Chapter 904 Bloody Case
Chu Huan had no real conclusion about Yingyuan's temperament, but from the little things and witnessing Yingyuan's ears, he knew that Yingyuan was a very murderous person in his bones. If he was full of domineering spirit before the founding of the country, he had also shown signs of a wise ruler at the beginning of the founding of the country, but many things that happened later gradually revealed the cruelty in Yingyuan's bones.
Yingyuan had a violent aura and was quite capricious. Many founding heroes were once accidentally angered Yingyuan and were eliminated by Yingyuan without any mercy.
But Chu Huan vaguely felt that the emperor was not a foolish and incompetent person. He set up a shocking situation, killed the Duke of Anguo and wiped out a large force in the court with the power of wind and thunder. He had a careful plan and neatness. Of course, this was not something that an old and stupid person could do.
Chu Huan even felt that Yingyuan's purpose of killing his ministers was not to be violent and moody. He once suspected that this was just Yingyuan deliberately put on a layer of tyrannical clothes, but in fact he was killing him to stabilize his power. He was the founding king, and his ministers came from all directions. Some were his former ministers who had been with him from the beginning and shared weal and woe with him. Some later defected to him, and even those surrendered ministers and generals.
Being able to share hardships but not being able to share wealth and honor.
Yingyuan's direct minister thought that he had been born from a dragon and had to develop a sense of arrogance and arrogance. The emperor saw it and was not necessarily relieved. Yingyuan was naturally even more afraid of those surrendered ministers and generals.
Chu Huan was not very clear about Lin Qingyuan's affairs before, but when Lin Daier said it slowly, Chu Huan sighed in his heart. He even realized that Lin Qingyuan's death might have a great relationship with the King of Western Tang.
"Although Yingyuan Dog Thief pretended to be kind, his heart was as poisonous as a snake or a scorpion." Lin Daier's eyes were cold, "The King of Western Tang was in Luo'an Jingcheng, and he was actually not in a fight with the world. He did not want to fight again, but just wanted to spend his old age."
Chu Huan sighed lightly: "The King of Western Tang was the king of the Western Tang Kingdom. If he did not die for a day, he would wait for the fact that if the Western Tang Kingdom was not truly destroyed, what is even more terrifying is that your father, General Lin, was the General Tianbao of the Western Tang Kingdom, and was the Heavenly Revealing figure of the Western Tang Kingdom. The king was not dead and the ministers were not dead. In addition, you just said that many of the surrendered soldiers and generals from the Western Tang Kingdom were still under your father's command. If you were the emperor, would you feel at ease?"
"Yingyuan wanted to find opportunities to weaken the soldiers and horses of the Western Tang Dynasty." Lin Daier said: "At that time, resolutions had been made on the aftermath of the Western Tang Dynasty. At that time, there were still tens of thousands of soldiers and horses of the Western Tang Dynasty. Qin agreed to take out pension silver to dissolve the Western Tang army, let them farm land, retain only a part of the army, and transfer defense to the northwest. However, before the army was disbanded, a great chaos occurred in the northwest. Before the Xitang city was destroyed, many anti-Qin forces were launched in the northwest.
He began to gather, especially the remnants of Lu State led by the Prince of Lu State, and gathered together, and with the remnants of other countries, there were many troops. When the Western Tang Dynasty surrendered to Qin State, the Prince of Lu State led the army to raid the rear of the Qin army and set up several cities in a row. Feng Hanxiao's Qin army fought fiercely with the Western Tang Dynasty for several months, and suffered considerable losses and his morale was sluggish. Yingyuan issued an order at that time. The Western Tang army did not disband, but was commanded by Feng Hanxiao to pacify the rebellion of the Prince of Lu State in the northwest."
Chu Huan said "Oh" and sighed: "Ling Zun has followed General Feng since then?"
"Yes. At that time, the Prince of Lu sent someone to secretly find his father, let his father join forces with the Lu army and annihilate Feng Hanxiao in one fell swoop." Lin Daier said softly: "It was just that there was a peace talk with Qin at that time. My father kept his promise and did not violate it. Moreover, Yingyuan was worried that his father had other thoughts, so he asked Feng Hanxiao to send the King of Western Tang to Yingyuan. His father led the Western Tang army to follow Feng Hanxiao and pacified the rebellion in the northwest. I only knew that in the end, my father cut off the head of the Prince of Lu, but the pacification process seemed very difficult... It was something that had happened more than 20 years ago, and I didn't know much."
Chu Huan nodded and heard Lin Daier continue: "After the northwest pacification, Feng Hanxiao originally intended to let his father stay in the northwest and guard the northwest together under his command. However, Yingyuan was worried about his father's prestige in the northwest, so he transferred his father to the capital. His father was careful in Beijing, and followed the orders of Yingyuan dog thieves several times, went out to Beijing to quell the rebellion, and made many contributions. Several years later in Beijing, my father was worried that Yingyuan would settle accounts with Wang Qiuhou of the Western Tang Dynasty. Seeing that there was no movement for several years, he felt that Yingyuan was broad-minded. Until one time, a fight broke out in the capital, and the matter began to become serious."
Chu Huanqi said, "Fight?"
Lin Daier nodded slightly, her expression became a little embarrassed. After hesitating for a moment, she finally said, "It's... it's in that kind of place, two gangs of people are for a singing girl..." Seeing Chu Huan listening to her words seriously, Ben's a little embarrassed expression relaxed a little: "They were jealous and fought in the prostitute's house and beat someone to death. Do you know who was beaten to death?"
Chu Huan shook his head.
"The man who was beaten to death is nothing, but the master behind him is Duke An Guo Huang Ju." Lin Daier sneered: "Since you are an official in Beijing, you naturally know that Zhang Douli, the general bannerman of the Western City of Wujingwei, had previously been!"
Chu Huan was stunned and nodded. He really remembered that when he first arrived in the capital, he stayed in Wujingwei for a while. At that time, the commander of Wujingwei was Huang Tiandu. Wujingwei was the security force of the capital. Luo'an City was divided into four cities, and there were fangs in the city. Almost every fang had a ward station of Wujingwei. Among the four cities, Xicheng was a place of markets, so Xicheng had the most oil and water, and the position of the Xicheng General Banner was even more fertile. Chu Huan knew that Zhang Douli could be the position of Xicheng General Banner, so he must be the confidant of the commander Huang Tiandu.
However, in the Tongtian Palace incident, Duke An Guo's party forced the palace, and Huang Tiandu led the elite confidants of Wujingwei to rebel in Tongtian Palace. Zhang Douli was Huang Tiandu's confidant, with his back to the Huang family. He was the general flag of Wujingwei second only to Huang Tiandu. He also participated in that rebellion. Unfortunately, Duke An Guo's party was crushed by the emperor in the end, and Zhang Douli also ended up losing and dying.
"Zhang Douli was just a guard next to Huang Tiandu, and his brother Zhang Fuli was also working on the job by Huang Tiandu." Lin Daier recalled: "The one who was killed in the brothel fight was Zhang Fuli."
Chu Huan frowned and asked, "It was Zhang Fuli who died, who killed someone?"
Lin Daier smiled bitterly and said, "The murderer is Qiu He. You have never heard of this person's name. He was a Dusi of the Youtun Guards back then, and a general under my father...!" After a pause, he slowly said, "But he was also an old general of the Western Tang Dynasty back then!"
Chu Huan's eyebrows suddenly locked tighter.
"After my father learned about this, he immediately tied up Qiu He and sent him to the Ministry of Justice." Lin Daier's expression was indifferent, but her beautiful eyes flashed gently. These were the past events she hid in her heart. Now, it is clear that so many years have passed, and there has been no trace of forgetting.
"This was an accidental fight. Both sides were drunk too much in the prostitute. Moreover, Qiu He did not intend to kill people at that time. He told his father that he had killed him by mistake." Lin Daier looked grim: "My father was worried that someone would take advantage of this matter to play, and Zhang Fuli's master was Duke of An Guo, Huang Ju. Huang Ju was very powerful in the court at that time, and Yingyuan dog thieves favored him very much. His father knew that things were not easy to handle. He was most afraid that this would affect the King of Western Tang, so for the sake of the King of Western Tang, he wanted to make the big deal of this matter, so he went to Huang Ju personally to explain the matter to Huang Ju."
Chu Huan nodded slightly, thinking about something. It was late at night, and the streets were very quiet. The carriage turned left and right, and shuttled through the city. The sound of wheels crushing the ground could even overshadow the two of them.
"Huang Ju laughed at the time and said that it was just the fault of the person below, so he comforted his father without thinking too much." Lin Daier sneer sneered on his lips, "The old fox said something and did something. His father did not favor Qiu He and sent Qiu He to the Ministry of Justice. However... his father didn't know that it was this move that gave the other party a chance. A few days later, his father suddenly learned that Qiu He committed suicide in the Ministry of Justice's prison. Before he died, he wrote a confession and even pressed his blood fingerprint."
Chu Huanxin suddenly felt upset. He knew that the later tragedy might have happened on the confession, and asked softly: "What did that confession say?"
Lin Daier bit her red lips, pondered for a moment, and finally said: "On the confession, he confessed to the killing of Zhang Fuli, but before he was handed over to the Ministry of Justice, Qiu He told his father that he had fought for a singing girl after being drunk, and he accidentally killed Zhang Fuli, but the confession was completely different. On the confession, both parties did not take action because of the singing girl!"
"What's that?"
"Rebellion!" Lin Daier sneered: "The confession said that Qiu He and his group were conspiring to rebel, but were accidentally heard by Zhang Fuli. Qiu He discovered Zhang Fuli and immediately took action. When Zhang Fuli heard the movement, he rushed over immediately. However, when they arrived, Zhang Fuli had already smashed his head with a chair and lay on the ground into a corpse...!"
Chu Huan sighed: "Since the Ministry of Justice has brought out this confession, Qiu He committed suicide because he was afraid of the crime. It is not easy to overturn the case."
"My father didn't expect the Ministry of Justice to come up with such a confession, nor did he expect Qiu He to die in the prison." Lin Daier sneered: "My father knew something was wrong, so he asked the Ministry of Justice to hand over Qiu He's body to see how Qiu He committed suicide for fear of crime. However, the Ministry of Justice did not hand over the body. Instead, Qiu He's accomplices robbed the Ministry of Justice and took away the body. The whereabouts of the body were unknown. The prison officer guarding the Ministry of Justice was immediately ordered to be executed...!"
Chu Huan's eyes flashed and he said softly: "They have a thorough plan, so General Lin is afraid that he will not escape the disaster." He thought that according to the results later, the emperor had long been afraid of Lin Qingyuan. He finally found an opportunity, so he naturally would not let it go easily. On the surface, it was Lin Qingyuan and Huang Ju fighting, but behind Huang Ju is His Majesty the Emperor.
Chapter completed!