Hearing Zhang Liang's words, Li Shimin laughed out loud.
"Even my sons dare not disobey my orders."
"But your adopted son turned a deaf ear to my words."
Li Shimin pointed at Zhang Liang and said, "I have to say, your adopted son is really courageous."
Hearing this, Zhang Shan almost fainted from fright.
Not to mention him, even Zhang Liang, who had known Li Shimin for many years, was so frightened that he knelt on the ground on the spot.
Zhang Liang lowered his head and said, "It's okay for me to discipline you. Your Majesty, I'll forgive you..."
"Excuse me?"
"Where is Aiqing guilty?"
"You have trained a great talent and a great figure for me and the Tang Dynasty."
While talking, Li Shimin grabbed a page from the table full of Zhang Shan's crimes and said, "Did you see it? It's a whole page."
"The words written on it are almost more than the memorial submitted below."
"But today, the words above are all used to describe your adopted son."
Li Shimin said casually, "Look, he rode his horse in the street, allowed his subordinates to insult the prince, and then went to cause trouble for the prince and the prince."
"To be honest, it has been more than ten years since I ascended the throne."
"But this is really the first time I've heard of such a thing."
Li Shimin gave Zhang Liang a thumbs up and said, "You really made a good start for the nobles of the Tang Dynasty."
"And you, Zhang Shan, have done the most important thing in the more than ten years since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, even since the founding of the country."
When he spoke, he looked pleasant.
But who can't hear the murderous intent contained in his words?
Zhang Shan did not dare to speak, and Zhang Liang did the same.
The adopted father and son were so frightened by Li Shimin's words that they didn't even dare to fart.
And looking at the appearance of the father and son, Li Shimin also burst out laughing.
He slowly said: "Okay, you two don't have to be so coy."
"Now, I also have a few words to ask you."
"Whether it's you Zhang Liang or you Zhang Shan."
"You all live in Chang'an City, and Zhang Liang, you are the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment."
Li Shimin pointed at Zhang Liang and said: "Today, you will give me an answer. How should people who commit such crimes be dealt with?"
How to dispose of it?
If the normal disposal procedures were followed, even ten heads of Zhang Liang would not be enough to chop off.
First, there are inscriptions in the laws of the Tang Dynasty that stipulate that livestock are not allowed to appear on the three main roads of Chang'an City.
Anyone who violates the rules will be sentenced according to the circumstances.
If there are no casualties, the livestock will be confiscated and the fine will be fifty silver. The owner of the livestock will be punished for fifteen.
Casualties will depend on the situation.
If there are less than three people, the livestock will be confiscated and the fine will be two hundred silver. The owner of the livestock will be punished with a penalty of thirty.
If there are more than three people and less than ten people, the livestock will be confiscated, the fine will be five hundred silver, and the owner of the livestock will be forced to do corvee service.
If there are more than ten people but less than fifteen people, the livestock will be confiscated, a fine of one thousand silver will be fined, and the livestock owner will be released.
Finally, those who caused more than fifteen civilian casualties were sentenced to death.
Now, after Zhang Shan's horses rushed into the crowd, how could a dozen of the people affected be able to stop them?
Even if Li Chengqian suddenly came in to help the people, nearly thirty people were injured.
Based on this alone, the death penalty for Zhang Shan is not an exaggeration.
In this case, let alone the second and third.
No matter which one is taken out, it is a crime that is enough to kill one's head.
After all, he was not scolding an ordinary prince, but Li Chengqian, the current prince.
You must know that insulting the current prince is a serious crime.
Even being sentenced to exile is considered light. After all, several aristocratic families in Yangzhou are the typical examples of this matter.
Those people insulted Li Chengqian and even wanted to use force against Li Chengqian.
But after they failed, their fate was almost always the execution of ten families from nine tribes.
But even if he knew this, Zhang Liang didn't dare to speak.
After all, it was his adopted son who committed the crime.
Once something happens to his adopted son, he might be implicated.
Therefore, instead of asking Zhang Shan to plead guilty, it would be better to grit his teeth and hold tight.
But if he can hold his own, how can Zhang Shan?
At this moment, Zhang Shan obviously thought of those people back then.
Before Zhang Liang could speak, he kowtowed to Li Shimin repeatedly and said, "Your Majesty, this is all what my subordinates say. I really don't know about this..."
"Not aware?"
Li Shimin smiled.
"You don't know, how dare your men go out with horses?"
"You don't know, how dare your men be so arrogant on the street?"
"You don't know, how can your men be so arrogant?"
Li Shimin looked directly at Zhang Shan and said, "Zhang Shan, do you think I am a fool?"
"No, no no no no..."
"Even...even if you lend ten courages or a hundred courages to the villain, the villain...the villain wouldn't dare..."
After hearing what Li Shimin said, Zhang Shan was already frightened.
And the more he behaves like this, the more Li Shimin hates him.
Li Shimin's temper is very strange.
He doesn't like obedient cowards, but prefers those who stand up and confront him.
If others don’t talk about it, let’s talk about Cheng Mingzhen.
At first glance, this person looks like a relative of Cheng Yaojin, but in fact he has nothing to do with Cheng Yaojin.
And Cheng Mingzhen can generally be regarded as one of the famous generals of the Tang Dynasty.
It’s just that it hasn’t been reused at the moment.
Cheng Mingzhen served under Dou Jiande in his early years, but later left Dou Jiande and joined Li Yuan.
At that time, Li Shimin's men were full of talents, so Li Yuan assigned him to Li Jiancheng's men and became Li Jiancheng's right-hand man.
Later, when Li Jiancheng killed Liu Heitai, he served as a vanguard and together with Luo Yi fought dozens of battles with Liu Heitai in Jizhou.
Even Liu Heitai himself died in his hands.
From then on, he has been following Li Jiancheng and is a die-hard supporter of Li Jiancheng.
After the Xuanwumen Incident, Li Jiancheng died and the princelings completely declined.
In addition to taking Wei Zheng out of the East Palace, Li Shimin also brought out Cheng Mingzhen.
At that time, Cheng Mingzhen almost pointed at Li Shimin's nose and cursed.
But Li Shimin praised him very much.
He was even appointed as the governor of Mingzhou, which has never been changed to this day.
From this point, it is not difficult to judge Li Shimin's character.
At the same time, it is not difficult to see how much Li Shimin hates Zhang Shan.
But hate it, Li Shimin is actually enforcing the law.
Every word he spoke was based on the truth and the Fa.
Even if he dared to mess around with Zhang Liang, there was nothing he could do at this moment.
He could only plead with Li Shimin: "Your Majesty, Shan'er has been with me since he was very young."
"Even though there are no blood relatives, there is still a father-son relationship."
"I also hope that Your Majesty will remember that I am old and don't let my white-haired person give away a black-haired person..."
Obviously, he was really at the end of his rope.
Otherwise, it would be impossible to show off to Li Shimin...
