Rebirth of the Tang Dynasty's strongest consort

Chapter 352

In the early morning, in the Hanyuan Hall.

Once Fang Jun's painting confession was released, it immediately caused quite a commotion.

Sitting on the dragon chair, Li Shimin looked at the painting confession with the handprints of Fang Yiai and Xie Yaohuan, the beard under his chin trembled slightly, and the anger in his eyes was about to come out.

After reading Fang Yiai's confession word by word, Li Shimin handed the confession to Bai Jian, then fixed his eyes on the red carpet under his feet, and began to think about the pros and cons of dealing with Fang Yiai.

Xiao Yu walked out of court with red eyes, holding a wat board, and said very excitedly: "Long live Qi, since Fang Jun has confessed, he should be sentenced to death."

Li Shimin frowned slightly, and instantly returned to his usual demeanor, turning a deaf ear to Xiao Yu's announcement, obviously he hadn't made up his mind on how to send Fang Jun down.

In order to avoid suspicion, Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui could only listen to Xiao Yu's generous speech in silence. They made up their mind last night that they were going to resign as the presiding judge of the "Xiao Rui's sudden death case". One is to avoid suspicion, and the other is to try to get rid of and try to keep the house.

After a while, Chai Shao walked out of the martial arts class, and said in a tone of confidence: "Long live Qi, can you recite Fang Jun's confession, so that I can understand the details."

Seeing that his brother-in-law wanted to favor Fang Yiai, Li Shimin nodded and handed the confession to Bai Jian, motioning him to recite it aloud.

After receiving the confession, Bai Jian quickly scanned it. Seeing that there was no mention of poisoning Xiao Rui, he breathed a sigh of relief, and then read aloud the confession written by Fang Yiai himself.

After hearing the words of the confession, the civil and military officials discussed with each other, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Qin Qiong, Chai Shao and others' hanging hearts fell to the ground.

"Fang Jun dared to make palace badges and official clothes without permission, how brave he is!"

"It turns out that Xie Zhongju was coerced into the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice by him holding a sharp knife."

"Fang Jun did not admit that he poisoned Xiao Rui in the confession, but only said that he went to the prison to visit Xiao Rui at night. I am afraid it will be difficult to close the case based on this painting confession alone?"

Following Xiao Yu's loud voice, the discussions among the officials gradually subsided.

"I think Fang Jun was the only one who visited him after the child was imprisoned in the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice. Besides, Fang Jun's medical skills are obvious to all. It's easy for him to kill the child without anyone noticing it." , Xiao Yu was crying all the time, not because he pretended, but because he felt wronged for Xiao Rui from the bottom of his heart.

"The procuratorate inspected the corpse before. It is undeniable that Xiao Rui died of the plague. Could it be that Fang Jun was born from a rat? How could he be infected with the plague?" Chai Shao argued, looking at Qin Qiong, who was in the martial arts class. , Yu Chigong and the others recovered most of their confidence in an instant.

Xiao Yu didn't expect that Chai Shao would take the blame for himself, so he was so angry that he immediately transferred his anger to this son-in-law, "Mr. Chai, it's true that Xiao Er died of the plague. But Zuo Zuo once said that the plague onset of children was very hasty. Fang Jun is well versed in medical skills, and he wants to pretend to be the plague to kill people, maybe he can do it?"

"Murder to silence him? Why did Fang Jun kill him? Why did Xiao Rui catch him?"

"Rui'er must have known his alias identity, so that Fang Jun would kill him. Otherwise, when Rui'er faces the saint, how can Fang Jun have the opportunity to participate in the imperial examination? If he can't win the first prize, he will definitely die for the crime of deceiving the emperor. !"

Just when Chai Shao and Xiao Yu were quarreling, Yu Chigong strode out of the martial arts class, held the wat board and said: "Song Guogong, Fang Jun was seriously injured in the martial arts before, and everyone in Chang'an City knows that since he participated in the martial arts It took only two days for a seriously injured patient to go into a coma and Xiao Rui's sudden death, how can a seriously injured patient have the energy to prepare poison and then go to the prison to kill Young Master Ling?"

"No energy? Fang Jun's night visits to the prison is very real. Is it because Yuchi Baolin and Fang Jun are sworn brothers because E Guogong is so eloquent?"

"Let's talk about the matter, don't you fucking talk to me about other things, believe it or not, I will beat you to death with a steel whip!"

Without saying a word, Yu Chigong brought out the king whip to bluff people. Just when he was about to lose his temper, the pale-bearded Gao Shilian walked up to him, and calmed down the anger in Yuchi Gong's heart with his eyes.

Gao Shilian said solemnly: "In all fairness, Fang Jun pretended to form Jinlan with the sons of the princes, obviously not just for the purpose of making friends, but presumably because he wanted to drag the important officials of the court into trouble."

What Gao Shilian said was justified and well-founded, he gave Wei Chigong, Cheng Yaojin and others face, and named Fang Jun's "sinister intentions", and just a few words fully demonstrated the city of this veteran official of the two dynasties out.

Yu Chigong was speechless, waved his sleeves, and returned to the martial arts class angrily.

Not long after he retreated, a heroic young man of sixteen or seventeen stood in front of Gao Shilian.

Luo Tong looked at Gao Shilian without fear, and argued, "Mr. Shen Guo didn't know something. Fang Jun explained his real identity in advance when he was sworn in at the school. If you don't believe me, you can send Cheng Chubi and Houba Lin and the others called to inquire."

Seeing that they were being dragged into the water, Cheng Yaojin and Hou Junji couldn't stand idly by, walked out of the court one after another, cupped their hands and said: "Long live, what the Duke of Yue said is true, the minister has also mentioned the details of the sworn marriage before, but Fang Jun is here I explained my true identity to them before sworn vows."

After the two concealed Gao Shilian's questioning, Changsun Wuji walked out of the court and sprinkled a handful of salt on Li Shimin's wound again, "Since Fang Jun can tell the alias about the alias to all the young princes, Why didn't you tell Long Live earlier? Could it be that you want Long Live to fail?"

As soon as this remark came out, all the officials kept silent, except Changsun Wuji and Xiao Yu, Chai Shao and the others retreated to their respective positions knowing the current affairs.

Li Shimin was weighing the value of Fang Yi's love, when he suddenly heard the words of Changsun Wuji, he felt that his dignity had been provoked, so he turned all his anger on Fang Jun, "Xiao Rui is the son-in-law of the dynasty, and he is Xiliang's son-in-law." The eldest son of the Xiao family, this case must be strictly interrogated, so uncle Guo will take care of it."

Changsun Wuji smiled cunningly, cupped his hands and said, "I take orders."

Seeing that Li Shimin was determined to thoroughly investigate the case, Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui glanced at each other, they both walked out of the court, and Fang Xuanling said: "Long live, the old minister is not strict with his children, so he must resign and Xiao Rui died suddenly." The presiding judge of the case, in order to return justice to Concubine Xiao."

Du Ruhui agreed and said: "The old minister seconded the proposal."

Li Shimin was well aware of the dispositions of Fang and Du, and for the sake of balancing the forces in the court, he ignored the crime of Du Ruhui, Qin Qiong and others knowing about "Fang Jun's pseudonym".

Avoiding the seriousness, he nodded lightly and said: "Okay, the two lovers deeply understand my heart, and the case will be handed over to Wuji."

In the middle of the sentence, thinking of the grievances between Changsun Wuji and Fang Yiai, Li Shimin glanced at Wei Zheng by the way, "Let this case be handed over to Wuji and Wei Zheng for presiding trial. Ma Zhou and Cai Shaobing will assist the two presiding judges as deputy judges." Check the case."

After Li Shimin finished talking about the change of the adjudicating officer, Xiao Yu, who was standing in the hall and listened attentively, burst into sobs.

"The Long Live Cave is far away, and I can see thousands of miles away. The old minister bows down." After saying some flattering words, the scheming Xiao Yu actually took Li Shimin into the army. I beg you to return to your hometown and take care of the funeral for Rui'er."

As soon as Xiao Yu's resignation came out, the whole room was in an uproar. Even Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui didn't expect that this Song Guogong would not hesitate to use his official position as a bargaining chip to make Li Shimin's determination to punish Fang Yiai.

"Song Guogong is a veteran of the two dynasties. If he is told to return to his hometown this time, it will indeed be missing a golden bridge."

"That's right, Song Guogong has worked hard for the community, don't bet on your back for a while."

Now that the war with the Turkic Kingdom is on the verge of breaking out, Li Shimin is eager to get the support of the major clans. If Xiao Rui's sudden death case angered the Xiliang Xiao family, there will be a rift among the world's elites. What is the value of a housewife? can be compared.

Xiao Yu's soft words forced each other, and Li Shimin, who felt his majesty was shaken because Fang Jun concealed his alias, had the idea of ​​beheading Fang Jun for the first time to shock the world.

But then I thought about the Fang family behind Fang Jun, and Mrs. Lu's natal family. The combined power of Fang and Lu's family is no worse than that of the Xiao family in Xiliang. Besides, behind Fang Jun are Qin Qiong, Yu Chigong, Chai Shao and other veterans. For a while, whether to kill Fang Jun or not killed Li Shimin, who was decisive in killing and attacking, into a difficult situation.

After weighing it on the dragon chair, Li Shimin got up and said seriously: "Fang Jun will be interrogated tomorrow. Gao Shilian, Xiao Yu, Zhang Liang and others will watch the trial from the sidelines. The two presiding judges can invite respected people to watch the trial together in Chang'an City." , must, must return justice to Duke Song and Concubine Xiao!"

(End of this chapter)