The crisp sound of "bang-la-la" iron chains came from outside the hall.

The haggard and faltering Jing Min was escorted into the hall by four armor soldiers, as an official from a civilian family, he received the emperor's grace, and the Great Qian Empire created a precedent for the children of commoners to be officials as long as they have talent, which is a great cause that has never appeared in any previous dynasty, and Jing Min is one of the beneficiaries.

Zhao Junsheng's eyes looked over, Jing Min involuntarily knelt down, prostrate on the ground and wept: "Long live the sinner Jing Min to see my emperor, long live!" ”

Zhao Junsheng said: "Before this dynasty, not to mention the children of the commoners, it was not easy for the children of the poor to be officials. Because the scholars will only consider the interests of the scholars as officials, and will not care about the lives and deaths of the poor and the common people, I do not deny the contributions made by the scholars in the past dynasties, but as the emperor, because it is considered to be the well-being of all the people in the world! ”

"Therefore, above the court and in the local government, there should be not only officials from the noble family, but also officials from poor families and commoners, each of whom represents their own class, so as to take care of the interests of all the people!"

"Jing Min, you disappointed me too much, you were originally from a commoner, but since you became an official, you have forgotten your origin, you think that you have broken away from the identity of a commoner when you become an official, in fact, the scholars and the Hanmen have never regarded you as a kind of person, you have separated from the people and yourself, in vain for my kindness, as a traitor, violating the law, and using power for personal gain!"

Jing Min howled and cried: "Your Majesty, the minister is guilty, the minister has failed His Majesty's expectations, and the minister deserves death······

Zhao Junsheng looked at Jing Min with an indifferent look and asked: "Tell me about your relationship with the Sogdian merchant Shi Dayou, from the beginning of how you met, what kind of interest exchange and collusion do you have, make it clear to me one by one, I remind you, this is your last chance to explain things clearly, the imperial trial is the final judgment, once I make my will, there is no possibility of changing it!" ”

Jing Min stopped crying, and he organized the words and words in his mind and said slowly: "Five years ago, the minister was appointed as the ······ of Lingzhou County."

It took a whole moment for Jing Min to explain all the things that Sogdian merchant Shi Dayou had bribed him and traded power and money with him in the past few years.

After Jing Min finished speaking, Shi Lin, Huang Dezhong, and even Zhao Ping, the king of Shu, were a little relieved in their hearts, all of this was going according to their expectations.

The crown prince Zhao Dong reprimanded loudly: "Jing Min, you are talking nonsense, when did this palace instruct you to shelter Shi Dayou?" When did you instruct you to collude with Shi Dayou on smuggling matters? Tianshui is still 108,000 miles away from the border, how to smuggle? ”

Zhao Junsheng turned his head to look at Zhao Dong and shouted: "You shut up for me, I didn't let you speak, you are not allowed to speak, is it me who is asking the case or you?" ”

"Father's ······"

"I told you to shut up!" Zhao Junsheng yelled.

Zhao Dong was so frightened that he had to shut up.

Zhao Junsheng closed his eyes and pondered, now all the evidence is unfavorable to the crown prince Zhao Dong, especially Jing Min's testimony and those letters, Zhao Dong can already be convicted based on these, but there is another person's confession that is very crucial, although this person has already confessed everything during the interrogation, Zhao Junsheng still decided to ask again.

"Spread the message, take the Sogdian merchant Shi Dayou!"

"No!"

A eunuch next to him took the order and left.

Zhao Junsheng has been an emperor for so many years, his eyesight and political sense are naturally very keen, he has already seen that the third Zhao Ping has made a strong impetus to the development of this case, he is an emperor, but he is also a father, the eldest and the third are his sons, he can't be partial, so the truth must be found out in this matter.

Whether the boss really did this kind of thing that betrayed the interests of the country, or whether all this was just the third child framed behind his back, he had to figure it out.

He looked at everyone in the hall and said in a deep voice: "When I interrogate Shi Dayou later, no one is allowed to interject, no matter who interjects, even if it is only one word, Kang Yide is responsible for slapping his mouth, saying one word ten times, saying two words twenty times, and so on!" ”

"No!" Kang Yide received the order, and everyone in the hall was awe-inspiring.

Soon after, the Sogdian merchant Shi Dayou was escorted into the main hall by the armor soldiers.

Although Shi Dayou was a Sogdian, he had been doing business in the territory of the Daqian Dynasty for many years, and he was very clear about the etiquette of the Daqian Dynasty, he was a commoner, so he knelt down and saluted: "Shi Dayou, a Sogdian merchant of the grass people, knocks to see His Majesty the Emperor!" Your Majesty, the grass people are Sogdian merchants, Your Majesty ordered the Sogdian merchants to leave the territory of the Great Qian Empire within the specified time, and the ministers did not leave within the prescribed time limit, but your country cannot arrest me and put me in prison, at most it can only confiscate all my property, I want to complain to you, the relevant yamen of your country will arrest people indiscriminately against your will! ”

Zhao Junsheng said: "Really? However, as far as I know, the reason why you were arrested was because you bribed our DPRK officials with money and tried to conspire with our DPRK officials to smuggle a large amount of goods, and you have confessed to it in your confession, is this true? ”

"This ······"

Zhao Junsheng looked at Shi Dayou's expression and said, "Shi Dayou, you have to think about it carefully!" ”

Shi Dayou's heart fell into a struggle and weighing, but he quickly sorted out the seriousness of the matter, he gritted his teeth and said: "Your Majesty is aware of everything, the villain has indeed bribed the officials of your country with money and negotiated with them to smuggle a large number of goods!" ”

Zhao Junsheng's eyes froze: "Who is this person?" ”

"Yes······ Yes······ It's His Royal Highness the Prince! ”

Zhao Dong was furious, his face turned red, he wanted to reprimand and refute, but he remembered that Zhao Junsheng had just announced that no one was allowed to intervene, and he could only sulk.

Zhao Junsheng said: "Shi Dayou, I am really curious, any case is the last chance to overturn the case before the emperor, you didn't retract the confession, but did not hesitate to admit all the previous confessions, do you not want to live anymore, or are you thinking about your wife and children?" ”

“······” Shi Dayou's forehead kept sweating.

Zhao Junsheng waited for a while, and said: "Shi Dayou, my time is limited, I don't have time to spend it with you, I declare that from now on all the confessions you made in the previous interrogation are invalid, and you and I will now explain the relationship between you and Jing Min, all the transactions and conspiracies between you, I will send someone to verify, once it is confirmed that what you said is true, I will pardon all your crimes and send troops to escort your family out of Daqian; But if it turns out that what you said is false, and none of you or your family can live, you have to think clearly! ”

Shi Dayou was sweating like rain.

"Grass People····· Grass Folk ······" Shi Dayou hesitated, he didn't dare to look at Huang Dezhong, but he knew very well what to do now, Zhao Junsheng is the emperor, since the emperor has opened his mouth, his credibility must be higher than anyone else!

Shi Dayou kowtowed and said: "Back to Your Majesty, the grass people want to retract their confessions, and the confessions of the grass people before were all tortured into tricks!" ”

As soon as these words came out, Huang Dezhong was the first to bear the brunt, his face changed completely, and he couldn't help but shout: "Shi Dayou, when did this official make a move against you?" ”

Zhao Junsheng's sharp eyes swept over and shouted: "Come on, slap your mouth!" ”

A total of thirteen words, Kang Yide asked the four little eunuchs to step forward and hold Huang Dezhong to take turns to slap his mouth, and the one hundred and thirty slaps really beat Huang Dezhong into a pig's head.

Huang Dezhong's fate silenced everyone, and everyone reminded themselves that no matter what happened, they must not speak.

Zhao Junsheng pointed at Shi Dayou: "You go on!" ”

"Yes! The grass people did bribe Jing Min to provide him with shelter, Jing Min accepted the grass people's money, and found a way to open a military customs clearance document for the grass people, with this military customs clearance document, he could go all the way to the Western Regions unimpeded until he left the territory of Daqian, but he was caught by the Imperial City Division before he left the territory of Tianshui County! ”

"The minister has never said anything about secret smuggling with Jing Min, everyone knows that the relationship between Daqian and the country has deteriorated to the extreme, and smuggling at this time is simply self-defeating, and Tianshui County is too far away from the border of the Western Regions, Jing Min can only manage the one acre and three points of land in Tianshui County, and the role of the smuggling route is too small, so this matter is fake!"

Zhao Junsheng's face turned cold, "Then why did you lie about your confession?" ”

"Someone forced the villain to say this, the villain can't help but say it, if he doesn't do this, the villain's family will all be killed!"

"Oh? Who forced you to do that? Zhao Junsheng leaned forward and stared at Shi Dayou.

Shi Dayou glanced at Huang Dezhong, saw that this person had been beaten into a pig's head, and then glanced at Zhao Ping, his eyes shrank, and he seemed to be particularly afraid, but he remembered that Zhao Junsheng had promised just now that as long as he told the truth, he would send troops to send him to the situation, so he decided to take a gamble, gritted his teeth and pointed at Huang Dezhong and said, "He forced the villain to do this!" ”

Huang Dezhong, who had been beaten into a pig's head, was already trembling with fright at this time, and crawled on the ground: "Your Majesty, the minister has never done this, the minister has been ordered to re-investigate this case, how heavy is the responsibility, how dare you enforce the law and break the law?" This Shi Dayou obviously didn't care about anything for his life, and began to bite people indiscriminately, and please ask Your Majesty to learn clearly! ”

Zhao Junsheng's gaze swept over the faces of Zhao Dong, Zhao Ping, Shi Lin and Huang Dezhong one by one, and after a long time, he ordered: "I will send someone to investigate this matter in detail." Come on, bring Jing Min and Shi Dayou back to prison! ”

The soldiers dragged the two men out.

Zhao Junsheng looked at Huang Dezhong again, "Lord Huang, you also go to the prison for a few days, if it is found out that you really tortured you to extract a confession and tortured into a trick to blame the prince, I will let you know what it feels like to regret it!" ”

After speaking, he shouted outside the hall: "Come on, take Huang Dezhong down and put him in prison!" ”

Huang Dezhong is just the head of the criminal department, the official is pitifully small, and he is not qualified to live in the prison, but he is suspected of violating the law while doing errands under the holy order, and if this kind of behavior is not severely punished, some people will follow suit in the future, and this trend cannot be raised.

Two soldiers walked in outside the hall and dragged Huang Dezhong out, and Huang Dezhong shouted: "Your Majesty spares your life, spare your life······