But he had already raised an army, so if he cried out for justice now, no one would believe him.
Xie Tingzhou then pointed at Kang Le, saying, "Kang Le has been demoted to a commoner, yet he secretly raised assassins to collude with the King of Liang to besiege the Marquis of Zhongyong and prevent him from rescuing the emperor in time. His intentions are despicable."
Kang Le had his tongue pulled out, so he could no longer speak and could only shake his head desperately.
But she couldn't say it, while Wen Cheng and the assassin who impersonated the crown prince back then could.
The two fell into Xie Tingzhou's hands and suffered a lot. Xie Tingzhou even used Kang Le's two children to threaten Wen Cheng.
Knowing that his rebellion had failed and that he and Kang Le had no way to survive, Wen Cheng confessed that they had indeed been instructed by Kang Le to plot to kill the emperor and the crown prince.
Marquis Zhongyong also said, "Your Majesty, after I returned to the capital, I learned that the Cui family originally wanted my fiancée to marry into the Lin Prince's mansion in my place."
Fortunately, my fiancée was quick-witted and managed to escape; otherwise, if my wife had been taken from me, I would have returned to the capital to demand an explanation.
I found this suspicious, so I investigated and discovered that it was also a conspiracy by Emperor Kangxi to lure me away from the imperial estate.
Seeing that his wife had escaped, and fearing that he would not fall for the trap, Kang Le sent the old lady of the Cui family to Prince Lin's bed, whereupon the old lady of the Cui family was tortured to death by Prince Lin.
The Cui family used this as a pretext to cause trouble for my wife, forcing me to return to the capital to protect her. Kang Le's intentions are malicious; I implore Your Majesty to punish him severely.
Kang Le, "..."
That's nonsense.
It's clear they saw through her plan long ago and used it against her, but now they're blaming it all on her.
Shameless, utterly shameless.
But the victor is king, and the loser is villain. From the moment her rebellion failed, she became someone everyone wanted to kill.
No one will delve into the details of this matter.
The emperor was furious. "Historians, Kang Le's crimes are too numerous to record. You must remember them in history to warn future generations."
Kang Le's face, already pale from excessive blood loss, turned completely ashen.
She didn't want to become a piece of trash in history books, but she was powerless to change her fate and eventually fell into a coma.
The rebellion was a fact, and no further evidence was needed. The emperor made the final judgment, sentencing Prince Liang, Kang Le, and others to death, and they were to be cut in half at the waist three days later.
All other participants were sentenced according to the severity of their crimes.
This opportunity allows the matter of the Crown Prince's assassination of the emperor during the autumn hunt to be completely put to rest, and it can no longer be used as a pretext to seriously harm the Crown Prince.
With this incident, the emperor lost all interest in escaping the summer heat, and the sacrificial rites had to be temporarily suspended. He immediately returned to the capital.
King Liang and others were imprisoned.
Late at night, King Liang frantically blew his secret whistle, trying to summon the man in black to save him.
But the person who used to come out at any time was no longer there. King Liang's face turned pale. "Come out, come out, or I will spread the word that I went to the General's Mansion in your place."
No one answered him.
He slumped to the ground in dejection.
After Ye Wantang's engagement to the Crown Prince was called off by the Emperor, that person suddenly approached him and asked him to wear a fox mask and go down a secret passage to the General's Mansion to meet Ye Wantang in secret.
His playboy and lecherous ways weren't all an act. The other party offered him benefits and the chance to sleep with the general's daughter for free, so why wouldn't he do it?
The man claimed to be from the Western Moon Kingdom and that he had previously fallen for Ye Wantang. He disguised himself as Ye Wantang to secretly contact her. To make amends, he offered to help her seize the throne. He had a feeling that the man wasn't telling the truth.
But he truly didn't know his real identity. Right now, if he used the other party's identity to blackmail him, the charge of colluding with other countries would only hasten his death.
"You lied to me, why didn't you come to save me..."
King Liang murmured, knowing that person wouldn't appear, "Who exactly are you?"
Meanwhile, at the Prime Minister's residence, as soon as Lady Xiao returned, Xie Jinyao came to her side, asking, "How could the Prince of Liang have rebelled?"
This never happened in my past life? Where exactly did things go wrong?
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