Travel to the early Tang Dynasty and become a salted fish

Facing Li Shimin's question, Hu Pei was shaking all over, but he still nodded firmly and said:

"This is absolutely true. If Your Majesty doesn't believe it, I still have the document issued by General Qin that day."

After saying that, he took out a crumpled letter from his arms, held it in both hands, and was about to hand it to Li Shimin.

However, Li Shimin accepted the letter from the other party and did not open it. Instead, he tore it into pieces and said angrily:

"Qin Qiong! Qin Shubao, why do you treat me like this!!!"

After saying that, he turned to look at Li Ji with red eyes and shouted:

"Where is Qin Qiong's body!"

Li Ji didn't understand why Li Shimin asked this.

At this time, he always felt that everything this time was strange and confusing. He was thinking about how to admonish Li Shimin when he suddenly heard this sentence and subconsciously replied:

"Your Majesty, after Shu Bao died in the battle, several personal guards risked their lives to recapture his body, and it is now stored in the frame of my carriage."

"I want to whip the corpse!"

As soon as Li Ji finished speaking, Li Shimin roared angrily:

"Go and get Qin Qiong's body for me. I will whip the body in front of the whole army!!!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone around them changed their expressions and looked at Li Shimin in shock.

"Your Majesty is absolutely impossible!"

Li Ji plopped down on his knees in front of Li Shimin and begged for mercy.

"Your Majesty, what they are saying are all baseless things that have not been confirmed yet. Your Majesty, please think twice and wait until everything is clear before you make a decision."

"Yes, Your Majesty, General Qin has outstanding achievements and died in battle. Acting like this has chilled the hearts of the soldiers."

"Your Majesty, you can't do this. No matter what, General Qin has contributed to the Tang Dynasty. If you do this, aren't you afraid of the public opinion in the world?"

At the beginning, Li Ji and a group of veterans were still giving earnest advice.

But as more and more right generals and officials joined in, the style of painting slowly changed.

At the beginning, everyone was advising Li Shimin to wait until the investigation was clear before dealing with it.

But gradually, it became that everyone wanted to talk about Qin Qiong's past achievements.

He wanted to use Qin Qiong's reputation and achievements to make Li Shimin open to him.

And Li Shimin was gradually led astray by the crowd's begging. He subconsciously believed that everything he said before was true. Qin Qiong really did such a treasonous thing behind his back and was ruined. The foundation of the Tang Dynasty.

When he thought that the other party would dissolve all the information he had finally accumulated with just one sentence, Li Shimin could no longer suppress the anger in his heart and shouted:

"That's enough! Shut up! Anyone who dares to plead for mercy again will be punished with the same crime!!!"

As soon as these words came out, there was a moment of silence.

Even Li Ji did not dare to continue to plead for mercy at this time, so he could only kneel in front of Li Shimin, hoping that the other party would look on the past friendship and forgive him.

However, this time Li Shimin didn't even look at the other party, and shouted directly to the guard beside him:

"Qin Qiong was a minister of the Tang Dynasty in vain. He dispersed all the elites of the Tang Dynasty in one day. Even if he died hundreds of times, it was still not enough to anger the people. Now, according to my decree, take his body and whip him 300 times."

"Your Majesty can't!"

After the words fell, Li Ji's expression changed drastically. He hurriedly knelt down and stepped forward, grabbed Li Shimin's clothes and loudly consoled him.

Li Shimin snorted coldly, waved Li Ji's hand away, and shouted loudly to the guard beside him:

"Why are you still standing there in a daze? Why don't you hurry up and take action!!"

The guards looked at each other in shock, and finally had to grit their teeth, drag Qin Qiong's body out from the frame of Li Ji's carriage, and then began to whip the body in front of all the generals and countless soldiers.

Seeing the whip in the guard's hand being swung down mercilessly, Li Ji and some generals turned pale, but they did not dare to plead.

But those generals who followed Changsun Wuji's arrangements and trapped Qin Qiong had faces full of joy and excitement, without any guilt in their hearts.

Li Shimin, who was getting angry, suddenly turned his head and saw all this scene. He couldn't help but became furious again, pointed at the group of generals and shouted:

"Qin Qiong is good at making opinions and destroying the foundation of our Tang Dynasty. You and he are superiors and subordinates. If you fail to report what you know, you will be punished with the same crime!"

"Come here, capture them for me and execute them on the spot."

As soon as these words came out, the generals who had Xiao Jiujiu in mind were all frightened.

"Your Majesty, we have been wronged, please forgive me..."

However, before they finished speaking, a group of wolf-like soldiers pounced on them, knocked them to the ground, then blocked their mouths, raised the knife and executed them neatly.

Seeing the soldiers who suddenly rushed out and carried out Li Shimin's orders so simply, Li Ji, who was already disheartened and watching with cold eyes, suddenly fell into a trance. He always felt that he seemed to have missed something.

However, now that His Majesty the Emperor's order has been issued, Qin Qiong's bones have also been insulted. No matter how much you say, it will not help.

With a sigh, Li Ji looked at Li Shimin with his back turned to him, and couldn't help but feel bitter in his heart.

He never expected that the other party would be so extreme and believe the rumors so easily.

Unlike Li Shimin's show of prestige, Chu Mo, who was far away in Luodu, heard bad news.

Just now, Lin Wan sent someone to deliver news, telling him that the 300 brothers he brought with him were intercepted by Chu Xin on their way to Zhengzhou, and all of them had been killed in battle.

Upon hearing the news from Lin Wan, Chu Mo felt his eyes go dark and almost fainted.

He never expected that the brothers who followed him through life and death would not die on the battlefield, under Li Shimin's butcher's knife, or in the rebel army, but would be killed by Chu Xin.

At this moment, he wished he could tear Chu Xin into pieces.

When he was thinking about how to avenge his brothers, Chu Xin sent someone to tell Chu Mo again, saying that because all his hundreds of brothers were wiped out, Chu Xin thought that he had died in the rebellion.

Therefore, all checkpoints and obstacles along the way have been removed, allowing him to tidy up and leave Luodu at any time.

Listening to what the other party meant, Chu Mo knew that he and Lin Wan had broken up, and that the other party was preparing to drive them away.

Although he was dissatisfied and Chu Mo was thick-skinned, it was obviously not his style to continue to stay here because he was already driving people away so obviously.

Immediately, after discussing with Chu Ruowan, he decided to leave the General's Mansion overnight and go to Luoyang City to find an inn before planning his funeral.

Fortunately, even though Lin Wan had a falling out with Chu Mo, when he was about to leave, she still found someone to help them complete the complete travel procedures without worrying about being checked on the road.

After Chu Mo received the complete set of directions and identity and household registration, he did not stop or say goodbye to Lin Wan.

He left the General's Mansion directly, then found an inn in Chengfufang, next to Luoshui, near the east gate of the imperial city, and directly booked a courtyard as a temporary place to stay.