Chapter 423 The Death of Zhou Jin
"Is Zhou Jin here?" Li Shimin asked in a cold voice.
The eunuch who reported the report was so scared that he had not dared to speak, he heard Li Shimin say impatiently: "Why don't you pass him in?"
The eunuch was so scared that he rolled out and crawled.
Li Shimin saw it sitting down with anger and waiting to settle the score with Zhou Jin.
At a moment, Liu Shi and Zhou Jin came in together.
"My minister Liu Shi (Zhou Jin) pays homage to Your Majesty."
Li Shimin looked at Zhou Jin's eyes and his chest was fluttering, and he was obviously extremely angry.
After a while, he said angrily: "Zhou Jin, the good thing you did, has caused the prince to be implicated, and you dare to come to see me?"
Zhou Jin was also furious when he heard this. He raised his head and looked straight at Li Shimin and said, "What did you do wrong? I have implicated Your Highness the Crown Prince?"
The ministers and the emperor replied that they could not look up at the emperor. Zhou Jin not only watched it but also kept watching it. This not only annoyed Li Shimin, but even the others in the palace were worried about him.
Li Shimin had a strong murderous intent in his eyes and said in a cold voice: "It seems that the prince is too fond of you on weekdays, so that you, a dwarf, don't even care about the monarch and ministers."
He turned his head and looked at Dai Zhide and said, "Tell him."
Dai Zhide was shocked when he heard Zhou Jin coming, and was really afraid that Zhou Jin would say something.
Unexpectedly, Li Shimin and Zhou Jin had a knot in their hearts. When they met, they didn't talk about serious matters and started to get angry. At this time, they were very happy to hear Li Shimin let him speak.
Dai Zhide thought about it and sighed in a pretentious manner, "Your Highness of the Crown Prince Zhou Jin sent you to Song County to be a county magistrate and a herdsman for the court. You can't be bold and ignorant just because you have the support of Your Highness--"
"Rareless! Your Highness the Crown Prince is far away in Chang'an, how can you get into dirty tricks?" Before Dai Zhide finished speaking, Liu Shi rebuked him.
Dai Zhide looked panic and bowed to Li Shimin, saying, "I am wrong, please ask Your Majesty to punish me."
"Okay, tell me!"
Li Shimin said irritably.
This scene was shocked by Ma Zhou and Suiliang, and Zhou Jin was also furious.
He stared at his red eyes and asked, "When did the governor Dai kill innocent people?"
"Mr. Zhou Jin County, when you arrived in Song County yesterday, you started a massacre at the county government office and ordered your entourage to kill one or two hundred petitioners. Do you think you can hide it from the truth?" Dai Zhide looked at Zhou Jin with a contemptuous look.
When Zhou Jin heard him slandering himself, he shouted loudly: "It's outrageous. I just ordered the killing of thirteen rioters from the Sanming Immortal Sect. How could it be that one or two hundred petitioners of the people? How could the heavenly rule Zhaozhang allow you to fall into the black and white?"
Zhou Jin was angry and pointed at Dai Zhide as if he wanted to choose someone to divine.
"If you have anything in front of His Majesty Zhou Jin, just say it straight." Ma Zhou couldn't stand it and reminded him.
"With someone supporting me, how could he take me seriously?" Li Shimin said coldly.
"Master Zhou County, please report to Your Majesty the rebellion of the Sanming Immortal Sect to Your Majesty." Liu Shi also saw that he could no longer let Zhou Jin and Li Shimin choke.
"Is Sanming Immortal Sect rebelled?"
As soon as Liu Shi said this, everyone in the hall was shocked except Dai Zhide. Any rebellion, no matter how big or small it was, was not a trivial matter. Li Shimin was shocked and angry at Zhou Jin and wait for him to speak.
"I'll tell Your Majesty that Cai Wenying, the Virgin of the Sanming Immortal Sect, hijacked the Dao King and raised the flag to rebel, claiming to be Emperor Wenjia." Zhou Jindao.
Everyone in the hall didn't know what to say for a moment.
Dai Zhide first reacted, lying on the ground with a thud, shouting loudly: "Your Majesty is guilty. When I received a memorial from Qin Huaiyi yesterday, I should go to Song County overnight to calm the resentment of the people. But I am afraid--, please punish your majesty!"
Dai Zhide didn't say what he was afraid of, but everyone present knew that he was afraid of Li Chengqian.
"Are you pushing the people back?" Li Shimin was extremely angry at this time.
"Your Majesty, the Sanming Immortal Sect rebelled yesterday, obviously because it was prepared for it. The magistrate of Zhou County only arrived in Song County yesterday..." Ju Suiliang slowly defended Zhou Jin, hoping to expose the charge of forcing the people to rebel.
"Zhou Jin arrived yesterday, but Xue Dading has been in the two counties for several months. The East Palace has sent other people to..." Li Shimin retorted angrily.
When Ma Zhou, Suiliang and Liu Shi heard Li Shimin's talk, they could not find any words to defend Li Chengqian.
When Zhou Jin saw Li Shimin so indisputably, he directly accused Li Chengqian of his lungs and was furious.
"The strategy set by His Highness the Crown Prince is not at fault. The construction of water conservancy in the territory of the Tang Dynasty was an important entry written into the "First Ten-Year Plan Outline of the Tang Dynasty". It was a national policy for the Tang Dynasty in the next ten years after thousands of old people discussed, agreed by all officials, and approved by His Majesty.
Why do the people in Songxian and Yichuan counties oppose it?
If it weren't for the officials from Governor Dai and Yichuan Song County, they allowed the cult to fool the people, how could Cai Wenying be the emperor?
Your Majesty, how can you see this?”
After saying that, Zhou Jin looked straight at Li Shimin, waiting for Li Shimin to answer him.
Li Shimin had already relaxed after hearing Zhou Jin's words, but he didn't expect that the last sentence would actually involve him, and he was furious again.
He pointed to Dai Zhide and said, "Tell him!"
Dai Zhide was so guilty after hearing Zhou Jin's words that Dai Zhide almost laughed when he saw Li Shimin getting angry.
However, Dai Zhide also learned the essence and did not argue with Zhou Jin in person. He directly said to Li Shimin: "Your Majesty, Cai Wenying, as far as I know, is a little woman. I think a woman wants to tell you that something is credible about making witches. It is really hard to convince people to rebel that the emperor is."
"A bastard, how can a woman be called emperor?" Li Shimin said furiously when he heard this.
Several other ministers in the room also found it incredible. Zhou Jin said that Cai Wenying rebelled and called himself Emperor Wenjia. They all thought Cai Wenying was a man.
Seeing that Li Shimin didn't believe him at all, Zhou Jin became more angry and directly retorted: "Your Majesty, the Son of Ming, should know that evil demons are not distinguished from men and women? Cai Wenying and other evil people were just being tempted by the traitor and being crazy and rebellious against Hu Wei. How can there be a rule to follow?
Don’t say that women cannot be called emperors, if they follow the Tang Dynasty’s laws, they shouldn’t have rebelled!"
"Clang"
Li Shimin was furious when he was criticized. He waved his hand and smashed all the things on the table, and scolded loudly: "A villain, you have forced the people to rebel against me, but you have come to deceive me. The person who came to throw Zhou Jin into the prison of heaven."
"Need not!"
Before the guards outside the hall came in, Zhou Jin yelled with grief and anger, then suddenly jumped up and hit the corner of the case in front of Li Shimin. With a "bang", he stood up and fell to the ground with blood.
When Zhou Jin jumped up, everyone in the hall was startled, and he was relieved when he saw him hitting the corner of the case.
Li Shimin's angry face turned purple, and he looked down at Zhou Jin, who was bleeding from his forehead.
"Zhou Jin, you, what are you doing?"
Zhou Jin's face was pale at this time, and he heard this and said in a low voice: "I am born short, but I have studied poetry and books hard since I was a child, and I have never done anything that violates the etiquette and exceeds the rules.
I participated in the imperial examination and won the imperial examination, but it was not used by the imperial court. I stayed hard in Chang'an just to repay the hope that I could serve the imperial court one day, and even if I was a minor official, I would be considered as a lifelong learning.”
When Zhou Jin said this, Ma Zhou and others were moved by it, and Li Shimin remained silent.
"After all, God has lived up to the hard work. I have been in charge of the Crown Prince to serve in the Eastern Palace. In the past two years, I have not dared to claim to have made merits in the work of the Eastern Palace, nor have I ever been doing anything I have done in the United States. I have no merits and hard work.
I believe that I will not let down the Tang Dynasty for my whole life! I will not let down the people! I will not let down the world!
Why did the Lord of the Holy and Ming abandon his shoes?”
Speaking of this, he still looked straight at Li Shimin. After a while, Zhou Jin vented less and less, but his eyes were still staring at Li Shimin tightly.
"The imperial physician gave him the injury." Li Shimin said with difficulty.
"Come on, Master Zhou to find the Imperial Doctor!" Ma Zhou said in tears.
Several eunuchs rushed forward and carried Zhou Jin out in a slight manner. Everyone in the room knew that Zhou Jin could not survive and was in a heavy mood.
After a while, Ma Zhou wiped away his tears, bowed to Li Shimin, and said slowly: "Your Majesty, Zhou Jin has experienced difficulties in Chang'an because of his short stature. He is inevitably a little extreme in his temperament. Please do not have the same knowledge as him."
Li Shimin nodded silently and regretted it. What would people think of him when such a thing was passed on to future generations?
"Your Majesty, although Zhou Jin is extreme, he doesn't believe it if he deceives the king and his subjects." Ju Suiliang finally seized the opportunity.
"Your Majesty, I will never dare to deceive the king!" Dai Zhide immediately said in shock when he heard this.
Li Shimin ignored Dai Zhide and asked Liu Shi directly: "What did Zhou Jin say when he came?"
Liu Shi hurriedly replied, "I heard that someone was rebelling in Songxian County was outside the door, so I immediately entrusted Zhou Jin to report it, and did not dare to ask more questions. However, there were still a few people who came with Zhou Jin, all of them were the East Palace—"
"Come, pass in the person who came with Zhou Jin!" Before Liu Shishi finished speaking, Li Shimin immediately said.
The people in the room were waiting with a serious look on their faces.
"Your Majesty, Lord Zhou will die if he is not cured." The eunuch who had just carried Zhou Jin out came in to report.
Li Shimin looked complicated when he heard this, and he waved his hand silently to signal him to go down.
As soon as this eunuch went down, the eunuch who went to the successor came in.
"Your Majesty, no one who came from Master Zhou is at the gate of the palace."
Um?
Everyone in the room was puzzled. Shouldn’t the person who followed him wait for Zhou Jin at the door?
When Li Shimin heard that he could not find Zhou Jin's entourage, he immediately said furiously: "Bastard! Can they still escape in just a short while?"
The eunuch who came to report the news was scared and trembled, and hurriedly kowtowed, "I will send someone to find him now."
As he said that, he ran out tremblingly.
Li Shimin gasped in anger. At first glance, he saw Dai Zhide who was still kneeling on the ground and said loudly: "Dai Zhide, you are also a famous family. You have been the governor of Luozhou for several years. Why did you create a Sanming Immortal Sect in Luozhou?"
"Your Majesty, I, I..." Dai Zhide was so scared that he couldn't even speak smoothly.
The words Dai Zhide had originally prepared to slander Xue Dading and Zhou Jin, after Zhou Jin was killed on the spot, they could not express any of these reasons.
"My son wants to see my father and emperor if you have something to do!" At this moment, Li Zhi's voice came in from outside.
Chapter completed!