On the same day, Wu Shuang was robbed in the court, the court was furious, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty were terrified, and the ninth prince Cao Kun took the opportunity to impeach the emperor Xu Liang. He said that he sheltered the traitorous party and instigated his daughter Xu Zixuan to hook up with the thief Wu Shuang and fall in love; he also said that he intended to arrest Wang Biao, the governor of Henan, and his son in the capital, and that the father and son were extremely greedy and bribed, so they were unwilling to be sentenced and convicted.

When the emperor heard this, he knew what was right and wrong, and he was furious, and immediately said to the messenger:

"Summoning the Taishi Xu Liang to make a pilgrimage!"

At that time, Mrs. Xu was asking the old servant Xiao Hua at home about the whereabouts and some information of his daughter Xu Zixuan, when suddenly the palace messenger came and said that the emperor had something important to summon. Taishi Xu was taken aback, it was the first time that the emperor had summoned him to the court in such a hurry!

The emperor sat on the dragon chair, and when he saw Taishi Xu running in a panic, he sneered and asked:

"Old lady, be well!"

After listening to the emperor's tone, Taishi Xu knew that he must have heard some rumors, so he bowed down and bowed his hands and said:

"The old minister is grateful to His Majesty Shengdewei, he has always been fine, but he has just robbed the prisoner outside the west city gate, and he has not had time to report to the Holy Lord!"

The emperor wanted to have a seizure, and when he saw that he took the initiative to say this, he had to hold back his temper and ask him how he handled this matter.

"What will the old lady say on this matter?"

"Such evil thieves despise the law field, and their crimes are extremely heinous!" Xu Taishi said calmly, "The old minister thinks that he should tell the world all over the world and arrest the thieves to show the majesty of the court's law and discipline!"

"That's what I think too!" the emperor then asked, "Henan Governor Wang Zhi and his son Jingcheng arrested Wang Biao, how is the old lady investigating the huge corruption case of father and son!"

"The source of the embezzlement and bribery of the father and son has not yet been discovered!" said Xu Taishi tremblingly.

When the emperor heard this, he laughed freely, and suddenly Long Yan was furious:

"Are you not clear, or do you not want to find out?"

When Taishi Xu heard this, he was startled, and said in a trembling heart:

"The old minister is incompetent, the old minister should die!"

"Okay!" the emperor finally sneered and said, "There is all the evidence and material evidence in this matter, and there is nothing that cannot be investigated, I don't want to hear anyone mention this matter again!"

In the end, the emperor said three words:

"Kill it!"

Then the emperor waved his hand to him wearily and said:

"Go down!" said that, he turned and walked into the inner sanctum.

Xu Taishi was shocked when he heard this, he knew very well that Wang Zhi's father and son would certainly not be corrupt people, but at present, there was no strong evidence that could clear the grievances of their father and son! Now, the emperor is furious, and it is impossible to escape the death penalty.

With such a heavy heart, Taishi Xu returned to Taishi's Mansion. He immediately summoned the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Criminal Affairs, and the Ministry of Household Affairs to discuss the huge corruption case of Wang Zhi and his son again, but officials at all levels and levels still did not investigate and find favorable evidence that could overturn the above-mentioned crimes. In the end, they had no choice but to follow the emperor's decree and behead Wang Zhi's father and son on time in Shenshi, two days later, and ordered the whole city to search the hiding place of Wu Shuangyi's thief party, and wanted the world!

After that, Xu Taishi immediately took a sedan chair to visit Wang Zhi's father and son in the capital's death row prison; after all, Wang Zhi was still a lower-level minister he had cultivated himself, and his feelings were deep!

Dozens of days in prison made Wang Zhi's father and son anxious and out of their original form. The father and son were honest and generous, and were deeply respected by the people of Luoyang, and even the cell boss in the prison took great care of them. Every meal and water were delivered in time, and he also deliberately took the courage to remove the shackles for the father and son, so that they could stay in the prison freely. However, half a month ago, Hu Wei, a member of the staff, visited the prison once and saw that Wang Zhi and his son were free and free in the prison without shackles, and the cell guards were also respectful to their father and son, which made Hu Wei very unhappy and resentful. Therefore, he found the prison executive Zheng Antai and asked him to change the jailer cell head, and transfer the two henchmen of his henchmen to supervise Wang Zhi's father and son. As a result, in the past half month, Wang Biao's father and son have been tortured to the point that they have only half their lives left! Now this new jailer does not give their father and son food to eat in time, even if they eat, they have to spit on them, and grab a handful of dirty things such as mud and dust; moreover, they are given a bamboo tube of water to drink to their father and son for three days, and they are shackled with heavy shackles all day long; so that they are miserable, and they are almost worse than dead! In just half a month, the person has changed beyond recognition, and his body is weak!

At noon that day, the jailer spat twice and grabbed a handful of plaster in the prison meal of the father and son, and then pushed the rice bowl under the bottom edge of the cell door and said:

"Eat, death row prisoner!"

"Why are you spitting in someone's food?" asked the cell boss when he heard an angry voice behind him.

He casually said:

"What does it matter to treat this kind of person!" he said, looking back, and was astonished, he saw an old man with a white beard, dressed in official uniform, accompanied by a group of ministers, looking at him majestically, among them, among these ministers, he knew the youngest of them, Zheng Antai, a large prison executioner. However, he found that Zheng Antai didn't dare to raise his head in front of this old man. As if they were all scared, they all silently followed the old man in official uniform into the prison. It is no wonder that everyone was so cautious that the hapless cell boss did not hear the slightest movement. Although he didn't know that this old man was Xu Liang, the imperial master, with his power, the cell boss knew that he should be a terrifying court minister.

Remembering what he had just taken the liberty of his words, the cell boss was so frightened that his legs were weak, so he knelt down and said without repeating himself:

"Your Excellency forgives your sins, your lords forgive your sins!"

"The people detained here are the father and son of Wang Zhi, the governor of Henan?"

"Yes, sir!" said the cell head, kowtowing as if pounding garlic.

"Open the prison door!"

As soon as the cell door opened, white light shot in like lightning, and immediately four or five fat rats fled in all directions, startling the old lady! And Wang Zhi and his son had not seen the light of day for a long time, and when they saw the daylight shining in from the cell door, how could they open their eyes, let alone see the people who walked in outside. However, when the Taishi saw them, he was even more sad and frightened. Seeing that Wang Zhi's father and son were shackled and shackled, the torture instruments were heavy, the prison uniforms on their bodies were unbearable and smelly, their hair and beard were messy like a handful of grass, their mouths were dry, and their faces were like death. Seeing this, Taishi's mood was very uncomfortable, so he squatted down and took Wang Zhi's hand and said leisurely:

"Lord Wang, you have suffered!"

Wang Zhi opened his eyes and saw that it was Taishi Xu Liang, and saw that he was majestic behind him with so many officials, so he remembered the rights and wrongs of the past, so he sighed and said:

"This bit of suffering is nothing, the most terrible thing is to be wronged, that is terrible!"

Wang Biao still fell asleep on the stone slab behind his father with his eyes closed, and these painful days made him even more tired of the faces of the bureaucrats! He believed that death was just a nod to the ground, and he was unable to deal with these corrupt officials and corrupt officials. (To be continued.) )