"you!"
Wu Yuexiu pointed at Li Hualong with trembling fingers and gritted his teeth.
He really didn't expect that Li Hualong would mess with him.
However, before Wu Yuexiu could say anything more, he was arrested by Jin Yiwei and put directly into the prison car.
Wu Yuexiu was then escorted to Beijing together with Chu kings Zhu Huakui, Wang Bihe and other puppet officials.
And he himself did not expect that one moment he was the hero who made great achievements in suppressing the rebellion, and the next moment he became the criminal who harbored the rebels.
On the contrary, Li Hualong was promoted two levels in a row because of his merits in suppressing rebellions and detecting traitors, and directly became Huguang's Right Chief Envoy and temporary governor.
As a result, he became the biggest winner in the entire Chu King's Rebellion.
An Xifan and other Wu Yuexiu's comrades hated Li Hualong to the core, and plotted in their notes that Li Hualong obtained promotion opportunities by murdering his friends.
But An Xifan and others could only conceal it in their notes and did not dare to say so openly.
Because there is no actual evidence.
On the contrary, there is evidence that Wu Yuexiu harbored treason and embezzled treason.
first.
Wu Yuexiu's domestic slave Pan Gui was indeed caught by Liu Xuezeng's people transporting a large amount of gold and silver out of Huguang. Secondly, Wang Bihe did confess to the gift note Wu Yuexiu had signed to accept bribes from him.
Although Wu Yuexiu could deny that he had no intention of starting an army with Wang Bihe, and could use the fact that he dared to take the lead in quelling the rebellion and performed meritorious service to prove that he did not intend to cause rebellion, the fact that he accepted bribes and was greedy for money was already a certainty.
Therefore, after Wu Yuexiu was escorted to Beijing, and the evidence of his crime was reported to the emperor by the Three Laws Division, Zhu Yijun ordered the recovery of his stolen money because of the solid evidence, and sentenced him to death for his audacity to deceive the emperor. However, considering that For his quelling the rebellion, he was given a glass of poisonous wine instead of implicate the clan.
Because the evidence of Wu Yuexiu's misappropriation of miscarriage and bribery of rebellious ministers was conclusive, all the civil servants who had previously spoken for him chose to remain silent.
But some people have no intention of letting them go just because they keep silent.
During the incident, Liu Daolong from the Criminal Division directly went to the court to impeach An Xifan, Yue Yuansheng and others. Instead of clarifying the rights and wrongs, he interceded for Wu Yuexiu, a corrupt official and rebellious minister. It was obviously a crony and chaos in the government, and he asked the emperor to punish them to clear up the rebels.
Immediately afterwards.
During the incident, Yang Tingxiang also followed Shangshu and said that Wu Yuexiu was actually the mastermind behind Wang Bihe. It was Wu Yuexiu who instigated Wang Bihe to alienate the clan and persuaded the King of Chu to rebel. Wu Yuexiu was the real rebel, and An Xifan and others were the same rebels as Wu Yuexiu. Party, these people are all trying to rebel, are unfaithful and unfilial, and all nine clans should be wiped out in order to rectify the government.
Later, Ma Yundeng, a member of the Ministry of Rites, also followed Shangshu, and also made a move to point east and west. He clearly wanted to impeach Jin Yiwei, knowing that the traitor An Xifan and others were still in the court, instead of asking for an order to arrest him, he asked the emperor to punish Zhang Jingxiu. The crime actually requires the emperor to treat An Xifan and others as traitors.
"Then send these people to prison first!"
"This is a major treason case, so we must be cautious."
Zhu Yijun gave instructions on this.
An Xifan, Gu Yuncheng and others were panicked after hearing this.
"What should we do? We have become rebels."
An Xifan couldn't help but ask Yue Yuansheng.
Yue Yuansheng said: "How did we know that Wu Daohe was really corrupt?"
"I'm going to find Zhang Jingxiu and ask him to help me plead for mercy."
"He has always been quite polite to gentlemen."
Zhao Nanxing said at this time.
And not long after, Zhao Nanxing actually stopped Zhang Jingxiu first: "Tishuai really wants to treat Mr. Wo Su as a traitor to the party?"
"But they did plead for Wu Yuexiu."
Zhang Jingxiu replied.
Zhao Nanxing said anxiously: "But now it is not even decided whether Wu Yuexiu is a traitor to the party. Tishuai has always been an upright man and a true gentleman. How can he believe the words of traitors and think that Mr. Su and others are traitors without doing anything?" Is it true that the upright minister in charge of protecting the dynasty is asking His Majesty for mercy?"
Zhang Jingxiu said: "Thank you for treating me as a gentleman. However, since I am a gentleman, I should abide by my duties. How can I exceed my authority?"
"I am a close minister in Jinyi. If I make suggestions for ministers from other dynasties and interfere in prisons at this time, it would be suspected of overstepping the rule and forming a party; therefore, I cannot disobey orders at this time!"
"However, please rest assured. Now they are just being sentenced to prison and are suspected of rebelling against the party. However, it does not mean that they are actually determined to be traitors to the party. Since you think that I am a gentleman, you should believe that I will not be wronged." A gentleman’s.”
Zhao Nanxing was speechless after hearing this and just followed Zhang Jingxiu to where An Xifan and others were gathering.
But as soon as Zhang Jingxiu arrived, he saw An Xifan, Yue Yuansheng and others sitting around the tea table, all lying on the table. Their eyes were open, their pupils were dilated, and their faces were very painful.
Zhang Jingxiu and Zhao Nanxing looked at each other.
"How is this going?"
Zhang Jingxiu hurriedly asked Zhao Nanxing.
Zhao Nanxing said: "I don't know."
At that time, Zhang Maoxiu had already tested the breath of several people, and came over and said to Zhang Jingxiu: "They are all dead. I guess the tea is poisonous, and there is still tea soup in their mouths."
After hearing this, Zhang Jingxiu immediately ordered: "Control all the people here!"
Zhang Jingxiu pointed at Zhao Nanxing as he spoke: "Including him! Maybe it was Zhao Mengbai who poisoned him!"
Zhao Nanxing was taken away by Jin Yiwei, but he was still in a state of shock and said nothing.
Zhu Yijun soon learned about this situation from Zhang Jingxiu, and immediately stood up and threw the chapter in his hand to the ground:
"It's really cruel!"
"I haven't even said that I will execute them as rebels, but the comrades behind them are eager to silence them one by one. Do they really not believe in their comrades?!"
"Zhao Nanxing, who was with An Xifan and others, was spared. Qi Chen has already taken him to the imperial prison."
"However, the poisoned tea boy had already died violently when we found him. These civil servants don't like to stay at home for gatherings now. They always like to change places, whether they go boating on the lake or a pavilion on the mountain. The people who use it often change, so It’s difficult for the Jinyiwei informants to monitor them and protect them, so they gave these tea boys an opportunity to take advantage of them.”
Zhang Jingxiu continued at this time.
Zhu Yijun said: "Did he confess anything?"
"No."
"He won't say anything now."
Zhang Jingxiu replied.
After hearing this, Zhu Yijun ordered: "Then lock him up first and interrogate him to see if he knows about this."
Zhang Jingxiu raised his hand and said yes.
Zhu Yijun then put his hands on his hips and looked outside the hall.
At this time, there were dark clouds outside the palace, as if a storm was coming, and the dark sky made it difficult to figure out who was behind the scenes challenging the rules of the emperor.
"Could it be Gu Xiancheng who is relaxing at home?"
"Could this person be known as a Confucian scholar, but in reality he is secretly determined to kill?"
Zhu Yijun couldn't help but ask secretly.
But in any case, the sudden death of An Xifan and other civil servants who had previously spoken for Wu Yuexiu at Shangshu made it impossible for Zhu Yijun to attract more of his accomplices.
As a result, now it seems that Wu Yuexiu's only ally is Zhao Nanxing.
Zhu Yijun knew why the people behind the scenes wanted to silence them. It was simply because he was afraid that the emperor himself would be implicated in Guaman's corruption, so he simply silenced these people first. In this way, he, the emperor, really wanted to implicate Guaman and didn't know where to start.
It's just that these people missed killing Zhao Nanxing, which I have to say was a mistake.
But what these people would never have thought of was that Zhu Yijun had never only focused on the court.
Therefore, after Zhu Yijun made some arrangements for Zhang Jingxiu, he said to Sun Xin: "As soon as Zhang Jing and others come in with a new secret memorial, they will report it to me immediately."
"yes!"
(End of chapter)
