Long live Emperor Wu!

At night, in Zhaoqing Hall of Tai Chi Palace, Li Shan looked at the surveillance bamboo pieces scattered on the table, his face turned pale, and he didn't speak for a long time.

Wu Rou went to see the child and came back and saw him like this.

So he walked over and sat beside him silently, picking out the bamboo pieces on top and inspecting them.

The bamboo slips only contained time and place records, as well as contact records, but most of these people had some kind of brother-in-law or kinship relationship with the Fang family.

After Wu Rou finished looking at it, he said:

"Only based on these... we can't conclude that they are conspiring to rebel, right? Your Majesty, you find it difficult to make a decision?"

Li Shan's gentle eyebrows were a little cold and he said flatly:
  "What are you deciding? Everyone has been arrested. Everyone above has been arrested. At this time, we still don't know how the situation outside the palace is turned upside down."

Wu Rou was surprised for a moment, looked at Li Shan's face, and asked again:
  "Without His Majesty's order... Changsun Wuji has already arrested someone? Doesn't it count... doesn't count... overstepping his authority?"

Changsun Wuji sent these suspicious evidence to the palace, and directly greeted Emperor Li Shan, saying that he could not miss the opportunity and had already mobilized troops.

Li Shan put his hand on his forehead and said:
  "He is the auxiliary minister appointed by my father. He has a forbidden army at his disposal. He is here to remove obstacles for me at the critical moment... My father is afraid that I will be soft-hearted at the critical moment."

Wu Rou thought for a while and said:
  "Then His Majesty is suspicious..."

Li Shan was very irritable. He covered his forehead with both hands and said:

"I don't know anything, but so many people... I don't believe they are going to rebel. Why?
  Since I came to the throne, I have treated them with preferential treatment, neither harming their interests nor suppressing them.

On what grounds did they rebel?

Is it just because we are familiar with Fourth Brother? ...In their hearts, it must be better for fourth brother to be emperor than for me to be emperor, right? "

Wu Rou's eyes swayed, and after hesitating for a moment, she said:
  "I also think that the impact of this incident is a bit too great, but for such a big matter, even if Changsun Wuji has been arrested, he cannot deal with it privately. He must send it to the three departments for trial. Your Majesty will take a look at it then to see if there is anything wrong. Inappropriate.”

While they were talking, Xu Huaian walked in from outside and stood outside the screen to report:
  "Your Majesty, the Taiwei sent someone to deliver something again. He said that it was collected at Fang's house. Please check it."

"Bring it in." Li Shan immediately sat up straight.

Xu Huaian held the golden tube, stood around the screen, opened it in front of the emperor, took the thing out, and handed it to the emperor with both hands.

Li Shan took it in his hand and saw that it was a joint letter, a statement of joint action. The statement said that they were willing to work together to support Pu Wang Li Tai to ascend the throne.

There are signatures and seals underneath. One is Fang Yiai and the other is Xue Wanche.

Xue Wanche is also a consort, but he is the consort of Aunt Li Shan. He was the son of the then crown prince Li Jiancheng. After the Xuanwumen Incident, he has been following Emperor Taizong to make great achievements. He is a veteran with great military exploits. He is now General Youwuwei and the governor of Ningzhou...

Li Shan looked at this clear evidence of rebellion and frowned. Feeling puzzled and sad, he murmured another question:
  "Why do you want to rebel?"

……

……

Outside the cell in Dali Temple, there was a torture chamber. Various torture props were placed in the torture chamber. There was no known black spot on the wall, which was old blood stains. There was a smell of urine and decay everywhere.

Changsun Wuji wore a purple official uniform and sat on a new chair. He threw the handkerchief covering his mouth and nose on the table and closed his sleeves with his thin hands.

The door to the torture chamber opened, and Fang Yiai, with shackles on his feet and hands, was taken to the torture chamber by the guards. When he was about to be tied to the rack, Changsun Wuji opened his mouth and said:
  "Okay, let him stand there."

"Yes."

But Fang Yiai didn't want to stand, so she brushed the fallen hair from her eyes and sat down on the ground.

Just as the officer was about to drag him up, Changsun Wuji smiled and said:
  "You just broke the jar, so you're not in a hurry."

Fang Yiai was still young, but only five years older than Li Shan. There was still the arrogance of a young man on his face. He raised his face and sighed deliberately:
  "We've all been caught, so what's the use of being anxious."

Changsun Wuji turned his eyes and said:
  "Do you know...who reported you?"

Only then did Fang Yiai's careless attitude come into focus. He didn't move his face, looked sideways at Changsun Wuji, and asked:
  "Who?"

"Princess Gaoyang."

Upon hearing this, Fang Yiai was stunned for a moment, then sneered and said firmly:
  "Impossible, the crime of rebellion is to confiscate the home and exterminate the clan! She reported me?... She didn't care about her own life, and she didn't care about the lives of her children? If the lieutenant wants to make up a lie to piss me off, he has to make it look like Some."

After hearing this, Changsun Wuji lowered his eyes and was speechless for a moment.

He really didn't know what Gao Yang was thinking... This woman was probably crazy.

"It was indeed Gao Yang. It was the time she sued Fang Yizhi. She told me that she had seen Prince Pu Li Tai in the Fang Family Courtyard, secretly, and that's when I became suspicious." Changsun Wuji said.

Fang Yiai froze, her eyes shining with shock as she carefully looked at Changsun Wuji's expression.

As if trying to tell the lie from his expression.

Suddenly, he stood up from the ground. He was so excited that he would have pounced on him if he hadn't been held down by the guards on both sides:
  "That bitch Gao Yang! Where is that lunatic?! I want to see her! I want to kill her!"

Changsun Wuji felt comfortable at this moment. Otherwise, he really didn't know what to do if he was a prepared man.

"She is still in the Fang Family Courtyard, being imprisoned, waiting for the outcome of your crimes. But... follow the example of Prince Cheng Qian's rebellion.

She is a whistleblower and His Majesty's sister. His Majesty will definitely give her a lighter sentence and maybe even reward her. "

Changsun Wuji's tone was quite frivolous, which made Fang Yiai even more excited, and he roared with hatred. If it weren't for the iron shackles, he would probably kill someone on the spot.

Changsun Wuji just looked at him and waited for him. He waited until he was so tired that he couldn't do any more work and sat on the ground panting, then asked:

"After all, why do you want to rebel? Who is the mastermind?"

Fang Yiai looked at him and said angrily:

"You ask why?!...I don't want to be a consort anymore, I want to divorce that bitch Gao Yang, I want to kill her!

It's a pity that she is the only one who can divorce me, and I am not qualified to divorce her!
  Everyone in the world mocks me, Fang Yiai, as a cuckolded wimp, but I am not! …If I hadn’t done it for the entire Fang family, would I have endured it to this point? ! "

A trace of sympathy flashed across Changsun Wuji's brows, and he turned to look at the confidant next to him who was responsible for recording the confessions. He seemed to be waiting for him, fearing that he would leak the confessions.