After hearing this, Zhu Qilu, who was originally despairing, regained hope in his eyes. Since no body was found, the confessions of these two people alone could not cure him of his crime! Moreover, his father also came forward to plead for him. Now that the commotion has become louder, His Majesty will also have to come forward. It can be said that there is still a glimmer of hope in despair.
I saw that he glanced at the two people who had previously defected with a selective and devouring gaze, and then knocked away the jailer responsible for guarding him, rushed out of the lobby of the Ministry of Punishment, and hugged King Zhao tightly. Tears were streaming down his face, looking very aggrieved.
"Father, the child is wronged! The child has never done those things!"
"This... Mr. Yan Ge, what should we do next?" Seeing that the matter had developed to such a difficult point, everyone did not care about anything else and asked Yan Song for help.
"Wait, since His Highness King Zhao wants to mess around, let's just waste it!" After Yan Song said this, he waved his sleeves angrily and turned back to the lobby of the Ministry of Justice.
"This, this, this... you! Hey." Everyone looked at each other, as if there were countless words stuck in their chests, which finally turned into a sigh.
After Yan Song spoke, all the other officials returned to the lobby of the Ministry of Justice and were waiting, leaving only a few guards to watch them to prevent them from doing anything extraordinary.
Just as everyone was anxious, a long-awaited voice sounded from a distance: "Your Majesty is here!"
Jiajing got off the dragon chariot, Lu Fang quickly stepped forward to help him, and followed Jiajing step by step.
"What are you doing?" Jiajing looked at the many cabinet ministers and Prince Zhao's family who were kneeling on the ground, with a displeased look on his face.
"Your Majesty, I am guilty of not handling this matter well!" Yan Song was the first to speak, placing all the blame on himself.
"I don't blame you for this, please get up." Jiajing waved his hand and said calmly.
"Lu'er, this is your imperial uncle, please call him emperor!" Seeing Jiajing's arrival, Zhao Wang Zhu Zaibi quickly reminded his son.
"I've met the emperor." Zhu Qilu saluted Jiajing obediently, but Jiajing ignored his greeting and walked straight into the lobby.
Jiajing sat at the top, and after casually looking through the confessions a few times, asked: "Weren't you just trying the case? I came over to see how the case was going."
"Your Majesty, the facts of the case have been revealed. It is only due to the lack of relevant physical evidence that the case trial has reached a deadlock."
"And when the case was in the middle of the trial, His Royal Highness King Zhao broke in with his family members, which led to..."
Yan Song looked at the emperor sitting at the top and spoke tremblingly.
Seeing the emperor turning his attention to himself, Zhu Zaibi quickly knelt down on the ground and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, my Lu'er was wronged! I was also angry for a moment, and I did such a stupid thing just now."
When Jiajing heard this, he raised his eyebrows and asked with interest: "But here are all the witnesses and confessions. Why did these two people frame your child?"
I saw King Zhao stood up from the ground with an angry face, pointed his index finger at the two people, and said word by word: "These two are famous rogues in the capital, and my Lu'er has been studying the Four Books and the Five Classics since he was a child. How can you hang out with such a person if you have great ambitions?”
King Zhao paused for a moment and then continued: "Perhaps these two scoundrels saw that our Lu'er was generous and weak and could be bullied, so they started to covet him, so they started biting him randomly. I hope your majesty will notice."
"You!" The two people who were scolded by King Zhao pointed at their noses but dared not speak out in anger.
"Do you think I'm a fool? Look at what you said. Do you believe it?" Jiajing slammed the table and reprimanded in a deep voice.
"Your Majesty, according to his seniority, Lu'er wants to call you uncle. Please spare him this time! I will discipline him well in the future and keep him at home. This is the last bit of incense left in my Pingliang Mansion! "After Zhu Zaibi finished speaking, he knocked his head heavily on the ground. In an instant, blood started to flow.
"Humph, you bastard, look at what your son has done!" Jiajing said, slamming the confession in his hand onto Zhu Zaibi's face.
"Robbing women, killing people and hiding corpses, extorting money, taking bribes and perverting the law, being tyrannical and exploiting the common people! I, the Ming Dynasty, spend so much money every year to raise pigs like you who only know how to feed in the trough! Now you still have Do you want me to let him go?"
"If I let him go, how will I account to the victims? How will I account to the people of Ming Dynasty? How will I account to my ancestors?"
"Your Majesty, please forgive me!" Seeing the emperor getting angry, everyone in the room looked horrified and knelt on the ground without making any move for a long time.
After a long time, Jiajing lost his temper, waved his hand and said, "Everyone, get up."
After everyone stood up, Zhu Zaibi seemed to have made up his mind. He calmed down and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, the case can only be closed when all the witnesses and physical evidence are available! At the moment, there are only witnesses and no physical evidence, so it should be Release Lu'er without charge."
After hearing this, Jiajing turned his gaze to Yan Shifan aside and said softly: "Mr. Xiao Ge, I heard that you are quite familiar with the laws of the Ming Dynasty, and you can even recite them. Please tell me whether there is such a paragraph. "
"This... this, Your Majesty, there seems to be such a section, I can't remember it clearly."
Yan Shifan was standing aside in a daze, but he was suddenly brought out by the emperor to answer a question. After hesitating for a moment, he gave a vague answer.
"Well, since there is indeed such a paragraph in the Ming Law, then just follow the Ming Law and you can go." After hearing Yan Shifan's answer, Jiajing sighed and said helplessly.
"Sure enough, Your Majesty still can't let go of the clan!" Xu Jie lowered his head silently, thinking this.
Gao Gong, on the other hand, had an angry look on his face. Just when he was about to speak out to dissuade him, he was stopped by Zhang Juzheng behind him. Zhang Juzheng shook his head slightly, indicating that he should ignore the matter.
The expressions on the faces of Yan Song and Yan Shifan have not changed, they are still calm and calm.
When Zhu Qilu heard what Jiajing said, he looked ecstatic and hurriedly knelt on the ground, with a trembling tone in his voice: "May I ask if what your majesty just said is true?"
"I am the emperor, and I speak with gold and gold, and it is hard for a horse to catch up with me." Jiajing responded calmly.
The remaining two prisoners turned pale after hearing the news, lost all their strength, and slumped in the lobby. Their families will be dealt with tonight at the latest.
Zhu Zaibi, on the other hand, almost jumped up with excitement. He grabbed the key from the guard on the side, opened all the shackles on his son, and after taking his family to salute Jiajing, he was ready to bow and leave.
Just as they were about to leave the lobby of the Criminal Department, Jiajing's faint voice came from behind: "I don't know if you have ever heard of such a sentence, there is a god if you raise your head three feet high!"
"Although some things can be escaped for a while, there will be something else to judge them!"
While he was talking, dark clouds suddenly formed in the originally clear sky, and there was lightning and thunder in the sky, making it look like a heavy rain was about to begin.
Zhu Qilu was frightened by the scene. His face was pale, his limbs were trembling, and he collapsed to the ground. King Zhao on the side saw this and wanted to step forward to help his son up.
In an instant, five thunderbolts as thick as a thumb struck from the sky, hitting Zhu Qilu's body. After shaking twice, he lay down on the ground black and lifeless.
"One, two, three, four, five, exactly five thunderbolts!" In the lobby of the Criminal Department, someone was counting the thunderbolts that had fallen from the sky before, and kept murmuring.
"Your Majesty, Holy Might!"
The ministers in the room also reacted and knelt down on the ground one after another, their faces full of piety. This happened to confirm the Confucian theory of telepathy between heaven and man. Your Majesty is communicating with God, and God felt Zhu Qilu's feelings. The blood debt he carried on his body had just been rained down by five thunderbolts to kill him.
"Everyone, get up." Jiajing retracted his middle finger and index finger behind his back and said calmly.
