The whole family travels through the book, the plot is broken but the characters are not

Li Zhaoning looked at Li Zhaocai again and said, "Li Zhaocai, you swore a solemn oath before our father that day that you would abdicate as soon as Xin'er turned fifteen and would never cling to power."

Li Zhaoning's eyes were so sharp that Li Zhaocai took two steps back.

"It's not me, it's not me, it's them, they are the ones who harmed me..."

He said as he looked at the three women around him.

Li Zhaoning spat: "When you were enjoying the benefits, why didn't you say they harmed you? It's shameful that the Li family has a bloodline like you!"

As she spoke, she took off Li Zhaocai's crown and said, "You are no longer the emperor of Dayu. You are not worthy of wearing this imperial crown!"

As she spoke, she turned and looked at Cen Tao and the others: "Master Cen, now that the matter is clear, let's continue the trial."

Cen Tao and Cheng Feng were still a little confused, but Fang Xuanren was so excited that he was crying and laughing. It was great that Emperor Ji Lin was not a traitor.

He wiped away his tears and slammed the gavel.

"Prince Zhao...An, Emperor Jilin is accusing you of violating the promise made by the Li ancestors to Jiyang, turning a blind eye to the natural disaster in Jiyang, and even taking advantage of the situation. Do you admit your guilt?"

Cen Tao asked while looking at Han Qingyun.

The case statement was made by Han Qingyun, interspersed with testimonies from the parties involved.

His voice was clear but filled with sorrow, which made the crowd listening to it feel very sad.

The Li family's ancestors had an agreement with the people of Jiyang: they would defend Dayu against the three northern kingdoms and were not allowed to leave without permission. Dayu would also send relief grain to the impoverished Jiyang every year, and if Jiyang suffered a disaster, it would provide timely relief.

Even though Jiyang has now become the capital of the Northern Ji Kingdom and is becoming increasingly prosperous with no more people starving to death, the people of Jiyang suffered from successive disasters in the first two years after Li Zhaocai ascended the throne.

In two years, the Dayu court only allocated more than 30 million kilograms of moldy and rotten grain, mixed with sand and soil.

There were more than 8 million people in Jiyang, and more than 100,000 of them starved to death.

Li Jiren was forced to lead his troops to rob the grain depot of Yan State. Because he and Li Jixin were robbing grain and releasing grain respectively, Ji Siyuan and Zhao Qihua took advantage of the opportunity and caused the tragedy in Wuping County.

Li Zhaocai bravely replied, "I deny it. The treasury is empty, and it's not my fault. Even if there is a fault, it's the Ministry of Revenue's fault. What does it have to do with me?"

"You're talking nonsense!" Zhang Jingzhi, the Minister of Revenue, jumped up. "It was you who ordered Ruan Bai to transport the worst grain to Jiyang. At that time, the national treasury had no shortage of grain and silver for relief."

Zhang Jingzhi said this and asked someone to bring the account books of the Ministry of Revenue over.

Fang Xuanren, Cen Tao and others became angrier and angrier as they watched.

In the past, when disaster struck various places, the national treasury would allocate grain and silver to purchase food from surrounding prefectures, or directly transport tax grain from surrounding prefectures to the disaster-stricken areas.

However, in the first year after Ji Yang was hit by the disaster, Pingyao Prefecture, Beiming Prefecture and other places, which should have been the main force in disaster relief, collected more tax grain than in previous years, and all of it was transported to Luocheng.

Instead, 20 million jin of old grain from the national treasury was sent to Jiyang.

It is a distance of 5,000 miles from Luocheng to Jiyang. The 20 million jin of grain turned into 30 million jin when it reached Jiyang. How much sand and soil were added?

Cen Tao's eyes were tearful. He heard that when Jiyang was in the most difficult time, the people of Pingyao Prefecture would rather eat less themselves and donate food to Jiyang. It was because the people of Jiyang blocked the foreign army that they could live a stable life.

After Pingyao Prefecture, Yucheng, Beiming Prefecture, Guanzhong Prefecture and other places also offered grain.

But what was Emperor Zhaowen doing at that time? He was hoping that the three of them, the father and son of Prince Lin, would all die.

"Prince An violated the ancestral teachings and treated the people harshly. He is guilty!"

Li Zhaocai glared at Cen Tao fiercely without saying anything.

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But none of the onlookers left, they were all waiting for the interrogation to continue.

The second charge that Li Zhaoying brought against Li Zhaocai was the second item in the "Ten Crimes Against Emperor Zhaowen", that Emperor Zhaowen owed military funds and salaries to the Jiyang army.

With the Ministry of Revenue's accounts in hand, this item does not need to be reviewed and is true.

The third crime of Li Zhaocai was that Li Zhaocai had assassinated Prince Lin, Prince Qing, Li Jiren and Li Jixin many times, causing the Princess of Qing to have a miscarriage and suffer uterine injuries.

Now, there are also several assassination attempts on Princess Li Zhaoning and the imprisonment of Li Zhaoning's children and grandchildren.

Li Zhaocai said nothing, but he couldn't stop one witness after another from being sent to the stage.

In the winter of the 21st year of Huiren's reign, Prince Qing returned to Luocheng and once again met Prince An, who was feigning illness and not going to his fiefdom. Because of the incident in which Chen Xinrong killed Concubine Xue, the two would have a big quarrel every time they met.

In previous years, Prince An was not in the right, and he was not good at either civil or military affairs, so he did not dare to fight with Prince Qing, and the two of them just cursed each other.

But that time, Prince An was very tough and was beaten black and blue by Prince Qing.

At that time, Prince An threatened that Prince Qing would pay the price sooner or later.

Prince An is weak. Apart from marrying Ruan Xinyu and having the Duke of Yingguo’s Mansion behind him, he is far inferior to Prince Qing in both ability and power. Prince Qing certainly won’t take this matter to heart.

But who would have thought that after the Spring Festival, Prince Qing was robbed and killed on his way back to Yucheng.

The assassin's skills were so extraordinary that the guards at Prince Qing's mansion were unable to stop him. As Prince Qing was about to be killed, Princess Qing, who was five months pregnant, stood in front of him and was stabbed in the lower abdomen.

If Prince Lin had not suddenly sensed something was wrong and turned back from Lin'an Prefecture, Prince Qing and his wife and his personal guards would all have died.

When Prince Lin arrived, Prince Qing and Princess Qing were both covered in blood. Horrified, he captured all the assassins and wanted to interrogate the mastermind behind the scenes. However, the assassins all bit the poison hidden in their teeth and died.

They were a group of death warriors.

It's not that Prince Qing didn't have doubts about Prince An, but a group of martial arts masters was definitely not something Prince An could afford to support at that time.

This matter became an unsolved case.

Princess Qing was unable to get pregnant for several years because of an injury to her uterus.

It was not until Prince Lin went alone to the top of Xuefeng Mountain in Yan State and retrieved the rare Yuling Flower that Princess Qing recovered and became pregnant.

This child was hard-earned, and Prince Qing was worried that someone would attack Princess Qing, so he contacted Prince Lin and transferred twenty guards with high martial arts skills from Jiyang.

As expected, the guards really caught the person who wanted to harm Princess Qing in Prince Qing's mansion.

Unfortunately, the spy was also a tough guy. After being caught, he committed suicide. Just like the assassin back then, he bit the poison hidden in his teeth and died of suffocation.

Prince Qing guessed that this spy and the assassin from that year were pointing to the same person behind the scenes.

Unfortunately, he had no evidence, and he didn't know how that person suddenly had so much money to support assassins.

If it was said to be the Duke of Ying's Mansion, Prince Qing would not believe it.

The Duke of Ying's Mansion was extremely short of money, otherwise they would not have murdered Mr. Chen of Baoqing Tower.

It was not until they met Han Qingyun and others that Prince Lin and Prince Qing knew where Prince An's money came from.

In addition to Prince Qing, Prince Lin and his two sons, the eldest princess and others were often assassinated by highly skilled killers.

Feng Jiaoniang, the madam of Laiyang Pavilion, and a group of killers were brought onto the stage, including Hong Yang, the deputy leader of the killer organization, and Ge Wei, the former leader of the Imperial Guard.

The correspondence between the palace and Feng Jiaoniang that Ziying intercepted was also given to Cen Tao and the other two who presided over the trial.

The predecessor of Laiyang Pavilion was the Baihua Theater, where the crime of trafficking in young girls was exposed because Li Jiren and Li Zhenyu were abducted.

The assassinations of Prince Lin and his son, Prince Qing and the eldest princess were all carried out by Feng Jiaoniang in accordance with the arrangements of Kong Haibo and Hong Yang.

Later, Kong Haibo and Hong Yang were arrested one after another, and Feng Jiaoniang directly conveyed the news to Empress Dowager Chen in the palace through carrier pigeons.

Ever since Hong Yang led his men to rob and kill Li Jixin and his group last year, Laiyang Pavilion has been targeted by Li Jiren and Li Jixin.

Afterwards, the news from Laiyang Pavilion and the palace was tampered with by Li Jiren.

It was not until the Northern Ji State issued the "Ten Crimes Questioning Emperor Zhaowen" and the "Jiyang Declaration of Independence" that Empress Dowager Chen finally realized that something was wrong.