Chapter 680: Three-foot white silk sent to Zhao Dian
Due to Ye Yu's intention, the people in the capital have been resentful in the past few days, whether it is the Lin'an Mansion or the Dali Temple, hundreds of people have gathered, and this base is still growing.
If these two imperial court institutions are a beautiful landscape, then the Department of Prisons of the Criminal Department has become the main place for gatherings.
Not only are more and more scholars gathered here, but there is also no shortage of demonstrations in front of the sit-in penal department.
The gathering of scribes is no better than that of ordinary people, this is not beating, scolding, or scolding, so anxious that Shangshu Yue Lei and a group of colleagues in the Criminal Department dare not go out.
In the end, he was forced to open the way with guards, so that he could get out and go to the palace to perform.
Xiaozong Zhao Yan has always been in a tangled situation in dealing with the matter of King Gong Zhao Dan.
Even if he is a son of heaven, he is still a mortal after all, a white-haired father, how can he watch a white-haired person send a black-haired person.
The original plan was to discuss with Ye Yu again and again, so that Zhao Dan's life could be saved, even if it was a lifetime imprisonment or exile for 3,000 miles, it could be regarded as a little relief for him as a father.
Even for the sake of this matter, Zhao Yan has already spoken to Ye Yu bluntly, as long as the life of King Gong Zhao is saved, he can immediately give up the throne.
But Ye Yu's response was an indifferent smile and did not give a direct reply.
At first, Xiaozong Zhao Yan thought that Ye Yu had already moved, but what he didn't expect was that this wave of unsettled waves broke out again and again, and the news of Zhao Dan's collaboration with the enemy and betrayal of the country broke out from Li Renyou's confession.
Although Xiaozong Zhao Yan is old, he is not confused, Li Renyou has been escorted back to Beijing for a while, and it is obviously not a coincidence that he did not break the news early or late, but he caught up with this unpopular news at this juncture.
Xiaozong Zhao Yan finally understood why Ye Yu was silent, it turned out that this was a practical action to make his father understand a truth: it was a joke to save the person who should have died from his Ye Yu's hands!
The crime of killing the father and killing the monarch can be big or small, and as an era of divine authority in feudal society, it can be positioned as a family affair of the royal family.
But now the crime has directly risen to the transcendent height of collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country, even if Zhao Yan has the heart to defend it, he is powerless, because he is not the only one who has the final say.
Coupled with the return of Yue Lei and Zhang Meng, the secretary of Dali Temple, Yin Yuechen of Lin'an Mansion and others, as well as the courtiers in recent days, Xiaozong already knows that the people's grievances in the capital have risen, and the will of the ministers is irreversible.
So on the third day of the public opinion gathering in the capital, Xiaozong Zhao Yan finally issued a holy decree to execute Zhao Dan!
In the prison of the Ministry of Punishment, a ray of sunlight was cast into the cell through the bar.
In the cell, Zhao Dian looked at the three-foot white silk and said to himself: "I didn't expect that this king had exhausted his scheming, but in the end, he got this three-foot white silk ......."
Outside the cell, Ye Yu looked at Zhao Dian quietly, and then responded softly: "In fact, no matter whether you succeed or fail in life, what you have after death is only an inch of land; If you see it, what can you get by fighting for it......"
"Oh? That's what you really think? ”
"Do I need to deceive a dying man again?"
"Hehe, what you said is very true......"
Zhao Dian turned around lonely, looked at Ye Yu for a moment, and then shook his head and smiled bitterly: "For life, for brother, you don't see it clearly and clearly, but unexpectedly, you are also higher than me in the treatment of death...... Lost unjustly...... Don't lose unjustly! ”
"Do you have a last word?"
"Last words? Hehe, can you and my brother have a glass of water and wine? ”
"Serve!"
Zhao Dian took the wine but didn't drink it immediately, but sighed: "Ye Yu, no matter what, you are in charge of the Great Song Dynasty Guoyun, I, Zhao Tun, am convinced!" If I had a choice, I'd rather you and I weren't brothers from the Emperor's family, and maybe then we could be best friends......"
"Friends ......"
Ye Yu seemed to feel something, nodded suddenly, and then drank the wine in the cup without saying a word.
"Go all the way!"
"Thank you very much!"
Zhao Dian looked at Ye Yu's departing back, gently drank the contents of the cup, and then threw it on the ground.
Ye Yu didn't look back, and still walked forward silently.
He didn't know why, but at the moment, he was inexplicably touched in his heart, but this feeling made him feel sad for a while.
Whether it was a silent mourning for the departure of this long-time opponent, or the inexplicable feeling of death, he couldn't figure out all these emotions, he only knew that he would leave this world soon.
After leaving the prison of the Criminal Department, Ye Yu went directly to the palace to reply to the decree.
In the imperial study, when Xiaozong Zhao Yan listened to Ye Yu's reply, the right hand that was holding the pen at that time couldn't help shaking.
Zhao Yan, who had an ugly face, was silent for a long time, and after calming down, he looked at Ye Yu in the court, and said in a slightly cold voice: "Are you satisfied, have you got what you want?" ”
"Father, the son only knows four words!"
"Oh? Those four words? ”
"You deserve it!"
"You! ……”
Ye Yu looked up at Zhao Yan without giving in, and said coldly: "The public opinion is like this, and His Majesty ordered Zhao Yan to be executed, what does it have to do with his sons?" ”
"You! …… Ahem, I really don't know whether to be relieved or sad! ”
"If it weren't for the soft-heartedness of my father, how could I have brought the disaster of King Fu's rebellion; If it weren't for the soft-heartedness of the father, why would all the intrigues between the princes and sons die? The words of the emperor's father should not question the sons, but should introspect themselves! ”
"You! ……”
Ye Yu knew that he couldn't hide it from the old emperor, so he didn't bother to argue, so he directly counterattacked.
In dealing with Zhao Dan's problem, Ye Yu's hand seems to be playing too much, but in fact, he is also gaining a good reputation for himself.
Even if Ye Yu had the intention of killing Zhao Dan, he couldn't do it himself, someone should always bear the charge of the death of the prince, and as for how Zhao Yan of Xiaozong dealt with Zhao Dan afterwards, Ye Yu couldn't directly admonish Zhao Dan to execute Zhao Dan.
Because although this can put pressure on Xiaozong, it also gives the ministers and the people of the world a truth, and everyone will think that he Ye Yu is cold-blooded and ruthless.
The mouth grows on the human body, and the good and the bad, the positive and the negative all have the skin of the mouth, so in order to avoid controversy, Ye Yu avoided this accident.
But to avoid returning to the court, Zhao Dian is still going to die, so there is the formation of the scene of public pressure!
Seeing that Xiaozong Zhao Yan was so angry that he couldn't speak, Ye Yu immediately took out something from his sleeve: "Father, this is the edict signed by the Chai and Zhao families back then, and today the sons will completely burn it in front of you......"