In the Imperial Governor's Office, Duan Weiang sat in front of the shadow wall, and kneeling in the hall was a guy named Wang Jisen, Liu Pengcheng, the king of Zhao, was full of grief and anger and cried blood Chen Shu, saying that his son Liu Wenkang made a big mistake due to his lax discipline, not only instructed Wang Jisen to shoot the emperor's grandson Liu Yao, but also framed Ye Yunyang with an arrow with engraved words.

Duan Weiang felt that this scene was a little unreal, he thought it was a particularly tricky case, the seven-day time limit given by the emperor was not enough at all, and he was thinking about how to explain to the emperor if he couldn't complete the task, who would have thought that there would be such a big turn since the case was just twelve hours away.

He recalled that what he had done was nothing more than keeping a close eye on the kings of Zhao and Wei, sending people to monitor the every move of the two countries' envoys, plus taking Liu Wenkang's entourage to the Tingwei Mansion for questioning.

In fact, those entourages have not passed the court until now, because Duan Weiang is too busy to take care of these small fish and shrimp, mainly because he thinks that Liu Wenkang is impossible to be stupid enough to use his guards to commit crimes, and interrogating these people will not lead to anything.

But he never thought that King Zhao couldn't hold his breath, and not long after returning to the State Guesthouse, he came to surrender with the so-called murderer, showing a righteous appearance of killing relatives, and splashing all the dirty water on the dead ghost son Liu Wenkang.

Duan Weiang thinks that he has solved countless cases in his life, many of which are big and important cases, but he has never experienced such a thing, and he has not yet figured out the clue on his side, and secretly told himself that he must go all out to overcome the difficulties, and he did not wait for the murderer to take the initiative to surrender, which made him feel like he had nowhere to be punched on the cotton.

King Zhao made a generous statement, raised his foot and kicked Wang Jisen, and shouted angrily: "Don't hurry up and admit what you did in front of Lord Tingwei,"

Only then did Wang Jisen raise his head and said in a tone of great regret: "The villain pleaded guilty, I shouldn't have compromised under the coercion and temptation of the second prince, and then shot His Royal Highness the Emperor Sun, I am guilty." ”

Duan Weiang stretched his brows and asked, "Where did the feather arrows used to shoot the imperial grandson come from?"

"Lord Huiyu, it was made by the second prince himself. Wang Jisen replied: "The second prince spent a night, referring to the method of carving words on the shaft of the arrow, forged the arrow engraved with the words Marquis of Anping County, and handed it to the villain with his own hands. ”

"This official asks you again, why did Liu Wenkang want you to kill people," Duan Weiang asked again.

Wang Jisen said: "I have the best archery skills in the Zhao State Mission, at the beginning the second prince asked me to help, I thought it was to help him cheat in hunting, so I was a little reluctant, I wanted to ask His Royal Highness the King of Zhao, but he couldn't help but say that he would take me away." In the end, I learned that he was going to blame the county prince of Anping, and I was very frightened, and the second prince threatened to let people kill my whole family if I didn't help him kill people, and then he offered a generous reward, and I couldn't stand the threats and temptations and agreed. ”

King Zhao breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, Wang Jisen's answer could be described as seamless, and all the blame was put on Liu Wenkang, who was a father, was sentenced to be a godson at most.

"Why do you want to blame the county prince of Anping," Duan Weiang continued to ask.

Wang Jisen looked embarrassed and said: "I don't know much about this, but I guess it should be related to the second prince's last beating, and he hated Anping County to the core, so he wanted to frame the blame." ”

King Zhao added: "This king also thinks so, during this time, Liu Wenkang gritted his teeth with hatred when he mentioned Ye Yunyang, and shouted many times to take revenge, this king persuaded him not to mess around, he promised on the surface to be good, who wants to do such a big rebellious thing in a blink of an eye, as his father, this king has an unshirkable responsibility." ”

Duan Weiang glanced at King Zhao, and said in his heart Your son is dead, you can say whatever you want, anyway, there is no proof of death.

It is precisely because there is no evidence of death that Duan Weiang has nothing to do with Wang Jisen and King Zhao, who surrendered themselves, if you want to say that King Zhao has nothing to do with this matter, he will not believe it if he is killed, but everything is about evidence, and without evidence, King Zhao will not be moved.

At this time, Wang Jisen said: "Yesterday evening, the Duke of Anping County was found to be wronged, and the second prince's plan failed, so he immediately arranged for the cook to poison the meat rewarded by the emperor, intending to poison the Duke of Anping County. ”

Duan Wei raised his eyebrows: "What are you talking about, the person who poisoned is also Liu Wenkang,"

Wang Jisen nodded and said, "In front of adults, villains don't dare to lie, this is indeed the case." ”

Duan Weiang clearly saw the corners of King Zhao's mouth twitch twice unconsciously, and then quickly returned to normal, and said: "This king has such a bad son, he is really shameless, he not only plotted to kill the emperor and grandson to blame others, but after the failure, he actually made another trick to poison the plan, and then he broke into the camp of the king of Wei and raped the two princesses...... It's a crime that is unforgivable, and in the end he deserved to be killed by King Wei, and he would be killed if he changed to this king. ”

Duan Weiang remembered what Ye Yunyang said last night, blame and poison are both seamless plans, and it is unlikely that the murderer will prepare a backup plan in this situation, so the murderer must be two people.

But now the spearhead is all pointed at Liu Wenkang, why is this, the most important point is that Liu Wenkang has so much energy, buying an archery master is still within the credible range, if the plan fails, he will immediately change to buy the kitchen to poison, not to mention how high the success rate is, this has to be done by a scheming person.

Liu Wenkang, an eighteen-year-old boy, how could he have such a deep scheming, the most important point is that the cook is roasting venison in front of countless pairs of eyes, Liu Wenkang has no chance to contact him at all, and it is not difficult to judge from the way he hides and poisons the cook, he has undergone strict training, and it is impossible to make a temporary intention.

Duan Weiang felt that things were getting more and more complicated, and the main reason for his headache was still that there was no evidence, and the other party's testimony was reasonable on the surface, so reasonable that it could even close the case directly.

He felt that he had to deal with it carefully, and the case could not be closed if he couldn't solve the various doubts inside, in case the emperor asked him and couldn't answer, he could only pretend to be suddenly aware and said: "It turns out that the case is like this, it is a just move for King Zhao to personally send the murderer to the court office, and this official will definitely tell Your Majesty the truth." If King Zhao can leave without any incident, the official will formally try Wang Jisen, and then present his testimony to His Majesty. ”

King Zhao hugged his fists and said: "Thanks to Lord Duan's praise, this king is ashamed to be, so I won't disturb Lord Duan's trial, and this king will leave." ”

An hour later, Ye Yunyang was invited into the court office, and Duan Weiang handed him Wang Jisen's confession without saying a word.

Ye Yunyang said while looking at it: "Sure enough, it was Liu Wenkang who assassinated the emperor and grandson to blame me, Lord Tingwei acted quickly, and it was not even noon, and the death of the emperor and grandson had already been investigated...... What, the real culprit behind the poisoning is also Liu Wenkang, how is it possible, just kidding,"

He raised his head and looked at Duan Weiang: "Lord Duan, are you sure this is the testimony of the murderer,"

Duan Weiang nodded: "This official can guarantee that this is the testimony of the murderer, I believe that Grandpa Ye does not agree with the content behind, and this official is the same, so he invited you over." Wang Jisen insisted that these things were all done by Liu Wenkang, and Liu Wenkang did have an enmity with you, and the motives for blaming and poisoning were very clear, before there was new evidence, even if this confession was full of loopholes, we had to close the case accordingly, not to mention that the content of the confession was very rigorous from beginning to end, and we couldn't find the slightest fault. ”

Ye Yunyang frowned, he knew that it was impossible to bring down King Wei based on his own guesses, not to mention that "Liu Wenkang" had already pleaded guilty, and King Wei could get away with it.

Duan Weiang saw that he was silent, and said: "Ye County Gong, the senior brother of this official, Gu Guoshi, said that you are a real person and will not frame others, you said that Liu Wenkang is the real murderer who killed the emperor and grandson, and the facts have proved that this is true, so I believe that your testimony against King Wei is also true, but not only do we have no evidence, but we also got such a confession, what should we do?"

Ye Yunyang raised his head and said, "What does Master Duan think to deal with?"

Duan Weiang said: "This official has been thinking about it for a long time, and thinks that it is better to stop here, convict Liu Wenkang alone, cut off Wang Jisen to avenge the emperor's grandson, and as for King Zhao and King Wei, let them go first." ”

Ye Yunyang frowned and said, "Is this appropriate?"

"I think it's okay. Duan Weiang explained: "At the banquet on the day before the Winter Festival, His Majesty made it clear that the reduction of the feudal domain has nothing to do with the seven major feudal states, but to cut the princes and kings, and needs the support of the seven feudal kings, so fundamentally speaking, the emperor does not want to make too much trouble with the feudal kings, which is not conducive to the future national policy." ”

Ye Yunyang smiled: "Lord Tingwei really understands it this way, the matter of cutting the vassal state is imperative, cutting the vassal states first is just an excuse for the emperor, once the vassal states are cleaned up and subdued by His Majesty, the next thing to deal with is the vassal country, but if there is a guy who is not long-eyed and disobedient and takes the initiative to send it to the door, will Your Majesty not laugh at it?"

Duan Weiang's eyes lit up and he said, "You mean, Your Majesty wants to take advantage of this incident to attack Zhao and Wei, right?"

"Of course, why would the emperor be angry in the Qinzheng Palace, in order to pave the way for cleaning up King Zhao and King Wei. Ye Yunyang said with a smile: "So Lord Tingwei can rest assured and boldly investigate, in fact, His Majesty is afraid that you will not be able to find out the results he wants, so he will set a deadline for you to attract your attention." ”

Duan Weiang slapped the table: "Yes, why didn't I think of this, thank you for the reminder." ”

Ye Yunyang waved his hand modestly and said, "It's normal for Lord Duan to focus on the investigation of the case and ignore other things, with your wisdom, as long as you calm down, you will definitely think of this." ”

"Anping County is polite, but what should we do next, it is obvious that there is some kind of agreement between King Zhao and King Wei, if they refuse to admit it, we have nothing to do. ”

Ye Yunyang had already thought of a plan, and said in a flat tone: "It's simple, asking His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to come forward will definitely come naturally." ”