Chapter 74 Retire
In fact, Li Longji concealed something from Pei Min, of course it was not because of distrust, but because he could not say it.
In Li Longji's eyes, Pei Min has always been a straight minister.
He is the kind of straight minister who dares to speak out for justice and morality, not a caring jester like Gao Lishi.
This is not only what Li Longji admires Pei Min, but also one of the reasons why he is not as good as Gao Lishi.
Pei Min has his own bottom line principle, but Gao Lishi does not.
As long as it is required by Li Longji, even if it is not in line with the management and the law, Gao Lishi will do it for Li Longji.
Pei Min doesn't, it really hurts the overall situation, and he will speak out without any scruples.
Li Longji would not put himself in a dilemma, so he did not tell Pei Min about the matters of Queen Wang, Concubine Wu and Monk Mingwu.
However, Li Xian knew about these things.
Although Li Xian did not obey Li Longji like Gao Lishi, as his elder brother, he could tolerate his younger brother's mistakes.
Li Longji also told him about Wu Jieyu.
Li Xian had no choice but to help him hide this matter from his younger brother's infatuation.
Now that I heard Pei Min explain it in detail, Li Xian gradually had a thought in his mind:
Because Zhan Peng, Cui Cheng and Cui Hong targeted Qingyu Alliance, but Qingyu Alliance was protected by Pei Min. Even if he was not in Chang'an, not many people were willing to provoke him.
So the Cui family father and son deliberately fabricated the monk Mingwu, and took advantage of Li Longji's feelings for Wu Jieyu, and used Li Longji's hands to deal with the Qingyu League.
No matter how great Pei Min's influence in Chang'an, it is not as great as the emperor.
Li Longji wants to deal with a gang in the world, who dares to stop him?
Originally, it was a seamless plan to borrow Li Longji's hand to deal with the Qingyu Alliance, but because of Fengshan, Pei Min came to Chang'an and had a new change.
In a temporary emergency, Cui Cheng and Cui Hong could only point the finger at Pei Min.
Pei Min is much more difficult to deal with than the Qingyu Alliance. Only by taking him down and punishing him in a major case of treason.
They began to set up a plan for Pei Min.
But because the Qingyu Alliance saved Zhan Peng and grasped the evidence of Cui Cheng and Cui Hong.
Time is tight and they cannot allow them to plan carefully, so they are eager to jump over the wall and stage such a farce with clumsy techniques.
Li Xian said: "I thought there should be some things about witchcraft in Pei's mansion. When the Duke of the Kingdom went back, he searched every part of the mansion. Cui Cheng and Cui Hong dared to be sure that the Duke of the Kingdom colluded with the wizard and rebelled, he must have been prepared. But they did not expect that the Duke of the Kingdom was unexpectedly out of the palace, which resulted in a failure and the evidence was useless."
Pei Min's face changed and he immediately responded: "I was negligent. After returning to the house, he immediately investigated everything in the house."
In fact, he had already known that someone had sneaked into Pei's mansion and hid the tung puppet engraved with Li Longji's birth date behind the archway of Jiange's "Unparalleled in the World".
He just pretended not to know, so as not to be too popular and that everything would be under his control.
This is also his cleverness. His words are true and false.
Such lies are the hardest to guess. Only such rhetoric can convince Li Xian and Gao Lishi and satisfy Li Longji.
At the same time, it also clearly identified the suspicion of conspiring with Queen Wang, and described the act of mobilizing the Qingyu League as saving Zhan Peng, rather than Monk Mingwu.
Monk Mingwu is classified as a character that Cui Cheng, Cui Hong, who was fictional in order to frame Pei Min and Qingyu Alliance from the beginning.
In this way, both Pei Min and Qingyu Alliance have separated their relationship and have completely become victims.
As for Cui Cheng and Cui Hong, who knew the truth, they had already been marked as ruthless ministers and had the intention to destroy the relationship between Li Longji and Pei Min, no one would believe their words.
The more you say, the more miserable the outcome.
If they were led to the incident of collusion with Wu Jieyu, it would be like adding fuel to Li Longji's head and dying faster.
Then Zhan Peng also said everything he was investigating, of course, to tell the truth.
When the inner guard was passed to Princess Taiping, there had been a qualitative change.
With her personal charm, Princess Taiping collected and recruited a group of subordinates who were loyal to her.
Cui Xi was able to command them back then because of the rights given by Princess Taiping, and they were loyal to Princess Taiping from beginning to end.
This group of people opposed Li Longji and regarded Li Longji as their enemy.
Cui Cheng and Cui Hong were not enough to order these people. They could only exchange their allegiance under the banner of avenging Princess Taiping.
In other words, Qinglong in the dark is a rebellious organization that is anti-Li Longji, and this organization involves members of the five surnames.
Li Xianzhong understood why Pei Min smiled bitterly and said that he would rather gain a little less.
The five families have no intention of treason, but Qinglong is a rebellious organization, and the core members of the action are all against Li Longji.
Jumping into the Yellow River, the five families of surnames couldn't wash away all this.
Some clues were found in response to the information provided by Zhan Peng and the Qingyu League.
Li Xian and Pei Min locked in Qinglong’s base camp, Qinglong Temple.
The news of Cui Cheng and Cui Hong being detained was not promoted, and only a few people escaped after learning more about it.
Most of them fell into the net and became prisoners under the ranks.
After investigating along the way, the four families of five surnames were involved.
Some families with the five surnames were also bewitched and participated.
Pei Min was initially worried that the Pei family would get involved, but unexpectedly found that it was indeed the Pei family, but because he forced the Pei family to change their appearance.
The Pei family changed its flag and changed its banner, forming a family group dominated by Lady Huayang.
The Cui family did not trust the new head of the Pei family enough, and the original agreement was invalidated and did not include it. They planned to investigate and make a decision.
However, Pei Min repeatedly committed acts that harmed the interests of the aristocratic family.
The aristocratic races involved unanimously agreed not to take the Pei family to play, which made the Pei family escape by chance.
Five surnames family!
Cui, Lu, Li, and Zheng were all among them, and as for Wang, they were excluded.
Because the influence of the Wang family had declined during the Northern Wei Dynasty, Wu Zetian hated the Wang family because of the relationship between Queen Wang and became even more declining. He called the Wang family in Taiyuan "Yuo Wang Family".
The so-called "光克" is made of silver and gold jewelry. It is said that the Wang family has only a false reputation, just like gilding, and it is intentionally not mixed with it.
Pei Min is only responsible for investigation and punishment, but only asks half a question.
Li Longji did not take the aristocratic family with great loss seriously, but he could not tolerate them doing so.
With the conclusive evidence, the Censorate, the Ministry of Justice, and Dali Temple also participated, and a bloody storm arose.
At the same time, Li Longji did not know too much about Qinglong's secrets, nor did he want to add fuel to the trouble of Wu Jieyu's affairs, completely wiped out the way for Wu Jieyu to leave the cold palace, and ordered people to execute Cui Cheng and Cui Hong.
As for the tragic Lu Qi, Pei Min didn't want him to talk nonsense, so he asked for Dian Gu from Li Lao and turned him into a madman because he was the planner and was sentenced to death.
With the death of Cui Cheng, Cui Hong and Lu Qi.
Pei Min and Qingyu Alliance also cleared of suspicion. Neither monk Mingwu nor wizard masters had anything to do with them.
Pei Min retired successfully.
Chapter completed!