Chapter 1215 Cleansing

East Palace.

"Shangzhao Dali, Ministry of Punishment, and Yushitai have a joint trial, and ordered Zhongshu and Menxia to supervise the trial. Hegan Chengji begged for atonement, and confessed to Wei Wang and Han Wang for treason."

"Joint trial by various divisions, the reverse is already in place!"

Cheng Qian hugged his son Lu Wang Li Xian sitting on the couch, teasing his son.

"What's the attitude of the saint?"

"The sage was heartbroken for a long time. He asked the prime minister how he would deal with the situation. None of the prime ministers dared to say anything, but only Zhongshu Sheren came to speak boldly. Your Majesty will be a loving father, and he will live forever. That is good. The sage then issued an edict to abolish Li Tai as a commoner, and ordered him to return to Luoyang, where he was secluded in the right leader's mansion."

Chengqian smiled at his son when he heard the result.

The servant who reported the report saw that the prince did not speak, so after waiting for the meeting, he continued to whisper, "The emperor wanted to prevent the death of the King of Han, and only deposed him as a common man. The uncle, grandson and other ministers insisted on refusing, so he committed suicide at home. Then forgive his mother, wife, concubine and children."

"Hou Junji, Zhao Jie, Li Anyan, Du He, Helan Chushi, Chai Lingwu, Du Chuke, etc. were all executed. Wei Ting, Li Suli, Yang Zuan, etc. were all expelled from their ancestry. Expulsion for the people..."

Cheng Qian finally raised his head, "Where's Fang Yiai?"

"Shangming did not involve Fang Yiai."

Cheng Qian snorted.

Obviously, the emperor was giving Fang Xuanling an old face.

However, the result of this treason case still made Chengqian quite satisfied. Not only did he demote Li Tai, the biggest threat, to a commoner, he also killed the Seven Emperor Uncle Han Wang Yuanchang, and killed a bunch of ministers.

Hou Junji, Du Chuke, and Li Anyan are all ministers above the third rank, while Zhao Jie, Du He, Chai Lingwu and others are all relatives of the emperor. Zhao Jie is the son of the eldest princess, and Du Chai is the son-in-law of the current emperor.

Hou Junji, Li Anyan, Du He, Helan Chushi, Li Anyan, and Zhao Jie were all supporters of Chengqian in the past, but later they became fools and went to Li Tai's side at the most critical time. Especially Hou Junji, the relationship between the two was very close. Chengqian also married Hou Junji's daughter, and the two gave birth to their second son, Chen Wang Li Jue.

Seeing these former members of his own family now being liquidated, Cheng Qian felt extremely happy, and the most hateful thing was these fools.

Li Tai was not killed, not surprising, after all, Li Tai had always been favored by his father, and he almost robbed him of the crown prince position, but now that the incident happened and he was demoted to a commoner, it was considered a sage's painful decision.

Very happy.

Both Fang Yiai and Chai Lingwu are Li Tai's best friends, but now that Chai Lingwu has been convicted and executed, Fang Yiai doesn't mention it, obviously because Chai Lingwu's mother, Princess Pingyangzhao, died of illness a long time ago, and his father, Qiaojun Gong Chai Shao Because of his illness, the emperor had no worries about liquidating him.

Although Fang Yiai's father, Fang Xuanling, is now an official at home, after all, he has worked hard and made great achievements. The emperor still cares about him, so before Fang Xuanling was involved in the Liu Ji case, the emperor just let Fang Xuanling become an official and did not convict him. Now Taking care of Fang's family again.

Zhao Jie is the son of Princess Changguang. Princess Changguang is the fifth daughter of Gaozu. She was first granted the title of Princess Guiyang. She married Zhao Cijing, the son of Zhao Huaina, the governor of Guangzhou of the Zhao family in Tianshui. At the beginning of Wude, she was released as the governor of Huazhou. She led an army to attack Puzhou and was defeated. was captured and killed. The princess changed her title to Princess Changguang and remarried Yang Shidao.

Zhao Cijing also has a younger brother, Zhao Cihao, who married the cousin of the eldest grandson empress.

The princess and Zhao Cijing had sons Zhao Jie and Zhao Bin, and Yang Yuzhi, a son of Yang Shidao, married the daughter of Qi Wang Yuanji, the princess of Shouchun County.

The Zhao family in Tianshui is also a well-known family. Although Zhao Jie's father died early and his mother remarried, the princess and Yang Shidao treated Zhao Jie brothers very well. So Zhao Jie followed Chengqian at first, but later he was relegated because of the prince's fall out of favor. With the help of Yang Shidao, he was promoted to governor when he was less than thirty years old.

This is a serious governor, not a loose title.

Moreover, after his father passed away, Zhao Jie, who was only a few years old at the time, also inherited his father's title of Duke of Kaihua County.

Qin Liangdi said to the prince from the side, "Since such a big incident happened, His Highness should go to meet the saint and intercede for King Wei and his son-in-law, after all, they are all relatives."

The prince smiled, and didn't say she was superficial, because he knew very well that Qin Shi was a very smart person. Although she didn't know how to plan everywhere, her mind was dexterous and no one could deceive him. Her words, of course, are not as simple as they appear on the surface.

Wei Wangtai's party had an accident, and everyone in the East Palace was naturally happy, but if they were really happy outside at this time, it would inevitably make the emperor unhappy. To intercede at this time can also leave a good impression in front of the saint.

"Okay, hold Shiro in your arms, and I'll go to meet Sheng."

"It's a pity that I couldn't drag that old thief Fang Xuanling into the water this time." Cheng Qian said with some regret.

"Your Highness, don't say such a thing."

"I see."

Chengqian rushed outside the Changsheng Hall of Shangyang Palace, and found that his aunt, Princess Changguang, and uncle Taichangqing, Yang Shidao, were begging for an audience outside the hall.

"The prince is here." When Princess Changguang saw Chengqian, she came forward wiping her tears.

Chengqian looked at the aunt's face full of tears, and hurried forward to support her, "Auntie came here for cousin Zhao's business? I'm also here for this matter. Cousin Zhao was just confused for a moment, I'll invite you Father and Emperor pardon Cousin Zhao."

Yang Shidao was leaning on a crutch beside him, and looked at the prince with some embarrassment, "I'm sorry, Your Highness, Zhao Jie. It's rare that Your Highness can be magnanimous. I'm really ashamed."

"Uncle, don't say that, we are all family."

Princess Changguang has a wide network of contacts in the clan. She first married the Zhao family of Tianshui, and then the Yang family of Hongnong.

However, this princess loves luxury, loves money, and enjoys the most. Luxury houses and villas cost hundreds of millions of dollars. She also likes to merge fields everywhere, buy manors, and likes to buy slaves and cattle and horses.

The princess also likes to play polo and hold tea parties. Anyway, in the circle of noble ladies, the princess is quite sociable. On the other hand, the princess is also very fond of her children, so the princess's sons are quite messy.

Not to mention Zhao Jie, first he followed Chengqian to mess around, and then turned to Wei Wangfu, and finally wanted to instigate Wei Wang to rebel. The reason for his rebellion was also relatively simple, that is, he thought his title was too low, only a county prince. Most of his aunts and cousins ​​will inherit the duke of the country in the future, as for his uncles and cousins, they are all princes.

Zhao Jie's father died early, and although his stepfather treated him well, the title and family property of the Yang family were not up to him, so he also wanted to make a contribution from the dragon and increase his title by one level.

Yang Yuzhi, the son of the princess and Yang Shidao, is even more dandy. In history, after the death of his father Yang Shidao, this Yang Yuzhi went to have fun during the funeral, so that he annoyed his uncle Li Shimin and asked his eldest grandson Wuji to distribute Yang Yuzhi's property to the same mother and brother. Zhao Bin, in the end he still didn't want to change.

During her mother's funeral, she even committed adultery with her aunt, Princess Yongjia, and was caught in bed by her uncle, Dou Fengjie. Dou Fengjie killed him with five punishments.

This is a very tragic way of death. First tattoo the face, then cut off the nose, then cut off the left and right feet, and then beat to death with a whip, then cut off the tongue, and then cut off the head and hung it on a wooden pole To show the public, chop the corpse into meat sauce in the public.

Of course, a mother who can teach such a son will not be much better.

Chengqian actually didn't have a good impression of this aunt, he despised her in his heart, the lady covered in jewels and jewels, who looked graceful and luxurious, was actually just an unreasonable woman.

"Don't worry, aunt, I'm going to ask the saint for mercy."

Please see you, Prince.

Li Shimin finally let them in.

When the prince finished begging for love, Li Shimin remained expressionless.

When Yang Shidao also interceded, Li Shimin became angry.

"Do you really think I'm old and confused? I asked all the jurisprudence to try the rebellion case, but you Yang Shidao, a Taichang Qing, intervened in every possible way and perverted the law for Zhao Jie's selfishness. You still have me and the court's laws in your eyes?"

The emperor loudly blamed Yang Shidao for interfering in justice.

"I think you, Tai Changqing, don't do it anymore. You should be dismissed and go home. You should reflect on yourself. Although Zhao Jie is not your own son, you have the responsibility to bring up the princess when he came to your house with the princess. Now he is rebelling and causing trouble. Your adoptive father is also guilty of not teaching!"

The princess originally wanted to protect her son, but she didn't expect her husband to be involved too.

Anxiously grabbing the ground with his head, he kowtowed on the ground non-stop, blood came out, Cheng Qian hurriedly helped him up, but this time Li Shimin was hard-hearted and unmoved at all.

"My sons, brothers, and nephews conspire against me!"

Li Shimin stared at his half-sister with wide eyes, implying blame in his words.

No matter how Chengqian and the princess interceded, but the emperor had a hard heart this time, Zhao Jie must die, and death was not a pity. Yang Shidao also interfered in the judiciary and was dismissed by Li Shimin.

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Don't wait for autumn.

Make a decision.

Han Wang Yuanchang committed suicide by giving poisoned wine in his fief, and Zhao Jie and others were also arrested and executed on the spot.

Hou Junji became the son of heaven, Yuan Cong, and he co-conspired to calm the heroes. At this time, he was the governor of Xizhou and the military envoy of Tianshan in the Western Regions, but no one interceded for him.

Duke of Xiangcheng County and Princess Chengyang's consort Du He was beheaded, and Princess Chengyang was remarried to Xue Guan, the son of Wei Weiqing Xue Huaiyu.

The governor of Weizhou, the prince of Xiangyang County, and the son-in-law of Baling Princess Chai Lingwu committed suicide together with the princess, and the emperor was furious.

Order people to kill Chai Lingwu's body, and the princess will be buried separately.

Du Heben, the second son of Du Ruhui, his elder brother Du Gou succeeded the Duke of Jue Lai and served as the governor of Laizhou.

Chai Zhewei, brother of Chai Lingwu, is the eldest son of Chai Shao and Princess Pingyang Zhao.

Both Du Ruhui and Chai Shao were the founding fathers of the country. They were the twenty-four heroes of Lingyan Pavilion and the first batch of world-honored heroes. The eldest son also won the title and was relegated to Lingnan.

Among them, the Du family was most affected. Not only was Du Gou seized the title and demoted to Lingnan, his second son Du He was executed, but Du Ruhui's younger brother Du Chuke was also convicted again. However, when this incident happened, it was discovered that he still had contacts with King Wei, so the emperor directly executed him as well.

Jingzhao Du's family was also very popular at the beginning of Zhenguan. After all, Du Ruhui and Du Yan's uncle and nephew both worshiped the prime minister.

Du He and Du Chuke were killed, Du Gou was demoted, and the Du family's son-in-law, Prime Minister Ma Zhou, also died of illness, and the Du family fell into decline for a while.

The Yang family of Hongnong was also hit hard. The Yang family also had two prime ministers in the Zhenguan Dynasty. Yang Gongren died of illness.