When Hunjun begins to make elixirs

Chapter 59 What did you do to them

The official from the Ministry of Justice obviously came with a mission and wanted to confuse right and wrong. He believed that there was no substantial evidence that Gong Jiang was involved in Liu Zheng's murder.

Li Shun was already out of anger: "You want evidence, right? Xin Shu! Bring the evidence!"

Xin Shu took the order and left. Not long after, he came to the hall with a man and a woman.

When Miyajiang saw this pair of men and women, his eyes were as wide as bells, and he screamed in a muffled voice.

Gong San, since the last time you came to the inn, he was only held in the Shenji Guard's prison for three days before being released. However, he also saw Shenji Guard's various methods of rectifying people. The most important thing was Xin Jiwei. Shu seized on him and had an affair with Miyajiang's concubine, using this as a threat to make him his spy.

He is Gong Jiang's most trusted butler, so many of the conspiracies with Hu Minde are passed through him.His rebellion directly led to their plan being completely exposed to Li Shun's eyes.

"Take it out!" Xin Shu reached out to Gong San and asked for the secret message.

At this point, Gong San could only go all the way to the dark side. He gingerly took out the secret letter: "This is the evidence that Gong Jiang murdered Governor Liu!"

Li Shun knew the content of the letter a long time ago, but he still took it over: "Good! What a commander-in-chief! What a prime minister! A nest of snakes and rats! Working together!"

Seeing that the secret letter was exposed, Gong Jiang knew that everything was over. No wonder the emperor would kill those rebels without hesitation. It turned out that their testimony was not needed at all.

He took the letter in his hand and waved it: "Do you want to read it?" Everyone bowed their heads and remained silent, knowing that this might be a letter written by Hu Minde to Gong Jiang, and they were afraid of getting into trouble.

Li Shun ordered people to take out what was stuffed in Gong Jiang's mouth and wanted several people to confront him.

As soon as Gong Jiang was relieved of the foreign object in his mouth, he immediately cursed: "Gong San, you bastard, not only cuckolded me, you also betrayed me!"

Gong San misunderstood the emperor's meaning and thought it was his bad taste. He hugged Gong Jiang's favorite concubine and said, "Master, you know me. I never ask for anything."

Miyajiang was so angry that he asked, "Chunxiang, why are you doing this?"

Concubine Chunxiang delicately hid herself in Gong San's arms: "Master, you know me, I have always been proactive. But, master, you also know your own situation. If the palace steward is like a blue dragon going to sea, master, you are like a turtle. Spit, boring.”

"Ah!" Gongjiang shouted to the sky, suffering a double blow both physically and mentally.

What a pair of dogs and men!

Li Shun felt a little sorry for Gong Jiang. Isn't this just Lu Junyi, the jade unicorn?Why did he either fall into the hands of the housekeeper or get slapped by the manager?

He walked over and said, "Do you plead guilty now?"

Gong Jiang saw that he was helpless: "I am guilty! But everything was ordered by Hu Minde. I hope the emperor will be merciful and let my family go."

Li Shun whispered: "Hu Minde ordered everything? Hu Minde asked you to assassinate him. But you incited the soldiers to come and make trouble. You wanted to kill two birds with one stone. You could not only remove Liu Zheng, but also use the pretext of quelling the chaos to remove these people. What's more? Credit.”

Li Shun took a stack of evidence of Gong Jiang's corruption from Xin Shu: "Originally, with your merits and prestige, it is a charge of weak restraint. I may not be able to take away your military power. Instead, I want to win you over, but you are too greedy. You deducted military pay, exploited soldiers, and blackmailed the people, so you were afraid that I would punish you with this, so you chose Hu Minde's path."

"You have a lot of troops. If you don't kill Liu Zheng, it's really hard for me to deal with you. After all, the corruption issue involves many people, so I might throw a trap at the mercy of others for the sake of stability. You are smart but you are mistaken for your cleverness."

Only the two of them could hear the conversation, and all the officials were curious about what the emperor said to him, making him look resigned to his fate.

Gong Jiang looked at Li Shun in fear. He had guessed all his mental activities. He lowered his head, first smiled bitterly, and then laughed: "Your Majesty, you are right. I am greedy. Everyone here is greedy." There are a few who are not greedy. If you two generations of the Li family are holy masters and wise kings, I should be loyal to the king and patriotic, serve the battlefield, and be buried in horse leather. But what have you done? The upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked!"

"Stop making excuses for me!" Li Shun scolded angrily: "Did I teach you to be corrupt? Did I teach you to prey on the common people? Did I teach you to murder Shangguan?"

Miyajiang was speechless.Because Jin Wuwei blocked his mouth again.

Li Shun glanced at the people sent by the Ministry of War and the Third Law Department: "You haven't planned a crime yet? I'm waiting for you to have your heads chopped off!" The evidence was conclusive and irrefutable. They looked at the Jinwu Guards who were watching eagerly around them, and quickly drafted the charges. capital offense.At the same time, he also understood that the emperor was going to declare a full-scale war with the Hu family.They have to choose their side again.If the emperor controls the troops and horses of the three major battalions, then he has a great chance of winning.

The official from the Ministry of Justice who just made such nonsense came over and handed over the resolution: "I request the emperor to sentence this rebellious minister to execution! The nine Yi tribes!"

Li Shun just looked at it and was sure, and handed it over to Jinwu Guard and Shenji Guard for execution: "Take it to the school grounds and summon all the generals of the three major battalions to come and watch the execution!"

At the Sixth Army Campus, the generals and soldiers lined up neatly.The dark armor absorbs the heat of the sun.

The emperor came on stage, and all the generals saluted: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live."

Li Shun said loudly: "Today, I am here to investigate the corruption of military pay, secondly to reward you for your efforts in defending the capital over the years, and thirdly to punish corrupt officials and give you justice! Bring me here!"

Jinwuwei immediately brought Miyajiang's family, while Shenjiwei moved large boxes to the opposite side and opened them all, filled with white money.

Officials from the Ministry of War came forward and declared: "Holy edict, Gong Jiang, a man, has embezzled and accepted bribes, withheld military pay, murdered Liu Zheng, the governor of Zhili, and conspired to rebel. He has committed a heinous crime. Now that the evidence of the crime has been verified, he is sentenced to death by execution! Kill the nine tribes!"

After the imperial edict was read out, the swordsman and axe-hand immediately executed it.The entire school grounds were silent, silenced by the emperor's operation of killing chickens to scare monkeys.

Li Shun marched first and then saluted, pointing to the big boxes: "Here are the military pay that I brought to you. All the arrears in the past will be repaid in full! I will send people to supervise the distribution and prevent corruption from happening again. The three major camps are the emperor's. Guards, I will not hold you accountable for the past, from now on, you can only be loyal to me!"

"Long live my emperor! I swear allegiance to you to the death!"

There are a bunch of bloody heads on one side and white money on the other. Comparing the two, anyone who is not blind knows how to choose!
In the Prime Minister's Mansion in the capital.

When Hu Minde received the news of Gong Jiang's confession, he yelled: "Gong Jiang! I asked you to deal with it, I asked you to assassinate me! Why are you doing all these unnecessary actions! You also let the secret message fall into the hands of the emperor! We are implicated by you!" He was so anxious that he paced back and forth and called several core members of the family to discuss countermeasures. He informed everyone about the Longdu Mansion.

Hu Zhisheng said: "Dad! Let's rebel! While the emperor is not in the capital, we close the city gates and declare his accession to the throne. Now both the court and the middle are our people. With your prestige, they will definitely support you!"

Hu Minde glared at Hu Zhisheng fiercely: "Are you confused? The emperor is not here, but the Jinwu Guard, Shenji Guard, and the cronies he arranged in the city defense have not taken away any of them. He is just guarding us! "

Hu Minyi on the side asked: "Brother, have you got anything into the hands of the emperor?" Seeing Hu Minde's furious look, he lost his previous calmness.

"I sent a sealed letter to Gongjiang. He was probably afraid that I wouldn't admit it, so he didn't destroy it and it fell into the hands of the emperor."

Hu Minyi said: "In this case, I agree with what Zhi Sheng said. It's better to rebel sooner than later. The emperor has the military power and has already formed an advantage over us. Even if he doesn't use the secret letter to launch an attack, he will gradually reduce the power of our Hu family. Power. If the Hu family has no power, how can they gain support from nobles? What difference will it make in the end?"

"We are not proclaiming the emperor, but replacing him with someone else. Back then, the fourth prince had the support of many nobles. The second brother is currently the governor of Jiangdu and is very close to his fiefdom. We can ask him to mediate."

Hu Minde hesitated: "Wouldn't this lead to chaos in the world?"

Hu Minyi further puzzled: "Are we just going to sit back and wait for death? Waiting for the emperor to come and confiscate our homes and exterminate our clans?"

Other members of the Hu family thought it made sense and agreed: "Master, just follow what Third Master said! We really have no way out."

Hu Minde looked at these people and suddenly felt a sense of strangeness and crisis. When did they have such a good relationship with Lao San: "Let me think about it."

Hu Minyi sneered: "Brother, what else do you have to consider?" He clapped his hands, and the Hu family members, including Hu Zhisheng, surrounded him as if they had no consciousness of their own, and chanted repeatedly.

"Dad! Go against it!"

"Master! Rebellion!"

Hu Minde finally realized something was wrong: "Hu Minyi! What did you do to them!"

(End of this chapter)