The Tianfu Army is the personal army of the Duke of Yingguo's Mansion. They are the elite among the elite. They were trained by successive Dukes of Yingguo and have always been loyal to the Duke of Yingguo's Mansion.
His brother-in-law came with the Tianfu Army to pick him up, and even the Jinyiwei couldn't stop him!
It was my younger sister who found a way to coax my brother-in-law.
"Let's go." Fang Huairui said to Yu Si in an ambiguous tone and turned sideways.
For Yu Si, these two words were equivalent to an affirmative answer.
My brother-in-law is here to pick him up! Yu Si straightened his back even more, glanced at He Lie outside the cell with a sarcastic look, and sighed and said, "Brother-in-law, the Yu family was wronged. The emperor was deceived by the traitor and tortured me into confessing."
"The Yu family and the Fang family are one family. We can't just let this go!"
He spoke with great passion, implying that the emperor dared to treat their Yu family in this way and did not take the Duke of Yingzhou's Mansion seriously, and that he wanted the Duke of Yingzhou to vent their anger.
The word "idiot" was already on Fang Huairui's lips, but he finally swallowed it.
Fang Huairui's thick beard hid the disdain on his lips. His eyes were cold and disgusted. He thought: His brother-in-law really doesn't know how high the heaven is and how deep the earth is. Even now, he is still daydreaming and wants to blame the emperor! Such an idiot actually wants to rebel?! Could he be instigated by someone...
The corner of Fang Huairui's mouth twitched. He waved his hand and gestured to the Tianfu Army soldiers behind him, and said loudly again: "Take them away!" His voice was cold and stern.
Yu Si was confused and vaguely felt that something was wrong.
Two Tianfu Army guards strode into the cell and forcefully escorted Yu Si out. At the same time, another two guards escorted Shangqing out of another cell.
Fang Huairui politely bowed to He Lie and said, "Goodbye."
"..." He Lie watched Fang Huairui and his group leave with a complicated expression.
Top nobles like Duke Yingguo and Duke Chengguo, who followed Taizu in founding the country, were usually arrogant. But today, Duke Yingguo was so polite to him. It was obvious whose face he was trying to save.
The eldest prince does have some tricks up his sleeve.
He Lie came out of the imperial prison while thinking about it.
The warm winter sun was hanging high in the blue sky, shining directly towards him, a little dazzling, and He Lie couldn't help but squint.
"Commander-in-chief," a Jinyiwei came hurriedly and reported, "Prime Minister Xiao is here."
Xiao Shoufu is the current Prime Minister of the Cabinet and also serves as the Minister of Personnel.
In the last few years of the late emperor's reign, his health was deteriorating, but he did not let the crown prince act as regent. Instead, he handed over the affairs of state to the prime minister. Prime Minister Xiao controlled the cabinet and had tremendous power. Although he was not the prime minister, he became the "real prime minister".
"Oh, what a rare guest." He Lie raised his thick black eyebrows, not surprised. He raised his square chin slightly and looked towards the direction of the gate.
There was a commotion at the gate of the Northern Pacification Office. Seven or eight horse-drawn carriages blocked the street, and the air was filled with gunpowder.
"Duke of England, the case has not yet been concluded, how can you carry out the execution now?!"
A majestic voice came from a two-horse black lacquered carved flat-top carriage. The curtain on one side of the carriage was half opened, revealing an old face.
He was an old man in his sixties, with a goatee on his chin and several deep wrinkles between his brows. He looked at Fang Huairui outside the carriage with a serious expression, and his majesty was unmistakable without him being angry.
The chief minister came from the Xiao family of Qingzhou. He did not take the imperial examination, but was introduced by the Yuan family and the late emperor personally invited him to serve as an official in the court.
From then on, he rose rapidly to the top, and in just five years, he entered the cabinet.
Outside the carriage, several officials from aristocratic families stopped in front of Fang Huairui and echoed him righteously:
"Master Xiao is right. There are many suspicious points in this case. How can we just execute him?"
"You are too impatient, my Lord."
"They are so eager to execute him. I think 'some people' want to cover up something."
“…”
As soon as these officials heard the news that the eldest prince had ordered Duke Ying to supervise the execution, they rushed here immediately, fearing that if they were a step late, Yu Si would have lost his head. Then they would no longer have to argue about whether to protect the Yu family or the Feng family.
"What did you say?" Yu Si, who was standing beside the prison car, turned pale and asked in a shrill voice.
It turned out that his brother-in-law was not here to save him at all.
Not only did he not come to save him, but he came to take his life!
"Fang Huairui, you want to kill me?!" Yu Si pointed at Fang Huairui and shouted angrily, his eyes were terrified and his heart was cold, "I am Mingfeng's uncle!"
"You are so ruthless to the Yue family, aren't you afraid... um."
Yu Si didn't have the chance to finish his words. Fang Huairui just made a gesture, and Yu Si's mouth was rudely blocked with a sweat towel.
Yu Si was a scholar, and was weak as a kitten. He had no power to fight back against the strong soldiers of the Tianfu Army, and was soon forced into a prison van.
Shangqing was taken to another prison car. His hair was disheveled like a beggar's, his Taoist robe was tattered, and burns on his skin were faintly visible. He looked like a demon that had been frying in oil and then fished out.
"Death Gua, it's a death Gua." Shang Qing muttered to himself, looking confused and crazy.
Fang Huairui didn't even look at Yu Si and Shang Qing, nor did he care what the two were whispering about.
To him, Yu Si and Shang Qing were already dead.
This was exactly why the eldest prince asked him to supervise the execution.
"Prime Minister Xiao, are you going to teach me how to do things?" Fang Huairui's sharp eyes swept through the small soldiers and crab generals around him, and shot directly at Prime Minister Xiao in the carriage, and said in a rough voice, "Civil officials and military generals are irrelevant. Prime Minister Xiao's hands are too long, and he is really meddling in other people's affairs!"
He is not afraid of offending people at all, and every word he says is full of thorns.
Anyway, as the executioner, he was bound to offend those noble families. It would be better to offend them to the end and make them hate him, so that they would not all go after the emperor.
Fang Huairui snorted coldly, picked his ears deliberately, and said coldly: "What's the saying?"
The two soldiers beside him laughed and said, "The dog is trying to catch the rat!"
"have a finger in the pie!"
Fang Huairui brought with him his trusted confidants, who were in unison with him at the moment, and they were in perfect harmony.
Prime Minister Xiao had been in the court for decades, and on weekdays he mostly faced those literary officials. He had always been disdainful of nobles like the Duke of Yingguo, whose ancestors were peasants and butchers, and he was too lazy to deal with them.
Listening to the laughter of these rough people, Xiao Shoufu's face was not very good. He stared at Fang Huairui unhappily and said, "What if I must stop it?"
"Minister Xiao, you can give it a try." Fang Huairui climbed onto the horse with a swift movement, and looked down at Minister Xiao from his high horseback. "I always keep my word, and I will execute the criminal at three quarters past noon."
"Even if the emperor agrees to suspend the sentence, I will not agree. Today, I will kill my relatives for the sake of justice."
When Yu Si in the prison car heard that he was going to be beheaded at 15:30, he was so frightened that his soul almost died. His face was pale and he made a "mumbling" sound through his blocked mouth.
He leaned against the railing of the prison van, shaking like a sieve, and had long lost the calm and composed demeanor he had in the cell.
At this moment, Yu Si was really scared, as if the cold guillotine was hanging above his neck.
"You..." Xiao Shoufu in the carriage was so angry that his voice trembled, his goatee trembled, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Fang Huairui, do you really want to do it your own way?"
"It's still early, are you confident that things won't change?!"
Prime Minister Xiao pointed at the rising sun outside the window and spoke with a double entendre.
I think the Duke of England is so stupid. He has to fight with King Kang and stand on the side of the emperor at this time. Is his brain broken? "It's getting late." Fang Huairui also said meaningfully and arrogantly, "If you are late, you will miss the auspicious time."
"A good dog doesn't block the road. Prime Minister Xiao, believe it or not, even if I kill you on the spot, I will be fine."
"Duke Cheng killed Yang Shineng, but the late emperor never punished him."
"The blood on my hands is more than the salt you have eaten!"
Fang Huairui pulled the reins, and the brown horse under him kicked its front hooves high towards Prime Minister Xiao in a demonstrative manner, as if it wanted to kick the iron hoof into the other's face.
The heavy breath from the horse almost brushed against Prime Minister Xiao's face, startling him so much that he instinctively stepped back, looking a little embarrassed as if he was fleeing in panic.
Fang Huairui on horseback naturally noticed this, raised his head and laughed wantonly, and said one word: "Go!"
The personal soldiers he brought with him immediately followed with two prisoner carts, and the line of carriages and horses sped away, the sound of horse hooves fading into the distance.
Soon, only Prime Minister Xiao and his group were left at the gate of the Northern Pacification Office.
In the carriage, Prime Minister Xiao looked at Fang Huairui's back as he rode away with a gloomy face, the corners of his mouth and even his chin were tense.
The Duke of England is a big, strong warrior. If such a wretch gets mad without any regard for others, he might really resort to knife fighting...
"What a reckless man!" Prime Minister Xiao said through gritted teeth, his beard trembling again, his eyes uncertain.
As far as he knew, the Duke of England went to the Yangxin Palace before coming to the Northern Pacification Office, and he didn't know what means the eldest prince used to subdue the Duke of England.
The nobles represent military power. In addition to the Tianfu Army, the Duke of Ying can mobilize 400,000 Guanning Army with the tiger talisman in his hand. If he is determined to join the emperor and the eldest prince...
This is not good.
Xiao Shoufu's heart sank, and he murmured, "That's all."
The Yu family is definitely not going to be able to survive.
Prime Minister Xiao let out a long breath and looked at Fang Huairui's back with a deep gaze until the other party disappeared at the end of the street.
Fang Huairui drove the prison van directly to Caishikou.
Caishikou was bustling with people. The common people had seen the notice posted by the eldest prince and knew that Yu Si and Shangqing would be executed today, so they all rushed to watch the excitement.
When the two heads fell to the ground, the onlookers burst into cheers of "Long live!"
The golden sunlight poured down, sprinkling on the two heads that died with their eyes open. The ground was soon stained red with blood. A strong smell of blood filled the air and drifted away with the wind.
In the distance, there was an ordinary green-covered carriage parked on the street.
The green curtain of the carriage opened a gap several inches wide, and one could vaguely see a layer of dark red curtain embroidered with flame patterns inside. The hand that was lifting the curtain was half-hidden and half-exposed through the cuffs with bright red edges, which aroused people's reverie.
(End of this chapter)
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