Chapter 387 The truth comes out and changes everything
Chapter 387 The truth comes out and changes everything
Wu Huaiyu followed Zhang Liang to the prison.
In the six-door prison.
Du Jingai was lying on a door panel, her eyes were wide and bulging, there was a deep strangulation mark on her neck, and her tongue was hanging out.
The dead can no longer die.
The dignified Duke of Anji, the eldest son of Du Xiangguo, who held the title of direct bachelor from Hongwen Hall, died like this in a dark and damp underground prison.
"As soon as they were brought in, this guy hanged himself with his belt."
"Suicide?" Wu Huaiyu asked coldly.
"It was indeed a suicide."
Wu Huaiyu swept away several jailers. This matter was by no means that simple, because Du Jing'ai was the son of the former prime minister Du Yan, and he had the title of Duke, and his cousin was still the prime minister Du Ruhui.
With such an identity and an imperial prisoner, someone must be watching when he is brought in. It is impossible for him to hang himself so easily.
"Take down all the jailers on duty and interrogate them separately." Wu Huaiyu glanced at those people coldly.
Zhang Liang was a little embarrassed, "There's no need to be like this, right?"
Huaiyu came up to him and lowered his voice and asked, "Is it possible that Mr. Zhang has some private agreement with the Du family?"
Zhang Liang pulled Wu Huaiyu aside and said, "Mr. Yi, to be honest, no one wants to see Du Jingai alive, and Du Jingai himself doesn't want to live either."
"Really? But the court hasn't tried him yet. Mr. Zhang and I will explain it to His Majesty."
Zhang Liang pulled Huaiyu, "The outcome of this matter is quite good now. Duke Yi, do you still want to continue to pursue the investigation and overthrow the Du family? This is impossible,"
Wu Huaiyu narrowed his eyes and looked directly at him.
"Youpushe said hello to me," Zhang Liang admitted.
Du Ruhui has a grudge against his uncle Du Yan. This is a well-known thing. Du Yan and Du Ruhui's father are half-mothers. Du Ruhui's father is the legitimate son. Du Yan is actually the legitimate son, but his mother Guo is the successor.
wife.
Although the Guo family is also from a famous family in Taiyuan, the Du Yan brothers have been at odds since childhood. In the big house, half brothers are actually prone to conflicts, especially as Du Yan's mother is a concubine rather than a concubine, so it is easier for her to get into trouble.
contradiction.
Anyway, the son of the ex-wife looks down on the son of the second wife. This conflict is so great that it is irreconcilable, just like the half-brother of Changsun Wuji who kicked the mother and son out of the house after their father died.
It is said that Du Ruhui's father was also very rude to Du Yan's mother and son in his early years, and wanted to drive them out of the house several times. Du Yan's mother and son had suffered a lot of bullying at home. After Du Ruhui's father died, the three Du Ruhui brothers also had a disagreement with their uncle, and even
They were enemies, so later when Du Yan was serving as Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs under Wang Shichong, he took the opportunity to avenge himself and directly killed Du Ruhui's elder brother, and imprisoned Du Ruhui's younger brother Du Chuke, who almost starved to death.
If Du Ruhui hadn't assisted Li Shimin in taking Luoyang, Du Chuke would have starved to death.
Anyway, after rescuing his younger brother, Du Ruhui asked Li Shimin to kill his uncle Du Yan, but it was Du Chuke who forced him to die, saying that his family should stop fighting among themselves and killing each other like this.
Du Ruhui is not as grand as Du Chuke.
After all these years, he and Du Yan are still strangers. Even if they are ministers in the same palace or prime ministers, they are still enemies.
Du drowned, and it is said that Du Ruhui drank to celebrate and got drunk.
Now that Du Jingai has committed a crime and is in jail, and he has committed such a serious crime, Du Ruhui also went directly to Zhang Liang, hoping that Du Jingai would die in prison directly.
This is not only revenge, but also to protect the Du family from being implicated by Du Jingai.
Du Ruhui is the prime minister, Zhang Liang has to give him face.
So after Zhang Liang put Du Jing'ai in prison, he spoke a few words to Du Jing'ai alone, conveyed the words of his cousin Du Ruhui, and finally sent away the jailer, giving Du Jing'ai the opportunity to hang himself.
Otherwise, Du Jingai would have no chance of hanging himself in this prison.
"Mr. Yi Guo, it was Du Jing'ai who tried to kill you. Now that Du Jing'ai is dead, you have also taken your revenge."
Wu Huaiyu was very angry after hearing Zhang Liang's confession, but he did not bother with him too much. He suspected that it was not only Du Ruhui who greeted him, but also the emperor's instructions that might have caused Du Jingai to commit suicide.
After all, he is the Jingzhao Du family, a Du family with two prime ministers.
If this matter gets serious, the consequences will be serious.
In particular, Du Yan's contribution was very great. Now he has just died, and Du Ruhui is still the prime minister of the dynasty and the emperor's confidant. If this matter is pursued, it will not end well.
It's better to just kill this piece of shit and be done with it.
It is even possible that the emperor did not intend to disclose Du Jing'ai's crimes, but instead announced that Du Jing'ai died of illness, and then asked his younger brother Du Jing to ascend the throne with him, and the matter was just covered up.
"Mr. Zhan Guo, this case has a lot of implications. Du Jingai died before we could find out anything," Huaiyu looked directly into Zhang Liang's eyes.
"Mr. Yi Guo, don't worry. This case will definitely continue to be investigated. No one can escape. It doesn't matter whether Du Jingai is dead or alive." Zhang Liang said with an embarrassed smile.
After they finished talking, Qiu Xinggong arrived.
Seeing the hanged man, he spat disdainfully, "It's bad luck."
"We can't let him die so easily. The Du family must compensate Duke Yi this time."
Notify Du Jingai's younger brother Du Jingtong to come and collect the body.
Qiu Xinggong came forward to negotiate terms with Du Jingtong, and Lao Qiu threatened Du Jingtong very rudely. Compared with the sick Du Jing'ai, this Du Ergong was actually a talented person.
The future is pretty good.
He was indeed not involved in Du Jingai's conspiracies. He had very different personalities from his brother, and he was also very opposed to the sinister things his brother did.
Of course, the rumors about Du Jingai receiving virgins every year, and even getting these virgins pregnant and then using caesarean section to remove the fetuses and use medicine are actually nonsense.
After all, Du Jing'ai was the son of the prime minister and a member of a famous family, and he was not the leader of a demon sect. Du Yan would not allow this to happen.
There is indeed such a thing as being happy. Taking in several concubines a year is nothing in a wealthy family. Except for one or two who died of illness, the rest of the concubines are living well in the Du family. It's just that Du Jingai was born sick and weak.
, marrying a wife and taking concubines is actually just a decoration.
He couldn't even get his wife or concubine pregnant, let alone take the fetus by caesarean section and make medicine for it.
The medicine Du Jing likes to take does contain deer fetuses, purple river carts, etc., but it is purely a rumor that he eats human fetuses. He does not raise desperate villains in ghost caves, kidnap people, and rob people, but Du Jing
It is true that Jingai has many interests in the ghost market.
Du Jing'ai was a sick man. Although he had a bachelor's degree, he was not in good health and had no future in his official career. Therefore, Du Yan focused on training his second son very early on.
Du Jingai likes to make friends in the world, and Chai Lun has a good relationship with him. He also likes intrigues, and he inherits this aspect from his father.
Du Jingai's pursuit of Wu Huaiyu is most likely related to Nanshi and Wall Dragon Chailun.
But now people are dead.
Although Du Ruhui had a grudge against Du Yan, he did not want Du Jing'ai to implicate the entire Du family.
Qiu Xinggong was not as polite as Du Jingtong.
At this time, Du Jingtong just wanted to put an end to the matter as soon as possible. After all, not only was Du Jing'ai's body there, but the evil he had done was also there. If the investigation continued, the Du family would be in danger, and at least his family would be destroyed.
Two villages in the capital, a thousand acres of land, a villa in Chang'an City, Lishan, Wugong, and Lantian, a villa each, plus a thousand guan of money, fifty slaves and fifty horses.
Qiu Xinggong asked for a high price, but Du Jingtong did not bargain much and showed enough sincerity to compensate Wu Huaiyu.
The Du family is willing to exchange these for Wu Huaiyu's understanding.
Du Jingtong hoped that his brother's death would preserve some dignity and leave some dignity to the Du family.
Qiu Xinggong ignored this. The dignity they wanted could only be given by the Holy Emperor.
Du Jingtong took away Du Jing'ai's body and sent the house deed, money, silk and slave horses to the Wu family on the same day.
Du Ruhui even visited the Wu family in person that day and had a pot of tea with Wu Huaiyu.
Du Ruhui apologized to Wu Huaiyu, but also hoped that Wu Huaiyu would show his respect.
Things began to develop towards clarity, which was becoming more and more favorable to Wu Huaiyu. At least now the emperor no longer believed in the prophecy of the so-called Wu Dai Li Xing, and believed that it was a rumor concocted by Du Jingai.
The charlatan was taken to the market and beheaded, and his head was hung on the city wall for public display.
Yongzhou Yamen and Chang'an Wannian County Yamen, as well as the Wuhou Guards and Liumenmen, etc. were dispatched together, capturing many such charlatans, sorcerers, witches and witches, and beheaded them all.
The rumors in the market that Li Xing, the heroine of the Wu Dynasty, was the heroine, also disappeared for a while.
Anyone who dares to commit crimes and spread rumors will be exiled to the frontier if caught.
Things are still fermenting, but things are already heading in a good direction.
Under Du Ruhui's operation, Du Jingai's death was silent, and in the end Li Shimin still retained some face of the Du family.
Du Jingai died of illness. Since he had no heirs, the emperor issued an order to let his younger brother Du Jing take the title of Duke of Dongyang County and be demoted to the first rank.
The emperor also acquiesced in the compensation the Du family paid to Wu Huaiyu.
However, although the emperor did not disclose Du Jing'ai's crimes, he finally issued a secret decree and rewarded all the concubines and servants in Du Jing'ai's house to Wu Huaiyu.
Early morning.
Above the Golden Palace.
The general secretary read out the edict.
"Bachelor of Chongxian Hall, champion general, Shangzhu Kingdom, Yongzhou Biejia, Prince Ximawuhuaiyu, concurrently minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, judge of the branch, and concurrently in charge of writing and serving as the censor."
"General You Xiaowei, Huo Guogong Chai Shao, was renamed Qiao Guogong and removed from the position of General You Xiaowei."
"Cui Qian, the minister of Huangmen and Duke of Boling County, was demoted to the governor of Songzhou and seized the title."
"Zheng Shanguo, the governor of Xingyang County, the governor of Qizhou, was demoted to the governor of Jiangzhou and won the title."
"General Zuo Wuhou, Honglu Qing, and Xin Guogong Zheng Yuanxuan were demoted to the governor of Yizhou and seized the title."
"The county magistrate of Chang'an and the Duke of Henan, Wei Siqi, were demoted to the Sima of Hongzhou and seized the title."
"Zheng Shiji, the magistrate of Jiyang County, was demoted to the county magistrate of Xunyang County."
"Shi Cui Renshi, the imperial censor in the palace, was demoted to Dengzhou to record affairs and join the army."
"Thousands of cattle prepared themselves for Chai Zhewei, and he was demoted to Guazhou Molijun Zhenbing Cao to join the military."
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A series of personnel appointments.
But except for Wu Huaiyu, who had two important part-time jobs, namely Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and Minister of Book Management and Censor, the rest were dismissed or demoted, and were given titles.
There are eight people in total, two generals, three county princes, two county magistrates, one censor, and one Qianniu Beishen. They include the Cui family of Boling, the Zheng family of Xingyang, and the consort Chai Shao and his son.
These changes left many ministers in the palace confused.
However, there are also some who are smart and sensitive. After the prophecy of Wu Dai Li Xing came out, Wu Huaiyu was dismissed from four important part-time jobs within one day: General of the Left Army, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, Commander of the Crown Prince's Right Guard, and Director of the Chongxian Hall.
And now that Wu Huaiyu has added two important part-time jobs, and the prophecy suddenly disappeared recently, someone has already guessed something.
Since Wu Huaiyu is fine, these people who are in trouble are probably inseparable from this.
But the emperor only issued an edict to demote them, but did not say what they had committed. He only said that if they failed to pass the test, they would be demoted and removed according to the system.
Everyone looked at Wu Huaiyu with a bit of wonder.
One person brought down so many people?
As for his two new jobs, it goes without saying that he is the Minister of Civil Affairs. The Minister of Finance, who is in charge of the money bag, must be ranked number one among the two ministers of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and is extremely powerful.
As for serving the censor, it sounds like there is no difference between serving the censor in the palace, but in fact, this official position was formerly called censor Zhongcheng. It was the deputy chief of the censor station. There were two people in the position, assisting the censor Wen Yanbo to preside over the censorship.
Shitai affairs, responsible for supervising all officials.
Wen Yanbo, the imperial censor, is also the minister of the Zhongshu, in charge of the affairs of the Zhongshu Province, and is also the prime minister. Therefore, the two censors who govern the censors actually preside over the censorship, and they actually have great authority.
The Yongzhou Biejia was also the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Minister of Civil Affairs, and he was also the Minister of Books and the Censor. Although he did not have the title of participating in political affairs, he was called the upper half of the Prime Minister.
On the contrary, Zheng Shanguo, who was once called half a prime minister, was beaten with a stick and sent to Jiangxi.
Even Chai Shao was dismissed.
No one knew that the series of personnel adjustments made by the emperor were all because Yuan Tiangang had been brought to Beijing to meet the saint. Cheng Yaojin's family general personally led his soldiers to assist in escorting him. On the way, they also met Meng Tiangang.
Face-to-face interception,
Then as soon as they arrived in Beijing, Chai Lao Er Chai Lun was hanged to death in the Six Gates Prison.
Chai Shao personally went to collect Lao Er's body, and then announced that Chai Er fell ill and died suddenly.
The entire Wu Dynasty heroine Li Xing Chang's prophecy case has been found out. Chai Lun, Du Jingai, Chai Zhewei, Wei Siqi, Zheng Shiji and others were involved to varying degrees.
Although Zheng Shanguo, Zheng Yuanxuan, Chai Shao, Cui Qian, Cui Renshi, etc. were not directly involved, they were implicated by their nephews and were also repaired by Li Shimin this time.
Anyway, these Cui Zheng and Li Shimin have always disliked them, so they naturally couldn't let go if they had the opportunity to suppress them. Only Cui Dunli was not implicated this time, because Cui Dunli played a role in Li Yuan's rebellion, and later became Zuo Weilang and Zhongshu.
Everyone performed extremely well, and this son of the fifth surname is now also the emperor's confidant.
If it weren't for the fact that Chai Zhewei was the eldest son of Princess Pingyang Zhao and the emperor's nephew, and his sister passed away, Li Shimin would not have planned to let Chai Zhewei go so easily this time, but in the end he was only demoted to Guazhou to serve as a soldier in the army.
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Chai Shao was dismissed from office and his title was changed from Huo Guogong to Qiao Guogong, which was also a serious warning.
The truth came to light, and Li Chunfeng was taken advantage of. It was Du Jingai who pretended to be Yuan Tiangang, linked the daytime appearance with the secret, and tricked Li Chunfeng into secretly reporting this conclusion to the emperor. Then he deliberately leaked the secret content through Yuan, and then changed hands.
Then report Yuan to the Chang'an County government office.
When Wu Huaiyu took office in Yongzhou, he asked Wei Siqi to expose the Yuan family case to him again. Wu Huaiyu intervened in the investigation, and then fell into a trap and put the Wu family into a trap.
Almost, Wu Huaiyu and the Wu family were doomed.
Fortunately, the person behind the incident was finally found.
Li Chunfeng was being used. Yuan Tiangang never wrote anything to him, nor paid him back. Yuan Tiangang came to Chang'an and confronted him face to face, and it became clear.
Fortunately, it was found out that he was indeed deceived, so Li Shimin finally let Li Chunfeng go and did not kill him. However, he still only retained the rank of general and official from the ninth rank, and continued to teach students in the Taishi Bureau.
The official position of doctor is gone.
However, the emperor also issued a decree. Even if Du Jingai's debt of 500 guan, which Chai Lun helped him pay off, was written off, the emperor also gave him a hundred pieces of silk, hoping that he would work hard in the future.
Yuan Tiangang was also retained by the emperor and awarded him a doctorate in astronomy.
Wei Siqi almost picked up a fifth-rank Chang'an County Magistrate, but in the end if it weren't for the fact that his sister was Zhaoyi and his cousin was a noble concubine, he would have almost been killed this time.
In the end, he was demoted to the Sima of Hongzhou. He was demoted from the fifth grade to the sixth grade. However, he was originally only a seventh-grade Yongzhou official who joined the army. In fact, it was equivalent to a promotion. However, compared to the Sima of Hongzhou, the difference between the Yongzhou official and the Sima was quite big.
This can be regarded as a favor given by Li Shimin to the two Weis in the palace, but losing the title of Duke of Henan would be a big loss. Even if it is just a false title, he is still a Duke after all.
Wu Huaiyu's daughter was engaged to Concubine Wei's son, but now she has lost her cousin's title. This can be regarded as offending the Wei family, but Wu Huaiyu doesn't care anymore. He was stabbed by Wei Siqi first, even though Wei Siqi was not fully involved.
Du Jingai, Chai Lun and the others' conspiracy was just that they believed Du Jingai's lies and acted as a knife for them.
But after all, Wu Huaiyu was stabbed by him first.
Although Wu Huaiyu escaped unscathed this time, he also became enemies with Chai Shao and Cui Zhengweidu, the four famous families. But again, others have stabbed you with a knife. Why are you still hesitating? Just stab him back.
Already.
Regardless of whether he has five surnames, seven families, Guanlong and six surnames, he is still the Prince Consort.
Li Shimin was probably the happiest person about this incident. He took the opportunity to beat up Cui Zhengweidu and even dealt with his brother-in-law Chai Shao.
It is a good thing for the emperor that the upstart Wu family and Cui Zhengwei Du are married. If the ministers are all monolithic, the emperor will not be able to sleep.
Retreat from the court.
Chai Shao stopped Wu Huaiyu.
This person will not be eligible to go to court tomorrow because he has no official position like Changsun Wuji.
"Mr. Yi Guo, can you please give me a favor and let's go have a cup of tea together?"
"The two bastards in my family were so disrespectful to Duke Yi this time. I'm deeply sorry. I also hope that Duke Yi can give me a chance to apologize and make compensation."
Brother Chai Er died, his son was demoted to Guazhou, and he himself was dismissed from his post. However, Chai Shao still behaved very calmly, just like when he faced the pincer attack of the Turks and Tuyuhun in Longyou, his expression remained unchanged even when Mount Tai collapsed.
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Huaiyu actually didn't want to deal with Chai Shao. He was tricked by Chai Shao into using him as bait, but he remembered it deeply.
"Your Majesty has already dealt with it. Duke Qiao does not need to compensate me."
"You should admit what you did wrong. The Chai family will definitely give Duke Yi a satisfactory compensation."
"How about going to Foresta Winery in the West Market? The dragon paste wine and Sanlejiang wine there are pretty good."
"good."
The two walked out of the palace side by side, quite silent the whole way.
Chai Shao probably never imagined that the ninth-grade military doctor in Longyou would now be treated as an equal to him, to the point where he even had to bow his head and apologize or even compensate.
What a terrible young man. Thinking of his traitorous son, Chai Shao almost gritted his back molars. He even felt that he was entirely to blame for his brother's death.
