Chapter 72: Affair Exposed
The emperor sat down, looking somewhat sad. He said, "A few months ago, someone reported to me that you were colluding with Kuizhou. I was worried that my subordinates would slander you, so I didn't let anyone else handle this matter. So I waited until the prince was better and took him to Kuizhou."
"You shouldn't have brought him!" The prince had lost the desire to defend himself, to show weakness, or to plead with his father to open his eyes and see clearly. He sneered, "I'm afraid he's the one behind this."
"Then tell me, why did Li Ping know that we were disguised as monks? Why did they rush over and capture Fu Yi? Only a few of us know about this. Fu Ruiming and his men are waiting outside the city, the rest are with me, and only you and the Princess are with Li Jinjiang."
"It was you, my father, who asked me to follow the Princess into the city." The prince was unconvinced.
"I just wanted to test you to see if you were in collusion with Li Ping as the secret report said. What happened immediately after you disappeared from Li Jinjiang? The soldiers broke into the house and arrested people. If Fu Yi hadn't stayed behind to delay, I would have been arrested as well."
The prince was speechless.
He knew nothing at all, and was "tested" and accused without knowing why.
"You said Fu Yi framed you, but he didn't want to come to Kuizhou. I insisted that he come."
"...Is there no point in making excuses for this son of yours?"
The emperor waved his hand and said, "Take the prince away first."
The people from the Palace Front Department stepped forward and firmly grasped the prince's arm.
The prince glared coldly at Fu Yi: "I know it's you, it must be you."
"Take him away." The emperor frowned even more tightly.
The prince struggled to his feet. "Fu Yi! You harmed the King of Liang before, and now you harm me! You treacherous minister, I will find evidence that you have framed me! I will make sure you die a miserable death, torn to pieces by a chariot!"
Fu Yi raised his eyelids without even frowning.
evidence?
The prince couldn't find it.
At first, he really didn't want to come to Kuizhou. It was troublesome and there was no benefit.
So he vomited blood in front of the emperor.
But since he found out who Qin Yurong's lover was, he felt that things were starting to get interesting, and he finally relaxed in front of His Majesty.
The news that the emperor and his entourage disguised as monks came to Kuizhou was certainly not leaked by the prince, but was leaked from Tianguang Temple.
When his princess mentioned Tianguang Temple to him, he immediately guessed that the owner there was his real lover.
So he advised the emperor to go to Tianguang Temple to obtain his certificate of ordination.
The person who really colluded with Kuizhou was not the prince, but that person.
He just let something be seen by that person.
He just gave that person a chance to protect Kuizhou or take the opportunity to kill the prince.
No matter which one that person chooses, he is jumping into a pit.
"Huai Yan." The emperor called out.
"Your Majesty." Fu Yi looked up.
"I have caused you suffering today."
"I didn't suffer at all. When Li Ping saw me being captured, he tried to persuade me to join him in serving the new master, so he didn't torture me. It was only later, when he saw that I was unwilling to agree, that he almost threatened me with Yurong."
When the emperor heard the second half of the sentence, his eyes flashed, and he looked at Cheng Nianying and said, "Yurong, you have suffered a lot too."
"I haven't suffered much either." Cheng Nianying thought about it and felt that this was an opportunity, so she said, "Li Jinjiang only asked me to write a Buddhist scripture for him once."
"That's good, that's good." The emperor turned around and ordered, "Clean up this place immediately."
"Yes, Your Majesty, the others in the prefectural government..."
"Kill them all."
Cheng Nianying's eyelids twitched.
The emperor killed far more people than she did.
Why isn’t the emperor afraid of Buddha?
"Huai Yan, you and Yu Rong go and rest." The emperor looked at Fu Yi.
"Yes." Fu Yi responded, but walked towards Li Jinjiang first.
When Li Jinjiang was carried out, his collar was torn open, revealing the ink marks on his body that had not yet been washed off.
Fu Yi whispered to Cheng Nianying, "Did you write this?"
Cheng Nianying whispered, "The prince wrote it."
Fu Yi smiled: "Oh."
As soon as he finished speaking, he stepped on Li Jinjiang's neck and stepped over.
There was a sound of broken bone coming from Li Jinjiang's larynx.
He went from being on the verge of death to being completely dead.
Cheng Nianying clenched her fingers, feeling a little uncomfortable. She had killed people, but... but, she wasn't used to seeing Prince Danshuo like this.
It was as if there was a more ferocious shadow emerging from beneath his gentle exterior.
For a moment, the surroundings were extremely quiet.
It was the emperor who spoke up: "This man deserves to die."
Fu Yi bowed slightly again before leaving with Cheng Nianying.
On the way, Fu Yi said, "Don't worry, I won't doubt your chastity."
He just said it like that.
Cheng Nianying pursed her lips and nodded happily.
"You are beautiful, which should be a good thing. It's not your fault. It's his fault that he has evil intentions."
Fu Yi, who said this at this time, looked familiar to Cheng Nianying again.
Cheng Nianying responded heavily, "Yeah!" to show that she had heard his words.
*
Everything was done at night.
When the sun rose again the next day, the people of Kuizhou discovered that the prefectural government had been burned down. Unfamiliar soldiers surrounded the city and announced with cold faces that the prefect of Kuizhou and his son were killed in revenge by the bandits because they suppressed the bandits last year.
No one mentioned that Liping had any intention of rebellion.
No one would even say that the prince was involved.
The emperor sat in his carriage, lowered the curtains, and sighed, "Li Ping is lucky to have such a good reputation even after his death."
But there is nothing we can do about it.
Cheng Nianying understood the reason.
Because the people here support Liping... If they say he is a traitor, how can they believe it?
And this will bring bad reputation to the emperor.
If the emperor does a good job, why would his subordinates want to rebel?
After that, they stayed in Kuizhou for a few more days.
Cheng Nianying couldn't help but be curious and asked Fu Yi, "Why don't you return to the Imperial Capital?"
"To appease the people."
How to comfort?
Cheng Nianying found out soon.
The soldiers told the people that His Majesty was deeply saddened by the news of Li Zhizhou's death. He had even personally come to the site to inscribe a stele for Liping. He had also promoted some of Liping's former subordinates to official positions in Beijing.
This is how we know how to use people and cherish talented people.
Not only that, His Majesty also rolled up the curtain of the carriage and ordered the people to file complaints in front of the emperor if they had any grievances, without having to be beaten with a stick.
The people who had never seen what the emperor looked like saw the emperor today.
The emperor listened patiently to them crying for Li Zhizhou.
They looked up at the emperor again and listened to him chanting Buddhist scriptures to pray for the soul of Li Zhizhou.
They shed tears and shouted "Long live the emperor!"
that's all.
Li Zhizhou preserved his reputation after his death.
The emperor also regained control of Kuizhou.
Cheng Nianying stood quietly beside Fu Yi, watching all this, her fingertips feeling slightly cold.
So this is how the nobles... kill people.
The killer only kills one or two at a time.
They can kill a state.
*
They finally set out on their return journey.
Fu Yi sat below the emperor, and Cheng Nianying sat next to him. Opposite him sat Fu Ruiming and the people from the Palace Guard. The prince was no longer in the wide carriage.
Not long after the carriage left the main city of Kuizhou, someone knocked on the door: "Your Majesty, the person has been brought here."
Then the curtain was lifted.
A middle-aged man in armor got into the carriage and knelt before the emperor: "Your Majesty, your servant Wei Xing greets you."
"You said you can prove that the prince is colluding with Kuizhou?"
"Yes." Wei Xing kowtowed again, gritting his teeth as he spoke, "I dare not lie to Your Majesty. Initially, I was demoted to Qingzhou as a deputy commander of the militia due to my misdeeds. Later, the Crown Prince promoted me and I was transferred to Kuizhou as a military officer. Later, the Crown Prince turned against me and ordered General Liping to reinstate me to my original position."
The emperor was puzzled: "Why did the prince promote you? And why did he turn against you?"
Wei Xing kowtowed again, his face flushed with shame as he said, "It's because... it's because..."
"Why? Why is the general so fussy?"
"Because I have a private relationship with the Crown Prince."
Wei Xing. First served in Qingzhou.
His daughter has an affair with the prince...
Cheng Nianying concealed her astonishment.
He is Wei Yanhua's father!
Is that thing going to break out?
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