On the second day, the Great Hall.

This time it was a large-scale court meeting, and what was discussed was a special event in the court, and almost all the entire Ying clan was present, plus the courtiers in the court, in terms of numbers, it can be said that it was the largest since Yingzheng succeeded to the throne.

The court meeting was still presided over by Lü Buwei.

After Lu Buwei Nuan passed the scene, Yingzheng went straight to the point and said: "Presumably, everyone already knows the purpose of the widow's convening of this court meeting. The royal family surnamed Ying actually produced an unscrupulous descendant, and a piece of paper stirred up Xianyang all over the city. Slandering the widow is not counted, but even raising troops to commit treason, what do the secretaries think about this matter? ”

The respected Duke Ning took the lead in speaking: "Your Majesty, the matter of raising troops to commit treason is not a trivial matter, besides, Cheng Chan is still the king's younger brother after the king, this matter can be investigated clearly?" ”

Ying Zheng said in a deep voice: "Changping Jun, as a prison soldier, rushed back overnight yesterday to report the news, he knows the reason for the matter best, let Changping Jun talk about it." ”

Changping Jun stood up, bowed to Ying Zheng and Ning Gong, and told what had happened and what happened about Fan Yuzhi.

"Damn!" The old man sitting next to Ning Gong was so angry that he stomped his feet, "It's not enough that I have a rebellion, but I also rebelled with Cheng Gong." ”

Ning Gong scolded him, naturally Fan Wuji.

"yes." Ning Gong was a little calmer than the old man, but he was also angry, "Cheng Chan is in the palace, everyone watched him grow up, with Cheng Chan's character, if no one instigates him, he will definitely not be able to do treason." ”

The two elders of the highest-ranking clan spoke, and the others also started talking, but the eyes of everyone were different.

Obviously, some people believe that although there is no evidence for what Cheng Huan said, it is not impossible to happen, but it is not easy to ask directly.

Ying Zheng glanced around and knew what everyone's different expressions represented, so he asked, "As for the widow's life experience, Zhongqing must be very interested in wanting to know the truth." ”

The hall fell silent, no one said yes, and no one said no.

Ying Zheng cleared his throat and said loudly: "Ying Fu, help your grandmother to the palace." ”

Everyone's eyes looked at the apse, because the name Yingfu was not unfamiliar, but it had not been heard for a long time.

Yingfu walked out slowly in front of everyone, holding a gray-haired old woman.

Ning Gong and the old man stood up together, because they knew this old woman who was walking slowly, it was one of An Guojun's princesses, Mrs. Xia.

Mrs. Xia was taken back to the palace by Yingzheng, in fact, many people know. Although she did not make a statement, Mrs. Huayang's acceptance of Mrs. Xia attracted the attention of many people, especially some elderly elders surnamed Ying.

"Mrs. Xia." Ning Gong and the old man arched their hands together, and their movements were uniform.

The so-called mother is expensive by her son, and now it is the grandmother who is noble by her grandson.

Madam Xia nodded to the two clan elders, then came to Ying Zheng's side and sat down gently.

"I guess the elders won't be unrecognizable." Ying Zheng said, "This is the biological mother of the former king, and she is also the widow's own grandmother, Mrs. Xia. ”

"Mrs. Xia." The ministers saluted in unison.

"Since Zhongqing has no doubts about the identity of the widow's grandmother." Ying Zheng paused and said, "Then, the widow has to prove one thing to the secretaries." ”

Everyone's eyes were focused on Ying Zheng again.

"Ning Gong." Ying Zheng looked at Ning Gong and said, "Is it not only that the blood relationship between the widow and his grandmother is proved, but also that the widow is born to the first king." ”

"This ......" Ning Gong rolled his eyes and said, "This is natural, but I don't know what method the king wants to use to prove this." ”

"It's simple." Ying Zheng said confidently, "Recognize relatives with blood." ”

"Blood-spilled confession?" Ning Gong wondered.

The entire hall was shocked, including Lu Buwei.

The old man questioned: "I heard that the accuracy rate of this blood recognition method is not too high, and it is likely to be just a method to hide people's ears." ”

"The reason why the probability of accuracy is not high is because of the lack of adjuvant intervention." Ying Zheng raised his voice and said, "Xuan Li Si goes to the hall." ”

Li Si, who was waiting outside the door, after hearing the summons, walked into the main hall very calmly, knelt down and saluted.

"This is the gentleman who accompanied the widow to study, named Li Si." Ying Zheng said.

Everyone looked at Lees.

Although most people have never seen Li Si, Li Si's name is relatively loud. Because the people who accompany the king will have a certain popularity.

"As we all know, Li Si learned from Xunzi." Ying Zheng said, "But in fact, Li Si still had a master when he was young, and this master once gave Li Si a pill. This pill can act as an adjuvant for blood identification, so that the accuracy of blood identification is greatly increased. ”

"Oh? Is there such a thing? Ning Gong said in surprise.

The ministers also looked at each other.

"Absolutely." Ying Zheng said, "If you don't believe it, come more people, and you can find out by trying." ”

"Your Majesty." Li Si arched his hand and said, "If you find some civilians in the market to verify this law, some people will definitely suspect that it is a fraud." It is better to select a few pairs of fathers and sons on top of this hall to verify this method, so as to convince everyone. ”

Ying Zheng nodded and said, "For the sake of fairness, it should be so." Ladies and gentlemen, who will verify this law? ”

Needless to say, Meng Wu, Meng Tian, and Meng Yi took the lead in standing up.

At this time, two more people stood up. One is Yingcheng, the grandson of Duke Ning, and the other is Wang Ben, the son of Wang Qian. Both of these people once accompanied Ying Zheng to study and practice martial arts, and they had an excellent relationship with Ying Zheng.

"Since my grandfather is also in the palace, my grandson wants to borrow a drop of my grandfather's blood to verify whether it is effective to be separated by a generation." Ying Cheng arched his hand and said.

"The minister's father is also in the palace, and my father and son are willing to verify this matter for the king in person." Wang Ben said this, and secretly glanced at his father, obviously he had made a decision without his father's consent.

Wang Jian didn't say anything, nodded slightly, indicating that he would gladly accept.

Thus, the verification of blood recognition began.

Li Si first took out a small square box and took out three red pills from it.

Several small eunuchs brought three buckets of water from the apse and placed them in the center of the hall.

Li Si said: "The principle of blood recognition is very simple, as long as it is a direct blood relationship, the blood of both parties will be blended together, if it is not a direct relationship, even if it is between cousins, the blood will not be fused." To achieve this, it is necessary to use the water of a warm mountain spring, supplemented by special adjuvants, and then melt the blood of both sides. And this adjuvant is to prevent two drops of blood from fusing with each other because of their similar blood type but not blood relationship. ”

Everyone seems to understand it, in short, except for blood relatives, no one's blood will be combined.

Li Si took a dozen or so clay bowls, then used a dagger to cut the red pills into several sections, and melted them into the hot spring water with vinegar.

The crowd observed the changes in the water.

When the hot spring water melts the pills, it turns a pale red, and gradually, it turns pale pink again.

"That's it." Lees said, "Whoever comes first." ”

Meng Wu stood up and said, "I'll come first." ”

Meng Tian also stood up and followed Meng Wu to the center of the hall.

"Ying Cheng Gongzi, can you do me a favor first." Li Si looked at Yingcheng.

"Absolutely." Yingcheng also walked to the center.

Li Si took out a dagger and stabbed the fingertips of the three of them separately.

Meng Wu drips blood into the first and second bowls.

Meng Tian drips blood into the first and third bowls.

Yingcheng drips the blood into the second and third bowls.

The eyes of the crowd widened as they watched the changes in the bowl, and some of them were so far away that they even crossed their feet and stretched their necks.

The second bowl and the third bowl remained unchanged, except that in the first bowl, the two drops of blood kept a certain distance and rotated in a circle, and then quickly pulled closer, leaned together, and finally merged completely.

"As you can see, only the two drops of blood in the first bowl are fused together, because what is dripping into this bowl is the blood of Meng Wu and Meng Tian's father and son." "Well, let's have a few from the next group." ”

Wang Qian, Wang Ben, and Ning Gong all came out, plus the previous Yingcheng, and the four of them dripped their blood into the hot spring water one by one.

The result is the same, the blood of Wang Jian and Wang Ben fused together, and the blood of Ning Gong and Yingcheng fused together. None of the others are integrated.

"It's amazing how accurate it really is." The old man sighed.

"It seems to be working." Lu Buwei said.

Li Si said: "Do you still have any objections to the accuracy of this method? ”

No one answered, and no one came forward to give it a try, and they all seemed to agree.

"In this way, as long as the king's blood and Mrs. Xia's blood are fused together, it can prove the king's bloodline, can you agree?" Li Si said again.

"Agreed." Meng Wu and Wang Jian said in unison.

Fang has just dripped blood, and everyone who has done the verification has expressed their agreement, including Ning Gong.

When everyone saw this, they all agreed.

"That's good." Li Si turned around and said, "I also have to bother Lu Xiangbang to make a verification with the king." ”

Lu Buwei didn't say a word, and walked up to Yingzheng.

Li Si took two bowls of hot spring water filled with red medicinal grains and placed them in front of Mrs. Xia and Lu Buwei respectively.

Lü Buwei was the first to prick his finger and drip blood into the pale pink water.

Mrs. Xia did the same thing, without the slightest hesitation.

Ying Zheng also punctured his finger and poured a drop of blood into each of the two bowls.

The crowd unconsciously leaned forward to observe the changes in the blood in the spring.

For the first few breaths, there was no movement in the two bowls.

Suddenly, in the bowl in front of Mrs. Xia, two drops of blood gradually moved.

As before, the two drops of blood kept a certain distance and circled around the bowl, then gradually closer, and finally came together, and finally completely fused.

In the water bowl in front of Lu Buwei, there was no movement at all.

The results are clear.

They looked up at each other but did not say anything. With the facts right in front of you, what can you talk about?

Li Si cleared his throat and said, "Everyone has seen that the blood of the king is fused with the blood of Mrs. Xia, not with Lu Xiangbang. That proves that the king is the blood of the royal family surnamed Ying, and Cheng Huan is indeed slanderous, which is really a rebellion. ”

Meng Wu suddenly stood up and arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty, since the truth has been revealed, the minister asks for orders to lead the army to exterminate the rebel army Cheng Huan, so as to calm the anger of the king." ”

Without waiting for Yingzheng to speak, Lu Buwei opened his mouth and said: "Wait a minute, the truth of the matter has not yet been revealed." ”

Everyone looked at Lu Buwei.

"Many of Cheng Chan's rebels were reluctant to follow Cheng Chan to rebel, and a few escaped yesterday. And in the old man's house, there were also bachelors who went to Wei to be a guest secretary, and they all brought back some extremely important news. ”

The people Lu Buwei said were actually the eyeliners arranged by Lu Buwei, and most of them knew it, but it was just not easy to break it.

"What kind of important news is it?" Ying Zheng asked.

"It is better for the king to listen to their own statements." Lü Buwei raised his voice and shouted to the guards at the door, "Let them come up." ”