Chapter 62: The Great Change (3)
I saw Emperor Fuxuan's long eyebrows locked, and his eyes staring at the fold gradually became cold.
For a long time, except for a few muffled coughs from Emperor Fuxuan in the Xuanhe Palace, there was no sound, and the atmosphere was as low as freezing.
Li Deqian, who was serving beside the dragon chair, quietly changed a cup of tea and was about to hand it to the emperor, but he heard "Bang!" With a bang, the emperor had already slammed his hand on the table.
Li Deqian was startled, most of the hot tea was spilled on his hand, and it was red and swollen in an instant, but he didn't even dare to come out of the atmosphere, but he just endured the pain and slowly retreated with the teacup.
Looking at the ministers in the palace again, they were all shocked, and they all looked up, only to see Emperor Fuxuan's face tense, his eyes full of anger, and he looked straight at Prince Xuanyuan Lang.
After a while, he finally sneered, twisted his thick eyebrows, and waved his sleeves on the desk, which landed right at the feet of the prince.
The prince's expression had already changed greatly at this moment, staring at the book at his feet, bowing slightly, but he didn't know whether to pick it up, his body trembled slightly, as if he finally mustered up the courage to lower his hand to pick it up, but he heard an earth-shattering roar from above, and Emperor Fuxuan was already furious.
"Lang'er! Wu Yizhong, the secretary of the Criminal Department, impeached you for being immoral and talentless, and instigated Li Chengru to embezzle one million taels of Pingzhou disaster relief funds, ignoring the fact that the people of Li were caught in fire and water, disregarding the law and ancestral system, and privately building a luxurious palace with embezzled funds, and repeatedly sent dead soldiers to kill Li Chengru after the case. I ask you, is there such a thing? Emperor Fu Xuan shouted angrily, and looked coldly at His Highness's stunned Xuanyuan Lang with half-squinted eyes.
The emperor was furious, and the prince was already so frightened that his legs were weak, and he knelt on the ground with "Puff", leaned over and kowtowed heavily, and cried to justify, "The son is wronged!" This fact is false, and it is clear that Wu Yizhong was framed with malicious intentions! Erchen was terrified, knowing that his martial arts were not as good as the third brother, and Wencheng was not as good as the fourth brother. Ke Erchen's sincerity to the people of my Southern Chu is comparable to the sun and the moon, and he must not tolerate such slander by others! Erchen built a garden some time ago, but it was built by the queen mother with her dowry for the new crown princess, and it was definitely not as unbearable as Wu Yizhong said! As for Li Chengru, Erchen didn't recognize this person. It's just that the Pingzhou case happened a few days ago, and I heard the fourth brother and the prime minister mention it, where did they come from to kill people. All this is clearly that someone deliberately framed him, and asked his father to be the master of his sons! As the prince of a country, how can he allow his subordinates to slander him arbitrarily? ”
He tried his best to clear himself up with his words, and all the ministers also knelt down to intercede for him: "The ministers implore the emperor to see!" The prince has both ability and political integrity, and someone must have deliberately framed him in this matter! ”
"Oh? Everyone thinks that this matter is that I wronged the prince? Emperor Fuxuan sneered, "Wu Yizhong! Tell me, why did you deliberately frame the prince and impeach him? ”
Wu Yizhong was calm here, and replied without hurrying: "The emperor is angry!" Weichen was terrified, even if he had the courage to frame the prince of the dynasty. The prince's crime is full of human and material evidence, and it is definitely not something that Weichen made out of nothing! ”
As soon as these words came out, all the ministers looked at each other with a look of consternation.
The meaning of Wu Yizhong's words was already clear, Xuanyuan Lang raised his bloodless face and glared at him fiercely, the ten fingers in his sleeve had already sunk deep into his palm, so hard that the knuckles creaked.
If you say that on weekdays, he is used to being arrogant and domineering, and he is afraid that he will make many enemies in the court. But no one had the courage to ask the emperor to impeach him in public in the Golden Palace. Thinking about it carefully, most of Wu Yizhong's actions today are from him. But now that he knows, what's the use, his father is angry, and he doesn't know what terrible thing to do. At the moment, I am afraid that the only one who can save himself is the queen mother, and Yu Linwei, who only looks at the palace, has already told Fengyi Hall about the situation in the palace.
Xuanyuan Lang bowed his head and was silent, as if he had acquiesced to what Wu Yizhong said.
Emperor Fuxuan was secretly stunned in his heart, and under his own anger, all the ministers interceded for the prince, but Che'er and Qing'er looked indifferent and said nothing. Although he didn't want to think deeply, he inevitably felt depressed in his heart, he only had three sons under his knees, and now Lang'er had something to do, but his two brothers watched coldly, and there was no brotherhood at all.
He has been a king for more than 30 years, so he naturally knows that in the deep palace, even his closest relatives have little true affection. Back then, he also stepped on his brother's corpse to ascend to the position of the Ninth Five-Year Plan. Not to mention how bloody and bloody it was back then, he only hoped that his children would not repeat everything in Changle Palace back then.
But even such a simple expectation is now a luxury.
Everyone was silent, and the Xuanhe Hall became more and more solemn.
Emperor Fuxuan frowned tightly, looked at everyone in the hall, and sighed deeply: "Hey! Although the matter of the prince has not yet been investigated in detail, it is inconvenient for me to convict him in court. It's just that the impeachment of the prince by his subordinates alone can already be seen, and there are many misdeeds in the prince's words and deeds on weekdays. If you don't punish it, you will definitely have a big responsibility in the future! Come on! Where are the guards in front of the palace? He shouted, and Yu Linwei outside the hall had slowly approached, respectfully, "My subordinates meet the emperor!" ”
Emperor Fu Xuan glanced at the guards who came in response, waved his hand and said, "Send the prince to Qilin Yuan immediately and take strict care!" No one shall visit without My will! ”
There was silence all around, and all the ministers thought that the prince would suffer a great disaster this time, and they didn't want Emperor Fuxuan to still remember the relationship between father and son, but they just put him under house arrest in the cold palace and did not investigate his crime in court.
Xuanyuan Lang was also quite surprised, although he was named the crown prince since he was a child, but his father did not treat him kindly, if it wasn't for his mother's back, his position as the prince would have been lost. But today, he protected himself in public, and he suddenly remembered those absurd acts in the past, and a little regret suddenly sprouted in his heart.
Thinking of this, he had already bowed to the ground and kowtowed heavily, his thin lips opened slightly, and when he wanted to thank him, he suddenly heard the person next to him say coldly, "My father is unfair, and my son is not satisfied!" Presumably, the 20,000 innocent and tragic people in Pingzhou will not accept it under Jiuquan! The son implores his father to handle this case impartially! The prince was not virtuous, embezzled huge sums of money, killed people, and committed several crimes. should abolish his title and be demoted to a concubine! Together with his dependents, he was expelled from Beijing and will never be allowed to return to Beijing! He didn't have to look up to see who he was talking to, and who else had such a deep hatred for him. I was full of remorse in my heart, if I had known that he was so ruthless, when I poisoned Concubine Mei that day, I should have eliminated him to prevent future troubles.
Thinking of this, Xuanyuan Lang raised his head slightly, his cold eyes skimmed towards King Qin, and his words were sad, making people unbearable to hear more: "Fourth brother, although you and I are not born to the same mother, we are also flesh and blood brothers. Now he is framing his brother with outsiders, which is really incomprehensible to his brother! Could it be that he was drunk last night and is not sober yet? ”