Chapter 67 Confession

Liang Jianfang looked over and saw the person at the door fiddle with the lock on the prison door and stepped into the prison.

Shen Yu was wearing the clothes of a jailer today, Liang Jianfang almost didn't recognize her. When he saw the person clearly, he jumped off the bed in a hurry.

"I've thought about it, I've thought about it!" Since he saw the dead rat in the morning, Liang Jianfang didn't dare to eat or sleep that day, and finally waited for someone.

Shen Yu lowered her eyes and stared at him, "Go ahead."

"It's a long story," Liang Jianfang rolled his eyes, "May I ask if this guy has any way to save my life?"

A sly guy like Liang Jianfang must get a life-saving talisman before speaking.

"Do you have any choice now?" Shen Yu sneered, "You've already gone to death on that road. You survived today, but can you survive tomorrow? Believe me, you still have a chance of survival."

Liang Jianfang was tricked by him, but he also knew that what he said was true. After thinking for a moment, he said: "This matter has to start from the invasion of the Western Jue people..."

Last September, the Western Jue invaded. Liang Jianfang, as a civil official, was appointed as a military supervisor by Emperor Tongxu. It was a temporary post and was placed in the army to supervise the generals who went to the expedition.

The superiors gave him a death order, and Shen Zhongan and Shen Zhao could only go and not return, no matter what he did.

"So you stole the military deployment map to the Western Jue people? In order to kill them, you actually colluded with the enemy." Shen Yu gritted her teeth to control herself from cutting the person in front of her.

Liang Jianfang was shocked by the hatred in his eyes and hurriedly said, "I didn't steal the map. How could they only use me as a pawn in such a big matter? The army must have arranged other people."

Shen Yu was skeptical, "Since you didn't steal it, how can you guarantee that you will lose this battle, and how can you complete the task?"

"You don't know," Liang Jianfang walked to the door and looked around, then whispered, "Because of food and grass."

"Food and grass?"

Liang Jianfang: "Food and grass will never arrive."

Shen Yu was shocked, "You mean, you knew that there would be no food and grass for this battle before you left Beijing?"

Liang Jianfang nodded.

Several events quickly connected in Shen Yu's mind.

Shen Zhongan received news that food and grass were on the way, but later the food and grass were delayed, and the subsequent news said that they were about to arrive. This was clearly delaying time and preventing them from finding ways to raise food and grass from other channels.

If they had known it earlier, they would have been able to transfer them from other states in time.

However, from the beginning, there was no such thing as food and grass!

Shen Yu calmed down and continued to ask: "The grain and grass are coordinated by the Ministry of Households and then dispatched from granaries in various places. How can he guarantee that the grain and grass will not arrive?"

"I don't know about this," Liang Jianfang said: "I am not responsible for that link."

Shen Yu: "Go on!"

Liang Jianfang shrank back in fear, "Later, you also know that I hid in the city, and then Shen Zhongan got a batch of grain and grass from somewhere. If the grain and grass entered the city, then this battle would not be lost. Before the departure, the capital issued a death order. Either Shen Zhongan died or I died. I could only, only order the city gates to be closed."

Shen Yu couldn't bear it anymore. She drew out the knife and crossed Liang Jianfang's neck, "That's a full 100,000 people!"

That's... that's my father, my brother...

Her hands were shaking, and Liang Jianfang could already feel the pain in her neck.

He leaned back in fear, stammering, "I, I, I am still useful, don't kill me."

Shen Yu held the knife tightly, slowly retracted it, took out something from behind her waist and threw it in front of Liang Jianfang, "Write! Write down everything you just said!"

Liang Jianfang looked at the paper and pen on the ground, supported his hands on the ground and shrank back. He knew that once he wrote it down and had a confession, there would be no meaning for him to exist.

"Don't worry," Shen Yu said coldly, "I still want you to identify him in person, but if you don't write it, I can kill you now."

Liang Jianfang picked up the paper and pen, licked it, and wrote with shaking hands.

"Write the words." Shen Yu warned.

At night, Guanghua Gate was closed and no one could enter or leave.

The inner city would not open until the first quarter of the Yin hour, and at the Mao hour, it was the time for each department to change shifts.

Shen Yu took the waist badge and went out of Guanghua Gate with another jailer. After passing Yongning Street, the two looked at each other and parted ways.

She stood there without leaving. She knew some details and who was the mastermind, but she felt even sadder.

Because she suddenly realized that even if she knew everything and caught the murderer, her father and brother would never come back.

The scene of that day appeared in her eyes.

It was so cold and the snow was so thick. She searched in the pile of corpses. Before turning over each corpse, she would pray in her heart that it must not be them.

But she was disappointed in the end.

A carriage stopped in front of her. Xifeng looked at Shi Yu who was bowing his head and didn't say anything, but lifted the curtain.

Xie Tingzhou lowered his eyes and said softly: "Come up, let's go back."

Shen Yu got on the carriage and leaned against the window sill in a daze.

Xie Tingzhou looked at her silently, but didn't speak. Instead, he stayed quietly by the side, leaving her space for silence.

After a while, Shen Yu took out two pieces of paper from her sleeve and handed them to him.

Xie Tingzhou took it, "Liang Jianfang's confession?"

Shen Yu nodded gently.

Xie Tingzhou read ten lines at a glance, frowned after reading it, and his hand holding the confession was shaking slightly.

Such a ridiculous thing is simply unheard of.

Xie Tingzhou folded the paper and said loudly: "Xifeng, go to the Censorate."

Xie Tingzhou is a third-rank official and needs to attend court every day.

But he was originally the prince of Beilin, and Emperor Tongxu gave him an official position just for show, so he was exempted from attending court every day.

The door of Fengtian Hall was wide open, and the princes and ministers were on both sides.

Since Xie Tingzhou entered the hall, he attracted everyone's surprised eyes. It was the first time he came to court in such a long time.

There was a sudden uproar in the hall.

Wan Ruixian, the left censor of the Metropolitan Censorate, put on a scarlet robe and stepped into the hall.

The chief censor of the Metropolitan Censorate was responsible for the supervision of the rules and regulations, and even a small censor could impeach a first-rank official regardless of his rank.

Putting on a scarlet robe was a beginning, meaning that Wan Ruixian was going to impeach an official today.

When the time came, Emperor Tongxu entered the hall and saw the scarlet one among the crowd at a glance.

Emperor Tongxu looked solemn, "Wan Qing, who are you going to impeach today?"

Wan Ruixian presented a memorial and said solemnly, "Your Majesty, the Yanliangguan case is being tried by the three judicial departments. I, the Left Vice-Chief Censor Wan Ruixian, am reporting the Yanliangguan case today, impeaching the Minister of Revenue Ge Liangji for colluding with treacherous officials to frame loyal officials, which led to the defeat of the Yanliangguan army!"

There was an uproar in the palace.

Emperor Tongxu quickly read the memorial, and he had a clear idea in his mind, and said in a deep voice, "Report."

"Yes." Wan Ruixian took a step forward, "Last September..."