He Yiqiu stood in front of Li Shiheng, shook his head slightly, and said disdainfully: "I see that you are not having an affair with Tubo at all. You have been bribed by the Tubo people and become their slave."
In the courtroom, Li Shiheng was stunned for a moment, and then he felt an endless coldness hit him.
He Yiqiu continued to speak coldly: "According to the law of the Tang Dynasty, anyone who reports information to thieves during a secret expedition will be executed... He is not a spy but a spy. If he becomes an outsider to become a spy or sends a letter to an insider, he will be informed of it." Those who tolerate him will be hanged...Those who commit multiple crimes will have their entire family executed, their cousins will be exiled for three thousand miles, and their relatives and daughters will be taken to Yeting as slaves, and they will not be pardoned."
Li Shiheng immediately collapsed on the ground.
Li Xuan sat aside and looked at Li Shiheng coldly, without any sympathy in his eyes.
In "Tang Law", the crime of espionage is divided into four situations.
First, to provide intelligence on military conquests to the enemy; second, to provide other types of court secrets to the enemy; third, to assist the enemy in secretly entering the country, or to send letters to other countries to spy on intelligence; fourth, to receive detailed letters from the enemy or to hide them. foreign spies.
To put it bluntly, Li Shiheng was guilty of all four crimes and was punished for all crimes. Although he was not from the Yi tribe, he was not that different from the Yi tribe.
He Yiqiu stood in front of Li Shiheng, his eyes lowered, and he continued with a cold mouth: "Although your name is Li Shiheng, your surname is not Li. You are from Youzhou, and your surname is Xu. Therefore, you have been favored by the British Duke. Change your surname to Li."
Li Shiheng couldn't help but shudder, and a panicked thought rose in his heart.
"Your name is Xu Shiheng. Your home is in Ji County, Youzhou, and Xujiazhuang in the western suburbs. You have parents alive at home, and you have an elder brother who has three sons. They are all married. You also have a sister who joined the Zhou family in Dingzhou in the early years and has a son and a daughter. In addition, You still have many relatives in Xujiazhuang, and you have four cousins from two clans, totaling forty-eight men. They will all be exiled, and their wives and children will be taken into Yeting as slaves. Their descendants will have no chance of success within three generations. Opportunity to become an official.”
He Yiqiu lowered his body slightly, leaned into Li Shiheng's ear, and whispered softly: "Do you know what this means? It means that if people of your clan do not encounter great opportunities, then within three generations, the entire Xu family in Jixian County will be destroyed." , the tribe will be completely exterminated, and there will no longer be any male tribesmen alive."
A cold air suddenly rose from Li Shiheng's spine, and it spread all over his body like lightning, making him shiver uncontrollably.
"The fields are barren, the houses are abandoned, the ancestors cannot be worshiped, and the descendants are completely extinct." He Yiqiu looked at Li Shiheng with pity and said softly: "Don't worry, I only need an official document, and the Jixian County Magistrate will guarantee that absolutely Do that and even more ruthlessly.
No matter where your descendants flee to, they will always be wanted, even if they are sheltered.
Do you think, in this case, after you die, someone will still go to such trouble to protect them? "
Before He Yiqiu could finish speaking, Li Shiheng had already bowed his head deeply.
Strategies to attack the heart.
Everyone present understood that Li Shiheng collapsed.
He Yiqiu had placed all the blame for the Yi annihilation of the three tribes on Li Shiheng.
If Li Shiheng is really willing to take all the blame for Li Jingye in this situation, then everyone present will have no choice but to admit it, but...
"There is a letter."
Li Shiheng lowered his head, sighed softly, closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, he said directly: "In the last box on the right, there is a letter.
In November last year, although the Tubo people offered four times the price, war between Tang Dynasty and Tibet was imminent. Ordinary people understand the power of this, let alone us.
I tried to persuade him several times, but the father-in-law still forced me to secretly collect pig iron and set off. "
The Tang Dynasty was the most tyrannical country in the world, and people all over the world were proud to be Tang people. Only a handful of people would choose to betray the Tang Dynasty and seek refuge with other countries.
Although Li Jingye had no intention of taking refuge in Tubo, what he did was no different from taking refuge in Tubo.
In particular, the stewards in the British government and the stewards of the caravan had tried to persuade him more than once, but he still chose to do so, knowingly.
He Yuqiu quickly found the letter, took a look at it himself, and then passed it on to Cui Mi, Duan Baoxuan and Pei Yan.
The three people couldn't help but turn their heads after taking one look. This letter alone was enough to send Li Jingye to the eighteenth level of hell.
After Li Dan took the letter, he couldn't help but slapped the table beside him with his palm.
A loud "bang" means the royal family's anger.
Li Xuan took the letter from Li Dan's hand and read it while saying: "In order to prepare for the war and supply food and fodder for the army, the Queen worked hard for many days and nights; the Saint was very thoughtful in order to worry about the future of the army, Wuzhou, Silla, and Turks. But it’s our British father-in-law, alas!”
Li Xuan sighed, and the expressions of Cui Mi, Duan Baoxuan and Pei Yan changed instantly.
Once this sentence is spread, it will immediately become the sharpest blade for countless officials to impeach Li Jingye.
The King of Nanchang hates Li Jingye deeply for his immortality!
Pei Yan glanced at Li Dan on one side.
Li Dan kept nodding in agreement, his eyes full of anger and ferocity.
…
He Yuqiu handed the letter to Chang Shi, who quickly recorded it, and then he looked at Li Shiheng again.
"Very good. Based on your words, your tribe and cousins will not be implicated in any way." He Yiqiu looked at Li Shiheng who breathed a sigh of relief and continued to speak, "Now that the matter is over, you should also think I miss your two sons. I think this is probably the reason why you took the blame for the British duke."
Li Shiheng raised his head in great horror, and there was already a war between heaven and man in his heart.
On the one hand, he is loyal to the British father, and on the other hand, he is worried about his two sons.
I was extremely frightened.
A voice told him, you have betrayed the British father, what do you care about.
A voice was warning him, no matter what, the British public power was so powerful, even if he escaped this time, countless people would hunt him down.
Seeing how Li Shiheng was extremely hesitant, wanting to say something but not daring to say it, He Yiqiu glanced at Li Xuan in surprise.
Afterwards, He Yiqiu continued to speak decisively: "I guarantee that as long as you speak, your two sons will be absolutely safe and sound. There may be dangers in other places, but if I send your two sons to the command of the King of Nanchang, you will always be safe." The state, the commander of the soldiers, probably won’t be killed so easily.”
Li Shiheng subconsciously looked up at Li Xuan, who nodded solemnly, and Li Shiheng breathed a sigh of relief.
Pei Yan couldn't help but tilt his head when he saw this scene.
No wonder he always felt that today's interrogation had a strong familiarity. He was originally wondering when such a powerful temple leader came out of Dali Temple and he didn't know it. It turned out that all this was done secretly by the King of Nanchang. .
Pei Yan's face flashed with embarrassment for a moment, but at this moment, Li Shiheng finally spoke.
"I don't know about other things in the past, but at the beginning of November last year, Chen Shizheng's caravan was supposed to set off, but suddenly the captain of the caravan guard said that he wanted to leave early. I was originally unwilling. After all, I was the caravan manager. , I was going to scold him, but he took out the private seal of the Duke and forced me to leave early." Li Shiheng shook his head bitterly and said: "The villain had to obey, and later he wrote to ask the Duke , The Duke told the villain not to meddle in other people’s business.”
Caravan director, managing the affairs of the caravan is called nosy?
"What about the guard captain?" He Yiqiu couldn't help but ask.
"He is dead. On the day of the Qianniu Guards' raid, he and his men resisted and were killed by the Qianniu Guards." Li Shiheng lowered his head slightly.
Everyone present looked solemn.
How could they not understand that what these people under Li Jingye did secretly were more serious than smuggling pig iron to Tibet.
But people died.
He Yiqiu shook his head calmly and said, "The person is already dead. It's useless for you to say anything else."
"No, there is." Li Shiheng raised his head, stared at He Yiqiu, and said with rapid breathing: "That private seal, if nothing else happened, should have been found on the body by Qian Niuwei, but because of the private seal There is no mystery, so except for us, outsiders don’t know that it is the Duke’s private seal.”
"Go and get it!" He Yuqiu immediately looked to one side, and a Dali Temple Prime Minister quickly went to the treasury behind.
Li Xuan sat aside and waved her left hand lightly.
The next moment, the two Qianniu Guards had already handed over their hands, and then quickly followed.
There was a solemn atmosphere in the entire lobby, and everyone understood that once the private seal was taken over, Li Jingye would be completely equated with having an affair with Tibet.
but……
…
A small seal the size of a thumb was placed on the hall table. Cui Mi, Duan Baoxuan, and Pei Yan looked at the seal with the word "Qi" engraved on it.
Qi, Shandong, the hometown of Qi King Li Yuanji.
Cui Mi, Duan Baoxuan, and Pei Yan looked at each other. They had never heard of Li Jingye, even if Li Ji had anything to do with Qi King Li Yuanji.
Even during the Xuanwu Gate Incident, Li Ji chose to stay out of the incident. Even at the beginning, he had a close relationship with the Prince of Qin's Palace.
"Why is it the same word as Qi?" Duan Baoxuan took the initiative to speak, and He Yiqiu immediately stood aside.
Li Shiheng raised his head, with the corner of his mouth twitching slightly, and said: "The old man was granted the title of Duke of Lai, and he was in Qi, so he used the word Qi."
Everyone suddenly realized that the Xu family was born in Caozhou, Shandong, and their aunt was named Duke of Lai, so there was nothing wrong with using the word "Qi" instead of "Lai".
"Many managers in the caravan are aware of this matter. Shangguan can ask at will." Li Shiheng sighed softly, completely blocking Li Jingye's retreat.
Duan Baoxuan lightly knocked on the table, and then said: "Subpoena Qian Niuwei and ask what happened on the second day of November last year?"
Everyone in the hall looked at Duan Baoxuan in horror at the same time.
With this sentence, Duan Baoxuan wanted to drive the last nail into Li Jingye's coffin.
It must be a big event that can make Li Jingye's men anxious to leave Chang'an.
Chang'an Wannian County could not deal with such a thing at all. As for Dali Temple, Duan Baoxuan was already the minister of Dali Temple at that time.
Pei Yan shut his mouth tightly at this time. Although he was in the grassland at that time last year, the affairs of the Criminal Department had never been hidden from him.
Last November, there were no major cases in the Criminal Department.
Fortunately, there is no major case and this matter cannot involve him.
It's a pity that there is no major case, otherwise this matter would have been handled.
…
General Zuo Qianniu Wei Zhonglang He Kuan solemnly handed over an official document, looked at Duan Baoxuan, Pei Yan and Cui Mi seriously, and said: "On the night of November 2 last year, a worker transporting night incense in Zhongshu Province fell into the water after he slipped. Because it involved Zhongshu Province, Qianniuwei investigated overnight, but later stopped due to the lack of results."
"Last December, it wasn't about me staying in Hangzhou, was it?" Li Xuan, who was on one side, raised his head with some uncertainty.
Last winter, the most important thing for Datang was to withdraw its troops from Silla.
In Yangzhou, Li Xuan killed most of the secret agents of the Silla people, leaving only one or two people to pass false information back to Silla. He himself went to Hangzhou to contact the Japanese people and let the Japanese people build momentum in southern Silla, resulting in The Silla people had a considerable number of troops and were contained on the southern front.
In the end, Datang successfully withdrew its troops.
Duan Baoxuan, Pei Yan and Cui Mi immediately understood that this must be the case.
Li Jingye, it’s over.
(End of chapter)
