When Princess Ji returned to the palace, she took down the interrogation officer Chu Mingyang had placed in her room.
This maid is called Cai Die. It seems that the retainer bought her from Ren Yazi. Because Princess Ji didn't have enough people around her, the retainer assigned her to serve her.
Princess Ji had already investigated it when it was sent to her. She was very cautious in employing people, so she would not use them for personal service rashly.
She investigated and learned that Cai Die was a girl that Chu Mingyang found from the Chu family's village. She knew that the retainer wanted to buy a girl from Ren Yazi, so she sent Cai Die to Ren Yazi first. Then she went to the palace.
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Princess Ji was thinking that if she sent away a colorful butterfly, Chu Mingyang would continue to put people in. It would be better to keep her, so as to confuse Chu Mingyang.
Princess Ji was careless at first because she didn't take Chu Mingyang seriously at all.
Cai Die couldn't help but beat her, but after a few strokes, she admitted everything.
She admitted that she was from Chu Mingyang, and the night before yesterday she overheard Princess Ji laying out the plan for the theft of the study. She went to the Chu family to inform Chu Mingyang.
Princess Ji did not deal with Cai Die, but locked her up first. Then she ordered people to go to Jingzhao Mansion to inform Yu Wenhao.
After Yu Wenhao listened, his initial judgment was correct.
However, Chu Mingyang is just a chess piece. The real person behind everything is still unknown.
Therefore, Princess Ji's plan had to be concealed from her father.
However, concealing this matter means that it was indeed because of the theft of the study last night. The Jingzhao Mansion accidentally discovered the secret room and then discovered the military map. In other words, Prince Ji was still involved.
Yu Wenhao gritted his teeth so hard that blood came out. This person's layout was really powerful, with layers of links that made people have to step into the game according to his design.
The most irritating thing is that he is not afraid of seeing through everything this person arranged. He clearly knows what is going on, but he can only eat coptis in silence and cannot say a word.
How can you not make people angry when you are so arrogant?
Yu Wenhao took a deep breath and took Fu Cheng into the palace to report.
The things Jingzhao Mansion collected from Prince Ji's study must be informed to Emperor Ming Yuan, and there was no way to hide them.
The Jingzhao Mansion is so big, if you hide even a little bit of it, it will become a tinder in the future and become the tinder for this person to deal with him.
After listening to the report, Emperor Ming Yuan looked at the military map and the two little figures presented by Yu Wenhao. His expression became very ugly, and the veins on his forehead could almost be seen beating.
He slowly stretched out his hand to take away the military map, and then swept the two little figures to the ground. Eunuch Mu Ru quickly packed them away and stamped his feet, "How could you send these into the palace and dirty the eyes of the emperor?"
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Emperor Ming Yuan was speechless for a while, his face was livid, his eyes were filled with horror and rage. Yu Wenhao and Fu Cheng knelt on the ground, not daring to say a word.
Emperor Ming Yuan was silent for a while, then breathed out quickly, "What about the traitor?"
He squeezed these words out of his throat, gasping for breath, as if his neck was being strangled and then suddenly released.
Yu Wenhao said: "If you return to my father, he has been detained in Jingzhao Mansion and is waiting for your fate. Please... calm down!"
Yu Wenhao's heart was tense. Every breath his father took made his heart beat wildly.
Emperor Ming Yuan's eyes were cracked, and his face turned from the original blue color to a fierce red, which reached the root of his neck. He put his hands on the imperial case and clenched them into fists, and said angrily: "Have you been tried?"
Yu Wenhao heard that in addition to rage, there was also unspeakable pain in his voice. He felt a pang in his heart and said in a deep voice: "I have never tried to answer my father's words, but he himself shouted about that villain.
He made it, but the military map was never stolen."
"Tell him to die!" Emperor Ming Yuan heard this and punched the inkstone suddenly. The ink on the inkstone overturned and splashed all over him. His finger bones burst and bleed, but he ignored it and punched the ground.
He continued to pound the tabletop, "I will pretend that I never gave birth to this son!"
He looked up to the sky, lowered his hands in grief, blood dripped on the marble floor, and slowly leaned on the back of the dragon chair. How could there be such a heartless person? He actually cursed his father with the art of hating victory.
with brothers.
Seeing that he was like a lion at the end of his rope, Yu Wenhao felt more and more uncomfortable and even swallowed unconsciously, "Father, please calm down, the dragon's body is more important. He... is not worthy of your anger."
Emperor Ming Yuan didn't speak again for a long time. The anger in his eyes faded inch by inch, and there was no longer any light.
Slowly, he stood up, staggering twice before he could stand still. He stretched out his hand to hold the table firmly. He looked at Yu Wenhao and slowly announced, "First, depose him from the title of prince, demote him to a commoner, and throw him into prison.
Take back all the food, fiefdoms and mansions, search them all, and check the military maps. If it is proven that it was him..."
Emperor Ming Yuan's voice paused for a long time, his gray eyes looked at the gilt flying five-clawed dragon entwined on the red column in the royal study, his voice was dry and emotionless, "If it is confirmed...except for two people from Prince Ji's residence...
Except for the princess, all of them will be executed. The princess will have his title deprived of his title, demoted to a commoner, and expelled from the capital. All ministers who interact with him will be demoted to three levels. If there are serious cases and the instigation is found to be serious, they will be executed!"
Yu Wenhao accepted the order, stepped forward to help the shaky Emperor Ming Yuan, and said sadly: "Father, please don't be too angry."
Emperor Ming Yuan looked at him, put his hand heavily on his wrist and took a step forward with strength. He looked at him as if he were a stranger, "Angry? Just think about it carefully. If your son wants to dig it up in the future,
Your heart is cramping, and I look forward to your early return to the West. You will understand how sad this is for me!"
Yu Wenhao's nose felt sour, but he held back tears after all.
Emperor Ming Yuan issued another decree, asking the Ministry of Punishment and Dali Temple to coordinate with the Jingzhao Mansion for a joint trial.
The son actually cursed his father. The curse came first and the stolen military map was behind him. In any case, it was treason.
The whole family was punished for the crime of treason. Emperor Ming Yuan was extremely sad and angry, but he was still willing to give him a chance for a fair trial.
Since the beginning of the Northern Tang Dynasty, there was a prince who was executed by his entire family. More than 170 people in the family were killed, leaving only an infant. Although he was later rehabilitated, it became a taboo that no one in the royal family would talk about.
One taboo.
Yu Wenhao left the palace and rode his horse on the bluestone street. It was a little colder today. It was the late spring cold in February. This kind of cold was not the cold of strong wind blowing against the face and violent snowstorms, but the spring cold that penetrated into the bone marrow.
It's a bit unbearable.
His father's will and his last words to him made Yu Wenhao feel extremely uncomfortable. There was almost no room for resolution of this case, but if the boss was convicted of treason, then the whole family of Prince Ji's house would...
That's hundreds of lives.
Yu Wenhao was going back to Jingzhao Mansion, but he was in a mess and didn't know how to deal with it.
Going back to his home...he didn't want to bring back his bad mood, and with Lu Yuan and Lao Qi in his home, he couldn't live in peace either.
Xu Yi followed him behind, knowing that he was in a bad mood, so he did not step forward to disturb him. The two rode horses one after another, and actually made a circle around the capital.