only one side of the suspect, neither the right minister nor Fang Jieshuai is involved in the case. Today, I went to the Yamen of Dali Temple, but I just asked about the case. ”

Yan Zhenqing was not sure whether An Lushan had assassinated Pei Kuan, but he knew that Li Linfu and Fang Chongyong must be innocent in this case.

The last sentence is a comment he added privately.

In other words, the suspect's one-sided statement is simply not enough to charge the two. Li Linfu and Fang Chongyong are just "witnesses" in this case.

"Zheng Zhengqing, you will try the case, don't look at me. It is you who are judging, not me.

I'm here just to sit in on the facts, after all, this case has affected a prime minister and two envoys, so I'm just curious. ”

Ji Ge held a wooden-handled silk fan in his hand, kept shaking and said, looking like he was watching a play for a long time.

The fan, the fan surface is round, on which is painted a pair of flying birds, with flowers in the mouth, two mountains under the bird, and flowers on the upper part, which is very exquisite.

Hearing this, Fang Chongyong, who was present on the side, had a hard time resisting the urge to complain.

If he could, he really wanted to kill Brother Ji right now!

Maybe Li Linfu and An Lushan have similar thoughts now, but these two are the same as Fang Chongyong, their faces are cold and unsmiling, as if they have made an appointment.

"Yan Shaoqing, let's talk about the new progress of the case."

Zheng Shuqing commanded.

"Ten days ago, in Huaide Fang near Jinguangmen, there was a strong man in his thirties, Chen Lu, who died in a rented house. Many of the residents here are from other places, and their household registration is not in Chang'an.

Most of their occupations are related to funerals, and Chen Lu is no exception.

Later, after Jin Wuwei's investigation, this person used to be poor, but recently he suddenly made a generous move, and he didn't go to the coffin shop in Chonghuafang in the south to make coffins, and spent all day drinking, as if he had endless money.

Later, I heard from the neighbors and the owner that there was a Hebei man named Li Meng recently, who was very close to him and often came here.

After the soap officials of Wannian County arrested Li Meng, they interrogated him overnight and found that Li Meng still had the military status of the Pinglu Army! It's still on the books of the Ministry of War!

After Wannian County handed over Li Meng to Dali Temple for careful interrogation, the suspect not only confessed the fact of killing people, but also explained the purpose of the killing. ”

Speaking of this, Yan Zhenqing pointed at An Lushan and said: "Li Mengnai is the personal soldier of An Lushan, the envoy of Pinglu Jiedu, and he came to Chang'an to kill people and destroy his mouth, which is to eliminate the human and physical evidence that assassinated Pei Kuan, the secretary of the household department!" An Jieshuai, don't you have anything to explain? ”

What am I going to explain?

An Lushan looked confused, he never expected that a cauldron would fall from the sky in such a ridiculous way. The person who planted the false accusation doesn't even want to delve into the basic logical relationship!

He secretly cursed in his heart, if this matter was really planned by himself, after the murder was successful, the assassination team would definitely withdraw from Chang'an, and then all of them would be wiped out by themselves, and the corpses would be destroyed!

Can you still let these people stay in Chang'an and let Jin Wuwei catch people?

"Well, that's a strange thing.

An Lushan, you also tell me what's going on.

Could it be that Dali Temple has wronged you? ”

Ji Ge pointed at An Lushan with a fan and asked.

"Weichen, Weichen is wronged!"

An Lushan didn't say much nonsense, he knelt on the ground and cried bitterly! Fang Chongyong felt that maybe An Lushan shouldn't have cried like this when his mother died. From hearing the slander to crying, it was only a second or two!

An actor's self-cultivation!

Looking at the absurd scene in front of him quietly, a question flashed in Fang Chongyong's heart: Should An Fat Fat think that he could cry by crying today, right?

Looking at this posture, Brother Ji even prepared a package for him, and he directly found the two or five boys in the Pinglu Army!

Fang Chongyong didn't know how Brother Ji operated, but from the perspective of the emperor's power and the resources he controlled, it was not difficult to plant a jiedu envoy.

"Take someone to commit Li Meng."

Yan Zhenqing shouted.

Soon, a coarse linen and unkempt prisoner was brought into the yamen hall of Dali Temple and knelt in front of everyone.

"Li Meng, is the person who instructed you to kill people and kill people in the hall now? You point it out! ”

Yan Zhenqing said in a stern and calm tone.

"It's him! That's him! Pinglu Jiedu makes An Lushan!

It was he who instructed me to kill people and kill people, Chen Lu planned to assassinate Pei Kuan, the head of the household department, and then stayed in Chang'an and did not return to Yingzhou, so An Lushan asked me to go to Chang'an to kill the mouth. Only when he dies will he not confess An Lushan. ”

The suspect named Li Meng, his eyes were fixed on An Lushan, and he pointed at him and yelled!

There was silence in the yamen hall of Dali Temple, and even An Lushan, who was kneeling and crying, was stunned and did not speak.

At this moment, Fang Chongyong had completely understood Ji Ge's routine.

In a previous life, whether it was a professional film critic or an ordinary person who only occasionally turned on the TV or computer and casually watched the movie video, didn't they know that the movie was fake?

That's what you know. In fact, there is no need to answer this question at all, and no matter how "real" a movie is, it must be fake.

Just like the obvious case in front of him, whether it is true or false, there is no need to pursue it at all.

In ancient times, the chain of evidence in the case could not withstand scrutiny, and there was no physical evidence in this case.

Even if there is, it is difficult to determine the merits without professional technology to detect fingerprints, hair, DNA, etc.

How to prove one's innocence was a very headache in Fang Chongyong's previous life, let alone in ancient times?

Unfortunately, this is not an era of truth and reason. It doesn't matter if An Lushan has done it or not, what matters is what Brother Ji thinks.

"Li Meng, the stakes are very high, if I find out that you are planting blame, then I will punish the three clans!"

Brother Ji scolded the suspect angrily with a tiger face.

"Back to saints, sinners dare not lie. Regarding the identity of a certain person, you can find out the authenticity at a glance. ”

Li Mengfu knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Brother Ji and said.

"Sage, this person used to be a personal soldier when Zuo Xiang served as the envoy of the Pinglu Festival, and after Weichen took office, he changed his personal soldiers, and he only had a one-sided relationship.

This person must have a grudge because of this, so he blamed the ministers and asked the saint to see it. ”

An Lushan Shi Shiran said, not panicked on his face.

In the past, Li Shizhi served as the envoy of the Pinglu Festival, and many of the soldiers around him were actually Fang Youde's cronies. It was the elite who followed Fang Youde to the Bohai Kingdom together, and this Li Meng was one of them.

However, after An Lushan served as the envoy of the Pinglu Festival, he replaced all the personal soldiers around him with the Hu people of his own tribe, and Shi Siming served as the captain of the personal soldiers.

So from this point of view, An Lushan did not lie.

"Is there such a thing?"

Brother Ji looked at Zheng Shuqing and asked.

"Hui saints, these are just two sides of the story. But Li Mengjun is in the Pinglu Army, and he still hasn't retired, which is ironclad.

Wechen can only find these. ”

Zheng Shuqing saluted to Ji Ge and said, already implying that An Lushan could not clear his suspicion at all.

From his words, it can be seen that Li Meng's military registration is in Pinglu, and he is a Long March athlete, and there is this person in the military department. And this person should still be in service, and has not been reported dead or missing. Then Li Meng's words have considerable credibility.

An Lushan needs to provide stronger evidence to "prove his innocence".

As for the pro-soldiers or something, the account books of the military department will not record them in detail, and the pro-soldiers and ordinary soldiers are actually only relative to the personal relationship of some generals, and there is no so-called "professional" pro-soldier at all.

Take An Lushan's words just now, does the ghost know if An Lushan deliberately alienated a cronie and let him use it as a secret chess piece to "do black work"?

In the Tang Dynasty, there were no cameras or tape recorders, and anyway, there was no proof of death, and it was just a matter of speaking with one mouth. An Lushan couldn't prove that he had nothing to do with this suspect, but the copywriting provided by the Ministry of War was enough to show that this person was now a member of the Pinglu Army!

Similar things are very dependent on "subjective judgment", the Son of Heaven said that you have it, and the Son of Heaven said that if you don't, you don't have it!

An Lushan lowered his head, and the thief's eyes rolled wildly.

The development of things is actually inseparable from what Zhang Tongru had speculated before. If this development continues, the next thing is for the Son of Heaven to come out and "play a round", saying that the evidence is insufficient and that he cannot be imprisoned casually, and then find a secluded residence in Chang'an to put himself under house arrest.

An Lushan doesn't want this to happen!

Thinking of this, An Lushan suddenly saluted Ji Ge, then knelt on the ground and cried loudly:

"Sage, Weichen wants to explain that the assassin who assassinated Pei Shangshu should have come from the Hexi Border Army!

It's the people of the Doulu Army! It is inseparable from the Shazhou Thorn Shi Fang Chongyong at that time!

Now another cronie of Fang Youde has come out!

This is the Fang family's father and son teaming up, wanting to frame the blame for Weichen. They want to control all the border troops of my Datang, and then plot to rebel!

Weichen is the thorn in their eyes, please sage to see! ”

Huh?

Everyone present was shocked, and they were all frightened by An Lushan's words!

Brother Ji's old face was as black as the bottom of a pot, and he was trembling with anger! This is the first time that someone dares to expose those unspeakable scandals in front of him!

Well, if you don't count the Shouwang Li Xuan.

Of course, Li Meng is Fang Youde's old department, but these things were personally deployed by Brother Ji, and he just borrowed Fang Youde's interpersonal relationships. After all, he, the emperor, is not out of the gate, and of course it is impossible to know a specific soldier in the border army.

An Lushan said that just now, and it was clear that he was deliberately slapping his face! Brother Ji didn't believe that An Lushan couldn't understand this play!

This miscellaneous beard, he even dared to resist!

At this moment, Fang Chongyong, who was still sitting still just now, stood up and ran to An Lushan's side with a brisk walk, and kicked the other party's face directly!

An Lushan was like a ball of meat, after rolling on the ground a few times, he leaned against the wall, and he was dizzy and hadn't come back to his senses!

This kick was not enough to relieve his anger, Fang Chongyong rushed over and kept kicking An Lushan's fat belly hard. The latter desperately clutched his stomach and struggled to get up from the ground!

The soap official in the yamen of Dali Temple hurriedly rushed over at the same time to grab Fang Chongyong, and after An Lushan got up, he flew over again, and the two scuffled together, and the scene was suddenly chaotic!

"Enough!"

Brother Kee yelled!

Soon, Fang Chongyong was pulled by Zheng Shuqing, An Lushan was pulled by Yan Zhenqing, and there were five or six soap officials between the two of them, separating the two. Fang Chongyong just got a punch at the corner of his mouth, and he was just a little bruised. But An Lushan doesn't look so lucky, his already fat face is now even more blue and swollen and beaten into a pig's head.

"You are the envoys of the imperial court, how can you be like a street thug, fists and feet in front of me!"

Brother Ji looked at Fang Chongyong with a dark face, then looked at An Lushan, and couldn't help but roar angrily.

"Saint, a soldier can be killed but not humiliated, my father and son's loyalty to the saint can be seen by the sun and the moon, and this miscellaneous thief cannot be slandered!"

Fang Chongyong pointed at An Lushan and scolded.

"Sage, a certain loyalty to you is like a Tianshan Mountain like Kunlun, and Weichen wants to duel with this thief! Please saints don't stop Wechen.

Fang thief! Tomorrow Ye Ye will be waiting for you on Suzaku Street outside the gate of the Imperial City, without swords, fists and feet in hand-to-hand combat, never to the death!

Do you dare to fight! ”

An Lushan scolded back.

"Why don't you dare! Sage, let Wechen kill this miscellaneous thief! ”

Fang Chongyong replied not to be outdone, spitting fragrant mouth.

In the Tang Dynasty, it was not uncommon for people to fight when they disagreed, but they were often encountered. Happiness and revenge itself were the mainstream ideas of that time.

Although the two festival envoys are outrageous in the street, their brave and fearless martial spirit can resonate well in society.

The festival envoy himself is the one who leads the troops to fight. If they don't even dare to fight, who can believe that they can lead troops to defend the country?

In other words, although the big fight of the officials is a sweep of the floor, it can be eaten by everyone from the civil and military officials to the heads of the common people.

This is indeed a very majestic, simple and crude solution.

"Alas, you are all officials of the imperial court, what kind of system is it like this!

They are all my ministers, and if I hurt any of them, I will be heartbroken! ”

Brother Ji sighed and said, but there was a vague flash of smugness on his face, and he disappeared.

An Lushan's move successfully changed the topic, and now everyone is worried about whether to let these two Jiedu envoys fight in the street to settle their grievances, and they have no intention of pursuing An Lushan's master's subordinates to Chang'an to kill people.

"Saint, man lives with a face. Reputation is a matter of life and death!

An Lushan slandered my father and son as rebellious ministers and thieves, this name is not right, and he is not human.

Please fulfill the saint, a certain grievance with An Lushan, there must be a saying. Wechen is willing to fight with him in public, regardless of life and death! ”

Fang Chongyong knelt down on one knee and asked for battle.

This kind of playing in the ring was very common in the Tang Dynasty, but there were not many simple hand-to-hand combat without the help of weapons and armor.

"Saint, the same is true of Weichen!"

An Lushan also knelt down on one knee and said.

"Good! Three days later, I set up a ring on Suzaku Street outside the gate of the Imperial City, and the two of them went to the stage to fight, without a sword or armor.

After this war, all grievances were written off! That's all for today's case, you two can go back and prepare! ”

Brother Ji waved his hand, turned around and left the Yamen Hall of Dali Temple.

Fang Chongyong stood up, glanced at An Lushan, put his hand on his neck, and made a throat-slitting gesture.

(End of chapter)