Chapter 752: Tongue and Tongue
Since Emperor Hongfu ordered the crown prince to supervise the country, the main hall of the Qianqing Palace has hardly been opened, and Gu Jicang is suspected of being a fine work of the Japanese state, although the two major cases of Gushui assassination have not been handed over to the three law divisions, but because the Gushui assassination case mobilized Jingwei, and there was a victory and defeat between the three hundred assassins, although there was no disparity, the process was also quite fierce.
For example, Xu Jin, Shen Cassia Ming and other cabinets, coldly saw that the King of Linzi and the Chengguo Gong Party had already been like a lost dog in chaos, and they actually expected that Emperor Hongfu would summon important ministers sooner or later - the crime of murdering the prince was the same as rebellion, and the people involved were not only the prince, how many civil ministers and martial arts could not stay out of the matter, that is, it was not judged by the three law divisions, but in order to correct the audio-visual and calm the discussion, it was inevitable that Emperor Hongfu would summon this palace meeting.
As the de facto prime minister, it is natural for a cabinet minister to attend a meeting, and it does not mean that he is involved in the case when he is summoned.
"I have summoned all the Aiqing today for several important cases, especially the ministers must pay attention to the facts of the case, how to decide, I need to listen to your opinions." Emperor Hongfu is on the throne, except for him, the king, everyone is standing under the cloud platform, but the time of this palace discussion is not short, so Emperor Hongfu is particularly sympathetic to those ministers who are older than him, and ordered the throne.
King Linzi, whose heart was almost hanging in his throat, first comforted himself secretly: Maybe things are not as bad as imagined, my father did not listen to Qin Xun's words, and what he said just now undoubtedly told everyone that he had not yet made up his mind, so he deliberately emphasized that he would listen to the opinions of the four cabinet ministers, and although Xu Jin, Shen Cianming and even Li Qianyuan might be biased towards Qin Xun, as long as Qin Xun could not produce conclusive evidence of the crime, they would not dare to insist on convicting and executing the prince and the king, as well as Guo Li...... Now his power is almost hollowed out under the suppression of those three people, although he did not agree to serve me, but a few months ago, his old mother was ninety years old, and he did not refuse the congratulatory gift of the Chengguo Mansion!
Maybe there is a possibility of turning defeat into victory in this battle.
However, of course, the king of Linzi also left an opinion that Zheng Xiu and Luo Kun were also summoned today, and he also brought his third brother Qin Chen, and he couldn't help muttering in his heart: If Liang Shiqi was not instructed by Zheng Xiu, then Zheng Xiu should stay out of the matter, and his father didn't say that he would listen to the advice of a few of them today, but why did he summon them to participate in the palace meeting? Or is it true that Liang Shiqi was instructed by Zheng Xiu, but Zheng Xiu had already surrendered to Qin Xun, and the plan discussed with Qin Xun was to mislead me into thinking that Zheng Xiu wanted to see the wind and rudder, forcing me to make a desperate bet?
If that's the case, Zheng Xiu shouldn't be exposed, right? Otherwise, he would also be guilty of misdeeds by bribing Jinyiwei, and he, an old fox, would not have sacrificed himself to help Qin Xun succeed! He will inevitably put forward conditions to let Qin Xun shield him, admit that he is Liang Shiqi who was instructed by Qin Xun, and simply hide that his father and the emperor are involved in this matter. Could it be that Qin Xun repented and decided that Zheng Xiu's surrender was fake, that his scheming heart would not die, and that he planned to kill two birds with one stone?
Zheng Xiu is not easy to deal with, so he will inevitably stand in my camp and turn the spearhead to deal with Qin Xun, because my lips are cold and my teeth are cold, if I lose today, who else can stop Qin Xun's momentum?
The king of Linzi was even more confident.
"Prince, let's state the case first." With the edict of Emperor Hongfu, today's palace meeting officially kicked off.
The prince was dressed in filial piety clothes, holding a jade wat in his hand, and first bowed to the wat to show his salute.
In order to obey the order, he turned around and faced the people.
Deliberately first put a pair of eyes and looked at the King of Linzi whose face was stretched like a cowhide drum: "About a month ago, I heard the news, the content is that Gu Jicang, that is, the Zhaodu Yuyuezhang, who should have died in Fuzhou many years ago, was suddenly arrested by the Marquis of Jinghai, and was suspected of obeying the orders of the great name of the Wa Kingdom, but the Marquis of Jinghai handed over Gu Jicang to the King of Linzi for secret custody, and I suspected that Wen Xiao, the Marquis of Jinghai, had bad intentions and intended to blame the palace, so I knew that the emperor asked for the order to let Jinyi Wei thoroughly investigate the case.
How do you know that Tao Xiaoshen, the pacification envoy of Jinyiwei's sponsorship of this case, has not made any progress, but Dong Guanjian of Qianhu first arrested a widow, and from then on, a secret letter was found on the widow's body, which was written to be handed over to Gu Jicang for reading, and after interrogation, the widow admitted that he was sent by the Dongying Daimyo and was responsible for liaison and communication, and also confirmed that Gu Jicang was his famous retainer, and confided that Gu Jicang was hiding in a manor on the shore of Hongluo Lake in Huairou.
For the sake of prudence, the palace naturally would not believe the words of the widows, so they sent someone to secretly check whether Gu Jicang was really hiding in Huairou, but to the surprise of the palace, the manor did suddenly live in twenty or thirty people, but the guards were very strict, and although they were all dressed as ordinary people, they were all very skilled, and they didn't see Gu Jicang coming in and out, and they didn't know if there was fraud for a while.
Not two days later, the palace received another secret letter, what is even more strange is that although the letter was sent to Ciqing Palace, the recipient is Mrs. Gu of the Taishi Mansion, Mrs. Gu read the letter, confirmed that it was her biological father Gu Jicang himself, the content is to meet Mrs. Gu on the bank of Gushui ten miles away from Miyun County, but Mrs. Gu also saw that Gu Jicang's handwritten letter was hidden in another mystery, and used a secret pen to remind 'danger do not go'. ”
The prince paused slightly when he said this, and motioned to Lan Ting to hand over Gu Gong's handwritten letter to the elders of the pavilion for review, and Lan Ting had already circled the place of the secret pen.
While circulating the letter, the four pavilion elders listened to the prince continue: "At that time, the palace was even more suspicious that the internal situation of this case was complicated, and there must be fraud, just imagine if Gu Jicang was really a meticulous work of Dongying, and was arrested by Wen Xiao and handed over to the custody of the King of Linzi, even the Jinyi guard could not find out where Gu Jicang was imprisoned, how did that widow know that Gu Jicang was in Huairou Hongluo Lake Manor?" And if the widow was lying, Gu Jicang was not in Huairou, but the manor was clearly strictly guarded by unknown warriors.
Gu Jicang's handwritten letter shows that he is not allowed to be free, otherwise how could he use a secret pen to remind Mrs. Gu that she should not go to the appointment in danger? So why did the king of Linzi lead his wife to the shore of Gushui? The palace was puzzled, so while planning to mobilize the secret guards to investigate the Gushui stepping point, pretending to go to the appointment, and at the same time instructing the Jinyi guard to command Liang Shiqi to take advantage of the unpreparedness of those warriors in Huairou Manor to attack at night, so that the palace did not expect that Gu Jicang was really imprisoned in the Hongluo Lakeside Manor!
And three days later, the palace pretended to go to the appointment, but quietly sneaked back to the palace on the way, and that day, what happened on the bank of Gushui believed that all the Qing had heard of it, and what made the palace unexpected, the Qintian supervisor Sun Chongbao, that day in front of the emperor bluntly said that he through the observation of celestial phenomena and inspection of the internal files, determined that by his fortune, the palace must die on the bank of the Gushui that day, and the reason why the palace suffered this catastrophe is because of virtue is not matched, and admonished that if you want to make the monarch and society from more heavenly curses, you should be the chief prince. ”
At this time, the crown prince had already paced in front of the king of Linzi: "Sun Chongbao is recommended by the king of Linzi County to be the supervisor of Qintian, right?" He was able to say this, he must have known that the king of Linzi County would set up an ambush in Gushui, attack and kill the palace, and blame Gu Jicang for secretly communicating with the Japanese to ambush our Chinese prince, and attributed these disasters to the mandate of heaven and was the king of Linzi County
Seek to obtain storage space to remove obstacles. ”
"Prince, this is a bloody mouth!" The rebuttal of the king of Linzi is strong and dry.
Cheng Guogong hurriedly helped: "The emperor Mingjian, if it is really the king of Linzi who intends to kill the prince, isn't it nonsense to use Gu Jicang?" Gu Jicang is the father-in-law of Zhao Duyu, not the eldest of His Royal Highness the Prince, why did His Royal Highness the Crown Prince go through danger for Gu Jicang? And His Royal Highness the Crown Prince claimed that the widow confessed that the Hongluo Lake Manor was Gu Jicang's hiding place, just ask the king of Linzi County if he really imprisoned Gu Jicang here, how could there be a widow who could find out the truth and be arrested by the prince so coincidentally?! The prince's statement is clearly inconsistent, and it is clearly a fabrication to blame His Royal Highness the King of Linzi, please let the emperor know it! ”
Chengguo Gong used this rhetoric to quibble, which was nothing more than that the prince did not dare to admit that he coveted the absurd behavior of being willing to be born and die for the wife of a courtier, and besides, the Japanese were indeed not arranged by the Linzi royal party, and they did not know that there were still Japanese criminals, so they believed that the prince had made up a fabrication, and it was clear that he had already found out that Gu Jicang was imprisoned in Huairou and made up a confession of the Japanese to justify himself in front of the emperor.
"Bao Duyu, although the Qing has not been ordered to investigate this case, but after all, he is the head of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, so it seems that this statement of the palace is fabricated?" The crown prince did not take care of Cheng Guogong, but asked Bao Wenhan instead.
Since Gu Jicang was rescued, although Zheng Xiu has not contacted many party members in order to prevent him from falling into the crime, Bao Wenhan has also learned that the severity of the situation has exceeded his expectations after listening to the prince's statement - although Gu Jicang does not know that he is involved, even Wen Xiao, Shen Shi and others may not know that he is an ally of Wei Guogong, but if Wei Guogong is involved and cannot protect himself, of course he cannot be alone.
In the current situation, we can only cooperate with the king of Linzi first.
"His Royal Highness asked, the minister did not dare not answer, in the minister's opinion, His Royal Highness's statement is indeed contradictory, Cheng Guogong questioned is not unreasonable, the king of Linzi County is the elder brother of His Royal Highness, and he is also a dragon son, and he cannot only rely on His Highness's statement to conspire against the great crime."
When Cheng Guogong heard this, his confidence suddenly increased: "Your Majesty, the prince slandered His Royal Highness the King of the County and plotted to kill the prince, because he wanted to trap His Royal Highness the King of the County in a place where there is no return!" The prince has been cruel to his siblings and has lost his morality and righteousness, how can he have the product of a holy king? How can you take on the responsibility of reviving the prosperous world? The ministers asked the emperor to punish the prince for his crimes and proclaim it to the people, so that he could maintain the etiquette and law of the country, maintain the discipline and morality, and let the subjects of the world admonish together, and the king should be loyal, the father should be filial, and the brothers and brothers should be friendly. ”
The situation has been boiling like a fish, life and death are even more immediate, today is either the king of Linzi is ruined or the prince is defeated, and the prince of Chengguo also simply and decisively put forward the advice of abolishing the reserve.
And since the King of Linzi has Chengguo Gong to speak for him, of course, Lan Ting can't let His Royal Highness the Crown Prince fight alone, he holds the wat and first signals to Emperor Hongfu and the prince, and then walks to Chengguogong's side.
"Chengguo Gongfu bureaucrat Huang Quanying, is to the Chengguo Gong to advise, but also for Huang Quanying to inform the King of Linzi and Chengguo Gong, the crown prince canonization ceremony, the emperor because of the credulity of the villain, once misunderstood that His Royal Highness the prince actually violated the etiquette of the inner son, after the ceremony, the inner son for the Empress Dowager Shengde stayed in Cining Palace, in fact, it was for the emperor to imprison, thoroughly investigate the matter, and then because of the Empress Dowager Shengde obstruction, the inner son finally got lenient. Cheng Guogong, Huang Quanying analyzed the matter, and was sure that the prince did have this violation of etiquette, so he firmly believed that the prince would take risks to rescue his son's biological father, Huang Quanying has been with Cheng Guogong for many years, and Cheng Guogong has always regarded him as a confidant. ”