Traveling through ancient times, the empress insisted on having a child with me

The matter escalated quickly. The next morning at court, a censor reported the matter to the emperor and also implicated Fang Pingshan, saying that it was due to his negligence.

Fang Pingshan just raised his eyebrows without even saying a word in his defense.

Many people came to visit him last night, but he used the excuse of being unwell and did not meet any of them. There was no time to avoid such things, and he did not want to get into trouble.

Lu Xi did not ask him, but just picked up a piece of paper and swung it, saying, "Among the people Xu Lang confessed, two are now frontier generals, and one is a vassal king in charge of a vassal territory. Du Chunping, Liang Wenguang, you two were serving in Lingnan Prefecture at the time, and the Xu family's convoy passed through your jurisdiction. I want to hear your explanation."

Two officials in the hall quickly stood out from the crowd, and one of them knelt on the ground with a thud.

"Your Majesty, at that time there was chaos and war, and the people were fleeing. I was guilty of negligence. I hope Your Majesty will understand."

"Humph!"

Lu Xi looked at another minister and said, "Liang Wenguang, the Xu family's convoy will definitely pass through your Pingrong City when it leaves Pingrong Pass. You wouldn't be unaware of this, right?"

Liang Wenguang was originally the prefect of Pingrong City. In the past three years, he had managed to get into the Dali Temple and became a fifth-rank official. At this moment, he was very calm and said with a bow, "Your Majesty, I am not aware of this matter, and I suspect that this case was originally a false accusation."

"Oh?" Lu Xi raised his eyebrows: "Then tell me, how is it a false accusation?"

"I have been in the Dali Temple for two years and have some experience in investigating cases. According to the files of the Ministry of Justice, the so-called worship of evil gods in the Xu family compound was a pure frame-up. As for the smuggling of weapons, it was also tortured into confessing. Many people in the Ministry of Justice saw that Xu Lang was forced to put his fingerprints on the confession. Both cases were committed by a captain named Lingchuan from the Investigation Department."

When these words were spoken, all the civil and military officials in the court were shocked. Such a big case turned out to be a frame-up?

So what about the evil god case? Is it also a frame-up?

Could it be that the Xu family of Ruyin was framed from the beginning to the end?

There is something fishy going on here.

Lu Xi was also tricked by Liang Wenguang, and his face suddenly turned ugly: "Very good, your suspicion is reasonable, Wu Kun from the Publicity and Investigation Department."

When Wu Kun arrived at the Hall of Supreme Harmony, he couldn't help feeling a little nervous. After Liang Wenguang repeated his doubts, he had to speak up to defend himself.

He first confirmed the case of the Xu family wiping out the entire Huang family, and then talked about several other cases with solid evidence. When it came to the evil god case, Wu Kun began to pass the buck, only saying that it was Ling Chuan who discovered the evil god statue. Whether this case is true or not, he still has to wait for the Ministry of Justice to hear it.

As for the case of treason and smuggling of arms, Wu Kun began to distance himself from it.

"The Xu family case was handled by Ling Chuan from the beginning. He said he had found some clues of smuggling arms, so I ordered him to continue investigating. As Ling Chuan's superior, I think this is reasonable."

Liang Wenguang snorted, "Master Wu, as the head of the Criminal Investigation Department, can't you tell the difference between evidence and a frame-up? According to what you said, wouldn't it be possible to find an excuse to confiscate someone's home, throw him into jail, and then slowly fabricate charges?"

Wu Kun thought that this guy was really good at putting accusations on others: "Sir Liang, the Investigation Department has its own reasons for investigating the case, and you don't need to throw dirty water on us. Even if my subordinates acted recklessly, Sir Liang should deal with the matter objectively."

These words seemed to be spoken neither humbly nor arrogantly, but in fact they were already selling out Ling Chuan.

Liang Wenguang was a smart man. He immediately heard the flaw in Wu Kun's words and immediately took advantage of the situation: "Master Wu, what you said makes sense. Let's talk about the facts. When Ling Chuan first went to Ruyin County to investigate the case, he was probably humiliated by the Xu family. So when he found out about the Huang family's extermination case, he took the opportunity to retaliate and fabricated a case of worshiping evil gods to frame the Xu family. However, the Ministry of Justice has not yet found any evidence that the Xu family worshipped evil gods. Seeing that the frame-up failed, Ling Chuan changed his excuse to avoid being exposed and framed the Xu family for smuggling military equipment to vent his anger."

Wu Kun almost wanted to applaud Liang Wenguang. This analysis was so reasonable that people who didn't know the inside story would probably believe it.

However, although Wu Kun wanted to distance himself from Ling Chuan, he couldn't really deny the case of the Xu family smuggling arms.

"Does Lord Liang have any evidence for what he said?"

Liang Wenguang raised his chin and said, "This is just my inference."

"There is already a witness in the case of the Xu family smuggling military equipment, and it was Xu Hongtu's third son who made the confession himself. Do you want to overturn it just based on Lord Liang's baseless inference?"

Liang Wenguang frowned, "Such a big case cannot be solved with just witnesses, and the facts of the case have not been clarified yet, so why is there such a big uproar? Ling Chuan is clearly trying to create momentum and interfere with the Ministry of Justice's trial."

"Thank you for your concern, Lord Liang. The affairs of the Criminal Investigation Department are under the jurisdiction of the Criminal Investigation Department. If Ling Chuan is suspected of abusing his power for personal gain, I will punish him."

"That's enough." Lu Xi stopped the two of them: "What do you two think of my Hall of Supreme Harmony? If you want to quarrel, get out of here."

The two were startled and hurriedly knelt down to apologize. Lu Xi was too lazy to pay attention to them and turned to look at the Minister of Justice: "Fang Pingshan."

"The minister is here."

"All the prisoners in the Xu family are detained in the prison of your Ministry of Justice. This case will be handed over to your Ministry of Justice."

"The minister obeys the order."

……

The first thing Wu Kun did when he came out of the palace was to send someone to find Ling Chuan. With what happened in the Hall of Supreme Harmony today, he already had enough excuses to deal with Ling Chuan.

At this time, Ling Chuan was arguing with Duan Xifeng in the backyard of San Tiao Lane.

Ling Chuan went to Niu Er Tavern yesterday and got drunk and returned home. Duan Xifeng did not sleep well all night and came to find him early this morning, asking him to take people to investigate the case as soon as possible. The matter has already become a big deal and if there is no progress, someone will probably attack them soon.

"Brother Duan, you are not afraid, are you? I told you yesterday not to get involved with me, but you still insisted on going."

Duan Xifeng snorted, "If I was afraid of being implicated, I wouldn't have come today. Why aren't you in a hurry? Yesterday's interrogation of Xu Lang must have spread a long time ago. Those people he confessed to are probably already planning how to deal with you. Aren't you afraid?"

"What are you afraid of? The bow and bridge will naturally be straight..."

Before he could finish his words, Xiao Taohong came to report that Zhao Youtang had arrived.

Ling Chuan raised his eyebrows: "Then invite him to the backyard."

When Zhao Youtang entered the room, he saw Ling Chuan and Duan Xifeng drinking tea. He sat down and said unhappily, "You are so careless. You have caused such a big disaster and you still have the time to drink tea?"

Ling Chuan handed over a cup of tea with a smile: "What trouble have I caused? Please don't slander me."

Zhao Youtang took the teacup, but put it down before drinking it. "Are you really stupid or just pretending to be stupid? You interrogated Xu Lang in the Ministry of Justice yesterday, saying that the Xu family smuggled military equipment. Now it's all over the city. Aren't you afraid that someone with ulterior motives will deal with you?"

"Okay, okay, you've come just in time. I'll take you to the Jiaofangsi later. I've written a new play for them. Want to go and watch it?"

"Really?" Zhao Youtang's expression changed instantly, but he quickly changed back to normal: "Now let's talk about business, and the Jiaofangsi..."

He had only said half of this when the backyard door was knocked again and Zhang Tong's voice was heard from outside.