Reborn as King again

After separating from Zhou Ling, I went to Taibailou, the most popular restaurant in the capital, where I booked a private room, ordered Taibailou's special dishes, and waited for King Rui to come.

Today I intentionally told Jia Wanru about Liu Guogong’s collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country. I also fabricated that King Rui’s failure to compete for the crown prince was implicated in Liu Guogong’s incident. I think Jia Wanru should tell King Rui about it.Early in the morning, I sent someone to send an invitation letter to King Rui in the name of Duke Liu, asking him to come to Taibai Tower for a talk, and King Rui will definitely come.

As soon as Xiao Er put the food on the table, King Rui appeared at the door.I smiled and waved to him, he was startled at first, but soon calmed down, walked into the room, and greeted me, "Your Majesty, why are you here, my humble minister..."

"I asked you out in the name of Liu Guogong," I admitted openly, "I just don't want others to know that we met in private, and I hope you don't take offense, Brother Huang."

"The emperor is too worried."

I asked King Rui to sit down and let everyone in the room go out except Wanfu, King Rui felt a little restless when he saw my posture, "I don't know if the emperor is looking for the humble minister in private, is there something wrong?"

I didn't answer, I poured a glass of wine for King Rui first, then picked up the glass by myself, and did it first as a respect. Seeing this, King Rui also drank the glass of wine I handed over.

After finishing the wine, I took out a letter from my pocket, put it in front of King Rui, and motioned him to open it.

King Rui took the letter out of the envelope and looked at the contents inside, but the next moment, he saw his expression was ugly, "This...this is..."

"It's evidence that Liu Guogong colluded with the enemy and betrayed the country more than 30 years ago." I sighed and said, "I will leave it to you."

When King Rui heard the words, he stood up and knelt on the ground in fright, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, why did you do this?! You want to give this kind of thing to this humble minister?!"

"I can't do anything else," I asked Wanfu to help King Rui up, and said, "I destroyed Dayan last year, and Emperor Dayan told the story of Liu Guogong's collusion with the enemy and traitorous country 30 years ago in order to save his life. He was afraid that I would not believe me. Just hand over the letter from that year as evidence to me."

"..."

"I really want to punish the Liu family's crimes, collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country, and punishing the crime." I sighed, and told King Rui what happened years ago, "I wanted to discuss it with my mother before convicting the Liu family in front of all civil and military officials. For a moment, who knows that the empress mother disagrees. The empress mother said that the emperor knew the sins of the Liu family back then, but spared them. The empress insisted on the emperor's wishes, and did not hesitate to force him to death. I can't go against the empress mother's intention, so this evidence is useless Now, Liu Guogong is your grandfather, I will give it to you, it is pure if you don’t see it.”

Everything I said to King Rui was true, and Jia Wanru also told King Rui that I wanted to run the Liu family but was obstructed by the queen mother, so King Rui would not doubt it.

King Rui was silent for a moment, and said: "Your Majesty, it's useless for me to hold this evidence."

"You can burn him if it's useless," I strongly expressed my dissatisfaction with the Liu family to King Rui, "Anyway, I never want to see this thing again, even though Liu Guogong is your grandfather, I still advise you, Don't get in touch with him, I can't trust him anymore." Yes, I want to tell King Rui that I completely hate the Liu family with power over the government.

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A few days later, King Rui also appeared in the morning court, which aroused discussions among the ministers.

After accepting King Rui's salutation, I asked, "I don't know if the emperor's brother appeared in the early court today, what's the matter?"

King Rui raised his head, looked at me and said seriously: "I have had trouble sleeping and eating for the past few days, and I decided to come here after learning from the pain. Today, I have a person who wants to impeach."

I raised my eyebrows slightly, "Who?"

"Liu Guogong, Liu Ren." King Rui replied.

I showed a satisfied smile, and I knew that King Rui would definitely come to impeach Liu Guogong.The reason is not hard to imagine. Yu Gong, I have already fully let King Rui know that I want to run the Liu family, but I can’t do it because of the obstruction of my mother. As Liu Guogong's grandson, I will also be on my guard, which is what he does not want.Under my inducement, King Yu Private Rui thought that he lost the position of prince because Liu Guogong was holding him back, so he naturally held grudges against Liu Guogong in his heart, so no matter what the reason was, impeaching Liu Guogong was a big deal for King Rui. All benefits and no harm.

I pretended to be suspicious and asked: "What did Liu Guogong do to let the imperial brother, you, a vassal, impeach the capital?"

"Return to the emperor," King Rui said loudly, "Liu Guogong once exchanged letters with Emperor Ji Yu of the Yan Kingdom, and helped him advise the Yan Kingdom to avoid the war with Datong, which made it 30 years late for Datong to recover Yandi. For many years, such collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country is really unforgivable!"

As soon as King Rui's words came out, the entire Jinluan Hall was shocked, and the ministers started to make noises. Regardless of Liu Guogong's seventy or so people, the speed of kneeling on the ground was not slow at all. He defended himself in horror: "Your Majesty, you are wronged!" Your Majesty! My minister has never done anything to offend Datong, so I ask your Majesty to check it out!"

At this time, the members of the Liu family and the students of Liu Guogong all came out one after another to defend Liu Guogong. They thought it was all nonsense, and it was estimated that King Rui had blamed Liu Guogong.Even the Xia family and the Jia family, who had always been on opposite sides of the Liu family, did not dare to jump to conclusions at this time, after all, the crime of collaborating with the enemy and traitorous country would be copied everywhere.

King Rui argued with reason: "I live in Huainan all the year round, and I have never had any grudges with Liu Guogong. Besides, Liu Guogong is my grandfather. If I framed Liu Guogong, wouldn't I be afraid of thunder?!" Then, King Rui presented the letter I handed to him a few days ago with both hands, "And I have proof, this letter was written by Liu Guogong to Yan Emperor Ji Yu in person, and there is Liu's seal on it, please Your Majesty, take a look."

As soon as King Rui said this, Duke Liu looked at him in horror, probably never dreaming that King Rui would stab him in the back when he was not prepared.

Under the eyes of all the ministers, Wanfu went down to receive the letter and handed it into my hands. I have read this letter several times, this time I just pretended to see the handwriting and seal on it. , I sent thunder and said: "Liu Guogong! What else do you have to say?!"

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty, I have been wronged!" Liu Guogong explained palely, "That letter...that letter...is a fake! Yes, it must be a fake!"

"Is it fake?" I sneered, handed the letter back to Wanfu, and ordered: "Open the letter and show it to the ministers in the hall one by one. They are all officials of the same dynasty, especially Liu Guogong's students. Maybe you don't recognize Liu Guogong's handwriting."

"Slave complies with the decree." Wanfu opened the letter as I said, and walked down the hall like an exhibition, stopping every time he walked in front of a minister to let them read the handwriting carefully.

After Wanfu walked around, the officials who had been arguing just now fell silent.Because they knew that the letter could not be forged, even if the handwriting was similar, and there was a private seal of the Liu family on it. Such a private seal was either written in a memorial or confirmed on the letter.Generally, the private printing pattern of a large family is quite cumbersome, just to prevent others from stealing it.Moreover, engraving a seal is manual work, no matter how good an engraver is, it is impossible to carve a seal that is exactly the same without the slightest deviation, so anyone who knows the Liu family's private seal can see that this private seal cannot be fake.If there are still people who don't believe it, just take a random memorial that Liu Guogong once submitted, and make a comparison.

"Liu Guogong," King Rui asked, "do you have anything else to say?"

Liu Guogong looked at this grandson, he thought he had never done anything wrong to King Rui, and even listened to King Rui's words a few years ago, impeached the Eighth Prince and forced his own brother to be beheaded.In this way, Liu Guogong didn't hate King Rui, but gradually alienated him, but what did King Rui do? !To actually push this pro-grandfather into the pit of fire?

Liu Guogong stared red, and asked through gritted teeth: "I want to know, where did King Rui get this letter from?"

King Rui had already thought of a reason for this, "Last year when the Yan Kingdom was destroyed, the Ji clan was not captured by General Xia, and there were still a few who slipped through the net and fled everywhere. It happened that one of them fled to Huainan. Thinking it was a spy from another country, he was arrested and tortured, and he told Liu Guogong about you in order to survive, and enshrined the letter you wrote back then with both hands."

"Come here," seeing that the situation is about to develop, I should ask someone to take Liu Guogong into custody, "Take Liu Guogong to me and lock him up in Dali Temple! I want to interrogate him properly!"

Immediately, two guards came into the Golden Luan Hall, one left and one right set up Liu Guogong, Liu Guogong struggled desperately, but still refused to give up and said: "Your Majesty! Your Majesty! You can't convict a humble minister just because of a mere letter! What's more... What's more, the late emperor..." Liu Guogong really couldn't say the following words, what did he say? !Said that the first emperor already knew but still spared himself? !Doesn't that mean that he admitted that he had given information to the country of Yan? !It's not true, and it's not true if you don't say it. For a while, Liu Guogong was depressed, and a mouthful of blood gushed out of his throat, and he almost passed out.

Seeing Duke Liu spitting blood, King Rui was shocked, and wanted to step forward to support him, but was thrown away by Duke Liu. He looked at King Rui with cloudy eyes, and said with a hint of sadness in his voice, "His Royal Highness, I am you." My dear grandpa!"

King Rui's complexion was very ugly, after all, few people in the world could do such a rebellious and unfilial thing like grandpa vomiting blood.I can't feel King Rui's inner thoughts at this time, complicated?sad?Heartache?This has nothing to do with me, and it's not that I put a knife on King Rui's neck to force King Rui to impeach Liu Guogong, all of this is voluntary, and he personally forced Liu Guogong to a dead end.

After Liu Guogong was carried down by the guards, a group of ministers knelt down and wanted to intercede for Liu Guogong. After all, Liu Guogong was the elder of the four dynasties and had contributed a lot to the country's country. In addition, Liu Guogong was already in his seventies. The person who has entered the coffin, I really can't help this kind of tossing, the ministers all hope that I will spare Liu Guogong's life for the sake of assisting several generations of emperors in the past few decades.

But how can I spare him? !Looking at the ministers kneeling in the hall, I was furious, pointing and cursing: "Collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country is to punish the nine clans! Whoever begs for mercy for Liu Guogong, I will punish him together!"