Chapter 860: Old case from that year, death of Xia Jiang
"Xiao Chen, our Majesty has made a decree to give poisonous wine to Xia Jiang, and no one else is allowed to contact him anymore. It seems that our plan is successful. He has no patience with Xia Jiang anymore, and even
When we meet him, we won’t even give Xia Jiang a chance to defend himself.”
Early the next morning, Mei Changsu came to find Zhou Chen again and told him the news he had heard.
Emperor Liang ordered Gao Zhan to prepare poisoned wine and kill Xia Jiang. Although he did this secretly, as long as there were people in the palace who investigated carefully, they could still find out the clues.
"Not receiving people, not listening to others, this is indeed the old man's character."
After Zhou Chen heard Mei Changsu's narration, he was not surprised. Instead, he mocked Emperor Liang.
Emperor Liang treated Xia Jiang just like he had treated King Qi and the Red Flame Army, without giving him any chance to defend himself.
"really."
Mei Changsu agreed very much with Zhou Chen's evaluation of Emperor Liang. In their eyes, Emperor Liang was already an enemy, an enemy, and someone they despised.
"I have already told Jingyan that I want to meet Xia Jiang. Jingyan thought that I wanted to ask Chi Yan for him, so he agreed without any hesitation. This matter will be carried out by Eunuch Gao, who is the palace official.
The old man here will definitely give Jingyan and Aunt Jing the same face."
Zhou Chen nodded and said: "You just have to make arrangements. Xia Jiang, speaking of it, it seems that I have never faced him before. It would be too easy for him to die like this from poison and alcohol. He must be punished then."
Suffer."
"Why would you bother a dying man?"
Zhou Chen rolled his eyes at Mei Changsu: "I think you just don't mean what you say. Do you think I am someone else? You are probably gloating right now."
Mei Changsu smiled bitterly. He did want to target Xia Jiang and wanted Xia Jiang to die, but he really didn't take pleasure in his misfortune.
Because the death of Xia Jiang alone is not worth the 70,000 Red Flame Army, the entire Lin family and King Qi's lineage.
"Eunuch Gao is already making preparations. He specially left time for us, so we are going to Tianlao now."
"Prince Jing is also with us?"
"Same as last time, he will be listening by the side. If he shows up, Xia Jiang may not give in easily."
Zhou Chen said: "Okay, let's set off now."
Riding on Mei Changsu's carriage, the two of them quickly arrived at Tianlao.
Prince Jing and the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment were already waiting at the door of the Tianlu of the Ministry of Punishment. Although Cai Quan did not participate in the fight for the legitimate son, he was obviously biased towards Prince Jing Xiao Jingyan, so if Prince Jing wanted to do anything, within his authority, he would turn a blind eye.
Close one eye.
"Mr. Chen is here too?"
Xiao Jingyan was very surprised when he saw Zhou Chen coming with Mei Changsu. He didn't understand why Mei Changsu brought Zhou Chen with him.
"His Royal Highness Prince Jing." Zhou Chen called.
Mei Changsu explained: "Your Highness Prince Jing, I invited Brother Yu to come this time. Xia Jiang is different from Xie Yu in that he has very hard bones. Brother Yu is a veteran in the world, and maybe his methods can be effective against Xia Jiang.
"
Jamel Xiao was just surprised. After hearing Mei Changsu's explanation, he didn't ask any more questions.
"Let's go in, Eunuch Gao only gave us half an hour."
Although he already knew from Xie Yu that Xia Jiang and Xie Yu worked together to frame the case, Xie Yu had not told the reason why Xia Jiang did this before. He guessed that it might be because he and King Qi had suggested to lay off the Xuanjing Division.
But whether it was this or not, he still wanted to learn more truth from Xia Jiangkou.
Under the leadership of Jamel Xiao and Cai Quan, they walked into the prison. There were not a few jailors visible along the way, and they had obviously greeted them long ago.
When they arrived at Xia Jiang's cell, Cai Quan wisely withdrew, while Prince Jing walked to the empty cell next to him, while Mei Changsu and Zhou Chen walked towards Xia Jiang's cell.
The jailer opened the lock of the cell, let Mei Changsu and Zhou Chen go in, and then the jailer left quickly.
Xia Jiang, whose hands and feet were shackled, slowly raised his head when he heard the sound.
He was arrested years ago, so he has been locked up here for a long time. After such a long time, he has become embarrassed and dirty. That is to say, he used to be the head of the Xuanjing Division, and the jailer had some scruples.
, otherwise, his end will only be worse.
The black hair on his head was gone, replaced by long gray and white hair, as messy as a chicken coop.
Xia Jiang raised his head and saw Mei Changsu and Zhou Chen, with strong murderous intent bursting out of his eyes.
"Mei Changsu!"
He has been locked up here for so long, and he has already figured out that the reason why he is in this situation is all thanks to Mei Changsu.
"Mei Changsu, you dare to come here. Are you here to laugh at me?"
Xia Jiang struggled to stand up and wanted to rush towards Mei Changsu, but he couldn't move after just two steps, and the shackles made a clanging sound.
Facing Xia Jiang's angry questioning, Mei Changsu looked calm with a smile on his face.
"Why don't I dare to come here? You're right, I'm just here to laugh at you. You think you are the smartest person in the capital. You have been locked up here for so long. Do you want to understand how you lost to me?
"
Xia Jiang took a deep breath to suppress the anger and murderous intent in his heart.
"I admit that I underestimated you. Jiangzuo Meilang is a talented Qilin scholar. He is indeed worthy of his reputation."
"It seems that Xia Shouzun still has some tolerance. You are right. You really underestimated me and did not regard me as a real opponent. That's why you were defeated by me, and you didn't even have any room to stand up.
, just like Xie Yu back then."
"To be honest, based on my understanding of Xia Shouzun, I always felt that dealing with Xia Shouzun was much more difficult than dealing with Xie Yu. But I didn't expect that Xia Shouzun's arrogance gave me the opportunity to
I defeated you easily, so Xia Shouzun, I came here specifically to thank you."
Zhou Chen, who was standing nearby, twitched the corner of his mouth. This kid was so bad. Look, he was speaking in human language. Didn't you see that Xia Shouzun's eyes widened?
Without the blessing of identity and the suffering of this period of time, Xia Jiang can no longer remain calm as before.
"Mei Changsu."
Mei Changsu chuckled and said: "Okay, let's stop talking about the topic of ridicule first. Xia Shouzun, do you have anything to ask when you see me?"
Xia Jiang's face turned ugly, but he finally asked.
"How did you know that Wei Zheng was in Dali Temple? Only Xia Chun and I know about this. He will never betray me."
He thought about this problem for a long time, but couldn't figure it out. He knew something was wrong, but he couldn't figure out the specific reason.
Mei Changsu seemed to have guessed that he was going to ask this question.
"I can only tell you one thing about this question. This is what my best brother once told me. If you don't want others to know, you have to do nothing yourself."
"As long as you do something, it will definitely leave traces. Through traces, you can naturally find the reason."
It sounded reasonable, but he still didn't say anything, and Xia Jiang's face became even gloomier.
He felt that Mei Changsu was deliberately making fun of him.
"Mei Changsu, I've been locked up here for so long and you haven't even come here, but you came today. It seems like something happened outside that I don't know about, right?"
"Xia Shouzun is indeed Xia Shouzun. Your first guess is correct. Then Xia Shouzun, please guess again. Why did I come to you?"
Xia Shouzun stared at Mei Changsu for a long time, then frowned at Zhou Chen and was stunned for a while.
"Prince Jing, it was Prince Jing who asked you to come to me."
"Guessed it right."
Mei Changsu did not deny it.
Xia Jiang snorted coldly: "I knew it was him. Although nothing happened between me and him, I know that he once admired and followed King Qi. After so many years, and what happened to Xie Yu before, he must have
I also know that the incident between King Qi and the Red Flame traitor had something to do with me, so he probably asked you to come and find out about me."
"So what if it is, so what if it's not?" Mei Changsu didn't show the slightest bit of strange expression.
Xia Jiang said unhappily: "King Qi is the rebel king, and the Red Flame Army is the traitor. I followed your majesty's order to investigate them and eradicate them. I am the hero..."
Mei Changsu's expression remained unchanged, but his eyes gradually became colder.
"Xia Shouzun is really good at confusing right and wrong. Since you mentioned Xie Yu, you must also understand that we have learned the truth from Xie Yu's mouth. You are still here pretending to be a loyal minister and a hero. Tell the truth.
, I really admire your face, Xia Shouzun."
The muscles on Xia Jiang's face twitched a few times, showing that he was not calm at the moment.
"Xie Yu, this idiot."
Mei Changsu said: "Xie Yu didn't tell the whole story, but I made a hypothesis based on what he said. Xia Shouzun might as well listen to it and see if what I said is correct."
"Humph." Xia Jiang just snorted coldly.
Mei Changsu ignored him and said to himself: "What happened back then all started because of Xia Shouzun. However, the reason why Xia Shouzun wanted to deal with King Qi and the Red Flame Army was probably because King Qi proposed to His Majesty that year.
He made a suggestion and wanted to abolish the Xuanjing Division, but Xia Shouzun found out about it, so in order to preserve his position, Xia Shouzun acted selfishly..."
After hearing Mei Changsu talk about this matter, Xia Jiang could no longer keep calm and shouted loudly.
"No, you are wrong. The cause of all this is King Qi. It is because of his selfishness. The Xuanjing Department is the most important department of Daliang. He actually wants to abolish the Xuanjing Department. His behavior is disobedience
The ancestral legal system, he is..."
"What is it?"
Mei Changsu suddenly interrupted Xia Jiang's roar and said loudly: "You still want to blame the matter on King Qi. As far as I know, King Qi once raised the issue about the existence of the Xuanjing Division to His Majesty.
, but he did not say that the Xuanjing Division must be abolished, he just felt that the Xuanjing Division was in your hands and acted too coldly and domineeringly, and he wanted to make changes."
"This is just a proposal, and there are no specific regulations at all, but you held a grudge because of your own selfishness, until the war broke out between the Red Flame Army and the Dayu Imperial Army, giving you an opportunity, so you used Li
Focusing on the matter, he forged a letter asking for help from Nie Feng, and directed a blood-soaked uprising in which King Qi joined forces with the Red Flame Army."
"Xia Jiang, you are the cause of all this. For your own selfishness, you killed King Qi, persecuted 70,000 Red Flame Army, made the beams flow with blood, and laid millions of corpses. You are the chief culprit."
It may be an exaggeration to say that millions of people were killed in the injustice, but the number of people who died because of this incident was at least hundreds of thousands, which is really horrifying.
Xia Jiang seemed to be stunned by Mei Changsu's grab, and it took him a long time to react.
"Who are you? Even Prince Jing cannot know so clearly what happened back then. Who are you?" Xia Jiang asked loudly.
After Mei Changsu roared angrily, he quickly calmed down.
"It doesn't matter who I am, what matters is that what I say should be the truth."
Xia Jiang denied it: "King Qi and the Chiyan traitor are both traitors. This is a fact determined by His Majesty. So what about Prince Jing? Does he dare to talk about it in front of His Majesty? He is just a man who wants to be the crown prince.
He is just an unscrupulous prince."
"maybe."
Mei Changsu responded nonchalantly. Looking at Xia Jiang in front of him, he suddenly lost the pleasure of revenge. Maybe for him, Xia Jiang was just one of his targets, not the person he hated the most.
.
"But no matter whether His Highness Prince Jing can fulfill his wish in the future, but Xia Shouzun, I'm afraid you only have today."
When Xia Jiang heard this, his expression suddenly changed: "What do you mean?"
Mei Changsu turned to Zhou Chen and said, "We don't have much time. Do you have anything to say?"
Zhou Chen said: "You are here, I must say something or do something."
With that said, he walked up to Xia Jiang.
Xia Jiang looked at Zhou Chen with confusion and said coldly: "I know you, Gong Ziyu on the Langya Master List and the Young Master List, what do you want to do?"
Zhou Chen grinned and said with a smile: "Xia Jiang, before I saw you, I really thought of many kinds of punishments to torture you, an old dog. But now that I see you, I suddenly feel very disappointed. I was once the best person around His Majesty.
The cunning eagle dog has now become a useless dog. It is really sad."
"I kill you!"
Being insulted in front of a 'little' Jianghu person, Xia Jiang angrily shouted filial piety, the shackles rattled, but he couldn't get even closer to Zhou Chen.
Zhou Chen was not frightened. Instead, he took a step forward, leaned closer to Xia Jiang, and asked in a low voice.
"Do you know why I hate you so much and want to torture you?"
"The reason is very simple. Let me tell you a secret. My name is not Chen Yu. My real name is Zhou Chen."
Xia Jiang shrank, and a person suddenly appeared in his mind. Then he opened his eyes wide and looked at Zhou Chen in disbelief.
"Who are you……"
The next moment, he found that he was speechless because Zhou Chen suddenly threw something into his mouth and then made a gesture on his neck.
"Uh, uh..."
Facing Xia Jiang's horrified and disbelieving eyes, Zhou Chen said slowly: "You are right, I am the person you thought of. I climbed up from hell and took revenge on you. First Xie Yu, then
It's you, and finally it's him..."
"Uh, uh..."
Xia Jiang could only make a hoarse voice and could no longer speak normally. He was going to die anyway, so Zhou Chen directly damaged his vocal cords so that even if he knew his identity, he could no longer reveal it.
Zhou Chen's words really frightened Xia Jiang. Who was Zhou Chen? He was the man who died in the battle of Meiling. He saw Zhou Chen's 'corpse' and the cards in his hand with his own eyes. How could Zhou Chen survive?
More importantly, he had seen the young boy Zhou Chen many times, and he was sure that he had no resemblance to the Zhou Chen in front of him. How could the person in front of him be Zhou Chen.
Suddenly, his body stiffened. If Chen Yu was Zhou Chen, then who was Mei Changsu?
But he could never figure this out, because the next moment, Gao Zhan came with poisoned wine.
Mei Changsu and Zhou Chen both left silently. When Xia Jiang saw Gao Zhan and Dujiu, he struggled violently and screamed loudly.
Unfortunately, his vocal cords were damaged by Zhou Chen and he could not speak a word at all, let alone tell Gao Zhan Zhou Chen's identity.
What's more, Gao Zhan came with a mission and was not willing to listen to what he had to say. When he saw Xia Jiang's behavior, he didn't react at all. He immediately had someone hold Xia Jiang down and forcefully poured poisonous wine into Xia Jiang's mouth.
At the beginning, Xia Jiang struggled fiercely, but soon, he couldn't struggle anymore and fell to the ground.
He didn't even close his eyes until he died.
In the dark, seeing that Xia Jiang was indeed dead, Zhou Chen left the prison.