"What?" The ministers were in an uproar.

Yan Ze's face changed color, and he said loudly: "What nonsense are you talking about? That's what the royal brother did, how could it be me? ”

Sima Hongyan said: "I asked the imperial doctor, the emperor's injury was stabbed with a long sword from the back of the heart, piercing the front chest, causing the heart to be seriously damaged and unable to be healed and died. However, the attacker stabbed some mistakes, which did not kill the emperor immediately, and later used the secret medicine in the palace to treat it, so it could last for so many days. ”

Yan Ze was puzzled and asked, "What does that have to do with me?" This was all done by Yan Qi, and I saw it with my own eyes. ”

Sima Hongyan asked, "Was it just the two of you at that time?" ”

Yan Ze said: "Not bad! However, I was hiding in the shadows and saw my brother assassinating my father, and he found out about it, and he threatened to let me support him to inherit the throne, otherwise he would kill me too. At that time, I saw that he could even do it to his father, and when I was afraid, I naturally believed it, so I reluctantly agreed to help him. ”

Sima Hongyan said: "Yes! It is true that only the two of you were present when the emperor was attacked. But you're lying, the real person who did it was you, not Yan Qi. ”

Baiguan was shocked, and he didn't understand why Sima Hongyan was so sure.

Sima Hongyan asked Yan Ze again: "Do you know martial arts?" ”

Yan Ze rolled his eyes and replied, "No!" But Yan Qi will, otherwise I wouldn't be threatened by him. ”

Sima Hongyan said: "You didn't lie about this, you really don't know martial arts." But the sword that stabbed the emperor was done by someone who didn't know martial arts, and I'm very sure of that. ”

"You talk nonsense!" Yan Ze shouted and said, "Sima Hongyan, it's not enough for you to rob the throne, do you want to get rid of me on trumped-up charges now?" You woman is really vicious. ”

Sima Hongyan said coldly: "Hmph! You don't have to provoke, just because you have committed a crime, a hundred deaths are not enough, do you think it is necessary for me to deduct other sins from you? Yan Ze, you think you do things seamlessly, but don't forget, there are gods three feet above your head. You yourself have left behind the evidence of the assassination of the emperor! ”

Yan Ze said in a trembling voice: "No, it's impossible, you're talking nonsense!" ”

Sima Hongyan continued: "I have asked the imperial doctor in detail and learned about the specific circumstances of the emperor's injury. The imperial doctor told me that the emperor had a sword wound in the back of the heart, the wound was slightly longer and wider, and the wound on the front chest was short and narrow. The imperial doctor analyzed that the assassin first stabbed the emperor in the back of the heart with a sword, but failed to pierce it with a sword. Then he stabbed the sword forward again, causing two wounds in this appearance. ”

Yan Ze said: "What the imperial doctor said is right, I just saw that the imperial brother first stabbed his father and queen in the back with a sword, it may be that he saw that his father was not dead, so he used his strength to pierce his father again." How can you rely on this on my head? ”

Sima Hongyan sneered: "If I hadn't fought with Yan Qi, I might have believed what you said." But it is precisely because I have fought with Yan Qi for hundreds of rounds that I am sure that the person who killed the emperor is definitely not him. ”

Seeing that Yan Ze was stunned and uncertain, Sima Hongyan said: "I don't know who Yan Qi learned martial arts from, but the person who taught him is definitely a master." When I fought him, he was ruthless and accurate, and it looked like he had worked hard for years. When he rebelled that day, I saw him kill the three princes, and he also killed the four princes in front of hundreds of officials. I think many of the adults present now can still remember the scene at that time, Yan Qi stabbed the four princes with four or five swords, and they were all pierced with one sword, without hindrance. This is a bit different from the emperor's injury! ”

Yan Ze defended: "What does this mean? When he killed the fourth brother, the imperial brother was furious, and he naturally spared no effort when he made a move. But when he killed the emperor, he was obviously weak-hearted, so his strength was insufficient, which is entirely possible. ”

Sima Hongyan nodded and said, "It makes sense for you to say that!" But why is the wound on the emperor's back pierced from the diagonal top, and the wound on the chest is lower than the wound on the back? ”

Yan Ze was stunned for a moment, not understanding what Sima Hongyan meant by this.

Sima Hongyan then explained: "That's because when you assassinated the emperor, you held a sword with your backhand!" ”

The ministers were in an uproar again. Yan Ze's face changed again, his forehead was sweaty, and he hurriedly explained: "That's what Yan Qi did, not me!" ”

Sima Hongyan said: "Yan Ze, you haven't studied martial arts, so you may not know the habits of people who learn martial arts. People who practice swords all year round, especially those who exercise long swords, must first practice the strength of their wrists, so that the long sword can be wielded freely in their hands, which is the basic skill. Therefore, those who have learned the long sword will naturally hold it correctly. And people who have not learned martial arts have to rely on the strength of their whole body to exert themselves downward in order to kill people with a long sword. So at that time, it was the emperor who stabbed you from behind with Yan Qi's sword. ”

Seeing Yan Ze's face turn pale, Sima Hongyan continued: "Yan Qi has martial arts, and his sword is extremely accurate, if he is attacked from behind by an unsuspecting person, he can directly stab the other party in the heart from the back with a sword, and the other party will be killed instantly, there is no need to let the sword penetrate the body." And you, a person who has never studied martial arts, will subconsciously stab the sword inward after sneaking a sword attack and finding that the emperor is not dead, this difference is known to anyone who has studied martial arts. You also said just now that only the two of you were present when the emperor was assassinated, since it is not Yan Qi, who is strong in martial arts, then who else do you say? ”

The minister's Chinese officials did not know much about Sima Hongyan's analysis, but the military generals were all deeply convinced.

Sima Hongyan said again: "Based on the emperor's injuries, I have an inference. The reason for the whole thing should be that Yan Qi killed the emperor because of the emperor's reprimand for him and his refusal to make him the crown prince. However, Yan Qi still didn't dare after all, so he found Yan Ze and you to discuss countermeasures. And you took the opportunity to instigate Yan Qi to kill the king and seize the throne, I guess your reason for encouraging Yan Qi must be to use me, right? ”

Yan Qi was shocked, and looked up at Sima Hongyan in surprise.

Sima Hongyan confirmed his guess from his eyes and continued: "At your instigation, you pulled Yan Qi to hide on the emperor's inevitable path, and those days happened to be the civil strife of the six princes had just subsided, and the capital was busy hunting down the rebels, so there was a loophole in the palace that was not well guarded, which provided you and Yan Qi with an opportunity." But when Yan Qi really saw the emperor passing by, the relationship between father and son made him hesitate again, and even at that time he had the idea of giving up assassinating the emperor. You saw that the rare opportunity was about to be wasted by Yan Qi, so you snatched his long sword from Yan Qi's hand, and stabbed the hilt of the sword into the emperor's back.

The emperor was suddenly attacked, but he was not killed at that time, and he subconsciously had to look back at the person who was attacking from behind. You were afraid that the emperor would see your face, so you were ruthless and stabbed the sword into it again, penetrating the emperor's body. The emperor was seriously injured and fainted, and you pulled out your sword and stuffed it back into Yan Qi's hand. And kept saying to Yan Qi that you did it for him, everything was for him, and took the opportunity to transfer the pressure of killing the monarch to Yan Qi.

When Yan Qi rebelled, I couldn't understand why Yan Qi became crazy, sometimes manic and sometimes indifferent. Later, I realized that it was my biological father who was killed in front of his eyes, which caused him to be mentally stimulated and insanate. Although Yan Qi is self-righteous, he still doesn't have the courage to let him kill his father with his own hands, because he is not as ruthless as you!

Although it was your hand, the idea of killing the emperor was put forward by Yan Qi, and he also took action and ambushed the emperor on the road that the emperor must pass. So when the emperor was assassinated, coupled with your demagogic words, Yan Qi naturally attributed the emperor's death to himself, so he admitted in public that day that he killed his father. In fact, all of this was secretly planned by Yan Ze! ”

Yan Ze pretended to be calm and said, "You are talking nonsense quite wonderfully, but why should I do this?" I helped Yan Qi kill his father and push him to become the emperor, but it didn't do me any good, wouldn't I be a fool if I did this? Sima Hongyan, your statement is too ridiculous. ”

Sima Hongyan said: "At first, I also suspected this, but then I heard His Royal Highness Nine tell me that you even killed the Seventh Prince and the Eighth Prince who surrendered, so I vaguely guessed your thoughts."

Yan Qi has always had a good personal relationship with you, I think Yan Qi may have told you that he wanted to be the prince, but you agreed on the surface but actually started planning in your heart.

This time Yan Qi was reprimanded, and he had the idea of killing the king, you took the opportunity to play on the topic, and by the way, you made suggestions for Yan Qi, in fact, you planned it in advance. After assassinating the emperor, you asked Yan Qi to arrest other princes while they were unprepared, and threatened them to support Yan Qi as the emperor, and some of the princes naturally refused, anyway, Yan Qi had already taken the blame for killing the monarch on his own shoulders, and his sanity was on the verge of collapse, so he didn't do anything, and he also killed his brother.

The plan went exactly according to your ideas, but the Seventh Highness and the Eighth Highness unexpectedly succumbed, and leaving these two people plus the Nine Emperors was a threat to you, so after Yan Qi killed the Fifth and Sixth Princes, you wanted to wipe out the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Princes.

However, there were two accidents at that time, one was that the Nine Emperors broke their arms and escaped, and the other was that the fact that you killed the Seventh Prince and the Eighth Prince was inadvertently seen by the leader of my female army.

The Nine Emperors are strong in martial arts, you can't help him, but you killed my female soldier without hesitation, in fact, just to kill people.

But what you may not know is that there was more than one female soldier who saw you kill at that time, and more than a dozen female soldiers hid in the apse and saw what you did. ”

Yan Ze's lips trembled slightly at this time, and beads of sweat dripped down his cheeks to the ground, although he tried his best to restrain himself, he couldn't hide the tension in his heart.

Sima Hongyan looked at him coldly, without wanting to let him go, and continued: "After the army came to help, Yan Qi was defeated, you know that under the charges of assassinating the emperor, slaughtering his brothers, and killing female soldiers, Yan Qi will not survive at all." All you worry about is the Nine Emperor Princes who escaped by chance, and he also knows the fact that you killed your brother. So you took advantage of the chaos to run back to the harem, relying on the favor you received from your dedication to the harem in the past, in a vain attempt to rely on the queen mother, suppress the Nine Emperor Princes, and take the opportunity to deceive the throne.

Yan Ze, I have to admire your foresight, but another holy decree from the emperor disrupted your plan, and you didn't expect that the Nine Emperor Princes didn't want to compete with you for the throne, but elected me. Of course, you don't even know that I have learned that you are the real murderer of the emperor. ”

Yan Ze sneered, looked at Sima Hongyan with gloomy eyes and said: "It's pure nonsense, although you made it up like a real thing, but you didn't tell your so-called evidence after talking about it for a long time." Sima Hongyan, I admit that the seventh and eighth brothers died under my orders, and the leader of your female soldiers was also killed by my order, but it was also forced by Yan Qi to do this, and I was also forced to helpless. ”

Sima Hongyan said solemnly: "I can't imagine that people like you really don't shed tears when they don't see the coffin." Well, I'll ask you one more question, and you can answer it, and I'll treat it as nonsense. ”