In the Guanyi courtyard, several people looked at Mr. Zhang quietly without saying a word, listening to him tell everything about Liang Guogong.
"In this way, my father's death was just a victim of Taizu's attempt to strengthen his rule." Xiao Chen said coldly.
"Yes. Liang Guogong was loyal to the court wholeheartedly and had no intention of rebellion at all. In order to convict Liang Guogong, Zhu Yuanzhang privately summoned Wang Rong, Marquis of Dingxi, who was then a general under Liang Guogong, and asked Wang Rong to always pay attention to Liang Guogong's actions."
"And this Wang Rong, after receiving this order, had evil thoughts. Eager to achieve merit, he secretly forged an imperial edict and told Liang Guogong that Zhu Yuanzhang needed to build a large amount of military equipment. As a subordinate, Liang Guogong never thought about the authenticity of the imperial edict, let alone the authenticity of the imperial edict.
This is a trap by Wang Rong."
"According to the requirements of the fake imperial edict, he ordered his subordinates to start working overnight and build a large number of armors and bows and crossbows. At this time, Wang Rong colluded with the Jin Yiwei to report the matter. Later, the Jin Yiwei reported to Zhu Yuanzhang and killed him
The eternal injustice of Liang Guogong and many heroes."
"Although other people contributed to this case, Wang Rong, Marquis of Dingxi, is definitely the out-and-out culprit."
Mr. Zhang said angrily.
"No wonder Marquis Dingxi said in front of me that jade seals can be faked. It turns out that he has experienced all this. The batch of armaments in Nanshan now may have been secretly hidden by him." Xiao Chen's eyes narrowed.
It became a seam.
His face was ashen, as frightening as the impending rain.
"Right now, Marquis Dingxi is in the prison. We are going to interrogate him and find out what happened back then. If possible, we will fight for Liang Guozheng." Duan Tianming on the other side said with a "chuckle".
stood up.
For such a conspiracy, Dongchang has the obligation to make it known to the world.
What's more, Liang Guogong is his brother's father. From his brother's perspective, he should stand up and seek the truth regardless of his own safety.
"Rehabilitate? How difficult it is." Xiao Chen smiled bitterly and shook his head, "Let's not mention that this matter was due to the need to maintain his own rule, and he did it to hide his lackeys. For the sake of Ming Taizu's face, the current emperor will definitely
I will not admit that this is an unjust case. What's more, with the battle of Jingnan ahead, the emperor will not pull out the previous case and handle it again for the sake of his own dignity and legitimacy. However, I can't rehabilitate it, but it is related
I will never let anyone go. Today, let me, Dingxihou, be the first to operate."
At this moment, a Dongchang schoolmaster Wei Xing hurriedly ran into the gate and looked at the table where several people were sitting: "Brother Xiao, our brothers from Dongchang are here."
As soon as he finished speaking, the prison warden Duan Tianming walked in with a smile on his face, raised his hands, and saluted Xiao Chen: "Brother Xiao, according to your request, the factory master arranged for five hundred school captains and asked me to lead them.
coming."
"Okay, okay, just come." He said and looked at Duan Tianming, "Take the brothers to Gong Changwei, let Gong Changwei's kitchen cook a good meal, and when you are full, rest in Gong Changwei's barracks. Today, I will go first
Go meet Na Dingxihou, and tomorrow we will set off to ransack his house."
"Okay," Duan Tianming chuckled, "I will live in the Gong Changwei barracks and clean up Gong Changwei properly."
In the government prison, many Dongchang captains were tightly surrounding Dingxihou's cell.
Instructing Zhang and Lao to listen in the cell next door, Xiao Chen reached out and pushed open the door of the cell and walked in.
"Master Hou, long time no see." He said a very "respectful" greeting, but Xiao Chen's hands did not move at all.
"Your Majesty the Imperial Envoy." Seeing Xiao Chen's arrogant look, Ding Xihou didn't care and saluted.
Xiao Che neither waved nor nodded, but said expressionlessly: "A few days ago, Gong Changwei's thousands of armed men hijacked the government prison. The Marquis must be very disappointed, right?"
"Hijacking a prison? Is there such a thing? I really don't know."
Ding Xihou looked very surprised.
"Master Marquis, you don't know? Then I'll tell you." Xiao Chen snorted coldly, "Now, in the government prison, not only you and Gong Changwei commander Zhang Xing are imprisoned, but also a thousand households of Gong Changwei.
Two hundred households and four hundred and sixty-one archers. Those with positions like you are treated in a single room, while those archers have dozens of people crammed into a cell."
"Imperial Envoy, is this too much?" Ding Xihou's face darkened, "Accusing Zhang Xing and I of colluding with each other to hide arms. Even if it is an unfounded charge, it is still a crime. Gong Changwei's thousands of households, hundreds of households are still guilty
There are soldiers. They are the army of the imperial court. They work hard to protect the territory for the imperial court. When you arrest them, have you thought about the charges in advance? The weather is already hot now, and I live alone in this low cell.
I already feel a bit stuffy. Dozens of people are crowded into one cell. If a few people are suffocated to death, how will the imperial envoy please explain to the court?"
"Explain to the court?" Xiao Chen couldn't help but laugh, "It was their fault that I didn't kill the armed hijackers on the spot. Let alone a few of them, even if they were all suffocated, they deserved their punishment. Keep them.
, I just want to get some useful information from their mouths and completely eliminate Gong Changwei. Lord Marquis, do you really not know that they will come to hijack the prison and rescue you?"
"I don't understand what you are talking about. At the same time, I don't have any hidden weapons. If you want to be my enemy, then kill me. As long as you give me a chance to get out, I think your and my roles will be better at the moment.
, maybe they will be swapped with each other.”
Looking at Xiao Chen, Ding Xihou had a hint of contempt in his eyes.
From the time you started threatening me with hiding arms to you saying you were going to confiscate my home, what was the result?
You neither produced any evidence that I had hidden armaments, nor did you bring anything back from my residence to let me know that you had indeed ransacked my home.
With just a few words from you, you want to break my guard and make me follow your wishes and confess my problems one by one?
Bah, you are just talking nonsense.
Don't tell me that when I was playing conspiracy, you still didn't know where to play in the mud. Even if I told you about the problems I had, would you be able to solve me?
Don't say you can't do anything to me, even the current emperor Zhu Di doesn't dare to do anything to me.
An emperor with a dishonest reputation and a dishonest reputation relied on his respect for Taizu to win over people. How dare he point fingers at his father, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty?
"Haha, Master Hou is very confident, isn't he?" Xiao Chen smiled lightly, without any emotion in his tone.
"I am a marquis personally conferred by Taizu. Although you are an imperial envoy, you are only an imperial envoy for disaster relief. You have locked me in prison for so many days for no reason. You should think about how to explain it to the emperor."
Looking at Xiao Chen, Ding Xihou became more and more confident.
Based on his experience, Xiao Chen just heard some gossip and was eager to make meritorious deeds. He wanted to win over himself, a marquis named Taizu, and claim credit from the court.
From this point of view, the only purple-clad captain in the Ming Dynasty was nothing more than that.
The emperor's servants also don't have much standard in judging people.
How long can such a court last?
Thinking of this, Ding Xihou felt a little more confident.
Seeing Ding Xihou's attitude becoming more and more arrogant, Xiao Chen understood that this was the reason why he did not produce evidence.
But as the instigator of his father's case, Xiao Chen had already prepared dozens of torture plans for him.
It would be too easy to kill him. I could just smash his head to pieces right now.
However, that is a kind of relief for him and a kind of womanly kindness.
Only by letting the imperial court deprive him of his marquis, and then implicate ten and eleven clans, let him watch his descendants being executed one by one by Ling Chi, and then take his life, can he pay back the ten thousandth of the sin he suffered.
one.
"Master Dingxihou, as for the crime of implicating your son Wang Kuan, is it the crime of murder that you poisoned Wang Kuan to cover up your crime, or the crime of treason that you instigated Gong Changwei to command Zhang Xing to secretly hide weapons, or you
I don't care about the treason of burying five hundred Gong Changwei soldiers alive in order to kill people and silence them." Xiao Chen said lightly as if he was chatting, he kicked the messy straw beside his feet intentionally or unintentionally.
Ding Xihou's face darkened: "Then what do you want to ask?"
Any one of these crimes is enough to make him unable to stand up. If he doesn't ask, is it possible that he still knows what happened decades ago?
"Didn't the Marquis say that even jade seals can be forged? Now I want to ask the Marquis, can you forge imperial edicts?"
