The best idlers of the Tang Dynasty

Hearing that mighty yell, everyone couldn't help but shudder, and looking back, they saw Taizong walking in with Fang Xuanling, Cen Wenwen and others.

Taizong's face was frosty, and he walked quickly towards Quan Wanji, grabbed the paper with his hand, glanced at it, sneered, and said to Quan Wanji: "You have made a great contribution! Hou Junji It is the General Zuowei who was ordered by me, if you want to copy the house, you have to copy it, why do you want to be the master?"

Quan Wanji fell to his knees with a thump: "When you return to the emperor, I got a tip that Hou Jun collected 100 million stolen money. The matter was urgent, and I was afraid that the news would leak, so I acted decisively and surrounded the Hou's mansion with troops. , Dig out Hou Junji, a big corrupt official, and report to the emperor."

Taizong asked with a cold face, "How do you know that Hou Junji is a corrupt official?"

Quan Wanji pointed to the writing in Taizong's hand and said, "Isn't the 100 million taels enough to prove that he is a corrupt official?"

Taizong also frowned when he heard the words, but quickly covered it up. He held up the written document, shook it vigorously, and roared angrily with a blushing face: "This is not the money collected by Hou Jun! This money is from my branch." To give him compensation for the family members of the Feihu Army, Hou Junji has been paying the debts of the Feihu Army all these years alone. This is not fair! I secretly gave him the money and asked him to pay the debts for me! What is this if it’s not paper money for the heroes?!”

This sentence was like a thunderbolt from the blue sky, which made Quan Wanji and the others turn pale.Taizong turned his face to Quan Wanji and said bitterly: "I don't want the world to know about this, saying that I am partial to the Flying Tiger Army, but you insist on shaking it out because of your own private thoughts. Man, his heart can be punished!"

Quan Wanji was so frightened that he shuddered all over and knelt down. Taizong then reprimanded: "Quan Wanji, in order to win a straight name, you act recklessly and treat your colleagues harshly. It is because of straightness that you abandon loyalty and forget forgiveness. If I don't punish you , don’t all the officials learn from you? Then how can the court not be chaotic? I don’t think you should do this book and serve the imperial censor, and go to be Honghe Cheng!”

It is not a light punishment to be relegated to Honglu Temple to be a Honglu Cheng from the prestigious official secretary and censor.However, he committed such a major crime, and the punishment seemed too light.Even Quan Wanji himself was surprised, he didn't know why the emperor would act like this, he kowtowed deeply: "I accept the decree to thank you!"

At this time, a soldier shouted in the courtyard: "A man died here!"

Everyone hurried over, passed through a moon gate, and saw Chi Deli lying in a pool of blood, with a sword lying beside him, a cut in his neck, bleeding gurgling, and dying.His expression became very grim due to the pain, and his eyes were almost closed, but when he saw Haitang in the crowd, he opened them suddenly, staring at her, reluctant to part with her beautiful face He stayed there for a few seconds, then closed his mouth heavily, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, which made Haitang's heart tremble.

Taizong returned to the palace with a sullen face. At this point, everyone could see that it was Quan Wanji who rushed forward, but there must be someone behind him, and this could only be Shu Wang Li Ke.

Taizong immediately issued an order to call Li Ke, and Li Ke came to Chengqing Hall tremblingly, and was scolded by Taizong.

"Forming cliques for personal gain and acting recklessly, you are really my good son, there is nothing you dare not do, for your own selfish ideas, you really want to make this world chaotic."

Li Ke didn't dare to hide it anymore, so he had to confess that he was indeed the mastermind behind the scenes.However, he defended that he did all this to clean up corruption for the court.

"It's just like what my father said, Hou Junji didn't take bribes, but there must be a reason for the waves. As the prince of the Tang Dynasty, I got such a secret report, so how can I ignore it? As for not reporting to my father in advance, it is true My son is eager to make meritorious service, and I hope the emperor will forgive me!"

Taizong was furious, and explained Li Ke's intentions in one sentence: "It's beautiful, but you can't hide it from me! It's a cover for you to sweep away greed and sycophants, but it's true to deal with your elder brother! I named you Ke, and I hope you can abide by it. Duty, but you, as a prince, are ungrateful for profit, form a party for personal gain, and do such a thing of political chaos, you are really daring and lawless!"

After scolding, Taizong immediately decreed: cut off Li Ke's five hundred households, and think about his mistakes behind closed doors in the palace!Then several officials who participated in the matter were punished accordingly. Among them, Cheng Huailiang was the most severely punished, and was removed from the post of Zhonglang in Zuotun Weiyi Mansion on the grounds that he had activated the army without authorization.

This incident has greatly frustrated the Shu Wang Party, which has been thriving for several years, and its reputation has been ruined. It has also lost the two important positions of Zhonglang General and Zhishu Shiyushi in the Weiyi Mansion of Zuotun. The battle between the Eastern Palace and the Shu Mansion suddenly collapsed.

Hou Junji should be happy that the King of Shu's party suffered such a bad luck, but he couldn't be happy at all. For two days in a row, he stayed in the mourning hall where the flying tiger army's coffin was parked. .It's just that a new coffin has been added to the mourning hall, in which lies his adopted son and general Chi Deli.

Haitang seemed to see something from Hou Junji's sadness, and asked, "Father, is Chi Deli a good person or a bad person?"

Hou Junji said sadly: "Didn't you call him a traitor to the Flying Tiger Army? Daddy will tell you today that there has never been a traitor in the Flying Tiger Army!"

As he spoke, a line of turbid tears welled up from Hou Junji's eyes.Haitang looked at her father in amazement, and suddenly looked at Hou Junji with horror: "Could it be, could it be~~~~~~"

Hou Junji said: "Remember, the person sleeping in this coffin is the same as daddy, the one who loves you the most, and will give up everything for you, even life."

Haitang asked with a puzzled look: "I really don't understand. If that's the case, why did he still send that memorial to the King of Shu?"

Hou Junji looked at Chi Deli's spirit tablet and said softly: "You are wrong, I sent someone to send that memorial."

Hearing these words, Haitang's heart was shocked, and she asked in surprise: "You? Daddy, why did you do this?"

Hou Junji looked up at Haitang and said, "For my daughter! In this world, I only have one relative, and I can't tolerate anyone hurting her, even the slightest bit! Don't you see that someone is stepping on the crown prince?" Are you pressing? The prince is benevolent. If he doesn’t help him defeat these guys sooner or later, he will lose the East Palace sooner or later. I can’t let my daughter suffer the pain that the concubines of the former hidden prince Li Jiancheng suffered, so~~ ~~~~~"

Haitang said with tears in her eyes: "Then can you sacrifice Brother Chi's life?"

Hou Junji said: "You are wrong again, no one wants him to sacrifice, this is his own choice!"

Haitang was even more surprised. Hou Junji told her the ins and outs of the matter. It turned out that everything that happened these few days was actually co-designed by Hou Junji and Chi Deli. Ke lured in.And Chi Deli took refuge in Li Ke, just to use himself as a bait to lure Li Ke into the bait.Hou Junji couldn't bear to do this at first, but Chi Deli insisted that for the sake of Haitang, he had to do this!Hou Junji couldn't resist him, so he had no choice but to sing the oboe with him.

After listening to her father's recounting, Haitang was deeply shocked, she really did not expect that that seemingly ordinary brother-in-law would have such great love for her, facing Chi Deli's spirit card, tears splashed down her face.

Hou Junji said sadly: "He is the loneliest person in the world. He doesn't know who his parents are. He was raised by my side since he was a child. Although I regard him as my own son, in the end it is for my daughter. Let him die, why did he live in this life, brought nothing, left nothing, took nothing away!"

Haitang said tearfully: "No, he stayed. Father, I will never forget Big Brother Chi and this brother-sister relationship in my life. Moreover, my daughter believes that Big Brother Chi also left with happiness when he left!"

Hou Junji said: "Happy? How can he be happy when his life is so hard?"

Haitang looked into his father's eyes and said: "Because I saw with my own eyes that he walked away with a smile. From this smile, I saw a happy heart."

Hou Junji listened, but didn't know what to say, he just sighed secretly.

Haitang suddenly turned to ask her father: "Daddy, I have held back a sentence for a long time, please tell the truth to my daughter in the face of Brother Chi's undead, are you really greedy for 100 million taels?"

Hou Junji lowered his head, remained silent for a long time, and finally nodded weakly.

Haitang couldn't help being shocked when she saw this, and looked at Hou Junji sadly and said, "Father, you were a famous tiger general in the previous dynasty, you shot with spears, bayonets, knives and arrows, leaving dozens of wounds on your body, but you He wasn't knocked down once, so how come he was knocked down by Qian this time?" After speaking, Haitang burst into tears with great worry.

Hou Junji felt uncomfortable, and said softly, "Son, can you listen to what Daddy has to say?"

Haitang just kept crying and didn't speak.

Hou Junji said to himself: "Last year, on the day Dad led the army to capture Dingjie Dazhai, we discovered that hidden money bank. That was the first time I saw so much silver. I asked Chi Deli to Gong Gong, he said a word to my father and me at that time. He said, now that my father is a general, he can save money to support the orphans and children of the Flying Tiger Army, but my father is an upright official. In the future, my father will be too old What about those people when they become generals? Who can they count on?"

Haitang broke down in tears again.

Hou Junji went on to say: "I sat in that room all night, thought all night, and was sad all night, and finally took this step. But, you know how difficult it is to take this step! Your father and I It is a person who has died so many times, and I have never felt scared, but this time, I am really scared. If you die because of corruption and crimes, you will be left alone in this world to bear the crime for me. Under Nine Springs, how can I close my eyes! Haitang, don't hate father."

Speaking of this, Hou Junji was already in tears.

Haitang cried loudly and threw herself into her father's arms, saying: "No, Daddy, I don't hate you, you are the best daddy in this world!"

At this moment, the family members came to report that it was the crown prince's visit. Just as Hou Junji was about to say something, Li Chengqian had already arrived at the gate of the mourning hall, and Du Rui was with him.

Hou Junji and Chi Deli's plot, Du Rui had already guessed the ins and outs of the matter through Li Chengqian, but all of this had already happened, which made him feel very uncomfortable. A loyal and brave soldier did not die in the On the battlefield, he lost his life because of his great love for one person, which made him feel very sorry.

Although Hou Junji's strategy can make the King of Shu's party be severely hit, but the King of Shu has fallen, there will be King Wei, and in the future there will even be King Han and King Jin. With this strategy alone, it is impossible to guarantee Li Chengqian. bits.

Moreover, Du Rui is very confident. With his familiarity with history and his martial arts skills, it is not difficult at all to keep Li Chengqian's reserve position. Although Hou Junji and Chi Deli's actions can clear the way for Li Chengqian, but at the cost It's too big.

So he encouraged Li Chengqian to go to Hou Junji's mansion to pay homage. Li Chengqian was puzzled at first, but after hearing Du Rui's words, this kind and kind prince also concealed the sour jealousy in his heart , brought Du Rui here.

Du Rui followed Li Chengqian into the mourning hall, looked at Chi Deli's coffin, and couldn't help sighing: "General Chi, why bother!"

Hou Junji was taken aback for a moment, he had seen Du Rui, it was still at the banquet to welcome the Japanese envoys, but he never knew that Du Rui had such a close relationship with Li Chengqian.

After Li Chengqian paid homage to Chi Deli, he also introduced Du Rui to Hou Junji. After seeing the ceremony to Hou Junji and the future princess, Du Rui couldn't help sighing: "Master Hou, it's right for you to do this. Your Royal Highness, it is very beneficial, but the price is too great. This time the Holy Majesty is preparing for the Northern Expedition, he has already decided to give the greatest credit to the general. If the general can make a great contribution, it will be the greatest help to His Highness. , but the general had an accident at this time, even if it was covered up by the Holy Majesty, how can the leadership position be taken down?"

After listening to Hou Junji, he was also shocked. First, he never thought that Du Rui's scheme with Chi Deli would be so easily exposed. Second, after hearing what Du Rui said, he seemed to have done something wrong, and it was in vain. He lost his son's life.

"Ah~~~~~~~now~~~~~~~"

Du Rui looked at Li Chengqian and said, "Now, there is only one way for His Royal Highness to gain prestige in the army!"

"How?"

Hou Junji, Li Chengqian, and Haitang all looked at Du Rui impatiently, hoping that Du Rui could give them an idea.

Du Rui hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth, and said: "His Royal Highness will personally lead the army to raid Jieli Yazhang!"

ps: The book has finally been signed, and it has been transferred continuously, and finally has a good result. Although the collection is sad, and the recommendation is also sad, but the labor has finally been recognized by others, which is a good result for me. I will continue to work hard, no matter what the result is, I will stick to it, of course, if the results are better, I will update more!