The officials clearly did not participate in Hu Weiyong's rebellion, but the old thieves wanted to obtain confessions of their involvement. The fourth and sixth lao were worried.
The two of them could only rely on the criminal evidence collected by Jin Yiwei in the past to convict the captured officials on conclusive charges such as corruption and bribery.
This does not need to be framed. For someone who can be such a high official, no matter how clean he is, he can be skinned and cut off by the strict standards of the Hongwu Dynasty.
Then, let’s take Xu Duo and Tu Jie, who once attacked Hu Weiyong for bending the law for personal gain, forcing them to serve as tainted witnesses and confess other officials’ secret dealings with Hu Weiyong and collusion.
But most of this kind of stuff is just hearsay, and some even make random claims in order to protect themselves. Their confessions are contradictory and cannot stand up to scrutiny at all.
The three-day deadline came up in a blink of an eye. The fourth and sixth sons were forced by the old man to do nothing, and they couldn't care about so much, so they had to give them a unified confession to prevent it from being leaked and making a big joke.
"I know how injustice is done." Lao Liu looked at Luo Guanzhong's revised and polished confession and was speechless:
"If we are really sentenced based on this confession in the end, we two brothers will immediately be comparable to Zhou Xinglai Junchen."
"What kind of birds are those? Are they worthy of being compared with our brothers?" Lao Si snorted disdainfully and said with a smile: "Don't mention it, your Mr. Luo is really a talent. For him to give such an order, such a confession
It’s just like the real thing.”
"A writer specializes in making up lies." Lao Liu smiled and said: "If Fourth Brother likes it, take him to Peking. You can also update "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" nearby."
"Okay..." The fourth child was happy at first, then shook his head and said: "Let's forget it. If he wanders around in front of me every day without writing a book, I'm afraid I can't help but chop him down."
"Okay, then just stay with me. At least I won't pursue his articles." Lao Liu smiled nonchalantly, closed the file and said, "Just give it to Father."
"Don't you want me to take a look at it first?" asked the fourth child.
"It's better not to give it up." Lao Liu shook his head and said, "Looking at this thing makes your eyes dirty. If you let me see it, won't it make it more difficult for him?"
"Yes." The fourth child nodded.
The prince was very dissatisfied with his father's large-scale arrests and even had a quarrel with the old man, saying that this would only lead to unjust imprisonment. But Boss Zhu was very resolute and seemed to want to start a big prison and a killing spree. Later, the prince
The two broke up on bad terms, and the eldest brother has been sulking these days.
So it’s better not to add fuel to the fire of Big Brother.
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On the evening of the third day, the two brothers went to the palace together to present the dossier.
Boss Zhu read it carefully, his expression was very complicated.
After pondering for a while, he asked in a low voice: "Is this really the only way?"
"Yes." Zhu Zhen nodded and said in a low voice: "Both my son and my fourth brother have reported to the emperor that there are very few people involved in the rebellion, so few as to be child's play. Hu Weiyong deliberately created such a situation - because he
It is very clear that I have almost no chance of winning against my father, so I am planning for failure."
"If he succeeds by luck..." Zhu Zhen hesitated for a moment, then said truthfully: "He thinks that the nobles, civil servants, and gentry will all support him, so it will be too late to win over them when the time comes."
"What do you mean?!" Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly became angry and said: "You mean those people want us to die?"
The fourth child was sweating for the sixth child, and quickly signaled him with his eyes to stop teasing him.
Lao Liu ignored it and said to himself: "Since my father has chosen to share the world with the people, isn't this inevitable?"
"..." Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned, and the anger on his face gradually dissipated: "That's right, if we don't give privileges to nobles, gentlemen, and officials, they will definitely want me to die. This is Hu Weiyong's biggest reliance."
"So this is really the only way." Zhu Zhen whispered.
"Hey, let's all go and have a rest..." Zhu Yuanzhang let out a long sigh.
"Yes, I'll take my leave." Lao Liu and Lao Si were relieved that they finally got this bad job.
After his two sons retired, Zhu Yuanzhang was the only one left in the huge Wuying Palace.
He sat on the throne until it was dark outside.
Eunuch Wu led the people in quietly and started lighting the lamp.
As the palace gradually became brighter, Zhu Yuanzhang's round face was filled with perseverance again.
"Bring Hu Weiyong." The emperor ordered in a deep voice.
"Yes." Eunuch Wu responded quickly and quickly went out to deliver the order.
After the meal, the sound of rattling iron chains sounded at the entrance of the palace, and Hu Weiyong, who was wearing heavy shackles and shackles, was slipped in by four men carrying knives.
"Kneel down!" Two men with swords behind him tapped his knee sockets with their scabbards.
Hu Weiyong then knelt down on the gold bricks with an eighty-pound heavy shackle, his knees almost shattered, and the pain made him grin and hiss in pain.
"Hu Weiyong, are you so afraid of pain?" Zhu Yuanzhang, who was sitting on the throne, teased: "I thought those who dare to rebel are heroes."
"I have disappointed the superior. Compared with the superior, Hu Weiyong has no heroic spirit at all." Hu Weiyong smiled and said: "For being able to force a small person like me to rebel, the superior is really a hero!"
"It's already here, and you're still talking nonsense with us!" Zhu Yuanzhang slapped the imperial case hard.
"We, Xiao Hu, have been licking the emperor's ditch for half a lifetime, and we are on the verge of death. Why can't we say something happy?" Hu Weiyong was not afraid of him at all, and said with a smile: "My whole family is dead now, and I don't have a few days to live. There is no need to flatter me anymore."
Alright?"
"..." Zhu Yuanzhang frowned when he heard this, and said with anger: "It seems that we have been wronged so much. Tell your conscience, is there any minister who has been more holy than you in the past ten years?"
"Haha, the so-called holy family just killed my only son mercilessly because of a small mistake, and asked me to personally oversee the beheading." Hu Weiyong smiled bitterly: "This holy family, let alone these ten years, will be put to death in the past ten years.
It’s also unique in a thousand years!”
"Based on the outrageous things Hu Tianci did, we only sentenced him to beheaded without skinning or languishing. It's already a grace!" Zhu Yuanzhang said with a straight face: "If it had been anyone else, he wouldn't have been
Do you like racing? We have to get him two carriages, one with a leg tied to one, then put mustard on the horse's butt and drag him to his death!"
"..." Hu Weiyong was dumbfounded. If that really happened, Hu Tianci might be dragged down to two legs in the end.
"Then I really have to thank the Emperor."
"You're welcome." Zhu Yuanzhang said calmly: "As for the matter of you killing the white duck, not only did we not pursue it, we also gave you a chance for amnesty at the last moment. As long as you have a little kindness in your heart, wouldn't you be able to save him?
"
"I thought that the prisoner awaiting execution was the fool I sent in," Hu Weiyong still regrets to this day: "How could I use grace on him?"
"Then you can't blame anyone else." Zhu Yuanzhang raised his voice and said, "It's entirely your own fault that you have reached this point, and no one owes you anything!"
