After the cannon fodder father and daughter married into the family, the whole family regretted it

Fang Tong and Qian Fengping began to discuss and prepare to arrange Fang Yin's marriage.

Let's get married soon. Who knows when my second brother will go to the battlefield again? If we get married, my second brother can go again and maybe take Meng Lan with him.

While the Fang family was busy, the next day, there was a breakthrough in the case of the third princess colluding with the Marquis of Southwest.

After repeated comparisons, the Minister of Justice found something wrong.

The letter of collusion with foreign officials was written in the handwriting of the Third Princess, but there were always two words that were different from the ones written by the Third Princess in her daily writing.

The stroke will be two points heavier when it is finished.

He personally went to the clan house and asked the third princess to write it back and forth dozens of times. The third princess's handwriting was very light when she finished writing those few words.

Apparently this is a long-standing habit.

Then, the princess's mansion was searched for the second time that day, and burnt writings were found in the prince consort's study.

When interrogating the prince consort's personal servant, he confessed that the prince consort had a habit of practicing calligraphy.

Every time he practiced calligraphy, he would follow the Third Princess's handwriting. He thought it was a sign of the couple's deep love for each other. However, every time he practiced calligraphy, the prince consort would ask him to burn the manuscripts.

Now, things are clear. The person who has been writing letters to Marquis of Xinan, Lord Jiang and others is the prince consort himself, not the third princess at all.

Well, they have never talked to the Third Princess in person, and have always been interacting with the Prince Consort, so are they still considered the Third Princess's people?

In other words, the prince consort was recruiting talents by using the names of the third princess and the second prince?

In other words, most of the suspicion on the third princess has been eliminated.

From the moment this was discovered, the clues hidden in the case began to emerge one by one.

In order to investigate several foreign officials to find out whether they are the second prince's men, the Ministry of Justice uses the promotion of Mr. Cheng and the rewards given by the second prince as a breakthrough.

The second prince did not interfere in the promotion from beginning to end, at least on the surface.

The Ministry of Personnel cooperated in a thorough investigation, and the archives from that year were very clear.

Mr. Cheng was promoted to the fifth rank because of his meritorious service and seniority.

The first person to recommend was Lord Min from the Ministry of Works. The Minister of Justice had a chat with him and found that Lord Min's reasons for recommending were reasonable and in line with the rules.

As for whether there is someone behind the scenes directing it, it is impossible to find out.

However, the Ministry of Justice found some clues about the rewards given by the Second Prince.

The famous painting "Snowy Mountain" was originally in the Second Prince's Mansion.

The second prince also admitted this, but he said that he later gave the painting to a friend, a descendant of the Jin family.

The other party is talented, but has never been interested in the court. He just likes famous landscape paintings. The second prince can't see any mistakes in his interactions with him.

The Minister of Justice asked his son to go to the Jin Mansion and drink tea and play chess with the young man from the Jin family for half a day. After returning, he learned that the other party had obtained the painting, but later the villain accidentally spilled tea on it.

A famous painting was almost ruined, so Master Jin had it sent to a painting studio to be repaired.

During the restoration of the painting, something went wrong in the studio and the painting was not repaired properly and was completely destroyed. The studio also had to pay Young Master Jin a large sum of money as compensation.

Young Master Jin felt very regretful, but there was no way to pursue the matter.

I continued to check the painting studio along the way...and found out that it was the property of the prince consort.

The Ministry of Justice did not make a direct judgment, but continued to investigate the dividends received by the Jiang and Wang families from various shops.

It was discovered that some of the shops belonged to the second prince, while others belonged to the princess's mansion.

After much investigation, it seems that the second prince has something to do with this matter, and he did a lot of things with the help of his son-in-law.

After all, Lord Jiang and Lord Cheng insisted on following the Second Prince.

But when the Ministry of Justice went to investigate those who were sent to the southwest to lead private soldiers, Fang Yin captured the Marquis of Southwest and arrested those people together and brought them to the capital.

After checking all these people, no one was found to have any connection with the second prince.

This is strange. The second prince won over Lord Jiang and Lord Wang just to raise his own soldiers.

How could he not send someone close to him to take control of the military power?

The Minister of Justice thought about it all night and chose Mr. Cheng as the breakthrough point the next day.

Mr. Cheng finally couldn't bear the torture and confessed.

He was the confidant of the prince consort, which meant that he knew from the beginning to the end that he and the prince consort were in the same boat.

As for the third princess, it's just a gimmick.

What's the point of the Third Princess's mother being favored? The Third Princess is just a woman, without the ideas and ability to achieve great things.

The son-in-law has always been ambitious.

But the prince consort knew very well that since he chose to marry the princess, his career in this life was over.

So he had to find another way. If he wanted to have real power, he had to make great achievements.

The son-in-law was not optimistic about the second prince, firstly because he was not competitive, and secondly because he was too close to the third princess.

If the second prince really sat in that position, the son-in-law would be honored, but to outsiders, he would still be inferior to the third princess.

The prince consort has feelings for the third princess, but which man would like to be dominated by his wife forever?

In this life, no matter what he did, others would not see his ability and would only say that he was lucky to marry a princess.

So the son-in-law chosen was the fourth prince.

Over the years, everything the prince consort did was for the Fourth Prince.

The painting studio actually belonged to the Fourth Prince, and the Prince Consort was only the nominal owner.

In order to avoid being exposed, the son-in-law made a lot of preparations. He not only used the title of the third princess, but also secretly borrowed the title of the second prince.

In this way, he used the name of the Second Prince to win over forces, but he was always working for the Fourth Prince.

As for why Mr. Cheng followed the prince consort, it was because his life was once saved by the prince consort.

Because of the life-saving grace, he was willing to trust the prince consort.

He did not choose the second prince who was in the limelight, but followed the fourth prince.

Lord Cheng also confessed that Lord Jiang was deceived from beginning to end and didn't even know who his backers were.

There were also people sent to the southwest to command the troops, some of whom he knew were the Fourth Prince's men.

The fourth prince deliberately gave it to the third princess, no, he gave it to his husband.

That’s why the Ministry of Justice couldn’t find out.

Lord Cheng gave the list, and the Ministry of Justice checked again and indeed found a clue.

The Minister of Justice worked hard for several days on this case and finally got to the bottom of it.

At the morning court session, he reported everything, and all the civil and military officials in the court were shocked.

It’s actually the Fourth Prince?

The Fourth Prince has always been low-key in the palace, or rather, he is an unremarkable person and a bit of a good guy.

Even if he was ostracized by his brothers, he would not feel resentment.

The ministers in the court never thought of choosing a cowardly monarch in the future. So all this was just a disguise by the Fourth Prince?

The emperor didn't know what he was feeling. After investigating the matter, he found out that it was all his dishonest children who did it.

In the end, the prince consort died, but his clansmen betrayed him and went into exile.

The third princess was deceived, but she also made the mistake of not being able to judge people well. After leaving the clan house, she was punished with house arrest for six months.

The second prince seemed innocent from beginning to end and was also released from the clan residence.

As for the fourth prince, he was directly demoted to a commoner.

This punishment was severe enough, which showed that the emperor was ruthless. He punished the fourth prince to intimidate the other princes.