In a blink of an eye, more than ten days have passed. The fact that King Li Ke of Wu was imprisoned for rebellion has been discussed by the people for many days. Even the children on the street knew about this. Because the attention was too high, the relevant yamen did not dare not speed up the investigation.

The Ministry of Justice, Dali Temple, and Zongzheng Mansion, which is in charge of the royal family, are all investigating and collecting evidence.

Originally, King Li Ke of Wu was the governor of Yangzhou and was a magistrate of the border. Such a person often dominated the country and no one could touch him. However, the court had a censor in various places. Although the censor was of low rank, his authority was extremely wide.

This time, a local censor was reported by a secret censor, confirming the evidence that Li Ke raised private soldiers.

The man wanted to report to the Chang'an Censorate at the first time, but by chance, King Li Ke of Wu noticed the matter and could not hide it. He directly wanted to kill someone to silence him.

So just when the censor thought it was over, the chief of the Wu Prince's Mansion, who was responsible for Yangzhou government affairs, was deeply aware of the righteousness and brought people to help.

(To be clear here, Li Ke brought the private soldiers he raised, and he was shameless. The chief of the King of Wu was in charge of government affairs. Although he was nominally under Li Ke, he was a powerful official. He brought the local city defense soldiers.

To put it bluntly, princes like Li Ke went out to be officials at a young age to enjoy their fortunes, so as not to have bad influence on the prince staying in Chang'an and cause any trouble in competing for favor and throne.)

Originally, the censor thought that the fact that Li Ke was raising private soldiers was so big that the King of Wu's Mansion would have been so impoverished. The Changshi could not have known that it must be Li Ke and his gang. He never thought that the Changshi came to save him.

So when he saw two groups fighting together, his first reaction was, what was the situation? Has the chief of the King of Wu’s palace turned against him? He suddenly regretted and turned to the light?

In any case, the censor was grateful for the life-saving grace of the chief. He wanted to find the other party to ask for a clear reply after the war. Unfortunately, the chief of the King of Wu's palace died in a trap, so the censor turned all his gratitude to the savior into hatred and poured on Li Ke.

So when Li Ke was captured from the Wu Palace and sent directly back to Chang'an, the censor followed him all the way, for fear that Li Ke would run away halfway and could not be punished.

Captured Li Ke from the Wu Palace? Yes, he was captured from the royal palace. Because of the previous battle between the two sides, Li Ke did not participate and was not present at all.

Li Ke himself said that he had no idea at all, and that he was all doing it by his subordinates who had done it in the name of his name.

But who can believe it at this time? How much money is it to raise ten thousand private soldiers? How much financial and material resources? Without your Wu Palace, who can do this in the south of the Yangtze River? Besides, it is the leader of your close ministers. Now you want to abandon the car and protect the coach? There is no door!

It is a pity that the chief of the King of Wu's Mansion, this third-rank official of real power, died in a trap. He was an old minister under Li Er's hand. Emperor Li Er felt heartbroken. If he was still alive, he might be able to tell the truth clearly.

After all, in Yangzhou, he is in charge of government affairs and is able to send troops to intercept 10,000 private soldiers in a timely manner, which shows that this chief must have known some news.

When talking about the chief of the King of Wu's Mansion, Li Ke was also in grief, saying that it was his subordinate, but it was better to say that it was the emperor who sent him as a teacher. After all, sooner or later, the King of Wu would learn to manage the affairs of the governing people himself, so he respected his chief of his.

The truth is that the chief of the King of Wu's mansion received a tip that a dead soldier of unknown origin was slaughtering in the city.

Therefore, the Chief Secretary made a quick decision and personally dispatched troops to command the enemy to siege. The final result was that ten thousand dead soldiers were captured and killed, and the Chief Secretary unfortunately died.

What's even more coincidental is that the leader of the dead soldiers was captured in one lifetime, and they would rather die than surrender and fight to the death. Among them were Li Ke's close ministers.

This is the process of the Yangzhou rebellion incident. However, the Ministry of Justice and Dali Temple investigated and collected evidence from multiple parties, but failed to find reasonable evidence to restore the truth. In other words, what they could confirm was the part of the retelling of the censor, and everything he saw with his own eyes.

Therefore, the final investigation results, without exception, were all detrimental to Li Ke, or in other words, basically confirmed Li Ke's charges.

Li Daozong, the Minister of Justice, presented a memorial to the case without expression, and the Minister of the Dali Temple gave almost one.

Li Er looked at the memorials of both sides with a gloomy face and said coldly: "So, did Li Ke do it?"

There is a slight sarcasm in his tone.

The old god Li Daozong stood aside without saying anything. The Dali Temple Minister said seriously: "Yes, Your Majesty, I have collected evidence from many sources. Your Highness the King of Wu is true. According to the Tang Dynasty's laws, I am almost going to confront him in court."

Oh...confronted each other in class! Li Er pulled a long voice.

Then he asked, "Whether he recognizes it or not, the law only recognizes evidence, that is, it is certain.

According to the laws of the Tang Dynasty, what crime should be convicted?”

this……

No matter how honest the Dali Temple Minister was, he would not dare to argue about the life and death of a prince. This political rule was clear, so he changed his tone and replied: "Your Majesty, if you commit a serious crime of treason, you should be punished. However, after all, Your Highness of the King of Wu is young, and it is inevitable that he will do something wrong on impulse, so he can be sentenced to lenient punishment.

How should you convict me? Please tell me."

"I'm here to convict? Haha, isn't your Dali Temple's case a matter of nephew's attention to relatives avoiding suspicion? If I'm convicted less, I'm afraid it will damage the national law and become severe. Li Kexu will be dissatisfied. It's really hard to deal with it. It's better for you three departments to judge and make a decision impartially." Li Er ordered.

The Dali Temple Minister knelt down and said with a embarrassed look: "Your Majesty, the Three Ministers will be tried, but they can only find out whether the King of Wu pleads guilty. No one dares to be convicted of the conviction.

Please forgive me for your difficulties.”

Difficulties...

Li Er murmured to himself, then waved his hand to let the other party stand up, smiled and said, "Then let the big court meeting discuss it together."

"Your Majesty is wise!"

At this moment, an urgent report rang out of the Political Consultative Hall. Li Er signaled the eunuch Lao Gao to bring the person in. It turned out to be the minister on duty in the Ministry of Justice today.

"Report to Your Majesty, something is wrong with the big thing. Your Highness, the King of Wu, has something happened to him in the Heavenly Prison!"

What???

Li Daozong was the first to exclaim and shouted loudly: "What's going on? Didn't I ask you to stare at me?"

This is my...

The man hesitated and Li Er shouted, "Tell me clearly, what happened?"

Before he knew it, his tone actually trembled a little. If you observe carefully, you can still see that Li Er's face is already a little pale.

Li Ke is his favorite son, and he doesn't want something to happen to the other party.

The assistant minister of the Ministry of Justice trembled: "From the situation, it seems that His Highness of the King of Wu committed suicide because he was afraid of his crime and took poison!"

"If you fart..." Li Daozong was furious and kicked the Minister of Justice to the ground with one kick.

His Majesty Li Er shook his body a few times and almost fell to the side. Fortunately, the eunuch Lao Gao helped him.

Li Daozong cursed: "He is a prisoner, and he has always provided food and drink with special people. Where did he take the poison from himself and commit suicide? What did you make? Do you believe such nonsense?"

The minister was so scared that he didn't dare to look up and explained in detail: "It's true that his subordinates saw His Highness the King of Wu taking a pill, and then he fell to the ground and vomited blood. Soon, he disappeared."

Puff... Li Er spitted blood directly and sat on the dragon throne, and several ministers were shocked.

Old Gao was about to spread the imperial physician, but Li Er struggled and said, "Go, go, go find Du Shaoqing, save, save Ke'er! Daozong, go to Tianzhu..."

Before he finished speaking, His Majesty Li Er fainted directly.

"Your Majesty...Your Majesty..." several people shouted.

A flash of lightning flashed in Li Daozong's mind, remembering the words of Du Shaoqing who gave Li Ke a medicine bottle and Xiao Xuanxuan. Could it be that Li Ke was pretending to die after taking medicine?

Thinking of this, he turned around and walked out. The Dali Temple Minister shouted: "Prince Jiangxia, it's important to save Your Majesty, you..."

"You guys take good care of me, I'll go find someone to help me!"

After saying this, I went to see Li Daozong, who was already outside the hall.

He said this inexplicably, and the two of them didn't understand it and even agreed: "You must be quicker..."

OK, these two thought Li Daozong was going to find someone to save Li Er. If this is the case, then when Li Daozong went to find a doctor to return to the palace to rescue him, Li Er might die eight times.

Fortunately, the eunuch Gao was clever and knew that Li Daozong was obedient and did not do anything, so he sent someone to the Imperial Hospital for help. Otherwise, if he pointed to the Dali Temple Minister and the Minister of Justice, Li Er would probably delay the treatment.

Li Daozong asked Du Shaoqing to invite him, and he rushed straight to the Tianzhu. At this time, the people in the Tianzhu were scared and the prince died under his own supervision. What's wrong? Even if His Majesty doesn't pursue it, the imperial concubine can't spare everyone, and maybe they will be buried with him.

But just as he kicked the prison guard away and walked in, a prison guard inside ran out and shouted: "It's a disaster, it's a disaster..."

The prison head really wanted to strangle this subordinate to death. It was a disaster. How could he have any disaster? What could he do? He would call him? He bumped into the Minister of Justice, and maybe everyone would be taken down. Originally, outside the prison door, it was a matter of someone else's words.

"Bastard, what happened? Where is His Highness the King of Wu?" Li Daozong scolded angrily.

"Ghost, ghost...

Ah, no, it's a corpse, a corpse, a corpse..." The prison guard was incoherent, Li Daozong was impatient with the entanglement and trotted in.

When I went in, I was stunned. Good guy, isn’t Li Ke alive? Then why did his subordinates report that they were poisoned and vomited blood and died of death?

Many jailers were on guard against Li Ke who woke up with a knife, and they thought it was a corpse. Li Ke couldn't argue. If he was killed by the jailer's corpse at this time, he would be devastated.

Seeing Li Daozong coming, Li Ke shouted in surprise: "Uncle Wang saves me, they don't believe that I'm not dead, please stop them."

Li Daozong rushed up and hugged Li Ke's shoulder with both hands, checked from top to bottom, laughed happily, and then shouted to the prison guards around him: "Stop it all, order people to guard the gate of the Heavenly Prison, no one is allowed to enter and exit. This matter must be strictly investigated to the end."

Everyone ordered the order to retreat. When everyone saw that the King of Wu was not dead, they thought they had escaped and no longer had to be buried with them.

But at this moment, Li Daozong added, "There is something strange about this matter. Whoever did it is best to come forward and lead it. Don't think about committing suicide in fear of crime. From now on, if anyone dies, there is no need to report to His Majesty. I will do it myself and destroy his three tribes!"

Well, he is such a ruthless person. What if someone died unexpectedly at this time? Is it wronged?

Soon there were two uncles and nephews left in the prison. Li Daozong asked about the detailed experience.

Li Ke said: "Today's food is poisonous. I realized that it was too late to feel colic in my stomach. Fortunately, I took the Du family's life-saving pill in time, otherwise..."

Li Daozong wiped the cold sweat from his head and apologized sincerely: "It's all for my negligence, I apologize to you!

Fortunately, you will be alive, otherwise your Majesty...

Wait, you mean, someone poisons you food, is it life-saving for you to take medicine?"

"Yes!" Li Ke said in confusion.

"No, the one who makes trouble is not the prisoner, maybe it's the chef or cook and others, someone comes..." Li Daozong hurriedly called someone.

Before he could finish calling, the prison head came in and said with a sad face: "Prince Qi, Prince Du is here again. We really can't stop him. This time he has a more irritable temper than last time, he..."

"What am I doing? I scared you? If you know you are afraid, give way. Don't stop me next time. Can you bear it?" As he spoke, Du Shaoqing came in with a swagger in his back with the medicine box. It was obvious that there was no prison head and the jailer could not block it.

The prison head stopped talking and looked at Du Shaoqing with aggrieved expression, thinking that you can do it? You are a genius doctor and living Bodhisattva, everyone admires you, who dares to fight with you? The saliva in Chang'an City can drown him, but can you go around in another place? What do you always bully us those who are looking for the prison?

Li Daozong stood up and said, "Okay, I'm here with my husband. You can quickly surround the kitchen and take everyone down. No one is allowed to escape or be killed or injured, otherwise you will be asked!"

Du Shaoqing walked in and saw Li Ke's face turning slightly blue. He knew that he was poisoned. He stretched out his hand to put his pulse and closed his eyes slightly, and soon made a conclusion.

"The method of poisoning is excellent. Using poison is the best-quality poison used by the first-class killers in Green Forest. The colorless and tasteless poison is used by the poisoned one stick of incense, and there is never an antidote.

If it weren't for the life-saving pill, haha, third brother, you will be a hero again twenty years later!" Du Shaoqing did not forget to tease.

Li Er smiled bitterly and speechlessly. At this time, his stomach was still as painful as it was burning, and you could still laugh.

Li Daozong urged: "Shaoqing, can your life-saving pill detoxify? How is it now? Is there still danger?"

Du Shaoqing said: "Of course not. The life-saving pill only preserves the vitality and can seek medical treatment in time to detoxify. This poison... seems to be like my big tiger was poisoned before.

Fortunately, you met me. If someone else had probably won’t be able to save you. I will prescribe an antidote prescription, boil one every day and you will be cured in seven days.”

Li Ke also smiled and sighed: "Brother-in-law, plus this time, I owe you another life."

Hearing Du Shaoqing's words, Li Daozong captured a message and asked: "You mean that the poison in Li Ke was like Cheng Qian took it out in Tubo and was poisoned? So, was it done by the same group?
Chapter completed!