But in one morning, even the sky in Luoyang has changed, who has time to manage the private affairs of a government?

Before the others could react, Cui Zhiyun and Su Xingzhang hurried to the imperial city together with the human witness-Qu Rou, and the physical evidence-Lin Wenpu's testimony, and almost when the palace gate was opened, they rushed to face the saint.

At this time, Emperor Jianming was still freshening up, and heard the inner servants tell Cui Zhiyun and Su Xingzhang to come to face the saint in the morning.

He immediately guessed that it must be the result of the private salt case, after all, both of them have not been to the court for more than a month, that is, occasionally Su Xingzhang will explain the progress of the saint alone.

Thinking of this, he paused to dress and stretch his arms, and a trace of hesitation flashed in his eyes, but he soon returned to the majesty that a generation of emperors should have.

When he went out, he did not forget to instruct the inner prison who served closely.

"Today's court meeting was postponed for half an hour, so that everyone was waiting in the Xuanzheng Palace."

"Whoa."

Subsequently, Emperor Jianming took people to the Ganlu Hall where he dealt with the folds.

"Squeak—"

Hearing the sound of the door being pushed open, Cui Zhiyun and Su Xingzhang immediately turned around and saluted the visitor, and shouted:

"Meet the saints!"

"The two Aiqing are exempt from courtesy, especially Cui Jiancheng, who has been busy with the case of private salt recently, but he has not been seen for a long time. I arrived early this morning, so there must be good news. ”

"Returning to the saint, Weichen lived up to his trust, went out with Su Siqing, found out some evidence, and prepared to present it to the saint in person today."

"Oh? Pick it up. ”

Emperor Jianming watched the two salute, directly raised his hand to signal the two to be exempt, and walked to the dragon chair and sat down.

Hearing this, Su Xingzhang immediately submitted the evidence that the two of them now have, and wrote a notebook to record all the investigations of this case in detail.

As for the result, after hearing what Qu Rou exposed, the two tacitly didn't write anything, and some people were not courtiers who could write about it.

As a result, there was only the sound of Emperor Jianming reading the paper in the entire Ganlu Palace.

Unconsciously, the atmosphere in the Manna Hall became more and more tense.

Especially the inner supervisor who followed Emperor Jianming, felt the oppressive force coming from Emperor Jianming's body, as if his neck was choked, it was difficult to breathe.

Just when he felt that he was about to lose it, Emperor Jianming suddenly moved.

Emperor Jianming suddenly picked up a jade pendant in the center of the table, and patiently felt the warm feel of the jade pendant with his fingertips.

Then he pinched the hand of the jade pendant harder and harder, until the nail surface turned white, and then stopped continuing to exert force.

While looking at the evidence presented by Cui Zhiyun and the others, he squeezed the jade pendant in his hand.

Just when Emperor Jianming calmly observed the evidence of the private salt case, the officials who were left behind in the Xuanzheng Hall were not so calm.

As soon as he heard that the chamberlain said that the early dynasty was postponed today, he immediately asked curiously what happened, and he could actually make Emperor Jianming, who was diligent and loved the people, postpone the time of the early dynasty.

It is naturally impossible for the chamberlain to inform this kind of thing, otherwise he will commit the taboo of the imperial city.

However, Qianniuwei, who was responsible for guarding the imperial city, did not have so many scruples, and many of them were the sons of officials in front of the Xuanzheng Palace.

The dispatch person only inquired for a while, and everyone immediately knew the news that Cui Zhiyun and Su Xingzhang had entered the palace gate early in the morning.

Immediately afterward, everyone immediately reacted.

The appearance of the two together must be something wrong with the case of illegal salt, or is the case of illegal salt ending soon?

Thinking of this possibility, the people present and involved in it glanced at each other with evil intentions, and their hearts suddenly became nervous, and they began to wonder if Cui Zhiyun had any handle in his hands?

Just when everyone was doubting themselves, the inner prison suddenly appeared and shouted to the crowd gathered:

"Prince Xuan enters the Manna Hall to meet you—"

Hearing this, the crown prince immediately stood up from the crowd, followed the pace of the inner eunuch with some nervousness, and walked in the direction of the Ganlu Palace.

Chapter 98: The implications are widespread

There was only one place left to think about the officials, who were still speculating about the reason why Emperor Jianming summoned the crown prince, and they couldn't help but discuss it.

"Could it be this case of illicit salt, the saint decided to let His Royal Highness the Crown Prince also participate in the inspection, right?"

"It's been so long since the case of illicit salt, how could the saint only let His Royal Highness the Crown Prince investigate the case now?"

"Cui Zhiyun is a fledgling, and his temperament is similar to that of a stone, so it's strange that he can find things. As for Su Xingzhang's guy, don't mention it. Maybe the saint just thinks that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is brave and resourceful, and is worthy of a great responsibility, so he saw that Cui Zhiyun and the two have been inconclusive, so he decided to let His Royal Highness the Crown Prince preside. ”

As he spoke, the official pretended to salute in the direction of the Manna Temple.

Seeing the people around him, he couldn't help frowning, slandering this person in his heart for his clever words and flattering words.

But his words also made many people present reverie, could this really be possible?

After all, according to the situation since Emperor Jianming ascended the throne, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is very favored by Emperor Jianming, and even if he makes a mistake, he will only lightly expose it.

It was because of Emperor Jianming's attitude that the entire court believed that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's position was unbreakable, and no prince could cross his position at all.

Therefore, the Great Zhou Dynasty had a certain degree of stability in people's hearts.

At the same time, it also made the courtiers not think like the previous dynasty, and dared to collude with other princes to try to seize the throne.

In this atmosphere and under the teachings of the subordinate officials of the Prince's Mansion and several masters, even the crown prince Li Mingtan thought so and was convinced.

Therefore, as soon as he stepped into the Manna Hall and wanted to approach Emperor Jianming with brisk steps, he suddenly heard a violent voice from above, and he was stunned.

"Rebel! Look at what good you've done! ”

The voice was accompanied by the booklet containing all the results of the smuggling case.

"Whoa-la-"

Nearly two meters long folds drew a perfect arc in the air, and the yellow paper was densely covered with ink characters, which fell right in front of Li Mingtan.

But at this time, he didn't have time to observe what was written in front of him, and when Emperor Jianming roared, the whole person knelt directly on the ground, staring down at the floor tiles that could reflect his face clearly, and he was thinking about why his father was so angry this time.

His mind was blank, and he couldn't deal with his father in anger, so he had to plead in a wailing voice as before:

"Please forgive your sins!"

"Forgiveness? You don't look at what sin you have committed! Gang up with the five surnames to sell illicit salt, and even act as their protector behind them, taking care of the people up and down, and not taking the people of the world into account. How? You're in charge of this world! ”

This questioning really scared Li Mingtan's courage, he didn't expect that he would use King Zhao as a shield to participate in it, and he would be exposed in such a short time.

At the same time, he also felt the fear from his heart for Emperor Jianming's unusual anger this time.

Especially when Emperor Jianming took out his might to fight on the battlefield, a killing intent spread in the Manna Palace, and everyone subconsciously knelt on the ground, for fear that their lives would not be guaranteed.

Li Mingtan couldn't stop trembling up and down, lying on the ground like a toad waiting for death.

This appearance made Emperor Jianming even more annoyed, and he felt that the prince he had set was not only unresponsible, but also couldn't even take the guts.

And only now did he know that the prince had already been involved in the case of private salt ten years ago, and even used his identity to coerce and lure in order to make someone a scapegoat.

At the beginning, Emperor Jianming also knew that Yang Huaiyuan could not embezzle so much silver money by himself, not to mention that he could not directly find so much silver money in the future.

However, at that time, the power of the five surnames was so great that even he, the son of heaven, needed to avoid his edge, so he had to give Yang Huaiyuan to death, but he also left blood for the Yang family.

Therefore, this sensational corruption case has become the appearance in Cui Zhiyun's memory.

Now Emperor Jianming looked at the evidence presented, and also knew that it was time to overturn the case.

But when he saw that he had only been registered for a few years, the prince and the people with the five surnames were eating the people, and it was false to say that he was not heartbroken.

But at the same time, he was also dissatisfied with the prince's position in the case of private salt, which obviously played the most important role in it, but the money he got was the smallest of all the principals.

It shows that the prince's brain is also extremely dull, and he was actually played around by people with five surnames like this, and he still thought that he had gained a huge amount of benefits from it?

Thinking of this, Emperor Jianming couldn't help but scold angrily at Li Mingtan, who was still trembling on the ground: "Stupid! ”

Even if he can tolerate the prince's involvement, it is impossible to put up with the prince of a country, the prince of a country, and the future son of heaven being fooled and supported by the courtiers.

If the crown prince ascends the throne one day, will such a court still belong to the court brought down by their Li family?

Looking at Li Mingtan, who was still frightened, he forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart and asked:

"Tell me, how did you get involved?"

For some reason, Li Mingtan listened to Emperor Jianming's low tone, and his heart became even more flustered.

couldn't help but look up at Emperor Jianming above, and then withdrew his eyes very much, swallowed his saliva unconsciously, and explained nervously:

"Son... Erchen ......"

"Say!"

Emperor Jianming was even more displeased when he saw the prince's appearance, and roared again.

At this moment, Li Mingtan really didn't dare to continue to cover up, as if pouring beans, and said everything he was involved in.

After Emperor Jianming heard the contents clearly, he realized that there were also some reasons of his own.

At the beginning, I only thought that there were many Confucians among the five surnames and were very knowledgeable, so I selected several Confucians who were more or less related to the five surnames and were responsible for imparting knowledge to the prince.

But because of this, the prince was deeply influenced by the five surnames, and actually believed in the saying that the sage relied on the scholar doctor to rule the arch.

Even under the influence of others, he doubted his own status, and in order to protect himself, he wanted to recruit more courtiers, or the five surnamed scholars, to his command, and he actually started to think about private salt.

Especially when he didn't embezzle the money for the five surnames ten years ago, but he slandered Yang Huaiyuan and didn't get to the bottom of it, which made the appetite of this group of people grow bigger and bigger, until it became what it is now.

Even the prince in front of him, who would only play under his knees in the past, has become an indistinguishable image because of this.

Emperor Jianming let out a long sigh, withdrew the pity for the prince in his eyes, and opened his eyes again, he became the emperor who looked at the world again.

Looking at the crown prince, there was no longer a trace of emotion in his eyes, and he said coldly:

"Someone! Send His Royal Highness the Crown Prince back to the East Palace, without a will, you are not allowed to go out. ”

Hearing this, Li Mingtan didn't even have the strength to support his body to kneel, and instantly collapsed to the ground.

He didn't resist the inner supervisor's move to take him away, as if he had accepted his fate, or there were still some unrealistic illusions in his heart.

Immediately afterwards, the voice of Emperor Jianming came from the Ganlu Hall again, but this time, he summoned Cui Zhiyun and Su Xingzhang to meet him.

The conversation between Fang Cai and the crown prince Li Mingtan can be said to be a state affair or a family affair, and it is not suitable for the two to participate.

Even when the two found out who was behind it, both of them had doubts about whether they could truthfully solve the case of illegal salt.

But then Emperor Jianming's order immediately dispelled the two of them.