"I want you to remember, and don't think about Empress Rong again! Even if Empress Rong is really the assassin, how to punish her is my business, you have no right to intervene! Now, you go back to the Jiao Palace!"
If it wasn't for Ziyan, how could Rong Changan not be able to conceive a child! Zi Yan is the culprit who caused all this!
Zi Yan pushed the female officer: "Get out!"
Angrily, she left the Punishment Division with tears in her eyes. As soon as she arrived at the door, she looked back and gritted her teeth fiercely: "Yan Li, just wait and see! Rong Changan will die in my hands sooner or later. Once Changan dies, you will not be able to escape from my Wuzhi Mountain. At that time, even if you lick my shoes, I will not spare you."
Yan Li asked the female officer: "According to your opinion, how should I deal with Empress Rong?"
When Ziyan mentioned Rong Changan just now, Yan Li got angry, and the female officer didn't want to follow in Ziyan's footsteps.
"Our Punishment Department is only collecting evidence to verify Qingbai's guilt. As for the punishment, the emperor has to decide for himself."
Yan Li said loudly: "I just want to ask your opinion!"
Every time Yan Li said a word, the female officer would tremble: "I... I think it would be good to lock the queen in the cold palace..."
It would be the best if Rong Changan was really kept in the cold palace. Find another opportunity in the future to release Rong Changan.
However, the assassination of Chu Fei'er shocked the entire court, and Yan Li had to discuss with the ministers if he wanted to deal with Rong Chang'an. I wonder what the ministers think about this matter
The Golden Luan Hall on the second day was as solemn and solemn as usual. Besides this atmosphere, there was another kind of atmosphere, which was sadness and depression.
The prince was murdered, and the queen was deeply involved in it. It can be said that it was a great scandal and a great tragedy for the country. No minister would feel bad about it.
Seeing Yan Li leaning on the throne and not speaking for a long time, a minister crawled forward to comfort him: "Your Majesty, the incident has already happened, and there is absolutely no way to save him. Your Majesty's body belongs to the world, please take care of the dragon's body."
Yan Li glanced slowly over the minister's face: "Today's court meeting, I just want to discuss one matter with you all, and other state affairs will be postponed for the time being."
"Everyone knows about the prince's misfortune. Now all kinds of evidence point to Empress Rong. She was the assassin who wanted to assassinate Empress Chu that night. It seems that there is nothing to refute. Everyone thinks, how should I deal with Empress Rong?"
The officials whispered to each other, and after a while, Yan Li asked again: "Have you made up your mind?"
Killing the prince is a serious crime, one of the heinous crimes, how can he be punished lightly? According to the rules of the past dynasties, it is necessary to implicate the nine clans.
Then the courtiers knelt down and began to play: "Empress Rong's trip is no different from snakes and scorpions. If there is no severe punishment, why should I advise the harem? If everyone in the harem takes chances and harms others, then wouldn't the harem become a hell on earth? So, according to Yichen's intention, you can give the queen a three-foot yellow silk and let her cut herself off."
Yan Li's body was half cold, and his eyes pleaded: "Can't we let the queen go?"
This minister served in Yushitai, and has always enforced the law impartially. He is upright and never shows affection: "The law has been handed down from previous dynasties to maintain the stability of the country. According to the law of the country, the queen should judge herself."
Yan Li's right hand suddenly trembled, and knocked the incense burner next to him to the ground. With a bang, the hearts of all the ministers jumped into their throats, thinking that Yan Li was angry with that minister.
"Queen Rong is the hero who founded the country. Without her, I would not be where I am today. Can't we spare her life for the sake of her contributions to the community?"
The minister, Yan Yan, remonstrated: "If the emperor must bend the law to forgive the queen, then the humble minister has nothing to say. However, in the future, how will the emperor use the law to manage the ministers and the people of the world?"
Yan Li fell silent, covering his face with his hands, not knowing how to plead for Rong Changan again.
Another minister knelt down: "Your Majesty, think about the prince who died tragically in the well, think about Empress Chu lying on the bed, and think about the mad concubine Zixuan..."
"Okay!" Yan Li waved his hand feebly, "Stop talking, I know."
Once these things were mentioned, Yan Li's heart would tingle and bleed, and when he thought of the prince in the wet swaddle, he couldn't breathe smoothly, and almost fainted.
Eunuch Lu noticed Yan Li's pale and painful expression, so he asked softly, "How is your majesty?"
Yan Li nodded.
There was also a minister who wanted to flatter Yan Li: "The emperor was right just now. If there was no empress Rong, there would be no Dajing Kingdom today. The law is inseparable from emotion, and the law without human touch is of no use! Being thrown into the cold palace is already the cruelest punishment for her."
Finally, when there was such a minister who pleaded for Rong Changan, Yan Li stood up excitedly, his eyes glowing: "Yes, you are right! If the law is impersonal, what is the use of it!"
However, no one responded to the minister's opinion. But Si Tianjian Sima Chun knelt down and told:
"Your Majesty, do you still remember the sky change that Weichen told you about? Ziwei's star's light is covered, which is a sign of the heroine's prosperity. This heroine will usurp the imperial power and harm the children of the Yan family. Now it seems that this person is Empress Rong. Undoubtedly. If the emperor keeps Empress Rong in the palace, it will be a disaster for the future!"
The blood that got hotter got colder again. Yan Li fell back to the throne. Then, several ministers knelt down and played, asking Yan Li to kill Rong Changan.
"If Chang'an dies, what's the point of me living in the world!" Yan Li sneered twice, feeling deeply exhausted, "Eunuch Lu, announce your retirement!"
Eunuch Lu saw that Yan Li was not in good health, so he stood in front, shook the whisk, and announced in his clear voice: "This morning morning is over, roll back the curtain!"
There were ministers who wanted to speak, but Yan Li had already stood up, and Eunuch Lu helped him to leave the Golden Luan Hall.
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Leng Gong. In the night sky after the snow, a crescent moon rises, just like a woman's eyebrows, but this eyebrows are cold and sad. In the silent palace, there is only the sound of wooden fish.
"Good man, when you look at heaven and man and all sentient beings in the three evil realms, you will have a heart of great compassion..."
Chanting scriptures, accompanied by the sound of wooden fish, echoed in the palace. I don't know how long it took before Rong Chang'an got up on the futon, and Nian Yi Zhuxian put it in the incense burner in front of the statue of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, and folded his hands together to pray:
"May good be rewarded with good, and evil be rewarded with evil!"
Holding the rosary in his right hand, he walked out of the Buddhist hall slowly.
"Chang'an!" Yan Li stood outside the Buddhist hall at some point.
Rong Changan didn't even look at him. She is a sinner now, he is the emperor, there is no difference between superiority and inferiority.
"What is the emperor doing here? This is a cold palace."
Yan Li: "I don't come to see you today as an emperor, but as Yan Li, the censor."
Rong Changan just turned his eyes to see that Yan Li was wearing a white robe, holding a food box in his hand, and a folding fan in the other hand, just like Yan Li back then.
"Is that white robe still worn?" Rong Changan remembered that the dress was punctured by an assassin during the disaster relief in the Northwest, and Rong Changan sewed, mended, starched and washed it for him.
Rong Changan originally wanted to keep it, but because of an incident, Rong Changan returned the robe to Yan Li.
Yan Li's cold eyes were full of affection: "I want to wear it for the rest of my life."
Rong Changan smiled lightly: "I'm afraid you won't be able to wear it forever."
Yan Li: "As long as I want to wear it, I can wear it."
Rong Changan seemed to smell the smell of death, and his eyes fell on the food box in Yan Li's hand: "Today you came to see me off
of it? "