Emperor Jing soon knew what the eldest prince had done.

It has been sunny for more than ten days in a row, and the sun hanging high in the sky every day has sunburned the ground as if it was about to smoke.

The heat of the summer completely reduced the haze caused by the heavy rain in the past few days, and when everyone was talking about the strange and delicious drinks on the first floor of the capital, a news was sent back to the capital quickly, and it directly blew up the entire court.

The Lingjiang River burst its embankment.

After there was no rain in Beijing, the rain seemed to go all the way south, and the torrential rain continued to rain in the south of the Yangtze River.

In mid-July, the dam in the lower reaches of the Lingjiang River collapsed, and all the fertile fields in the Nanyuan area were submerged in the flood, and the Feng'an, Shouzhuang, and Dingzhou areas downstream were seriously affected.

The local government had foreseen that the rain was too strong to evacuate some of the people along the coast in advance, and also sent people to repair the embankment to keep the nearby farmland as much as possible.

But who knew that the dam was filled with vicious people, who took advantage of the chaos to chisel the foundation stone of the dam, and the already crumbling embankment collapsed in an instant.

The flood poured down, killing hundreds of flood control people, and even the Feng'an County Commander was also killed.

The fertile land along the coast was destroyed, the people were displaced, and the person who damaged the dam was caught by the nearby people before he had time to escape, and that person was actually the second son of the Marquis Wenyuan's mansion.

The people were boiling in an instant, and the nearby government could hardly suppress the people's grievances.

If it weren't for the long history of the Four Princes' Mansion and the people from the Empress's mother's mother's family who happened to pass by the neighborhood on an errand for the Four Princes, and took the seal of the Four Princes to mobilize the troops of the nearby cities to suppress it, the Dingzhou area along the Lingjiang River was afraid that there would be an early riot, but even so, countless people were still killed and injured.

The news quickly spread back to Beijing, and it was late July.

The whole dynasty was shocked, and Emperor Jing was even more angry.

The second son of the Marquis of Wenyuan Mansion was escorted back to Beijing, and the Marquis of Wenyuan's Mansion was also implicated by him and all of them were imprisoned.

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In the palace, Emperor Jing looked at the two sons kneeling below with a cold expression, and there were several old ministers standing in the palace.

The fourth prince knelt on the ground and said: "Erchen didn't know that Lingjiang would burst the embankment, and the reason why he would send people to Jiangnan was also because of the previous heavy rain in Beijing, the water level on the wharf in the east of the city rose, and even the suburbs of Beijing were too much water. ”

Emperor Jing said coldly: "Why don't you report it?" ”

"There is no evidence, Erchen is afraid that it will be difficult to win people's trust if he says it, and it is just Erchen's speculation, the news of the flood will inevitably cause panic among the people, if nothing happens in the end, Erchen ......"

The fourth prince paused when he said this, although he didn't continue, but everyone knew what he meant.

If the news spreads indiscriminately and causes chaos, even the prince can't afford it.

Mo Wenfu, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, stepped forward and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, this matter is no wonder to the four princes. ”

"Don't say it's someone else, that is, when the four princes came to look for the old minister, the old minister felt that His Royal Highness was too careful, if it weren't for His Royal Highness's insistence that this matter is related to the lives of the people along the coast and the safety of the community, the old minister would not agree to send someone south to investigate."

"As soon as the people sent by the old minister and the four princes noticed that something was wrong, they persuaded the local officials to strengthen the embankment in advance for flood control, and even planned to send people to the capital to deal with it in advance, but who would have thought that there would be such a vicious person in this world, who would have damaged the embankment for his own selfish intentions, and disregarded the lives of tens of thousands of people!!"

As he spoke, he suddenly looked at the big prince with a panicked face on his face,

"Knowing that the dam is related to the lives of thousands of people, and knowing that once the dam is damaged, there will be no 10,000 acres of fertile land along the coast, and countless casualties will be killed, but the eldest prince still sent the people of the Chen family to damage the foundation stone of the embankment and cause the dam to burst.

"Your Highness, the old minister wants to ask you, what are you thinking?"

Mo Shangshu said with an angry face, his eyes full of anger.

Several of the old ministers standing in front of the hall also looked at the eldest prince with complicated and incredible faces, and even more disgusted.

No one expected that the eldest prince would do such a thing, and he did not expect that the eldest prince, who had always been a polite and virtuous corporal, would actually take the lives of tens of thousands of people along the Ling River to calculate the lives of the four princes and the Ministry of Industry.

The list of such crimes is too numerous to mention.

The eldest prince's face turned pale when he was questioned, and he looked up at Emperor Jing's extremely indifferent gaze and felt even more flustered: "Father, son...... Erchen ......"

Emperor Jing didn't speak, as if he was just waiting for him to explain.

The eldest prince's lips opened and closed a few times and wanted to say something, but in the end, he couldn't say anything when he looked at Emperor Shangjing.

If the people of the Chen family hadn't been caught red-handed, he might still be able to defend a few words, but the son of Marquis Wenyuan was directly caught and sent back to Beijing, and now the entire Marquis Wenyuan's mansion has also been imprisoned, and all his justifications have become sophistry, even if he says it, no one will believe half of it.

In the end, the four princes could only kowtow their heads and cry: "Erchen really doesn't know why Chen Zhao is like this, Erchen is wronged." ”

Bang!

An inkstone smashed straight in front of him,

"You are wronged, the tens of thousands of people are not wronged, and the Feng'an County Order that died in vain is not wronged? You tell me that you are wronged, so what about them, who will cry out for them?!! ”

"Father's ......"

The eldest prince's face was colorless.

Emperor Jing looked at his eldest son lying on the ground with a pale face, looking like he wanted to distinguish but couldn't speak, how could he not know what his weak heart was for.

He can tolerate the intrigue between the princes, can tolerate them using some means to show their abilities to each other, and even if they secretly woo the courtiers to do something harmless, he can tolerate them all.

But he dared to send people to dig down the embankment, so that the people along the Deling River burst the embankment and made it difficult for the people to live, and stepped on the bones of countless people to fulfill his ambition.

Emperor Jing will never tolerate it!

He didn't want to see this son at all, so he said angrily: "Come on, put the eldest prince in the prison, imprison the people in the eldest prince's mansion, and strictly interrogate Chen Zhao by the Criminal Department and Dali Temple, I want to know who gave him such a big courage to do such a vicious thing!" ”

"Father...... Father, son and son wronged......"

"Hold on!!"

"Father!!"

The eldest prince was paralyzed on the ground and cried loudly, and Gan He, the commander of the forbidden army, walked into the hall quickly, seeing that Emperor Jing was angry, he did not dare to delay at all, and directly stepped forward to escort the eldest prince outward, and when they went out of the hall, the people in the palace could vaguely hear the mournful voice of the eldest prince.