Chapter 196 Keeping it is also a disaster
"Jin Yuanbo is really bold. I trusted him so much, but he dared to deceive me."
Chu Jinyan: "By the way, Prime Minister Liu's legitimate daughter was discredited by the fake Zhang Xiaowen from the Jinyuan Marquis's Mansion, and she was taken away by the Second Prince."
Upon hearing this, Emperor Chengde almost choked to death on his porridge.
"Where did you hear this?"
“No need to listen. Today is the Su family’s old lady’s birthday party. Just ask anyone who attends the party and they will know about this. The Zhang family is so rampant. They are going to heaven.”
As he was speaking, the young eunuch outside the palace suddenly said, "Your Majesty, Marquis Jin Yuan wants to see you."
Emperor Chengde was shocked by Chu Jinyan's words. When he heard that Jin Yuanbo was coming, he threw the bowl in his hand heavily on the table and said, "Tell him to get in."
The voice was deep and carried a strong sense of pressure, which reached Jin Yuanbo's ears clearly. He was so frightened that his legs went weak and he stumbled into the hall.
"Your humble servant...your humble servant pays homage to Your Majesty. Long live the emperor."
Jin Yuanbo prostrated himself on the ground and kowtowed.
Emperor Chengde snorted heavily: "If I have more ministers like you, I won't live long."
That's a serious statement.
Jin Yuanbo was so frightened that he trembled: "Your Majesty...Your Majesty is terrified."
"I don't think you are scared at all." Emperor Chengde slammed the table angrily and said, "Marquis Jinyuan, I am too lenient to you on weekdays, so you think I am easy to fool, right?"
"Your Majesty is wise. I dare not..." Jin Yuanbo shouted to express his loyalty, but when he saw the cold eyes of Emperor Chengde, the words on his lips were choked and he was stunned and couldn't say any more.
Emperor Chengde shouted softly: "Someone come..."
With just this sound, two young eunuchs suddenly walked out from the inner hall, escorting a man who was tied up. His mouth was blocked with cloth, and he made a grunting sound. His face was covered with tears and snot, and he looked very miserable.
When Jin Yuanbo saw the person coming, he was stunned with shock. He felt as if he fell into an ice cellar. His mind went blank.
Not long ago, a servant came to report that his missing son had appeared in the palace.
So the emperor already knew about it?
Jin Yuanbo was suddenly terrified and his body was shaking like a sieve.
"Zhang Aiqing, do you know him?"
Emperor Chengde looked at Marquis Jin Yuan coldly, leaning casually on the dragon throne, with an air of supreme dominance in his nonchalance.
When Zhang Xiaowen saw his father, he twisted his body and struggled desperately, crying because of fear of being tied up.
"Your Majesty, please have mercy on me. I did not intend to deceive you. I beg Your Majesty to forgive me for my father's sake."
Jin Yuanbo knelt down in fear and begged for mercy.
Emperor Chengde looked at him expressionlessly, making it impossible to guess his emotions.
Chu Jinyan felt annoyed when listening to Jin Wubo talking about old times. He pressed his thin lips into a straight line and said in a cold voice, "Why waste so much time talking to him? Kill him. This guy who is full of lies will only bring trouble if he is kept."
Emperor Chengde glared angrily: "..."
I've worked so hard to create this aura, can you please cooperate with me?
Upon hearing this, Jin Yuanbo was horrified and kowtowed fiercely: "Your Majesty, please have mercy on me, Your Highness, please have mercy on me..."
"I'm going to spare you today, but tomorrow the whole Wei will laugh at me. Whether your son is stupid or not has nothing to do with me. You just hide it, but wait until something happens and bring a fake one to me. I wonder if I'm the fool who's laughing at you. I don't even know how I got fooled by you."
"My son said, who else should I kill if not you? First you created a fake son, and today you ruined the innocence of the Liu family's daughter. If I keep you here, will you rebel tomorrow?"
"Hu Qian, pass on my order. The crime of deceiving the emperor is extremely serious. You must strip Jin Yuanbo of his title and remove him from office. All members of the Zhang family must be imprisoned and executed at a later date."
Jin Yuanbo cried and wailed: "Your Majesty, please spare my life. I was wrong. Please spare my life..."
Emperor Chengde waved his hand, and Hu Qian shouted to the imperial guards guarding outside the door. Immediately, someone came in and dragged Jin Yuanbo out.
Then he wrote an imperial edict, stamped it with the imperial seal, threw it to Hu Qian, and asked him to go to the Jinyuanbo Mansion to announce the edict.
Hu Qian left with the imperial edict.
After taking only two steps, Chu Jinyan said from behind: "Eunuch Hu, don't forget the fake one that the second brother took away."
Hu Qian responded respectfully.
Seeing that his goal had been achieved, Chu Jinyan stood up and left.
Emperor Chengde said, "It's so late, why don't we sleep in the Palace of Heavenly Purity for one night?"
"No, I can't sleep." Chu Jinyan bowed, turned and left.
Late at night, everything is quiet.
However, there was crying and shouting inside the mansion of Marquis Jin Yuan. Hu Qian and the imperial guards surrounded the entire mansion, and all the members of the Zhang family, including the servants, were arrested and thrown into jail.
The noise was so loud that it woke up several neighboring families. They stood at their doorsteps and watched the Imperial Guards arrest people. The eunuch beside the emperor stood at the Zhang family's gate with his hands behind his back, all of them trembling with fear.
Zhenjue told them that they could not watch the excitement at the Zhang family's house, so the next moment they all closed the doors of their own houses almost at the same time.
The emperor has ordered the arrest of someone, and he will give an explanation to the court officials at the morning court tomorrow.
Now was not the time for them to be curious.
At the same time, there was a commotion in the Second Prince’s mansion.
Chu Chengli looked on with a gloomy face as Hu Qian's apprentice came to his house with the emperor's oral order to ask him for someone.
"Second Prince, I am just following orders. Please don't make things difficult for me."
The apprentice's name was Hu Liang. Hu Qian accepted him as his apprentice because he saw that he was smart and gave him the same surname as Hu Liang. However, people in the palace were not used to calling him Xiao Liangzi. Some palace servants with less experience would call him Eunuch Liang.
"Did the emperor say anything else besides asking you to come and take the person away?" Chu Chengli asked.
Xiao Liangzi bowed respectfully and said, "Second Prince, to be honest, Earl Jin Yuan deceived the emperor, and the emperor ordered his entire family to be executed. Earl Jin Yuan and the real Young Master Zhang San have been imprisoned. My master took the imperial edict and went to Earl Jin Yuan's mansion to announce the order, so the fake here, Second Prince, will also be imprisoned and beheaded."
Chu Chengli suppressed his shock and pretended to have just learned about this matter. He asked, "How did the emperor know this?"
Xiao Liangzi became more respectful and said with a smile: "This...I don't know."
Even if he knew, he couldn't say more.
Marquis Jin Yuan deceived the emperor, that was something everyone would know tomorrow morning. He didn't mind telling the Second Prince now to save his face, but the person was brought into the palace by the Eighth Prince, and the Emperor didn't mention it. His master also reminded him not to mention matters concerning the Eighth Prince to other princes, so he naturally dared not disobey.
Regardless of whether the second prince can sit on that throne in the future, now that the emperor is still on the throne, he has to recognize his master.
"Okay, I understand." Chu Chengli stopped asking questions and asked someone to bring the fake Zhang Xiaowen over.
Xiao Liangzi completed his task, so he bowed and left: "I'm leaving now."
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