After Zhao Yong left Tsing Yi Wei, he was originally anxious to report to Xiao Yihong and King Chu, but in the end, he didn't even look for any of them.

When he returned to his mansion, he didn't say much to anyone, closed the door, and slept until dawn.

Early the next morning, a team of Tsing Yi guards rushed into the lobby of the Criminal Department with a vigorous momentum, and in the shocked eyes of the officials of the Criminal Department, Xiao Yihong was tied up with iron cables, swaggered back to the Tsing Yi Guard, and threw him into the prison of the Imperial Prison.

In less than two hours, this incident spread all over the officials in the capital, and naturally, it also reached the ears of Li Zhi, the king of Chu.

[February 18, 71st year of the Great Qiankang Dynasty, at noon, on the Moyun Pavilion of the Chu Palace]

At this time, there were still three people sitting on the Moyun Pavilion, but it was originally Xiao Yihong's position, but there was the new official Shangshu Xia Nanxing.

Li Zhi stood up, his face was extremely ugly, he looked at the scenery outside the window, his eyes narrowed into a straight line, and asked irritably: "What's the matter? He is a scholar of the criminal department, how can he say that he was arrested! He was also sent to prison!"

Qin Jianxun next to him hurriedly said: "Your Highness, I heard that it was Qiu Mingli who impeached Lord Xiao, saying that he secretly accepted bribes, created unjust cases, tortured into tricks, and disregarded people's lives......"

Li Zhi said angrily: "Fourth, I didn't go to provoke him, he actually took the initiative to find me!

Li Zhi walked around the round table in the middle a few more times and asked, "How much silver did he receive, and which one gave it?"

Qin Jianxun said: "It was sent by Zhao Yong, and a total of ...... were sent Eight thousand taels. ”

"Eight thousand taels!" Li Zhi blurted out and exclaimed. His face was already white and red, and his face was blue and blue, and it was even more frighteningly green at the moment.

"Zhao Yong's son killed someone and was sentenced to a beheading by Cheng Kezhong, a waiter in the Criminal Department, Zhao Yong sent money to Yihong in order to help his son get rid of the crime......" Qin Jianxun added again.

Li Zhi remembered that Zhao Yong had come to beg him before, and he was in a bad mood at that time, so he ignored it and sent Zhao Yong back. At this time, he couldn't help but be angry and remorseful in his heart, his lips trembled for a long time, his teeth clenched, and finally a few words burst out from between his teeth: "Stupid, stupid!"

The two people next to them didn't know whether Li Zhi scolded Zhao Yong or Xiao Yihong, they saw that Li Zhi's face was not good, and they didn't dare to say much at the moment, so they were worried in their hearts, and got up and stood aside.

"Where is Zhao Yong?" asked Li Zhi.

"Your Royal Highness, the emperor has not moved him this time, Zhao Yong is ...... at this time It seems that he is still on duty in the military department. Qin Jianxun, the secretary of the Ministry of War, replied. Before he came to the Chu Palace, he had also seen Zhao Yong in the lobby of the military department.

"It's still on duty!Father...... Why didn't my father arrest Zhao Yong, but instead arrested Yihong?!" Li Zhi couldn't help but be angry.

"Your Highness, don't care about Lord Zhao, the top priority right now, Lord Xiao has been arrested and put in the Imperial Prison, which is not a good place. How to save Lord Xiao, please make it clear to His Royal Highness!" Xia Nanxing, who was standing solemnly on the side, couldn't help but say.

No, after Li Zhi walked back and forth a few times, he turned his head and asked, "What do you say...... How can I save it?!"

Qin Jianxun and Xia Nanxing couldn't help but look at each other, and they were stunned for a while, not knowing how to answer......

And almost at the same time, in the study room of King Han's Mansion, there were also two people sitting upright, King Han Li Zuo and Nan'an Ping Si Qianhu Pei Caibao.

At this time, Li Zuo couldn't avoid suspicion, and hurriedly ordered someone to call Pei Caibao to his house.

Li Zuo ordered Pei Caibao to do three things immediately.

First, at all costs, find the female prisoner Yao Zibei and bring it back to Tsing Yiwei.

Second, it is also at all costs to let the female prisoners confess themselves, Qiu

Mingli was preparing to take her as a concubine, and the two of them had already had a relationship.

Third, Song Jinhua, the magistrate of the Criminal Department, was placed under house arrest in Tsing Yi Weizhong, and as he did to deal with Zhao Yong, Song Jinhua confessed in person, and it was Qiu Mingli who secretly instructed him to stop the execution and disrupt the order of the legal field.

Pei Caibao agreed to the first two instructions without saying a word, but for the third instruction, he hesitated: "Your Highness, your subordinates are foolish, Song Jinhua is this person, it's better not to move for the time being!"

"Why?" asked Li Zuo.

Pei Caibao replied: "First, after all, he is a five-grade official, as a magistrate of the Criminal Department, and he is also an accompanying prisoner, in case of major grievances, he has the right to stop the execution." His matter, at best, was a mistake of misconduct, but he did not violate the rules. If his subordinates have no evidence and no evidence, they will arrest him at will, and if he spreads it, he is afraid that he will be a handle. Second, my subordinates heard that this person also has a lot of background, and there seems to be an inextricable connection between him and King Jin......"

"He's ...... The eighth brother's people?" Li Zuo couldn't help but ask.

Seeing Pei Caibao nodding slightly, Li Zuo asked again: "Caibao, ......what do you mean?"

Pei Caibao said: "Your Highness, now we are attacking on both sides, dealing with the two princes of Jiuzhu at the same time, and the manpower in our hands is already a little stretched...... I can't do it!"

Li Zuo snorted coldly and said, "Then it's up to you, but you have to hurry up about that female prisoner, and you have to do it beautifully!"

Pei Caibao hesitated for a while, and finally asked: "Your Highness, even if your subordinates pry out this confession from the mouth of the female prisoner Yao Zibei." Your Highness thinks that with this confession, can you really bring down the Tyumen ceremony?"

Li Zuo laughed and said, "Caibao! You don't understand this...... Qiu Mingli has been an official for 30 years, and has always regarded himself as a clean official. As everyone knows, he is an honest and honest man. In his eyes, fame is like life. You're right, just a confession from the female prisoner, of course, can't bring him down. If the emperor wants to depose him by decree, unless he confesses it himself! However, ...... This confession will cause a storm in the city, and there will always be people who will talk about those things about the adultery between men and women...... When the time comes, with Qiu Mingli's arrogant and upright temperament, I expect that he will have to resign!"

Pei Caibao nodded frequently when he heard this, and even said that His Highness had a clever plan!

However, the plan can't keep up with the changes, and what Li Zuo never imagined was that he had just made a close deployment here, but there was already a shocking news in the Tsing Yi Guard Prison over there.

Xiao Yihong was sent to prison, and in less than an hour, he had already confessed, not only what he should have confessed, but also what he shouldn't have confessed......

Speaking of which, the person in charge of guarding and interrogating Xiao Yihong should have been Bei'an Pingsi. However, because Nangong was silent, Xu Ke and the rest of the hundred households were looking for the whereabouts of the seventeenth princess around Chang'an City. Therefore, in this trial of Xiao Yihong's case, Shen Huan handed it over to Yang Wenyuan, who inspected thousands of households.

Yang Wenyuan is worthy of being a veteran in trying cases. After receiving the order, he was particularly attentive, and when he saw Xiao Yihong for the first time, he brought more than a dozen guards, each of whom carried it on his shoulder, and showed Xiao Yihong more than ten kinds of torture tools in the Tsing Yi guard "enthusiastically". Naturally, Yang Wenyuan has a soft spot for the box of "nine dozen green characters".

As soon as Yang Wenyuan came on the stage, he didn't ask questions first, but patiently explained to Xiao Yihong the wonderful uses of this "green character nine dozen", as well as what it means to "try it first" and what it means to "ascend to the immortal" Yunyun, only to hear that the criminal department Shangshu was so frightened that his face was as white as paper and sweat was like rain. Then, with a wave of Yang Wenyuan's hand, two guards took out hammers and iron nails from the big wooden box. The guards comprehended, holding hammers and iron nails and constantly dangling in front of Xiao Yihong's eyes, and from time to time they made a "ding" sound.

Listen to that

The sound of "dingding" like a soul-breaking order, in Xiao Yihong's heart, the already fragile defense line immediately collapsed. Without waiting for Yang Wenyuan to ask carefully, Xiao Yihong confessed all his illegal things......

Not only did he confess to accepting a bribe of 8,000 taels of silver, but he also explained all the details clearly. Speaking of the back, the more Xiao Yihong spoke, the more energetic he became, and he pointed out conclusively:

Li Zhi, the king of Chu, once intended to rebel!

After this sentence came out of Xiao Yihong's mouth, even Yang Wenyuan's face couldn't help but change greatly.

"What! Is this true?" Yang Wenyuan narrowed his eyes, and an awe-inspiring gaze stared at Xiao Yihong. He thought to himself that I was trying you for taking bribes, and this confession was almost finished, and he never thought that he would be able to catch this big fish at the end!

"Lord Yang, it's true!" Xiao Yihong said earnestly.

At that moment, Xiao Yihong confessed to Li Zhi, the king of Chu, in order to sit on the throne of the Son of Heaven, secretly colluding with the forces in the army and intending to rebel......

It turned out that since the 20th day of the first month of the 71st year of Kang Yuan, Li Zhi, the king of Chu, had plotted to rebel. He successively sent people to buy off Li Suyan, the envoy of the Jingyang Festival, Cui Shanzhi, the general of Xiaocai, and Qu Huaifeng, the general of Shenwu, and agreed to move on a certain day, occupy the palace, and force the emperor to take the throne.

These generals in the army had a close relationship with the King of Chu, but this time, under the lure and soft and hard coercion of the high-ranking officials of the King of Chu, they all gave in.

By the 25th of January, the Jingyang camp in the north of Chang'an City and the Wugong Xiaocai Cavalry Camp in the west of the city were ready to go, but the Shenwu Army in the south of the city suddenly had an ambiguous attitude. However, even if the 20,000 horses of the Shenwu Army are missing, after all, there are still 160,000 in the Jingyang camp plus the Wugong Xiao Cavalry Battalion.

Unexpectedly, on the evening of the 26th of the first month, the king of Chu had already ordered the army, but unexpectedly, he suddenly changed his mind halfway, called Xiao Yihong and Qin Jianxun back, and canceled all actions. In the end, this well-planned mutiny ended silently before it could be launched......

"So, he instructed Sun Xun to lead the assassins to attack Qincha, intending to assassinate the King of Wei, and he was also the main envoy of the King of Chu?" Yang Wenyuan had just finished listening, and then immediately asked.

"Of course, what the prisoner saw with his own eyes was Sun Xun who was instructed by the King of Chu......" Xiao Yihong hurriedly replied.

Yang Wenyuan didn't dare to delay, and after Xiao Yihong signed and painted the handprint, he immediately came to Shen Dudu's signing room and presented all the confessions to Shen Huan.

Shen Huan couldn't help but be taken aback when he heard this, he never expected that Sun Xun was tortured and tortured in every way that day, and he refused to confess to death, but Xiao Yihong easily told all of it.

Because the person who was ordered to preside over Xiao Yihong's case was, after all, Li Zuo, the king of Han. According to the rules, Shen Huan went to King Han's mansion to meet Li Zuo first, and told King Han the details of the case.

According to reason, after Xiao Yihong was sent to prison, the person in charge of the trial should be his Han King Li Zuo. However, Li Zuo was busy planning carefully with Pei Caibao, and he was inevitably a step late for the one in the Tsing Yi guard.

Shen Huan first expressed his apology to King Han politely on behalf of the entire Tsing Yi Guard. His subordinates actually completed the trial of Xiao Yihong's case so urgently before the presiding judge arrived, this "high efficiency" should really be criticized!

Li Zuo naturally made a subtle explanation about his cumbersome official duties and his failure to arrive at Tsing Yiwei in time. In the end, when he heard that Xiao Shangshu had confessed to his eldest brother's rebellion, he was immediately stunned......

Now that we've come to this, what are you waiting for?

The two didn't say a word, stood up, and went straight to Daming Palace......