In a spectacular trial, the heads of 20 ministers fell to the ground, and blood dyed the Vermilion Bird Avenue red.
The morning court session ended without any problems. Before the officials left, they all found their servants.
After standing for nearly two hours, the officials had no money, but the servants in their respective families each earned a hundred taels.
Naturally, after witnessing the fate of some greedy colleagues, everyone was very sensitive to silver.
They didn't dare to snatch it on the streets.
Kong Yan returned to the Supreme Court prison, with Zhu Sanlang and Li Junxian by his side.
Li Junxian's expression wasn't very good.
He had been following Kong Yan the entire night, but he only knew that Kong Yan had found the murderer who killed State Duke Xue and Zhangsun Shunde. He did not know that Kong Yan already knew who the mastermind was!
To him, this was a great dereliction of duty!
"The murderer behind the scenes is Zhangsun An Ye.”Kong Yan glanced at the cold-faced Li Junxian.
Li
Junxian paled, his eyelids twitching.
"Why are you telling me this?”Li Junxian coldly said.
Kong Yan shrugged and said,""The more people who know, the safer I am.”
"If only I, an outsider, knew about this, I'm afraid that our Emperor would have you stab me in order to protect Zhangsun Anye.”
Li Junxian calmed down and frowned."How could it be him?"
Zhangsun Anye was Empress Zhangsun's half-brother. After her father Zhangsun Sheng died, he had driven the young Zhangsun Wuji and Empress Zhangsun back to their uncle Gao Shilian's house!
Therefore, Zhangsun Wuji did not have a good impression of his half-brother.
Empress Zhangsun was more emotional, or rather, she valued kinship more, so she did not argue with Zhangsun An Ye.
After the establishment of the Great Tang, Zhangsun Anye was appointed as the commander of the Right Prison Gate and later promoted to the General of the Right Prison Gate.
Last year, in the first year of Zhenguan, his brother-in-law had become the Emperor of the Great Tang. No one knew what he was thinking, but he had followed the King of Yi 'an, Li Xiaochang, to rebel and wanted to kill his brother-in-law. The result was naturally a crushing defeat.
He was also a bachelor. He only hoped that Li Shiming would not kill him for Empress Zhangsun's sake and let him drink wine every day.
Zhangsun Anye's biggest hobby was drinking. In layman's terms, he would feel uncomfortable if he did not drink for a day.
Li Shimin satisfied his request for Empress Zhangsun's sake and exiled him to Muzhou!
Zhangsun Anye rebelled and did not die, which was enough to show how deep Li Shimin's love for Empress Zhangsun was.
Li Junxian couldn't understand how Zhangsun Shunde's murderer could be Zhangsun Anye.
As far as he knew, Zhangsun Anye and Zhangsun Shunde's relationship was not bad. At that time, it was because Zhangsun Anye was involved in Li Xiaochang's rebellion that Zhangsun Shunde was implicated and stripped of all his official positions. He could only idle at home to do things and covet some small wealth.
Li Junxian didn't understand, and Kong Yan was even more confused. After all, he had never even met Zhangsun Anye.
Being framed for no reason, he still hated Zhangsun An Ye to the core.
After entering the Supreme Court's prison, Kong Yan walked straight to Li Erlang's cell.
"Young Master." Li Erlang shouted with a smile.
Kong Yan sighed and said,"Yesterday, I said that I would send a few people in to accompany you. I'm afraid that won't happen now.”
"Did something happen?" Li Erlang's expression changed slightly.
"You can come out early," Sanlang Zhu said with a smile.”
"Uh..." Li Erlang was stunned. Then, he smiled like a blooming chrysanthemum.
"Young Master has settled everything?”Li Erlang asked happily.
"Let's talk about it when we get back." Kong Yan said with a smile, not continuing to tease Li Erlang.
"..."
Before leaving the Supreme Court, Kong Yan specially went to visit Hu Yan, who was beaten up last night and could not take care of himself.
When Kong Yan saw Hu Yan, he was lying on the bed with a concubine accompanying him to relieve his boredom.
When he saw Kong Yan's smiling face, his entire body trembled.
"You're welcome," Kong Yan quickly comforted."You're injured. Just lie down."”
"F * ck you [@%[..." Hu Yan's face was swollen as he cursed.
"This morning, I beat Dai Zhou twenty times in front of all the civil and military officials."”
Hu Yan was stunned.
"Do you feel much better now?”Kong Yan raised his eyebrows and said.
Hu Yan glared at Kong Yan.
"Cough cough, I even beheaded twenty ministers in the court on the street. Wouldn't you feel better if I said that?”Kong Yan said leisurely.
"Get lost!" Hu Yan spat out a word with a cold face. He did not believe it at all.
Kong Yan shrugged and said,""It's up to you whether you want to believe it or not. Today, apart from seeing how your injuries are recovering, I also want to ask some questions about the murder of State Duke Xue.”
"..."
Hu Yan sneered. He looked at Kong Yan mockingly.
It was as if he was saying,"You f * cking beat me up like this, and you still have the face to ask me something?"
If he had known this would happen, he wouldn't have done it!
Hu Yan sneered in disdain.
Yesterday, Kong Yan had left him with an unforgettable wound. He was still in pain.
Kong Yan rubbed his chin and smiled.""Hu Sanjin is your distant cousin. He was involved in the murder of State Duke Xue. Do you think I have reason to suspect that this case might be related to you?”
"Li Er was beaten up by the Supreme Court for no reason and almost lost his life. If I let him interrogate you, do you think you will be beaten into confessing?”
"Or perhaps I accidentally cut you there when I was torturing you…"
Kong Yan revealed a malicious smile. He extended two fingers and gently pointed at Hu Yan's lower body, making a scissors gesture.
The image was vivid!
"..."
Hu Yan's face twitched, and his entire face turned green.
"Despicable, filthy!"
The concubine at the side also revealed a bitter expression. She thought to herself that she was already small, and if she were to lose it again, wouldn't it be…
The concubine's expression became resentful.
Kong Yan shrugged and said,""Trial? Casualties were inevitable. Didn't Daren also torture the ordinary people of Wild Goose Falling Pavilion?”
After a moment of silence, Hu Yan asked with a dark face,""What do you want to ask?"
"Zhangsun Anye." Kong Yan said.
"Zhangsun Anye? Why are you asking him?" Hu Yan frowned.
Kong Yan said,"As far as I know, you were the chief judge of Li Xiaochang's rebellion case last year. I need to know why Zhangsun Anye would collude with outsiders to kill his brother-in-law. Also, what is his true relationship with Duke Xue, Zhangsun Shunde?"”
He had been tricked by Zhangsun Anye for no reason, so Kong Yan had to figure out his motive.
Only by knowing the other party's intentions could he effectively prevent it, and even use it to find Zhangsun Anye's whereabouts.
"…"
A similar discussion was going on in the palace.
"I don't understand, why would he want to harm Shunde?”Li Shi Min said in a deep voice.
In the hall, Zhangsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Li Jing and the others were all present.
"Your Majesty, do you trust Kong Yan?" Zhangsun Wuji asked.
"He doesn't have to lie to me about this." Li Shiming frowned.”
Li Jing narrowed his eyes and said,"Could it be because His Majesty exiled him, but left Duke Xue in Chang 'an, causing him to feel unbalanced…"
Fang Xuanling frowned and said,"I feel that this matter is not so simple. No matter how bold Shunde is, he probably wouldn't dare to use grass to replace food for disaster relief.”
Ever since Kong Yan told him the truth about the disaster relief in the imperial court, he had been very confused.
He knew that Zhangsun Shunde was greedy for money and slackened his administration, but he would never use grass with stone sand to replace the disaster relief grain.
"Are you saying that someone is behind all of this?”Li Shi Min asked with a frown.
Zhangsun Wuji said indifferently,""Zhangsun Anye is a drunkard and a frivolous person. With his abilities, I'm afraid he can't kill people in the Supreme Court prison.”
Although he and Zhangsun Anye were half-brothers, they did not have much affection for each other.
After all, the trauma of being chased out of the house when he was young was really big.
"The disaster relief funds that Shunde embezzled originally belonged to Kong Yan. The murderer killed Shunde and wanted to frame Kong Yan…Could there be any connection between this?”Li Shimin lowered his eyebrows and muttered to himself,
"Your Majesty, are you suspecting Kong Yan?" Du Ruhui looked at Li Shimin.
Li Shi Min shook his head and said,"I'm just curious. Why did An Ye come to Chang 'an? He knew that if I found him in Chang 'an, I wouldn't let him go. Why did he dare to come? Or even harm Shunde?"
"..."
The ministers and ministers guessed at all kinds of possibilities, and in the end, they all believed that there was someone behind Zhangsun An Ye.
That person was the key!
"Your Majesty, the Turkic envoy has sent a secret letter saying that there is an urgent military situation.”
Wang De handed a secret letter to Li Shi Min with both hands.
"Emergency military intelligence?" Li Shi Min narrowed his eyes.
The rest of the ministers also looked curiously at the secret letter.
"Hmm?" After opening the secret scroll, Li Shi Min's pupils shrank and his expression changed.
At the very front of the secret scroll was a seal that said,"
Accept the order of the heavens, live forever!"
At the same time, the Wangchun Brothel also received a secret letter, which looked exactly the same as the one Li Shimin received.
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