The emperor's pupils shrank, and he stood up suddenly and asked, "Are you sure it's the people of the Holy Prince and the Imperial Prince?"

Everyone: “…”

In order to prove that Yan Gao was not lying, the other four witnesses nodded vigorously.

Yan Gao's eyes were filled with resentment and bloodshot. He said word by word, "We are absolutely certain that the people who arrested us are the confidants of Prince Sheng and Prince Yu. We have seen them and will definitely not make a mistake."

Another witness named Shen De continued, "When King Wu'an discovered that the people who colluded with other countries were Prince Sheng and Prince Yu, King Wu'an was concerned that they were brothers of the late emperor, and he was hesitant about whether to tell the late emperor about this. This gave Prince Sheng and his men the opportunity to deal with King Wu'an."

Suddenly, there was an uproar in the hall.

The emperor scowled.

I never thought that the Fourth Prince had the intention of rebellion at that time.

"Do you have any evidence?"

"Yes, we have several letters between the four princes and the Great Chen Kingdom. On them are not only the seal of the Great Chen Emperor, but also the seals of the four princes." Shen De carefully took out several letters from his arms: "We always want to vindicate Prince Wu'an, so we preserved the letters very well."

Eunuch Yuan walked quickly up to him, took the letter and handed it to the emperor.

The emperor opened the letter and checked it. The paper was yellowed and the handwriting was a little blurry. It was obvious that the letter was written six or seven years ago or even longer ago. The four seals on it were indeed the seals of the four princes, not to mention the handwriting. As for the seal of the emperor of the Great Chen Kingdom...

While the emperor was checking the authenticity of the letters, the left prime minister asked, "How did you get these letters?"

Shen De said: "These letters were buried by King Wu'an under the rockery in the King Wu'an Palace. We sneaked into the palace and dug them out a year after King Wu'an was beheaded."

At this time, the Minister of Industry came out and said, "Your Majesty, I have something to say."

"Speak." The emperor handed the letter to Eunuch Yuan and asked him to give it to the chief priest to check if there were any signs of forgery.

"Your Majesty, do you still remember that you asked me to build the Wu'an Palace three years ago?"

The emperor nodded: "Of course I remember."

"When we were repairing the Wu'an Palace, we did see a large pit dug under the rockery. We didn't know what the pit was used for, so we filled it up."

Shen De quickly said, "We dug that pit. We originally wanted to fill it back up, but we were afraid that the longer we stayed in there, the more dangerous it would be. So, we ran away after we found the letter."

The left prime minister asked again: "Do you have any other tokens to prove that King Wu'an was wrongly accused?"

"Yes." Yan Gao took out a golden token and said, "This is a special token made by the Fourth Prince and the Great Chen Kingdom to facilitate entering and exiting each other's military camps. It was because of this token that Prince Wu'an entered their military camp to investigate and was discovered by the Fourth Prince. Then the Fourth Prince tried every means to frame Prince Wu'an."

"Your Majesty, I recently intercepted several letters between the Fourth Prince and the Great Chen Kingdom. The time on them was written in recent days, which shows that they are still in contact. There is also a list of officials who have contact with the Fourth Prince, which clearly records how much silver the officials in the court have accepted as bribes from the Fourth Prince."

Mu Nanjin took out four letters and an account book.

The faces of several officials present changed drastically.

The emperor angrily slapped the armrest of the dragon throne: "Bring them all up."

Eunuch Yuan quickly held the item before the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, please have a look."

The emperor opened the list that Mu Nanjin mentioned, and the first page recorded the bribery received by Prince Wenxuan: "In early April of the 25th year of Qingyuan, Prince Wenxuan accepted 50,000 taels of silver to help frame Prince Wu'an, and also helped forge a false letter..."

Prince Wenxuan suddenly felt dizzy. He quickly denied it: "It's fake, fake. It was Mu Nanjin who forged the list to frame me. Your Majesty, please believe that I am loyal to the late emperor and to you. I will never do anything to harm the Great Qian Kingdom."

The emperor ignored him and continued reading: "In the 27th year of Qingyuan, Prince Wenxuan accepted 50,000 taels of silver to smuggle a batch of iron ore for my use... You are a good Prince Wenxuan!"

He angrily drew the sword of the guard beside him and rushed to Prince Wenxuan, then pointed the sword at his throat and said, "I clearly remember that in the 27th year of Qingyuan, you reported that the iron ore production was less than in previous years. I thought it was strange at the time. No matter how little it was, it couldn't be twice as much as in previous years. It was my father who chose to believe you, otherwise you wouldn't be alive today. The weapons of the Fourth Prince were made of the iron ore you gave me, right? No wonder the iron ore has been less than in previous years since then."

Since the quantity was not large, he thought that the iron ore had been almost mined out by them and did not think too much about it.

Prince Wenxuan's legs kept shaking: "Your Majesty, I am loyal to you and will never betray you. You must trust me."

Mu Nanjin said calmly: "Whether the emperor believes you or not depends on your wealth. If you can't explain why your wealth is several hundred thousand more, then you can't blame the emperor for being ruthless."

Prince Wenxuan's face turned pale.

The emperor was so angry that he raised his sword and swung it at his head.

"Your Majesty, please spare my life." Prince Wenxuan was so frightened that he lowered his head and ran away, but was stopped by a general beside him.

Then his hair fell down, and he quickly touched his head and found that his official hat had been cut off.

The emperor threw away the sword in his hand and shouted angrily: "Come, drag him away."

"yes."

Two guards came in and held down Prince Wenxuan.

Prince Wenxuan shouted anxiously: "Your Majesty, I was wronged, you must believe me."

The emperor said to the right prime minister: "Right prime minister, take people to his prince's mansion to check his family property and see if I have framed him."

"Yes." The right prime minister walked out of the hall quickly and called a group of palace guards to leave with him.

The emperor turned to the second page of the list, his face darkened, and he shouted angrily: "Rong Lu——"

With a thud, Rong Lu knelt on the ground: "Your Majesty, I did nothing. I was wrongly accused."

The emperor stared at him coldly: "I don't need to say anything, why should Lord Rong feel guilty?"

Rong Lu: “…”

Without waiting for the emperor's order, Eunuch Yuan ordered his men to drag Rong Lu out.

Afterwards, the emperor read out several names one after another.

The ministers whose names were called knew that they could not escape, so they did not resist Rong Lu and Prince Wenxuan and were taken away.

[Humph, if you walk by the river often, it is inevitable that you will get your shoes wet. ]

At this time, the chief priest came back with a letter.

"Your Majesty, there is not a trace of forgery in these letters. Both the handwriting and the seal are from the Fourth Prince. Even the seal of the Great Chen Kingdom is genuine."

The emperor suddenly felt dizzy and staggered back a step.

The chief priest hurriedly supported him and said, "Your Majesty."

Eunuch Yuan hurried over and asked, "Your Majesty, are you okay?"

The other ministers also looked at the emperor with concern.

The emperor waved his hand: "I'm fine."

The imperial physician quickly stepped forward to feel the emperor's pulse, and only put down his hand after confirming that the emperor was dizzy from anger. He then took out a tranquilizer pill from his medical box and gave it to the emperor to take.

The emperor asked tiredly, "The evidence and witnesses all prove that Prince Wu'an did not commit treason and collude with the enemy. Do you have any objections, ministers?"

All the officials said in unison: "No."

The emperor announced: "I hereby declare that Cheng Zhiyou did not commit treason and did not collaborate with the enemy. From now on, his status as the King of Wu'an will be restored."

"Your Majesty is wise."

The five witnesses hugged each other and cried excitedly: "That's great, we have finally cleared the name of King Wu'an."

The emperor looked at them and said, "I have issued an edict that the relatives of those who give false testimony will not be implicated, and that the sentence will be based on the severity of the false testimony. Therefore, I spare your life because you were forced to betray your master, but after all, you have caused the death of more than 600 innocent lives of the nine clans of King Wu'an, so I cannot give you a light sentence. I will sentence you to do 15 years of hard labor to atone for your sins."

The five witnesses said in unison: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for not killing me."

Then, several guards left with five witnesses.

Eunuch Yuan said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, please go back to the palace and rest."

"No, I want to go to the mass grave."

Eunuch Yuan was stunned and looked at the dark sky outside: "Now?"

"Yes, please arrange it quickly."

"yes."

When the ministers knew that the emperor was going to see Prince Wu'an and others, they all asked to go with him.

Mu Nanjin nodded: "Okay."

[Mass grave...]

Mu Nanjin thought for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, I want to go see the Queen Mother, and then accompany you to the mass grave."

The emperor frowned and said, "The Queen Mother has gone to bed. Why are you going to see her?"

"The Queen Mother is not asleep."

[How could she sleep well while the case of Prince Wu'an was being retried?]

emperor:"……"

"I'll be back soon."

In just a blink of an eye, the emperor disappeared without a trace of Mu Nanjin.

"Mu Nanjin, where are the people?!"

The civil and military officials were all shocked. How could Mu Nanjin, who was standing in front of them just now, disappear? What the hell!!? Mu Nanjin left quickly and came back quickly.

The emperor and all the civil and military officials pricked up their ears, waiting for her to reveal her true feelings.

I wanted to hear what she wanted to see the Queen Mother about, but no matter how long I waited, even when I arrived at the mass grave, I still didn't hear what she wanted to say.

Mass graves were originally places where poor people who had no money to hold funerals buried their relatives at random. Later, they became the burial ground for unidentified corpses or beheaded criminals. There were many graves, many rotting corpses and bones, and the place was overgrown with weeds and smelled foul.

This was not a place for people of noble status to come, but the emperor came because King Wu'an and his nine clans were buried here.

After King Wu'an was beheaded, his body was thrown into a mass grave at random. In the end, it was the emperor, who was the crown prince at the time, and five of his cronies who buried the bodies one by one.

Civil and military officials smelled the stench and subconsciously covered their noses.

As it is still dark today, we can only rely on torches for lighting.

After seeing the bones, some timid civil servants were so frightened that they hugged the officials next to them tightly, and even kept moving closer to the military officers.

The military officers looked at the civil officials with disdain.

Wasn't he very impressive in the imperial court? Now he was frightened to the point of weakness at the mere sight of a few white bones.

If you were to go to the battlefield and see corpses all over the ground, wouldn't you be scared to death?

The emperor seemed not to notice anything unusual about other people, and found hundreds of graves with ease.

This is almost the center of the mass grave, and there are blank wooden plaques on several of the graves.

Eunuch Yuan lit a pair of large candles in front of one of the largest tombs, and then burned a large handful of incense to distribute to the emperor and civil and military officials.

The emperor told all the civil and military officials: "This is the tomb of King Wu'an."

All the officials sighed in their hearts. Not only was the great contributor who had made great contributions to the Great Qian Kingdom falsely accused and beheaded, but his body was also thrown into a mass grave and no one helped to collect the body. It was heartbreaking just thinking about it.

The emperor led all the officials to pay homage to the tomb of King Wu'an. After everyone had lit incense, he said, "I want to talk to King Wu'an here. You all go wait at the foot of the mountain."

The officials looked at each other.

Among them, only the old officials knew that the emperor had a father-son relationship with Prince Wu'an, and that Prince Wu'an's children grew up with the emperor and were closer to him than the emperor's own brothers. This was why the emperor wanted to rehabilitate Prince Wu'an.

After all the officials left, the guards went to stand guard at a distance.

The emperor could no longer pretend to be calm and immediately burst into tears.

"Godfather, I once swore to clear your name. I did it. I finally did it..."

The emperor told the grave about what had happened in recent days one by one: "Thanks to Mu Nanjin, if it weren't for her, maybe I wouldn't be able to help you find out the truth and expose the true face of the fourth prince in ten years. I really didn't expect that they had the idea of ​​rebellion so long ago."

When he first found out that the Fourth Prince was planning a rebellion, he thought that the Fourth Prince was dissatisfied with him as the new king and that was why he was thinking of rebelling, so he did not bother with the Fourth Prince.

Perhaps because of this, Prince Wu'an did not tell him about the fourth prince. After all, he was still young and impatient at the time. Even if Prince Wu'an told him, he would not believe that his uncles would collude with other countries.

The emperor wiped his tears and said, "Foster father, I will send people to move you out tomorrow. You will no longer stay in this dirty and smelly place. I will find a place with good feng shui and bury you in a grand manner after some time."

He said no more, and walked to the grave at the back, grabbing a handful of weeds and sweeping the dust off the wooden tablet: "Sister Qi, didn't you always complain that God was unfair to women? Even if you were talented, the imperial examination examiners could not give you the opportunity to display your talents. But now it's different. Women can not only study in the academy, but also take the imperial examinations..."

Before he could finish his words, a faint white smoke floated out of the grave.

The emperor thought he was dazzled and rubbed his eyes. The smoke not only did not disappear, but slowly formed a graceful figure.

Although this transparent white figure had no face and no legs and looked like a ghost, its figure and hairstyle were very similar to the Sister Qi in his memory.

“You, you, you…”

His eyes widened in disbelief, unable to imagine what he was seeing.

The emperor was not afraid, but very excited: "Sister Qi, are you Sister Qi?"

"Little brother..."

The transparent figure spoke.

"It's me. I'm very happy and relieved to hear that you have established a women's school and allowed women to take the imperial examination..."

The familiar female voice made the emperor very excited: "Sister Qi, Sister Qi, you finally came out to see me."

The transparent figure continued, "I would be happier if you could allow women to take the scientific examination next year."

The emperor nodded vigorously: "Okay, okay, I will issue an order after I return to allow women to take the imperial examination next year."

[Hehe, the old emperor really listens to his sister. ]

[Although this method is not very moral, it is also very efficient. The emperor must have done it immediately for his sister. ]

[Old Emperor, you can't blame me. I had to resort to such a trick because I didn't want to control your order.]

[Please do not blame the deceased, Amitabha. 】

emperor:"……"

This damn Mu Nanjin.

The emperor looked around with a serious face, and saw Mu Nanjin hiding behind a big tree. He quickly picked up a wooden stick on the ground and flew over using Qinggong.

Mu Nanjin noticed someone coming, and when he looked over, he was stunned to see it was the emperor.

[Oh my god, why is the emperor here? ]

[Did he find out that I was cheating? ]

[This shouldn’t be the case.]

"Mu Nanjin, you want to be beaten."

The emperor hit her with a stick.

"Your Majesty, why did you hit me?"

Mu Nanjin dodged quickly, but because she felt guilty, she just dodged without fighting back, and then quickly ran down the mountain.

The emperor immediately chased after him: "You know it clearly in your heart."

The officials who were waiting for the emperor at the foot of the mountain saw Mu Nanjin flying down the mountain, and then she passed by them quickly like a hurricane. At that moment, several officials were knocked down by her.

"Mu Nanjin, stop right there."

Then they saw the emperor in a dragon robe chasing Mu Nanjin with a stick.

When the civil and military officials saw this scene, they were stunned.

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