Chapter 42: Pretending to be confused
The interrogation was forced to be temporarily suspended, because no one dared to continue the questioning.
The Assassins had confessed to someone none other than him.
It is Li Xian, the crown prince of the dynasty!
The assassin sent by the prince of the East Palace to murder the Queen Mother of the West Palace is simply appalling.
It should be said that it is unheard of.
So should you report it directly to the emperor, or will you arrest the prince for interrogation?
Obviously nothing is right.
"It's tricky." Zhu Xiaochuan's brows condensed into a Sichuan character.
I can't catch the assassin and worry, and now that the assassin has caught it, it's even more worrying!
"I'm going to die." Wu Zicheng sighed again and again and shook his head.
"If it's fatal, we have to continue to investigate." Xiao Chen calmed down from the shock just now, and after thinking about it carefully, he felt that this matter was too strange, and he was afraid that there was another reason.
The crown prince Li Xian is no longer lacking in heart and eyes, and he will not do such a thing.
If he assassinated his father Li Wanjiang and said that in the past, assassinating the queen? It's not likely.
Because the queen died in no favor for him.
The crown prince was very rude to the queen, but later Xiao Chen knocked on the side and learned from Murong Danqiu that the real purpose of the prince was not to completely covet her beauty, but to control her after getting her.
He knew that his father, Emperor Li Wanjiang, had a functional disorder, and he expected that he would not be able to satisfy the queen mother in the prime of his youth.
Besides, Li Wanjiang is nearly fifty years old, but his prince is not yet thirty years old, and he is dashing and dignified, and he feels that he and the queen are a pair made in heaven, a pair of dragons and phoenixes.
There is also an important section, as long as you can get the queen's heart or even take it down, you can get Murong Heng's support.
This is the most beneficial for him.
The queen has always been very cold about his enthusiasm, and even expressed deep disgust to his face.
But in his opinion, the queen is just pretending to be reserved, and she is a little embarrassed.
As long as you continue to entangle, you will be able to succeed sooner or later.
As the saying goes, as long as there is no virgin in the world, I am only afraid of a lover!
Good women are also afraid of pestering men, aren't they?
Therefore, Xiao Chen analyzed that the possibility of the prince doing this is very small, so small that it is very small.
However, the words of the Assassins did not seem to be lying......
There must be something else going on, but what is it? We have to keep looking into it.
"Oh? Father-in-law Xiao, what do you mean? After this incident, Zhu Xiaochuan admired Xiao Chen's cleverness very much, and he said so firmly that he wanted to investigate, he must have already made a plan.
"The villain means that the words of those people inside are not credible!" Xiao Chen simply asserted, "There must be a secret in it, who knows if someone is pretending to be the prince?" ”
"Well, that's reasonable, in fact, I don't believe that the prince did it." Zhu Xiaochuan also felt that he could only follow Xiao Chen's idea to go down the trial.
"What if they insist that it was the crown prince's order?" As a military general, Wu Zicheng has a relatively simple mind.
"Hehe, it's up to them." Xiao Chen smiled faintly.
"What do you mean by that? Do you want to make a false confession to deceive the emperor? Wu Zicheng was taken aback when he heard this.
"Alas...... Commander Wu, our emperor is wise and martial, what can we hide from his old man? Don't say it's a villain, even if it's the Hou Ye and you, plus the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, who can match his old man's family? ”
Xiao Chenxin said that this is an elm pimple, and his head is full of paste!
Do you have to explain it to you directly, do you understand?
The question is, can you say this directly!
"Commander Wu, what Father-in-law Xiao means is that we will judge us, no matter what the result of the trial is, just present the emperor, and the emperor and his old man will distinguish clearly." Zhu Xiaochuan also felt that Wu Zicheng was a little lacking in heart.
Xiao Chen means to let us pretend to be confused, you kid is really confused!
First, this matter involves the crown prince, and it can't be investigated too carefully; Second, if you judge clearly and can't find any fault, then how can you show my emperor's wisdom, wisdom and wisdom?
As far as you can? Show you? Are you smarter than the emperor?
Also, once the interrogation reveals that this matter is really the prince's doing, you will directly report it to the emperor like this, so does he still have room for maneuver?
"Oh...... Then continue the trial? Anyway, I'm stupid, so I listen to you two. Wu Zicheng was vaguely and seemed to be a little sober.
Seeing that the two of them were staring at him, he hurriedly added: "I don't want to exculpate myself, I mean that I should listen to you no matter how I judge, and I will bear the responsibility with you......"
Continue the trial or try it separately.
Trial of Zhao Laifu first.
You said that the prince instructed you, so may I ask whether the prince instructed you in person, or through someone else?
Answer: It is the prince himself.
We are not stupid for such a big thing, if it weren't for the prince himself, who would dare to do it?
So where did you plan this?
Did you go to the East Palace to find the prince, or did the prince look for you?
Of course, you can't go to the East Palace, where there are many people...... The place where we met was Cuiyun Tower.
What building?
Qinglou.
There are four green buildings in Fengyang, the capital, which are Cuiyun Building, Ningxiang Pavilion, Chufang Pavilion and Wanchun Courtyard.
Cuiyun Lou is one of them, and the girl in it is known for being good at playing and singing.
It belongs to a relatively high-class song brothel.
It is also the one most frequented by the prince.
said that the prince could still lack a beautiful concubine and a beautiful concubine around him? Of course not.
But lust is a turnip and cabbage, each has its own love, and the so-called lover is in the eyes of Xi Shi, and there is no way to guess it with common sense.
Song Huizong is still the emperor, but he doesn't like so many beauties in the three palaces and six courtyards, but he is infatuated with a dusty woman, Li Shishi.
Where to reason?
Three days earlier, the prince had gathered the people together and told them to do their work tonight.
He also gave each person three thousand taels of silver to arrange the funeral.
Asking and asking, several Assassins said all these words.
"I'm listening to you fart! The prince of the prince's kingdom, the future emperor, how could he do such a rebellious thing? I think someone must be pretending to be him...... Master Hou, Commander Wu, what do you two think? ”
Xiao Chen first decided the case.
The two of them bowed their heads together and said yes, and after such a detailed interrogation, they basically knew in their hearts that this matter was definitely not the prince's doing.
The whole process is so unclassified, it's like child's play!
The prince couldn't be so stupid.
So here's the problem.
Who is pretending to be the prince to blame him?
This must be investigated.
Who will check?
Zhu Xiaotian and Wu Zicheng looked at Xiao Chen in unison.
"What do you two want to do?" Xiao Chen felt that there was ill intent in the eyes of these two.
"Father-in-law Xiao, I have to bother you to go to Cuiyun Tower in person for this matter." Zhu Xiaochuan said.
"Hou Ye and I have a special identity, and it's not good to go to a place like Qinglou, what I know is to investigate the case, and those who don't know think that the two of us misbehaved, and those imperial histories know about it, and we want to bite it again." Wu Zicheng said.
The implication is that your father-in-law Xiao is a eunuch, and it is no problem to go to the Qinglou.
What else can Xiao Chen say? I can only reluctantly make it difficult.
The three of them discussed it and decided to go their separate ways.
Wu Zicheng went to secretly discuss the preliminary interrogation results with the emperor, and at the same time expressed the opinions of the three of them.