Shan Tao rode a horse and looked at the city wall of Chang'an City
Finally the task was completed.
He was responsible for escorting the prisoners from Luoyang City to Chang'an for trial. This task was completed.
All the prison cars entered Chang'an through Mingde Gate. This gate is the southernmost city gate of Chang'an and the largest city gate in Chang'an.
This city gate faces Zhuque Street. The city gate is tall and grand, but there are still traces of fire on the city gate that have not been repaired in time.
This city gate is not open on weekdays. It will only be opened when major events occur, such as the emperor leaving the palace or a general who has made great achievements returning to Chang'an.
Another player responsible for escorting prisoners, Jia Ying, said:
"This is the Arc de Triomphe of our Tang Dynasty. Oh no, the Arc de Triomphe is the Mingde Gate of our Tang Dynasty. We are really blessed to be able to enter Chang'an City through this gate."
Shan Tao also raised his head and looked at the tall city gate. Whether it is ancient or modern, such a city gate is an extremely rare and huge building.
The city gate of Mingde Gate requires a special mechanism and uses five cows as power to open it.
Being able to enter Chang'an City through this city gate is indeed a special experience.
Zhuque Street is a wide street paved with stone bricks. Chang'an officials deliberately cleared the pedestrians on Zhuque Street. People gathered on both sides of Zhuque Street and curiously looked at the prisoners in the carriages.
Naturally, the person imprisoned in the first prison car was Da Xixun, the puppet prime minister of Yan.
Starting from Da Xixun, every puppet Yan official in the prison car received a "warm" welcome from the citizens of Chang'an.
The onlookers threw a large amount of rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs, causing the former prime minister to curl up in the prison car with his head in his hands.
The scene was very tragic. Seeing such "enthusiastic" people in Chang'an, Shan Tao and Jia Ying were so frightened that they pinched their noses and hid aside.
Scorned by the people along the way, the prison car moved forward along Zhuque Street and finally arrived in front of the city gate of Nanya.
Nanya was the place where hundreds of officials worked, and almost all important institutions of the Tang Dynasty were located here.
Entering Nanya from Zhuque Gate, you have already entered the scope of the imperial city.
Although the walls of the Imperial City are not as tall as those of Chang'an City, they are still four or five meters high, and garrison soldiers can also be seen on the walls.
From here on, there were no more people watching, but Da Xixun huddled even more.
Officials from various government offices in Nanya also came out of the government offices and stood on the roadside looking at Da Xixun in the prison car.
Among them were many faces that were familiar to Da Xixun. These officials looked at the traitors who pretended to be Yan with stern eyes, their eyes full of contempt.
Wang Wei even curled up into a ball. This scholar-bureaucrat with a reputation as a poet only regretted that An Lushan did not kill him directly.
Now feeling the piercing gaze of his former colleagues, Wang Wei shed two lines of tears.
Compared to Wang Wei's pain, Da Xixun was even more frightened.
The consequence of this political speculation was that all 21 members of Da Xixun's family were involved in the rebellion.
Da Xixun's son Da Xizhi was also put into a prison car and sent to Chang'an City. However, Da Xizhi's official position was relatively small and he was not paraded through the streets.
Chen Xilie, the puppet prime minister of Yan who was previously arrested in Chang'an, was also thrown into the imperial prison of Dali Temple, waiting for the trial of the three law divisions.
This was not the only thing Da Xixun was afraid of. When he surrendered to the puppet Yan, he led his men to kill many family members of the imperial ministers, and even many members of the Li Tang clan.
Now that An Qingxu has run back to Hedong, he will have to bear this blood debt on his head.
Da Xixun was just annoyed as to why he didn't escape Luoyang City earlier.
When the prison car turned a corner, the escorting convoy stopped in front of a magnificent government office.
Dali Temple.
Shan Tao looked up at the plaque. Dali Temple was the highest judicial institution of the Tang Dynasty, the Supreme Court of the Tang Dynasty.
All controversial and major judicial issues will be reported to Dali Temple for review.
Before the Anshi Rebellion, all files of death row prisoners had to be sent to Dali Temple for approval before they could be executed.
In the era of the Tang Dynasty, the Ministry of Punishment was a new institution inherited from the Sui Dynasty.
However, Dali Temple had already been established during the Qin and Han Dynasties, so Dali Temple is more senior in terms of qualifications.
The Minister of Dali Temple is only one of the Nine Qings. Although his authority is not as good as that of the Minister of Punishment, the power of Dali Temple is higher than that of the Minister of Punishment.
This is the power check and balance technique of the Tang Dynasty.
The Ministry of Punishment, as a legislative body, has the power to amend laws and formulate legal provisions.
At the same time, the Ministry of Punishment will also review the cases heard by Dali Temple, and the two have the function of mutual supervision.
When encountering major cases, the emperor would also issue an order to have Dali Temple, the Ministry of Punishment and the Yushitai jointly try the case.
This time, the trial related to the puppet Yan rebel official was jointly tried by Li Xian, the minister of Dali Temple, Li Jin, the minister of punishment, and Cui Qi, the newly appointed censor Zhongcheng.
Shan Tao handed over the prisoners to the officials of Dali Temple. The officials of Dali Temple took the inventory and checked the prisoners' appearance and characteristics one by one.
After confirming that it is correct, sign and stamp the handed over documents.
"Send the prisoner to prison!"
The handover was finally completed, and Shan Tao left Dali Temple with a group of people.
He said to Jia Ying beside him: "It's so depressing. It's so uncomfortable to work in Dali Temple!"
Jia Ying also said: "Dali Temple is a serious place. Brother Shan, how do you think the prisoners we send will be sentenced?"
Shan Tao said: "What else can I do? I'll definitely kill them. These are all thieves!"
"Isn't that Wang Wei also in there? Could it be that he was also killed?"
Shan Tao rubbed his head and said, "I don't know about my history, so I don't know about it, but it looks like my skin will peel off even if I don't die."
However, at this time, in the Yamen of Dali Temple, a fierce conflict broke out between Li Xian, the minister of Dali Temple, and Cui Qi, the imperial censor Zhongcheng, over how to judge the case.
Cui Qi's attitude was very firm. He said with emotion: "These two ministers who surrendered to the enemy should naturally be executed!"
Cui Qi was originally the Minister of Household Affairs, but because he was good at figuring out the superior's intentions, he was transferred to the position of Yushi Zhongcheng.
The original censor, Yan Zhenqing, was renamed Minister of Rites because he spoke out and gave too many advices.
Although the Minister of Household Affairs, the Minister of Rites and the Minister of Censor Zhongcheng are all of the same fourth rank, their powers are not the same.
The censor Zhongcheng, who is responsible for supervising all officials and can admonish the king, is the most valuable.
Not long after Cui Qi took office, he naturally understood Li Heng's idea of punishing these rebellious ministers and proposed such a radical plan.
Li Xian, the minister of Dali Temple, was the minister of Dali Temple during the emperor's period. As a professional judicial official who was proficient in Tang law, he put forward his own opinions.
"Thieves are trapped in two capitals, the emperor is patrolling south, and people are escaping. These rebels are executed indiscriminately, which goes against the way of forgiveness taught by the saints."
Hearing what Li Xian, the minister of Dali Temple, said, Cui Qi immediately said excitedly: "Thieves and Tang Dynasties cannot stand together! Shouldn't these traitors be put to death for their rebellion?"
Li Xian, the minister of Dali Temple, did not give in. He insisted on saying what he meant:
"The emperor is patrolling the south, people have to escape!"
The three people present all understood what Li Xian meant.
It was the emperor, the emperor, who escaped first. His escape from Chang'an violated the contract between the emperor and his ministers. It was also a sinless act for the ministers to find a way out in this situation.
Confucianism during the Sui and Tang Dynasties had not yet developed to the point where monarchy was supreme like that of later Song Confucians.
In this kind of contract between monarch and minister, the ministers have no unlimited responsibility to the monarch. For many officials such as Wang Wei, it was the emperor who abandoned all the officials and ministers and fled Chang'an first, so they fell into the hands of the enemy and had to become thieves. Therefore, Li Xian felt guilty
Not with them.
Cui Qi pointed at Li Xian and said, "Do you still want to punish the emperor for his crimes? Do you want the emperor to come to Dali Temple for trial?"
Li Xian also blushed and said: "Now that Hebei is not at peace, there are still many rebellious officials on the rebel side. Only by handling them with gentle treatment can they return to the imperial court. If we kill them all, then these people will follow the puppet Yan imperial court and resist to the end.
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Seeing that the smell of gunpowder between the two sides was getting stronger and stronger, Li Jin, the Minister of Punishment, quickly smoothed things over and said:
"Li Siqing, Cui Zhongcheng, we are all working for the imperial court, so stop arguing."
"I would say it is better to submit it to His Majesty's Holy Judgment."
Cui Qi and Li Xian looked at each other and agreed with Li Jin's method. It was the safest way to hand it over to the Emperor's Holy Judgment.
After Shan Tao and Jia Ying sent off the prisoners, the errand was successfully completed.
After the experience of escorting prisoners was recorded, Shan Tao and Jia Ying received a new task and went to the Ministry of War to hand over errands.
The Ministry of War was also in the Imperial City of Nanya. After handing over the customs defense and the order talisman, Lu Shang, a member of the Ministry of War, said to Shan Tao:
"Commander Shan Brigade, the Ministry of War now has regulations. You can transfer to Chang'an as a general to make up for the vacancies in Chang'an City."
Shan Tao and Jia Ying looked at each other. Their positions were in the Suiyang Army. After the escort, they had to return to Luoyang and return to Zhang Xun's command.
But after hearing what the military official said, Shan Tao and Jia Ying looked at each other, and Shan Tao asked:
"I wonder what arrangements the Ministry of War has for our brothers?"
Lu Yuanwailang said with a smile: "Now that Chang'an has just been recovered, many local ruffians are still fishing in the troubled waters of Chang'an City. Jing Zhaoyin found Lu Shilang of our Ministry of War, hoping to select some capable generals from the army to help maintain peace and order in Chang'an."
"According to the previous rules, every lifang in Chang'an has a street patrol shop, and three patrol shops have a street patrol envoy. The military resources and merits of a single brigade commander are enough to serve as a street patrol envoy."
Now Shan Tao also hesitated.
Those who managed public security in Chang'an City of the Tang Dynasty were called bad guys, and the yamen where they worked were called patrol shops.
Patrolling the streets means patrolling the streets, which is equivalent to the police patrolling in later generations.
The street patrol shop is equivalent to the police station, and a patrol officer who manages three street patrol shops is equivalent to the branch director in charge of three police stations.
This is already a good position, and Shan Tao is a little excited.