However, in just a few days, the rumors outside became more and more intense, and soon reached the front of the emperor, the emperor was furious, and ordered the arrest of the rumor-mongers, and the shopkeepers of many teahouses and restaurants in Beijing, the men, the storytellers, and even the peddlers and pawns were put into prison, and for a time the people in the capital were panicked, and the common people did not dare to speak loudly even if they went out to buy vegetables, for fear that if they were not careful to say something wrong, they would be arrested by those elusive officials.

After torture of those who had been imprisoned, a conclusion was submitted to the Imperial Court.

It turns out that the reason why rumors have been spreading in Beijing recently is because someone is secretly misleading the people, and all kinds of evidence show that the person behind this is actually related to the Jin Palace.

At the same time, the son of an old steward in the Jin Dynasty who had returned to his hometown was found to have secretly purchased a large amount of sulfur and saltpeter not long ago, and Ning Yi, deputy director of the Criminal Prison Division, sent someone to arrest the son of the old steward to interrogate, not wanting this person to bite his tongue and kill himself on the way to be escorted, and that night the old steward and his family of eight all committed suicide by poisoning.

As soon as this incident came out, the ministers were in an uproar.

The emperor ordered the king of Jin to enter the palace, and in front of the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty, he was held accountable, although the king of Jin was so frightened that he stammered, but he insisted that this matter had nothing to do with him, although there were also some ministers who raised too many doubts about this matter, and the king of Jin was likely to be framed, but most of the ministers raised a lot of questions about the king of Jin.

The king of Jin was originally not good at words, and in the face of this difficult situation, he finally fainted on top of the main hall.

After the King of Jin fainted, although many people proposed that the emperor put the King of Jin in the prison of the Zongren Mansion to listen to the interrogation. But the emperor thought that King Jin was the only seedling of the old King of Jin, and finally he couldn't bear it, and sent someone to send King Jin back to King Jin's mansion, and also sent a few imperial doctors to take care of King Jin.

On the second day, the emperor sent guards to besiege the Jin Palace, and before this matter was clarified, no one in the Jin Palace, could enter and leave at will, and the Jin Palace, and the people in the Jin Palace, were placed under house arrest.

After the interrogation of some people, the situation became more and more unfavorable to the Jin Palace, but the Jin Palace's top and bottom did not take any action, and they all honestly thought about it in the palace according to the emperor's will, and the Jin King's illness did not improve. Bedridden every day. The decoction is constant.

About half a month later, the king of Jin on the sickbed suddenly made a plea fold, although the fold did not directly admit that the fire in the Fengxian Hall was related to the Jin Palace, but admitted that he was derelict in supervising the people below. It's almost a disguised confession of guilt. At the end of the excerpt. The king of Jin invited himself to take his family to guard the tomb of the first emperor. In the future, without being summoned by the imperial court, he will not enter Beijing again.

In the early dynasty, the emperor asked the chamberlain to read the Jin king's plea to the ministers. and asked the opinions of the ministers on the matter of the king.

Some ministers felt that although the King of Jin had pleaded guilty on the surface, he was suspected of deliberately avoiding the serious and light, and did not give an in-depth explanation of his crimes, so they asked the emperor to continue to investigate thoroughly. Some ministers thought that since the king of Jin had confessed his guilt, for the sake of the royal family's face, it was better to allow the king of Jin to guard the tomb of the former emperor, so as not to disgrace the royal family and the court in the end. There are also a small number of people who feel that the King of Jin has always been loyal and duty-bound, and rarely asks about foreign affairs, even if this matter has something to do with some people in the Jin Palace, it must have been done secretly by the people below, and the King of Jin was just implicated and asked the emperor to be lenient on the King of Jin.

Before the results of the emperor's disposition came out, the Jin Wangfu made a fuss on its own.

It turned out that Li Heng, the king of Kangjun, had been grounded for three months for making a mistake and had been locked up in his yard, so he didn't know anything about the Jin Palace's being questioned.

After learning that his father himself had asked for a guilty son to take them to guard the tomb of the first emperor, the pampered and lawless county king quit and immediately went to the main house to make trouble.

At that time, the princess of Jin was personally serving the king of Jin to drink medicine, and after King Kangjun broke in, he was stunned to find that he had not seen him for a short time, and his mother's black hair was actually half white, and her face looked like she was ten years old.

King Kangjun immediately broke out, and said angrily to King Jin: "Why should we confess our guilt if we didn't do it! You don't even dare to stand up and clear your name for being slandered, my mother has been with you for most of her life, and now because of your cowardice, I want to follow you to guard the tomb of the first emperor because of your cowardice! Are you worthy of my mother's concubine? Who are you worthy of!"

King Jin's temperament has always been soft, and he already has guilt for his wife and children, so after listening to his son's words, he closed his eyes and leaned on the head of the bed except for sighing, but he couldn't say half a word. King Kangjun was even more angry when he saw him like this, and wanted to scold him again, but the princess wept and persuaded him: "Heng'er! ”

Although Li Heng looked down on his father's soft temperament on weekdays, he still listened to his mother's words, but today he was so angry that he didn't restrain when he heard the words, he snorted angrily at King Jin: "I don't care! If you want to guard the tomb by yourself, I'll not go to the kind of place where birds don't!"

King Jin wanted to say something, but he was so angry that he fainted before he could say anything.

The news that King Kangjun made trouble with King Jin's sickbed soon spread, and many people couldn't help but shake their heads when they thought of Li Heng. This little overlord doesn't have to mess around on weekdays, but at this time, he has to make trouble, and he dares to be disrespectful to the emperor between words, and it is really unfortunate for King Jin to give birth to such a loser.

This matter reached the ears of the emperor, and it really made the emperor angry, and the emperor immediately asked the guards to bring Li Heng to the palace to reprimand him, and wanted to treat Li Heng for a crime of unfilial piety.

The crime of "unfilial piety" is not small, but Li Heng is not only unfilial to his father this time, but also unfilial piety and disrespect to the first emperor, and dares to say that the mausoleum of the first emperor is "a place where birds don't".

The emperor ordered people to drag King Kangjun out to fight a hundred boards. For a person like Li Heng who has not suffered a lot, a hundred big boards can kill him "accidentally".

After the queen learned that the matter was getting bigger, she rushed to intercede with Li Heng, asking the emperor to read it lightly for Li Heng's young and ignorant sake.

In the end, the emperor said: "Since the queen pleads for you, the 100 boards will be exempted, and you can go down and get the 30 boards." ”

Li Heng was so frightened that his legs were weak when he heard the 100 boards, but he was relieved that the 100 boards had become the 30 boards, and he felt that the 30 boards had passed.

Li Heng was very optimistic, but the queen knew that the palace execution was boring, and told Aunt Shen to take care of it and not to break people, not wanting Mama Shen to run back soon, and quietly shook her head at the queen.

The queen frowned: "What's the matter? Could it be that my Fengxu Palace's face is too small?"

Mama Shen sighed and whispered, "Niangniang, it was the people from the Criminal Prison Department who were executed today. ”

The queen's face changed when she heard this.

When the first board was knocked down, the blood on Li Heng's face receded cleanly.

Li Heng has been naughty since he was a child, and when he was in the mansion, he did not go to the house, and every time the board came down, the whole palace could hear his ghost crying wolf, and Li Heng only understood today that he couldn't scream when the real pain came. However, after five boards, Li Heng completely fainted, but even if he fainted, he still had to finish the thirty boards of Emperor Chrysostom.

By the time the execution was over, Li Heng was already dying, and before someone came to carry Li Heng away, Mama Shen, who had been waiting for a long time, hurriedly ran over and broke Li Heng's mouth and personally poured him a bowl of black decoction.

The chamberlain went to report to the emperor that the execution had been completed, and the emperor said lightly: "Then send the people back." In addition, since the king of Kangjun was unwilling to go to the tomb of the first emperor, he was sent to the East Ring Island, which is said to have a pleasant climate and fragrant birds, so he must like it. ”

When the queen heard this, she was shocked and immediately pleaded: "Your Majesty! Not to mention that Donghuandao is close to the border of Daji Kingdom, there are many poisonous snakes and beasts on the island, and it is sparsely populated, so it is really not suitable for people to live. For the sake of King Kangjun's young and ignorant, I beg you to open the net!"

The emperor glanced at the empress and said lightly: "If the empress is not satisfied with the East Ring Island, then how about I send him to southern Xinjiang?"

When the queen heard this, she knew that there was no room for negotiation in this matter, and she opened her mouth, but finally sighed and kept silent.

Li Heng was unconscious after being sent back to the Jin Palace, and the high fever began to go away that night, and the imperial doctor shook his head after seeing it and said that if it continued to burn like this, Li Heng might not last three days. Princess Jin also fell when she heard the news.

Li Heng had a fever for two days, and on the third day, the fever miraculously subsided, and this life was saved after all, but his injuries were still very serious, and the doctor said that if he didn't recuperate well, he was afraid that it would be difficult to even walk in the future.

And the emperor's decree to Li Heng soon arrived, and Li Heng wanted to leave the capital immediately and go to Donghuandao.

At this time, Li Yu, the son of the King of Jin, wrote a letter requesting that he was willing to replace his younger brother Li Heng and be assigned to the East Ring Island.

Within two days, the decree on the disposition of the Jin Palace's palace came down.

The emperor agreed to Li Yu's request and let him replace Li Heng and be assigned to the East Ring Island, and he had to set off the next day after receiving the will.

The king of Jin was suspected of burning the Fengxian Palace, and was deprived of the title of the prince who died and recklessly demoted to the king of Hengyang. The emperor also granted the request of the king of Jin and asked him to guard the tomb of the former emperor, and he was not allowed to enter Beijing without being summoned in this life. However, for the sake of the king and princess of Hengyang who were still ill, the emperor kindly allowed them to leave in a month.

He Linwan has never received news from Li Yu since two months ago, originally because He Linwan wanted to communicate with Xiao Mutou, Li Yu would send someone to deliver letters twice a month, He Linwan expected that something should have happened to the Jin Palace. Sure enough, it didn't take long for her to receive the news that the King of Jin was about to be questioned by the emperor for being involved in the fire in the Fengxian Palace.

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