Tibet

Chapter 98
Li Longji was startled, he thought that Li Linfu had already gone to Huazhou, but unexpectedly came back.

Li Longji pondered for a moment and said, "Acclaim him an audience!"

Not long after, Li Linfu hurried into the imperial study, knelt down and wept, "The old minister is here to plead guilty to His Majesty!"

Li Longji glanced at him and said indifferently: "What's wrong with Aiqing?"

"The minister had selfish intentions more than ten days ago and promoted his son. The member of the household department, Uiro, should give it to the most outstanding official, but the minister gave it to his son, and he did not report it to His Majesty."

"Where is your son ranked in the Ming Jing Department in the 22nd year of Kaiyuan?"

"Report to Your Majesty, he is No.17!"

"Who will be the examiner?"

"Zhang Jiuling is the examiner!"

"Then he has served as the Qianniu Guard for 12 years, how was the evaluation?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, he passed the examination in ten years and passed the examination in two years!"

Li Longji nodded, "Such a good official, why didn't he have a chance to be promoted after 12 years as a seventh-rank official?"

Li Linfu sighed and said: "Reporting to Your Majesty, it is because I don't like him very much, and his character is too cowardly, so I gave the opportunity to other sons to suppress him."

Li Longji pondered for a while and asked: "He was arrested last night, and the Ministry of Criminal Justice and Dali Temple accused him of burning down the document warehouse of the Ministry of Household Affairs. Does Li Xiangguo know?"

"Your Majesty, as a minister, I don't want unjust cases to happen in the court, and as a father, I can't bear to have my beloved son framed, so I heard about the accident halfway, so I rushed back to appeal to Your Majesty!"

Li Longji nodded, "Ai Qing continued!"

Li Linfu said with tears in his eyes: "Reporting to Your Majesty, the old minister heard that someone accused the humble minister of arranging his son to burn down the warehouse to cover up the deficit of the household department. The old minister is still angry except for the tiger's poison. No matter how bad I am, Li Linfu, I have a dark heart. If I don’t let my own son set fire to be a thief, am I so stupid that I can’t find someone else?”

Li Longji was silent. Li Linfu's defense was very powerful. The inferences in the report were indeed inconsistent with human ethics. It was impossible for the imperial court to use such unethical testimony to convict people.

He glanced at Gao Lishi, and Gao Lishi immediately understood that the Holy Majesty did not intend to involve Li Linfu in this case. He was not ready to replace him, but the Holy Majesty wanted to step up.

Gao Lishi immediately said: "Your Majesty, can you allow me to say something."

"Gao Weng, please tell me!"

"Just now, Wei Chen said that there are still some strange things about this case. Lie Feng played on it. There was a sorcery last night, and then some unreasonable things appeared. From the old slave's point of view, there are four unreasonable things at present."

Li Longji said lightly: "Gao Weng might as well talk about it in detail!"

"First of all, it is the first point. It is unreasonable for Li Dai to set fire only three days after he took office. As His Majesty said, even if a thief steps on the site, it will take a month. With all kinds of cooperation, various plans, and various deployments, three days is not enough.

Then came the second point, Li Dai found a paper dragon with a spell under his table. Why didn't he throw away a cup of tea, and insisted on leaving the evidence for others to convict him?

Coming down to the third point, the interrogation did not impose a punishment. The old slave heard that he would answer whatever the interrogator asked him. He quickly exposed his father and convicted his family of genocide. There is no such prisoner in ancient times, unless he is a fool, but is it possible?Is Uiro, a dignified member of the household department of the imperial court, a fool?
Finally, the fourth point, Lie Feng said that someone sneaked into the prison of Dali Temple this morning to assassinate Li Dai, but was stopped by Lie Feng's disciples in time, and the assassin escaped.

Why did you want to assassinate Li Dai?Who are these assassins?There are many strange things in it! "

Li Longji nodded, "According to Gao Weng's analysis, there are indeed a lot of doubts, so what about Gao Weng's opinion?"

Gao Lishi bowed and said: "My minister suggests that the case should be retried by Yushitai!"

"Prelude!"

Li Longji said to Li Linfu again: "I don't want to wrong anyone, whether it is the son of the prime minister or the son of a commoner, if your son is wronged, I will definitely give him justice!"

Li Linfu burst into tears of gratitude, "I thank Your Majesty Long En!"

Li Linfu secretly admired his grandson, but he could see clearly.

The emperor wanted to remove himself, but he was not ready. If he stayed in Xinfeng County, the emperor would most likely follow the trend and dismiss him.

But if you actively fight for it and try your best to defend your son, the emperor will be shaken and need more time to think about it, so he will not be so eager to dismiss.

Gao Lishi's attitude is very telling. If the emperor is determined to bring him down, why should Gao Lishi bother to defend himself?
It was his own active struggle that made the emperor's position shake, and Gao Lishi took the opportunity to make a favor for himself.

Li Linfu was full of gratitude to his wise grandson, and also full of emotion. At the most critical moment, God gave him such a grandson.

The carriage drove out of Danfeng Gate, and seeing his grandson Li Ye was still waiting outside Danfeng Gate, he immediately asked his subordinates to bring Li Ye into the carriage.

"How about it?"

Li Ye asked eagerly: "Has the Son of Heaven let go?"

Li Linfu nodded, "It should be what you said. The emperor is not ready to change his appearance, so although this is an opportunity to dismiss me, he still gave up. He agreed to reopen your father's case."

Li Ye frowned, "If it's just a new trial, I'm afraid the emperor hasn't given up on dismissing grandfather. Maybe he just needs time to think about it. Our danger has not gone away, so it can only be said to be slightly eased."

Li Linfu sighed, "I also know that these people will not let it go."

"I'm afraid Yang Shenjin will be the big problem next. They will use Yang Shenjin to interrogate him, and then implicate grandfather and father."

"You're right. As long as your father firmly refuses to admit it, they won't be able to break through head-on. They will definitely fight in a roundabout way, making side attacks, and implicating us. Ye'er, what do you think?"

Li Linfu has calmed down from the initial panic, and quickly recovered his true nature of scheming.

Through the thick fog, he gradually saw the truth of the matter.

The emperor wanted to control the household department, and he forbade himself to compete with him for the dominance of the household department, so he used his son as a bargaining chip to warn himself.

The Yang Shenjin case may have been handled by the Holy Majesty at the discretion of the Yang family, but the case of his own son must have been handled by the Holy Majesty himself. This can explain why the emperor was indifferent to such a serious incident as the assassins appearing in the prison of Dali Temple.

Because there is only one truth, the assassin was sent by him.

Gao Lishi was just acting in front of him just now, does he still need his favor?The two beat themselves with one article and one martial arts.

In the end, his son refused to let him go, and wanted to re-trial, which clearly meant to continue to hang himself, and not allow him to compete with the Yang family for the household department.

Lie Feng made Li Linfu unable to see through Lie Feng's move. Lie Feng was probably a slow move arranged by the sage. Li Linfu looked at his grandson Li Ye. Deployed by Lux.

However, Li Linfu is more willing to let his grandson participate in the operation of this case, and let him take care of himself and let him do it.

"Where do you plan to start?" Li Linfu asked.

Li Ye thought for a while and asked, "Son'er wants to know, what's wrong with Yang Shenjin?"

Li Linfu snorted coldly, "What's wrong with Yang Shenjin? He belongs to the royal family of the previous dynasty. Based on this alone, their family will encounter catastrophe sooner or later. The so-called Three Kings and Two Characters are just pretending."

Li Ye pondered for a moment and said: "I want a signboard for entering and exiting the workshop gate at night, my grandfather should have it!"

Of course, Xiangguo has entry and exit cards. They often go home late. If there is an urgent matter to enter the palace, they need to enter and exit the workshop gate late at night.

Li Linfu took out a silver medal and handed it to Li Ye, telling him, "I don't care what you do, but you must give me a bottom line, don't kill people, once you kill people, many things will be irreversible."

(End of this chapter)