"You think you smell good?"

"..." Emperor Yangsheng couldn't catch his breath. "I am your father."

"You are a murderer."

"I did not kill anyone."

"You killed him!"

"Why did I kill so many people?"

“You should ask yourself that!” Yin Jin’an said coolly. “According to the Chunyu family head, if you want to win them over to rebel with you, you should tell them that you have 300,000 troops.”

"..." Emperor Yangsheng was a little weak, and said through gritted teeth, "I was just talking nonsense."

"But it's true that you killed someone."

"I didn't kill anyone! I didn't kill anyone! I didn't kill anyone!"

How did Wei Mu die?

"She was eaten..." Before he could finish speaking, Emperor Yangsheng blurted out what was on his mind, then immediately stopped, his eyes widening. "You're saying this because of Wei Mu's death?"

Yin Jin'an neither agreed nor disagreed.

But Emperor Yangsheng understood: Yin Jin'an was seeking revenge against Wei Mu.

He stopped struggling and belatedly realized that the list A Bao had given him, apart from the royal family, included all the powerful and influential people who had eaten Wei Mu's flesh and blood.

“You really are Jin’an,” he murmured. “You are avenging her. You are truly her good son.”

Yin Jin'an ordered Xiahou Yan to take the man away and keep him under strict guard, so that he would not die before the public trial.

He said to the madman Chu, "I heard that Empress Lu Feiyan of the Queen's Empire can make a kind of truth pill. Can you make it?"

Madman Chu said smugly, "Yes."

"Where's the Puppet Pill?"

"Isn't it just that he says whatever I tell him to say? Such a simple medicine is no problem for an old man like me."

"Alright, then you can make two bottles for me later. Ask the Imperial Hospital for the medicinal herbs."

Everything was arranged. Yin Jin'an, the Imperial Censor, officials from the Ministry of Justice, and the Court of Judicial Review were all present to conduct an internal trial of Wei Mu's murder case.

When the heads of the Chunyu and Guo families and other powerful figures arrived, all wanting to tear Emperor Yangsheng apart, Madman Chu was the first to give Emperor Yangsheng a dose of truth.

Yin Jin'an was next door and not present.

Qi Songliang and Wang Can presided over the trial, with other officials from the Court of Judicial Review and the Ministry of Justice serving as judges.

Below sat the heads of various families, including the Chunyu family patriarch, who all assumed it was an interrogation of Emperor Yangsheng regarding the case of silencing witnesses.

Qi Songliang asked solemnly, "Your Majesty, tell me, how did Empress Dowager Wei die?"

"It was Chu Jiang and Chu Hanhua who drugged him, carried him to the Thirteenth Prince's estate, and then everyone bled him out and cut off his flesh to kill him..."

As soon as Emperor Yangsheng spoke, the Chunyu family head clenched his fists and turned pale.

He quickly glanced back and saw that the Guo family, the Ma family... all of them had drastically changed their expressions.

As Emperor Yangsheng revealed more and more details, the head of the Chunyu family was drenched in sweat.

He wasn't wrong; the Chunyu family was destroyed by Emperor Aotian! The murder of his mother, and in this way no less—how could His Majesty not avenge it!

He also understood why his ancestor was killed in Guazhou: because his ancestor had also drunk Wei Mu's blood.

All the murderers were brought to trial.

When murderers who had taken truth-telling drugs were asked, "Why did you dare to eat a queen?"

The answer is—

“She’s been abandoned by her family anyway, and nobody’s backing her up.”

"Her son is an idiot, and no one will avenge her."

"Since the Emperor Emeritus is not doing anything and not investigating, and Wei Mu is going to die anyway, we might as well take advantage of the situation."

Three answers reveal the root of a woman's tragedy: her family is unreliable, her husband is a scumbag, and her son is useless.

The interrogation ended quickly, and everyone signed and affixed their fingerprints.

Yin Jin'an did not kill them directly.

Instead, the next day, they were taken directly to the public trial square outside the palace, and the entire city was summoned to watch.

The public trial of the massacre of more than a dozen powerful and influential families and clans in the capital.

The retired emperor was "invited" to the throne.

Qi Songliang interrogated Emperor Yangsheng, asking him why he wanted to rebel.

The retired emperor wanted to yell, "When did I rebel?" but he said, "I originally intended to pass the throne to Emperor Aotian, but I regretted it and want to take it back."

He looked at Qi Songliang in horror, while Qi Songliang continued to ask with impartiality and seriousness: "Then why did the Emperor Emeritus go on a killing spree, slaughtering powerful clans?"

The retired emperor protested that he hadn't killed him, but what he said immediately became—

“I contacted them to rebel, but they refused. I was afraid they would leak the information, so I had them all exterminated.”

The crowd below booed, and many people, disregarding his status, muttered curses: "He's a real scoundrel! He killed the whole family of someone who didn't join his rebellion. He's utterly shameless."

The retired emperor desperately wanted to explain, but he could only listen in despair to his own insincere words.

"Of course I want to rebel and become the retired emperor. I won't be able to eat 132 dishes if I want to."

"Your Majesty is too stingy. He only eats four dishes himself, making me feel like an ordinary citizen."

"When I couldn't defeat the Liao Dynasty before, I sent my princess there for a marriage alliance. Emperor Aotian is single-mindedly focused on driving the Liao people out. If we could drive them all out, the common people would be well-fed and clothed, and who would still need to beg me?"

"The Uyghurs have reached Lingzhou. I and the Chu family agreed to surround Wuzhong Prefecture and let the Uyghurs and the common people starve to death together. So what if 80,000 people die? Yet Emperor Aotian blew up all the Uyghurs in an hour. It's outrageous! Doesn't this make me look useless?"

"Emperor Aotian has humiliated me, so I will force him to step down. Anyone who stands in my way will be killed!"

......

Emperor Yangsheng felt that some people were alive, but they were already dead!

For example, him!