The assassination of the Son of Heaven, especially close to the success of the assassination, can be regarded as one of the most significant events in the history of a dynasty for hundreds of years.

God doesn't speak, the Son of Heaven is heaven.

Now the sky is broken!

The Emperor of Chengde was still unconscious, and no one made a judgment on this matter, so the Zaifu of the three provinces and the officials of the six departments gathered in Shangshutai and began to make a decision on this matter.

If the emperor is removed from the imperial court, these people can actually be regarded as a "parliament" in a sense, and they can represent the supreme power of the imperial court.

Four of the six are named by the four princes, so these four princes were also invited to Shangshutai.

Shangshutai's Shangshu servant shot, surnamed Zhang Mingqu word Haoran, because he is in charge of Shangshutai, is the prime minister of the dynasty, and the government and the opposition all respect him as Haoran Gong.

This Haoran Gong is also over the age of sixteen this year.

Because it was a discussion in Shangshutai, and Zhang Qu was the prime minister, it was natural for him to speak first, at this time, Haoran Gong was full of solemnity, and said in a deep voice: "The founding of the dynasty has been more than 100 years, and after the seven emperors, there has never been such a shocking thing. ”

Haoran said angrily: "This matter, no matter who is involved, must be thoroughly investigated to the end, but if this matter is involved, all the three clans will be copied to show that the national law is strict!" ”

The prime minister spoke, and the others naturally nodded one after another, only the subordinate Zhonghuan Chu frowned slightly, and said: "Haoran Gong, those dozen assassins have all been punished, where should this matter be investigated?" ”

"Let's start with Yu Linwei!"

Zhang Qu's face was cold: "This official has already sent someone to investigate, according to the traces of that night, most of these people sneaked in from the area in charge of the right battalion of Yulinwei, so they started to investigate from Yulinwei, and they will investigate whoever they want, and they will check which layer they are pulling on, and they will find out all these bandits who are hiding behind the scenes!" ”

Huan Chu glanced at Zhang Qu lightly, and said, "That Lang General Li Xin of the right camp of Yu Lin Wei, Zhang Xiang thinks he wants to investigate?" ”

Li Xin's heroic escort that night was seen by many people.

To put it mildly, if it weren't for Li Xin and the three of them that night, the bones of the Son of Heaven in Chengde would be cold at this time!

If Li Xin has nothing to do with Yu Linwei, this time he is the first hero to protect him.

Zhang Haoran lowered his head and groaned, and said: "Li Xin, this person has meritorious service, and he can clear the suspicion for the time being, but none of the others can let go, this time these assassins have done a great evil, if they can't uphold the prestige of the country, the law of the country, where is the law of the court?" ”

Zhang Qu is a scholar, he is the prime minister, and there is a rational word standing at this time, Huan Chu can't resist him, so he can only shake his head and sigh: "The old man just thinks that there are always some Yu Linwei who don't deserve to die, Haoran Gong will cut it with such a knife, and it is inevitable that there will be a lot of unjust souls under the knife." ”

"It's better to kill the wrong one than to let it go!"

Haoran Gong's face was cold: "This kind of big case is really wronged on their heads, then they deserve to die, besides, that Zhou Danian is their comrade after all, and it is also a sin to report ineffectively." ”

His Royal Highness King Wei, who is the secretary of the Ministry of Works, frowned, and said slowly: "Haoran Gong, what Xiao Wang means is to investigate from the line of Zhou Danian first, after all, this is the culprit and the culprit, as for the matter of Yulin Wei's continuous sitting, it is not too late to make a decision after this line is found out." ”

Ji Huan, the secretary of the military department, glanced at the Seventh Prince coldly, and said in a low voice: "My father is going to be killed by the right battalion of Yulin Wei, Old Seven, you are still protecting them, that Li Xin was the first to arrive that day inexplicably, maybe even he has something to do with Zhou Danian!" ”

His Royal Highness King Wei stood up, closed his eyes and said: "Yu Linwei is the leader of the Son of Heaven, the pro-army of his father, and now that his father has not spoken, you are going to kill his old man's pro-army?" ”

"The pro-army of bullshit, how can there be a pro-army that brought in assassins!"

At this time, the fourth prince could no longer care about his reserved demeanor, he stood up, and said coldly: "According to the meaning of this king, this matter should be handled in accordance with the witch Gu case when Emperor Wu was involved. ”

Emperor Wu, that is, during the period of the first emperor, a concubine in the harem buried witch Gu in the palace, intending to kill Emperor Wu of Zhen, the imperial doctor of Zhen Town, and then the incident happened, Emperor Wu, who had just dominated the world, was furious and ordered to set off a prison.

At that time, the person in charge of handling the case was named Zhou Yuanli, this person was a cool official, so he touched the vines all the way from this concubine, and the vines were connected with melon seedlings, and the melon seedlings were pulled out of the vines, and the cycle continued over and over again, so that this incident took three years before and after, because of this witch case, a total of tens of thousands of people died!

This old thing was called "melon vine copying" by later generations.

After the Chengde Son of Heaven succeeded to the throne, he was much more benevolent than the first emperor, and there was no such prison in the entire Chengde Dynasty.

The servants under the door were in Huan Chu, his eyelids trembled, and he looked at Ji Huan with some displeasure.

If this person becomes an emperor, he will probably be a tyrant in the future.

His Royal Highness King Wei's face was a little unpleasant, he lowered his head and said, "Fourth brother wants to start melons again?" ”

Ji Huan raised his head.

"Why not?"

His Royal Highness King Wei shook his head, turned his head and arched his hand at Zhang Qu: "Haoran Gong, all matters in the court have always been decided by the father and the prime minister, but now the father is in poor health and can't look at things, we juniors are shallow in knowledge, and it is inconvenient to meddle in state affairs, please make a decision." ”

The sentence of the Seven Princes denied the participation rights of the four princes.

This time, not only the Seventh Prince, but even the eldest prince Ji Yu and the third prince Ji looked at the seventh prince with a look that was a little unkind.

Zhang Qu turned his head to look at the fourth prince Ji Huan, shook his head and said: "His Royal Highness King Qi, back then, the melons and vines copied the old things, which made the Qinhuai River red for three years, and now the Holy Son of Heaven rules the world with benevolence, and this kind of tragic old thing is better not to mention again." ”

Ji Huan took a deep breath and didn't stick to this matter.

He originally wanted to use this incident to curry favor with Chengde Tianzi, but Dad is still in Changle Palace and doesn't know what the situation is, if he offends a few Zaifu because of this incident, it will not be good.

What's more, he doesn't have much power to stand up to a few prime ministers.

Hao Ran Gong bowed his head and pondered for a moment, and then discussed a few words with Wu Dongyang, the subordinate servant Zhonghuan Chu and others, and finally spoke: "Everyone, now that Your Majesty is slightly sick, the old man has the courage to speak for the court once. ”

The Criminal Department is also one of the three legal divisions, and the third prince Ji Zhong is both the prince and the secretary of the Criminal Department, so it is only fitting that he is in charge of this matter.

Zhang Qu spoke, and these subordinates naturally didn't dare to refute, so they nodded one after another and said, "Just according to what Haoran said." ”

The Seventh Prince stood up and hugged his fists at Zhang Qu.

"Zhang Xiang, the Tianmu Supervisor in the palace should also be able to help in this matter, Xiao Wang went to find Gonggong Chen and asked him to send the Tianmu Supervisor to help the third brother investigate the case."

Zhang Qu nodded slightly.

"Trouble His Royal Highness King Wei."