Northern Jin Dynasty, Imperial Palace, Imperial Study

Emperor Liyang sat on the dragon chair, playing with a piece of black jade unicorn paperweight in his hand, and looked at Liu Nong, who was helped in by several chamberlains, with an expressionless face.

Cao Dahua, the left attendant of the Criminal Department, and Long Xiaoxiao, the commander of the school, as the trial officials of this case, were specially allowed to stay in the palace and listen to Liu Rong's confession with Emperor Liyang.

Liu Rong, who changed into a new suit of clothes, but still couldn't hide the bloody anger on his body, was put down by the chamberlain, struggled to kneel on the ground, and kowtowed to Emperor Liyang.

"The criminal minister Liu Lang has failed the grace of the saint and disappointed His Majesty."

Emperor Liyang now doesn't like to see Liu Nong, a person who collaborates with the enemy and betrays the country, if it weren't for the fact that he actually has a "secret" that is of great importance, he won't see Liu Lane at all.

At this time, seeing Liu Lane kneeling down and pleading guilty, Emperor Liyang felt very sarcastic, smiled slightly mockingly, and said in a cold tone.

"If you know your guilt, you should try your best to make amends, wash away the sins on your body, and go underground in the future, so that you will not be spurned by the ancestral gods."

Liu Lane kowtowed again, and said with tears streaming down his face: "After the criminal minister was imprisoned, he was very ashamed, and he asked to see His Majesty with the courage to help you identify the traitor, clear the blindness, and return the integrity of the country, and also compensated Your Majesty and the criminal minister Hao Hai in case of kindness." ”

When Emperor Liyang heard this, his face moved slightly: "Liu Rong, Cao Qing said that you had another instigator behind your back, whether this matter is true or false, you truthfully recruited from me." ”

Liu Lang nodded, wiped the sweat from his face, and replied tremblingly: "Up to now, the criminal minister does not dare to deceive Your Majesty, and the criminal minister and several forces in the pirates of the East China Sea do collude and cooperate.

But this matter was by no means the original intention of the criminal, in fact, it was coerced by others, and he was forced to go astray, and the criminal ........."

Emperor Liyang was extremely bored with Liu Lang in his heart, and he didn't bother to listen to him talking here, so he threw the ink jade unicorn paperweight in his hand on the case, and asked coldly.

"Don't be too long-winded, tell me honestly, who is behind this so-called mastermind?"

Liu Lane stopped talking, lowered his head and hesitated for a moment, his lips trembled slightly, and he spit out five words.

"The Four Princes, King Jing."

As soon as these words came out, Emperor Liyang stood up directly in anger and stared at Liu Lane with an uncertain expression, and the atmosphere in the imperial study instantly dropped to freezing point.

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Cao Shilang couldn't wait to stuff his head into his chest, and he didn't dare to move up and down, trying his best to shrink his sense of existence.

He was about to regret his death at this time, and he couldn't wait to slap himself to death, calling himself greedy for merit, and he dragged Liu Lane to torture for a day and a night.

can be the second-in-command of the criminal department, Cao Dahua is not a fool.

Liu Lane confessed that King Jing instructed him to collude with pirates in the East China Sea, whether it was true or false, whether King Duan took the opportunity to frame him, or King Jing did a great evil thing, this case has changed from a simple case of powerful officials collaborating with the enemy, and suddenly involved in the fierce battle for succession.

And he, the chief judge, if he sent Liu Rong into the palace without saying a word before, and he didn't participate deeply, he might be able to get out as soon as possible.

But now everyone knows that he interrogated Liu Lane for a day and a night before, and now he has sent him to the palace, and then he goes out to say that he didn't know in advance, I'm afraid no one will believe it.

After the bad news spread, everyone's first reaction was that Cao Dahua tortured Liu Lane to confess, and when he learned about King Jing, he didn't dare to be proficient, and then sent him to the palace under the pretext that Liu Lane was not recruited, and reported to Emperor Liyang in person.

Damn it!

As soon as he thought of this, Cao Dahua felt the strange eyes of Ling Hu Ying next to him, and his heart suddenly had mixed feelings.

It's over, it's really trapped.........

Emperor Liyang didn't care about Cao Dahua's thoughts, he looked at Liu Rong with some anger, gritted his teeth, and said.

"Do you know what a great sin it is to frame a prince? If you are untruthful, falsely accuse King Jing, and punish you for the crime of collaborating with the enemy, you will really want to live in the nine clans of the Liu family. ”

Liu Rong's face was full of fear: "The criminal minister will never dare to deceive Your Majesty, I have letters and some account books in my hand as proof." ”

Emperor Liyang narrowed his eyes, turned his head and glanced lightly at Ling Hu Ying, the commander of Long Xiaoxiao's school, Ling Hu Ying immediately understood, and stepped forward to ask Liu Rong.

"Where is the evidence now?"

Liu Lang replied honestly: "There is a rockery by the pond in the back garden of the mansion of the guilty minister, and a secret room is dug under the rockery, and there is a box in the secret room, which contains the correspondence between the criminal minister and King Jing and some account books. ”

Emperor Liyang frowned, exhaled, and immediately asked Linghu Ying to take someone to bring evidence into the palace.

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Soon after Ling Hu Ying left, there was a sudden noise outside the imperial study, and after a while, the white eunuch who had just been promoted to the deputy head of the imperial study entered the palace.

Just now there were two little eunuchs sneaky, it seemed that they wanted to leave the imperial study and run to the harem, the white eunuch saw that the situation was wrong, and after taking the interrogation, he learned that these two little eunuchs were bought by King Jing, and when he heard Liu Rong's words just now, he wanted to go to the harem to report to Yu Guifei.

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Emperor Liyang was furious when he heard this, and directly threw a teacup, and then ordered the white eunuch.

"Send two teams of forbidden troops over, close the imperial study, dare to have eunuchs and palace maids trespass, kill the matter, and the jade concubine will also send someone to keep an eye on it, if there is any abnormal behavior, report it immediately."

The white eunuch complied, took the order to retreat, and waited until he left the inner hall of the imperial study before he showed a smug smile.

It was still a clever plan for the prince, and let our family prepare early, and sure enough, he gave King Jing and Concubine Yu an eye drop.........

The white eunuch was proud, Emperor Liyang's mood was not very comfortable, he was already upset because King Jing was suspected of colluding with pirates, and now he saw him bribing the imperial chamberlain, and he was even more disgusted.

Before Linghu won the evidence, Emperor Liyang preconceived his suspicions about King Jing.

Liu Lane and Cao Dahua, who were still waiting in the imperial study, saw this, and were keenly aware of the changes in Emperor Liyang's attitude before and after, and their minds moved.

Especially Cao Dahua, he secretly glanced at Emperor Liyang, whose face was obscure, and sighed slightly.

King Jing is afraid that it will not be good!

About half an hour later, Linghu Ying returned to the imperial study, and there was a large mahogany box with him, and Emperor Liyang asked people to open the box, which was mostly some letters, account books and many sundries.

Emperor Liyang looked at Liu Nong, Liu Nong suddenly understood, staggered up, and explained the objects in the box to Emperor Liyang one by one.

"Collusion with pirates, it is the criminal minister who comes forward, King Jing never touches this matter in order to prevent leakage, and usually the criminal minister does not dare to look for him easily, unless it is urgent, he will personally come to the door to ask for help.

She is the younger sister of Concubine Yu, Aunt King Jing, and Princess Jing's aunt, and has a close relationship with King Jing.

So on the surface, the criminal minister and King Jing had little friendship, but in fact, there were a lot of letters in private. ”

Speaking of his wife's intimacy with King Jing, Liu Lang's eyes couldn't help but bring two hatreds, but fortunately, he was bowing his head and replying, and Emperor Liyang didn't see it clearly.

Cao Dahua, who was a little far away from Liu Lane, saw that something was wrong, his eyes flashed, but he didn't say anything interestingly.

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Liu Lane didn't know that he almost let Cao Dahua ruin his plan, so he recovered in his heart and continued.

"The criminal minister and King Jing have an agreement, and every year, the criminal minister will take seventy percent of the proceeds from the pirates and send them to King Jing's mansion.

In order to hide people's eyes, this money will be divided into two parts, one part of which has crossed the clear road, nominally King Jing is short of money, and borrowed from the uncle-in-law of the guilty minister, as evidenced by these letters.

King Jing is like this, but also for outsiders to find out that his financial resources have increased greatly, and they are suspicious, so he uses the criminal minister as a shield.

He is related to King Jing, and he is a popular storage position, and the criminal minister is the future of the Weiyi Marquis's Mansion, and it is a matter of responsibility for the division to help each other.

But this is actually deliberately done by King Jing for outsiders to see, in addition to these subsidies from the criminal ministers, secretly, there is also a large amount of pirate dividends secretly sent to King Jing's mansion.

The amount of this silver is not recorded in the book, and the accounts are all in the mind of the criminal minister, but in order to prevent King Jing from crossing the river and demolishing the bridge, the criminal minister secretly kept an eye.

Carefully check the pirate dividend account book over the years, and then compare it with the criminal minister and the silver borrowing account book with King Jing, one positive and one negative, you will find that a large amount of silver is missing every year, and these silver are the pirates who sent it to King Jing's mansion. ”

Liu Lane pointed out the origin of these letters and account books, and Emperor Liyang's face gradually became a little ugly.

He didn't want to think of his son as so despicable, but what Liu Lane said was smooth and logical, and it was obviously not made up casually.

King Jing...... Maybe there was really collusion with pirates!

Thinking of this, Emperor Liyang's expression was very gloomy, he turned his head to look at Linghu Ying, and commanded softly.

According to Liu Rong, check the accounts to see if there is such a silver tael, and the other ......... Send some more people to check on King Jing's side and see if there's anything wrong. ”

Ling Hu Ying's eyes flashed, as the emperor's confidant, he was keenly aware of Emperor Liyang's alienation and vigilance against King Jing.

However, Linghu Ying did not mean to intercede for King Jing, Long Xiaoxiao was loyal to the Son of Heaven, Emperor Liyang had an order, he could do things according to the order, as for which prince was unlucky, and which prince was cheaper, it had nothing to do with him.

After Linghu Ying left, Emperor Liyang asked Cao Dahua to bring Liu Rong back and specially confessed.

Liu Lane has a lot to do with it, before the matter is clear, he must not have an accident, if something happens to Liu Lane, Cao Dahua will also be finished.

It can be seen that Emperor Liyang deliberately angered Cao Shilang, but the imperial power was supreme, and Cao Dahua did not dare to resist, so he could only honestly confess to Liu.

In order to be afraid that Liu Rong would commit suicide, Cao Dahua simply gritted his teeth and moved to the prison with a few henchmen, taking turns to take care of him, for fear that Liu would have an accident.

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Cao Dahua's mind Liu was too lazy to take care of it, and all his attention at this time was on whether his words could bring down King Jing.

The words he said in the palace before were seven points false and three points true.

It is true that King Jing borrowed silver, and the road to winning the heir requires silver like a sea, so King Jing naturally will not let go of Liu Rong, a huge rich uncle.

And because of his wife, Liu Lane naturally also hopes that King Jing will ascend to the throne, so he has supported King Jing a lot of funds, adding up to almost three or four hundred thousand taels.

And King Jing's collusion with pirates is nothing, and the large amount of silver taels that Liu Lane said is the back road he left for himself, a secret vault that was quietly hidden, and the location was only him, and he pushed it to King Jing, which was definitely unspeakable.

And the account book is a button left by Liu Rong, which is specially used to trap people.

Not only can King Jing's account books find the disappeared silver, but several other officials who Liu bribed with a lot of money also have similar accounts, but the verification method is different.

If Liu Lane doesn't explain the mystery clearly, this spearhead will be pointed at King Jing alone.

Ups and downs for decades, creating millions of foundations, Liu Lane is naturally not a mediocre person, this bureau he has laid out, interlocking, murderous, calculating the crime of colluding with pirates by King Jing, it is enough to make him drink a pot.

"Not to mention ........."

Liu Rong's eyes flashed, he still has a powerful partner, I believe that at this time, the other party will definitely not do a good show, I am afraid that it will not be long before King Jing will face a new crisis............