The air in the prison of the Criminal Department was dark and damp, filled with a strong smell of blood.
There were unkempt prisoners in the cell. Some were groaning in pain, some were silent, some were curled up and sleeping, and some were staring blankly outside the cell.
Rong Cang followed Uncle Xie Xiaoguo to the depths of the cell and saw King Yu sitting in the cell wearing prison clothes. The man was shackled and sitting in the corner with his hair disheveled. He no longer had the dignity of the past.
"His Royal Highness King Yu." Uncle Xie Xiaoguo spoke, "His Royal Highness the War King is here."
King Yu slowly raised his head and looked over, his eyes very calm. Probably the most desperate moment had passed. Now he had accepted the facts, and there was nothing that could make him lose control.
He looked at Rong Cang and said calmly: "Did the ninth brother reach a cooperation with the Gu family, or was he afraid of the power of the Gu family and did not dare to investigate further, so he put all the charges on this king?"
Rong Cang went to Shuozhou to investigate the case and presented the evidence to the imperial court so quickly. It was strange to think about it.
"Everyone in the Gu family must die, no one will be left behind." Rong Cang signaled the jailer to check in the cell, and walked in to chat with King Yu alone, "But now is not the time."
King Yu sneered: "When is the time?"
Rong Cang's voice was indifferent: "Brother Four Emperors, don't worry about this, their fate will only be worse than yours."
"What do you want to do with me?" King Yu looked at him, "Kill me and finish everything?"
Two jailers brought a chair, Rong Cang brushed his brocade robe and sat down on the chair.
"The Protector of the Kingdom saved the country many years ago. Although he has been somewhat arrogant in recent years, apart from being greedy, he has never done anything too harmful to the world." Rong Cang said calmly, "Father will probably not let him go after that period of anger. The Fourth Emperor Brother and the Protector of the Country are dead."
King Yu said coldly: "What about you?"
Rong Cang said: "What about me?"
King Yu asked him: "Do you want me to die?"
Rong Cang shook his head slowly: "We have no grudges in the past and no grudges in recent times. I have no reason to put you to death."
"Don't you want the throne?" King Yu sneered, as if he had already seen through Rong Cang's disguise, "Rong Cang, you don't have to deny it, you want the throne, that's why you want to put us all to death."
Rong Cang leaned back on the chair, with a leisurely look and a cold look on his face: "Brother Four Emperors think too highly of me. I didn't bother to fight in the past, so I never had any connections in the court, but if I really want the throne, , only with the military power in my hand, who of you is my opponent?"
King Yu said calmly: "I always thought that you had no desires and desires. You really just wanted to protect your family and country."
Rong Cang didn't want to argue, and there was no point in arguing.
He really never thought about fighting for the reserve before. Unfortunately, even if he didn't fight, there would always be people who regarded him as an imaginary enemy, framing him and scheming at every turn.
In this case, let's see how long they can use their dirty tricks.
Prince Yu leaned against the corner and raised his eyes to look at Rong Cang: "Although I have been fighting for the throne in these years, I have never really tried to kill you."
Rong Cang looked at the simple cell and responded with a somewhat casual tone: "Except for deliberately hosting banquets to make things difficult for my wife a few times and having conflicts with my wife, I have never had any hostility with my king at other times."
Prince Yu and Duke Protector are members of the same family, and the Zhao family's troubles and hostility toward Chu Yunfei are not unjust to Prince Yu.
It's just that these harmless hostility, now that I think about it, are indeed harmless. They did not cause any substantial harm to Rong Cang and Chu Yunfei. Instead, they themselves were punished by the emperor's order.
Therefore, Rong Cang has never had any hostility with Prince Yu's Mansion.
King Yu asked again: "So will you kill me?"
Rong Cang smiled lightly: "I have no intention of becoming your enemy, but our stance has always been hostile."
Princes vying for the throne are inherently hostile, and this cannot be changed.
King Yu asked calmly: "What if I don't fight with you?"
"Now it's not an issue that you can't argue with, but that both you and the Protectorate have violated the law." Rong Cang looked indifferent, with a condescending look in his eyes, "The evidence is all solid, no one has forged false evidence to wrongly accuse you. .”
King Yu turned cold and looked at him angrily: "The Gu family and King Chen have made a lot of money over the years, and they have nothing to do with it. Why should I have to bear all the blame for just a small amount? This is unfair to me. !”
"It's not unfair." Rong Cang looked at him calmly, with a cold and ruthless expression, "The Gu family has committed more crimes than you, and they will be punished even more, but the time has not yet come."
"Not yet?" King Yu sneered, "Are you afraid of them?"
Rong Cang looked cold: "You don't need to anger me. It's a fact that the Gu family is powerful. I went to Shuozhou to investigate the case, not to die, and I will not take the lives of my subordinates without certainty."
King Yu sneered disdainfully.
"The Gu family is not being punished right now because I don't want to cause too many casualties. If I lead one hundred thousand troops to suppress it now, the Gu family will indeed have no power to resist. But the consequence of this will be that the soldiers and horses of Jizhou, Shuozhou and Liancheng will join forces to resist. , the two sides fought, resulting in countless casualties, and the losses caused were huge. A mere Gu family is not worth such a huge loss."
Rong Cang said word by word, coldly and firmly: "The soldiers under my command can go to the battlefield to kill the enemy, and they can die to protect their homes and the country, but they cannot die on these meaningless things. I have led the army for so many years, and have fought I have won so many battles and have many more plans in mind than you, so I don’t need you to tell me what to do.”
King Yu was speechless by his unhurried words, and after a long time he said: "Since you are so sure of victory, why do you have to put me to death?"
Rong Cang's eyebrows were cold and cold, and his eyes were filled with coldness: "I have made it very clear that your death sentence is not because I am targeting you, but because you have pushed yourself into a pit of fire because of what you did!"
"Speaking so grandly, haven't you ever embezzled military pay during these years of leading the army?" King Yu sneered, "Do you dare to say that you haven't taken any money that you shouldn't have?"
Rong Cang looked at him without saying a word, his face as cold as frost. For a long time, he gave King Yu a cold look, turned around and walked out.
"His Royal Highness the War King!" A familiar voice came from the cell not far away, "I beg His Highness the War King to stay."
Rong Cang paused slightly and turned to look at the cell.
The Lord Protector knelt on the ground and begged in a low voice, "I didn't understand the rules before and offended the King of War and the Princess. I beg His Highness the King of War to show mercy! Let the women of the Zhao family and my mother go. She is old. She is really old." You can’t stand the pain of prison, Your Highness the King of War!”
Rong Cang only sent him eight words: "When the sky is crazy, it will rain, and when people are crazy, there will be disaster."
The Protector was shocked.
There was disgust in Rong Cang's eyes: "When Mrs. Zhao cursed Qi Jin to die early, and cursed Marquis Zhongyi and the eldest princess to have no one to care for them until they die, she probably never thought that today would happen."
What?
The Protector looked up at him in shock: "What did His Highness the War King say? Mother, has she ever said such a thing?"
Even if...even if it was said, it must have been said among the female relatives in the inner house. How could the War King know?
Rong Cang gave him a cold look, turned and left.
