As for the Minister of Justice, after returning to the Ministry of Justice, he wrote a confession in his own handwriting and then went to the Ministry of Justice prison.

In the cell, the eldest prince, Duke Mao and Duke Mao's son were locked up together.

The eldest prince of the emperor, who once held a noble status, and the arrogant uncle of the emperor, had been locked up for a few days and were no longer as ostentatious as before.

But to say that they are very scared is not the case. After all, they are protected by the Queen Mother. The Queen Mother is the Emperor's biological mother. Even if the Emperor is angry with the Queen Mother, he cannot ignore the Queen Mother's life and death and kill them all. The most he can do is confiscate their properties and even exile them.

But even though they knew their lives were not in danger, the eldest prince and Duke Mao had regretted deeply these days. If they had listened to the Queen Mother when she asked them to give up the fight for the crown prince position, how could they have ended up like this?

Unfortunately, it's too late to regret.

The prince of Maoguo was almost bored to death. He pulled at the dry straw and asked, "When will the queen mother rescue us?"

This is also what Duke Mao wanted to know. After paying a lot of silver, he found out that the Queen Mother was imprisoned because of them. She was so angry that she fainted, vomited blood, and became blind.

They turned a deaf ear to the Queen Mother's words. Given the Queen Mother's temper, she would not rescue them until she calmed down.

I hope the Queen Mother will calm down soon and her eyesight will recover soon.

Duke Mao kept praying in his heart, and then the sound of footsteps was heard.

Duke Mao glanced over and saw the Minister of Justice coming towards him, followed by the Vice Minister of Justice and a yamen runner. The yamen runner was holding a tray with writing brushes, ink, paper and inkstone on it.

Seeing the Minister of Justice, Duke Mao looked unkind, "What is Minister Xu doing here?!"

The Minister of Justice said, "I am here to ask Lord Mao to plead guilty and sign the name of the guilty party."

Duke Mao's eyes changed, and he felt uneasy for no reason. "Confess and sign a pledge? The emperor has already put us all in jail, is there any need for us to confess and sign a pledge?!"

The Minister of Justice said, "Duke Mao has forgotten that he and Queen Wei teamed up to murder Concubine Chen, right?"

Mao Guogong's heart instantly sank to the bottom, "I don't know what you are talking about?!"

He really won't cry until he sees the coffin. The Minister of Justice didn't waste any words. He waved his hand, and the jailer opened the cell door and the runner brought in the confession.

The Minister of Justice said, "Doesn't Duke Mao want to know who used Queen Wei to get rid of Concubine Chen?"

Duke Mao blurted out, "Who is it?!"

As soon as these words came out, Prince Mao wanted to rush over and cover his stupid father's mouth.

The Minister of Justice was setting a trap in his words, and my father fell into it!

The Minister of Justice's eyes fell on the confession on the tray. Duke Mao walked over, picked up the confession, and read it from beginning to end.

After just a few glances, Duke Mao's hand holding the confession began to tremble with anger.

The deposed Queen of Song!

It was actually the deposed Queen Song who asked Concubine Mei to instigate Queen Wei to plot against Concubine Chen!

Even the death of Queen Wei was caused by the deposed Queen Song!

They were kept in the dark and only found out today!

"Vicious woman!"

Duke Maoguo was so angry that his lips turned purple.

The assistant minister of the Ministry of Justice was speechless after hearing this. The deposed Queen Song was indeed vicious enough and she had mastered the strategy of killing two birds with one stone. But wasn't Duke Mao himself cruel? If he and Queen Wei had no intention of harming Concubine Chen, how could Concubine Mei have instigated them?

Duke Mao and the eldest prince wanted to cut the deposed Queen Song into pieces.

Especially the eldest prince. To this day, the deposed Queen Song used his mother to kill her and even threatened him with this matter, causing him to have a close call with death!

Duke Mao clenched his hands tightly, and the confession was almost torn to pieces in his hands. The Minister of Justice said, "You can sign it now."

Duke Mao was so angry that he completely forgot what consequences the exposure of this matter would bring to him and the entire Duke Mao's Mansion. He looked panicked and said, "Slander! This is slandering me and the late queen!"

He tore the confession to pieces.

It seems that without the confession, the charge is gone.

The Minister of Justice has seen many cases of people refusing to plead guilty.

His expression remained calm as he said, "The Emperor heard the confession of the deposed Queen Song with his own ears. I am not sending you a confession to really ask you, Duke Mao, to plead guilty and sign it. It's just that Prince Ling wants you to die knowingly."

Duke Mao turned pale, took two steps back, and said in a trembling voice, "No! The Queen Mother will not let the Emperor execute me!"

The Minister of Justice said nothing.

Needless to say, Duke Mao knew very well whether the Queen Mother could save him.

Even if the Queen Mother threatens to die, if the Emperor spares Duke Mao's life, there is still Prince Ling.

The hatred of killing one's mother is irreconcilable.

Can Prince Ling allow Duke Mao to live in this world?

When Concubine Chen got into trouble, Prince Ling was demoted to guard the imperial mausoleum, where he nearly died of illness and then fell off a cliff and broke both legs. He suffered a lot. The Emperor already felt guilty towards Prince Ling, so would he let Prince Ling down again because of the partiality and protection of the Queen Mother?

At the morning court the next day, the crimes of Queen Wei and Duke Mao were made public.

The whole court was in an uproar, both civil and military.

Although Empress Wei was dead, the Emperor did not forgive her for the crime of being instigated to murder Concubine Chen. He deposed Empress Wei, who had been dead for almost seven years, and moved her out of the imperial mausoleum and buried her elsewhere.

As for the entire Maoguo Mansion, all of them were executed three days later.

There was also Mei Fei's maiden family, the Suchang Earl's Mansion, whose property was confiscated and the entire clan was exterminated.

Well, the Suchang Marquis’s Mansion cannot be considered as genocide.

Xie Jingyan has always been a man who repays favors. Although the third young master of the Suchang Marquis's Mansion wants to die with the Suchang Marquis's Mansion, the case can be solved within one day. The clues provided by the third young master of the Suchang Marquis's Mansion are crucial. If it weren't for that deadly short needle, Xie Jingyan didn't know when he would be able to string all the clues together.

When the emperor ordered the execution of all members of the Suchang Marquis's Mansion, Xie Jingyan stood up to plead for the third young master of the Suchang Marquis's Mansion, Mei San.

Xie Jingyan asked the emperor to spare the life of the third young master Mei. How could the emperor not agree?

The emperor gave the task of confiscating the residence of the Earl of Suchang to the Prince of Yeonping and others.

Earl Suchang was detained in the Council Hall. The Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice led people to the Earl Suchang's mansion to arrest him, while the Prince of Yeonping and Tang Ze and others went to search his house.

The Suchang Marquis's mansion was in chaos.

Young Master Mei San stood there, watching the yamen runners coming in and out, and the servants in the mansion fleeing in panic, but he just stood there and no one paid any attention to him.

All the other people in Suchangbo's mansion were arrested, but no one arrested him.

The Third Master Mei, who was waiting to be caught, looked at the Prince of Yanping and said, "Can't you see me?"

Prince Yanping, "..."

When he saw the Third Young Master Mei, the Prince of Yanping felt that the wish he made with Princess Ling was quite effective.

The other day Young Master Mei wanted all his nine clans to be executed, and today he got his wish.

The Prince of Yanping said, "Prince Ling pleads for you, the Emperor will spare your life, you can go now."

Young Master Mei San was stunned.

Although he had no feelings towards the Suchang Marquis' Mansion, he had the blood of the Suchang Marquis' Mansion flowing in his veins. The Suchang Marquis' Mansion participated in the murder of Concubine Chen, so how could Prince Ling spare his life?

Tears glistened in the eyes of the Third Young Master Mei.

He lifted his feet and walked away.

The Prince of Yanping felt a headache. He had never seen such stupid people. Didn’t they know that they were Prince Ling’s men?

Prince Ling gave him a chance to live, but couldn't he just make his own life better?

The Prince of Yanping said, "You can take all your things with you."

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