An hour later, Li Shen took Dang Renhong back to his camp,

Li Shen asked someone to take Dang Renhong to his big tent,

"Tie Niu untied Guangdu Gong."

Guangdu Gong is the title of Dang Renhong, but the title of this Guogong can't be called for long.

The guards stepped forward to help Dang Renhong loosen his ties, Dang Renhong moved his hands and feet, looked at Li Shen in front of him, and then looked at the iron bull beside Li Shen,

Li Shen seems to be generous and selfless to loosen his bonds, but in fact, he is not afraid of any tricks he has at all, this is Li Shen showing him strength.

As far as a few guards around Li Shen were concerned, they could easily chop Dang Renhong into mashed meat.

Not to mention that there is a stupid big man standing next to him, such a big meat shield, a wave of arrows can't pierce it.

"Come, Guangdu Gong, sit down and drink tea." Li Shen raised his hand and motioned to pour tea for Dang Renhong.

"Thank you, Lord Wang."

"Guangdu Gong, you can be regarded as the hero of the founding of the country, how can you fall to such a point?" Li Shen took a sip of tea,

"His Royal Highness King Ji, although you are smart, you are also young, don't say a lot of things, become a king or lose a villain, since you have captured me, there is full evidence,

If you want to kill, you have to listen to the respect, but it's a pity that I have affected my family. ”

Dang Renhong also accepted his fate,

"Dang Renhong receives the order~~" Li Shen didn't say anything, but took out the letter that Li Shimin gave him when he was leaving.

In fact, it was not a holy decree, but Li Shen felt that as long as it was written by Li Shimin, it was a holy decree, and he had not read the content, so he read it according to the holy decree.

Dang Renhong was stunned for a moment, and then immediately stood up, knelt three times and bowed nine times, kneeling to welcome the holy decree, according to the provisions of the Tang law, all civil and military generals who descended the holy decree in the early Tang Dynasty must perform three kneels and nine knocks.

Bowing down to the Holy Decree was a unique way of respecting imperial power during the Tang Dynasty. It is to respect the imperial power and embody the loyalty and obedience of the courtiers.

Li Shen unfolded the letter, which was written by Li Shimin to Dang Renhong.

The content is also relatively simple, and Li Shen began to read the first sentence in Li Shimin's tone:

"Dang Renhong, you make me sad so much!"

One sentence made Dang Renhong cry, and he knocked his head to the ground and cried:

"Your Majesty, the old minister is wrong, the old minister knows that he is wrong~~~"

Li Shen was also a little sad when he cried, he could feel his father's mood when he asked this sentence, how could his old buddy not make his father sad when he did such a thing.

He can also see that Dang Renhong's crying is also out of sincerity, and the tears can't stop flowing, which includes guilt for Li Shimin and guilt for himself.

"Since the Taiyuan Uprising, how many people have died and how much blood we have shed, isn't it because the court is not like the court, and the people are not like the people. What is the difference between what you are doing now and what you are doing with Tyranny? ”

Li Shen continued,

Dang Renhong kowtowed again:

"It's not that the minister didn't think of this layer, but what he thought was that after nine deaths and one life, he should enjoy it, and when he saw that the court was not enough, he ......"

The more you talk, the quieter it becomes, and in the end you can't go on.

"Dang Renhong, you are so disregarding the law of the country, doing whatever you want, as the official of the imperial court, harming the people, corrupting the law, you are innocent of death.

It's just that your party Renhong's family, for the sake of my Li Tang's Jiangshan Sheji, has two sons who died on the battlefield.

Your eldest son died at the Battle of Xueju. We were ambushed, and Xue Ju's platoon of arrows was the first to pierce your eldest son.

There were more than a dozen arrows all over his body. You lie on your son's body and lick the blood off your son's face with your tongue. Turned around and got on the horse, and went to kill again.

In the fifth year of Wude, under the city of Luoyang, we fought with Wang Shichong, and you came to me with your injured son in your arms, pierced through the chest by a spear, and was dying.

I took him, but you still didn't speak, and continued to kill. The second child was in my arms, and his voice said intermittently: "I can't fulfill my filial piety, and I want me to take care of his father." I said yes.

He died in my arms. The two children died for the sake of the Tang Dynasty,

Have you forgotten all this?

But now, you have disregarded the law of the land and harmed the people, this is a capital crime, are you worthy of your two sons?

I, Li Shimin, have killed countless people on the battlefield, but I really can't bear your party Renhong. ”

Li Shen read out Li Shimin's words in one go, and his tone was exactly the same as his father's,

And Dang Renhong was already crying silently at this time, and he was paralyzed on the ground.

Li Shimin's words poked at his weakest place over the years, his two sons who died in battle, although now he has a queen,

But his two sons are his pride and his pain.

After a while, Dang Renhong eased up a little, and he couldn't stop kowtowing and crying:

"The old minister is ashamed of Your Majesty, ashamed of the Tang Dynasty, and ashamed of my poor child,

The minister is guilty, the minister deserves to die, the minister deserves to die~~"

"Come, go and bring the king's whip." Li Shen stood up and commanded.

Then he walked up to Dang Renhong and handed him the letter.

"Dang Renhong, the next words, you can see for yourself."

The following information is inconvenient to say, and it is also something that cannot be passed on, so the fewer people who know it, the better.

Dang Renhong barely straightened up, but still knelt to accept the letter handed by Li Shen.

The content is: If I hadn't known about your crime in advance, if it had spread to Chang'an, you would have died.

I don't want to kill you, for the sake of your two sons, so I sent my son to save you, which can be regarded as repaying your family's last wish.

I let your whole family have a way to live, you are demoted to a commoner, and you are sent to the fifth child, and you can go to the land of the fifth child.

Dang Renhong, you made me sad too much, I asked my son to give you fifty lashes instead of me.

In the future, I will do it myself.

This letter is gone.

And when Dang Renhong learned that Li Shimin wanted to spare his life, he began to cry again.

Of course, he knew how much pressure this matter had on Li Shimin, and if he was reported to Chang'an, then everything would have to be done according to the law.

Even if it's the emperor, otherwise it would really be no country and no family.

He also understood that it turned out that His Majesty asked his son to rescue him before he committed the crime, which was private.

"Sinners, Dang Renhong, kneel down and thank Your Majesty Longen." As he spoke, he kowtowed nine times to Li Shimin's letter.

For him, apart from no glory and wealth, there is no culpability at all, and his family is not implicated.

It's just that he went to Li You to be a farmer, which is already a great kindness.

It was bought at the cost of his own son's life.

"Dang Renhong, you also saw what I mean, you can do it yourself, come and set him up."

Li Shen ordered people to tie up Dang Renhong.

"Wait." Dang Renhong got up and shouted.

Li Shen was a little puzzled, what's the matter, do you want to resist the decree, or do you want to intercede with this king.