Chapter 37: A Strange Letter
"Sick?"
Chang Yuanqin was very surprised to see Chang Yuanli appear inside the Dali Temple, obviously the spy said yesterday that the person was still sick and lying on the bed, but he came the next day.
"Thank you for your concern, it's much better." Chang Yuanli put a lot of fat powder on her face to cover up the whiteness of her face, and Liuli supported her, so that the other party could be more comfortable by herself.
Chu Zixiang looked at these two people and didn't seem to be right, so he hurriedly opened the scroll and said in detail: "In the past few days, His Royal Highness King Chen has arrested several doctors in Yanchun Hall for interrogation, and the unified testimony of those people is King Wu. ā
Chang Yuanli flipped the scroll's hand for a moment, and rubbed his index finger and thumb with a small movement, "So what?" The fourth imperial sister has not moved these days, is it because she has been confined by the imperial sister? ā
Giving Lu Zijin a marriage to a prince, it stands to reason that there should be movement in the Ministry of Rites these days, and as a result, the palace is as quiet as a piece of water.
"It's just that she is grounded in the palace, and after Gu finds out the truth, she will be returned to her innocence."
She sneered in her heart, the real power was still in her hands, and the imperial sister was already one step ahead of her.
"I want to hear the testimonies of those people."
"Then, King Yue come with me." Chu Shaoqing led Chang Yuanlan to the dungeon where she went last time.
The captured civilians were separated from each other in a cell, and their feet were chained.
"Treat them like that? Don't you give any personal freedom? She pointed to the lifeless people who were tortured in chains, "She told you to do it, and you did it?" Untie! ā
Chang Yuanqin followed closely, and when he saw that Chang Yuanlan was about to untie these criminals, he immediately stretched out his hand to stop them, "These are all already drawn!" ā
"So what? Can you imprison them? She asked rhetorically, her tone was aggressive, and she didn't treat Chang Yuanqin as the crown princess or the future king at all.
"Isn't that right? Shouldn't they be locked up if they make mistakes? Isn't it the same when the mother emperor treats rebellious ministers and thieves? Isn't Song Wanqing a good example? ā
"That's the sin of deceit! They killed! Have these people killed people? ā
Chu Zixiang was caught between the two sisters and didn't know how to persuade him, but when Jiang Chuanmo came to Dali Temple to get the dossier, he was relieved.
"His Royal Highness King Chen, there are some things on the forbidden army's side that you need to go to in person."
The forbidden army was Chang Yue's most favored army, Chang Yuanqin had to pay attention to this army, so he could only glance at Chu Zixiang resentfully, dusted off his sleeves and left the dungeon.
"Whew... Thank you. ā
"King Yue, if you have anything to ask, hurry up, she found out about this kind of lie when she arrived at the barracks."
It turned out that the reason for opening Chang Yuanqin was Jiang Chuanmo's lie.
"Untie her." Chang Yuanli pointed to a ragged woman, looking a little unspirited.
Chu Zixiang got Jiang Chuanmo's signal and untied the woman's chains, and as soon as the woman untied the shackles, she "pounced" and knelt down in front of Chang Yuanli, begging for mercy in her mouth.
Chang Yuanli frowned, it seemed that Chang Yuanqin had used lynching to make them confess.
"Raise your head, and this king will look at you and speak in detail one by one."
The woman looked up resignedly, her slightly immature face with countless scars, and a black green under the other eye.
"If you tell the truth, this king will let you go and keep you rich for the rest of your life."
"I... Iā" The woman's voice trembled, and she didn't seem to believe what Chang Yuanli said.
"This king and King Chen are not opposites, and besides, you told the truth to this king, maybe this king can save your family's life?" She bent down and was eye level with the woman.
"Really? Really? ā
"Really."
She answered the woman very patiently, and the other party also told everything she had encountered before because of her calmness.
"My mother and I suddenly received a letter last month, the content of the letter was that we pretended to be the doctors who were driven out of the Tai Hospital, and used their names to treat patients with the least amount of silver, and all those silver taels had to be donated to the temples in Xuanzhou, my mother and I didn't want to do it, but ...... Can ......"
"But what?"
In the letter, the man wrote...... If we don't do it, he will destroy Yangchun Hall! ā
Chang Yuanli didn't seem to believe that just the content of this letter and the threatening words could make them willing to do the crime of bullying the king?
"King Yue! His Royal Highness the King of Yue! What the grass people said is true! The grass people didn't do it right away! The next day, the grass man's husband disappeared! The people of the yamen searched for three days and couldn't find it! ā
The woman's words were a bit nonsense, but they were terrifyingly true.
Chu Zixiang listened beside him, and also fell into deep thought, "Such a person who can cover the sky with such a hand, except for Her Majesty the Empress......"
"And the princes who have fiefs." Jiang Chuanmo continued.
Chang Yuanli crossed his arms in front of his chest, they were indeed the only ones who could do this, because they had their own army and secret guards, and it was easy for the prince to be able to capture a common man's husband at will.
"Chang Yuanlan can't be, she doesn't have this kind of precise ability, and Chang Yuanqin can't either, she has been caught and imprisoned......" Chang Yuanli said more and more wrong, and looked at Jiang Chuanmo with some suspicion, just now his words led her thoughts to the mastermind behind this matter It is very likely that the mastermind behind this matter is the prince, but after she analyzed it like this, the suspects are Chang Jingwen and Chang Jingchu.
Chu Zixiang: "Your Highness thinks it's ......"
Chang Yuanli shook his head, "It's hard to say, but my brothers won't do this kind of thing." ā
"Send someone to Yanchun Hall to collect the letter she said, and send some secret guards to keep an eye on King Chen's Mansion and King Wu's residence."
Ruri: "Yes." ā
I don't know what happened to Xuanzhou, the flood has been rectified for a few years, and the prefect does not report it, the situation may be worse than she expected.
"There's a letter from Xuanzhou, the situation is better than expected, King Rui'an and his craftsmen are building a new river dam."
Si Nanxing sent all the letters intercepted a few days ago to the Yue Wang's Mansion, and a few of them were sent to the Chenwang Mansion from the frontier.
"Send it to King Chen's Mansion?"
Chang Yuanli picked out the most conspicuous brown envelope from the pile of envelopes, "Frontier...... The King of Stability? ā
Si Nanxing motioned for her to open it and take a look.
Her instincts told her that the letter was not that simple.
At a glance and ten lines, she quickly finished reading the letter, "Take it down and burn it." ā
"What did you say?"
Chang Yuanli slammed the table hard, Si Nanxing frowned unabashedly, and covered his other hand.
"King Anding and King Chen have made an alliance?"
Chang Yuanli did not deny it, "Not only that, King Anding united with the nearby city-states, bought off the prince who was also exiled, planned to attack in Philadelphia all the way to the north and stationed in the suburbs outside the capital, waiting for Chang Yuanqin to give an order...... Forced palace. ā
"Forcing the palace? His Majesty has never made a will, and she actually wants to force the palace? ā
"She can't wait to take the throne, there may be something that will affect her succession later."
Oh, yes... It's going to be forced to the palace... The affairs of the Wild Foot Army must be hurried.