Outside Emperor Ningkang's chamber, soldiers and armors were still standing there, and the bears were shining fiercely.
The sixth-grade young general knelt straight and said everything he wanted to say.
His words also made countless people go from shock, horror, to understanding, to silence.
The prince betrayed his father, fell from power and was killed. This was something that everyone had just accepted.
But now someone told them in front of the emperor that the prince was killed by the third prince himself after the defeat.
Moreover, Tian Qu, the deputy commander of the guard camp, and his soldiers who discovered the secret were also silenced by the third prince.
All this sounds a bit scary, but it is not a fantasy, it just makes your spine slightly chilly.
It is unimaginable how the third prince, who is known for his elegance and kindness, could do such a thing.
Emperor Ning Kang naturally listened to Tian Liang's statement. His body was trembling slightly, but he worked hard to calm down.
He looked at the third prince next to him: "What do you have to say?"
The third prince glared at Tian Liang with anger, then turned and knelt down to Emperor Ning Kang, and said indignantly: "Father, this person is full of nonsense and is pure slander.
I beg my father to investigate this person carefully. He must have been instigated by someone to frame me.
No matter how daring I am, I will never dare to murder my eldest brother. Please be aware of this."
The third prince burst into tears and banged his head against Emperor Ning Kang's dragon chair.
This scene made many people unconsciously believe in the Third Prince, thinking that the Third Prince was not worthy of this. Could it be that someone really wants to frame His Highness the Third Prince?
Now that the prince is dead, the third prince has become "the target of public criticism". It is indeed possible that someone wants to harm him.
Tian Liang was keenly aware that the wind was moving in an unfavorable direction, and became a little anxious. He immediately said: "Your Majesty, I am requesting an autopsy! As long as I ask a skilled practitioner to examine the bodies of my brother and his bodyguards, I will be able to do it."
Determine whether what the humble official says is true or false!”
The third prince seemed to have reached the limit of his tolerance for Tian Liang, and couldn't help but cursed at him: "Damn you bastard! Your Majesty is here with a sick body to listen to you state your so-called grievances. As a result, you have been talking for a long time, but you can't stop talking.
It’s empty talk and conjecture!
This king has tolerated you for a long time. If you have real evidence, come up with it as soon as possible, otherwise you will not be able to bear the consequences of causing damage to His Majesty's dragon body, or the lives of your entire family."
While the third prince angrily scolded Tian Liang, he quietly winked at the crowd.
Immediately, ministers who were stationed in the palace and came to see the excitement came out and said to Emperor Ningkang: "Your Majesty, I think what your Highness said is right.
Your Majesty's dragon body is important.
It will take a long time to conduct an autopsy. For the sake of His Majesty's dragon body, Your Majesty should go back to the palace to rest first.
As for the grievances mentioned by Commander Tian, they can be handed over to the judicial department for review in accordance with the law."
"Furthermore, even though His Majesty loves his soldiers and generals as sons, His Majesty the Third Highness is also His Majesty's own son. To allow someone to bite His Majesty the Third Highness without any solid evidence really hurts the relationship between His Majesty and his son. I hope Your Majesty will think twice."
When this person said this, many people thought it was reasonable and gave advice one after another.
Tian Liang was a little anxious and quickly looked at Princess Zhaoyang on the corridor, but he was still a smart person and did not take the initiative to cling to her at this time.
Faced with the admonitions of his ministers, Emperor Ning Kang did not respond. Instead, unexpectedly, he turned to Princess Zhaoyang and said, "Your Majesty, what do you think?"
Princess Zhaoyang was a little distracted at first.
She had been observing Ning Kangdi's expression and reaction just now, and suddenly she became confused:
Father, does he know that the death of the eldest emperor brother is related to the third emperor brother?
If he knew but didn't say anything, does it mean that what they did tonight was just useless?
After all, their purpose in doing all this was to let Emperor Ningkang know the truth, so that Emperor Ningkang would dislike the third prince and consider letting the fourth prince take over.
But if Emperor Ning Kang had already made up his mind to appoint a third prince, and didn't even care whether the third prince was the murderer of the prince, then what's the point of doing all this?
Could it be that Erlang really miscalculated this time and misjudged Emperor Ning Kang’s character?
Does it mean that once you sit in that position, you really have no feelings?
Looking at Emperor Ningkang's slightly thoughtful expression, Princess Zhaoyang understood that Emperor Ningkang probably knew.
At least, he had his doubts.
The reason why he came to ask what he meant at this time was because his previous behavior of speaking for Tian Liang aroused his suspicion?
So, how does he want to answer?
Princess Zhaoyang thought for a while and said: "As the eldest brother, as the prince and the crown prince of the country, the cause of his death is involved, I think it must be investigated, and it must be investigated carefully and rigorously, so that the truth can be revealed to the world and the rumors can be curbed."
At the starting point.”
When the third prince heard this, his eyes immediately stared at Princess Zhaoyang.
"Why does the imperial sister speak for this person like this?"
"If Brother Three Emperors is innocent, why should you be afraid of him checking? Does it mean that Brother Three Emperors wants your father to always be suspicious of you and doesn't want to clear himself of the suspicion in front of his father?"
The previous dispute between Princess Zhaoyang and the third prince took place in the palace, but few people knew about it.
But now this was in front of hundreds of people, and the prince and princess were so quarreling with each other that many people immediately noticed something unusual.
Emperor Ning Kang didn't seem to notice the quarrel between his children, and waved his hand directly: "In that case, let's test it!"
…
Zuo Zuo is not an uncommon profession, and even many people in the army can do this job.
And those who can serve the royal family are the most professional.
Under the joint inspection of multiple professional investigators, it can be said that all the details of the death of Tian Qu and others were restored one by one.
Perhaps Jia Lian should be lucky that when he killed Jia She, no one suspected him, and no one wanted to ask the widower to do an autopsy or anything, otherwise he might not have been able to cover it up.
"I have four questions to ask His Highness the Third Prince!"
"First, His Highness the Third Prince said before that my brother died in the rebels' counterattack. Why did Mr. Zuo say that my brother's real cause of death was a crossbow? As far as I know, no one of the rebels who were chasing the prince used crossbows. We
None of the brothers who died in pursuit were killed by crossbow arrows.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! On the contrary, His Highness, the Third Highness, had previously asked our guard camp for a hundred sets of shoulder crossbows to equip his own soldiers."
"Secondly, since my brothers died from crossbows, where did the many sword wounds on their bodies come from? They all happened to be covered by the crossbow wounds. Is someone deliberately trying to cover up something?"
"Third, His Highness once said that the brother who held a low position died bravely and killed the enemy. Why were the brother and his soldiers shot in the back? Were they afraid of the enemy and fled and were killed, or was there a villain who shot cold arrows in the back?"
"Fourth, gentlemen Wuzuo said that in addition to the crossbow arrow, the fatal wound on the humble brother's brother also had a fire blunderbuss wound. Although it was not fatal, it was still very deep.
As far as I know, no one in the Prince's rebel army used firearms at that time. On the contrary, I once heard a brother in the firearms camp say that when His Highness the Third Prince accompanied him on an inspection tour of the firearms camp, they had obtained one.
A short fire gun made by the Marquis of Zhenyuan himself.
Could you ask His Highness the Third Prince to take out this blunderbuss, shoot it at someone's back, and then let the gentlemen examine the wound and trajectory?
To show my respect, I am willing to take the blow personally from His Highness the Third Highness."
After the gangsters reported the results to the emperor, Tian Liang took advantage of the situation and stood up to question the third prince.
His voice was loud and full of indignation, and his words were well-reasoned. Therefore, as he questioned each one, more and more people believed his accusations and began to doubt the third prince.
When the third prince faced his accusation, he showed no expression other than his gloomy face and black eyes.
On the contrary, his followers could not sit still and stood up to retort:
"It's ridiculous. Although the rebels don't have crossbows, wouldn't they seize them from the battlefield and use this to prove that His Highness killed people? Then there are so many people in your guard camp equipped with shoulder crossbows, why don't you
Do you suspect that it was you who were guarding the military camp who killed someone?
As for sword wounds, it is normal for the battlefield to be chaotic and flesh and limbs to fly everywhere when killing Red Eyes. Even if there are a few more sword wounds on the corpse, what does it prove?
As for the arrow in the back... maybe our Highness is just trying to preserve General Tian's reputation. Not only do you not appreciate it, but you use this as an excuse to bite His Highness. Do you have to say that Tian Qu is a man who is greedy for life and afraid of death?
satisfy?"
"You..." Tian Liang glared at this person.
But the more he spoke, the more confident he became: "As for the fire blunderbuss you mentioned, as far as I know, at the beginning, the Marquis of Zhenyuan gave one to every prince for your highness to play with, and the prince naturally had one in his hand. Tian Qu went to capture the prince.
, it is unreasonable to be beaten by the prince... It is really unreasonable for you to use this as an excuse to accuse the Third Highness, hehehe..."
This man thought he was unparalleled in wit and scheming, and actually refuted all Tian Liang's questions, and couldn't help laughing for a moment.
If he had a feather fan in his hand, he would think he was Marquis Zhuge Wu.
But the third prince was not as optimistic as he was.
He knew that if he really wanted to be tried in the Tian Qu matter, paper would not be able to cover up the fire.
Even if the death of the prince really needs to be tried, if hundreds of his cronies are arrested, the truth will naturally come to light.
Originally, he didn't do these things very carefully.
When he did this, he never did it based on carefulness, but based his judgment on the situation.
As long as the prince dies, who will offend the future prince for a prince who has already lost power and died?
Even his father didn't seem to have this intention!
By this time, if he still couldn't see that his father had already suspected him, then he would be really stupid.
He was thinking about his father's attitude towards this matter.
It's a pity that Ning Kangdi only had a gloomy face throughout the whole process, and he couldn't see any big mood swings.
But the third prince knew that tonight's farce could not continue. If it continued, he didn't know what terrible consequences it would have when Emperor Ning Kang really broke out.
So, he slapped the smiling staff member in the face with his backhand.
"Enough!"
The third prince knelt down at Emperor Ningkang's feet with a bang, kowtowed and apologized: "My son is guilty, please punish me!"
Emperor Ning Kang lowered his head and said quietly after a long while: "Oh, what is your crime?"
"My son deserves death for his crime. I was confused for a moment and made the big mistake of killing Zhongliang. Please punish me severely!"
This scene made many people open their eyes.
The third prince confessed his crime now, and he didn't even struggle?
But Princess Zhaoyang, who was standing on the other side of Emperor Ningkang, frowned when she looked at the third prince who was crying again.
She guessed what the third prince meant almost immediately.
Sure enough, the third prince raised his head with tears on his face, just like when he carried the prince's body to Emperor Ning Kang before.
"Reporting to my father, Tian Qu was indeed accidentally killed by his son.
At that time, at that time... wu wu wu, when I found the body of the eldest emperor brother among the corpses of the rebels, I was immediately frightened and didn't know how to explain it to you after I came back.
I am afraid. I am afraid that my father will not believe me. I am afraid that my father will not believe me. I am afraid that my father thought that I had murdered my elder brother, so I was not conscious at that time.
At this time Tian Qu came with his soldiers...
Erchen didn't know what happened at that time, and all he could think about was that Tian Qu must have misunderstood, and he would definitely come back and tell his father that it was Erchen who killed the eldest brother!
Erchen was really wrong. He should have explained it clearly to Tian Qu at that time. But Tian Qu just wanted to escape from Erchen. I thought he must want to come back and slander you, so I ordered them to be killed.
Already...
Woo hoo hoo, I made a big mistake on impulse and am willing to accept any punishment from my father to comfort the spirit of Vice Commander Tian."
The third prince knew that the matter had reached this point and it was impossible to escape unscathed.
In order to end tonight's trial meeting and to give an explanation to Emperor Ning Kang, he had no choice but to abandon his pawn to save his chariot.
Killing a general without permission is definitely a serious crime.
But compared to murdering the prince, it is not that serious for their prince.
In particular, he also found a good reason for himself, saying it was manslaughter.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Of course, even he knew that Emperor Ning Kang would most likely not believe his rhetoric.
But what he was betting on was that Emperor Ning Kang would not really depose him for the purpose of deposing the prince and killing the prince.
How can a prince who can become an emperor be ruthless? Didn't Emperor Ningkang fight his way out of so many brothers and finally ascend to the throne?
He felt that his father could understand him.
Just like Li Shimin, although he killed his brother and his brother, how many people would think that he was not a good emperor?
Tian Liang did not expect that the third prince would confess directly.
He didn't know whether to be happy or angry at this time.
In fact, even if he had 90% suspicion that the third prince killed his brother, as the third prince said before, those were all his speculations!
Since it is speculation, it cannot be completely proven and can only arouse speculation and suspicion.
He wanted to avenge his brother, but he also knew that the purpose of Jia Lian and Princess Zhaoyang was to convict the third prince of murdering the prince.
When the three princes were unable to prove their innocence regarding Tian Qu's death, Princess Zhaoyang and others would take advantage of the situation and offer to perform an autopsy on the prince!
As long as we get the conclusion that the prince's death is suspicious, we can justifiably capture the people around the third prince and interrogate them one by one.
In that case, unless the third prince is really innocent, he will definitely not be able to escape the charge of murdering the prince.
Even if the prince made a big mistake this time, as long as Emperor Ningkang did not issue a decree to deal with the prince, then killing the prince and the crown prince of a country would be a heinous crime.
This crime is something no one can afford.
At the very least, the third prince must have missed the throne.
This was also the confidence that gave Jia Lian the courage to take action against the third prince. Of course, this was because Jia Lian relied on his understanding of Emperor Ning Kang and knew that Emperor Ning Kang was harsh and unkind on the surface, but in fact he valued his children very much.
If there were another emperor who was indifferent to family affection and really "liked to raise poison" as the third prince judged, Jia Lian would never take action because of this.
"Hehehe..."
Emperor Ning Kang's expression finally changed.
He laughed in anger.
He stood up, looked at the third prince who was kneeling on the ground and admitted his mistake, and stretched out his hand: "Bring me the whip."