The words of the Minister of Punishment were stable and clear, and King Yu's heart trembled when he heard it, and he couldn't help calling out "Royal Father" again. Emperor Liang snorted coldly, his face still as hard as iron, but he was already hesitant.
So far, he has basically determined that Xia Jiang and King Yu are jointly framing King Jing, and he is also very clear about King Yu's actions in the tragic explosion of a private artillery workshop. In part, Emperor Liang never thought about the word forgiveness at all, but now that the situation has been brought under control, he is unwilling to turn over the numerous cases to the court for public hearing.
"Cai Qing, I will issue a written order to remove Zhu Yue's official title. After the dismissal, there will be no need for a three-division trial. You can handle it with full authority." Emperor Liang calmly said to Cai Quan, "I think the case has been tried. The level of Zhu Yue is enough to calm the hearts of the people, so let's end it, there is no need to interrogate any masters and so on."
"Your Majesty..."
"As for the other people to be dealt with, I will deal with it myself," Liang Di cut off the sentence of the Minister of Punishment with a blank expression, "Cai Qing just close the case, thank you for your hard work."
The muscles on Cai Quan's cheeks were tensed, and he lowered his head, hiding the forbearing expression on his face and the deep anger in his eyes. He did not hear the voice of King Yu kneeling in the temple and kowtowing to thank him. He was trying to control his emotions, forcing himself not to continue arguing with Emperor Liang, because he knew that arguing was useless.
"Cai Qing, do you understand what I mean?" Emperor Liang waited for a long time, but before the word "leadership" came from below, he couldn't help raising his eyebrows and intensified his tone.
Cai Quan took a deep breath, paused again, then bowed down and said in a low voice, "This minister leads the order."
"If you have nothing else to do, you should leave first."
"Yes." Cai Quan pursed his lips tightly into a straight line, finished the salute rigorously, and exited the Warm Pavilion. As soon as he walked out of the hall door, the cold wind with snowy air blew from the corridor, and it was chilling to the bone, but the young Minister of Punishment felt that his heart was burning and burning uncomfortably. The eunuch who was serving in the outer hall brought the cloak he took off before entering the pavilion.
Outside the palace gate, the sedan chair of the Cai mansion was still parked in the same place, and the servants rushed to greet him as soon as they saw him. But Cai Quan didn't get on the sedan chair. He pulled one of the attendants' horses, turned over, and ran towards the city alone, completely ignoring the panic behind him. Just like this, I didn't know how long I ran on the horse before I gradually heard someone shouting from behind: "Brother Cai! Brother Cai!"
Cai Quan reined in the reins of the horse and stopped. The minister of personnel, Shen Chai, appeared in front of him with a round face. Seeing the panting appearance, he must have been chasing him for a while.
"What's wrong? Look at your face..." Shen Zhui stretched out his hand to grab Cai Quan's horse's head and asked with concern.
Cai Quan raised his head, looked at the gloomy sky, was silent for a moment, and suddenly said, "Brother Shen, accompany me to the restaurant for a drink?"
Shen Zhui was stunned for a while, then smiled, and said warmly, "You are still wearing court clothes. Come on, the corner is my house. I have a jar of champion red that has been stored for 60 years. You can drink enough."
Cai Quan did not refuse, and the two entered the Shen residence together. Shen Zhui sent the guests to sit in the small flower hall in the front yard, and ordered the banquet, but as soon as the wine and dishes were set, Cai Quan drank three glasses in a row.
"Okay, you can't drink like this," Shen Zhui pressed the mouth of his cup and asked, "What's the matter? Did you enter the palace dressed like this?"
"Yeah..." Cai Quan let out a long sigh, "The case of the private gun shop... I mentioned it to you..."
"Has that important witness been tried?"
"Yes..." Cai Quan rubbed his forehead vigorously, his voice full of exhaustion, "I tried for a few nights, and I finally got it clear. I'll report to Your Majesty today. But... Your Majesty told me to close the case, saying that it was Zhu Yue's place. You can stop, don't continue... don't dig out the roots..."
Shen Zhui shook his head sadly and said, "You should have prepared for this result."
"I prepared it, really," Cai Quan grabbed the glass with red eyes and took another gulp, "Brother Shen, you don't know how disappointed and uncomfortable I am... His Majesty was really angry when he read the confession. While scolding King Yu, scolding him for playing tricks, scolding him for deceiving the king, and King Yu has been apologizing, saying that he was only forced to helpless, and never dared to despise Huangwei... But what is the point? The point is not here! Sixty Nine lives, sixty-nine lives! For the emperor, this is not worth scolding, and for King Yu, is this not worth regretting? No one mentioned it, no one took it seriously, they didn't mind , what are they in their hearts? What is it?!"
Shen Zhui was stunned for a long time, suddenly grabbed the wine glass, looked up and did it.
"In order to gain personal gain, it is outrageous to waste people's lives like this, but what makes me feel even more chilling is that... the ruler doesn't care about this..." Cai Quan's hand on the table clenched into a fist, his eyes were straight Looking ahead, "The so-called human life depends on the sky, that is the bottom line. If we continue to spend it like this, what kind of arrogance does Daliang have, and how can the people survive? Such people who don't care about people's livelihood are the lords we will serve. ?"
"Who said that?" Shen Zhui suddenly slapped the table, "I've never said this before, but I can tell you now, don't be discouraged, and there is His Royal Highness Prince Jing."
Cai Quan's eyebrows twitched, and he slowly turned his eyes to look directly at Shen Zhui, "Since you said it, I will not hide it from you, and I have the same expectations for His Royal Highness Prince Jing as you. Seriously, if His Royal Highness Prince Jing doesn't have someone by his side who can block the dark arrows for him, he may not be able to reach the last step... We can't help with these."
Hearing what he said, Shen Zhui's face also darkened, he shook his head and sighed, "What you said is that His Royal Highness Prince Jing is still imprisoned in the mansion to reflect... beg… "
"Speaking of this, you don't have to worry," Cai Quan had just vented, and felt a little more comfortable, "Although I didn't understand it very well in the palace today, but I heard that it seems to be the handwriting of King Yu, and it has been The emperor sees through, I think His Royal Highness Prince Jing should be fine soon."
Shen Chai was overjoyed, he let out a long sigh of relief and said, "This is good, this is good, the emperor is not confused to the end."
"And the Xuanjing Division seems to be involved. When His Majesty scolded King Yu, he also scolded Xia Jiang. This has never happened before."
"Xuanjing Division?" Shen Zhui said suddenly, "No wonder... I was outside today and saw the Imperial Army go to seal up the Xuanjing Division... It seems that this storm is indeed not small. It is indeed a blessing for His Royal Highness Prince Jing to escape."
Cai Quan closed his tired eyes and said in a low voice, "But the situation in the court is like this, and it's really disheartening..."
"You are wrong," Shen Zhui looked at him deeply, "the more the situation is like this, the less we can't be disheartened. Since we are in position, we should seek political affairs. Although there are some things that you and I are powerless to do, there are such things. The thought of serving the country and the people is always better than a vegetarian meal.”
Cai Quan pondered, as if in a trance. After a while, he sighed and raised the jug again. Although Shen Zhui was trying to persuade him, he was actually angry in his heart. At this time, he didn't stop him. Instead, he accompanied him, and I drank one cup at a time.
When the two six ministers were drinking wine to drown their sorrows in the Shen mansion, Meng Zhi also completed his mission and sealed up the Xuanjing Division neatly. Xia Jiang was not a person who would be caught without his hands, but an imperial decree was pressed down, and Commander Meng was sitting on the scene. It was obvious that the soft and hard could not please, so he did not resist in the slightest, but repeatedly asked for the face of the saint, Meng Zhi was cold and cold. He listened indifferently, neither agreeing nor refusing, first stared at the man to put fine iron shackles on him, then went straight to the small cell behind and released Mei Changsu.
To be honest, the Xuanjing Division didn't bother Mei Changsu very much, and Xia Jiang continued to detain him, but he was unwilling to leave too much time for the research and detoxification of this extraordinary Jiang Zuomeng suzerain, and wanted to detain him for a few more days. . But after all, being in jail is a prison sentence. The medicine for recuperation is broken, and the diet is also extremely poor. Therefore, over the past few days, Mei Changsu has become increasingly skinny and pitifully thin. Heartache.
Because there were soldiers accompanying him, Mei Changsu didn't want to appease him too much, so he could only smile and say, "The great commander came to rescue him personally, Su Mouming felt deeply. It's just that it's a mess here, so it's inconvenient to thank him. Please see the commander when you arrive."
Meng Zhi stabilized his mind, reluctantly smiled politely, turned around and assigned two confidants, ordering them to escort Mei Changsu back to the mansion properly. After everything was arranged here, he personally escorted Xia Jiang into the Heavenly Prison, where he was imprisoned in the most stringent Heavenly-branded room, and then he re-dressed and entered the palace to return the decree to Emperor Liang.
"What did Xia Jiang say?" Emperor Liang had just reprimanded King Yu and told him to return to the mansion to wait for disposal, so he was still in a bad mood, and his face was so dark that it seemed like a thunderbolt would strike at any time.
"He refused to admit his guilt, and kept asking for a face to face." Meng Zhi said truthfully.
"Of course he won't admit it," Emperor Liang sneered. "Xia Jiang is someone who won't give up at the last moment. If he confesses his guilt happily, I will find it strange."
"But Your Majesty..." Meng Zhi took a step forward and said with a bewildered look on his face, "When I sent Xia Dong to the Heavenly Prison, she always insisted on defending Xia Jiang, saying... She robbed Wei Zheng because she wanted to avenge her husband. Make up your own mind and have nothing to do with her master... Do you think that is really the case?"
Emperor Liang couldn't help but glance at Meng Zhi, "You, the warrior's mind is too simple. You are the only one who believes what Xia Dong said. If she just wanted to avenge her husband, she would kill her in prison, pretending to be robbed and doing something. Didn't King Ji still see them giving Wei Zheng a good mood? Obviously he didn't want him to die. If Xia Dong did this alone, Wei Zheng would have died a long time ago. I think Xia Jiang probably wants to continue doing something with Wei Zheng. Let's say it, for example, secretly put it in a place under King Jing's jurisdiction, and then send someone to search it out, it will naturally become Jingyan's criminal evidence..."
"Ah?" Meng Zhi's expression was horrified and horrified, "This... This is too poisonous... Only His Majesty can understand these joints, this minister is stupid... I have never thought about it like this at all... "
"I know Xia Jiang's methods," Emperor Liang narrowed his eyes with a stern expression, "I used to think that he would never deceive me, so I didn't think too much about it, but when I think about it now, it's really shocking... "
"That summer and winter..."
"What Xia Dong said was just to exonerate her master, just listen to it, can you believe it?"
"So Wei Zheng might still be alive..."
"It should still be in Xia Jiang's hands. However, he will never hand over Wei Zheng."
"Why is this?"
Emperor Liang glanced at Meng Zhi again, "If you say that you are too simple, you really don't think about it? Xia Jiang clearly proved that King Jing sent someone to kidnap the traitor, but in the end, he handed over Wei Zheng himself. Come out, isn't that the same as a confession? I said that Xia Jiang would not be so easy to confess."
Meng Zhi actually wanted to laugh very much in his heart now, but Langya's second master would not have even this bit of self-control, so his expression was still very serious, and he said solemnly: "To frame the prince, it is really impossible to redeem a hundred deaths. Sin, if Xia Jiang has any greed for life, he will definitely refuse to hand over Wei Zheng."
"You finally got some insight." Emperor Liang let out a long sigh, leaned back weakly, and said, "Go and tell Xia Jiang, I don't want to hear him complain now, and tell him to think about it and think clearly. , give him a pen and paper, and ask him to write a paper."
"Yes."
"Let's step back." Emperor Liang waved his hand, only to feel tired, so he closed his eyes and fell asleep unconsciously. Gao Zhan stepped forward gently and asked in a low voice, "Your Majesty, are you going to rest here today?"
Emperor Liang ignored him for a long time, and seemed to have fallen asleep, but after about a quarter of an hour, he opened his eyes slightly and ordered, "Let's set up the Zhiluo Palace."