Chapter 182 Bite back
Chapter 182 Bite back
Chu Tianhe entered the Golden Palace under the escort of the imperial guards!
He is just a person.
He didn't bring thousands of troops with him!
When they realized this, the expressions of the civil and military officials instantly became varied, and they stared at Chu Tianhe, the uninvited guest, as if they were constipated.
Chu Tianhe said cheerfully, "I didn't know I had such a great reputation in Dayong. You gentlemen treat me like a ferocious tiger. Hahahaha, interesting, interesting, interesting!"
He said three interesting things in a row.
The stunned Ying Chu finally reacted. He looked at Chu Tianhe with a pale face: "Why are you here!"
"Oh?"
Chu Tianhe turned to look at Ying Chu and said with a half-smile, "I heard that the son born to Emperor Yong and the Holy Maiden of the Great Chu Wu Clan has finally been found, so I came here specially to congratulate him. If he's not here, where should he be?"
"you--"
"Shouldn't you be in Prince Qi's mansion?!"
The official from the Wang Party expressed Ying Chu's confusion and shock: "How could you be here?"
The Prince of Qi had told everyone early in the morning that Chu Tianhe had been placed under house arrest in the Prince of Qi's mansion, and several core officials of the Wang family had personally confirmed it and had seen with their own eyes that Chu Tianhe was surrounded by the guards in the palace.
Not even a fly could fly out.
How could he appear in the Golden Palace?
Chu Tianhe glanced at the ministers and didn't bother to speak at all.
Wen Rong, standing behind him, sneered, "How dare you! Our monarch has come all the way here to congratulate the Emperor of Yong, and only arrived in Yongjing yesterday. He's never met the Prince of Qi of Great Yong before, so what is he doing going to the Prince of Qi's mansion? Stop your nonsense!"
Official Wang's eyes widened.
Ying Chu also had an absurd look on his face.
What on earth were Chu Tianhe and his group talking about? They had clearly agreed with him last night to work together to bring down Ye Zhennan. Could he be going back on his word?
Ying Chu's chest heaved violently with anger.
He held up the memorial in his hand and shouted angrily, "Chu Tianhe, do you think that just changing your mind will do? This is your confession, sealed with the imperial seal. You colluded with Ye Zhennan and attempted to destroy the Great Yong Empire. Don't even think about denying it!"
"Confession?"
Chu Tianhe frowned and looked at Ying Chu: "Who are you? Why should I give you a confession? Besides-"
Chu Tianhe didn't look at Ying Chu again, but turned to look at Emperor Yong on the high throne, wondering, "Emperor Yong, is your prince not in the right place? If I were colluding with your Great Yong General's Mansion, why would I give a confession to the King of Qi? Is I sick? Or is he not in his right mind?"
Chu Tianhe's words were not polite, but they were like enlightenment.
The others reacted, "That's right. If the King of Chu... was in cahoots with General Ye, why would he easily leave a confession that would give someone else a handle? Isn't that stupid?"
"He is Chu Tianhe, how could he be stupid?"
"Then this confession..."
Everyone looked at Prince Yingchu of Qi.
Ying Chu's face turned pale, and he suddenly threw the confession in front of Chu Tianhe: "It has your Western Zhou Dynasty seal on it, how can you quibble!"
Everyone who was talking suddenly stopped talking.
Yes, it is stamped with the national seal. How do you explain this?
The ministers looked at Chu Tianhe again.
Chu Tianhe glanced at Ying Chu and said indifferently: "Wen Rong."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Wen Rong immediately stepped forward to pick up the confession, glanced at the vermilion seal, and immediately said to Emperor Yong and all the civil and military officials of Great Yong: "Your Majesty, everyone, although this seal is somewhat similar to our national seal, it is not the seal of our Great Chu. This jade seal is a forgery!"
"impossible!"
Ying Chu scolded without thinking: "I saw Chu Tianhe build this with my own eyes, how could it be fake?"
Wen Rong remained calm. He toured the Golden Throne Hall and suddenly approached the Minister of the Honglu Temple. "Sir, when we arrived at Yongchao yesterday, we went to the Honglu Temple to hand over a document. On that document was the imperial seal of the Western Zhou Chu State. Why don't you produce that document and compare it with the 'confession' in the hands of the King of Qi? We'll know for sure which is true."
The Minister of the Ministry of Rites looked up at Emperor Yong.
Emperor Yong nodded: "Alright."
The Minister of the Ministry of Rites immediately went to get the document.
After a while, the official from the Honglu Temple came back with the documents delivered by Chu Tianhe and others yesterday, and picked up the evidence that Ying Chu threw on the ground.
Several heads were put together for comparison.
From a distance, the seals on the two documents looked identical.
After a moment, the Minister of Rites looked up and hesitantly looked at Emperor Yong: "Your Majesty, it seems...something...is not quite the same..."
Ying Chu's face changed drastically: "How is this possible!"
Emperor Yong said in a deep voice: "Bring it up!"
The Minister of the Ministry of Rites handed the two documents to Eunuch Wang, who then presented them to Emperor Yong with both hands.
Emperor Yong picked them up for comparison.
After a while, the two documents were thrown together at the feet of Yingchu. Emperor Yong could no longer bear it and cursed, "Idiot!"
Ying Chu's mind was already on the verge of collapse.
When the Minister of the Ministry of Rites pointed out that the seals on the two documents were different, Ying Chu had a bad feeling. Now, seeing Emperor Yong throwing all the documents at his feet in anger, he felt as if a basin of cold water was poured on his heart.
But Yingchu is still unwilling to give up!
He had written the confession on that document himself, and he had personally witnessed Chu Tianhe stamping the seal. How could it be different? How could it be fake?
But the reality is so cruel.
Wei Yanyan's letter was swapped, and Chu Tianhe also went back on his word. Everything was different from what he expected.
What went wrong?
Ying Chu didn't understand.
He had clearly arranged everything, why did things suddenly change?
Ying Chu picked up the two documents on the ground tremblingly, his eyes fixed on the two seals.
However, after looking at it for a long while, he looked up and said in surprise, "Father, these two seals are exactly the same?"
What's the difference?
He didn't see any difference at all.
Is the Minister of the Ministry of Rites blind?
Ying Chu glared at the Minister of Rites and was about to ask him to read it again when the Minister trembled and said, "Your Highness, the document sent to the Ministry of Rites by the Chu envoy was stamped with the words 'Thousands of Years', while your confession says... 'Thousands of Years'..."
"what?"
Ying Chu quickly lowered his head.
He first looked at the one from the Honglu Temple, then looked at his own, his eyes lingering on the third word in particular.
When Ying Chu saw that there was an inconspicuous "dot" on the "wan" character on his document, his face turned pale.
He suddenly looked up and glared at Chu Tianhe.
His eyes were bloodshot: "You are kidding me!"
At this moment, Ying Chu finally realized that he had been fooled by Chu Tianhe!
"Chu! Tian! He!"
Ying Chu suddenly rushed towards Chu Tianhe.
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