Then after a while of greetings, Lin Jun, the prefect of Yanzhou, asked: "Your Highness, how many days will it take for your Majesty to pick you up? How much food and grass will be needed for Your Highness's carriage? I'll go and make arrangements."
Zhu Wan, the commander of King Lu's left guard, also said: "How many horses do you need to supply? I hope your highness will inform you."
Yunxi chuckled lightly, and then said: "I didn't want to stay in Yanzhou longer. I wanted to go straight to Qingzhou Prefecture. But now I have to stay in Yanzhou for a few more days."
Before anyone could say "why", more than a dozen soldiers rushed in from outside and tied up the commander and commander of King Lu's three guards who were in the palace.
These people instantly saw that the soldiers brought by Yunxi were kidnapping them, so they did not dare to resist, but one or two of them shouted: "What crime have I committed? Why did Your Highness let me be arrested?"
Of course, there were also some people who must have guessed what was going on and just shrugged and remained silent.
Yunxi stood up and said, "What crime have you committed that you don't know about? Pushan, take out what they gave you yesterday and look at it."
Pushan took out the envelope that he didn't know who gave him yesterday and said, "This is the envelope that I didn't know who stuffed it into me yesterday when I came to Luwang Sanwei Yamen yesterday." Then Pushan took out the treasure money from it and continued: "This is
There are five thousand guan of treasure notes placed in the envelope. I just asked about the so-called King Lu's Courtyard in the city, and you stuffed me with this money. How could there be no problem?"
Zhu Wan frowned and said: "I gave this money to Pushan yesterday, which is good; but in the 21st year of Hongwu, I accompanied the army to conquer Yuerhai, and made a bet with the Marquis of Puyu whether I could destroy Beiyuan.
The money I lost in gambling when we were in the army was asked by Pushan to take it back and compensate it to the Marquis of Puyu."
Yunxi didn't react on the surface when he heard what he said, but secretly he felt that Zhu Wan was very smart and could think of this. Then he turned his head and asked Lan Zhen in a low voice: "Do you know about this?"
Lan Zhen said: "Your Highness, when the army left the northern part of the Great Wall, there were indeed many generals betting on this, and there were also some who opened the odds. My father severely punished a group of people before they stopped. But whether there were two of them,
I don’t know.”
Yunxi thought to himself: "What Zhu Wan came up with is really clever. Even if it is later found out that he did not bet with Puyu at that time, he can still evade that he remembered it wrong; and Puyu is now in the capital, waiting for the verification to be completed."
, time has passed, the evidence has disappeared and been destroyed, and there is not much evidence left if you want to convict. Yunxi himself wants these generals to work for him in the future, so he cannot kill people without evidence.'
However, this is not the only piece of evidence I have. Yunxi sneered and did not answer. When he did not answer, Zhu Wan, who was defending himself from below, did not know how to proceed. For a moment, the sound of breathing in the hall could be heard.
smell.
But this situation did not last long. After a while, a group of soldiers led by guard Qin Nan walked in. Qin Nan was from Huai'an Prefecture, close to Shandong, and knew a little about Shandong dialect, so he was entrusted with an important task this time.
Qin Nan said: "Your Highness, the leader of that group has been caught."
Yunxi said: "Well done." Then he looked at the man caught by the two soldiers. It was indeed the man he saw the day before, He Laoer.
Qin Nan said to He Laoer: "Repeat what you said to me on the road here."
He Laoer has been told on the road that he is definitely finished, and he can completely implicate his family. But whether he implicates his family and how to deal with it is a matter of His Highness's words, so if he 'tells the truth'
, so as not to involve the family.
How dare He Laoer not 'tell the truth' like this? So he knelt down and said: "Your Majesty the Emperor Taisun, the generals of the three guards of King Lu ordered me to do this. How dare I, a little person, disobey the adults!"
Qi Tai, who was standing next to Yunxi, said: "Exactly what is going on, tell me clearly."
He Laoer said: "It was in the name of King Lu that we acquired land to build an imperial village and built a courtyard for His Royal Highness King Lu in the city. This was all what I was asked to do by several adults from King Lu's three guards. And was it King Lu?
I don't know His Highness's order, but the fortune of these 'Imperial Manor' and the goods of the shops have gone into the pockets of the Lords of the Three Guards of King Lu. I just have some leftovers."
Yunxi said to the generals of King Lu's three guards: "Has King Lu ever ordered the construction of other courtyards in the city, and has King Lu ever received any information about these so-called 'imperial villages', so he sent a message to the capital?
The clerk will know it as soon as he asks, what else do you have to say?"
"Do you think I only have evidence that you gave Pushan money? I already have more evidence, but I just cited it but didn't reveal it."
When they saw He Laoer appear, many of the generals of King Lu's three guards were already ashen-faced; but some of them were hoping that He Laoer could take the blame. But after hearing He Laoer, and
Yun Xi's words made everyone look ashen-faced.
Although many generals have never had contact with He Laoer, and drinking together is nothing; but how can the generals who were bitten by He Laoer not confess the others? With His Royal Highness the Emperor Taisun personally supervising, who
You can't save them. In order to reduce the crime, why don't you try your best to bite someone with a higher official position?
Because everyone thought of this, when He Laoer began to testify, the three generals of King Lu's guards who had been in contact with He Laoer immediately knelt down and confessed their crimes with tears in their eyes, and said that the highest-ranking official
Three adults, Zhu Wan, the commander of King Lu's left guard, Zhang Qin, the commander of the right guard, and Xiao Fengming, the commander of the central guard, are the culprits.
Xiao Fengming also immediately began to plead guilty and said: "Your Highness, the offender was only forced. I am just a fellow commander. Although I am not a left guard or a right guard, how can I dare to disobey the two commanders?"
Zhang Qin also cried bitterly and confessed, and also blamed Zhu Wan.
Zhu Wan was stubborn, perhaps knowing that he was unforgivable, so he just knelt in silence.
Yunxi ignored them. Whoever committed the crime, big or small, was the most important person. Later, people below would come to investigate in detail. He only cared about the big things.
He asked He Laoer: "Apart from the generals of King Lu's three guards, are there any officials in Yanzhou involved in this matter?"
He Laoer said: "Zou Ji, the magistrate of Ziyang County, accepted the money and promised to ignore the matter. I sent the money several times."
Before Yun Xi could wink, the soldiers on the side tied up Zou Ji, who had collapsed on his seat. Zou Ji was in a completely dazed state, and was tied up without even making any movement. He even shouted for mercy or begged for mercy.