Chapter Forty-Seven Secret Trial of Marquis Deqing
Because there was no special prison at this time, Liao Yongzhong was imprisoned in the dark and damp internal prison dungeon.
Zhu Yuanzhang was worried about the eunuchs, so he specially appointed his personal bodyguard Liu Ying to guard Liao Yongzhong every step of the way.
Liu Ying's original name was Liu Da, and his father was Liu Jizu who gave Zhu Yuanzhang the cemetery so that his parents could be buried.
As the leader of Zhu Yuanzhang's bodyguard, Liu Ying's greatest advantage is her loyalty and loyalty. She will never be bribed by anyone and will never betray Zhu Yuanzhang.
Boss Zhu actually asked him to guard Marquis Deqing, which shows how seriously he attaches importance to the Liao Yongzhong case.
The next day, Liao Yongzhong sobered up, and Liu Ying immediately ordered someone to report to the emperor.
After going to court, Zhu Yuanzhang rushed over without even bothering to change into court clothes.
This time he came alone, without the prince. Maybe he thought it was better not to learn this kind of thing.
The heavy wooden door with iron hoops opened slowly, Liu Ying put her hand on the door frame, and Zhu Yuanzhang bent down and walked into the cramped cell.
In the cell, Liao Yongzhong was tied to an iron chair with iron chains, which was fixed to the wall.
"Your Majesty has arrived, but I cannot salute you." He had regained his composure, but he was still rude.
"It doesn't matter." Zhu Yuanzhang lifted his robe and sat down on the gold-lacquered chair that Liu Ying moved.
The monarch and his ministers looked at each other, and the atmosphere was a bit awkward.
Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't even remember the last time someone dared to look at him like this.
"Xiao Liao, do you know your guilt?" In the end, it was Zhu Yuanzhang who spoke first.
Liao Yongzhong nodded and said: "I have been convicted."
"Do you know what crime you committed?"
Liao Yongzhong replied in a calm tone: "The world has been peaceful, so I am guilty."
"What are these words?" Zhu Yuanzhang's pupils shrank and he said coldly: "Do you think that if we are going to cross the river and burn the bridge, the rabbit will die and the dog will be cooked?"
"I feel like it." Liao Yongzhong is also an upright man.
"You fart!" Zhu Yuanzhang said with gritted teeth: "I have told you repeatedly that we don't want to imitate Liu Bang and hide our old brothers. We don't want to be notorious for killing heroes. We want to imitate Guangwu of the Han Dynasty and Taizong of the Tang Dynasty.
Follow the heroes who conquered the world from beginning to end!"
"Especially you, Xiao Liao, we have already felt sorry for your brother, so we have to find ways to protect you." Zhu Yuanzhang pointed at Liao Yongzhong and said:
"In the third year of Hongwu, Yang Xian's case was committed. Whether it is a witness or the physical evidence found from his home, it can be proved that you and he were very close, and were involved in many things. It is not possible to say that they were friends who turned against each other.
That's too much!"
"In the end, we killed Yang Xian, but you were spared because of your great merits!" Zhu Yuanzhang said angrily: "Even a blind man can see it, we are covering you up!"
"The emperor hopes that our navy will regain Sichuan and Shu, right?" Liao Yongzhong said whatever he wanted to do, obviously he had a deep understanding of Boss Zhu's character.
Begging for mercy, in Zhu Yuanzhang's case, has always had the opposite effect.
This rhetorical question made Zhu Yuanzhang very angry, and he said coldly: "Since you are so unafraid of death, do you admit that you are the backend of the Chaohu Gang's trafficking in illicit salt in various provinces?"
"We don't know, but if the Emperor thinks so, then so be it. Anyway, it's not a sinister thing. It's far worse than what the Emperor's gang of fellow Fengyang people did!" Liao Yongzhong looked like he was not afraid of a dead pig.
He said calmly like he was boiling water.
Although they are all in Huaixi, Chaohu is more than two hundred miles away from Fengyang. Therefore, he has never belonged to the core group of Huaixi nobles.
"What did they do?" Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned.
"The Emperor doesn't know?" Liao Yongzhong was also stunned for a moment, as if this matter should have been known to everyone long ago.
Boss Zhu shook his head expressionlessly. He hated this feeling of being kept in the dark.
"Hahaha!" Liao Yongzhong laughed loudly and mocked wildly: "So they have hidden you so well! Haha, come on. They keep calling you to come on top all day long, but they didn't expect that you are no longer on the table! It's really true.
Interesting, hahaha!"
"You're so ridiculous!" Seeing the emperor's ugly face, Liu Ying kicked Liao Yongzhong in the stomach.
His leather boots were nailed with iron palms. Liao Yongzhong snorted and stopped laughing.
"What have they done?" Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes were a little distracted, as if he had been hit hard.
"Since the emperor established the iron list, they have become more restrained and do not dare to mess around in Beijing, but they have carried out mergers and acquisitions in their hometown in Huaixi!"
"Especially the princes' families in Fengyang are vying to occupy the common people's cultivated land, mountains, lakes, tea gardens, reed marshes... there is nothing they don't want!"
"Even the military camps of the imperial court and the gold, silver and copper factories of the government camps were taken over without fail! If the common people dared to resist, they would be caught in the government offices, beaten up, and then exiled to the army; in the worst cases, they would directly kill people and silence them, or even kill them.
The whole family is here to shock the countryside!"
"Impossible, absolutely impossible!" Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head decisively and said: "We set up a drum to hear the news, and strictly prohibited the government from preventing people from going to Beijing to complain! If they are so perverse, why don't we hear a drum sound?"
"Three years ago, the emperor was asked to beat the drum, which resulted in the emperor's iron list. How could they make the same mistake? The government stations along the way were all their people, and the people who came to Beijing to complain were intercepted and killed.
"Liao Yongzhong continued to make explosive revelations.
"That's nonsense!" Zhu Yuanzhang glared angrily and said, "Yesterday you also listened to Fengyang Flower Drums. Our fellow villagers come to us every year to pay New Year greetings. We specifically asked about Fengyang's situation, but why do we always say everything is fine?" p>
"Because the emperor's fellow countrymen have been bribed by them a long time ago. Who dares to talk nonsense under coercion and inducement?" Liao Yongzhong sneered.
"Since you know so many things, why didn't you tell me before?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked with a dark face.
"Before, the well water did not interfere with the river water. They took their Yangguan Road and I crossed my single-plank bridge." Liao Yongzhong said: "Now they don't even let me cross the bridge, so there is no need for us to hide it for them!" p>
"We will find out about this matter. But whether it is true or false, it has nothing to do with your crime." Zhu Yuanzhang stood up, leaned forward slightly, and waved his right hand back.
Liu Ying went out immediately and guarded the door.
In the cramped cell, only the emperor and Liao Yongzhong were left.
"For the sake of your past achievements, and especially for the sake of your brother," Zhu Yuanzhang said softly: "As long as you tell us one thing, we can let you go this time."
"What's the matter?" Liao Yongzhong asked.
"Who ordered you to do it?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked in a low voice and stared at him closely.
"We told the emperor that it was Yang Xian who told me that the emperor asked us to pick up Prince Xiao Ming to imply that he did not want to see him in Yingtian City." Liao Yongzhong said.
"Yang Xian didn't say, who instigated him?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked.
"He said it was Liu Bowen who instigated it," Liao Yongzhong replied in a deep voice.
Just when Zhu Yuanzhang was about to straighten up with satisfaction, Liao Yongzhong suddenly laughed strangely and said: "They said it was instigated by Li Shanchang, instigated by Xu Da, instigated by Li Wenzhong... Your Majesty, go and arrest them all!" p>
"It's really stubborn!" Zhu Yuanzhang knew that he could no longer believe Liao Yongzhong's words.
"Ask your people to search the house of Marquis Deqing and read everything with words carefully!" He ordered Liu Yingdao with a sullen face.
