Tang Dynasty: The poisonous scholar in the Eastern Palace, please abdicate and let the wise one take

Chapter 127 The Imperial Court Minister died to show his determination!

royal palace.

Lu Chengqing and Sun Fujia came to Li Shimin in a hurry.

"See Your Majesty."

"You are in such a hurry to come to the palace to meet the emperor. What big thing has happened?"

Sun Fujia spoke without hesitation: "Your Majesty, Liu Li committed suicide out of fear of punishment!"

Lu Chengqing glanced at him and said nothing.

Li Shimin frowned. Sun Fujia directly sentenced Liu Li to commit suicide out of fear of punishment, which made Li Shimin more suspicious. "What is going on?"

Sun Fujia: "Your Majesty, I learned that Liu Li and Liu Zengshou's account books were on their way to Chang'an City, so I arranged for Yue Ming to lead a hundred elite troops to meet them."

"But we didn't expect to be ambushed halfway. The enemy had arranged 20 assassins on both sides of the official road. These people were holding crossbows that were strictly prohibited!"

"I lost eleven people in the Dali Temple, and just now I captured all these assassins alive. I didn't expect that they were all carefully trained assassins. Seeing that there was no way to survive, they bit their tongues and committed suicide."

Li Shimin's face turned pale, "Are you serious?"

Sun Fujia: "It is absolutely true. If there is even one untrue statement, I am willing to be punished."

Be nice.

This is a big deal.

Lu Chengqing, who had been watching from the sidelines, felt that something big was about to happen.

The dead soldiers are not scary, what is scary is the bows and crossbows in their hands.

Bows and crossbows, like armor, are prohibited items.

Armor can allow an ordinary person to have the ability to fight ten people at once, while a bow and crossbow can allow an ordinary person to have the ability to assassinate anyone!

Especially the death warriors are equipped with bows and crossbows!
If the people who kept these assassins had gone crazy and took advantage of His Majesty's absence to ambush them around...

hiss.

Lu Chengqing didn't dare to think about it any further.

Bang!
Li Shimin slammed the table and stood up, shouting angrily: "How dare you!"

"They actually dared to secretly hide bows and crossbows under the emperor's feet and dared to go against the court. I think they are fed up with it!"

"Lu Chengqing!"

"Chen is here!"

"As the prefect of Jingzhao Prefecture, why didn't you investigate this matter?!"

"..."

Lu Chengqing opened his mouth.

He was only thinking about the dangers of bows and crossbows, but forgot that these people were committing crimes right under his nose.

"I have failed in my duty. Your Majesty, please punish me!"

"Is punishment useful?"

Li Shimin snorted coldly, "I order you to investigate this matter thoroughly! Anyone who is involved in the private sale of bows and crossbows will be arrested and brought to justice!"

"The minister obeys the order!"

"Where is the account book?"

Li Shimin turned and looked at Sun Fujia.

Sun Fujia bowed and saluted, "Your Majesty, I was deceived and mistook the fake account book for the real one. Please punish me, Your Majesty."

Li Shimin: "???"

Lu Chengqing widened his eyes. Wow, you used a fake account book to catch so many big fish?

Even Liu Li was tricked to death by you? ?
"fake?"

"Yes……"

Sun Fujia was embarrassed. "But your majesty, there is indeed an account book between Liu Zengshou and Liu Li. This has been confirmed by Madam Liu, and I have also explained this in the memorial."

"But I don't know where this account book is hidden."

In the end, Sun Fujia did not tell anyone about the letter.

Because he knew that speaking out these things now would only make the matter more complicated.

It would be better to stop here.

Li Shimin: "..."

Li Shimin gritted his teeth and glared at Sun Fujia hatefully.

He spoke with confidence in the court, and Zhangsun Wuji, Gao Shilian and others spoke up for him one after another.

result.

It’s actually a fake!

I really don’t know where it is hidden!
Just when Li Shimin was about to explode, Sun Fujia spoke again: "Your Majesty, if I hadn't used this method, how would I have known that Liu Li's men actually had so many assassins and crossbows hidden?"

"Humph!"

Li Shimin snorted coldly, agreeing with Sun Fujia's words.

Turning to look at Lu Chengqing, Li Shimin said in a deep voice: "What do you want?"

Lu Chengqing took out the letter and said respectfully: "Your Majesty, this is a letter written by Lord Liu before his death. Please take a look." Written to me?

Li Shimin glanced at the four words "Your Majesty's personal letter" on the letter, frowned and opened the letter.

Lu Chengqing continued, "Your Majesty, according to the servants in Liu's house, before Lord Liu committed suicide, he shouted, "If you want to accuse someone, you can always find a pretext..."

Li Shimin raised his eyes slightly and glanced at Sun Fujia.

These words were obviously directed at Sun Fujia!
but.

When Li Shimin read the contents of the letter clearly, his expression became more solemn.

“How many people have read this letter?”

"Your Majesty, when I learned about this, I immediately led people to Liu's residence and personally checked and collected the letter. Apart from Your Majesty, there is absolutely no one else who wrote this."

Li Shimin nodded and held it under his hand.

"What do you think about the conspiracy between Liu Li and Liu Zengshou?"

"Your Majesty, although I have no evidence, all signs indicate that there is indeed an improper cooperative relationship between Liu Li and Liu Zengshou."

Sun Fujia spoke first, saying that Liu Li must be convicted, otherwise he would be suspected of framing his colleagues!
Lu Chengqing: "Your Majesty, I think it is still debatable whether Liu Li abused his power for personal gain and colluded with Liu Zengshou. Now that Liu Li is dead, the matter should be left alone."

Li Shimin snorted coldly and looked down at the letter in his hand.

Just leave it at that?

Even if Liu Li dies, he will drag a few people down with him!

In this suicide note, he not only accused Chu Suiliang of framing him innocently, but also accused Sun Fujia and even the crown prince of being accomplices!
Li Shimin pondered and said, "Liu Ji, the Imperial Court Minister, died to show his will. We should properly handle the aftermath."

"Lu Chengqing."

"I order you to appease the people in the Liu Mansion, select a top-quality coffin for Liu Li, and bury him with honor."

"The minister obeys the order."

"Go down."

Lu Chengqing bowed, turned around and left.

Li Shimin stared at Sun Fujia coldly, "Who trained those assassins? You should have an idea, right?"

Sun Fujia nodded hesitantly but said nothing.

"Go ahead."

"This……"

Seeing that Sun Fujia was unwilling to speak, Li Shimin raised the suicide note in his hand and said coldly: "Do you know what Liu Li wrote in this suicide note?"

Sun Fujia: "I haven't seen it, so I don't know."

Li Shimin said angrily: "He said that you and Chu Suiliang framed him and forced him to die to prove his integrity!"

"He said that the Crown Prince was the mastermind behind this, deliberately targeting the ministers who were on good terms with the King of Wei!"

hiss!
Sun Fujia's expression changed, and he knelt on the ground: "Your Majesty, please understand. Liu Li knew that he could not escape the death penalty, so he deliberately left this suicide note, accusing me and the prince without reason, just to make Your Majesty feel resentful!"

"Then tell me, did the assassins come from the Prince of Wei's Palace?"

"This……"

Sun Fujia sighed, "Indeed."

"I saw that they were determined to die, so I deliberately let one of them go and secretly monitored him. After this person went to the Prince of Wei's mansion, there were shouts from the Prince of Wei's mansion that the Prince of Wei was assassinated..."

Li Shimin interjected: "That man was hacked to death by random swords, right?"

"Your Majesty is wise."

call.

Li Shimin leaned back in his chair and couldn't help but sigh.

If a thorough investigation of the assassins was conducted, the King of Wei would inevitably be implicated. If Liu Li committed suicide out of fear of punishment, he would also become the unlucky one in the dispute between the Crown Prince and the King of Wei.

"Let's leave the matter of the dead soldiers alone, but we must investigate the matter of the bows and crossbows thoroughly!"

"Your Majesty is wise."

Sun Fujia breathed a sigh of relief.

The reason why he did not reveal the identity of the assassin at the first time was because of this worry.

Now it seems that Your Majesty agrees with his idea.

The assassins were Liu Li's men, and could only have been arranged by Liu Li, even though there was no evidence.

At the same time, because there is no evidence, Your Majesty must give some comfort on the surface and characterize the matter. As for the real situation, everyone just needs to know it in their hearts.

"If we find out who is illegally selling bows and crossbows..."

Li Shimin's cold voice rang in Sun Fujia's ears, "Lock him up in prison and execute him in the autumn. Don't tell me!"

"Chen Qing, Ji Yun, behead them immediately!"

"The minister obeys the order!"

Sun Fujia bowed and took his leave.

Li Shimin looked down at the suicide note and tore it into pieces in anger.

Liu Li.

You deserve to die!
(End of this chapter)