Jingtai Fengyun: The First Absurd Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 413
Zhu Qiyu remained unmoved, just quietly waiting for Sun Zhong to speak.

Sun Zhong saw that he had been crying for a long time, but the emperor didn't answer at all, so he had to bite the bullet and cry: "The minister is guilty, and the Sun family is guilty. When it came to abolishing the empress, the Sun family was greedy for profit and catered to the empress dowager.

Now the ministers are inexplicably terrified and regretful.

I implore Your Majesty to grant the crime, and the minister and Nizi are willing to remove their titles and hand over their family property.It is enough to be a farmer in one's hometown to be blessed by the Holy Spirit. "

Zhu Qiyu smiled and shook his head: "Marquis Huichang, I'm afraid you can't say anything about the Sun family's affairs. Will your sons listen to you?"

This sentence hit Sun Zhong's heart disease: his daughter is the queen mother and refuses to retire; his sons are uncles of the country and refuses to retire.No one is willing to give up the glory and wealth that has already been obtained.

Confronting the emperor, it's okay to win, but it's the Yi tribe if you lose.

Before, Sun Zhong could sit back and watch his sons mess around, but now the emperor publicly declared that he would kill the people who killed Empress Hu, and his attitude was extremely firm.

Then there is no need to fight anymore, because the risk is too great, and it is completely out of proportion to the benefit.

There was no way out, so Sun Zhong had no choice but to show his old face, and continued to ask boldly: "Nizi is ignorant, but as the head of the family, I will not hesitate to use family law to break all the legs of my sons, which will also prevent him from continuing. Help the evildoer.

It's just that I don't know how His Majesty can forgive the sins of the ministers a little bit, so that the ministers can work in the fields and live in the countryside? "

Zhu Qiyu thought about it a little bit in his heart: It's not impossible to ask me to raise the conditions. I'll make a price. If you can really match the price, it's not impossible to let you live.

After organizing his words, Zhu Qiyu replied with a sad face: "My mother was lonely and desolate when she was alive, and it was even more miserable after she passed away. The shameless treacherous person actually bewitched Xuanmiao with evil words, causing the mother to be buried as a concubine.

The mother and concubine mourned and pitied me, so she adopted me to the mother, so that the mother's affairs after death can be relied on.

But people in the world are unwilling to admit that my mother is the first wife of Xuanmiao, let alone that I am my mother's first son.

I am young and inexperienced, with few talents and little virtue, and no one advocates for me.Every time I think about it, I feel ashamed of my mother and feel ashamed. "

Although Zhu Qiyu said a lot of official words, Sun Zhong understood immediately: the price offered by the emperor was so high that the Sun family should take the lead in acknowledging that the emperor is the son of Xuanmiao.

Not only that, Zhu Qiyu continued to add: "It doesn't matter what I am. It's just that I have an eldest son now, and I hope he can grow up safely and become a useful talent for the country. If so, my wish is enough."

When Sun Zhong heard this, he frowned. The emperor's meaning, translated into plain language, was: The Sun family must take the lead in admitting that I am the son of Xuanmiao, and they must also fully support my eldest son as the crown prince.Only in this way, I will let you live.

Sun Zhong thought for a while, then asked back: "Dare to ask Your Majesty, what about our Sun family?"

"As the Marquis of Huichang said."

Sun Zhong was speechless, the emperor is real enough, really let us go home and farm.

After thinking for a while, Sun Zhong agreed.Anyway, it's already like this, first agree to it, and then say that you can't do it in the future, it's better than having no leeway and being directly exiled by the three clans.

Both Zhu Qiyu and Sun Zhong had a mentality of giving it a try without losing money, and temporarily reached a transaction intention.

Zhu Qiyu went home and Sun Zhong returned to the city.

When the ministers returned to the city, they also went their separate ways and got busy separately.

The busiest of them all was the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Wang Wen, Kou Shen, Xue Xuan, and Xiao Weizhen gathered together and looked through the files.

These people are smart and knowledgeable, and even have experience in solving cases.Especially those like Xue Xuan, who had been a minister of Dali Temple before, can be called rich in experience.

But when it comes to extorting confessions by torture, especially the interrogation of inner court officials, a few of them are completely laymen.

Although the Ministry of Punishment also has experts in torture, the problem is still the same. The people in the Ministry of Punishment don't know the way of the inner court, and they don't even know where to ask.

Fortunately, not long after, Menda and Lu Gao came to the Metropolitan Procuratorate by order.

Jin Yiwei and the others are professionals. Since the matter is of great importance, Wang Wen and others followed Lu Gao into the prison and listened in on the sidelines.

Now Wang Wen and others have learned a lot.

By noon the next day, some palace officials couldn't bear it anymore and began to confess.

Once the breakthrough is opened, it is completely unstoppable.

At night, the palace people had confessed one after another.

Only a few people such as Jin Ying are still carrying it to death.

Menda was okay, but Lu Gao just wanted to take credit, so he stayed in the prison without sleep, interrogating day and night.

Lu Gao's methods are quite in the style of the later generations: he and his subordinates take turns to fight, all kinds of torture methods, non-stop, life and death just don't let Jin Ying and others sleep.

After another four full days of suffering, Jin Ying finally collapsed.

During this period, Queen Zhou and the crown prince were moved to Nangong, leaving Kunning Palace empty.

The public opinion among the people is getting more and more turbulent, but the court is still surprisingly quiet.

Among the civil and military officials, they all exchanged opinions in private, but no one played.

April [-]th, early in the morning.

Zhu Qiyu woke up in the gentle village, his first reaction was to look around.

If a little maid comes to deliver a secret letter, it means that the storm has finally arrived.

If the little maid didn't come, and there was no secret letter placed by the bedside, it meant that the silence was still going on.

Zhu Qiyu understood very well that this was the calm before the storm.

The more silent and suppressed it is at this time, the more ferocious it will be once it explodes.

It was noon again, and when Zhu Qiyu got up and had just finished eating, Jin Yiwei's secret report just arrived.

The dossier came in two copies: one was the original of the most complete dossier, and the other was a CC copy of the deleted dossier.

After reading it in detail, Zhu Qiyu had a feeling: Wealth and wealth are sought in danger, this Lu Gao, wanting to get promoted and get rich is crazy.

After thinking about it, Zhu Qiyu can also understand Lu Gao.The death of another prince, King Tan, was also judged by Lu Gao.

Then Lu Gao put the confidant of the Empress Dowager Sun's confidant, Wang Shi, the concubine of King Tan, to the point of self-immolation.

Since then, Lu Gao has no turning back.

Zhu Qiyu nodded in satisfaction, as Jin Yiwei should be like this.What you eat and drink is given by the emperor, so you should give your life to the emperor.

Zhu Qiyu looked at the dossier again, and had to say that Lu Gao was really capable in his work, not only was he good at interrogating prisoners, he was also very precise in trying to figure out the emperor's will.

The most complete dossier clearly involved Empress Dowager Sun.Therefore, it is suitable to keep it in the hand as a deterrent to the Sun family.It can also be thrown out when necessary to give Sun a fatal blow.

The incomplete dossier has limited strength and is suitable for public disclosure.

For Zhu Qiyu, it was easy to kill the Sun family and Zhu Qizhen, but the difficulty was how to gain the orthodox status and win the hearts of the people of the world.

Zhu Qiyu came to Fengge and handed the dossier to He Yi: "Xingyi, chaos will break out, let's publish this dossier."

(End of this chapter)