Li Yuanying had never interrogated anyone before, but he didn't need to interrogate himself, it was good to watch the interrogation.
Li Yuanying asked Huang Ying to make him a bowl of tea on the spot, and sat down to watch the bandits tortured without blinking an eye. For these guys who wanted their lives, Li Yuanying would not feel any sympathy. While drinking tea, he looked coldly at the wailing survivors.
The accompanying guards were ashamed of their ineffectiveness in reconnaissance, and they showed their abilities during the interrogation, torturing the robbers so much that they wanted to die.
Li Yuanying watched for a long time, and saw that these bandits didn't care about the pain of flesh and blood at all. They wailed and wailed, and didn't reveal anything that should be revealed, so he said, "Try these people separately, and compare their confessions. There is something wrong with their confession, and they will take their whole family when they find out their lair." He curled his lips, "The old man is a robber, and the son must be a robber too, so kill him sooner."
The bandits were about 30 to 40 years old, and they didn't look like they were homeless and unemployed. When they heard Li Yuanying's words, they glared angrily, as if they were going to kill Li Yuanying fiercely.
There were so many people chatting with each other, Li Yuanying was not afraid at all, asked Huang Li to pour himself another bowl of tea, and said slowly: "What? The person who asked you to do it didn't tell you that according to the law, doing it against the royal family is to search the house. Genocide, do you still want to keep your own family? If anyone tells the truth, I can write a letter saying that he was the first to sue for meritorious service, and let the emperor spare his family. Your little life will definitely not be saved," he swept Glancing at the gangsters whose faces changed, they felt that it was terrible not to understand the criminal law, but they said mercilessly, "Whoever confesses first will be able to keep his son."
After Li Yuanying finished explaining, he stopped talking and asked someone to drag the bandits down for interrogation separately. He put down the teacup and sighed, feeling tired.
If possible, he didn't want to get involved with those who beat and killed life and death.
Not long after, people from all sides in the vicinity arrived. Li Yuanying's attack was a major event, and no one dared to delay it. If Li Yuanying really had a good or bad thing, not only would they end up as officials, but their lives would also be lost! Li Yuanying cheered up and responded to the people who rushed over with a few words, asking them to send someone to track down the whereabouts of Yu Dang.
With so many of his own people around, Li Yuanying calmly asked someone to count the losses. These people's trebuchets were not very accurate, and a few carriages were not hit, but many suffered misfortune. Jade and porcelain were inevitably smashed to pieces, even if Wei Shu reinforced them in advance, it would not help. However, calligraphy and paintings were packed heavily, so picking and picking found many escaped.
These are all the treasures that Li Yuanying worked hard to beg for in New Year's greetings. He looked around and his eyes were red. These people are too much, if you don't know how to use a trebuchet, don't use it, what's the matter if you throw it on an empty carriage! What is even more frightening is that if these big rocks hit people, people are afraid that they will also be smashed to pieces.
Li Yuanying asked people to continue the counting, and wrote a letter to His Majesty Li Er himself, not only describing in detail the strength and ferocity of these bandits, but also attaching a portrait of the carriage that was hit by the catapult.
After Li Yuanying finished writing the letter filled with righteous indignation, the people under him also came to the conclusion of the interrogation. These people were indeed not the masterminds, they were bandits running around. A few days ago, someone told them that there would be a caravan passing by here, and the other party said that they could provide weapons and action plans to let them ambush Li Yuanying and his party in this dangerous valley, but they would share half of the profits. Of course they would not agree to this kind of split. The two sides bargained for a long time, and finally decided to split it between three and seven, but they wanted to kill Li Yuanying and his party, because there were enemies of the other side!
As for who these people are, the bandits don't know, and those who work in their line of business generally don't ask each other where they come from. However, according to what they said, after they got the bow and arrow and the trebuchet, they turned their faces and locked each other up, but they didn't know if the other party had escaped.
After asking this level, Li Yuanying also knew that he couldn't ask any more questions. He asked someone to send the letter to His Majesty Li Er back to Beijing along with the living statement and the confession, took everyone into the city to rest for the night, and set off for Tengzhou again the next morning without staying too long.
This time, neither the government office nor the garrison are at ease, and they sent people to firmly protect Li Yuanying and his party in the middle, and took the initiative to hand over to the local people when they were sent to the next boundary, so that the local people could continue to send people to take over. There is an opportunity to take advantage of.
Li Yuanying's urgent letter arrived in Chang'an soon.
His Majesty Li Er was in a good mood that day, but he was furious after receiving Li Yuanying's letter.
Li Yuanying is the Prince of the Tang Dynasty and his own younger brother, who would dare to treat him so cruelly? !
These people not only equipped with bows and arrows, but also used trebuchets!
Who can't wait to put Li Yuanying to death
His Majesty Li Er was so furious that he asked people to take over the bandits that Li Yuanying had sent back, and they must be interrogated strictly.
Even if the incident happened in a place far away from Chang'an, it would not be difficult for His Majesty Li Er to take over the lair of these bandits. After a few days, the result would be. Sure enough, someone persuaded them to take action against Li Yuanying and his party. Originally, they had already crossed the river and demolished the bridge to lock up those people who asked them to "get rich together", but they didn't expect that those people disappeared after the accident, and even the people who guarded them and the young and old who stayed behind were all silenced!
This assassination was obviously not a guess, but aimed at Li Yuanying!
The people behind the scenes were visibly ruthless, and if their plan failed, they directly wiped out the bandit's lair and cut off all clues.
His Majesty Li Er sank like water and ordered people to continue the interrogation.
The wives, children, and children were killed, and those bandits who were captured alive, even if they had concealed something earlier, will confess it thoroughly this time.
The news of Li Yuanying's assassination quickly spread throughout the court. Knowing that someone dared to attack Li Yuanying, many people thought that this person was tired of being a crooked person. Of course, some people thought that Li Yuanying was too flamboyant and deserved to be targeted.
It's just that if you can't see it anymore, you shouldn't be aiming at Li Yuanying's life. You can put a sack on him and beat him up. It's too much to put someone to death! For a while, no matter who liked Li Yuanying or who didn't like Li Yuanying, they all wrote a letter saying that under the blue sky and bright sky, these thieves are so bold and must be severely punished!
His Majesty Li Er looked a little pale after reading the courtier's notes.
Even if Li Yuanying didn't cry in the letter, and didn't turn back to let him make decisions, he wouldn't let Li Yuanying be frightened by this trip in vain. Thinking of the guard who delivered the letter saying that Li Yuanying was the first to rush to the front, His Majesty Li Er felt that "it really is my brother" and felt that Li Yuanying should not put himself in danger.
After all, Li Yuanying was wronged in this matter, and His Majesty Li Er could not write to scold him anymore, so he opened a private treasury and personally selected a batch of treasures and sent them to Tengzhou to appease Li Yuanying, expressing that he would investigate thoroughly. At the end of the letter, he warned Li Yuanying not to rush to the front next time, swords have no eyes, if he can take the lead this time, he may not be so lucky next time.
His Majesty Li Er wrote a letter to Li Yuanying, and when he went to court the next day, he proposed to severely crack down on bandits, so as to prevent such incidents of seeking wealth and killing their lives from happening again.
All the officials have no objection.
A mighty campaign to suppress bandits and recruit security kicked off.
It's just that doing so alone was not enough to vent His Majesty Li Er's anger. According to the confessions of those bandits, it was obvious that someone was hiding behind his back and wanted Li Yuanying's life.
Who is it
His Majesty Li Er had a list of suspects in his mind, only to realize that Li Yuanying had offended quite a few people. For example, the fourth child had been at odds with him at the beginning, for example, when Hou Junji was imprisoned, he ran to talk to someone. For example, he came to sue Zhang Liang for raising five hundred adoptive sons and didn't know what he wanted to do. Another example was that he helped Gao Yang and Fang Jun break off the engagement and asked Fang Xuanling to help Lu Zhaolin marry Gao Yang.
However, these grievances are not enough to kill Li Yuanying.
Quan Wanji, who was most likely to make a move, stared at Quan Wanji, it was impossible to make such a move; even if Zhang Liang Hou Junji felt that what Li Yuanying said was wrong, he would not have the heart to kill Li Yuanying.
As for the Fang family, they don't have that ability.
If it's not an old grudge, it's a new grudge.
Li Yuanying's latest action is to publicly propose to build straight roads and promote sea transportation, and vigorously encourage everyone to engage in maritime trade and use Henan straight roads for transportation. There are a lot of benefits involved in this. First, it may make the people who have been engaged in smuggling and secretly eating this bonus be robbed of the benefits; second, every water transportation and land transportation route has profit-making People, Li Yuanying's change is tantamount to cutting off his wealth!
His Majesty Li Er was so angry that he asked people to follow this direction to find out what happened to those people recently. Eliminate those who cannot take out the catapults and crossbows from this circle of people, and the rest are not difficult to thoroughly investigate, and the results of the investigation were quickly presented to His Majesty Li Er: This matter has something to do with Zhang Liang, the Duke of Xun. relation.
Of course Zhang Liang would not be so stupid as to attack Li Yuanying, he still had brains. But Zhang Liang, who has a brain, is very confused about one thing: he likes his wife Li very much.
Li Shi was not his original partner, after he fell in love with Li Shi, he abandoned his wife and married Li Shi, and loved Li Shi so much that he didn't even care about Li Shi having an affair with someone else. The person who killed Li Yuanying this time was Li's younger brother. Li's siblings are used to being arrogant, and they don't pay much attention to etiquette and law.
Li's younger brother originally relied on Zhang Liang's profit from water transportation, but the waterway he managed was too frequent for blocking boats and collecting money, so everyone would rather take a detour, which caused his profit to be greatly reduced in the past six months. Years later, Zhang Liang knew that Li Yuanying was going to make great efforts in shipping, and he lobbied everyone to go to the seaport he built and the straight road he built. Li's younger brother was angry and anxious, so he secretly arranged a murder plan to kill Li Yuanying.
Zhang Liang is not innocent in this matter. He noticed that Li's younger brother had done such a thing, not only did he not report it, but he also sent someone to kill the gangsters in order to cover it up for Li's younger brother!
His Majesty Li Er furiously declared Zhang Liang to return to Chang'an.
When Zhang Liang received the call, he was startled and frightened. He discussed with his adoptive sons for a long time overnight, but he didn't go to see Mrs. Li. The next morning he went straight back to Beijing to meet His Majesty Li Er. As soon as he saw His Majesty Li Er, Zhang Liang hugged him and wept bitterly, saying that he had done something wrong and that he should not cover up such a serious crime for Li's younger brother, and begged Li Er Majesty to come down and cut his title and official position.
His Majesty Li Er looked at Zhang Liang who was holding his thigh and crying bitterly, and sighed in his heart. Back then when Hou Junji was rebellious, Zhang Liang came to tell him directly, which shows that Zhang Liang is loyal to him. Even if Li Yuanying told him that Zhang Liang had raised five hundred adopted sons, he just asked people to pay more attention, and he didn't really suspect that Zhang Liang was going to rebel.
Now that Zhang Liang is pleading guilty in tears like this, His Majesty Li Er will inevitably recall that Zhang Liang went to recruit righteous men for him and was denounced by Yuan Ji. He said: "I must give Yuanying an explanation for this matter."
Zhang Liang said that no matter how he dealt with it, he would be willing.
His Majesty Li Er ordered someone to confiscate the Li family, but let Zhang Liang go back and continue to sit in Luoyang.
At this point, the matter is understood, and His Majesty Li Er asked to send the results to Li Yuanying. In order to appease Li Yuanying, in addition to the first batch of treasures sent over, His Majesty Li Er also authorized Li Yuanying to recruit 3,000 more elite soldiers and gave him three furnaces to cast money. It is illegal for the people to mint private money, but some vassals have money and can mint money by themselves, and the coins minted are also legal currency that can be used throughout the country.
It's just that there are not many princes who have this qualification.
When His Majesty Li Er was named the King of Qin, he only received three coins.
His Majesty Li Er's decree obviously had a fierce quarrel with Baiguan.
When Li Yuanying received the letter, he had already arrived in Tengzhou and received a round of greetings. Li Yuanying was quite satisfied with this decree. Although His Majesty Li Er did not deal with Duke Xun, he was not born when Duke Xun followed His Majesty Li Er. There is nothing comparable. He didn't hide it from Di Renjie and the others, and told them the whole story.
Di Renjie said: "We have formed a death feud with this Duke Xun." The fact that Li's younger brother can rely on Duke Xun to dominate, it is obvious that he is very close to the Li family. Now that His Majesty Li Er has copied the Li family for Li Yuanying, why doesn't the Li family blow pillows to Duke Xun every day? Besides, even if Mrs. Li doesn't blow the pillow, they won't forgive Duke Xun!
They couldn't wait to think that Li Yuanying would never come back once this vicious killing was successful. Could it be that because Li Yuanying responded in a timely manner, this matter can be left alone? That Duke Xun dared to cover up for his wife and brother!
Li Yuanying said indifferently: "We are in Tengzhou, and they are in Luoyang. Even if they have a deadly feud, they won't see each other very often."
Dai Ting, who had been standing silently in the corner, said, "I'm going to Luoyang."
Li Yuanying looked at Dai Ting.
Dai Ting rushed back immediately after receiving the news of Li Yuanying's assassination. It's just that the country of Wa is separated by a sea, and when I came back, everything was over.
Dai Ting raised his head, with a cold fire in his eyes. He repeated again: "Your Highness, I'm going to Luoyang." His Majesty Li Er and Zhang Liang had an old relationship, but they didn't!
Seeing Dai Ting's insistence, Li Yuanying hesitated for a moment and agreed: "Okay, you go, be careful."
Dai Ting should be so.