The most beloved princess in the prosperous world

Chapter 119 Confrontation in the palace, many twists and turns

At this time, the hall was already dead silent, and many of the implicated courtiers were already powerless to refute in the face of solid evidence, and they were kneeling in front of the hall tremblingly at this time.

These people are all inseparable from the counterfeit currency. Last year's vigorous government rectification did not catch them, but now they were finally discovered because of carelessness and no longer being able to hide. Some slumped relaxation.

No matter whose person got into it, the rest of the people can only stand by.

The princes all stood in their original seats, quietly watching all the changes that took place in the hall, and didn't say much from the beginning to the end, as if these offenders had nothing to do with them. Their men and horses can only be regarded as abandoned sons after being messed with.

Emperor Yuanchang's complexion was also very bad because of this.

And the voices of King Qing and King Jin begging to see each other from the palace people outside finally brought Yuanchang Emperor who was in anger back to his senses.

The important ministers in the hall, because of the eager voice of the palace man, also changed their expression a little bit. Although they didn't make any inappropriate movements, their attention turned to the palace door behind them.

Emperor Yuanchang finally relaxed slightly, "Xuan!"

"Your ministers see the father." After Yu Wuhan and Yu Wujue entered the hall, they both stepped forward to salute Emperor Yuanchang.

Although Emperor Yuanchang was in a bad mood, seeing the two of them now, his expression was much relieved, "Get up."

After finishing speaking, he glanced at the hall, "Just now the Ministry of Criminal Justice is reporting the people involved in this counterfeit currency case. You rushed to the hall in such a hurry, but there is something urgent to say. Did you find something else when you went out this time?"

The two had already stood up and looked at each other. Yu Wujue glanced at the kneeling courtiers involved in the incident. Before he could say anything, Yu Wuhan stood in front of him and directly Facing Emperor Yuanchang, he clasped his hands and said, "Report to my father, after a long time of secret investigation by my ministers in Jiazhou, the Jiazhou Chief Secretary, the biggest fish in the Jiazhou counterfeit currency case, has now been brought back to Yongjia. There are also secrets."

Yu Wuhan's voice was calm, but to many officials in the court at this moment, it was tantamount to shocking waves.

Even if someone with a heart guessed that Yu Wujue's disappearance for so long might have something to do with the counterfeit currency case that Emperor Yuanchang is particularly concerned about now, but the king of Qing has been secretly following up on this matter, which surprised many people.

Because, as we all know, Yu Wuhan is the fairy prince among all the princes who has always been devoted to mountains and rivers, loves music and has nothing to do with the world. Even though Emperor Yuanchang told him to do this thing from time to time, he never It will involve such matters related to the balance of power between the DPRK and China.

And Yu Wuhan was not in Yongjia at all when the counterfeit currency case reached Yongjia, so when did he intervene in this matter?

Still, because of King Jin's relationship.

Some people pay attention to this, but what people pay more attention to is that there is still something hidden in Yu Wuhan's mouth.

And what about secrets?What kind of secrets, many people have been uncovered in this case today, and many courtiers have been surprised, isn't it more than that?
All the officials looked sideways at Yu Wuhan, even the other princes also looked at him with complicated expressions.

"His Royal Highness Qing has found more important clues?" Under pressure, Shangshu Xingbu, who had to submit part of the case statement at this time, looked at Yu Wuhan almost with glowing eyes.

Feng Hexuan, who was at the head of the hundred officials, raised his eyebrows slightly, and remained calm. Ruan Song seldom spoke today. Hearing Yu Wuhan say this at this time, he just looked at Yu Wuhan like a minister who was puzzled by this. cold.

"What's going on?" Emperor Yuanchang said in a deep voice.

Yu Wuhan paused, glanced at Ruan Song, and cupped his hands, "Father, the fish that slipped through this case was identified by the Chief Secretary of Jiazhou, and the biggest mastermind of the Jiazhou counterfeit currency case was the right minister of the dynasty, Ruan Song .”

As soon as these words came out, there was a murmur of discussion in the hall.

Like a clap of thunder on the ground.

All the ministers looked at Ruan Song with suspicion and puzzlement, and naturally they couldn't believe it.

Emperor Yuanchang's face was slightly gloomy, and he looked at Ruan Song, but saw that Ruan Song's expression was surprised for a moment, and then calm and fearless.

"Heh!" There was an abrupt voice, King Su's voice seemed even more abrupt, "As we all know, Prime Minister Right is the imperial envoy this time."

This speaks volumes for everyone to understand.

Yu Wuhan ignored it, and said directly to Emperor Yuanchang, "The Chief Secretary of Jiazhou has been escorted back to Beijing and is waiting outside the palace."

Emperor Yuanchang didn't immediately co-authored the news to the Chief Secretary of Jiazhou, but looked at Ruan Song, "Your Majesty, I will give you a chance to defend yourself."

Ruan Song took a step forward, "This is pure slander, I don't know why Jiazhou Chief Secretary made such a statement."

Yu Wuhan's faint voice sounded from Ruan Song's side, "Can the Right Prime Minister do this seamlessly?"

"Wei Chen doesn't know what His Royal Highness King Qing has found out in Jiazhou for many days. Even though Wei Chen, as the imperial envoy of this case, is ineffective in handling the case and has made some omissions, he will definitely not become the person involved in this case." Ruan Song said.

In a word, all the suspicions against him turned into his ineffective handling of the case, which caused Yu Wuhan to present such an important slip through the net at this time.

The important ministers in the hall were naturally skeptical and puzzled, and gradually made some voices in private.

Ruan Song continued, "Even so, the lord will accuse me of a crime."

Yu Wuhan suddenly turned his head and glanced at Ruan Song, a smile of unknown emotion crossed the corner of his lips, "Since the right minister wants to find a crime, this king will naturally give it to you."

After finishing speaking, his voice slowly sounded in the hall, "Ruan Song, the right minister, has planned for many years to use his power for personal gain, and combined with Chen and Sun merchants in Jiazhou to secretly suppress the rest of the merchants, and finally succeeded in coercing other merchants into a trap. It is a crime to profit from the counterfeit currency vortex. The second is to cooperate with the Chief Secretary of Jiazhou inside and outside, and successfully let the counterfeit currency in Jiazhou run for many years without being discovered by the court. The third..."

Yu Wuhan paused, narrowing his eyes slightly, "Ruan Song privately used Jiazhou minerals and tried to assassinate the prince."

As soon as the words fell, Chaozhong suddenly let out a burst of exclamation, and looked at Ruan Song with an extremely complicated expression.

Ruan Song's expression finally changed, and he looked at Emperor Yuanchang, "Your Majesty, I am wronged!"

Emperor Yuanchang didn't make a sound, looked at Yu Wuhan, and his eyes stayed on Ruan Song for a long time.

The majesty of the emperor has always been oppressive, even though Ruan Song dared not look up at Long Yan, he could still feel the Tao.

After a long time, the courtiers in the hall felt the subtle atmosphere, and they became quiet in an instant.

Only then did Emperor Yuanchang speak, "Is there any evidence to prove it?"

Yu Wuhan cupped his hands and said, "Jiazhou Chief Secretary Tan Huacheng has been escorted back to Beijing and is waiting outside the palace."

Hearing this, Ruan Song raised his head and looked at Emperor Yuanchang with a firm and decisive expression, "Your Majesty, I request you to confront him in the palace."

Emperor Yuanchang said in a deep voice, "Bring the Chief Secretary of Jiazhou here."

After receiving this order from Emperor Yuanchang, the Chief Secretary of Jiazhou was quickly taken to the main hall.

The chief secretary of Jiazhou was dressed in the clothes of ordinary people, and he was already of a certain age. He was a person who had passed his age, but, I don't know whether it was because of the tiredness of the journey from Jiazhou to Yongjia during this period of time, or because of other reasons. The whole person looks a lot older, the hair on the temples has turned gray, and the wrinkles on the face have become deeper.

At this moment, he was brought up to the hall under pressure, with sunken eye sockets and coarse sackcloth, he looked haggard, old and mentally ill, with a sense of desperation.

"I bow to Your Majesty, long live my emperor, long live, long live."

As soon as he entered the main hall, Jiazhou Chief Secretary Tan Huacheng knelt in the main hall and shouted. It was not difficult to hear a hint of excitement and other emotions in his voice.

Many people's eyes were on him, Yu Wujue was standing in front of him, but at this moment his back was facing him, and when Yu Wuhan heard his voice, he had already turned his head to take a look Tan Huacheng.

Tan Huacheng cringed for a moment, and looked at many courtiers in the hall timidly. Before Emperor Yuanchang could speak, he kowtowed heavily to his superior, "Your Majesty, I am wronged, my minister! Guilty, I owe His Majesty's trust..."

When he shouted out, he burst into tears and was in a state of embarrassment. He didn't look like a chief secretary who had mastered the local military and political power.

Emperor Yuanchang lowered his brows and pursed his lips, "It's both a wrong and an apology, what are you talking about!"

Yu Wuhan also frowned. Jiazhou Chief Secretary's rogue behavior also made him feel very strange and puzzled when he first appeared in Jiazhou.

But at this moment, he didn't want to deal with it any more, and pointed to Jiazhou Chief Secretary Dao Lang who was kneeling behind him, "Tan Huacheng has been in charge of Jiazhou's military and government for more than ten years. During these ten years, under the instruction of Ruan Song , but took advantage of his position to conceal the quantity of copper, silver, tin and other minerals in Jiazhou, secretly operated, and secretly established a private silver casting place in the deep mountains and forests of Jiazhou, and hired local craftsmen to continue to profit from it. After the private minting of silver, it was changed to privately minting counterfeit coins, selling the real ones in Jiazhou. In order to prevent the situation from expanding and being discovered by others, they planned to let the counterfeit coins only circulate in Jiazhou for many years, and recycle the real silver from the hands of the people to exchange for counterfeit coins..."

Yu Wuhan said one sentence at a time, Tan Huacheng started from operating private banks in Jiazhou to operating counterfeit currency in these years, how to produce counterfeit currency in the future under the circumstances of concealing the court, how to operate it in the future, and how to communicate with the discovery The prefect of California, Zeng Guang, who was involved in this incident, worked in collusion and gradually lured Zeng Guang to become the ostensible planner of this incident. The process of threatening Zeng Guang to bear all the crimes while still at large, how he investigated the case of counterfeit coins in Jiazhou during this period of time, the process of visiting many places where counterfeit coins were minted in Jiazhou, and the officials and Yuan Chang in the hall God said it again.

Probably, in the eyes of many courtiers, this day was the day when Yu Wuhan talked the most.

For some courtiers, it is not only understandable for Yu Wuhan to do so, but also the responsibility of being the son of Emperor Yuanchang, but for Yu Wulin, Yu Wuyang and others who did not consider him an enemy many years ago In other words, Yu Wuhan's behavior this time seems to be telling them how dangerous he is.

Listening to him now that the case has already happened in Jiazhou without their knowledge, even Ruan Song was already investigating this matter before he was ordered by Emperor Yuanchang to go to Jiazhou as an imperial envoy. The eyes are also much more complicated.

Across the main hall, Yu Wuyang and Yu Wulin looked at each other, but at this moment, the two who were originally hostile seemed to resonate with each other.

After hearing this, Emperor Yuanchang looked at Tan Huacheng, who was already bleeding from kowtow, his expression was terribly gloomy.

After Yu Wuhan finished speaking, Tan Huacheng was stunned for a while, with panic and disbelief in his eyes, he only kowtowed heavily, "Your Majesty, I am wronged, wronged!"

No one in the hall made any noise for this.

There was also some disdain and disgust on Yu Wuhan's face.

On the contrary, in the voice of screaming Qu, Zuo Xiangfeng Hexuan, who had not opened his mouth, said, "What His Royal Highness Qing said is well-founded and well-organized. Since Mr. Tan has done this, he is already in Jiajia Zhou confessed when he was discovered, but at this moment, seeing His Majesty, he still complained, wouldn't it be a big joke, besides, how dare you lie in front of His Majesty?"

In the end, his tone became a little harsher.

As Prime Minister Zuo spoke, there were also voices of condemnation in the hall.

Tan Huacheng was taken aback for a moment, and then said, "This is a big matter. Every year in the court, someone investigates local minerals. If I sat down on this matter, why did I only find out at this time? His Royal Highness Qing insisted that this minister was related to this matter, and Wei I have no way to argue, so I can only use this to ask His Majesty to see you!"

Anyone who listens to this will find it strange.

With a chuckle, Prime Minister Zuo, who had already spoken, was not led away by Tan Huacheng. Instead, he glanced at Ruan Song, who had been calm and silent since Tan Huacheng entered the hall, "The court officials couldn't find out. Mr. Tan opened the door of convenience. Although Mr. Tan is the controller of the local military power, if he wants to do this kind of thing for ten years, he must not know that he can do it by himself. Among them... there must be some Another helper, or... Mr. Tan is not actually the mastermind. His Royal Highness Qing has made it clear just now, but there is one thing that is not clear about the truth. I only discovered this problem after the Ministry of Punishment took over the matter. The amount of counterfeit money in Jiazhou clearly does not match the amount of minerals in Jiazhou, so I don’t know where the rest went.”

Tan Huacheng looked at Feng Hexuan in disbelief, but was unable to speak for a long time.

Following Feng Hexuan's voice, there were voices of private discussions in the hall.

Yu Wuyan listened for a long time, a little surprised by the situation at this time, his lips hooked, and he also looked at Ruan Song, "The third brother said earlier that the mastermind behind this incident is the right minister, I don't know..."

The words were not finished, but everyone could understand them. In fact, everyone might already have this suspicion in their hearts.

Although the mountains are high and the emperor is far away, and Jiazhou and Yongjia are thousands of miles away, silver and minerals are important things and not easy to do.

Yu Wuhan finally turned his gaze to Ruan Song, but he didn't say anything to Ruan Song, and his expression was normal.

Seeing that everyone's eyes were on him, Ruan Song didn't look flustered, he just took a step forward, lifted his robe, and knelt down in front of Tan Huacheng facing Emperor Yuanchang, and kowtowed, " Your Majesty handed over the Jiazhou counterfeit currency case to the minister, but the minister did not miss Tan Huacheng and let down his vigilance because of Tan Huacheng's assistance in the counterfeit currency case, and let the mastermind behind it go. punishment."

What he said was still a bit surprising.

After all, Yu Wuhan had made it clear before.

Yu Wuhan seemed to laugh, took out a dossier from his sleeve, and presented it to Emperor Yuanchang, "This is the whole case of counterfeit coins in Jiazhou, please have a look."

An Cheng got a signal from Emperor Yuanchang, and hurried down to take the things in Yu Wuhan's hand to Emperor Yuanchang.

Emperor Yuanchang took it and watched it directly from the dragon chair. Ruan Song was still kneeling in the hall calmly. For some reason, Tan Huacheng gradually showed fear on his face, and his original grievance gradually weakened. In the process of Emperor Yuanchang looking at Yu Wuhan's excerpt, he finally kowtowed heavily and directly confessed his crime, "Your Majesty, I deserve to die, I deserve to die, I am obsessed with ghosts, and I am greedy for profit. Die, Your Majesty, forgive me, Your Majesty, forgive me..."

This kind of attitude of denying the confession just a moment ago and now confessing so much makes the people in the hall feel that everything in front of them is like a drama, even if they want to believe it, they have to doubt themselves in their hearts Is what I saw today real or fake?

"Hmph! So many times, pleading guilty the next moment after being wronged, you think you can do whatever you want in front of His Majesty!" The Minister of the Ministry of Justice, who was already extremely angry, finally couldn't help but said in the many reversals of the plot, When looking at Tan Huacheng's disgusting appearance, his eyes were full of anger.

"Since you pleaded guilty, Mr. Tan might as well tell you who is cooperating with you behind this matter and who is instigating it." It was Feng Hexuan who spoke.

You don't need to listen to whether these words mean something, as we all know, secretly targeting, it's just the original Yu Wuhan's words.

But even though Tan Huacheng pleaded guilty at this time, he just repeated the previous words like "Your Majesty deserves to die, Your Majesty spares your life", as if he couldn't hear the voice.

Yu Wuhan glanced at Tan Huacheng, his eyes became a little more complicated, "When this king arrested you in Jiazhou, you revealed that the right minister Ruan Song was related to this matter, and now you are unwilling to admit it in front of His Majesty. ?”

"It's all the ghosts who are obsessed, and the ghosts are obsessed..." Tan Huacheng said in a hurry, as if it was only a moment, and he went crazy again. He was kneeling on the throne of Yuanchang Emperor, but now he knelt down for some reason. Crawling in the main hall, crawling towards the courtiers who are close to him in the main hall, "I am guilty of guilt, and I am obsessed with ghosts..."

"Your Majesty, forgive me...the minister is guilty..."

He crawled this way and that, like crazy.

But in the blink of an eye, before half a cup of tea, he could still analyze the local minerals in a reasonable and well-founded way, and someone would check them every year, but he couldn't do such a thing.

Emperor Yuanchang was still reading the dossier. At this time, seeing Tan Huacheng lying like a dog in the hall and treating the courtiers as "Your Majesty", he was also angry, but someone said, "Presumptuous! How dare you do this in the hall?" presumptuous!"

But Tan Huacheng didn't seem to be able to hear, he still crawled to plead guilty to those who could see, repeating these few words over and over again.

Yu Wuhan soon noticed Tan Huacheng's abnormality, his face changed, and he grabbed Tan Huacheng directly, only to see that Tan Huacheng's expression was very strange, and he could only respond to these few words.

Even facing Yu Wuhan, he panicked and shouted words like His Majesty's forgiveness.

All the ministers were not people who had never seen the world, so they quickly said, "Could it be that you are crazy!"

As Tan Huacheng was crawling, he suddenly laughed sinisterly, and kept laughing, yelling words like His Majesty, Your Majesty, Your Majesty, and so on.

Even risking his life, he climbed to the steps under the dragon chair.

An Cheng hurriedly screamed, "Presumptuous!"

With this sound, the Imperial Forest Army guarding at the side was ready to move out and directly grabbed Tan Huacheng,
The sudden situation caught him by surprise, even though Tan Huacheng was caught, he was still screaming like crazy.

Emperor Yuanchang lowered the dossier in his hand, his gaze paused for a moment on Yu Wuhan's serious face, and he murmured, "Take it down!"

The sudden change made the atmosphere in the hall seem to freeze.

The surprise on Yu Wuhan's face has been put away, and Tan Huacheng's change surprised him, but more of it was sudden. This kind of suddenness makes people feel that it is a coincidence and weird.

Yu Wujue frowned slightly, and Yu Wuhan just exchanged a quick glance, then closed his eyes, everything returned to normal.

Emperor Yuanchang's expression was not good either. Yu Wuyang's eyes were on Ruan Song who was kneeling on the ground, and then turned to Yu Wuhan, "What King Qing said was Tan Huacheng's identification with the right minister at this time. It's related, it's just that everyone has seen it, and Tan Huacheng is talking like crazy..."

He didn't finish his sentence, and the listener knew what he was going to say.

Yu Wuhan was unmoved, and raised his hand to look at Emperor Yuanchang, and Emperor Yuanchang had almost finished reading the dossier he presented, so he recounted the content of the dossier he had drawn up, and put what he found out At this time, how to talk about the process related to Ruan Song.

The attention that was almost distracted by Tan Huacheng returned.

But listening to Yu Wuhan's words, not only did Yu Wuyang, who was the first to question her, look more and more unsightly, but Yu Wujing, who had never expressed any expression, also had some changes on his face, let alone a courtier. .

And in this hall, the ones with the most relaxed expressions are probably Yu Wulin and his brothers.

Although Yu Wuhan said a lot, it was concise and to the point. He mainly talked about how Ruan Song made arrangements in Jiazhou. Under Tan Huacheng's secret of making counterfeit coins, he brought many merchants in Jiazhou closer to this bureau and controlled the Banking Regulatory Commission. Not only did they control private silver and real silver, but they also secretly sent some minerals out of Jiazhou, so that Jiazhou was overthrown by the counterfeit currency case on the surface, but in fact it was smuggled minerals without anyone knowing.

More importantly, along the way to Jiazhou, they were chased and killed several times, and they also pointed out that Ruan Song secretly instigated them.

In the countries of the Central Plains, for thousands of years, because every dynasty has attached great importance to military affairs, military affairs should be based on weapons, and the production of weapons depends on local minerals. Therefore, the control of local minerals can be said to be very strict. Smuggling minerals is a capital offense.

So... Now that Yu Wuhan has dug up this matter like this, how should everyone think of Ruan Song...

Even Feng Hexuan, who lives with the prime minister, at this moment, his face turned pale because of this.

Yu Wuhan's statement is very clear, from the discovery of the counterfeit coin minting point, to the killing of the Bank Supervisor, to the fact that the counterfeit coins in Jiazhou are only hidden in Jiazhou and rarely flow out, but the minerals are so rich, not only silver mines and copper mines, but other The iron ore in China is also missing, and the counterfeit currency is mainly paper money and copper coins. After calculation, there is a big problem between the original ratio of copper, iron, tin, silver and other minerals and the ratio used to make silver coins. In addition to the experience of the past dynasties and all the guesses, doubts and reasoning as clues, the investigation was carried out step by step, and it was found out that Ruan Song secretly dragged Jiazhou merchants into the counterfeit currency case and at the same time smuggled mineral materials.

At the same time, Ruan Song had secretly supported the discord among the largest merchants of the Hang family as early as many years ago, combined with Hang Hongsong, the second room of the Hang family, secretly manipulated the affairs of Jiazhou, secretly scrambled for the property of the Hang family, and caused the Hang family several times. In the business crisis of the family, the Hang family is in the private sector, and Ruan Song is in the government and the opposition. The two cooperate with each other and act cheaply.

Everyone in the hall fell silent.

Looking at Ruan Song's expression is also very complicated.

But Ruan Song looked as if Yu Wuhan was not talking about himself.

Emperor Yuanchang's eyes darkened, "Master Right, what do you say about this matter?"

Ruan Song was still kneeling, with his hands on the ground, "I have never done this before. The counterfeit currency case in Jiazhou was due to my dereliction of duty. I am willing to take responsibility for smuggling mineral materials and planning behind the scenes. I am really wronged! What His Royal Highness King Qing said about the relationship between Hang Hongsong and Weichen is pure slander."

"Your Prime Minister is right. Could it be that His Royal Highness King Qing worked so hard to investigate the case just to come back and slander you? What's more, since Prime Minister Right is innocent, why would both Tan Huacheng and the Second Household of the Hang family identify you?"

Ruan Song's face finally darkened, "Master Zuo must be so aggressive today?"

Feng Hexuan smiled easily and said no more.

Ruan Song continued, "I only have the crime of negligence, and absolutely no crime of planning counterfeit currency in California, let alone smuggling mineral materials and assassinating the prince. Please investigate thoroughly, Your Majesty!"

Emperor Yuanchang looked at Ruan Song for a while, and then finally took another picture on the table, "King Qing has investigated the matter clearly, and it is justified, do you still want to deny it?"

The corners of Ruan Song's lips were only pursed, and he said as usual, "I have committed the crime of dereliction of duty, and absolutely not the crime of smuggling minerals! Smuggling minerals is the same crime as treason, Your Majesty can learn from it!"

His voice was passionate, after all, he kowtowed heavily.

In the main hall, only the voices of private discussions were left in an instant.

At this time, Yu Wujing finally recovered from the shock and disbelief, "Since the third brother has already mentioned this matter, the key figure besides Tan Huacheng who has gone crazy, why don't you take Hang Hongsong with you?" Enter the main hall and identify yourself."

Hearing this, Ruan Song also said, "Your Majesty, even if the subject is guilty, there is still a chance to defend himself. Since His Royal Highness Qing's investigation mentioned that the Taoist minister, Hang Hongsong and Tan Huacheng were plotting against each other and becoming tigers and wolves, please confront Hang Hongsong! "

"Where is Hang Hongsong?" Emperor Yuanchang was silent for a while, and said in a deep voice.

"Hang Hongsong and Jiazhou Chief Secretary are escorted to Yongjia, and they are waiting for trial outside the palace."

"Bring it up."

Apart from Ruan Song's firm attitude, he didn't make a special excuse for himself. Yu Wujue finally looked back at Ruan Song's head hanging on the ground at this moment. When he looked up, he also saw Yu Wujing frowning Looking at Ruan Song thoughtfully.

Unlike Yu Wuyang and Yu Wujing who frowned but had dark faces, he was more thoughtful.

The eyes of the two met in mid-air, but they separated quickly.

The atmosphere in the hall has a stagnant atmosphere. However, in such a short time, someone from outside the hall rushed to report, "Your Majesty, Hang Hongtian died outside the palace!"

　Look!It’s so much hotter, shouldn’t there be rewards? (^?^*)

　　Ruan Song is going to die!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)