Chapter 398: Avoiding Suspicion
"Master, it was your aunt, Princess Huaiyang, who did it." One of the guards said.
Xiao Qiongzhi couldn't help but have a headache.
Xiao Mingzhu is used to being arrogant, this is what she can do.
And she is not as good as the county lord of Linglong, she is completely unreasonable, and her relationship with Xiao Qiongzhi is not good, if she knows that Xiao Qiongzhi rescued Liu Chunhua from her, she will definitely have to come to Xiao Qiongzhi's trouble.
Fortunately, in this case, Xiao Qiongzhi let Wang Zhengrong, the secretary of the Criminal Department, be in front, and when the time comes, punish Xiao Mingzhu, just follow the law, in case Xiao Mingzhu makes trouble, he can still push it.
Xiao Qiongzhi looked at the secret guard and said, "We only found out from Chunxiang Courtyard now, Liu Chunhua was captured from Chunxiang Courtyard by the Linglong County Lord, as for what happened after Liu Chunhua left Chunxiang Courtyard, I don't know." You tell Wang Shangshu and me carefully, what you found after Liu Chunhua left Chunxiang Courtyard, what happened. β
"That's right, after the county lord of Linglong took Liu Chunhua away from Chunxiangyuan, he took him to a Zhuangzi under the name of the lord of Linglong in the suburbs of Beijing and locked him up, planning to contact Xiao Zhenye, the loyal king who was on the border of Beichuan in the frontier, and send Liu Chunhua over, out of sight."
"And Liu Chunhua's sister Liu Qiuyue was one step ahead of her, and went to Jingya Taishou to report the case, and it happened that Peng Zhen, the master of Jingya Taishou, was the son of Xiao Mingzhu, the princess of Huaiyang, so Peng Zhen took Liu Qiuyue to take Jingya to arrest and rush to Zhuangzi, where the lord of Linglong County was detaining Liu Chunhua, and quietly asked people to tell Xiao Mingzhu, the princess of Yang.
"Xiao Mingzhu, the princess of Huaiyang, immediately asked the county lord of Linglong to clarify the situation, and rushed to the front, and asked people to transfer Liu Chunhua from the village of the county lord of Linglong to another village under her own name."
"And, early this morning, she went to her own village and tortured Liu Chunhua with her own hands, so Liu Chunhua became what she is now." The dark guard said seriously.
After speaking, he took out a few pieces of paper from his arms, handed them to Xiao Qiongzhi, and then pointed to the two men they had caught, and said, "Master, Lord Wang, these two people's confessions are on this paper. β
"They were all the guards who accompanied the county lord of Linglong to Chunxiang Courtyard to arrest Liu Chunhua yesterday, and it was they who truthfully explained everything, and we were able to rescue Liu Chunhua from the Zhuangzi of Xiao Mingzhu, the princess of Huaiyang."
"So, when you arrested these two people and went to my aunt's Zhuangzi to rescue Liu Chunhua, did you alarm my cousin, my aunt or others?" Xiao Qiongzhi roughly browsed the contents of a few pieces of paper and asked in a deep voice.
"No, the guards in the Huaiyang Palace, the Huaiyang Princess Zhuangzi, are not strict, when we arrested people today, they all quietly climbed over the wall in the backyard and did not alarm anyone." The dark guard said.
Xiao Qiongzhi glanced at him approvingly, and then asked: "The last time the county lord of Linglong was punished by Prince Xuan to study in the Good Woman Correctional Center for three months, and now it is only the third month, has her guard explained it, how did she get out in advance?" β
"Confessed, they said that Princess Huaiyang went to ask the Emperor Taishang to issue an edict last month, and on the grounds that the county lord of Linglong was doing well in the rehab center, the county lord of Linglong was exempted from studying for one month."
Well, no wonder Xiao Mingzhu went to Xiao Han's palace so diligently a while ago, it turned out that Xiao Han also helped her so much.
Xiao Qiongzhi knew in his heart, turned his head to Wang Zhengrong and said, "The matter is already very clear, Lord Wang, in your opinion, what should be done next?" β
Wang Zhengrong said without thinking: "Your Royal Highness Princess, you are the teacher of Da Xiao and have the right to supervise the country, and this case was brought to light by your full support to the lower officials, and the lower officials want to listen to your opinions before making a decision, you see, is it okay?" β
"Absolutely." Xiao Qiongzhi couldn't help but smile slightly.
This Wang Zhengrong is still very interesting.
is worthy of being one of her father Xiao Zhengzhen's cronies, but it can be reused!
She thought for a while and said: "As early as eight years ago, when I was the first national teacher of Daxiao, I asked His Majesty the Emperor for his consent to take the legal right to operate brothels, cowherds, and casinos in our Daxiao. β
"Chunxiangyuan, as a teahouse and wine house-type consumption place, openly does legitimate business, and secretly assists Du Qianqian, the eldest granddaughter of Du Lingzuo, the prime minister of the Southern Qi Kingdom, to force Liang to become a prostitute, the evidence is conclusive, and it should be sealed up and all illegal business income should be confiscated from now on."
"Du Yuan, the person in charge of Chunxiang Courtyard, will be carefully retried to see what other crimes he has committed in running Chunxiang Courtyard over the years. If he pleads guilty and can truthfully confess, he will be sentenced to life imprisonment, and if he refuses to admit his guilt and refuses to confess to other crimes, he will be punished as a conspiracy and sentenced to death! β
"The maids, thugs and others who work in Chunxiangyuan should also be carefully retried, and those who participate in the forced prostitution will be castrated and sent to the border to fill the army, and those who report others and do not participate in the forced prostitution will be acquitted and acquitted."
"Zheng Dan, the king of Huaiyang, as a high-ranking official of the imperial court, prostituted in Chunxiangyuan, which seriously damaged the image of the officials of the Great Xiao, and was severely punished, dismissed from all positions in the court, and at the same time, Jue Lu was punished for ten years to set an example."
"Xiao Mingzhu, the princess of Huaiyang, did not care about the indiscriminate situation, set up a private torture hall, abused innocent people's daughters, seriously damaged the image of the Daxiao royal family, and severely punished her, canceled her title of pearl of the county lord's title, and compensated Liu Chunhua for medical expenses, disability expenses, mental damages, etc., a total of 10,000 taels of silver, in order to set an example."
"There is no problem with the fact that Zheng Linglong, the lord of Linglong County, caught the adulterer on behalf of her mother, but when she caught Liu Chunhua, she should ask about the situation and hand it over to the Criminal Department or report the case to the Beijing Ya, instead of disposing of Liu Chunhua privately, causing irreparable negligence."
"However, she was young and confused, and she was just a first offense, so she was punished lightly and compensated Liu Chunhua for her mental losses of a thousand taels of silver."
"Okay." Wang Zhengrong nodded again and again.
In his heart, he admired Xiao Qiongzhi very much.
After all, Zheng Dan, the king of Huaiyang, is Xiao Qiongzhi's uncle, Xiao Mingzhu, the princess of Huaiyang, is Xiao Qiongzhi's aunt, and the county lord Linglong is Xiao Qiongzhi's cousin.
Xiao Qiongzhi not only did not protect them for the sake of the two people's girls, but also punished Zheng Dan and Xiao Mingzhu severely when punishing them, which was really very selfless.
Next, in front of Xiao Qiongzhi, he interrogated several people from Chunxiangyuan again.
Especially Du Yuan, he focused on interrogating him carefully.
Du Yuan had already heard Xiao Qiongzhi's preliminary verdict on him just now, and he was very scared.
In order to survive, he confessed something that Xiao Qiongzhi and Wang Zhengrong did not expect.
That is, Du Qianqian secretly came to Nanqi in May last year, the purpose was to let Du Yuan help her contact the people of Daxiao Miaojiang and get a colorless and tasteless poison that could make people faint and lose consciousness temporarily.
The poison was used against Prince Xuan's other fiancΓ©es, who unknowingly fainted when they celebrated her birthday in June last year, and were possessed by the guards she arranged.
In this way, when Prince Xuan married them, he would be furious because he found out that they had lost their virginity, and sent them into the cold palace, and from then on he would favor her Du Qianqian alone.
I have to say that Du Qianqian's strategy is really poisonous.
I'm afraid that she has already put it into practice.
I must think of a way to tell the victimized women about this, so that Du Qianqian can get the lesson she deserves.
Xiao Qiongzhi pondered for a while, and asked Du Yuan to write down the confession in this regard, divide it into two copies, sign and draw it, give one copy to Wang Zhengrong, and keep the other copy for himself.