Li Song dragged heavy anklets and a wooden shackle around his neck and walked into the lobby of the Regent's Palace under the escort of two soldiers.
He was unkempt, haggard and in a daze, completely different from the aloof prince he used to be.
Walking slowly and heavily into the middle of the hall, Li Song raised his head and looked at Zhao Ziliang, who was sitting behind the imperial desk opposite.
This was extremely rude to the palace ministers and officials.
He was now the chief culprit of the rebellion and King Xuan's son.
The title was also stripped away.
A treason leader dared not to kneel down when he saw the regent.
The ministers and officials all looked at him angrily and yelled: "How dare you not kneel down to apologize before you see the king?"
Li Song sneered, looked at Zhao Ziliang and said: "I have to die after all.
There is a difference between kneeling and not kneeling, so why should I harm myself?"
Zhao Ziliang raised his hand to stop the ministers and officials from continuing to scold and accuse, and looked at Li Song and said: "This is the magnanimity that the highest leader of the Baohuang Society should have.
The previous substitute was too far behind.
Li Song, I heard that you want to see Gu Gu's free time.
Not much, I hope you won’t delay.”
Li Song said: "I only have one question to ask the regent.
Thirteen years ago, my father was shot by a stray arrow during the campaign against Li Lingyao's rebellion.
He was seriously injured and died after he retreated to Xingyang.
I want to know if you killed him, right?"
In order to consolidate your position in the court, you deliberately sent my father to lead the troops to put down the rebellion, and let him die on the battlefield."
Zhao Ziliang frowned: "It's because of this incident that you hate Yu Gu, and secretly formed a party to plot a rebellion against the Gu Regent."
Li Song did not quibble and simply said: "At least half of the reason is" "What about the other half of the reason?"
Li Song said: "The other half is that you stole the important weapons of our Tang Dynasty and refused to return them to the Li Tang royal family.
Do you dare to say that you are not greedy for power?
If you are not greedy for power, why have you been unwilling to return the power of pro-government to the emperor?"
"Hahaha" Zhao Ziliang burst into laughter, "Boy, if you want to use this kid's trick to provoke me, you are too childish.
It is impossible for me to take the initiative to hand over the military and political power just because of your words.
Even if I hand over my power, Who can I give it to?
Can I leave the ability and intimidation of the world to surrender to you?
The emperor in the palace does not just want to be in charge of the most important weapon of the Tang Dynasty.
He will definitely be able to secure this position.
If he does not have this ability and does not do well enough, there is no need for anyone in your royal family to do so.
If people oppose it, the people of the world will None of them will agree, they will oppose Lonely, and they will rise up, but look now, besides you clowns playing silly tricks, who else is living a good life but jumping out to seek death?
In this position, it is not that Gu will always occupy this position, but the choice of the people of the world, and it is also the choice of history.
If one day a person who can replace Gu appears, the people of the world will take the initiative to choose him to replace Gu.
History will also make the lonely step down."
Li Song was unmoved and sneered repeatedly, "People like you always like to put on a beautiful coat for yourself.
You can deceive those ignorant untouchables, but you can't deceive me, the officials, ministers and the world."
Your lies, wise man.
It will eventually be exposed.
I don’t want to dwell on this issue with you.
I just want to know if it was you who killed my father.
I know that I will die.
I just hope that I know about the fight before the time comes.
If you don’t tell me I really want to think that even if I become a ghost, I won’t let you go.”
Zhao Ziliang looked at Li Song for a long time, then raised his chin to Li Mi next to him, "Li Mi, tell him the truth and let him die in peace."
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Li Mi stood up and bowed his hands to Li Song and said: "Your Highness King Xuan, Xiaguan was a personal participant in what happened back then.
Xiaguan was not an official from the Western Qin Dynasty.
He came to the palace to work after the king became the regent.
Therefore, the words of the official should be able to convince His Highness King Xuan that when Li Lingyao rebelled, the regent originally planned to let General Zang Xiyan lead the troops, but when At that time, General Zang was cleaning up the chaos that had just been settled in Huainan, and Guo Ziyi was training troops in Dengzhou.
The regent brought the matter to the court for the ministers to discuss who should be the commander.
The ministers also had a fierce debate.
In the end, His Highness the Crown Prince took the initiative to ask for a fight.
Many ministers still know about this matter and it cannot be faked."
Li Song immediately laughed: "Haha, you can believe the words of a mere eagle dog lackey."
After hearing this, Li Mi was so angry that his old face turned purple and pointed at Li Song: "You, you" Li Song ignored him and continued: "Even if my father took the initiative to ask for help, how could you know that this was not something you and these hawks and lackeys had secretly planned to lure my father to come forward?"
Zhao Ziliang looked at Li Song and said slowly: "Li Song, you have gone crazy.
Since ancient times, kings of all dynasties have always punished the rebellious ministers and traitors by annihilating the nine tribes.
They have always wanted to eradicate certain criminals.
I think they have gone too far and think that the crime committed by one person is their own opinion and has nothing to do with their family.
Why bother?
Therefore, after the Gu Regency, many crimes that caused harm to the family were abolished.
But now it seems that it is not unreasonable for our ancestors to do so, because cutting the roots can save a lot of trouble, because even if you are kind, others may not.
I will appreciate it, because hatred can blind people's eyes and make them lose their minds.
Come and take him down."
"Zhao, there will definitely be no good outcome for you.
You want to usurp the throne, you are just dreaming."
"He is really crazy, crazy," the ministers and officials shouted.
Although the person was taken away, Zhao Ziliang still had a gloomy face, obviously very angry with Li Song's idea that he thought was unreasonable.
Gao Shang stood up and cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty, there is no need to be angry about this.
It is normal for Li Song to have this idea, but it is limited to him and a very few people.
Everyone else will not think that your Majesty has done something wrong.
It is normal."
As the saying goes, history is written by the victors.
I think the top priority is how to deal with the aftermath.
After all, many clans are involved in this conspiracy.
How to minimize the impact is an issue we should consider."
Zhao Ziliang said: "I have ordered the three divisions to conduct a joint trial, with Lu Qi as the presiding judge.
The trial will be conducted in accordance with the criminal law.
Neither mercy nor harsh punishment will be given.
The sentence will be whatever is appropriate."
Gao Shang hesitated for a moment and said: "Your Majesty, if the trial is like this, then all the clans involved in the case will at least be executed, and everyone in the world will understand that this is the fact that the royal families are against the King, and the King is ruthlessly Eliminating political opponents seems to be detrimental to the king's reputation."
Zhao Ziliang shook his head and said: "You have made a mistake.
Since ancient times, have emperors been worried about being charged with cruelty for killing too many people?
No king wants to see his rule threatened.
In order to maintain rule and maintain stability in the world, For the stability of the court, even if millions were slaughtered, there may be words describing its cruelty left in the history books, but will this have any impact on the people?
The emperor ascended the throne by killing his father and brother, and in one fell swoop created the rule of Zhenguan, which laid the foundation for the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, and became the emperor praised by later generations.
Who would be able to tell people about his father-killing and brother-killing?
What is remembered is only his great achievements, because everyone knows that no one is perfect and no one cares about what others think.
As long as the people remember that he has done several good deeds that benefited the country and the people during his lifetime, it is enough."
The conspiracy case has been solved, but it is not over yet.
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There are too many people involved.
Thousands of people from the royal family, ministers, officials, aristocratic families, and business people from all over the country have secretly joined the Baohuang Society.
It would take a lot of time to interrogate and judge these people one by one.
This incident has indeed caused a huge response from both the government and the public during this period.
People everywhere are discussing this incident.
Some people say that after this incident, the Li Tang royal family was completely crippled.
This is worse than Wu Zetian's back then.
The attack on the Li Tang royal family was harsh; some people said that Zhao Ziliang was deliberately cleaning up the royal family in preparation for the change of dynasty.
Once the royal family was almost eradicated, no one would have the strength to hinder him from changing the dynasty.
No matter how fierce these discussions and debates are, they have no impact on ordinary people.
They only know that the days are getting better and better.
Even if all the members of the royal family are eradicated, they will only applaud and cheer.
Come, these usually domineering royal families can no longer bully them.
On the fifth day of October, after nearly three months of trial, all suspects and persons involved in the rebellion case have been tried.
This was accomplished in such a fast time despite the use of a large amount of manpower and material resources.
On the one hand, Zhao Ziliang did not want this case to drag on forever.
It was best to complete it as soon as possible to avoid long nights and nightmares.
On the other hand, Lu Qi and others also figured out the reasons for deliberately trying to please their superiors.
"Your Majesty, this is the trial result of all the suspects and persons involved in the treason case.
I have compiled and submitted a copy to your Majesty for review.
I would like to ask your Majesty to issue an order whether to implement it accordingly," Lu Qi said.
A thick stack of files was placed on Zhao Ziliang's imperial case.
Zhao Ziliang spent a lot of time reading them one by one, and then raised his head and said: "It depends on the emperor's intention whether the royal clan should be implemented in this way.
You will go to the palace tomorrow to meet the Holy Spirit, and others will do the same."
Lu Qi agreed: "No" Within two days, an imperial edict was issued from the palace.
The imperial edict stated that all members of the royal family involved in the conspiracy would be severely punished in accordance with the laws of the Tang Dynasty.
The Ministry of Punishment quickly implemented this.
A few senior members of the Royal Society were beheaded, others in other clans were punished, and some were sentenced to beheaded.
The lightest case was beheaded, and their families were exiled.
This was for those who were beheaded.
It is undoubtedly much lighter.
Even if the family members of these clans survive, they will basically be deprived of their titles and their family properties will be confiscated.
Executions were carried out simultaneously in various places, and heads rolled to the ground.
Thousands of people were beheaded, and many others were exiled.
As the presiding judge, Lu Qi became the person who attracted the most hatred and firepower.
He was hated by all the royal family who were not implicated.
He was scolded by many scholars and civilians, and became a veritable evil official: