Han Zhanghe's eyes widened, and he raised his head suddenly, his mind buzzing.

Fiery flames ignited in his eyes again, containing a monstrous hatred, he raised his thin chin, gritted his teeth and said: "Gu Ce surrendered the enemy and opened the city gate, causing tens of thousands of civilians and soldiers to die in vain. Compare them!"

He misunderstood the second girl Gu, and he admitted it; but Gu Ce's crimes are known to all the world, and the world is the proof, so how could the eldest prince be able to erase them with a few words!

Father is father, daughter is daughter!

The other students behind him also felt the same way and nodded, with the same indignation written on their faces.

The students looked righteously indignant, but Chu Yi still smiled calmly, and asked, "Who saw it?"

Nine years ago, after the South Vietnamese army captured Tailing City in Yangzhou, they slaughtered it for three full days.

All the Dajing soldiers who participated in the war died in battle, and buried alive. The people in the Tailing City area are also ten rooms and nine empty, which can be said to be littered with corpses.

The students present and the onlookers outside have heard that the bloody smell over Tailing City lasted for a long time, and crows flew in groups.

But now the eldest prince asked, who saw it?

This question can be said to be a bit heart-wrenching, and Han Zhanghe and others were speechless for a while.

Chu Yi repeated again: "Without investigation, there is no right to speak."

Chu Yi said this sentence just now, and everyone still remembers it.

If he had said that before today, it would have aroused the resentment of many people, especially the students present, and they would definitely write a lot of words and criticize them.

At this moment, they couldn't speak.

Today they followed the eldest prince for a long time, seeing how he behaved, he was not the stupid person who was seduced by beauty as they thought before, nor did he become mediocre and weak because he was a hostage in South Vietnam for many years.

Their eldest prince not only has a photographic memory and is extremely intelligent, but he is also a man with a deep heart, a ruler in his words, and a measure in his deeds.

Moreover, the lesson of the Hua family case is right in front of us.

The students looked at each other, and their hearts, which were originally as hard as a city wall, loosened slightly.

Today, he has a lenient temperament, and after one year of enthronement, he abolished several miscellaneous taxes and hard labor, and even supported the academy, and favored the Kexing imperial examination, in order to give these ordinary students a chance to show their ambitions.

It is not like the first emperor who valued those high-ranking families more. Although he had not abolished the imperial examination during his 20 years of reign, he never reused any poor family Jinshi.

As soon as he ascended the throne today, he opened Enke, obviously declaring his political views to the poor students all over the world.

Such an emperor should not only be lenient, but also a monarch who has the world in mind and strives to revitalize it.

Since both today and the eldest prince feel that there is something hidden about Gu Ce's surrender to the enemy back then, could it be that there is really something hidden...

Han Zhanghe took a deep breath, maintained the posture of bowing, looked at Chu Yi for a moment, and said seriously: "What proof does your Highness have?"

"If there is enough evidence, the name should be rectified now." Chu Yi's expression was extremely calm, and his tone was quite indifferent, as if this was a matter of course, and he did not have the slightest doubt about it.

Han Zhanghe heard Chu Yi's foreign language from his words, and asked eagerly: "May I ask if Your Highness has found some clues?"

After the words came out, Han Zhanghe was afraid that this was a court secret, and wanted to say something, but Chu Yi said first: "When I was in Yue, I accidentally discovered that during the battle in Yangzhou that year, the Yue army publicly claimed that 20,000 soldiers were lost, but 30,000 were actually killed in battle, and 10,000 disappeared out of nowhere. After the remaining Vietnamese troops returned to Yue, they were decreed by the sages of Yue to return to their fields."

A few words made the atmosphere in Ten Thousand Herb Hall suddenly tense.

As the saying goes: Jin Juren, silver Jinshi. Only a few counties can produce one Juren, and each Juren is a smart person who has been selected from thousands of scholars.

These students present are not stupid to study all the way to Juren, what's more, the purpose of their imperial examination is to become an official, and the master often talks to them about current affairs of the court in the academy on weekdays, and asks them to analyze and write policy opinions.

The doubt raised by the first prince is really strange. They all frowned deeply, showing deep thinking expressions, and the same thought came to their hearts: Could it be that the saints of the Yue Kingdom were hiding the "disappeared" ten thousand Vietnamese troops? Will you order the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Yue Kingdom to disarm and return to the fields?

The case of Gu Ce is very implicated, tens of thousands of lives are involved, and it is related to Dajing's face. If there is no such defeat, why does Dajing have to negotiate peace with the Yue Kingdom, why should he bow his knees to the Yue Kingdom, cut the sea for compensation, and send them away? The eldest prince is the proton.

For Dajing, this is a history of humiliation!

But what if there are hidden secrets behind this public case?

Chu Yi continued: "Last year, on the way back to Beijing from Yue Kingdom, I went to Tailing City in person, and found a burned battlefield in Shangling, fifteen miles away from Tailing City. According to the records in the archives, there was no war there, and no soldiers or civilians of any great sight were lost there.”

The expressions of all the students became more solemn, full of awe.

It turned out that the eldest prince personally went to Tailing City to investigate as early as last year. Obviously, he had been preparing for Gu Ce's case for a long time, and it was not a whim.

According to the doubtful points mentioned by the first prince, they had to wonder whether the 10,000 soldiers who disappeared from the Vietnamese army died in Shangling.

If this is the case, even if it is not a great victory, it is at least a bloody battle between the two armies.

Since Gu Ce had the determination to fight to the death with the Vietnamese army, why did he surrender to the enemy? After all, he killed so many people in the Vietnamese army. It is conceivable that even if he surrendered, it would not end well.

Among the students, a young gray-clothed scholar murmured: "Could it be that the sages of the Yue Kingdom falsely accused Gu Ce of surrendering to the enemy in order to disturb the morale of our army and the people?"

The Gu Ce case is full of doubts. If Gu Ce really did not surrender to the enemy, then he died for the country, and he will suffer innocent injustice and be cast aside by the world, and his descendants will also be judged by the world. What is the justice?

The other students did not speak, and their faces were somewhat depressed.

"Nine years." Chu Yi said quietly, "The imperial court should return Gu Ce with fairness and the truth."

With his words, the surrounding air added a trace of sadness and desolation.

Gu Yunxie behind the counter also heard the conversation, and unconsciously flicked the beads on the abacus on the counter with his fingers, his eyes flickering.

She didn't expect that the eldest prince planned to vindicate Gu Ce in order to marry Gu Yanfei, and told these students so openly.

Gu Yunxie bit her lower lip slightly, looked at Chu Yi in despair, her mind was uncontrollably thinking about Yangzhou and Gu Ce.

At that time, she was also in Yangzhou.

At that time, she was only six years old, and there she met Kang Wang who was dressed in modest clothes. At that time, Kang Wang was fourteen years old, and he was already an outstanding young man with a youthful spirit...

Gu Yunxiu withdrew her fingers from the abacus, and walked towards the back hall absent-mindedly. Every time she took a step, her heart twitched, and her mind was in a mess. She could only feel the sound of the night wind blowing, her heart beating, and the sound of her feet stepping on fallen leaves. The voice... became exceptionally clear.

The hustle and bustle of the front hall was forgotten by her, and she didn't even notice that the handkerchief in her hand dropped.

Gu Yunxie got into her carriage through the back door of Wancaotang, and no one noticed her leaving except the staff of the medical clinic.

The sky was dark, there were few pedestrians on the street, and the carriage carried Gu Yunxie galloping all the way to Kang Wang's Mansion.

The entire Prince Kang's mansion was shaken by the arrival of the future princess.

"Xiao'er!" Chu You was even more overjoyed because of Gu Yunxuan's arrival, and came to the Waiyi Gate to greet him in person.

Ever since he entered the palace to meet the Queen Mother Yuan, Gu Yunxie said that he was going to divorce, and the two of them had nothing to do with each other ever since. After that, Chu You went to Gu's house in Luwei Hutong to beg several times, but Gu Yunxie didn't do not want to see him.

Now that Gu Yunxiu took the initiative to come to the palace, does that mean that she is not angry anymore?

He looked at Gu Yunxie tenderly, and personally helped her out of the carriage, a joyful smile bloomed in his long and narrow eagle eyes, which softened his usually wild face a lot.

Gu Yunxie also saw the pure joy in him, and sighed slightly.

She has always known that Kang Wang is sincere to her, but he is Kang Wang, and there are still those open and secret fights between the Queen Mother and the court...

After Gu Yunxie stood still, Chu You eagerly held her slender hand, and their palms were pressed against each other.

"Xiao'er, it's my fault. I really didn't expect the queen mother to be like this..." Chu You apologized to Gu Yunxie again, lowered her posture, and gazed affectionately on her beautiful little face greedily. wandering.

She lost weight!

Chu You was very distressed, and tentatively wrapped his cross arm around her slender and graceful waist.

Gu Yunxiu froze and wanted to break free, but she heard Chu You say again sincerely: "Xiao'er, if the queen mother says such inexplicable things, you will not enter the palace except for the holidays."

"The two of us are living our own lives outside the palace, okay?"

"I won't let you be wronged!"

Empress Dowager Yuan must live in the palace and will not live with them.

If he can ascend to that position in the future, his wife will be a dignified queen, the queen is the mother of the country, not an ordinary daughter-in-law, and the queen mother will not be able to humiliate his wife like that day.

While he was speaking, the scorching breath breathed out on Gu Yunxie's right cheek and right ear, which made Gu Yunxie tremble.

She looked up at his handsome face, her eyes filled with tenderness, and the breath she had held back for several days finally disappeared.

The queen mother is his biological mother after all, and it is not easy for him to do this for her.

Seeing that Gu Yunxiu didn't break free, Chu You's heart relaxed, and then he hugged her whole body into his arms, letting her face press against his chest.

"Xiao'er, we will be fine." Chu You said sincerely.

Gu Yunxiu listened to his strong and powerful heartbeat, gave a low "um", and gradually softened her body.

After a while, Gu Yunxie said: "My lord, the eldest prince wants to re-investigate the case of Gu Ce."

In the next moment, the chest close to her rose and fell, and a contemptuous laugh escaped from the man's broad chest.

"People in the world will not allow him to do this!" Chu You said with a cold tone, and said firmly, "This is risking the dissatisfaction of the world."

That day, after leaving Tianyin Pavilion, General Jianwei Wang Nan impeached the eldest prince to go to Wuliang Temple to pay homage to Gu Ce, which shocked the court.

Afterwards, the impeachment papers were piled up in front of the emperor one by one. If the emperor hadn't been strong enough to support Li Bao, the prince Chu Yi would have already withdrawn from the early dynasty sadly!

So stupid, this kid Chu Yi is really so stupid.

It's only been a few months since my good emperor brother finally won Chu Yi the chance to go to court, and Chu Yi insisted on committing suicide!

Now it is Enke again, and the students have arrived in the capital one after another, but if Chu Yi dares to try to rehabilitate Gu Ce, those students will criticize him verbally, and then Chu Yi will have no prestige among scholars. said.

If Chu Yi lost the hearts of the people, the army, and the official because of Gu Ce's case, even if he was the emperor's only son, he would no longer have the possibility of being crowned prince.

Chu You told her about some controversies in the court recently, and finally said with a smile: "Xiao'er, don't worry, Chu Yi can't make any waves."

"However, the students seem to be shaken..." Gu Yunxie nervously grabbed the lapel of Chu You's chest, and quickly told the story of the Hua family, including the 10,000 people who disappeared from the Vietnamese army. Including the matter of Shangling.

Chu You's expression gradually became serious, and he frowned slightly.

It turned out that when Chu Yi came back from South Vietnam, he went to Tailing City and Shangling when he disappeared on the road... He is a good nephew who really knows how to hide!

Chu You's eyes were gloomy, and his heart was as upset as a cat scratching, but he still comforted Gu Yunxie softly: "Don't worry, nothing will happen."

He let go of Gu Yunxie, took a step back, and clapped his hands hard twice.

Chang Sui came immediately upon hearing the sound, and heard Chu You's indifferent order: "You go to Wancaotang to see the situation."

"Yes, my lord." Chang Sui clasped his fists to accept the order, and left in a hurry.

The sky at dusk was dark, and lanterns had been lit in various parts of the palace, like a large patch of fireflies shining brightly, illuminating the entire palace.

"Xiao'er," Chu You held Gu Yunxie's hand, and said tenderly, "I have recently renovated the palace, since you are here, follow me around to see if there is anything else that needs to be improved. good?"

He stared closely at Gu Yunxie's small face, and asked cautiously.

It was getting late, Gu Yunxie originally wanted to finish talking about Gu Ce and leave, but now she couldn't help but soften her heart.

She pursed her lips, smiled with a pair of shallow dimples, and finally nodded in response: "Where do you want to take me to see?"

"You'll know when you get there." Chu You took her hand and walked forward.

The two went to the garden of the palace, and the garden at dusk also had a cool night like water.

Gu Yunxiu had been to the palace several times before, and without Chu You's introduction, she could tell where the garden had been repaired. There was a winding wisteria flower corridor beside the conservatory, and a swing was added under an old tree. Half of the lotus leaves were planted on the small lake on the side, and a water pavilion was added...

Gu Yunxie could tell at a glance that all these renovations and repairs in the garden were for herself, including this new water pavilion. She had said once before that the scenery in this location was very good.

Looking at Chu You, who was a little distraught, Gu Yunxie's heart was so soft that he held his hand tightly, smiled brightly, and said, "I like it very much!"

In Chu You's eyes, the sweetheart's bright smile was captivating, and the depression in his heart was swept away.

He really wanted to express his heartfelt feelings, but the long follower who had gone out to inquire about the news came back in a hurry.

The long follower approached the two of them bravely, bowed and said: "My lord, those scholars in Wancao Hall were persuaded by the eldest prince, and now they are furious, saying that they want to join their classmates to jointly write a letter to the emperor, please the eldest prince to check again." In this case, no matter whether Gu Ce is good or bad, we should investigate clearly."

No one will care about one person's promotion, but if hundreds of people or even more scholars join hands, the meaning will be different. This is unity of purpose.

Chang Sui's words were like a bucket of cold water being poured on his head, and the charming atmosphere between Chu You and Gu Yunxie disappeared completely.

Chu You's face instantly looked like a storm was coming, and a heavy hostility emanated from his whole body.

If the case is reopened...

"Boom!"

He raised his hand and pounded heavily on a willow tree by the lake. The willow tree that was as thick as the mouth of the bowl trembled, and the willow leaves fell like rain...

"My lord!" Gu Yunxie looked at his hand distressedly, only to see that his right hand was scratched by the bark of the willow tree, and there were traces of blood oozing faintly.

Gu Yunxi took out a plain white handkerchief from his sleeve, carefully wiped off the dust and sawdust on his skin, and looked up at him.

Chu You looked at the lake with a sullen expression. Against the background of the lanterns, the lake sparkled with sparkling waves, reflecting into his dark eyes, making his whole body cold and aloof.

Looking at his clear profile profile, Gu Yunxie felt pain in his heart as if being grabbed.

Nine years have passed since what happened back then, even Tailing City has been rebuilt long ago, Jing and Yue have finally been at peace for nine years, why does the eldest prince still hold on to it?

After a long silence, Chu You said sarcastically, "What a Chu Yi!"

"He always kept in mind the teachings of Emperor Taizu. Since he couldn't start from the court, he simply did the opposite, 'from the bottom up'."

Emperor Taizu once said: Revolution comes from the bottom up, we must trust and rely on the people.

This was one of the slogans of Emperor Taizu's uprising.

Gu Yunxiu took Fang Xin's handkerchief and bandaged Chu You's hands again, "Even if the First Prince wants to overturn Gu Ce's case from the bottom up, the case will have to be brought to the court after all, as long as the civil and military officials object, The emperor can't just go his own way."

Gu Yunxie curled the corners of her lips meaningfully, and the light of the lantern illuminated her eyes, shining brightly like stars.

The case back then involved too much.

This case involved not only the late emperor's reputation, the eldest prince was too young after all, had never experienced court games, so he thought things so simple.

It's not easy to reverse the case for Gu Ce!

Chu You understood what she meant, nodded slightly, and calmed down a lot, but his eyes were still dark.

"My lord, go get busy. Don't worry about me." Gu Yunxie said thoughtfully.

"..." Chu You held her hand, showing hesitation, and he couldn't bear to take his eyes off her.

Xi'er finally forgave him, he really didn't want to leave her alone...

Seemingly seeing his thoughts, Gu Yunxie said again: "I'll take a stroll in the palace first, and wait for you to come back."

As soon as this remark came out, Chu You's eyes lit up instantly, and he said with great joy, "Xiao'er, I'll be back soon."

"You can do what you want here, this is your home."

"Over Luwei Alley, I will send someone to talk about it."

After giving some instructions, Chu You ordered a servant to treat Gu Yunxie well, and hurried out the door.

The eldest prince's every move is already under the attention of everyone.

On this day, the people first, and then the scholars, the entire capital was shaken by the words of the eldest prince.

That night, Xiao Shoufu and Jianwei General Wang Nan went to the palace to see the emperor.

Wang Nan lifted his robe, knelt down resolutely outside the South study, and shouted angrily:

"Your Majesty, restarting the Gu Ce case is really a perverse move, absolutely not!"

"Gu Ce surrendered to the enemy and treasoned the country, harmed the country and the people, angered the people, and the evidence of all kinds of crimes is conclusive and irrefutable!"

"If Gu Ce can reverse the case, how can he be worthy of the 100,000 soldiers and people who died in Yangzhou? How can they rest in peace under the Nine Springs! How can their families be relieved!"

The more Wang Nanyue spoke, the more excited he became, and the more sad and indignant he became. In the end, his voice seemed to roar from his chest, shaking even the surrounding air.

Thinking of the old General Zhao who died in Yangzhou, Wang Nan's heart was pierced even more, his eyes were so red that his eyes were almost tearing apart.

The generals are mentally prepared to die on the battlefield every time they go to the battlefield. However, they can die heroically in the sword fight on the battlefield, but they should not die because their own side surrendered to the enemy. This is a kind of humiliation.

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