Chapter 80: Drag him out and behead him, sharpen the knife

After hearing Ning Fan's words, the expressions of all the courtiers changed slightly, and for a moment, the atmosphere in the entire hall couldn't help but become much heavier!

Seeing how King Xuanyong spoke so confidently, he was obviously confident!

It seems that even Marquis Xuanwu is involved?

Ning Fan's prepared confession was presented to him. Emperor Yu had already known about it. He just gave it a symbolic glance and asked Wei Ying to pass it on to all the ministers for review!

"This... Your Highness, are all the above statements true?"

"Here are the witness statements. Besides, if it is true or false, many adults here should know it!"

Ning Fan's eyes swept across the faces of the ministers, and he said calmly: "Father, my son also found many secret letters from the Chen family, which involved many courtiers!

Seeing Ning Fan taking out another stack of envelopes from his sleeve, one of the ministers finally lost his composure, sweat dripping from his forehead, and stared at the letter in Ning Fan's hand!

"Master Hu, now that the king has produced evidence, is your crime of frame-up and slander confirmed again?"

"Hmph!" Hu Yue's face was full of resentment, and he said coldly: "These evidences are all His Highness's one-sided words. These assassins are now beyond recognition. It is not yet known whether any of them were beaten to death!"

"Now His Highness just took out a few forged letters and randomly picked up a few death row prisoners, and charged the Chen family and Marquis Xuanwu with treason!"

"Your Majesty, I request the Ministry of Punishment to unite with Dali Temple to thoroughly investigate this matter!"

Hu Yue's tone was passionate, he knelt down and spoke loudly.

"Forgery?"

A sneer appeared on Ning Fan's face, and he looked at Hu Yue with a dangerous glint in his eyes: "Chen Rui's confession here, I believe you all know better whether it is a forgery or not!"

"There was a lot of commotion in Beijing last night!"

Ning Fan looked at several ministers one after another thoughtfully. The latter all looked nervous and did not dare to look at them!

"Master Han, Master Xu..."

"You must know better than me, right?"

"There are also several adults who have been to the secret room of Chen Mansion before. Do you need me to list them one by one?"

"Every word, every word, and every conversation you had in the Chen Mansion is clear to me and has been recorded!"

Ning Fan had a calm expression on his face, but the next moment, several civil and military personnel stood out from the crowd and knelt on the ground.

"Your Majesty, I deserve death for my crime!"

"I am guilty!"

"Your Majesty, I am being forced by the Chen family. Your Majesty, please take a closer look!"

Han Xu knelt on the ground and cried bitterly: "The Chen family put a knife on my neck and held the whole family hostage!"

"My lord, I am really helpless!"

"My original intention was to report it to His Majesty in private after I went to court. Unexpectedly, His Highness King Xuanyong has very good hands and eyes. The minister found out in one step and asked Your Majesty to punish him!"

Emperor Yu's face was calm and his eyes fell on Ning Fan: "The Chen family's rebellion case will be handled by the Jin Yiwei with full authority. Anyone involved in the case will not be tolerated!"

"According to the order!"

There was a hint of coldness in Ning Fan's eyes, and he looked at Hu Yue who was standing aside: "Father, the royal censor Hu Yue has falsely accused my son and ministers several times. Please seek justice!"

"Drag him out and kill him."

Emperor Yu didn't even look at him, and waved his hand. Hu Yue's knees instantly weakened, and his face turned extremely pale!

"Your Majesty, spare your life!"

"Your Majesty, I am guilty!"

"Your Majesty, Mr. Hu, as a censor, has the responsibility to supervise all officials. I am afraid that I have misunderstood His Highness this time. His crime will not lead to death!"

The one who spoke was none other than Cai Ji, the Minister of Punishment who had never spoken!

"Master Cai, you mean that being a royal doctor is equivalent to having a gold medal for immunity from death?"

"According to my law, Dayu, those who make false accusations and frame ups will die!"

"Master Cai is the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, but he is excusing him. Where does he regard the law?"

Ning Fan's face was filled with coldness and he stared at Cai Ji calmly.

"If, as His Highness said, His Highness just ignored the laws of the court and beat up the court officials, according to the law, His Highness should be punished for contempt of court, and according to the law, he should be executed!"

"Should we also act in accordance with the law?"

Cai Ji responded tit for tat, even ignoring the warning eyes of his superior Emperor Yu, and looked at Ning Fan coldly.

"Yeah?"

"Then please ask Mr. Cai to kill this king to rectify the law of the country!"

There was a touch of sarcasm on Ning Fan's lips, and Cai Ji's face instantly turned red, and he was angry and speechless!

Two powerful and powerful Imperial Guardsmen rushed up and dragged Hu Yue down, who was crying and howling. The matter was finally settled.

"Ning Fan!"

"My son is here!"

"Today is the day of Duke Zhao's triumphant return. You can lead officials from the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of War to greet him on my behalf!"

"According to the order!"

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Ning Fan walked down from the court, his expression suddenly became extremely deep. Judging from the reaction of his father who came to court today, it seemed that he was not afraid of him yet!

Now that he holds the power of the Imperial Guard, his prestige in the court is growing day by day. If he does not take this opportunity to establish a firm footing, once the family is razed and Emperor Yu achieves his goal of purging the government, he may not be able to kill the donkey!

He dared to act so wantonly in the court today because he knew that Emperor Yu would never touch him before the family was defeated!

"Now that Duke Zhenguo has returned triumphantly, it seems to have given my father the confidence!"

"Take this opportunity to clean up the government once and for all?"

"It's time for the Minister of Hubu to return to his post!"

Just returned to Prince Xuanyong's Mansion, I saw that Jia Xu and Jiang Yu seemed to have been waiting for a long time.

"Lord!"

"Um!"

The three of them sat down in the hall, and Jiang Li spoke first: "Qu Hongxiu's identity has been found out. She is the third princess of Donghuai!"

"Huh?"

"How could a princess of a country take risks in person?"

"Donghuai's plan, could it be that they are deliberately going to take advantage of a princess?"

Looking at Ning Fan's suspicious face, Jiang Li explained softly: "Reporting to the lord, Qu Hongxiu is a concubine's daughter, and her mother is not favored in Donghuai!"

"I came to my Dayu this time because I was forced by the Queen of Donghuai!"

"So that's it!"

Ning Fan's mouth curled up slightly, and he said lightly: "Let's not talk about Qu Hongxiu's matter first, how are the preparations in the south?"

"My lord, our people have collected evidence of the crimes of the Chen family over the years!"

"It has been After sending people to operate, within three days, the Chen family will become notorious!"

"Good!"

Ning Fan nodded with satisfaction, and Jia Xu said: "My lord, I am going to leave Beijing today and go to Shuzhou to operate it myself!"

"After seven days, we will directly attack the Chen family and seize the Jiangnan Horse Farm and Chen family military equipment in one fell swoop!"

"Yes!"

Ning Fan nodded slightly and said solemnly: "Today, the army of the East Border will arrive in Beijing. I will ask my father to let the East Border Army move to the south in the name of suppressing bandits!"

"Thank you, Your Highness!"

After Ning Fan personally gave some instructions, he looked at Jiang Lin on the side: "You can take action against Xuanwu Hou, and put all the followers of the Chen family in prison and wait for their fate!"

"Yes!"

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