Chapter VII: Entering Beijing to Redress Grievances
Within a few days, the snow melted, revealing large red blood stains on the ground.
King Xuan sighed when he saw it, and asked his subordinates to bring the previous few people into Beijing together.
But before they could think of it, those people had already been killed.
Just when King Xuan was puzzled, the Yunjing brigade came to him and took him away, even if his people wanted to save him, they didn't dare to disobey the holy decree.
Along the way, King Xuan was thinking about who killed those people and how the emperor knew where he was, but he couldn't figure it out. I went to ask the eunuch Commodus, and Commodus only said that he was ordered to do things.
When he arrived in the capital, Commodus did not stay long, and immediately took King Xuan into the palace.
The emperor sat in the main hall, looked at his uncle, and couldn't help but think of the last moment before the emperor died, what was the purpose of deliberately driving him out, leaving only King Xuan Wang Rui by his side.
"Uncle Xuanwang", the emperor stared at King Xuan and said, "I heard that you are not in your own fiefdom, and you went to Shegu to go to the drums?" β
King Xuan replied: "The minister heard that there was an unjust case in Shegu, and the victims were slaughtered, so he specially investigated the truth for His Majesty to prevent anyone from deceiving His Majesty. β
"Uncle Xuan, have you found anything?"
"Back to Your Majesty, the gate of Shegu City is closed, the population is depressed, and blood is flowing everywhere. But I was fortunate enough to meet a few people who had escaped, and I learned from them what had happened. β
"Tell me about it."
"Because the victims could not receive relief food, they were forced to steal official food, and were discovered by the government, and the victims resisted, but they could not withstand the officers and soldiers with swords in their hands, and most of them were killed!"
"What about the people?"
"Back to Your Majesty, the minister originally wanted to take them into the capital to face the saint, but they have been killed! The minister thinks that the government is afraid that the matter will be exposed, and he will kill people! β
"Really? How is the rest of the story different from what he said? The emperor had a playful look on his face.
"Who?" King Xuan was a little surprised, the emperor raised his chin and motioned for King Xuan to look at the door of the main hall, and it was one of the people who was slaughtered who was brought in from the entrance of the main hall, but King Xuan did not remember those people carefully that day, and he couldn't remember who he was for a while.
The man trembled and walked to the center of the hall and knelt down: "The grass people knock to see Your Majesty, long live Your Majesty!" β
The emperor waved his hand and said impatiently, "Excuse me." Uncle Xuan, do you recognize him? β
King Xuan stared at the man for a long time, but still couldn't recognize it, and replied: "Back to Your Majesty, the minister doesn't recognize it." β
"He knows you!"
King Xuan had a question in his heart, and suddenly remembered that there was indeed a young man among those people!
"You ......"
"Uncle Xuanwang's memory is not very good!" The Emperor laughed, "He always remembers you!" β
"Ministerβ" King Xuan was about to say something, but the emperor interrupted him and asked the young man to tell him what had happened to him.
The story of the first part of the escape from the shrine drum is almost the same as what King Xuan said, but the taste suddenly changed when he talked about it later.
ββ¦β¦ King Xuan pretended to send us back, but he killed us again, robbed us of the food and silver we had been given, and killed my relatives and friends. β
"You talk nonsense!" King Xuan was shocked, "How could I send someone to kill you!" β
"Yes", the emperor also echoed, "Why does King Xuan have trouble with you little people?" Don't lie! β
The young man was so frightened that he kowtowed and said, "Caomin's words are true, those murderers still keep saying that King Xuan is just teasing us to act, and we deserve to die!" If we hadn't heard them say that, the grass people would never have believed that King Xuan would have killed us! β
King Xuan was anxious to defend: "Have you seen what the murderer looks like?" There are only eight of the subordinates I brought, and they are all outside the palace now, and they can enter the palace at any time to confront them! β
The emperor looked at the young man, and the young man said, "Those people were masked that day, and they couldn't see what they looked like!" β
"That's right!" King Xuan said with a smile.
"Uncle Xuanwang, right to what?"
"Back to Your Majesty, he said that those gangsters went to kill them that day and kept saying that they were King Xuan's people, but they were all masked, isn't this an extra move? If you are not afraid of revealing your identity, why do you mask your face? If you are masked, why do you declare your identity? β
King Xuan's questioning made the young man frightened and speechless, but he saw Commodus beside the emperor quietly winking at him.
Again, the young man kept kowtowing, saying that he was not lying.
"Uncle Xuan, since you think you have been wronged, then ask Uncle Wang to find out the murderer who framed you, after all, you are most familiar with this case! In this way, if you are given a month, if you can't find out-" The emperor paused and said, "The Son of Heaven is guilty of the same crime as the common people, Uncle Wang knows very well, right?" β
King Xuan couldn't refuse, so he had to take it.
The evidence of the slaughter of the people by the Shegu Government has been conclusive, but he has never been able to find a clue about his frame-up situation, King Xuan kept pacing in the hall, thinking of the young man who appeared suddenly and disappeared suddenly that day.
"Someone!" King Xuan called a few people and invited famous calligraphers and painters in the capital, and asked them to paint the appearance of the young man according to their descriptions.
However, several calligraphy and paintings were more or less artistically processed in King Xuan's description, and in the end, they drew a similar picture by a subordinate who followed King Xuan that day.
A few calligraphy and painting masters didn't play any role, so they had to leave, but when one of them saw the picture, he thought of something, and hurriedly stopped the others and said, "Do you think this person is a little familiar?" β
"It's a little bit!" Several others chimed in.
When King Xuan heard this, he was very excited, and asked a few of you to think about it carefully.
"Look at him, isn't he a bit like the King of the Dan Family!"
"It's a bit like it between the eyebrows, but it's not like the mouth!"
"Where does it look like the King of the Dan Chamber, I don't look like it, the face of the King of the Dan is bigger than this!"
"I also think it's like it, and it's not too similar, the facial features are quite similar, but the charm is too different!"
Several people were talking about it, and King Xuan was already impatient, "Have you seen the King of the Dan Family?" β
"Back to the prince, not long ago, a few of us were appreciated by His Majesty, and we accompanied the Holy Driver to entertain the ministers of Beijing and the envoys of various countries at the banquet of the officials and the people, and we were fortunate to meet the king of the Dan family." One of them replied.
At this time, another person suddenly sighed, "You see that his charm is not like the inseparable guard who has been sitting beside the King of the Dan Family at the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet!" β
"It's really like", "It's very like", several other people said so, and King Xuan also had a bottom, but unfortunately the king of the Dan family and his party had already returned to the Dan room, and there was no way to find out.
But another question came to the front, if it was really the guard next to the King of the Dan Family, then how could he appear in the social drum? The social drum is in the opposite direction to the back to the Dan room! King Xuan was puzzled.