Tang Dynasty detective

Chapter 762
"The crime of deceiving the emperor should be punished by the nine clans!" Li Heng took the conversation and said calmly.

Hearing this, Du Mei collapsed to the ground in an instant, his body trembling unceasingly, and the sound of 'cluck-cluck' kept coming out of his throat.

After a long time, he realized that he kowtowed desperately to Li Heng at a loss: "Prince, please forgive me, please forgive me, Prince!"

"Hmph, do you think that the crime of deceiving the emperor is a folk joke? Even if the king wants to forgive you, the sage will not spare you!" Li Heng said with an inexplicable smile on the corner of his mouth.

"Prince, spare your life, Prince, spare your life! It was the grassroots who were greedy for a while and framed Mr. Li, but it was all instigated by others... Please spare your life, Prince!" Du Mei was so frightened that he sifted through chaff, kowtowed like garlic.

"Oh? So, someone wants to use your hand to frame Li Canghai?" Li Heng leaned forward and asked with narrowed eyes.

"The crown prince clearly understands that Caomin is just a scholar with a humble status. If no one instigates him, even if Caomin is given a hundred guts, Caomin would not dare to frame Master Li!" Du Mei said tremblingly.

Yang Guozhong, who had been dignified and gloomy since Brother Du Mei stepped into the courtroom, suddenly shouted: "It's unreasonable! You scumbag, dare to frame a second-rank official in the court, with such ulterior motives, you must be against the party! Take this person down, put him in the sky prison, and choose a day to execute him!"

When Du Mei heard this, he was startled, and he peed on his pants.

Li Heng glanced at Yang Guozhong with dissatisfaction, and said indifferently: "Your Majesty Yang is so powerful!"

Yang Guozhong frowned and said, "What do you mean by your Highness?"

"Lord Yang must have sat in the position of Xiangguo for too long, so that he forgot his current official rank. As the censor Zhongcheng, what Master Yang has to do is to cooperate with this king to investigate the truth. This king wants you to remember, The presiding judge of this case is this king, not you!" Li Heng said coldly.

After these words were spoken, the entire courtroom fell into dead silence in an instant.

Those ministers even looked at each other in blank dismay. None of them knew that the present prince is a weak person?

When meeting Yang Guozhong in the past, he was always respectful.

But today, this prince with a weak personality can speak so sharply, which is somewhat surprising.

Yang Guozhong's face was even more ugly. He didn't expect Li Heng to contradict him on the spot in front of all the officials and common people.

What upset him the most was that, even so, he still had to be respectful to Li Heng, and he could not make any arrogance.

However, Yang Guozhong is an old fox after all.

He rolled his eyes, and immediately saluted Li Heng with a smile on his face: "Your Highness taught me that it was the lower officials who overstepped. The lower officials were also very angry at this matter and couldn't hold back their temper for a while. I hope Your Highness will forgive me crime."

Li Heng glanced at him in disgust, and said lightly: "Forget it, you are also very kind, so I can't blame you. Since this king was ordered by his father to investigate this case, he must investigate clearly, so as not to wrong a good person. Don't let a bad guy go!"

"Yes yes yes. What the lord taught me is that the officials have been taught." Yang Guozhong hurriedly smiled at Li Heng humbly.

"Okay, let's stop talking about these polite words, let's get down to business!" After a pause, Li Heng stared at Du Mei and said, "You said you were ordered by someone to frame Master Li. My king asks you, Who is instigating you?"

"Back to His Royal Highness, the person who instigated the grassroots is... Lord Han, Governor of Chang'an Mansion!" Du Mei swept his eyes across the crowd, and suddenly he raised his hand, pointing at Han Qu and shouted.

As the governor of Chang'an Prefecture, Han Qu is also a key witness in this case, so he also came to court.

But he has been standing by the side with his head drooped, so no one in the crowd paid him any attention.

At this time, when they heard Du Mei yelling, everyone turned their attention to Han Qu.

Han Qu raised his head in a daze, and he froze for a moment.

"I'm wronged! I'm wronged! Your Highness, I'm wronged!" Han Qu came to his senses, hurried to the court, knelt down to Li Heng, and yelled that he was wronged.

"Master Han?" Now, not only everyone, but even Li Heng was a little surprised.

Li Heng had met Han Qu several times. Han Qu had served as Governor of Chang'an Prefecture for more than two years.

It can be said that he is a person with a very weak sense of existence.

No matter what, Li Heng never imagined that the person Du Mei accused was the governor of Chang'an Prefecture!

"Du Mei, you have to think carefully before you speak! If you dare to lie again, this king will push you out and kill you right now!" Li Heng shouted.

Du Mei knelt on the ground, tremblingly said: "Your Highness, how dare Caomin lie? Everything Caomin said is true!"

"Every sentence is true? You said Master Han ordered you to wrong Li Canghai, what evidence do you have to prove that what you said is true?" Li Heng shouted sharply.

"Caomin can swear with their lives! If there is even half a lie, I hope that there will be no place to die!" After Du Mei swore loudly, he gasped and said, "This happened a few hours before the murder case in Anxingfang. Having nothing to do, he wandered around Anxingfang, but was stopped by someone, and took him to a secluded place, where he met a masked man. The masked man gave Caomin a bag of gold and silver, and asked Caomin to leave after the incident. Frame up Mr. Li. Caomin is just an ordinary person. Even if he is brave, he would not dare to frame the official. But the man promised Caomin that after the matter is completed, he will let Caomin enter Chang'an Mansion as an official. At first, Caomin did not believe what he said. It wasn't until he took off his mask that the grassroots knew that the man was Lord Han, the prefect of Chang'an Prefecture!"

At this point, Du Mei paused. He looked at Han Qu and said in horror: "The grass people wanted to refuse, but he forced the grass people to take the poison. The grass people had no choice but to agree. Master Han asked the grass people to spend money. He bought a few local ruffians, and after the fire, deliberately spread rumors, saying that all of this was Lord Li's intentional killing in order to claim credit for the Holy One. Even going to Yushitai to sue Lord Li was instigated by Lord Han. Prince Your Highness, everything Cao Min said is true, and there is absolutely no falsehood!"

"Your Highness, I have been wronged! I don't know this person at all, so how could I instruct him to frame Lord Li?" Han Qu kowtowed repeatedly, shouting that he was wronged.

Li Heng frowned slightly, he stared at Du Mei and said: "What you said is all your one-sided words, without any evidence, how can this king believe you?"

"His Royal Highness, what Caomin said is true!" Du Mei shouted in panic.

"Every sentence is true? You first framed the current Dali Temple Minister, and now you say that all of this was instigated by the governor of Chang'an Mansion. Do you think anyone will believe you?" Yang Guozhong snorted coldly.

Du Mei really panicked now, and he cried loudly: "Your Highness, the grass people dare not lie. All this is what Mr. Han ordered the grass people to do!"

(End of this chapter)