The change in the direction of the court has affected the re-trial of the Criminal Department.

This time, the presiding judge of the trial, Lao Yongjia, ignored the opposition of the waiter Yang Qiming, and directly judged Zhang Cha on the spot that he was a crazy person, saying that there was no instigator in this case, and it was purely caused by Zhang Cha's crazy heart and straying into the East Palace, so Zhang Cha should be sentenced to death according to the law, so that he would not die to the point of wanton biting and innocent.

Zheng Ruhai, the young secretary of Dali Temple, and Jiang Guoyang, the imperial history of Shandong Province of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, did not say a word.

"The eunuch of the concubine who was sent to him has not yet been tried, how can the case be closed!" Yang Qiming angrily reprimanded Lao Yongjia in court.

"Since I am the presiding judge today, I should judge according to the facts and the law, if Lord Shilang feels that the judgment of the lower official is improper, he can ask the imperial historian to impeach the lower official, or he can directly write to His Majesty to explain that the judgment of the lower official is improper and remove the lower official!" Although Lao Yongjia is only a small official, he is very old, so he directly contradicted Yang Qiming.

Yang Qiming's beard was curled, and he had no choice but to ask Zhang Wenda, who was temporarily in charge of the Criminal Department, to explain to him.

Zhang Wenda asked Lao Yongjia to summon the court to discuss the matter, but Lao Yongjia ignored it, and after the verdict was pronounced in the court, he ordered the recorder to write down the trial process and the verdict into a question book and submit it to the Chief Secretary.

Zhang Wenda couldn't stop him after he found out.

After the results of the trial were reported, this time the cabinet ministers did not intercept and call back, but added a sentence of "the minister thinks it is okay" and then ordered it to be submitted to the imperial front, and the eunuch on duty Jin Zhong personally sent this title to the Qianqing Palace.

"What a crazy person?"

After the Wanli Emperor saw the result, he did not reply for a long time. In the harem, a decree was issued, and the three legal divisions were ordered to retry at a later date.

There is no impermeable wall in the world, and soon the matter of someone bribing the chief judge and the imperial history was discovered by the Donglin party.

"One husband is difficult, Jiumiao is shocked, Liu Tingyuan, Liu Guangfu and the officials of the Criminal Department, the magnates of each ministry, Zhuyu money is full of facts, resulting in black and white reversed, and the case of Nuo Da's assassination of the prince ended with madness, which is really ridiculous and hateful!" Wang Zhiyu said hatefully at Zhang Wenda's house.

"Someone among the officials asked someone to smash it with silver, so what's so strange about the result of the trial?"

Yang Qiming said in a sullen voice, although he and Zhang Wenda are temporary officials of the Criminal Department and a servant of the Criminal Department, they do not have the power to remove the judge, let alone directly interfere with the judge's judgment.

"Lao Yongjia is simply a random judgment, saying that according to the law of shooting arrows and throwing bricks and stones in front of the Daming Law Palace, he will beat Zhang Cha, who assassinated the prince, to death, is this simply trying to kill people!" The king was furious.

"Your Majesty has not yet made a clear decree in this case, and only asked the three law divisions to retry at a later date, which shows that Your Majesty does not believe in the results of this trial, and we don't need to be discouraged, the top priority is to protect Zhang Cha. As long as this person is guilty, the truth will always come out. "The one who spoke was Zuo Zhongyun of the Hanlin Academy, Sun Chengzong, who is now the emperor's eldest grandson.

Zhang Wenda nodded and agreed, and he told Wang Zhihuan: "You still have to work hard for a few days as a prison officer, don't let that group of people do it first, kill people and kill people, Your Majesty will definitely talk about him in a few days, and then it will be a turning point." ”

"As long as Your Majesty does not close the case without knowing the will, those people who have received the money will not dare to stand up even if they are short-handed and soft-mouthed." Yang Qiming thought so.

"Please rest assured, the two adults, the lower officials have already placed Zhang Cha, and the people in charge of them are all my confidants, and those people can't move his hands and feet."

Wang Zhihuan is quite confident in this.

........

Wanli is not confused, no matter how you look at the results of the trial reported by the Criminal Department, there are many doubts, especially the concubine who was reported last time has no follow-up, so he issued an order to ask for a retrial.

If the assassination of the crown prince is not investigated, he will always feel at ease as the emperor. It doesn't matter whether he likes the prince or not.

But Wanli is actually conflicted in his heart, on the one hand he wants to know the truth, and on the other hand, he is afraid of the truth.

He was afraid that it was really the hand sent by the concubine.

Since the attack occurred, Wanli has not gone to the concubine again, even if he misses his young son Chang Yu very much, but when he thinks that it is very likely that the concubine sent someone to assassinate the prince, Wanli's heart hurts very much, as if he has been pierced with a needle.

To be honest, it is difficult for outsiders to understand the emperor's contradictory heart at this time.

After all, he and Concubine Zheng Guifei have had a husband and wife relationship for almost thirty years, how could they be willing to easily break off this love. But on the other side is his own flesh and blood, the future heir to the throne of the Ming Empire, how can he tolerate someone harming him!

Under such complex emotions, it is impossible for Wanli to completely stand on the side of the prince and abolish the concubine who has been favored for thirty years and has just given birth to a young son for himself.

But he can't ignore it!

If he doesn't deal with it this time and continues to ignore it, it will definitely chill the prince's heart. In the future, when the crown prince ascends the throne and becomes the emperor, as soon as outsiders instigate him, the concubine will definitely be in trouble.

How can you do both?

Not only do you want to let the concubine restrain and no longer hurt people, but also let the prince let go of this knot and turn hostility into friendship?

It would undoubtedly be best if the verdict was based on the results of the trial reported by the Criminal Department, but this was obviously unfair to the prince.

Wanli really thinks about it, and he really can't think of a way to do both.

At this time, the chamberlain came to report that the prince had gone to the Yikun Palace of the noble concubine.

"What is Chang Luo going to do with her?"

Wanli looked surprised and confused.

.........

Yikun Palace.

When the concubine heard that the prince asked to see her, she was also taken aback, and she was very frightened, thinking that the prince was coming to ask her for the guilt, and she thought that she was innocent, and she was also frightened to greet her in person.

Zhu Changluo was also taken aback when he saw Concubine Zheng Guifei coming to pick him up in person, thinking that this woman didn't even look at herself on weekdays, and often played right and wrong in front of her father, saying bad things about herself, and didn't take her prince seriously at all.

Thinking like this, after seeing Concubine Zheng, he didn't wait for the concubine to speak, Zhu Changluo suddenly bowed to her, crying while saying that someone separated him and the concubine's mother-son relationship, and said that he shouldn't transfer a madman to the law department, causing the reputation of the concubine to be damaged...

"Niangniang must believe me, I have no intention of implicating Niangniang, and I firmly believe that Niangniang will never harm my heart! Today, I came to see Niangniang, just to dissect my heart, to prove Niangniang's innocence, and even more to prove my innocence! ”

Zhu Changluo swore as he spoke.

The concubine was stunned.

reacted, believed it, really thought that Zhu Changluo was here to compensate himself, and hurriedly bowed, so the concubine worshipped, Zhu Changluo also worshipped, and the two of them cried and worshipped.

Gradually, Zhu Changluo stopped his tears and peeked at the concubine, who seemed to be moved, and her face revealed a little compassion.

Zhu Changluo thought that the purpose of his coming had been achieved, so he said goodbye to the concubine and said that he was going to the Qianqing Palace to show his father his intentions.

The concubine stopped her tears, and lovingly watched Zhu Changluo go away, and after the latter left, the concubine's expression gradually solidified, and there was a lot of confusion in her heart.

"Niangniang," Zheng Zi whispered to the side.

The concubine said "um".

Zheng Zi lowered his voice and said, "Why does the master look like he was forced to come to you?" ”

"Who dares to coerce the crown prince?"

The concubine was stunned, and after a long time, she laughed.

Boy, just capable.