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Chapter 79 Solid Evidence

Li Bai reached out to flip the sweet potatoes on the charcoal fire. He was born with a wealthy family. Where did he have such experience? He was so hot that he was so hot that he screamed. Fortunately, he was not stupid. He used the chopsticks to flip through them, but he was so hungry that he broke up a piece of roasted one and started eating. After the hot sweet potatoes were eaten, Li Bai's face also had a vitality, and the gloom between his eyebrows was swept away. All of this was seen by Li Decan. He smiled slightly and did not comment, but his heart was already full of joy. I think this Li Bai is not a steadfast and unyielding person, otherwise he would definitely not think about tea or food at this time.

"Don't you want to know your destiny?" Li Decan couldn't help but see that Li Bo hadn't asked.

Li Bai sighed: "What else can I do? I am just a doll in the hands of His Majesty of the Heavenly Dynasty. The seals are in your hands. Are you still doing whatever you want? If I don't obey, I may be arranged to die of illness and then arrange for a person who is close to the Heavenly Dynasty to come to power, such as my second son, who is with the Jin family girl, right?"

Li Decan did not deny this: "It can be said that, but if you can cooperate, wouldn't it be legitimate? This is more beneficial to you in history books, today, and today, isn't it?"

"History Book? Does he still care about this?" Li Bai couldn't believe that he was unfamiliar with Li Mingxun, but he was not unfamiliar with his deeds. Not to mention anything else, just liquidating gentry landlords within the empire would not leave any good reputation.

Li Decan said: "I don't care about the inside, but it's very important to the outside. The emperor said that the more natural the things you do today, the more blessings it will be for future generations."

"What will the emperor do to deal with me? What I am talking about is the reward of the Heavenly Dynasty." Li Bai asked.

Li Decan said: "Since you have accepted the land and surrendered to the empire, you will be a meritorious minister of the empire. The previous crimes will naturally be ignored. When you resign from the throne of Korea, you can enter the court to congratulate you. At that time, the emperor will grant you the title of King Zhong and the head of the foreign vassal. Before King Chahar, you have a good position. Wouldn't it be beautiful?"

Li Bai understood that he was named the leader of the foreign vassal state, but in fact he wanted to live in the capital. If he did not live in the vassal state, he naturally could not be the one who took charge of the troops and took power. But Li Bai didn't want to go to the capital to be a puppet and asked, "When the envoy arrives, I will go to the capital? Why not stay and help you, Lord Li to appease the place? Seoul has been changed, and so many people will be liquidated this time, and there are also Eastern and Southern Dynasties eyeing each other. If you are not careful, I am afraid it is."

"You don't have to worry about comforting the local area." Li Decan refused without waiting for him to finish speaking: "The Empire has enough experience in this matter!"

As Li Decan said, the empire had enough experience in appeaseing local governments and rebuilding order. The first thing was to do was to establish a new army, accept all the old soldiers and generals, reorganize them into a new army, assist the empire in expedition and suppress the rebellion, wait until the situation is completely stable before dismissing, and then allocate part of the land and the severance silver to be properly placed.

Secondly, the prisoners use old officials to control all the old officials and powerful people, but do not destroy the original order, and let them govern with shackles to avoid a power vacuum in the local area. After confirming that there is no rampant military force and order is not broken, it is necessary to sublease land on a large scale, liberate the population, classify everyone as good households, and sublease the land that has been collected from the state-owned area according to the population size, and appropriately grant tax-free and rent-free policies, so as to achieve stability in the overall situation.

Like the Celestial Empire, Korea is a country with a long feudal history. Such countries include both the heroic spirit of emperors, generals and ministers, and the patience that they will not rebel as long as they have a way out. The new order established by the empire is an temptation that the Korean people cannot refuse. As long as they do not resist, they can obtain land and freedom. Why are there anyone supporting their master to rebel?

"Sir, that guy Chen Wenchuan is here again!" A clerk came over and said in a low voice. His voice was so low that Li Bai, who was sitting opposite him, did not hear clearly, but the three words Chen Wenchuan were really heard. Li Bai asked anxiously: "What's wrong with Chen Wenchuan, what's wrong with him?"

Li Decan smiled: "He is very good. He has been jumping up and down these days to seek justice for you. He said that you are a wise monarch of the generation. In the past, the Tartars forced to be slandered and autocratic. He is a sinless person and should not be asked to be punished. Haha, after ten months of the Seoul affairs, everyone in the two nobles were unable to take care of themselves, and only Chen Wenchuan and others spoke for you."

"It's true that the former kings only gave them food and residence, and they repay them with loyalty." Li Bai said with emotion, with tears in his eyes. In fact, Li Bai and his son did not do much to the Ming dynasty like Chen Wenchuan. After they brought them, they only gave them basic survival benefits. Unexpectedly, the grace of a drop of water was repaid with a spring of repatriation.

Li Decan stood up and said to Li Bai: "The king will wait for the emperor's will in the past two days. No one will disturb you anymore. Your family will come back to live. As for other people and other matters, you don't have to worry about it."

As he said that, several women Shanggong came in with their new bedding, carried them into the bathtub, and asked Li Bai to take a bath. After settling down, Li Bai, Li Decan left Jingfu Palace and asked the secretary: "Didn't Chen Wenchuan leave the city a few days ago? Didn't he go to seclusion to avoid disaster?"

After the Seoul Incident, Li Decan and Jin Ding jointly launched a prison together, and largely liquidated two groups of nobles in North Korea. However, most of the Chen Wenchuan party, who had become a powerful force with Jin Ding, were not liquidated. First, they were all officials promoted after the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, and did not have the original sin of serving the captives. Second, Chen Wenchuan party was mostly a survivor of the Ming Dynasty. They were both refugees who caused rebellion in the Qing Dynasty, and also had righteous acts to resist the Qing Dynasty. How could they be liquidated? Li Decan thought that the situation was over and these people should be dispersed as birds and beasts.

"Chen Wenchuan's party is very worried. Many of them have left, either living in the countryside or returning to their hometown. They also think that they have just disbanded. They never thought that Chen Wenchuan contacted a group of hard-working men and returned to Seoul to defend the Korean royal family. It is said that some people went to the capital together, saying that they wanted Quemen to write a letter."

"It's reversed, it's really back!" Li Decan said angrily: "Send people to the dock to chase, block the road to the north, stop these idiots, and disturb the emperor. We must have less than half of our achievements in expanding the border!"

"It's really strange. The Koreans helped the empire annex Korea, but a group of Han people stopped it." The clerk muttered, looked up and saw Li Decan's cold gaze, and suddenly remembered that the person in front of him was also a Korean.

The secretary smiled awkwardly and gritted his teeth and said, "Sir, since those corrupt scholars are not good at it, it is better to use force and clean up all of them. Let's see if they dare to make trouble."

Li Decan took a deep breath: "It's not time to wait there yet, it seems I have to think of a way."

Seven days later, the Zhengcao Yamen.

Chen Wenchuan held a copper waist sign in hand and arrived at the yamen. After the military police guarding the gate inspected, he smiled and asked, "It's Mr. Chen Wenchuan. President Li has been waiting for you for a long time. If you are two more minutes late, you will probably have a court hearing."

"What are you doing when you start a court? " Chen Wenchuan was just invited to come and didn't know what to do.

The military police said: "Of course, the trial was held. During the national crisis, those ministers and cruel people who served the Tartars and abused the people should not be let go, but they should not be convicted of their crimes. They must be interrogated publicly and ordered to court to demonstrate the fairness and justice of the imperial law."

"The law of the empire?"

The military police smiled and said, "Of course, you don't know the law of the empire. The envoy sent by the emperor was named King of Korea. During the Ming Dynasty, Korea was a minister of Zhu Ming and practiced the Ming Dynasty's laws. Now it is a vassal of the empire, so it should implement the imperial laws."

"That's that's it." Chen Wenchuan could say something about this kind of irrefutable procedural justice. When he heard that Li Bo was awarded the title of King of Korea, he felt even more upset. No wonder he blamed the Celestial Empire wrongly. The Celestial Empire sent troops to make trouble this time, but he just misunderstood the words of the villain Kim Bin and cooperated with him?

Chen Wenchuan entered the yamen with a nervous heart. The main hall was empty, but he heard the lively yard in the back yamen. He hurried in and saw that the original small garden had been shoveled flat, with bamboo mats on the bottom covered with quilts, and hundreds of people were neatly kneeling on it, all dressed in purple and purple, obviously rich people. Chen Wenchuan looked closely and recognized several of them, all of them were clan relatives in the royal family of the Li Dynasty. If you look closely, they were all.

"Why are you standing here? The President and the judge of the Special Court are already waiting for you to open the court." The clerk walked to Chen Wenchuan, who was stunned and guided.

"Those are these." Chen Wenchuan pointed at the people in the yard and asked. The secretary smiled: "It's all the traitors who colluded with the Tartars to fight against the Celestial Empire. This is only one-tenth of them. Today, we will first examine the Xianwang clan. After they finish the trial, it will be two shifts. Anyway, these guys are useless."

The clerk said this truth. Both classes are working in the yamen wearing shackles at this moment. They are not as useful as these royal families in practice.

Chen Wenchuan still did not catch up with the court ceremony. When he entered the back hall, the special court had already begun trial. The person being tried was Li Bai's half-brother Li Kai. Li Kai naturally shouted for injustice, saying that he had no real power as a royal family. During the Qing Dynasty, he only enjoyed wealth and honor, and did not act improperly, and was a guilty person.

The evidence issued by the clerk of the court shocked Li Kai and Chen Wenchuan because it was a number of witness testimony, proving that Li Kai flattered the powerful people of the Eight Banners and secretly gave gold and silver. He had the idea of ​​taking Li Bai and replacing him, and he also wanted to grant his own daughter to the governor of the Qing Dynasty's Zhenghong Banner. In the testimony, how Li Kai flattered and what absurd words were said clearly, and what Chen Wenchuan couldn't believe was that the source of these testimony was the targets of Li Kai's flattery of Manchu ministers, powerful people and generals of the Eight Banners.

"Sir, these testimonies are." Chen Wenchuan asked hurriedly as he looked at dozens of large boxes full of testimony.

"This is all the testimony of the parties involved, and it cannot be fake. If there is no such conclusive evidence, how dare I catch people randomly?" Li Decan introduced with a plain face. As he waved his hand, someone brought a box. After opening it, Li Decan said: "Mr. Chen can open it at will. If there is any falsehood, you can point it out at any time."

Chen Wenchuan was stunned and picked up a stack of materials first. After reading only a few words, he almost let go. Because this was written by the pseudo-Manchu Qing emperor, Aisin Jue Luo Fulin himself. From the exposed thread, it can be seen that it seemed that only a small part of it was taken, and the content was some of the matters about North Korea recalled by Fulin. After Li Bai showed his unfaithfulness, Li Kai wrote a letter to ask the Manchu Qing emperor to punish Li Bai, and Li Kai exposed Li Bai's hiding Zhu Ming's remnants. Chen Wenchuan's name also appeared on it. Li Kai also volunteered to capture and kill the former Ming survivors to make contributions to the Qing Dynasty. Chen Wenchuan looked at the materials carefully, especially looking for a few of the keywords carefully. There was no difference. You should know that he had seen the handwritten books of the Qing emperor in Li Bai in the past. By comparing the few words, he could tell the truth and falsehood, but no matter how he distinguished it, he could not tell the false.

Chen Wenchuan was unwilling to accept it, so he searched it out and found the materials written by Fulun, the former Manchu Minister of Rites and Minister Hurha. These two people were the ones he was most familiar with. In the past, the central part of the Qing Dynasty was responsible for the North Korean side, but the handwriting of the materials showed that they were indeed written by two people, and it was absolutely impossible to be wrong.

"Sir, who wrote these?"

Li Decan said: "Sir, don't think this was forged by me. These are all materials written by the powerful and nobles of the Qing Dynasty. The Holy Emperor restored the capital, but none of them escaped and were questioned by the Celestial Empire. At this moment, they are still renovated in the Changping War Criminal Management Office. One of their main tasks of transformation is to write down the crimes they committed. This time, this time, I asked someone to send them the selection of North Korea as evidence. Why, Mr. Chen, are these fake, or do you think these cannot be used as evidence?"

"No, no, no, these." Chen Wenchuan could no longer speak.

Li Decan said: "If the sir still has doubts, I can report to the emperor and bring these war criminals to North Korea to testify. Not to mention Hurha and Fulun, even Fulin can bring them."

"No need, no need, I understand, I understand." Chen Wenchuan said aloud. He finally understood that Li Decan had too many resources in his hands. He held all the powerful people in the Qing Dynasty in his hands. He would punish whoever he wanted to punish. Although he insisted that Li Bai and others were not guilty, which one was clean.

As he said that, Chen Wenchuan put down the manuscript materials and stood up. Li Decan asked, "What's wrong with Mr. Chen?"

"I am over 70 years old and have no energy. Please let the President say hello and let me go back and rest. I will not participate in the matter here anymore." Chen Wenchuan whispered.

Li Decan smiled and nodded: "Come here, prepare the car, and use my official car to take the old man home to rest."

When Chen Wenchuan left, Li Decan called Jin Shilong and said, "Look for a few clever people, follow him, see where he went and what he did, come back to report to my official. Remember, you should not do anything rashly without my official's order."
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