The general, who is almost semi-retired, has just entered the court some time ago, and that time is for the new commander of the Imperial Forest Army, and he put forward the proposal of the prince.

It has only been a long time before the general has come to the early dynasty again, and he has also brought the new commander of the Imperial Forest Army.

This posture, the big guy knows very well in his heart, this is to help the five princes.

Some officials of the Three Princes' faction sighed in their hearts, secretly anxious, why haven't these three princes been released yet, and if it goes on like this, the entire court will be the people of the Five Princes.

At this important time, the most important national teachers of the Three Princes faction did not show up.

With the chanting of an old eunuch, the old emperor walked out of the apse and sat on the dragon chair in the high hall.

Hundreds of officials bowed and shouted long live.

The emperor swept his gaze and saw that there seemed to be a lot less of this person today, but there were a few more new faces.

He first waved his hand to calm Zhongqing, and then asked the old eunuch beside him.

"Why didn't the national teacher come today? There are also a few people from the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Rites?"

The old eunuch hurriedly replied.

"Back to Your Majesty, the national teacher sent someone to say that there was something to do, and he would not come today, as for the Ministry of Works, Shangshu and the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, they all said that they were sick and it was inconvenient to come to the court. ”

The Emperor sneered.

"So many people, all of them got sick in one day, I want to know what they are sick about. ”

His gaze fell directly on the Shangshu of the Criminal Department and asked.

"Zhang Aiqing, three days have arrived, tell me how you interrogated?"

The criminal department Shangshu hurriedly walked out and handed over the prepared confession in his hand.

He said.

"Back to Your Majesty, Liu Laosan has confessed all of them, and he has also involved many appalling inside stories, all of which are written on the confession one by one, please check it out to Your Majesty. ”

The emperor took the confession, opened it, and saw that it was filled with three sheets of rice paper covered with tables, and the handwriting was neat and dense.

This scene made the faces of many officials obscure, and they secretly scolded Liu Laosan in their hearts.

How much did this confession do, everyone was worried that there would be their own name on it.

The Emperor only looked at it for a moment, and then his face became extremely gloomy, and a wave of anger seemed to erupt from his eyes.

But he still endured his anger and read all three confessions.

A shocking sound sounded, and the emperor slapped his palm on the table and said angrily.

"Bastard! ”

Long Yan was furious, and the hundred officials were sincerely afraid, and someone immediately came out to comfort the emperor to calm his anger.

The emperor pointed at the man's nose and yelled.

"Zheng Youchang, you still have the face to persuade me to calm my anger, and on this, your name is written.

Accepting bribes, encroaching on land, and disregarding human life, what kind of thing do you say you haven't done?"

The official, Zheng Youchang, immediately fell to his knees in fright, shouting that he had been wronged.

"Your Majesty, Weichen has never done such a thing, and he doesn't know that Liu Laosan at all, it is he who knows that he will die, bites people indiscriminately, and disturbs the court, please Your Majesty Mingjian. ”

The fifth prince who was standing in the first place immediately sneered, and at this time he still wanted to quibble, so he would look at how these moths quibbled.

Before the emperor could speak, a second official stepped forward and said.

"Please think twice, these confessions are all said by Liu Laosan, there is no real evidence, how can a court member be convicted. ”

Then a third, fourth, and fifth person stood up, and after a while, half of the civil and military officials stood up to oppose it.

Most of them are members of the Three Princes' faction, and they share common interests, one is prosperous and the other is lost.

With so many people objecting, even if this confession was true, the emperor would have to think about it carefully.

Seeing that the emperor fell into silent thought, everyone couldn't help but feel relieved in their hearts, a second-grade member of the Third Prince's faction, and even wanted to beat him up, he spoke.

"Your Majesty, this matter is still full of doubts, and Wechen suggests that the case be reopened.

Liu Laosan and others, who assassinated Wu Shilang and Xue Zhushu that night, could have been eliminated, why did they all faint to the ground. Captured by the Guards again?

Weichen heard that that night, the five princes and the commander of the Imperial Forest Army secretly interrogated Liu Laosan and others to see if the matter was irregular. Weichen suspected that someone deliberately used Liu Laosan and others to frame court officials in order to achieve the goal of eliminating political enemies. ”

These words are obviously directed at the five princes, and they bite back.

Others also spoke one after another, saying that they wanted to re-interrogate, and at the same time, some people took advantage of this to criticize the five princes, and even Xue Jian and Wu Qiancheng changed from victims to conspirators.

Wu Qiancheng's face was flushed, but Xue Jian and the five princes both sneered in their hearts, and their faces were silent.

They had long expected a mass attack.

People have so many mouths, they only have two mouths, how to argue and justify.

But the evidence speaks for itself.

The emperor's gaze fell on the fifth prince and asked.

"Shang Jing, do you have anything to explain?"

He still has a lot of trust in his favorite son, and just wants to see how he will deal with this situation.

The fifth prince bowed and replied.

"Father, the son has some evidence, I want my father to see it. ”

The Emperor nodded.

"Present it. ”

The people of the five princes outside the door had already prepared and handed over more than a hundred ledgers to the eunuch in charge of presenting them.

Seeing that each of the five eunuchs walked into the hall with a stack of books, all the civil and military officials in the hall had doubts in their eyes.

What kind of evidence is this, there are so many of them.

Those ministers who stood up suddenly had a bad premonition in their hearts.

They watched as the five eunuchs piled up all the books in front of the emperor, and there was more than one person tall.

The old emperor picked up a copy and flipped through it.

At first, his face did not change much, but when he saw the blank pages of tax records behind him, he suddenly stood up and threw the ledger in the face of a minister.

The Emperor said angrily.

"Li Yuanfeng, I want to ask you, how do you feed a family of more than 400 people with your one-year income?"

The minister was so frightened that he immediately knelt on the ground and said in a trembling voice.

"Wechen...... Wechen has some properties in his family, which can subsidize the family's ......"

As soon as he said this, the emperor slapped the table and rebuked angrily.

"You dare to talk nonsense to deceive me, come and drag him down to behead me. ”

"Your Majesty spare your life, Your Majesty spare your life!"

Li Yuanfeng hurriedly kowtowed and begged for mercy.

The ministers and officials on the side also hurriedly interceded for him.

But this time, the emperor sternly rejected everyone's plea.

He opened the second ledger, looked at it a few times, and threw it at one of the ministers.

Then there were the third, fourth, fifth, and more than 100 account books, and the emperor actually looked through them one by one, and saw it from the morning to the noon.

Half of the civil and military officials present were kneeling on the ground, trembling, and there was an account in front of them.

The emperor walked down the hall and walked past the kneeling officials with an expression of anger and sorrow.

"Look at you, you look like a person, but you have lived as a moth, and my Dayu country was almost destroyed in your hands. ”