It is indeed not easy to investigate the events of more than ten years ago, not to mention how many people were so frightened by the blood of the year that they did not dare to speak again.

It's just that since there are doubts in this matter, there is a breakthrough, and Liu Xu has to investigate the truth clearly no matter what, in order to comfort the spirit of the former prince in the sky!

Inside the prison.

Wang Zhengjun shrank in the corner, and when he heard the sound of the cell door being opened, he immediately raised his head, only to see a man in a black cloak entering, and he asked vigilantly, "Who are you?"

The person who came took off the cloak and revealed a gloomy face, it was none other than Liu Xu.

Wang Zhengjun was overjoyed, and there was a gleam in his cloudy eyes: "Lord Wang, are you here to save me?"

Liu Xu stared at Wang Zhengjun for a while, squatted in front of him, and asked, "This king came here to ask you for a test. ”

"Lord Wang, please speak!" Wang Zhengjun hurriedly said.

"Ten years ago, there was a locust plague in Annan County, but you were a disaster relief official?" asked Liu Xu.

Hearing this, Wang Zhengjun's face changed greatly, and he suddenly collapsed on the ground, he didn't expect that ten years had passed since this matter, and he would actually be brought up, his eyes turned quickly, and he said in a trembling voice: "I can't remember the things ten years ago very clearly." ”

"If you don't remember clearly, this king will help you recall. "Ten years ago, you went to Annan County for disaster relief, but you colluded with local officials to steal the food for disaster relief, so that countless people starved to death. Later, Zhang Tong learned about the matter and came to investigate, you were worried that the matter would be exposed, so you intended to pull the prince into the water. ”

"There is no such thing!" Wang Zhengjun flatly denied, "I swear to God, there will never be such a thing!"

Liu Xu did not deny Wang Zhengjun, and continued to say in a light tone: "You just hoped that the prince would open up to you, but I am afraid that even you did not expect that because of this matter, it will lead to the prince's rebellion!"

"What King Qi is saying, I don't understand at all!" Wang Zhengjun looked at Liu Xu vigilantly and coldly, he grabbed Liu Xu's wrist, stared at his eyes, and asked coldly in a low voice, "King Qi, what do you want to do?"

Liu Xu squinted his eyes slightly: "Don't you know what this king wants to do?"

Wang Zhengjun's face changed drastically, his eyes showed a look of horror, and he roared in a low voice: "Are you crazy? Who do you think you are? The matter back then was decided by His Majesty himself, do you want to overturn His Majesty's decision? Do you know what you are doing? Do you want Your Majesty to face your mistakes, do you want Your Majesty to face the pain of personally ordering your son to be executed?" So many people died back then, and those people just wanted to say a word for the first prince, what about you, now you want to overturn the case for the first prince, it's just a fool's dream!"

He sat down angrily, swallowed his saliva, and said: "I didn't want to marry my daughter to you back then, and I know that you have never looked down on me in your heart, so I have never bothered you over the years, but I still regard you as a junior in the end, although you don't like to listen, I also have to advise you, do what you can! You have finally arrived today, why bother? If you want to overturn the case for the first prince, you are trying to become the prince, and if you become the emperor in the future, isn't it the same when you overturn the case, why put your own life into it, and put the life of the family into it!"

"You only have interests in your heart, and you have never had great righteousness in your heart, how can you understand what this king wants to do?" Liu Xu said lightly, "This king doesn't want to talk to you about the right and wrong of this matter, but just wants to ask you, is what happened back then true?"

Wang Zhengjun sighed: "At this point, it seems that the prince doesn't plan to save me, I'm just afraid that it will be impossible to escape, since you want to know, it's okay for me to tell you, but another point, I tell you that you can, my daughter, you have to take care of it." ”

Liu Xu smiled sarcastically: "Have you cared about her over the years?"

"Back then, a few of us were afraid that the matter would be revealed, so we wanted to pull the prince into our boat, so we set our sights on the Tongnan army. That year was not only the locust plague in Nan'an County, but also the flood, the remnants of the Mulan country rebelled, in short, the treasury was empty, and the pressure on the court was also very great, so there was also some arrears for the military rations of several armies, and the court thought of a way to let the few troops who were short of food raise their own food first. At that time, I was thinking that anyway, the Tongnan army was also collecting grain, and I was transporting some of the grain for disaster relief to support, if the prince was grateful, he would naturally not pursue it, and if the prince insisted on pursuing it, it would be impossible to take back the grain that fell into the Tongnan army for disaster relief, so he must accept it silently, as long as he accepted it, he would be a person in the same boat! I swear, I didn't think about framing the prince, and I don't have the courage to do it!"

After a pause, Wang Zhengjun continued: "It is impossible to let the people in the army know that the court is short of food, so this order to raise food by itself is issued secretly, and only a few people in the army know about it, but I didn't expect that some changes happened on the way to send people to deliver food, so that people knew about it, and then there was a secret letter sent to the capital, accusing the prince of buying military food privately and trying to plot misdeeds." Your Majesty knows this matter well, and in order to stabilize people's hearts, he still sent someone to investigate thoroughly, but this time there was a secret letter sent to the capital, which said that the Tongnan army was not only buying military rations privately, but also recruiting troops and horses, which made His Majesty suspicious, and what was even more terrifying was that the officials who went to investigate were assassinated by the killers sent by the prince on the way back!"

Wang Zhengjun glanced at Liu Xu, changed his posture to a more comfortable position, sighed and said: " This matter is also what I heard secretly from other people's mouths later, when disasters occurred everywhere, the displaced people continued, and the Tongnan army absorbed some displaced people to join the army and did not report to the imperial court, so there was a recruitment of troops, but in the end, the matter of Tongnan still only made His Majesty suspicious, and it was the latter two things that made His Majesty attack the first prince, those two things, King Qi in the army, should know more clearly than me, a civil official!"

Liu Xu nodded and said lightly: "This king understands." He said, getting up to leave.

Wang Zhengjun suddenly knelt down and grabbed Liu Xu's clothes, and said: "If King Qi really wants to overturn the case, I can use it as a witness to confirm that the private military rations he did back then are nothing, and I also know that my sins are serious, and there is absolutely no possibility of survival, I just hope that the prince can save my son's life and leave a pulse of incense for the Wang family!"

"Your son has a maid by his side, named Hanmei, who is pregnant, and this king can send her out of the capital to settle down. Liu Xu said lightly, "As for Wang Yu, it's not a pity for him to die." ”

Wang Zhengjun sighed deeply and regretted it: "It's also to blame that I didn't discipline him well, so that he caused great disasters again and again!

Liu Xu put on his cloak and turned to leave.

Wang Zhengjun looked at Liu Xu's back coldly, and smiled mockingly: "A fool who can't protect himself." ”

From the time he was transferred to the capital, it was just a game that started with a good look at King Qi's character, even if King Qi saw through this trap, he still jumped down as if he hesitated, this stupid boy!

When the first prince happened, he tried his best to get himself out, but in the end he was entangled because of this matter and couldn't get out, but he was afraid that everything was fate!

King Qi's Mansion, in the study.

"Lord Wang, there are not many files left from that year, they are all here. Qing Yue put some old files on Liu Xu's desk.

"Hmm. Liu Xu responded softly and waved his hand to let Qing Yue retreat.

Qing Yue had a little hesitation on his face, but looking at King Qi's firm and resolute face, he still swallowed the words in his mouth, the prince has always been like this, and no one can change his mind when he decides.

Later, Mo Ziyu came to bring him food as usual, the light in the room was a little dim, she picked the candle brighter, and said, "Lord Wang, let's eat something first." ”

Liu Xu pulled his gaze out of the dossier and sighed: "These dossiers are done very carefully, and they are simply leaky. ”

"Since it's fake, no matter how perfect the compilation is, there will always be flaws. Mo Ziyu said softly, "You eat first, and the concubine will accompany you to watch." ”

"Do you know how dangerous it is for this king to do? To be honest, this king doesn't know that you know too much, and knowing too much is not good for you. Liu Xu stretched and said.

"There are no eggs under the nest, if something happens to the prince one day, will the concubine still be able to run?" Mo Ziyu hooked his lips and smiled, "In this case, I can only advance and retreat with you!"

"If you want to run, this king can let you run away!" Liu Xu said as he looked at Mo Ziyu's eyes.

"But the concubine is still willing to live and die with you. Mo Ziyu smiled faintly, "The secret of what the prince did, since you are willing to tell the concubine, how can the concubine be the one who is greedy for life and afraid of death?"

"Aren't you afraid?"

"I'm afraid!"

"Then why don't you persuade this king?"

"Since the prince thinks that what he did is right, and the concubine also thinks that what you are doing is right, so why do you want to persuade him?" Mo Ziyu smiled faintly, "No matter the consequences, no matter the eyes of the world, only do what you think is right, the concubine thinks about it, this is the young man in the bright capital at the beginning, over the years, you have never changed!"

Liu Xu looked at Mo Ziyu's eyes full of brilliance, the corners of his mouth slightly hooked up a touch of good-looking, and said in a soft and affectionate voice: "Life has a confidant, what more can a husband ask for!"

Taking advantage of Liu Xu's meal, Mo Ziyu turned over the file on the table, understood the events of the year almost well, raised his eyes and said to him: "These things are all too clear, how can you look through them, even if you find a loophole? The veterans who participated in the mutiny in the Guannei Army back then, there should still be still people alive, try to find them, what they heard from the mouths of people who have experienced this incident is always more real than the things on it." ”