Chapter 148: Imprisoned
"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is confused, and I hope that the Emperor will decree not to let His Royal Highness the Crown Prince participate in this matter." Yan Rong also hurriedly said, how could this Nangong Yu be so stupid at this time.
"Prince, have you heard it, I will naturally give Yan Rong justice, but the premise must be that Yan Rong is innocent, otherwise I can only deal with it impartially, not that I don't believe it, but the evidence is in front of me, and you can't decide." The emperor said to Nangong Yu.
"But," Nangong Yu wanted to say something.
"Come on, escort the prince down, and don't take half a step forward." The emperor directly asked Yuan Shou to stop him.
Yan Rong breathed a sigh of relief at this time, as long as Nangong Yu didn't get involved, there was no way for the emperor to associate himself with the prince in this matter, otherwise he would be accused of rebellion, and Nangong Yu would be finished.
"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is protecting General Yan like this, does His Royal Highness the Crown Prince also know about this?" Prime Minister Rong asked deliberately.
"Rong Mo, you have a weak heart, you dare to frame the prince, you don't know the severity of what you say, you don't know the etiquette, you have already committed the crime of great rebellion, doesn't the emperor punish it severely?" Yan Rong immediately said to Rong Mo. This is the first time that Yan Rong has directly shouted Rong Mo's name, he has always felt that he is at least an elder, and he still has to have the number of courtesies, but today's face is no longer controllable.
"You, megalomania." Rong Mo didn't know how to talk about it for a while.
"Prime Minister, the crown prince is my son, and he is also what you can slander?" The emperor said.
"Yes, it's the minister's fault, the minister shouldn't have said that." Only then did the prime minister restrain slightly.
"Your Majesty, what the minister wants to say is that there are too many doubts in this letter, first of all, I don't know the existence of this letter, my father never mentioned it until he died, and then how did my uncle find out, my uncle has only been here for a few months, and I have recently told him why he is not included in the genealogy, he has no reason to cry to the emperor because of this, and finally, someone from the Yan Mansion family, the Prime Minister knows the real spirit, has he been staring at the Yan Mansion? Yan Rong asked rhetorically.
"Your Majesty, what Yan Rong said is right, there is a hidden secret here, you can't make a decision casually, and you must not believe it based on the words of one person alone." Xia Linfeng said.
"I know, I'll talk about it when the people come." The emperor obviously didn't want to hear anything.
"Your Majesty, the old slave brought Yan Qi. After a while, Yuanshou led Yan Qi over.
"The grass people meet the emperor." Yan Qi knelt down and said.
"You are Yan Qi, Yan Rong's uncle?" The emperor asked.
"Back to the emperor, the grass people are." Yan Qi didn't dare to raise his head and said.
"I ask you, did you find this letter, and just in time for Yuanshou to go to your Yan Mansion, it was discovered." The emperor said.
"Back to the emperor, this letter was indeed found by the grass people, I was taking care of the ancestral hall at the time, I didn't expect it to be a little higher under the tablet of my brother, I was curious to go up to check, and suddenly found that there was a letter, I looked at it was for General Yan Rong, I thought that it would be handed over to the general at that time, at that time, Yuanshou Gonggong came to Yan's Mansion, I was also startled, the letter fell out, Yuanshou Gonggong helped to pick it up and saw the content of the letter, then I knew that it was not a good thing." Yan Qi pretended to be aggrieved and said.
"You're lying." Yan Rong roared angrily.
"Grass .... The grass people didn't lie, they didn't lie. Yan Qi said nervously.
"Don't be rude, face, you see, your uncle has admitted that this is your family's thing. What, do you still want to quibble? The emperor said.
"Your Majesty, Rong Chen asked his uncle a few words." Yan Rong said.
The emperor nodded.
"Dare to ask you, when did you go to the ancestral hall and when did you find the letter?" Yan Rong asked Yan Qi, but he didn't even want to shout an uncle.
"It was yesterday, yesterday when I went to clean up, and Yuanshou Gonggong also went to Yanfu yesterday." Yan Qi still didn't dare to look up at Yan Rong.
"Yesterday? But you found out when you went to the ancestral hall yesterday? You've been in so many times before, why haven't you noticed? Yan Rong said.
"General Yan is not in the mansion, how did he know that I had been to the ancestral hall, and the general once said in front of the family that I was not allowed to enter the ancestral hall casually, so I just found out when I went in yesterday." Yan Qi said dissatisfiedly.
"Ridiculous, I don't know my father's tablet, I touched it once, why haven't I seen it, you are purely framing, and also, I went to Yan's Mansion that day, why did someone sneakily leave the mansion, is it your conspiracy." Yan Rong said.
"Your Majesty, the grass people didn't lie, the general didn't let me enter the ancestral hall, I sneaked in yesterday, because I really wanted to meet my father and ancestors, but the general once let the housekeeper of the Yan Mansion stare at me and didn't let me go, only if the housekeeper had something to do yesterday, I was able to go in." Yan Qi said.
"Where did you come from, I said that you are not allowed to enter the ancestral hall often, but I have not forbidden you, do you think that I don't know anything if I am not in the Yan Mansion, Yan Bo can call the shots, have you ever been to the ancestral hall before." Yan Rong said.
"General Yan's words are off, and now the discussion is whether this letter came from your Yan family, not how you abused your uncle at home." The prime minister said.
"Your Majesty, the words of the grass people may be insignificant, but I didn't expect that my Yan family would be loyal to the martyrs, even if I didn't live in the capital since I was a child, but I also knew it, I didn't expect that my own brother would do such a wrong thing, General Yan Rong, you may not know it yet, but this matter is the truth." Yan Qi said with a cry.
"Do you think I'm going to take your word for it? What kind of person is my father, I still need you to tell me, even if people in the world will change their minds, my father and I will not, Yan Qi, are you instructed by others, you say it, I can save you, if you don't say it, don't blame me for being polite. Yan Rong said to Yan Qi.
"I didn't, I didn't lie, why don't you believe it, your father wrote it in black and white, and you stayed in the ancestral hall before, and you stayed for a few hours, did you already know about it, but you kept it hidden, just to fulfill your father's long-cherished wish?" Yan Qi said.
"Yan Rong, you make it clear, if you admit it, I can spare your life, do you have two hearts, do you want to rebel?" The emperor asked.
"Your Majesty, the minister has been by the emperor's side for so many years, doesn't the emperor even have any trust?" Yan Rong asked rhetorically without answering.
"But the facts are in front of me, how do you make me believe it?" The emperor said.
"Your Majesty, you can't jump to conclusions too early." Xia Linfeng said.
"What does Xia Shangshu mean that you know the truth about this matter?" The prime minister said.
"Your Majesty, the ministers can't say it absolutely, but you can't believe what Yan Qi said and Yan Rong's words alone, after all, anyone can fake, and this matter still needs to be carefully investigated." Xia Linfeng said.
"Yes, what Xia Shangshu said is right, at this time, it is about the rebellion of my courtiers, and you can't swallow dates, so who will investigate this matter?" The emperor asked.
"Your Majesty, let's investigate." The prime minister said.
"Your Majesty, it is best to hand it over to Dali Temple Qing at this time, to say something unpleasant, the Prime Minister has a festival with Yan Rong, so naturally he can't go, and the old minister has old friends with the Yan family, so naturally he can't go, then it's official, and Dali Temple will go to investigate the case, impartial, it's the best." Xia Linfeng said.
"General Yan is the minister of Zheng Erpin, if you really want to investigate, you can only go to the emperor in person, although Dali Temple is a must, but it is not in accordance with the rules." The prime minister said.
"Then the emperor supervises the Dali Temple, doesn't this mean that the emperor also personally investigates." Xia Linfeng looked at Rong Mo coldly and said.
"Your Majesty, the minister is innocent, and before the matter is clarified, the minister is willing to wait for the truth, because the minister believes that God will return the minister's innocence. It's just that you must not let the traitorous ministers sow discord, frame the ministers and the minister's father, and the reputation and innocence of the Yan family. Yan Rong said.
"If it weren't your fault, I would naturally return you and the Yan family's innocence, but if so, don't blame me for being ruthless, in my eyes, you are not only the general of the Great Apocalypse, but also my daughter-in-law, and I don't want this matter to be me, how can I bear to see my love betray me, and my daughter-in-law betrays the royal family." The emperor said helplessly.
"Your Majesty, the minister only remembered that when his father died, he was still holding the banner of Daqi in his hand, and he was still telling the minister at the last moment a sentence "swear to defend Daqi", the emperor, the Yan family will not betray the Nangong family, this is the family motto for decades and hundreds of years. Yan Rong said.
"I understand, but ......." The emperor didn't look at his face, but he didn't know how to say it.
"Your Majesty, the most important thing now is how to deal with it." The prime minister said.
"Yes, Your Majesty, General Yan said that this will not be because he wants the emperor to remember the old feelings, so let it go." Liu Duhu also said with added vinegar.
"Your Majesty, there is no conviction now, but it is imprisoned because of this, and if outsiders and the people know about it, it will cause uneasiness." Xia Linfeng said.
"So what?" The emperor asked.
"It's better to be imprisoned in the Rongwang Mansion and send someone to guard it, if Yan Rong has no external heart, he will naturally stay in the mansion quietly and will not run around, so that the people will not know that the protector general of Daqi has been put in prison, nor will it let people in foreign countries know that our Daqi has lost the main general, but also to stabilize people's hearts." Xia Linfeng said.
"Xia Shangshu, what do you mean, Yan Rong's mistakes are not the same as others, the prince is guilty of the same crime as the common people, General Yan should set an example, as the leader of the three armies, he would make such a mistake, how to lead the army in the future, the army must not be chaotic, Xia Shangshu is obviously covering up." The prime minister said.
"I think what the prime minister said is reasonable, but now I am only temporarily pressed into the prison, and I am not allowed to spread the news to the outside world, block everything, and before the truth is found out, no one can be bullied, abused, or come to the prison to put the general who protects the country." As soon as the emperor gave an order, a royal forest army stepped forward to detain his face.
"Your Majesty, no, she ...... face" Xia Linfeng was obviously a little flustered.
"What's the matter, what else does Xia Shangshu want to say?" The prime minister asked Xiang Xia Linfeng funny.
"Xia Shangshu, I am willing to stay in prison, as long as the emperor can return my innocence, I am willing to suffer no matter how much I suffer, but the emperor, you must not be blinded by traitors." His face was detained, but his eyes were still firm.
"Let's take it."