142, above the main hall
The hundred officials below can't describe the mood at the moment in words.
Anger? Rage? Trance? Dazed? Astound?
No, I can't describe it!
Even, some people wept lowly, crying for their relatives and friends who died in vain in the war.
Huo Qi looked at the emperor on the dragon chair, with blood still on the corner of his mouth,
"Today, Huo Qingyu is here, and he just wants to get justice for the Huo family."
"I know that the country has national laws, and the family has family rules, and in this hall today, what Huo Qi did may have touched the law, but I admit it."
"Someone must take care of the injustices in this world, and someone must make up for the wrongs in this world."
"Between heaven and earth, Lang Lang Qiankun, on the Jinluan Palace, under the Zhengda Guangming plaque, sinners, please give your majesty justice."
"Although the third prince is dressed in human skin, he is a prince, but he is worse than a dog, for his own selfish desires, let my Huo family and those 100,000 soldiers die in the distant border pass, and from then on, His Majesty's arms have been removed.
Over the years, the Northern Barbarians have invaded from time to time, why?
The sinners dare not say that it must be because the Huo family is gone, but it must be related to the events of the year, because maybe in the near future, someone will once again betray the country for their own whispers to seek glory! ”
"Nonsense!" The three princes shouted angrily!
"What you said is just your conjecture, but back then, the Huo family was greedy for merit, but there was evidence of the crime."
The three princes laughed wildly,
"Huo Qi, Huo Qingyu, what evidence can you come up with? What do you say that the messenger has escaped, and what does it have to do with me? ”
His serpent-like gaze stared at Huo Qi's body,
"Since you're not dead, why don't you go back to Beijing to report the news? You're not dead, so why didn't you show up until now?
is still the same sentence, if you are Huo Qi, you will come up with evidence to prove that those things are related to me. “
"Otherwise, you are a false accusation with empty white teeth!"
"You are the crown prince's person, you do all this to make me fall out of favor in front of my father and make me lose my trust in front of hundreds of officials, yes or no?"
"Are you vicious enough to look at me stupid? Let you splash dirty water. ”
From beginning to end, the crown prince, who had not said a word, finally spoke up, his eyes showed disgust, and he looked at the third prince,
"Third brother, the pure one is self-purifying, since you say that you are the prince, then no one dares to splash dirty water on you, unless, you brought it yourself."
"You just said that Huo Qingyu is my person, no, it's wrong, all the people in this world are the people of my father."
"Huo Qingyu, he is just seeking justice for the Huo family, he is right, the wrong things in the world always have to be made up."
"As an elder brother, the eldest brother is like a father, and he has the responsibility of teaching his younger siblings, so today, Lone will help you make up for it."
"If you want proof, then I'll give it to you!"
"Or, if you want proof of sin, today, Lonely, can also be given to you."
The third prince faded away, stood up proudly, and looked at the prince in slight surprise,
"Where did the prince's brother say, my brother has always been a person who keeps to himself, and for so many years, he is also sincerely afraid in front of you.
Evidence? What incriminating evidence? ”
"The prince's brother is for the prince, if you want to be convicted, just say it, you said that the eldest brother is like a father, since the father has a life, how dare you disobey?"
The crown prince clapped his hands and looked at the three princes with admiration, "It is worthy of the three princes who have won the hearts of the people." ”
His palm patted lightly, and someone outside the hall came in carrying the box, passed through the hundred officials, and came to the bottom of the steps, and the person carrying the box opened the box lightly, and a person in it was about to struggle to climb out.
The third prince looked at the inexplicable scene in front of him, and was about to speak, when he saw the man raise his head, revealing a rather familiar face.
He couldn't help but take a step back.
Seeing this, the hundred officials below couldn't see it behind them, and they all raised their necks to see what kind of terrifying thing they were in, and they actually scared the three princes into this appearance.
When they saw it clearly, they made doubtful voices.
The prince's eyebrows did not move, and he chuckled,
"Third brother, do you still recognize him? He is the prefect of Huaiyang, Ma Jinshan! ”
"Because of the Jiangnan fraud case, how many mansions in the capital were emptied, how many heads fell to the ground, and Ma Jinshan was also sentenced to be beheaded, and he was beheaded before the autumn."
"During that period of time, the blood wash at the entrance of the vegetable market could not be washed clean, and everyone was punished properly, but this horse entered the mountain!"
"He escaped without a trace."
Under the sleeves of the wide prince's robe, the fists of the three princes clenched and gurgled.
The prince walked to the edge of the box and looked condescendingly at the horse in the box.
"Do you want to be alone to remind you, how did this person escape?"
"On the day of the execution, Xu Han, the little prince of Zhenbei who had gone south to investigate the case, was also imprisoned and beheaded, and it was she who discovered the abnormality and reported it to her father."
"You don't know why Ma Jishan, the former commander of Jin Wuwei, was suddenly imprisoned, right? That's why. ”
"You want to hide it from him, so that you can keep him, how is it possible?"
"Whether Ma Jishan knows it or not, it's a sin."
"Later, my father ordered the little prince of Zhenbei to secretly investigate privately, and finally caught Ma Jinshan in a small village in the middle of nowhere."
As he spoke, he reached into his arms, took out an object wrapped in cloth, and handed it to Cui Hai,
"Father, Ma Jinshan was arrested because of the Jiangnan fraud case, the biggest thing is greed for ink and silver, Jiangnan officials are greedy, and the officials in the capital are also greedy.
But the biggest corrupt official is the third brother, which was given to a servant girl for safekeeping when Mrs. Yongyi Hou Shizi died. “
It records how much silver Ma Jinshan paid to the third brother over the years. Please take a look at it. ”
The third prince's scalp was numb, and he said hard,
"I don't know what Mrs. Yongyi Hou Shizi recorded, and I don't know what to do with helping the horse escape into the mountain."
The prince didn't care at all about the third prince's answer, he kicked the wooden box with his toes, and heard the horse shrink into the box, shrank a little, coughed a few times, and then said hoarsely,
"Your Royal Highness, please forgive me, the little one thought that he could escape, so he didn't think about destroying my niece's evidence, and he thought that Yongyi Hou would treat her well, but he didn't expect that it was a pig and a dog.
Okay, Mingyan is good.
I was not a corrupt official at the beginning, every corrupt official was a clean official before he was corrupt, and he wanted to do things for the people.
But the third prince actually designed for me to take a Yangzhou thin horse as his wife, and he deliberately asked the officials of Huaiyang to take the thin horse as his sister and then give it to me.
After that, I was asked to accept it again.
According to the laws of the Eastern Yuan Dynasty, prostitutes are not allowed to be wives and concubines, which is taboo.
The third prince took this article of the sinners and let the sins help him do things, at first it was just a trivial matter, and he did it, but later, his appetite became bigger and bigger.
actually let the sinners be greedy for official silver, but what can the sinners do? If you continue to do this, the sinners will have one more way to live, and once the matter breaks out, it will immediately be a capital offense. ”
In this way, year after year, there are more and more dirty things on my hands, and I can only go on hard. “
The third prince listened to Ma Jinshan's words, his pupils constricted, and the noodles, which were originally quite handsome, suddenly twisted a little.
Ma Jinshan hung his head, eager to hang on the edge of the road, his breath was like a broken bellows, crunching, and the sound echoed in the hall from time to time.
The officials below didn't dare to move, and they didn't dare to breathe heavily.
In the hundreds of years of the Eastern Yuan Dynasty, such a thing was unheard of, even if the last time the princes fought for the throne, it was very tragic, but there was no such thing.
I only listened to the horse into the mountain and said with difficulty,
"At that time, the sinners didn't want to live, but it was the people of the three princes who found my old mother and worked with Mrs. Yongyi Hou Shizi to exchange the sin polls.
I thought that I would be a person facing the loess in this life, but I didn't expect to be arrested and brought back to Beijing......"
When the third prince heard this, he sneered and said,
"Inexplicable."
The emperor on the throne lowered his eyebrows, but he never made a sound, he looked through the account book, and even Cui Hai made a handkerchief to wipe the blood on his lips, but he was pushed away.
The third prince put his hands behind his back, looked at Ma Jinshan slowly, walked to his side, and with a 'snap', covered the lid of the box, and closed Ma Jinshan into the box again.
"I saw that your old mother was old and frail, and she begged me pitifully, so I just mentioned a few words, and as for what she did, I don't know at all."
"Don't think that if you put everything on my head, you will escape death."
"I just reminded your old mother out of compassion for a while, but I didn't expect it to bring me such trouble."
He shook his head, a look of regret.
The prince smiled lightly and waved his hand, and the chamberlain who came in with the box quietly carried the box down.
He slowly raised his reddish eyes,
"The third brother is really good, he doesn't know, he doesn't know, and then he pushes everything away with compassion."
"However, you forgot what Gu just said, Skynet is magnificent and not leaky, and Lone still has witnesses."
"I don't know a thing, I don't know it, I don't know it, I don't know it?"
Outside the door, there was a person who was escorted by Jin Wuwei, and along the way, no one knew this escorted person.
I saw that the prince's always gentle face was full of gloom,
"This person, his name is Ma Fu, yes, the same surname is Ma, and his younger brother is indeed the younger brother who just carried Ma into the mountain."
"Back then, he was a gentleman by the side of the third master of the Huo family, and he knew exactly what you did back then."
Xu Han stood there, looking at the familiar and unfamiliar face, it was indeed the Ma Fu who was talking to Xu Xiuyan in the Seven Star Tower that day.
This Ma Fu, it turns out that the prince also knows?
She looked at Xiao Wei, Xiao Wei pursed her lips and smiled, looking back at her.
Xu Xiuyan, who was standing in the ranks of hundreds of officials, had an indifferent face, and his eyes suddenly sank.
Ma Fu was on his knees with his hands tied behind his back, his hair and clothes disheveled.
"Ma Fu, above the main hall, tell me what you saw and heard that day."
"These things, you didn't do these things, you are just an insider, as long as you say it, Lone can intercede with His Majesty, save your life, and it will not harm your family."
The family that the prince said is actually the crown princess.
Ma Fu suddenly looked at the crown prince, closed his eyes, and said in a deep voice, "I hope His Royal Highness the crown prince can do what he says." ”
"In this life, what I owe the most is this daughter, obviously I have suffered like that, but I still let her go with her."
Immediately, he told him why he went to Huo Sanye's side as a staff member, how he heard the news, and how he got out of Huo Sanye's side after hearing the news.
His testimony pointed directly to the three princes, and it was a clear description of the situation at that time.
Every time he said a word, the three princes took a step back, and finally retreated to the pillars, and there was no way to retreat!
I saw the emperor rushing down from the dragon chair, punching and kicking at the third prince, at this moment, he had no emperor's prestige, just an angry father,
"Bastard, rebel, are you trying to ruin the Eastern Yuan Dynasty?"
"Collaborate with the enemy and betray the country, you ruined the ministers of the Eastern Yuan Dynasty, you ruined the Huo family, you ruined Huo Zheng......"
"You were born, do you still have a conscience? Are you still human? You don't deserve to be my child......"
The third prince was shaken by the emperor, he looked at the emperor, and did not make any moves to the emperor's beating, and he did not dodge.
He laughed maniacally and looked at the Emperor.
"Conscience? The most ruthless emperor's family, father, what do you want to do with your conscience? ”
He pushed the emperor away, slowly tidied up the messy clothes that the emperor had beaten, and slowly walked to the top of the steps.
"Father, thunder, rain and dew are all gentlemen, if you feel that your sons are an eyesore, as long as your father and emperor will, you will condemn your sons, why do you need to be so eager to impose trumped-up charges on your sons."
Sure enough, it was a royal person, and at this time, he was still able to stand there without humility or arrogance, arguing with reason.
The emperor did not feel any anger at the question of the third prince, but sighed slowly,
"Although you are not a son-in-law, but because your mother has no desires, no desires, no fighting, no grabbing, the only thought is to stay by my side, so you are enlightened, and I will recruit Confucianism to be your master.
I take such care of you, but what about you? What is it done? ”
"Don't forget, you are just an ordinary prince, above you, there is the prince as a prince."
The expression of the third prince changed, his throat moved, and he smiled bitterly,
"Yes, you are really good to Erchen, you said that there is a prince above, and you said that Erchen is not a son-in-law, but why do you give me so much hope?
Every bit of your favor and every bit of indulgence makes your sons feel that you don't like the prince, and you want me to replace the prince. ”
"Isn't it?"
A look of rage rose on the emperor's face,
"Then you mean, I'm still in love, right?"
The three princes smiled,
"No, that's right, it's wrong that you shouldn't be the emperor, you shouldn't have given me an illusory fantasy."
"You obviously don't have the determination to save easily, why do you want to do this to me?"
"You want to use me as the prince's whetstone, but you also have to think about whether I am willing to be this whetstone."
"I'm telling you, I don't want to!"
"Since all the ministers are here today, and it saves me from fatigue, I tell you frankly, I want that dragon chair, today, you should just do it, you shouldn't have to respond!"
He looked up at the emperor on the edge of the pillars, smiling indifferently, and in the end, it was sarcasm.
"You dare to rebel?"
The Emperor exclaimed in shock.