Li You's Tang Dynasty

Chapter 788 The First Female Emperor
When Wu Zetian was 61 years old, she set up whistle-blower boxes throughout the capital to encourage officials and people to report.The local officials were ordered to say that if there are informers from various places in Beijing, the local officials should not ask about the content of the report in detail, and they must send post horses to escort them to the capital in time.The meritorious whistleblowers can even be awarded titles, and ordinary people will also be rewarded. Some whistleblowers are even summoned by her personally.

At that time, Yin Lichun, Hua Zhang, and Hou Xiong, governors of Chuanxi Road in Yizhou, were corrupt and colluded with Ma Han, an evil force, to overthrow good port houses in the city and rebuild commercial roads, profiting from it, causing casualties to the masses.

The victim recommended Mrs. Xu and several others to go to Beijing to sue.This group panicked and dispatched multiple minions to intercept the visit. Mrs. Xu and other properties were invaded and her relatives died young. They were full of grief and indignation but cautiously went out day and night, and went to the border of Hanzhong, but they were still discovered by Li's minions. I was arrested, and I was not given water or food along the way, and I could only get off the car at night to eat.

Even Kang Zhuang, a justice lawyer from Huayang who helped them write the pleadings, was arrested and imprisoned for ten days.

They have even trained informers to focus on monitoring the petitioners. Whenever there is trouble, they will go to the door and stay there. First, they will agree to the appeals of the petitioners. not now.

This culture quickly spread to the whole country, so intercepting interviews became an art, which has been multiplied and passed down, and has been carried forward.

This whistleblowing is an extremely shameless act, a behavior that normal human society despises, and a breakthrough of human conscience and bottom line. Once it is destroyed, morality will be difficult to restore in this nation.

When the supreme ruler advocates and encourages whistleblowing, it must be one of the external indicators that there are many domestic conflicts and the country's foundation is unstable.This also reflects the ruler's extreme lack of self-confidence, and wants to suppress the raging public opinion through extrajudicial high pressure.

If Wu Zetian wanted to move Li You, he could only use this kind of unconfident method, but ever since Wu Zetian spread this method, no one dared to come and tell the truth, not to mention the people who were close to Li You, but those who were not close to Li You No one dared to inform Wu Zetian to her.

No matter what high salary Wu Zetian gave to any high-ranking official, no one dared to tell the truth, so Wu Zetian was very depressed. However, apart from this bad news, there was another piece of good news, that was when Wu Zetian sent Xu Jingzong to contact Changsun Wuji, Xu Jingzong quickly joined Changsun Wuji.

On the same day, Xu Jingzong and Changsun Wuji talked in the secret room for about half an hour. Finally, Changsun Wuji stated his own conditions. It is okay to let him and Wu Zetian deal with Li You together, but if Li You is killed, then he Changsun Wuji will add Jiuxi.

Finally, when Xu Jingzong came back to report, after hearing Changsun Wuji's request, Wu Zetian also showed a faint smile. She can now be sure that this Changsun Wuji really wants to cooperate. As long as Li You can be eliminated, Wu Zetian will not Don't mind giving Changsun Wuji the title of vice emperor. At that time, Wu Zetian believed that he could directly boil Changsun Wuji to death by boiling frogs in warm water.

So soon, Wu Zetian asked Xu Jingzong to take the lead, and he could agree to Changsun Wuji's conditions. After getting Wu Zetian's approval, Changsun Wuji also gave a positive reply, that is, he would definitely stand on Wu Zetian's side.

In this way, everything was ready, and now the informer was missing, and while Wu Zetian was waiting for the informer, a barbarian came into Wu Zetian's field of vision.

Who is this barbarian? He is the famous Suo Yuanli. Compared with the later Lai Junchen and Zhou Xing, this Suo Yuanli was the first person to serve Wu Zetian.

This guy may have some kind of mental illness, his temperament is cruel and violent, and he is capable of framing others with false accusations. Thousands of souls died at the hands of Suo Yuanli.

The first case he handled was that of Yu Baojia.Suo Yuanli invented two magic weapons for extorting confessions by torture: the prison guard and the prisoner.

When Yu Bao's family refused to confess, Suo Yuanli yelled: "Come on! Take my iron cage!" I saw a small opening on the top that could only hold the head, and a thick one next to it. Small wooden prongs, iron cages used to "wedge" various parts of the inmate's head were carried over.This novel instrument of torture immediately frightened Yu Baojia into confessing and was sentenced to death.

Later, "Come on! Take my iron cage!" became Suo Yuanli's catchphrase, making people terrified and terrified.

"It's time for Lai Junchen and Zhou Xing to follow suit, and the world calls it 'Lai Suo'." After Suo Yuanli set a precedent, cruel officials emerged one after another. It is called "Lai Suo", which means to arrest.

Not only did the two have similar smells, but they also jointly invented ten kinds of shackle punishments: one is to fix the pulse, the other is to be unable to breathe, the third is to roar suddenly, the fourth is to inherit immediately, the fifth is to lose one's soul, the sixth is to reverse the same, and the seventh is to reverse it. It is true, the eighth is the worry of a dead pig, the ninth is to seek death, and the tenth is to seek to destroy the family.Co-edited a set of teaching materials for extorting confessions by torture, named "Luo Zhijing", which is divided into 12 volumes: the volume of reading people, the volume of affairs, the volume of governing, the volume of power control, the volume of enemy control, the volume of solid glory, the volume of self-protection, and the volume of investigation. Rape papers, planning papers, questionnaires, punishment papers, melon vine papers.

This Hu Rentian is not afraid of anything, he met Wu Zetian directly, Wu Zetian asked Li You if he was afraid or not, this Suo Yuanli answered with a smile, but he wanted to ask Wu Zetian if the promise was true, as long as he could tell the truth, not only You will not be punished, and you can get a lot of gold, silver, jewelry and even official positions.

And even if she made a mistake, the Empress of the Tang Dynasty would still protect herself!
Wu Zetian also gave Suo Yuanli a reassurance, saying that he would do what he said, and with Wu Zetian's guarantee, and Suo Yuanli's guarantee again and again, then he would definitely inform.

In this way, Wu Zetian's preparations are all ready. What we have to wait for now is the return of Su Dingfang's army. As long as Su Dingfang's army returns, the first thing is to control Su Dingfang's army, then Zhou Chong will go to the table, and then arrest Su Dingfang, as long as Su Dingfang is arrested, there will be a lot of potential, use Suo Yuanli's informant, so that Su Dingfang can be directly tortured or lured to surrender, as long as Su Dingfang is taken in for his own use.

In this way, Li You can be directly convicted. As long as Li You is accused of rebellion, then Li You will be completely finished. No matter how powerful Li You is, as long as he can be named as a rebel, then Wu Zetian will be Li You can be exiled directly.

After Li You was exiled, Wu Zetian would take over Li You's family. Then... Wu Zetian was a little excited when he thought of this, because even if he became a real emperor, he still had a chance.

The emperor, the first female emperor, Wu Zetian was very excited for a while!
　"The Second Son of Ming Dynasty" has [-] words, it can be slaughtered!

　　
　
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