Chapter 124: Confess and be lenient, and sit through the prison
This "fishing law enforcement" strategy finally failed under Sun Yueling's temporary soft-heartedness. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
In this change in the execution ground, the imperial court was blown up and killed several officials, including the prison of the Criminal Department, the governor of the Shuntian Mansion, and the inspection school, Qi Liao and Zhang Zhiqi were seriously injured, and many guards and errand servants were killed and injured.
As for the Smelling Fragrance Society, the remaining remnants of the party in the Beijing Division basically participated in the robbery of the Dharma Field, and they were all killed and injured, and even Liu Zixiao, who attacked Li Ruobing that day, died at the hands of Sun Yueling, and only a few people managed to escape.
If it weren't for the Praetorian Guards led by Zhang Zhiqi being entangled by another force, I'm afraid Xu Hongru would have been taken down long ago.
It's a pity that they couldn't find out which side of the group of people who suddenly appeared belonged to, and they successfully retreated. It's no wonder that this group of people didn't intend to fight with the guards, but just bluffed, dragged them back, and once the situation was unfavorable, they immediately retreated in an orderly manner, and there was no one left in an instant.
Although a few of these people were also killed, from the masks on their faces that were later removed, it was found that these people were not from Jingshi at all, and they had never appeared in Jingshi, no one knew them, and they didn't know who the characters were.
This has become the biggest mystery in this change in the execution ground.
Although the remnants of the Wenxiang Society in Beijing have all been wiped out, this layout is to hold the demon leader Xu Hongru, Xu Hongru successfully escaped, which immediately caused a shock to the government and the opposition, and several imperial historians and officials began to impeach Sun Yueling under the influence of people with ulterior motives, and counted his crimes.
These are secondary, and more important is that Zhang Zhiqi, the commander of the forbidden army, personally confronted the saint and impeached him for retreating from the battle and indulging the demons, but he was actually a fellow party of the demons.
This is a very small crime.
Although there were all kinds of maintenance by the cabinet chief assistant and the Donglin party, this matter finally aroused the anger of the Son of Heaven, and issued a decree to imprison Sun Yueling, find out the reason, and then make a decision.
When Sun Yueling was escorted to the edict by the Jinyi captains of the Beizhen Fusi, he also had mixed feelings in his heart.
Emperor Tianqi said to him that day that if he couldn't take down Xu Hongru and complete the errand, he would be sent to prison for punishment.
But after all, he slapped the emperor in the face, and Tianqi also saved him face this time, and did not completely deprive him of his fame, but just routinely detained and interrogated him. After all, there were many people in the court who spoke for him, and there were countless Donglin gentlemen who wrote and said that it was impossible for him to let Xu Hongru go, and Zhang Zhiqi must have mistaken it under his serious injuries.
In this book, not only exonerated all his mistakes, but also reprimanded Zhang Zhiqi, the commander of the forbidden army, and scolded him for being seriously injured and hallucinated, narrow-minded, jealous of the sage, and revenge for personal gain, and it also shows that although Sun Yueling failed to hold the demon head, at least he also killed Liu Zixiao, one of the four leaders of the Smelling Fragrance Society, not only no fault, but also meritorious, and should be rewarded and rewarded.
In the court, all parties had different words, argued with each other, and argued red-faced.
Tianqi finally couldn't bear it anymore, and in order to calm the crowd, he put Sun Yueling in prison to be held accountable, clarified right and wrong, and then dealt with it.
Sun Yueling knew in his heart that Zhang Zhiqi was the only one who saw him let Xu Hongru go, and everyone else was bent on fighting, and he didn't notice this short and subtle change at all.
Therefore, as long as he insists that he is no match for Xu Hongru and the masked "master", so that they can escape, it is estimated that this "prison disaster" will not bring him much disastrous consequences, at best, he will live in the edict prison for ten days and a half months, and it will be regarded as a closed-door retreat.
On the top of the Imperial Prison Torture Hall, Xu Xianchun, who was secretly entrusted by the imperial court, sat behind the criminal case, pointed at him and shouted: "Sun Yueling still doesn't kneel down to hear the trial, and truthfully confess the crime of fornicating with demons?" The lieutenants on both sides also glared at him angrily, with stern expressions.
Sun Yueling rolled his eyes and said in a strange voice: "Lord Xu said that I fornicated with demons, but is there any evidence to confirm it?" He has the bottom in his heart, he is not afraid at all, and he has the support of the Donglin Party behind him, so he dares to brazenly roar in court.
Xu Xian was extremely angry, and shouted: "Zhang Zhiqi, the commander of the forbidden army, saw with his own eyes that you talked to a demon that day, saying 'it's you', 'I can't imagine that you still defend him like this', etc., it is clear that you know the demon and make friends with the demon, so you let Xu Hongru go." ”
Sun Yueling sneered: "This is all Zhang Zhiqi's visual and auditory hallucinations under his serious injury, I have had a few moves with that demon, that person's martial arts are strong, Xu Hongru is watching aside, I was defeated by the two of them, it is normal anymore." ”
"Nonsense!" Xu Xianchun then said, "According to Commander Zhang, he and Xu Hongru have fought for dozens of achievements, and both of them are seriously injured, how can Xu Hongru be watching?" Besides, with your martial arts, how could you not be able to beat that masked master, the capital of the four major meetings of the Smelling Fragrance Society is dead, where are there so many people with strong martial arts? ”
"Thank you, Lord Xu, for your compliments!" Sun Yueling laughed and said, "Commander Zhang said that he and Xu Hongru were fighting, and both of them were seriously injured, but this is too much to smear gold on his face." What I saw was that Zhang Zhiqi's fatal sword was blocked by Ding Mengyao, and then he was seriously injured by Xu Hongru and vomited blood, and fell to the ground. Although Xu Hongru was injured, it was not that serious at all, so under the joint efforts of him and the masked demon, how could I be an opponent, I could only parry. ”
After a pause, he said, "Fortunately, Xu Hongru and that demon didn't dare to fight for a long time, and they just wanted to escape, otherwise I'm afraid I would die on the spot." ”
Since no witness was present, he could make up what he wanted, not to mention, there was truth in what he said, but the latter part was fictional, so he didn't worry about being punctured by Xu Xianchun - he finally understood the truth of being frank and lenient and sitting in prison at this moment.
Xu Xianchun's brows furrowed, feeling that the trial was indeed tricky at this time.
Now, Zhang Zhiqi and Sun Yueling have their own words and say different things.
However, at the scene of the incident, no one else saw it at all, and it was impossible to determine who said it was true. Although some nobles hinted that he would take this opportunity to "criminalize" Sun Yueling, the Emperor of the Apocalypse did not deprive him of his fame, and there were countless ministers in the court who avenged his grievances.
He had always liked to "get things done" in a straightforward and straightforward way, but now it was so complicated that it was obviously not something he could handle.
At this moment, a person suddenly turned out of the back hall, came to the front of the case, whispered to Xu Xianchun, and then turned to the back hall.
Xu Xianchun slapped the tiger in shock and shouted: "Escort Sun Yueling down, and this matter will be retried later." ”
Sun Yueling was surprised for a while, and he didn't know what Xu Xianchun wanted to do.
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Sun Yueling was imprisoned, and it was still the most famous prison in the Ming Dynasty - Imperial Prison.
The reason why the Imperial Prison is called the Imperial Prison is not only because it is the prison where the Ming Dynasty imprisoned high-ranking officials and important officials of the imperial court, but also because it is a prison designated by the Son of Heaven.
The Son of Heaven issued an edict before he could be imprisoned.
-- This is the edict.
Of course, there are exceptions, such as the acquiescence of the apocalypse, such as the eunuch's edict, and so on.
Although Sun Yueling was imprisoned, he was not imprisoned in the deepest and darkest place.
The cell where he was located was very spacious, very clean, and very tidy, the bed was covered with a brocade quilt woven with silk and gold, and the pineapple wooden table was placed with the best West Lake Longjing, and even the sunlight shining through the large window was warm and bustling on people, and it was very comfortable.
Where is this jail, it is clearly a vacation.
Sun Yueling knew that the reason why he was able to have today was all due to the gift of Shoufu Ye to Gao.
Ye Xianggao had already informed Liu Qiao, the head of the Beizhen Fusi, that under Liu Qiao's "care", he enjoyed the treatment of "Qincheng Prison" in his previous life, not to mention, his good brother Qi Liao had "greeted" him many times, and explained to those prison bosses and jailers that he must take good care of him.
Therefore, his imprisonment this time is more refreshing than the last time Wang Wenyan was imprisoned, and he sat hard enough, which is simply "recuperation at public expense".
However, his freedom is also very limited, he can't go out and move around, and can only move around within a few feet of this radius.
For him, this is enough.
In the past dozens of days, Xu Xianchun has never come to interrogate him again, I don't know what conspiracy he is doing, and he is also happy to be idle, with good wine and meat every day, and he can talk nonsense with those jailers and cell bosses and horsemen when he has nothing to do, and his life is not boring.
But what bothered him the most was that next door to his cell, there was a feudal official, who always liked to point fingers at the heavens and the earth, talk about the east and the west, either accusing the important members of the imperial court, or scolding the border generals, which made him very headache.
But he had no choice at all, because this person was none other than the Liaodong Jingluo Xiong Tingbi Xiong Barbarian he had seen in Ningyuan City back then.
After Xiong Tingbi lost Guangning, he ordered 100,000 soldiers and civilians to retreat to Shanhaiguan, thinking that he was fine, but also ran back to Beijing in a hurry, and traveled around to gather with relatives. However, the court held him accountable and did not let him go, and finally sent him to prison with Wang Huazhen for the crime, and after being tried by Yousi, both of them were sentenced to death.
Xiong Tingbi was furious, he thought that the responsibility for the defeat of Guangning was all on Wang Huazhen, if it wasn't for Wang Huazhen's rash attack on the enemy, and he did everything possible to restrain and destroy his "tripartite strategy", how could the situation in Guangning be like this. So he thought that the court would find out the truth and would definitely put Wang Huazhen in prison for punishment and return him to his innocence and justice.
Unexpectedly, all the people in the DPRK and China actually wrote a letter of impeachment, accusing him of not agreeing with Fu, retreating without fighting, ignoring the overall situation, and abandoning the territory of thousands of miles in western Liaoning.
Xiong Tingbi was originally a man of temperament, but after being imprisoned at this moment, he was sentenced to death, and he was even more angry, full of complaints, scolding and scolding all day long, indescribable.
Fortunately, he is a member of the Chu Party, after all, there are people in the court who defend him, and although Xiong Tingbi has a rebellious temperament, there are actually many people in the Donglin Party in the DPRK who appreciate his character and style, such as Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou, who have written to avenge him, so his life was temporarily saved, and like Sun Yueling, he was locked in the high-class cell in this edict.
"I said, Lord Xiong, can you be quiet for a while, so that you can sleep peacefully!" This night, Sun Yueling finally couldn't bear it anymore and yelled at the next door through the prison door.