Chapter 434: Thorough Investigation
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Later, many people recalled the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet in the 23rd year of Xuanqing, and they can only be described as thrilling and full of turns.
The brocade-clad prince came embarrassed, knelt down calmly in the golden hall, and called the emperor high as his uncle, and before that, everyone only thought that he was just a humble merchant, a man who was named an imperial merchant because of his popular goods and wealth, and more or less looked down on him!
As soon as Gao Xingzhi's sentence "Uncle Huang" came out, all four were shocked.
The eldest princess admitted frankly that she had a son, and now Gao Xingzhi called Emperor Xuanqing as her uncle, doesn't this mean that he is the son of the eldest princess?
The wine glasses under the prince's hands suddenly turned into pieces, and Zhu Zonglin couldn't stand the sound and looked at Gao Xingzhi one after another.
Emperor Xuanqing stood up directly: "Zhi'er, where are your fingers?" β
Before the words fell, it was equivalent to admitting that he had always known that Gao Xingzhi was the son of the eldest princess!
Everyone was first shocked, and then suspicious. Everyone's eyes fell on Gao Xingzhi's left hand, which had no little finger on it, and some were just mixed with flesh and blood.
Gao Xingzhi smiled calmly: "I was beheaded." β
The attitude seems to be indifferent, but there is still some sadness and sadness in the tone.
Hearing these words in Pei Xie Tang's ears, she felt a surge of blood in her heart, and her eyes turned red in an instant: "Lao Gao, who cut it, who cut it?" β
In front of so many people, Zhu Xinzhi pulled her sleeve, but he couldn't stop her. Pei Xie Tang stepped out of the crowd, directly picked up Gao Xingzhi's sleeves, his eyes showed anger, and his voice was extremely cold: "You tell me, I'll go and chop off his fingers!" β
After so many days of separation, Pei Xie Tang had imagined a lot of goodbye Gao Xingzhi's appearance, and he had known about his injuries from the eldest princess, but he never wanted to see it even more tragic with his own eyes, her heart hurt very much, thinking that he would never be able to play the flute in the future, such a perfect man would become disabled since then, and she hated to pull out a knife and kill people!
Gao Xingzhi's eyes were filled with a little warmth, and he softened his voice: "It's okay." β
"Name." Pei Xie Tang stared into his eyes and asked stubbornly.
Gao Xingzhi pursed his lips, knowing that she would not give up until she reached her goal, and sighed: "Chen Fang." β
It turned out to be him.
Pei Xie Tang snorted, and his gloomy gaze fell on the Chen family's table. Chen Fang was sitting behind Chen Zhao, and when he saw her gaze, he couldn't help but tremble, and his gaze pierced people like a sword, almost poking his entire soul, making Chen Fang feel like falling into the icy river. He shrank back in fear, and in an instant, cold sweat filled his forehead: This Huai'an princess is so coercive that she is not inferior to Emperor Xuanqing!
He didn't know that Pei Xie Tang was a brave general on the battlefield of Baijing, and that pair of eyes could also set the backbone of the million army, and it was the existence that many people looked up to, so Chen Fang was timid.
His timidity, the subconscious reaction of his body, naturally made people think of the idea of a weak heart.
However, Chen Zhao is still so at a loss, let alone Chen Fang, who is his most unsuccessful son?
Of course, there are also people who talk about Pei Xie Tang openly pulling and pulling with Gao Xingzhi, but now no one in the capital knows that this Princess Huai'an is Gao Xingzhi's sister-in-law?
Well, this is also proud of the banquet set up by the Wen family at the beginning, at that time, Pei Xie Tang attended the banquet as Gao Xingzhi's younger sister, and it is inevitable that some people will speculate.
An official beside Xie Yijiang asked him in a low voice: "Lord Xie, you can, my daughter is not only a princess, but also Gao Xingzhi's sister-in-law, this Gao Xingzhi ...... Gee! β
Who would have thought that a merchant would be the son of the eldest princess?
Xie Yijiang echoed with a straight face: "I didn't expect him to be the son of the eldest princess." β
It's true.
The official felt that Xie Yijiang was boring, and continued to watch the follow-up in the palace.
Gao Xingzhi's words were neither light nor serious, and everyone could hear them, including Emperor Xuanqing. He slapped the dragon chair with a bang: "Chen Fang, how dare he ......"
The eldest princess had burst into tears.
Gao Xingzhi let go of Pei Xie Tang's hand, pushed him, and forced her back with his eyes. Pei Xie Tang hesitated and wanted to refuse, but after all, he knew that it was not the right time, and retreated to his place step by step. Gao Xingzhi bent down and gently hugged the eldest princess's shoulder: "Mother, don't cry." He sighed, "Watch your eyes." β
Those eyes, washed with tears every day for so many years, have long been crying.
The eldest princess heard the pity in his words, tears welled up, and she kowtowed resolutely: "Brother Huang, please, please make the decision for my son!" Just because Chen Zhao wanted to force his sister to be used by him and framed the five princes for rebellion, he arrested and detained my son on trumped-up charges, and secretly cut off his fingers to threaten his sister! My son Pingbai suffered an unjustified disaster, Chen Zhao deserves his retribution! β
Bang bang bang β
Three heavy kowtows all smashed on Emperor Xuanqing's heart.
He stumbled down from the dragon chair, helped the eldest princess up, and his eyes swept over the kneeling old minister Su Rufu and the kneeling son Zhu Xinzhi, for a while, his heart was full of mixed feelings.
Xie Yijiang shook his official uniform, and knelt down behind Su Rufu: "Your Majesty, this case is not only related to the prince of the court, but also related to my dynasty and the country, and to thousands of Li people!" Regarding the eldest princess's revenge, Lord Su's request is reasonable, it should be thoroughly investigated, and those who repay the wrongs are innocent, so as to give justice to the eldest princess and the people! Minister, secondβ"
Yipin Shangshu Ling agreed, how could anyone in the six departments disagree?
Among the six departments, Cai Minghe, the secretary of the Criminal Department, was the first to stand up: "The minister seconded the proposal!" β
Immediately afterwards, the secretary of the ministry and the secretary of the Ministry of Rites all stood up: "The minister also seconded the proposal!" β
Not only that, but Suiguo Gong, An Guogong and others also knelt down one after another: "The ministers seconded the proposal!"
The black pressure pressed a crowd, and it seemed that the group of courtiers who followed Chen Zhao were extremely helpless, watching everyone, wanting to kneel but can't, not kneeling and not daring-
Today, the trend is the times, and they are really in a difficult situation. If you kneel down at this time, when the Chen family escapes, you will definitely find their trouble. If they don't kneel at this time, no matter what happens to the Chen family in the future, Emperor Xuanqing will inevitably find their mistakes.
Compared with the two, Emperor Xuanqing is more difficult to sin!
The men finally slowly bent their knees and knelt down.
Chen Zhao watched the last henchman of his own kneel down, then closed his eyes and stopped looking at everything around him. His head was like a mess of paste, and his fingernails pierced his palms before he could barely compose. However, it was just calm, there was no way, no idea, the handwritten secret letter in the eldest princess's hand was enough to make him die a hundred times and a thousand times, not to mention that Gao Xingzhi was still standing here alive. He could have insisted that Gao Xingzhi had indeed committed a crime, but now that Gao Xingzhi's identity has been revealed, the crime he fabricated against Gao Xingzhi is no longer established!
The nephew of the dignified emperor would rarely do that kind of corrupt thing?
Since he is a relative of the emperor of the Eastern Continent, he would be willing to betray his country and go to the Northern Wei Dynasty to be a nobody?
Only people who take ideas with their toes can come up with such a bad move, right?
"King Huai'an, the secretary of the criminal department, the secretary of Dali Temple, and the court lieutenant obey orders!"
Emperor Xuanqing's voice slowly sounded in the hall, like solidified ice, and he felt a chill when he invaded his eardrums: "You and the other four people immediately investigate this matter, and if you need human and material evidence, you can immediately collect evidence and spread it." If you don't figure things out today, no one will leave this temple! β
This is the determination of an emperor to purge the imperial court, and it is also the cause of a huge unjust case!
Dali Siqing was Chen Zhao's man, however, at this time, he already knew that he had no choice.
No matter how you choose, you can't lose your head, right?
So, he could only follow Zhu Xinzhi and Cai Minghe to stand up, and responded in a low voice: "Yes!" β
Immediately, there were internal supervisors who removed all the tables in the hall and replaced them with four cases, and the civil and military officials replaced them with small stools, all of which sat quietly and on both sides of the hall.
Emperor Xuanqing returned to his position, Empress Chen had already fainted, he couldn't fail to look at this woman, only stared at the four cases below, not knowing what he was thinking.
Zhu Xinzhi and others were in place, and after taking the evidence into their hands, they immediately took Chen Zhao's past chapters and concluded that they were the same handwriting.
There is no doubt that Chen Zhao framed the prince.
That alone was enough for him to die!
However, the interrogation did not stop.
The eldest princess sued Chen Zhao for four major crimes, as well as two serious crimes, all of which had to be verified one by one.
There was already an internal supervisor who invited Chen Zhao and Chen Fang to the side, when Chen Zhao got up, his whole body was soft, almost unstable, Chen Fang too, the father and son were placed next to the four cases, and then the civil and military officials looked at it in a particularly complicated way.
According to the eldest princess's complaint, Chen Zhao forged a lot of letters from Zhu Xinzhi and hid them in Zhu Xinzhi's study and the homes of several important ministers in the court. The things were spread out in front of them one by one, including Xie Yijiang, Cai Minghe, Qu Yanming, Han Yi, Bai Wushuang, Ji Yingchu and other courtiers, Ji Yingchu was not at the banquet, it was nothing, and the others were all white-faced, and they almost became "rebels" unconsciously!
It's all right!
This is a certainty, Chen Zhao has to admit it.
Immediately followed by raising the dead and excluding dissidents, Chen Ke confessed to this crime at the beginning, but now that Chen Ke is dead, it is impossible to crawl out of the ground to testify.
However, Zhu Xinzhi is a witness.
It's Chen Yuan who is now in the prison!
Chen Yuan was shackled to the palace, the high-spirited aristocratic son looked depressed, starting from the complicated family background of the Chen family, talking about how his father was driven by the Chen family as a dog, and finally had to be a scapegoat, and how he was forced to die in prison, how he was used by Chen Zhao, and the assassination of Zhu Xinzhi in Chengping Temple was said one by one, and in the end, it was still mentioned that the Chen family had been watching for many years.
Of course, he was also very smart about Emperor Xuanqing's face, and did not say it explicitly.
He sent the evidence left in his hand at the beginning, and the evidence was ironclad, and Chen Zhao couldn't escape.
The prince sat there almost paralyzed, but he maintained his composure and allowed himself to sit up straight, he hadn't lost yet, he still had a move, he was still steady! At this moment, he was extremely glad that he had to make a second-hand arrangement despite Chen Zhao's opposition, and he didn't have to make a second-hand arrangement tonight, and he didn't necessarily have to be a prisoner!