Under the discussion between King Qi and Xu Congyang, there is really no too suitable candidate, in comparison, the people of the Tun Guards are mixed, so naturally they can't choose from them, if they really choose the commander of the guards, it is a suitable choice from the Royal Guard.

Although the emperor said that the king of Qi could choose any military general to serve as the commander of the palace guards, the king of Qi naturally knew that this was not the case, at least Xuanyuan Shao could not be selected.

Or with the help of Xu Congyang, King Qi finally transferred Ma Zhongheng, who had just been transferred from the Praetorian Guard to Wu Jingwei as the general banner, Ma Zhongheng was born in the Guards, and his ability was naturally there, and in the Tongtian Temple Rebellion, he made great contributions, after the Tongtian Temple incident, the post of Wu Jingwei General Banner was vacant, and Ma Zhongheng was transferred to serve as the general banner.

Compared with the general banner of Wu Jingwei, there is naturally a lot of difference between the oil and water of the commander of the palace guards, but compared to the political future, the future of serving as the commander of the palace guards is naturally much more lenient, and of course, the risks will be much greater.

Ma Zhongheng was born in the military, but he obeyed his orders, and was transferred to the commander of the palace guards, but he didn't have a second word, he handed over an errand in Wujingwei, and went to the Qi palace to report, and now the guards of the Qi palace are all under the command of Ma Zhongheng.

As for the chief official of the palace, Xu Congyang recommended Lu Haosheng of the Guozijian, this person was originally the head of the Guozijian, who was well-versed in the past and the present, could speak well, and was a very good scribe.

King Qi got down from the carriage, someone had already knocked on the door of the palace, King Qi entered the house, went straight to the side hall, although it was the middle of the night three watches, but the side hall was still brightly lit, five or six officials in official robes were waiting anxiously, heard the rumors outside that the King of Qi returned to the house, several officials hurriedly sorted out their clothes, and Lang Lang, the head of the household, took the lead in welcoming out of the hall.

King Qi looked quite tired, and he didn't care about the officials saluting, entered the side hall, sat down, and said loudly: "Bring water!" ”

The servant brought the tea, King Qi poured most of the bowl in one gulp, put down the teacup, saw that all the officials were looking at him, shook his head with a wry smile: "The date has been set over there, and after three days, behead the public!" ”

Everyone was taken aback, and Lang Wuxu had already said: "Your Highness, even if you really want to be executed, you can't ...... it so quickly!" ”

"The evidence is conclusive, the people in the Criminal Department have put all the evidence under the nose of this king, and even the witnesses, they have already found them." King Qi frowned, "There are all the human and material evidence, even if this king wants to explain it for them, there is no way to talk about it." The crown prince said that his father handed over the heavy responsibility of the prison country to him, and the responsibility was heavy, and since the criminal department had already reported the file and the evidence was conclusive, he could not bend the law for personal gain. ”

"Phew......!" An official couldn't help but ask: "Your Highness, this is all the prince's ghost behind his back, otherwise how could things be so coincidental, the saint has just left the northern tour of Beijing, and the yamen of the criminal department began to stare at our people, and it has only been a long time since so much evidence was found, it was already prepared...... Qiu Junhui of the Criminal Department is a dog under the prince, and whoever the prince asks him to bite, he will bite whoever he ......! ”

King Qi frowned and said, "This king wants to know, are the few people who were caught in really corrupt and perverted the law?" The king has seen all the evidence. ”

The officials glanced at each other, and there was already a humane: "Your Highness, you also know that Qiu Junhui is a mad dog, he has been in the Criminal Department for many years, and what he is best at is weaving charges and extorting confessions by torture...... was originally an innocent person, as long as he was caught in the criminal department, and then came out, there would not be an inch of clean place on his body......! ”

"Your Highness, this is the princeling's communiqué for personal vendetta and the eradication of dissidents." Lang Wuxuan said cautiously: "Your Highness, you think, the prince said that he wanted to rectify the rule of officials, and he should start to investigate from the Beijing officials, but so far, all the people who have been investigated and arrested by the Criminal Department are all our people, and the Criminal Department has not investigated a princeling official, he is just coming for us, just for His Highness." ”

"Your Highness, if this continues, the arrogance of the princelings will become more and more arrogant." An official actually said with red eyes: "Arrest a few today, try a few tomorrow, this fire will soon burn on our heads, they are intent on dealing with His Highness!" ”

An official said: "Your Highness, we can't sit still, we must fight back!" ”

"Fight back?" King Qi frowned and said, "How to fight back?" ”

Lang said busily: "Your Highness, now that the matter has come to this, I can only ask you to present the excerpt to the Holy Lord." In the excerpts, the prince's actions are clearly presented to the saint, and the saint is wise, and naturally knows what the prince wants to do......! ”

"What does it say?" King Qi looked at Lang Wuxuan, "Could it be that he told his father that the crown prince declared personal vendettas, eradicated dissidents, formed a party and dictatorship, and intended to rebel?" ”

Everyone looked at each other, and Lang Wuxuan lowered his voice and said, "Naturally, you can't say that, but what does it mean...... This means always for the Holy One to know. ”

King Qi sneered: "What evidence is there for this recital?" The prince ordered the rectification of the rule of officials, this is not wrong, the Yamen of the Criminal Department investigated the Beijing officials, logically speaking, it is not wrong, the people he arrested were all found in advance, and the evidence is very sufficient, this is not wrong, even during the entire investigation and interrogation, it is the Criminal Department that is dealing with it, and the prince did not interfere in the open at all......! ”

"But all this, it must be the prince behind his back......!" An official immediately said.

King Qi stretched out his hand, "Evidence, give me the evidence!" ”

The official bowed his head, not daring to speak.

"Only when the evidence of these officials' crimes is conclusive and the criminal department has set the death penalty, will the file be presented to the prince, and the prince will approve the document." King Qi said slowly: "This is the authority of the prison country, but also the responsibility of the prison country, no matter from which point, can not find the prince's communiqué of the conclusive evidence of personal vendetta, you let this king present the fold to the father, but can not come up with any evidence, when the time comes, the king's excerpt is presented, the father asks what evidence there is, how do you let the king answer?" ”

The officials looked at each other.

It is true that after the emperor went out of Beijing to tour the north, the crown prince supervised the country and held great power, as the leader of the princelings, the prince was naturally ruthless to the people of the royal party.

Six Shangshu and four Shangshu have all accompanied the northern tour, leaving Qiu Junxi, the secretary of the Criminal Department, and Song Ling, the Shangshu of the Military Department.

After the death of Yu Buqu, the former secretary of the Ministry of War, in the northwest, Song Ling, the left attendant of the Ministry of War, temporarily took the post of the secretary of the Ministry of War, compared to Yu Unyielding's experience in a hundred battles, Song Ling can only be regarded as a figure who talks about soldiers on paper, and he is over sixty years old, deaf and blind, and can not even effectively control the Ministry of War.

Originally, this old Shangshu of the military department was also going to serve on the northern tour in the original plan, but on the eve of leaving Beijing, this old Shangshu fell ill, and the palace even sent the imperial doctor to diagnose and treat it, and it was indeed a serious illness, so he stayed in the capital, until now, he is still closed at home to recuperate.

As for Qiu Junxi, the secretary of the Criminal Department, people have always felt that this person is the emperor's favorite dog, although this person has a brutal temperament, but he has a characteristic that the emperor appreciates the most, that is, he is alone, there is no door and no faction, which is really a peculiar thing for the Qin court with clear factions.

Perhaps because of Qiu Junxi's notoriety, everyone knows that he is an almost perverted cool official, so at least on the surface, few officials are willing to associate with this cool official.

It is precisely because of Qiu Junxi's lonely family that he sits very firmly in the position of the secretary of the criminal department.

It was only after the emperor's northern tour that the Criminal Department vigorously investigated the Qi Wang Party, which made many officials suddenly realize that this cool official of the Criminal Department seemed to be the prince's person.

In terms of cleaning the Qi Wang Party, Qiu Junhui can be said to be doing his best, this cool official has already taken the Criminal Department as his home, and it is already a common thing not to return home for a few days, and in the prison of the Criminal Department, the miserable howls are constantly in the ears.

Everyone knows that this time against the bloody storm of the Qi Wang Party, the prince is definitely the mastermind behind the scenes, otherwise the princelings would not be safe and sound, and the people in the Qi Wang Party fell one after another.

But the prince did it tightly, from the beginning, he only said a word to rectify the rule of officials, and there was nothing else to say, and the criminal department fully understood the prince's meaning, wantonly purged, no one can come up with evidence to say that the criminal department's thorough investigation of officials is the prince's guidance behind the scenes, after all, the thorough investigation of corrupt officials and corrupt officials is also within the criminal department's responsibility.

As for the officials of the Qi Wang Party who are thoroughly investigated by the Criminal Department, almost all of them can come up with real evidence, all the human and material evidence, and they want to refute but there is no way to argue, everyone knows that the Criminal Department is really well prepared to make a move this time, almost every official who was arrested by them, they can put all the evidence of corruption and perversion of the law and relevant witnesses in front of the criminal in the first time, all the prince has to do is to approve the file, and as a prison state, in front of sufficient evidence, it is also a matter of duty.

Most of the people in the Qi Wang's party were the old Han kings, and after they switched to the Qi Wangmen, they also had a huge momentum, and to some extent, their momentum even exceeded that of the princelings.

Moreover, in the eyes of most officials, it was a matter of time before the emperor abolished the crown prince, and it was also a matter of nine out of ten things to change the king of Qi, so in the eyes of the members of the Qi Wang Party, the future was bright.

However, after the emperor's northern tour and the prince's imprisonment of the country, the Qi Wangdang found that everything was far beyond expectations.

What's even more terrifying is that after the emperor went out of Beijing to tour the north, the prince just used the criminal department as a tool, which was the simplest and most crude way, which had already made the Qi royal party breathless.

The Qi Wang Party had little power to fight back.

At this time, the officials of the Qi King Party finally understood that the big tree of the King of Qi they relied on was really not a towering tree, and the glory of the past was only because of the shadow of the emperor shrouded in it, so people mistakenly thought that the huge shadow was covered by the King of Qi, but at this time they finally woke up, without the protection of the emperor, the tree of the King of Qi was really weak.

Qi Wang Yingren also understood at this moment that these officials who took refuge in him were really a group of wine bags and rice bags, and they were all arrogant and unfathomable on weekdays, and they seemed to be shrewd and abnormal, and it seemed that everyone was hiding a million soldiers, but when it came to the end, he found that there were few of these guys who really helped, a large group of people who shouted and screamed, and none of them really came up with a good solution.

Xu Congyang, the only one who can be trusted, is now in Zhongshu Province, day and night, countless things are piled up on Xu Congyang's body, and he can't get out of it at all.

After the crown prince threw a punch, King Qi had already discovered his weakness, and he also clearly realized that he and the prince were not opponents of the same level at all.

Lang Wuxu and the others whispered, looking very anxious, and King Qi's face was also very solemn, he glanced at everyone, and finally said, "Aren't you all boasting of being shrewd on weekdays?" What's the matter, at this point, there is no idea? He sneered: "A group of wine bags and rice bags, if you don't want to come up with a way, the people from the Criminal Department should go to your house." ”

Everyone was even more panicked, Lang Wuxuan pondered for a moment, and finally came closer, and said, "Your Highness, it's not that there is no way, it's just ...... It's just that this method is a bit difficult. ”

"What's the method?"

Lang Wuxu said softly: "Since the prince used the punishment department as a knife to kill us, we ...... If we destroy that sword, we won't be able to turn defeat into victory! ”