Chapter 124 This Hateful Mu Nanjin

One of the witnesses named Yan Gao shouted angrily: "It's the people of Prince Sheng and Prince Yu. They arrested our relatives and threatened us to frame King Wu'an."

The emperor's pupils shrank, he stood up suddenly and asked, "Are you sure you are from the Holy Prince and the Royal Prince?"

Everyone: "..."

The other four witnesses nodded vigorously to prove that Yan Gao was not telling lies.

Yan Gao's eyes were bloodshot with resentment, and he said word by word: "I am very sure that the people who captured us are close associates of Prince Sheng and Prince Yu. We have seen them and will never admit their mistakes."

Another witness named Shen De continued: "When King Wu'an discovered that the people who were colluding with other countries were also the Holy Prince and the Royal Prince, King Wu'an was concerned that they were the brothers of the late emperor, and he has been hesitant to bring this matter to the public. Tell the late emperor about it, and this will give the Holy Prince and others a chance to deal with King Wu'an."

Suddenly, the hall was in an uproar.

The emperor scowled.

I really didn’t expect that the fourth prince would have the intention to rebel at that time.

"Do you have any evidence?"

"Yes, we have several letters exchanged between the four princes and the Chen Kingdom. They contain not only the seal of the emperor of the Chen Kingdom, but also the seals of the four princes." Shen De carefully took out a few letters from his arms: " We always want to rehabilitate King Wu’an, so we keep the letters very well.”

Eunuch Yuan quickly came to him, took the letter and handed it to the emperor.

The emperor opened it and checked it. The paper was yellowed and the handwriting was a little blurry. It was obvious that the letter was written six or seven years ago or more. The four seals on it were indeed the seals of the fourth prince, not to mention the handwriting. , as for the seal of the Emperor of Chen Kingdom...

While the emperor was checking the authenticity of the letters, Prime Minister Zuo asked, "How did you obtain these letters?"

Shen De said: "These letters were buried under the rockery of Prince Wu'an's palace by King Wu'an. We secretly sneaked into the mansion to dig them out a year after King Wu'an was beheaded."

At this time, the Minister of Industry came out and said, "Your Majesty, I have something to say."

"Say." The emperor handed the letter to Eunuch Yuan and asked him to give the letter to Jijiu to check that there were no signs of forgery.

"Does the Emperor still remember that he asked the minister to build the Wu'an Palace three years ago?"

The emperor nodded: "Of course I remember."

"At that time, when we were repairing Prince Wu'an's Mansion, we did see a big hole dug under the rockery. We didn't know what the big hole was for, so we filled it up."

Shen De quickly said: "We dug that hole. We originally wanted to fill it back, but we were afraid that the longer we stayed in it, the more danger we would get. Therefore, we dug out the letter and ran away."

Prime Minister Zuo asked again: "Do you have any other tokens to prove that King Wu'an was wronged?"

"Yes." Yan Gao took out a golden token: "This is a special token created by the Fourth Prince and Da Chen State to facilitate each other's access to each other's military camps. It was because of this that King Wu'an entered their military camp to investigate. After discovering it, the fourth prince tried every possible means to frame King Wu'an."

"Your Majesty, I have recently intercepted several letters between the Fourth Prince and the State of Chen. The dates above were written in the past few days, indicating that there is still contact between them. There is also a list of officials who have contact with the Fourth Prince. It is clear on it Record how much money the officials of the DPRK and Central Government received in bribes from the Fourth Prince."

Mu Nanjin took out four letters and an account book.

The expressions of several officials present changed greatly.

The emperor slapped the armrest of the dragon chair angrily: "Bring them all up."

Eunuch Yuan quickly brought the things to the emperor: "Your Majesty, please take a look."

The emperor opened the list mentioned by Mu Nanjin, and the first page recorded the bribery situation of Prince Wenxuan: "In early April of the 25th year of Qingyuan, Prince Wenxuan accepted 50,000 taels of silver to help frame King Wu'an, and also helped to forge Fake letter…”

Prince Wenxuan suddenly felt dizzy. He quickly denied it with all his strength: "It's fake. It's fake. It's a list that Mu Nanjin forged in order to frame me. Your Majesty, please believe that I am loyal to the late Emperor and to you. I will never do anything like this." Do anything that harms Da Qianguo."

The emperor ignored his words and continued to read: "In the twenty-seventh year of Qingyuan, Prince Wenxuan received 50,000 taels of silver to smuggle a batch of iron ore for the king's use... You are so good, Prince Wenxuan!"

He angrily drew out the sword of the guard next to him and rushed to Prince Wenxuan. Then he pointed the sword at his throat and said: "I clearly remember that in the 27th year of Qingyuan, you reported that the output of iron ore was less than in previous years. I felt that at that time It’s strange, no matter how little it is, it can’t be twice as much as in previous years. My father chose to believe in you, otherwise you wouldn’t be alive now. The fourth prince’s weapons were made with the iron ore you gave him, right? No wonder since then , there is less iron ore than in previous years.”

Since the quantity was not very large, he thought that they had almost dug the iron ore, so he didn't think too much about it.

Prince Wenxuan's legs kept shaking: "Your Majesty, I am loyal to you and will never betray you. You have to trust me."

Mu Nanjin said softly: "Whether the Emperor believes you or not depends on your wealth. If you can't explain why your wealth is hundreds of thousands more, then you can't blame the Emperor for being ruthless."

Prince Wenxuan's face suddenly turned pale.

The emperor was so angry that he raised his sword and swung it at his head.

"Your Majesty, please spare my life." Prince Wenxuan was so frightened that he lowered his head and ran away, but was stopped by the military commander on the side.

Then his hair fell down, and he quickly touched his head and found that his official hat had been chopped off.

The emperor threw away the sword in his hand and shouted angrily: "Someone, drag him down."

"yes."

Two guards walked in and pressed against Prince Wenxuan.

Prince Wenxuan shouted anxiously: "Your Majesty, I have been wronged. You must believe me."

The emperor said to his right minister: "Your right minister, please take someone to his prince's palace to check his family wealth and see if I have framed him."

"Yes." The right minister walked out of the hall quickly and called a group of palace guards to leave with him.

The emperor turned to the second page of the list, his face darkened, and he shouted angrily: "Rong Lu——"

With a plop, Rong Lu knelt on the ground: "Your Majesty, I didn't do anything. I was wronged."

The emperor stared at him coldly: "I don't have to say anything. Why should Lord Rong have a guilty conscience?"

Rong Lu: "..."

Without waiting for the emperor's instructions, Eunuch Yuan ordered people to drag Rong Lu out.

After that, the emperor read out several names one after another.

The minister whose name was read knew that he would not escape, so he was taken away without resisting Rong Lu and Prince Wenxuan.

[Hmph, if you often walk by the river, there is no reason why your shoes won’t get wet. 】

At this time, Jijiu came back with a letter.

"Your Majesty, there is no trace of forgery in these letters. Both the words and the seals are from the Fourth Prince. Even the seal of the Great Chen Kingdom is authentic."

The emperor suddenly felt dizzy and staggered back a step.

Jijiu hurriedly supported him: "Your Majesty."

Eunuch Yuan ran over in a hurry: "Your Majesty, are you okay?"

The other ministers also looked at the emperor with concern.

The emperor waved his hand: "I'm fine."

The imperial doctor quickly stepped forward to check his pulse and determined that the emperor was so angry that he was dizzy before he put down his hand. He took out a tranquilizing pill from the medical box and gave it to the emperor to take.

The emperor asked tiredly: "Human and physical evidence prove that King Wu'an did not commit treason and collaboration with the enemy. Do you have any objections, ministers?"

All the officials said in unison: "No."

The emperor announced: "I hereby declare that Cheng Zhiyou did not commit treason and collaborate with the enemy back then. From now on, he will resume his status as King Wu'an."

"The Emperor's Holy Might."

The five witnesses hugged each other excitedly and cried: "Great, we have finally cleared King Wu'an of his injustice."

The emperor looked at them: "I once issued a decree that the relatives of those who gave false testimony would not be implicated, and I also said that they would be sentenced according to the severity of the false testimony. Therefore, I believe that you were forced to do this as a last resort. I will spare your life for treason, but after all, you have caused more than 600 innocent lives of the nine clansmen of King Wu'an to be killed, so I cannot give you a light sentence, so I will punish you with fifteen years of hard labor to atone for your sins."

The five witnesses said in unison: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for not killing me."

Then, several guards left with five witnesses.

Eunuch Yuan said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, please go back to the palace and rest."

"No, I want to go to the mass grave."

Eunuch Yuan was stunned and looked at the dark sky outside: "Now?"

"Yes, please arrange it quickly."

"yes."

The ministers knew that the emperor was going to see King Wu'an and his companions, and they all asked to go with him.

The emperor agreed, and then said to Mu Nanjin: "Mu Nanjin, you will also come with me."

Mu Nanjin nodded: "Okay."

【Mass grave...】

Mu Nanjin thought thoughtfully: "Your Majesty, I want to see the Queen Mother, and then I will accompany you to the mass grave."

The emperor frowned: "The Queen Mother has rested, why did you go to see her?"

"The Queen Mother is not sleeping."

[How could she sleep during the retrial of King Wu'an's case? 】

emperor:"……"

"I'll be back soon."

The emperor just blinked and disappeared from Mu Nanjin.

"Mu Nanjin, where is the person?!"

The civil and military officials looked shocked. Mu Nanjin was standing in front of them just now. Why did he disappear?

Damn it! ! ?

Mu Nanjin left quickly and came back quickly.

The emperor and the civil and military officials all pricked up their ears, waiting for her to reveal her true feelings.

I wanted to hear what she wanted to do with the Queen Mother, but I waited and waited, and even when I went to the mass grave, I didn't hear her voice.

Mass graves were originally places where poor people who had no money to pay for funerals would bury their loved ones at will. Later, they became the burial ground for unknown corpses or decapitated felons. There were many cemeteries there, as well as many rotting corpses, bones, and weeds. Overgrown and smelly.

This should not be a place for people of high status, but the emperor came because King Wu'an and his nine tribes were buried here.

After King Wu'an was beheaded, he was randomly thrown into a mass grave. In the end, the emperor, who was the prince at the time, and his five cronies buried the corpses one by one in the soil.

Civil and military officials smelled the stench and subconsciously covered their noses.

If it's not bright yet, we can only rely on torches for lighting.

After seeing the bones, some timid civil servants were so frightened that they hugged the officials next to them tightly, and even kept leaning towards the military attache.

The military attachés looked at the civilian officials with disgust.

Isn't it very impressive to be in the court? Now just seeing a few bones makes my legs weak with fear.

If you go to the battlefield and see corpses on the ground, wouldn't you be scared to death?

The emperor seemed not to notice the strangeness of the others, and found hundreds of graves by familiar routes.

This is almost the center of the mass graves, and several of the graves have wooden plaques without words on them.

Eunuch Yuan lit a pair of large candles in front of one of the largest tombs, and burned a large amount of incense to distribute to the emperor and the civil and military officials.

The emperor told the civil and military officials: "This is the tomb of King Wu'an."

The officials felt a sigh of relief. Not only was the great hero who had made great contributions to the Great Qian Kingdom framed and beheaded, but his body was randomly dumped in a mass grave and no one was allowed to help collect it. Thinking about it, they felt heartbroken.

The emperor led all the officials to pay homage to King Wu'an's tomb. After everyone put incense, he said, "I want to talk to King Wu'an here. You all go to the foot of the mountain and wait."

The officials looked at each other.

Among them, only the old officials knew that the emperor's feelings for King Wu'an were like a father and son. King Wu'an's children grew up with the emperor and were closer than the emperor's brothers. This is why the emperor wanted to rehabilitate King Wu'an.

After the officials left, the guards walked to a distance to keep watch.

The emperor could no longer pretend to be calm and cried immediately.

"Father, I once swore to clear your name. I did it. I finally did it..."

The emperor told the tomb what had happened in recent days one by one: "Thanks to Mu Nanjin, if it weren't for her, maybe I wouldn't be able to help you find out the truth and expose the true face of the fourth prince in another ten years. I really I didn’t expect that they had already had the idea of ​​​​rebellion.”

When he first found out that the fourth prince wanted to rebel, he thought that the fourth prince was dissatisfied with him as the new king, so he had the idea of ​​​​rebellion, so he did not care about the fourth prince.

Perhaps because of this, King Wu'an did not tell him about the fourth prince. After all, he was still young at the time and was relatively impatient. Even if King Wu'an told him, he would not believe that the emperor's uncles would do things that were different from those of other countries. collusion thing.

The emperor wiped his nose and tears: "Father, I will send someone to move you out tomorrow. You will no longer be allowed to stay in a dirty and smelly place. I will bury you in a beautiful place after a while when I find a place with good feng shui." "

He said no more, walked to the tomb at the back, grabbed the weeds nearby and swept the dust on the wooden monument: "Sister Qi, didn't you always complain about God's unfair treatment of women? Even if you are talented, you can't be punished by the imperial examination examiner. An opportunity for you to display your talents. But things are different now. Women can not only study in the academy, but also take the imperial examination..."

Before he could finish his words, a faint white smoke floated from the grave.

The emperor thought he was dazzled and rubbed his eyes. Not only did the smoke not disappear, but it slowly formed a graceful figure.

Although this transparent white figure has no face or legs and looks almost like a ghost, its figure and hairstyle are very much like Sister Qi in his memory.

"you you you……"

His eyes widened in disbelief, unable to imagine what he was seeing.

The emperor was not afraid, but was very excited: "Sister Qi, are you Sister Qi?"

"Little brother..."

The transparent figure spoke out.

"It's me. I'm very happy and relieved to hear that you started a women's school and approved the women's imperial examination..."

The familiar female voice made the emperor very excited: "Sister Qi, Sister Qi, you finally came out to see me."

The transparent figure continued: "If you can let women take the scientific examination next year, I will be happier."

The emperor nodded vigorously: "Okay, okay, after I go back, I will order the woman to take the imperial examination next year."

[Hehe, the emperor really listened to his sister. 】

[Although this trick is not very ethical, it is also very efficient. The emperor must have done it immediately for his sister. 】

[Emperor, you can’t blame me. It’s not that I didn’t want to control you, so I had to resort to damaging moves. 】

[Please do not blame the deceased, Amitabha. 】

emperor:"……"

This damn Mu Nanjin.

The emperor looked around with a sullen face and saw Mu Nanjin hiding behind a big tree. He quickly picked up a wooden stick on the ground and flew over using Qinggong.

Mu Nanjin noticed someone coming, looked over, and was stunned for a moment when she saw it was the emperor.

[Let me go, why is the emperor here? 】

[Did he find out that I was cheating? 】

【It shouldn’t be. 】

"Mu Nanjin, you ask for a beating."

The emperor hit her with a stick.

"Your Majesty, why did you hit me?"

Mu Nanjin quickly dodged. Because she felt guilty, she could only hide and not fight back, and then hurriedly ran down the mountain.

The emperor immediately chased after him: "You know it yourself."

The officials who were waiting for the emperor at the foot of the mountain saw Mu Nanjin flying down from the foot of the mountain, and then quickly blew past them like a hurricane. At that moment, several officials were knocked down by her.

"Mu Nanjin, stop here."

Immediately afterwards, they saw the emperor in dragon robe chasing Mu Nanjin with a stick.

When the civil and military officials saw this scene, they were immediately confused.

When he was on the mountain, the emperor still looked sad. Why did he become so angry in the blink of an eye?

What did this Mu Nanjin do again?

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