Start with detective Li Yuanfang

Chapter 156 Xuanwu Gate Pin Pill

Outside Chang'an City.

Under the escort of Zhechong Mansion's elite, hundreds of internal guards returned with the murderer and evidence.

Li Yan was very satisfied when he looked at the alchemy furnace equipment, the Yundan that had not entered the market, and the prisoners in the prison van.

And the prisoner who was pushed in the front attracted his attention: "That is Dou Decheng's confidant, Hao Nu Hao Da?"

Not too big, but rather short and fat, with a somewhat rich face.

Don't say it, it's a bit like a one-off job.

At this time, blood was all over his body, his eyes were still fierce and unruly, and he remained silent, obviously knowing that he must die.

Di Renjie rode his horse and followed him: "Liulang, this thief is fierce. Seeing that the situation is not good, he wanted to set fire to the workshop and create chaos. Fortunately, Peng Wuwei took him alive!"

Li Yan nodded: "You have all made great contributions. Did Dou Jing provide the location of Hao Da and others?"

Di Renjie said: "Dou Jiyi wants to pay off his merits."

Li Yan shook his head: "Other matters are negotiable. Selling poison elixir is a heinous crime and brings endless disasters. You must not let it go!"

Di Renjie nodded: "That's true. I didn't agree to him at the time. If I make a wrong step, I will never recover..."

Dou Jing has not been dismissed yet, but needless to say what will happen.

He had nothing to do with this matter at first, but later Dou De got away and dragged his son into the drug trade, which was to lead him on the road of no return.

Not only Dou Decheng and Dou Jing's father and son, but their lineage is all over.

The lightest one is the fate of being dispatched to Lingnan, where life would be worse than death.

Li Yan asked again: "Where is the account book?"

Di Renjie said: "The account book has been sealed in public, and it's in that box."

Li Yan followed his gaze and looked over.

Beside the ledger, Dou Lu Qinwang and other five envoys guarded it, their eyes were very vigilant, afraid that others would look through the contents of the box.

Li Yandao: "It's handled well."

He originally planned to use the account books to take down Dou Decheng, but later Ming Chongyan joined him.

A batch of new elixirs pretended to flow into the market, which caused the drug network built by the big drug lord to disappear, and was directly backlashed.

But in doing so, these ledgers have also become hot hands.

Because all of the above are the black history of the people who took the medicine.

Those who are addicted to drugs will have no more medicines to take, and they will either get rid of their drug addiction or die in pain.

However, the form of the elixir is not as toxic as opium, and most of the people who take the medicine are elderly patients with poor health. It is almost unrealistic to want to quit the drug.

In other words, they are already dead. If the account books are exposed, the family will have to work hard.

Therefore, Di Renjie's handling was the best, and he was directly sealed off in full view, and handed over to the sage.

Let Li Zhi deal with it!

Soon, the long team arrived at the Qingxiao Gate of Daming Palace, but An Yuanshou showed up and sent the imperial army to take over Zhechong Mansion's escort, and brought them to Xuanwu Gate.

Although the names are the same, it was the Xuanwu Gate of Taiji Palace that Li Shimin initiated the Xuanwu Gate Change. This is the Daming Palace, not the same place.

However, in history, Jinglong coup and Tanglong coup also took place here.

The former was Li Xian's prince Li Chongjun, who killed Wu Sansi and his son, and entered the palace all the way.

The latter is the scene where Li Longji led the imperial army to kill Empress Wei and Princess Anle.

But this time, after entering the Wengcheng, everyone discovered that there was actually a Yubao Umbrella Building on the city wall.

The empress and empress drive the Xuanwu Gate and came in person.

Everyone saluted one after another: "Meet Your Majesty, Queen!"

The servant came down: "Your Majesty announced that Li Jiyi should go up."

Li Yan went up to the wall and came in front of Li Zhi and Empress Wu.

Interesting to say, it was the first time he saw what Li Zhi looked like up close.

In the past, we could only see people's shadows through the curtain, and we stood at the back during the court meeting, and we couldn't lose our dignity in front of the hall.

I met him at this time, that is, a middle-aged man with thinning hair and very old-fashioned.

Empress Wu is four years older than Li Zhi, and she is forty-seven this year, but it looks like she is under forty.

Li Zhicai was forty-three, but he seemed to be over fifty. No matter how powerful his schemes were, it would be useless if he couldn't survive his wife.

However, although the saint's face was old, he was still in good spirits, and said, "Yuan Fang, are all the poison pills here?"

Li Yan knew that he was deliberately different from Wuyun Dan, nodded and said: "There are more than a thousand boxes of poison pills from the inner guard."

Li Zhi said with hatred: "Gather and destroy, such harmful things must not be left behind!"

Li Yan immediately said: "Yes!"

Yundan's control of the courtiers was a powerful blow to the imperial power. Seeing that the thing was about to be destroyed, Li Zhi heaved a sigh of relief, then looked at Hao Da and other drug traffickers, and said coldly: "All of them will be sentenced to death, the barbarians!"

The criminal laws of the Tang Dynasty were actually not as severe as later generations imagined. Even if it was a heinous conspiracy, the principal offender was beheaded, the father and son of the principal offender were hanged, and the relatives of the three clans confiscated their property and exiled them all.

Of course, the emperor can increase or decrease the criminal law at will. Starting from Sui Wendi Yang Jian, he basically did not follow the criminal law. Yang Jian, who was very suspicious, had many examples of killing ministers in his dynasty.

Not to mention Yang Guang, Li Yuan attaches great importance to personal feelings, no matter how serious the crime committed by the courtier he likes, as long as it is not treason, he can be pardoned, and he also regards the criminal law as nothing.

In comparison, of the past five emperors, Li Shimin is the best, and Li Zhi can be ranked second.

Of course, their trampling on the criminal law, all added up, is not as good as the era of cruel officials opened by Wu Zetian later...

Now Li Zhi's treatment of these drug traffickers is more serious than unpardonable crimes, and it is obvious that the death penalty is used as a deterrent.

With the words of the emperor, the population overflowed. Li Zhi finished dealing with the pills and the prisoners, and finally asked intentionally or unintentionally: "Where's the account book?"

Li Yandao: "It's also among the evidence, and that cart is where the account books are."

Li Zhi had poor eyesight and couldn't see clearly, but Empress Wu had long noticed Dou Lu Qinwang and the others standing around the car, and said something in a low voice.

Li Zhi's eyes flickered: "How many people have seen the account book?"

Li Yandao: "No one has seen it, but from the account book, it can be confirmed that it is a transaction of poison pills."

Li Zhi was silent for a while, and then said: "There is no need to open it, just burn it on the spot!"

Keep it in hand, it can be used as a deterrent.

A fire is to appease the gentry.

In the past, Li Zhi is likely to stay. After all, he didn't do this, and he didn't leave anything blank. Who told you to listen to Dou thief.

But thinking about that rumor, if the high-ranking nobles were not angry in their hearts, they would secretly promote it, and in the end, both sides would suffer.

Therefore, Li Zhi resolutely burned the account books. The matter was exposed and no further mention was made.

Sure enough, after receiving the order, Doulu Qinwang and others were overjoyed. They all bowed down and shouted in unison: "Your Majesty is holy! Your Majesty is holy!!"

They executed it very quickly. They opened the box, took out the account book, flipped through it a little, and after confirming that it was correct, they threw the torch on it.

Under the black smoke, the family's dark history of drug use disappeared.

At the same time, the inner guards who received the order moved all the Yundan in the imperial city and piled them up high in the middle.

Seeing that everyone wanted to burn like this, Li Yan hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, if you burn directly, the smoke may be poisonous, so let's put the poison pill into the pill furnace to smelt it..."

He thought of Lin Zexu's Humen Selling Cigarettes.

Many people think that selling cigarettes means burning them, but it is not.

Because if the smoky soil is mixed with tung oil and burned, not only the smoke produced is poisonous, but the ointment will seep into the ground.

After the officers and soldiers leave, those crazy drug addicts will definitely come to dig the local soil and extract two or three out of ten opium from the soil.

Ever since, Lin Zexu used the "sea immersion method".

Build a large pool by the sea, pave the bottom of the pool with stones, nail boards around it to prevent opium from leaking, and dig a ditch.

Pour salt water from the ditch into the pool, cut the opium into four pieces, soak it for a period of time, and then put lime in it.

When lime meets water, it boils and soot dissolves.

During the whole process, the soldiers stood by the pool and kept stirring with wooden rakes in the pool to ensure that the opium was completely dissolved in the water.

Because it is by the sea, when the tide ebbs, the pool water is sent to the ocean, and the bottom of the pool is washed with clean water, so that no trickle is left.

Chang'an is not by the sea, without that condition, these elixirs cannot be poured into the water at will.

Fortunately, compared to the massive amount of opium in the late Qing Dynasty, the amount here is too small, and it is in the form of pills, so there are actually many ways to destroy it.

Li Yan was being cautious, Li Zhi didn't dare to be negligent after hearing this, and immediately said: "Go and call Ming Chongyan, open the furnace and burn the elixir!"

Before half an hour came, Ming Chongyan rushed over.

The inner guard took out the cloud pills, counted the number, and watched the pills being thrown into the pill furnace by Ming Chongyan himself, many people's eyes flickered.

They don't really want to destroy all the pills, and the family members are still eager.

But when I think of the kind of endless pills, if I can't get it, I will go crazy and howl...

They also hoped that these pills would never appear again.

Under this contradictory psychology, Doulu Chinwang closed his eyes.

That's good... that's good...

At the same time, the confession from Qiu Shenji's interrogation also arrived.

"That's right!"

Li Zhi and Empress Wu each read it once.

They are all very smart people, and after matching several confessions, they know that the final version is indeed the truth.

If the truth is revealed in the first place, Li Zhi's anger will be concentrated on Dou Decheng alone.

Because he was the only one who sold the pill afterwards, trying to use the medicine to weave power and expand its influence.

As for the crimes of the other two, it is not important, even if it involves the death of villagers, how to sentence them depends on political arrangements.

But now it is revealed that Dou Decheng, Li Sichong, and Cui Shouye are all to be killed!
Because Yundan flowed into Chang'an, the three of them had unshirkable responsibilities.

Looking at it from another angle, the treatment is very different.

Li Zhi directly characterizes it: "Has neglected human life, is insane, and must be severely punished to serve as an example! Order Dali Temple, Yushitai, Criminal Department, and the three divisions to interrogate and make the case public to the world!"

This is to fully disclose the notoriety of the three principal criminals.

A child of a foreign relative, a prime minister's legitimate son, and a minister of punishment!
All executed!

Everyone shouted Shengming, Ming Chongyan's eyes were slightly red, and he suppressed the churning emotions in his heart.

Master, your vengeance has finally been completely avenged!

In fact, it is not complete.

Li Zhi thought for a while, with a hint of coldness on the corner of his lips, he suddenly said: "Destroy the poison elixir slowly, let Li Shilang come to witness!"

Everyone was taken aback for a moment, feeling chills in their hearts.

Prime Minister Li Jingxuan, is he about to fall?
Li Yan secretly gave a thumbs up.

The truth of the Jiangnan murder case came to light. Li Sichong was convicted and was about to be brought to justice, and Cui Shouye was there to cover up the charges.

Think about who is Cui Shouye protecting Li Sichong for?
At this time, order Li Jingxuan to come to Xuanwumen to watch the destruction of Yundan!
Murder will be punished!
(End of this chapter)