His eyes stayed on Liu Bowen for a long time, and then he asked slowly:

"Liu Bowen, why didn't you say a word today, can you tell us about it?"

Liu Bowen thought for a while before saying:

"Your Majesty, the emperor's housekeeping ministers can't be arrogant!"

Zhu Yuanzhang pondered for a while, smiled coldly and said:

"What a Liu Bowen! Want to hide from everything? ”

"Your Majesty forgive your sins! The minister thinks that His Majesty's decree is strict, and he does not avoid getting close, and he admires it! ”

The people next to him all looked at Liu Bowen in surprise.

This is a very difficult question to answer, if you don't figure out the emperor's thoughts, it is very easy to step into the trap.

If the emperor doesn't want to punish the concubine, but takes into account his image as a Ming monarch, he needs the minister to 'beg for death to protect the horse' and play a bitter trick with the Son of Heaven.

But the emperor just wants to punish the horse lightly, which requires the cooperation of the minister to make the image of the emperor who does not avoid relatives taller.

But if it is indeed to be punished severely, then the minister had better not say anything, otherwise he will be against the dragon scales.

Zhu Yuanzhang listened, pointed to the horse Ouyang Lun and scolded:

"Raise your head, don't embarrass us!"

Before the words fell, Ouyang Lun suddenly paused, raised his head tremblingly, and glanced at Zhu Yuanzhang cautiously.

There was still some blood left on the shackles on his hands.

The messy hair covered the corners of his eyes from time to time, and he saw the face of his father sitting opposite him in a daze.

"The father and the emperor and the sons are also guilty, and the sons and daughters deserve death."

"Erchen doesn't dare!"

Ouyang Lun continued to beg for mercy, he couldn't give up the slightest chance of survival, even though his father looked angry, he might let himself go because of his attitude.

Zhu Yuanzhang said:

"Pour wine for your uncles and uncles, without them there would be no you today, go quickly."

When Ouyang Lun heard this, the panic in his heart instantly exploded.

The real horror comes from the unknown, a kind of devil that is invisibly shrouded in the heart, and never knows when the devil will come.

Just like at this moment, Ouyang Lun could never guess what Zhu Yuanzhang would do next.

Just one look is enough to make your soul wander.

Without waiting for Ouyang Lun to react, a brocade-clothed guard stepped forward with a pot of wine and forcibly stuffed it into his hand.

He was picked up and dragged in front of the ministers, and the cold chains shook with a clanging sound.

All the ministers looked at Ouyang Lun and were silent.

Forced to be helpless, Ouyang Lun had to pour wine for the ministers one by one.

Jiaotai Palace, brocade guards, royal forest army on both sides, the cold wind outside the hall blows the ghost crying wolf howl, all the ministers like lambs to be slaughtered quietly waiting for the horses to come to pour wine.

Li Shanchang bore the brunt of the attack, his hands trembled slightly, the wine glass swayed towards Ouyang Lun, the two looked at each other, and the wine in the wine glass had unconsciously overflowed out of the glass.

"Thank you, Master Ma!"

Li Shanchang forcibly pressed his palate against his mouth and tried to say these four words.

Everyone stared at the two of them intently, and it wasn't until Ouyang Lun moved to the next person that he let out a sigh of relief.

Next was Li Wenzhong, a pair of weather-beaten hands tightly clenched the wine glass, and the beard on his face shook wildly with his breath.

Li Wenzhong didn't glance at Ouyang Lun from beginning to end, and kept staring at the wine glass, for fear of spilling a drop.

Ouyang Lun seemed to feel that everything had passed after pouring the wine, and he relaxed in an instant, stretched out his tightly locked hand and gently patted Li Wenzhong's shoulder.

Li Wenzhong was shocked and accidentally spilled a full glass of wine, and the calm on the surface instantly collapsed, and he almost knelt on the ground.

Fortunately, he was held by the servant who carried him, so that he would not fall to his knees.

Ouyang Lun had no choice but to endure the horror and pour Li Wenzhong full of wine again.

In this way, every time Ouyang Lun poured wine for a minister, that person looked trembling in a trance, and did not dare to look directly at Ouyang Lun.

It took nearly half an hour for Ouyang Lun to finish pouring wine for all the ministers, and at this time, the ministers were already shocked and depressed.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked around at Yunei, raised his wine glass and said:

"Drink! Drink! Don't be stunned, our colt has finally poured you full of wine, don't waste it! ”

Everyone looked at each other, holding their wine glasses and not daring to move, until Liu Bowen drank it all before they raised their glasses and drank.

After drinking, the atmosphere in the hall seemed to have eased slightly, but Zhu Yuanzhang's face was still gloomy, and he stared at Ouyang Lundao:

"Keep pouring wine!"

Ouyang Lun was completely frightened this time, his body was weak, and he sat directly on the ground and wailed with a crying voice:

"Father and son know that they are wrong!"

"Father, spare your son!"

"Erchen doesn't dare!"

Zhu Yuanzhang slowly stood up, walked in front of Ouyang Lun, squatted down and looked at it and said:

"Look at your little bit of interest! Isn't it just death! What are you afraid of? ”

Then he got up and came to the ministers, and said:

"Yang Xian, come and tell them why we arrested the horse master?"

Zhu Yuanzhang said and looked at Yang Xian.

Yang Xian bowed to Zhu Yuanzhang, slowly walked to the middle of the hall, took out a roster, and said:

"Ouyang Lun smuggled refined salt, colluded with officials, engaged in private fraud, and collaborated with the enemy and betrayed the country."

Zhu Yuanzhang turned his head angrily and glanced at Ouyang Lun, gritted his teeth and said:

"We Daming can't stand you?"

"Yang Xian, show the evidence to the important ministers of the court, and see what this colt has done."

As soon as the words fell, Yang Xian ordered someone to carry in a batch of refined salt mixed with starch and put it in front of everyone.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhu Tong again and said:

"Xiao Langjun, you come to explain to them, what is this?"

Zhu Tong was stunned by the scene in front of him at this time, although he had nothing to do with this case, he was also shocked when he saw this scene.

At the same time, he was also ashamed of the horse's behavior, and when he saw Zhu Yuanzhang calling him to explain, he was stunned for a moment, and then walked straight to the bag of salt and grabbed a handful with his hand.

Speaking to the crowd:

"Ladies and gentlemen, this refined salt was made in the place where the salt was lowered, and a special starch was mixed into the salt that day."

"If you touch a little bit, it will stick to the placket or your hands, and it will be impossible to get rid of it for a while."

Zhu Tong said and stretched out his hand to take a closer look at the ministers present.

At this time, some people were afraid to avoid it, hiding behind others, and did not dare to step forward to check the refined salt in Zhu Tong's hand.

Immediately afterwards, Yang Xianyou shouted loudly:

"Bring witnesses!"

After that, several red-robed servants walked in with three prisoners, all of whom were beaten with their skin open and fleshy, and their bodies were incomplete.

Just entered the hall and hurriedly knelt down towards Zhu Yuanzhang, wailing:

"Your Majesty, it was all the villain who instructed the master to do it, and the villain was also forced to be helpless."

"Your Majesty spares your life, it was the master of the horse who forced the villain to forcibly buy refined salt, and the little one who didn't go to the master of the horse would kill the villain!"

"Your Majesty is wronged, the villain doesn't dare."

Before Zhu Yuanzhang could open his mouth to interrogate, a few people put all the responsibility on Ouyang Lun, the master of the horses.

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed and said, "Look at it, this is what you said about Guotai and Min'an?" ”

Everyone hung their heads, eager to dig the hole into it......