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Although Wang Pu did not say it clearly, he already understood the meaning inside and outside. The reason why Fan Wencheng was able to contact Zhu Changfang so quickly was because someone was threading a needle, which means that officials in the court colluded with Jiannu and colluded with each other, and the suspect was directed at Gao Hongtu.

However, Gao Zhuo and Shi Kefa certainly would not believe Wang Pu’s one-sided statement. This is a major event that concerns hundreds or even thousands of lives, so you must be careful.

Shi Kefa said: "Marty, can this prisoner speak?"

Wang Pu took out a confession from his sleeve and said aloud: "Three judges, this is Fan Wencheng's confession. As for letting the prisoner speak, I think it's spared."

Shi Kefa said: "Why, the Marquis dare not let him speak?"

"Just." Wang Pu said, "What's there to dare to do?"

"That's good." Shi Kefa nodded and shouted, "Come on, keep the prisoner's chin bones on his back."

A yamen runner came forward to attach the bones of Fan Wencheng's chin.

Shi Kefa asked: "Are you a Liaodong criminal Fan Wencheng?"

"You are Shi Kefa, the Minister of War in Nanjing." Fan Wencheng said sneered, "I have heard of your name. I am a tough guy. I am considered honest as an official, but I have no ability."

"You!" Shi Kefa said angrily, "Answer your question carefully."

"What else is there to ask?" Fan Wencheng frowned, "Isn't the confession clearly written?"

Fan Wencheng is a dead pig who is not afraid of boiling water. He knows that he will not be able to survive anyway when he falls into Wang Pu's hands. He argues, turns confessions, and talks nonsense will only cause him to suffer more flesh and blood. So why bother to do this?

Shi Kefa said: "Are you really sent by the slave chief Dorgon to Nanjing?"

Fan Wencheng said: "Nonsense."

"Have you really met King Lu?"

"What do you think?"

"Reply well, otherwise you will be punished!"

"See, of course."

"Did Zuo Liangyu start a military force after listening to your instigation?"

"It can be said the same."

Gao Zhuo had read Fan Wencheng's confession and found that there was no collusion with officials in the court, so he asked: "Criminal Fan Wencheng, what officials have you contacted in Nanjing?"

"Official?" Fan Wencheng said, "No."

Gao Zhuo said loudly: "Tell me honestly, and don't hide it."

Fan Wencheng laughed: "Okay, let me be honest. I have come into contact with more officials in Nanjing."

Shi Kefa asked: "Who are there?"

Fan Wencheng smiled and said, "There are you, Lord Shi, Sun Chuanting, Wang Pu, oh, and Gao Hongtu you just mentioned. You are all spies of Jiannu..."

"Nonsense!" Shi Kefa said furiously, "All nonsense!"

Wang Pu waved his hand, and two Central Army soldiers rushed forward and removed Fan Wencheng's chin bone.

Shi Kefa said to Sun Chuanting and Wang Pu: "Sun Ge Lao, Marquis, this Fan Wencheng is nonsense and messing around. The confession he confessed is not trustworthy."

Wang Pu said: "Whether the words given by Fan Wencheng are true? Please ask Zhu Changfang to ask?"

"Okay." Gao Zhuo nodded, "Come here, go and invite King Lu immediately."

Two yamen runners took the order and left. Lu Wang’s residence was not far outside the imperial city. After less than a meal, the yamen runner took Lu Wang Zhu Changfang to the lobby of the Ministry of Justice. When Zhu Changfang entered the door, he immediately collapsed to the ground and said repeatedly: "It's not Xiao Wang's business, it's not Xiao Wang's business..."

"Your Majesty, don't panic." Shi Kefa said slowly, "I'm just asking you to come here to be a witness."

"Yes, yes, yes." Zhu Changfang nodded repeatedly, got up from the ground in a mess, and said, "Don't panic, don't panic."

Gao Zhuo pointed to Fan Wencheng and asked, "Prince, do you recognize this person?"

"Recognize it." Zhu Changfang nodded, "His name is Cheng Wenfan, and he is an aide sent by Wu Sangui to Nanjing. He said that the three princes of the late emperor had been killed in Beijing. Now, Long live the emperor is..."

"Prince!" Shi Kefa, Gao Zhuo's expression changed suddenly and shouted in unison, "Be careful!"

Zhu Changfang was startled and whispered: "Yes, be careful of your words, be careful of your words."

Shi Kefa and Gao Zhuo looked at each other and said, "I will say whatever you ask, don't talk about irrelevant topics."

Gao Zhuo specifically instructed the copywriting to be recorded: "What the prince said just now is not allowed to be recorded."

The case is getting more and more complicated. Even the traitor Wu Sangui is involved. The matter is also involved in the current traitor, and the matter is still involved in the current Wansui Master, saying that Wansui Master is pretending to be a person. This matter is a big deal. If the retrial continues, wouldn’t even Wansui Master be arrested and redistinguished?

The current situation is like a deadlock. If you want to examine King Lu, you will definitely involve the bloodline of Emperor Wansui. If you don’t examine King Lu, you will not be able to find out Fan Wencheng’s identity and origin. If you don’t understand Fan Wencheng’s identity, you will not be able to remove the suspicion of Gao Hongtu’s collusion with Jiannu. You will be involved all the way. If you want to find out the truth about the Gao Hongtu case, you must start with King Wansui’s bloodline.

If a case is really necessary to investigate the bloodline of Long Sui Ye, even if the final result proves that Emperor Long Wu is the bloodline of Chongzhen, this matter has been spread and will inevitably be used by those with ulterior motives. In this way, will the world be in chaos? Wouldn’t the foundation of the Ming Dynasty be shaken? Wouldn’t Shi Kefa and Gao Zhuo become sinners of history?

Although Shi Kefa and Gao Zhuo were dissatisfied with Sun Chuanting and Wang Pu was not a person who was ignorant of the general principles. They knew that this case could not be investigated anymore and could only end here.

Wang Pu wanted this effect, deliberately involved Fan Wencheng and Zhu Changfang in the case of Gao Hongtu, in order to make Shi Kefa and Gao Zhuo have some concerns and dare not dig in the bottom line. Then he could only try the case according to Wang Pu's scheduled route, and defeat Gao Hongtu's party into spies who treasoned the country and surrendered to the enemy, and then kill them all.

Speaking of which, Wang Pu wanted to use Shi Kefa and Gao Zhuo's hands to kill Gao Hongtu's party! Shi Kefa is righteous and has a clean and honest style, and is highly respected by Shi Lin. If Gao Hongtu's party dies under Shi Kefa, he can block the long mouths of the people in the world and save Wang Pu many unnecessary troubles.

Wang Pu waved his hand and King Lu was taken down by two Central Army soldiers. King Lu turned his head hard and said miserably: "It's not about Xiao Wang's business, my lords really don't have Xiao Wang's business..."

Wang Pu smiled coldly and asked, "Do you still need to continue the trial?"

Shi Kefa and Gao Zhuo looked at each other and asked, "What about the Marquis's meaning?"

"Stability overwhelms everything, the foundation of the Ming Dynasty cannot be shaken." Wang Pu Ning said, "And the three presiding officials who should know already know, let's close the case like this."

Although Shi Kefa and Gao Zhuo felt that Gao Hongtu's case had many doubts, Yang Tingjian's confession might be true, Gao Hongtu did intend to pretend to be Jiannu's hand to get rid of Wang Pu, but there was no direct evidence that Gao Hongtu had a connection with Fan Wencheng. It would be a bit reluctant to convict Gao Hongtu in such a hasty sentence, which made Jiang Yueguang, Wang Duo and others even more unreasonable. The two were not fools, and they knew that Wang Pu clearly wanted to use their swords to kill Gao Hongtu's party!

But Wang Pu’s first half of the sentence is very reasonable, stability overwhelms everything, the Ming Dynasty... cannot be confused!

Shi Kefa took a deep breath and asked in a voice: "So according to the Marquis' opinion, how should we sentence this case?"

"This marquis thinks that the main culprit Gao Hongtu, Fan Wencheng, and Zhu Changfang are extremely evil. They should be punished by a man and placed outside the Taiping Gate and be despised by passers-by to warn the world not to be traitors. The accomplices Jiang Yueguang, Wang Duo, Yang Tingjian, Zhang Pu and others also have treasons to surrender to the enemy. They should be punished by crimes!"

Wang Pu said this and smiled treacherously: "Of course, this marquis is just making a suggestion, and the final ruling is in the hands of the three presiding officials."

"What, man!?"

Shi Kefa and Gao Zhuo were shocked to look at each other. This was a cruel torture than Ling Chi's execution!

The so-called human pig is to cut off the limbs of the prisoner, place them in the man, then pour copper into the ears, cut off the tongue, destroy the vocal cords, and dig off the eyes, so that they cannot see, speak, listen, and act, but they will not die... It can be said to be extremely cruel!

Ganqing Palace.

Emperor Longwu, who was lying on the imperial desk, suddenly woke up from his nightmare and screamed repeatedly: "Don't come over, don't come over!"

"Long live, what's wrong with you?"

Zhang Zi'an stumbled to grab the imperial case of Emperor Longwu, and reached out to support Emperor Longwu, who was sweating all over. Emperor Longwu hugged Zhang Zi'an like a drowning man grabbing the straw, and hissed: "He wants to kill me, he wants to kill me, Zhang Zi'an, go and summon guards quickly..."

"Long live the Lord." Zhang Zi'an said sadly, "No one can kill you, and no one dares to kill you. You are just a dream."

"Dream? Just a dream?" Emperor Longwu calmed down a little, looked around and then breathed a long sigh of relief. His whole body collapsed as if he had lost his strength, and said relievedly, "Huh, it's just a dream, but fortunately it's just a dream..."

Zhang Zi'an felt miserable, thinking that Emperor Longsui was really scared by Wang Pu this morning. However, Wang Pu's murderous look at him, even Zhang Zi'an couldn't help but feel upset when he saw him, let alone Emperor Longsui was just a child under sixteen years old. Although Emperor Longwu is the 195th emperor, he is still a child after all.

Amid the sound of tiny footsteps, Princess Changping's graceful figure suddenly walked in.

"Emperor Sister." Emperor Longwu's eyes lit up and he said anxiously, "Save me, save me quickly."

Princess Changping bowed to Emperor Longwu and said softly: "Long live, don't worry, you are the lord of the Nine Five after all. No matter how powerful the Marquis of Jingnan is, he will never dare to kill the monarch."

"No, you don't know, Emperor Sister." Emperor Longwu said anxiously, "You didn't see the look that Wang Pu looked at me in the morning court. He would really kill me, really!"

"Oh." Princess Changping sighed faintly and said, "Long live, then you can issue an edict to amend the Ming Dynasty's laws, modify the Ming Dynasty's laws according to the wishes of the Marquis of Jingnan, and then entrust government affairs to the Marquis of Sun Ge Lao, and entrust military affairs to the Marquis of Jingnan. Long live will stay in the Forbidden Palace to devote yourself to studying, okay?"

Emperor Longwu was stunned for a moment, a hint of loneliness appeared on his face, and he sighed: "Sister, do you have to do this?"

No wonder Emperor Longwu was lost. If he really wanted to issue such an edict, it would mean that the power of the government was completely handed over to Sun Chuanting and Wang Pu and his son. From then on, he, the emperor, was just a puppet in the hands of others! But is there any difference if he could issue this edict? Emperor Longwu is already a puppet in the hands of others.

Princess Changping said sadly: "Long live, you are only sixteen years old, the future is long..."

"Forget it." Emperor Longwu sighed and said to Zhang Zi'an, "Zhang Zi'an, you can go back to Silijian to draft an order."

The next day, Dongmen Caishikou.

There are thousands of people in Nanjing, but the execution ground is surrounded by crowds. Two thousand fully armed Central Army soldiers stand in sternly like a straight javelin, separating the prisoners in the execution ground from the people watching outside the execution ground.

In the execution ground, hundreds of death row prisoners fell to the ground with black pressure!

The onlookers were shocked and all of them widened their eyes. They had never seen so many prisoners executed at the same time, and hundreds of heads fell to the ground at the same time. How tragic should it be?

Several people were talking in the crowd.

The old man said: "The old man has lived for most of his life, and he has never seen such a scene, hundreds of heads!"

The young man said: "I heard that most of these death row prisoners were court officials, and they ended up in this way because they sold their country and sought honor."

"Treating the country for honor?" said the scholar, "Who knows whether it is true or false."

The old man said: "This case was tried by Gao of the Ministry of Justice, Lord Shi of the Ministry of War, and Lord Sun Ge. Not to mention Lord Gao and Lord Sun Ge, Lord Shi are a clean official. The old man trusts him. These traitors actually want to frame the Marquis of Jingnan. Damn it! It would be light for the old man to say that it would be a slight punishment for them, and they should be cut into pieces!"

The scholar sneered and said, "What's the point of cutting a thousand knives? Just wait and see people."

"Man-pig?" the old man asked in unison, "What is a man-pig?"

"Look." The scholar said coldly, "You will know soon."
To be continued...