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The ministers' memorials were piled up on the case, and the emperor opened one and saw that it was Yushitai's impeachment of the governor of Kaifeng, and angrily smashed it heavily on the table.

It happened that Zhao Ci rushed in, the emperor thought it was the prince who came, and shouted angrily, "Let him get out!"

"Your Majesty, it is the Hanlin medical officer who is asking to see you."

The emperor raised his head and narrowed his eyes slightly, "Let him in!"

Yang Shu hurried inside in a green uniform, neatly dressed, but without a medical kit.

The emperor was reading the memorial with his head down, his face was calm, as if nothing had happened before.

Yang Shu walked forward slowly, bowed his head, "My lord, please be safe!"

Hearing Yang Shu's voice, the emperor put down the memorial in his hand, looked up at him, and said calmly, "Is it Doctor Yang?"

With a bitter face, Yang Shu kowtowed and said, "Your Majesty, minister, if you are guilty, you will be punished!"

"Oh?" The emperor immediately turned cold, looked at Yang Shu and questioned: "Qing worked so hard for my family, what is the crime?"

"Your Majesty!" Yang Shu kowtowed again, "It is an unforgivable crime for a minister to deceive the emperor. I don't ask His Majesty for forgiveness, but I only ask His Majesty not to vent his anger on the Crown Prince and hurt the harmony between father and son."

The emperor raised his brows from his seat, "What do you mean by what Qing said?" He looked at Yang Shu as if he didn't know it, "Move your anger on the prince?"

Yang Shu raised his head and saw that the emperor didn't seem to know, so he closed his eyes and tremblingly said: "The guilty minister shouldn't agree to His Royal Highness, otherwise it won't cause General Shen's injustice!"

The emperor walked up to Yang Shu and asked, "What did you promise the prince?"

"His Royal Highness asked the minister to report the case of Zhao Wangfu to the East Palace first. The minister did not dare to offend His Highness, let alone offend the government affairs hall, so the minister had no choice but to agree. Afterwards, the crown prince sent two young women to be raised in the minister's house. , in late March, Du Yuhou, who came to see the doctor, came across him... and took him away by force."

The emperor knew that the woman in Yang Shu's mansion was arranged by the prince, but he didn't know about the pulse case. "Report to the East Palace first?" , you are too daring, if you don't report it, what crime should you have!"

"The guilty minister knows that his crime is unforgivable, and I only ask His Majesty to forgive the minister's family and serve him for [-] years."

The emperor put his waist down, turned around slowly, took a deep breath, and then sighed, "Okay, that's really good, everyone has been counted, and I'm not dead yet!"

"Your Majesty, calm down!"

The emperor turned his head and approached Yang Shu, bent down, "Ciwu can still feed back, but my sons want me to die of anger, how do you ask me to calm down?"

"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness has arrived!"

The emperor looked up at the outside of the hall, straightened up immediately, turned his back, and took a deep breath, "Qing, go back, your clothes are dirty, wash them before you wear them!"

The emperor did not convict him on the spot, nor did he send someone to take him into custody, so Yang Shu kowtowed and said, "The guilty minister thanks Your Majesty for your grace!"

The prince hurried into the palace from the official residence of Kaifeng Mansion, and as soon as he arrived at the entrance of the hall, he saw the Hanlin medical officer walking backwards out of the hall, sweating profusely, as if he had just been frightened inside.

The crown prince grabbed him in a panic, "Physician Yang, don't you..."

Yang Shu let out a long sigh, shook his head and said, "Your Highness, I..."

"Let him get out!" There was a loud roar coming from the hall, which made the prince tremble with fright.

Zhao Ci walked out from inside, "Your Highness, His Majesty told you to go in."

Zhao Ci called the prince into the hall, and then greeted the other servants and palace people in the hall to leave.

At the threshold of the side hall of Wende Hall, the prince lay on the ground with his head exposed, and looked into the hall tentatively, only seeing the back of the emperor standing by the table.

He climbed in tremblingly, "Your Majesty, can you call me a minister?"

"I have not neglected my official duties. I have been doing a good job in the Kaifeng mansion these days. I have handled everything myself. I have not shirked a single matter to the judge."

The emperor turned around, holding a crumpled piece of paper in his hand, densely written on it.

The emperor walked towards the prince step by step, but the prince didn't dare to raise his head, until the black boots appeared in front of his eyes, he raised his head in shock, and stammered: "Father... oh no, Your Majesty... Your Majesty!"

The emperor squatted down slowly, gently picked up the trembling hand of the prince, placed the confession form firmly on the palm of the prince's palm, and immediately stood up, with the back of his empty hand behind his waist, turned around and took a deep breath, " Take a good look, my prince!" His tone was low.

The prince lowered his head and smoothed the certificate, his eyes widened when he saw the words, and he raised his head again and again said: "Your Majesty, this is not, this is not, your majesty, the minister did not..." The prince knelt and crawled towards the emperor, hugging the emperor's leg , panicked: "Daddy, I didn't do it, Daddy, believe me, I really didn't do it!"

The emperor kicked him away sideways, staring fiercely in his eyes, "It's not you, is it you? Is it someone arranged by me? Did I let them frame you?"

The prince was stunned.

"say!"

The prince lay down on the ground and returned to the emperor, "No, it's...it's King Zhao, yes, it must be King Zhao, it must be King Zhao, King Zhao has always coveted his son's crown prince position, King Zhao..."

"Enough!" The emperor bent down and pulled the crown of the prince's clothes, "His Royal Highness, you are so courageous!"

The emperor's furious eyes were imprinted with the terrified and crying prince. He threw it on the ground and said coldly: "The prince of my court actually put eyeliner next to the imperial doctor and threatened to use courtiers. You don't know that Yang Shu belongs to me?" Human? You are so restless, hoping that I will die soon, so you can sit on it?"

"Father, there is no..." The prince got up from the ground.

"Who is your father!" The emperor approached and stepped on him, and said coldly: "I can give you the position of crown prince, and if you can't sit still, I can take it back. Your life is given to me." Yes," the emperor withdrew his foot and leaned over to his ear, "I can take it back too!"

The prince's body froze, as if he had forgotten the pain on his body.

The emperor put his hands behind his back and said coldly: "Tell me what happened and everything you did. If there are any lies, you will judge yourself!"

The prince dragged his numb body up and kowtowed to the emperor in a daze, "In the first ten days of March, why did your majesty send Xiao Xianfu to the East Palace to deliver a message? Your majesty's words made me panic and made me feel that your majesty abandoned me. In a panic, I had a wrong thought. I knew that His Majesty loved Sanlang the most. If the crown prince was abolished, he would definitely make Saburo his successor. So I sent people to sell the two women in a brothel and put them in Yang Shu's house, threatening Yang Shu to be the king. The minister is doing things, but the minister just wants Yang Shu to monitor King Zhao!"

The emperor turned his head and shouted: "Yang Shu is just an imperial doctor, now that things are going on, do you still want to lie to me?"

"Yes, I didn't ask Yang Shu to monitor King Zhao, but if there was any good news from King Zhao's mansion, I asked Yang Shu to report to the East Palace first, but apart from that, I really didn't do anything else. The evidence, I really don't know anything about it!"

"Whoever gives you the courage to report to the East Palace first!"

The crown prince knelt up straight, stared and said: "If His Majesty hadn't deliberately let Xiao Xianfu pass on the message, if His Majesty hadn't pressed on every step of the way..."

The emperor took a step closer, leaned over and shook his hands fiercely.

--Snapped! ——

The pale side of the face quickly flushed red.

The prince stretched out his hand to cover it, and smiled coldly, "Anyway, Your Majesty has determined that the planting was done by the minister, right?"

"No matter what I do or say, Your Majesty will never be satisfied. In His Majesty's eyes, there are only three kings. Whatever the three kings do is right, even if he wants to kill his son..."

"Shut up!"

"Isn't it?" The prince's eyes were full of resentment and injustice, "Your Majesty appointed a minister as the heir, but gave hope to the three kings. I am your eldest son. I still remember that before the three kings were born, your majesty In Qian Mansion, I came back very late every day, and I just waited and waited until I fell asleep, and my mother came out to pull Chen back, but I refused, and I said, I have to wait...Daddy."

"Because my son remembers that my father said that there are bad people outside the Palace of Prince Qi, and that my father will try my best to protect my son and mother. Since then, my son has been afraid every day. I am afraid that when I close my eyes, my father will disappear. Until Shen Shi entered the mansion, All of this..." The crown prince raised his head, his eyes were rosy, "everything has changed!"

Listening to the prince's memories, the emperor let out a long breath and turned his back, "Prince! You always say that I am partial, but you are not only stupid, but also narrow-minded. What you want, but never think about what you got." Turning back to the prince, pointing, "You!"

"Others dig a hole and you jump in without even thinking about it, are you a pig brain?" The emperor straightened up, sighed a long time, and said with red eyes: "Your grandfather will die in your hands sooner or later." inside!"

The stiff man immediately raised his head, "Daddy..."

The emperor turned his back and shouted angrily, "Get lost!"

"Go back to your East Palace!"

Before the Que Gate, someone beat drums to complain of grievances. The emperor ordered Dali Temple and the Ministry of Criminal Justice to re-investigate the case of Shen Tu's treason. The three envoys, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment and Zhongcheng Yushi, jointly tried the case.

After the order for a retrial was issued, the news spread quickly, and Dali Temple sent yamen servants to the Chu Palace.

"Your Majesty has an edict ordering Dali Temple to re-examine the case of Shen Tu, and all ten-day breaks will be suspended. The next official is here to invite Shaoqing to go back and handle the case."

"Okay, I'll go and inform the lord right now, there are officials who are going to come here, be careful."

Little Six didn't dare to delay when he got the news, he trotted all the way to the east courtyard, and happened to meet a person in a scarlet official uniform coming out, he stopped and asked, "Did A Lang know the news in advance?"

"Did Dali Temple send someone to let me go back to handle the case?"

"Yes, I just arrived, and I'm about to come back and tell Alang."

King Chu nodded, "Let's go."

As soon as he reached the door, he saw Qi Jilang walking by quickly.

The King of Chu smiled at Little Six and said, "Go get an umbrella, the sky in Tokyo is about to change."

"Oh."

When Han Si heard the voice at the gate of the palace, he stopped and quickly turned around, bowing and saying, "King Chu."

"Coincidentally, I was on a ten-day vacation today, and I ran into you, Han Sheren, even when I went out temporarily on an errand."

"Isn't it a coincidence that the official is also on a ten-day rest today, who knows that His Majesty first went out of the palace to Zhao Wang's mansion today, and then summoned the crown prince. No, he summoned the official while the palace gate was not locked."

Han Si inadvertently mentioned two events that happened not long ago.

But the king of Chu has been lying on the bed for ten days today, and he just got up and changed his clothes.

"The next official has to rush to Da Nei."

King Chu nodded and smiled slightly. After Han Bang left, Little Six brought an oil-paper umbrella, "Ah Lang, the umbrella you want."

The king of Chu turned around, glanced at the umbrella in Little Liuzi's hand with an uneasy expression, "I'm afraid it won't rain like this!" Then he walked quickly into the mansion.

"Isn't Ah Lang going to Dali Temple?"

"Go, but you have to arrange something before you go!"

The King of Chu hurried into the east courtyard, closed the door tightly, and hurried to the bed with him.

"elder sister!"

The person resting on the couch slowly opened his eyes, "Didn't you say that someone will come to Dali Temple in the middle of the week today? Is it a mistake?"

"It was a miscalculation!"

"What?" Xiao Youqing got up, covered her mouth and smiled at her, stretched out her hand to touch her face, and said dotingly: "My Liulang, sometimes he miscalculates?"

The King of Chu sighed, "Yes, but it was expected. I guessed that His Majesty wanted to protect the Crown Prince when the second uncle said that His Majesty was also looking for someone, but the case has developed so far, what will His Majesty do to protect the Crown Prince?" .”

The King of Chu lowered his head, fell into deep thought, and said slowly: "Your Majesty went down to Zhao Wang's Mansion and summoned the Crown Prince. There should be some conditions. Shentu's case will definitely be vindicated, and Si Cheng and I are the presiding judges. ...With the prince's current situation, he will definitely not be able to protect him."

When Xiao Youqing heard that the gaffe was urgent, he raised his eyebrows worriedly, "What will happen if the case is wrongly judged?"

"The Law of Accessing Human Crimes, all lawsuits involving human crimes, if it is a full crime, it will be treated as a full crime. If it is from the light to the serious, it will be treated as the remaining."

Xiao Youqing opened her eyes slightly, "The evidence of Shen Tu's case is conclusive, there is no intentional entry," she asked worriedly, "What about incriminating human crimes?"

"If there are more than three criminals involved in a death crime, the presiding judge will be removed from the trial, the coordinator will be removed from the trial, and the rest of the applicants will be chased by the officials and stopped, and the jailer responsible for the case will be assassinated thousands of miles away."

Xiao Youqing asked eagerly: "Then only Shen Tu was beheaded this time?"

"If there is only one prisoner who has committed a capital crime, the presiding judge and the deputy judge will be stopped, and the rest of the judges will replace them."

At this point, Xiao Youqing breathed a sigh of relief.

But the King of Chu felt the chill behind him, and he let out a long breath: "The conspiracy was based on sitting together, and the original scroll was written to punish the three clans of Shentu, but it was later changed by His Majesty."

"Your Majesty is really Your Majesty..." The King of Chu seemed a little confused, or couldn't understand, "He wants to protect the three of us and control the three of us!"