King Liang Yinhuan sat in the dark, and since he had returned from the Qinzheng Hall that day, he had spent seven or eight days and nights alone in this house. Except for the eunuchs and palace maids who came to deliver food every day, no one had ever entered this room, and even the Queen Mother was strictly forbidden to set foot in it.

He thought a lot about these days of house arrest, in the Yanyu Building, Qiu Feng had promised him that he would find a way to let the emperor keep him in the capital, although he thought about many possibilities, but he never thought that he would be allowed to stay in such a way, so that he would become a prisoner.

A few small footsteps sounded outside the house, and after a while, a figure appeared outside the door, it was the little eunuch who came to deliver the news. The little eunuch said respectfully: "His Royal Highness King Rui, the emperor has an order to send you to the Showa Hall for questioning immediately." ”

A sneer rose at the corner of King Rui's mouth: Is it finally coming?

He got up and opened the door, and the autumn evening breeze suddenly poured into the room, with a little gloomy and coolness. "It's dawn." King Rui said this thoughtlessly, looked up at the sky with a white belly, and asked slowly, "Everyone has arrived, right?" ”

The little eunuch frowned incomprehensibly, and asked in a low voice, "I wonder who His Highness is talking about?" However, the emperor and the ministers of the early dynasty are already in the Showa Palace. ”

After speaking, he saw that King Rui was still standing at the door, without saying a word, and had no intention of leaving, and his eyes staring into the distance were empty and godless. The little eunuch muttered in his heart whether he wanted to urge again, and at this moment, Rui Wang Fang said lightly: "Well, let's go." ”

In the Showa Palace, Emperor Liang Yinhao was sitting on the dragon chair, and when he saw King Rui coming, he looked down sideways, and the disdain in his eyes was revealed, as if the god of heaven was looking down on the most humble and insignificant ant. He turned his head and ordered, "Yan Yong, ask someone to bring things up." ”

In a short time, several guards carried five boxes into the hall, each box was filled with various swords and weapons, and the cold glow of the blades made people's eyes sour.

King Rui stood arrogantly in the center of the main hall, not looking at the boxes, but looking around at the civil and military officials, princes and ministers standing on either side of him. Some of these people's faces were indifferent, some were dazed, and even more were a little excited, and they were surrounded by the crowd like lambs waiting to be slaughtered. King Rui laughed at himself, knelt down and said, "Brother see the emperor, long live my emperor." ”

"Let's be flat." The emperor raised his hand and said, "The fifth brother was summoned here today for the private weapons found in King Rui's old mansion a few days ago. The Criminal Department has already found out some eyebrows in this case, so I called the fifth brother to listen to the results of the investigation of this case with me. If there is a mistake in what is investigated, let the fifth brother explain it clearly in person. ”

King Rui looked proud, without the slightest fear, and said in a deep voice: "My brother has never done such a rebellious thing, and he has a clear conscience. If you can explain things clearly in front of the saint and the civil and military officials, and return the innocence of the ministers, it is the best. ”

"Good! The fifth brother is really bright. The emperor stared at King Rui with a pair of cunning eyes, and then said to Shang Shu of the Criminal Department, "Tong Yuan, tell me what the Criminal Department has found!" ”

Tong Yuan strode forward and arched his hand: "Your Majesty, the five large boxes in the current palace are all dug up by the Kyoto Mansion in the flower garden in the back garden of the Ruiwang Mansion, including various weapons such as swords, spears, bows and arrows, a total of three hundred and twenty-eight pieces. The Criminal Department carefully inspected these weapons and found that none of them had the official seal engraved by the imperial court, and Lord Feng, the secretary of the Ministry of War, also confirmed that these weapons were not made by the Military Supervision Department of the Ministry of War, but were privately cast by the people. ”

As soon as this remark came out, it immediately caused a commotion among the ministers in the court. Everyone knew about King Rui's temporary stay in Beijing, and they also had their own guesses about the reason, but they didn't expect it to be such a shocking thing.

In the amazement of everyone, Huo Pei'an walked out slowly, and pretended: "This is just the speculation of the Criminal Department, and there is no evidence. Maybe someone hid the weapon in the old mansion of King Rui and deliberately framed King Rui? ”

Tong Yuan continued: "Huo Xiang's concerns are indeed reasonable, so in addition to recording the confessions of several adults, the Criminal Department also checked the records of ships and goods entering and leaving the capital in recent years, and found..." Tong Yuan paused, glanced at Huo Pei'an timidly, and after receiving the other party's approved look, Fang Xu said, "Weichen found out that two years ago, King Rui had transported several boxes of goods from the fiefdom into Beijing, and said that they were fruits sent into the palace to pay tribute to the Empress Dowager. At that time, the soldiers in charge of inspecting at the port saw that this batch of goods was something that the prince of the imperial court paid tribute to the queen mother, so they did not dare to open the box for inspection, so they directly let this batch of goods into Beijing. Later, Weichen also questioned the inner chamberlain's father-in-law, and Grandpa Xu also confirmed that the inner chamberlain had never received anything from the queen mother in the name of King Rui. Later, the goods that were transported into the capital were also missing. ”

"You talk nonsense!" King Rui was shocked when he heard this, a chill rushed through his back, and he retorted loudly, "This king has never transported any goods into Beijing, so where did he get any records?!" ”

Tong Yuan did not directly answer King Rui's question, but took out a booklet from his sleeve and said, "Your Majesty, this is the transportation record of the river port in the capital, on which the quantity of the goods and the time of transportation into the capital are clearly written for the emperor to consult." ”

Yan Yong took the record book handed by Tong Yuan and handed it to the emperor. The emperor only roughly flipped a few pages, and his face changed suddenly, and the cold light reflected in his eyes was a little colder than those blades.

Seeing this, Tong Yuan immediately took advantage of the victory and pursued: "In addition, there are also the confessions of the people involved in the case, including the confessions of the Kyoto Prefecture Ya, the Military Supervision Department of the Ministry of War, and the guards who were in charge of the port inspection back then, please take a look at the emperor." ”

The emperor did not signal Yan Yong to pick up the confession in Tong Yuan's hand this time, but waved his hand, put the booklet in his hand at King Rui's feet, and said coldly: "Does King Rui have anything else to say?" ”

King Rui bowed down and picked up the booklet on the ground, which was indeed marked with a line of small characters in red: In the third year of Yude, May 12, five fruits and vegetables were entered at the mouth of the Jinghe River, all of which belonged to Prince Rui's mansion.

King Rui angrily pointed at Tong Yuan beside him, his dark pupils with a murderous aura. "It's nothing, it's all a sham! It was the criminal department that deliberately framed this king! ”

When Tong Yuan heard the word 'planting', he immediately knelt on the ground, his facial features huddled together, and he had an expression of being wronged. "Your Majesty! What Wei Chen said is true, and all the confession records are also true. If King Rui feels that the Criminal Department intends to frame His Highness, what about the Military Department? What about the Kyoto Prefectural Government? Is everyone telling a lie? Is it all deliberately framed? ”

Liang Yinhuan was stunned for a moment, and then looked up to the sky and laughed, laughing weirdly and bleakly. He looked directly into the emperor's questioning eyes, and said in a voice like ice: "I'm afraid that no matter what my brother says now, it will be just a lie in the emperor's ears, right?" Since the emperor has determined that the younger brother has a bad intention, the younger brother has nothing to say, if he wants to kill or scrape, but the emperor will dispose of it! ”