The Imperial Observatory, above the public hall, is brightly lit.

Today is the night trial, and it is also the first trial.

The presiding judge is Zuo Zhengyan Ren Boyu, and the jury is Right Zhengyan Chen Qiang, Chen Shixi, the palace attendant, and Chen Cisheng, the imperial servant. All of them are the main generals of the old party's admonition system in Taiwan. If the four of them fall, the old party, although it will not end there, will also lose the tools to attack the new party and the father and son.

Looking at the four neatly robed Taiwanese officials sitting in the hall, Zhang Yuan, who was a criminal official, just smiled faintly, then arched his hand and said with a smile: "Zhang Yuan, the lower official, I have seen four." ”

"Zhang Yuan," Ren Boyu said in a gloomy tone, "This official was ordered to go to the Imperial Prison to inquire about the case, you have to explain honestly!" ”

"Okay, good," Zhang Yuan nodded again and again, "The lower officials have all explained, they know everything, and they have endless words!" ”

Really?

The four old party gentlemen looked at each other, all of them in disbelief.

Zhang Dan's son was so cowardly, he surrendered without scaring him? Is he really a kind of Zhangdun seed?

Right Zhengyan Chen Qian shouted: "Above the court, there is no joke!" ”

"The lower official understands that what the lower official said is absolutely not a lie."

Chen Qian asked: "In the early morning of the thirteenth day of the first month of the third year of Yuanfu, did your father and son send Ji Yi to Duanwang's mansion in an attempt to lure Duanwang out of the mansion?" ”

"It is true." Zhang Yuan said, "When the father and son of the lower officials got the secret report, the inner palace was suddenly closed by the armor, isolated from the inside and outside, and they knew that the first emperor was going to give up." That's why Ji Yi led King Duan out of the house. ”

The inner palace is closed by a warrior? Doesn't sound right...... According to the usual practice, the official family will not be allowed to recruit the Zaizhi and the Hanlin Scholar (the Hanlin Scholar drafts the internal system, that is, does not pass the edict issued by the Ministry of Menxia) to meet with each other and draft the edict. How can the inner palace be closed and the armor soldiers still mobilized? How is this a bit of a palace coup?

"Why did the father and son want to lead the official family out of the house?" Chen Qian frowned and asked again.

"Since it is to support King Jian to succeed to the throne," Zhang Yuan said word by word, "This is the last order of the first emperor!" ”

"Nonsense!" Ren Boyu slapped the case suddenly, "Zhang Yuan, above the court, I can't tolerate your nonsense!" ”

"Not gibberish!" Zhang Yuan said loudly, "If there is no edict from the first emperor, why would my father risk such a big disapproval? Who in Kaifeng Mansion doesn't know that the Queen Mother loves King Duan deeply, as long as his father agrees to establish King Duan, the work of making a decision is at his fingertips! ”

This, this, this...... It seems to have stabbed a hornet's nest!

All the people in the hall, except for Zhang Yuan, were a little dumbfounded at this time. What Zhang Yuan said seems to have some truth, didn't Zhang Dian have to support King Jian when he took the wrong medicine at that time? Could this really be the last order of the first emperor?

If King Lijian is the last order of the first emperor, then it is not Zhang Dun's rebellion, but the usurpation of the throne by King Duan! And what's even worse is that King Duan seems to have succeeded in usurping the throne!

What a damn one! Can you know such a thing as the success of the usurpation of the dynasty? To know is to sin......

"You, you said there was a testament?" It was Ren Boyu who reacted first, and asked loudly with a blue face.

"There is a testament." Zhang Yuan said, "Only my father and I knew about this matter outside the palace. He sneered, "Now, you all know, hahaha......"

It's not good to know too much! If you know too much, your head will have the possibility of moving......

The faces of the four Zhengyan and the imperial history present, as well as some of the officials and pawns of the imperial history platform, turned pale.

"You, you, you...... You are talking nonsense! Ren Boyu stood up suddenly, "Where is the edict?" Where is it? ”

Zhang Yuan spread his hands, "I don't know!" Not in the hands of our father and son...... Otherwise, King Jian would be the Son of Heaven now. ”

"I don't know, I don't know!" Ren Boyu said, "There is no edict at all, and there is no last order of the first emperor!" ”

"There is a testament, and there is also a testament......," Zhang Yuan said with a smile, "You don't believe that you can check it." It was Pan Xiao'an who led the troops to blockade the forbidden palace that day, and it was Pang Kuan who commanded the eunuchs to put Concubine Zhu and Empress Liu under house arrest in the inner palace. They are still there, Concubine Zhu and Empress Liu are also there, you can go and ask. ”

The forbidden palace was blocked, and the queen and the concubine were also placed under house arrest...... If this is true, then someone must be plotting to usurp the throne, and it has already been done!

At this time, the hearts of the people in the lobby of the Imperial Observatory are all counted, and they probably know a secret that they shouldn't know!

What they shouldn't know, they know. What shouldn't be said, should it be said?

In the public hall of the Imperial Tower, there was a dead silence, and everyone held their breath and did not say a word.

Everyone is thinking about what to do. Zhang Yuan stabbed a hornet's nest, but the big guys had to eat melons with them...... Maybe it's not enough to kill the head or something, but it will definitely not be able to stop it from going to Haizhou, most of it will be to Danzhou, and if you don't do it, you will be sent to Shamen Island!

What can I do?

I don't know how long it took, Ren Boyu coughed, broke the silence, and everyone's eyes turned to him, only to see him go around from behind the public case, walk to the scribe in charge of recording next to him, and pick up the paper full of words.

"It's all nonsense!" As he spoke, Ren Boyu put the paper on the candle and lit it and burned it to ashes.

"Yes, yes, yes! It's all nonsense! Right Zhengyan Chen Qian also reacted. Although this Chen Qingtian has a reputation in history for being honest and not afraid of power, those who Chen Qingtian dares to impeach are traitors, and this time he will have no choice when he encounters an official who plots to usurp the throne...... How can there be a reason in the world for an official to impeach an official? Impeaching the official family is a rebellion, and rebellion is to kill the head!

Therefore, Zhang Yuan's explanation cannot be reported, and even if it is to be reported, it can only be secretly written, and it must not be reported through the open procedure.

"Since it's nonsense," Ren Boyu said in a deep voice, "then no one is allowed to go outside and talk nonsense!" ”

This was addressed to the scribes and servants of the Imperial Historical Observatory who were present!

"I'll find out!"

"I won't dare to say it until I die......"

The scribes and the guards responded one after another, but in their hearts they were all thinking about running away - there is no impermeable wall in the world! is not a good man who is famous outside the Donghua Gate, or he will be killed and killed if he runs away quickly!

"Put ...... Take Zhang Yuan down and take care of it. "Ren Boyu doesn't have the heart to try it again, Zhang Yuan has confessed, and he is still a fart! And people dare to know everything, do you dare to report to the top?

Zhang Yuan was taken away, and the scribes and servants in the hall also dispersed, leaving Ren Boyu on the left, Chen Qian on the right, Chen Shixi on the palace and Chen Cisheng on the palace.

"Deweng," after a while, the right Zhengyan Chen Qian broke the silence, "what should we do?" ”

"Of course, we will continue to impeach the traitors!"

Ren Boyu squinted his eyes, and he had already made a decision, "So far, we have no way to advance." What Zhang Yuan said today is all nonsense, and it cannot be played...... And Ji Yi is a thief, who is also cunning and treacherous, colluding with Zhang Yuan to trap me is tantamount to disloyalty and injustice, and there will be opportunities to punish his crimes in the future. ”

In the future, there will be an opportunity to cure the sin of Ji Yi...... In other words, I can only let this villain go for the time being!

"What should I do about the crime of rebellion?"

"I can only continue to impeach," Ren Boyu gritted his teeth, "I'll write the impeachment!" ”

Chen Qian asked: "What happened in the early morning of the thirteenth day of the first month of the third year of the Yuan Fu ......?"

"Don't mention it!" Ren Boyu said, "Even if Zhang Yuan and Ji Yi didn't say it, we don't know." He paused, and then added, "I can't think about it, so I can only take my time like this, and when the official family doesn't cure the crime of Zhangdun endlessly, I'll ask the county later." ”

Or Ren Qingtian is experienced! They can't stop it right now, otherwise Zhao Ji will immediately realize that these nosy ministers and officials know something they shouldn't know - killing people or something is coming!

The Great Song Dynasty can't kill the doctor openly, assassinate or something, it's hard to say......

Therefore, the four upright and outspoken Qingtian can only bite Zhang Dun without evidence - anyway, the imperial historian can hear about it, even if what he says is unreasonable, he will not punish him.

Moreover, the four of them are all high-ranking officials, and their official ranks are enough to ask for release from outside the county. When the official family does not punish the great crime of Zhang Dun (there is no evidence, it naturally cannot be punished), the four of them can leave Kaifeng Mansion, a place of right and wrong, under the pretext of taking up a foreign position. It is safer to go to the outer counties, because the secret service of the Great Song Dynasty has only one Imperial City Division. It is very difficult to assassinate a governor and an army in a foreign county.

……

The next day, at noon, Zhao Ting, the middle of the imperial history, came to the imperial history platform with a heavy heart, and he didn't have the heart to deal with official business, but just summoned Zhang Kegong to his own capital hall, wanting to ask about the interrogation of Zhang Yuan and Ji Yi. As a result, as soon as Zhang Kegong entered the door, he told Zhao Dazhongcheng a situation that he never dreamed of.

There seems to be a plague in the Imperial Tower!

"Plague...... Pestilence? Zhao Tingzhi looked at Zhang Kegong in a daze, "Jiezhong, what are you talking about?" ”

"It's the plague!" Zhang Kegong smiled bitterly, "Xia Guan also learned about it this morning, today there is a scribe and eight Taiwan guards in the Imperial History Observatory who are on sick leave, and Chen Shixi and Chen Cisheng are also sick...... Eleven people fell ill at once, it must have caused an epidemic! ”

How could there be such a thing? Zhao Tingzhi was also a little confused, "Have you looked for Lang Zhong?" ”

"It has been arranged," Zhang Ke said fairly, "the kitchen has been cleaned, the well has been sealed, and the drinking water has been brought in." ”

"Oh," Zhao Tingzhi nodded, "How did Zhang Yuan and Ji Yi do in the trial?" ”

"I don't know."

"I don't know?"

"During the interrogation yesterday, they didn't let the lower officials get close to the interrogation."

Zhao Tingyi smiled, "Then you won't inquire?" There are always bench guards and officials who are listening, right? ”

"But they all fell ill......

"Both...... Sick? Zhao Tingzhi's eyes widened, and he said in his heart: Could it be that the epidemic came from Zhang Yuan and Ji Yi?

"Are Zhang Yuan and Ji Yi sick?"

Zhang Kegong nodded: "It seems that they are also sick, they refuse to eat, and they don't drink water...... also kept saying that he wanted to see you. ”