high official

Chapter 1184
In the capital, the news of Wang Xian's defeat has become known to everyone...

The common people were all as if they had lost their souls. They never imagined that when the overall situation was settled, the situation turned suddenly and the entire army of the imperial court was wiped out!
The Lord Zhen Guo, who has become the new patron saint in the hearts of the people, unexpectedly suffered such a crushing defeat, losing the entire army of the imperial court...

This defeat dealt too heavy a blow to the people of Ming Dynasty.This is not only the collapse of the gods, but also the collapse of beliefs. The pride and self-confidence that was re-established from the Hongwu period and reached its peak in the Yongle period was completely shattered by this defeat... The common people no longer dare to call themselves a big country and proud people , the fear of the Tatars also reached an unprecedented peak.Many wealthy families began to make plans to move out of the capital and prepare to go to the south to escape the war.

Everyone understands that the imperial court is temporarily powerless against the Mongols, and the Tartars will annex Hetao and look down on the Central Plains!Since then, Xuanda Great Wall has become the front line, and Juyongguan may be trampled by Mongolian cavalry at any time, and the day when soldiers approach the city seems to be at hand!

Faced with such a dangerous situation, the common people's dissatisfaction with the imperial court grew day by day.In the streets and alleys, there are voices yelling that the imperial court is useless and that one generation is not as good as the next.Soon, under the guidance of some people, the common people gradually focused their attention on Duke Zhen, who was still alive and dead, thinking that if he hadn't seen it until he disobeyed it and made a rash advance, Daming would not have suffered such a disastrous defeat!

This is really like water, and people's movements are like smoke. Wang Xian has fallen from a national hero to a national sinner, and all he needs is a big defeat...

Under the control of such emotions, the common people had almost no objection to the court's abolition of Wang Xian's title and the investigation of the royal party members, and there was even a lot of applause.

In order to investigate the members of the royal party, Zhu Zhanji ordered Hu Yun to rebuild the East Factory. There was only one task, to arrest anyone who was related to Wang Xian outside Shandong.Within a few days, tens of thousands of people were imprisoned. The Dongchang Fanzi, who had been re-employed, hated Wang Xian who made them unemployed, so he naturally wanted to entertain his relatives.

In the Dongchang Prison, the fanzi tortured day and night, and forced Wang Xian to confess his crimes against the king.Under torture, what kind of confession cannot be obtained?In just a few days, the crimes sorted out by Dongchang have accumulated to a height of several feet. There are as many as a thousand crimes!
On this day, Hu Yun was carefully sifting through Wang Xian's crimes, hoping to find some serious crimes against Tian Tiao, so that he could submit them to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.But what makes him extremely depressed is that among the thousand crimes, more than 900 are "stealing the neighbor's pants when I was a child", "molesting women when I was a teenager", "spitting everywhere when I was in my twenties", and so on. It's not even a shit thing.

Among the remaining dozens of articles, there are some exciting charges, such as treason, bribery, murder, forming a party, etc., but after a closer look, the confessions themselves are so absurd that no one will believe them. ... For example, a guy who had been in Wang Xian's tent for several years with a hundred households confessed that Wang Xian had approached him and wanted to recruit him into a group and form a party to rebel together.

With Wang Xiangui's status as an extremely personable minister, even if he pulls people to rebel, he must be at least the second rank or above. How can the Earl take off and discuss with a small hundred households?
Similar flaws abound, it can be said that the paper is full of absurd words!

This is not to say that Wang Xian is really innocent, on the contrary, the things he has done are enough to copy his nine clans a hundred times.But those things are all implicated in Jinshang, even the prince, even if those prisoners dare to say it, Dongchang fanzi dare not remember it!
In the past three years, Wang Xian has acted cautiously and cleanly, and he has never given any evidence to others.This is what led to the current situation...

Hu Quan was worrying, when he suddenly heard a report from his subordinates that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had arrived.

Hu Quan quickly put down the work at hand, and wanted to go out to meet the Lord.But Zhu Zhanji, who was in plain clothes, had already arrived at the door of the signing room.

Hu Yun rushed to pay respects and respectfully invited His Royal Highness the Prince to enter.

"What are you busy with?" Zhu Zhanji was a little absent-minded, picked up a confession and turned it over.

"Return to Your Highness, the officials are sorting out Wang Xian's crimes." Hu Yun replied softly.

"Oh, what's the progress?" Zhu Zhanji became interested.

"Not yet." Hu Yu shook his head helplessly and said: "Although there are many confessions, most of them are not true. They can really stand up, and there are very few charges." Not only are there few, there is simply no...

"Well..." Zhu Zhanji obviously had expected this situation, so he was not surprised at all. He just ordered lightly: "The crime of resisting the decree and not obeying the enemy and rushing into the enemy is enough for him. Convicted. You can make do and add a few more, so that it will look better when the time comes." After a pause, he said: "It really doesn't work, you go to the Ministry of Criminal Justice to check the files of Lan Yu's case back then, and see how Lan Yu was punished at that time. If you want to convict someone, just copy a few of them."

"Your Highness is wise, I am enlightened for my minister!" Hu Yu said in his heart, "You should have said it earlier, so as to save me all this trouble." ’ On the face, he said respectfully: "Your Highness took the time to come here, it seems that it is not just to give advice to the minister."

"Hmm." Zhu Zhanji's expression was erratic, and he tapped his fingers on the table lightly and said: "Show Gu the list of prisoners."

"Yes." Hu Yun replied, he was sorting out the file, and the list of prisoners was in his hand, and he hurriedly presented a thick file to His Highness the Crown Prince with both hands.

Zhu Zhanji took it over and opened it. It was full of the names of members of the royal party, as well as their official positions, years and places of origin. They were classified into categories and listed densely.

According to the index, Zhu Zhanji quickly found the list of arrested officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, from which he found the name of Yu Qian, the censor of Youqian Capital.However, Zhu Zhanji's eyes did not stop at Yu Qian's personal information, but fell directly on the column of family members below.

Zhu Zhanji's eyes lingered on the family fence for a long time, as if he was reminiscing about something, but he showed a rare gentle expression.But after all, he said slowly: "Bring her to see Gu."

Hu Yu hurriedly took it over and took a look, only to see that Yu Wang was impressively written on it, the younger sister of the original Zhen Guogong Wang Xian, aged 24.

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With the order of His Royal Highness, the people from Dongchang hurriedly picked up the female prisoner from the women's prison and brought her to the signing room.

The female prisoner was naturally Yinling. Wang Xian placed his parents, wife, children, brother and sister-in-law in Jinan, but he couldn't control his married sister and brother-in-law.In fact, Wang Xian also persuaded him to be too modest. If he stayed in the capital, he might be implicated by himself, and it would be safer to go to Shandong to be an official.

But Yu Qian refused to listen. It is impossible for this loyal Taoist teacher to leave his king.Yu Qian didn't leave, so Yinling naturally stayed in the capital.As a result, Dongchang was the first to arrest people, and they were arrested.

Hu Quan knew that His Highness the Crown Prince would definitely not want to be surrounded by people, so he quietly led the people back out and stood guard at the door himself.

There were only the two men and women left in the signing room. Zhu Zhanji stared closely at the woman in the cloth dress and skirt, with slightly messy temple hair, but did not damage her beautiful face and elegant demeanor, and her heart beat wildly.

"Yinling..." Zhu Zhanji couldn't help hissing, and took two steps forward involuntarily.Looking at this woman who had fascinated him so much, he suddenly seemed to return to the time when he was young and frivolous.

However, Yinling was still as cold as water, unmoving, but said indifferently: "I am already married, and calling me by my boudoir name is not proper for Your Highness, so it is better to call me Yu Wang."

Zhu Zhanji stood there in a daze at the time, and then suddenly realized that several years had passed, and he was no longer that passionate and innocent little grandson, and she was no longer that innocent and pungent little Yinling.

Hearing Yinling's claim, Zhu Zhanji was so angry that he raised his head and panted for a long time, but when he lowered his head, he smiled all over his face, fixedly looked at Yinling and said, "Are you angry at me on purpose, right?" When Yinling answered, he nodded excitedly and said, "It must be like this."

Yinling looked at Zhu Zhanji who was very strange, and shook her head helplessly.

"You're still angry at me for not being able to withstand the pressure of the emperor's grandfather and marrying someone else to be the princess, right?" Zhu Zhanji became more and more excited as he spoke, and rushed forward in three steps at a time, holding it tightly Yinling's shoulder, excitedly said: "It was my fault at the time, but I had no choice but to do it! It's fine now, no one can stop us from being together! Yinling, give me a chance to correct my mistakes Bar!"

As he spoke, his breathing involuntarily became heavy, and he hugged Yinling tightly! "As long as you promise me, the Crown Princess is yours, and the future Empress of Ming Dynasty is also yours!"

"Your Highness, please respect yourself, the daughter of the people is already a married woman!" Yinling struggled and said angrily, "Aren't you afraid that you will leave a bad name in the history books when you insult me ​​like this?!"

"What infamy, you are so naive, Shi Chen is my royal dog, give them the courage, they will not dare to bite the master!" Zhu Zhanji was bloody, desperate to get the silver bell.He looked at the pretty face that he had been thinking about day and night, and wanted to kiss him fiercely, but he was suddenly stunned.

Seeing blood dripping down the corner of Yinling's mouth, she actually wanted to bite her tongue and commit suicide!

After all, Yinling has status in Zhu Zhanji's heart. Seeing the blood, His Highness the Crown Prince seemed to have been poured with cold water, and all of his cockroaches disappeared at once. He quickly pinched her jaw to prevent her from really putting Tongue bit down.

"It's all because of Yu Qian's good deeds, which brought you into Taoism!" After being dazed, Zhu Zhanji became angry, and said through gritted teeth: "If you want him to return you to me, or else he will kill you thousands of times!" cut!"

Yinling's jaw was pinched, blood dripped continuously from the corner of her mouth, staining her jade-like chin red, but she just said indifferently: "My husband has nothing but pride, I'm afraid His Highness won't be able to fulfill his wish."

Hearing Yinling praise Yu Qian, Zhu Zhanji became even more furious and said: "No matter how hard the bones are, they are not as hard as torture tools!"

But Yinling said very firmly: "You can break bones, but you can't beat people's bones."

"Ah! Are you going to piss me off?!" The tyranny in Zhu Zhanji's bones was aroused. He stared at Yinling, gritted his teeth and said, "And your brother, where is your family? Do they have pride too?!"

(End of this chapter)