A moment later, Han Chao, who was leading the officers and soldiers to clean up the corpses outside the city gate, hurried over and bowed down to salute: "I have seen you all such as Futai, Fantai, and Nietai."
Jiang Dongzhi put his hands behind his back and said solemnly: "Just now, Lu Zhiwen said that the matter of shutting out the Chang'an army was Yang Kang's own decision and had nothing to do with him. He also accused you of frame-up. How do you explain it?"
"Haha... I framed you?"
Han Chao was so angry that he sneered repeatedly, "I can't bear to see their cousins framing a meritorious person, so I came forward to report them. How can I frame them?"
A month ago, Han Chao and Lu Zhiwen were both commanders of the Guiyang Guard, with equal official positions.
During the Battle of Feilianbao, Zhang Huan, the commander of the Guiyang Guard, died in battle following Yang Guozhu, the commander of the capital. Jiangdong exercised his power as governor and promoted Lu Zhiwen to the temporary acting command of the commander.
The reasons are as follows: Lu Zhiwen is young, only thirty-five years old this year, and Jiang Dongzhi is determined to cultivate young people and bring some vitality to the officers and soldiers of Guiyang Guard.
Secondly, Lu Zhiwen was tall, talented, and had better martial arts skills than the other two commanders, so Jiangdong's talents were promoted to him.
This made Han Chao, who was already over 50 years old, a little angry, so he came forward to report the cousins Yang Kang and Lu Zhiwen today.
But what Han Chao didn't expect was that Yang Kang died in the battle under the city gate. He could only say, "You can do evil especially if you do it by God, but you can't survive if you do it yourself!"
What Han Chao didn't expect was that Lu Zhiwen would bite back and say that he was framed. It seems that if I don’t explain it well, I won’t be able to explain what happened today clearly.
Lu Zhiwen sneered and said, "You were jealous of my promotion to fellow intellectual, so you framed me to vent your personal anger. You said that I slandered Yang Kang. What did I say to him? Did you hear clearly?"
Han Chao said: "Yang Kang listened to the envoy of the Chang'an Army and was about to order the door to be opened. You stepped forward and whispered for a while. Yang Kang immediately changed his mind. He said that the city gate was in disrepair and could not be opened for a long time, and asked the Chang'an Army to wait outside the city gate. . It’s not you who is slandering, is it Yang Kang who went back on his word?”
Lu Zhiwen defended: "What I said is that the Chang'an army had meritorious service in killing the enemy. It should be reported to Master Futai, and officials should be sent to greet him, so that the people could line the streets to welcome him, in order to show his merit. This would make it appear that Master Futai clearly distinguishes rewards and punishments. How could I know that Yang Kang Did you change your mind after listening to what I said?"
"Maybe he was jealous of the great achievements of the Chang'an army and deliberately dampened their spirit, so he delayed the opening of the door. This was all Yang Kang's idea and had nothing to do with me. What you said was your own speculation, not the truth. You are just spitting. , framed and framed."
Han Chao was getting older and was not as sharp-tongued as Lu Zhiwen. He immediately slapped his chest angrily: "You are acting like a rogue. If Yang Kang were alive, would you dare to say this?"
"I never said those words. If Yang Kang was alive, you wouldn't dare to frame me. You only saw Yang Kang dead before you slandered me." Lu Zhiwen spoke eloquently, constantly irritating Han Chao.
Jiang Dongzhi coughed and said sternly: "Lu Zhiwen, don't be so glib here. I tell you that when Han Chao reported to me, Yang Kang was still alive. How could Yang Kang not dare to slander you while he was still alive?" "
"Then I didn't say these words, it was Han Chao who framed me!"
Lu Zhiwen knew that he had offended all the officials in Guiyang City today, and Wu Shamao would never be able to protect himself. But in order to save Xiang's head, he must not admit guilt.
Zhu Renxia, who had been watching with cold eyes, had a clear mind and guessed that Lu Zhiwen had seen Yang Kang die in the battle, so he put all the blame on this dead ghost and wiped himself clean.
"Where is our messenger who went to the city wall to report the news?" Zhu Renxia suddenly thought of Hou Jielai.
Damn it, you were so busy fighting that you forgot to look for Hou Jie and didn't know whether he was dead or alive?
As soon as Zhu Renxia finished speaking, Jiang Guanjun, Pang Feihong and others also became anxious and said, "Where is our brother? Hand him over?"
Lu Zhiwen suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. He said some harsh words to that kid. If he had known, he should have killed him. What he saved now turned into a hidden danger.
"I don't know. I was just trying to persuade Yang Kang to focus on the overall situation and not to get angry, so I didn't pay attention to other things."
Lu Zhiwen spread his hands, trying to get through, and thinking hard about countermeasures in his mind.
But Zhu Renxia's words reminded Han Chao, and he clapped his hands hurriedly and said: "I almost ignored this brother, I know where he is."
"Where is the person?" Jiang Dongzhi asked in a deep voice. It seemed that the truth was about to be revealed.
Han Chao said: "He was pulled off the city wall by Lu Zhiwen's soldiers and said that he was invited to drink tea in the barracks. It was Lu Zhiwen who said this. Why is he drinking tea?"
Lu Zhiwen was speechless: "What's wrong with me inviting him to tea? This is the way to treat guests."
"Well, I will take you adults to see how this brother drinks tea. I wonder which of the adults is willing to come with me to find out?"
Han Chao finally found a breakthrough and became aggressive, wanting to trample Lu Zhiwen to death on the ground and unable to get up.
Jiang Dongzhi glanced at Lu Zhiwen, who was restless, and knew that the key to making him plead guilty was the person named Hou Jie, and immediately ordered his assistant to follow him.
"Ruiqing, follow Han Qianshi and go have a look."
"I obey my orders!"
Sun Ruiqing, the governor's counselor, agreed and motioned to Han Chao to lead the way, "Let's go, Han Qianshi."
The governor-general was also an official appointed by the imperial court, not Jiang Dongzhi's staff. He was also a dignified third-rank official, and his words were quite weighty. With such an official testifying in person, Lu Zhiwen of the provincial government is cheating.
"Sun Shenzheng, please come with me."
Han Chao cupped his fists, saluted, and led the way.
"I'll go and have a look, too."
Without waiting for Jiang Dong to express his position, Zhu Renxia lifted his official robe and followed the two of them to the barracks.
"You guys go too."
Jiang Guanjun was concerned about his subordinates and hurriedly gave Xu Le a push.
"yes."
Xu Le agreed and followed with five or six brothers who were good friends with Hou Jie.
Under the leadership of Han Chao, a group of seven or eight people entered the barracks at the foot of the inner city wall.
After some searching, Hou Jie was found.
He was seen with his hands and feet tied behind his back, with linen stuffed in his mouth, curled up like a shrimp on the firewood in the woodshed.
Hou Jie had been tied up for two and a half hours. When he saw Zhu Renxia, he was extremely excited. He made a "woo woo" sound and his body rolled back and forth.
"Okay, monkey, stop barking, you're not dead yet!"
Xu Le joked, pulled out the saber from his waist, and was about to untie Hou Jie.
"Wait!"
Zhu Renxia hurriedly stopped him, "Don't break the rope yet, just pull out the strip of cloth in his mouth."
"okay!"
Xu Le agreed, stretched out his hand and pulled out the linen stuffed in Hou Jie's mouth.
"My grandma is suffocating me to death!"
With his mouth free, Hou Jie cursed loudly, "What the hell, you dare to plot against me! Let me go, I'm going to chop this commander into pieces! Why is the commander so awesome?"
Zhu Renxia smiled: "You don't need to chop him up. The commander, Yang Kang, is already dead. His head was chopped off and his body was separated. It's so miserable."
"died?"
Hou Jie was stunned for a moment, and then laughed loudly: "Haha... I deserve it. This is the retribution in this world, let him plot against me! He died well, died wonderfully, and died like a scream!"
Han Chao said to Sun Ruiqing: "You have also seen Sun Shenzheng. I did not touch this brother. Lu Zhiwen said he invited him to drink tea, but did he have his hands and feet tied and his mouth gagged to drink tea?"
Sun Ruiqing nodded and said: "This matter has been revealed. Let's go and report it to Mr. Futai together."
Zhu Renxia ordered: "Lift Hou Jie up and go to see Jiang Futai and other adults like this."
"What's wrong? Why don't you let me go?"
Hou Jie was confused and said anxiously: "Why did I do anything wrong? You want to hand me over to the governor? Even if you want me to die, you must let me die clearly!"
Xu Le called on the others to come forward, and the four of them worked together. Two grabbed the arms and the other grabbed the legs, and lifted Hou Jie, who was only 1.6 meters tall and weighed less than 120 kilograms.
"You did nothing wrong. The mayor asked you to testify against the commander so that he could bow his head and plead guilty."
Xu Le lifted Hou Jie's shoulders and told them roughly what happened in the past two and a half hours while walking.
Hou Jie suddenly realized: "Okay, okay, okay... Jiang Futai is a good official. I want this man named Lu to plead guilty!"
