"Don't talk about the regent accepting bribes. Let's try Shen Bi's case first." Mu Lingwei said in a deep voice: "Who is in the hall? Tell me your name."
"Song Wenlin, the lower official, was the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs..." He said anxiously: "But all this was designed by Shen Bi and Shen Chen. They made the lower official embezzle military pay, and then framed Shangguan Yun. In fact, they were embezzling Millions of taels of silver were distributed to everyone, and the lower official only received 500,000 taels, which was also given to His Highness King Wei."
Living such a good life, of course I didn't tell the truth, I used to be a huge greedy person.
"Shangguan Li is also an accomplice. Shangguan Li secretly put the one million taels of silver found out of Shangguan's mansion. This silver also came from the Shen family and was later turned over to the treasury." Song Wenlin added: "It's passed down. If Shangguan Li comes up, he will naturally know how he hid the money."
Shen Bi's face was full of confusion: "You are not Song Wenlin, you are the one they brought to frame me. Don't be deceived by Mu Lingwei. Song Wenlin is already dead." He pointed at Mu Lingwei again and said, "You give me What kind of deception did he use?"
As Chen Bi said, he rushed towards Song Wenlin, started tearing him apart, and said angrily: "Who are you? Song Wenlin can't be alive. Song Wenlin has been burned to death long ago."
Song Wenlin had eaten well and was strong. Although Shen Bi was a battle-hardened general, he had been beaten just now and his hands were handcuffed, so he was no match for Song Wenlin.
Therefore, Song Wenlin ignored him and pushed him down directly, saying: "General Shen, the situation is over. Your background has been investigated. Stop struggling. It was you and your son who wanted to get rid of Shangguan Yun before you dragged me into this. , without you, I would not have remained anonymous for so many years."
"Although I helped you frame Shangguan Yun back then, I also knew that if the incident came to light, my life and that of my family would not be saved, so I stepped ahead of you and pretended to have silenced myself." Song Wenlin added.
Shen Bi was shocked: "Song Wenlin, when you personally admitted your corruption with Shangguan Yun, you were all sent to jail, why did you spit so much on others?"
Song Wenlin said: "General Shen, you gave me more money than I could use in my lifetime to make me plead guilty and feign death. In fact, you wanted to silence me directly after the incident was completed."
"Shangguanyun has made great achievements in battle, but you are jealous, so you want to get rid of him. I have account books and letters with you here. If you check it, you will know where the money came from. It is all your conspiracy. , even if I find out about you, I can still clear the relationship."
"I'm not a fool. If you dared to kill my family back then, these evidences would naturally be made public to the world." Song Wenlin added: "Back then, Shangguan Yun was imprisoned, and then something happened to the eldest prince. On his way back, If he was intercepted and killed, General Shen would not know who the murderer was."
Song Wenlin ignored it and said: "The official rank of Shen Bi back then was not as high as mine. If the evidence of my corruption had not fallen into Shen Chen's hands, I would not have helped you. A series of things that happened later, I finally I understand, the person you want to harm is actually the eldest prince."
As soon as these words came out, the whole audience lost their composure. Shangguan Yun's case made a big fuss, and they all said: "Song Shangshu is not dead. The Shen family wants to harm the eldest prince. It's scary to think about it."
"It makes sense when we connect the words of Song Wenlin and Mu Minghuai. It turns out that Shen Bi is so cunning that he actually came up with this method to frame General Shangguan. No wonder General Shangguan was also speechless when he was asked. The late emperor directly issued an imperial edict. His home was ransacked."
Song Wenlin asked the "guards" again and said: "As you said, as long as I come forward to testify and guarantee the lives of myself and my family, I am also willing to donate all the money I have embezzled over the years, and you will not harm my family."
"I won't let you die, and your family will not be implicated, but it is true that you embezzled military rations, and it is true that you conspired with the Shen family to murder General Shangguan, so you will spend the rest of your life in prison," he said.
Mu Lingwei blinked at him, "Guard," Your Majesty, the Emperor and the Queen Mother are still here. You just gave the result directly. How about you come to review the case?
The "guard" turned a blind eye to her and stepped aside very honestly.
At this time, Mu Lingwei took another piece of evidence and handed it to the Emperor and the Queen Mother: "This is Mu Minghuai's testimony. Please take a look at it, the Emperor and all your gentlemen."
After everyone passed it around and read it, they were all dumbfounded because they saw that it contained wording accusing officials of corruption.
As a result, all the officials began to speculate, "It turns out that Princess Anyang already had evidence of official corruption."
Mu Lingwei added: "Bring Xie Wanglai and those Shen Shen's helpers together."
Soon, Xie Wanglai was also tied up with five flowers and brought to the front of the person.
His head had been covered with a black cloth bag. Now that he saw the light, he was trembling with fear and said, "I am wronged. It was Shen Shen who forced me to kidnap His Highness Prince Ping."
Mu Lingwei sneered: "Xie Wanglai, you must have been fooled. At this point, do you think it was just a matter of kidnapping Prince Ping and using his identity to rebel?"
Xie Wanglai never imagined that Princess Anyang would be sitting in the courtroom to hear the case.
Mu Lingwei said loudly: "Xie Wanglai has been the governor of Jingzhao for five years, three months and 22 days. If all the people in the hall can intercede on behalf of Governor Xie and say that he is a good official, , Today, I also begged the emperor on his behalf to forgive him for kidnapping His Royal Highness Prince Ping. It is tentatively determined that he had no choice but to do so due to heavy coercion and inducement."
"If the people say you are a corrupt official, the people over there will be your fate, and your family will also be affected by you."
"Okay, leave the power of judgment to the people." The Empress Dowager suddenly said: "If you speak out boldly, the Emperor will reward him for his merits and punish him for his mistakes."
She glanced at the emperor again and said warmly: "This is a good opportunity to listen to the people's voice."
Jun Chenrui never thought about what the people were going to say, so he secretly clenched his fingers and stared at the people. When the people called him a fool, he felt nothing.
In the past, government affairs were handled by the Queen Mother and the Regent, but the only cases he personally handled were the Shen family's cases, and Jun Mohan and Jun Yi were still working behind the scenes.
At the same time, as soon as these words came out, the people were excited. The Empress Dowager had high moral character and high prestige in the military. She had not done anything in these years because Empress Dowager Shen was in charge. However, the Shen family members were promoted step by step. Xie Wang There is so much corruption among lackeys like this, and they cover each other up, so no one dares to complain.
Suddenly, the people were heard yelling that Xie Wanglai was a corrupt official and asked the princess to punish him severely.
One after another, the sounds hit my ears.
Xie Wanglai was scared to death. He never dreamed that one day he would be taken to court and criticized by everyone.
Without money to open the way, no one would dare to enter the yamen of Jingzhao Mansion. Xie Wanglai also had a nickname among the people, Xie Gouzi, who could eat people without spitting out their bones.