After being dressed as Wu Zetian's daughter, she was favored by the group

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom..."

The war drum on the tower sounded again.

The people immersed in joy suddenly panicked again...

Now they have mixed feelings about the war drums on the city tower, both love and fear.

Love is that after the drumbeat, there may be even bigger surprises;

What I'm afraid of is that after the sound of the drums, there may be the familiar fright again.

Amidst the sound of war drums, a small group of imperial guards escorted a hundred prisoners in shackles out of the city.

The common people cried out in surprise, and retreated one after another to make room for the death row prisoners.

"Your Majesty!"

The imperial guards roared, and all the hundreds of death row prisoners knelt down and yelled for mercy. The people who ate melons pointed at the death row prisoners, and started gossip:

"Sure enough! The princess is going to kill again!"

"Is the princess really the reincarnation of Shura? Why do you always like to kill people?"

"Fart your mother, what's wrong with killing people, the princess is doing justice for the heavens!"

"That's right, what the princess killed was not a human, but a beast!"

"Amitabha, the princess is too cruel to kill, and the poor monk wants to help her save her!"

"Save your old mother, brothers, kill this old bald donkey!"

"Misunderstanding! Misunderstanding! The poor monk is talking about saving death row prisoners!"

"Then I'll kill you bald donkey even more!"

On the high platform, Li Zhi looked a little displeased, "Yue'er, why are you killing people on such a beautiful day? What crime did these people commit? Have they ever been tried?"

Aye, aye, even the governor committed suicide in fear of crime. Do you think this Yamen in Fuzhou is still useful?
Li Lingyue secretly rolled her eyes at Li Zhi, and bowed slightly:

"Aye, these are the traitors of the fish and meat people. If my daughter has no conclusive evidence, she will never kill innocent people indiscriminately!"

"Then you can't directly ask about beheading!" Li Zhi comforted him patiently:

"Daughter, we have our own laws in the Tang Dynasty. Even death row prisoners have to go through the Yamen for trial first, and then be convicted and put in prison. After the Ministry of Punishment approves the document, we will finally decide whether to be executed. If you don’t end up with the notoriety of ignoring the law, you will be despised by scholars in the future!!”

Li Lingyue humbly nodded and said yes, but she was muttering in her heart: Ah Ye, what's the point of this, I will behead your Ai Qing with my own hands later, I don't know if you will be impatient with me!Why!

Seeing that Li Lingyue was silent, Li Zhi thought that what he said was too serious, and his heart softened. He patted the back of his daughter's hand, squeezed out a smile and said:

"Aye understands your approach, that's all, let's not make an example!"

It's not enough to be an example, but it's not enough to be an example!
Li Lingyue sneered in her heart, and gave the commander of the forbidden army a look. The latter walked to the side of the stage and waved at the forbidden army guarding the death row.

The imperial guards drew their knives out of their sheaths, put them around the necks of the condemned prisoners, and asked loudly:
"Tell me, who gave you the courage, the fish and meat people!"

The death row prisoners were all terrified. They all looked at the death row prisoner kneeling in front of him, and shouted loudly:
"It's Dudu Liu, and Dudu Liu instructed us to do it!"

Only then did the people standing in front of them notice that the death row prisoner kneeling at the front with loose hair and never saying a word turned out to be Liu Cheng, the governor of Fuzhou!

"It really is Dudu Liu, it turns out that he is manipulating everything behind his back!"

"Look, isn't that the master of the Zhou family who built the water storage weir pond! Why is he also reduced to death row?"

"Look, there is also the Wang family who sells water. Hey, the Xie family and the Cui family are here!"

"Ah, the Water Conservancy Envoy is here, and there is more! And! God! Don't leave the governor's house, judge, join the army..."

The sharp-eyed crowd discovered that most of the death row prisoners kneeling on the ground, except for the merchants selling water, were officials from the Kunzhou region!
Li Zhi was not surprised to learn that the person kneeling below was Liu Cheng, the governor of Fuzhou. According to his intention, Liu Cheng assassinated the princess to be escorted back to Chang'an, handed over to the Ministry of Punishment, and immediately executed immediately.

But when he learned that besides Liu Cheng, there were other officials from Fuzhou, sweat beads appeared on the bridge of Li Zhi's nose, and he couldn't sit still.

To execute so many officials at once, even he, the emperor, would think twice before acting!
Don't think that the emperors in ancient times could kill ministers at will. The censors in the court are not vegetarians. They don't do anything every day and are responsible for pulling the emperor's pigtails.

Therefore, in the past dynasties, except for the tyrants and fools in the history books, any emperor who wanted to make a good reputation would not kill ministers without thinking.
In a word, standing up at the same time is the most common moral conduct of a king.

"Yue'er, don't mess around!" Li Zhi frowned and reminded.

Seeing that her father couldn't sit still, Li Lingyue smiled and comforted her:
"Don't worry, Aye, my daughter is just scaring them, and I won't kill people today! Unless..."

"Unless something!" Li Zhi asked in a deep voice.

"Unless someone wants to kill me?" Li Lingyue said unabashedly.

"With me here, who would dare to kill you!" Li Zhi looked puzzled.

Boo!I said last time that you were here, so I was assassinated by Liu Cheng?
Li Lingyue smiled, but did not answer, but walked to the side of the high platform, and loudly questioned Liu Cheng who was kneeling on the ground:

"Liu Cheng, this princess asks you, during your time as the governor of Fuzhou, have you ever done anything like looting relief supplies, driving up prices in Fuzhou, holding hundreds of officials in Fuzhou hostage, and killing innocent people without authorization..."

Liu Cheng raised his forehead slowly, met Li Lingyue's gaze, and said as if dying:
"That's right, these were all done by the criminal minister, and the criminal minister is willing to plead guilty and submit to the law!"

Liu Cheng's guilty plea is not unexpected, these were discussed in advance.

According to Liu Cheng's crime, it is to implicate the nine clans.

Li Lingyue promised to let his family live, so he was naturally willing to act as a tainted witness.

As soon as Liu Cheng pleaded guilty, the people's anger was gradually aroused.

Li Lingyue raised her voice again: "How can you, a governor in charge of military affairs, meddle in the civil affairs of Yanzhou? Even the governor Wang Hailong obeys your orders. Who gave you such great power? Who is the mastermind behind you?" who?"

Li Lingyue threw out this sentence deliberately, asking everyone's doubts, and the common people pointed and whispered.

"That's right, he is in charge of the military and government, how could he intervene in the construction of water conservancy, isn't this what the governor should do?"

"It's no wonder the governor can't hold back the prices. It turns out he's behind the scenes!"

"Even the governor is obedient, what means does he have to hold all the officials of Fuzhou hostage?"

"He has an army. Maybe it's because of coercion and profiteering. No wonder Mr. Yang has worked so hard all these years, but he still can't change the status quo in Kunzhou!"

"Who says it's not, poor Lord Yang, who is obviously the biggest official, but was suppressed by a small governor for so many years in the end!"

Liu Cheng's confession caused a huge commotion among the common people. Some cursed loudly, some defended Yang Yushi, and some praised Li Lingyue for his insight.

After the discussion subsided a bit, Liu Cheng pointed at Yang Kuo who was standing under the stage without fear, and smiled coldly:
"The main messenger behind the scenes...is the mentor of the guilty minister, Guan Neidao Yushi Zhongcheng——Yang Kuo!"