The Jinyiwei have never liked to reason with others.
Especially Young Master Lin, he is very popular and has recently been increasingly valued by Emperor Longqing.
Master Peng's shoulders shrugged, and under the expressionless gaze of Young Master Lin, he broke out in a cold sweat. He felt his body getting colder and colder, and for a moment he even forgot to resist, until he felt a chill on his neck and realized that the Embroidered Spring Knife was already on his neck. He came back to his senses in shock.
The Peng family’s house was ransacked that day.
The Jinyiwei worked efficiently and effectively. After a few trips in and out, the women of the Peng family were sent to the Ministry of Justice, and the men were all imprisoned in the Dali Temple awaiting trial.
Master Peng was shivering with heavy shackles on his neck - his face had turned blue from the wind after riding all the way here in the prison van.
But after shivering for a while, he immediately reacted, stopped the fourth and fifth masters who kept shouting, and turned back to ask the second master with all his calmness: "What's going on?!"
The second master was carried out directly from the Ministry of Revenue. He was still wearing his official uniform, but his hat had been taken off, making his hair disheveled and messy. When he saw the eldest master asking him, he turned his neck numbly and shook his head.
Why would the Jinyiwei tell you the reason when they arrest someone
However, when the Jinyiwei went to the Ministry of Revenue to ask for someone, they had to go through the Minister of Revenue Huang Yuanfeng. Huang Yuanfeng asked about it because of their friendship. Only then did he know that the Jinyiwei arrested him because the Peng family was involved in Guo Zixing's case.
As soon as he heard the name Guo Zixing, he understood.
After shaking his head, he reacted and said to Master Peng: "Brother, the Jinyiwei arrested people personally. I heard that Lord Qian will personally try the case later. It must be Guo Zixing's case."
It was indeed Guo Zixing.
Although he already had some guesses in his mind, when the facts were really laid out before him, the master still found it hard to accept.
His heart suddenly turned gray.
He no longer cared about the Wei family or whether Wei Yangqing was dead or alive. He just asked in astonishment, "How could this happen?"
Everything is ready.
How did they get involved?!
Master Peng couldn't figure it out, he just couldn't figure it out, and the feeling of there being a knife over his head ready to chop off his neck at any time was too unbearable. He paced back and forth anxiously, eagerly thinking of various possibilities and countermeasures.
But before he could think of various strategies to deal with the situation, he was soon brought to trial for the first time.
The chief judge was Qian Shiyun, and the jury was also quite large, including the Dali Temple Secretary and Chen Yushi of the Metropolitan Procuratorate...
The most important person at the trial was King Zheng!
He was so shocked that he was speechless. In fact, he didn't need to say anything. When he and the second master were brought to the court, they looked around the room of the presiding judge and the jury in an attempt to find out something. Then they saw a familiar face - Mrs. Peng's brother, Dong Da.
Master Peng's expression was a little stiff. He looked at Master Peng II and felt a little doubtful.
Could it be that it wasn’t the frame-up of Wei Yangqing that was exposed, but something else
Otherwise, why would Dong Da be here
It was not until Guo Zixing was brought to court and spat at them that they realized that this was really related to the case in which they had framed Wei Yangqing.
Before the two of them could react, Dong Da trembled as he knelt on the ground and kowtowed several times, then handed over a thick stack of letters. He wiped the sweat from his forehead with a trembling voice, pointed at Master Peng Da and Master Peng Er and said, "They are both so cruel that they colluded with the Yi family and others to sell imperial weapons. They took advantage of their positions in the Armory and the Ministry of Revenue to enrich themselves and harm the public... Not only that, after the incident in Zhejiang, they even tried to put all the blame on Master Guo. Master Guo came to Beijing to file a complaint, but he became a prisoner..."
Master Peng finally reacted, looked at Dong Da in shock, and then started to cry out that he was innocent.
While he was crying out that he was wronged, he was actually panicking like never before. These things were supposed to be top secret! In addition to him and his brother, there was also Liu Biping...
No, even Liu Biping didn't know that he was going to frame the Wei family.
He had set up this plan so perfectly, so where did it go wrong
He couldn't figure it out, but there was one thing he knew very well, and that was that no matter what happened, Dong Da didn't know the reason.
But now Dong Da actually knows...
He subconsciously looked at Master Peng Er, his eyes were somewhat fierce and violent - could it be that his younger brother accidentally let something slip
Otherwise, Dong Da is simply a person who can't even get close to him! How can he be qualified to come out!
Qian Shiyun glanced at him calmly, his face cold and expressionless: "Master Peng, don't panic too much. We will know whether he is wronged or not after a trial."
Peng De’s eyes went dark.
Prince Zheng also laughed, and the ring on his finger still emitted a faint light under the light. He glanced at Peng De before looking at Master Dong: "The masters of the three departments have been busy with this case for nearly two months. My brother often scolds them for not paying attention, and the case has never made any progress. Now that Master Dong has come and volunteered to testify, we must listen carefully. Whether it is true or not, just like Master Qian said, we will know after a trial."
He looked at Peng De's eyes with a smile on his face, but there was no smile in his eyes at all, and said coldly: "Master Peng, why don't you listen to what Master Dong has to say first? With Master Qian and them here, how could they wrongly accuse you?"
Peng De and Peng Huai looked at each other and saw their own pale faces in each other's eyes.
Did Dong Da take the initiative to turn himself in and report it? !
What is he going to sue?!
Dong Da didn't look at them and continued what he had been interrupted with: "Master Guo didn't collude with Dingbei Marquis at all, and the so-called letters between the two were all forged. The account books and letters presented by Master Fan were all fake."
After reading the letter on the case, Censor Chen handed it over to Lord Qian and asked with a frown, "How do you know that it was Lord Fan who presented the evidence? Which Lord Fan?"
Dong Da actually knew it!
He even knows Fan Shiqi!
Peng De straightened his neck in horror, his mind going into a state of confusion.
Dong Da sneered decisively, "It was the county magistrate Fan Shiqi! He was also the one he had written a memorial to impeach Lord Guo!"
Qian Shiyun closed the letter in his hand without leaving a trace and asked calmly, "How did you know this? Such a confidential matter, could it be possible that they would tell everyone about it?"
The Three Departments only reported the progress of the case to the Cabinet and Emperor Longqing. The outside world should have known nothing about these things.
Especially since Fan Shiqi wrote the secret memorial, only Emperor Longqing and a few people in the cabinet should have known about it.
But now, Dong Da actually knew it.