The branches swayed in the cold wind, and the shadows on the windows were like monsters dancing their teeth and claws.

Lu Huanbang has been in power in France and Korea for almost 20 years, and the wind and waves have not capsized his big ship again and again, is this finally about to capsize?

Because Hu Xianxian didn't ask about the military camp again, Cheng Haofeng secretly breathed a sigh of relief and talked in detail about Yu Lu Huanbang's situation: "Today's saints, including Emperor Deyuan, all know that Lu Huanbang is in power, but many ministers have been unable to bring him down after many times, and the reason is not that there is no evidence to prove that he is corrupt and perverts the law, but that there is no major crime that can cause a sensation among the people and cannot be erased in the history books. "

"Are you saying that now he has been caught on charges that he can't get away with?"

Hu Xianxian has always felt guilty, in order for Hu Yonggang not to be implicated, Cheng Haofeng killed Che Ang, and there was no heavyweight witness to testify against Lu Huanbang, so that Lu Huanbang ran rampant for so long.

Cheng Haofeng nodded and smiled: "It is an unpardonable crime of using illegal utensils for private use and attempting to rebel!" ”

The rebellion of King Chengjun was put down, the army was withdrawn, and Kuozhou was temporarily ruled by an acting prefect.

Acting as an agent for the prefect to deal with various follow-up matters related to the family and family property of Chengjun Wang, and found out the hidden gold and silver treasures and private artifacts.

These things should all be handed over to the imperial court, but the acting prefect intercepted them by means and offered a lot to Lu Huanbang.

Later, many illegal utensils were found in a dark room in the palace, some of which were more exquisite than those used by the emperor, and the acting prefect invited Lu Huanbang to see them in person.

King Chengjun privately made dragon robes and other things, Hu Xianxian They also knew it, and they had seen his mother commit suicide wearing the phoenix robe of the Empress Dowager, but more utensils were not carefully examined.

Lu Huanbang went to Kuozhou on the pretext of supervising officials, and saw those things that only emperors could use in the dark room of the palace, and he was very fond of a sandalwood dragon chair for traveling around Kowloon.

The dragon chair, Lu Huanbang had seen it countless times when he was in the last dynasty, but he had never seen it closely, let alone sat on it.

In the dark room, Lu Huanbang sat on the dragon chair triumphantly and sighed: "The workmanship is very good, majestic and comfortable, it may be better than the emperor's dragon chair." It is rumored in the world that the Ninety-Five Supreme has the aura of a true dragon, and the official feels that sitting in this position will naturally be extraordinary. It can be seen that this wise and martial state is not innate, and of course he will not be angry and arrogant when he has the authority. "

These words are disrespectful, because the emperors of all dynasties have declared that they are the destiny of heaven, and Lu Huanbang's words obviously mean that anyone can be the emperor, and the emperor can be snatched at will.

It's not a big mistake for ordinary people to talk nonsense in private, but he is in a high position and thinks on the dragon chair left by the traitor, it is a great crime of treason!

Lu Huanbang is not stupid, of course he understands that this matter cannot be spread outside, but it was only because all the people present at the time were confidants that he got carried away, but he didn't expect one of them to poke out the matter.

This person is the acting prefect, when Kuozhou was just pacified, because there was no one to manage government affairs, he spent a lot of money to buy this position from Lu Huanbang through layers of relationships to act as government affairs, and what he wanted was to become the official prefect three months later.

But Lu Huanbang received another Hanlin editor's silver, this Hanlin editor's position is noble but there is no benefit to be made, and he has long wanted to release a position with real power.

At the beginning of the rebellion of the vassal kings, the court and the central government were tightly controlled, and Lu Huanbang was also afraid that the matter of selling the official mantle would be exposed, so it was of course more appropriate to let Hanlin Edit take office than to act as the prefect.

Na Hanlin is a former detective, who has been an official in Beijing for many years, and he can also blame that there is no cashier; And the acting prefect is the last few Jinshi, after a few years of scrivener, he returned to his hometown to do business, made a fortune, and wanted to be prosperous in his career in order to pave the way for the glory of his ancestors, and if he wanted to trace it, he did not really meet the standards of the prefect.

Lu Huanbang thought that he had handled it cautiously and had no loopholes, but he didn't expect that the acting prefect would hold a grudge against him and wait for an opportunity to retaliate.

It's just that it's not easy to deal with the first assistant of the current dynasty, and the acting prefect found a few imperial historians to jointly impeach Lu Huanbang, but it was useless;

He also wrote a secret recital to pass it into the palace and showed it to Dang Ben'an, who saw that the matter was important and reported it to the emperor, but it was shelved because there was no reliable evidence;

He tried his best to find out that the dragon chair that traveled around Kowloon was stored in the palace after Lu Huanbang took it away, and wanted to unite the people present at the time to testify, but no one was willing to take the lead to say it first.

After almost a year of running, the acting prefect not only did not bring down Lu Huanbang, but also put all the family property into it.

When he was about to despair, Cheng Haofeng asked Du Zhen to find him and asked him not to go around meaningless activities and listen to the arrangements to do things.

Lu Huanbang's words and deeds are not enough, it is not enough to have physical evidence, but to put it bluntly, the dragon chair is just a better chair, who has sat on it, there is no way to prove it.

Cheng Haofeng actually has a spell to prove it, but it can't convince the public, and Lu Huanbang has given him ten major crimes, which will be seen by others as revenge for personal gain.

So, Cheng Haofeng asked Du Zhen and them to secretly visit the experts in technical investigation across the country, and the results unanimously recognized that Che Chi was the most skilled and ingenious in solving the case.

Che Chi, Che Chuang's younger brother, Che Ang's younger brother Lianzong, the Che family took advantage of half of the guest rooms in Hongbin Building, and robbed the business of Hongbin Building, and later all kinds of bullying and framing, and Hu Xianxian is an enemy.

But in order to achieve great things, Cheng Haofeng could only temporarily put aside his personal grudges and personally invited Che Chi to participate in solving the case.

Che Chi can even expose his own brother, and of course he is not a person who is confined to petty grievances, and promises to investigate the case.

After Lu Huanbang sat on the dragon chair around the Kowloon, out of awe of the imperial power, the guards wrapped the dragon chair with yellow silk and put it into the Nanmu box, then put it into the camphor wood box, and then put it into the copper box, and after it was transported into the capital, it was transported into the palace treasury by the eunuch in charge of the utensils, and no one else directly touched it.

He used the paper made of tree bark to cover the entire dragon chair finely, and rolled it with a special flat jade, pasting all the traces left by Lu Huanbang on it.

The paper made of bark is flexible and lightweight, and can hold water without soaking for a long time, and even the slightest invisible trace can be photocopied.

After that, Chechi used special cement to stretch the traces from the paper to make them clearer and easier to preserve.

Among the traces of Che Chi are the fine lines of Lu Huanbang's hands, as well as the half of the pattern on the arm of the chair rubbed by the jade pendant on his waist when he sat and turned.

There are these clear traces to rub down, because the dragon chair has been placed in the dark room after it was built, and there are few people who have touched it, and it is also stained with tiny dust.

While progress is being made here, Master Guo is also making progress on his side.

Master Guo explained to Guo Biezhai the financial dealings between Che Ang and the senior officials of the DPRK and the Central Committee, and also said the specific location of the copies of the accounts in Guo's collection.

However, Master Guo was really righteous towards Che Ang and refused to hand these over to Cheng Haofeng, because he guessed that Che Ang's death was inseparable from Cheng Haofeng.

In order for the case to progress smoothly, Cheng Haofeng asked Qiao Geshi to come forward to deal with these matters, but Qiao Geshi himself was busy with affairs and could not arrange to deal with Lu Huanbang for a long time.

Once, there was a rumor of Master Guo's hiding place, and he was assassinated, and the blood without revenge saved him, so that his hostility towards Cheng Haofeng dissipated.

In order to protect him, Cheng Haofeng sent someone to arrest him on the charge of murder and put him in prison, and then handed him over to Cen Zaidao's custody.

Cen Zaidao claimed to the outside world that this person was a martial madman, and if he went crazy, he would beat and kill people, but he was not evil out of his own heart, so he did not torture him and was locked up in a dark room in Qirui Palace.

After hearing this, Hu Xianxian thought silently for a while, and suddenly asked Cheng Haofeng: "What can I do for you?" ”

"Oh...... You, rest quietly for a few days, and I'll let you help. Cheng Haofeng smiled happily.

On the evening of October 28, Cheng Haofeng told Hu Xianxian that the matter had reached the most critical time, and asked her to go to Taixing.

Just because he wanted to let Che Chi do things in a low-key manner, Cheng Haofeng asked him to be transferred back to the Taixing Warden Department and let Hu Xianxian go to Taixing, one is to protect Che Chi and related evidence, the other is to assist Cen Zaidao in doing things, and the third is to secretly monitor Gao Youquan to prevent him from making small moves.

Maybe it's clear that Lu Huanbang is going to fall, right? I want to get this done as soon as possible.

Che Chi worked diligently and did not conflict with Hu Xianxian; Cen Zaidao also arranged all kinds of things properly, just waiting for the next arrangement; Gao Youquan also tried his best to support it, and didn't get any demon moths out.

On the ninth day of the winter month, Hu Xianxian and Che Chi secretly escorted Master Guo to Beijing, and all the key evidence arrived, and Cheng Haofeng and they also prepared the relevant evidence.

was prepared, did not startle the snake, and repeatedly confirmed the testimony of the evidence, Han Zexi still trusted Lu Huanbang on the surface.

On the twelfth day of the winter month, Huo Teng suddenly led more than 100 selected palace troops to surround the Lu Mansion, and Dang Ben'an entered the Lu Mansion under Huo Teng's personal escort to announce the decree.

Lu Huanbang was taken to the heavenly prison, and the Lu Mansion was confiscated, and all the family slaves, young and able-bodied people were imprisoned in the Jingzhao Mansion prison, and the elderly and infirm were locked up in the firewood room of the Lu Mansion.

On the fourteenth day of the winter month, the evidence was conclusive, Lu Huanbang pleaded guilty, and the DPRK and China officially announced his various crimes over the years, the world was shocked, and many ordinary people knew that Lu Ge Lao had become a death row prisoner.

Affected by this incident, Lu Kaizun and Lu Laizun were restricted from traveling, and their positions were temporarily removed, but because Cheng Haofeng secretly instructed them not to embarrass them, no one bullied them except for the restriction of freedom.

Gan Ruju testified that Lu Huanbang had meritorious deeds in many illegal things, and was first released from the Jingzhao Mansion Middle Prison and placed under house arrest in the Lu Mansion Firewood Room.

Later, the case was decided, and most of the Lu family's properties were collected, only a hundred acres of fertile land and a house in the suburbs of Beijing were given by Emperor Hongcheng with an inscription.

Because the two sons of the Lu family are in other places, they are entrusted to their mother-in-law Gan Ruju. This little bit of industry is only a drop in the bucket compared to before, and it is more than enough for Gan Ruju and a few maids to eat and drink.

Soon after, it was found out that Lu Kaizun and Lu Laizun had nothing to do with his father's affairs, and they were also reinstated.

There are many officials and wealthy businessmen who have been implicated with Lu Huanbang, and the Kuai family, who thought they were deeply involved, has erased it.

The Kuai family pushed the matter on Kuai Diancong's head, and reduced more than half of the current amount, only saying that it was done by Kuai Morixiong.

Because Kuai Diancong has been kicked out of the Kuai family, the impact is very small.

Che Chi made a great contribution to this case and was promoted to the secretary of the Criminal Department, the left waiter is Guo Biezhai, and the right waiter is Zhuo Que Village.

On the twenty-sixth day of the winter month, Qiao and Shi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, was promoted to the first assistant in the cabinet, which truly ended the era of Lu Huanbang's power leaning towards the government and the opposition.