Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

The sound of "Dang", the sound of a string of copper coins being thrown on the table, was originally a pleasant sound, but at this moment Li Si shuddered, because the one who threw down the copper coins was the one who took the lead in beating Zhang Dao to death. A vicious man.

"I will pay for your table and chairs." The other party left without saying a word.

But Li Si and the surrounding neighbors are silent, mainly because this group of people... are too cruel.

Zhang Dao was beaten to death with sticks in the street!The dead couldn't die anymore, Li Si could see Zhang Dao's head deformed from a long distance away, and the blood stained the ground on the whole street red, it would be a ghost if he didn't die.

Facing such a murderer, how dare he say no?

This group of people came and went like the wind, and disappeared without leaving any information. By the time Marquis Wu, who belonged to the Jinwu Guard, arrived, they had long since disappeared, leaving only Zhang Dao, who had turned into a corpse.

Marquis Wu who came here naturally knew who the deceased was. Of course they were very clear about the characters here. Although Zhang Dao's head had been smashed, his face was still recognizable. After asking the people around him, Marquis Wu Just sent someone to take the body, and then left here in a hurry.

On the same day, 45 murders occurred in 45 places in Chang'an. Almost all Jinwu Guards were in charge of handling them. However, the Jinwu Guards only had the right to arrest and not enforce the law. Therefore, all these corpses and related cases were handed over to Wannian and Chang'an according to their jurisdiction. magistrate of the county.

Suddenly receiving so many homicide reports, the magistrates of the two counties gasped. There were occasional homicides in Chang'an City, but they had never seen such a vicious and violent case. Beat to death with a stick!And dozens of them happened in one day!This has never happened before!

But when they found out the identity of the deceased, the magistrates of the two counties breathed a sigh of relief. These people, death is not a pity!Who are they? How can the magistrates of the two counties not know?It's just that the people don't raise officials and don't investigate, and no people report the case, so they just turn a blind eye and close their eyes. When they are hacked to death one day, they can deal with it casually.

It's just that he didn't expect to die so tragically.

Several of their attendants were also taken away, but the people who took away did not leave any traces. The Jinwu Guard asked, and these people did not know each other. They just knew that these people acted fast and ruthlessly, and they seemed to be well-trained man of.

But there are no other clues.

This... I'm afraid these gangsters offended people?Otherwise, why did the other party only kill the chief culprit?To be honest, after these people died, the magistrates of the two counties felt a lot easier, and the law and order under their names were much safer.

I didn't see that these people died, no one reported to the officials, and even when the Jinwu Guard asked, some people watching around had a lot of concealment in their words, covering up for those people.

It is conceivable that these people died in vain, and even their family members did not report to the officials, but the Jinwu Guard found the dead and brought them back.

This matter can be big or small, but this is Chang'an, under the feet of the emperor, such things must be reported.

It’s just that they didn’t have the right to meet Li Shimin directly, but they were sent to the Tongshisheren of the Zhongshu Province (in charge of affairs such as court admission, court performances, etc.) To Li Shimin.

Arriving at Gao Jifu, one of the six members of Zhongshushe, the other party opened the memorial and glanced at it, then frowned, is such a trivial matter bothering His Majesty?Although it is true that there are more dead people, those who died were all heinous people. Obviously, it was civil revenge, and no one reported it to the officials. This kind of thing will bother His Majesty, and His Majesty will not do anything.

He directly conducted preliminary review on the memorial, and made six notes, which specifically refers to the six volumes, and one person from Zhongshushe corresponds to one volume.

Gao Jifu directly approved this memorial to the Ministry of Punishment, and asked the Ministry of Punishment to order the two counties to investigate clearly before handing it over to His Majesty for review.

So this matter was directly suppressed, or dragged down, and it was extremely inefficient in modern times, but in the Tang Dynasty or in ancient times, this efficiency was already very high.

It is precisely because Li Ke understands this system that he dared to do this.

In this kind of matter, the Shushe people usually deal with it directly, because there are many bigger things than these things, and the memorials from all over the country are directly gathered here, and this does not include Wuhua.

Wuhua is a matter of military and state affairs. First, the Zhongshu Sheren who is in charge of the matter will review it, then put forward preliminary opinions, and then six people will discuss it together, and then add opinions, and then the emperor will handle it.This is Datang's current collegiate system. In addition, Zhongshu Sheren is also responsible for judicial functions.

The joint trial of the three divisions mentioned in many history books and movies in later generations refers to the judicial functions of Zhongshu Sheren and the authority to deal with unjust and wrongly decided cases.

This position does not seem to have a high status, but it has extremely high power, and has extremely high requirements for knowledge, and is busy with official duties.

They will not go to understand the truth of the matter and so on, they will judge directly based on the seriousness of the matter.

Therefore, the vision of Zhongshu Sheren is very important. Those who can be officials here are real talents, and those who are not good will be demoted long ago.

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Li Si thought that this was the end of the matter, but who knows, three days later, Li Si actually saw those people again, and this time the other party was walking on the street openly, as if he was not afraid of them going to report.

Although no one reported it at all.

This time, the other party came straight to Li Si's booth.

"Gentlemen, would you like to have dinner?" Li Si hurriedly asked with a smile on his face.

"Stop talking nonsense. From now on, this Anlefang will be managed by our Green Snake Gang. The protection fee for your shop this month is 30 Wen." The leader looked at Li Si's shop, and then said: "Our Green Snake After the help collects the protection fee, it will be responsible for protecting your shop, and anyone who dares to harass your shop will be dealt with by us."

"And we will no longer charge you randomly. If someone like Zhang Dao appears again, you can come to us."

Li Si opened his mouth... Thirty Wen is not a small number for ordinary people, not because they cannot afford it, but because they are afraid that it is a bottomless pit.

What the other party said was nice, but...

"Give it or not?!" The other side asked fiercely.

"Here...here!" Li Si gritted his teeth, turned around and went back to find thirty Wen and gave it to the other party.

He couldn't afford to offend these people. Even if he reported to Marquis Wu that they had killed people, who knew how many people were behind them?He can't afford revenge!There were only five people here today, but there were more than a dozen people that day, and he saw them all.

"Five bowls of noodles." The other party took thirty Wen and said directly, they haven't had breakfast yet.

Li Si showed an ugly smile, but he still made five bowls of noodles for the other party, but to Li Si's surprise, after the other party finished eating, he actually dropped the copper coins according to the face price and left.

Looking at these copper coins, Li Si couldn't believe it. This...isn't this for nothing?Does that make sense?