"Emperor!"

Wei Zhongxian hurriedly walked over at this time, panting and saying with a smile: "Just now, the person from the Wangfu came to report, and the King of Xin has returned, and now he is holding the book and asking to see him!" ”

After hearing this, Tianqi hurriedly took his eyes back from Li Guopu and said, "Xuan! ”

So, not long after, Zhu Youzhen, the king of letters, walked in.

When Tianqi saw Zhu Youzhen, he asked, "Why did the royal brother see me today?" ”

Xinwang Zhu Youzhen said: "The minister's brother impeached Li Guopu, a cabinet scholar, in an attempt to collude with Zu Dashou to make his minister the emperor!" There is a Ye commander to testify for his brother, please Your Majesty Mingjian! ”

Tianqi said: "I already know about this, and if you can take the initiative to play, it can be regarded as reasonable." ”

Then, Tianqi looked at Li Guopu: "Li Guopu, now there is the physical evidence you wrote to Zu Dashou to seek to establish King Xin as the emperor, and there is King Xin himself as a witness here, as well as Ye Qing's circumstantial evidence, how do you defend yourself?" ”

Li Guopu was still in a state of confusion at this time.

"Li Guopu!"

Apocalypse had to snort because of this.

Li Guopu came back to his senses, then looked at Ye Chengxue, and in the main hall, asked Ye Chengxue directly: "Why did you betray the old man!" Why?! ”

Li Guopu had to admit that all this today was obviously something wrong with Ye Chengxue.

Because of the matter of placing King Xin under house arrest, he handed it over to Ye Chengxue to do, and when he wrote a letter to Zu Dashou, he Li Guopu also asked Ye Chengxue to send someone to deliver the letter.

As a result, it has become a letter to the king, who first knew about the letter and told him about it first.

"Even if you don't want to go to Liaodong with the old man, you shouldn't betray the old man!"

Li Guopu said to Ye Chengxue again bitterly.

He still didn't know that Ye Chengxue was not his person, so he still thought that Ye Chengxue betrayed him because he didn't want to go to Liaodong.

Seeing this, Tianqi said: "Li Guopu, I can tell you that Ye Chengxue has always been a person from Xichang, but only I and Uncle Guo know about it. You don't really think that I reused him because of his Ye Chengxue who dared to betray his comrades, right? ”

"What?!"

Li Guopu was taken aback.

"However, didn't you say that you would wait for the scorching sun to set on its own before you could find a way to fight for power with Ye Chengxue?"

"Why are you so impatient now, you have to find a way to force King Xin to go to Liaodong together, and support King Xin as the emperor with Zu Dashou? Moreover, in today's court, he pretended to ask for orders to go to Shandong to implement the new policy and suppress bandits, presumably to prepare for leaving the capital and going to Liaodong, right? ”

As he spoke, Tianqi asked, "Tell me, why are you suddenly so anxious to go to Liaodong, is it because someone persecuted you?" Or are you about to be found out by the factory guard?! ”

Li Guopu was so desperate that he smiled instead, and said, "In this way, all the minister's thoughts are known to His Majesty. The minister had nothing to hide. Your Majesty, you are not wrong, the minister did not intend to do this, and the minister is ready to survive until death, and he will not do these things. But the minister has a problem of being pretentious, and the minister is a resourceful and far-sighted person, so that some people know the news that Ye Chengxue obeys the order of the minister, but because of this, some people use the minister and force the minister to do such a thing. ”

"Who is this man?"

Apocalypse asked.

Li Guopu said: "Your Majesty should know." ”

Tianqi nodded, thinking that Li Guopu was not wrong, so he asked again: "Why can he successfully force you to do this, you are an elder, a few people can force you." ”

"Because of the corruption of the ministers."

Li Guopu replied.

"Corruption? You are really bold, I have punished corruption so strictly, you still dare to be greedy! ”

Apocalypse said in amazement.

The other ministers also looked at Li Guopu in astonishment.

Because they have the impression that Li Guopu is indeed very honest and frugal in life.

Li Guopu smiled bitterly and said: "The minister is not greedy for everyone's wealth, the minister is only greedy for him alone, because he only gives silver to the minister once every three years, one million taels, and now there are six million taels." And he never asked his ministers to do things for him. It's just that now, when he needs the minister to do it, the minister has to agree. ”

After hearing this, Tianqi said: "It's really generous to return people." Sending you so much silver, why don't he just give it to me and let me do something for him, why do you give you this elder. ”

Li Guopu said: "Your Majesty can ask him yourself." ”

Apocalypse asked again, "You don't want to be honest with him just because he gave him a lot of money?" ”

Li Guopu replied: "Not really, the minister also refused at first, but the minister is really unbearable and cold, especially after seeing a lot of extravagance in Jingshi, he wants to live a life of arrogance and luxury." But the minister knows that the gentleman should be ashamed of his words and profits, and when his sleeves are clean, he doesn't want people to think that the minister is a greedy official, and he is not willing to talk about profits like some powerful people by tying up his cousin Uncle Zhang Guo's investment in factories and workshops, so he also thinks that the benefits of only accepting him alone should not have much impact, and he originally wanted to accept him only once, but he couldn't stop when he collected it, and he pinched the handle in the back. He can only be at his mercy. ”

"This is to get a reputation as a clean stream who is honest and does not love profit, and I don't want to wronged my lust. You think better than I do. ”

As he spoke, Apocalypse asked, "Tell me, who is the Wang scholar who instructed you to do this, and what is his name?" ”

Li Guopu said: "The former Hanlin attendant lectured on bachelor Wang Xiangchun. ”

After hearing this, Tianqi sneered: "It turned out to be him!" The thirty-eighth year of Wanli. ”

Apocalypse asked, "Why did he do this?" I want you to let Zu Dashou support King Lixin! ”

Zhang Gui said at this time: "Your Majesty, now it is better to arrest him and ask him." ”

Tian Ergeng hurriedly handed Wei Zhongxian a pleading look at this time.

These days, Ye Chengxue has stolen a lot of limelight from him, and he now hopes that Wei Zhongxian can give him a chance to catch Wang Xiangchun.

Wei Zhongxian did know that Ye Chengxue was Zhang Gui's person, and he didn't want Tian Ergeng to take refuge in himself to be overwhelmed by Ye Chengxue, so he took the initiative to ask: "Emperor, it's better to let Tian Ergeng go to this matter, and by the way, also arrest Kong Zhenshi and return it to Eucalyptus, and find out the truth about the killing of Hou Liu, the remnant of Xu Hongru, in Tangzhi County, Xincheng." ”

Tianqi looked at Zhang Gui: "What do you think?" ”

Zhang Gui said: "Your Majesty, the minister can see it." But the minister believes that Li Guopu did not fully confess all the masterminds, because Wang Bachelor is not alone. The minister asked His Majesty to hand over Li Guopu to the West Factory, and the West Factory would continue to interrogate him strictly, so that Li Guopu could confess all the masterminds. The Dongchang and Zhenfu Divisions focused on investigating the murder of Yiyu in Tangzhi County and arresting and interrogating Wang Xiangchun. ”

Li Guopu got anxious first when he heard Zhang Gui say this, and said: "Uncle Zhang Guo, you are spewing blood, where are there any other masterminds!" The old man has already said that the old man only accepted one person's silver, and only one person instructed the old man to do this, this person is Wang Xiangchun! When you say this now, you obviously want to deliberately retaliate, and retaliate against the old man for mocking you before this! ”

Li Guopu was indeed not wrong, Zhang Gui did have the intention of cleaning up Li Guopu, but he would not admit it, only said: "Your Majesty!" The minister didn't dare to lie, he Li Guopu did not explain all the masterminds. ”

Seeing this, Tianqi said: "Okay, Li Guopu will continue to hand it over to Yan Xian." ”

"Yes!"

So, Li Guopu was taken to the West Factory.

As soon as Li Guopu arrived at the West Factory, he said to Zhang Gui: "Zhang Gui! No matter how you torture the old man, the old man has only one command, you don't want the old man to bite anyone. ”

Zhang Gui smiled: "Yes, it depends on whether you can really stand it." ”

As he spoke, Zhang Gui said, "Execution!" ”

"Yes!"

It didn't take long for Li Guopu to scream: "Ah! It hurts, it hurts! Zhang Gui, Uncle Zhang, Uncle Guo, Grandpa Zhang, ancestor, you spare me, spare me, I can't stand it, I really can't stand it! ”