The conversation shocked the ministers who were previously worried.
The head of the Metropolitan Procuratorate quarreled with the prince as soon as he appeared. It seemed that this person was not here to help the prince massacre the ministers, but to oppose the prince!
The first seat of the Metropolitan Procuratorate!
The first seat of the Metropolitan Procuratorate!
The ministers secretly clenched their fists in excitement!
This moment couldn't have come at a better time!
It’s so exciting!
These ministers who opposed the crown prince had been meeting secretly for who knows how long, thinking hard to find a way to fight against Li Xin.
They attracted all the ministers they could, but they still couldn't compete with the prince, and they didn't even have any room for resistance!
But they thought about all the possibilities, but they forgot about the Metropolitan Procuratorate, which has been hiding in the dark corners of the capital!
At this moment, all the ministers suddenly realized.
If there is any force in the world that can fight against the Crown Prince, it can only be the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and it can only be the Metropolitan Procuratorate!
At a time when the world of Great China is about to fall, there is finally a turning point!
But while these ministers are excited, who has ever thought about whether the Metropolitan Procuratorate today is still the Metropolitan Procuratorate fifty years ago?
At the same time, after Xia Shang heard what Li Xin said, his handsome face under the mask inadvertently became ugly.
After all, it is a bird that has been in the same place for three years and has reached the point of soaring into the sky...
Xia Shang was familiar with this sentence, but when it came from Li Xin's mouth, it had an ulterior motive.
I still remember what Xia Shang said to Huairou when he first came to this world: "If you don't fly for three years, your flying will reach the sky; if you don't sing for three years, your singing will be astonishing."
It turned out that this sentence had already reached Li Xin's ears through Lu Xun, and it turned out that the prince had long known that there was such a leader of the Metropolitan Procuratorate lurking.
"My lord, I thought that you and I would become close friends. Unexpectedly, you showed up and led an army to the vital point of my prince. It seems that this was Lu Xun's dereliction of duty. He said in his letter
, this young First Lord will definitely become an effective helper for this prince in governing the world in the future."
"Your Highness, if you are not such a person who will do anything to achieve your goals and regard the lives of the people in the world as trivial, then I would be willing to help the prince govern the world. Unfortunately, unlike Lu Xun, I am not a person like him.
A radical like you. On the contrary, what you have done has made the subordinates feel very dangerous, and it has reached the point where the Metropolitan Procuratorate has to take action."
The voices of Xia Shang and Li Xin's conversation were very low, and only they could hear them.
Li Xin smiled coldly: "My lord, don't keep talking about the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Do you really think you can represent the Metropolitan Procuratorate? It's okay to scare the ministers behind you with your bluff. Do you think that you can represent the Metropolitan Procuratorate?"
Can this scare this prince? Not to mention that you have nothing now. Even if you really control the entire Metropolitan Procuratorate, in the eyes of His Highness, today's Metropolitan Procuratorate is just the dust of history and will never be on the stage."
"Having nothing means I have no capital, but the prince seems to be unable to lose, right?"
Li Xin snorted coldly and strengthened his voice: "Okay then! I would like to hear what you, the head of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, have to say in the court."
Xia Shang came forward, knelt down and bowed to the emperor in front of the palace and said: "Your Majesty, one month ago, my subordinates heard that after the death of Mr. Dongyue, all the incident happened and the seal of the Procuratorate's badge was engraved on the table. There was someone there.
On this basis, it was spread that the person who killed Mr. Dongyue was the head of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
Later, it happened that the literati publicized the murder of the first culprit of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and His Royal Highness mobilized the army to arrest the literati in the capital. In the end, he was convicted of this and wanted to kill all the literati who participated."
Fu Yu interrupted: "Your Excellency, these intellectuals have brought injustice upon you, the Imperial Procuratorate. The Crown Prince did this for the sake of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and to clear up your grievances."
"If this is true, I will naturally thank His Highness the Crown Prince for taking action." Xia Shang paused, "But there is a huge mystery surrounding this matter, and I believe that someone did it deliberately."
The emperor didn't say anything, so Li Xin asked: "What's the doubt?"
"Take the previous example, when the official entered the Hall of Supreme Harmony, only a small number of civil and military people in the Manchu Dynasty recognized the official's identity. It can be seen that because the Metropolitan Procuratorate has disappeared from the capital for many years, few people remember the existence of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
Very few people recognize the ministers here, let alone the literati outside.
Most of those literati were young people and had no idea about the story of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the events that took place fifty years ago. Even at the Scenic Lake at Xichengkou, very few people knew that the Metropolitan Procuratorate existed. Not to mention the mere presence of one person.
From the seal pattern on the wooden table, even if Xiaguan was standing at the scene of the crime, who among the literati would be able to recognize that Xiaguan was from the Metropolitan Procuratorate?
If someone hadn’t spread the whole thing and spread rumors wantonly, how could those literati insist that it was the work of the Metropolitan Procuratorate? Those literati were clearly used by others and became the pawns of the secret planners, and became the victims of the whole thing."
After hearing what Xia Shang said, the ministers behind him looked at each other in confusion. After thinking for a while, they all nodded in agreement.
Xia Shang continued: "If those literati were being used by others, and the so-called ignorant people are not to blame, should the crimes they committed should be treated leniently?"
"But some of them killed the guards."
"The guards should be killed and punished, but they should never be implicated in so many things. I remember that among the scholars who were questioned today, most of their crimes were spreading rumors and slandering the court. Compared with them, are those who secretly
The person who manipulated this matter should be investigated in detail?"
Li Xin said coldly: "Listening to your tone, have you found the real culprit?"
"Your Highness, please don't forget what the former Metropolitan Procuratorate was best at doing, right?" Xia Shang said, slowly getting up, with a meaningful flavor, "To find out the murder of Mr. Dongyue
The real culprit, so much so that I found the mastermind behind the whole thing, but I have made some preparations."
At this moment, the emperor, who had been silent until now, suddenly stood up from the dragon throne.
The eyes that had always been confused suddenly flashed with a chilling light at this moment: "First Officer, please tell me who the real murderer is!"
This was the first and only sentence the emperor said after the morning court began today.
And he stood up, with an unquestionable commanding tone.
For a moment, the officials were shocked, thinking that the emperor's attitude would change.
At the same time, Li Xin's expression also changed drastically, and he actually felt panicked.
Obviously, he did not foresee the emperor's opening, which made him a little confused.
At this moment, Xia Shang finally stood up, pointed at Jiang Jie, the Minister of Rites, who was taken away and brought back, and said: "He is the real culprit who killed Mr. Dongyue!"
"ha?!"
As soon as he finished speaking, there were waves of strange calls coming from the hall.
I can't tell whether it's surprising, funny, or just baffling.
Even the emperor was stunned for a moment. He held back for a moment and seemed to want to say something, but did not speak. Finally, he sat back in his seat and narrowed his eyes feebly. (To be continued)