I, Jiajing, successfully cultivated immortality

Chapter 45
Hearing this, Zhu Qilu, who had been ashamed, had hope rekindled in his eyes. Since the body was not found, the confessions of these two people alone could not cure him of his crimes!And my father also came forward to intercede for him. Now that there is a lot of commotion, His Majesty will have to come forward at that time. It can be said that there is still a glimmer of hope in despair.

I saw him glance over the two people who had defected before with his selective and devouring eyes, and then he knocked away the jailer in charge of guarding him, and rushed out of the lobby of the Ministry of Punishment, hugging King Zhao tightly, Weeping and tearing, looking very aggrieved.

"Father, the child is wronged! The child has never done those things!"

"This... Mr. Yan Ge, what should we do next?" Seeing that the matter had developed to such a difficult point, everyone couldn't care about other things, and asked Yan Song for help.

"Wait, since His Royal Highness King Zhao wants to mess around, let's waste it!" Yan Song said, waving his sleeves angrily, and turned back to the hall of the Ministry of Punishment.

"This...you! Hey." Everyone looked at me and at you, as if there were countless words stuck in their chests, which could only be turned into a sigh in the end.

After Yan Song spoke, the rest of the officials also returned to the lobby of the Ministry of Punishment to wait, leaving only a few guards watching them to prevent them from doing anything out of the ordinary.

Just when everyone was in a panic, a long-awaited voice sounded from a distance: "Your Majesty is here!"

When Jiajing got off the dragon chariot, Lu Fang quickly stepped forward to help him, and followed Jiajing step by step.

"You guys, this is it?" Jiajing looked at the many court officials and King Zhao's family who were kneeling on the ground, with displeasure on his face.

"Your Majesty, I'm guilty of failing to handle this matter properly!" Yan Song spoke first, taking all the blame on himself.

"It's not your fault, get up." Jiajing waved his hand and said calmly.

"Lu'er, this is your Uncle Huang, quickly call him Uncle Huang!" Seeing Jiajing approaching in person, King Zhao Zhu Zaibi hastily reminded his son.

"I have met the emperor's uncle." Zhu Qilu saluted Jiajing obediently, but Jiajing ignored his greeting and walked straight into the lobby.

Jiajing sat at the head, flipped through the confession a few times, and asked, "Aren't you just trying the case? I'm here to see how the case is going."

"Your Majesty, the facts of the case have come to light. It is only because of the lack of relevant physical evidence that the trial of the case has come to an impasse."

"And when the trial was halfway through, His Royal Highness King Zhao broke in with his family, causing..."

Yan Song looked at the emperor sitting above him, and said tremblingly.

Seeing that the emperor turned his eyes to him, Zhu Zaimi quickly knelt down on the ground, and said in a deep voice, "Your Majesty, my Lu'er was wronged! I was also in a hurry, and I did such a foolish thing just now."

When Jiajing heard this, he raised his eyebrows and asked with great interest, "But here are all witnesses and confessions. Why did these two people frame your child?"

King Zhao stood up from the ground with anger on his face, pointed at the two with his index finger, and said word by word: "These two are well-known rascals in the capital, and my family, Lu'er, has studied the Four Books and Five Classics hard since he was a child. With lofty ambitions, how could you hang out with this kind of person?"

King Zhao paused for a moment, and then continued: "Perhaps these two rogues saw our family Lu'er's generous spending and weakness, so they became covetous, so they stalked and bit me. I hope Your Majesty will see clearly."

"You!" The two who were scolded by King Zhao pointed at their noses dared not speak out.

"Do you think I'm a fool? Look at what you said, do you believe it yourself?" Jiajing slammed the table and reprimanded him in a deep voice.

"Your Majesty, according to your seniority, Lu'er wants to call you Uncle Huang, please forgive him this time! In the future, I will discipline him well and confine him at home. There is only this last bit of incense left in my Pingliang Mansion! After Zhu Zaimi finished speaking, he slammed his head heavily on the ground, and in an instant, blood flowed.

"Hmph, bastard, look at what your son did!" Jiajing said, and slammed the confession in his hand onto Zhu Zaimi's face.

"Snatching people's daughters by force, murdering and hiding corpses, extortionate extortion, corruption and perverting the law, tyranny, fish and meat people! My Ming Dynasty spent so much money every year to raise a group of pigs like you who only know how to eat in the trough! Now you still have Face to ask me to let him go?"

"If I let him go, how will I explain to those victims? How will I explain to the people of Ming Dynasty? How will I explain to my ancestors?"

"Please forgive me, Your Majesty!" Seeing the emperor getting angry, everyone in the room looked terrified and knelt down on the ground without making any movement for a long time.

After a long time, Jiajing calmed down, waved his hands and said, "Get up."

After everyone got up, Zhu Zaimi seemed to have made up his mind, and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, according to my Ming law, the case can only be closed if there are witnesses and material evidence! Right now there are only witnesses but no physical evidence, so it should be Release Lu'er without charge."

After Jiajing listened, he turned his eyes to Yan Shifan, and said softly: "Master Xiaoge, I heard that you are quite familiar with the laws of the Ming Dynasty, even to the point where you can recite them, come and tell me, is there such a passage. "

"This... this, Your Majesty, there seems to be such a passage, and I can't remember clearly."

Originally, Yan Shifan was standing aside in a daze, but he was suddenly picked up by the emperor to answer the question. After hesitating for a moment, he gave a vague answer.

"Okay then, since there is indeed such a paragraph in the laws of the Ming Dynasty, then follow the laws of the Ming Dynasty, and you can go." After listening to Yan Shifan's answer, Jiajing sighed and said helplessly.

"Sure enough, His Majesty still can't let go of the clan!" Xu Jie silently lowered his head, thinking so.

But Gao Gong looked angry, just when he wanted to speak out to persuade him, he was stopped by Zhang Juzheng behind him, Zhang Juzheng shook his head slightly, signaling him not to care about this matter.

The expressions on the faces of Yan Song and Yan Shifan have not changed, they are still calm and breezy.

When Zhu Qilu heard Jiajing's words, his expression was ecstatic, and he knelt on the ground hastily, with a trembling tone in his voice: "Dare to ask if what His Majesty just said is true?"

"I'm the emperor, and I speak like a golden mouth, and it's hard to chase after a horse." Jiajing responded lightly.

After hearing the news, the remaining two prisoners were ashen-faced, lost all their strength, and were paralyzed in the lobby. Their families would be disposed of by tonight at the latest.

On the other hand, Zhu Zaimi was about to jump up excitedly. He snatched the key from the guard at the side, and unfastened all the shackles on his son. After saluting to Jiajing with his family, he was ready to bow and leave.

Just as they were about to leave the hall of the Ministry of Justice, Jiajing's faint voice came from behind: "I don't know if you have heard such a sentence, there is a god standing three feet up!"

"Although some things can escape for a while, there will be other things to judge for them!"

While speaking, the originally clear sky suddenly became dark clouds, and the sky was filled with lightning and thunder, as if it was about to rain.

Zhu Qilu was terrified by the scene in front of him, his face was pale, his limbs trembled, and he fell limply on the ground. Seeing this, King Zhao wanted to step forward to help his son up.

In an instant, five thumb-thick thunderbolts fell from the sky, and happened to hit Zhu Qilu's body. After trembling twice, he lay on the ground covered in black, lifeless.

"One, two, three, four, five, exactly five thunderbolts!" In the lobby of the Ministry of Punishment, someone murmured incessantly as they watched the thunderbolts that fell from the sky earlier.

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

All the ministers in the room also reacted, and knelt down on the ground one after another, their faces were full of piety, and there was nothing else. This just happened to confirm the Confucian theory of the relationship between heaven and man. It is the majesty who is communicating with God, and God has felt Zhu Qilu The blood debt that he was carrying on his body was just now sent down by five bolts of thunder to kill him.

"Get up." Jiajing said calmly, retracting the middle finger and index finger behind his back.

(End of this chapter)