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"Your Majesty, he is slandering the minister!" Wu Youzhen staggered two steps and subconsciously defended: "Although this Taoist priest was recommended by the minister, the minister did not collude with him!" โ
"Slander?" The Taoist priest didn't allow him to argue, and a sneer came out of his mouth, took out a wooden box from his arms, and said indifferently: "Your Majesty, do you remember this?" โ
He opened the wooden box and held it high for all to see.
The wooden box contained a few pills, and a trace of a warm white glow circulated on it.
An attendant stepped forward to take the wooden box and handed it to the saint.
The saint was silent.
Of course he remembers. The pills he has taken for the past three years are all this.
As soon as he thought of this, a look of fear, disgust, and panic flashed on his face, and he stood up suddenly, flicked his sleeves, and flipped the wooden box to the ground with a "bang".
"Take it, take it!" The saint exclaimed in a gaffe.
The Taoist priest smiled slowly, and said slowly: "Your Majesty, you can see clearly, what Wu Shoufu asked me to refine, is it a spirit pill or a โกโก!" โ
As soon as his voice fell, he saw the pill that rolled down on the ground, and the bright white flowing light seemed to be steaming, rising out of Miao Miao's mist, and after a while, there were wisps of black water flowing out of the pill, corroding the solid floor tiles with imprints.
It's appalling.
The saint's face changed greatly, he almost fainted, staggered under his feet, and slumped down on the throne, causing all the ministers in the palace to exclaim.
"Big, bold!" He crouched on the armrest of the throne, gasping for breath.
But I don't know whether he is drinking the Taoist priest who presented the elixir, or drinking Wu Youzhen.
"Your Majesty, the minister has been wronged! The minister has never had anything to do with this Taoist priest, and he has been kept in the dark, and he doesn't know that this elixir is actually โกโก! Wu Youzhen knelt on the ground, kowtowed, and then suddenly raised his head and pointed at the old way, and shouted loudly: "Come on, arrest this nonsense demon road to this official, and immediately kill him with a cane!" โ
"Someone!"
Wu Youzhen's increasingly hoarse shouts echoed in the hall, unpleasant and harsh.
But no one moved.
Xiao Yu frowned, and said coldly: "Wu Shoufu, Your Majesty has not yet made a will, why are you in a hurry?" Right now, Yuan Miao Zhenren is bound by cold iron, and there is no way to escape, so why use it? โ
After watching it for a long time, someone also generally understood this key point, and immediately stepped forward and agreed: "That's right." Wu Shoufu was so anxious to kill the witness, didn't he want to kill people? โ
"You!" Wu Youzhen was dumbfounded, but when the words came to her mouth, she couldn't refute it, and her face was extremely ugly.
But seeing that the Taoist priest smiled faintly unhurriedly, and said, "You are kept in the dark? Do you dare to ask Your Majesty to send someone to your house to see if you can find anything unexpected? โ
"You demon way-" Wu Youzhen gritted her teeth, regretting in her heart that she hadn't seen through Hongyu's temperament earlier, so much so that she let her bite herself back today.
However, before he could finish his sentence, he was interrupted by a cold voice.
"Enough!"
The saint held the hand of the attendant on the side, slowly sat up straight, and cast the same cold gaze on Wu Youzhen.
He had endured to the limit. Now, he only felt angry that he was being toyed with by Wu Youzhen like a fool!
How could Wu Youzhen not know the details of this Taoist priest? Three years ago, there were so many foreign Taoist priests who came to the palace to meet him, but Wu Youzhen spared no effort to introduce this one!
At the time, he didn't realize it, but now that he thinks about it, since this demon Dao was introduced to him, the other Taoist priests have all disappeared one by two, isn't it weird?!
In the past three years, I have always told Wu Youzhen that this elixir has no effect, how did Wu Youzhen answer? He said that he had a very close relationship with the Taoist priest, and he often received the elixir from the Taoist priest to taste, and it had taken seven or eight years, which could be said to be very effective, so he listened to his words......
I didn't expect this elixir to be so effective - taking it for a few years, it's like being stupid! Wu Youzhen wants him to become a fool completely, so that he can obey his domination!
Now, only he knows how sick and weak he is! During this period, it is not that the imperial doctor has not been invited, but the imperial doctor is the same as Wu Youzhen, now that I think about it, isn't this imperial doctor also bought by Wu Youzhen? !
The deeper he thought about it, the anger and chill churned up alternately, and the saint's hand holding the seat trembled slightly.
"Bullying the monarch and plotting to kill the monarch, Wu Shoufu, you are so bold!"
How much he relied on this "minister of humerus" before, how angry he is now!
Furious, he raised his hand and picked up the teacups on several cases and threw them out with a "bang".
There was a crisp sound, and the broken porcelain pieces splashed all over the ground, and the sound shocked the ministers together, and their hearts were sad.
"No, I see you're tired of being 'Shousuke' for a long time! Someone came, put the criminal minister Wu Youzhen in prison, and ordered Jinyiwei to immediately copy the Wu Mansion, and there must be no mistakes! โ
"Yes!" A team of guards dressed in flying fish suits immediately poured into the hall, and without saying anything, they pressed Wu Youzhen to death, countered their swords, and took them down.
Wu Youzhen was struggling, trying his best to justify: "Your Majesty, this demon is spewing blood, deliberately harming ministers, Your Majesty, don't listen to the villain's slander!" โ
His usual calm and arrogant expression was gone, replaced by a distorted countenance that was extremely ugly.
It's head-shaken.
Some of the ministers in His Royal Highness were happy to see this scene, and some were secretly happy, but more were relieved.
The anger on his face is still there, and his heart is full of anger.
Either way, no one paid any attention to him, and on the throne, the saint sat there exhausted, his eyes empty and indifferent.
Only Hongyu smiled coldly, and when Wu Youzhen passed by, he said in a voice that only he could hear: "You go to the Netherworld to cry." โ
There was an unknown hint of hatred and refreshment in the middle of her old eyebrows and eyes at this moment.
Meng Ren was assigned by this dog official, and was murdered and killed halfway through. And she was also tortured by Meng Heng's illusion to the point that her aura was greatly lost, and her mind was in danger of getting out of control from time to time, and it was difficult to achieve the Tao through cultivation.
In this case, the net will be broken and the jade will be burned.
What she can't get, no one can think of!
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No one expected that Master Wu, the first assistant of the cabinet for a while, would be thrown into prison like this.
In a trance, the soldiers under Lord Wu who patrolled back and forth all over the city were like frosted eggplants, avoiding suspicion and seizing their posts, like lost dogs.
The officials who wrote together to impeach Wu Youzhen before were even more stunned, but they didn't expect Wu Youzhen to really be brought down! In the past, they repeatedly impeached and exposed Wu Youzhen's various crimes to the saint, but they did not get any response, but this time they knocked him into the dust in one fell swoop.
After looking at the whole incident, some people couldn't help but sigh when they thought about it and understood the reason.
Part of the credit is this, even Wu Youzhen's henchmen actually spoke up, worked together to expose Wu Youzhen's various crimes, pleaded with the saint to distinguish between loyalty and treachery, and exerted pressure on the saint, so that the saint could not protect Wu Youzhen in front of hundreds of officials.
The other part of the reason is crucial.
The saint can tolerate Wu Youzhen's corruption, bribery, and oppression of the people, but he alone cannot tolerate his power, status, and even life being challenged.
This is the reason why since ancient times, all kinds of crimes, the crime of plotting against the king, the most irreversible case, and the most cruel punishment.
Like the dragon's scales, if you touch it, you will never recover.
Unless it is through this, it is impossible to touch the kings of this dynasty.
The world is not the world of the people, but the world of the king alone. The distinction between good and evil and loyalty and treachery by the gains and losses of the people is nothing but a rule of obedience to the king alone.
After Wu Youzhen's mansion was raided, a total of one million taels of gold, ten million taels of silver, countless gold, silver and jewelry, countless pawnshops of real estate, and the family property was equivalent to the financial income of several years of this dynasty. After finding out more than a dozen bills for officials receiving bribes, they were shocked to find that they included most of the officials of the DPRK and China.
And what the Taoist priest pointed out, although Wu Youzhen was extremely careful, he finally found clues.
There is a secret passage hidden in Wu Youzhen's study, and when you enter through that secret passage, there is a cave. It was a secret room, and there was no gold or silver in it, but there was a huge unlit copper furnace, which was not filled with herbs, but with the smell of blood, mixed with something like a human organ.
Even the well-trained Jinyi Wei couldn't help but feel nauseous and vomiting.
Alchemy and alchemy, it turns out that refining is people!
handed over these few pieces of evidence, only to hear that the saint was furious, and then he couldn't eat for more than ten days in a row, and fell ill in bed, describing himself as withered.
Immediately afterwards, the will to sentence Wu Youzhen came down.
Ling Chi was executed, Zhulian Nine Clans, and asked for beheading after the autumn.
The officials who had bribed Wu Youzhen were also demoted and assigned for a while, and the capital had changed for a while.
However, what I didn't expect was that seeing that everything was settled, something went wrong in the middle.
Wu Youzhen escaped from prison. No one noticed any movement throughout the night, and it was not until the next day, when the jailer made a routine meal, that he suddenly noticed that the prisoner had changed his face.
But it was Li Daitao's plan.
Dali Temple hurriedly reported layer by layer, and people chased after it. After some investigation, it was found that the person seemed to have absconded from Beijing and went all the way to the south in the direction of Yuzhou.
In a hurry, he had to bow his head to the saint and confess his guilt, but before he could knock down, he heard the news come again - Xiao Rui, the king of Yuzhou, actually came in person and escorted back Wu Youzhen, who had absconded.
Not only did he send people back, but he also sent a lot of gold and silver treasures and Yuzhou specialties, and he kowtowed to the Qianyuan Hall again and again to show his loyalty.
King Yu had a meritorious role in arresting criminals, and he returned to the territory with all his beards and tails and peace of mind, but the sentence of Wu Shoufu before this was about to be advanced.
When Xiao Yu heard this, he suddenly realized, and looked at the young man in the court who was making fun of Li Mosheng and Lu Xingyuan, and couldn't help but shake his head with amusement and admiration.
He walked forward quickly, stretched out his hand and pinched the young man's cheek, and said, "It's strange that you have always said that Wu Youzhen can't escape far from him, and it makes me feel at ease. โ
Li Mosheng and Lu Xingyuan saw Xiao Yu coming, and they knew it, but they were unwilling to be teased by Meng Heng, and glared at him indignantly, Fang quietly stepped aside and went to find those new little demons to relieve their anger.
Meng Heng gave him an unfathomable look, sat on the stone bench and crossed his legs, propped his cheeks on the stone table with one hand, and hooked Xiao Yu with the other.
"Ask so much what to do, you just need to know that anyone who goes against me Meng Xiaoye will not end well." Meng Heng smiled, and Xiao Yu was intoxicated with a half-casual and half-cunning look between his eyebrows and eyes, "And you, serve me well, and I will keep you worry-free." โ
This remark made Xiao Yu cry and laugh, and his heart was like a cat scratching, and the itching was unbearable.
He stepped forward a few steps, grabbed the young man's fingers, lowered his head and gently kissed and pecked, while the other hand had already picked up the young man by the waist and placed it on his lap, and he sat down on the stone bench with restless hands.
Meng Heng smiled lowly, pulled out his fingers and reached out, pressed Xiao Yu's head, put his lips together, bit the other party maliciously, and said in a dumb voice: "It's so boring to kiss the hand, kiss here." As he spoke, his neck tilted slightly, revealing a patch of white skin under his collar.
Spring-color-confusion-people.
Xiao Yu's eyes darkened, and without waiting for Meng Heng to react, he picked him up and walked quickly to the room.
Then there was a "bang" and the door was closed in the room. 166 Reading Network