Chapter 171: Evidence of Guilt
Xue Nuo understands people's hearts too well, and every sentence speaks to Meng Dehui's heart.
first used the Peng family's matter to defeat his defenses, and then threatened the safety of the Liu family's mother and daughter and the Meng clan, and finally promised to avenge him with benefits, which aroused all the most secret thoughts in Meng Dehui's heart.
Even though Meng Dehui knew in his heart that she might not be able to do what she said, he was still reluctant to refuse.
He was afraid that something would happen to his bloodline, and he also resented everyone in the Chengguo Mansion.
Outside, there was continuous applause and cheers around the ring, and the lantern riddle was already in a state of stalemate when the gong was struck.
Meng Dehui sat opposite Xue Nuo and whispered: "When His Majesty suddenly ordered the raid of the Princess's Mansion, Xu Lizhen and I were ordered to follow Chengguo Gong and King Kang to the Princess's Mansion, where the killing had already started, and they led people to raid the Princess's Mansion and found some incriminating evidence. ”
"What is it?"
"A letter, a token of the Xian King of Nanyue, and a seal letter that the first emperor had lost for many years."
King Xian of Nanyue?
She still vaguely remembered that person was her mother's affair debt, when the king coveted his mother's beauty and wanted to ask for a marriage, and he also stayed in Beijing for three months in the name of being an envoy, and ran towards the princess's mansion when he had nothing to do, which made his mother very bored, and he also whipped him a few times.
He left the capital two months before his mother's accident, how could his token be in the princess's mansion?
Xue Nuo frowned: "What is written in that letter?" ”
"I don't know."
Seeing Xue Nuo's dark eyes looking at him fixedly, Meng Dehui pinched his sweaty palm: "I really don't know, Cheng Guogong only said that the letter was evidence of Princess Yongzhao's collusion with King Xian of Nanyue, and it was sealed together with the token and the seal letter and sent to the palace and handed over to His Majesty." ”
"At that time, only Xu Lizhen and King Kang had read the contents of the letter, and I didn't trust them at that time, and they were just officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate."
"Later, after Princess Vinh Zhao was convicted of death, His Majesty seized the letter on the grounds that the content of the letter was not only a rebellion but also related to the reputation of the royal family, and it was not made public, only that Princess Vinh Zhao colluded with South Vietnam, so no one knew what was written in the letter."
Xue Nuo looked at Meng Dehui's expression and knew that what he said was not false, and since he had already spoken, there was no need to hide it in such a trivial matter.
She rubbed her fingers and asked softly, "How did Princess Yongzhao die?" ”
Meng Dehui's face turned pale.
Xue Nuo was not in a hurry, just looked at him quietly.
After a long time, Meng Dehui said in a low voice: "Your Majesty said to the outside world that it was the princess who assassinated him and was killed on the spot, but later I secretly saw the princess's bones, and she ...... He died of poisoning. ”
Princess Yongzhao's appearance is extremely prosperous, not the softness of the small jasper, but the atmosphere and sassy eyebrows and eyes are wanton and aggressive.
No matter when and where, as long as she stood in the crowd, no amount of red could match her in red, but that day he hurriedly glanced at her, only to see that her face was covered with blood, her eyes, ears, mouth and nose were all black, and her hands and feet were also blackened bones that were almost covered by the flesh after being restrained by iron chains.
Qiu Changqing clicked and directly crushed the cup in his hand.
Xue Nuo's fingertips were cold when he lowered his eyes: "Where did her bones go?" ”
"I don't know."
At that time, Meng Dehui only glanced at it in a hurry, and the bones were carried away, and he followed Cheng Guogong and them into the main hall, only to see the bloody corpses and the corpses of the guards all over the ground.
Emperor Tianqing was injured, and Yinghui rebelled, not only the princess's mansion, but even the palace was cleaned.
At that time, Emperor Tianqing was too terrifying, he didn't dare to ask more, nor did he dare to inquire about related matters, and no one knew where Princess Yongzhao's bones were sent later.
Xue Nuo lowered his eyes slightly: "Are the evidence that was found out of the princess's mansion still there?" ”
Meng Dehui shook his head: "After the things were sent to the palace, I don't know how to dispose of them, but after the death of Princess Yongzhao, there were many people in the court who wanted to correct her name, including the King of Xiling and the crown prince, many people did not believe that she would rebel, and was forcibly suppressed by His Majesty." ”
"After that, for nearly two years, the turmoil in the DPRK and China continued, His Majesty sent people to lock up the remnants of Princess Yongzhao's mansion, and successively found out many evidence of rebellion, and disposed of a large number of courtiers."
At the beginning, there were people in the court and the central government who wanted to rehabilitate Princess Yongzhao, but those people were either beaten and dealt with together with the remnants of Yongzhao, or they were exiled to other places.
The blood flowed like a river in Beijing, and the pattern between the DPRK and China was also turned upside down overnight.
As more and more evidence of rebellion was found under the command of Princess Yongzhao, some people began to stand up to accuse her of colluding with South Vietnam, and several of them were the old department of Yongzhao, and the voices of those who spoke for Princess Yongzhao in the court gradually disappeared.
Everyone saw Emperor Tianqing's determination in this matter, and they also knew that there was no room for maneuver in this matter, so no one dared to mention this matter again, and it gradually became a taboo in the court.
As he spoke, his voice gradually lowered,
"It stands to reason that Princess Yongzhao was the regent back then, and if she rebelled, such a major event was comparable to a palace change, and the evidence related to it would be archived and stored in the history museum for historical records, and it could not be destroyed, but His Majesty didn't seem to send those incriminating evidence to the history museum......"
Qiu Changqing immediately sneered when he heard this: "There is no rebellion, where is the evidence, those things are just made up by them casually, how dare he leave the evidence, is he not afraid of being torn off his hypocritical skin!" ”
Winning and losing, the history books are written by winners.
Even if some people were suspicious at the beginning, the Lord was dead, and even those who were left behind did not remember what the Lord had done for the great cause.
In just seven years, not many people in the court still remember the Lord, and after 10, 20, or even 100 years, all the traces left by the Lord have been erased, and everything is left to Emperor Tianqing's nonsense, he said that the Lord is a traitor, that is, a traitor.
Everyone will only remember the traitor Yinghui, who else will know the princess of Daye Chaoyongzhao?
Meng Dehui listened to the undisguised disgust and ridicule in the mouth of the man beside him, and couldn't help but guess their identities.
No one in the court has dared to mention the matter of Princess Yongzhao for many years, and no one dares to mention the name of Yingzhao.
He only pretended not to know, and didn't inquire about the identities of the two at all:
"I don't know why you asked about the things of the past, I have already said everything I know, my official position was still low back then, and I couldn't touch some key things at all, if you want to find out the truth of the rebellion, I can't help you."
"Not necessarily."
Meng Dehui's eyebrows jumped, and he heard Xue Nuo say,
"When Emperor Tianqing liquidated the princess's mansion, I heard that Lord Meng was responsible for clearing the property of the princess's mansion, and the princess's mansion alone was nearly 300,000 taels of silver, and there were countless items such as gold and silver tickets, and other jewelry, fields, and property were comparable to the national treasury."