The people responsible for investigating Su Wei and Gao Jiong were actually the most miserable because these two people had such high status.
Moreover, the East Palace guard who delivered the news to these two people has been executed. He has no evidence to prove his death and cannot make it public. How can we investigate this?
It can only be asked face to face.
Yu Wenbi, the Minister of Punishment, checked Su Wei, and Liang Bi checked Gao Jiong. They all conducted student rituals, especially Liang Bi. He always respected Gao Jiong, so he was particularly humble when asking questions.
In fact, the result that Yang Guang wants is very simple, that is, whether Su Wei and Gao Jiong told other people, especially the King of Qi and King Qin, about the prince's illness.
Su Wei, Gao Qiao, these are all old foxes. They naturally answer with no trace of anything.
Therefore, Yu Wenbi and Liang Bi could only communicate truthfully, and they could not torture Su and Gao. Besides, people like them had come through mountains of fire and swords, so torture was useless.
Fortunately, both of them knew the emperor's true intentions, so everything related to King Qin and King Qi was investigated.
Su Wei learned the news about the prince's illness in September last year. This fact was obtained through torture and interrogation from the East Palace guard who sent Su Wei a letter, and it was completely consistent with Su Wei's answer.
At that time, King Qin Yang Ming had already gone to Luoyang, and in Su Wei's house, the records of everyone leaving the city were available for inspection. What they went out for and when they came back were all investigated by the Ministry of Punishments.
As for Su Wei and King Qi, there is no connection at all, so Su Wei can basically be ruled out.
Let's talk about Gao Jiong. After Gao Jiong was dismissed as prime minister, he was also dismissed as Duke of Qi. Therefore, most of the servants in his house have been dismissed. Gao Jiong himself lives in seclusion and rarely interacts with others, so there is no doubt about it.
The biggest problem between these two people was that after they knew that the prince was ill, they did not go to visit him immediately, nor did they inform the emperor. It was a bit like watching the incident from afar.
Su Wei's answer was that diabetes mellitus is not a serious illness. Since the prince has taken medicine, there should be no serious problems. Moreover, the prince himself deliberately concealed it and did not want to cause trouble, so he remained indifferent.
Gao Jiong's answer was even more awesome. He thought that the emperor knew, because he felt that he could know it. The emperor was in the palace. How could he not know? So he thought that the emperor was suppressing this matter and did not want outsiders to know.
He knew, so he simply pretended not to know.
Both of their answers seemed reasonable.
Then, only Li Zixiong is left.
It happened that at this time, Wei Xuan, who was responsible for questioning Yang Yue, came back and directly brought Li Zixiong's son Li Min into the palace.
This man was a key figure, and Wei Xuan was afraid that he would escape, so he arrested him immediately.
He did not dare to use torture at will, so he handed it over to the emperor for personal interrogation.
When Yang Guang saw Li Min, he was in a very bad mood and directly scolded Wei Xuan for not doing things well.
What would Li Zixiong think if you arrest someone at this time? He hasn't entered Beijing yet.
So Yang Guang released the person without asking any questions, but he asked Dali Temple to send some capable people to keep a close eye on the person.
He also asked Wei Xuan to confess his mistake to Li Min, which meant that he had arrested the wrong person. Fortunately, Wei Xuan did not cross-examine Li Min at the beginning, so the secret was not exposed.
Li Zixiong is the general manager of Youzhou, and he is also the minister of Honglu Temple. The key is that this person is Yang Guang's person.
Youzhou, that is, the area around Beijing, has only nine counties, but it has 11 military mansions and 12,000 permanent soldiers. Because it is located on the border, with Turks to the north and Goguryeo to the northeast.
If Li Zixiong knew that his son had been arrested, he would definitely not dare to go to Beijing again. If he was allowed to return to Youzhou, something might happen.
"You are such a waste," Yang Guang pointed at Wei Xuan's nose and cursed: "Can't you wait until Li Zixiong comes to Beijing before arresting him?"
Wei Xuan lowered his head and said: "I am stupid, I really didn't think of this at the time."
Yang Guang snorted coldly, returned to his seat, sat down, and said, "Tell me why you want to arrest him."
Wei Xuan hurriedly said: "There is definitely something wrong with this person. I have found out clearly. Li Min is good friends with the King of Qi. He also went to Luoyang to meet with the King of Qi. After returning to the capital, he brought a generous gift to Yang Yue.
Yes, and Li Min gave this gift on behalf of King Qi."
Yang Guang suddenly frowned: "King Qi wants to please Yang Yue? Why? Is there anything he wants Yang Yue to do?"
"This minister doesn't know, and Yang Yue doesn't know either. He just accepted the gift. There is no request from King Qi," Wei Xuan replied.
Yang Guang snorted coldly: "This miser dares to accept any money, and he doesn't even think about whether others will give it to him for free?"
Yang Guang actually didn't mind Yang Yue's greed for money, because when he was still in Yangzhou, he gave a lot of money to Yang Yue, an old boy, in order to make friends with Yang Su and help him speak more for him in front of the Supreme Being.
Good words.
But after he became the crown prince, Yang Yue spat out double the money he had received from him.
Loving money is not a problem, and Yang Yue will really do things for you after receiving money.
But what Yang Guang is taboo about is, what does the second son want Yang Yue to do?
"Keep talking," Yang Guang said.
Wei Xuan hurriedly said: "I have checked that Li Min left Beijing last year to visit his father Li Zixiong in Youzhou. So when he appeared in Luoyang, he should have been returning to Beijing from Youzhou and passing by. He and King Qi were good friends when they were young.
It makes sense to go and meet.”
When the Sui Dynasty defeated Chen Dynasty, Li Zixiong served under Yang Guang. At that time, he became Yang Guang's man, and later became the governor of Jiangzhou, which is now Jiujiang County. It is close to Jiangdu, so he often met Yang Guang.
Coming and going.
When Yang Guang became emperor, he was made the general manager of Youzhou and was in charge of the border areas.
Wei Xuan continued: "The person who sent the message to Li Zixiong was a general led by Prince Zuo Wei. In February last year, this person sent a close associate from his family to send the message to Li Zixiong, but the person who sent the message left the capital.
After that, there was no news again, and Li Min left Beijing in February, arrived in Luoyang in April, and returned to Beijing in May. The time was completely right. I even suspected that Li Min knew the news earlier than Li Zixiong."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Yang Guang crossed his fingers and sat on the chair, frowning in thought.
After a while, Yang Guang nodded: "I understand, you can go down."
Wei Xuan originally wanted to communicate with the emperor more, but he didn't give him a chance, so he had to leave in anger.
Of course Yang Guang would not communicate with him. As an emperor, he was destined to have many worries, many of which he could not share with others and could only be endured by himself.
He is now becoming more and more uneasy about Lao Er, but for the time being, he will not touch Lao Er because he has to rely on Lao Er to handle the canal affairs.
But be careful, you must be careful.
Didn't he want something from Yang Yue? Get out of here, both of you.
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In the next few days of the court meeting, there was nothing else but the digging of the canal.
This time, Yang Guang was in trouble because of the prince's affairs. An official at the Yushitai who opposed the construction of the canal was whipped to death by Yang Guang directly in the main hall.
It's like killing the chicken and showing it to the monkey.
Now, the opposition voices have suddenly become smaller, but there are still some, such as Gao Jiong.
So Gao Jiong was dismissed from office again, and Yang Guang also raped him after he had been a tutor for a short time.
At this point, the original 80% opposition to digging the canal dropped to 20% opposition, and finally it was unanimously approved.
King Yang Jin of Qi was the director of the river, Yang Yue, the internal historian, Huangfu Yi, the minister Youcheng, was the deputy director, and Yu Wenkai was still the chief engineer.
Yang Guang gave them a month to prepare, and then immediately left Beijing for Luoyang to start work.
The starting point of the canal is Banzhu Town in Xingyang, so Yang Jin's river director's office will also be located in Luoyang, because Luoyang has the Weishui River, and a waterway needs to be dug to connect the Weishui River and the Yellow River.
In other words, from now on, you can take a boat directly from Luoyang City to Jiangdu.
The emperor's alienation from him was completely expected by Yang Yue. Even his brother Yang Su had already guessed it in advance when he was supervising the river construction.
There is no other way. If you take money from the King of Qi, you will easily be classified as a member of the King of Qi's party, even though Yang Yue is from Qin within and Qi from outside.
However, taking this opportunity to have more contact with King Qi will help him defeat the opponent in the future.
Yang Guang also didn't expect that Yang Yue was actually an Infernal Affairs practitioner.
The most angry person in the capital recently, when Yang Guang came down, was probably Yang Jian.
Because he already knew that his money was being divided.
"Damn it, that's my money!"
Yang Jian was throwing things randomly in the palace. No matter whether they were expensive or not, if he saw them, he would grab them and throw them against the wall.
You’ve lost all your money, do you still care about these gadgets?
His confidants were all trying to persuade him, but they couldn't stop him, because Yang Jian not only threw things, but also beat people. Whoever persuaded him would be beaten.
This time, he felt pain not in his body, but in his heart and soul, because he knew that he would never get the money back.
"Well, Yang Ming, you are so sinister," Yang Xian gasped, sat down, and finally stopped smashing things.
Because it's all broken.
"Please pay attention to this king quickly so that I can let out this bad breath," Yang Xian gasped while looking at the people in the hall.
Who dares to come out? No one dares to come out, because they all already know that this is the Queen's will.
King Qi had offended his own mother.
For a long time, no one said anything, and Yang Xian suddenly became furious:
"A bunch of losers, how come I am so unlucky to raise a bunch of losers like you, and you don't say anything, right? Okay, I will find a way for myself."
"Your Highness, no," Chief Shi Liu Jianzhi said hurriedly: "For the current plan, the first thing Your Highness needs to do is to repair the relationship with the Queen. Everything else is secondary. If we can't win back the Queen's feelings, everything we do will be in vain.
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Yang Jian said: "How to save it? My mother refuses to see me now. Every time I go to Yong'an Palace, she is sent away by those dog slaves."
"A sincere heart leads to success," Liu Jianzhi advised: "The Queen is kind, so your Highness will go to Yong'an Palace and kneel there. If the Queen doesn't summon you, don't get up. As long as we meet in person, everything will be settled."
Yang Jian frowned and said, "Isn't it true that I have never knelt before? My mother just ordered me to be kicked away."
"Then you kowtow until your head bleeds," Li Xuandao, the wine sacrificer, also came up with an idea: "Anyway, before leaving the capital, Your Highness must make the Queen change her mind, otherwise it will be very detrimental to Your Highness once King Qin comes back."
He is more capable than you, Li Xuandao thought in his heart.
A torture plan? Yang Jian thought for a while and said, "I can't do it myself, and I can't bear the pain. How about you guys help me?"
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Everyone looked at each other and nodded.
In the past, they really didn't dare, but now that the situation is unfavorable, they naturally can't care so much.