Chapter 1300: Step by Step
With the official's questioning, the scene of the commotion, which had already caused a commotion, suddenly became a little chaotic, and the officials who heard the trial exchanged words with each other and whispered about the authenticity of Li Xing's testimony.
Seeing this, Yun Na's willow eyebrows suddenly frowned slightly, it seems that there are still people who are not afraid of death, and they dare to jump out during the court trial, which is a crime in Daming that roars in court.
"Come on, bring the guy who disturbed the court trial, and blast it out after the twenty boards." Liu Shangmin's face became gloomy, and he felt extremely annoyed with the person who stirred up the situation, so he shouted at the soldiers of the Forbidden Mansion who were in charge of order at the scene.
Soon, several soldiers rushed into the middle of the officials who were hearing the trial, dragged out a middle-aged official wearing a third-grade official robe, pressed him on the ground next to Li Xing, pulled off his pants, crackled and hit his buttocks, and the screams rang out.
After the twentieth board, the unlucky official's buttocks were already covered with blood and flesh, and he was dragged out by two soldiers of the forbidden mansion with their hands crossed.
"The Prime Minister stated in advance that if anyone dares to interfere with the Prime Minister's trial again, then the Prime Minister will be heavily responsible for his fifty boards." After the tortured official was dragged away, Liu Shangmin glanced around at the officials at the scene, and coldly warned that he didn't want something like this to happen again.
Liu Shangmin had good reasons to do this, in addition to being the chief judge of this case, there was also Yun Na supervising the trial at the scene, so he naturally hated this kind of disrupted interrogation.
The officials at the scene couldn't help but glance at each other secretly after hearing this, and then fell silent, it was obvious that Yoo Sang-min was not joking, so only a fool would touch this moldy head.
"Li Xing, this prime minister asks you, what you said is the truth, you must know that framing His Royal Highness the Prince is a capital crime." Seeing that the officials present were quiet, Liu Shangmin asked Li Xing in a deep voice.
"Back to the right minister, what the villain said is true." Hearing this, Li Xing hurriedly touched his head to the ground and replied loudly, he had no way to retreat at this point, but to condemn Li Jue and Li Ying for collusion.
"Okay, then you tell the story of the matter." Liu Shangmin said quietly when he heard this, and at the same time sighed secretly in his heart, Li Xing and Li Ying, Li Jue is in a catastrophe this time.
"Lord Right Minister, after His Royal Highness returned to Seoul, he felt that the Lord of Shouyang had close contacts with the Ming Dynasty, and he was worried that the Lord of Shouyang had taken the throne, so he thought of using a fake assassination method to frame the Lord of Shouyang, so that the Lord of Shouyang would lose the qualification to inherit the throne."
Li Xing let out a deep breath when he heard this, and then said in an orderly manner, "In order to make this assassination plan seamless, His Royal Highness the Prince specially approached the Prince of Anpyeong and promised to give him the greatest power in Korea in the future, and then the Maharaja of Anpyeong was involved. ”
"I don't understand this minister, the prince of Anping has a close relationship with the prince of Shouyang, isn't His Royal Highness the prince afraid that the prince of Anping will leak the news to the prince of Shouyang?" Liu Shangmin's brows furrowed, and he asked Li Xing in a deep voice, this is a question that everyone is interested in.
"His Royal Highness the Prince and Lord Anping grew up together since childhood, and they think that Lord Anping has great ambitions, which is not as simple as it seems on the surface."
Li Xing had already prepared, and replied in an orderly manner when he heard the words, "In addition, if the Anping Maharaja makes a move, once there is anything wrong with the matter, then His Royal Highness the Prince of the World can put the responsibility on the Shouyang Maharaja and involve the Shouyang Maharaja." ”
"In that case, why is such a powerful poison used in an assassination?" Liu Shangmin bowed slightly when he heard this, and then glared at Li Xing quietly.
"Back to the right minister, His Royal Highness underestimated the ambition of the Prince of Anping, and instead of surrendering to His Royal Highness the Prince of Anping, he wanted to control the political situation in North Korea, so he privately let people smear poison on the knife edge, and wanted to get rid of His Royal Highness the Prince and the Lord of Shouyang at the same time, but His Royal Highness the Prince was poisoned after being stabbed by his calculations, but fortunately he was saved by the medical officer of the Ming Dynasty."
Li Xing did not hesitate at all, and told the "truth" he knew word for word, which explained why Li Jue almost died.
Hearing this, there was a slight commotion at the scene again, and I have to say that what Li Xing said sounded reasonable, and the fact that Li Jue was almost poisoned to death is well known in Seoul.
"What evidence do you have to prove that His Royal Highness the Prince and the Prince of Anping plotted an assassination?" Liu Shangmin glanced at the officials who looked surprised at the scene, and asked Li Xing in a deep voice, the so-called empty talk is based on his evidence and needs evidence to support it.
"Lord Right Minister, His Royal Highness the Prince and Lord Anping once met secretly in a family, and discussed the assassination in that family, as long as you pass it on to that family, you can prove that what the villain said is true." Li Xing groaned for a moment when he heard this, and said solemnly.
"Someone, a witness." The family in Li Xing's mouth had already been arrested by Li Yuntian and handed over to Liu Shangmin, so Liu Shangmin commanded loudly when he heard this.
Soon, two middle-aged people, a man and a woman, were brought up by the soldiers of the Forbidden Mansion and knelt beside Li Xing, the two of whom were the head of the family that Li Xing said Li Jue and Li Ying met, and they were small traders in Seoul.
"I ask you, do you know this person?" After glancing at the meaning of the household-headed couple, Liu Shangmin quietly pointed at Li Xing and asked.
"Back to my lord, the villain knows him, he is the steward Li of His Royal Highness the Prince." The husband of the couple glanced at Li Xing and said timidly.
"You're a vegetable vendor, why do you know him?" Liu Shangmin sneered and asked loudly.
"My lord, the villain has sent a few dishes to Steward Li's house, so he knows Steward Li." When the peddler heard this, he quickly touched his head to the ground and replied with a panicked expression, "If you don't believe me, you can go and verify." ”
"You tell the prime minister, have His Royal Highness the Prince and the Lord of Anping met in your house?" Liu Shangmin bowed slightly when he heard this, of course he had already checked the details of the vegetable seller couple, and he had indeed delivered vegetables to Li Xing's family before, so he asked in a deep voice.
"Back to my lord, His Royal Highness the Prince and Lord Anping were brought to the villain's house once by Steward Li, and gave the villain a lot of silver taels, and asked the villain not to spread this matter." The peddler thought for a moment and said, "Since the villain was in a separate room at the time, I don't know what His Royal Highness the Prince and Lord Anping talked about. ”
"Do you have any evidence that Prince Shiding and Prince Anping have been to your house?" Liu Shangmin pondered for a moment and asked expressionlessly, he naturally wouldn't believe this peddler's words just by listening to the other party's words.
"My lord, His Royal Highness the Prince was in high spirits when he left, and he took off the jade pendant on his body and gave it to the villain, so that the villain should not tell the villain about tonight's events." Hearing this, the peddler hurriedly said, "The little jade pendant has been handed over to the poor master who came to handle the case." ”
"Do you see if it's this?" Liu Shangmin waved his hand, and a soldier from the Forbidden Mansion brought a tray in front of the vendor, on which lay a valuable jade pendant.
"That's it." The peddler picked up the jade pendant, examined it carefully, and nodded repeatedly.
"Leader, Zuo Xiang, do you recognize this jade pendant?" Subsequently, Liu Shangmin asked him to take the jade pendant to Li Ji and Huang Xi, who were on either side of him, and asked the two to check it.
"Right Xiang, if the original phase is not mistaken, this jade pendant is His Royal Highness the Prince, and the Prime Minister has seen His Royal Highness the Prince wear it." Huang Xi was the first to recognize the origin of this jade pendant, suppressed the excitement in his heart, and pretended to be calm.
"Zuo Xiang, there are a lot of jade pendants in the world, and you haven't looked at them carefully, how do you know that this jade pendant is His Royal Highness?" Li Ji sneered when he heard this, and refuted this.
"The leader doesn't know that this kind of precious jade pendant is customized from merchants, so as long as the jewelers in Seoul are brought in, they will definitely know the origin of this jade pendant."
Huang Xi was not annoyed when he heard this, but said to Li Ji quietly, those jewelers have records of the valuable jewelry sold, so they will definitely be able to find out who the owner of the jade pendant is, and from the current situation, it is Li Jue's.
"Come, pass on the jewelers in the city, and let them come and recognize the jade pendant." Liu Shangmin bowed slightly when he heard this, agreed with Huang Xi's proposal, and then loudly ordered the soldiers of the Righteous Forbidden Mansion to pass on the jewelers in Seoul.
"Take the Maharaja Anping." Since it takes a lot of time to summon the jeweler, Yoo Sang-min then asked Li Ying to bring him over and prepare to interrogate Li Ying first.
With Liu Shangmin's order, the officials on the scene looked in the direction of the prison, and they waited for so long to finally look forward to one of the two protagonists of today's case.
Not long after, the expressionless Li Ying was led over by a soldier from the Forbidden Mansion, which immediately attracted the attention of everyone at the scene.
"Right Minister-sama." After coming to Yoo Sang-min, Yi Ying knelt down and saluted him, although he was a prince of Joseon, but he had to kneel in court because he had committed the crime of assassinating the prince.
"Lord Anping, this prime minister asked you, do you know them?" Liu Shangmin bowed slightly to Li Ying, pointed to Li Xing and the hawker couple who were kneeling beside him and asked.
"Right Minister, this person is Li Xing, the butler of His Royal Highness the Prince of the World, as for the two of them, this Lord Jun is a little familiar but I forgot where I saw it." Li Ying pointed out Li Xing's identity in one bite, and then his eyes fell on the hawker couple, his brows furrowed slightly, and he didn't know the identity of the other party.
It is no wonder that, according to the confessions of the hawker couple before, the prince of Anping had only seen them once, so it was naturally impossible to remember who they were.
"Lord Anping, what do you have to say about the assassination of His Royal Highness?" After Liu Shangmin got Li Ying's answer, Yu Feng mentioned another matter, Li Ying sent someone to assassinate Li Jue, and the evidence was conclusive, so this made things much simpler.
"Right Minister, the person who assassinated His Royal Highness the Prince was sent out by the Maharaja, and according to the agreement with His Royal Highness the Prince, the Maharaja's people will stab His Royal Highness the Prince's arm, so that the assassination can look more real, and it can also put the charge on the Lord Shouyang."
Li Ying hesitated for a moment when he heard this, and then a wry smile flashed at the corner of his mouth, and he looked at Liu Shangmin with a gloomy expression and said, "It's just that this lord was consumed by lust for profit for a while, and he was blinded by selfish desires, so he made people smear poison on the knife edge, and almost took the life of the defenseless prince." ”
With a bang, the scene suddenly became commotion, although all the officials present heard that Li Jue's assassination case was done by Li Ying, but after all, it was just hearsay, and now when he heard Li Ying admit it, his heart was immediately shocked.
What shocked everyone even more was that Li Ying also admitted that he conspired with Li Jue to assassinate Li Ying in order to blame Li Ying, which touched everyone more than Li Xing said it.
"Lord Anping, what you said is the truth, you must know that framing His Royal Highness the Prince is a big crime!" Seeing that the situation at the scene was a little commotion, Liu Shangmin couldn't help but raise his voice and looked at Li Ying with a serious expression.
"Right Minister, do you think it's still necessary for this Maharaja to lie?" Li Ying smiled bitterly when he heard this, and asked rhetorically, invisibly acquiescing to the truth of what he just said.
"Lord Anping, this prime minister asks you, have you discussed the assassination with His Royal Highness the Prince?" Hearing this, Liu Shangmin did not question Li Ying's words anymore, and asked methodically.
"This is natural, if it weren't for the prince to meet, neither of us would be at ease, and this kind of thing naturally had to be discussed." Li Ying nodded, because the assassination of the prince was very important, it was obvious that he and Li Jue could only talk about this matter by meeting, and it was inconvenient to fake it.
"Do you remember where you met?" Liu Shangmin groaned for a moment when he heard this, and asked expressionlessly.
"I don't remember this very clearly, because it was night, this Maharaja only remembers that it was in an ordinary house." Li Ying thought about it and shook her head at Liu Shangmin.
"Is there anything worth noting in that house?" Hearing this, Liu Shangmin opened his mouth to remind, wanting Li Ying to remember something to help him determine the seat of the house.
"Ben Dajun remembers that there are a lot of vegetables in his yard, as if it were a vegetable vendor's home." Li Ying frowned and recalled, and then said to Liu Shangmin rather helplessly, "This Lord only remembers so much, and the others really don't pay attention." ”
"What is your business?" Hearing this, Yoo Sang-min asked the hawker couple.
"My lord, we are selling vegetables in the market." When the hawker and his wife heard this, they hurriedly said in fear.
Hearing this, Li Ji, Huang Xi and the others showed thoughtful looks on their faces, although Liu Shangmin did not verify whether the house where Li Ying was located was the home of the hawker couple, but everyone already knew what was going on, which was much better than determining the effect of the hawker couple.
Huang Xi couldn't help but glance at Li Ji, with a smug smile on the corner of his mouth, casually talking about Li Jue has not been arraigned, but judging from the current situation, Li Jue is finished, and he can't get rid of the conspiracy with Li Jue.
Li Ji's face was pale, his brows were slightly furrowed, although he had long expected that the outcome of the trial of the Righteous Forbidden Mansion would be worse today, but he didn't expect Li Jue to be so completely defeated, and he simply didn't have the slightest power to fight back.