Master of Ceremonies.

"Master Ma, since the emperor has given you a holy decree, then you can rest assured and boldly go to the trial, but don't live up to the emperor's expectations." After Wang Zhen heard about the Orthodox Emperor's summons of Ma Shun, he said to Ma Shun with a smile.

As long as you enter the edict of Jinyiwei, then it is a royal case, unless the emperor sends a decree, no one wants to come out of it, even Hu Ying does not have such a big face.

Although Emperor Hongwu revoked Jinyi Wei after the Hu Weiyong and Lan Yu case, Emperor Yongle was able to control the courtiers, how could he be easily interfered with by those foreign ministers?

"Father-in-law, is the emperor gracious to interrogate Liu Qiu?" Ma Shun was a little uneasy, and asked tentatively, if anything went wrong, he would be out of bad luck.

"Didn't the emperor already say that you should 'interrogate carefully'?" Wang Zhen knew that Ma Shun was worried, after all, the Orthodox Emperor had never dealt with the Wenchen Group since the Orthodox Dynasty, and this time Liu Qiu's matter was definitely a hornet's nest Ma Shun's worries were normal, so he smiled and said to Ma Shun, "Don't let the emperor lose face in front of the courtiers!" ”

"The lesson of my father-in-law is that this official will definitely try Liu Qiu's case well and give the emperor a long face." Ma Shun now understood, if Liu Qiu was not guilty and was arrested and imprisoned, what would the Orthodox Emperor have in front of those civil and official groups? Therefore, he bowed his hand to Wang Zhenyi and said gloomily.

Seeing that Ma Shun understood what he meant, the corners of Wang Zhen's mouth couldn't help but flash a sinister smile, this time he must give the civil official group a dismissal, otherwise those pedantic people with eyes above the top still think that they can be lawless in the imperial court.

Li Yuntian soon learned the news that Hu Ying's attack had returned in vain, and he felt sorry for Liu Qiu and was also pleased with the response of the orthodox emperor.

Obviously, even Hu Ying failed to save Liu Qiu, so Liu Qiu's fate in the edict can be imagined, and at the same time, the orthodox emperor dealt with Hu Ying to a certain extent, and skillfully got out of Liu Qiu's case, which made Li Yuntian secretly happy.

Li Yuntian used to be most worried about Wang Zhen confusing the orthodox emperor and then taking power, but from the current situation, it seems that the orthodox emperor is firmly in control of the situation, he doesn't believe that the orthodox emperor doesn't know anything about Liu Qiu's imprisonment, and he doesn't believe that Wang Zhen dares to do such a big thing without the orthodox emperor now.

As the teacher of the orthodox emperor, Li Yuntian not only taught the orthodox emperor knowledge, but also instructed him on how to control the ministers and balance the forces of the various factions in the court.

Unlike those teachers who are full of courtesy, righteousness, honesty, and brotherhood, Li Yuntian focuses more on scheming and strategy, in order to control the court situation, the emperor must use both grace and power, and conspiracy and conspiracy go hand in hand, so as to effectively control the courtiers.

This is also the reason why the orthodox emperor likes Li Yuntian's teachings, from Li Yuntian, he can not only learn how to govern the government, but also learn how to control the ministers.

After more than ten years of teaching and edification by Li Yuntian, although the orthodox emperor is young, his mind has far surpassed that of his peers, and he will not be helpless in the face of the courtiers' advances, but quietly uses the eunuchs in the inner court to fight back against the civil official group.

"Adjutant Lin, you can arrange that tomorrow this king will go to Tianjin Wei to supervise the military affairs of Tianjin Port." After pondering for a long time, Li Yuntian called Lin Xin over and commanded quietly.

"My subordinates will arrange it." Lin Xin was slightly stunned when she heard this, Li Yuntian's trip to Tianjin Wei was purely temporary, and then she understood Li Yuntian's intention, which was to avoid Liu Qiu's matter this time, and then asked in a deep voice, "I don't know how long the prince is going to stay in Tianjin Wei this time?" ”

As Li Yuntian's personal adjutant, Lin Xin has to arrange Li Yuntian's daily itinerary, so she has to grasp Li Yuntian's movements to adjust Li Yuntian's schedule in the future.

"Five days." Li Yuntian had already prepared, and replied without thinking about it.

If he didn't guess wrong, Wang Zhen would definitely fight quickly this time, five days was enough time to convict Liu Qiu, and he could rush back to finish it when the time came.

To be honest, although Li Yuntian didn't want to get involved in the battle between the inner court and the Wenchen group, he didn't want to see Liu Qiu suffer in the edict prison.

However, since Liu Qiu was involved in the struggle between the inner court and the Wenchen group, Li Yuntian had to avoid this incident as much as possible for the sake of the interests of the martial arts hall.

Moreover, this time it was the orthodox emperor who wanted to repair Liu Qiu, so it was difficult for Li Yuntian to intervene before Liu Qiu was punished, which made his heart feel extremely complicated.

But this is the wealth of interests in the court, and it is impossible for Li Yuntian to prevent such a thing from happening, so the only way to properly deal with the aftermath and ease the tension between the inner court and the Wenchen clique is to ease the tension.

In the evening, Jinyi Weibei Town Fusi, edict prison.

"Lord Liu, please." Liu Qiu was brought to the front of the torture cell by several jailers, and the cell boss standing at the door pushed the door open, and made a gesture of invitation to Liu Qiu with a smile.

Seeing this, Liu Qiu sneered and walked into the torture room with his head held high, he knew that these jailers were going to torture him, but he was not afraid at all.

As the saying goes, don't do bad things in your life, knock on the door in the middle of the night and don't be shocked, Liu Qiu thinks that he is sitting upright, and he is not afraid that the people of Jinyiwei can splash dirty water on him.

It is worth mentioning that because Ma Shun has never asked Liu Qiu to be interrogated, Liu Qiu has not known the reason why Jinyiwei's people arrested him until now, but it is obvious that the other party wants to frame him.

The light in the torture room was dim, and there was a pungent smell of blood in the air, and there were many torture instruments in it, many of which were seen for the first time, and there were blood stains on them, and it seemed that many people had been tortured here.

"Lord Liu, I'm sorry." Just when Liu Qiu frowned and looked at the torture instruments in the room, the cell scalp bowed to Liu Qiu with a smile, without the slightest respect in his words and deeds, but a little ridicule, and then waved at the surrounding jailers, "Go, serve Lord Liu." ”

In this edict, whether it is a relative of the emperor or a prince or a general, even if he is a person with a prominent status, as long as he enters the edict, he will become a fish to be slaughtered on the chopping board, not to mention Liu Qiu, a small Hanlin attendant, even if the Hanlin bachelor comes, he must obediently bow his head.

"What are you going to do?" Several tall jailers immediately pounced and dragged Liu Qiu to the side of the torture instrument, which made Liu Qiu startled and asked angrily.

"Lord Liu, since you are here, the little ones naturally have to serve well, and they will do their best to be the landlord." The cell boss looked at Liu Qiu with a smile, and deliberately accentuated the pronunciation of the word "waiting".

Liu Qiu naturally understood what the cell boss meant, and his fists couldn't help but clench, he was mentally prepared to see how these hateful jailers could bend into a move.

Several jailers dragged Liu Qiu to a blood-stained wooden frame and locked his limbs in shackles, and Liu Qiu struggled, but the shackles did not move.

"Lord Liu, did you take the initiative to confess or did you serve you as a child?" The old man smiled and came to Liu Qiu, whose face was a little pale, and asked meaningfully.

"Hmph, this official is not afraid of shadows!" Liu Qiu sneered, glared at the cell head and said.

"Lord Liu, people like you have seen a lot of small people, I believe in the small ones, wait for the torture tools here to hit you, and you will be melted even if you are an iron-beaten man." The cell boss smiled slightly when he heard this, reached out and took off the leather whip hanging on the wall next to him, and said after shaking it in his hand.

"Unless you kill the official, don't want the official to admit the trumped-up charge." Liu Qiu heard the threat in the cell boss's words, and glared at the cell boss coldly and said, as the most famous Qingliu in the court, he values his reputation more than his life, so he would rather die than the cell boss and others succeed, so as not to disgrace his reputation.

"Lord Liu, wait for your fingerprint to press on the confession, this is what you confessed." When the cell boss heard this, a look of disdain suddenly flashed at the corner of his mouth, and he said gloomily, "I won't tell you, there are many people who have died in this prison, if you don't die, who can know that this is not your confession?" ”

"You...... You want to kill people? Liu Qiu's face changed suddenly, although he had long been mentally prepared to die, but being said by the cell boss himself at this time still brought a huge shock to his heart, and he looked at the cell head with the shock in his heart, but he didn't expect the cell boss's courage to be so big.

"Lord Liu, what you said is a crime of bullying the king, this is an edict, life and death are fateful, wealth is in the sky, how can you kill people and kill people?" The cell boss realized that Liu Qiu was scared in his heart, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help revealing a trace of disdain, and asked seriously, you must know that the thunder, rain and dew are all the emperor's grace, and he deserves to die in the edict prison, who dares to say that the emperor is not?

"Hmph, this official wants to see what kind of fame you can make!" Liu Qiu didn't expect the cell boss to have such a good tongue, and he was speechless for a while, and then said with a sneer, he made up his mind that he would rather die than give in, and it was a big deal to bite his tongue and commit suicide.

"Lord Liu, the little one admires your style, but the little one advises you not to have too many unrealistic illusions, Lord Dong, the editor of Hanlin, is a hard bone that is admired by the next, but after a ******** of enjoyment, he still honestly confessed his crime."

When the cell leader heard this, he suddenly smiled even more, and said to Liu Qiu, "Lord Liu, are your bones a few points harder than Master Dong?" ”

"Lord Liu, there is a small thing that reminded Lord Dong before, and now I want to remind you that this is an edict, if you commit suicide, you will not only die in vain, but also a criminal who deceives the king, you have to think about it." Then, the cell boss added slowly, reminding Liu Qiu with a smile.

Liu Qiu's heart suddenly felt cold when he heard this, he forgot about this matter, this is not the prison of the Three Law Divisions but the edict set up by the emperor, if he commits suicide here, he will commit suicide in fear of crime, even if someone can rehabilitate him in the future, then it will be difficult to take away his crime of bullying the king, not to mention that this kind of rehabilitation is difficult and difficult.

The reason is very simple, the people in the edict are all acting according to orders, doesn't Liu Qiu's suicide mean that he is dissatisfied with the orthodox emperor?

If Liu Qiu could not bear the torture and died in the edict prison, then if he could be rehabilitated in the future, the orthodox emperor would posthumously reward him, so that his name could be preserved, otherwise he would have nothing if he committed suicide.