"Your Majesty, you have to be the master for your subjects!"
Four bruised Lu Jin private soldiers put Lu Jin down. Lu Jin knelt down with difficulty and raised his face. His face was bruised and purple, like a braised pig's head.
Li Yin took a step back on purpose, looking surprised: "Oh, Doctor Lu, what's wrong with you? Someone beat you up like this."
Li Shimin frowned even tighter, "What's going on, don't hesitate to tell me!"
Lu Jin stretched out his hand and pointed at Li Yin tremblingly, "Your Majesty, you have to be the master of the minister, it is the sixth prince, and it is the guardian of the sixth prince who beat the minister into such a state, woo woo..."
"Yin'er, what's going on!" Li Shimin looked at Li Yin, beating an official innocently is a felony, not to mention that Lu Jin was elected by five surnames and seven hopes.
Eldest Sun Wuji echoed: "Sixth Prince, you are a relative of the emperor, how can you even let the guards beat officials."
"Liu Lang, it's your fault!" Li Tai also took advantage of the fire.
Li Yin was confused at first, and then suddenly realized: "Is that really Dr. Lu Jin? Father, please listen to my son's explanation. Just now, when the housekeeper of the minister came to report that when the Shu Palace chased and suppressed the escaped slave, he found a group of people trying to communicate with that slave." , the guards of Erchen thought it was someone who helped the servants escape and arrested them, but they didn't expect that this person claimed to be Dr. Lu Jin, so the guards came to report this matter to Erchen, but just now The eldest grandson said that Dr. Lu was resting in his room due to the wind and cold, and the servants naturally thought that he was pretending to be Dr. Lu, so he ordered the guards to teach him a lesson, so as to make others follow suit."
"Lu Jin, where did you get beaten by the guards of the Shu Palace?" Li Shimin thought for a while, and then understood what happened.
"This, this...my minister is..." Lu Jin stammered. When he and Li Shimin resigned, he said that he had a cold occasionally. If he admitted that he had gone outside Yizhou City at this time, wouldn't he be guilty of deceiving the emperor? He cast his eyes on Changsun Wuji, begging for help.
Lu Jin faltered and couldn't finish his sentence. There must be something strange in it. Changsun Wuji almost gritted his teeth in anger. He didn't expect that Lu Jin would secretly do things in Yizhou City without telling him. He didn't want to care about it at first, and let him make a fool of himself, but thinking of the temporary union, he said: "Your Majesty, I remembered that Dr. Lu thought it was stuffy in the house after he caught the cold, so he said to go outside the city to get some air, maybe that's it." There must be a misunderstanding with the sixth prince!"
"Yes, yes, Your Majesty, I went outside the city to get some air, and it was really a coincidence that I met that escaped servant girl." Lu Jin quickly admitted.
Li Yin's original intention was to let Lu Jin suffer a secret loss. Unexpectedly, Changsun Wuji jumped out to help him speak out at this time, which made it impossible for Li Shimin to punish him. With the habit of running around with the wind and cold, the people of this Shu area are tough, if they lose their lives, the crime of the minister will be serious." Everyone knew it in their hearts when the matter came to this point.
Li Shimin glanced at Lu Jin indifferently, "Those who don't know are not guilty, let this matter be as it is."
"Father Huang Mingcha!" Li Yin bowed and said, his goal has been achieved, so he can't make further progress, it will only make the trouble more and more rigid, and it is not good for him who has just gained a foothold in Yizhou.
Lu Jin's move made Li Shimin's mood suddenly turn sour, and he lost interest in playing chess, so Li Yin took the opportunity to leave.
Changsun Wuji and Li Tai both stared at Lu Jin fiercely, and left in a huff.
Lu Jin said anxiously: "The elder grandson is waiting for me, the fourth prince is waiting for me, dog slave, don't carry me to catch up." The four private soldiers obeyed the order, carried Lu Jin and left the palace immediately.
On the way back to the palace, Li Yin smiled all the way, not to give them a little bit of hardship, they really thought that Li Yin was easy to bully, but they really opened the dyeing workshop after giving them some color.
"Your Highness, what about the dead slaves?" Jin Daqian frowned and said, these slaves were bought by Tong Nian from Chang'an, and he was in charge of managing them.
The location of Taoyuan was almost exposed, and Li Yin broke into a cold sweat. Merit must be rewarded, and mistakes must be punished. This has always been the principle pursued by the Shu Palace. Without rules, there is no way to achieve success. Li Yin said: "Go back and get twenty boards. Tong Nian's board is reserved for him, and he will talk about it when he arrives in Yizhou. If such a small matter can't be done properly, how will it become a major event in the future? As for the dead slave, his body should be publicized to all the slaves, as a warning to others. "
"Yes! Your Highness." Jin Daqian was about to cry, but suddenly felt a dull pain in his buttocks. Last time he made a mistake, he received 20 boards. This time, he has to receive another 20 boards. Li Yin is already very kind. If it was in another mansion, if it wasn't for these twenty boards, half his life would probably be gone. He scolded Tong Nian countless times in his heart, thinking that when the old boy arrived in Yizhou, he would personally carry out the cane punishment and ruthlessly punish him. Slapping his **** hard, I was really hurt by him.
Li Yin returned to the palace and asked Jin Daqian to send someone to call Qin Huaiyu and the others. They had become familiar with Li Shimin in the past few days. Li Yin introduced them all in front of Li Shimin and learned that Qin Huaiyu was Qin Shubao's son. Afterwards, Li Shimin was a little surprised and intended to transfer Qin Huaiyu back to Chang'an, but Qin Huaiyu politely declined.
Several people came to the main hall of the Wangfu, and seeing Li Yin's happy face, Shangguanyi was the first to say: "Your Highness is full of joy, there must be a happy event."
Li Yin nodded, and asked them to sit down, Qin Huaiyu said: "What's the matter, Your Highness, please don't tempt us."
Li Yin smiled and said: "Father has promised to hand over the land of Shu to this king. In less than a month, this king will be the real king of Shu."
The four of them all stood up when they heard the words, all beaming with joy, and said in unison: "Congratulations, Your Highness."
"Now that the land of Shu is in the pocket, His Highness can let go of his fists and do it with all his strength. Otherwise, there would always be a feeling of being restricted by other states and counties in the land of Shu." Wang Yinlong said immediately.
Several people nodded in agreement when they heard the words, and Dou Xiande continued: "It's just that His Highness may face the predicament when he came to Yizhou."
"Does Sima refer to the tycoons of the prefectures and counties?" Shangguan Yi said.
Dou Xiande nodded and said: "Exactly, the matter of high power is not accidental, this Yizhou is still under the management of the imperial court, let alone those border states, everyone should understand that the imperial court's management of those counties is very weak, The officials who served in those prefectures and counties were basically officials who were exiled by the court, this is because even after taking office, they may lose their lives at any time, which shows that those places are powerful and rampant."
"What Dou Sima said makes sense. In fact, the imperial court really only controls Yizhou and the northern prefectures. The western and southern frontier states are really barbaric lands. The imperial court is too lazy to manage them, and only sends an official to manage them symbolically. "Shangguanyi also quite agrees.