Chapter 45: It's a Foregone Conclusion
The forbidden army escorted a few people who had been outside for a long time into the main hall.
As soon as Shen Jinxi knelt down, he saw Zhao Yihe beside him, and couldn't help blurting out, his eyes were full of eagerness: "Prince Rui." ”
The voice was extremely soft, but it also made everyone hear it clearly, thinking of Zhao Yihe's words just now, many people had a strange idea in their hearts, this is really not a simple best friend.
Zhao Yihe was very cooperative and gave him a reassuring look, looking at that look, Shen Jinxi's heart trembled, but he didn't forget what Zhao Yihe said to him the day before.
"If you don't want the third lady to continue to be afraid, you have to do what I say." Thinking about it, why does Prince Rui care so much about you a cloth, and there is only this explanation in the past.
Emperor Fengqing turned a blind eye to the interaction between the two and looked at the three kneeling in the hall.
"Who are you kneeling down on?"
"Back to the emperor, grass people Shen Jinxi."
"The slave is Young Master Shen's little servant, called Chang Xi."
After listening to Emperor Fengqing looking at Zhao Li, his brows furrowed slightly, just when Zhao Yihe talked about Zhao Li, he saw that the face of the King of Ningxia suddenly changed. And when this Zhao Li was escorted up, the first one was to look at the king of Ningxia first, and there was something to do with the two.
"Who are you?"
When asked, Zhao Li's body trembled slightly: "Weichen is Zhao Li, the pioneer of the North Camp of the Ten Thousand Cavalry Battalion." ”
"Oh? You turned out to be a general of the Ten Thousand Cavalry Battalion? ”
"Yes!" Zhao Li nodded and replied.
Emperor Fengqing then looked at Zhao Yihe: "Prince Rui, does this Zhao Li have anything to do with the two of them?" ”
"Your Majesty, this is exactly what I want to say. Zhao Li, as a fierce general under General Shen Yue, secretly fabricated evidence to accuse General Shen Yue of embezzling 200,000 taels of silver. The creation of Shen Jinxi's bureau is just to let everyone point the finger at the Shen family, so that he can pull Shen Yue off the horse, and only in this way can he have a chance to become the supreme commander of ten thousand horses. Zhao Yihe looked at Zhao Li after speaking, and his voice was cold: "General Zhao, what this king said is right?" ”
Hearing this, Zhao Li's body trembled invisibly.
Emperor Fengqing was furious when he saw it: "But there is such a thing!" ”
Zhao Li was suddenly frightened and fell to the ground.
It's not that he has no backbone, but when Prince Rui went to his house to arrest people last night, not to mention the forged evidence, even the house where he hid Jiaojiao in the outer gold house was clear. What else does he have to deny, as long as the human and material evidence is presented, he is a dead end.
Secretly glancing at the King of Ningxia, Zhao Li secretly gritted his teeth, as long as he took all the qiē, the King of Ningxia would naturally keep his family. made a decision in his heart at the moment, and nodded: "That's right, I did it!" ”
"General Shen Yue is taking me to a high place, but people go to a high place, as long as there is a day for him, there will be no day for me to come out. I have made so many achievements on the battlefield, as long as he dies, people will naturally see my achievements. That's why I came up with this one. ”
Hearing Zhao Li's words, Emperor Fengqing was furious, patted the imperial case and drank: "Then why do you want to hurt Zhang Mang, the prince of Bo Changhou!" ”
"That's just a brute, it's not a pity to die!" Hearing Zhang Mang's name, Zhao Li's originally calm eyes were blood-red: "My brother is only seventeen years old, he actually humiliated my brother, he killed him without following them!" He has Concubine Zhang Shu behind his back, and he has the title of Marquis Bochang, so he is not afraid of heaven and earth. But my brother is a living human life, should he die! He deserves to be insulted and trampled on! When I found my brother, he had his tendons broken and he had been stabbed twenty-seven times! Cut whole from the abdomen! There are countless young people who died at his hands like my brother, why did the emperor never see it, and now Zhang Mang is just castrated, I just gave him a knife, so that he can no longer harm the people, but the emperor attaches so much importance to it, is it really as the people say faint king! ”
Every word weeps blood, and every sentence is heart-wrenching. When the word faint monarch was spoken, there was a sudden silence in the court, and even the generals among the ministers present shuddered when they thought of the picture Zhao Li said! No one dared to make any more noise, and no one dared to peek at Emperor Fengqing's expression.
Zhao Zheng, the king of Ningxia, glanced at Zhao Li, and a hint of coldness flashed in his eyes. He winked at a minister beside him.
The official Shangshu immediately stood up: "Your Majesty, even if what Zhao Li said is true, it is a fact that he openly injured the prince of Bochang Marquis to blame others, and he fabricated evidence to frame important ministers of the court, which is really lawless and should be punished heavily." ”
After the official department finished speaking, some ministers of the Qing Dynasty secretly looked at the king of Lingjiang. Who Zhao Li is, there are still people who know in private, so now everyone wants to see how the King of Lingjiang will take this opportunity to bring down Zhao Zheng. But I only saw that the king of Lingjiang didn't know if it was because his ears were bad, or if the steps were really not cleaned, and he had been staring at that place for a long time, and he hadn't even moved his eyelids.
But it was another person who spoke: "Your Majesty has something to say." ”
Prime Minister Wang Jing walked out from Zhao Yihe's side, Emperor Fengqing's prime minister team is his carefully cultivated henchmen, and he has always been loyal to the emperor, even if you are the crown prince, you won't take a second look, as long as you don't sit on the emperor's throne for a day, he won't take care of you. Therefore, what is said is absolutely fair.
Wang Jing walked out, knelt directly on the ground, and bowed to the ground with his head. As soon as he took out this set of actions, everyone understood that this old guy was about to die again, and he was listening with his ears sideways, but he heard him say: "Minister, I implore Your Majesty to punish the prince of Bochang Hou to death!" ”
Capital punishment was the heaviest punishment in the former Tang Dynasty, it was to tie people to a pillar, cut 3,600 knives one by one, and there was a more elegant name, Ling Chi!
As soon as the words came out, everyone was confused, what is this, how can the prince of Bo Changhou be executed if Shen Jinxi's case is not tried.
"Why did the prince say this? Why do you want to punish the prince of Bochanghou, people should be victims, and they should be appeased, why should the prince still put people to death. The official Shangshu looked at himself and just finished speaking, but Wang Jing proposed to kill Zhang Mang.
Concubine Zhang Shu is with the king of Ningxia, if she kills her only brother-in-law, how can she give up.
Wang Jing squinted at the official book: "The outline of the national law cannot be violated." The reason why Zhao Li wanted to hurt the prince of Bochang Hou was because he committed a heinous crime. Now that the emperor already knows, how can he be extrajudicial and tolerate adultery because he is His Majesty's brother-in-law. Chen Shangshu, you are also a father, I heard that your son is in his 28th year this year, and he looks very handsome and extraordinary. If it is like Zhao Li's brother, can you still say so calmly that it has nothing to do with Zhang Mang. ”
One sentence made the official department Shangshu speechless, and his old face was red.
Seeing this, Wang Jing knelt down and said to Emperor Fengqing: "Please also ask Your Majesty to give the prince of Chang Hou the capital punishment!" ”
Emperor Fengqing was put in the middle for a while, if you don't deal with the prince of Bochang Hou, how can you deal with Zhao Li, is it really as faint as he said?
But to deal with Zhao Li, then Zhang Mang naturally cannot be tolerated. But thinking of last night, Concubine Zhang Shu's pear blossom and rainy face, after the Zhang family was such a lone seedling, she couldn't bear it.
was in a dilemma, Zhao Yihe took a look: "Your Majesty, although Zhao Li has made an unforgivable mistake, he is also a useful person, and the poor harvest in Xinjiang in recent years is far from enough to consume the troops stationed in Xinjiang. It is better to send Zhao Lifa to return to Xinjiang and let him make meritorious contributions. As for the prince of Bochanghou, he was really immoral and incompetent, and he took the title of his son and was demoted to a commoner. If he does not repent in the future, he will be punished with death. ”
Zhao Yihe's words not only saved Emperor Fengqing's face, but also solved the matter, and Emperor Fengqing naturally agreed.
The voice was calmer than before: "Since this qiē is all done by you, then you must bear the consequences." Someone came, escorted Zhao Li down, and sent him back to Xinjiang. From now on, Zhang Mang will be deprived of the title of Bo Chang Hou Shizi, and after 100 days, Zhang Mang will be expelled from the capital and will never be allowed to enter Beijing. ”
As soon as he finished speaking, a forbidden army took Zhao Li down.
Hearing the punishment of Xinjiang, Zhao Li's originally dead eyes were full of vitality, but he didn't see a layer of yin in the eyes of the king of Ningxia.
When Zhao Li was taken away, Emperor Fengqing looked at Shen Yue and Shen Wenshan, who were standing at the end, and the two immediately stepped forward and knelt beside Shen Jinxi: "The criminal minister Shen Yue knocked to see the emperor." ”
"The criminal minister Shen Wenshan knocked on the emperor."
"Arise, all of you, for since both of them have been falsely accused, what is the sin?"
Hearing this, Shen Yue knelt on the ground and did not move: "The minister is guilty, the minister has no way to run the family, if it weren't for it, he wouldn't have let people get into the gap and disturb the Holy Peace." ”
Without waiting for Emperor Fengqing to speak, Zhao Yihe preemptively said: "Your Majesty, General Shen is indeed guilty. ”
Hearing this, Emperor Fengqing raised his eyebrows slightly: "Prince Rui, what do you mean by this?" What is Shen Yue's crime? ”
"General Shen is in charge of the entire power of the Ten Thousand Cavalry, which is coveted. Qing is not guilty, but he is guilty. The emperor was asked to remove General Shen from his post as commander of the Ten Thousand Cavalry. In this way, no one will ever point a black finger at his family in order to fight General Shen's idea. Zhao Yihe's respectful and respectful plea, but everyone understood. Your Majesty, change people, as long as it's not the Shen family, you like to change whomever you like, the minister doesn't want to see the Shen family implicated anymore. People who guessed this meaning couldn't help but glance at Shen Jinxi, who was still kneeling on the ground, he was indeed a handsome guy, no wonder Prince Rui could appreciate it so much.
When Emperor Fengqing heard this, he was silent, and asked Shen Yue for a while: "What does Shen Aiqing think?" ”
Shen Yue's voice suddenly choked, and he kowtowed three times to the emperor: "Your Majesty, the minister is old, and he really can't move, but the minister's two sons are still young and can still serve the saint." He also asked the Holy Grace Grants to return to their hometowns. ”
Looking at Shen Yue's vicissitudes of life, Emperor Fengqing really couldn't bear it. When the emperor was alive, Shen Yue made great achievements in the southern and northern wars, and had the courage of ten thousand people. Before the first emperor died, he called him to the palace and asked him to assist Emperor Fengqing, Shen Yue was really loyal. Over the years, Emperor Fengqing has also used the most convenient knife, pointing where to fight. When the foreign enemy heard that General Yaowu Shen Yue was coming, he immediately threw away his armor and retreated outside the pass, and now that Shen Yue wants to return to his hometown, how can he bear it.