Tang's dining table

Yun Chu's voice was extremely loud.

The bay-red horse heard the owner's miserable cry, so it started to bark accordingly. Its voice was known as the roar of a dragon, so the long and long sound of the horse's cry suddenly filled the Prison No. 1 prison.

The rest of the people heard Yun Chu calling like this and opened their mouths to call out. However, their mouths were injured by Yun Chu, so the sounds they made were uneven and had many leaks.

Only Li Chongde's shouts from Yuan Guishizhong in the last cell were relatively uniform, and he stood out among the many shouts.

As a result, there was a lot of noise in the No. 1 prison cell.

After calling, the bay-red horse looked very restless and kept trampling its hooves in the prison. It also tipped its head against Yun Chu to signal him to open the prison door, and everyone ran away.

This is a behavior that is obviously caused by smelling the scent of a beast.

Then, Yun Chu knew that the emperor was coming.

A black and white giant bear with an indifferent expression walked out of the darkness from the innermost part of the prison, shaking its head.

With every step he took, the fat on his body rippled like water ripples. His four thick paws pressed against the ground, but he didn't make any sound. He also sniffed the front with his nose from time to time.

The giant bear's power did not last long because it smelled Yun Chu's breath. In just a moment, the giant bear weighing more than 400 kilograms fled away.

However, when a white hand came through the darkness and pinched the giant bear's ear accurately, the giant bear immediately became quiet, and the owner of this hand slowly appeared under the dim light.

"Your Majesty, I am wronged..."

The first person to discover the emperor's appearance was naturally Li Chongde, the prisoner in charge of the matter.

The fact that this man was imprisoned in the imperial edict was not unjust at all. When the emperor ordered the "Clan Chronicle" to be re-edited, he took the money from Li Yi's Mansion and listed him on the lintel of the Li family in Zhaojun.

In fact, this is not a big problem. What the emperor wants is to suppress the clan, and adding Li Yifu, a guy from a poor background, to the Li clan in Zhao County will have a very good effect of mixing sand.

It's just that he shouldn't, absolutely shouldn't, when Li Yifu killed the doctor of Dali Temple for a Chunyu woman and demoted him as the governor of Puzhou, he also removed Li Yifu's name from the family tree of the Li family in Zhao County.

After Li Yifu came back to life, he arranged for Li Yifu's family to be included in the family tree of the Li family in Zhao County overnight... This made Li Yifu a lifelong shame.

In the end, under the pressure of Li Yifu, he had no choice but to come to the prison and wait for death.

Li Chongde's shout was so shrill that Li Zhi was startled. After he calmed down, he glared at Li Chongde fiercely.

Immediately, another thick arm stretched out from the darkness, grabbed Li Chongde's neck and twisted it to the left. With a click, Li Chongde's head tilted to the left until he rested his head on his left shoulder. There was a little blood from his mouth and nose, and he stopped shouting.

No one saw this scene. Everyone only saw the emperor and the giant bear, and the screams became more urgent.

Li Zhi held the giant bear's ears with a smile, not knowing what he was talking about, but as he walked along, the place he passed became quiet.

When he reached the outermost prison where Yun Chu lived, he held on to the railing and looked at Yun Chu inside with a smile and said: "Shout, why don't you shout, let me know how you were wronged and sent here." of?"

Yun Chu shook his head and said: "Wei Chen is different. He was imprisoned by His Majesty with just one word, so he is not unjust."

Li Zhi nodded and said, "It's true that I'm not unjust. Since I've already entered the imperial prison, if I continue to cry out that I'm unjust, wouldn't it mean that I'm a foolish king who can't distinguish right from wrong? Yun Chu, am I a foolish king?"

Yun Chu said quickly: "Your Majesty has seen thousands of miles, so he is certainly not a foolish king."

Li Zhi sneered and said: "Since I am not a foolish king, why do you always tell others about what you did in Chang'an? I am just a wicked and foolish king?"

Yun Chu didn't know how to answer, but the bay red horse was about to press his body against the innermost wall of the prison because he was afraid of the giant bear, and the giant bear also pressed his fat body tightly against the opposite wall because he was afraid of Yun Chu. Don't dare to get close to the wall.

The giant man who had been following the emperor seemed to be out of his wits. He kept pulling at the prisoner in the opposite cell whose neck he had just broken, and also moved his head into various positions.

"Tell me, don't be silent. I'm asking you a question. If you don't answer, it's also a form of disrespect. You can be beheaded."

Yun Chu said with difficulty: "The smell of these blood is too strong. Your Majesty, why don't we move to another place and allow you to compete with Your Majesty."

Li Zhi smiled evilly and said: "Look, I killed more than twenty people casually. I am not a fool, but I am a fool. This is to give you a handle, so that you can play with me. What do you think? Do you want to write one?" I'll give this memorial to the Yushitai, and take part in the performance of my cruelty and cruelty?

I also told you that the reason why Xue Rengui went to Chang'an to kill people was to avenge Wei Shi. How about, I gave you another excuse to participate in the play. This is ironclad evidence of my debauchery and immorality.

If you work hard, you might be able to force me to issue the "Edict of Sin" next time. In this case, your two hundred and fifty will really become famous all over the world.

By the way, there is that girl of yours who not only disrupted the prince's wedding, but also broke Mrs. Pei's left arm and seduced the prince into hunting in Mang Mountain with her during the wedding.

Letting all the guests wait in vain makes me lose all face.

Yun Chu, shouldn’t we, the monarchs and ministers, take care of all these accounts? "

Seeing Li Zhi acting like an old cat playing with mice, Yun Chu's whole body tensed up in order to give the emperor some face. Within a moment, he squeezed out sweat from his head and face, showing that he was very scared.

In fact, he didn't feel scared at all, because he and Li Zhi were separated by an unlocked fence. If Yun Chu suddenly committed suicide, Yun Chu was very sure that the giant man behind Li Zhi would not have time to rescue him. emperor.

"Hey, why did your majesty come out of the imperial prison?" Yun Chu had an idea. Anyway, he couldn't refute Li Zhi's words, let alone agree with them, so he just started another topic.

"Because my palace is connected to the prison."

"Why is it possible? This place is full of criminal prisoners."

Li Zhi said with a half-smile: "It's so that I can find out anytime and anywhere that a minister has been wronged.

Obviously, no one is wronged this time, including you. "

After hearing Li Zhi's explanation, Yun Chu quickly said: "You are no wiser than your Majesty."

Li Zhi shook his index finger and said: "No, no, no, this sentence has no effect on me now.

Say something else to make me happy, and maybe I will let you go when I soften my heart. "

Yunchu sat down on the wheat straw soaked by the red horse and said: "Your Majesty talks about the Tianxian. Since the matter has been determined, even if the minister has a mouth, it has become a decoration. If he talks too much, he will be disgraced. Your Majesty is even more unhappy."

Li Zhi grinned, showing his white teeth and said, "Okay, if you don't tell me, I won't kill you, I'll just lock you here and rot away slowly."

Yun Chu said: "Wei Chen earned twenty-four copper bulls for Your Majesty."

Li Zhi chuckled and said, "Can you melt the twenty-four copper bulls and give them to the Shaofu Supervisor to cast them into copper coins?"

Yun Chu shook his head decisively and said: "No, there is no such a big furnace to melt these copper bulls."

Li Zhi said: "In this case, those copper bulls can only be seen and cannot be used. Now, the Tang Dynasty is severely short of copper, but you cast copper into useless copper bulls. Do you know your sin?"

Yunchu looked at the emperor in surprise and said: "Is the whole world the land of the king, and the shore of the land is the king's ministers? To Your Majesty, is there any difference between a copper bull and a copper coin?

Does it mean that when a copper coin is melted into a copper bull, its value disappears?

Isn't it still standing in His Majesty's Chang'an City? No one carried it home, and no one dared to claim those bronze bulls as his.

Those bronze bulls will always belong to the Tang Dynasty, showing the prosperity and well-being of the Tang Dynasty to the world. "

Li Zhi nodded when he heard this and said: "Let's forget your quibbles. Although I know there must be something very wrong in this, there is nothing wrong with showing off the divine power of the Tang Dynasty.

Now, tell me what you were thinking when you intercepted Xue Rengui's murder. Did you want to use my face to show your selflessness? "

Yunchu sighed and said: "Your Majesty, the law, the law is very important. Nowadays, our country, the Tang Dynasty, stretches thousands of miles from north to south, and its east-west coast is endless.

The people under your command are full of strange things. If you rely solely on people to govern them, Your Majesty will not be able to control them.

In the past, the reason why Emperor Qin ordered that the books should be written in the same language, the carriages should be on the same track, and weights and measures should be unified, was because he wanted to create a unified country.

Today, the territory of the Tang Dynasty is ten times that of Emperor Qin, and the people under his rule are a hundred times and a thousand times that of Emperor Qin. Now, His Majesty has encountered the same problem as Emperor Qin, that is, how to achieve great unification.

I believe that in addition to continuing to implement the same writings, chariots and tracks, and unifying weights and measures, it is also necessary to make all people in the world have one law.

Whether they are the people of the South China Sea or the people of the North Sea, they must accept a unified and consistent law and accept the constraints of this law.

There can't be one law for one place, or one law for one clan. This won't work. In the past, the reason why there were constant rebellions in the Tang Dynasty was because the laws and taxes were not unified. The people always felt that they had been exploited and abused.

The reason why the low-ranking ministers resisted all of them with one gun when Xue Rengui was massacred in Chang'an is because Your Majesty did not need to let vulgar warriors like Xue Rengui do this.

All you need to do is send a jailer to seize those people whom Your Majesty is dissatisfied with, and finally use the law as a sword to kill them.

There is no need for Xue Rengui, a butcher, to take action and put everyone in Chang'an City in danger, which would harm His Majesty's reputation for mercy. "

Li Zhi sniffed. Those who had just died had enough blood flowing out now, causing the smell here to be very bad.

He waved to Yun Chu and said, "Follow me."

After that, he led the timid giant bear towards the depths of the prison. Yun Chu lowered his head and showed a smile, then led the bay red horse out of the prison, followed the giant man, and walked towards the deepest part of the prison.

When passing by Li Chongde's body, Yun Chu shook his head. Since the scene here was arranged by Li Yifu, how could he leave any chance for Li Chongde to survive.

Therefore, there are no smart people or fools in the world, only a large group of people who are responsible for their own actions.

Life and death are just choices, and anything else is nonsense.