"......What are these people watching? Have you ever heard of the allusion of apologizing for guilt?"

Zhang Huaiyi was strong and carried a bundle of firewood on his back. The skin on his diaphragm was sore. He glanced at the guards and eunuchs around him, and walked up the stone steps of Wenzhao Palace step by step, lowered his head, raised his hand and half-kneeled.

"My minister Zhang Huaiyi apologized to Your Majesty!"

The palace gate was closed and there was no response. After a while, an eunuch came out from the side and bowed to him and whispered: "Your Majesty is in the study, and the generals will follow me."

Zhang Huaiyi nodded and looked around carefully. Then he got up and followed the smiling eunuch to the side hall. He turned the corridor and saw where the study was.

When he entered, Emperor Li Ye was writing something at his desk. He heard the words "My minister Zhang Huaiyi pays homage to Your Majesty." After a while, he raised his gaze from behind the desk, put down his pen and stood up slowly, with a snorkeling.

"Zhang Dutong is so powerful. Without the sage, he led his troops out of the capital without authorization. He didn't know about it and thought that I had a fault with his ministers."

"I would like to ask Your Majesty to atone for his sins. I know that I have sins, but there are reasons for this."

The door of the study room was open, and the monarch and ministers spoke, and the guards outside could hear it. Li Ye glanced outside the study room, walked out of the dragon case with his hands behind him, stood behind Zhang Huaiyi who was kneeling beside him, and nodded slightly: "Then I will listen to your defense."

"yes."

On the side, Zhang Huaiyi lowered his head and clasped his fists at the Long Case, "I led my troops out of the camp late at night the day before yesterday. However, the Minister of Qin suddenly visited and said that he saw a group of bandits in Dongshi accused a mother and son on the street. The pursuit was fruitless, so he had to come to my house for help."

The emperor frowned, what a bad reason?

"He can look for the yamen to hijack a mother and son in the street."

"The curfew is late at night, and the yamen is closed."

This made Li Ye stunned. Unexpectedly, he was excused by such words. He took a deep breath and pressed his emotions, "Okay, then I ask you, it's a woman from the He family, what happened to the bandit after that? You need to go out of the city overnight to lead troops to pursue you?"

"Your Majesty, that woman is the sister-in-law of my brothers. She has also been in contact in the past. Your Majesty knows that I have always been loyal and righteous, so how can I not save me? However, I know that my crime is serious. After saving the woman, I come over to take a thorn to your Majesty to apologize."

"Since you have confessed your guilt, then you will be punished." Li Ye didn't say anything and shouted outside the study: "Come here, Zhang Huaiyi, the commander of the Beiyingxing, privately led his troops out of the camp and pulled him down to me and chopped him down."

Zhang Huaiyi widened his eyes, why is it different from what he thought?

He quickly turned around and saw the palace guards coming in. He knelt down halfway: "Your Majesty, I shouldn't be alone if I have any guilt. Then the Minister of Qin should be punished. Who told him to know my loyalty and righteousness? He came to look for me? This happened. He rushed to the front of his blood and got on without thinking. He really couldn't return to me."

snort.....

Li Ye hummed softly, quite satisfied with his expression at this moment, waved his sleeves and asked the guards at the door to go back. Then, he brushed his sleeves and walked back to the desk table.

"It's best to speak nonsense, it's best to explain it clearly."

Zhang Huaiyi was in trouble. This is what happened. Except for pressing the robber's name, he had already said everything he should have said just now.

At this moment, he gritted his teeth and said, "Report to Your Majesty, what I just said is really everything."

"Okay, I'll ask you..." Li Ye picked up the brush and continued writing, "Who else can you dare to testify to you?"

"Yes, the King of Dongping is here. At that time, he was not far from Tongguan. He happened to encounter this group of robbers. He thought the enemy attacking the camp killed the people. When I led my troops to arrive, it was already a corpse. If Your Majesty doesn't believe it, you can ask the generals of Tongguan that day, and I have greeted him."

Li Ye raised his gaze and was a little surprised: "Why is he there?"

"This... I don't know. I met it there anyway, and I asked King Dongping for drinks, hehe, and then I came back."

The light shadow shook lightly, and Li Ye, who was sitting behind the desk, frowned even more. He put down his brush and stood up again, and attracted a guard to whisper something. After the guard left, he raised his hand and asked Zhang Huaiyi to get up and speak.

"How many soldiers did he bring?"

"This minister didn't look at it much, but he looked at the camp, at most one or two thousand cavalry." At that time, there were only so many people on the other side. Zhang Huaiyi really didn't need to tell lies on this point. After all, if he really came to the scene and knew that he was talking nonsense, he would definitely be held accountable.

‘I’m afraid it’s the truth of Tongguan…’ The emperor stared at the candlelight and murmured.

Immediately, he suppressed this and spoke again: "What else? What about the woman and the child right now?"

"No... nothing happened next. The woman and the child were very good. They were coming back in a carriage with my brother. They just took some shock and would probably go back to Chang'an in a day or two."

When Li Ye heard him say this, he felt a little overwhelmed. Why can’t he finish talking in one breath? Toad, poke and jump!

The suppressed anger could not be held back, so he shouted at Zhang Huaiyi: "I will tell you one time!"

Zhang Huaiyi was startled, knelt down again, and squeezed out a smile stiffly.

"Just... I just said I forgot that the woman is my brother's sister-in-law, so I naturally came back together."

He paused and then said, "By the way, my brother's name is Geng Qing. He is good at speaking, has a good character, and is very good at doing things. When the late emperor was still alive, he served as a doctor of the Ministry of Justice and a minister of the Ministry of Justice. But he didn't sit for long. Later, his father passed away and returned to Feihu County to mourn. Three years have passed in a flash. It's better to let him go back to the court to listen, right?"

"Geng Qing? I'm a little familiar with this name..." The emperor there stood in the light and shadow with his hands in his arms, with no expression on his face, "Tong Zhang has not yet escaped from his crime, so he is eager to recommend his brothers? Haha, it's true to be loyal."

"Haha, Your Majesty feels so too?"

Li Ye didn't look at him, raised his sleeve and snorted coldly: "Get out!"

On the other side, Zhang Huaiyi shrank, quickly got up from the ground, rolled and crawled to the door, and was stopped by the emperor again.

"When Geng Qing comes back, you will tell him and come to see me in the morning court."

"Thank you Your Majesty! Thank you Your Majesty!"

Zhang Huaiyi bowed excitedly and then ran out after receiving the reply. The one who was staggering was a very tall man. The two of them collided, and the firewood behind Zhang Huaiyi suddenly scattered all over the ground, and even the people fell to the ground.

"I can't walk for a long time!" He got up from the ground and cursed. When he saw the man in front of him, he was stunned for a moment. The other party was not angry, and raised his hand and clasped his fists: "It turned out to be General Zhang."

Zhang Huaiyi 'cut'ed, returned the courtesy, turned around and left. As for the burly man looking at his back, he looked at the firewood that was scattered all over the ground, and stepped directly over.

Walking up to Wenzhao Palace, he followed the waiting eunuch to the study room of the side hall and paid homage to the emperor inside. Li Ye sat behind the dragon desk and fell into thoughts. When the big man came in, he raised his eyes.

"As the way, I will tell you to do something."

The man below raised his broad-bearded face, clasped his fists heavily, and looked solemn: "I would like to ask your Majesty to issue an order."

His original name was Hu Hongli, one of the adopted sons of Privy Councilor Yang Fugong. He changed his name to Yang Shouli. He was extremely brave and had a martial arts that could not be stopped by a hundred people. His temperament was very different from his heroic appearance. He was cold and cruel. The Shen Ce Army was afraid of him. Now he was won over by Li Ye and given his surname: Li, whose name was Shunjie.

"I think it's a bit strange to Zhang Huaiyi's troops to Tongguan to pursue the thieves just now. He said that he met Zhu Wen on the way. Although this person was smiling and like a fool, I dare not really treat him as a fool. You go to the Ministry of Justice and ask Tu to make trouble. You and the two of you join forces to investigate the matter. In addition, Cui Xiang has been in the court for a long time, and the government manager doesn't know where he has gone. When these two things happen together, I don't know how to sleep or eat."

He paused when he said this.

"There is another person named Geng Qing. Don't touch him. After finding out everything, I will deal with it and not do anything randomly. After this matter is over, I will add you to the General of the Sixteen Guards and the envoy of various troops."

Li Shunjie pursed his lips and clasped his fists hard, "I will never humiliate the Holy Order!"

"Go down and prepare, I will wait for the general to reply in the palace!"

He pulled the other party for a while and asked him to leave the palace to find trouble at the Ministry of Justice. Li Ye stood at the door of the study, looking at the left back, and the expression on his face was a little strange from beginning to end. Even the eunuch who was serving around and liked to figure out his thoughts could not find out what the emperor was thinking.

Soon, a group of soldiers and horses mixed with constables stayed in the city for two days and left Chunming Gate. At the same time, in the afternoon of the same day, the carriage returned from Tongguan quietly drove into the city.
Chapter completed!