One of the witnesses, Yan Gao, cried out in grief: "It is the Holy Prince and the Royal Prince, who have captured our relatives and threatened us to frame King Wu'an." ”

The emperor's pupils shrank, and he stood up abruptly and asked, "Are you sure it's the Holy Prince and the Imperial Prince?" ”

Everyone: "......"

The other four witnesses nodded vigorously in order to prove that Yan Gao was not lying.

Yan Gao's eyes were full of bloodshot resentment, and he said word by word: "I am very sure that the people who captured us are the cronies of the Holy Prince and the Royal Prince, we have seen them, and we will definitely not admit our mistakes." ”

Another witness named Shen De continued: "When King Wu'an found out that the people who colluded with other countries were also the Holy Prince and the Royal Prince, King Wu'an was afraid that they were the brothers of the former emperor, and he hesitated to tell the former emperor about this matter, which gave the Holy Prince a chance to deal with King Wu'an. ”

Suddenly, the hall was in an uproar.

The emperor had a calm face.

I really didn't expect the fourth prince to have a rebellious heart at that time.

"Do you have any proof?"

"Yes, we have several letters from the four princes to the Great Chen Kingdom, which not only have the seal of the Emperor of the Great Chen State, but also the seal of the four princes." Shen De carefully took out a few letters from his arms: "We want to rehabilitate King Wu'an all the time, so we keep the letters very well. ”

Gonggong Yuan walked quickly to him, took the letter and handed it to the emperor.

The emperor opened it for inspection, the paper was yellowed, and the handwriting was a little blurred, obviously the letter was written six or seven years ago or more, and the four seals on it were indeed the marks of the four princes, not to mention the handwriting, as for the seal of the emperor of the Great Chen State......

When the emperor checked the authenticity of the letters, Zuo Xiang asked, "How did you get these letters?" ”

Shen De said: "These letters were buried by King Wu'an under the rockery of the Wu'an Palace. We sneaked into the mansion a year after King Wu'an was beheaded. ”

At this time, the Ministry of Industry Shangshu came out: "Your Majesty, the minister has something to say." ”

"Say." The emperor handed the letter to Gonggong Yuan and asked him to give the letter to the sacrificial wine to check that there were no traces of forgery on it.

"Does the emperor still remember the incident when he asked Weichen to build the Wu'an Palace three years ago?"

The emperor nodded: "Of course I remember." ”

"At that time, when we were repairing the Wu'an Palace, we did see a big pit dug under the rockery, and we didn't know what the big pit was for, so we filled it."

Shen De hurriedly said: "The pit was dug by us, and we originally wanted to fill it in, but we were afraid that the longer we stayed in it, the more dangerous it would be, so we dug up the letter and ran away." ”

Zuo Xiang asked again: "Do you have any other tokens to prove that King Wu'an was wronged?" ”

"Yes." Yan Gao took out a golden token: "This is a special token created by the Fourth Prince and Da Chen Guo in order to facilitate each other's access to each other's military camps. King Wu'an was discovered by the fourth prince because he entered their military camp to investigate, and then the fourth prince tried every possible means to frame King Wu'an. ”

"Your Majesty, I recently intercepted several letters between the Fourth Prince and Da Chen Guo, and the time on them was written in the past few days, indicating that there is still a connection between them. There is also a list of officials associated with the Four Princes, which clearly records how much silver officials in the court and China have taken bribes from the Four Princes. ”

Mu Nanjin took out four letters and an account book.

The faces of several officials present changed drastically.

The emperor slapped the armrest of the dragon chair angrily: "Take them all." ”

Gonggong Yuan quickly held the things in front of the emperor: "Your Majesty, please take a look." ”

The emperor opened the list mentioned by Mu Nanjin, and the first page on it recorded the bribery of King Wenxuanjun: "At the beginning of April of the 25th year of Qingyuan, King Wenxuan County accepted 50,000 taels of silver to help frame King Wu'an, and also helped forge fake letters......"

King Wenxuanjun was suddenly dizzy, and he hurriedly denied it: "Fake, fake, yes, Mu Nanjin forged the list in order to frame this king, Your Majesty, please believe that the ministers are loyal to the emperor and you, and will never do anything to harm the Great Qianguo." ”

The emperor ignored his words and continued: "In the twenty-seventh year of Qingyuan, the king of Wenxuan County accepted 50,000 taels of silver and smuggled a batch of iron ore for the king's use...... Good for you, the king of Wenxuanjun! ”

He angrily drew the sword of the guard next to him and rushed to the king of Wenxuanjun, and then pointed the sword at the other party's throat and said: "I clearly remember that in the twenty-seventh year of Qingyuan, you reported that the iron ore output was less than in previous years, I felt strange at that time, no matter how little, it could not be twice as small as in previous years, it was my father who chose to believe you, otherwise you would not be alive now." The weapons of the fourth prince were made from the iron ore you gave, right? It's no wonder that since then, there have been fewer iron ore than in previous years. ”

Since the amount was not very large, he thought that the iron ore had been almost dug by them, so he didn't think too much about it.

King Wenxuanjun's legs kept shaking: "Your Majesty, the minister is loyal to you, it is impossible to betray you, you have to believe the minister." ”

Mu Nanjin said lightly: "The emperor doesn't believe you, it's up to your family wealth, if you can't explain why your family wealth is hundreds of thousands of taels more, then you can't blame the emperor for being ruthless." ”

King Wenxuanjun's face turned pale.

The emperor was so angry that he raised his sword and swung it at his head.

"The emperor spares his life." King Wenxuan was so frightened that he hurriedly lowered his head and fled, but was stopped by the military generals on the side.

Then his hair fell out, and he quickly touched his head, and found that his official hat had been cut off.

The emperor threw away the sword in his hand and said angrily: "Come on, drag him down." ”

"Yes."

Two guards walked in and pressed the king of Wenxuanjun.

King Wenxuanjun shouted urgently: "Your Majesty, the minister was wronged, you have to believe the minister." ”

The emperor said to the right minister: "Right minister, you take someone to his county king's mansion to check his family wealth and see if I have framed him." ”

"Yes." The right minister walked out of the main hall quickly and called a group of palace guards to leave with him.

The emperor turned the second page of the list, his face sank, and he shouted angrily: "Rong Lu-"

With a plop, Rong Lu knelt on the ground: "Your Majesty, the minister didn't do anything, the minister was wronged." ”

The emperor glared at him coldly: "I don't need to say anything, why should Lord Rong be a thief." ”

Rong Lu: "......"

Without waiting for the emperor's orders, Gonggong Yuan ordered someone to drag Rong Lu out.

After that, the emperor read several names one after another.

The name of the minister who was read knew that he could not escape, so he was taken down without resisting Rong Lu and King Wenxuanjun.

[Hmph, often walk by the river, how can there be a reason not to get your shoes wet. 】

At this time, the priest returned with a letter.

"Emperor Qi, there is no trace of forgery in these letters, whether it is the words or the seal, they are all from the fourth prince, and even the seal of Da Chen Guo is also true."

The Emperor suddenly felt a little dizzy, and staggered back a step.

The sacrificial wine hurriedly supported him: "Your Majesty." ”

Gonggong Yuan hurriedly ran over: "Your Majesty, are you okay?" ”

The other ministers also looked at the emperor with a look of concern.

The emperor waved his hand: "I'm fine. ”

The imperial physician quickly stepped forward to check his pulse, and only after making sure that the emperor was so angry that he was dizzy did he put down his hand, he took out a tranquilizing pill from the medical box and gave it to the emperor.

The emperor asked tiredly: "The human and material evidence proves that King Wu'an did not commit treason and collaborate with the enemy back then, do the ministers have any objections?" ”

All the officials said in unison: "No." ”

The emperor announced: "I hereby declare that Cheng Zhiyou did not commit treason and collaborate with the enemy back then, and will resume his status as the king of Wu'an from now on." ”

"Your Majesty."

The five witnesses hugged and cried excitedly: "Great, we have finally cleared our grievances for King Wu'an." ”

The Emperor looked at them: "I have decreed that the relatives of those who bear false testimony will not be implicated, and that they will be sentenced according to the severity of the false testimony. Therefore, I thought that you were coerced to do something treacherous and spare you from death, but after all, you were sentenced to more than 600 innocent lives of the nine clans of King Wu'an, and I really couldn't give you a light sentence, so I punished you to do fifteen years of hard labor to atone for your crimes. ”

The five witnesses said in unison: "Thank you for the emperor's grace not to kill." ”

Several guards then left with five witnesses.

Gonggong Yuan said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, go back to the palace to rest." ”

"No, I'm going to a mass grave."

Yuan Gonggong was stunned for a moment, and looked at the dark sky outside: "Now? ”

"Yes, you can arrange it."

"Yes."

The ministers knew that the emperor was going to see King Wu'an, and they also asked to go with them.

The emperor agreed, and then said to Mu Nanjin: "Mu Nanjin, you also walk with me." ”

Mu Nanjin nodded: "Okay." ”

[Mass graves......]

Mu Nanjin thought about it for a while: "Your Majesty, I want to see the Queen Mother, and then accompany you to the mass grave." ”

The emperor twisted his eyebrows: "The Queen Mother has rested, what are you going to see her for?" ”

"The Queen Mother didn't sleep."

[Retrial of the case of King Wu'an, how could she sleep. 】

Emperor: "......"

"I'll be back soon."

The emperor just blinked an eye, and Mu Nanjin was gone.

"Mu Nanjin, what about people!?"

The civil and military officials were shocked, why did Mu Nanjin stand in front of them and disappear?

What the hell!?

Mu Nanjin went fast and came back quickly.

The emperor and the civil and military officials all pricked up their ears and waited for her to reveal their hearts.

I wanted to hear what she was looking for the Queen Mother, but I waited left and right, and when I went to the mass grave, I didn't wait for her heart.

Mass graves were originally places where poor people had no money to buy funerals and buried their relatives at will, but later became a burial ground for nameless corpses or beheaded felons.

This should not be a place where people of noble status came, but the emperor came, because King Wu'an and his nine clans were buried here.

After King Wu'an was beheaded, he was thrown into a mass grave at will, and in the end, the emperor, who was the crown prince at the time, buried the corpse in the soil with five cronies.

The civil and military officials smelled the stench and subconsciously covered their noses.

If it is not lit today, it can only be lit by torches.

After seeing the white bones, some timid civil officials were so frightened that they hugged the officials next to them tightly, and even kept leaning towards the military attaché.

The military attachés looked at the civilian officials with disgust.

Isn't it great in the court? Now just seeing a few white bones makes my legs weak with fright.

If you go to the battlefield and see corpses all over the ground, won't you be scared to death?

The Emperor, however, seemed to have not noticed the strangeness of the others, and found hundreds of graves by familiarity.

This is almost the center of the mass grave, and several of the graves have wooden plaques without words.

Gong Yuan lit a pair of large candles in front of one of the largest graves, and burned a large handful of incense to distribute to the emperor and the civil and military officials.

The emperor said to the civil and military officials: "This is the burial place of King Wu'an." ”

The officials sighed for a while, the great heroes who had made great contributions to the great cadres and the country were not only framed and beheaded, but in the end, the corpses were thrown in mass graves at random and no one could help collect the corpses, and it hurts to think about it.

The emperor took the officials to worship at the tomb of King Wu'an, and after everyone had put on all the incense, he said, "I want to talk to King Wu'an here, and you all go to the bottom of the mountain and wait." ”

The officials glanced at each other.

Among them, only the old officials knew that the emperor's feelings for King Wu'an were like father and son, and King Wu'an's children grew up with the emperor since childhood, and were closer than the emperor's own brothers, which is why the emperor wanted to rehabilitate King Wu'an.

After the officials left, the guards went to the distance and guarded.

The emperor could no longer pretend to be calm, and immediately cried.

"Father-in-law, I swore to clear your name, I did it, I finally did it......"

The emperor used the tomb to tell everything that had happened in recent days: "Thanks to Mu Nanjin, if it weren't for her, maybe in another ten years, I wouldn't have been able to help you find out the truth and expose the true face of the fourth prince, I really didn't expect that they would have the idea of rebellion a long time ago." ”

When he first found out that the fourth prince wanted to rebel, he thought that the fourth prince would not accept him, the new king, so he had this rebellion, so he didn't bother with the fourth prince.

Maybe because of this, King Wu'an didn't tell him about the fourth prince, after all, he was still young at the time, and he couldn't hold his breath, even if King Wu'an said it, he wouldn't believe that the emperor's uncles would do anything to collude with other countries.

The emperor wiped his snot and tears: "Father-in-law, I will send someone to remove you tomorrow, so that you will no longer stay in a dirty and smelly place, and after a while, I will find a place with good feng shui and bury you in the scenery." ”

He didn't say more, walked to the grave behind him again, grabbed the weeds next to him and swept the dust on the wooden tablet: "Sister Qi, you didn't always complain about God's injustice to women before, even if you are talented, the imperial examination examiner can't give you the opportunity to display your talents." Now it's different, women can not only enter the academy to study, but also take the imperial examination......"

Before he could finish speaking, a faint white smoke drifted from the grave.

The emperor thought he was dazzled, and rubbed his eyes, and not only did the smoke not disappear, but slowly formed a wonderful figure.

Although this transparent white figure has no face and no legs, it looks like a ghost, but its figure and hairstyle are very similar to the Sister Qi he remembers.

"You, you, you ......"

His eyes widened in disbelief, not daring to imagine what he was seeing.

The emperor was not afraid, but was very excited: "Sister Qi, are you Sister Qi?" ”

"Little Brother ......"

The transparent figure spoke.

"It's me, I'm very happy and relieved to hear that you started a women's school and were allowed to take the women's imperial examination......"

The familiar female voice made the emperor very excited: "Sister Qi, Sister Qi, you finally came out to see me." ”

The transparent figure continued: "I will be happier if you could let women participate in the scientific expedition next year." ”

The emperor nodded vigorously: "Okay, okay, after I go back, I will order women to participate in the imperial examination next year." ”

[Hehe, the emperor really listened to his sister's words. 】

[Although this trick is not very moral, it is also really efficient, and the emperor must have done it immediately for his sister.] 】

[Emperor Lao'er, you can't blame me, it's not that I don't want to control your orders, so I have to make a bad move. 】

[Don't blame the deceased, Amitabha. 】

Emperor: "......"

This abominable Mu Nan Nishiki.

The emperor looked around with a calm face, and saw Mu Nanjin hiding behind a big tree, quickly picked up a wooden stick on the ground, and then flew over with light skills.

Mu Nanjin noticed that someone was coming, and when he looked at it, he couldn't help but be stunned when he saw that it was the emperor.

[I'll go, why is the emperor here? 】

[He found out that I was cheating? 】

[It shouldn't be.] 】

"Mu Nanjin, you beg to fight."

The Emperor took a stick and struck her.

"Your Majesty, why are you beating me?"

Mu Nanjin hurriedly dodged, because her heart was weak, she only dodged and didn't fight back, and then hurriedly ran down the mountain.

The emperor immediately caught up: "You know it in your own heart. ”

The hundred officials who were waiting for the emperor at the bottom of the mountain saw Mu Nanjin flying down from the mountain, and then it blew quickly in front of them like a hurricane, and at that moment, several officials were knocked down by her.

"Mu Nanjin, you stop me."

Immediately afterwards, they saw the emperor in a dragon robe running after Mu Nanjin with a stick.

When the civil and military officials saw this scene, they were immediately a little stunned.

When he was on the mountain, the emperor still looked sad, why was he angry in the blink of an eye?

What did this Mu Nanjin do? (End of chapter)