A month later, in the Tingwei Prison, a single cell, the head of the inner court, Lu Gonggong, came to read the holy decree with a heavy face

"The edict said: Rebel against the prince and the prince Bai, gather the party members, bewitch the mob, try in vain to spy on the artifact, deeply bear my grace, rebel against the prince and commit the following crimes, rebellious and rude, profit and wisdom, disregard for human ethics and filial piety, I will depose the prince and the white prince from the throne, demote him to a concubine, and give him death immediately, and I will ...... this"

As Lu Liang's last voice fell, Gongzi Bai buckled his head and thanked him!

Lu Liang put away the edict, waved his hand and asked a temple person next to him to bring a glass of imperial wine to Gongzi Bai, and said with a somewhat complicated expression: "Bai Gongzi, this is the imperial wine given to you by His Majesty, please drink it." ”

Gongzi Bai looked at the wine glass in front of him, knowing that this was the wine that sent him on the road, he looked up at Lu Liang, and finally asked: "Manager Lu, I ask you for one last thing, I want to know, does Your Majesty have the intention of abolishing it?" ”

Lu Liang looked unbearable, and sighed: "Before Your Majesty took the Ten Thousand Gods Pill gamble, he had already handed over all the edicts of your succession to the old slave for safekeeping, how could Your Majesty abolish your position as the crown prince?" Ay! Son... You... Why are you so confused, hey! ”

When Gongzi Bai heard this, he laughed, picked up his wine glass and said to Lu Liang: "Thank you for your father's wine, it is the son-in-law who misunderstood Your Majesty, the son-in-law's sin is unforgivable, and there is no resent......ment in death."

After a while, Childe's face turned blue, trembling all over, and finally raised his eyes to look at the sunlight outside the window, and his body fell backwards, closing his eyes forever......

An imperial doctor stepped forward to check Gongzibai's pulse, then nodded silently to Lu Liang.

Lu Liang looked sad, and said to the temple people beside him: "Go to the palace to spread the word, Gongzi Bai, Xu." ”

The temple man was ordered to turn around and run away......

After the death of the crown prince, the anti-prince and all the party members, and the officials of the court and the central government who were implicated in the prince's affairs, were all beheaded today.

The first person is Qin Shao, who is known as the first think tank of the East Palace, behind Qin Shao is Liu Yu, Cai Ying and other prisoners, followed by the prince's party, and directly involved in the rebellion of a number of officials and their families, after the Taiji Palace incident, in addition to the Cui family, the prince's widow was pardoned, demoted to a concubine, and exiled to Yunzhong County as a prisoner. Most of the others were sentenced to be beheaded and abandoned in the city, and the heavy sentences of the three clans of Zhulian were carried out, and after dozens of prisoner cars of the main criminals, there were thousands of people who were beheaded by Zhulian.

On the execution ground, three o'clock in the afternoon had arrived, and a group of princes and remnants were escorted to the execution ground to prepare for execution, especially Qin Shao, Liu Yu, and Cai Ying who bewitched the prince to plot rebellion, and were the first evildoers in the Taiji Palace Incident

The so-called five punishments are to first receive five kinds of corporal punishment, and then abandon the city, which is a cruel criminal law second only to the split of the car and the division of the corpse of the five horses.

Qin Shao, Liu Yu, and Cai Ying were carried to the execution platform by the executioner, and the first punishment was to cut off their tongues, and after the three of them were cut off by the executioner, their mouths were full of blood, and they screamed non-stop, lost their tongues, and didn't say a word, just humming and chirping and struggling on the execution platform.

The second punishment is to cut off the nose, the third is to cut off the feet and hands of the victim, and the fourth punishment is to whip the victim with a whip dipped in salt water for thirty times, so that the skin and flesh of the victim will be opened, and the pain of the wound will be unbearable.

These four punishments have been received, Qin Shao and the others are basically dying, and the last sentence of the five punishments is Dapi, the three of them were directly pushed under the execution table by the executioner, cut them in the waist, and as the knife and axe fell, the three of them were also freed.

After the three main suspects were tortured, a group of accomplices and family members were beheaded on the spot, and for a time, thousands of people were tortured and died at the same time......

Qingyang, Zhangtai Palace, the emperor is looking through the chapters presented from all over the place, when receiving the news that the prince was given death, the emperor suddenly stopped writing, slowly put down the chapter, his head was dizzy for a while, rubbed his eyebrows, he took a long breath, settled down and began to review the chapter, but he was already a little absent-minded, and after reviewing a few more chapters, he simply beckoned the palace people and went to Ganquan Palace to relax.

After so many years of hard work, he cultivated the prince of the empire, and if he didn't, he was gone, the emperor didn't feel it in his heart, it was a deception, but the prince rebelled, the crime was unforgivable, and for the king, he had to order the execution of the prince, for the father, and he regretted it in his heart, which was also human nature.

The emperor sat on the chariot, and a group of temple people carried the emperor's chariot to the imperial garden located in the west city of Qingyang City, Ganquan Palace.

Qingyang palace room, after hundreds of years of construction of the ancestors of the Jin Dynasty in the past dynasties, the scale is huge, an inland river in the city, divided into two cities, although the main palace complex of Qingyang Palace is in Dongcheng District, but the west bank of the inland river, Xicheng District also has a palace courtyard, when the palace was built, in order to facilitate the emperor to go out of the palace to relax, on both sides of the inland river, three air covered bridges four zhang high from the river bank were built, in the corridor connecting the palace on both sides, specially for the emperor to shuttle back and forth, the three air covered bridges in parallel are also a great wonder in Qingyang City.

The reason why the three air bridges were built was also to prevent someone from planning to ambush and assassinate the emperor here.

When the emperor walked to the bridge in the sky, the emperor suddenly said:

"Stop, get off the car."

The palace people who accompanied the emperor did not dare to make a mistake, and gently put down their steps.

The emperor walked down and came to the side of the bridge in the air, and with a gentle breeze, he looked at the bustling streets on both sides of the river, and the ships that came and went, and couldn't help sighing:

"Picturesque ......"

The crown prince has been given death, and the emperor's words are already thinking about the next successor of the empire in his heart, he looked around, and wanted to find someone close to him, but suddenly remembered that Lu Liang, the head of the inner court, had gone to the court to pass the decree and did not return.

After a long time, the emperor frowned, then turned around and sat on the chariot and said, "Get up." ”

When the palace people heard this, they took up their steps and went to Ganquan Palace Zheng

At this time, in the palace of Prime Minister Zuo, the emperor's internal guard Tsing Yi made the first leader, the prosecutor Bian Hu, the chief of the court captain who was in charge of investigating and verifying the rebellion of the prince's party, and Ma Xin, one of the nine kings, was Huo Zheng, the left prime minister of the Great Jin Dynasty.

Although the prince has been given death by the emperor, a series of things after the death of the prince have to continue to dig deeper.

Huo Zheng looked at the file that was examined by the Tingwei, it was nothing, and turned over the file investigated by the Tsing Yi envoy, his brows were tightened, and after a while, he looked at the Tsing Yi envoy, the prosecutor Bian Hu, and asked: "Captain Bian, has Your Majesty read the file investigated by the Tsing Yi envoy?" ”

Hearing this, Bian Hu shook his head and said: "This is the evidence that our Tsing Yi envoy has just investigated, and I haven't had time to report it yet, this person is a guest in An Guojun's mansion, and now I have sent a few good hands to keep an eye on him, and everything depends on Your Majesty's decision." ”

When Huo Zheng heard this, he thought about it, and said: "In this way, it seems that An Guojun may also be involved in the case of the reverse prince?" ”

Bian Hu bowed his head slightly and said, "That's true." ”

Huo Zheng thought of some of the emperor's words and deeds recently, and said after thinking for a while: "It is about An Guojun, we immediately set off to the palace to petition His Majesty for the Holy Order in person, and it is not too late to investigate the case." ”

Bian Hu nodded to himself.

The three of them went all the way to the palace in the west of the city, Ganquan Palace, and reported to the emperor.

The emperor looked at the file submitted, was silent for a long time, looked at Bian Hu, and asked, "Bian Hu, is this person indeed from Mu Xiu's mansion?" ”

Bian Hu stepped forward and confirmed: "Your Majesty, I am sure that there is no doubt that when the Tsing Yi envoy was investigating the case in the East Palace, he accidentally learned a clue, this person's name is Zhao Dan, and he went to An Guojun's mansion as a guest a long time ago. ”

When the emperor heard this, he was silent for a long time, and ordered: "Bian Hu, don't investigate this matter further, you can retreat, Huo Qing, you stay for a while, I have something important to discuss with you." ”

"No."

The next day, Chunjiang Building, Zhao Shu dressed up in a short dress in the private room, at first glance, he looked like a merchant selling along the street, and he was opposite Wu Xie, who was known as returning to his hometown to farm, but now he officially started to be the owner of the wine shop here, taking care of the business here full-time.

The two are sitting opposite each other, playing Go, and at this moment the chess game has become an endgame, Zhao Shu is holding black chess, and he is falling.

Wu Xie saw that Zhao Shu had taken this step, which really surprised him, and he bowed slightly: "Wonderful." ”

Zhao Shu looked at the chessboard and said thoughtfully: "Old Wu, the remnants of the prince's party, have all been beheaded yesterday, and the next thing is the game between us and An Guojun, or the game with His Majesty." ”

Wu Xie said: "I didn't expect that the prince took that step. ”

When Zhao Shu heard this, he smiled slightly and said: "Because of the situation, each has its own calculations, in fact, the left prime minister Huo Zheng also has his own selfishness, he actually wants to use Cui Yan to instigate the incident of hundreds of officials forcing the palace, and borrow His Majesty's tiger skin to fight down the political rival for many years, the right prime minister Cui Yan, but he didn't think about it, he used too much force, but accidentally forced the prince to rebel, so that it was out of control, which no one expected." ”

Wu Xie said: "I heard that Your Majesty has already started to reuse the Yang family, and has begun to pave the way for the next crown prince?" ”

Zhao Shu bowed his head slightly and said: "Well, it's true, the Yang family has two marquis, Yicheng Marquis Yang Lin has been transferred back to Beijing from other places, and he is the post of General Zuo in the middle of the court, and it should not be long before he will be officially appointed as an auxiliary minister by His Majesty, and Yang Yan, Marquis of Wuyi, will take over the post of commander of the Armed Guard Army of the Great Wall Corps, and the 300,000 border troops of the imperial court are all in his hands, and anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is His Majesty is going to pave the way for the future prince." ”

Wu Xie bowed his head and said: "Although Your Majesty intends to pass on the throne of An Guojun, but after the rebellion against the prince, Your Majesty will never justifiably give An Guojun the official title of prince, this is where our opportunity lies." ”

Zhao Shu bowed his head and said: "Not bad! ”

After that, Zhao Shu lost another son......