The loyal minister was forced to marry the traitor

If he hadn't heard the ins and outs of the matter from the teacher, Yan Ruli would probably be one of the people's indignation.

Bai Yan didn't want to mention more, Yan Ruli also put aside the topic in due course, "Will the emperor punish Wei Chengfeng?"

It is reasonable that the Tian family has no father and son, but in any case, compared to outsiders like Bai Yan and others, Wei Chengfeng is the emperor's son, and Yan Ruli is afraid that all their efforts will be in vain in the end.

"Yes." Bai Yan drank the remaining tea and gave the remaining cakes to the little beggar not far away.

"Nowadays, he is self-willed and self-reliant. He thinks he is a sage king. He always compares himself to Yao and Shun, and he loves face. He takes rewards and punishments very seriously. Wei Chengfeng has offended him several times before, and now he dares to murder courtiers. This is just this matter." It is enough to make the emperor angry."

Bai Yan said quietly, "If very few people knew about it, the emperor would not be very angry, but what if the people in Yingdu knew about it? Do you think he would easily let Wei Chengfeng go?"

The most taboo thing for a Mingjun is for someone to smear a serious stain on his merit book.

The emperor and Wei Chengfeng are first monarch and minister, then father and son. If there is no conflict of interest, it is still a blind date between father and son, but if this son only brings endless troubles, how can the emperor tolerate him infinitely?

As expected, as expected by Bai Yan, the emperor named him in the court meeting three days later.Moreover, Wei Chengfeng, who was imprisoned in the mansion, was also released for the first time.

It's just that it's just the previous situation when it's released.

Prior to this, when Yan Ruli saw Wei Chengfeng outside the palace city, he was anxious at first, and hurriedly pulled Bai Yan to ask, "What's going on? In the past two days, Ying has been full of his various speculations. When the rumors spread to the end, unexpectedly It also happened that he forcibly snatched the daughters of the people, leaving the mother and keeping the son...but the emperor let him out at this time, it's not right..."

"Why are you panicking? Being released once doesn't mean you won't be locked up again in the future, just let it be." Bai Yan patted Yan Ruli's shoulder reassuringly, so that he would no longer be so worried.

At that moment, my calm heart rose again after seeing the emperor sitting down with a sick face.Yan Ruli sneaked a look at Bai Yan, but saw that he was as stable as Mount Tai.

On the other side, Xiao Jiuqin was also the old god. Thinking about it carefully, it seemed that before that, he was the only one who worried too much. After all, even Suichong was reluctant to talk to him.

Ah no, there is one more person, and that is He Zhaoyuan.

He Zhaoyuan seemed to be similar to him, wishing he could stare at the situation inside and outside these two days, as if he was afraid of something unexpected happening one day.

Yan Ruli sighed silently, raised his head and met He Zhaoyuan's eyes.Both of them wiped off the sweat that didn't exist on their foreheads, trying to wipe away the tension.

"Xing Zhang, I heard that something happened to you two days ago..." The emperor gasped a little before he could say a few words, his eyes were cloudy, and in less than a month, he lost weight again, slightly convex The cheekbones are very obvious, and it is very frightening to look at.

The certainty of the matter was rumored by the emperor, Yan Ruli looked worriedly at Bai Yan's face, as expected, Bai Yan's expression was indifferent.

After the emperor had recovered his breath, he said, "Your Majesty knows that someone deliberately murdered you, and I was lucky enough to escape."

"Deliberately?" The emperor frowned, as if he had heard such words for the first time, but Bai Yan was neither humble nor overbearing, "I'm incompetent, and I didn't know the truth until today. Fortunately, Lord Sui Chong Sui was absorbed in solving the case, and found out the whole story in just three days."

As soon as Bai Yan opened his mouth, Suichong took a step forward, knelt down and spoke slowly.

However, there were more than a dozen sentences, and every sentence was not far from the case, but Suichong's words completely changed Wei Chengfeng's face.

Didn't that mean the groom was dead?

Wei Chengfeng was already panicking, the people he sent out said that the groom had committed suicide, so he was so relieved.He was released from the mansion ahead of schedule today, and before he had time to rejoice, Bai Yansui and Chong brought up this matter.

It's not that no one told him what happened to Ying in the past two days, but he didn't think much about it, and even the counselors who came to report the news were chased away by him.

Especially the emperor released him in due course.

Suichong had already reached the end, "... so all the evidences point to His Highness, on this matter, I wonder if His Highness wants to refute it?"

Wei Chengfeng was stared at by Suichong, his upright attitude suddenly became glaring.

"There is no intentional murder in this hall." Wei Chengfeng's sophistry was blunt and feeble, and Suichong was already prepared, and he said to the emperor, "There are all the witnesses and material evidence. If your highness refuses to accept, I can explain everything one by one. .”

The past two days were so busy that his feet never touched the ground. Although Xiao Jiuqin interrogated the suspect for him, the regulations that should belong to Dali Temple cannot be changed.He tried his best to keep a clear head, and said again, "I have a clear conscience, what about Your Highness?"

"But can you sleep peacefully at night?"

When Suichong said this, he took out another memorial from his sleeve, "The Skynet has been restored, and there is another matter that needs to be reported to His Majesty."

"What's the matter?" The emperor forced himself to cheer up, and Huai Chun waited on him carefully, and after a while he looked better.

"The fourth prince, Wei Chengfeng, forcibly seized a civilian daughter and forced her to be a concubine, but his parents were beaten to death for defending him, and his body was thrown into a mass grave. Moreover, the woman who was robbed gave birth to a son shortly after, but was deprived of her mother and kept her son. The little emperor's grandson who was born in the Fourth Prince's Mansion a while ago is the child of that woman."

As soon as this remark came out, there was an uproar everywhere.

Seeing this, the ministers who supported the fourth prince immediately came out to defend him, "Master Wang Sui, please be careful, the little emperor's grandson was born noble, and you don't allow others to smear for no reason, and there is also the matter of forcibly occupying women. If there is no evidence, it is a crime of deceiving the emperor."

"Whether it's smearing or it's true, His Highness must be clear about it." Suichong raised his head and looked at Wei Chengfeng, "Your Highness, if you feel that I have wronged you, you can refute... But if you can't remember," he said slightly Closing his eyes, "The evidence in my hand can also help Your Highness remember this."

Suichong said all the good things, Wei Chengfeng didn't know where to argue for a while.

What he did has been investigated to the bottom of the sky, and blindly denying it is useless.

"Your Highness?" Sui Chong called him.

"What are you shouting for?" Wei Chengfeng became furious, and scolded directly, "That bitch is just pretending to be reserved, what is the status of this hall, why is she disgusted by her in every possible way, and in the end, it's not because she begged me to keep her father for her life mother……"

"Fourth!" The emperor in the seat called him suddenly.

Wei Chengfeng froze, and suddenly realized what he said.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty the Fourth Highness has disregarded the lives of human beings, attempted to murder the courtiers, and seized the public land... This crime is unforgivable. I ask your majesty to investigate carefully and give me justice." Many people agreed with Bai Yan as soon as he opened his mouth. Most of them are other princes/party, this once-in-a-thousand-year opportunity, naturally they can't wait to take off Wei Chengfeng's skin.

"Your Majesty..." Sui Chong knelt down.

The emperor's face became more and more ugly, Huai Chun gave a certain minister in the crowd a look, and the next moment, that minister knelt down at the front with a "bang" and leaned over, "Your Majesty, now Yingdu is concerned about the Fourth Highness and Lord Bai. The rumors about it are so rampant, I feel that His Majesty can also listen to it."

"What rumor?" The emperor was naturally unhappy when he saw the commotion below.Wei Chengfeng did so many stupid things, and he had to deal with them in the end. Just these alone, the emperor is already very annoying.

Some time ago, a sorcerer was recruited from the palace. He has a lot of experience in refining elixirs. The emperor has been taking his elixirs for the past two days. There has been an improvement.

Yesterday, he also met a court lady, and when he got up this morning he was refreshed, but his originally good mood was disturbed.

A little eunuch who specializes in shopping hides behind a rockery and chews his tongue, most of which means that Yingdu's dissatisfaction with Wei Chengfeng has increased little by little in the past few days, and now it has faintly spread to other prefectures.

The emperor listened to a passage, and heard the news about how Wei Chengfeng "murdered" Bai Yan and others. He had preconceived ideas in his heart and felt disgusted with Wei Chengfeng.

He clearly knew about those rumors pretty well, but when the minister said it, the emperor pretended not to know.

Under his gaze, Suichong was not afraid at all, and sorted out the rumors with the minister, and picked out the ones that were not too unpleasant.

Sure enough, the emperor, who was still dubious at first, confirmed it directly.

Without explaining to Wei Chengfeng who was already in a panic, the emperor directly ordered him to be punished fifty times, then stripped off his princely clothes, and imprisoned him in the palace. posture.

However, in the eyes of Bai Yan and the others, all this is undoubtedly a setback.

No matter how stupid the emperor was, he did not fully trust his courtiers in such matters.And I don't know if it's because of the feeling of licking the calf, such a gentle attitude really chills everyone.

Suichong couldn't help it at all, and said directly, "Your Majesty, what the four princes did is already known to everyone in Yingdu. The murdered woman and her parents are extremely innocent. This is the second time I have been murdered, I beseech Your Majesty to make the decision for us."

"Your Majesty, the country is impermanently strong, and impermanently weak. Those who follow the law are strong, and the country is strong; those who follow the law are weak, and the country is weak. If you can't even uphold the rules, who else can the people trust?"

All the courtiers huffed and knelt down.

How could the emperor not be angry after hearing this, he slapped the table and said, "Are you not convinced?"

Everyone froze and leaned over, "I dare not wait."

"Don't you dare? Heh..." the emperor was furious, "If you really didn't dare, you wouldn't be kneeling here right now. Are you satisfied with forcing me to kill the fourth child?!"

The emperor was furious, no one dared to speak, but no one let go at this point.

They all knew that the Fourth Prince Wei Chengfeng would definitely not be kind this time.

With Suichong taking the lead, and Bai Yan as a "victim", not to mention that Wei Chengfeng was not wronged, he still carried a few lives on his back, the trend is already one-sided.

The emperor stared at the people below, and finally his eyes fell on Bai Yan, and stayed there for a long time.

"Wei Chengfeng murdered important ministers in the court, seized the daughters of the people, condoned his subordinates to kill and throw away their corpses, and...occupied the public land, and all kinds of things here. He was demoted as Uncle Suiyang. He left Yingdu to go to the fiefdom at a certain day. He will not be able to return in this life."

After the emperor finished speaking, Wei Chengfeng softened and fell to the side.

It's over, he's over.

Originally, if there were no such things, he would have been crowned king, but now he has been demoted to Suiyang Bo, directly depriving him of the right to fight for the throne.

What qualifications does a Suiyang uncle have to compete with other princes?