"Your Majesty, Holy Might!"
King Jin bowed slightly: "Such a despicable villain should be sentenced to death!"
"My lord, I second the proposal!" Xue Bao said.
Wu Siniang nodded.
"Eunuch Gao, please pass on my instructions. There is no need for Su Yi to enter the palace. Pei Gongxian will escort him to Dali Temple..."
At this moment, Su Yi outside the main hall said loudly: "My lord, Su Yi wants to see you."
"Just in time!"
Wu Siniang said in a deep voice: "Come in."
Su Yi walked into the hall, and Pei Gongxian also walked in with his head lowered and a slightly panicked look on his face.
After looking at the two of them, Wu Siniang said: "Young Master Pei, you have made great achievements today, and I want to reward you!"
Pei Gongxian was unwilling to accept it in his heart.
But he didn't know where to start.
"As for you, Su Yi?"
Wu Siniang glared and said coldly: "I thought you, Su Yi, were loyal to me, but I didn't expect you to have ulterior motives. Let me ask you, since the incident with Marquis Anyuan, have you been thinking about something?" Did you lie to me?"
When Su Yi heard this, he glanced at King Jin.
The latter just looked at Su Yi coldly, then a chill appeared in the corner of his mouth and said, "What is your Majesty asking you?"
"Your Majesty! I, Su Yi, am just the president of the Great Zhou Chamber of Commerce. The issue of the imperial conferment is a matter of His Majesty's grace. As for Anyuan Marquis, His Majesty ordered me to investigate secretly. Could it be that I have ulterior motives?"
Wu Siniang frowned slightly: "I asked you to investigate, but I didn't let you surrender. King Jin said that you forced Anyuanhou to admit the crime."
King Jin followed: "Anyuanhou is searching for money, so there must be the stolen money you mentioned, right?"
"Chen Wenju, the governor of Ningyuan Mansion, is responsible for escorting the stolen money. If we catch this person, the truth will naturally come to light, right?" Su Yi asked.
"ha!"
Xue Bao sneered: "Then if Chen Wenju cannot be caught and the stolen money cannot be found, there will be no way to prove Anyuanhou's crime, right?"
Wu Siniang remained silent, just looking at Su Yi sharply.
"Your Majesty, Chen Wenju must have stolen money, and there must be evidence of guilt in his hands." Su Yi said.
King Jin shook his head: "You can say yes, but Marquis Anyuan is now imprisoned in the sky prison, how do you count?"
As he spoke, he asked Su Yi in an aggressive tone: "Not only have you wronged Marquis Anyuan, but now you are driving up prices and seeking personal gain. What do you say?"
Pei Gongxian brought the matter up to this point and was about to explain the situation.
Wu Siniang slapped the table: "Su Yi, let's not talk about Marquis Anyuan for now."
She must be involved in this matter.
"You should be the one doing this price gouging thing, right?"
When Wu Siniang said this, Xue Bao also said: "Your Majesty, what are you asking? How do you drive up prices? In just one day, the price of horses in the capital has been increased from seventy or eighty taels to two hundred taels. The price has been doubled several times? You should quickly recruit from the real situation!"
“Price gouging?”
Su Yi smiled and said, "There is indeed someone controlling this matter, but it's not me, Su Yi."
"You said it wasn't you, but Taipusi Temple Minister, you are the biggest beneficiary, right?" King Jin asked coldly.
"If we talk about the beneficiaries, they should be the people who currently own horses. They are the ones who want the price of horses to increase."
When Wu Siniang heard this, she nodded and said, "Yes, but isn't Taipu Temple the only one in the capital that still owns horses?"
Su Yi smiled faintly: "I took over Taipu Temple, and there are only fifty horses left. How can I make any profit from these horses?"
"Then tell me, who in Chang'an City has the most horses now?" Wu Siniang asked.
Su Yi said: "Back to Your Majesty, I have brought this man, he is right outside the door."
"oh!"
Wu Siniang was stunned for a moment.
King Jin and Xue Bao were also shocked.
"Su Yi, you just caught a horse dealer and took the blame, right?" King Jin questioned.
Xue Bao also nodded: "Yes, just find someone, who knows!"
Su Yi nodded: "Zhang San is indeed just a horse dealer, but the owner behind him is someone else."
Wu Siniang asked: "Who?!"
"Your Majesty, Zhang Lun, the Prime Minister of Taipu Temple."
Su Yi said to the outside of the hall: "Bring Zhang Lun in!"
Wait for the palace guards to bring Zhang Lun into the main hall.
The arrogant Zhang Sicheng was now as limp as a ball of mud.
Lying on the ground, his whole body shivering into a ball: "I...I, Zhang Lun, pay my respects to Your Majesty."
"You said...are you driving up the price of horses in Chang'an City?"
Wu Siniang looked at him with a cold face and asked.
"this……"
Zhang Lun hesitated for a moment, then followed Wu Siniang and slapped the table and shouted loudly: "If you don't tell the truth, I will definitely make you die badly!"
Already knowing that he would inevitably die, Zhang Lun understood that if he didn't tell, he might implicate many others.
"I...are guilty..."
Zhang Lun said everything was his own doing.
Pei Gongxian seemed to let out a sigh of relief after hearing this.
On the contrary, both King Jin and Xue Bao were a little disappointed.
"Hmph! Zhang Lun, you are a small official, how dare you do such a bold thing?"
King Jin asked reluctantly: "You'd better tell the person behind you. Maybe you can make up for your mistakes and your majesty may be given a lighter sentence!"
When Zhang Lun heard this, he already knew that he would die. He smiled bitterly and said: "This matter...this matter is my own doing and has nothing to do with anyone else."
"Are you sure you weren't threatened by someone?" Xue Bao also looked at Su Yi and asked.
But at this moment, Wu Siniang already understood that today's matter can be settled with Zhang Lun: "Okay... let's end this matter."
She waved her hand, stood up, and said in a cold voice: "Zhang Lun has taken bribes and perverted the law. He will be executed immediately... As for his comrades, they will all be sent to the army!"
When Zhang Lun heard this, he passed out and fell to the ground. The palace guards dragged him away for execution.
"Su Yi, please stay, everyone else should leave."
Wu Siniang said impatiently.
King Jin and others walked out of Ziwei Hall.
King Jin glanced at the main hall behind him: "This Su Yi actually escaped another disaster!"
"Hmph! Does he think the horse thing is over? If he loses one horse, I will accuse him of incompetence... If it delays the departure of the army, I, Xue Bao, will definitely not be able to spare him!"
Xue Bao said and glanced at Pei Gongxian: "Master Pei, why didn't you speak just now?"
"I……"
Pei Gongxian laughed dryly, and his face turned cold: "The matter between me and Su Yi is not over yet!"
"What's the use of talking about it? I heard that your wife was carried out of Su Yi's house last night? I wonder what's going on now?" King Jin asked with a slight sneer.
"this……"
Pei Gongxian glanced at Prince Jin: "Thank you very much for your concern, Prince Jin. I don't need you to worry about my wife's affairs. You'd better take care of yourself."
Pei Gongxian arched his hands angrily and strode out of the palace.
As soon as his carriage walked out of the palace gate, the housekeeper ran up to him and said, "Sir, it's not good, madam, she can't survive!"
