On the second day after Li Hao was imprisoned, Kong Yingda joined forces with all the ministers and Li Shimin, the secretary of the imperial history, to impeach Li Hao, saying that he had no royal law, despised the emperor's authority, and his crime was unforgivable.

This time Kong Yingda did not act alone, but discussed with a group of corrupt Confucians for a night, he knew that Li Shimin favored Li Hao, and it was estimated that he was reluctant to kill Li Hao, so they did not ask Li Shimin to behead Li Hao when they played the song, but only asked for a heavy punishment, but this crime can be a bit big, contempt for the emperor's prestige, and the crime of bullying the monarch is almost the same, they have already made plans this time, even if they don't kill Li Hao, they have to let him take off a layer of skin.

When he saw Kong Yingda and their recital, Li Shimin's eyebrows were twisted, to be honest, Li Hao's behavior this time was indeed suspected of despising the emperor's authority, no, it was simply contempt for the emperor's prestige, as wise as Li Shimin, couldn't he see that this was Li Hao looking for revenge from the prince, although he only beat an official of the East Palace, but there is a good saying, it depends on the owner to beat the dog, Li Hao is clearly provoking the royal prestige.

Li Shimin's trust in Li Hao was already a little lacking, and after such a scene, he was even more dissatisfied with Li Hao, and Kong Yingda's performance also allowed Li Shimin to find an opportunity to make a move, but ...... Li Shimin is a little difficult, how should he punish Li Hao.

Li Hao is an important talent, he must ensure that Li Hao is punished, and he must be convinced, and at the same time, he must also ensure that this punishment plays a beating role, which is a bit difficult.

Don't think about killing the head or something, if you raid the house, it is estimated that Li Hao will be resentful, and it will be even more impossible to use him in the future, if you are fined, it seems to be a bit of a child's play, or ...... Hit dozens of sticks, and then a huge fine?

Li Shimin overturned his ideas again and again, and always couldn't find a proper way to punish him, gradually, he felt so irritable, he suddenly grabbed the teacup on the dragon case and slammed it to the ground, got up and shouted angrily: "Li Hao! You bastard, why do you always give me such a headache! ”

Li Shimin was really heartbroken in order to punish Li Hao, but Li Hao slept heartlessly in Dali Temple, when he was in prison before, Cheng Biting Jin and the eldest grandson Wuji occasionally came to see him, but this time no big man dared to visit the prison, after all, Li Hao's crime this time was too sensitive, and he despised the emperor's authority, the punishment could be light or heavy, and the most important thing was that he offended the crown prince this time, the heir to the throne, who is now close to Li Hao, is offended Li Chengqian.

In the evening, a big guy finally came, Qin Qiong came.

Seeing Qin Qiong's arrival, Li Hao was flattered and hurriedly got up and saluted: "Meet Uncle Qin, please forgive the little nephew for being tortured, it is inconvenient to perform the full salute." ”

This time Li Hao was not so easy to go to prison, after all, it was a big crime, and Dali Siqing was replaced, the current Dali Siqing is Sun Fujia, and he has no friendship with Li Hao, Li Hao just entered the cell, and he was shackled.

"That's it." Qin Qiong waved her hand with a sad face, "It's all this time, and you still pay attention to what kind of courtesy." ”

"Uncle Xie Qin." Li Hao grinned, looking at him like that, he still had no heart or lungs.

Qin Qiong asked the cell boss to open the cell door, and then walked in, the cell boss knew that they had something to whisper, so he locked the door again and left.

Li Hao asked Qin Qiong to sit down, then sat cross-legged opposite Qin Qiong, and said, "Uncle Qin can come to see the little nephew at this time, and the little nephew has a sense of guilt." ”

"Don't talk about that." Qin Qiong waved her hand and asked, "What are your plans next?" ”

Li Hao spread his hands and said, "What can you do, wait for Your Majesty's punishment." ”

"You know." Qin Qiong said worriedly, "Kong Yingda and Cen Wenwen and many other imperial historians have impeached you, condemned you for contempt of the emperor's authority, and begged Your Majesty to severely punish you." ”

Li Hao frowned when he heard this, he didn't expect Kong Yingda to fall into the well at this time and despise the crime of the emperor's authority, it was not a joke.

He was silent for a moment and asked, "What is Your Majesty's reaction?" ”

Qin Qiong sighed: "Your Majesty accepted their recitals and didn't say anything, I guess he was also hesitating." ”

Li Hao was even more shocked when he heard this, Li Shimin's trust in himself is really not very high, it seems that he intends to punish himself heavily, this is not easy to do, his eyes are rolling rapidly, and his brain is also spinning rapidly.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Qin Qiong sighed softly: "Your matter this time is a bit tricky, I wanted to join the eldest grandson Wuji, Fang Xuanling, Li Ji and others to help you intercede, but they refused to agree, think about it, you have done too much this time, helping you is tantamount to offending the prince, he is the prince, he will sit on the throne in the future!" ”

When Li Hao heard this, he suddenly bowed down again and thought that Qin Qiong made a big salute, and said, "Uncle Qin, you can come to see me at this time, which means that you really treat me as a nephew, but it's just ...... I don't want you to offend the prince, so let's go back first, and if I think of any good way, I will send someone to deliver you a letter, and ask my uncle to help me at that time. ”

Qin Qiong thought for a moment and nodded vigorously: "Okay, you have to take care of yourself in prison." ”

"Thank you uncle."

Sending Qin Qiong away, Li Hao began to think about it, Kong Yingda's fall into the well was a little unexpected, he seemed to be dead this time, and it was impossible to escape punishment, in this case, he began to think about how to reduce his punishment, he was prepared before the revenge action, leaving a killer weapon, but now he found that his crime hat was a bit big, and he despised Huang Weiye, and he didn't know how much of a role this killer weapon could play, and now if he wants to sacrifice this killer weapon, he must have a good foreshadowing, Otherwise, it is very likely to arouse Li Shimin's disgust.

In order to find a suitable punishment plan, Li Shimin thought hard for two days, but he didn't have any good ideas, so he had no choice but to invite the eldest grandson Wuji and Fang Xuanling to ask, after all, these two people are usually resourceful, maybe they will have good ideas.

However, Li Shimin was disappointed this time, the eldest grandson Wuji was originally a princeling, how could he give a fair judgment, Li Hao is even a talent, but compared with the prince, of course, the eldest grandson Wuji chose the prince without any doubt, as for Fang Xuanling, he chose to be with the mud this time, after all, he didn't want to offend the prince.

Even these two people did not give a good solution, Li Shimin became more and more irritable, and after two days, Li Shimin simply decided to put Li Hao in prison first, and slowly thought about the punishment plan, what is the hurry.

This procrastination trick is very effective, and Li Shimin's mood immediately relaxed a lot, but Kong Yingda and others came to urge him every once in a while, which made him annoyed.

On May 18, Li Shimin received two reports, both from Tingzhou, the first of which read: A caravan of 500 people from the Tang Dynasty disappeared for no reason when passing through Gaochang, and then found their bodies in the desert, their property was plundered, and the corpses of all the people were eaten by wolves, and the scars of arrows and swords could be seen on the corpses, which could be confirmed to be intercepted and killed.

The second report reads: Tingzhou's new assassin Wang Yun and the new Zhichong Commander ordered Huda to go out to suppress bandits, but they were ambushed by desert robbers and the whole army was wiped out.

Li Shimin was furious when he heard this, the caravan of five hundred people is an unusually large caravan, according to the standard, in the caravan of five hundred people, the guards reached at least three hundred and fifty people, so they were intercepted and killed and the whole army was wiped out, what kind of desert robbers have such great ability, it must be Gao Chang's doing.

What's even more infuriating is that Tingzhou Assassin Shi and Zhichong Duwei led the troops to suppress the bandits, but they were reversed, they brought more than 800 Tang warriors at that time, and none of them came back alive.

Regarding this matter, Li Shimin convened the ministers in the Liangyi Hall to discuss countermeasures, and Gao Chang did whatever he wanted on the Silk Road, and the more he did it, it had reached the limit of tolerance of the Heavenly Khan.

On the Liangyi Palace, Cheng Biting Jin shouted to send troops to attack Gaochang, directly destroyed Gaochang, and set up the Anxi Protectorate, so as to ensure that the Silk Road would be unimpeded. Qin Qiong and Li Ji immediately seconded the proposal, thinking that it should be done.

Kong Yingda immediately came out to oppose it, and his opposition was not unreasonable, first of all, they just suspected that all this was done by Gao Chang, there was no definite evidence, and the troops were sent for no reason, and the division was nameless; Secondly, even if this is done by Gaochang, it is impossible to send troops, after all, Gaochang is too far away from Chang'an, and it will take four months to half a year for the army to set off to Gaochang, to say the least, and the manpower, material and financial resources will be huge, and the gains outweigh the losses.

Li Shimin made another difficulty, and both sides made sense, but how to solve this matter is really a headache, because there is no good decision for the time being, Li Shimin postponed the parliament and discussed it another day.

That night, Lu Yun went to visit the prison of Dali Temple and told Li Hao about the parliament between the DPRK and China.

Li Hao pinched his fingers and calculated, Gaochang seemed to destroy the country in the past two years, he couldn't remember the specific year, but it didn't matter, after all, it had nothing to do with him, he still had to think about how to excuse himself first.

Who knew that Lu Yun suddenly whispered: "Young Master, your opportunity has come." ”

Li Hao was taken aback when he heard this, and hurriedly leaned over and asked, "What chance?" ”

Lu Yun whispered in his ear: "Young Master, the reason why Gao Chang was able to accurately know the movements of the caravan every time was because there were spies in Tingzhou. ”

"What!" Li Hao was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "Who is it?" ”

Lu Yun said: "Don't ask who it is, I have a way now, maybe I can let him escape the emperor's punishment this time, do you want to listen?" ”

Li Hao said without hesitation: "Let's hear it." ”

Lu Yun whispered in his ear for a long time, Li Hao's brows were stretched and relaxed, and after a while, after Lu Yun finished speaking, Li Hao's eyes rolled, and after thinking for a long time, he looked at Lu Yun suspiciously, and said, "Can this method work?" ”

Lu Yun said: "It's better than having no way at all, and let's try it." ”

Li Hao thought about it, nodded and said, "Okay, you wait." ”

As he spoke, he turned back to the bookcase, picked up his pen and wrote down two notes, and then stuffed them into two envelopes, one with "Lu Guogong personally informed" and the other written "Yiguo Gongrenqi".

Then he took these two letters to Lu Yun and advised: "Send them to Yi Guogong and Lu Guogong respectively, remember, you must see them in person, hand them over to them in person, and don't let people collect them on their behalf, if Yi Guogong can't read my letter, let him ask the British Duke, and let Lu Guogong believe what I said before." ”

Lu Yun asked puzzledly, "What words?" ”

Li Hao said vaguely: "You just bring my words, don't ask what the words are, he will understand." ”

"Yes." Lu Yun stuffed the two letters into his arms, then turned to leave.

When Lu Yun just walked out of the prison of Dali Temple, he touched the two letters on his chest, the corners of his mouth raised slightly, and muttered, "Finally...... Wait until this moment. ”