If I were born again, I would marry a strong but short-lived husband.

Chapter 445 I Have New Evidence

Fu Yuxuan bathed and burned incense early in the morning. He had given up on himself because of his injured legs, but today he dressed himself neatly and tidy, and even his knees didn't feel the pain.

Seeing a wheelchair, he no longer gets angry and asks people to smash it.

He asked Liao Hai to push his wheelchair and arrived at the Meridian Gate early in the morning.

The morning court ends at Chenshi, and the trial begins at Chenshi.

All officials above the fifth rank in the imperial court had to be present to watch.

Before the hour of noon, the Meridian Gate was already crowded with people.

In addition to the people from Jiangbei who came to beat the drum to seek justice, there were also children of aristocratic families such as Du Youchuan. The two groups of people occupied each side, and in the middle were the people of the royal capital who came to watch the fun.

The cases of selling official positions and selling the country are already known to everyone. If the truth cannot be uncovered today, it will surely cause people to become uneasy and they will no longer trust the prestige of the court.

Next to the desk are two rows of armchairs, which are prepared for the ministers.

When the hour of Chen arrived, officials who had just left the court began to walk in one after another.

On weekdays, officials liked to get together to talk after court, exchange information, and gossip about their colleagues. In short, they had endless things to talk about.

Everyone is unusually quiet today.

After arriving at the Meridian Gate, they lowered their heads, not looking anywhere, just waiting for Prince Heng to come and try the case.

Seeing that Fu Yuxuan's wheelchair had already taken a stable position next to the desk, everyone lowered their heads and looked at him in a submissive manner.

I just sighed in my heart. I heard that the second prince's leg was crippled. I thought it was an exaggeration, but it seems to be true.

Everyone bowed and saluted Fu Yuxuan.

Fu Yuxuan responded with a smile and a wave of his hand, without any trace of the sinister look he had in the past few days.

An attitude that shows victory is in sight.

The officials did not dare to get too close to Fu Yuxuan here. After paying their respects, they stood in their seats with their eyes wide open.

Soon King Heng arrived.

The entire Meridian Gate Square was silent.

"Bring Prince Chen, Ruan Xinglin and Ruan Xiuyuan." Prince Heng slammed the gavel, his voice full of majesty.

Brothers Fu Jinyuan and Ruan Xinglin were brought up, and You Shaojun was responsible for escorting them. He originally wanted to put handcuffs on them, but Cheng Hongyan disagreed.

"Walk faster." You Shaojun kicked Ruan Xiuyuan's wheelchair.

Fu Jinyuan's eyes darkened and he glanced over sharply.

You Shaojun was shocked by Fu Jinyuan's eyes, and then he was filled with anger and resentment, "What are you looking at? From today on, all of you will lose your heads."

"Can you speak?" A big shoe flew from the sky and hit You Shaojun on the head.

"Asshole, who is that?" You Shaojun was furious.

Du Youchuan crossed his arms over his chest and raised his foot that was missing a shoe. "It's your grandfather."

You Shaojun was about to get angry, but he saw that the Crown Prince and Fu Qian'an were standing next to Du Youchuan.

They are all people he can't afford to offend.

Censor Hong first presented the evidence with both hands.

"I have worked hard to investigate this case and finally found out that the Empress and Prime Minister Ruan were protecting each other and colluding with each other, involving 56 officials. This is evidence of guilt, please have a look, Your Majesty."

Prince Heng carefully read the evidence and asked Censor Hong to read it out in public.

Censor Hong read out the case. The evidence was clear and each one was enough to convict the Queen and Prime Minister Ruan.

The Prince of Chen was guilty of shielding the criminal, but his crime does not deserve the death penalty.

This made the second prince somewhat dissatisfied.

He wanted to catch them all in one fell swoop.

As soon as Censor Hong finished reading the evidence, the Second Prince's gang immediately jumped out.

"The Queen has committed atrocities, and Prime Minister Ruan has been plundering the people. They are truly harming the country and the people. They must be severely punished."

"Prince Chen protects them, and he will definitely become a parasite in the Southern Dynasty in the future."

Amidst the voices of condemnation, Fu Yuxuan finally spoke in sorrow, "Prince Chen has just returned to the Southern Dynasty, and he must have been deceived. I will report this to the Emperor and ask him to be given a lighter sentence."

Fu Yuxuan looked at Fu Jinyuan unconsciously with pride.

But even at this point, Fu Jinyuan still did not panic at all. His posture was still upright, and his face was as cold and stern as if it had been chiseled out of ice.

As if he was not the one being judged.

Prince Heng looked at Ruan Xinglin, "Prime Minister Ruan, do you have anything else to say?"

"I have never done these things, so I have nothing to say." Ruan Xinglin said expressionlessly.

"Ruan Xiuyuan, your wife has accused you of selling privately-forged weapons to the Western Regions. Do you plead guilty?" King Heng looked at Ruan Xiuyuan again.

"Has Your Majesty ever been to the battlefield?" Ruan Xiuyuan asked expressionlessly.

King Heng frowned, not understanding what Ruan Xiuyuan meant.

"I have never been on the battlefield, and I would never forge weapons privately," said King Heng.

"My lords, when you were living in luxury in the capital and enjoying generous salaries, have you ever thought about the soldiers at the border fighting in the frost and blood on the battlefield? Have you ever seen what weapons the soldiers in the Western Regions were holding?"

"Where is the privately forged weapon and what does it look like?"

"I sold weapons to the Western Regions, and they crippled my legs?"

"..."

Ruan Xiuyuan's words were so powerful that everyone was stunned.

Fu Yuxuan's expression froze. He didn't want to see the Ruan family change their statement at this time.

"Hmph, Ruan Xiuyuan, how do you know that this is not a self-torture trick of yours?" An official snorted coldly.

"The evidence is irrefutable. There is no point in talking about other things."

King Heng: "Bring up the weapons collected from Jiangbei."

You Shaojun immediately agreed and had someone bring up a box of weapons.

Ruan Xiuyuan just lowered his eyes and glanced at him, with a sneer on his face.

"This... this... I've been to the battlefield. This is the weapon of the soldiers from the Western Regions." The Assistant Minister of War shouted.

Suddenly there was an uproar.

King Heng looked sternly, "Ruan Xiuyuan, do you have anything else to say?"

Ruan Xiuyuan stared at the box of weapons and said, "Nothing to say."

Fu Yuxuan breathed a sigh of relief. The evidence was conclusive and no one could escape.

"In this case, then this king will..."

At this time, Cheng Hongyan stood up and said, "Your Majesty, I have new evidence to present."

Fu Yuxuan narrowed his eyes slightly and stared at Cheng Hongyan.

"Lord Cheng, I have seen all the evidence from the Dali Temple." Prince Heng said in a deep voice.

"Censor Hong colluded with the second prince to frame loyal ministers and wrongly accused the queen. The evidence presented by Censor Hong and Chen is all false evidence." Cheng Hongyan said loudly.

Fu Yuxuan was furious, "Cheng Hongyan, what did you say!"

Censor Hong's eyes suddenly widened.

"Slander, defamation! Cheng Hongyan, you...you..."

"This is Chen's testimony. He was questioned many times, but not once was it exactly the same. His confession was a mess, and not a single word of it could stand up to scrutiny. I also caught a spy left by the King of the Western Regions in the capital, and found a letter on him that was in collusion with the King of the Western Regions."

"And the list submitted by Censor Hong is all a frame-up."

"Half of the officials on the list are incorruptible, while the other half have made outstanding achievements and are deeply loved by the local people..."

Cheng Hongyan's voice was so clear that everyone else was stunned.

So does he.

All the evidence was delivered to him only at midnight yesterday.

If he doesn't stand up today, someone else will, and by then he will be the one who colludes with the Second Prince to frame the Queen and the Ruan family.

The so-called cases of selling official positions, privately casting weapons, and treason were all under the control of Queen Ruan.

Jiangbei was indeed privately casting weapons.

But the person who privately forged the weapons was not Queen Ruan, but He Zhiyuan.

There were even bigger secrets that he didn't dare to tell here, so he could only go to the palace and report to the emperor in person.

The second prince could never turn things around again.