After listening to the details of Ma Yongcheng and Wang Yangming's arrest of Zhang Yu and other important criminals, Zhu Houzhao was completely clear about what had happened in Shaanxi before, and only then did he understand that Ma Yongcheng and others did not enter Beijing with Wang Shu at all, which caused Li Dongyang to mistakenly think that Wang Shu and his party were slaughtered as Zhang Yu and others were also successfully exterminated, and even with Zhu Houzhao at first, he thought that Zhang Yu and others had been successfully exterminated.

Now that he heard that Zhang Yu and the others had not been exterminated, Zhu Houzhao naturally had more confidence in his heart to declare war on the entire civil official group outside the palace!

In fact.

At this time, the atmosphere of the Forbidden City has unexpectedly become serious.

Originally, at the beginning, it was because they heard that His Majesty the Emperor had indiscriminately sent Li Dongyang and others directly to the edict and prison, and they were angry and wanted to come to the Forbidden City to kneel and force Zhu Houzhao to compromise, but now they heard that Zhang Yu and others were escorted into Beijing, and they all guessed what this meant.

Most of the civil officials, especially the civil officials in Beijing above the fifth rank, are almost not fools, in fact, they have all heard of the fact that Emperor Hongzhi may have been killed, but they are not willing to take the initiative to mention this matter, even the officials who have heard about it have not thought of making a fuss about this matter.

For no other reason, everyone is quite willing to see Emperor Hongzhi die.

Because someone had already released rumors, Emperor Hongzhi summoned Ma Wensheng before his death, intending to order Liu Jian, Li Dongyang and other ministers and reorganize the cabinet to start raising commercial taxes and reforming the rule of officials to fill the treasury and reduce the people's poverty.

Naturally, these civil servants don't care about who is a cabinet minister, but what they care about is whether their own interests can be protected.

Emperor Hongzhi suddenly wanted to be a better emperor, that is, an emperor who was in charge of the people clearly violated their interests, and they naturally wanted to see such an event as the death of the emperor created by the cabinet and the inner court.

Therefore, except for Ma Wensheng, almost no civil official is willing to be a detective, but they expose the truth, and they can't offend the cabinet and the inner court for the sake of a dead Hongzhi Emperor.

Even, they will be willing to help cover up this fact to be revealed, as soon as they heard that Li Dongyang and others were imprisoned, they all actively came to intercede, and they did not hesitate to disobey Long Yan!

However, at this time, when they knew that Ma Yongcheng brought Zhang Yu and other murderers who directly led to the death of Emperor Hongzhi into Beijing, they all knew that they could not help cover up the truth now, and even panicked one by one, because they didn't know how many people would be implicated when the truth was revealed, and they could only hope that Zhu Houzhao would be merciful and not implicate too many people!

Moreover, at this time, these civil officials in Beijing have even begun to regret it, regretting that they came to the palace to ask for Li Dongyang's favor, can't they stay out of the matter.

"By order! All the officials present entered the palace and knelt outside the Fengtian Gate, kneeling according to the Chaoban! ”

As the words of the celebrant fell, these civil officials entered the palace in an orderly manner, knelt outside the Fengtian Gate, and did not dare to complain, this is also no way, they are now afraid that if their behavior is bad, they will be governed by His Majesty Li Dongyang's comrades.

Ma Wensheng also walked outside the Fengtian Gate by order, and at this time, the eunuch had already set up a chair here, Ma Wensheng as the chief judge naturally sat in the center, the left capital Yu Shi Dai Shan, the criminal department Shangshu Min Qi, Dali Temple Zhengqing Yang Shousui were all summoned from the kneeling civil officials, and they all sat on the left side of Ma Wensheng.

At this time, Ma Yongcheng, the commander of the East Factory, Gu Dayong, the commander of the West Factory, and Guo Rong, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, also came over and sat on the right side of Ma Wensheng.

Zhu Houzhao also appeared on the jade steps of Fengtianmen at this time, only staring at Ma Wensheng and the others at the bottom of the steps and the civil officials kneeling in front.

Jiao Fang and Xu Jin also appeared with Zhu Houzhao.

At this time, Zuodu Yu Shi Dai Shan was obviously a little trembling, and Zhu Houzhao couldn't help asking: "Zuo Du Yu Shi Dai Shan!" What are you shaking, today you will judge others, and not others will judge you! ”

Dai Shan was shouted by Zhu Houzhao, not only did not stop trembling, but was so frightened that she slipped down from the chair directly, and only said to Zhu Houzhao:

"Your Majesty, the minister and Li Dongyang don't have any personal relationship, it's just that the minister's student married his granddaughter, but the minister has long since recognized that student! Please also Your Majesty to be clear! ”

Zhu Houzhao was speechless for a while, waved his hand and said, "That being the case, what are you panicking, just sit down!" ”

Dai Shan nodded before holding the back of the chair and sitting back down.

Seeing this, Ma Wensheng was also quite speechless, and directly began to get to the point, saying: "Everyone, I think you have also heard recently that the traitor does not fall, and the emperor cries at night, and His Majesty the emperor also has to dream of the first emperor to sue for the grievances of being killed, and it seems that there is a grievance in the death of the first emperor of this official, and it may be that he was killed by a traitorous traitor!"

Therefore, Ma Yongcheng, the governor of Dongchang, asked to arrest Zhang Yu and others who were on the border and returned to Beijing for retrial, and now Zhang Yu and others have been escorted into Beijing, so today the case of the first emperor being killed will be retried! ”

As he spoke, Ma Wensheng shouted: "Bring people to commit Zhang Yu, Liu Wentai, etc.!" ”

For a while, Zhang Yu, Liu Wentai and others were brought up.

When Zhang Yu, Liu Wentai and others appeared, the civil officials present were all trembling, and they didn't even dare to look at Zhang Yu, Liu Wentai and others, for fear of being implicated by them.

And at this time.

Zhang Yu himself was very indifferent, dragging the chain as if walking leisurely towards Fengtianmen step by step, with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

Liu Wentai was not as calm as Zhang Yu, he only trembled: "I don't want to die, I don't want to die, I really don't want to die!" ”

Needless to say, there are those who are silent, those who giggle for no reason, and those who cry unconsciously.

The first to appear in front of Ma Wensheng and others was naturally Zhang Yu.

Zhang Yu knelt down very consciously.

Seeing this, Ma Wensheng asked: "Zhang Yu, the day the first emperor died, it was you who served, and this official now asks you, whether the first emperor was killed, and by whom?" ”

"Our family doesn't dare to hide that the first emperor was indeed killed and died, he was killed by Liu Wentai, Liu Wentai must add an extra penny of aconite to each dose of the first emperor's medicine, and he will harm the first emperor without cooking it first! The first emperor died after taking this hot medicine. ”

As soon as Zhang Yu's words came out, the audience was in an uproar, although they had already guessed that the first emperor might have been killed, but they were still full of horror after hearing it from Zhang Yu's mouth!

Even Zhu Houzhao couldn't help clenching his fists, and only looked at Zhang Yu coldly.

Ma Wensheng was also short of breath, he initially suspected that the death of the first emperor was suspicious, but now after knowing the truth from Zhang Yu's mouth, he was naturally very angry, and only gritted his teeth and asked, "Is there any evidence?" ”

"At that time, only our family personally decocted the medicine for the first emperor, and after decocting the medicine, our family would remove the hot medicine in the residue and then give it to the first emperor to check, but in case there will be changes in the future, our family has not removed the medicine residue of the day before His Majesty's death, and it is hidden under the third stone steps of Fengtianmen! And there is a nine-dragon jade pendant left by the first emperor! ”

After Zhang Yu finished speaking, Ma Wensheng hurriedly asked Zhu Houzhao to allow the Jinyi Weidu to command the servants to pry open the third stone steps, and when he pried it open, there was indeed a brocade box, and when the brocade box was opened, it was indeed a pile of medicinal residue and a nine-dragon jade pendant left by the emperor.

"This thing is indeed the first emperor's thing, and Xia Guan once saw him wear it when he went out of the palace with the first emperor's micro-clothes."

Jiao Fang, who used to work in Hanlin, said to Zhu Houzhao.

At this time, Yang Ying, a Dali temple secretary who is quite knowledgeable in medical science, grabbed the medicine residue: "Sure enough, there are aconite, and there are obviously a lot more, this is a hot medicine, Liu Wentai, what should you be guilty of!" ”

Plop!

Liu Wentai, who had consulted Emperor Hongzhi, knelt down: "The lower officials were also coerced by Shao Daxia!" ”

Shao Daxia?

Zhu Houzhao heard Shao Daxia for the first time, and thought that there was a Shao Daxia in the Longwan period, but he didn't expect that there was also a Shao Daxia who could force the Taiyi to kill the emperor during the Hongzhi period.

At this time, Ma Wensheng had already questioned Liu Wentai: "Who is Shao Daxia and how did he coerce you." ”

"He killed one of my servants, and threatened me to kill the first emperor within three days, otherwise I would die a tragic death in three days, and he told me not to be afraid, saying that Li Gefu and Xie Gefu would save my life at that time!"

Liu Wentai replied.

As soon as Liu Wentai's voice fell, the officials present were surprised again, and began to be more convinced that Li Dongyang, Xie Qian, and others were indeed involved in the murder of the first emperor.