King Yong was pinned to the futon by his servants, unable to move, but his body was trembling slightly because of anger.

This was the first time in his life that he had been so humiliated. He had never been treated so rudely since he was a child. No matter how the court situation changed, he would never be treated less favorably by the royal family members.

However, today, due to the violent death of a refugee, not only was he insulted for no reason, but also was rushed into the palace by the officers of the Three Law Departments, rummaging through the boxes and cabinets. How could King Yong, who was always used to being domineering, suffer this injustice?

He drew his sword and planned to fight with the guards, but he was pinned down in the main hall by the servants, and a steward in front of him kept kowtowing to him.

"Your Highness, please don't be impulsive, just bear with this tone." The eunuch begged.

King Yong's face was twisted with anger, his teeth chattered, and he said solemnly: "Even if I am demoted to a commoner today, I cannot bear this humiliation. When did my descendants of the Tang Dynasty start to feel so aggrieved?

, these despicable officials can come in whenever they want, how can I tolerate this!"

The eunuch begged bitterly: "The officers of the Three Laws Division are not targeting the prince, but Manager Liu. Please bear with it, and report your case to the emperor one day, asking the emperor to make the decision for the prince."

King Yong said angrily: "Where are the imperial guards of the royal palace? All those wastes have been raised in vain? Are you just watching the guards rush in and they don't do anything?"

The eunuch shrank and said, "Outside the palace gate, there is... Anxi Army."

King Yong was shocked and said: "Anxi Army... What does Gu Qing want to do? He wants land, and I have returned half of the land. Isn't that enough? Why do you need to kill me to death..."

The eunuch lowered his head and sighed: "I'm afraid it's still not enough."

"It's too much to bully others. There are so many powerful people in the world occupying the land. Why should they only target me? Is it okay for me to bully you?"

"Your Highness, I thought about it again and again, and I feel that the refugee murder case was probably concocted by Gu Qing. On the surface it was a murder, but in fact it was to get rid of Your Highness..."

King Yong was stunned for a moment, and before he had time to think, there was a burst of noise and crying outside the palace, accompanied by the cries of the palace maids, and the sound of bottles and jars being broken in the courtyard.

King Yong hurriedly walked out of the palace and saw that the officers of the Three Law Departments were searching the palace very roughly. Every corner had been rummaged through by the officers. Even the soil in the garden in the courtyard had been dug up, looking for the so-called

evidence.

King Yong's body was trembling with anger, and he shouted with a livid face: "Where are the guards?"

The royal guards were all there. They stood quietly in the yard, watching with aggrieved expressions as the officers ransacked the house. When they heard King Yong's roar, the guards were about to stand up, but suddenly they felt their backs

I felt cold and turned my head to look around. I don’t know when the soldiers of the Anxi Army had entered the palace. They were wearing armor and holding swords. They stared at the guards with cold eyes. The leader of the general put his right hand on the handle of the sword, as if as long as they dared to move, the general would be killed.

He would order his execution without hesitation.

The guards of the palace did not dare to move. King Yong roared until his voice became hoarse. The guards still did not dare to move. They all seemed to have turned into wood carvings and clay sculptures, turning a deaf ear to King Yong's roar.

King Yong also saw the soldiers of the Anxi Army in the courtyard, and his heart could not help but feel cold, knowing that today's humiliation could no longer be avoided.

No matter how domineering a person is, they will suddenly become weak when faced with a sword. The more domineering they are, the faster they will become weak in front of a sword. These people bully the weak and fear the strong, and cherish their lives more than ordinary people.

So King Yong gave up the fight, stared at the officers and soldiers of the Anxi Army in the yard with bitter eyes, gritted his teeth and said: "Come here, prepare your carriages and horses, I am going to the palace to face the saint!"

An hour after King Yong left the palace, the officers of the Three Laws Division found some very important things from the palace.

First, a pair of shoes covered in mud was found from Manager Liu's house. The pattern on the soles exactly matched the shoe prints on the deceased's face.

Next was a dagger thrown under the bed. There was dried blood on the dagger. There was no technology to verify blood type these days, but a dagger with dried blood on it was considered ironclad evidence.

The officers also found a stack of deeds. Most of the deeds were deeds for rural farmers in Guanzhong, Henan and other prefectures and counties to sell their land. There were also deeds for people who voluntarily reduced their registration status and sold themselves into slavery. Each deed was a deed for a farmer's family.

tragedy.

The officers were stunned. Although today's search of the palace was a setup, and many of the so-called evidences were artificially created, this stack of deeds actually belonged to the palace. It seemed that in the eyes of King Yong, this stack of deeds was not

It was considered shameful, so it was safely stored in the palace's accounting room, and was eventually dug out by the guards.

…………

At sunset, a bad commander from the Criminal Department stood respectfully under the pillars outside the main hall of Prince Gu Qing's mansion, waiting for Prince Gu's summons.

After a long time, a servant invited the bad commander into the palace.

After the bad commander saluted Gu Qing, he did not dare to say any more nonsense. He told the story of today's search of Prince Yong's Mansion in detail, and took out the pile of deeds from his arms.

Gu Qing took the deed and read each one carefully. The more he looked at it, the darker his face became.

"It's really killing them all, leaving no way for others to survive, and not fearing retribution." Gu Qing sneered.

Many of the names on the deed overlapped with those in the deed of sale. In other words, those farmers who had their land occupied for no reason were forced to cut off their livelihoods. After selling their land at a low price, they had no choice but to sell themselves into slavery. They were originally just paying taxes to the court.

In this way, he became a serf in the name of Prince Yong.

Some deeds of sale were even signed for the entire household, which meant that the whole family was downgraded and sold to the Yongwang Mansion.

Holding back his anger and putting away the stack of deeds, Gu Qing said to the bad handsome man calmly: "Please step aside. I have collected the deeds. What to do next? I will send someone to tell Li Shangshu that this case is no longer as simple as a refugee murder case."

, mind your mouth."

The bad guy resigned respectfully.

Gu Qing glanced at Feng Yu, who was sitting slumped aside, and silently handed him the deed.

After Feng Yu flipped through a few pages, he handed it back to Gu Qing with no change in his expression.

"Brother Gu's lifelong ambition is, first of all, land. Since someone brought the hilt of a knife to the door today, why not start with King Yong?"

Gu Qing hummed and said: "The luxurious life of the powerful has been lived for too long, and the common people in the world have suffered too much. It's time to change."

Feng Yu said: "We have sacrificed our lives and experienced life and death several times. If what we get in the end is just the singing and dancing of the powerful, our efforts will be too worthless and the world will be too unfair. Brother Gu, I

I think the case can be bigger, starting with the murder of a refugee, slowly fermenting it in the court, and finally involving the murder of the refugee on King Yong, and even involving a few more murders..."

Gu Qing looked at him with a smile and said, "What next?"

Feng Yu smiled slightly, knowing that Gu Qing had serious intentions, so he said generously: "Let the whole matter be revealed, and then create momentum among the government and the public. When the momentum is too big, the emperor will not be able to protect King Yong, at least he will be demoted to

Common people, finally we will bring up the matter of taking back the land..."

Gu Qing shook his head: "A murder is a murder, and the land issue should never be mentioned."

Feng Yu was stunned: "Why?"

Gu Qing sighed: "Do you know how many dignitaries and landowners there are in the Tang Dynasty? Do you know that the lifeblood of these people is land. If we attack King Yong, people with a discerning eye can see that we are targeting the land in King Yong's name, but

This matter can only be tacitly stated and cannot be made public. Once the land issue is brought to the table, it will be tantamount to breaking up with the landowners all over the world, including the aristocratic families who are currently supporting us."

Feng Yu said frustratedly: "Can it be said that land matters can never be openly spoken out?"

"Yes, but not now. When the country is settled, the situation is established, and no enemy in the world can stop me, then the matter of land can be brought to the table."

Feng Yu's eyes were full of expectation: "When will this day come?"

Gu Qing said leisurely: "Maybe it's very close, the results can be seen in just a few months, maybe it's far away, and it can't be solved perfectly in a lifetime. We are people walking on the edge of a knife, and the motivation that supports our walking is only the ambition we set back then.

, Sometimes when there is no hope in a desperate situation, it is inevitable that even ambitions will feel illusory and illusory, and I really want to give up..."

Feng Yu said firmly: "Brother Gu, there are countless people behind you who support you and are willing to risk their lives for you. You are not alone. Therefore, your ambition must not be shaken."

Gu Qing cheered up and said with a smile: "Yes, our ambition must not waver, otherwise everything we have done will be meaningless."

After a pause, Gu Qing said: "Tomorrow you go to Aunt Li's house. Aunt Li has a rather mysterious intelligence collection network. She is quite satisfied with you and once said that she would pass it on to you. Li Jianjiu

You will take over the intelligence network tomorrow, and the first thing you will do after taking over is to send people to Henan, Guanzhong, to find out how many outrageous things the farm under King Yong's name has done."

Feng Yu nodded vigorously: "Okay."

…………

An unfounded murder case gradually turned into a shocking case under Gu Qing's control.

Guanshi Liu disappeared, and fatal evidence was found in the palace. King Yong could not defend himself. After entering the palace to meet the emperor, he was scolded by the emperor and kicked out.

At the same time, the news that the palace had found irrefutable evidence gradually spread, and the government and the public were scolded.

King Ren Yong argued countless times that the case had nothing to do with the palace and was a personal grudge between Manager Liu of the palace, but the disappearance of Manager Liu was generally considered to be King Yong shielding the criminals.

One of your subordinates committed a murder. How can you explain it by saying "private grudge"? There is no such irresponsible excuse in the world.

The supervisory censors at the Censorship Station could not sit still.

This murder case has nothing to do with the court's alignment. After all, there are still many ministers with upright personalities in the imperial censor. They only deal with matters, not people.

So countless memorials to impeach King Yong flew into the Taiji Palace. It didn't matter if they couldn't find the real culprit. The same goes for finding the master behind the real culprit. If his subordinates committed something, doesn't the master have any responsibility?

Within a few days, King Yong was disgraced by the censors, and finally closed the door to thank guests without seeing anyone. He allowed the people in the court to curse him endlessly, but he just pretended not to hear.

On the night of the third day, King Yong finally couldn't stand it any longer and sent a court official out of the palace late at night to Gu Qing's palace to ask for an audience with Prince Gu.

The guest did not come empty-handed, he also held a thick stack of land deed documents.

King Yong is not stupid after all. The murder case has been going on to this day, and he has gradually figured out that the so-called murder case is just a cover. It is clear that the shadows of Gu Qing and An Xijun are looming behind this case.

And why did Gu Qing target him for no reason? Of course it was for the land.

After the last sacrifice of prisoners, King Yong thought he had the wisdom to return half of the land in his name. For King Yong, this was already a generous gesture. But Gu Qing obviously didn't think so. Returning only half of the land was not enough.

, everything taken into the mouth must be spit out.

So King Yong was inexplicably involved in a murder case. Thinking carefully about the causes and consequences, how could King Yong still not understand?

He sent his servants to visit him late at night and respectfully handed over the land deed documents. All the land under the name of King Yong, except for the food and town rewarded by the emperor, was returned to him.

The guests entered Prince Gu's palace, but did not see Gu Qing himself. A young man slumped on a chair met him.

When the guest respectfully presented the land deed document in the name of Prince Yong's Mansion, he was rejected by the young man with a smile.

What kind of person is Prince Gu, how can he covet your little land? Do you think he is seeking Yong Wang’s family property? He is too underestimated.
To be continued...