"Do you think Yang He's confession was premeditated?"

Ma Shun looked at Lu Zhong, who was sitting in front of him, and asked with some puzzlement.

Lu Zhong sighed slightly, and did not answer Ma Shun's question, but asked, "What did he recruit?"

Ma Shun thought about it for a moment and said: "Yang He said that he did come to see Zhao Qing, because of his special identity, he can take the token of the Prince's Mansion and enter and exit the prison of the Criminal Department, after seeing Zhao Qing, Yang He warned him not to talk nonsense." In and out of the prison of the Criminal Department, we asked for registration, Yang He took the token of the Prince's Mansion, erased the record of his entry and exit from the prison of the Criminal Department, and then stayed in the Prince's Mansion and never went out. ”

"What else?"

"No, but we investigated Yang He and found that he and Zhao Ming, the staff of the Acting Palace, are from the same village. ”

Lu Zhong was a little surprised, and the eyebrows on his right side were slightly raised, "Oh, what do you say about this Yang He." ”

Ma Shun smiled and said: "Yang He just said that they were fellow villagers, and they didn't say anything superfluous, but our people found letters about Yang He and Zhao Ming's correspondence in Yang He's room. ”

"That Zhao Ming?"

Ma Shun knew that Lu Zhong would have this question, so he took out a few letters directly from his arms and put them on the table, "Zhao Ming was arrested, Lao Zhou directly led people to the palace of the king, and arrested people directly, these letters are the letters exchanged between Yang He and Zhao Ming, which can be used as evidence and submitted to the emperor." ”

Lu Zhong picked up the letter, looked at the content on it, shocking, the conversation between the two people, about the matter of the Ming Dynasty, from how to decide to poison the queen mother, to assassinate the emperor, and then let the prince ascend the throne, the two sides agreed that after the prince ascended the throne, the king would be crowned as the general and lead the world's soldiers and horses.

"Zhao Ming was also recruited?"

Ma Shun nodded, "Recruited, saying that he is only responsible for contacting Yang He, and then reporting the matter to His Royal Highness the Acting King, and I don't know anything about the rest." He is by the side of the acting king, and he is only responsible for Yang He's side. ”

Lu Zhong muttered, "What a cleverness!"

The matter is already very clear, from the current point of view, it is the crown prince and the acting king who colluded to murder the emperor and the queen mother, intending to rebel, so as to achieve his goal of ascending to the throne.

Lu Zhong stared at the letter that he put on the table, this is physical evidence, Yang He and Zhao Ming are human witnesses, if these two things are handed over to the emperor, then in an instant, the heads of the crown prince and the acting king will fall to the ground.

"My lord?" Ma Shun looked at Lu Zhong who was lost in thought, and shouted softly.

Lu Zhong raised his head and looked at Ma Shun, Ma Shun smiled and said, "My lord, you may not know that this Yang He is still somewhat involved with Yang Zhao. ”

"Tell me about it. ”

Ma Shun said: "This Yang He was originally a person from the Yang family, who was kicked out of the family because of some things in the early years, I don't know why, he became the master of the prince's mansion, according to the generation, Yang Zhao may also call Yang He an uncle." ”

Lu Zhong glanced at Ma Shun, "Your kid is still doing things so quickly, this has been found out." ”

Ma Shun saw Lu Zhong praising himself, touched his bald head, and said with a smile: "In a place like the Prince's Mansion, everyone in it has to investigate clearly, isn't this our basic job." ”

Lu Zhong let out a long sigh, although the matter is much clearer now, there are still some suspicious points that have not been found, such as the matter of Zhao Qing and Luzhu

Love, how do others know. Why did Luzhu take on such a task?

But the person is dead, and now all the evidence points to the crown prince and the acting king, but the huge Chang'an City, if there is only the power of these two people, can they accomplish such a thing?

Do you really think that the Jinyi Guard, the Imperial Forest Army, and the inner guards are all vegetarians?

Lu Zhong sat on the chair and let out a long sigh, "Seal everything and prepare to present it to the emperor." ”

"Yes, sir. ”

After that, Ma Shun was about to put away the letter on the table, but Lu Zhong slapped the letter on the face.

"You go to the Yang Mansion to inform Yang Zhao first, and then go to the Imperial Forest Army to inform Li He, after half an hour, I will wait for them in front of the imperial city gate, and when the time comes, we will enter the palace together to face the saint." Tell everyone involved in this matter not to divulge half a word about this matter. ”

Although Ma Shun was a little confused, he still nodded and did as Lu Zhong instructed.

The Imperial City, in the Imperial Study.

Lu Zhong, Yang Zhao, and Li He fell to their knees, and the emperor sat on a chair, and on the table in front of him, thick reports and corresponding evidence were piled up.

The Emperor slowly flipped through these and asked, "You are doing things quickly, and it has only been done in five days." ”

Lu Zhong knelt on the ground and replied, "Thank you for your praise, everything is going well, and it will naturally be soon." ”

Yang Zhao said in a weird manner: "It's very smooth, Lord Lu's Jinyiwei himself has investigated the matter very clearly, and the official doesn't even have a chance to help." ”

Li He on the side just smiled and didn't speak.

The emperor ignored Yang Zhao's dissatisfaction with his words, and instead asked Lu Zhong, "Everything is going well?"

Lu Zhong watched the emperor casually flip through the report and evidence, and on each page of the report, he didn't stay for more than five seconds, which might show anything useful?

Although he thought so in his heart, Lu Zhong couldn't say that, "Yes, Your Majesty, when the minister was investigating the case, after discovering a clue, after touching the melon, the others came out." ”

The emperor closed the report and evidence, and sat back in his chair, as if after reading the report, the whole person was a little older.

"Lu Zhong, you stay, and the rest of the people go out. ”

When Yang Zhao heard this, he was stunned at first, and he didn't know why he wanted to go out by himself, but the emperor couldn't help but listen to his words, so he had to thank him and leave. Li He didn't have anything, the whole thing, he was just responsible for making it easier for Jinyiwei to travel when he was investigating the imperial city, and he didn't want to know the rest, and he didn't want to know.

As for the opinions of those chamberlains, no one cares.

Colliers gently closed the door to the room, stood with his hands down, and bent to the side. Lu Zhong fell to his knees, waiting for the emperor's questioning.

The Emperor sat there, not speaking, just quietly looking at the roof overhead.

"I heard that you arrested everyone in the Prince's Mansion?"

Lu Zhong raised his head, looked at the emperor in a daze, and replied, "Your Majesty, the minister is guilty. ”

The emperor waved his hand, "What crime do you have, it is the right I gave you, and you are also here to investigate the case." ”

Lu Zhong hurriedly thanked him, "Thank you, Your Majesty." ”

After that, there was a long silence in the room.

After a long time, the emperor finally spoke, "Lu Zhong, get up and tell me about this matter."

views. ”

Lu Zhong got up, looked at the emperor's gaze, a little cold, Lu Zhong's heart was shocked, he lowered his head again, and said: "The minister has no opinion, the minister just does what His Majesty asks, investigates the truth of the matter, collects evidence, and presents it to Your Majesty." ”

The emperor laughed, his voice was eerie and terrifying, and it fell on Lu Zhong's heart, and it was another shock.

The emperor angrily grabbed the inkstone on the table, and a handful was still on the ground, "What do they want to do, what do they do!?"

Lu Zhong stood there honestly, without saying a word, Gao Lishi always closed his eyes, there were some things that he, a minion, couldn't hear or see.

"This is forcing me to die quickly, this is forcing the palace!"

The Emperor jerked to his feet, then pulled the report and evidence off the table, and the report flew like snowflakes and landed on the floor of the room.

Then, as if he had collapsed, the Emperor sat down in his chair and muttered, "But what can I do? They did so well, really too well." ”

Lu Zhong continued to pretend to be dead, and His Majesty was still whining there. Lu Zhong was waiting, waiting for the emperor's announcement on how to deal with this matter, Lu Zhong knew in his heart that the emperor spoke again, which was the beginning of the next era of the Ming Dynasty.

"Lu Zhong. The Emperor's tone was slow, as if he was thinking, and his anger vanished, leaving only helplessness.

"The minister is here. Lu Zhong's heart tightened.

"You go to the Imperial Prison, take my token, go to the Imperial Prison, release the three of them, and those people from the Prince's Mansion, all of them will be encircled for me, and let them stay in their own mansion and not be allowed to go out. Also, you bring the emperor and grandson over, the prince's mansion is not suitable for the emperor and grandson, and then you let the second child come into the palace, I have something to say. ”

Lu Zhong nodded, he knew that in this matter, King Zhao, as the only prince who did not participate in the affairs of the Dexin Palace, won the game.

This battle for the succession, which I don't know when I started calculating, began without any warning and ended with the victory of King Zhao.

Da Ming, it will be King Zhao's in the future.

The emperor glanced at it, Gao Lishi, Gao Lishi who closed his eyes and recuperated seemed to feel the emperor's gaze, and after bending down to say hello, he took out the token from his arms and handed it to Lu Zhong.

Lu Zhong took the token and held it tightly in his hand, it was really hot.

Walking out of the Dexin Palace, Yang Zhao stood not far away, did he look at the inside of the Dexin Palace, it seemed that he was waiting for Lu Zhong.

Seeing Lu Zhong coming, Yang Zhao congratulated him: "Lord Lu, congratulations." ”

Lu Zhong took the token in his arms and looked at Yang Zhao, "Isn't Lord Yang blaming the old man for not letting you participate in the investigation?"

Yang Zhao squinted and didn't speak, but Lu Zhong's words made Yang Zhao leave here directly.

"Lord Yang, Yang He is your clansman, how did he become the master of the Prince's Mansion, you know it in your heart, and I also know it in my heart, I didn't write this matter in the report to the emperor just now. If you want to be the enemy of Jinyiwei next, then I don't mind telling Your Majesty about it again. ”

Lu Zhong looked at the back of Yang Zhao leaving, and let out a long sigh, although Yang Zhao was investigating the affairs of Dexin Hall and did nothing, he was excluded by himself, he lost, that may not be.

Yang Zhao's thoughts, even Lu Zhong did not dare to underestimate.