That night, when everything was quiet in Beijing, the dimly lit prison of the Criminal Department was suddenly attacked. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Dozens of black-clothed people broke into the prison, not only wounded the prison guards, but also killed the three assassins who were strictly guarded and had already been severely punished, and at the same time, Wang Yu, the left attendant of the criminal department who had already obtained a confession, was also assassinated in the palace, and several people died in the Wang Mansion, and Wang Yu was injured and was rescued by the soldiers of the forbidden army who happened to patrol and pass by, and those assassins who broke into the Wang Mansion were killed on the spot after fighting with the forbidden army, and the rest of the people committed suicide by poisoning when they fell into the hands of the forbidden army, and there was no one left alive.

However, what no one expected was that the people of the forbidden army actually got the sword engraved with the seal of King Xuan's mansion in the hands of those assassins, as well as a letter with the seal of King Xuan.

Everyone was in an instant uproar, and Wang Yu saw that everyone in the palace was injured and died, and he himself almost died in the hands of the assassin of "Xuanwangfu", frightened and frightened, he brought his injuries into the palace before dawn, and even presented the confession of the assassin who was desperately protecting last night in the early dynasty, and at the same time there were swords and letters engraved with the seal of Xuanwangfu in the hands of the assassins.

The Manchu Dynasty was boiling, and the Emperor of Chu was even more furious, and he picked up something casually and smashed the head of Rong Lan, who was kneeling below and shouting grievances, and then did not give Rong Lan a chance to defend himself, so he directly ordered someone to send him to the prison, and even ordered that no one was allowed to visit without the will of the palace.

At the same time, Emperor Chu also ordered Wang Kaiji, the secretary of the Criminal Department, Huang Heng, the secretary of Dali Temple, and Xiao Qingcang, the prime minister, to try the case together.

Everyone didn't expect that King Xuan would take the risk of doing such a rebellious thing at this time, and he was caught.

What made the people in the court and China not react was that before the trial of the assassination and prison robbery was decided, there were several assassinations in Beijing, and most of the injured people were people who took refuge in King Qing and King Fu, although no one died, but it scared everyone into their souls, but it happened in their house or in a place where no one was there, and no one could get any evidence, and no one caught the assassin.

Everyone thought that it was the back hand arranged by King Xuan, and many people handed over the folds one after another under the fright, and the things they reported were all things that King Xuan had conspired against, and one by one they seemed to be like personal experience, but there was no real evidence, just thinking that King Xuan could be suppressed in one fell swoop to avenge the revenge of the near future.

On top of Emperor Chu's imperial case, there was a thick stack of folded books, and Emperor Chu picked up a few of them and looked at them carefully, and immediately laughed angrily.

“…… King Xuan opened iron mines privately, amassed money, and ignored the laws of the country as nothing, hoping that His Majesty would severely punish ......"

"King Xuan is not lawful, does not obey the emperor's precepts, but is vicious and violent, oppresses the common people with royal power, seeks ill-gotten gains, is unworthy of being a king, and is ashamed of the prince's body, I hope Your Majesty will punish him as an example......"

"King Xuan is good at authority, gathers henchmen, bribes courtiers, and vainly tries to get his hands on the artifact of the country......"

Emperor Chu threw the fold in his hand on the table with a "snap", and said lightly: "They really can't bear it, King Xuan immediately fell into the well as soon as he got out of prison, and this series of performances is eager to put King Xuan to death!" ”

Hearing this, Peng De cautiously stepped forward and handed over a cup of tea with just the right temperature, and when he looked up, he just saw that the fold that was thrown on the table was opened with words such as "iron ore", "private bribery", "King Xuan" and so on, and immediately knew that eight or nine out of ten on the fold were the content of the complaint against King Xuan, and he said softly on the side: "Your Majesty, there have been more and more excerpts in the past few days asking for severe punishment of His Royal Highness King Xuan, but how can the old slave feel that this matter is a little strange. ”

Hearing this, Emperor Chu looked at Peng De lightly: "Do you think there is a problem?" ”

Peng De shook his head beside him, although he has served the Chu Emperor for decades and has won the trust and favor of the Chu Emperor, but he always remembers what he does, knows what to say and what not to say, even if he knows some things, he can't say it from his mouth, not to mention that looking at the current look of the Chu Emperor, he must have already made up his mind in his heart, so he just said slowly: "Is there a problem The old slave doesn't know, the old slave just thinks that the assassination of the official ship and the robbery of the prisoner by the criminal department are not like from the hands of King Xuan, His Royal Highness King Xuan has always been steady, He's not that impulsive. ”

When Emperor Chu heard this, there was an unpredictable smile on his face, but the smile couldn't reach the bottom of his eyes, and none of his sons knew better than him.

The eldest is reckless and impulsive, so happy, the third is steady and deep, suspicious, and the fourth is cunning and makes good use of strategy...... Although each has its own shortcomings, but each is not a fuel-efficient lamp, they fight in the government, fight in secret, kill and assassinate each other, he knows this, and even he has always turned a blind eye when he didn't see it, after all, in his heart, the person who can sit on the throne, which one is not a person with bloody hands, if he can't even get through the dispute between brothers, and can't be invincible by others sharpening his sharp knife, then he can't complain that he has been a whetstone for others, and wants to sit on the throne cleanly and innocently. That's impossible.

But to be clear, this does not mean that Emperor Chu can tolerate his sons treating him as fools.

This assassination is full of loopholes, not to mention the third child's temperament, if he really wants to assassinate King Fu, there are many opportunities, why should he put it on the official ship, in full sight, not to mention that since he wants to rob the prison, there are more opportunities earlier, from the three people in prison to being killed for nearly two days, why does the third child have to wait until Wang Yu gets a confession before killing people?

Emperor Chu looked at the table and sneered, he is the Emperor of Chu, only he can control the lives of others in this world, when will it be the turn of others to borrow his hand?

"Your Majesty, someone from the Queen Mother's palace has arrived."

Emperor Chu was thinking about things when he saw someone from outside the door to report it.

Emperor Chu paused, anger flashed in his eyes, and after a while, he said lightly: "Pass." ”

The voice of the little eunuch summoned came from outside the door, but after a while, a fat old eunuch walked into the door, he was five short figures, his eyes were round, his slender eyebrows were upside down above the eyes, and his slightly chubby face was white and abnormal.

"The old slave Mu Jian pays a visit to Your Majesty."

Emperor Chu waved his hand to get him up, and then he looked at the man and said lightly: "Eunuch Mu, what is the matter with you coming at this hour?" ”

Mu Jian smiled and said: "Back to Your Majesty, it's not a big deal, it's just that the Queen Mother heard that Your Majesty has been busy with government affairs recently, so she specially ordered the imperial dining room and the Tai Hospital to develop a medicinal diet together, and the finished product has just been produced today, so I want to invite Your Majesty to Shou'an Palace to try it." ”

Hearing this, Emperor Chu raised his eyebrows and said, "Oh? Since the queen mother has a heart, I will go from now. After speaking, he threw the fold in his hand directly on the table, and said to Peng De: "Change my clothes and set up Shou'an Palace." (To be continued.) )