After the emperor left Gu Qingyan, he instructed Zhang De to summon several old ministers of the court and China into the palace overnight.

Zhang Zaifu's protégés are all over the government and the opposition, and if he moves tonight, it will inevitably not cause turmoil in the government and the opposition. How to punish Zhang Zaifu, how to stabilize the court situation, and how to find out whether the grain robbery case was related to him, this case will not be closed for a while, and we must come up with a charter and a way to deal with it.

Several old ministers who were called into the palace by the emperor late at night all pondered that something big was going on today, but what the specific big thing was, they didn't know much now, until they saw the emperor, saw the confessions of Fang Yuan, Xu Cheng, and An Ping, and heard that a large number of killers had entered the An family's old mansion, and when they were interrogated, they all sweated on the top of their heads, shocked and shocked.

For more than ten years, Zhang Zaifu has been an unshakable tree in the DPRK, and many people can only hope that he will die old so that he can vacate his seat, but he did not expect that Zhang Zaifu would not be able to retreat from the day when he could not get out.

"Don't say you can't think of it, and I can't think of it." The emperor suppressed his anger, "Over the years, I don't know how much he has deceived me? ”

Several old ministers glanced at each other, but they didn't answer.

Zhang Zaifu was single-handedly promoted by His Majesty, and he is the second prince's foreign family, these years, it is not that no one has complained a lot, but His Majesty has turned a blind eye and is very conniving, but those who have a small word do not need Zhang Zaifu to do it himself, someone will help him clean it up, come and go, many people have suffered, who else dares to deal with Zhang Zaifu?

To put it bluntly, His Majesty is all guilty of it, who is to blame?

"I let you come, not to make you dumb." The emperor also knew that he was at a loss, but as an emperor, he pulled down his face, and now he wanted to hear what they had to say.

"The poisoned tea case of murdering the lord of An Xiaojun, the evidence is conclusive, and there is no doubt that Zhang Zaifu instigated it behind his back, this is a crime, and Zhang Zaifu is not allowed to refute it, and it is reasonable for His Majesty to put him and his family in prison first. As for sending a killer to break into the An family's old mansion tonight to kill the little county lord, if it was really done by Zhang Zaifu, the nature is worse than the poisoned tea case, and this crime is added to the crime. It is enough to ask the beheading of the family, if the grain robbery case is also related to Zhang Zaifu, then this is the most serious crime, and it is not an exaggeration to rob the family and destroy the family. An old minister pondered.

The Emperor nodded, "His sins are clear, I have called you here, mainly against his protégés, but what are the regulations?" ”

"Your Majesty, Zhang Zaifu's protégés are all over the government and the opposition, but there are relatives and aliens, according to the old minister, just check the people closest to him, it is inevitable that the court situation will be turbulent, and it is not appropriate to bring out all of them."

"Pulling out the radish and bringing out the puree, this matter needs to be carefully controlled. Lao Chen felt that it was better to investigate Zhang Zaifu first and see what he had done, and how evil it was. ”

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Several people all had their own suggestions, and the emperor felt that it made sense, nodded, and asked Gu Qingyan, who had not spoken on the side, "Huai'an, tell me." ”

Gu Qingyan said softly, "Zhang Zaifu's incident will definitely cause an uproar tomorrow, Your Majesty might as well issue a notice to the people tomorrow, first inform the people of Zhang Zaifu's crime, and appease the people in Beijing, so as not to cause panic due to speculation." Second, a system of reporting and admitting guilt can be set up again, and those who report Zhang Zaifu and the evidence of the matter are true can be rewarded heavily, and those who follow Zhang Zaifu to act as a tiger and take the initiative to admit guilt can be given a lighter punishment. The government and the opposition will continue to carry it out, so as not to invest manpower in a major investigation. Thirdly, a few people who are highly respected and honest officials have taken control of the case and stabilized the situation, although it has caused temporary turmoil, as long as it does not hurt the fundamentals, they are not afraid of serious harm to the society. ”

"Well, that's a good point." The emperor appreciated Gu Qingyan's words and said the specific facts, "Tomorrow, a few Aiqing and Huai'an will try this case together." ”

Several old ministers glanced at each other, and they should all be.

Gu Qingyan hesitated for a moment, "Your Majesty, there are a few elders in control, there must be no mistakes, the little county lord has only been in Beijing for a few days, and so many things have happened one after another, and she has been persecuted so much, the minister is afraid that she will be depressed, so I will accompany her!" After all, if the little county lord can't think about it, I'm afraid it's not good. ”

Several old ministers were stunned when they heard this.

Zhang Zaifu is finished, next, the court bureau will be reshuffled again, taking the opportunity to win over the courtiers and promote his own people, it is a good opportunity, even if he doesn't win over the courtiers, if the case is done, it will also have a lot of benefits, and promotion is certain, especially Gu Qingyan is so young and promising, I didn't expect him to refuse.

The emperor was a little happy when he heard this, and said with relief, "Huai'an knows me best, Xiao An'er is indeed very important, in this case, you should accompany her well and protect her as before!" Nothing else is left to chance. ”

Gu Qingyan bowed, "Yes!" ”

Chu Chen and Chu Yan moved quickly, and when they arrived at Zhang's Mansion, they ordered people to surround Zhang's Mansion, smashed open the gate, and broke into Zhang's Mansion with people.

Jang Jae-fu did not fall asleep, but waited for news in the study. The three hundred killers were indeed sent by him to the An family's old mansion, and he waited for a long time, but before anyone came back to report the news, his heart sank little by little.

The butler heard the movement outside and came to say, "Master, somehow there seems to be some chaos outside, it's all the sound of horses' hooves." ”

Jang Jae-fu's heart sank even more, and he made a decision, "Go tell Madame and let them take someone to leave quickly." Take the secret passage. ”

The housekeeper was surprised, "...... old man"

"Go!"

Seeing Zhang Zaifu's fierce words, the housekeeper didn't dare to say more, so he hurriedly shook his legs.

When Mrs. Zhang got the news, she hurriedly summoned her eldest son and daughter-in-law with a white face and asked them to leave quickly with someone. If the master doesn't leave, she won't leave, she stays to accompany the master.

Zhang Zaifu's eldest son, Zhang Hu, persuaded his mother, but his mother didn't leave, so he left from the secret passage with his daughter-in-law's brothers and sisters.

As soon as the inner relatives left, Chu Chen and Chu Yan came with the Imperial Forest Army outside, Chu Chen took people to the inner courtyard, and Chu Yan took people to Zhang Zaifu's study.

Chu Yan took down Zhang Zaifu in Zhang Zaifu's study, and Chu Chen only took Mrs. Zhang in the inner courtyard. The rest of the relatives are nowhere to be seen.

Chu Chen caught the housekeeper of Zhang's mansion and asked, the housekeeper was very loyal, he hit the pillar and died, Chu Chen grabbed the mother-in-law next to Mrs. Zhang and asked, the mother-in-law also wanted to hit the wall, but it was unsuccessful, and was tortured by Chu Chen, the mother-in-law gritted her teeth and stood up for half an hour without a move, Chu Chen asked the mother-in-law to find out the little grandson who had been hidden for a long time, and the mother-in-law moved with tears, saying that the eldest master took people to the secret road.

The secret passage of Jang Jae-fu's house leads directly to the outside of the city, which was built by Jang Jae-fu many years ago, probably to prevent today. It really came in handy for him.

Jang Jae-fu has never been defeated in his life, he has planned for the worst, but he didn't expect the worst. He didn't expect that none of the three hundred killers he sent came back, and none of them even escaped.

If he had known, he would have sent all his children away, and he would not have hastily waited for today. Because, he never thought that he couldn't kill An Huajin, and he recruited the Royal Forest Army who came to the door so quickly.

"You send someone into the palace to tell Your Majesty, and I will take someone to chase after you." Chu Chen said to Chu Yan.

Chu Yan bowed, "Be careful." ”

Chu Chen nodded, led people to find the secret passage of the Zhang family, and chased after them.

Chu Yan sent someone into the palace to inform the emperor, after the emperor heard about it, he was angry, he originally only gave the will to take people, not the will to raid the family, but now under the anger, the will to quarrel.

Now even if the evidence of Zhang Zaifu's other crimes has not been found out, just watching the people in his house run away, that is, there must be a felony with a weak heart, otherwise, people will not run, it is important to argue.

Chu Yan soon got the emperor's will to copy the family, and led people to confiscate Zhang's mansion.

Ten minutes after the fifth watch, the second prince who got the exact news rode into the palace with a look on his face that the sky had fallen, knelt in front of the emperor, and asked Zhang Zaifu what crime he had committed? Why did you raid someone's house in the middle of the night?

The emperor scolded the second prince with his head and face, and counted Zhang Zaifu's sins like thunder, and then smashed a few testimonies on his face, and suddenly seemed to smash the second prince into a daze, and muttered that it was impossible.

Looking at his appearance, it was as if the three souls had lost seven souls.

The emperor looked at him, as if he was faking, and asked him angrily, "You really don't know?" ”

The second prince was stunned and was about to cry, "Father, did you ......make a mistake?"

The emperor was eager to raise his foot and kick him to death, so he ordered someone to drive the second prince out, so that from today onwards, he would reflect behind closed doors, and he would not be allowed to come out and jump without a will.

This means that no matter whether he is innocent or not, the emperor will not ask him about his guilt first, but he will not let him save Zhang Zaifu. Today's emperor hates Zhang Jaefu to death.

Zheng Jiugong interrogated for most of the night, and all kinds of torture tools were exhausted, before he pried open the confession from the mouth of the living mouth, the three hundred killers were indeed the dead soldiers raised by Zhang Zai, who had been raised for many years, and this time they were used on An Huajin, just to kill her, kill the old Nanyang King, and then take the opportunity to increase the military power of the Nanyang army.

Zhang Zaifu has been thinking about the military power of the Nanyang Army for too long, three years ago, when An Huajin entered Beijing, he wanted to do it, but because An Huajin didn't stay in the capital for long, after beating Chu Chen, he didn't even show his face, and went back to Nanyang directly, without giving him a chance. Now that there is another opportunity, he wants to let An Huajin die quickly, he can't wait.

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