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【15】Uncle and nephew game

His skillful words overshadowed Ning Zheng's original intention, suppressed the whole audience and reversed the situation.

The Huai Palace was not good today. Ning Zheng choked for a while and stared at the young emperor coldly, but had nothing to say. Emperor Wei intended to favor, and most of the people in this palace were the emperor's party. His situation was not good and he was firmly checked and balanced. He could only wait patiently and look for the opportunity to turn defeat into victory in the gap.

Emperor Wei had guessed what Ning Zheng was looking at at this moment, but he deliberately ignored it and pretended not to see it. He lowered his head and unfolded the file handed over by the little eunuch, and carefully read the testimony copied by Xue Qing.

There was silence above the palace. The silence of Emperor Wei made His Highness dare not breathe easily. The atmosphere gradually became strange and strange. The little eunuch stood beside the emperor, quietly observing his face, and the more he looked, the more frightened he felt.

At this moment, Emperor Wei's face became darker and ice flashed in his eyes, as if he had read something that angered him from the testimony.

The little eunuch kept his eyes closed and dared not continue to observe.

Suddenly, the Emperor of Wei slapped the table and threw the Chinese books out, and said furiously: "Marty Changshan! You have done such a traitor! I am still in power! Do you dare to be blind and do things beyond your authority?!"

The emperor's sudden anger made everyone in the palace tremble suddenly. The little eunuch who was standing bent on the jade steps could no longer help but be scared. Seeing the Emperor of Wei suddenly like this, his legs and feet became weak, and he knelt on the ground, shouting tremblingly: "Your Majesty, calm down and pay attention to your body!"

Emperor Wei killed him coldly, picked up the teacup on the desk and threw it on the head of the eunuch, angrily saying, "One or two, all hope that I will return to the west as soon as possible, right? I don't take me seriously at all, and I want to go past me and control the court, right?!"

The little eunuch was so scared that he pissed on the ground and knelt on the ground, not daring to move at all, for fear that he would be killed and executed if he angered the emperor.

Seeing Emperor Wei so angry, Jiang Chengjia, who was kneeling in the middle of the hall, looked surprised, and his eyes quickly looked at Jiang Chengyi beside her, and he used his eyes to explore and ask. However, the husband beside her did not look at her, nor did he respond to her.

The girl felt even more strange and carefully observed the reaction of Emperor Wei, trying to find something from his expression.

The document was thrown hard by the Emperor of Wei to Ning Nankun, who was kneeling on the right, which made his shoulders shake and his heart tremble. He asked for no reason: "Your Majesty... I don't know what crime I have committed, which made Your Majesty so angry. Please tell me clearly."

Emperor Wei endured his sneer and stared at Ning Nankun and said, "Lao Qi, the testimony has been submitted to the palace. Do you still pretend that you don't know? Do you think I am a fool?"

Chang Shanhou looked at Ning Zheng at a loss and at a loss, wanting to read some useful information from his father's eyes. Unexpectedly, he saw Ning Zheng also staring at the emperor with a puzzled look on his face.

Ning Nankun gritted the bullet and asked, "Your Majesty, can you take a look at the testimony presented by Lord Xue?"

He stared at the letter that was thrown in front of the Emperor of Wei, curious, but he did not dare to check it easily. At this moment, Emperor Wei was in a state of rage, and there were not many people in the hall who could help him. If he was as arrogant and domineering as before and without any taboos, he might be able to order someone to peel him off on the spot.

Emperor Wei sneered in a cold voice: "Do you have the face to make such a request to me?"

Ning Nankun lowered his head lower, suppressing the depression in his heart and did not dare to say more.

Just when he thought he could not read the testimony, Emperor Wei suddenly said: "Since you are pretending and unwilling to admit what you have done, then I will let you see clearly how you are so rebellious and violate the court's principles in the mouths of these servants and maids!"

Before he finished speaking, the Emperor of Wei threw a wink at the little eunuch. The little eunuch nodded secretly, rolled down the jade steps in a hurry, picked up the documents on the ground, and placed them in front of Ning Nankun.

Ning Nankun stretched his neck and looked at the dense words on the file. This reading shocked his limbs and the alarm bell made, and he immediately changed his face. He pointed to the document and retorted: "Your Majesty! This is simply nonsense! Your Majesty! I have never done these things before! I have never silenced Song Zong with my own hands... Your Majesty! They are all villains! Please let Your Majesty observe clearly!"

He knelt down and bowed, repeatedly reiterating his innocence, and was frightened. If the crimes presented in the document were confirmed today, his position as a prince would probably be difficult to recover within five years. In this way, he would not be able to stay in the capital all the time and need to return to the fiefdom to block everyone's leisurely mouths. Moreover, his father would be extremely disappointed with him. The position of the prince of Huai State may miss him.

These thoughts frequently appeared in his heart, and he became more and more uneasy and fearful.

But Emperor Wei didn't listen to his defense and scolded him sternly: "Lao Qi! The evidence is conclusive! Do you still want to continue to quibble!?"

"Your Majesty, how can you directly determine that the words in the document are all done by my son? The so-called evidence is conclusive, is it just a one-sided statement of these servants and maids in the palace?" Ning Zheng couldn't sit still and immediately stood up to refute.

He was full of momentum and was not afraid of the anger of the young emperor, but shocked everyone present with a more terrifying pressure.

Emperor Wei raised his eyebrows and looked at Ning Zheng intentionally or unintentionally. He paused a few steps under his feet, sat back at the desk, and snorted coldly: "I forgive me for not agreeing what the emperor said. I have read all the files of the case of Song Zong. In the testimony written by Xue Qing, the cause and consequences, every word and sentence can find logic and find the source. I do not think that such a highly consistent testimony is fake."

Ning Zheng opened his eyes angrily and said, "Even so, isn't Xue Qing's possibility of hindering it? Can Your Majesty ensure that the Eastern Palace Department is selfless and has not concealed or framed it at all?"

The uncle and nephew were tense, and the atmosphere instantly became cold.

Jiang Lian stood in the hall, trembling. Over the past years, Ning Zheng and Emperor Wei were still able to maintain harmony on the surface. But today, the two of them openly confronted each other, completely ignoring the eyes of others, as if they were determined to break up completely. Jiang Lian had never seen such a scene. Even though she had killed countless times and had already been fearless of life and death, she was always concerned about the people of the Cheng clan and the Jiang clan. At this moment, she was also confused and at a loss.

"Since the emperor's uncle does not believe in the people of the Dongfu Division, then I will let Dou Tingwei and Xue Qing re-examine the case. How about?" Emperor Wei made a concession.

Ning Zheng said with great difficulty: "I believe that this alone cannot guarantee the fairness and justice of this case. Moreover, the testimony of these servants and maids in the palace cannot directly prove my son's crime. I ask Your Majesty to allow my ministers to participate in the trial of this case, and ordered Dou Tingwei to enter the Changshan Marquis' Mansion and personally bring my son's personal soldiers and guards to the palace to participate in the investigation. One more person will be more credible."

Seeing that he tried his best to balance the situation in the hall, Emperor Wei subconsciously glanced at Jiang Chengyi. The man saw that the gentleman was as calm as the wind, without any timidity or fear. He knew that the Jiang brothers and sisters had taken all the possibilities into consideration and had a backup plan. He curled the corners of his lips, intending to believe Jiang Chengyi for a while, and his palms in his sleeves were clenched into fists. He suppressed his displeasure and agreed to Ning Zheng's request: "The emperor's uncle actually distrusts me so much? Since this is the case, I will fulfill the emperor's uncle."

Then, the Emperor of Wei ordered the young eunuch at the stairs: "Go, as the regent said, lead Dou Tingwei out of the palace and capture all the people in the Changshan Marquis' Mansion. Let your master open an information hall in the side hall of the Nangong Palace to offer Dou Tingwei, Huai Prince's Mansion ministers and Xue Qing to jointly interrogate the people involved."

The little eunuch nodded immediately, then saluted: "I will receive the order."

Ning Zheng looked at the Emperor of Wei in surprise, but he didn't expect that the young man directly ordered all the people in the Changshan Marquis' Mansion to be captured into the palace.

He lowered his eyes and quickly thought about how to find some flaws from it and save the current situation.

From the moment he entered the palace to the present, the Jiang brother and sister did not say a word, but just watched the Emperor of Wei and Ning Zheng confront each other quietly. When the little eunuch led Dou Yuelan away, the straight bodies of the brother and sister were slightly loosened.

Jiang Lian didn't dare to say anything more, hiding on the side, trying to reduce his presence as much as possible.

The scene was stalemate for a long time, and I don’t know what strange atmosphere it was, and the hall exuded a gloomy aura.

Half an hour later, Dou Yuelan led many officials of the Tingwei Mansion to bring all hundreds of people from Changshan Hou into the palace. He also came with him the minister of the Huai Prince's Mansion, the master Fan Li. After a while, the little eunuch quietly entered the hall and invited Xue Qing out.

In the side hall, there were people standing there, staring at the three presiding judges in the hall, and whispering to each other in private. The maids and maids in the palace did not know that the case investigated by the side hall was related to Song Zong. They only heard that Jiang Zhushi's younger sister was almost humiliated in Yunsuque. The person who wanted to commit a complacent matter was Ning Nankun, the third son of the King of Huai. The emperor was furious and ordered a thorough investigation to order Cui Qian, the general manager of the inner palace, to set up a news hall for interrogation in the side hall in the palace.

The palace people were amazed as the emperor set up such a big battle to investigate the case of the Jiang family's little lady, and subconsciously felt that His Majesty's favoritism towards the Jiang family had gradually surpassed the Cheng family, Deng family and Fu family. They all speculated that in the next few decades, the Dongfu faction faction led by Jiang Chengyi would be very likely to replace Deng family and become the most prosperous top family in this era.

However, the power of the emperor is not so simple. The more he pushes the Jiang clan to the top, the more jealousy of all the families. In this way, the Emperor of Wei can use the hands of other families to suppress the Jiang clan and weigh the political situation.

In the side hall, after everything was ready, the little eunuch invited the emperor and the regent to go to the curtain and listened to the trial.
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