The First Traitor [Rebirth]

All the copybooks, account books and documents seized by the Imperial Forest Army from the original mansion were searched. After Feng Si gave his testimony, the Imperial Forest Army also presented some suspicious documents to the emperor.After watching for a while, the emperor cast his cold eyes on Yuan Ye several times.

When Yuan Ye learned that the Yuan Mansion was searched, he felt a sense of crisis in his heart. Although he didn't think the so-called "testimonies" came from the Yuan Mansion, there were still many shady books in the mansion. use!

But Pingyao has been thinking about her own affairs, she clearly saw Yuan Jing's private letter with King Puyang written by her own eyes, but why everyone insisted that it was not Yuan Jing's handwriting?After she saw those calligraphy, paintings and documents, she suddenly remembered that when she first arrived in Yuan Mansion, she had entered Yuan Jing's study many times and saw her writing.The handwriting she writes on weekdays is different from the handwriting she writes on official documents and scriptures!

Everyone in the world thinks that Yuan Jing's handwriting is the one she presented to the emperor and everyone, but only a few people know that Yuan Jing usually writes poems and prose with more chic and freehand characters. On Wang's letter, it was her handwriting!

But when she saw that there were no copybooks and documents found by Yuan Jing in the original mansion, she understood that Yuan Jing had already burned down those copybooks and documents that proved that she knew two kinds of handwriting. .But she was told that it was a very secret thing, how did she know it in advance?Unless she deliberately let her see this letter, and deliberately let her pass the news to King Qi so that King Qi would think that he had indeed grasped the evidence of the original family...

Thinking of this, Pingyao's spine suddenly felt chills.King Qi's trust in her was not there from the beginning. After she helped King Qi collect many unknown criminal evidence from the original family, King Qi also proved through repeated trials that the criminal evidence she obtained was indeed true. Therefore, King Qi became more and more convinced that she had indeed grasped the "evidence" of the Yuan family.And because she never thought that she was cheated from the beginning to the end, she never doubted whether she was being used!

But even so, what is the explanation for the worship of the ancestral mausoleum in Puyang and the confession made by the mausoleum household?If the Yuan family used her, why would there be such a witness?

The emperor looked up at King Qi: "Continue."

King Qi was stunned, the emperor's reaction was somewhat beyond his expectation.Even if it is impossible to prove that the original family and King Puyang conspired against each other immediately, but Fengsi and others have been able to prove that King Puyang conspired to rebel. The emperor should arrest King Puyang and bring him back. Why is it so slow?

He pondered for a while, then signaled the officials to take the initiative to come forward and said: "Your Majesty, here is the account of the Yuan family, which proves that Yuan Ye started accepting bribes five years ago, for the purpose of recruiting troops for King Puyang!"

"Yuan Ye, tell me, why is the number in the ledger wrong?" the emperor asked.

Yuan Ye was startled, and hurriedly went to look at the account book, and then he said: "Report to the emperor, this is, this is... this money was used by the minister in Fengtian Pavilion."

The emperor and everyone looked at him in surprise, Yuan Ye said again: "At that time, my colleagues were not willing to pay for the construction of Fengtian Pavilion, and I was afraid that the emperor would blame me if the construction period could not be completed on time, so...so I spent a lot of money to build Fengtian Pavilion. Money, these are also recorded in another ledger.”

The four shuling and Zhanggu of the household department, who were hired by the emperor to be good at calculating, began to check the accounts of the original mansion, and found that although the number in one of the accounts was indeed incorrect, the number in the later account books was slightly different from it. The difference was made up, but the large number of bribes listed in it was enough to implicate half of the officials in the court!

The emperor didn't ask them to tell these things, but only said the source and whereabouts of the money five years ago, and they knew that the emperor had other plans.

"Five years ago, King Puyang was still the crown prince, right?" Lin Xuanda finally expressed his opinion. He looked at the official minister, and the latter nodded, not knowing why.

"Then King Puyang joined forces with the original family to plot rebellion five years ago?" Lin Xuanda asked again.

Everyone is in a trance, isn't it?Five years ago, don't say that King Puyang would not rebel without any reason. At that time, Yuan Ye was still a member of King Qi. If it was said that Yuan Ye provided King Qi with bribe money to recruit soldiers and horses, it would be credible!When everyone thought of this, they looked at King Qi secretly, wondering why King Qi would suddenly attack him, but it seemed as if he was going to shoot himself in the foot!

King Qi's face was pale, he gave the official a hard look, and secretly reprimanded him for his ineffectiveness.But he thought about it for a while, if this matter cannot be used to deal with the Yuan family, but the account book of the Yuan family is also in the hands of the emperor, the emperor will know what he has done, as long as he is taken down for corruption and bribery, he will It is impossible to turn over!

"Yuan Qing, Yuan Erlang, get up first!" The emperor waved his hand.

"Thank you, Majesty Long En!" Yuan Ye seemed to be pardoned, and the emperor let him get up, which meant that he still had a chance to defend himself!When he got up, his legs and feet were weak due to kneeling for a long time, and he almost fell to the ground.Yuan actually supported him steadily so that he would not lose face in front of everyone.

"Xiao'er, continue talking." The emperor looked at King Qi again.

King Qi gritted his teeth, and now that the emperor has recognized that this is what he did, he doesn't need to pretend anymore, saying: "According to recent investigations, it turns out that the rebel army did not appear recently, but As early as a few years ago, the conspiratorial preparations had already begun. There were thousands of armored equipment and people, and the scale was really frightening. I thought that someone had pointed out that this was done by the second emperor brother, so I pleaded The emperor ordered to arrest the second brother and bring him back for interrogation!"

"Is the prince's statement inappropriate? Sometimes it was recently, and sometimes it was a few years ago. Is it recent or a few years ago?" Yuan Jing asked.

King Qi said slowly, "According to the testimonies of these people, the rebel army gathered near the ancestral mausoleum after the second emperor brother went to guard the mausoleum. But according to my investigation, it turned out that these people were The recruitment was accepted a few years ago, but it has been scattered in various places and has not been concentrated in one place to attract attention. Therefore, the existence of this rebel army has never been found in various places. However, the recruitment of this thousand-strong rebel army The daily expenses are huge, and without enough military pay, they would not survive until today, so there must be important officials in the court colluding with them!"

The emperor nodded: "What you said is true. I have already issued an order and ordered the commander to send troops to investigate, but—" He drew his voice, his deep eyes swept over everyone, his voice was cold and It is very meaningful, "Before I ordered you to be recalled, I ordered someone to recall Puyang for defense. He got the order before you and left faster than you. However, you came back, but he still hasn't come back."

King Qi thought about it, and vaguely felt that something was wrong.The emperor continued: "Even if you are riding a bloody BMW, it has been a day, and he should have arrived. However, I have waited for his news, but it was the news that he was beheaded halfway. , only his horse ran back."

If King Puyang really conspired against him, then the Puyang garrison who was in charge of guarding Puyang and Zuling should be clear about it. If he knew about it and did not report it, it would mean that he had been bought by King Puyang.But the emperor called him back to the capital, and he set off immediately without hesitation, but he was beheaded halfway.

Everyone doubted whether it was King Puyang who did it, but if the two were in the same group, why would King Puyang be nervous?Another point is confusing. If the king of Qi returns to the capital, he will definitely go the same way as the defense of Puyang. The king of Qi is behind and the defense of Puyang is killed in front. The king of Qi should have seen it. Why would the king of Qi not know?

King Qi felt that the emperor was suspicious of him, so he explained: "Since I learned about the conspiracy of the second emperor brother, I thought that if my father got the news, I would definitely call my son back to Beijing for interrogation, so I left a day earlier. gone."

Everyone thought the same thing, King Qi has many eyes and ears in the capital, even if he is not in the capital, he would be aware of any trouble in the capital, so he would leave for the capital one day earlier!

"You are in a hurry." The emperor smiled. Although King Qi couldn't hear the cold tone from it, his heart felt cold!

"Let this matter be investigated by the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Punishment. I believe that the truth will come to light soon!" The emperor said again, everyone was a little stunned when they heard the words, and they confronted each other for a long time in the Ganqing Hall, and that's it?And the emperor didn't mean to blame the Yuan family?

"Your Majesty, this matter can't just be left alone, and the Yuan family..." Wu Xuhao hurriedly said, King Qi knew that if we let it go like this, it would give the Yuan family a chance to relax. It will be difficult to convict them again!

"Enough!" The emperor scolded coldly, "Except for this letter written by someone who doesn't know, there is no other evidence to prove that it is related to the Yuan family! As for the seal, Yuan Qing, you really should give me an explanation! "

Yuan Ye hurriedly said: "I will definitely find out the truth, restore the family's innocence, and reassure the emperor!" After speaking, he was greatly relieved and stepped aside.

"My lord..." Wu Xuhao and King Qi whispered, and King Qi gritted his teeth, "Father knew that there was something wrong with Yuan's accounts, but he didn't order a thorough investigation, which means that Father knew and acquiesced. Maybe Yuan Ye More than half of the money from corruption and bribery in the past day has entered the royal father's treasury, so we don't need to do any more useless work!"

Yuan actually glanced at Pingyao, she was still kneeling on the ground with a forbearing expression, she raised her head several times, as if she was about to pour out some words.Yuan actually lowered his eyes and pulled her up, and said in a low voice, "Recognize the reality."

Pingyao clutched his clothes tightly, tears were already rolling in his eyes.

Today in the palace, she almost told the emperor about the Zhang family's grievances, but she stopped talking at the last moment, not because she was threatening her, but because she understood one thing in an instant—— The reason why she was in the hall was because she was summoned by King Qi as a witness.

The emperor's purpose was very simple, he only cared about whether the original family had colluded with King Puyang for rebellion, he would not care about other things.Don't say that it has been seven years since the Zhang family's incident happened, even if it is a recent incident, the emperor may not pay attention to it, not to mention that the emperor punished a group of officials related to the corruption and bribery case of the Luochuan government a long time ago, and he also wanted to do so It's a deal, and I don't want anyone to continue to investigate this matter.

The emperor must have known that too many people were involved behind this matter, including King Puyang, King Qi and the Yuan family, and even too many people in the court, so he was unwilling to lose so many people all at once.If she said it here, it would only displease the emperor, and she didn't have any more evidence to testify against King Qi. In the end, not only would she not be able to clear up the Zhang family's grievances, but she would end up dead.

The original words seemed to be a warning, but they were actually a reminder.Yuan Jing can let her speak, anyway, King Qi has no way to incriminate the Yuan family, even if she can testify that those words were indeed written by Yuan Jing, it still cannot prove that what she said is the truth.That's why she temporarily changed her mind and insisted that she didn't know.

It's just that the king of Qi will not let her go, and she must not be able to stay in Yuan's house...

Seeing Yuan Jing's actions, Old Luo Hanlin felt a little displeased, after all, Yuan actually went to help a concubine in the hall, how could this make his granddaughter feel ashamed?

Yuan actually probably noticed it too, so he let go of his hand and returned to Yuan Ye's side, took out a sweat towel and wiped away the blood on Yuan Ye's face.Yuan Ye gave Pingyao a cold look and ignored her.If it wasn't for the sake of her giving birth to Yuan Xu, he would never let her walk out of this hall alive!

After following Yuan Ye and his son out of the hall, Ping Yao said to Yuan Jing: "I know you can write in two ways."

Yuan actually looked at her with a half-smile: "Why didn't you say it in the hall?"

Pingyao bit his lip, put his eyes on Yuan Ye, and said, "I want you to protect me!" If Yuan Ye knew that all of this was Yuan Jing's faking, then Yuan Ye would definitely not be kind.And if King Qi knew, it would be very troublesome.

"I saved your life, you still dare to threaten me?"

"I also saved a dozen lives of the Yuan family!"

Yuan actually laughed silently, at the juncture of life and death, people will use whatever means to survive, whether struggling or being shameless, they are just means to survive!

"it is good."

The author has something to say:

The things in this chapter are the foreshadowing that was laid a long time ago, so I won’t talk about the handwriting. For the part of the rebel army, please recall what the princess said and did.

The matter of the Zhang family is more concise and clear, and it has been explained when I wrote it a long time ago~~