Cypress Boat Floating

After a few days, Lu Zhixing was heavy-hearted when he stepped into the Xuanshi Hall again.

The court was filled with meaningless quarrels as usual, but today, perhaps after experiencing the incident with Ye Honghai, the ministers restrained themselves a little and just cursed at each other for a few words before stopping, not daring to continue.

"My dear ministers, have you finished speaking?" The emperor looked down with an unsatisfied look on his face. Seeing that the quarrel had stopped, he seemed a little dissatisfied. He frightened everyone so much that they dared not say a word and all lowered their heads and acted like turtles.

"Now that everything has been said, let me say a few words." As soon as the words fell, the smile on the emperor's face disappeared, and his expression became frighteningly heavy.

As soon as he finished speaking, Eunuch Su Zilin signaled another eunuch to go and summon him.

The atmosphere was heavy. No one knew what the emperor on his high throne was doing. Everyone was afraid that their mistakes would be discovered and used as an example to scare the other dogs, so they held their breath and dared not make any sound.

"Some time ago, someone came to report to me that Ye Honghai was collaborating with the enemy and committing treason, saying that he had informed Damai of the border situation. He also presented the correspondence between Ye Honghai and General Damai. The handwriting on those letters is the one I have seen since I was a child, and it can even be matched with the memorials submitted every month." The emperor sighed, and his attitude was very calm, as if he was just talking about a very ordinary matter.

Lu Zhixing, who was sitting in the audience, was already in turmoil. He didn't know why the emperor brought up Ye Honghai's matter, but he knew his chance had come.

Yes, in the end he still did not go to the palace privately to present the evidence to the emperor. Although he did not completely believe Liang Kai's words, it still left a thorn in his heart, and he had to be on guard.

"After seeing it at that time, I was very angry. Ye Honghai and I grew up together. We were through life and death together in Beiguan for so many years. I trusted him very much, but he actually betrayed me. My heart was broken." The emperor said softly, but every word he said sounded like thunder in the ears of everyone. Everyone did not understand the emperor's thoughts, nor did they know whether he mentioned Ye Honghai's name now to vindicate him or to send him to hell completely and prove his guilt?

'Now is not the time,' Lu Zhixing thought to himself. He had to control his emotions and wait and see what his father would say. If he really wanted to prove Ye Honghai's guilt, he would stand up and produce evidence to prove it.

"So, I have collected opinions from several princes and asked Ye Honghai to return to the capital for investigation. This matter is nothing more than whether it is true or not, and it should be investigated thoroughly. Since the generation of our ancestors, Da'an has been required to never allow unjust or wrong cases to exist, so I want to investigate it thoroughly and see what is going on."

As soon as the emperor said this, some people felt relieved instantly.

"I never thought that before the case was fully investigated and the evidence was fully collected, Ye Honghai died on the way back to Beijing. He didn't even leave his body. I am very sad."

Su Zilin helped him to smooth his back appropriately: "Your Majesty, I am in mourning."

The emperor was so grief-stricken that he couldn't catch his breath and had to stop talking halfway. Lu Zhixing, who had been observing the emperor, found that his father seemed to have aged a lot. Perhaps Ye Honghai's death was a great blow to him.

But he remembered what Liang Kai said to him yesterday.

Perhaps, it was not the emperor who arranged for the newly recruited imperial guards to assassinate General Ye. Lu Zhixing's eyes quietly moved to the prince standing in front of him.

Don't forget that part of the royal guards in the palace also belong to the prince's forces. If he wants to arrange someone to assassinate General Ye, can he not do it?

But what was the point of him putting the blame on his father? Why did the prince want to kill Ye Honghai?

Lu Zhixing couldn't understand. His thoughts had been lingering on Ye Honghai recently and he hadn't paid much attention to the prince's movements. It seemed that he had to find out what the prince had been doing recently after the court session.

Lu Zhixing seemed to be thinking about all this for a long time, but in fact only a few seconds had passed. With the help of Su Zilin, the emperor quickly calmed down and continued, "In the past two days, a lot of evidence has appeared, some of which are true and some are false. Although I am old, I can still tell the difference. Some people always think that I can fool people because I am old."

The words were sharp and the tone was serious, and my heart, which had been relieved, was hanging in the air again.

"Bring the people up."

Soon, outside the hall, the imperial guard Xiao Wu was holding a knife and pinning down a burly man. The man was a little fat, with thick limbs, and had an angry and dissatisfied expression. When he saw the emperor sitting high in the hall, he restrained himself a little, but one could still tell from his eyes that he was unhappy.

Xiao Wu pressed his knife against the man's neck, pinned his hands behind his back, and put shackles on his feet.

As soon as this person appeared, Lu Zhixing's mind immediately popped up his name, the general of the Flame Army Cavalry Regiment, Luo Ziyu, who was in charge of the cavalry regiment in the army and was responsible for training cavalry. This person has been with General Ye for more than ten years. It can be said that he appeared in the Flame Army shortly after Ye Honghai became the general.

Lu Zhixing was deeply impressed by him. He was brave and good at fighting. He could get along well with other soldiers in the army. He was also loyal to General Ye. In a battle ten years ago, he blocked a bullet for Ye Honghai, leaving a finger-long wound on his waist and abdomen. If he had been a little later, he would not have been saved. Fortunately, he was lucky enough to survive in the end. Since then, Ye Honghai has trusted him very much. Although he is not as trustworthy as Dai Xingxian, he is the type who can always be with him.

"Your Majesty is gracious and wise. I am innocent." He started shouting as soon as he walked to the front of the hall and knelt down.

Xiao Wu pressed the knife on his neck a little deeper: "Be quiet, you are not allowed to be so presumptuous in front of the emperor."

The emperor didn't care whether his attitude was rude or not. He leaned forward slightly, staring at him with eyes as deep as knives. If looks could kill, the other person's head would have fallen to the ground by now.

"Tell me, how did you frame General Ye?"

Luo Ziyu was frightened by his eyes, his voice was choked in his throat, and he didn't react and didn't answer the emperor's words in time.

Xiao Wu behind him pressed the knife again, and soon, blood oozed out from the fleshy neck, one or two drops dripping down the thick neck to the ground.

Perhaps the sound of the blood falling to the ground woke him up, and he finally reacted and shouted: "I am innocent. I was loyal to General Ye and never framed him. I am deeply saddened by General Ye's death."

"Oh~" The emperor pulled the corners of his mouth and smiled.

Everyone in the hall had already seen clearly that this drama was deliberately staged by the emperor in order to clear Ye Honghai of the injustice, and he used such violent means of non-cooperation, probably to intimidate certain people in the court.

"If he doesn't say anything, then you speak, Xiao Wu." The emperor withdrew his body in boredom and leaned back. Su Zilin had already prominently placed a pillow behind the emperor, just enough for the emperor to lean on comfortably.

"Yes." Xiao Wu received the order and began to narrate the process of arresting Luo Ziyu: "According to the order of the emperor, I went to the North Gate to look for evidence. When I searched in the military camp, I found that this person was sneaky and his whereabouts were very strange. So I paid special attention to it and found that General Luo had gone out dozens of times in the past month, and no one knew about it. People only said that General Luo had an old illness and needed to recuperate in the tent. But the person in the tent was no longer him, but his follower, and he wore the follower's clothes and changed his face and left the military camp.

When I found him leaving the camp again, I ordered my men to arrest the follower and followed him. I found that he went out to meet with the desert spies, and it seemed that the two of them had exchanged letters more than once or twice.

I captured him on the spot. I was incompetent and let the spy commit suicide on the spot, and I only captured General Luo. "

As he spoke, Xiao Wu presented the letter that he had snatched back from the spy: "This is the content of the letter they exchanged. Your Majesty, please take a look."

Su Zilin took the letter and handed it to the emperor. The emperor opened it and glanced at it. He already knew the content, but reading it again still made him so angry.

In a rage, he used his internal force to throw the note at Luo Ziyu. The note was originally light, but after being charged with internal force, it became like a blade, and when it fell on Luo Ziyu, it also cut his face. "The evidence is irrefutable, Xiao Wu caught him on the spot, what else can you say?"

Luo Ziyu opened his mouth, helpless and unable to argue. He knew he couldn't escape it no matter what, so he closed his eyes and had nothing to say.

Xiao Wu took the man away. His fate would probably be to be beheaded in front of the Meridian Gate and displayed to everyone, revealing the truth of the matter.

The farce of Ye Honghai's treason was over, and the evidence prepared by Lu Zhixing was no longer useful. He retracted his hand and hid the memorial.

"General Ye's death was caused by Da Mo. Da Mo deliberately framed General Ye in order to transfer him away from the Lieyan Army Camp so that he could be killed along the way. Do you still have any doubts about this matter?"

No one dared to speak, no one dared to raise doubts. It was peaceful and quiet, and everyone just wanted to leave as soon as possible. Even the emperor thought that the matter was over. At this time, Lu Zhixing stood up and said, "Father."

The emperor's eyes fell on him.

He said, "Damo brutally killed General Ye because General Ye's presence could stop Damo's attack. Now that General Ye is dead, the Beiguan Flame Army has no marshal to lead it. If the Damo Army attacks at this time, I'm afraid it won't be able to stop it for long. An army without a marshal is just a scattered army. Please ask your father to send another marshal to lead the Flame Army."

Lu Zhixing's words made sense. The current Flame Army was an army without a leader. At this time, as long as his own people led it, then this army would be equivalent to being in his pocket. Among the people present, there were more than one or two people who wanted this army.

"Does the Emperor have any candidate for the position of King Qin?" the Emperor asked after thinking for a while.

"General Zhang Quansheng is fine, General Lin Yan is fine, and General Qian Hongzhen is fine. All three of them have guarded the North Gate before. If we really want to go to the North Gate to fight against Nar, it should be possible."

The prince frowned. He didn't expect that Lu Zhixing would actually suggest that Lin Yan go. You know, Lin Yan had already made his identity public and was on his side.

"These three are indeed suitable, but the Marshal of the Flame Army has just passed away, and I am afraid it will be difficult to manage the army. I need to think about who to choose. The Crown Prince and the Second Son, please come with me, and everyone else, please withdraw." After saying this, the emperor stood up and left.

Everyone left the stage and no one noticed that Lu Ci Qiu was secretly writing down everything that happened today in the corner.