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Chapter 2 The Princess Takes the Blame and is Granted Death (2)

So the final result was that those who filed the complaint entered the capital very smoothly under the secret protection of various officials. No matter how furious Emperor Tianwu was, he had no choice but to take the case and send people to escort Prince Lu to the capital.

At the same time, investigate in detail what the facts are?

Even if Emperor Tianwu did not find out the true situation clearly, it would not be a problem for him to find out more about it. He soon found out that those who filed the complaint were right, and he also knew that it was the officials' secret protection that allowed them to successfully go to the capital to file the complaint. Otherwise, those civilians would have been assassinated by his son, Prince Lu.

Emperor Tianwu originally didn't want to punish his own son. After all, he loved his own son very much. No matter how bad his son was, he was still a royal family member. How could he be punished for the death of some common people, let alone be tortured for it?

Many officials are involved in the investigation results of this matter.

It made him more determined in this belief.

Because if he really punished his son, wouldn't that be satisfying the wishes of those officials? The most important thing is that once this matter was finally accomplished, that is, his son, Prince Lu, was punished, then princes who broke the law would also be sentenced. This would become a custom and a means for officials to restrict imperial power.

How to ensure the supremacy of the royal family at that time?

From then on, vassal kings who broke the law would be impeached every day. Those who were guilty would be impeached, and even those who were innocent could be impeached by fabricating charges.

It will also bring disgrace to the royal family.

This door cannot be opened, it absolutely cannot be opened.

As a result, the allegations of the Prince of Lu abducting pregnant women and using unborn fetuses to create elixirs were put on hold due to the time required to verify the facts. Furthermore, all officials found by Emperor Tianwu to have protected the people and allowed them to safely enter the capital with the imperial edict to file their cases were either beheaded or their entire clans exterminated, either on the pretext of corruption or belonging to remnants of Prime Minister Jiang's rebellion ten years prior.

The officials who were killed were terrified, angry and resentful.

But he dared not act rashly.

After killing all the officials who supported or planned the incident, Emperor Tianwu began to deal with the matter of his son, Prince Lu. Undoubtedly, someone had to take the blame, but the officials who had taken the blame last time, such as the Prince's Palace Chief Secretary, had not yet been replaced. Or, if he wanted to, no officials or scholars dared to go.

Therefore, the position of Chief Secretary remained vacant for several years.

Others are too low in status.

He simply can't bear such a huge blame.

In the end, he set his sights or thoughts on Princess Lu, the original wife who had been married to his son for several years but had not given him any children.

Therefore, the result of the investigation into the case of the people suing the emperor was that Prince Lu Zhu Qin was instigated by Princess Lu's wife Meng, and he did not know people well, so he did some wrong things. The culprit was actually Princess Lu's wife Meng. All the pregnant women were kidnapped by Princess Lu and brought into the Prince Lu's Mansion. At the same time, all the people she sent to kidnap committed suicide out of fear of punishment.

That’s right, it’s such a distortion of right and wrong.

It was clearly the original body who rescued some pregnant women and tried every means to secretly send them out of the palace and bring them to a safe place, but it turned out that she sent people to rob and bring them into the palace.

It was obvious that her confidant was killed by King Lu.

The result was suicide out of fear of punishment.

But this was a case decided by Emperor Tianwu, and so many officials had been killed before. With so many precedents, who would dare to speak or question?

Not to mention the officials who have nothing to do with it.

Even the original biological father, Duke Shu, did not dare to have any doubts. Not only did he not dare to question it, he also had to quickly submit a petition to apologize, saying that he had not taught his daughter well and had implicated Prince Lu.

The result was that the culprit, Princess Lu, was sentenced to death.

Prince Lu returned home and reflected on his mistakes for a year.

In order to show his favor, or what Emperor Tianwu thought was his favor, he also issued a special decree to grant marriage to the third daughter of Duke Shu, making her his second wife, the Princess of Xinlu.

Perhaps in his view, he had now ordered the death of one Princess Lu and would return another Princess Lu to the Meng family.

It can be regarded as his great grace. Regardless of whether Duke Shu is really willing in his heart.

But I still have to thank God for his grace.

What followed, of course, was that Emperor Tianwu sent eunuchs to send his son, Prince Lu, back to the Prince Lu's Mansion to reflect on his mistakes, and at the same time ordered the death of the Prince Lu's wife so that he could give an explanation to the outside world.

As for the matter of granting marriage to a second wife.

Of course, we have to wait until King Lu finishes his self-reflection.

At the same time, Duke Shu hurriedly sent his confidant with a letter to the original body. In addition, his third sister, who knew that she was going to be the successor of Prince Lu, also sent a letter to the original body.

They were all sent over at full speed.

It was delivered before the eunuchs delivered the death order.

These two letters let the original person know in advance that he was about to be sentenced to death, and also made him even more desperate.

Because the letter didn't say he would help her fake her own death to save her life, nor did it offer any words of comfort. The letter from her father, Duke Shu, was all about the emperor wanting his subjects to die, and the subject had to die. The family had treated her well for so many years, and it was time for her to repay the family. The core message was actually just one, which was for her to accept her fate of being sentenced to death.

When receiving an order, you must not complain or express dissatisfaction.

You are not allowed to question or talk nonsense.

I have to thank God for his grace.

Duke Shu was clearly aware that his daughter wasn't the type of person Emperor Tianwu had described in his decree, but he couldn't help but shoulder the blame. If he didn't, not only would his daughter be in danger, but the lives of his entire family would be in jeopardy. The excuse of being a remnant of Prime Minister Jiang's accomplices was all too convenient.

Emperor Tianwu took ten years to finish it.

He certainly isn't afraid of having his entire family implicated.

He asked not to question or talk nonsense because he was afraid that his daughter could not bear the humiliation and the bad reputation after her death, and would explode in anger or tell the truth.

Even if those eunuchs were there, it would be impossible for the news to get out.

But if those eunuchs went back and told Emperor Tianwu about it, and Emperor Tianwu took his anger out on them, then all the sacrifices made before would be in vain.

After reading this letter, how could the original person not despair?

What made her even more desperate was the letter from her sister. There was no comfort in the letter. It was full of accusations, resentment and dissatisfaction. She felt that if her original body had not done those things and was sentenced to death, she would not have been married to King Lu as his second wife and would not have to be separated from the person she loved.

Originally, she had met Qin Anhou's second son and was preparing to discuss the marriage between the two families.

Most importantly, she was satisfied.

But they were all ruined by the marriage arranged by Emperor Tianwu.

Her sister didn't dare resent Emperor Tianwu, didn't dare resent her parents for not rejecting her, and didn't dare resent the Qin'an Marquisate for not even showing any sign of support. She immediately ignored the previous engagement and exchange of horoscopes. She only dared to write a letter to the original body, pouring out all her anger and dissatisfaction on the original body. After all, she was already dying anyway.

I can understand those who are angry and dissatisfied.

What she couldn't understand and accept was that her sister actually believed that she did those things. How was that possible?

If even her sister believed it, what would outsiders think?

The original person wanted to die at that time, but was afraid of being accused of committing suicide out of fear of punishment, so he waited until the order came.

Then choose to drink the Hedinghong.

(End of this chapter)