Li Dongyang laughed: "Is it nonsense, Jin Yiwei will go to the old man's mansion and take out the incriminating evidence hidden under a pair of Ru kilns in Chasong Hall, Liu Yuan sentenced, although you have done a seamless job, it is impossible to escape the unpredictable world, you are the medicine you took from An Rentang, and An Rentang is the old man's industry!" ”

When Liu Wentai heard Li Dongyang say this, he lowered his head in frustration, and immediately shouted to Zhu Houzhao: "Your Majesty, the criminal minister wants to expose it, and the criminal minister exposed Li Dongyang not only let Shao Daxia and my whole family threaten their lives, but also used this threat to frame the first emperor!" ”

Zhu Houzhao felt a little headache, and now he was in no mood to care who was more excessive between Liu Wentai and Li Dongyang at this time, so he hurriedly gave Ma Wensheng a look, which meant to let Ma Wensheng speed up the interrogation process.

Ma Wensheng understood and hurriedly asked Zhang Yu: "Zhang Yu, why did you murder the first emperor?" ”

Zhang Yu glanced at Li Dongyang and said: "The reason is very simple, the first emperor was too thrifty, and kept reducing the expenses of the internal government, so that those of us who were eunuchs had no oil and water, and even the ancestors were dissatisfied with this, but I couldn't say it, if Your Majesty continued to be a good emperor like this, I Zhang Yu was not the only one who wanted to harm him." ”

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but slander when he heard this, the emperor was also at fault for being thrifty?

At this time, I heard Zhang Yu continue:

"Of course, the most direct reason is that the old slave was found out by Ma Wensheng's protégé when he was in charge of the imperial horse eunuch, and he went to the ceremonial supervisor, fortunately, the cabinet assistants and the old ancestor intercepted it, otherwise the first emperor would have belittled the old slave if he didn't kill the old slave!

But after all, the killing of the first emperor was not the participation of the old slave alone, if only the old slave participated, he would not have the courage to kill the first emperor, the cabinet scholars Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, Xie Qian, Liu Daxia, the secretary of the military department, Lu He, the eunuch of Suitang, and Zhang Zhao, the eunuch of the imperial horse, were all involved in this matter!

The old slave was worried that when the time came, they would blame the death of the first emperor on the old slave alone, and even made a move to lose the pawn to protect the handsome, the old slave asked the ancestor to ask for a letter of commitment for our family, this letter of commitment has their autograph and seal, the emperor can order people to compare the notes they thought were sparse, and if it were not for them as a guarantee, how could the old slave dare to do this great rebellion! ”

As he spoke, Zhang Yu took out a piece of paper that was clinging to his underwear.

The celebrant and the eunuch Chu Ke hurriedly took it and handed it to Ma Wensheng.

After reading it, Ma Wensheng personally handed it to Zhu Houzhao, and then walked down and asked Li Dongyang: "Li Dongyang, you can now say why you killed the first emperor, right?" ”

"Now that the human and material evidence is there, Li naturally can't deny it, that's right, the death of the first emperor is indeed related to Li, or that Li participated in the murder of the monarch, but Ma Wensheng, you now ask me why it is no longer necessary to kill the first emperor.

The first emperor has died, and he has returned to dust, I, Li Dongyang, have a big deal to accompany him, what can he do to me, it is just to destroy the ears of the nine clans, is it possible that there is really a hell of an underworld, and he can really let me die in the underworld? ”

Li Dongyang laughed hysterically as he spoke.

And at this time, Ma Wensheng was already angry when he saw this: "You, you, you don't go too far!" The traitorous minister is in charge, the emperor cries at night, and the earthquake in Qifu is talking about a traitor like you, if the first emperor did not have the spirit in the sky, naturally there would be no such prophecy in the world! ”

Li Dongyang snorted: "The emperor's cry at night is just a crow's cry, if there are really gods, if the first emperor can really make me die in the underworld, why don't you have an earthquake in Qifu!" ”

"Report! Ying Tianfu Yin Zuo, Nanjing earthquake in September! ”

"Report! Zhenjiang prefect report, Zhenjiang earthquake in September! ”

"Report! Fengyang Zhongdu stayed behind to report the Fengyang earthquake in September! ”

"Report! Yanzhou prefect reported the Yanzhou earthquake in September! ”

"Report! Dongchang prefect reported that the Dongchang earthquake in September! ”

"Report! The prefect of Ruzhou reported the earthquake in Ruzhou in September! ”

"Report! Dengzhou prefect reported that there was an earthquake and tsunami in Dengzhou in September! ”

……

Li Dongyang's voice just fell.

One by one, the ministers ran from the celebrant and began to report directly in front of Zhu Houzhao.

There is no such process as per normal procedure.

Naturally, Zhu Houzhao specially asked the General Administration Department to arrange them, and Zhu Houzhao had received these reports one after another long before this, but they were deliberately arranged to be taken out when Li Dongyang and others were interrogated.

Seven Earthquakes!

It's exactly seven mansions!

The officials present were dumb! They were all horrified.

Even Ma Wensheng was surprised, thinking that it was true that the first emperor was killed! And the first emperor really still has the spirit of resentment in the world!

Not only Ma Wensheng believed it, but the officials present were even more convinced, because the emperor's tomb crying at night or something could be faked, but there was no way to fake the earthquake in Qifu!

Li Dongyang himself was also surprised, and suddenly really felt scared: "What's going on, how can there really be an earthquake, is there really a retribution from the underworld, the first emperor really still has a soul, and I will be punished if I die!" ”

No matter how smart and cunning people in this era are, they are still full of awe of some natural phenomena, even if they are Confucian disciples like Li Dongyang, although they do not believe in ghosts and gods, they have to believe it when they encounter natural phenomena that they cannot understand, especially natural phenomena that occur by chance, otherwise there will not be so many things in history that will make hundreds of officials repair their provinces every time they encounter a catastrophe.

Li Dongyang was really panicked, and said in his heart: "No wonder Zhu Houzhao suspected that these people killed the first emperor from the beginning, could it be that the first emperor really gave him a dream, could it be that the first emperor really still has a ghost that has not yet dispersed!" ”

Thinking of this, Li Dongyang couldn't help crying: "First Emperor! The minister is guilty! Kechen is also a last resort! First emperor, you forgive the ministers, forgive the ministers! ”

Zhu Houzhao didn't know what to say when he saw this.

At this time, Ma Wensheng continued to ask Li Dongyang loudly: "Li Dongyang, can you plead guilty!" ”

Li Dongyang no longer has any confidence at this time, he has always felt that Emperor Hongzhi's spirit in the sky is secretly watching him, which makes him tremble now, and hurriedly replied: "Confess, confess!" ”

Seeing this, Ma Wensheng asked Li Dongyang, Zhang Yu, Liu Wentai and others to sign and draw.

Then, Ma Wensheng personally came to Zhu Houzhao and bowed down: "Your Majesty, the case of Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, Xie Qian, Wang Yue, Zhang Yu and others killing the first emperor has been conclusively proven. ”

Zhu Houzhao did not immediately agree to Ma Wensheng, but said lightly: "The plot has not succeeded, the nine clans can be punished, and the plot is just to kill, my Ming dynasty's national fortune may be greatly affected by this, but a generation of Ming monarchs will eventually become unjust souls, Yu Zhen is the hatred of killing his father, Yu Guo is the hatred of killing the king, how can the nine clans be enough!" Only punish the nine clans, that is for Shi Heng Cao Jixiang and others, for Liu Jian and others, I am afraid that the soul of the first emperor will still not be able to calm the soul! ”

Ma Wensheng was also afraid that the first emperor would have another earthquake in Qifu or something at this time, and he did not object to Zhu Houzhao, but only replied: "In this way, please Your Majesty, these anti-party and anti-thieves are ten clans!" If you don't punish the ten clans, the ministers can't afford to kneel! ”

"Your Majesty, please go against the party and thieves with ten clans!" Jiao Fang also took off his robe and knelt down at this time.

"Your Majesty, please go against the party and thieves with ten clans!" Xu Jin also responded.

"Your Majesty, please go against the party and thieves with ten clans!" Liu Jin and the others also responded.

"Your Majesty, please go against the party and thieves with ten clans!"

The other civil officials present also responded, they were indeed afraid of the spirit of the first emperor now, especially after knowing that there was really an earthquake in the Seven Mansions, but there were also officials who began to get uneasy, because they were among the ten clans of these anti-thieves!