Emperor's Grace

Zhu Yunjing was carried all the way back to the dormitory by He Huailing, but luckily she met no one else on the way, Wang Jiu hurriedly followed behind, scratching her ears in a hurry, but there was nothing she could do.

Putting the person on the couch, He Huailing asked Wang Jiu in a deep voice, "Has the imperial doctor come?"

Wang Jiu: "..." He didn't let anyone call him at all.

After a while, Zhu Yunjing on the couch woke up leisurely, frowned and looked at He Huailing, seemed to be stunned for a moment, and asked hoarsely, "Why are you here?"

Wang Jiu explained: "Your Highness, you suddenly fainted, and it was Lord Hou who sent you back."

Zhu Yunjing's eyebrows frowned even tighter: "It's all right, Lord Hou, please go back."

He Huailing looked at his pale face, sighed and said, "Anyway, let the imperial doctor come over and take a look."

"No need," Zhu Yunjing's voice was cold and hard, and he ordered to evict the guests again, "Master Hou can go back."

He Huailing seemed to have never heard of it: "It's okay to hide illness and avoid medical treatment. If your highness is unwell, you should tell the imperial physician."

"Wang Jiu sees off the guests!"

Wang Jiu bit the bullet and invited He Huailing out, and then told him in a low voice: "Your Highness is suffering from heatstroke yesterday and hasn't fully recovered yet. The imperial physician has already visited and prescribed medicine yesterday, so you don't have to worry. "

He Huailing looked back at Zhu Yunjing's figure behind the window with a complicated expression, fell silent for a moment, then turned and strode away.

Wang Jiu shrank his neck and went back inside, Zhu Yunjing looked at him coldly: "How did Marquis Dingyuan send Gu back?"

"Hold... hug back."

Zhu Yunjing picked up the cup at hand and smashed it over, Wang Jiu knelt down immediately: "Your Highness, forgive me...Your Majesty can't stop you from being a servant like that, but don't worry, no one else will see you this way. Those people below are also determined not to go out and gossip."

Seeing that Zhu Yunjing remained silent with a cold face, Wang Jiu asked him hesitantly: "Is it true that Your Highness does not pass on the imperial physician? Or let Imperial Physician Lin take a look..."

Zhu Yunjing waved her hand irritably: "Go away."

Wang Jiu is gone, Zhu Yunjing closed his eyes, damn it... sooner or later he will kill He Huailing, a disciple!

Two days later, Xie Xuanming suddenly ran over to see Zhu Yunjing in a panic, and knelt down sweating profusely as soon as he entered the door: "Your Highness, I beg you to save Xie's family!"

Zhu Yunjing had just been made a fuss by the little evil in her stomach, she just drank the medicine and was feeling uncomfortable with her eyes closed, when she heard this, she frowned and opened her eyes: "What happened?"

Xie Xuanming wiped the sweat from his brow, and said falteringly: "The governor of the south of the Yangtze River and the salt transport envoy were...assassinated on the way to Beijing. It was...that my father sent someone to do it. How can I know the accident? hands down..."

Zhu Yunjing sat up suddenly, her eyes widened suddenly: "Are you guys crazy?! Didn't you tell Gu before that you have nothing to do with the private salt case?!"

Someone reported this matter to Emperor Zhaoyang in the morning, and someone dared to assassinate the emperor who personally issued an imperial decree to request the escort of the court officials who came to Beijing for interrogation, with the intention of killing people to silence them. When the other party succeeded, Emperor Zhaoyang was furious and ordered He Huailing to investigate the matter thoroughly.

Xie Xuanming lowered his head and said vaguely: "Father didn't let me tell you... He thought that as long as he killed Fang Chengpeng and the others first, he would be able to fool them without proof..."

Zhu Yunjing was extremely angry: "Then what did you do?!"

"Father...Father took advantage of Fang Chengpeng and the others, and also participated in the private salt business. Du Tingzhong's first memorial was stopped at the Secretary of General Administration, and... it was in the hands of his father, who wrote to Fang Chengpeng, and then With Du Tingzhong's anti-poetry case."

"Are you eating the bear's heart and leopard's guts? Do you dare to do this kind of thing?!"

Zhu Yunjing slapped the table with a slap, and fell back on the couch clutching her stomach in pain the next moment. Wang Jiu was startled, and hurried forward to support him: "Your Highness, don't get angry, take care of your body ..."

Zhu Yunjing waved Wang Jiu's hand away, resisting the urge to kick Xie Xuanming to death, gritted his teeth and said, "Listen to Gu, if you and your uncle still want to live now, you should go to the emperor's face immediately and kill him." Explain everything clearly, otherwise the gods will not be able to save you!"

"I can't!" Xie Xuanming said urgently, "Your Highness, you can't! I told His Majesty that even if we don't die, we have to confiscate our family and go into exile. What's the difference between this and letting us die! Your Highness, please save us! Save Xie's family!"

"Then what can I do?!" Zhu Yunjing yelled angrily, "Have you ever saved you?! You should have died three years ago! You have managed to survive to this day without repenting! How dare you do such a rebellious thing Things! How can you save you if you want to be alone?!"

Xie Xuanming was kicked out, Zhu Yunjing was so angry that he was about to vomit blood, his stomach hurt for a while, his whole body convulsed, his whole body was covered in cold sweat like he was fished out of the water.Wang Jiu was so frightened that she couldn't stop crying, and hurriedly went to find the imperial physician, but was stopped by Zhu Yunjing, who gritted her teeth and ordered: "Don't go, close the door, and don't let anyone in..."

After saying the last word, Zhu Yunjing lowered her hands weakly and closed her eyes.

Three days later, there was no news that Xie Chongming and his son had gone to the emperor to plead guilty, but Fang Chengpeng and others had already been escorted to Beijing.But Fang Chengpeng made a very unexpected move under the watchful eyes of everyone.

When he was escorted out of the car in front of the Yamen of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, Fang Chengpeng shouted in front of all the officials and onlookers that the crown prince and Xie Guogong were the biggest masterminds behind the private salt case. The fate of murdering and silence, the law of heaven is not fair!

Even though He Huailing reacted quickly and asked someone to gag him, it was already too late, and within half a day, everyone knew about the matter.

The Ministry of Criminal Justice, Dali Temple, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate interrogated the court overnight. Before dawn on the second day, He Huailing and several other presiding judges went to the other palace with detailed testimonies to return to Emperor Zhaoyang. The matter involved the prince of the dynasty. No one dares to make an arbitrary decision, it can only be left to the emperor to decide.

When Zhu Yunjing was called over by Emperor Zhaoyang, he still didn't know what happened. For the past two days, he kept the door behind closed doors to thank guests, not knowing that the situation outside had changed.It's just that when he walked into the imperial study room and saw all the cabinet ministers and the chief officials of the Sanju Department, and saw Xie Chongming and his son prostrate on the ground, and his father's face was as dark as water, and his face was covered with dark clouds, Zhu Yunjing's heart suddenly twitched. Suddenly, I had a very bad premonition.

He Huailing raised her eyes and glanced at Zhu Yunjing, then quickly retracted her gaze and lowered her gaze.

Zhu Yunjing cautiously stepped forward to pay his respects, and Emperor Zhaoyang threw Fang Chengpeng and others' testimony to him: "Look for yourself!"

Zhu Yunjing picked up the testimonies, scanned them quickly, shrank her pupils, and said anxiously: "This has nothing to do with Erchen! Erchen didn't know about it and decided not to participate in the private salt case!"

Emperor Zhaoyang said angrily: "You don't have them and they all say it's you?!"

Zhu Yunjing suddenly turned to Xie Chongming: "You are the ones who are bluffing and cheating in the south of the Yangtze River under the guise of Gu, aren't you?! You told Fang Chengpeng and others that Gu wants them to sell private salt and take ill-gotten gains to honor Gu?!"

Xie Xuanming lay on the ground trembling and speechless, Xie Chongming lowered his head, and said in a low voice: "Your Highness...you knew and acquiesced before, most of the filial piety that Fang Chengpeng and the others sent to Beijing every year went into the East Palace Inside, you know everything, Fang Chengpeng's list is clearly recorded, and the things are in your East Palace, so you can check them one by one."

Zhu Yunjing was stunned, he never thought that his uncle would say such a thing, Xie Xuanming would send some good things to honor him from time to time, Zhu Yunjing didn't think much about the value of these things The concept is that he accepts what he likes when he sees it. He really doesn't know that these things are actually given by Jiangnan officials.

Zhu Yunjing's eyes turned red: "It turns out that you made a plan early in the morning to drag Gu into the water together, right? Uncle, Gu trusts you so much, is this how you treat Gu? In order to get rid of the blame, you plan to take the responsibility of the matter Do you want to push it all to Gu?"

Xie Chongming lowered his head a little lower: "Your Highness, I also follow your orders."

Zhu Yunjing laughed back angrily: "Gu's order? When did Gu order you to do these things? You intercepted the memorial, framed Zhongliang and tried to kill people to silence him. Could it be Gu's order?!"

"The memorial was indeed handed over to the minister by You Tongzheng, but the minister asked you for instructions. It was you who said that His Majesty should not know, and it was you who instructed the minister to let Fang Chengpeng frame Du Tingzhong and kill him. Called into the palace and told him to do it!"

A needle could be heard in the imperial study room, and all the officials present dared not speak out, only He Huailing frowned slightly.Zhu Yunjing said three "good" words with red eyes, seemingly very sad, Emperor Zhaoyang interrupted them impatiently: "Prince, tell yourself! What's going on!"

"I have never done it," Zhu Yunjing's eyes were red, "From the beginning to the end, I don't know what Xie Guogong and the others have done, and I have no contact with Jiangnan officials, so I ask my father to investigate."

Xie Chongming argued: "A few days ago, Your Highness, you were still helping Fang Chengpeng to speak kind words in the court hall to ask for rewards. It is also known to all!"

"How did Gu know at that time that you would collude with him and do such things!"

Emperor Zhaoyang lowered his gaze, hesitating for a moment, he was more jealous of the crown prince colluding with foreign ministers behind his back than the private salt case, in order to win people's hearts, but Zhu Yunjing said that he had never done it.

But the bad thing was that even though Zhu Yunjing didn't know about it, Xie Chongming was really doing things in his name. Even Fang Chengpeng thought he was helping the crown prince.

Xie Xuanming, who was silent all the time, suddenly said: "Too...His Royal Highness asked someone to frame the prefect of Jingzhou for other selfish motives. The former Hanlin editor Xu Shixian was implicated and sent to prison together. His Royal Highness has long taken a fancy to him. After this incident, His Royal Highness threatened Xu Shixian with the life of the prefect of Jingzhou, and finally made the other party succumb. His Highness designed Xu Shixian to fake his death to hide the truth and get him out of the prison of Dali Temple. It was stolen from his Zhuangzi on Phoenix Mountain, if His Majesty doesn't believe it, you can send someone to investigate, even if Xu Shixian is no longer there, all the servants in Zhuangzi must have seen him."

Everyone was in an uproar, Emperor Zhaoyang frowned fiercely, and looked at Zhu Yunjing coldly: "Is what he said true?"

Zhu Yunjing's face turned pale, and there was a moment of panic in his eyes. He didn't need to say anything more, this reaction was already evidence in the eyes of Emperor Zhaoyang.

Zhu Yunjing hurriedly explained: "I rescued Xu Shixian, but this is the only thing I have done. The other things really have nothing to do with my son! Father, you believe me, if you say you haven't done it I really haven't done it, and my son will never dare to lie to you!"

He really didn't expect that Xie's father and son would do this in order to pull him into the water, just because he said that if they couldn't save them, they would fight him to the death.

After a moment of stalemate, He Huailing took a step forward, and reminded Emperor Zhaoyang in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, there are many doubts in this case, and please wait for your Majesty Rongchen to investigate clearly before making a decision."

Several cabinet ministers also spoke out to persuade Emperor Zhaoyang. Emperor Zhaoyang closed his eyes and ordered in a cold voice: "Take Xie Chongming and his son into custody pending trial. Prince, you should go back and contemplate your mistakes behind closed doors. Without my will, you are not allowed to walk around and summon foreigners." minister."