"You are a coward in the world, you are so shameless and shameless, why don't you shut up?!"
After hearing this, Wei Zhongzhi suddenly turned his head, his eyes as sharp as a knife, and he looked straight into hers: "A rat has skin, but a human has no manners! If a human has no manners, what's the point of not dying?! Who are you? How shameless are you, how can you still confidently say such nonsense?!"
He flicked his sleeves and pointed to the location of the late emperor's mausoleum. His voice was indignant and he said in a hateful voice: "The first crime of the late emperor! As the queen of Emperor Taizu, she had the desire to change the position of foreign ministers. As an heir, she had to dissect herself. The ancestral property is not worthy of the Murong family, so it is not an exaggeration to expel them from the family tree, cut off the sacrifices, and cover their faces with hair!"
"Emperor Taizu overcame all obstacles to achieve great achievements. How difficult it is. It is not a blessing for all the previous emperors to defend the country to this day. Isn't it ridiculous to not think that he almost died at the hands of his own heirs?!"
Princess Chongqing looked pale and everyone was silent.
Ying Zheng looked indifferent, nodded and said, "What Wei Lingjun said is true."
Wei Zhongzhi continued with a voice of hatred: "The second crime of the late emperor! As the head of a large clan, the Murong clan presided over sacrifices. He did not miss his friends, brothers and relatives, but he killed the clan children for the sake of outsiders. Kill civilians with contempt."
He gestured to Prince Ji who was looking lost in his thoughts, with a solemn expression: "Prince Ji is the cousin of the late emperor, and the eldest son of Prince Ji is the nephew of the late emperor. The late emperor ordered the internal guards to fabricate an unjust case and kill him. , and thus implicated the lives of innocent farmers, this is an inhuman act!"
Ying Zheng said: "What Wei Lingjun said is true."
Princess Chongqing was speechless and speechless.
Wei Zhongzhi then spoke for the third time, and his tone became more fierce: "The late emperor committed three crimes! It is said in "Shangshu" that the emperor is the parent of the people and the king of the world. Is he just the father of Princess Chongqing? ? He is also the parent of all the subjects in the world!"
What Wang Yue avoided and no one dared to mention was something that only he dared to say: "Why did the late emperor choose the current emperor as his successor? It was because he thought that today's people are stupid and unvirtuous, and it won't take long before he will become the successor." After being deposed, the Empress Dowager and the Feng family then controlled the traitor who pretended to be Prince Ji to enter the palace and become the emperor - but didn't the late emperor ever think that today's emperor was his personally designated successor? He is the most popular person in the world, and if he wants to depose him, how many horrifying evil things do he need to do to do so?!"
"Why should the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty serve an ungrateful king?!"
"Why should the concubine who was selected into the palace have to waste her time in the harem until the new king ascends the throne and leaves the family in his prime?!"
"How could the Duke of Xing, an important border guard and a good general of the country, deserve to be subjected to such a shame and humiliation, to waste his time on the family tree and stoop to serve an unjust king?!"
"And why do the people of the world deserve to be killed because of a foolish king, and the people are in dire straits?!"
"What are these sacrificed people? A small price to pay for realizing the late emperor's ambition?!"
Angry flames burned in his chest, Wei Zhongzhi's face turned livid, and he squeezed out each word from between his teeth: "Zhongzhi was promoted to Jinshi at the age of twenty-one, and he has been an official for thirty-four years, and he has served like this You are such an immoral and unruly king, I am really deeply ashamed of you!"
"And you-"
He pointed at Princess Chongqing and said bitterly: "I was born in a heavenly family, enjoy great splendor, and receive support from the world. I have neither worries about marriage nor care about caring for the people! Does the imperial court owe you? Li Shu owes you a debt. Are you?! How can you push your father to kill your cousins and bring trouble to your ancestral temple and the world for your own selfish reasons?!"
After that, Wei Zhongzhi grabbed the pale-faced Princess Chongqing, dragged her to King Ji, and asked sternly: "You and that traitor occupied the magpie nest in Prince Ji's Mansion and killed your cousin. Every time Do you feel no guilt when you call Prince Ji and his wife your parents? When you worship at the ancestral temple, are you really not afraid of the feelings of heaven and earth and the spirits of your ancestors?!"
"In order to cast a layer of disgrace on today's emperor, we select girls from good families to enter the palace. You are eager to finally get married with your lover. Daughters from other families should die miserably in the palace and live in silence for the rest of their lives. They will become the reason for the emperor to abdicate. Isn’t it a trivial amount?!”
"In order to bring your favorite husband to power, should loyal ministers and good generals die? Will the country be in turmoil? Will Li Shu have to suffer for this?!"
"Don't say that you are just a princess. Even if the late emperor is here and does such outrageous things, you should join forces with the clan and court officials to depose her and expel her from the royal family tree to thank the world!"
Wei Zhongzhi's eyes were filled with flames, he pointed at Princess Chongqing, and said every word like a knife: "And you, a dead person, where did you get the courage and face to come here and roar without mercy? Etiquette, making you laugh and generous?! Princess, you are extremely shameless, but today in front of the emperor and the clan elders, you can at least leave some honor and dignity to Emperor Taizu and the ancestors of the past generations!"
Chapter 35
Wei Zhongzhi was famous for his talent at a young age, and became a Jinshi at the age of twenty-one. He was always famous for his rhetoric, and his scolding was well-founded, logical, progressive, and powerful.
Although Princess Chongqing was a bit better, she still had a basic sense of shame. When she was scolded, she blushed and shed tears, lowered her head and did not dare to say anything.
Wei Zhongzhi sneered when he saw this, with no intention of giving up at all: "What mood did you come to the palace with? How can you have the nerve to read out the so-called late emperor's edict in front of us and everyone else? There are thousands of miles of country and billions of people. , What does it mean to you two, father and daughter? Can you make round and flat things at will?! The creation of heaven and earth is unpredictable, how did you, father and daughter, come to be born?!"
Princess Chongqing didn't even dare to raise her head, tears falling down.
"Cry, what do you have to cry about?!"
Wei Zhongzhi sneered and said sternly: "Are you so embarrassed by my scolding that you are crying? No! You are crying because you cannot carry out your conspiracy. You are crying because you are inferior to others and can only listen to Mr. Wei here You are crying because you are yelling at someone but you are not punished! You are crying that you have fallen into this situation. You are crying that you have lost the honor of being a princess and the respected position that is superior to others! Princess, ask yourself, Are any of the tears you are shedding right now for the innocent farmers? Do you feel sorry for your cousin who died in vain?!"
Princess Chongqing raised her head, her eyes were red, her voice was trembling, and she weakly defended: "No, no, I really feel sorry for them..."
"Princess, you know what you are thinking! But I advise you to put away your tears as soon as possible! The late emperor is not here, and neither is Feng Liulang. No one will feel sorry for you. The pear blossoms bring rain, I just think that you never repented after doing all the evil things, but after the failure, you pretended to cry and repented... it's disgusting!"
Wei Zhongzhi was unmoved at all, and said coldly: "The farmer's family was killed unjustly. Didn't the whole family shed tears before they died? The tears they shed were thicker than the ones you are shedding right now. Water is 10,000 times more sympathetic! The water that capsizes a boat is the tears of the common people - if the conspiracy of villains like you really succeeds, I'm afraid the tears shed by the common people in the world will overflow the Dongyue Mountain! What other edicts are there... "
He stretched out his hand forward and said sternly: "Bring it here! I want to see what the late emperor said in this edict!"
Princess Chongqing was so taken by it that she didn't dare to resist for a moment, and honestly handed over the sandalwood box in her hand.
Wei Zhongzhi took it and saw that the wooden box was sealed with beeswax. It would take a little effort to open it.
He subconsciously wanted to ask someone to find a tool to open the box. Suddenly he remembered that this was not his home, but the imperial study. He hurried to see the emperor's expression, but saw that several colleagues from the three provinces were still there. I was immersed in the fierce questioning of Princess Chongqing just now, and I suddenly came back to my senses when I saw him looking over.
Wei Zhongzhi handed the sandalwood box to the chamberlain on one side and motioned for him to hand it over to the emperor. Then he raised his eyebrows and looked at his colleagues: "You are all looking at me like this. Is something wrong?"
Wang Yue was filled with admiration and stood up to greet him, his face full of hospitality: "It's okay, it's okay. Brother Zhong, please take a seat!"
Ying Zheng asked his attendants to open the wooden box, and sure enough, he took out a testament written on yellow brocade. He unfolded it and took a few glances, and couldn't help but laugh out loud.
He told his surroundings: "Let's show it to the prime ministers as well."
The first one to take it was Wei Zhongzhi.
He quickly scanned the entire article, and the expression on his face was probably "...", very speechless.
The others looked at each other with expressions on their faces.
This is actually an edict to punish oneself.
At the bottom is a letter left by the late emperor.
The general meaning is that when Princess Chongqing chose to take out this edict, the situation must be over. As the saying goes, it is the fault of a son not to teach his father. This child has reached this point, what he has done The father has to bear most of the responsibility.
Then he started playing the emotional card again, recalling the good memories with the prime ministers and clan members. Of course, the focus was on his past kindness.
I hope that for the sake of him as the emperor, they will not pursue Princess Chongqing's fault, and they will not dare to expect a princess to spend the rest of their lives in glory and wealth, but only hope that they can spare her life and give her a bite to eat.
Probably at that time, the late emperor's health was really failing, and his handwriting was frivolous and weak. The closer it got to the end, the more disorganized it became.
The Sinji Edict and this letter were circulated by everyone, and finally returned to Ying Zheng's hands.
The attendant handed it over with both hands, but Ying Zheng did not accept it. He said lightly: "Show it to her too, so that she knows how her father bowed to others and begged for mercy in order to keep her. In order to avoid her always thinking about her father. He is the emperor of the previous generation, the supreme one."
The attendant took the order and left.
When Princess Chongqing heard what he said, she had a premonition in her heart. When she saw the guilty edict and read the letter, she burst into tears.
The fault was not because of her, why should my father, the emperor, be so humble and beg politely?
Thinking back to her father's love for her since she was a child, and his reluctance and earnest advice before his death, Princess Chongqing felt her heart ached, regretful, and couldn't help crying loudly.
She knelt on the ground and howled incessantly. Ying Zheng did not stop her and just watched coldly.
He was silent, and the others were even more silent. After a while, Princess Chongqing stopped crying on her own, and her expression was hurried, with a hint of weak fear: "What do you want now? "
Ying Zheng ignored her and announced his decision: "The Feng family plotted a great rebellion, and among the three Yi clans, only the fourth family abandoned the secrets and defected to the bright side early, and separated the family, so they could be exempted from prosecution. Yu Jian, the three tribes of Yi. The inner guards who followed and caused rebellion were killed after Qiu Qiu. What do you think?"
Everyone said in unison: "Your Majesty is wise."
Li Chunduo mentioned something: "Although the case of the real and fake crown prince was handled by the late emperor, after all, it is the royal family that has the negative clan. I would like to ask your majesty to express your condolences by showing special kindness to the palace."
Ying Zheng said: "Yes, the princes of Xu Ji's palace have been attacking for five generations and have not surrendered."
King Ji seemed to have aged more than ten years in an instant. He stood up and thanked him, and said: "After this case, the prince and concubine returned to her parents' home with her grandson and young daughter. She has really suffered too many grievances. I ask your majesty to forgive her."
The real Crown Prince Ji had already married and had children. He had both children. After the incident, the Crown Prince was convicted and executed for confusing the clan bloodline. The Crown Prince and Concubine were not at fault, but after all, their identities were embarrassing, so they could only take her with them. She returned to her parents' home with her two children, whose status was even more embarrassing, and has been closed in since then.
Now that I mention it, it makes people feel moved and pity.
Ying Zheng said: "That's right. From now on, the crown prince and concubine will receive a double share of the royal concubine's share, and will be given a daughter of her mother's family as comfort."
King Ji thanked his daughter-in-law on behalf of her.
Then Ying Zheng turned his attention to Princess Chongqing and said thoughtfully: "As for how to deal with you..."
Princess Chongqing raised her teary eyes in disbelief.
The arrogance in her heart prevented her from begging for mercy, but the possibility of punishment or even the shadow of death forced her to speak in a roundabout way: "The edict left by my father..."
Even such a serious person as Ying Zheng was amused by her.
The emperors in space were also happy.
Zhu Yuanzhang: "Are you okay? Are you okay?!"
Li Yuanda: "Isn't your father's behavior just a confession written before killing someone?"
Li Shimin: "If you succeed in killing someone, then this confession is just a fart."
Liu Che: "If I don't succeed in the killing and I am caught and thrown into prison, I will dig out my confession and say that I have a kind nature and I hesitated for a long time before taking action..."
Li Yuanda: "Fucking moral kidnapping!"
Zhu Yuanzhang: "For this kind of people, I suggest that they be skinned and dealt with!"
Ying Zheng was thinking about something else.
He clasped the table in front of him with his knuckles, and said with a half-smile: "The late Emperor spent all his energy on your daughter. He wouldn't just give you a will, right? After the failure, come up with this one." , what happens after it’s done? Didn’t the late emperor leave you an edict to restrain your lover?”
Everyone looked over.
Princess Chongqing's expression changed again and again. Knowing that the situation was over, she simply told the truth: "I gave it to you, but I only found out about it not long ago. My father left a testament to the nun who served me, explaining the whole story of the past. Let's talk about it." If the Japanese prince-in-law ascends the throne to be a great treasure, and if he has any intention of betraying him, he will hand over his edict to——"
At this point, she paused, and after a while, she bit her lip and said, "I will deliver the edict to Wei Zhongzhi."
Everyone was startled at first, then recalled Wei Zhongzhi's normal character, and suddenly they became clear.
Only Wei Zhongzhi's brows twitched, with an expression of "Help, how could such an unlucky thing happen in the world?"
Ying Zheng then asked her: "In that case, where is the edict?"
Princess Chongqing's expression was a little complicated. She hesitated for a few moments and finally said: "I burned it."
Ying Zheng: "????"
Li Shimin said expressionlessly: "Now I know why the late emperor gave the imperial edict to the aunt who served her, but not to her."
Ying Zheng almost doubted his own ears: "Burn it?!"
Princess Chongqing thought of her lover, her eyes became tender, and she said calmly: "I trust him, why should I leave something like this that will harm him?"
Ying Zheng: "????"
Liu Che said expressionlessly: "At this time, the late emperor, who does not want to be named, is rolling in his tomb."
Ying Zheng said in confusion: "You said you only knew about the existence of this edict not long ago. Then, when did you burn the edict?"
Princess Chongqing said sadly: "The day after I found out about the existence of this edict, I deceived the edict from my mother-in-law and burned it."
