After listening to the details of Ma Yongcheng and Wang Yangming about the arrest of Zhang Yu and others, Zhu Houzhao completely understood what happened in Shaanxi before, and realized that Ma Yongcheng and others had not entered Beijing with Wang Shu at all. This caused Li Dongyang to mistakenly regard Wang Shu and his group as Zhang Yu and others and were successfully silenced. At first, Zhu Houzhao thought that Zhang Yu and others were successfully silenced.

Now that he heard that Zhang Yu and others were not silenced, Zhu Houzhao naturally felt more confident in declaring war on the entire civil service group outside the palace!

actually.

At this time, the atmosphere of the Forbidden City had unexpectedly become serious.

At first, the civil servants who heard that His Majesty the Emperor had sent Li Dongyang and others directly into the imperial prison indiscriminately and were angry and wanted to come to the Forbidden City to kneel down and force Zhu Houzhao to compromise. Now, when he heard that Zhang Yu and others were escorted to Beijing, he guessed what this meant.

Most civil officials, especially those above the fifth rank and above in Beijing, are almost not confused. In fact, they have heard of the possible murder of Emperor Hongzhi, but they are not willing to take the initiative to mention this matter. Even the censors who have heard the news did not think about making a fuss about this matter.

The reason is nothing else, everyone is willing to see Emperor Hongzhi die.

Because there had been rumors that Emperor Hongzhi summoned Ma Wensheng before his death, intending to order Liu Jian, Li Dongyang and others to retire and reorganize the cabinet to start levying commercial taxes, reform the administration of the government, to fill the national treasury and reduce the dangers of the people.

Of course, these civil servants don’t care who is the cabinet minister, but what they care about is whether their own interests can be protected.

Emperor Hongzhi suddenly wanted to be a better emperor, that is, an emperor who ruled for the people obviously violated their interests, so they naturally wanted to see the death of the emperor created by the cabinet and the inner court.

Therefore, except for Ma Wensheng, almost no civil servant is willing to be a detective, but reveals the truth. They do not have to offend the cabinet and the inner court for the sake of a dead Emperor Hongzhi.

They were even willing to help cover up the fact that they were revealed. When they heard that Li Dongyang and others were imprisoned, they all actively came to plead with mercy, and did not hesitate to touch the dragon face!

However, at this time, when they learned that Ma Yongcheng brought Zhang Yu and other murderers who directly led to Emperor Hongzhi's death to the capital, they all knew that they could not help cover up the truth, and even panicked, because they didn't know how many people the truth would be revealed. They can only hope that Zhu Houzhao would be kind and not to implicate too many people!

Moreover, at this time, these civil officials in Beijing had even begun to regret that they had come outside the palace to ask for love for Li Dongyang. Isn’t it okay to stay out of the matter?

"After the order! All the officials present entered the palace and knelt outside Fengtian Gate, and knelt down according to the court!"

As the words of the Fengguan in the Sili Supervisor fell, these civil servants entered the palace in a regular manner and knelt outside the Fengtian Gate, not daring to complain. There was nothing they could do. They were now very afraid that their behavior would be bad and they would be ruled to Li Dongyang's accomplices by His Majesty.

Ma Wensheng also walked outside Fengtian Gate under the order. At this time, the inner officials had already installed a row of chairs here. As the chief judge, Ma Wensheng naturally sat in the center. The left censor Dai Shan, the Minister of Justice Min Gui, and the Minister of the Dali Temple Yang Shousu were all summoned from the kneeling civil servants, and they all sat on Ma Wensheng's left.

At this time, the three of them, the Admiral of the East Factory, the Admiral of the West Factory, and the Assistant Commander of the Jinyiwei, Guo Rong, and the other two, also came over and sat on the right side of Ma Wensheng.

At this time, Zhu Houzhao also appeared on the jade stairs of Fengtianmen in a jade chariot, staring at Ma Wensheng and others off the stairs and the civil servants kneeling in front of him.

Jiao Fang and Xu Jin also appeared with Zhu Houzhao.

At this time, the Zuodu Censor Dai Shan was obviously trembling, and Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but ask: "The Zuodu Censor Dai Shan! Why are you shaking? Today you can judge others, but you don't judge you!"

Dai Shan was shouted like this by Zhu Houzhao, not only did she stop trembling, but she was so scared that she trembled and slid down from the chair, and bowed to Zhu Houzhao:

"Your Majesty, I have no personal relationship with Li Dongyang. It's just that my student married his granddaughter, but I have long disregarded that student! Please let Your Majesty take a clear look!"

Zhu Houzhao was speechless for a while and waved her hand, "Since that's the case, why are you panic? Just sit down!"

Dai Shan nodded before holding onto the back of the chair and sat back.

Seeing this, Ma Wensheng was speechless and started to get to the point, saying, "Everyone, I believe you have heard that the treacherous ministers have not fallen and cried at night in the imperial tomb. My Majesty also had to ask the late emperor to ask for the injustice of being killed. And the death of the late emperor seems to be wronged, and it may have been harmed by the traitorous ministers!

Therefore, the admiral of the East Factory, Ma Yongcheng, requested to arrest Zhang Yu and others who were guarding the border, and returned to Beijing for retrial. Now Zhang Yu and others have been escorted to Beijing, so today they will retrieve the case of the murder of the late emperor!"

As he said that, Ma Wensheng shouted: "Take people to criminalize Zhang Yu, Liu Wentai, etc."

For a moment, Zhang Yu, Liu Wentai and others were brought up.

With Zhang Yu, Liu Wentai and others' appearance, the civil servants present were all trembling and did not even dare to see Zhang Yu, Liu Wentai and others, for fear of being implicated.

And at this time.

Zhang Yu himself was very calm, dragging the iron chains and coming towards Fengtian Gate step by step like walking in the garden, with a smile on his lips.

Liu Wentai was not as calm as Zhang Yu, and just shivered: "I don't want to die, I don't want to die, I really don't want to die!"

Needless to say, some of the other criminals were silent, some were smirking for no reason, and some were crying unconsciously.

The first person to appear in front of Ma Wensheng and others was naturally Zhang Yu.

Zhang Yu knelt down very consciously.

Seeing this, Ma Wensheng asked, "Zhang Yu, you served on the day of the late emperor's death. Now I will ask you, if the late emperor was killed, who was killed?"

"Our family dare not hide it. The late emperor was indeed killed by murder. It was killed by Liu Wentai. Liu Wentai must add one more qian of aconite for each dose of the late emperor's medicine, and do not cook it first to harm the late emperor! The late emperor died by taking this hot medicine."

As soon as Zhang Yu said, the crowd was in an uproar. Although they had guessed that the late emperor might have been killed, they were still full of horror after hearing it from Zhang Yu!

Even Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but clench his fists and looked at Zhang Yu coldly.

Ma Wensheng also became short of breath. He initially suspected that the death of the late emperor was suspicious. Now, after learning the truth from Zhang Yu's mouth, he was naturally very angry and gritted his teeth and asked, "Is there any evidence?"

"At that time, our family was the only one who decocted the medicine for the late emperor. After decocting the medicine, our family would remove the hot medicine from the medicine residue and then check it for the late emperor. However, in order to prevent future changes, our family had not removed the medicine residue from the day before His Majesty's death, and it was hidden under the third-level stone steps of Fengtianmen! There was also a nine-dragon jade pendant left by the late emperor!"

After Zhang Yu finished speaking, Ma Wensheng hurriedly asked Zhu Houzhao to allow the commander of the Jinyiwei to pry open the third stone steps. As soon as he pried open, there was a brocade box. When the brocade box opened, it turned out to be a pile of medicine residue and a Nine Dragon Jade Pendant left by the late emperor.

"This thing is indeed the object of the late emperor. The lower official once saw him wearing it when he left the palace in a slight manner."

Jiao Fang, who had served as a Hanlin, said to Zhu Houzhao.

At this time, Yang Yingsui, the minister of Dali Temple who is quite knowledgeable about medical science, grabbed the medicine residue: "It turns out that there is aconite, and there is obviously a lot more. This is a hot medicine. Liu Wentai, what should you blame!"

A plop!

Liu Wentai, who had consulted Emperor Hongzhi, knelt down: "The officials are also coerced by the hero Shao!"

Daxia Shao?

This was the first time Zhu Houzhao heard of Shao Daxia. He thought that there was a Shao Daxia during the Longwan period, but he didn't expect that there was a Shao Daxia who could force the imperial physician to kill the emperor during the Hongzhi period.

At this time, Ma Wensheng had already questioned Liu Wentai: "Who is Shao Daxia and how he coerced you."

"He killed a servant of me and threatened me to kill the late emperor within three days, otherwise I would let my family die tragically in three days. He told me not to be afraid, and said that Li Gefu and Xie Gefu would save my life by then!"

Liu Wentai replied.
Chapter completed!