kvmb Chapter 251: The Crown Prince is under house arrest, and one of the servants is executed immediately
Chapter 251: The Crown Prince is under house arrest, and one of the servants is executed immediately
On this day in the court, Lord Gu, who was always upright and dignified, angrily criticized the crown prince.
"Your Majesty, the Crown Prince forced the eldest young master Gu Chengyan to death in order to seize his concubine... I saw it with my own eyes, and the people can all testify to it."
Gu Shaoyu was fully prepared and submitted all the evidence one by one.
There was a sigh in the court.
Elder Liu stood up and said, "Your Majesty, it is really puzzling that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince would behave like this. He actually took possession of a commoner's woman. It is really absurd!"
Xie Anfeng naturally had to stand up and defend his relative: "Ridiculous! In order to occupy the minister's wife, he actually forced the minister to death. If he is not severely punished, the national laws and etiquette will be abolished. How can the court win the support of the people?"
Before Duke Cheng'en could quite understand what was going on, he saw Lord Gu, Lord Liu, and Prime Minister all stand out and speak solemnly.
As the most important official in the court, he must not fall behind and must not let people think he is old.
It is rare for a person to live to be seventy years old. He is already in his eighties, but he is still worrying about national affairs. He does not feel old but still like a young man!
The first time I heard that old man Liu Ge Lao say "famine" and "sugar" something, and the second time I heard Xie Anfeng say "sugar" in a resounding voice. Could it be that there was a sugar famine in the country?
He wanted to ask the people around him, but unfortunately the court was very lively today and everyone was eating melons, so no one was bothered to share with him.
So the old man stepped out of the line holding his tablet and said loudly, "Isn't it just a lack of sugar? A sugar famine? I promise to share your worries. When I return, I will order people to work day and night, and I will solve all the sugar shortages by myself."
After he finished speaking, the whole place fell silent.
Is all the "absurdity" done by the old man?
Duke Cheng'en thought he had shocked everyone. He tried to look at the emperor, but the emperor seemed to move his mouth, but he didn't hear what was said.
He thought that His Majesty was praising him, so he said modestly: "This is what I should do, Your Majesty does not need to reward me."
His Majesty looked at him speechlessly. Gu Shaoyu and Xie Anfeng naturally would not remind him. Hua Zisheng pursed his lips and lowered his head without saying a word.
The whole court suddenly had a sense of inexplicable joy.
His Majesty asked the ministers around him to tell him what had happened.
The minister could not have given too many details. Duke Cheng En only half understood and became angry. He said to Gu Shaoyu: "Mr. Gu, you lied and slandered the crown prince. What crime should you be punished for?"
"Lord Cheng'en, you should go and treat your ear disease first before talking!" Gu Shaoyu retorted bluntly.
When everyone was blaming the prince, and he was speechless and only said "I didn't know she was hiding in the mansion", the ministers around Duke Cheng'en whispered to him, and he realized that the woman impeached by Lord Yu had not left yet?
The prince is confused!
He immediately began to practice Tai Chi for the prince: "Prince is kind, but even if this kind of woman is pitiful, you can't just keep her for nothing."
The prince is feeling upset. If he is hard of hearing, why don’t he just stop talking and shut up?
Half of the court blamed the prince, while the other half of Cheng En's followers said, "How could the prince fall in love with such an unpresentable concubine? There must be a misunderstanding."
His Majesty angrily slammed the imperial desk and said to the prince: "You are the crown prince, but you actually did something like bullying men and women and robbing women. You have brought shame to the royal family! You are just like your sister Princess Yurong, you are corrupt!"
The prince grabs women, and the chubby princess grabs men!
If a crown prince of a country is denounced by His Majesty as having "corrupt morals", it will be a huge stain on him even if he ascends the throne in the future.
The prince knelt down hastily and defended himself, "I did not do anything worse than a pig or a dog. The woman escaped into my house on her own and I did not know about it."
Gu Shaoyu refuted: "Do the servants in the Prince's Mansion eat for free? In the Prince's Mansion, the escaped slaves can enter whenever they want, and hide in there for several days. They are not willing to come out until the censor impeaches them.
On the day of Lord Bo's death, His Highness's attendant drove a carriage with the guards of the Crown Prince's residence and went to the Lord Bo's residence to snatch him away, saying that it was an order from His Highness the Crown Prince. The Crown Prince also wants to deny that he knew nothing about it?"
The prince defended himself again: "I attended court on time every day, and I really didn't know that Shi Xiu went to the Bo's mansion."
Elder Liu said angrily, "Your Highness's people openly went to the Bo's Mansion to rob people. Your Highness was derelict in his duty if he didn't know about it. I beg Your Majesty to punish them severely."
"Prince, if you don't want others to know, then you must not do it. A baron died because he was afraid of your power, and you cannot escape the blame."
His Majesty no longer listened to the Crown Prince's explanation and directly issued an oral order: The Crown Prince did not control his subordinates strictly, which led to the untimely death of the Earl of Pingyang. He is confined to the Crown Prince's Mansion for half a year and is not allowed to go out without the emperor's order; the eunuchs and the housekeeper are to be executed immediately, and the rest of the servants and guards are to be severely punished with fifty lashes of the cane each, and their life and death are at the mercy of fate.
The general of Qianniu Guards quickly looked at the emperor's hands. The emperor placed his hands on the table with his ten fingers pointing outward in the shape of an "outward eight". He knew what was going on and led the imperial guards to the prince's mansion to arrest the person.
Gu Shaoyu raised his eyelids slightly and saw the direction of His Majesty's ten fingers. He knew that His Majesty wanted to kill the imperial guards with their sticks and take their lives!
After returning home from court, Gu Shaoyu told Xie Zhaozhao about the court's decision.
Xie Zhaozhao breathed a sigh of relief and said to Nanxing, "Go to the Earl's Mansion and tell the Earl (Gu Zheng) and the old lady that the elder has avenged the late Earl."
The prince was confined to the mansion, and all the servants in the mansion were beheaded or beaten to death. The news spread quickly in Kyoto.
Many people secretly spat at the Prince's Mansion. How could such a person be the crown prince of Daqian?
The old lady called Gu Zhongyu, Gu Shaoyu, and Gu Zheng and cried, "My son and grandson are dead, why is he only under house arrest for half a year?"
Gu Zheng said, "Grandmother, although my father was forced by the prince, he burned himself in the end. More than 30 servants in the prince's mansion were beaten to death. This is the best result."
"Those who were beaten to death were insignificant servants, but my son is the uncle and my grandson is the eldest grandson!"
Gu Shaoyu asked calmly: "What punishment do you think mother should give me?"
"The culprit must pay with his life for my son! The prince is guilty of the same crime as the common people. Why did my son's family fall apart while he was only confined for half a year?" The old lady gnashed her teeth and said, "My son died tragically! Do you care about your brother?"
"Mother, please pack up. I will take you to the palace. You go and make a scene for His Majesty and ask him to execute the crown prince!"
The old lady got scared when she heard this and said angrily, "You are the minister, why don't you tell His Majesty and ask me to tell him? What do I know?"
"No, you know a lot. I can't ask the prince to die for his brother. If you go and say it, the effect will definitely be different. If you cry and make a fuss, maybe His Majesty will listen!"
Gu Shaoyu said, "Before you go, notify the Gu family first, pack up in advance, and prepare to reunite with your brother underground."
You still want the crown prince to be buried with you? Any one of the things your grandson did is a crime that would exterminate the entire clan.
The Crown Prince is now afraid that his secret manufacture of weapons will be discovered by His Majesty, and he is also afraid that his addiction to the elixir will be made public, so he has to suffer in silence. Do you think he is really afraid of the Earl's Mansion?
If the net is broken and the fish is dead, the prince will expose the matter regardless of the consequences. Harboring a fugitive and killing the crown prince, how many heads of the entire Earl's Mansion will be chopped off?
The old lady was choked by him and stared at him.
In fact, Gu Zheng and Gu Zhongyu didn't know what was going on. Gu Shaoyu called Gu Zhongyu and Gu Zheng out and explained the whole story to them separately.
Both of them broke out in cold sweats.
"Why didn't you tell grandma directly? If she continues to make a fuss, it will be a capital crime to destroy the whole family if it gets to His Majesty's ears." Gu Zheng said with a headache, "Grandma is really a worry."
"Don't tell her the truth. If she shouts it out, it will cause trouble." Gu Shaoyu said, "If she makes trouble again, have someone seal the door of Ci'en Courtyard and feed her with good food every day."
If you make any more noise, you will be put under house arrest!