It was supposed to be an ordinary court meeting in the late spring of the third year of Yongle, but it was highly anticipated, and the local officials who rushed to Gyeonggi from the local area to report on their work, or played important matters, as long as the Beijing officials in Gyeonggi were qualified to participate in the court meeting, there were already those courtiers who had the right or not the power to be important ministers of the court, and none of them asked for leave.

It's all here.

Even if someone accidentally contracted the disease, he dragged his sick body to the court.

Something big is going to happen today.

Some people have the mentality of eating melons to watch the excitement, some have other plans, and some people want to take this opportunity to find out the distribution of power between the DPRK and the central government.

Whoever supports whom will probably be much more exposed today.

Hundreds of civil and military officials stood in columns.

He stood on the square in front of the Mukden Temple.

Zhu Gaosui sat on the chair next to the dragon chair and said loudly: "Ladies and gentlemen, today's discussion of the matter, Xu Huizu, Huang Guan, Gao Xianning and Du Du and others were ordered to send envoys to Annan, originally only for the occupation of the city by Annan, but these four people ignored the laws of the country, forged my Ming national letter in Annan for their own selfish desires, and deceived Banglin, what do you think should be done?" ”

Huang Huai, the first assistant to the cabinet, took the lead, "Dare to ask Your Highness, is there conclusive evidence?"

Zhu Gaosui smiled: "Of course there is." ”

looked at Ji Gang, the commander of Jinyiwei, "Commander Ji, bring someone to testify." ”

Ji Gang nodded to Li Chun, the envoy of the Beizhen Fusi who was standing behind him, and Li Chun immediately went out of the main hall, and after a while, he brought more than ten scholars from the embassy, which belonged to the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Industry, including Zhong Liang, an official of the Ministry of Rites, and Hong Jilai, the director of the Ministry of Works.

After saluting, Ji Gang stepped forward and asked Zhong Liang, "Did you forge a letter of state in Lanshan Township that day?" ”

Zhong Liang's face was calm, "Yes." ”

Ji Gang asked again: "Who can testify?" ”

Zhong Liang remained silent, "All the people in the mission, out of a few people, most of them can testify that the materials for forging the national credentials were found by Li Li of the Li clan in Lanshan Township, Annan, and he also followed the mission to Daming." ”

Ji Gang bowed his head and said to Li Chun: "Go and bring Li Li here." ”

After Li Chun went.

Ji Gang continued to ask: "Specifically, how did you forge the national letter?" ”

Zhong Liang pondered for a while and recalled, "I wasn't at the scene who proposed it, but it should have been proposed by the chief and deputy envoys, or Commander Huang, because the situation at that time was very complicated, and something unexpected happened to the mission." ”

Ji Gang sneered, "This is not the reason for you to forge the national letter, let's talk about it." ”

Zhong Liang immediately said: "The materials of the national letter were provided by Li Li, and the production of the national letter and seal was made by the personnel of the Ministry of Industry under the consent and command of Hong Jilai, the director of the Ordnance Supervisor, and it can be fake and true, and the writing of the national letter was written by Huang Guan and Gao Xianning. ”

Ji Gang turned around, "Who is Hong Jilai, the head of the Ordnance Supervisor?" ”

Hong Jilai took a step forward, "Zhong Liang is right, the production of the national letter and the seal were all made with several colleagues from the Ministry of Industry's Ordnance Supervisor, and I don't know the subsequent writing." ”

Ji Gang bowed his head and looked at Huang Guan and Gao Xianning, "Both of you are old ministers of Jianwen, and you know the affairs of the court, especially Huang Guan, who was an official at the beginning, so it is not difficult for the ability and talent of the two of you to write the national letter." So Zhong Liang and Hong Jilai's confessions, do you have any objections? ”

Huang Guan and Gao Xianning were also light, "Yes." ”

Ji Gang let out a sigh.

Secretly happy.

I am a little puzzled, this is a little wrong, why don't they even have a defense, even if the forgery of the national letter is a fact, in order to survive, they should also grasp the purpose of forging the national letter and make a big fuss, why don't they mention it?

He asked, "Who proposed the forgery of the national credentials?" ”

Huang Guan and Gao Xianning glanced at each other, almost in unison, "I! ”

Xu Huizu coughed, "Don't fight with me, I am the envoy of the mission, without my consent, who dares to forge the letter of state, in fact, the situation changed abruptly at that time, I learned from Li Li's mouth that I didn't know about some accidents before the envoy, so in order to solve the problem, I had to forge a letter of state, this matter was raised by me, and the two deputy envoys have nothing to do with it, they as deputy envoys, can only obey my orders." ”

Ji Gang's heart tightened.

Here it comes.

He finally understood why Gao Xianning and Huang Guan would admit so frankly that their feelings were to give up their cars to protect their handsomeness.

And they will pluck out the twilight.

And it can be done!

Because the chief and deputy envoys of the mission are the three of them, and all major decisions are made between the three of them, and the envoy goes to dusk for another purpose, but everyone knows that the backbone of the mission is actually dusk.

coughed, "The three of them don't have to fight, and they don't have to rush to bear the crime, according to the information we got from the interrogation, it seems that it is not the two deputy envoys who proposed to forge the national credentials, nor the chief envoys, but someone else." ”

Xu Huizu looked puzzled, "Who else?" Am I not the head of the mission? ”

Ji Gang smiled, looked at the mission personnel, and asked one of them, "What's your name?" ”

The man immediately replied, "Li Lang." ”

Ji Gang asked again, "What do you know?" ”

Li Lang replied: "As far as I know, well, no, not as far as I know, everyone knows, many matters of the mission are all under the command of the Nanzhen Fusi, dusk, when he was in Lanshan Township, only he and a group of maids lived in the Li tribe, and he was the only one who knew what happened from Li Li's mouth, and during the production of the national letter, the news circulating in the mission was that it was Commander Huang who proposed to forge the national letter, and the three envoys nodded and agreed. ”

Ji Gang remained silent and asked everyone, "Really?" ”

Almost everyone in the mission nodded their heads and said unevenly, "There is indeed such a statement." ”

A person from the Ministry of Industry said: "At that time, Hong Jilai was in charge and deliberately explained to us, just about the production, and after returning to Gyeonggi, Commander Huang will suppress everything." ”

Ji Gang knew this for a long time: these Dongxibei Zhenfu Divisions had already been interrogated.

Turning to look at Dusk, "Commander Huang, explain and explain?" ”

Leave the car to protect the handsome?

How can that make you succeed?

Dusk coughed, "I don't know, I only found out about the forgery of the embassy's letter of state, I only found out later, at that time I just told the three envoys the news I learned from Li Li's mouth, and I don't know what happened later, you must know that I was with twelve beauties from the Western Regions, Annan was poor over there, there was no entertainment, and it was raining outside, I had nothing to do but find something to do, a man, there were twelve beauties from the Western Regions around him, what can he do?" Everybody gets the idea. ”

The court was in an uproar.

Everyone knows about this, but I didn't expect it to be true, Commander Huang is not shallow.

Dusk said this, "So I was drunk and dreamed of death, how could I know about the forgery of the national credentials, and it was not until the mission encountered the rebels that the three envoys decided to part ways, and I didn't know that there was such a thing when I got the credentials." ”

After a pause, "Of course, this is what you call a forgery of national documents, but in my opinion, this is a very normal thing, and it is also under the instructions of His Majesty, this should be within the laws of the country." So I don't understand, I waited for a lot of hardships, trekked thousands of mountains and rivers, and returned from Dai Gong, how did I return to Gyeonggi and be escorted to the edict by Commander Ji? ”

Ji Gang was stunned for a moment, and laughed angrily, "Everyone is a courtier, don't mess around, don't think that you can clear your sin by giving up your hand to protect the handsome." ”

Dusk spread his hands, "Well, I admit that the national letter was made at my beckoning. ”

added: "It's a production, not a forgery, please ask Commander Ji to use accurate words, don't use this matter to suppress dissidents on trumped-up charges, if this is circulated in the history books, the reputation is not good." ”

Ji Gang laughed, "What a sophistry." ”

But you can't tell the truth!