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"After being interrogated by the minister, Zhang Quan confessed that Jing Min had indeed sheltered the Sogdian merchant Shi Dayou, and that the treasures were given to Jing Min by Shi Dayou in order to save his life. He also issued a special customs clearance document for Shi Dayou, and sent troops to escort Shi Dayou there. Western Regions!"

Zhao Dong was furious: "Jing Min dared to lie to Gu. If he was only greedy for money, it would be fine, but he dared to do such a thing. He deserves death!"

At this time, Prince Xima Liu Xian hurried in from the outside to salute: "Your Highness, I have an old acquaintance in the Ministry of Punishment. Just now, I met this person when I was out on business. The two of us had a few drinks in a restaurant. While eating, we This person told the minister the news that Ye Jun, the left servant of the Criminal Department, submitted Jing Min's case to the imperial court, and His Majesty ordered the Criminal Department to send someone to re-investigate. The person in charge of the investigation was Huang Dezhong, the head of the Criminal Department. It is said that he brought Jing Min to trial again. During the interrogation, Jing Min was asked if anyone else was involved in this matter, and he deliberately alluded to His Highness when asked!"

The complexion of the people present changed, and Chen Fang, the crown prince, stood up immediately and said: "Your Highness, Huang Dezhong is deliberately targeting His Highness. If Jing Min can't stand the torture and tortures, and His Highness is also implicated in the confession, then something bad will happen!"

Zhao Dong frowned deeply. This matter seemed to be developing in an uncontrollable direction. Is it because of man-made reasons or the current situation?

He thought for a while, and told Zhan Shiningren: "Go and ask Shao Fu to come over!"

"promise!"

Soon, Prince Shaofu Zhang Wei came to the meeting hall.

"Chen Zhang Wei has met His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"

Zhao Dong hurriedly saluted: "I have seen you, Shao Fu, please take a seat, Shao Fu! Come, let's serve tea!"

"Thank you, Your Highness!"

After Zhang Wei sat down, Zhao Dong told about Jing Min.

After Zhang Wei heard this, he said: "The old minister has also heard about the matter of Tianshui prefect Jing Min. Your Highness invited the old minister to come here?"

Zhao Dong said: "Young Fu, judging from the current situation, how should Gu deal with it, please give me some advice!"

Zhang Wei stroked his beard, thought for a moment, and said, "Your Highness, the old minister thinks that at this time, His Highness should remain unchanged to cope with all changes, and remember not to act rashly! You must know that the crown prince is the heir of the country, and everyone in the court, and even the whole world, is in charge." Pay attention to His Highness's every move. If His Highness listens to the wind and rain at this time, it will leave His Majesty with a restless and reckless impression. Even if someone wants to target and frame His Highness, they must show real evidence, even Jing Min's confession His Highness was implicated in the crime, so what? Can some people convict His Highness just based on his one-sided words?"

The next prince Xima Liu Xian said: "Young Fu, what if we add the confession of the Sogdian merchant Shi Dayou? The Imperial City Division is under the control of His Highness the King of Shu, and there are also people from the King of Shu in the Ministry of Punishment. Now anyone who has the right to intervene in this case They are all from the King of Shu, and His Highness can't get involved at all, and they can completely prove the evidence!"

Zhang Wei got up and said to Zhao Dong: "Your Highness, we all know what the purpose of His Majesty's decree to expel the Sogdian merchants is. It would be too arbitrary to say that an official has a relationship with the Sogdian merchants. We have to admit that many Sogdian merchants make friends with ministers and officials in order to gain some political support. This is already normal. Even if His Highness has some relationship with Sogdian merchants, so what? Can it be determined that His Highness is collaborating with the enemy? Suspicion, isn’t this too ridiculous? It should be noted that His Highness is the crown prince, and if there is no accident, he will inherit the general rule in the future. Is it necessary for His Highness to gain more support through contact with the enemy country?”

"Also, even if Jing Min confessed that His Highness had disobeyed the Holy Order and sheltered Sogdian merchants, and even Sogdian merchant Shi Dayou also confessed that His Highness had sheltered him, can their confessions prove that His Highness really did? Unless they I got real evidence from His Highness, for example, in the letter His Highness wrote to Jing Min, he was asked to help Sogdian merchants, only such solid evidence can pose a threat to His Highness, and any confessions made by other people are false!"

"Your Highness, you are the crown prince of the country. As long as you do not commit the crimes of treason, conspiracy to usurp the throne, and disobedience, no one can really threaten your crown prince status. Even your majesty must not easily depose your crown prince position. Wu will never agree! Therefore, you don’t have to worry, just wait and see how the situation develops, and then you will make a move, and your actions at this time will make you feel guilty, and may also make His Majesty suspect that you are really involved in this case!”

After Zhao Dong listened to it, he felt enlightened, stood up and said to Zhang Wei: "Young Fu's words really made Gu Mao suddenly enlightened, please ask Shao Fu to have dinner here, Gu also ask a lot of advice! Come on, tell the queen The chef prepares the banquet, so I have to drink with the young master!"

Zhang Wei hurriedly said: "His Royal Highness has offended the old minister, it is the duty of the old minister to solve His Highness's confusion!"

At this time, in the prison, Jing Min, the former prefect of Tianshui County, was tied to a cross, and his body had been beaten to a bloody mess.

Huang Dezhong, head of the criminal department, said to the torturers next to him, "Pour cold water on him to wake him up!"

"promise!"

A basin of cold water poured down, and Jing Min, who had already passed out, slowly opened his eyes again. At this moment, his face was bruised and purple, one eye was swollen high, and his hair was draped like weeds.

Huang Dezhong walked up to Jing Min and said coldly: "I will ask you again, who ordered you to disobey the holy order and protect the Sogdian businessman Shi Dayou?"

Chapter 1098

Jing Min looked at Huang Dezhong weakly, "Who do you think I was ordered by?"

"Although I know who it is, isn't this your opportunity to make meritorious service? As long as you say it, it means that you are sincerely repentant. This officer can specifically state in the interrogation record that you actively cooperated with this officer's investigation. The performance of meritorious service, according to your current crime, if you are judged by His Majesty, you will definitely punish the three clans, but you have performed meritorious service and have a heart of repentance. I can plead with His Majesty to kill you alone and let your whole family go. !"

Jing Min's eyelids twitched, and his heart moved. If he could keep his old parents, wife and children, and kill him alone, what other choice did he have?Huang Dezhong's intention was obvious, that he wanted him to implicate the prince in this matter.

"If I say that the prince ordered it, will your lord believe me?"

Huang Dezhong showed admiration when he heard the words, "It doesn't matter whether I believe it or not, the important thing is that you have to convince His Majesty. You have to let His Majesty know that you were persecuted by the prince. Enhe, an official who has been used by the court for many years, if you were not persecuted by others, how could you defy the holy order and protect Sogdian merchants? Prefect Jing, don’t worry, think about it carefully?”

"I"

"Okay, I will give you one night to think about it. When I come back tomorrow morning, I hope you have already made a decision!"

After Huang Dezhong left, Jing Min was sent back to the cell. He curled up in the corner of the cell, his body ached, but his mind was clear.

He is very clear about what he has done himself. For some reason, the interrogation by the Imperial City Division stopped when he provided shelter for the Sogdian businessman Shi Dayou. This interrogation carried out a verdict, which was the result he most hoped to see. The crime was limited to him alone and did not harm his family. However, something went wrong during the review by the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and the nature of the case changed. Shi Shi expanded his crime to colluding with the Sogdians and collaborating with the enemy country. This crime is completely different. It is to kill the three tribes.

What's going on in the middle?It had happened for so many days, and he hadn't fully figured it out yet, but today he figured out Huang Dezhong's purpose, which was to implicate the prince in this case. There was obviously a big shot behind Huang Dezhong, otherwise only Huang Dezhong, a small How dare the head of the criminal department touch the prince?Isn't this hitting a stone with an egg and overestimating one's own strength?

He sorted out the things that happened these days one by one, and finally got some clues. This matter must be related to the King of Shu, but if the King of Shu wants to deal with the prince, some things are too obvious.

For example, the Huangcheng Division did not do much in this case, which means that there is no silver 300 taels here, and it seems to be deliberately avoiding it. Does this prove that the King of Shu has nothing to do with this case?

However, Huang Dezhong, who presided over Jing Min, had just walked out of the sky prison, and a man who looked like a servant came over to salute and asked, "May I ask if you are the head of the criminal department, Mr. Huang?"

Huang Dezhong nodded with a straight face: "I am Huang Dezhong, who are you?"

"Master Huang, His Royal Highness the King of Shu welcomes you!"

Huang Dezhong immediately changed his face, and said: "Then please ask the little brother to lead the way!"

During this period of time, there have been court officials standing on the side of the King of Shu, and they are quite close to the King of Shu, Zhao Ping. This Huang Dezhong is one of them. He wants to gain Zhao Ping's trust. On the one hand, he has to stand in line and has to do so; on the other hand, He wanted to give Zhao Ping a decent meeting gift, and it happened that Jing Min's case was to be re-investigated by him. He felt that this was an opportunity to show his loyalty to Zhao Ping, so he appeared in the interrogation room just now. scene.

Who is Zhao Ping?He is the prince, the king of Shu, and the chief officer of the Imperial City Department. In recent years, he has not been the chief officer of the Imperial City Department for nothing. He doesn't know how many eyes and ears he has in this world. Been watching closely since the beginning.

Huang Dezhong came to the lobby under the guidance of Ding of the Shu Palace. He glanced and found that besides Zhao Ping sitting on the seat directly opposite, there were several officials on both sides. Although these people's official positions were not high, they were not unknown. kid.

"Huang Dezhong, head of the Criminal Department, sees His Highness!"

Zhao Ping raised his hand and said, "Master Huang, you don't need to be polite. This king has been wondering why you haven't come these days. What are you busy with?"

Huang Dezhong immediately expressed his merits: "Your Highness, my minister is investigating a case recently. The former Tianshui prefect Jing Min colluded with the Sogdian businessman Shi Dayou, openly disobeyed the holy order, and even betrayed my interests and colluded with the enemy country!"

"Oh? You said that Jing Min disobeyed the holy order. This king knows that he has a relationship with Shi Dayou, a Sogdian businessman. He took money from him to provide shelter and disobeyed his father's will. This is why this king ordered the Imperial City Secretary The relevant personnel went to arrest him, but you said that he betrayed me to Shi Dayou and colluded with the enemy country, why didn't this king know about this? Is there any real evidence?"

Facing Zhao Ping's questioning, Huang Dezhong knew that this was a good opportunity for him to express himself, so he immediately said: "Your Highness, I am looking for evidence, and Jing Min should agree to cooperate! I know that he is the prince's man, so this As long as he confesses that he was ordered by the prince and provides relevant evidence, the prince will definitely be doomed!"

Zhao Ping was silent for a while, and said: "Huang Dezhong, I understand what you think. You are doing it for my own good. I am not a person who doesn't know what is good or bad. It's just that after the Huangcheng Secretary arrested Jing Min, This king has enough opportunities and means to make him commit the crime, but this king didn't do it, do you know why?"

At this time, Huang Dezhong realized that he might have done something bad with good intentions, and sweat broke out on his forehead, "I am stupid, please give me your Highness's advice."

Zhao Pingdao: "This king has known for a long time that Jing Min belongs to the elder brother of the prince, and the Imperial City Secretary is under the control of this king. If this king uses unconventional means against him, the ruling and opposition parties will think that this king's real purpose is to fight against him." If he followed the prince's elder brother, would the ruling and opposition parties suspect that the king would take measures such as beating him up? Even the royal father would think that the prince was deliberately instigating a fight with the prince's brother. Do you think the royal father Will you be happy with what this king has done?"

Huang Dezhong's face turned ashen immediately, "Your Highness, I don't know that Your Highness messed up the matter, I didn't know that Your Highness messed up the matter, I knelt down before finishing speaking.

Zhao Ping raised his hand calmly: "I can't completely blame you for this matter, but you must not act on your own in the future, so as not to disrupt the king's plan!"

"Yes, yes, I wanted to show myself in front of His Highness, but I never thought that I would never dare again!"

After Huang Dezhong finished speaking, he asked cautiously: "Your Highness, then, next, the minister's side"

Zhao Ping said: "Didn't you force Jing Min to cooperate with you? Go ahead!"

"Ah? This..." Huang Dezhong was a little confused.