[February 18, 71st year of the Great Qiankang Dynasty, Shen Shi, Chu Wangfu]

Until this time, the king of Chu was still in the palace to discuss with Qin Jianxun and others. After they had lunch and discussed for a long time, they finally came up with a countermeasure, that is, to pull out Zhao Yong to take the blame.

On the Moyun Pavilion, Li Zhi made a "thorough" deployment to his subordinates.

First, Qin Jianxun, the secretary of the Ministry of War, did everything possible to let Zhao Yong turn himself in, admitting that he forced Xiao Yihong to accept the eight thousand taels of silver.

Second, order Qin Jianxun to send his subordinates, at all means, to catch Zhao Xiaogang and send him to the criminal department, and behead him according to the law, as long as Zhao Xiaogang is subdued by the law, then Xiao Shangshu is at most corrupt, and there is no bending the law.

Third, the eight thousand taels of silver that Xiao Yihong received were paid in advance by Li Zhi, and the Xiao Mansion sent someone to take the silver ticket and immediately go to the household department to hand it over to the treasury, naturally, the eight thousand taels should also be recorded in Zhao Yong's account.

Fourth, order Xia Nanxing, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, to mobilize all the people who can be mobilized in the court, regardless of the officials and courtiers, to write a letter to intercede for Xiao Yihong.

Fifth, Li Zhi personally went to his father to intercede for Xiao Yihong.

Li Zhi and everyone had already made up their minds, and when they were instructing their subordinates to act, they suddenly saw the head of the Chu Palace's mansion running into the Moyun Pavilion in a panic, shouting as he ran: "Lord, lord! Disaster!"

"What's so alarming? Could it be that this mansion has been raided!" Li Zhi scolded in a deep voice. On this Moyun Pavilion, without his orders, no one was allowed to disturb without permission.

Unexpectedly, Li Zhi actually said that the Chu Wangfu was really raided.

Seeing that the manager nodded at him, Li Zhi couldn't help but be stunned, and heard a noise and crying from a distance, and everyone's faces changed greatly. Li Zhi hurriedly ran down the Moyun Pavilion, walked out of the pontoon bridge on the Tsuen Lake, and walked out of the back garden, towards the front door. He didn't take a few steps before he bumped into Li Zuo, the king of Han who had come to raid his house by order, and Shen Huan, the governor of Tsing Yi.

"Big brother...... Don't you come here to be harmed?" Li Zuo bowed his hand to Li Zhi slightly, with a smile on his face, as if he had seen each other as usual.

"Sixth, what are you doing here?" Li Zhi saw that there were Tsing Yi guards all around, and the entire palace was already like chickens flying and dogs jumping, so he couldn't help but ask anxiously. But until this time, he still couldn't believe in his heart that these people really came to raid his house......

"Father's mouth, Li Zhi listens to the announcement!" Han King Li Zuo's face suddenly changed, and he said in a deep voice.

Li Zhi hurriedly knelt on the ground, and Qin Jianxun, Xia Nanxing and others who followed behind him also knelt down one after another.

Li Zuo proclaimed loudly:

"By the emperor's order!

Li Zhi, the king of Chu, is like a jackal and a snake and scorpion in his heart, and he allows you to forgive you, loves you and protects you, and he does not want to repent, but instead intensifies his efforts, and even plots to assassinate his brother Qin and send the king of Wei to the front, and entangles with the intention of the same party to rebel against you!

I tell you the truth: Those who are under heaven are also the people of the world! How can the jackal be allowed to occupy a great position, and the femme fatale to rule over all the people?

He immediately abolished Li Zhi, the king of Chu, as a concubine, stripped all official titles and titles, and immediately sent to a 10,000-year prison for life, and was not allowed to leave the prison for half a step!

All his sons and grandchildren were abolished as concubines, and they were dismissed and resettled along with their daughters, and the rest were confiscated from the government!"

Li Zhizhi heard it in cold sweat like rain, his face was like ashes, and he knelt on the ground, trembling all over.

Seeing that Li Zhi had not yet received the order of thanks, Li Zuo reminded "friendly": "Big brother, hurry up and receive the order of thanks......"

"Father, Father...... I didn't rebel, I didn't rebel! The child was wrong! I begged my father to bypass the child this time!" Li Zhi suddenly fell to the ground and cried bitterly.

"Big brother, it's not me who is the younger brother who said you, what's the use of crying again now? You better quickly pack up and go to Wannian County

Don't worry, the sixth brother will take care of the steward there, and you will take care of you in the future!" Li Zuo sneered.

"I want to see my father!" "I want to see my father!" Li Zhi stood up and said angrily. Until this moment, he was still thinking about making a final effort.

As soon as Shen Huan raised his hand, two guards rushed forward and forcibly took Li Zhi away. Li Zhi struggled to break free from the guard's hand, facing Li Zuo, and suddenly sneered again and again, his voice was as cold as a ghost, and he only heard Li Zhi say word by word:

"Sixth...... I'm defeated! I admit it! But even if you knock me down, you won't want to sit in that position...... I'm fifty-three years old, and I've enjoyed a lifetime of happiness, and it's not bad to be able to go to prison for a light life at the end...... You, the fate in the future may not be as good as mine!"

Listening to his eldest brother Li Zhi's words, Li Zuo felt uncomfortable in his heart for no reason. However, at this time, he didn't want to be angry with the same "common people", so he just waved his hand, and the guards escorted Li Zhi away.

Seeing that Qin Jianxun and Xia Nanxing were there, as soon as Shen Huan raised his hand, the guards rushed forward like a fierce god and tied up these people.

Li Zuo couldn't help asking, "Governor Shen, in my father's will, didn't you say how many of them would be arrested?"

Shen Huan said with a smile: "Your Highness, rest assured, these people will be arrested sooner or later, since they are here, they will save the officials from going to the door again." ”

Shen Huan was particularly attentive to this raid, he brought a total of 1,200 guards, as well as Pei Caibao of the Thousand Households of the Nan'an Ping Division, Zhu Leyun of the Thousand Households of the Luan Yi Division, Zhang Muye of the Thousand Households of the Qingjing Division, and Yang Wenyuan of the Thousand Households of the Patrol Household all followed. Rao is like this, so many people have been busy from Shen Shi to Xu Shi, and it took three hours to complete the inventory of all the belongings of the Chu Palace.

Almost everyone, including Li Zuo, the king of Han, couldn't help but exclaim in their hearts while taking inventory: What a big palace! What a magnificent palace! The palace is full of rare treasures, silk and satin, piled up, as for antique calligraphy and paintings, novelty and interesting things, there are countless of them, even if a whole Taiji Palace is moved, it is nothing more than that......

With the entire Chu Palace's confiscation, the history of the King of Chu is here, drawing a rest.

And the ending of the king of Chu is not so much to be a commoner as to become a prisoner, and he is imprisoned for life.

More than a month ago, Emperor Li Chongsheng deposed the crown prince Li Ren, and talked to him once, and after the dethronement, he also settled him in Luzhou Mansion, and appointed Li Ren's henchman Wang Qingquan as the prefect of Luzhou, so that he could take good care of Li Ren's family.

And this time, Li Chongsheng didn't even give Li Zhi a chance to meet. After he saw Xiao Yihong's confession, he immediately ordered to take people, raid his home, and detain him......

The emperor's anger at that time can be imagined.

Although Li Zhi, the king of Chu, had been deposed as a commoner and imprisoned for life, the emperor's anger did not end......

Since the time of February 18, the holy decrees that have come out of the Daming Palace have been one after another. Tsing Yi Wei announced the order to arrest people's fast horses, one team after another, from outside the Danfeng Gate of Daming Palace, to Chang'an City...... The emperor launched a thorough liquidation of the party of the king of Chu.

Qin Jianxun, the secretary of the Ministry of War, was dismissed from his post for the people, sent to prison, and his family property was not registered as an official.

Xia Nanxing, the secretary of the ministry, was sent to prison and convicted pending trial.

Li Suyan, the general of the cavalry, and Qu Huaifeng, the general of Shenwu, were immediately locked by the Tsing Yi Wei and sent to prison, and they were convicted pending trial.

Zhao Yong, the squire of the military department, was demoted to a civilian, migrated to the border, and his family property was not registered as an official.

There are also two foreign officials and two imperial envoys, both of whom were demoted to foreign officials, and they were all low-ranking officials below the eighth rank.

There are also Guozijian, Dali Temple, Ministry of Rites, Ministry of Industry, Secretary Supervisor, Zhongshu Province, Menxia Province, Jingzhao Mansion...... Even, there are people from Si Tianjian, as long as they belong to the party of King Chu, they are all there

was deposed and exiled, until he was cut down and seized.

There are also officials from various provinces, prefectures and counties outside the capital. And also......

The scale of this liquidation is even far greater than that of more than a month ago, when the emperor suppressed the prince's party.

In fact, the liquidation still did not stop. Next, I don't know how many people will lose their official positions and seize their homes because they were involved in the case of King Chu's rebellion.

Li Zhi's henchmen, several important criminals in the case of King Chu's rebellion, were all arrested and imprisoned, and no one could have predicted that they would confess to something or someone tomorrow......

And Xiao Yihong, the secretary of the criminal department who had been imprisoned, waited for a long time, but did not wait for Yang Wenyuan's good luck, but waited for a brief decree from the emperor:

Xiao Yihong, the secretary of the Criminal Department, was inferior to being a minister and a dog in vain, so he was immediately escorted to Chai Shikou three days later and showed his head to the public. The men of the Xiao family all migrated 3,000 miles away, and all the female dependents were official prostitutes, and the rest were not officially registered.

......

When the palace of the king of Chu was completed, it was already time, and Li Zuo, the king of Han, dragged his tired body to the private room of Cuiyun Tower. According to the prior agreement, he and Pei Caibao will have a secret meeting here.

Although there is no need for this, the two have become a habit of "secret meeting" for more than ten years, and Li Zuo is a person who is very in love.

Not long after Li Zuo sat down, Pei Caibao couldn't help but be curious and asked:

"Sixth master, you said that your old man this time, how could the means be so drastic, and the punishment was so urgent, one did not ask, the second did not try, and he did not wait for the relevant people to have all the evidence, only with a few confessions from Xiao Yihong, he immediately issued an order to abolish a prince of Jiuzhu?"

Li Zuo chuckled and said, "Caibao......! You don't understand, do you? The old man has always been very clear in his heart about the things that my eldest brother did! The reason why he did not reveal it was half because he thought of the affection between father and son, and half because it was also for the sake of the face of the court. Now, with Xiao Yihong's confession, this face naturally can't be covered, so you can only take care of the relationship between father and son......"

"The family relationship between father and son has been deposed into a flat-headed common man, is this still a family relationship?" Pei Caibao couldn't help but ask rhetorically.

Li Zuo smiled and said: "I said Caibao, you can be regarded as a thousand households for more than ten years." I ask you, what is the sentence if you find those who plot rebellion?"

Pei Caibao hurriedly said: "This still needs to be asked, according to the law of the Great Qian, conspiracy is a heinous crime, the first offender should be punished Ling Chi, and the rest will be beheaded, and the nine clans will be punished!"

Li Zuo said: "That's it! Big brother is a sure rebellion this time, in a few days, once the human and material evidence are all gathered, the government and the opposition are boiling, and the excerpts of the speech officials fly into the palace like snowflakes, if it is you, how should the first offender of the rebellion be sentenced?"

Pei Caibao suddenly had an epiphany and said, "Oh...... I see! It seems...... Your old man is also a hard worker!"

Li Zuo narrowed his eyes and smiled: "Caibao, this is the art of the emperor! This is also something you can't learn in your life...... If the old man hadn't made a thunderous decree suddenly, the more he would have been, the more out of control would be, and when the time comes, no one will be able to save my eldest brother's life......"

......

The two continued to drink for a while and ate some food, Li Zuo's brain was sleepy, drowsiness, and he just wanted to go back to meet Zhou Gong soon, but he couldn't go back to the house yet. So, having made up his mind, he asked:

"Caibao, right now, things are in a hurry, my eldest brother has already fallen, but my fourth brother is still not moving!

Pei Caibao was also waiting for King Han's question. At that moment, he stopped throwing his cup, sat upright, and said earnestly:

"Sixth Master, according to the meaning of his subordinates, that matter, it's better to leave it at that......"

didn't want to, but Li Zuo didn't wait for Pei Caibao's explanation later, and immediately put the wine glass down, his face was gloomy, and he said awe-inspiringly: "No!"