indianbanksassociation Chapter 247
Chapter 247
More than half of the members of the Cheng clan were killed or injured, so it could have been uncovered quietly. After all, the wall fell and everyone pushed, and no one would care about unnecessary accidents. But this time, unlike the Pei and Wang clans, someone actually reported it directly to the capital.
And the person who was sued was still Yuan Ye.
The fact that the grandson slaughtered his grandfather's family turned out to be the current crown prince, and the case has not yet been tried, so such amazing news naturally spread quickly.
Yuan Ye had just learned that the Cheng family had died, and he didn't know what happened, so he was blamed.
Above the court, the party of the four princes focused their fire on this point, and said that there were witnesses, and the witnesses were the children of the Cheng family. They were people who had accidentally heard that the assassin was the prince. They did not understand power struggles, and someone was willing to help them If the relatives of the family were wronged, they were naturally coaxed to come over as witnesses.
Prime Minister Li didn't understand the conflict between Yuan Ye and the Cheng family, but after hearing what Chu Lishu said about it, he realized that it was the best time to bring down the prince, and he immediately took advantage of it.
Yuan Ye naturally refused to admit it. After all, it was his natal family, so the whole motive was unreasonable, unless he was a lunatic, not to mention that the child's testimony itself is difficult to be effective.
The man sitting on the dragon chair gradually lost his patience listening to the commotion below. Everything was too coincidental. He realized that someone was trying to harm Yuan Ye, and now only Yuan Ye and the fourth prince were left beside him. There is one in Xu Bin's belly, he can't let Yuan Ye have an accident easily, otherwise the family will be the dominant one.
The emperor's eyes turned to Prime Minister Li, who was becoming more and more powerful. He suddenly found that most of the people in the court were talking to Prime Minister Li. There was Concubine Mei in the harem, and the prime minister in the court. Without the constraints of the three major clans, if you lost Yuan Ye, The next subject to them will be him, the emperor.
Did they gradually grow their hearts, or did they already have such a big heart?
As soon as he thought deeply, the emperor couldn't restrain the urge to cough, and his health was really getting worse, but he couldn't let people find out, otherwise he couldn't control the court even more.
It's just that the more you want to suppress it, the stronger the backlash will be.
Suddenly, a coughing sound interrupted the quarrel. The coughing sound was too loud, as if blood could be coughed up at any time.
Everyone was so frightened that they didn't dare to speak out. They looked at the emperor with eyes, worried, suspicious, and planning. This kind of scene made the emperor want to get angry even more.
"That's enough, Noisy Noisy, this is the court, are you marketers?" The emperor reprimanded in a low voice.
"Your Majesty, I don't want to quarrel, and I also want to trust His Royal Highness, but this matter has spread widely. If we don't do anything, won't it make people laugh at us?"
"Joke, who is joking? I think Prime Minister Li wants to see my jokes. I think Prime Minister Li doesn't want to believe me at all, but wishes that I did it, but I still say the same thing. If you don't do it, you don't do it." , I have a clear conscience." Yuan Ye's face was full of hostility, as if he had been wronged.
The emperor said with a gloomy face: "Do you have any suggestions for handling this matter?"
At this time, Shangshu of the Ministry of Justice stepped forward. Luo Shangshu, a veteran of the two dynasties and an old friend of Cao Lao, just discussed this matter with Cao Lao yesterday and got Cao Lao's opinion.
Proposed: "It is naturally difficult to convict an accusation without substantive evidence, but it is impossible not to investigate. After all, the common people are watching. I suggest that Your Highness be calm and calm, and put on a posture. Accepting the investigation is the best way to restore His Highness's innocence. The quick way."
Prime Minister Li immediately echoed, "That's right, Your Highness, it's just a simple investigation and inquiry. As long as Your Highness is innocent, you will be fine soon. It's just that you can't go to court for a while. There are no major issues in the court recently, Your Highness can rest assured." .”
Yuan Ye glared angrily, panting heavily, feeling completely suppressed.
How can he rest assured that it is the most fatal point not to go up, at such a critical time, if he leaves for a few days, his own subordinates may be pulled out by the other party soon.But in the current situation, it is impossible to retreat completely.
At this time, he was shocked to realize that without Cheng's strong escort, his subordinates would not be able to withstand the attack of the Four Princes' Party at all. Thinking of this, Yuan Ye became impatient.
"Your Majesty, I am also very sad that my grandfather's family was killed. This time I was wronged innocently, and you want me to be investigated. Do I have to accept it every time some dubious people come to accuse me of being wronged? Is this right? I'm really unfair." Yuan Ye's eyes turned red as he spoke, showing extreme humiliation, and naturally someone from the court would help him.
The emperor nodded, and followed the trend: "For three days, the prince will cooperate with the investigation. Although he cannot go to the court, his actions are not restricted."
When Yuan Ye heard that he was free, he still had the ability to fight back.
"Your Majesty, absolutely not, what if... Cough cough, the old minister is not a villain, but I just think that if this is the case, others will worry that His Highness will take the opportunity to destroy the evidence and perjure himself?"
Facing the old fox, Yuan Ye wanted to curse out loud, "Then what if someone takes advantage of my inability to make false statements to frame me?"
Prime Minister Li immediately put on a helpless look, as if Yuan Ye was trying to argue.
In the end, the emperor issued an order that Yuan Ye could not leave the East Palace, but his communication with the outside world was not restricted.
This didn't matter to Yuan Ye, but Prime Minister Li could see that the emperor had already started to protect Yuan Ye, that is to say, he was guarding against them. Sure enough, they acted too hastily.But Prime Minister Li couldn't understand it. He thought that the emperor would not want his nephew to stay in the position of crown prince for a long time. In Prime Minister Li's view, the emperor only had one child, the fourth prince, and he must leave the throne to the fourth prince. Why did they all give the steps, and the emperor still doesn't come down, so he can't really keep his promise.
But it doesn't matter, they still have back tricks.
When Yuan Ye returned to the East Palace, he was furious immediately, especially when he saw Jing Rouyin, he punched and kicked her up. Jing Rouyin couldn't escape, so she could only protect her abdomen first, and wanted to tell the fact that she was pregnant, but Just in time to hear that Empress Cheng is coming.
After the Cheng family was destroyed, Empress Cheng couldn't sit still, her eyes were red from crying, and she braced her body to ask Yuan Ye to question her.
Since the miscarriage, it was the first time that mother and child met, and Empress Cheng slapped her when she stepped forward.
"Bastard, tell me if you did it."
Yuan Ye was so beaten that his eyes split open. He covered his cheeks and looked fiercely at Empress Cheng, "No! Do I have to do this? What good will it do me?"
"Who knows? Maybe it's because you think the Cheng family is useless, and you're afraid they'll hold you back? Didn't you even let your younger brother go?" Empress Cheng broke down and yelled, physical torture, mental exhaustion, knowing that After the bad news, Empress Cheng could no longer calm down.
"Oh, you still have the face to say such things to your son?"
"Why am I ashamed to say that? You and this child are of the same father and mother. Didn't your grandfather tell you? Why don't you repent?" Empress Cheng yelled hoarsely.
"I don't want it!" Yuan Ye yelled out in a louder voice, "I could have been the child of my father, and I could have justified my name. Whoever wants to be that evil brother, I am Yuan Ran's brother! Only Yuan Ran is My dear brother!"
Empress Cheng laughed provocatively, "Don't you also hate Yuan Ran? Hate him for stealing other people's attention, and hate him for being too dazzling to cover you. What? Now you know that brotherly love is deep?"
"That's not true." Yuan Ye's expression immediately twisted, who doesn't want the best, he would rather be Yuan Ran's brother than other brothers, so that he can feel superior to others.
"Yuan Ye, the Cheng family is gone, and neither is this child. Although you are the emperor's biological child, you can't be rectified for the rest of your life. Now the emperor and the empress dowager prefer the fourth prince. Do you know what this means? We are going to lose." Ah! I'm about to lose. Why don't you understand? How could I... give birth to such a stupid child like you?" Queen Cheng broke down and burst into tears as she spoke.
A queen in name, a queen who has no real power and will never be able to stand uprightly beside her man, if she can't even keep her son's crown prince, what future does she have?
"I'm so tired of crying and crying! I haven't lost yet!" Yuan Ye couldn't bear the most frustrating words from others, saying he couldn't do it.He directly and rudely pushed Queen Cheng away, "You gave birth to a smart child, why didn't you let him live! But if you were willing to inform Yuan Ran at that time, he would not die, and you would not cry here Alright."
Empress Cheng stopped crying immediately, as if Nilin had been stabbed by someone, she reached out to hit someone again, but was blocked by Yuan Ye, this time, Empress Cheng fell to the ground by herself.Empress Cheng was dumbfounded, she didn't want to admit this at all, she thought that without Yuan Ran, her life would be smooth, but she still ended up like this.She was the one who brought up Yuanye obviously, but now he treats her like this.
Yuan Ye looked at Empress Cheng's pale and astonished face, felt a little uncomfortable immediately, turned around and left, "Go back to the palace, don't come to me if you have nothing to do, I'm busy."
In the end, Empress Cheng was carried out. At that time, she was already unconscious, and her health became worse after the blow.
Three days later, the fourth prince was poisoned and killed in the harem. Fortunately, the two companions discovered it in time and successfully stopped it. The food sent to the emperor was also found to be poisonous by Chief Hai.The emperor was furious to investigate, but found that the poisoner came from the East Palace.
Yuan Ye has been busy proving his innocence, but he didn't expect Prime Minister Li and the others to find another way, directly slandering him to the point that he didn't want to prove his innocence at all, but went on the path of treason, wanting to kill the emperor and the fourth prince, so that he could Can successfully succeed to the throne and proclaim the emperor.
Even if he was really innocent, he couldn't stand up to other people's repeated smearing. Now Yuan Ye finally had a feeling that he couldn't speak, that he was at the end of the road.
Chu Lishu's move was to force the emperor to suspect that Yuan Ye really had evil intentions, so that the emperor would not deliberately favor Yuan Ye in order to maintain the balance of power.After all, the most taboo of being an emperor is the prince's rebellion.
This was already the limit of what they could do. Even if Yuan Ye could not be beaten to death, the best outcome would be to dethrone the crown prince.
But even Chu Lishu didn't expect that someone would stand up and deal Yuan Ye a fatal blow at this moment.
Even Lin Qingyang didn't know the original plot.
Jing Rouyin received the secret letter again, and not long after, she took the initiative to stand up and kill her relatives righteously, and told everything about Yuan Ye's sending someone to set fire to kill her before, and she even knew who did it.
Yuan Ye did send someone to do it, but how much was done is impossible to measure.
Now arresting people, extracting confessions, and proving crimes, there is no way to quibble, because the formation of this incident directly led to the greater authenticity of the poisoning incident.
The emperor was finally stepped on to the point of pain, and he was directly furious, and did not give Yuan Ye any chance to argue.
Depose the crown prince, break into the clan's mansion, and accompany the crazy third prince.For a while, the government and the opposition were shaken again, and the power forces were re-divided. The Four Princes were so proud that they were already invincible.
Jing Rouyin went to visit Yuan Ye, and Yuan Ye, who was mad, did not expect that she would dare to visit him, and immediately roared to rush over, but was pushed away by Jing Rouyin's guards, making him stagger in embarrassment .
"Bitch! Bitch!" Yuan Ye roared hoarsely, he didn't expect that the person who stabbed him the last time was Jing Rouyin, "What good will this do for you? Don't you forget that you are my princess? "
Jing Rouyin snorted, "Yuan Ye, don't you usually beat me very happily? How about it? Who is the one being beaten now?"
"Just for this?" Yuan Ye dared not answer.
Jing Rouyin's expression became fierce in an instant, "I am the fate of the Phoenix, why do you hit me, what qualifications do you have to hit me? You deserve it! You deserve to die! Yuan Ye, you forced me, and you still treat me like this, Damn you!"
"Hahaha, I forced you. You were the one who seduced me all along. You have no chance in this lifetime!" Yuan Ye laughed maniacally.
"Who said that?" Jing Rouyin laughed suddenly, touched her stomach and said, "As long as I have the future emperor in my stomach, I will still be a phoenix. Maybe this is my true destiny."
Yuan Ye stared at Jing Rouyin's stomach with wide eyes. At this moment, he finally understood why Jing Rouyin dared to betray him. She was pregnant, so the emperor and queen mother would naturally treat her preferentially.As long as she gives birth to the royal blood, her position will remain stable.
Seeing that Yuan Ye understood everything, Jing Rouyin said softly: "Don't worry, stay here, I will raise our child well, I will definitely not raise you like a fool, I will raise him like Yuan Ran , after all, only those who are like that can become real emperors."
Yuan Ye was so angry that he couldn't breathe, he yelled to rush up, but Jing Rouyin had already turned and left.
On the other hand, the Queen Mother heard that Empress Cheng vomited blood again, and it was rare to leave the palace to visit. The matter of Yuan Ye did not implicate Empress Cheng, after all, she has been bedridden to recuperate.
When Empress Cheng saw the Queen Mother, she hurriedly cried out to see Yuan Ye, and even helped Yuan Ye speak. After all, she is not stupid. If Yuan Ye is finished, she is really finished.
"Mother, the child already knows his life experience, how could he harm His Majesty, it must be Concubine Mei and the others intentionally framed him. You have to trust me, Mother!"
The Queen Mother sighed, "At least what Jing Rouyin said is true, Yuan Ye did murder Cheng."
Empress Cheng had already heard that she didn't know what to do anymore, she could only shake her head in tears, begging the Queen Mother to save Yuan Ye. "Queen, we have spent the longest time together in the harem, you can't leave me alone!"
"The emperor has been in poor health recently, and has become more suspicious. If the Ai family persuades me, I am afraid it will backfire." The queen mother shook her head with a Buddha face and compassion: "All you can do is to take good care of your body. How long can you last?"
Queen Cheng still held the Queen Mother tightly and kept asking for help, but the Queen Mother refused, which seemed extremely cruel to Queen Cheng.
Seeing that Empress Cheng would not listen, the Queen Mother could only get up and leave, and wanted to visit Yuan Ye, after all, they were both her own grandsons.
"Mother's queen!" Seeing that she was going to leave, Empress Cheng really ignored them, and immediately became angry in her heart, "If you and Mrs. Cheng hadn't forced me back then, I wouldn't have been in such an embarrassing situation. It's all justified, you guys made me go this far, but now you don't care about me?"
The Empress Dowager's face turned slightly cold, "You're right, the Ai family was wrong, the Ai family shouldn't have allowed you to enter the palace when they knew you were in love with King Ning, but that was also the reason for your Cheng family's refusal to delegate power. To the Ai family, it doesn't matter whether you are a daughter of the Cheng family or not. The Ai family is only for the inheritance of the Great Zhou. It was your Cheng family who was greedy and forced you into the palace. If the Ai family hadn't helped you and persuaded others back then, Help you lie, you have been able to live happily for so many years, it’s fine if you don’t thank Aijia, but now you blame Aijia, you really can’t compare to your sister!”
Empress Cheng was even more furious immediately, "It sounds nice to help me, why did you expose me after that, and caused King Ning to be estranged from me. In order to force me to show loyalty, he asked me to kill my sister myself! You Do you know how many nightmares I've had?"
"Don't say that you are so wronged, you are just trying to win the heart of your beloved man, and the Ai family is different from you, everything the Ai family has done from the beginning to the end is for the great Zhou, for the Yuan Dynasty, the Ai family has a clear conscience. "
After the queen mother finished speaking, she shook her sleeves and left.
And at the rare time when the queen mother left the palace, Chu Lishu and Lin Qingyang had sneaked into Renshou Palace.
Ning Ziheng served the Empress Dowager since he was a child, and he did hear about the prophecy, but he didn't know the details. All the palace officials who accidentally knew the content were killed, and the others kept silent.
Just by chance, Ning Ziheng once saw the Queen Mother hiding a signature in the Buddha statue. If there is really a very important prophecy signature, it is most likely the one he saw.