In the early morning two days later, the court meeting was held as usual.
When Ying Zheng was in power, court meetings were held every day unless there was something special. After I changed my status to the crown prince, I also had to attend court meetings every day.
After Ying Zheng and other ministers sat down, Li Si was the first to speak: "Your Majesty, the case of Ying Yue has been cleared up."
"Play!" Ying Zheng said calmly. He already knew roughly what happened to Ying Yue through Xing Zhong, otherwise he wouldn't have raised an issue directly at the meeting.
"Yes." Li Si responded: "I, together with the imperial censors Feng Jie, Zong Zheng Ying Wu, and Ting Wei Mengyi, have carefully reviewed the Ying Yue case, and it has been found out:
In the 32nd year of the First Emperor's reign, the criminal minister Ying Yue was ordered to take in the remnants of the Chu Kingdom Jie and place her in the Xianyang Forbidden Garden.
The sinful girl Jie was the daughter of Li Yuan, a minister of Chu. She was later given to the King of Chu as a concubine by Li Yuan. Because Li Yuan's sister Yue was already Queen Xiong Yuan, King of Chu Kaolie, Li Yuan was afraid that the tree would attract the wind, so he killed his daughter. Jie named her folk daughter Ling Xian and carried the cud to the king of Chu.
Because it was rumored that Concubine was pregnant before she entered the palace, Chu officials suspected that King Chu was not the son of Xiong Yuan, so they killed Li Yuan and Concubine. As a result, no one knew the true identity of the sinful girl Jie.
After the Chu Kingdom was destroyed, Jie escaped from the Chu Palace until she was captured by Feng Zhe, the governor of Changsha County, in the 32nd year of the First Emperor's reign. She was then taken to Xianyang and handed over to Ying Yue.
The evidence of this case was confirmed by Jie's confession and the Changsha County Sheriff, Chu's old ministers and other relevant persons. There were 27 people involved in this case;
The guilty minister Ying Yue was attracted by Jie's appearance when he accepted the guilty girl Jie, and since then he has continued to have contact and affair with Jie.
Until the thirty-sixth year of the First Emperor's reign, the construction progress of Epang Palace was slow. The emperor ordered an additional 100,000 civilians to be sent to Epang Palace to hand over to the guilty minister Li Zhuo. He also ordered Neishi County to send troops to the nearby expedition, and ordered that more than half of them should be survivors from the Six Kingdoms.
Through her personal relationship with Ying Yue, Jie begged Ying Yue to reduce the number of people serving as slaves in the Chu state. Ying Yue's lust made him faint and agreed to Jie's request.
The evidence of this case was confirmed by the confessions of Ying Yue and Jie, Zhao Jin, a doctor in Xianyang Forbidden City, Shangshu Pu Xingxing and other relevant parties. There were 134 people involved in this case;
Later, the guilty minister Ying Yue conspired with the criminal minister Li Zhuo to tamper with the roster and postpone the corvee with ten yi of gold and five hundred pieces of cloth. The evidence of this case was confirmed by the confessions of Ying Yue and Li Zhuo, and by the subordinates of the two criminals and other relevant parties. There were 147 people involved in this case;
It was also verified by the minister that the request to reduce corvee was not the intention of Nu Jie. It was Jie who was instructed by the Chu people in Kuaiji. Because the Chu people and Jie only communicated the news through bribed soldiers in the Forbidden Garden, and the Chu people and soldiers did not communicate the news in person, so the clues Interrupted, failed to verify Chu's identity.
The evidence of this case was confirmed by the confessions of several soldiers from Jie and Jinyuan. There are 16 people involved in this case.
Report to the emperor that the minister was incompetent and failed to verify the identity of the Chu people, so I asked the emperor to punish him. "
After Li Si finished speaking, he lowered his head and waited for Ying Zheng's reply, but what greeted him was only an audible silence in the hall.
I don’t know what other ministers think at this time, but Li Si and I feel the same way.
'Damn it, Princess Chu was pregnant before she entered the palace. There were rumors that Zhao Ji, Ying Zheng's mother, was pregnant with Lu Buwei's child before she entered the palace...' I couldn't help but feel frightened and worried for these people. Get up: 'In addition, the mastermind behind it has not been caught, and so many people are involved in taking bribes and seeking favoritism, I'm afraid some people will have to die...'
At this time, I didn't realize how much impact this incident had on Ying Zheng. After all, in my opinion, although Zhao Ji had an incident with Lao Ai, the incident with Lu Buwei was just a rumor after all, and no one had confirmed it. It was no longer possible to find out the truth of the matter.
Li Si was also uneasy inside. This case is not complicated at all. It is just that the man could not withstand the temptation of the woman, and the woman had an old friend in mind, so they joined together to tamper with the labor force roster. It has not happened before, and it was handled with ease.
It’s nothing new for the remnants of the Six Kingdoms to pop up from time to time. Hasn’t Zhang Liang, who blatantly attacked Ying Zheng, not been caught yet?
But it was not easy to find out the identity of this woman. It would have been just a concubine. There were enough concubines from the Six Kingdoms in Xianyang Forbidden Garden to fill several villages. Unexpectedly, she actually planned to kill Chun. The daughter of Shen Jun Huang Xie's Li You.
Then you have to explain why no one knows her true identity. Why did she survive when Li You was executed by everyone? Because she changed her look.
Then why did Li You want her to remain anonymous? Because Li You killed Chunshen Lord Huang Xie, many people in the Chu state were dissatisfied with him and were afraid that a big tree would attract wind.
What's so great about being a concubine? This had to involve his sister, because his sister was the concubine of King Chu Kaolie and the biological mother of King Chu Chu. So why did Li You and his sister get killed and Jie hide until now...
It's not that Li Si didn't want to cut this paragraph out. After all, why Li You's sister was killed had no direct impact on the case, but he didn't dare. First, Feng Jie and Meng Yi also participated in the trial, and second, according to "Qin Dynasty" "Law", every sentence during the trial process was specially recorded.
Regardless of whether someone reports to Ying Zheng in the future or Ying Zheng finds out one day, with Ying Zheng's suspicious character, he might suspect that he is also connected with the remnants of the Six Kingdoms. That is really hard to argue with. There is no need to doubt Ying Zheng on this matter Attitude.
Just when Li Si felt that the storm was about to pour down, Ying Zheng still spoke in a calm tone: "It doesn't matter, Chu people are cunning, it is reasonable."
Li Si raised his head in astonishment and stared at Ying Zheng's waist. His habit made him dare not look directly at Ying Zheng, and then immediately resumed his salute: "Thank you, Emperor, for your forgiveness. The source of the money Ying Yue bribed Li Zhuo has been identified by Zong Zheng, and there are 9 guilty persons." . This case involves 333 people. Please tell me how to deal with it."
"Qin Law" naturally has laws to follow for this kind of crime, but if the sentence is really based on the laws, I am afraid that few of the more than 300 people will survive.
Although more than 400 alchemists were indirectly killed because of Li Si's advice, after all, Li Si only proposed "burning books" and did not directly propose "trailing Confucianism", so the psychological pressure was not that great, and besides, those people were all deceivers. Most of the abductors were alchemists, how could they be compared to the fact that most of the people involved in this case were officials and soldiers.
Ying Zheng didn't say much, waved his hand and said: "Judgment in accordance with the law."
Everyone was nervous. There were more than 300 people, and the water of the Weihe River was going to be dyed red again...
However, since Chun Yuyue was killed, it is said that the temperaments of Fusu and the current crown prince have also changed drastically, and no one dares to intercede for them anymore...
At this time, I don't know what to say. I think if it were Fusu in history, he would definitely stand up and ask Ying Zheng to forgive them, even a small group of people. But I didn't open my mouth.
Fear? Facing the emperors of the feudal era, it would be a lie to say that you are not afraid. indifferent? A bit, maybe I still regard myself as a spectator outside the game...
There were people talking behind me, but I couldn’t hear what they were saying clearly. I only roughly heard that Ying Wu’s son, Ying Piao, had taken over as the internal historian. Even Ying Zheng frowned and looked at me without noticing. I was confused until the end of the court meeting. Return to the palace.
What I didn’t know was that when Ying Zheng returned to the Sihai Palace, he pulled out the Lulu Sword and chopped a low table into wood chips. Apart from the sound of his chopping, the only person accompanying him was Xing Zhong, who was standing silently at the door...
