"Master Li, do you dare to resist the emperor's decree?"
Seeing this scene, Li Yunshan was so frightened that he quickly got out of the way.
Xu Miaoyun, surrounded by Xu Qin and others, entered the prison with head held high.
Shi Dongmei sheathed her sword and led her guards to follow closely.
Li Yunshan hurriedly called a jailer and asked him to go to the Courtyard of the Ministry of Punishments and invite Lord Ji Gang, the commander of the Jinyi Guards.
The Minister of Punishment was Jianwen's best friend. On the day Zhu Di entered the city, his entire family was executed.
Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Punishment was also imprisoned.
The current Ministry of Justice is temporarily taken over by Jin Yiwei, and it will be slowly put into place after the new emperor officially ascends the throne.
When the right minister Li Yunshan entered the city, he was one of the more than twenty Jianwen ministers who knelt to welcome him.
Now, he obeys the command of Jinyi Guard Commander Ji Gang.
After the arrangements were made, he followed forward cautiously.
Xu Miaoyun went all the way into Damingming Prison.
It was dark and damp inside, and screams and moans could be heard one after another.
The pungent smell of blood and rotten stench is even more disgusting.
The Sky Prison is very large and holds thousands of important criminals. It is surrounded by tight security and numerous swords.
Xu Qin and the others were on high alert and surrounded the princess.
Xu Huizu and Xu Qin, father and son, were detained as serious criminals at the time.
Unlike other death row inmates, they are kept in a very secluded place.
Without Xu Qin and the jailer leading the way, Xu Miaoyun would have been nowhere to be found while walking in the maze-like prison corridor.
In the small cell, there were still blood stains on the damp floor and walls.
In front of Xu Miaoyun's eyes, the tragic scene of Yungong being tortured to death instantly appeared.
She was instantly furious.
"Li Yunshan!"
A loud shout.
Li Yunshan, who was huddled behind the team, knowing that a disaster was imminent, crawled to the front of Princess Yan.
"I would like to ask you, was Xu Huizu ever convicted at that time?"
Li Yunshan broke out in cold sweat, and he replied in a panic:
"Not yet...not yet. I'm just being detained under orders."
"By whose will?"
"According to the decree of King Yan, Master Ji, commanded by the Jinyi Guards, personally escorted the prisoner to the prison."
"Okay, even if it is a decree from King Yan, it is a temporary detention and there is no conviction. Xu Huizu shouldn't be considered a criminal, right?!"
Li Yunshan was so nervous about Princess Yan's tongue-twisting questioning that his heart nearly jumped out of his throat.
He could only answer with a cry: "Yes... yes."
Xu Miaoyun's voice was even higher, and she shouted angrily:
"Since he is not a criminal, regardless of his official position in the Jianwen Dynasty, just because he holds the title of Duke of Wei, he can only be isolated alone and wait for new orders."
"But as the right minister of the Ministry of Punishment, your understanding of the criminal laws of the Ming Dynasty is so superficial. It's just a lie!"
Facing Princess Yan's loud scolding, Li Yunshan looked confused.
"Princess, I'm just here to carry out errands."
He had no choice but to push the responsibility upwards.
"You were ordered to run an errand? Whose order did you take, and for whom did you run the errand?"
"And among you prison chiefs and jailers, who ordered Wei Duke Xu Huizu to have his hamstrings and hand tendons severed and torture him?"
"Tell me... please tell me?!"
Li Yunshan's subconscious answer played into Xu Miaoyun's hands.
As soon as he said this, he also realized that he had fallen into passivity, and his face immediately turned pale.
Seeing that Princess Yan was wrathful, the prison chiefs and jailers guarding Xu Huizu were so frightened that they knelt on the prison road with a bang and cried loudly:
"It's unfair. We were all following orders..."
"Who? Whose orders did you take?"
"It was the order from Mr. Li, the right servant. He said that someone on the mountain wanted Mr. Xu's life, and that he wanted to have his bones and muscles broken, and that he would be tortured slowly until he died."
The hands of these three people pointed at Li Yunshan in unison.
"That's nonsense. You three dare to spit on others when you are about to die. Aren't you afraid that your family will be affected?"
While Li Yunshan denied loudly, there was also a threat in his words.
You must never admit this kind of thing, otherwise everything will collapse.
"If you don't want people to know about it unless you do nothing, how can you cover up such a big commotion?"
Xu Miaoyun sneered:
"Come here, first, cut off the hamstrings and hand tendons of the three executioners who tortured Duke Wei, and put them in this death row. No one is allowed to get close without my decree."
As soon as he finished speaking, several guards from Prince Yan's Mansion came forward and took the three jailers who were calling their father and mother out for execution.
After a while, the three jail guards who had their hamstrings and hands broken and passed out were dragged into the death row like dead dogs and locked the door.
What awaits them will be a slow death of pain and starvation.
All the jailers and jailers present were so frightened that they were afraid that they would also be implicated.
"Take off the right minister of the Ministry of Punishment who is unrepentant, has no regard for national laws, and despises the imperial power. Take off his black gauze hat and throw him into death row!"
As soon as he said this, the guards behind him also took action.
Li Yunshan's official hat was lifted, and his hair suddenly became disheveled.
His body was pinned to the left and right by the guards, unable to move at all.
He was so frightened that he almost peed, struggled and cried:
"Princess, please spare your life, Princess, please spare your life!"
"Spare your life?"
Xu Miaoyun snorted, "I will punish you and other scum today. If you dare to attack Xu Huizu, the eldest son of King Zhongshan appointed by Emperor Taizu Gao, Duke of Wei, you are deceiving me that there is no one in the Xu family, right?"
Princess Yan was furious.
All the officials from the Criminal Department present were so frightened that their faces turned pale.
Li Yunshan still wanted to ask for mercy, but he was picked up by two Yanfu guards and thrown into another cell.
The dirty cell was full of smelly water and filth.
The pampered Li Yunshan screamed in despair.
Regardless of his image as a third-rank official, he crawled to the cell with disheveled hair, grabbed the iron bars with both hands and cried:
"Empress, Wei Chen is wronged. We were just following orders. Such harsh blame falls entirely on us. Wei Chen is dissatisfied!"
With Li Yunshan taking the lead in calling out injustice, the emotional contagion spread like a plague.
The jailers, who were deeply afraid that they would be the next to suffer, knelt down and shouted:
"I have been wronged, please forgive me!"
Xu Miaoyun didn't pay any attention to these people, but stared closely at Li Yunshan who was locked up and begging for mercy.
She must track down the person behind the murder of her brother.
It is absolutely impossible for Zhu Di to do this kind of thing.
Having been husband and wife for twenty-five years, she understood King Yan's character very well.
Zhu Di resembles Taizu Emperor Gao, who is ruthless and will retaliate.
He resorted to all kinds of brutal methods against those who opposed him.
They were skinned and cramped, executed at Lingchi, and the nine tribes were exterminated.
But he has always been aboveboard in doing things, and his grudges are clear.
For a stubborn die-hard like Xu Huizu, he did have murderous intentions.
But I won't secretly instigate such secretive activities.
There is no need for this.
"Li Yunshan, please tell me honestly, who instigated you to harm Duke Wei like this?"
