I, the military god of the Tang Dynasty, have risen since I destroyed the Turks

Chapter 458: Solving the Child Trafficking Case

"What happened?"

"What are you doing?"

The Crown Prince's edict.

"No one is allowed to fight in the market. If anyone is caught, they will be taken to the government office immediately."

The leading officer saw Zhao Ming suppressing the man at the stall and immediately scolded him.

At this time.

Li Zheng stood up slowly.

He turned and looked at the officer.

When I saw Li Zheng's appearance.

The officer was stunned.

He looked at Li Shimin behind Li Zheng and was even more surprised.

Kneel down immediately.

"See the Emperor."

"See His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

The officer shouted loudly, appearing very respectful and fearful.

The officers behind him did the same and immediately knelt down.

The people around were all shocked when they heard this.

"emperor?"

"Your Highness the Crown Prince?"

All the people were shocked when they saw the figures of the old man and the young boy.

Subsequently.

No one dared to hesitate, and all knelt down, "Your Highness, Your Highness, Your Highness, Your Highness."

Everyone around knelt down.

"Be flat."

Li Shimin nodded slightly and looked at the man at the stall. At this moment, a look of anger appeared on his face.

"Your Majesty, Crown Prince..."

At this moment, the man at the stall who was pressed to the ground by Zhao Ming was also panicked, with a look of fear on his face.

"Liu Lin."

Li Zheng said coldly.

"The minister is here."

Liu Lin responded immediately.

"Immediately search all markets, even throughout Chang'an City, and arrest anyone who uses children to defraud people of their money immediately." Li Zheng said coldly.

"Yes." Liu Lin ran over immediately.

"I'll give you one more chance to speak." Li Zheng said to the man at the stall.

"Please spare my life, Crown Prince."

"Yes... they are not my nephews. They are children we stole from Shanxi Prefecture. I will confess, everything." The man at the stall was extremely terrified.

"Hand him over to the Ministry of Justice and make him confess everything."

"Take these two children back to the inn temporarily and have someone take good care of them." Li Zheng said in a deep voice.

Done.

Li Zheng turned around and walked to Li Shimin.

"Father."

"I didn't expect that the young son would be sold in Chang'an City."

"They dare to do this under the feet of the emperor, let alone other places in our Tang Dynasty." Li Zheng said.

Li Shimin nodded, his face full of sternness, "To treat a young child like this, to steal a young child, is an unforgivable crime."

"I will immediately issue an order to have the Ministry of Justice search the country. If anyone is found, he will be executed by slow slicing and his entire family will be implicated."

Li Shimin spoke loudly.

The man at the stall turned pale.

Subsequently.

The personal guards and imperial guards hiding in the dark immediately made way, and Li Shimin and Li Zheng also left quickly.

My good mood was interrupted because of this incident.

After today.

As luck would have it, they were seen by Li Shimin and Li Zheng, which inevitably led to a bloody storm against the human traffickers.

And they brought this upon themselves.

No matter what era they are from, they deserve to die.

……

The next day.

In the court. "Kneel."

Wang De shouted loudly, and his voice echoed throughout the court.

"Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you. May you live long, long, long, long."

"Your Highness, I pay my respects to you. May your Highness live a thousand years, a thousand years, a thousand thousand years."

All the civil and military officials in the court surrendered to the ground and shouted in unison.

The court was extremely solemn.

This is the current situation of the Tang Dynasty.

"Flat body."

Li Shimin raised his hand and shouted in a stern voice.

All the civil and military officials in the court stood up.

A few months have passed, and now the court has been completely transformed.

In the past, Chen Jing, Wang Tao, Kong Xian and more than a dozen court ministers were forced out by Li Zheng because of party disputes. Now, all those vacant positions have been filled.

The Minister of Revenue Qin Jiansheng and the Minister of Rites Chen Shubao.

There were also many ministers, all of whom were promoted by Li Zheng himself. Among the officials in the court, Li Zheng personally arranged more than a dozen ministers.

They are also Li Zheng’s first team.

"Something seems wrong today."

When all the officials looked up and saw the indifferent expression on Li Shimin's face, as well as Li Zheng's, they all realized that today's court meeting might not be simple.

"yesterday."

"I went into the civilian world with Li Zheng and saw something."

"If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I really wouldn't have believed that such a thing could happen in my city of Chang'an, right under my nose."

"In Chang'an, they dare to do this, so what is the situation outside of Chang'an?"

Li Shimin glanced at the court and said coldly.

"May I ask your Majesty, what exactly happened?"

"Did we do something wrong to anger the emperor?"

"Your Majesty, please let me know."

The ministers spoke one after another, all with puzzled looks on their faces.

"Zhang Gongjin, please tell them about it."

"I, why am I angry?" Li Shimin waved his hand and said to the Minister of Justice Zhang Gongjin.

"Old minister accepts the order."

Zhang Gongjin bowed and immediately stood in the hall. Looking at the civil and military officials, he said loudly, "There are human traffickers in Chang'an. They are stealing children from other prefectures and counties, and even forcibly snatching young children, and then taking them to other prefectures and counties to sell them."

"In addition to trafficking, they also broke hands and feet, dug out eyes, cut out tongues, and used the injuries of young children to deceive people into sympathy and money."

"Yesterday, in Chang'an alone, we captured eighteen such people. Each of them had forced a young child. The young children were tortured by them and were covered in wounds. Almost none of them survived."

"According to the investigation by the Criminal Department, they are a gang of repeat offenders."

"They make money by trafficking children." Zhang Gongjin said loudly.

Hear this.

The faces of all the officials in the court changed.

These things.

Perhaps some officials in the court had heard of it, but some had never heard of such a bad way of making money.

"Such behavior is extremely heinous."

"I suggest."

"Such evildoers should be put to death by slow slicing."

Qin Jiansheng stood up, looking indignant.

"Not only should they be executed by slow slicing, but their entire clan should also be exterminated."

"Only in this way can we shock the world and prevent such things from happening again." Chen Xuanli also spoke immediately.

"I second the proposal."

"The evildoers will be executed by slow slicing and their clan will be exterminated."

"Shock the world and prevent this kind of thing from happening again."

All the civil and military officials in the court shouted in unison.

Most of the people standing in the court have children. Perhaps they are in high positions, but this kind of behavior is really unheard of. Even if there are domineering people among them who want to accumulate wealth, most of them will not do such a thing as it is too against the harmony of nature.

"Go on." Li Shimin stared at Zhang Gongjin and said.

Apart from that.

"These people have all confessed in the Ministry of Justice. Many of them are mountain bandits and local gangsters, and some clerks and runners in the government offices are also in collusion with them, issuing travel permits to allow them to roam around." Zhang Gongjin said again.

"Investigate, investigate thoroughly for me."

"If I find one person, I will torture him to death, and I will also behead his entire family as a warning to the public."

Li Shimin said viciously.

(End of this chapter)