Li Xia's entire body was carefully searched, including the two volumes of information he was carrying, which were also turned over page by page.
After confirming that he was not carrying any weapons, a eunuch led him into the Hall of Selected Virtues.
Li Xia's back was still straight and he stood still in the hall. He bowed his hands politely and said, "I have seen the official family."
Obviously, his etiquette was inappropriate.
Already an official snorted and softly scolded him as "this kid has no status".
In fact, Wu Yan originally said that he would teach Li Xia, Lin Zi, and Liu Jin the etiquette of the Face-locking Saint, but Li Xia refused. He believed that natural and unpolished roughness would be more convincing to the officials.
As expected, Zhao Yun raised his hand to show that he was okay.
He looked at Li Xia carefully and smiled slightly, showing appreciation.
"Youthful and heroic, you resemble me when I was young." Zhao Yun praised, "I see your calm eyes, I believe you are not rebellious, don't let me down."
"Thank you, Guan Jia." Li Xia said, "I'm not rebellious."
Zhao Yun smiled and drank again.
Although Li Xia was suspected of surrendering to the enemy, he was very calm.
There are all the warriors in the palace, even if this young boy really surrenders to the enemy, nothing will happen.
Cheng Yuanfeng stood up and said: "Sending you to wait to go north is personally approved by His Majesty. Now that you have returned safely, have you rebelled and defected to Mongolia? And why did you leave my house? In front of the emperor, tell the truth."
Li Xia said: "Yes, why don't I start from the beginning?"
"allow."
"After I followed Nie Zhong to the north..."
Li Xia first changed the location of his quest for longevity from Luzhou to the north of the Huaihe River. He concealed from Jia Sidao that Lu Wende sent people north privately, and concealed from Ding Daquan that Yuan Jie cooperated with the Zhang family.
This was also the reason why Jia Sidao and Ding Daquan recruited him. They had never thought of using torture on Li Xia. Extorting confessions through torture would not make people cooperate so well.
While Jia Sidao was listening, he glanced at Uncle Xie Fang imperceptibly and found that the other party was still very calm.
He was also not sure whether Uncle Xie Fang had any backup plan.
After all, he is a dignified prime minister and is by no means an easy person to deal with. There is still a chance that he will not be able to defeat Uncle Xie Fang this time.
The reason why he decided to let Ding Daquan come forward was that Jia Sidao also had concerns in this regard. He preferred to watch crickets fight and didn't like to fight in person...
Lin Zi and Liu Jinsuo have been taken outside the palace gate.
"Do you think Mr. Li Xiaolang went in or disappeared?" Liu Jinsuo asked.
Lin Zi didn't answer.
Liu Jinsuo asked again: "Why don't the officials summon us?"
Lin Zi still didn't answer, nor did he tell Liu Jinsuo to shut up.
His face turned a little pale.
Time passed little by little, and finally a eunuch came out and took the two of them into the palace to meet the saint.
Liu Jinsuo lowered his head all the way, wanting to look but not daring to look. Occasionally his eyes swept over and he saw only the majestic palaces.
Finally, he entered the Xuande Hall. The purple-red official robes that filled the hall shocked him. Before he could look at the officials on the royal couch, they had already fallen to the ground and kowtowed heavily.
"I, I, I... I... pay my respects to Your Majesty!"
Lin Zi used to be quite smart, but now he stutters more than Liu Jinsuo.
"Bye bye bye...see your majesty..."
"Get up, you are all strong men." Zhao Yun said warmly.
Liu Jinsuo was in a dream. When he looked up, he felt that everything in front of him was in a trance.
Soon, the officials asked them about their experiences.
Liu Jinsuo couldn't answer, so he thought to himself, "Lin Zi, please answer quickly." However, he didn't hear anything from Lin Zi for a long time.
He turned around and saw Lin Zi trembling there.
Then, Liu Jinsuo heard the official say something to him.
"He's too nervous, tell me."
Liu Jinsuo was stunned for a moment, turned his eyes, and finally calmed down when he saw Li Xia.
Then he started talking.
As he talked, thinking of his dead brother, he gradually burst into tears and had no idea what he was talking about.
"I didn't suffer so much in the north... The left prime minister caught me and took a piece of my skin... I wanted the officials to see it, but they said it was 'indecent' and my tattoo was inappropriate.
Ya... But I didn’t mean to embroider like that. I embroidered like that when I woke up after a nap. Now a piece of it has been peeled off and I can’t show it to the officials..."
Of course he was also nervous, and his words were confused and irrelevant.
However, Zhao Yun probably understood what Liu Jinsuo meant and liked him very much. He thought that such a stupid man would not lie to others, so he ordered him to give him a pot of wine.
Liu Jinsuo was overjoyed and huddled aside with the wine bottle and Lin Zi in his arms.
After that, Li Xia added a few words and told the whole story.
The whole thing seemed to be clear. He told how all the passionate people of the Song Dynasty died in the north, and also how they were accused of rebellion and hunted down after they came back.
Zhao Yun drank the whole bottle of wine while listening.
Regardless of whether he was touched in his heart or not, as the emperor he had to show something, and his eyes were red appropriately.
Some officials were also outraged.
"When a strong man returns from a bloody battle, he is met with jealousy and jealousy, which is contrary to nature and reason!"
"Your Majesty, please investigate this matter strictly!"
"Your Majesty, I trust them!"
"..."
Amidst the impassionedness, a voice fell into Jia Sidao's ears.
"I supervised the censor Zhang Shiyuan, impeached the left prime minister Fang Shu for slandering and killing Jie Jie with personal grudges, and led Shu to harm the country. Please ask your majesty to retry Yu Jie's case..."
Jia Sidao couldn't help but frowned and cursed secretly.
"Damn it, Uncle Xie Fang guessed it. Ding Daquan is an idiot and doesn't know how to hit the painful spot first."
Zhang Shiyuan is not his, and he has never ordered Yu Jie to be overturned today; his original intention is to make the officials realize that Uncle Xie Fang has been covering up the consequences of forcing Yu Jie to be killed... There is a subtle difference in this.
A slight difference is a thousand miles wrong.
Especially the word "slander".
What Li Xia said had already touched the officials and officials in the palace, but because of these two words, the emotions of grief and indignation were suddenly completely disrupted.
At that time, Uncle Xie Fang said, "I have lost my moral integrity as a scholar, so I will not dare to come to court." This prompted the officials to personally issue an edict to force Yu Jie to death. For more than three years, the officials have been unwilling to rehabilitate Yu Jie. This shows that
His thoughts...
Sure enough, the topic of discussion quickly changed, and Uncle Xie Fang's counterattack also began.
"Yu Jie is greedy for money and interests, specializes in military power, does not know the etiquette of the emperor, and just invited him to come to court. What crime is he guilty of?!"
"If Yu Jie is innocent, why would he commit suicide in fear of guilt?"
"According to what I see, Tian Kui has long been rebellious, and it was even Yu Jie who ordered him to sneak into Mongolia."
"..."
Ding Daquan stood up hurriedly and said: "Everyone, be quiet! What we are discussing today is that the warriors went north to find out the intelligence. Li Xia, why don't you submit the intelligence yet?!"
"Yes." Li Xia said: "When we return, we will divide the information into several parts, and this is the key. I have buried the other parts and can retrieve them later."
In this way, it is just that Han Qiaoer did not have time to copy it all.
Regarding this matter, Li Xiaben asked Wu Yan, "Does Prime Minister Ding Shu need to copy a piece of information?" The answer he got was, "It's useless, just show it to the emperor and overthrow Uncle Xie Fang."
A servant came forward and took the package from Li Xia's hand.
"Wait a minute."
Uncle Xie Fang saluted Zhao Yun solemnly and said: "Your Majesty, the reason why I arrested Li Xia and others is not a personal grudge, but evidence of collaborating with the enemy and treason. There is no doubt that this son is a Mongolian craftsman. Please be careful, Your Majesty."
After hearing this, the chamberlain took out the book and did not present it in front of the emperor, but put it far away.
Zhao Yun nodded and said, "Now that Li Xia has finished speaking, it's time to listen to Xie Qing's explanation."
Uncle Xie Fang said: "I would like to summon witnesses and physical evidence."
"allow."
Ding Daquan squinted his eyes and glanced at Uncle Xie Fang's face, feeling slightly palpitated by his calm expression.
At this moment, even Ding Daquan became a little suspicious, and glanced at Li Xia again, secretly saying: "Is this kid really rebelling and surrendering to Mongolia?"
Uncle Xie Fang was obviously prepared, and soon someone entered the hall with witnesses and physical evidence.
"Your Majesty, people have been brought to..."
Li Xia turned around and saw Nie Zhongyou, who was shackled and looking depressed, and another timid person, who was Bai Mao...