After King Cheng was silent for a moment, he suddenly gritted his teeth and said: "Even...even if I really have that kind of thoughts about Xiao Wu, I will never collude with foreigners to plot against him."
He suddenly turned his head to look at Di Xin and asked sternly: "Xiao Wu, since you keep saying that this king has colluded with foreign races, is there any evidence?"
Now that Di Xin took the initiative to tear away the last veil of shame, he naturally stopped pretending to be warm.
"If you can't produce evidence, don't blame me for accusing you of false accusation. You should know what crime this is?"
The complaining party is responsible for providing evidence.
very good.
The corners of Di Xin's mouth curved again, but by the time he raised his head, his expression had calmed down.
"evidence?"
"Hmph, my dear brother is so secretive, how easy is it to find the evidence?"
All officials were in an uproar.
In this kind of feudal dynasty with centralized power, although there is not much fairness and justice, it is also aimed at different classes.
As the Prince of Dali, if Di Xin said that a common man was colluding with foreigners, even if he had no evidence, the common man would lose at least half his life, but Di Xin, who raised the suspicion, would not be bothered by it.
However, after reaching the same level, naturally you can no longer talk nonsense.
To accuse a prince of colluding with foreigners without evidence, even if Emperor Xin was a prince, the price would be high.
Being given death should be impossible.
However, it is inevitable to withdraw military power, remove official positions, and even reduce titles.
The next throne will have nothing to do with Prince Yu.
But King Cheng was visibly stunned.
Various evidences have shown that King Yu in front of him, like himself, should be the descendant of the realm lord who has taken on the identity of a native of the Ancient Moon Realm.
As a fellow descendant of the Realm Lord, he didn't think that Di Xin would come all the way from northern Xinjiang to the capital just to do something as stupid as falsely accusing him.
Before he could speak, one of the hundreds of officials standing behind him stood up.
"His Royal Highness King Cheng is so noble. Don't you think that with military power in your hands, you can frame the prince of the dynasty at will?"
King Cheng recognized him. Although he was an official of his lineage who had been attracted to him since he got up early, he was secretly a grassroots. When King Jing and him were fighting on the same court, this person even secretly showed favor to King Jing behind his back.
.
A complete idiot.
King Cheng snorted coldly in his heart.
In front of the current Holy Emperor, he, a small fifth-rank official, could not intervene in the conflict between the two current princes.
However, before he could speak again, many more people stood up one after another among the officials.
"His Royal Highness King Yu, His Highness King Cheng is your eldest brother, how can you slander him?"
"His Royal Highness Cheng Wang almost never leaves the capital. How could he collude with the barbarians far away from Dali? Is there someone else who wants to catch the thief?"
"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness Prince Yu..."
"..."
Without exception, they are all people of the Chengwang lineage.
"A bunch of idiots."
King Cheng sighed in his heart and closed his eyes.
Sure enough, the emperor's face soon showed displeasure, and a group of old eunuchs watched his words and waved their long whips again.
"Crack!"
"quiet!"
Some officials who wanted to stand up to support King Cheng stopped immediately, while those officials who had already made a noise looked at each other, not knowing whether to go back or what to do.
"The court is noisy and noisy. How can you behave properly, but you still look like a scholar?"
After scolding him for a few words, the old emperor turned his attention to Di Xin.
"Xiaowu."
The old emperor's oppressive voice sounded in the hall: "Do I need you to give me a reasonable explanation?"
Di Xin raised his head in a "knocking-off" manner, and revealed a hint of grievance "just right".
"Father, Emperor Mingjian."
He said aggrievedly: "Father, I saw it just now. The people in this court are all members of the eldest brother. My son is far away in northern Xinjiang and has no roots. How can it be so easy to find evidence?"
Well, it’s another hat of “forming parties for personal gain”.
However, Di Xin did not dwell on this topic. Now is not the time.
He continued: "If the evidence is so easy to find, why should I wait until today?"
"oh?"
The old emperor asked cooperatively: "So now you have evidence?"
Di Xin nodded and said, "There is some evidence."
The official who just spoke for King Cheng suddenly looked as uncomfortable as if he had eaten a fly.
They just felt that Di Xin had no evidence to prove that King Cheng had colluded with foreigners, so they couldn't wait to jump out and wanted to show their favor to King Cheng. They never expected that he would turn around and show up like this.
But they also forgot.
From the beginning to the end, Di Xin said that evidence was hard to find, but he didn't say that nothing could be found.
However, Di Xin's next words made them look much better.
"However, I currently have no direct evidence that can show that the assassination a year and a half ago is related to my eldest brother."
"Um?"
The old emperor frowned.
Emperor Xin immediately raised his hands and said, "Father, please listen to my explanation."
"explain."
This time, anyone could hear the displeasure in the current Holy Lord's tone, and some people even showed signs of gloating.
They hoped that King Yu would directly offend the emperor this time, so that the last stumbling block for His Highness King Cheng to be established as the prince would be gone.
"It's like this. Among the people who were chasing Erchen, there was a barbarian grand master who was captured by Erchen and has been under house arrest ever since."
"For more than a year, Erchen has been interrogating him, wanting to know all the truth behind the assassination."
According to the laws of Dali, no one is allowed to imprison others privately or use lynching. However, Emperor Xin was the general of Northern Xinjiang at that time, in charge of the military, government and civilians, and he had the power to enforce the law.
Although his rights were basically limited to Northern Xinjiang, considering that the assassination did not occur in Northern Xinjiang, as the person who was assassinated, it did not count as lynching.
Therefore, the old emperor frowned and said, "Why not hand it over to Dali Temple for interrogation?"
"Because I can't trust them."
In front of all the civil and military officials, Emperor Xin said bluntly: "Not many people know the route of my son's return to the capital. However, those assassins can accurately find my son. This is only a possibility."
He said word for word: "Someone leaked the whereabouts of my son to those assassins."
"It seems that during the past few years when I was lying on the hospital bed, some people's minds were not pure."
After the old emperor snorted coldly, he stopped worrying about Emperor Xinwei handing the man over to Dali Temple and said in a deep voice: "Go on."
"yes!"
Di Xin said: "Because I was worried about the people behind the scenes sabotaging it, I could only conduct the investigation secretly."