Above the court:

Qi Yao sat on the dragon chair, his slender fingers opened one document after another, his face was gloomy, speechless, and the atmosphere was almost deadlocked.

After a while, Qi Yao raised his eyes and looked at the Jinling prefect who was kneeling underground, and slowly spoke: "Chang Du, do you have anything else to say about what His Royal Highness King Jing said?" ”

"The evidence is conclusive, and Chang Du has nothing to say."

"You're happy, too." Qi Yao clenched the paperwork, and then gently let go of it and handed it to Gonggong Li next to him, and saw Gonggong Li take the document and walk in front of Qi Yu and hand the document to him.

Qi Yu hooked the corners of his mouth, first picked up one of them and walked to Dali Siqing, patted the paper on his head: "Lord Fang is very capable, those seven Jinling people who came to Beijing to report abnormalities went to look for you because they believed in you, didn't your conscience hurt when you killed someone?"

It's embarrassing to write about a trivial matter in the letter, so dare to ask in the eyes of Lord Fang, how many people are dead is considered a big deal? Is 800 enough? ”

Fang Tianzhi clenched his fists and said nothing, staring at Qi Yu in front of him viciously.

Qi Yu smiled indifferently, and walked in front of the official Shangshu again: "Lord Dong, this king thought that you would also care about the promotion and depreciation of people in this court, but I didn't expect you to be quite wide-ranging, this kind of thing has to be mixed in, you said that your nephew is a righteous child, for the sake of the disaster victims dared to come from Jinling to you to redress their grievances, when you killed him, Lord Dong was really untouched?" ”

"You!" Dong Chu was about to go crazy on the spot, but suddenly remembered a pair of disappointed and bloody eyes. He still can't forget the desperate look in the child's eyes when he died, if it weren't for the fatal handle in Xu Tao's hands, how could he have been in this troubled water...

"Wu Qifu, the squire of the Criminal Department." Qi Yu read out the payment word by word, looked up at the middle-aged man in front of him and asked, "It's you." Tell me about you, it's really a wolf's ambition, the secretary of the criminal department is not young, and he will have to retire in two years, so won't the position of the secretary of the criminal department be yours after leaving. What do you say are you in a hurry, you can't even wait a few years? Mixed with this life, it is worth the loss, it is really a loss to steal chickens and rice, tsk tsk. ”

Wu Qifu trembled: This seat is his on the surface, but after Shang Shu retired, it was Xu Tao who really mastered this position, not him! He was born poor, and it took more than ten years to get to this position, if his career stopped here, he was really unwilling, so he would go sideways, and at this time he decided to help Xu Tao, but he didn't expect it......

"Wailang of the Criminal Department", "Zhongshu Sheren", "Zhongdu Governor", "Dianzhongcheng", "Taichang Cheng"......

After reading the names one by one, Qi Yao was already in a state of anger while sitting on the dragon chair: "Okay, two ministers of the third grade, one minister of the fourth grade, two ministers of the fifth grade, three ministers of the fifth grade, and three ministers of the seventh grade, you have impressed me, the power I gave you is to let you form a party and kill the people!" ”

The Son of Heaven was angry, and all the ministers knelt down and shouted in unison: "Your Majesty is angry!" ”

Qi Yao grabbed the handrail without saying a word, his finger joints turned white, and his lips were tightly pursed, obviously angry.

Xu Tao glanced sideways at Gu Cheng, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, and saw Gu Cheng trembling almost inaudibly, gritted his teeth and stepped forward: "Your Majesty, Weichen dares to ask, is it not enough to conclude that this matter is related to several ministers based on a single document, after all, documents and official seals are not things that cannot be faked." ”

As soon as these words came out, some courtiers echoed them.

Qi Yu saw that the ministers who were about to close the coffin still dared to defend themselves, so he couldn't help sneering, raised his head and walked to the middle: "Didn't the ministers hear that Chang Du had already admitted that the official document was true, and he came forward to defend it at this time, but it really made the king curious whether you were also involved in a wave, are you afraid that a few of them will not be able to keep the punishment of Dali Temple and confess to you?" ”

Gu Cheng bowed his head and said: "His Royal Highness King Jing, you can't talk nonsense about things without evidence, and Weichen is just afraid of wronging good people, after all, several officials involved are also old ministers who have been in power for decades, if they are injured by mistake, or are used by people with intentions, wouldn't it hurt the hearts of other courtiers." ”

"Someone with a heart, hehe," Qi Yu paced in front of Gu Cheng: "The person with a heart that Lord Shilang said is this king?" ”

Gu Cheng lowered his head and grabbed the official robe, and pinched it tighter and tighter: "Weichen doesn't dare." ”

"Enough!" Qi Yao spoke: "Temporarily put the twelve officials in Dali Temple." ”

Seeing a small group of imperial guards enter the main hall and put the officials out, Qi Yao spoke again: "Nine Princes Qi Yu,"

"The minister is here."

"Receive my edict, lead 200 troops, and thoroughly investigate the mansion! Find out the conclusive evidence, don't frame a good person, and don't let go of a traitor! ”

"Commandment."

Before noon, the vendors on Suzaku Street saw that the Xuanjia soldiers in front of them hurriedly scattered around, talking about each other.

"What's the matter? Why so many soldiers? A pedestrian wondered.

"I don't know, it doesn't look like the Imperial Forest Army, but it looks like the Xuanjia Army of the Nine Princes, what's wrong?"

"Where do you see they're going? Is it the mansion of Lord Dong, the secretary of the ministry? ”

"yes, yes." The group saw a group of soldiers stop in front of the Dong Mansion: "I'm afraid it's not that the official department has committed something big." ”

"And there's more, look over there." A peddler pointed to the man who was riding a tall horse and slowly leading the soldiers towards the west: "Isn't that the Nine Princes?" Where is he going? The mansion of Lord Qing Fang of Dali Temple? ”

When the vendors on the street saw the true body of the Nine Princes, and saw the soldiers scattered in the center of the market center, they thought of something: "I'm afraid something big has happened." Forget it, don't look at it, what's going on tomorrow's emperor list, let's disperse. ”

That being said, there are still people who like to watch the excitement quietly follow the soldiers to find out what they are doing, waiting to know the first-hand good news and then go back to brag to others.

Qi Yu stood in front of the door of the Fang Mansion, a smile was raised at the corner of his mouth, and his right hand stood up softly and cut down abruptly: "Search carefully!" ”

"Yes." Before everyone in the house could react, they saw more than a dozen soldiers rushing into the house and rummaging through boxes and cabinets to find something.

Qi Yu sat bored in the courtyard, touched the mahogany chair under his hand, and sighed in his heart: "It's really good to be a corrupt official, this mansion, this furniture, tsk,"

The servants, women and children were confined in the courtyard, all huddled in a ball and trembling, and the child was so frightened that he cried.

Qi Yu wanted to step forward to coax the child, but as soon as he took a step, the woman hugged the child tighter, for fear that he would do something to the child, Qi Yu pursed his lips and sat down on the chair again.

After a while, a soldier handed over an account book and land deed to Qi Yu, and Qi Yu flipped through it casually: "It's really a murder for money, and I am willing to help kill people for a mansion in Jinling City, which is inhumane." ”

"Let's go, next one."

Fu Fu:

"The wife of Lord Wu Qifu, the waiter of the Criminal Department, right?" Qi Yu looked at the woman holding the child in front of her: "I heard that you have to explain something?" ”

"I hope that His Royal Highness King Jing can spare the child's life, and the courtiers are willing to testify against her husband's crimes."

Qi Yu is funny, it's really not a family that doesn't enter the door: "One day husband and wife for a hundred days, Mrs. said that she would sell her husband and sell it, which is amazing." ”

The woman gritted her teeth: "I just want my son to live." ”

"Okay, this king promises you, the child is still young, as long as the court testifies tomorrow, this king will release him."

"Thank you, Your Highness."

Dong Mansion:

Qi Yu flipped through the account book in his hand, and didn't find any useful information, so he pointed the finger at everyone in the house.

"Let me tell you, this king is going through the motions now, the evidence of the collusion between your lord and Chang Du has been found, and after you retire from the dynasty tomorrow, none of you will be able to escape." Speaking of this, Qi Yu looked at the people in front of him with low hair and trembling with satisfaction, and then said: "But this king will give you a chance, whoever tells this king where the child is buried, this king will let whoever live, and give you three seconds to think about it." ”

Everyone in the mansion didn't speak, Dong Chu's wife Liu looked at Qi Yu, smiled and said: "Nine Princes, we don't know about this, I think the Nine Princes are mistaken." ”

Qi Yu ignored her, "One! ”

Everyone was speechless, and the trembling was even worse.

"Two!"

Still no one answered.

Qi Yu's eyes rolled around and nodded, "Yes, we're all quite united,"

"Three ......!"

"I say!"

Before Qi Yu's "three" word was broken, he saw a servant kneeling on the ground with a "plop" sound, with a crying voice on his forehead: "That day, when I went out at night, I heard the sound of someone shouting for help, so I had the courage to go and see it." As a result, I saw the housekeeper put a person into a sack and moved out of the back door, and the body was there, in the long bamboo forest! ”

Qi Yu stood up and walked to the servant to help him up: "Thank you." Then he pointed to the butler who was slumped on the ground and shook into a sieve: "Take him and dig a grave." ”

"Yes."

When he came out of Dong's mansion, he happened to meet Fourteen, who came back with troops, and Fourteen handed the account document to Qi Yu: "Five people have found out, and the remaining three..."

Qi Yu took the documents, shook a few account books and land deeds in his hand, and looked at the Northwest Dali Temple with a very beautiful smile: Ministers, are you ready?