prosperous age

Chapter 566 565 plead guilty
The Ministry of Rites and Taichang Temple are busy selecting officials, and the Qin Tianjian calculates the time.

In one day, the relevant preparations were made, and the selected officials hurriedly prepared their luggage, and the next day they followed Zhongguan Wang Zhen to go south to Huguang.

Liu Shiyan, Xungui's representative, is in Nanjing, and the decree has already been sent, and he will leave for Anlu directly from there.

These things have nothing to do with Wei Guangde, of course, he still proofreads and records "Yongle Dadian" with peace of mind.

In the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, Yan Shifan, who had already pleaded guilty to all charges, was interrogated again.

Don't say it, it made him a little puzzled.

He recognized everything that Huang Guangsheng and Zhang Yongming wanted to hear, so why didn't he show it to the emperor and interrogate himself.

Entering the main hall, Yan Shifan immediately saw Huang Guangsheng sitting in the middle of the hall, with Zhang Yongming, Lin Run and others on both sides, and his heart skipped a beat.

Although he knew that Huang Guangsheng was going to interrogate him when he was taken out of the cell by the jailer, but seeing that none of the people inside had changed, what does this mean?
Explain that they never sent the confession they wrote down to Xiyuan, that is, Emperor Jiajing never saw his confession, otherwise it would be impossible for them to appear here so neatly.

Yan Shifan cursed inwardly, and now he also figured it out, he was pretending for nothing in Jiangxi.

The group of people in the capital were not complacent because they arrested themselves, but they must have tampered with during the process of escorting him.

With so many people prepared by myself, it is impossible for the court to take them all at once, but the only way to prevent them from contacting him is to send them away and find various reasons to send them to the capital on business.

He has done a lot of tricks to divert the tiger away from the mountain in the past, presumably he was learned by that old man Xu Jie.

"Yan Shifan, I advise you to confess your criminal evidence honestly, and don't take chances anymore. You know that the law of heaven is clear."

Yan Shifan stood below, watching Huang Guangsheng speak in an official tone, shaking his prestige.

It's not that Huang Guangsheng likes to show off, but because he is interrogating a treacherous minister. Are there many opportunities like this?

After Huang Guangsheng finished speaking, Yan Shifan just gave Huang Guangsheng a blank look, and only one look, still looking calm as usual.

But in his heart, Yan Shifan's heart was overwhelmingly unsettled, and he cursed Xu Jie's family with all the most vicious words he could think of in his heart.

This is really going to drive him to death.

In just a few days, Huang Guangsheng and the others changed their direction of trial. In the past, they kept asking how they framed those so-called loyal people, but today the style of painting turned into asking him about rebellion.

I asked before, but I was fooled in a few words.

Everyone knew that it was impossible for the Yan family to rebel, and no one with a normal mind would think of rebelling this year, except for the lunatics from the White Lotus Sect.

There are sensible people in the court, who wake up these fools.

Yan Shifan cursed inwardly, but there was nothing he could do about it. The current situation is that people are using swords to steal me.

Recruiting, definitely not recruiting, how to recruit if there is no shadow.

Moreover, Yan Shifan didn't believe that Huang Guangsheng dared to torture him. With his old father's remnants at the emperor's place, even if he was guilty, he would definitely send a middle official to see him, and then he could counter-sue and be tortured.

Others said that Emperor Jiajing was ruthless and ungrateful. In fact, this emperor was nostalgic, but his heart was more ruthless. As long as his face was not touched, he would not kill easily.

How did Xia Yan die in the first place, and why did Yang Jisheng and others die? It was because they couldn't speak themselves, and pointed at Emperor Jiajing's nose and called him a fool.

The former emperors of the Ming Dynasty generally tolerated such occasions, but they didn't know that today's emperors are not the same as the previous emperors, who have such a large capacity for tolerance.

Therefore, they all died, or Emperor Jiajing did it on purpose, or deliberately condoned it.

The pillars of the imperial court did not know how much they did during the ceremony. I really thought that the imperial court would not be able to function well without anyone.

"Yan Shifan, tell me honestly whether you have hooked up Japanese pirates through Luo Longwen."

Huang Guangsheng from above asked again.

After leaving Xu Jie's mansion, Huang Guangsheng spent two days with all the officials involved in the trial to study how to interrogate Xu Jie and the crimes listed in the note sent by Yu Wang's mansion.

In the end, he chose Lin Run's argument, interrogated Yan Shifan first, threw out all the crimes, and then focused on interrogating Luo Longwen.

If they are obsessed with their obsession and refuse to admit it, then they can use the way they deal with loyal ministers. They cannot be beaten into tricks, but they can be framed.

Lin Run will select a few of the servants of Yan's family who were arrested together, or threaten or lure them, and ask them to testify and testify to all of Yan Shifan's crimes.

At the beginning, Huang Guangsheng, Zhang Yongming and other high-ranking officials of Jiuqing felt that these things were unacceptable, but there were old Xu Ge and Yu Wangfu on the top, and Lin Run below had already thought about it on the way to the capital. pass.

In fact, Lin Run and the Yan family are already in an endless situation. If Yan Shifan's crime cannot be convicted this time, then he will suffer endless revenge from the Yan family.

Of course he didn't want to wait until that time, so in order to kill the Yan family, he had already learned to use all means to frame the Yan family's mansion in Jiangxi as imitating the royal residence, according to the dragon's spirit, and plotting wrongdoing.

It has already been done, so he is the quickest to accept the meaning of Xu Jie and Prince Yu's Mansion. He even planned that if Yan Shifan "insistently denies it", he will directly write a confession and suppress it. Yan Shifan handed over the painting and pledged it.

These methods are also the methods Yan Shifan used to deal with political opponents who opposed them.

During the one-day interrogation, Huang Guangsheng, Zhang Yongming and others took turns to question him, but Yan Shifan firmly denied these charges.

He couldn't admit it, and he didn't dare to admit it.

In the end, watching Yan Shifan, who was pretending to be calm, being escorted out of the lobby by the guards, several people could feel a trace of pleasure in each other's eyes in their eye contact.

Even the officials who thought it was inappropriate before, when they saw Yan Shifan's embarrassing denial, they all felt a touch of satisfaction in their hearts.

Targeting him in the way he framed others is really retaliation.

In the following days, Luo Longwen was interrogated for several consecutive days, and methods of extorting and inducing confessions were used, but Yan Shifan was left aside and ignored.

But the more this happened, the more flustered Yan Shifan became.

Now Luo Longwen's cell has also been changed, and they will never see each other again, even if they are on the way to interrogation, they will not pass his cell.

"It's dinner, it's dinner."

When Yan Shifan was sitting on the grass ball in a daze, someone knocked on the cell door, and a small door under the cell door was opened, and a box of food was put in.

For ordinary prisoners in the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, the prepared food is naturally extremely dirty, but Yan Shifan is no one else after all. Although it is impossible to compare with the food he used to eat, he can barely swallow it like the jailer.

Yan Shifan is not a person who has never experienced hardships. He also had a difficult life when he was a child. That was when Yan Song resigned from office to recuperate from illness.

Of course, this poverty is compared with the days of rich clothes and good food, and it is actually not as good as the common people.

Getting up and walking over, Yan Shifan picked up the food box and was about to enter it, when he heard several jailers delivering food talking there.

"King Yu's throne is now made of iron, and no one can move it anymore."

"That is, after the death of King Jing, the emperor has only one son left."

"There are rumors in the market that His Majesty takes pills, but I don't know if it's true or not?"

"Probably not. My family was very ill last month. It was the incense burner ashes I went to the Taoist temple to ask for. They even gave me a pill. Take it for a few days and you'll be fine."

While talking, several jailers drifted away, their voices were already inaudible, except for the occasional "bang bang bang" sound of slamming on the prison door.

But at this moment, Yan Shifan suddenly hunched over, and returned to the original seat in a daze.

Another two days later, the door of Yan Shifan's cell was opened again. Instead of delivering food, two guards came in to pick him up for retrial.

Walking into the lobby again, Yan Shifan noticed that the faces of the few people in the hall were all relaxed, as if they were sure of victory.

After several interrogations, Luo Longwen finally agreed to keep a piece of incense from the Luo family, and Luo Longwen confessed that Yan Shifan had colluded with him to collude with Japanese pirates.

Luo Longwen's family has already recruited Luo Longwen's private smuggling of sea trade, and this is enough evidence to kill him.

It is impossible to go to sea trade these days without knowing Japanese pirates.

However, the affairs of the Luo family did not involve Yan Shifan, and what they wanted was for him to bite Yan Shifan and collude with Japanese pirates through him, with the intention of plotting rebellion.

Lin Run came forward to negotiate with Luo Longwen, and Luo Longwen finally gave in because he could not see a glimmer of hope.

With the death of King Jing, their last support was gone, and Yan Shifan's prepared countermeasures failed.

According to what Lin Run said, if they don't recruit, they will be locked in the prison until His Royal Highness King Yu ascends the throne. Who can say clearly what will happen then.

Leaving a line of incense is the last chance they can give Luo Longwen.

If he refuses, they will start to torture him, because his skin and tender flesh can't stand several rounds of torture.

Luo Longwen was born as an ink worker, but he was not as rough-skinned as the servants in his family. Thinking about the torture tools in the prison, and thinking about the verified evidence, Luo Longwen knew that he was bound to die.

Yan Shifan must die too. Their purpose is to bite Yan Shifan themselves and drag him into the water.

In order to leave a line of incense for the Luo family, Luo Longwen pleaded guilty to all the crimes they listed.

"It will only be beheaded, not Ling Chi or cut in half, it won't be so painful."

This is Lin Run's final guarantee to him.

At this time, what Yan Shifan was holding in his hand was Luo Longwen's signed confession, but he no longer had a trace of anger.

In fact, he had figured it out two days ago and knew the final outcome. When the news of King Jing's death reached his ears, he figured it out.

Although he was suspicious of the news of King Jing's death, he still felt a little unwilling.

Luo Longwen's backstabs were nothing more than some of the methods he had used before, and they were leftovers from his own use, but he didn't know how they did it.

But this is not important.

"I heard that King Jing is dead?"

Yan Shifan held Luo Longwen's confession in his hand, and he never thought of tearing it into pieces. With Luo Longwen in hand, there are as many things as you want.

I just regret that I didn't listen to Luo Longwen's suggestion earlier, and went to the country of Wa with the boat to see and see.

"His Royal Highness King Jing passed away on the [-]th, and the news was sent to the capital on the [-]th."

Huang Guangsheng didn't hide anything, and answered Yan Shifan's question directly.

Saying such a thing on such an occasion, Yan Shifan knew that it must be true.

If there were lies, Huang Guangsheng would be dismissed from office and imprisoned, or even killed, just by a hat that cursed the royal family.

Yan Shifan lowered his head and seemed to be mourning for King Jing, but only he knew what he was doing.

Although hope was shattered, Yan Shifan was thinking about the end of the Yan family and how he would be treated by Emperor Jiajing in the end.

Will Yan Song be given death?
Will my son and grandson be beheaded?

Speculators exterminate the genocide?

If you recruit yourself and take care of the matter, what will happen?

Will Emperor Jiajing spare them because of his father?
At the side door of the back hall, Wei Guangde stretched out his head to look at the suddenly quiet hall, and saw Yan Shifan bowing his head in thought.

After thinking about it for a while, I figured out what was going on. As long as Yan Shifan didn't make a big noise saying that they wronged him at this time, it meant that Yan Shifan hadn't lost his mind after learning the news of King Jing's death. Very calm.

He turned around and went to the table, and whispered to Feng Bao who was sitting next to him: "Arrange people to watch Yan Shifan carefully, and not let him have contact with people who have nothing to do with him, so those who have contact with him must be strictly searched and detained. , before Yan Shifan was dealt with."

Wei Guangde didn't know if Yan Shifan still had backhands, but as long as he was cut off from the outside world, those backhands he had prepared would be useless.

Yan Shifan probably didn't have any property with him, they were all taken away by Lin Run when he was arrested, but if they were not guaranteed, he would promise benefits to the detainees and let them take the letter out.

That's why Wei Guangde ordered Feng Bao to do so.

For this matter, King Yu arranged for Wei Guangde to be in charge, and the manpower used was allocated by Feng Bao.

Feng Bao didn't make a sound when he heard the words, but nodded to show that he understood.

Of course Feng Bao knew the seriousness of it, and Wei Guangde and him had also analyzed the last means of revenge that Yan Shifan could use, which was nothing more than death and destruction.

Wei Guangde would not tell him that King Jing's death is suspicious, but are there still few eunuchs and maids in the palace who die for no reason every year?
At this time, Feng Bao suddenly pointed to the lobby outside.

Wei Guangde nodded, with a smile on his lips.

Seeing this, Feng Bao felt relieved.

His task was also given by King Yu, so he certainly understands it well.

King Yu hated Yan Shifan to death.

Perhaps it is hereditary, Emperor Jiajing has a good face, and so does King Yu.

Back then Yan Shifan made him lose all face, not to mention King Yu, even the eunuchs who served King Yu didn't think of Yan Shifan's boasting that he hated everything.

"The son of the emperor gave me gold, who would dare not give me gold?"

His reputation as Xiaoge Lao was confirmed from this moment.

Yan Shifan was doomed.

Wei Guangde could also sit down peacefully at this moment and sip the tea on the table, but he was also summing up Yan Shifan's faults in his mind.

Yan Shifan has the power of the prime minister, but he used it to plunder the money of the courtiers. This was the first big mistake he made.

Even the emperor's son dared to blackmail him. He really thought that the emperor didn't know and just waited for an opportunity. This was the second biggest mistake he made.

Not learning the art of keeping a low profile from his father Yan Song was the third biggest mistake Yan Shifan made.

After offending all the courtiers, you still want to get out?

(End of this chapter)