As Li Zhi himself said, this matter is definitely not over yet, but now it is a feudal society, and the Li Yi Mansion and Xu Jingzong are both prime ministers. No one except the emperor has the power to judge them. If they don’t judge them, then there is no way to investigate. Wei Siqian said very well. The queen is not guilty. I am guilty of anything, and I am not corrupt and abuse of power. I and the queen do the same thing. Similarly, the corrupt officials below do the same thing as the Li Yi Mansion. If the Li Yi Mansion is not guilty, they are not guilty either.

Now that Li Zhi has judged them, the following matters can be left to Di Renjie and the others to deal with. This is the feudal system, power is the first priority, and the law is also the power in their hands.

In fact, the officials below did not expect that this matter would be so big. At that time, corruption became a trend. If you were not greedy, you would not be able to survive. Some officials made a profit and encountered such a big crisis. It can be seen that in the officialdom, you should not be lucky.

However, Di Renjie, Changsun Yan, Cui Jieren and others came to try the case, which is definitely good news for these officials involved...

"How much else have you hidden?"

After the court dispersed, Li Ji quietly came to Han Yi and asked suddenly.

In fact, the only one in the court's civil and military affairs dared to ask Han Yi this question.

Han Yi glanced at Li Ji and smiled and said, "Of course there are still many things, but what is Sikong asked about such a privacy issue?"

Li Ji said with a serious expression: "Don't talk about him around you, you know what I am referring to."

Han Yi sighed and said, "Sikong, what I want to say has been said just now. If I really had any collusion with Changsun Wuji, the situation would definitely not be like this now."

Li Ji did not doubt this sentence and said in confusion: "But why did you, such a cautious person, go to meet Changsun Wuji in that sensitive period?"

Han Yi asked without answering, "If Changsun Wuji had made an appointment with Sikong at that time, would Sikong avoid it? Moreover, I also knew why he asked me for, so I went there."

Li Ji said: "In other words, you have planned to save Changsun Yan and the others long ago?"

Han Yi said, "But I don't want to say anything righteous. I just feel that as a minister, you should not want to see those innocent people around you because of the faults of one person. This system of prosperity and loss of one person is actually not good for Your Majesty, the country and the ministers, because in this way, it will only bind the party tighter and tighter, and the party struggles will become more and more intense. The sage said, do not do to others what you do not want others to do to Changsun Wuji and Li Yifu are the best example. This is just in infinite reincarnation. I am protecting them, and I am actually protecting myself."

Li Ji couldn't help but feel deeply. This was what he was most afraid of. Thinking about Fang Xuanling's generation of virtuous prime ministers when he was alive, he was highly respected, but his son was defeated for a moment, and his family was destroyed. This is very terrible. You also care about your life, you can't care about your back. Who wants your descendants to suffer such a tragedy? So in the political struggle, he is not pretending to be a show of force, but he is really afraid of being involved. He doesn't want to offend anyone. You are afraid of me in front of me, but what about after death?

The smartest people are Li Jing and Yang Gongren, so their descendants will live a good life and will not be hit by them. If they are really trying to die, there is nothing they can do.

Han Yi suddenly sighed again and said, "But I didn't expect that the queen would find out about this matter, and it caused such a big misunderstanding."

Li Ji said: "You also think that the queen does all this to deal with you?"

Han Yi nodded and said, "I think I can't make any mistakes." Speaking of this, he smiled bitterly, "I thought I was a hero who made great contributions and turned the tide, but now it seems that I have the responsibility to make up for all this, because I am also the root of the disease."

Li Ji said: "Since you have already thought about it, why did you still have to plead for the queen just now?"

Han Yi said: "You Gong, if you involve the queen, what will the prince face? I don't need to say more about this. You privately, the queen has the kindness of knowing me, and I cannot be ungrateful."

Li Ji narrowed his eyes and said, "But judging from the results of the matter, you are the biggest winner."

Han Yi smiled.

Li Ji said: "What are you laughing at?"

Han Yi smiled bitterly and said, "If something had happened to my father's grave, I might have been the prime minister. It was expected to be the most popular at that time, but I would not have been willing to be the minister of the Ministry of Revenue. After a long time of transfer, I was still a minister of the Ministry of Revenue in charge of finance. Today, the Ministry of Revenue is still carrying ten millions of debts, and Zhang Daxiang is the helper of the party members. On the contrary, I have lost a lot of money by my wife and children. Apart from receiving a mess, I really don't know what I got. Can Sikong think I am a big winner?"

Li Ji couldn't help but be stunned, as if this was the case.

You are talking about reputation. Han Yi destroyed Goguryeo, comforted the northwest, and put out fires everywhere. His reputation has reached its peak. Of course, this time he pushed his reputation to a new level. This alone is not a big winner.

You talk about power, he didn't even want to be Zuo Pushe, which shows that he had no intention of power, and he did not use it to establish his own power. It was different from Wu Meiniang, Li Yifu and Xu Jingzong and Li Yifu had already formed their own power while fighting against Wu Changsun Wuji. Cui Jieren and Wang Xuandao were all from Shandong gentry. They were not mortal enemies with his common people, at least they were not on the same path. Therefore, among the ministers of the Shujiao, he was still the commander-in-chief.

In terms of policy, when he left, he was like that, at most he changed back to that, which meant nothing had changed.

After all this, he really got a mess.

Li Ji nodded slightly, and saw Han Yi still looking at him curiously, as if waiting for his answer, he said embarrassedly: "I'm just talking casually, why do you take it seriously?"

Han Yi snorted: "I am guilty of being a thief!"

Li Ji said, "Okay, okay, I shouldn't doubt you, I apologize to you."

Han Yi sighed, "This is why I don't want to come back. I am so rich, have a wife and a child. I am on the one-acre and three-point land in Meicun. I can be free and easy. If I want to do nothing, then why should I come back? I want to do something, but I am not a person. For example, if the streamlined officials, is it me who benefits? Am I a big winner? No. It's the country, Your Majesty, and the people of the world. But people scold me as a person, and I won't be grateful to me if I stay in office. So, I always say, Sikong, you are the smartest person."

The more Li Ji heard it, the more guilty he felt, because Han Yi said it was the fact that he was taking the blame for offending people. Those who were lying and enjoying themselves were not qualified to doubt Han Yi. He smiled bitterly: "Okay, okay, I am at this age and have already apologized to you. What else do you want?"

Han Yi said: "If I could do whatever I want, that would be fine. I would have gone back long ago. Now I just want to complain."

This can't be talked about anymore. This kid travels when he disagrees, which makes people feel scared. Li Ji coughed lightly and said, "I have something to do, so let's go first."

Han Yi looked at Li Ji's back and smiled secretly. You old fox, no matter how cunning you are, you are not impossible to be a hunter's opponent, because we don't think about it at the same level. As for what I got? Haha, what I want the most is actually still brewing.

Central Palace!

"See me!"

Before the palace maid finished her salute, Li Zhi blew over like a gust of wind, and he didn't look at her at all, and he didn't look like the sick Li Zhi at all.

At this time, Wu Meiniang was sitting in the room and was stunned. When she saw Li Zhi coming, she was slightly shocked and even forgot about her salute. Perhaps she didn't want to get up at all. After all, Li Zhi uprooted her power in the outer court this time, and she didn't even give her a scum. She was also a backbone girl!

Li Zhi didn't care about her salute, and said with a gloomy face: "I finally understand now. It turns out that you did all this to deal with Han Yi."

This kind of backbone is the backbone. When Wu Meiniang heard this, she was shocked. Could it be that the turn of the circle? She suddenly stood up and said, "Your Majesty, you--!"

"Why do I know, right?" Li Zhi laughed furiously and pointed outside: "The Li Yi Mansion has already said everything in the hall just now. When do you want to hide it from me?"

He was not stupid. Although in the hall, Li Yi Mansion and Xu Jingzong did not directly reveal the queen, but what Yuan Gongyu knew, how could Wu Meiniang not know? Li Yi Mansion is Wu Meiniang's person. When thinking about what happened in the past few years and Wu Meiniang's new policy, it is not difficult to imagine that all this is for dealing with Han Yi.

Wu Meiniang seemed to have caught a life-saving straw and immediately said: "Your Majesty, Li Yi Mansion is true. All of this is Han Yi's conspiracy. Don't be blinded by Han Yi."

"You used to say conspiracy, but I really don't believe it, but now I believe it is a conspiracy." Li Zhi said this, glanced at Wu Meiniang and said, "And you are this conspirator."

Wu Meiniang said in surprise: "Since Your Majesty already knows, why do you misunderstand me?"

Li Zhi laughed and said, "Do you still want me to find out who was the mastermind behind the burning of merchant ships in Xuzhou? Who encouraged those landlords and gentry to rebel against merchants?"

Wu Meiniang was stunned, her eyes full of guilt.

Originally, Li Zhi thought that this was caused by the conflict between the merchant and the landlord, but now he saw that it was obviously Wu Meiniang deliberately manipulated it.

Li Zhi was very angry about this. If it was just improper execution or improper employment, it would be fine. Anyway, they had already overcome the crisis. Now it seems that Wu Meiniang is just deceiving him, which really made him angry.

Li Zhi sneered: "Are you talking about nothing? You thought you could hide it from the truth, but the ridiculous thing is that everyone in the court now knows that all of this is controlled by you behind the scenes."

Wu Meiniang said with tears in her eyes: "Yes, this is what I asked someone to do, but why doesn't Your Majesty think about why things turned out like this and why there are so many coincidences."

"What coincidence? It was clearly what you deliberately manipulated." Li Zhi sneered and said, "You still don't repent until now. You and Li Yifu kept saying that Han Yifu was making trouble. In other words, those new policies were all Han Yi's ideas? Did Han Yifu make Li Yifu be corrupt and abuse the law? Han Yifu made Li Yifu to force taxes? All these were done by Han Yi?"

Wu Meiniang was speechless after being criticized.

The problem is that Han Yi did nothing, and all the factors that led to this crisis had nothing to do with Han Yi. In fact, Han Yi did nothing, but Han Yi used some very small points to affect the overall situation. No matter how smart Wu Meiniang was, she did not expect that Han Yi put down the chess piece of Taoist Master Xuanji waiting for Li Yi's mansion a few years ago. This is a chess piece that was ignored but very critical.

I can only say that Han Yi knows Wu Meiniang too much.

Of course, Wu Meiniang also knows Han Yi very well, but Han Yi uses Wu Meiniang's understanding of him instead.

"Is there nothing to say?"

Li Zhi was so angry that he was breathing, "Even if you were suspicious of Han Yi at the time, and even Han Yi really betrayed you, you don't need to do this so ruthlessly. At that time, Han Yi had already returned home to mourn. As long as you help me manage this country well, how could Han Yi endanger you? I see that you were blinded by power. You think you can do what you can do if you follow me and who will prosper, and who will rebel against me, but you don't think about it. Why do you? The Tang Dynasty is my Tang Dynasty, the country is my country, and the people are my people, not your Wu family."

Li Zhi and Wu Meiniang also quarreled because of Wang Xuan, but that was limited to the couple, but there was no overnight revenge. But now this is between the king and the minister, and this nature has completely changed.

Although it is not said that it is a mountain of iron evidence, if Li Zhizhen wants to continue to investigate, he can definitely find Wu Meiniang's head, and it must be a mountain of iron evidence. Wu Meiniang is unable to argue, and tears are thundering.

The problem is simple. If you don’t do this, then there will be nothing. If you admit to doing this, then you are trying to fight against political enemies at all costs. No matter what Han Yi does, you are not qualified to use the country and people of my Li family to deal with your enemies. If you want to fight in the court, that’s fine. If you incite the people to cause trouble, the consequences can be big or small, and the facts have proved that this is the case.

However, Wu Meiniang has this personality, so she is cruel and ruthless. Otherwise, she would not be the emperor. She, a woman, wants to get to power in a patriarchal society, has no other choice but to fight for a path.

But Wu Meiniang felt wronged, and Li Zhi felt wronged. It turned out that after a long time of doing this, it had nothing to do with him. It was him who was helping Wu Meiniang take the blame. Li Zhi could not understand it, he must be very angry!

Wu Meiniang gritted her teeth and said, "Why didn't Your Majesty go and check Han Yi, why did he meet with Changsun Wuji?"

Li Zhi said: "Han Yi has told me all that the reason why my uncle made an appointment with Han Yi was to hope that he would keep Changsun Yan, Zhao Chiman, Pei Xingjian and Wang Fangyi."

Wu Meiniang said excitedly: "This is just a word from him, how can Your Majesty believe it?"

Li Zhi said: "Because he did that, apart from that, what do you think he had a secret meeting with his uncle?"

"Of course it's to deal with me." Wu Meiniang is not as stupid as Li Yi's mansion. She would say that Han Yi and Changsun Wuji conspired to rebel. This is a joke and is deceiving oneself.

Li Zhi said: "Treat you? Haha, do you know that in the hall just now, a minister wants to blame you. If Han Yi had not come forward, I really don't know how to exonerate you."

Wu Meiniang said in shock: "Han Yi pleads for me?"

She thought Han Yi would definitely kill her. This was the law of the officialdom, which really surprised her.

"I didn't expect it!"

Li Zhi nodded and said, "Han Yi just met his uncle. You just treat him as a thorn in his eyes, but you don't think about how much Han Yi helped us. If it weren't for Han Yi, whether we could survive until now may not be. Also, the reason why you can become the queen is that Han Yi is very successful. If Han Yi was really my uncle's person, he wouldn't have done his best to help you at that time. He should have been destroying it. If Han Yi had turned against him later and chose to surrender to his uncle, then it would have been because you were unpopular. In that situation, anyone who was greedy for fame and fortune would not choose to stand between you and your uncle."

Li Zhi said this last sentence from the third party, which shows that he was not completely tied to Wu Meiniang with him. Even if Han Yi really had to plan with Changsun Wuji to deal with Wu Meiniang, it would not mean that Han Yi was not loyal to him!

Han Yi has always been loyal to him, and he also regards Han Yi as his own, unlike Li Yi's mansion and Xu Jingzong.

Of course, he never believed that Han Yi wanted to deal with Wu Meiniang, because Han Yi had been doing his best to help Wu Meiniang and the prince. Apart from protecting Changsun Yan and others, he really couldn't find any evidence to prove Han Yi's motive to deal with Wu Meiniang. This alone would confirm Han Yi's motive, and Li Zhi felt that this was unfair to Han Yi.

Wu Meiniang was speechless and speechless.

Li Zhi took a deep breath and said, "Don't worry, I have me, Han Yi, and Sikong came forward to protect you. This matter cannot be involved in your head, but this is the last time. If there is another next time, I would rather not be a queen."

The meaning of this is very clear. If you do these things again, then no matter what I say, I will destroy you. At worst, I will protect the prince and not establish a queen.

After saying that, Li Zhi planned to leave.

Wu Meiniang suddenly said, "Your Majesty, I have a request."

Li Zhi stopped, but did not speak.

Wu Meiniang's eyes were full of reluctance: "I hope to meet Han Yi, and I will ask you in person to understand."

Li Zhi pondered for a moment, without making any sound, and left straight.
Chapter completed!