Is this the main point of Chapter 80?
"Is it possible that I've misremembered? Or that she has misremembered?"
Prince Shun frantically tried to salvage the situation: "She is clearly from the Great Sheng Empire..."
"Then the prince invited her parents over. It just so happens that because we don't have her birth date and face reading, I'm missing some information. If we had her parents, perhaps we could fill in that gap."
Prince Shun donned a mask of grief: "Her parents only had her as their daughter. After her death, they fell ill from grief and also passed away one after another."
Goodness gracious.
All evidence and clues have been exhausted.
Yu Zhiyi pinched the bridge of her nose: "Then, what about their birth dates and times?"
She wasn't really hopeful and was about to suggest opening the coffin so she could examine the bones when Du Ziheng suddenly said, "Surely they have their household registration information, right? Even if that information is fake, we can use it to investigate and see where the problem lies."
"In this way, we can also follow the clues to find the source."
The emperor pondered for a moment, then looked at Yu Zhiyi: "What does Minister Yu want to say?"
Yu Zhiyi's face twitched slightly, but she quickly accepted the title.
She opened her mouth and said "ah". In fact, after hearing Du Ziheng's suggestion, she realized that her idea was inappropriate. After all, no matter how open the dynasty was, digging up graves and opening coffins was a very excessive thing.
Many people cannot accept this.
But when the emperor asked, she replied, "I can not only see the faces of the living, but also the faces of the dead, and even see things that ordinary people cannot see. So I originally planned to open the coffins of all three of them..."
Du Ziheng stared in astonishment.
Both Prince Shun and the Emperor were stunned.
After a moment, Prince Shun reacted: "You not only made such an absurd request as opening the coffins, but you also wanted to open three at once?! Madam Du, don't you think you're being incredibly unreasonable?"
The emperor gestured to Eunuch Hu to appease Prince Shun, while he smoothed things over by saying, "Let's do as Youlin says."
The Ministry of Revenue not only controlled the nation's finances and grain, but also the country's household registration information.
The emperor personally ordered the census register, and even though the information on the nearly 300 million people in the country was vast, the officials of the Ministry of Revenue retrieved it in less than an hour.
Yu Zhiyi looked at the household registration information and birth date in her hand and carefully calculated for a moment.
"The household registration information of these two people should be true. Most of the life stories that have been deduced are related to Prince Shun and Princess Shun."
"Prince Shun's father-in-law was named Han Yonglie, whose ancestral home was in Linxi County, Taihe Prefecture."
“Going back from his great-grandfather’s generation, several generations were poor farmers. It wasn’t until his grandfather’s generation that, because his grandfather was clever, had a bit of luck and courage, he was fortunate enough to meet a few influential people and, by using the method of borrowing someone’s coattails to gain influence, quickly accumulated a fortune of several hundred taels of silver.”
"After three generations of hard work, by the time of Han Yonglie's generation, he had finally amassed a fortune of over ten thousand taels of silver and was considered a prominent figure in the area."
"However, ten years ago, the Han Yonglie family, who had a happy and harmonious family, was massacred, and not a single member of the family survived."
At that time, Prince Shun and the Emperor were exchanging household registrations, one looking at Han Yonglie's information and the other looking at Lady Han's information.
Upon hearing this, both of them looked at Yu Zhiyi with a mocking expression, and Prince Shun was even more furious: "Nonsense!"
What Yu Zhiyi said didn't match the information in the household registration at all.
The once blood-soaked war god, enraged, unleashed his undisguised bloodthirsty edge, crushing down on Yu Zhiyi like a mountain.
Even Du Ziheng, who was standing to the side, felt the pressure.
Yu Zhiyi, seemingly oblivious, calmly continued recounting the truth she had uncovered: "Shortly after the 'death' of Han Yonglie's family, a family of three emerged alive in Pengcheng, a border town thousands of miles away."
Pengcheng was a border city of the Great Sheng Empire after its expansion, adjacent to the Great Luo Empire, and was frequently the site of war.
Even worse, the people outside Pengcheng were often robbed by local bandits, and massacres of villages were common.
As a result, the local household registration information is very chaotic. Sometimes, just a few years after the household registration information is established, a village or even a county is massacred, and the newly established household registration information becomes useless.
"The three members of the Han family... to be precise, it was the people behind them who exploited this loophole and spent two whole years planning and arranging, and made a deal with the bandits outside the pass. Eighteen years ago, the year His Majesty and the Prince met the Han family's daughter, they asked those bandits to massacre the village, which gave them the opportunity to go south."
"In their original plan, they were to come to Shengjing to get close to a young master from an official family, regardless of whether he was born of the principal wife or a concubine, and whether Miss Han would become his wife or a concubine. As long as she could infiltrate the official's household, Miss Han would be able to seize the opportunity to turn him against her."
"Even the three of them never imagined that Miss Han's charm was so great that the Crown Prince and his tutor at the time would both take a liking to her."
"Miss Han naturally wouldn't miss this opportunity, so she kept you hanging on... while subtly sowing discord from time to time."
"She just didn't expect that His Majesty and the Prince had a very deep relationship and trusted each other completely. She tried several times but failed. In order not to arouse suspicion, she had to give up on trying to sow discord with words."
"As for the death of the princess who caused the falling out between His Majesty and Prince Shun... it was indeed not done by His Majesty."
“It was Princess Consort Shun who took the initiative to send an invitation, wanting to enter the palace to see His Majesty, saying that she wanted to inquire about the prince’s condition. His Majesty naturally could not refuse.”
"She took a poison that would take effect within an hour before entering the palace, and she timed her entry perfectly."
"After meeting His Majesty, she left the palace, and the poison took effect as she had planned."
After all these years, someone has finally cleared his name. The emperor looked at Yu Zhiyi with gratitude and admiration in his eyes, and then proved himself to Prince Shun: "You see, I said long ago that I didn't do it!"
Prince Shun frowned, clearly still not entirely convinced: "If she is from Anguo, why was she raised in the Great Sheng Empire from childhood? And why are those two native Great Sheng Empire people helping her?"
Yu Zhiyi was always very patient with her clients: "Decades ago, before Anguo was destroyed, Han Yonglie's grandfather went to Anguo to do business and received favors from the Anguo royal family."
"Later, when Anguo was destroyed, almost all the royal family members who refused to surrender were slaughtered. Those who remained were people who knelt down and surrendered on the spot because they were afraid of death."
"And Miss Han is the granddaughter of the Crown Princess of Anguo who refused to surrender."
"The Crown Princess had just given birth when she heard that An Kingdom had been destroyed. She knew that with her pride, she would not have a good end, but she could not bear to let her newborn child die with her. So she lied and said that she had given birth to a stillborn child and secretly sent her confidant to send her son out of An Kingdom."
"Miss Han is the daughter of the rightful heir of Anguo."
"Impossible! Impossible!" Prince Shun could not accept this fact.
If what Yu Zhiyi said is true, then wasn't his wife's purpose in getting close to him to turn him against him?
"Were all those years of love, tenderness, and affection all fake?"
Yu Zhiyi: "?"
Is this the key point?
Author's Note: I have two books on hand. Ruan Jinning is the female lead in the other one. Sometimes I might misspell her name. If you see this name, just assume it's Yu Zhiyi. (This book is a channel book, so you can't see the chapter reviews. I have to go through them one by one to see them and correct them.)
Joseph Academy is an academy in the author's previous book, "The Bold Prince Consort Favors His Concubine and Destroys His Wife? His Ashes Are Scattered." The name is based on the historical events depicted in the book. This novel continues some of the settings from the previous book, and the story takes place a hundred years after the events of the previous book. If you're interested, you can check it out (but those with high blood pressure should avoid it).
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