The picture was so shocking that at least Li Qinzai was shocked.
The struggle between the powerful and landlord class is really cruel and bloody, and it is decided to end it without hesitation.
If you want to survive, you must kill the person who should take the blame and bear the responsibility, and completely separate yourself from the incident. Only then can you survive.
Li Qinzai immediately understood the intentions of the eight prominent families, and a chill suddenly ran through his head. These people were really ruthless, and they would not show mercy when they killed his own family members.
When Gu En and other officials decided to raid Li Qinzai's car, they naturally assessed the risks and consequences. Li Qinzai did not believe that these officials from prominent families had no knowledge of it.
How is it possible that a raid on a county bus driver was only decided by a few principals without asking for instructions or reporting beforehand?
In other words, the last raid was a joint decision made by the eight prominent families. As long as the officials were from prominent families, they must have known and agreed to it beforehand.
Now things are getting out of hand, and the chief executive is pushed out to take the blame. These officials act as if they have no knowledge, and their expressions of shock and anger are extremely exquisite.
Li Qinzai sneered, "Are you trying to fool me like a fool?"
At this time, the iron boring bar in the hands of the strong man had hit Gu En's head with the force of wind and thunder.
Gu En lay weakly on the soft bag, with a pale face and empty eyes. Gu En must have known his fate before these people came to the Duke's Mansion. As the cannon fodder and abandoned son who took the blame, the family members had told him in advance. , He will die today.
Gu En also knew that he was an abandoned son, and that he was sacrificed by the family with his consent. There might be rewards behind it, such as what the family would pay for his wife, children, and children.
In front of hundreds of people, the play was very realistic. If Li Qinzai had been a little stupider, he might have believed it.
On the surface, it seems that a group of officials from a noble family who had no prior knowledge and upright character discovered that the person in charge below them had caused a huge disaster.
So driven by a noble sense of morality, he angrily brought these family scoundrels to Li Qinzai, and performed a righteous act of exterminating relatives, which won praise from Chang'an City, and he was forgiven, changing the direction of public opinion in Chang'an City.
The few abandoned sons who were sacrificed used their lives to save the eight major families from danger, which was very cost-effective.
It has to be said that Li Qinzai couldn't help but want to write the word "submit" to them.
If you have this kind of brain, wouldn't it be good to use it in governing the country?
Just when the iron boring bar was about to fall on Gu En's head, Li Qinzai suddenly shouted coldly: "Stop!"
Tie Bor's castration continued, but Li Qinzai's face became colder and colder.
The surrounding Li family members saw that Li Qinzai had given the order. Feng Su immediately stepped forward, unsheathed his sword, and held the iron boring bar with a clang. At this moment, the iron boring tool was only a few inches away from Gu En's head.
Gu En's face became paler and paler, he was drenched in sweat, and he collapsed on the ground and kept breathing heavily. He had been prepared to die for a long time, but now that he had come back from the hell gate, Gu En still felt frightened. He no longer had the courage to let him die once.
The life-threatening iron boring machine was held up, and the middle-aged official's face froze, and his eyes flashed with a hint of sinisterness.
Li Qinzai stared at his face and said coldly: "By killing people in front of my house, do you want to frame me and drive people to death, or do you want to publicize my unkindness and unrighteousness throughout the city afterwards?"
The official bowed hastily and said: "I have no intention of doing this. Duke Li has misunderstood. Everything is the decision of our eight noble families. I am just cleaning up the family on behalf of the family head. I will never dare to taint Duke Li's name."
Li Qinzai sneered and said: "Are you an official of the Ministry of Punishment or a minister of Dali Temple? The law of the Tang Dynasty is supreme. Anyone guilty or innocent must be punished according to the canon. Without being convicted by the Dali Temple of the Ministry of Punishment, what qualifications do you have to decide the life and death of others?"
Cold sweat broke out on the official's forehead, and he said in a trembling voice: "I know that I am guilty, but Gu En and others secretly raided Duke Li's car without reporting it to the family owner, causing a huge disaster. I was indignant and decided to bring Gu En face to face." Kill..."
Li Qinzai looked at him condescendingly and said: "Don't play this kind of trick in front of me. You are tired from playing and I am embarrassed. I really want to solve the matter and follow the rules. Send these people to the Criminal Department." , let the hall official ask clearly."
"Who is instigating this, what is the motive, and how many people and things are involved behind the scenes? Leave it all to the officials of the Ministry of Criminal Justice to dig out. What's the point of lynching and killing people in front of my house? Are you using my doorstep as a slaughterhouse? "
The official's expression became more and more dejected when he heard this. The little calculation he had made before coming was completely destroyed by Li Qinzai. He originally appeared as a righteous image, but after Li Qinzai's words, he seemed to have become a clown, which was particularly ridiculous.
Seeing the official's silence, Li Qinzai sneered and said, "It seems that you don't know the way to the Ministry of Punishment. It's okay, I'll help you."
"Feng Su!"
"exist!"
"Send these family criminals to the lobby of the Ministry of Punishment to surrender, and ask the officials of the Ministry of Punishment to give it a good trial. There is a hidden secret behind this matter. Let the officials of the Ministry of Punishment dig deep to the end to ensure that they are not in vain!"
The officials' eyelids twitched and they were about to object, but Feng Su waved his hand, and the Li family immediately surrounded several heads of distinguished families who had broken legs and separated them from the officials.
"Take it away!" Feng Su ordered.
The servants carried the broken legs and walked quickly towards the official office of the Ministry of Justice.
Li Qinzai smiled at the pale official and said: "I have received your apology. Now the whole court has accused the eight prominent families in the south of the Yangtze River of treason. To prove their innocence, I will not invite you in. Everyone, please go back. Everything will come to light." Let’s talk about it later, this matter won’t end that easily.”
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Officials from the noble family escorted Gu En and others to the gate of the British government, intending to clean up the house. The matter quickly spread throughout Chang'an City.
Unfortunately, what they received was a round of ridicule.
Li Qinzai's words while standing in front of the door were spread. Combined with the words and deeds of noble officials, the people of Chang'an immediately understood their plan.
Ugly people and ugly behavior are extremely ridiculous.
After the censors in the court heard about it, they became even more ruthless in impeaching the eight prominent families. They sent memorials to Shangshu Province every day as if they were free of charge.
At the same time, headed by Liu Xiangdao, the Minister of Punishment, he was ordered to begin a thorough investigation into the illegal activities of the eight prominent families.
Officials from prominent families in Chang'an were in panic all day long, and a depressing atmosphere enveloped their hearts.
Li Zhi's posture was to turn over the table. Although the eight prominent families controlled the vast fertile land in the south of the Yangtze River, if they wanted to really fall out with the imperial court, they could not, did not dare, and did not have the strength.
Now it is no better than back then, when Li Yuan and Jinyang raised troops to overthrow the Sui Dynasty, and Jing Cong, the powerful family in the world, overthrew the Sui Dynasty to the ground in less than a year.
But now the Heavenly Family of the Tang Dynasty is winning the hearts of the people. After Li Zhi ascended the throne, he not only inherited the throne, but also inherited Li Shimin's broad mind. What's more, his policy of rest and recuperation and the inner sage and outer king made the Tang Dynasty's national power Compared with the Zhenguan period, it has reached a higher level.
More importantly, most of the armies of the Tang Dynasty are now equipped with firearms and gunpowder. This cross-era weapon has further improved the combat effectiveness of the army. If aristocratic families in the world are forced to rebel, their winning rate will be pitifully small, and they will basically be defeated. The end result of being crushed by the Tang army.
