Volume 1 Chapter 24 The Witnesses Go to the Temple
Zizhao went all the way in and sat on the main seat, Xin stood silently on the side like a slave, at this time, she didn't need to be high-profile.
Queen Wu also went to the Hall of Respect for the Dharma with a black face, and stepped forward to sit side by side with Zizhao on the main seat, and it is estimated that she went back and made up another makeup, which looks extremely majestic at this time!
The ministers saluted: "Greetings to the king and queen, and ask the king if the queen is safe?"
"Let's be flat, I'm safe here" Zizhao came with a sentence, and the queen sent out a few very heavy words: "This palace is safe"
At this moment, Otsuka Zai Wuyong finally knows what's going on, the king is going to give him a horse? That's not right, it's fine in the morning!
He hurriedly knelt down and called for help: "King, the minister has been wronged, you have to be the master of the minister."
Zizhao looked at Wu Yong and said: "What's wrong with Otsuka Zai, come here, quickly untie Otsuka Zai"
The guards ordered, and only then did Wu Yong untie the rope. Everyone didn't know what was going on, so they had to wait for the king to speak.
Zizhao showed a friendly smile at this time: "Please Tianqing don't be impatient, I have worked hard for you to come to discuss the matter when the sun is about to set, this matter is really important, and I am afraid that something will happen later, I hope all the Qing family will understand."
The ministers saluted again: "The king's affairs are no trivial matter, and the ministers dare not speak bitterly"
Zizhao smiled a little and said: "Gu Zeng promised not to ask about the government for three years, so the affairs of the court are all discussed and decided by Otsuka Zai, Da Sima and other six officials, so no matter the government today, only some of Gu's doubts can be solved."
Lone was to go to the folk to travel to visit the talented hermit, did not think, Lone went out for more than a year, wisps were assassinated, although Lone barely saved a life, but Lone brought talented people basically died under the knife, today, Lone just returned to the palace and was assassinated again, if it was not for the Xin City Lord to save himself, I am afraid that Lone is already a corpse. “
Zizhao told the matter lightly, and the ministers were shocked in their hearts, you look at me, I see that you don't know what the assassination is about, and who is the Lord of Xincheng, just now Otsuka Zai was tied to the upper hall, could it be that Otsuka Zai is a murderer? They all looked at Wu Yong, who was sweating in his vests, but thinking that he had not ordered the king to be killed today, and that there was no evidence left in the past assassination, not to mention that all the people in this palace were his, so he got up again and said, "The king won't think that the minister sent someone to kill you, right?" ″
Zizhao laughed and said, "How could Lone doubt Tianqing? It's just that this killer was caught at the scene, and he confessed some things that damaged Tianqing's reputation, and in front of everyone's eyes, the queen was also at the scene, so he had to ask Tianqing to prove his innocence."
Xin listened on the sidelines and thought: "Zizhao, I can't see that he is ruthless on his face, this is a real smiling tiger"
Otsuka Zai hurriedly shouted: "King, after seeing the queen today, the minister went to the Great Uncle's Mansion to discuss the sacrificial friendship, saying that the minister sent someone to assassinate the king, which is really a great wrong."
Zizhao said: "Tianqing, don't worry!"
"Come, Witness to the Temple"
Hearing the herald shout: "The witness goes to the temple", everyone waiting in the ear room of the Hall of Respect for the Law arrived in front of the hall one after another, and the first to be escorted in was the guard who shot an arrow and assassinated him in the Hanzhang Palace, although he changed into a new prison uniform, the blood whip marks on his body were still obvious, and as soon as the two guards let go, he softened like mud, and reluctantly got up and knelt down and said: "See the king, the king is ten thousand years"
Zizhao felt funny when he heard this greeting, a person who wanted his life, but the greeting was so sincere, and he asked sharply: "Say, who are you, why did you assassinate Gu, and who instructed you?"
The man looked at the people present, and then looked at Wu Yong on the side and said: "The slave Xiao Anzi, I have already said that I was instructed by Otsuka Zai."
Otsuka Zai Wu Yong looked at this minion carefully, repeatedly confirmed that he didn't know this person, breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and continued to shout: "King, the minister doesn't know this person, I don't know who is behind him, please ask the king to try this person again, and the minister can be innocent."
As soon as the ministers heard Otsuka's uneasy tone, most of them demanded a retrial of this person, and what a slave said could not be used as evidence.
Zizhao knew that Otsuka Zai would not admit it easily, and he said: "Pass the witnesses behind"
Ye took people to escort these witnesses and waited in front of the palace for a long time, and the palace was lit with animal oil lamps, only then did he hear the witnesses, and at this time, these more than 20 witnesses entered the hall together with Wu Hai, Xing, and Xiang, and gave Zizhao a neat head, and asked An, Zizhao asked the little Anzi in the hall: "Xiao Anzi, do you recognize these people?"
Xiao Anzi: "Back to the king, it's not that I recognize it, the minions know that there are them, and they don't know that there are minions"
"Oh, how do you say that?" This was a bit unexpected, Otsuka Jae wanted to grab the words, and the quilt Zhao gesture paused.
Xiao Anzi said: "The slave turned out to be a dead soldier in Otsuka's house, three years ago, Otsuka Zai put the small one in the bow and arrow camp of the palace, so that the small one had the opportunity to shoot the king who had not succeeded to the throne at that time, but the slave was born soft-hearted, and he couldn't do it every time he had the opportunity, and someone sent a message in the morning, saying that if he didn't do it again, the life of the slave's sister would not be guaranteed, so he moved his hand, but these people were ordered by Otsuka Zai Wu Hai in these three years."
This is not the answer to the question, but the amount of information is a bit large, that is, Otsuka Zai has bad intentions and began to plan to kill the king three years ago.
The ministers discussed it, and Otsuka Zai shouted that he was wronged, and he didn't admit to using this person to death.
The witness testimony is useless, the people behind him are innocently affected, and what he did may also be tortured into a trick and made up, a country grave, there is no perfect evidence, there is no perfect evidence, there is a cure for him, the hall has a lot of opinions, Zizhao feels extremely embarrassed.
Xin secretly walked in front of everyone and said, "Xin, the lord of Fengdu City, a foreign minister, pays a visit to the king."
"Who is this man?" "Isn't the city lord of Fengdu City Bei Yu?"
"I thought she was the king's maid."
"What's going on?"
The ministers discussed a lot, and Zizhao snickered in his heart before he said seriously: "Xin Qing's family, please, do you have any opinion on Lone's case?"
Xin learned from the ministers and saluted: "Don't dare, the foreign minister is here to sue Otsuka Zai for sending people to assassinate and kidnap the foreign minister, even if all the adults are here today, the foreign minister will sue today, so as not to trouble in the future."
Queen Wu glanced at Xin fiercely, and she didn't want to say a word.
The ministers' questions were not solved, and one of the ministers asked: "King, who is the woman in the hall, and why is she pretending to be the city lord of Fengdu City?"
Zizhao thought to himself, he had to explain again, and said patiently: "Have you all received the letter for a few days, and you still don't want to believe that Fengdu City has changed the city lord, and you don't dare to believe it, but the city lord of Xin has moved into Fengdu City, Pei Yu has taken up his job and retired for the elderly, and his son Xingyun has also become the deputy city lord, and the city lord of Xin is so powerful that he will not say it, it is enough to say that he has been lonely for three days and three nights, the kindness of the city lord of Xin, all Aiqing should be able to hear it, she did not hurt anyone in Fengdu City, not only that, but he also saved the life of the lonely king three times, at the end of today, If it weren't for the Xin City Lord sacrificing his life to save him, you would only be afraid that you would have seen the corpse of the lonely king at this time! ″
The ministers listened, that is, they were shocked and admired, and couldn't help but look at the woman in the hall a few times, this woman looked like a man, although it was civilian clothes, the clothes were also luxurious, a samurai suit with a dark red shirt and black pants, and she was forced to wear a heroic posture with a little charm, this kind of steel with soft beauty really made the man can't help but move, the ministers' eyes were clear and couldn't leave for a long time, Queen Wu was to scratch the chair, and countless jealousy burned in her heart, and she couldn't say anything if she held her stomach.
Zizhao said again: "The Lord of Xin City is suing my big businessman's Tomb Zai, what evidence do you have?"
Otsuka Zai grabbed the words: "Lord Xincheng, the old man doesn't know you, how can he send someone to kill you, is there any misunderstanding between this?" "Such a beautiful woman, she was obviously in her own house last night, why was she so lazy, she didn't go to see and enjoy it first, no wonder Xian'er likes it, it does look painful"
Xin smiled: "Otsuka Zai is right, you and I don't know each other, how could you be sent to kill me, at that time, the king was with the lord of the city, not to kill the lord of the city, that is, to kill the king"
Xin said to Zizhao again: "King, last time those twenty-six assassins came to assassinate the king, and the ministers have evidence to prove that Otsuka Zai sent people to kill the king, and by the way, kill the ministers and kill them!"
When Otsuka Zai heard this, he hurriedly said: "You spew blood!" ″
Zizhao took the opportunity to ask, "What evidence?"
Xin took out a bag from his sleeve pocket and asked the guard Cheng to go up, Zizhao opened it and immediately let go, Queen Wu picked it up curiously, her face changed, and her legs were weak and put the bag on the table.
Zizhao glanced at it, and the woman below actually winked at him, what kind of woman is this, so bold.
Zizhao asked, "I don't know what the City Lord of Xin means by this?"
Xin was stunned for a moment, so obvious that the king also asked, seeing that all the ministers were looking at herself, she didn't turn around and said: "King, this is the human skin totem that the foreign minister opened with a knife on the back shoulder of one of the twenty-six assassins a few days ago, this totem, the right back shoulder of the twenty-six assassins has it, but the weather is hot and it is not easy to preserve, the foreign minister burned lime and barely kept this one as evidence, today, the foreign minister saw that this person has this exact totem, so the foreign minister thought, if the person he pointed out also has this totem, can prove that they are together. Xin pointed at Xiao Anzi!
Only then did Zizhao understand, and immediately ordered: "Come on, check yourself."
Within a quarter of an hour, the guard replied: "There are eleven people here, ten people have a totem on their right shoulder, and one person has a totem on their left shoulder, and they all show the human skin totem to the city lord of Xin."
Zizhao glanced at Queen Wu fiercely, and he suddenly remembered that there was a similar totem on the queen's left shoulder, who would have thought that on a hot day, Xin'er would be able to save the human skin.
Zizhao smiled at Otsuka Zai and said, "Tianqing, what else do you have to say so far?" If you guess correctly, you have an exact totem on your left shoulder! "The left is respectful, the master is tattooed, the right is a slave, the slave is tattooed, and people only rely on the mark of the witch clan who know each other, but I didn't think this has become evidence.