My father ordered me to kill the emperor, but His Majesty bestowed a princess upon me instead.

The order to kill the lord was written in the military tent.

It wasn't written in a letter home.

It wasn't written in a secret letter either.

Qingxia publicly examined the artifact in front of former generals of the Southwest Army, government officials, and witnesses from Guimingcang.

The tiger seal is true.

The handwriting is genuine.

The time is right.

The command content is also true.

Shen Lie ordered Shen An to go to the capital.

Kill Xiao Jingheng.

There are five reasons in total.

The imperial tent north of the river was sealed.

The Wang family transferred grain.

The investigation was not thorough after the late empress died.

Three years ago, they still concealed the fact that Gu Qinghe might be alive.

In the name of the court, the old case was allowed to continue for eleven years.

Article 5 states:

personal enmity.

Two words.

There was no pretense of upholding righteousness.

The emperor read the copy from beginning to end.

"He recognizes it perfectly."

The mother said, "We haven't finished recognizing them yet."

"What else is needed?"

Why did he send An'er?

"I didn't do it myself."

The emperor looked at me.

"You want to know too?"

"Know."

"Didn't you ask?"

"I asked."

"What did he say?"

"I can go to Beijing."

"He can't."

The emperor sneered.

"So he used his son as a knife."

The mother looked at the decree ordering the regicide.

"Write this stroke too."

Add the following to Bai Zhi's page after Shen Lie's responsibility page:

He knew perfectly well that Shen An was unaware that his mother was still alive.

Taking advantage of his incomplete knowledge of the emperor and the old case, he issued the order to kill the emperor.

He entrusted the responsibility for the murder, which he himself could not publicly bear, to his son.

reason:

I am waiting to be filled.

Qingxia quickly replied with half a page.

The father's patching was not long.

If I fail to enter the capital.

One dies.

If I were to personally raise an army...

Many died.

That's a reason he gives.

It's also hard to refute.

My father did not raise an army.

The Southwest Army did not attack Beijing directly because of past grievances.

He chose the smallest knife.

It just so happens that the knife was mine.

After listening, the mother only asked:

"Does An'er's death mean she's not human?"

The messenger bowed his head.

"The general did not write it that way."

"So ask him."

The copy is then sent out again.

I won't be able to return for another half day.

The court discussion cannot wait until Qingxia.

The emperor asked the ministers in the palace:

"Shen Lie publicly issued the decree to kill the emperor."

"According to the law, what is the procedure?"

The Minister of War said, "Treason."

The Minister of the Court of Imperial Clan Affairs said, "Their entire family should be executed."

After I finished speaking, many people in the hall looked at me, my mother, and Xiao Lingyi at the same time.

Nine Clans is very useful.

One person gave the order.

Many people died together.

The province will split the profits.

The mother asked the Minister of the Court of Imperial Clan Affairs:

"Shen Lie gave the order."

Why did you kill me?

The Minister of the Court of Imperial Clan Affairs said, "The crime of treason is a serious offense, and the punishment of implicating others is an ancestral rule."

"He locked me up before."

"Would you die in his place too?"

"Husband and wife are one."

"He lied to his son."

"His son died too?"

"Father and son are one."

"Where is Zhaoning?"

The Minister of the Court of Imperial Clan Affairs remained silent.

Xiao Lingyi is Shen An's wife.

You can also include them according to the nine generations of your family.

A decree was issued to punish those involved.

First, set fire to the imperial court and the southwest.

If there are any people left in the accounting meeting, they will applaud the Minister of the Court of Imperial Clan Affairs tonight.

The emperor said, "I will not discuss implicating others."

The Minister of the Court of Imperial Clan Affairs urgently said, "Your Majesty, ancestral rules cannot be lightly abolished!"

"Does the ancestral rule dictate that you kill Gu Qinghe?"

The emperor asked.

"She gave the order on Shen Lie's behalf?"

"no."

"Shen An has been ordered to do so?"

"no."

"Lingyi was involved?"

"no."

"Then kill those who have done wrong first."

The emperor glanced at me when he said this.

He probably remembered me saying before that if the emperor was guilty, he should live and admit it first.

He has now started dividing his work into segments.

It's not necessarily all well-intentioned.

At least we know that imposing guilt by association will cause chaos first.

The Minister of War said:

Even if it doesn't implicate others.

"Shen Lie should still be stripped of his military power and brought to the capital for trial."

The mother asked, "Who can explain this?"

"The imperial court has issued an edict."

"What if he doesn't answer?"

"Send troops."

"Who will go and fight?"

"All the armies that came to the king's aid."

"Where will the food come from?"

The Minister of War stopped.

The accounts for the 6,000 shi of grain in Jiangbei have not yet been settled.

If we need to transfer another 100,000 shi of military rations to pursue Shen Lie.

This court meeting would then become a joke.

The emperor asked me:

"What do you think should be done with your father?"

"Don't make me deal with it yet."

Why?

"I am his son."

"He is also my imperial censor."

"Therefore, it's even more unacceptable."

I said, "Father ordered His Majesty to be killed."

"I did not offer it."

"Now it's up to me to decide whether he should die or not."

"Everyone will say that later."

"It wasn't the imperial court that tried Shen Lie."

"It was the son who repaid the emperor's favor."

The mother nodded.

"That sounds like normal speech."

Ah Liu stood behind and whispered:

"Young Master is like that all the time."

Bai Zhi said, "Occasionally."

I heard it.

It is not appropriate to argue about this in court.

Ultimately, only three items were set as the order to kill the lord.

the first.

Lingzhen.

Shen Lie acknowledged.

second.

Shen An did not accept the offer.

The case of the imposter Shen An entering the palace is a separate matter.

third.

Shen Lie is not permitted to carry out this order in the name of the Southwest Army.

Anyone in the army who enters the capital with an order to assassinate the emperor must first publicly state their name, military number, and the time they received the order.

One cannot simply obey one's father's orders.

This third point was simultaneously confirmed by the Qingxia military camp.

The father did not withdraw the order.

However, he agreed that no one in the military should carry out the order on his behalf.

in other words.

He still believed the emperor deserved to die.

But the order was no longer placed on all Southwest Army soldiers.

From the father's command of an army.

Shen Lie withdrew his murderous intent.

This step is not enough.

At least a thousand knives less.

In the evening, the mother's question was finally answered.

Qingxia sent her father's handwritten note:

An'er died.

Pay me a cent.

There are only six characters.

The mother looked at it for a long time.

"Let's do some calculations."

She said, "He always thought that admitting it was enough."

The emperor said, "In this respect, he is like me."

The mother looked up.

"Your Majesty is being honest today."

The emperor leaned back on the soft couch.

"If I am not honest..."

"You can write too."

That's progress.

not much.

Make a note of it first.

Just as the court meeting was about to adjourn, Qingxia delivered the fifth catalog.

This is not Shen Lie's responsibility.

This is a record of forty-one soldiers who entered the camp in the Southwest Army in the fourteenth year of Chengxi.

The record ends with a receipt for picking up people.

The Wang family sent forty-one people to the southwest.

The recipient was not Shen Lie.

It's not Xu Sandao either.

It says above:

Central command tent.

Gu Qinghe verified.

The mother's expression did not change when she saw her name.

Just ask:

"Did you sign it?"

"It has the character 'Gu' as its mark."

"Bring it closer."

The rubbing was presented to me.

The character "顾" is written very well.

The mistakes in the beginning stroke, ending stroke, and the radical for "yi" are all correct.

Bai Zhi stared at it for a long time.

"It's even more accurate than the previous imitations."

The mother said:

"Fake."

"Where is it fake?"

"I write the character '顾' (Gu).

"The rice below won't sprout."

She pointed to the rubbing.

"This one is out."

I can't see the difference.

Bai Zhi retrieved her mother's handwritten note again.

Seventeen Gu Qinghes.

The top stroke of the character 禾 (hé) is indeed contained within the lower edge of the character 顾 (gù).

The rubbing, however, was half an inch higher.

Only half a portion.

People who are not familiar with you will not notice.

"No one can imitate even the misspellings perfectly."

"But didn't you know that the character '禾' (hé) doesn't have a top radical?"

I asked.

The mother said, "I've seen my accounts."

"People who haven't seen my childhood signature."

They had access to a large number of her military food tents.

But I don't really know her.

There are quite a few people like that.

Wang Shi.

Southwest Accounting Office.

Even the father.

There is also a witness stamp on the back of the form.

It's not a tiger seal.

It is the old seal of the late Empress, half a month ago.

True seal.

It's another case of a real seal but a fake story.

Upon seeing this, Zhaoyue suddenly said:

"This seal."

"A piece was missing only after the Empress died."

The crescent moon mark on the rubbing has a missing corner in the lower left corner.

The date on which the person can collect the document is seven days before the late Empress's death.

The private seal was still intact at the time.

A stamp that was added later.

It was written in an earlier date.

Angelica dahurica was immediately highlighted in red.

The date is fake.

Gu Qinghe signed a leave agreement.

Only the paper and the names might be true.

When will the forty-one people enter the southwest? They need to be re-arranged.

The father's military tent wasn't entirely accurate either.

Qingxia quickly received objections.

This time, what was sent back was not an explanation.

My father had the central command tent sealed off.

And I personally added a line to the original table of contents:

Gu Qinghe denied it.

This page is questionable.

Check again.

After reading it, the emperor said:

"Shen Lie will allow others to refute him?"

The mother said, "He didn't used to."

Why is that now?

When the Emperor's decree read out my name, Xiao Lingyi did not look at her father.

She looked at me.

I have no knife in my sleeve.

But his hand still instinctively pressed down on the old injury.

She pushed a cup of tea that had gone cold towards her.

"Loosen your grip."

"I am not nervous."

"The teacup is making a clattering sound."

I lowered my head.

It did indeed make a sound.

It wasn't because they were afraid of killing the emperor.

It's because that order is finally no longer hidden between my father and me.

Everyone in the hall could see how he commanded me.

They can all see it, so how can I refuse?

I took a sip of cold tea.

very bitter.

Xiao Lingyi said, "If you return alive, I will have someone change your clothes to be warmer."

This is not a consolation.

Very useful.

I said, "Because she's alive."

The dead man, Gu Qinghe.

He can sign any bill on behalf of his father.

Gu Qinghe is alive.

They would admit it was a lie on the spot.

That's the purpose of opening the door.

It's not about having the mother come out to vouch for everyone.

It's about preventing others from speaking up for her.