Li Ling's sudden words made Fan Rui's smile, which had always been on his face froze, and there was a burst of applause outside the house. With the applause, one of them slowly walked into the house, looked at Li Ling with a smile, and praised: "Mr. Li is indeed amazing, Wei admires it."

While speaking, he glanced at Fan Rui and the clerk again. The two of them immediately got up as if they were pardoned, half-beared and quickly retreated, leaving the room for him and Li Ling.

Li Ling's eyes also fell on the other party. He was a man who was a few years older than him, a little thin and handsome. But this is such a person, in recent years, it has made the officials in the capital feel scared because he is Wei Tianying, the Si Cheng, who is now in the Imperial City Department, who is comparable to Lu Zhen’s status!

As a supervisory yamen that extends imperial power, the structure of the Imperial City Department is much simpler than that of the ordinary Beijing Department. In addition to Wei Tang, who manages all powers but often does not have much authority, the Imperial City Department Zheng Xuan and Yun have the highest status and the greatest power.

However, the nominal chief of the Imperial City Office was old and sick, and he didn't come to the yamen to take charge. So in a sense, the real people in power here were Lu Zhen and Wei Tianying, who were the Si Cheng.

As the saying goes, one mountain does not accommodate two tigers. The two powerful ministers in the Imperial City Department naturally have conflicts and frictions. As Li Ling has a deep friendship with Lu Zhen and has the special official position of Ti Si, he is naturally regarded as a natural enemy by Wei Tianying. It was only before that Li Ling had a special identity and had too many people to protect him, which made Wei Tianying dare not act rashly, but today, it is a little different.

Li Ling also realized that the other party wanted to take advantage of Lu Zhen's absence in the capital and that he was just waiting for the crime to fall into the hands of the Imperial City Department, so he thought of framing it. It was just because he had some concerns after all that he did not use torture or anything else, but asked Fan Rui to use a verbal trap to make Li Ling fall into a trap.

However, this wishful thinking did not come true after all, and Li Ling pointed out that he was the real person behind the scenes. However, Wei Tianying, who appeared, was not angry. He looked at Li Ling with a warm smile on his face: "Mr. Li, do you think there is something wrong with Fan Rui's accusation? Isn't he telling the truth? Didn't you continue to be promoted by rebellion from the Luotian Sect several times? Then Li Tong is not your biological father?"

"What you said is indeed part of the fact, but there are a few points that I have to add." Li Ling looked at him without any fear, "First, the reason why I was able to reach such a high position in just a few years is not only because I have made many contributions in various places, but the most important reason is my origin.

"This dynasty civil servant has always attached great importance to the imperial examination. I am the Tanhua appointed by Your Majesty. He is a Jinshi. Do you think this is related to what origins my father has?

"Second, you only stare at my contribution to suppressing Luotian Sect, why did you ignore other things? Take the Southwest incident as an example. Luotian Sect is just a minor problem after all. The real problem is the rebellion of the indigenous forces in Qianzhou led by the Long family. At that time, I helped Dingxi Hou eliminate such imminent rebellion. No matter how you look at it, it is much more important than dealing with some clowns of Luotian Sect.

"Also, in northern Xinjiang last year, I worked hard to transport food and grass to ensure the logistics supply of my Great Vietnamese border army to fight against the Guirong people in the north. Even Dong Gongwang Shuai praised me very much, thinking that my achievements in combat were not inferior to those of him and other generals. Although I dare not bear it, it was considered a merit after all. Why did you think that these great merits cannot be compared with my pacification of Luotian Sect?

"So, this official can have a high position today. One is thanks to Your Majesty's favor and importance, and the other is that he has made some minor contributions to the court, and then he has made some minor contributions to pacifying the Luotian Sect. I wonder if what the Chief Wei Si thought was still reasonable?"

Wei Tianying narrowed his eyes, and he had to admit that Li Ling was more difficult than he thought. Originally, as he expected, the other party would try his best to distinguish himself from the Luo Tian Sect when facing such accusations, so he would have more words to lure him one by one, making him darker and darker until he was completely convicted.

As a professional talent who specializes in convicting officials in the Imperial City Division, Wei Tianying is a real master in this area. Under his arrangement, he has some means to make Li Ling surrender. But the other party was not at ease and actually took another approach and downplayed the Luo Tian Sect's affairs, which made it really difficult for him to deal with.

But soon, he laughed again: "Mr. Li is really smart and clear-headed. But no matter how you quibble, the facts are the facts after all. I have reason to believe that you are the secret son of the Luotian sect who was placed in the court. The evidence is that you and the elder of the Luotian sect, Li Tong, are father-son relationships! And I have reason to believe that Li Tong, who was sent to the capital by you, is a scapegoat at all, in order to gain greater trust in the court and thus subvert my great power!"

Since you don’t follow my path, I will simply push you on this path. Anyway, I have the final say here now. If I say you are guilty, it is guilty!

Li Ling smiled disdainfully: "What a joke. If you really say it, why would I let people know that I and Li Tong are father-son relationships? Isn't this a way to give someone a handle? If you want to use such a saying to frame me, it's better to save yourself this worry."

"At this point, you still dare to argue. Do you really think that I, the Imperial City Department, can't deal with you? The person who came--" Seeing that he could not suppress Li Ling in words and could not convict him, Wei Tianying finally couldn't hold back and decided to use more direct means - he was scolded.

With his greeting, a dozen burly guys with a strong body and a fat face rushed over from outside, all of whom were the most ruthless people under Wei Tianying who were good at using torture. They just swept their eyes to Li Ling quickly, which made him feel a little nervous.

"Mr. Li, I will give you a last chance. If you confess everything truthfully, you will be able to avoid a lot of flesh and blood. Otherwise... you, a tender skin, will be a good thing to go through the many methods of my Imperial City Department!" Wei Tianying threatened again at this time, and his eyes swept from top to bottom along Li Ling's head, as if he was choosing where to start.

"You dare, I am a court official and have not been convicted yet..." Li Ling was also panicked, but he still insisted on calming himself. In addition to panic, he also regretted. If he had known that Lu Zhen was not here, he would not have come here. Now that he fell into Wei Tianying's hands, it would be too dangerous.

"Every official in the court brought by our Imperial City Department said this, but it's useless! Soon, you will confess your sins like them." Wei Tianying had used up his patience. With a wave of his hand, he signaled his subordinates to come forward and take Li Ling away.

At that moment, the three of them pressed towards Li Ling in a font shape. The first person even slid forward with both hands and took Li Ling's arms straight to control him completely.

Although Li Ling followed Qingxiao, Mo Yun and the others to learn some skills, most of them were just scheming to strengthen their bodies. Seeing this, although they tried their best to avoid it, their movements were still half a beat slower. They were held down by a hand, and then when the other party exerted force, they staggered forward, which was really "putting to the arms and hugging".

Seeing this, the other two met quickly. They were behind him in a flash, and they took and pressed their hands forward. With a click, Li Ling's two responses were dislocated. The sudden pain made him hum, and then his body completely lost control and was dragged out.

This is the truth. In order to put the crime on his head, he really doesn't care about anything... Li Ling was very panicked, but he was powerless. Perhaps, this is a retribution in this life. After all, he has done a lot of things in Huguang that he still convicted others without using evidence.

Just as Li Ling was disappointed and was dragged away for a while without resistance. Seeing that he was about to go to the punishment hall ahead, a person in front suddenly came towards him and directly blocked the man. Then an extremely familiar voice also rang out: "Let go!"

It was Yang Zhen! Li Ling immediately recognized the voice of the person and felt a little surprised. Why did he forget him?

Although Lu Zhen brought all his confidants and brothers under his command to leave the yamen because of official business, Yang Zhen was not among them because he had just returned from Huguang with him. The only strange thing is why he hadn't returned home at such a night, but stayed and appeared in time to save him?

"Yang Dusi, what do you mean?" The subordinates of the Imperial City Division shouted nervously when they saw him blocking the road.

Since Yang Zhen experienced the Battle of Northern Frontier with Li Ling, he was promoted to the position of Dushi in the Imperial City Division for his merits, and was only under the two of Lu Wei. This made everyone in front of him dare not be too presumptuous. After all, in terms of official positions, they are far inferior to him, let alone his own martial arts.

"I said, let go!" Yang Zhen didn't pay much attention to it. As he spoke, he had already drawn his sword and pointed at them, meaning that he would take action if he didn't let him go.

"Yang Zhen, you are so brave. Are you going to collude with the suspect, go against the court, and be against me?" Wei Tianying rushed over from behind at this time. Seeing this, he immediately raised a face and scolded him.

If someone else was changed, even if some of Lu Zhen’s confidants were here, facing Wei Tianying and he would have a desire to retreat, so he would retreat and think of another way.

But Yang Zhen did not make such a choice, and even the expression on his face did not change. He stopped talking, and suddenly stepped forward, and the person was swiftly swiftly forward.

The road is far away and the horse's power is seen, but people's hearts are seen in the dangerous places!
Chapter completed!