Chapter 165: The Fish That Slipped Through the Net's Counterattack

"Cheng Wang! Xuanyuan has nothing to do! You explain it to me well! What is the Qingzhou riot all about!"

Situ Sheng slammed his fist on the table again, and the green tendons on his forehead were exposed!

"Father, the emperor! The sons and daughters have been wronged! The sons have no idea what Wei Chenfeng said! As soon as the sons and daughters arrived in Qingzhou, they were attacked by the mob! Those mobs killed people when they saw them, and they had no humanity at all! They burned, killed, looted, and made chaos everywhere, just like bandits! The sons had no way to exterminate them all! Father, you have to believe the sons and daughters!"

Situ Chi knelt on the ground with a sad expression, as if he had been greatly wronged!

"Yes, please believe in King Cheng and believe in Wei Chen! Wei Chen was ordered to put down the rebellion, but he only saw the mob burning and looting everywhere, and he didn't see any disaster victims at all! These were all Wei Chenfeng's words! He had no basis at all! According to Wei Chen's opinion, there were people who saw that His Royal Highness Cheng Wang had made great contributions, and his eyes were red and jealous, so he fabricated rumors to attack His Royal Highness Cheng Wang! Please let the emperor know clearly!

Xuanyuan Wushu also immediately began to refute and pointed Wei Chenfeng's testimony to the party dispute. Because he knows that the emperor is the most taboo about courtiers participating in party disputes, it is absolutely right to pull the topic to this point!

Sure enough, Situ Sheng listened to Xuanyuan Wushu's words, turned his head to look at Situ Yue and said, "Yue'er, you went to Qingzhou this time, is there any evidence for what you investigated?"

Situ Yue raised his head and replied with an ugly face: "The evidence has been all destroyed by them! If Erchen and Wei Chenfeng didn't do their best, I'm afraid they would also die in their hands!"

"What nonsense! Third Emperor Brother, since you became king, your temperament has changed greatly. I know that you want your father to pass on the crown prince to you! But you can't be so reckless of brotherhood and poison me three times or twice?"

After Situ Chi finished speaking, he turned his head to Situ Sheng and said: "Father, the original matter of the clay sculpture mansion was that the third emperor's brother asked Fang Zheng to deliberately frame him! Fang Zheng has long been attached to him! This time, his sons have made meritorious efforts to quell the rebellion, and he asked Fang Zheng to create chaos in my palace, and then slandered his sons under the pretext of quelling the chaos, just to get rid of me, a thorn in the side!"

"Yue'er, what Chi'er said is reasonable! If you don't come up with real evidence, I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to believe you!"

Seeing that Situ Sheng was shaken by Situ Chi's words, Situ Yue's eyes flashed slightly.

The second emperor brother really still has some weight in his father's heart, even if he made such a big mistake, his father still has a trace of trust in him.

Seeing that Situ Yue was silent, Situ Chi and Xuanyuan Wushu felt a burst of pride in their hearts!

Before they returned, they had slaughtered all the rebels, young and old. There is no basis for his words, he wants to see what evidence King Qi can come up with!

was secretly smug, Wei Chenfeng suddenly glanced at Situ Yue, and then arched his hand: "Back to the emperor, we don't have evidence, but we have witnesses!"

"Witness, what witness?" Situ Sheng was stunned for a moment and asked rhetorically.

"Back to the emperor, when General Xuanyuan and King Cheng wantonly slaughtered the Yi army, Wei Chen and His Royal Highness King Qi desperately rescued some people, some of them are the leaders of the Yi army, and some are just ordinary soldiers, they can all prove that what Wei Chen said is true!"

"Wei Chenfeng! The mob has been wiped out by us! Don't think that if you find a few random people, you can pretend to be the Qingzhou Yi Army! Your Majesty, this is simply impossible!"

After Xuanyuan Wushu finished speaking, he immediately stepped forward to refute it, but he began to beat a drum suddenly in his heart. Is there still a fish that slips through the net?

"Yes, if you can bring them out to confront us, that's the real evidence!"

Situ Chi also said. But what he thinks is, as long as you dare to bring people out, this king will let them go and never return!

Situ Yue glanced at Situ Chi and said slowly: "Father, these people rescued by the sons were originally the people of Qingzhou, and they were forced to join the Yi army in desperation, and asked the father to forgive them for their innocence, so that the sons dared to bring them out to testify!"

"You are simply a pretext! Third Emperor Brother, you should stop playing tricks! The rebels in Qingzhou have all been exterminated, where can anyone help you testify? I don't think you should make any more trouble!"

Situ Chi pressed forward step by step, believing that Situ Yue was just playing tricks to scare people.

"How does the imperial brother know that I can't get a witness? As long as my father nods and pardons them, I will immediately bring them over to confront you!

After Situ Yue finished speaking, he coughed again.

may have been torn apart repeatedly because of the trauma, and he rewarmed Min Qingrou closely, causing Min Qingrou to get better, but his fever has not subsided. At this moment, if someone is close to him, he will definitely feel that his whole body is hot, and even his whole body is trembling slightly!

"Lord Wang!" Wei Chenfeng glanced at him worriedly, but Situ Yue replied with a look that he knew was comforting. Then Situ Yue bowed his hand to Situ Sheng again: "Father, please forgive them!"

Situ Sheng looked at him, pondered for a moment, and said, "Okay! If everything you say is true, then I will forgive them without sin!"

"Thank you, father!" Situ Yue listened, secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and said sideways: "Wei Chenfeng, go and bring them!"

"Yes!" Wei Chenfeng agreed, and then bowed his hand to Situ Sheng: "Weichen retires!"

Then he got up and walked out of the mausoleum and headed northeast.

"Ahem, ahem, ahem!"

Situ Yue suddenly coughed violently again. Situ Sheng glanced at him and said, "Yue'er, what's wrong with your body?

"Back to my father, my sons are fine......! It's a little cold. Situ Yue replied with a slight breath.

"But isn't it? I heard that the Third Emperor Brother has been suffering from cold and illness in the past few years, and his health is not as good as before! I still remember that during the paddock draft, the Third Emperor Brother once killed a bear alone! Now I'm afraid it won't work!"

Situ Chi said with some schadenfreude.

Situ Sheng couldn't help frowning when he heard this, and said to the eunuch on the side: "Wan Ying, go and invite the imperial doctor!"

"Father, the son is fine! No need to ask for a doctor! cough!"

After Situ Yue finished speaking, he coughed again.

"Are you really okay?" asked Situ Sheng.

"Erchen is just a little hot because of his injury, it's not a big deal!"

Situ Yue replied again.

Situ Sheng nodded and said nothing.

Soon, Wei Chenfeng came back with a cadre certificate. These people were dressed in ordinary cloth clothes, some old and some young, and their expressions were trembling. After experiencing such a disaster, some of them were almost on the verge of collapse! If it weren't for Wei Chenfeng's constant comfort and assurance, Situ Yue would have been seriously injured because he saved them, how would they dare to trust others!

Before coming, Wei Chenfeng told them that it was King Cheng Situ Chi and Xuanyuan who wantonly killed them, and the emperor was just kept in the dark and didn't know the inside story at all. If you want to avenge your relatives and avenge yourself, you have to tell the emperor the truth.

Only then did they understand that everything was a misunderstanding! The emperor did not want to kill them at all, but King Cheng wanted to use them as stepping stones to seize imperial power!

"Folks, this is the emperor, if you have any grievances, just say it, the emperor will make the decision for you!"

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, we have been wronged! I beg the Emperor to redress our grievances!"

An elder at the head knelt down in front of Situ Sheng, crying loudly. The others immediately knelt down as well, all with grief and anger on their faces, and tears streaming down their faces.

Situ Sheng looked at the people below, his heart was shocked, and he raised his hand and said, "Old man, get up and speak!"

The old man at the head raised his head, but did not get up, but knelt down step by step and crawled to Situ Sheng and cried: "Your Majesty! The emperor has avenged our grievances! We have been wronged by the people of Qingzhou!

Seeing this, Situ Sheng got up and walked to the old man and personally helped him up.

"Old man, if you have any grievances, just tell me! As long as it is true, I will definitely make the decision for you!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

The old man leaned over, wiped away his tears, and began to tell the whole process of the Qingzhou riots word by word.

The facts are completely consistent with what Wei Chenfeng said, the Qingzhou riots were just forced to helpless at first. Later, after being deceived by the governor of Qingzhou and almost wiped out, the remaining victims were forced to flee to Qingyun Mountain, because they thought that the imperial court issued an order to expropriate and expropriate, causing the people to live in poverty, and finally slaughtered them unreasonably, so they hated the imperial court, so they made a banner of rebellion to protest. In fact, there was no rebellion at that time, and later King Cheng and Xuanyuan rushed to Qingzhou to quell the rebellion, and killed them indiscriminately, and even the people they sent to negotiate peace were directly beheaded, and they no longer had hope.

Then the two armies fought, but they were just civilians, no weapons, no tactics, and the difference in numbers was huge with the army, so they had to fight and hide in Qingyun Mountain.

King Cheng ordered them to be killed, men, women, and children, and they would kill anyone they saw until they were all killed! They were struggling on Qingyun Mountain. Their blood stained almost the entire Qingyun Mountain!

"There are tens of thousands of troops, but we only have a few thousand, where will we be opponents! Those who have been sent out to negotiate peace several times have all gone and never returned! We have no choice but to hide in the mountains. There are many wild beasts in the deep mountains, and there are many old and weak women and children in the Yi army, some of them were killed by the imperial army, and some were bitten and swallowed by wild beasts! We are a family of ten, and I am the only one left!"

The old man cried and complained, his fists pounding on his chest, but he couldn't beat the pain in his chest.

"When we were cornered, His Royal Highness King Qi appeared in time to save us, and he and Commander Wei escorted us to escape from Qingyun Mountain, but we were seriously injured because of it! Your Majesty! We were wronged! We did not betray the Yaori Dynasty! We were slaughtered all the way, we just want to live, live!"

The old man cried hoarsely, and the other villagers were also full of tears, crying bitterly, as if they wanted to turn their grievances into tears and pour them all out!

The more Situ Sheng listened, the more angry he became, a fire burned in his chest, and his sharp eyes slowly moved to Xuanyuan Wushu and King Cheng, who were already a little frightened, and said gloomily: "What else do you have to say?"

“......”

In the face of the facts, Xuanyuan Wushu was no longer powerless to refute! He never expected that King Situ Yue of Qi would sacrifice his life to save these fish that had slipped through the net!

The evidence is so ironclad that they can no longer say a word!

"Father, the son is guilty! The son is guilty! Ask the father to be gracious! Ask the father to forgive!"

Situ Chi no longer had the slightest majesty at this moment, and knelt at Situ Sheng's feet, tightly grabbing the corner of his clothes and crying.

"Chi'er! You've disappointed me so much!"

Situ Sheng's face sank like water, and he slowly pulled his robe back!

"Father, father, father, let the emperor spare his son!

No matter how Situ Chi pleaded, Situ Sheng was no longer moved.