"Sun Aiqing, you are seriously ill, so don't hold on to the court."

Emperor Longwu's face was a little unbearable, Sun Chuanting was ordered to tell him to be sick, and now he came up again, wasn't that a slap in the face of Emperor Longwu?

"Long live, the old minister is fine."

Sun Chuanting knocked and got up, and walked towards the head of the civil official class with square steps, but there was already Gao Hongtu standing there, Sun Chuanting, the old guy, suddenly glared at him, and said in a deep voice: "Lord Gao, please respect yourself!" ”

Gao Hongtu ghost made a god take a step back.

Sun Chuanting snorted and stood at the head of the civil official class, Gao Hongtu came back to his senses, and his face was suddenly flushed.

The rest of Qian Qianyi, Lu Daqi and the officials of the Donglin Department finished worshipping, and they all stood back in the civil official class, only Wang Pu did not return to the military class, but went straight to the golden rank, Emperor Longwu and the ministers found that Wang Pu was hanging a sword on his waist, his hand pressed the hilt of the sword, his eyes were like a torch, and his face was murderous.

Emperor Longwu was taken aback suddenly, instinctively stood up from the throne, and said in a trembling voice: "You, you, you...... What do you want? ”

Zhang Zi'an, the big eunuch on the side, didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly rushed forward to block Emperor Longwu with his thin body.

Wang Pu's sharp gaze fell on Emperor Longwu's immature face like a knife, and a trace of disdain suddenly bloomed at the corner of his mouth, and after stepping the last golden step, Huo Ran turned to face the golden and brilliant hall, and shouted: "Someone!" ”

This sound was like a thunderclap, which shook the ear drums of Emperor Longwu, Gao Hongtu and others.

"Click......"

Outside the main hall, there was a sound of neat footsteps, which was the sound of the collision of the hard cowhide boots on the blue bricks, as soon as they heard this momentum, Emperor Longwu and Gao Hongtu, Jiang Yueguang, Wang Duo and others were frightened and turned to earth, which was clearly the soldiers of the Central Army of the brigade were running forward.

Could it be that Wang Pu is really going to rebel?

Emperor Longwu looked out of the door of the hall in horror, the sound of uniform footsteps became louder and louder, Emperor Longwu felt that the ground under his feet began to tremble slightly, and suddenly, two teams of heavily armed soldiers of the Central Army had already run into the main hall.

"Stand!"

The two officers who ran at the front gave the same order, and the two rows of soldiers of the Central Army who entered the hall stopped and stood still!

"Stand upright!"

"Look left and right...... Even! ”

"Forward...... See! ”

"Take a break!"

"Stand upright!"

The central army of the two squadrons regarded the huge Jinluan Hall as a school ground, and performed military postures as if no one was around, but this scene scared Emperor Longwu and Gao Hongtu and others half to death, and a few timid civil officials were already trembling and communicating in cold sweat.

Shi Kefa couldn't stand it anymore, and said angrily: "Wang Pu, you are showing off your strength above the Golden Palace, what are you doing here?" ”

"Master Shi!" Wang Pu said fiercely, "Ben Hou knows that you are a clean official, and you are even more of a hard bone, but Ben Hou warns you, don't stop Ben Hou from taking people!" ”

"Take people?" Shi Kefa became more and more angry, "Who are you taking? ”

"Humph!"

Wang Pu snorted, no longer paying attention to Shi Kefa, and shouted in a cruel voice, "Take people!" ”

"Yes!"

As soon as the two officers gave the order, the two teams of soldiers had already pounced on them like tigers and wolves, pushing more than a dozen officials such as Gao Hongtu, Jiang Yueguang, and Wang Duo to the ground, and more than a dozen officials from the Donglin family were also knocked down, including the famous Fushe League advocate Pu, and Chen Zhenhui, one of the four sons of the Fushe Society.

"Wang Pu, it's against you!" Gao Hongtu said angrily, "The old man is the head of the cabinet, the important minister of the imperial court, you are a small governor of the five provinces, what qualifications do you have to take people?" Do you still have the Great Ming Law in your eyes, and do you have any long live the Lord? You rebellious thief, you have no discipline......"

Wang Pu waved his hand and said coldly: "Remove his chin!" ”

"Yes!"

A soldier suddenly agreed, and as soon as he raised his hand, he removed Gao Hongtu's chin.

Shi Kefa couldn't look at it anymore, he was so angry that his beard stood upside down, his nose was smoking, and he shouted: "Wang Pu, no matter what Gao Ge Lao says, he is also the first assistant of the cabinet appointed by Long Live Senior, even if he really violates the national law and discipline, he needs to be tried and convicted before the emperor, you are a small governor of the five provinces, why do you say that you will take people?" ”

"Boom!"

In the crisp sound of gold and iron grinding, Wang Pu turned his hand and pulled out his sword, pointed at Shi Kefa and said, "Master Shi, do you know what kind of sword this is, whose sword it is?" ”

Shi Kefa said awe-inspiringly: "What sword? ”

"It's the Emperor's Imperial Longquan Sword!" Wang Pu said coldly, "On the night of the fall of Yanjing City, Ben Hou had entered the palace to rescue him, the first emperor thought that the Jingshi had fallen, and the monarch should go to the difficulty, so he insisted on refusing to go into exile in Nanjing, but he gave this royal Longquan sword to Ben Hou, Zhang Gonggong, you are a person in the palace, see if this is the first emperor's imperial sword?" ”

Zhang Zi'an didn't dare to slack off, hurriedly stepped forward a few steps to take a closer look, and said in a panic: "It is indeed the Longquan Sword used by the first emperor." ”

Shi Kefa said disapplausively: "Even if it is the imperial sword of the first emperor, what can it mean?" ”

"Master Shi, when the first emperor gave Benhou Longquan the sword, he also gave him the power of killing the faint king and killing the ministers below! Don't say that you want a mere Gao Hongtu ......" Wang Pu said this, suddenly turned around and glared at Emperor Longwu viciously, and shouted murderously, "Even if the Long Live Lord makes a mistake, Ben Hou has the right to behead him under the sword!" ”

"Ahh

Emperor Longwu let out a soft sigh, if it weren't for Zhang Zi'an's quick hand to support him, he would have fallen to the ground.

Wang Pu said this half-truth, this sword is indeed the Longquan sword used by Emperor Chongzhen, the night of the Yanjing City break, Emperor Chongzhen used this sword to kill Tian Guifei and Princess Zhaoren, but when it came to killing Princess Changping, he couldn't do it anymore, abandoned the sword and left, and the sword was picked up by Wang Pu.

As for the life and death of killing the faint king and killing the ministers to seize power, it is completely Wang Pu's nonsense, but Shi Kefa and the others don't know what happened in the Forbidden City at that time, so they can only listen to it and believe it.

Shi Kefa's arrogance was obviously shortened, and he frowned: "Even if the Hou Ye has the power to kill and seize the Manchu Dynasty civil and military forces and the Long Live Lord, then you can't take people for nothing, right?" Although Gao Ge Lao pursues a wrong national policy, he is still honest as an official, why does Hou Ye say that he is a minister? ”

"Why do you say they're annihilators?" Wang Pu said awe-inspiringly, "Okay, Ben Hou will show Master Shi something!" ”

After that, Wang Pu raised his head and shouted, "Come on, bring things up!" ”

Three soldiers of the Central Army entered the hall with their heads held high with a tray, they didn't know what was put on the tray, they were covered with a white cloth, and there were faint red traces oozing out on the white cloth, and the three soldiers of the Central Army strode to the hall, put the tray on the ground, and then brushed the ground and lifted the white cloth.

Including Sun Chuanting, Qian Qianyi, and Lu Daqi, almost all the officials in the court were shocked, and there were three bloody heads on the tray!

Wang Pu stretched out his hand and pointed to the three heads, and said sharply: "This is the head of the three generals of Jinshan, Linshan, and Guanhai. Fortunately, Bendu found out in time, and these three guys still wanted to resist stubbornly and were killed on the spot! ”

Shi Kefa's face changed drastically, which he didn't know, but he quickly guessed that it had something to do with Gao Hongtu.

Emperor Longwu, Gao Hongtu, Jiang Yueguang, Wang Duo and others were like ashes, they never thought that the armies of Jinshan, Linshan, and Guanhai were so easily disintegrated by Wang Pu, and even the three generals were killed on the spot.

Wang Pu said coldly: "Presumably Lord Shi has already guessed, that's right, this Sanwei army was secretly transferred to Guabu by Gao Hongtu in the name of Long Live Lord, and this thief also secretly promised the three of them that as long as they control Nanjing, they will be promoted to the general army!" Master Shi, my lords, what do you say Gao Hongtu wants to do? ”

Shi Kefa was speechless, he knew that Gao Hongtu had always wanted to disintegrate Wang Pu's central army, and it was entirely possible to transfer the Jinshan, Linshan, and Guanhai armies to secretly enter Beijing.

"Put Gao Hongtu and the other prisoners in the prison, and they will be tried by the three halls of the Sun Pavilion Elders' Qi Criminal Department and the Military Department!" Wang Pu said this, turned around and stared at Emperor Longwu murderously, and asked awe-inspiringly, "Long live the lord, what do you say?" ”

"Okay, okay." Emperor Longwu was already so frightened that his legs became weak, and he nodded again and again, "Just do what Jingnanhou says, three...... The three sessions will try the case of Gao Hong's conspiracy against him. ”

"Lord Shi, Lord Gao." Wang Pu's gaze swept over Shi Kefa and Gao Zhuo, the secretary of the Criminal Department, like a knife, and said, "And the old man, prepare to try the case." ”

■■■

It was afternoon, in the lobby of the Criminal Department.

Sun Chuanting, the first assistant of the cabinet, sat in the center, Shi Kefa, the secretary of the Ministry of War, was on the left, and Gao Zhuo, the secretary of the Criminal Department, was on the right.

In fact, Wang Pu has already done enough work in secret, the so-called three-hall trial is just a formality, and letting Shi Kefa, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and Gao Zhuo, the secretary of the Criminal Department, participate in the trial, just to take care of public opinion, even if there is no Shi Kefa and Gao Zhuo, Wang Pu can still convict Gao Hongtu, but this will inevitably cause criticism.

But then again, even if Wang Pu does enough superficial articles, there will still be criticism.

The first person to be brought up was the chief of the guard of Wang Decheng, the general of the Guanhaiwei Staff, and Gao Zhuo, the secretary of the Criminal Department, picked up the shocking wood and slapped it on the case, and asked sternly: "The name of the prisoner?" ”

"The villain Wang Yun is the chief of the guard of the rebel general Wang Decheng."

"For the record! You are not stationed in Guanhaiwei, what are you doing in Kuah? ”

"I heard Wang Decheng say, we are transferred to Beijing."

"Recorded, transferred to Beijing? On whose orders? Is it from the Governor's Yamen or from the Ministry of War? ”

"It's not that we entered Beijing to protect the ...... of Long Live Lord."

"What did you say!?"

"Well, no...... We were appointed by Elder Sun Ge. ”

"For the record!" After saying that, Gao Zuo turned his gaze to Sun Chuanting and Shi Kefa, and asked, "Elder Sun Ge, Master Shi, do you have anything else to ask?" ”

Sun Chuanting and Shi Kefa waved their hands, and Gao Zuo turned back to the copywriter and said, "Sort out the copywriting and let the prisoner sign and draw the charge." ”

After pressing the handprint, the two officials escorted Wang Yun down, and then there were Li Qingsong, the general of the Jinshan Guard, and the henchmen of Zuo Ji, the general of the Linshan Guard, who were escorted to the lobby, and also confessed to the fact that Gao Hongtu transferred troops into Beijing in the name of Emperor Longwu.

Originally, the case should have been closed here, although the first offender Gao Hongtu could not escape death, but the rest of the accomplices such as Jiang Yueguang and Wang Duo were at most demoted or dismissed, and when Gao Zhuo, the secretary of the Criminal Department, was about to announce the results of the trial in accordance with the Daming Law, Wang Pu suddenly got up and said: "Lord Gao, it's too early to close the case." ”

Gao Zhuo frowned and said, "Master Hou, the facts of the case are already very clear, do you still need a retrial?" ”

Wang Pu sneered: "The case of Gao Hongtu is far from as simple as you think, Lord Gao, Ben Hou will send you two more important witnesses, come, bring the criminals Yang Tingjian and Fan Wencheng!" ”

Footsteps sounded, and four murderous soldiers of the Central Army had already escorted Yang Tingjian and Fan Wencheng into the lobby of the Criminal Department.

Seeing that it was Yang Tingjian, the envoy sent by Gao Hongtu to Yanjing to negotiate peace, Shi Kefa and Gao Zuo couldn't help but be stunned, and Gao Zhuo asked even more puzzled: "Didn't Lord Yang lead a delegation to Yanjing to negotiate peace with Jiannu?" How to ......"

"That's a good question." Wang Pu said coldly, "Yang Tingjian, let's talk about it, Gao Hongtu asked you to go to Yanjing to prepare how to negotiate peace with Jiannu?" ”

Yang Tingjian sighed, lowered his head and said: "Before leaving, Gao Ge Lao repeatedly explained that the bottom line of this peace negotiation is to cede the territory north of the Yangtze River, on the condition that no war is allowed within five years, if Jiannu takes the opportunity to propose to kill the Marquis of Jingnan, then the two families agree to start the details, and Jiannu will send troops to feign an attack on Shandong, attracting Hou Ye to lead the army to the expedition, and then Gao Ge Lao will take the opportunity to cut off the logistics supply of the Central Army, and put Hou Ye and the Central Army to death. ”

Shi Kefa and Gao Ju glanced at each other, and a trace of horror flashed in their eyes.

If Yang Tingjian didn't bend to make a move, if what he said was true, then Gao Hongtu's sin would be great! Summoning the Jinshan, Linshan, and Guanhai armies into Beijing can also be charged with the Qing monarch's side, which may not be a rebellion, but if Gao Hongtu really has the intention of colluding with Jiannu to frame Wang Pu and the Central Army, it will be a crime of treason!

If Gao Hongtu really has a treason plot, then he is not the only one who kills.

"Yang Tingjian!" Gao Zhuo said in a deep voice, "Do you know what you're talking about? ”

Yang Tingjian smiled bitterly: "What the criminal said is true, and he is willing to sign and draw a charge." ”

Gao Zhuo found that Yang Tingjian showed no signs of being tortured, but still asked: "Yang Tingjian, if you are threatened by someone, or tortured into a trick, you can say it......

Yang Tingjian smiled bitterly: "Lord Gao, the sinner is not even afraid of death, will he still be threatened by others?" ”

Gao Zuo had no choice but to sigh and say to the copywriter on the side: "Record all what the prisoner just said, and then the prisoner will sign and draw the charge." ”

After signing and drawing, Yang Tingjian was taken down.

Wang Pu pointed to Fan Wencheng and said: "The three chief judges, this person's origin is even greater, he was originally a member of Liaodong, as early as the Wanli period, he had already stooped to the enemy, and became a dog slave of Jiannu, his name is Fan Wencheng, a few months ago he was ordered by Dolgon to sneak to Nanjing, first instigated Zhu Changfang, the king of Lu, to usurp the throne, and then went to Wuchang with Zhu Changfang's handwritten letter to instigate Zuo Liangyu to raise troops, Zuo Liangyu was defeated, and this guy ran to Zhao Xin, the governor of Huguang, in an attempt to encourage Zhao Xin to support the army and stand on his own! ”

Shi Kefa and Gao Zhuo looked at each other.

Wang Pu said again: "The three chief judges, Ben Hou is puzzled that Fan Wencheng, a dog minion, has never been to Jiangnan in his life, and he is even more unfamiliar with Nanjing officialdom, why can he get close to Zhu Changfang in such a short period of time and gain his trust?" When Zuo Liangyu raised his army, it happened to be the time when Benhou and Jiannu confronted each other in Liaocheng, this time Fan Wencheng instigated Zhao Xin to stand on his own, and it was precisely when Gao Hongtu was ready to get rid of Benhou, don't you think it's a coincidence? ”

(To be continued)