Fu Tang

Li Congjia was confused by Lei Youzhong's series of actions, and asked after a while, "What did you do?"

As he asked, he looked at Shi Xueting next to him. Shi Xueting shook his head, expressing that he didn't know what was going on.

This is strange, if Lei Youzhong really made a mistake, even if he is able to deceive him when he is far overseas, he cannot hide it from Shi Xueting's eyes. He will definitely come and report it to Li Congjia, but now even Shi Xueting I don't even know, what crime is Lei Youzhong asking for?

Lei Youzhong's face was full of pain. From his expression to his aura, it was my guilty and heinous kind. Li Congjia was really angry and funny, so he couldn't help but kicked him and said, "Get up, let's make it clear first."

From Li Congjia's point of view, Lei Youzhong did a great job this time. After all, he commanded well. They originally expected to fight the war for at least half a year, but it was resolved in four months. Even if there were some minor flaws during the march, then It's also flawed, and Shi Xueting didn't know about it, and the Supervision Department definitely couldn't find anything. He was going to turn a blind eye to it.

Of course, before that, he needs to figure out why Lei Youzhong came all the way to plead guilty, and what crime did he commit?

Li Congjia thinks that the biggest possibility is that after Lei Youzhong broke the city, he didn't seal the sword or restraint, and let the soldiers burn, kill and loot all kinds of crimes. However, when facing the people of his own nation, he would indeed lose his temper because of this incident. As for other nations... ...Well, he doesn't think it's a big deal.

That's right, that's the double standard.

Lei You finally saw the faint smile on Li Congjia's mouth, and the fear in his heart made it difficult for him to speak, but after seeing the clear and deep eyes of the national teacher Shi Xueting, he felt that he might as well confess, otherwise he would wait for the Ministry of Intelligence to investigate. Come out... At that time, it will not be a matter of dismissal.

Yes, Lei Youzhong had already decided that this time, at the very least, he would be dismissed from office, and if it was more severe, he might be exiled.

Lei You finally knelt on the ground and said with a heartbeat: "Your Majesty, the war with Japan this time was entirely caused by me. Please punish me, Your Majesty."

"Huh?" Li Congjia looked at him with some doubts. He caused the war?

On the other side, Shi Xueting suddenly asked: "What's your relationship with Fuzi?"

Lei Youzhong was taken aback by the question, and immediately shook his head and said, "It's okay, it's okay, it doesn't matter at all."

This kind of misunderstanding can't happen. If you want to accept a wife before the battle, it's enough to come here once, and if you come a second time, he's afraid he'll be beaten to death, although now... hey, it feels almost the same.

Li Congjia said helplessly: "You should explain it more clearly."

Lei Youzhong...in fact, he didn't really dare, but he swallowed and said: "Those pirates who slaughtered the village before...Actually...I actually lured them here."

After hearing this, Li Congjia stood up immediately, supported the case with his hands, leaned forward, with a cannibalistic expression on his face, and asked word by word: "What did you say?"

Li Congjia had a smile on his lips one second, and became extremely terrifying the next second. Lei Youzhong is also a person who has seen strong winds and waves. No matter how fierce the enemy is, he has never been afraid, but now he is about to be frightened by Li Congjia. .

He immediately said: "Although the root cause of this incident lies with me, I really didn't expect this to happen. Your Majesty, no matter how bastard I am, Lei Youzhong, I can't use ordinary people as bait!"

Li Congjia looked at him with pursed lips, finally took a deep breath, sat down slowly, looked at him coldly and said, "I'll give you a chance to explain."

This opportunity was also given for the sake of Lei Youzhong's contribution to Datang, otherwise he would really draw out his long sword and stab this guy to death right now.

Lei Youzhong finally breathed a sigh of relief, as long as Li Congjia was willing to give him a chance to explain, he didn't ask much.

He organized his words and said: "This matter... I am indeed to blame. I was carried away. When I was in Lingnan, I was not able to participate in the battle against Dali. I... I am a little regretful. I will make up for it, otherwise even if I lead troops to fight Dali, I may not be able to become the governor, but I, Lei You, am a fool, and I enjoy the process of fighting more than the final reward."

Speaking of this, Lei Youzhong took a sneak peek at Li Congjia, and found that Li Congjia was still expressionless, so he could only continue to say: "I have been guarding Dengzhou for two years. In the past two years, we have not been safe around the Tang Dynasty. It is possible to start a war with Khitan at any time, it may also start a war with the Kara Khanate, and even start to deploy in Tubo, I can see all these, but I am the governor of Dengzhou, and the mission His Majesty gave me was to let me look at Japan , Even if wars start, these wars have nothing to do with me. After the border situation stabilized, I just... I just wanted to find an excuse to fight Japan, not necessarily directly defeating Japan, but always fighting Japan call taxi."

At this time, Shi Xueting asked: "So it's because you want to fight from the beginning to the end?"

Lei Youzhong quickly said: "Not only that, although Japan has surrendered to the Tang Dynasty on the surface in the past two years, it has been making small moves in private, and even has a faint relationship with the Khitan. If things go on like this, it will definitely be unfavorable to the Tang Dynasty."

Li Congjia said slowly: "Do you think I don't know about this matter, or do you think the cabinet doesn't know? Naturally, the court has a reason for letting them go. Who gave you the courage to do it without permission?"

Lei You finally bowed his head and dared not speak, Shi Xueting asked: "So what happened to those pirates? Are they real pirates or fake pirates? Do they have anything to do with you?"

Lei You finally explained: "These pirates are real, and they are indeed a group of people raised by Japan to rob merchant ships. Many of our Datang's merchant ships were robbed by them, but these pirates come from nowhere. The shadow disappeared without a trace, and I couldn't catch them. Later, I thought that since I couldn't catch them, I would let them show up, so there were rumors that there was a secret treasure somewhere in Dengzhou. For the pirates, they didn’t believe it at first, but there were too many people who said it, and I often sent people pretending to be businessmen to look for secret treasures, so they believed it.”

Li Congjia frowned: "What kind of place are you talking about? Could it be those villages? You couldn't choose a place with no people in the first place?"

Lei Youzhong looked aggrieved: "Chen, I really chose a place where there are no people. No matter how frantic I am, I dare not let the pirates go to the place where ordinary people live to find secret treasures, but I didn't expect that these pirates... they lost their way. !"

Li Congjia... Li Congjia couldn't spit out or swallow a mouthful of blood in his heart, it was so uncomfortable.

The majestic pirates at sea get lost on land, isn't that cheating?

But now he also understands why those pirates killed all the villagers. After all, they came to find the secret treasure, but this secret treasure does not exist at all!

But they firmly believed that they might torture those villagers to extract confessions when they massacred them.

Li Congjia was so overwhelmed, he didn't know what to say for a while, his mind was in a mess, what the hell did he do?

Fortunately, Shi Xueting was still stable, and asked again: "Who else knows about this matter except you?"

Lei You finally muttered, "All the officials above rank four in Dengzhou know about it."

After Li Congjia heard it, he immediately understood, come on, this is a story about local officials colluding to mess with Japan, but they got off the hook.

Shi Xueting glanced at Li Congjia, and found that his brows were tightly furrowed, so he said: "Your Majesty already knows about this matter, you don't need to tell anyone except His Majesty, now go back and think about it behind closed doors. go out!"

Lei You finally took a cautious look at Li Congjia, Li Congjia waved to him very upset: "Go away."

Lei Youzhong immediately rolled away. Of course, he also knew that his punishment would not be as simple as shutting himself up and pondering his mistakes. However, Li Congjia didn't cut him down in a fit of anger, which meant that he should not be killed.

After Lei Youzhong left, Li Congjia sat there blankly for a while, then looked up at Shi Xueting, and asked feebly, "What should we do now?"

After saying this, Li Congjia said bitterly again: "Lei Youzhong is really a bastard, he might as well not say anything!"

That's right, if Lei Youzhong doesn't say anything, then he can completely pretend that he doesn't know about it, no, no, no, it's not that he doesn't, but he doesn't know about it at all, so he wins the battle and congratulates a dragon No pressure.

Now... what should he do?

Lei You is finally a hero, but he is also a sinner. That is more than 600 lives, and in the process of attacking Japan, many soldiers were lost. These losses could have been avoided.

Li Congjia has been refraining from doing anything against Japan, just wanting to find a more suitable time, or directly use economic sanctions.

Otherwise, why would he wait so long for a small Japan?

But Li Congjia couldn't bear it anymore when the pirates were rampant. In addition, the assistant killed Li Jingda, this battle had to be fought if not fought.

Shi Xueting said with a wry smile: "It would be better if he didn't say anything, after all, I didn't find out before."

Li Congjia took a deep breath and let out a long one, and then said seriously: "Actually... Speaking of it, the root cause of the war with Japan was that Prince Fukoko assassinated me and killed the emperor's uncle. There is only a little relationship with pirates... …Bar?"

As soon as Shi Xueting heard it, he knew that Li Congjia was trying to excuse Lei Youzhong, among other things, after all, Lei Youzhong really took the lead in the war, almost died on the battlefield several times, and took the initiative to attract people to attack, Then find an excuse to hit the other party, Li Congjia has never done it before.

The only difference is that those selected by Li Congjia are not so off-line.

Shi Xueting was silent for a while before asking: "Do you want me to tell the truth or lie?"

Li Congjia was furious immediately: "You still lied to me?"

Shi Xueting quickly said: "Of course not, that's why I'm asking you now, because my answer...may not be what you want."

Li Congjia puffed up his cheeks, and then said resentfully: "Of course you are telling the truth, even you are telling lies to me, then what I, the emperor, is doing is really meaningless, and life is also meaningless."

Shi Xueting was almost scared to death by him, it's meaningless to come out and live, so he had no choice but to hold her in his arms and caress him for a long time before saying: "Actually, Lei Youzhong's brain is very clear."

"Huh?" Li Congjia hugged Shi Xueting's waist, leaned his head on his shoulder, and only made a nasal sound.

Shi Xueting thought about it and said: "Actually, he was the trigger of all the incidents. Let's put it this way, if he hadn't lured the pirates over, Datang would not have been furious and forced Japan to hand over the pirates. The pressure brought by Tang, fearing that Tang would come to beat them, happened to catch up with their emperor's illness and abdication, and several princes competed for the throne and made it very chaotic. Under internal and external troubles, they would send assistants, whether it was sex or temptation Or assassination, as long as it succeeds, at least Japan can breathe a sigh of relief."

After hearing this, Li Congjia sighed and said, "So, Lei Youzhong is really a sinner?"

Instead, Shi Xueting said: "It depends on how to say it. Lei You is an honest person, and he directly said that he did it because he likes to fight. If I were him, I might change the way of saying it, for example... because Pirates often wreak havoc on the sea, and our caravan suffered heavy losses, so he racked his brains to come up with such a way to lure the pirates out, and then wiped them out in one fell swoop, and then forced them to find their lair and wipe them out. An accident that no one wants to see, if you say it like this, you see... the crime will not be so serious soon?"

Li Congjia thought about it carefully, and had to admit that what Shi Xueting said was very reasonable. If he said this, Lei Youzhong might still be a little guilty, but the starting point was different, and this crime could almost be ignored.

Shi Xueting was also a little puzzled: "Lei Youzhong is not a fool, how could he directly express his original thoughts?"

Isn't this causing trouble for his owl?What does this make Li Congjia do?

Li Congjia looked up at Shi Xueting seriously and said, "Because he is afraid of you."

Shi Xueting was slightly taken aback, and then Li Congjia said: "Think about it, but for those officials who were arrested, almost most of their crimes were searched out by the Intelligence Department and handed over to the Supervision Department, and many unknown crimes were found. Lei You must be afraid of this. Even if he talks about the hype, if the starting point is different, and the way of doing things is different, he can still deduce his thoughts at that time from the details. If he does not tell the truth, he will be caught If the Ministry of Intelligence finds out, maybe the one who interrogated him is not the Ministry of Supervision but the Ministry of Intelligence.”

Shi Xueting was immediately annoyed and funny, so he could only ask: "What should we do now?"

Li Congjia asked back: "What do you think I should do?"

Shi Xueting bowed his head and thought for a while before saying: "If I were you, I would tell Lei Youzhong to write a note, and write it according to the reason I just said. It might be much better, and the Privy Council's punishment for him would not be very serious. Heavy."

Li Congjia pursed his lips and said nothing, Shi Xueting touched his face and said: "I know what you are thinking, but those people will not survive after all, and the prestige of the court cannot be lost, not to mention the inconvenience of communication now, maybe they will Many people only saw that Lei Youzhong won the battle, and it was a big victory, but he was punished by the court, or severely punished, which could easily arouse the resentment of the soldiers. In the eyes of those soldiers, Lei Youzhong is the one who can lead them to military merit."

Li Congjia thought for a long time and finally slapped his hands and said, "Forget it, what are the two of us struggling with here? Let the Privy Council and the cabinet have a headache together."

Although the cabinet is not qualified to convict Lei Youzhong, Li Congjia needs to listen to their opinions. After all, if Li Hongji and Zhao Kuangyin are allowed to come...these two unscrupulous people will definitely persuade Li Congjia to make big things small and small things small.

At any rate, Shi Xueting wanted to punish Lei Youzhong a little bit, and maybe they don't even need to be punished.

Shi Xueting was very familiar with Li Congjia's way of throwing blame, but he just felt sorry for the old gentlemen in the cabinet in his heart, and then... Then he followed Li Congjia away without any psychological burden.

The cabinet and Privy Council officials gathered again. They thought that Li Congjia had come to them to study whether Japan's surrender would be accepted or not.

They had already discussed it on the way here, and some felt that they needed to accept it, but more people did not want to accept it. After all, Japan sent people to assassinate the emperor. Could their emperor be assassinated casually?If you don't use a ruthless hand to deter it, what if the neighboring countries come to assassinate you if they have nothing to do in the future?

In the end, everyone managed to get a unified answer, and they were all ready to make a statement, but when they arrived, Li Congjia made a malicious expression on his face - they actually wanted to discuss whether Lei Youzhong was guilty or not!

Fan Zhiqi's hands trembled until three of his well-trimmed beards were broken by him, and he said tremblingly, "It's unreasonable, it's unreasonable, this man can't accomplish anything!"

Sitting opposite him, Li Hongji and Zhao Kuangyin suddenly felt a little uncomfortable. In the past, there was at least one of them, Li Jingda, who could annoy the cabinet. After all, from the perspective of seniority, Li Jingda was on the same level as them, and he was also about the same age.

However, after Li Jingda passed away, the two of them were a head shorter than the cabinet.

When the two of them were depressed, Li Congjia gave Fan Zhi a knowing blow: "The problem is, he has already made a big deal. Japan is about to surrender. Isn't that a big deal?"

Li Hongji and Zhao Kuangyin silently gave Li Congjia a thumbs up in their hearts, while Fan Zhi glared at Li Congjia and asked, "What do you mean, Your Majesty?"

Li Congjia said with some headaches: "I was very angry when I first found out, but after getting angry, I still have to deal with the aftermath... But I can't make up my mind, so I have to let you judge."

Wang Pu said with a gloomy face: "Lei You finally succeeds in the end, not in the end, but in the end, what good judgment is there?"

Li Hongji finally couldn't help it, he quit!

"How did Lei You end get away with it? Did he not find the pirates, or did he never fight Japan? It's just a small mistake, and you just hold on to it. This is a hero. Your Majesty, is this trying to chill the heart of the hero? ?”

Wei Renpu said sharply: "A hero? How many ordinary people and soldiers have been implicated just because he wanted military merit?"

Zhao Kuangyin said coolly: "Ordinary people are accidents, accidents that no one wants to happen, but God did it like this. Who would have thought that pirates would get lost? As for soldiers... fighting is just putting your head on your trouser waist , If you are afraid of death, don’t be a soldier. If you want military merits, you don’t take risks. Is there such a good thing? Even if you take the imperial examination, you have to risk failing the imperial examination and starving to death. How can there be something for nothing in this world? "

Fan Zhi snorted coldly: "But this war was obviously avoidable, and Lei Youzhong also indirectly killed the former king of Chu!"

Li Hongji was eager to try, but he immediately shut up when he heard this sentence. He couldn't say that the death of the emperor's uncle was fate, right?Zhao Kuangyin... Zhao Kuangyin also lost his temper in an instant. This matter...is not easy to talk about.

Li Congjia sat on it and watched the verbal confrontation between the two sides. He was a little confused for a while. I asked you for advice, not for you to come and fight, hey!

At this time, Yang Ye suddenly said: "Is Fan Shoufu not sure whether it is an assassination or not? Fuzi's method is indeed too much, but her goal from the beginning was to please His Majesty, and then try to make His Majesty dispel the idea of ​​attacking Japan. The former king of Chu...was just an accident."

Wang Pu stared at Yang Ye: "Are you trying to say that the former king of Chu deserved it?"

Yang Ye looked up at the sky: "I didn't say that, I just wanted to say that this was also an accident, an accident that no one can control, and it's a bit unfair to blame this matter on Chief Lei."

Li Congjia looked at both sides with a headache, and felt that if this continued, either the old gentlemen in the cabinet broke out and the small universe made the Privy Council speechless, or the Privy Council could not say anything and was ready to use their fists to solve the matter.

In order to avoid such a situation, Li Congjia said: "Everyone, don't be so excited, that... Well, Zhao Pu, come on, tell me your opinion."

Zhao Pu, who was named by the name, was shocked instantly and almost shed tears of sadness. He has not spoken from the beginning until now because he didn't want to get involved. After all, he is a colleague on the one hand and an old leader on the other. It is not appropriate for him to speak for anyone. ah.

However, he was still named, so he could only wipe his eyes and stood up and said: "I think the most urgent thing is to discuss the issue of Japan's unconditional surrender first. Should we accept it or not?"

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