All the officials were pacing back and forth, extremely anxious.
At this moment, except for Chen Taiji, the censor who brought up some criminal cases, all other officials were blocked from the door, even the governor.
"What's going on?" Governor Li Yan asked Qiu Yongnian and others impatiently, "What's wrong with that jade pendant?"
"The villain doesn't know, the villain really doesn't know!" Qiu Yongnian turned pale in panic and replied in a low voice, "We asked many people, but we couldn't find out its origin, but we didn't expect that the Censor actually knew..."
"How long have we been involved in this case? Alas!" Li Yan said anxiously, "This case is really fatal! It was like this two years ago, and it is like this now!
"I'm telling you, you all know what happened to those county officials back then. If they don't handle it well this time, that's a lesson for you! Humph!"
"Yes, yes, yes, yes..." Qiu Yongnian didn't know what to say, his body was shaking like chaff.
At this moment, a guard from the Ministry of Justice walked out of the Yizhuang Hall, raised his hands to the officials and said:
"My lords, please come in!"
Upon hearing the call, the officials hurriedly walked to the hall.
When Master Yao Jin followed Qiu Yongnian and wanted to go in, he was stopped by the guards.
The guard did not explain, and Yao Jin wisely withdrew.
There is no way, people say that officials can enter, but the master can only be regarded as an official and is not qualified.
After all the officials entered the Yizhuang Hall, they all covered their mouths and noses in unison. Although the body had been embalmed, the smell of corpse odor was still extremely strong.
At this moment, Chen Taiji was standing in front of the Taoist priest's body, discussing something with one of his guards.
The white cloth on the Taoist priest's body has been taken off, revealing his body full of scars.
"Master Chen," Li Shi asked hurriedly, "where does this Taoist priest come from?"
"Yes!" Chen Taiji responded, and then told everyone with a heavy face, "Remember, what I will tell you later are royal secrets. Anyone who dares to spread rumors will bear the consequences!"
"Yes, yes, yes..." This time, it was the turn of all the officials to tremble like chaff.
No one thought that the matter would be so important and related to royal secrets!?
"Nine years after returning to the clan, that is, eleven years ago," Chen Taiji said, "there was an incident of assassinating the king and killing the driver in the palace!
"I can't tell you the specific story. You only need to know two things. One is that the assassin's target was Queen Mother Lin! At that time, Queen Mother Lin was still the Queen!"
ah!?
Everyone was shocked, and Xu Zun couldn't help but make a sound in his heart. He never expected that this matter would involve the Queen Mother.
As we all know, today’s Daxuan Dynasty has a strong mother and a weak son, and the actual person in power of the Daxuan Dynasty is none other than Queen Mother Lin!
"The second thing," Chen Taiji said again, "the assassins are from the Japanese country in the East China Sea. What they carry," he raised the jade pendant in his hand, "is this kind of jade pendant!"
Poof!
After hearing this, all the officials were like thunder. Except for Xu Zun, everyone else's knees weakened and they knelt on the ground!
It’s over!
Everyone was filled with despair. No one thought that the Taoist priest in the coffin was actually an assassin from the Japanese Kingdom in the East China Sea, and he was also the assassin who assassinated Queen Mother Lin!
"Back then," Chen Taiji said again, "if it hadn't been for the desperate protection of the imperial guards, Queen Mother Lin would have been assassinated long ago!
"And after a battle, the guards captured a living person!" He looked at the corpse in the coffin and said, "Back then, due to various reasons, this assassin was not sent to the Internal Guard House, but was imprisoned in the Criminal Department.
In prison, he will be interrogated by the Criminal Department! You see..."
As he spoke, he pointed to the corpse and said correspondingly:
"The burning of the face, the sawing of the shoulders, the perforation of the limbs, the pulling out of the nails, and the cutting and suturing of the toes are all routine operations used by the Ministry of Punishment to interrogate felons!"
ah?
Everyone was frightened when they heard this, and Governor Li hurriedly stood up and asked: "Then... what happened next?"
"Later..." Chen Taiji looked at the guard next to him and said, "Later, someone robbed the prison, killed all the guards on duty that day, and rescued that man!"
Poof!
Li Jishi finally got up and fell down again. This time, he seemed to have fallen into a bottomless abyss and could never get up again!
"The Queen Mother is furious," Chen Taiji said with a gloomy face, "I think there must be a traitor in the Criminal Department, so... you must have heard about the catastrophe that followed, right?"
Upon hearing this, the scene fell into dead silence.
Xu Zun searched his memory, but he didn't expect to know about it.
Shen Tiande once told him that after the prison robbery incident, all officials from the Ministry of Punishment were imprisoned overnight and were tortured. In the end, very few of them were able to escape alive!
And it was precisely because of that catastrophe that Shen Tiande was able to rise to the top and was transferred to the Ministry of Justice to serve as the Minister of Justice!
"Fortunately... I had already gone to Dali Temple and escaped the disaster!" Chen Taiji closed his eyes with sadness and said to everyone, "Now, everyone understands, right? The nature of the iron coffin case has completely changed. !
“Although dozens of people died in the iron coffin case two years ago, it was nothing more than an unsolved case!
"But now the hanging coffin case has turned into a serious case that contains the most wanted criminal and is even suspected of treason!"
Boom!
All the officials were struck by lightning and fell to their knees, their faces pale and their whole bodies trembling!
"Chen...Chen Yushi..." Only Li Yan suppressed his excitement and asked, "Are you sure that this Taoist priest is the assassin who was rescued back then?"
Chen Taiji shook his head slightly, looked at the guard next to him again, and said: "I haven't seen it before, but it seems to be similar to the portrait on the internal warrant. If you want to confirm, you need to find the official of the Ministry of Justice or the imperial guard. Come and find out!
"But..." At this point, he looked at the guard next to him for the third time, and then he raised the jade pendant and said, "No matter whether this Taoist priest was the assassin back then, the appearance of this thing is equivalent to the iron coffin case being solved." Linked to the assassination!
"Your Majesty, and the Queen Mother, I'm afraid..."
"Chen Yushi," Li Yan said hurriedly, "it's a very important matter, so let's write to the Emperor and the Queen Mother right now!"
"No!"
Unexpectedly, at this moment, the guard suddenly took a step forward and shouted in a high-pitched voice.
Just when everyone was surprised, the guard suddenly took out a yellow thing from his sleeve, raised his hands above his head, and shouted:
"Everyone, listen to the order, the Queen Mother's order has arrived! You guys - why don't you hurry up and receive the order!!?"
ah!!?
All the officials were shocked and quickly knelt on the ground in fear!
"Recently, we heard that the Xinye Iron Coffin case happened again. We specially asked Cai Kun, the leader of the Internal Guard, to follow the Ministry of Punishment to secretly investigate the case," Lang Lang read, "If there is an emergency, I will leave it to Cai Kun to take charge." All prefectures, counties, and military offices need to fully cooperate with each other. If there is any slack, they will be severely punished!"
"I'll wait for the order!"
All the officials responded to the order verbally, but they were already panicking in their hearts.
Unexpectedly, the Queen Mother had already made preparations and placed the leader of the Internal Guard among the officials of the Ministry of Justice to control the investigation trends at any time.
Could it be that...she had known for a long time that something unexpected would happen in this case?
Others were panicked, but Xu Zun was panicked several times.
He seemed to have heard the phrase "Exercise the right to gain advantage" from the TV series "Detective Di Renjie", which meant that he could deal with it however he wanted. Let's take it for granted that the government, even the barracks and the army, had to obey his command!
In addition, there is another important reason that makes Xu Zun uneasy. His father-in-law Shen Tiande was forced to become an official because he offended the Queen Mother Lin!
Now, can we still have our own good fruits to eat?
Oh my God! What a sin!
Xu Zun originally thought that according to the routine, as a new arrival, he would just work on a small case for fun!
But I didn't expect that at the beginning of the game, it was at its peak, and suddenly it was played on the head of the Queen Mother, who has all the power in the world...
