female concubine

There was a lot of trouble about Chunwei's release of the title, and the emperor ordered the three divisions to interrogate.

The imperial guards of the Imperial City Department detained the champion of the new department involved in the case, Tong Ping Zhangshi who was still in the Zhengshitang, and Lu Wei, a scholar of the Hanlin Academy.

The yamen servants who were standing guard in the courtroom of Dali Temple were replaced by various squads of forbidden soldiers, only because the emperor changed his mind to come to Dali Temple in person after ordering the three divisions to interrogate, and ordered the important ministers and kings to jury.

This is the third time that the emperor sat in the courtroom of Dali Temple since the Yuan Dynasty was changed to Jianping. Just like in the early years of Jianping, what he tried was also the parents and children!

The crown prince had just walked from the East Palace to the corridor of the Daqing Palace when he was escorted by the Imperial Army who came to the Imperial City Division.

The Crown Prince scolded the imperial guards surrounding him: "I am the Crown Prince, how dare you?"

There was a gap in the ranks of the forbidden army, and Xiao Xianfu stepped out of it, showing his badge, "By order of Your Majesty, I will trouble His Royal Highness and my ministers to take a trip."

"What are you going to do?"

"I believe His Highness has read today's residence newspaper." Xiao Xianfu cupped his hands, "Your Majesty is here." Xiao Xianfu raised his eyes, "Dali Temple is waiting for you."

"Dali Temple?" The prince took two steps back in shock, "Your Majesty..."

"take away!"

Sitting on the left and right of the court hall of Dali Temple are all important state officials. On the chair of the grand master, who is the same as the head of civil servants, Zaifu, Zhao Wangzheng sits with a round collar and sleeves.

The former top civil servants, Tongzhong Shumenxia Pingzhangshi, and Hanlin scholar Lu Wei knelt on the side of the court, kneeling and trembling in the middle was last year's No. [-] scholar in the new department, and beside them was a crying woman covering her face.

The minister of Dali Temple stepped forward to question at the emperor's will, "Liang Wenfu, whether what the woman said is true or not, you have to think twice when the emperor answers, otherwise, if you make a wrong sentence, it will be a serious crime of deceiving the emperor."

Liang Wenfu immediately raised his head and replied in a panic: "Yes..."

Zhuangyuan Lang's reply made the ministers present sigh, and they all looked at the two former Zhi Gongju on the right.

Then Liang Wenfu argued loudly: "But the minister was forced to do nothing. The minister is a child of a poor family. The king wants the minister to die, and the minister has to die. His Royal Highness coerced the minister and leaked the tribute examination questions to the minister so that the minister could pass the exam in the tribute court. ... Provincial Yuan, in this way, you can be an official in the court and be reused by His Majesty, and the guilty minister will also become the prince's man, but the guilty minister is really helpless!"

"If that's the case, it's a great joy for you to get the title of Zhongyuan, so how can you be helpless?"

Liang Wenfu knelt up straight, "Chen Hanchuang has studied hard for more than [-] years, why do you need someone to leak the questions, but His Royal Highness is the crown prince, if I don't obey and know about the crown prince leaking the questions, then is there any way for me to survive?"

The kneeling purple robe on the right looked up and glared at King Zhao who was sitting on the Grand Master's chair. The moment Di Bao was introduced into Da Nei, he was detained by the imperial army brought by Xiao Xianfu. The incident happened suddenly, and he had the ability to do so. There was no news from many forbidden soldiers.

Originally thought that leaking the issue was a matter between the two parties, even if Liang Wenfu did not sincerely submit to the crown prince, he would definitely not dare to make fun of his own faith, but he never thought that this matter would be involved by a woman.

Or in other words, this book is a play, a play that wants to put Zhongshu to death.

"This question was decided by His Majesty personally after the two Zhi Gong Jus and various Hanlin scholars jointly discussed it. You said His Highness the Crown Prince, and His Highness the Crown Prince..."

"Your Majesty, the crown prince has arrived." Xiao Xianfu brought the crown prince Wei Shu to the court.

Just when the ministers looked at each other and were about to stand up and salute, the emperor yelled, "There are no fathers, sons, monarchs and ministers in the courtroom, and you are not made to kneel when you are asked to jury!"

The ministers trembled in their hearts, and had to carefully sit down with their chairs supported.

The crown prince walked in tremblingly, and immediately saw purple and scarlet clusters in the courtroom. The familiar scene made him hold his breath in fear, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Your Majesty..."

"Your Majesty!"

The two words that shocked the court made the prince kneel down immediately in fright, and then climbed up and kowtowed repeatedly: "Your Majesty, I know I was wrong, I..."

The emperor slammed the table, his eyes were red with anger, and his blood rushed up immediately, "Shut up!"

Wei Shu trembled and kept kowtowing.

"As the vice president of the State Reserve, how dare you..."

"Your Majesty!" The old minister beside the prince interrupted the emperor's words, and immediately knelt down and bowed his head.

[Not long ago, a group of armored forbidden soldiers came to the Zhengshitang, and several purple robes and scarlet robes scolded, "Where is the Zhengshitang, how can you wait..."

"At the order of His Majesty, come here to escort, and we will make peace with you!"

Seeing the official of Huangcheng entering the political affairs hall, Sansheng's purple robes naturally closed their mouths.

"take away!"

Several imperial guards walked into the innermost room of the Political Affairs Hall and brought out a white-haired old man in a purple robe and jade belt.

Immediately he said again: "Your Majesty has an order to call all the ministers and workers to Dali Temple for jury!"

"Jury?"

Xiao Xianfu left from the suspicious eyes of the crowd, walked out of the political affairs hall to the old man's side, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty asked the lower officials to give a word to Tongping Zhangshi. Your Majesty said that the other party is ready to buy the crown prince." In the face of death, whether the prince can survive depends on what Tongping Zhangshi will do."

"Why should I trust you?"

Xiao Xianfu nodded his head as a matter of course, "Well, the prime minister can choose not to believe it because of the surname of the subordinate, but the subordinate has already brought the words to you. As for whether you believe it or not, that is up to you, the prime minister."

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Tong Pingzhang raised his head and stared at the emperor coldly with round eyes, "This matter has nothing to do with His Highness the Crown Prince. Only the minister and Lu Neihan know about the issue of Chunwei. It is the minister who leaked the question, and His Royal Highness just Because of panic, he was at a loss what to do, His Royal Highness is just filial and sympathetic to the old minister, after all, his father is not in pain, and his mother is gone, so he only has his grandfather left!"

The emperor tightly clenched the other hand resting on the chair, with a serious face.

"Weng Weng..." The prince looked up at the purple robe, and when he wanted to explain something, he saw the old man with his eyes closed and shook his head gently at him.

Immediately he turned his head and said in a loud voice: "It's my minister. I'm afraid that the imperial court will follow the surname of Shen. I'm afraid that the concubine will seize the heir. The peace and prosperity established by Emperor Taizong will be ruined. If we meet, the country will be destroyed!"

Immediately, a minister came out to criticize, "The emperor sits in the court, and you are too presumptuous in dealing with Ping Zhang!"

"Let's just leak the question. Do you want to get rid of the guilt by saying such high-sounding words?"

"As the head of a hundred officials and the elder of the three dynasties, how could you do such an unfair thing?"

The purple-robed old man sneered, "Fairness, is there still justice in this world?"

"Your Majesty, please deal with it in accordance with the law. There were cases of officials who leaked questions in the imperial examinations in the previous dynasty..."

"Your Majesty of Dali can't, Pingzhangshi is the elder of the three dynasties, he is the Grand Master of our dynasty, and his merits can stand shoulder to shoulder with Duke Longde."

"A merit is a merit, a demerit is a demerit, merit and demerit do not offset."

"That being said, Ping Zhangshi is the head of the political affairs hall, and the emperor should decide what the crime is."

All the ministers faced the emperor, "Your Majesty."

The emperor's face was gloomy all the time, and after a long time, he said in a deep voice: "As an important minister of the court, I have disregarded my trust and recited the merits of the past, so I cut off the positions of the grand master and the three princes, and dismissed the post of Tongzhong Shumen as a peacekeeper. Demoted to the local government."

Thinking that the matter of leaking the question was over, the emperor said again: "The rest of the people are to be blamed for..."

The emperor's tone didn't seem to want to punish severely, but still wanted to calm things down, so the prince glanced at his uncle on the side.

"His Majesty!"

The emperor was very tired of his words being interrupted, "What else is there for Shen Qing?"

"The minister captured a few suspicious people before, and they confessed that they were His Royal Highness's people."

The emperor opened his eyes and looked up, glanced at Shen Yi'an, then looked sideways at King Zhao, and asked, "Who?"

"Bring it up."

The Imperial Army of the Dianqian Division brought two frail men with scars all over their bodies, mixed with new and old wounds, one of them could not speak, and stretched out a very thin hand to point at the prince in horror.

Shen Yi'an then said to the crowd: "At the beginning of late spring last year, Princess Chu was attacked on the way east from Gyeonggi to Jiangning Mansion. Maybe you don't know yet?"

Shocked by all the officials, Shen Yi'an pointed at the Crown Prince in public again, "And the one who started it is ours, Your Highness the Crown Prince!"

"Two dying people and a few broken iron plates can be said to be the assassins sent by His Royal Highness?" The matter involved the prince, and the minister of Dali Temple stepped forward and asked loudly.

"There are all the witnesses and material evidence. If you don't believe me, you can call Princess Chu to Dali Temple to confront them and see if these people are assassins!"

Shen Yi'an was full of confidence, and Dali Siqing turned his head to look at the two assassins who had been tortured to become neither human nor ghost, and asked: "What the commander-in-chief said is true, the prince and your majesty are here, don't be afraid ..."

In the courtroom, the crown prince lost power while King Zhao gained power. The assassin squinted his eyes in a trance and nodded repeatedly, "Don't kill me, don't kill me, I will recruit, I will recruit all of them. The superior ordered us to ambush and assassinate Princess Chu on the day when Princess Chu returns to the capital. Although the leader didn't say who it was, he promised us that as long as we serve our lives well, we will be able to enter the Emperor's Imperial Dragon Imperial Army in the future and enjoy endless glory and wealth."

"The emperor's imperial guard, Yu Longzhi, even skipped over the Eastern Palace Guard directly." Shen Yi'an sneered, and then said to the emperor: "Because the matter is of great importance, I dare not speak nonsense until the evidence is confirmed. Not long ago, after I made a confession, I dared to reveal the matter." Shen Yi'an immediately knelt down, "Please majesty, please punish the minister for deceiving the emperor, but the prince is raising killers and assassinating the prince and concubine Yuan. For such behavior, I also ask your majesty to abolish the prince in public. !"

Even if the ministers knew who Shen Yi'an was supporting, they didn't dare to say more.

"If you don't believe me, His Majesty can call Princess Chu..."

"The crown prince is here, why don't the commander-in-chief listen to His Highness the crown prince's explanation first?" Dali Qing stared at the commander in front of the hall, and saw all the ministers still sitting on the grand master's chair. When Zhongshu fell, not even one dared to speak The people are gone.

"Enough!" The emperor raised his head and got up from his seat, walked down slowly, and glared at the prince, "Prince, what else do you want to say?"

The crown prince tremblingly climbed up to the emperor, "Your Majesty, it's not a minister, it's not a minister, it's Zhao Wang who framed him."

The emperor kicked him away and yelled in front of all his officials, "Do you still want to argue?"

The purple-robed old man who was kneeling aside took the prince into his arms, looked up at the emperor angrily, "Is this how your majesty treats his own parents and children, doesn't he even listen to his parents' explanations?"

"Explanation?" The emperor snorted coldly, "Summon Princess Chu..."

"No need!" The old man stood up immediately, and several guards stepped forward to protect the emperor vigilantly, his old eyes were bloodshot, "Because I did all of this alone, and I don't need to vent the question." Well, it doesn’t matter if you assassinate the prince or concubine Yuan, it’s me.”

The old man trembled again and said with a trembling smile: "Just because of the connivance of the emperor, you, you, you, don't know who is standing behind Princess Chu, right?" And the ministers, finally pointed at the emperor, "It was you who made King Zhao, King Chu, and the two great vassals confront the East Palace. It was you who indulged them. It was you who forced me into such a position. You are in danger, and you have already forgotten my rule of setting up a court and standing up!"

"Above the court, defy the king..."

The emperor raised his hand and said with red eyes: "I married your daughter, let you be a grand teacher, and promised you a favor, and I treated you well..."

"Now that things are up to now, who does His Majesty want to play for? Your Majesty thinks this is the case. Don't they know me, him?"

The emperor turned his back, closed his eyes and took a deep breath: "Decree, during Tong Ping Zhangshi's reign, he used his power for personal gain, neglected his duty, and assassinated the prince and concubine Yuan. He was extremely vicious. He will be sent to the Heavenly Prison by the Ministry of Punishment, and will be re-examined by Dali Temple. "

The imperial army stepped forward and took off the old man's hat, purple robe and jade belt.

"Weng Weng, Weng Weng!" The prince got up from the ground.

"Stop him!"

The imperial army carried the old man with disheveled hair and disheveled clothes out of the hall, "Your Highness, it was the sinful minister who made you suffer. From now on, the sinful minister will no longer be able to assist you."

"take away!"

The emperor immediately opened his eyes, turned around with red eyes, "He is my Taishan, and he caused such an ugly family affair, which made Zhuqing laugh."

"I dare not wait."

Seeing that the emperor didn't seem to intend to punish the prince, Shen Yi'an raised his head again and said, "Your Majesty..."

"Chen Qing, get up, you have handled this matter properly, and I will not hold you accountable." The emperor bowed his waist to support him, with a smile on his face.

Hiding a knife in his smile, Shen Yi'an felt like a stick in his throat, and forced his words back, "My lord, thank you for your innocence."

The emperor said again: "The crown prince has been frightened, Zhao Ci, send him back."

"Yes."

Zhao Wang pulled his face and stood up from his seat, "Slow!" He stepped forward and cupped his hands at the emperor, saying, "Your Majesty, I have one more thing to do."

The emperor turned around and looked at King Zhao, his smiling face suddenly became abnormal, "If there is anything to do, we will go back..."

"It's not a family matter." King Zhao raised his head, and immediately knelt down, "It's because of the case of Yuhou, the capital of the former horse army, and asked His Majesty to see someone."

"Former Marquis of the Horse Army?" Zhao Wang's words once again aroused a lot of discussion in the courtroom, "Didn't His Majesty personally handle this case?"

The emperor looked at King Zhao, and then turned his head to look at the prince who had lost his mind behind him, and walked back to his seat step by step.

"Bring it up!"

Neither of the two major crimes affected the East Palace. It can be seen that the emperor was deliberately partial, and Zhao Wang was panicked when he spoke, because this was a gamble.

The guards of Prince Zhao's Mansion brought up a man with a black cloth covering his head from the courtyard on the right side of the Dali Temple mansion.

All the officials stared curiously, and the emperor narrowed his eyes slightly and asked, "Who is this?"

At this time, the doubts in Zhao Wang's eyes were the same as those of the ministers, but he was more nervous than anyone else. He rubbed his hot hands and said with a deep breath: "Tear off the cloth!"