"This matter is irrefutable, and the minister is willing to admit his guilt!" King Chu said.

"You confess your sins and endure them happily!" Emperor Zhou sneered and said, "You disobey the holy decree, you have the laws of the Great Zhou, if I don't deal with you, I will ignore the king's law, if I deal with you according to the laws of the Great Zhou, it will be that I don't understand human feelings, ruthless, you confessed your guilt, but let me fall into a dilemma, King Chu, you really make it difficult for me to do!" ”

"The minister pleads for the King of Chu, please Your Majesty for the sake of the King of Chu and His Majesty's brothers, please open up the net!" The old Jin King said, "The minister remembers that when His Majesty first ascended to the throne, the throne was unstable, and the powerful ministers wanted to elect the King of Chu as the new emperor, but it was the King of Chu who mutilated himself and said that he was sick, so he dispelled their thoughts and consolidated the time for His Majesty to stabilize the imperial power, and then it was to avoid similar situations, he has also been idle at home, and has never had the slightest thought in politics, and now even though he has done something wrong and disobeyed His Majesty's holy decree, it is also a choice that a father cannot make for his son, which is understandable, please forgive Your Majesty!" ”

"What does the old Jin king mean by taking out the things of the year?" Emperor Zhou's face sank, "Do you think I'm too ruthless and unrighteous?" Prime Minister Bai, you have always obeyed the laws of the Great Zhou, do you also think that I have done something wrong? ”

"If everything is according to the laws of the Great Zhou, why not do more than one or two things that Your Majesty has done wrong?" Prime Minister Bai Cheng kowtowed and said, "Starting from the second prince, Your Majesty gave the second prince to death and the old minister still doesn't understand which capital crime the second prince committed!" He did not bend the law for bribes, nor did he form a party for personal gain, let alone disobey, just because His Majesty felt that the second prince was disobedient, he wanted to kill him, the second prince has been in the frontier for many years, has made great achievements, and has made great achievements in the government and the opposition, but he died so inexplicably, how can people not chill? Let's talk about the prince and the princess, even if the prince and the prince are guilty, they should be arrested, and then publicly interrogated and then convicted, this is the correct process, the eldest grandson Chi was intercepted and killed by the emperor's order, which was to ignore the laws of the Great Zhou! Until the prince was rescued by the king of Chu and returned to the capital and placed under house arrest by His Majesty, His Majesty still did not make it clear that the prince was guilty of the crime, but now he is going to be executed again, the old minister is puzzled and frightened! ”

The old king of Jin continued: "If the old minister is not mistaken, before the death of the Queen Mother, His Majesty clearly asked His Majesty not to kill Zhao Ling, the Queen Mother's body is not cold, she must not take her words to heart, even if the Queen Mother is underground, she will feel sad!" ”

"Shut up!" Emperor Zhou pushed all the folds on the table to the ground, "I am the emperor of the Great Zhou, I have the power of life and death, whoever I want to live will live, and whoever I want to die, whoever will die!" I can't tolerate you barking in front of me! If you dare to talk nonsense, Hugh blames me for not being merciful and will kill you all together! ”

What Emperor Zhou has always wanted is for the world to submit to him, and now the three people in front of him are challenging his authority, questioning his authority, and telling him not to be angry!

"Since Your Majesty feels that he has the right to live and die, then the minister has nothing to say!" Prime Minister Bai said.

"Today's incident started because of the minister, and it has nothing to do with the two brothers!" The king of Chu said, "Your Majesty, don't be angry anymore, Your Majesty will just deal with the ministers, let the two elder brothers go back!" ”

"Is this palace a place where you can come and leave whenever you want?" Emperor Zhou shouted coldly.

Emperor Zhou calmed down, looked at the three people on the ground with sharp eyes, and asked, "Are you very dissatisfied with me?" If you still have any grievances in your hearts, you might as well talk about them together, and I will know them too! ”

At this time, Chang Dan entered and said, "Your Majesty, the fifth prince asks to see!" ”

"He's here to join in the fun, let him go back to study hard, don't worry about things that shouldn't be in his hands!" Emperor Zhou said coldly.

"Yes!" Chang Shan immediately withdrew.

As soon as Chang Shan went out, the people of the first palace entered again and said, "Your Majesty, the deputy commander of the city guard army asks to see you!" ”

"Let him in!" Emperor Zhou said coldly.

After a while, he saw a commander of the city guard enter, knelt down and hugged his fists and said: "The minister has something to report to Your Majesty, just now we were chasing Zhao Ling, and we almost caught the other party, but the people of the Xiao Cavalry Battalion suddenly broke out for some reason, and made a mess with our people, letting Zhao Ling and them run away!" As far as the minister knows, among the people who arrested Zhao Ling this time, there was no participation of the Xiao Cavalry Battalion at all, why did the Xiao Cavalry Battalion enter the city, and why did it so coincidentally block our action? The minister felt very suspicious, so he came to inform His Majesty! ”

At this moment, Chang Shan entered again and said: "Your Majesty, the fifth prince said that there is something important to report to Your Majesty, and you have to ask to see him at this moment!" ”

"This rebel, let him in, I want to see what he wants to say!" Emperor Zhou said.

After a while, I saw Zhao Li enter, kneeling on the ground to greet Emperor Zhou, with bandages on his wrists.

"What's going on?" Emperor Zhou asked.

"Erchen was assassinated, there was a eunuch next to the father, came to pass the decree, saying that the father wanted to let the son-in-law come to the audience, did not expect that he suddenly assassinated the son-in-law halfway, thanks to the protection of the heavens, the son-in-law was only a small injury, and then heard about Zhao Ling's brother, I thought that the father must be worried about this matter, so I didn't want to worry about the father because of this trivial matter, but the son-son checked the details of the eunuch, and the son-chan found that just two days ago, he had met with the eldest grandson Chi, and there was a token of the eldest grandson Chi, The son had too many doubts in his heart, so he felt that he had to inform his father about this matter! Zhao Li said, and after he finished speaking, he asked people to carry up the body of the eunuch he had killed.

Emperor Zhou glanced at it and said: "Sure enough, it is the person next to me, I am still wondering why I passed the decree to the Chu Palace, so coincidentally, let people know, it turns out that I still have eyeliner by my side!" ”

He paused, his eyes narrowed: "Xiao Riding Camp...... Assassination...... Eldest grandson Chi, did these things just happen to come together? ”

"Eldest Sun Chi has a heavy army, and Erchen thinks it's better to let him come over and ask for clarification!" Zhao Li said, "If it is a misunderstanding, the misunderstanding can be resolved, if it is not a misunderstanding, my father should make a plan early!" ”

"Come on, Xuan Changsun is late to enter the palace!"

Emperor Zhou's eyes glanced coldly at the King of Chu and the three of them, and said in a cold voice: "Do you think that if I leave you, I will not be able to control the court of the Great Zhou, so do you guess that I am so unscrupulous?" I will let you know that I have never relied on anyone, I will not kill you, I will prove to you that I have never done anything wrong, and everything I do is for the strength of the Great Zhou and the society of the Great Zhou! The two of them, invite the three of them down, and look good, you must not let the three of them have an accident! ”

"Yes!" The Imperial Forest Army entered and took the three kings of Chu down.

The patrol battalion and the city guards were all dispatched in full force, searching almost door to door in the capital, and the main targets of their search were the Jiang family, the Jin Palace, and the Jiang Mansion. The city guard was personally led by Yu Sicheng, and they searched one household after another, all the way to Jiangfu.

After Jiang Yuan went down to court, he heard about Zhao Ling's robbery on the road, and his face turned pale with fright, for fear that he would be affected because of this matter, and after returning home, he hid in the study and hurriedly wrote a confession, hoping that His Majesty would not be angry with him because of this matter. He stopped the words again and again, and after a while, he heard his subordinates say that the city guards were coming to Jiangfu to search and ask for his opinion.

"What are you doing in a daze, do we harbor fugitives, why don't you open the door and let them come in to search!" Jiang Yuan hurriedly said, "Go and tell the third aunt, let her cooperate with the city guards as much as possible, and search the whole mansion and every corner carefully!" ”

"Yes!"

Jiang Yuan still felt a little uneasy, so he personally greeted him, and personally led the city guards to start searching his house, so as not to let himself have any suspicions.

The city guards entered the Jiang Mansion, and within a short time, they searched the inside and outside of the Jiang Mansion, and did not find any abnormalities.

Yu Sicheng looked at Jiang Yuan and sneered and said, "Thank you Jiang Shangshu for your cooperation!" ”

"It should, it should!" Jiang Yuan said hurriedly.

"This Zhao Ling is Jiang Shangshu's son-in-law, if you have any news, don't tell your brothers!" Yu Sicheng said.

"Definitely, definitely!" Jiang Yuan said, "Once you find his traces, you will definitely inform Commander Yu!" ”

"But how can this Zhao Ling say that he is also Jiang Shangshu's son-in-law, Jiang Shangshu has also eaten his benefits before, and now that he has an accident, he is so clean, Jiang Shangshu is really a person who does great things!" Yu Sicheng said with a smile.

"Commander Yu laughed!" Jiang Yuan said, "It's not that this is a clean break, I just want to be loyal to Your Majesty, since Zhao Ling is the person Your Majesty wants to catch, if I am favoritive, I am bullying the king, and I am disloyal!" ”

"Since Master Jiang has such an awareness, then we can rest assured!" Yu Sicheng said, "But with a father-in-law like Lord Jiang, Zhao Ling won't escape to Jiang Mansion, right?" Let's go! ”

Yu Sicheng left with the city guard, and the third aunt asked worriedly, "Master, won't something happen?" ”

"Humph!" Jiang Yuan's face was cold, "If I knew that there was today, I should have cut off the father-daughter relationship with Jiang Xiaoyu earlier, and I definitely wouldn't have today's disaster!" Pay attention to Jiang Haoran, don't have anything to do with Zhao Quan anymore, Jiang Mansion can't be affected by Chu Wangfu anymore! ”

"Yes!" The third aunt sighed and said slowly, although she looked down on Jiang Yuan in her heart for being so greedy for life and afraid of death, ruthless and unrighteous, but she didn't have any verbal disputes with him, she should come down first, she knew that Jiang Xiaoyu had returned to the capital, and she also guessed that this time the matter might have been done by the eldest lady, I don't know where the eldest lady is now? Is it safe now?