After Rebirth, She Becomes the Revenge Queen-Chapter 424 - 312: The Emperor’s Incompetence! (Seeking Monthly Votes) _3

Chapter 424: Chapter 312: The Emperor’s Incompetence! (Seeking Monthly Votes) _3
Back then, to leave no evidence, he specifically didn’t send someone to deliver the message orally, didn’t sign his name on paper, nor did he use the paper commonly used in his palace.
By common logic, Yang Zhan wouldn’t be foolish enough to leave such a flaw, yet they left it!
The father and son were beyond his expectations!
Prince Rong actually had so many schemes, he preserved such crucial evidence. The flaw now wasn’t that fan, nor Zhang Shicheng, nor Prince Rong and his son themselves, but his handwriting!
Xu Yin, who was previously speculating about the origin of the letter, suddenly felt his blood freeze upon hearing the Empress’s accusation!
It was only at this moment he realized that hidden in the ancestral hall of Prince Manor wasn’t just that fan, but more fatally, this piece of letter paper!
"He is your biological brother, and you even wished to kill your own sibling!" The Empress, after slightly calming her breath, gritted her teeth and berated again, "Your father and I, after being separated from him, never met him again. You enjoyed immense glory in the palace, while he suffered outside for many years. Finally, when he made it to the capital, you even ordered Yang Zhan to kill him!
"You are unworthy of being human!"
The Empress raised her arm high and slapped him hard across the face!
The Crown Prince’s face was turned aside, and instinctively his right hand covered his face.
After a moment of pause, he turned his face back, "Just based on this piece of letter paper, Mother Empress has deemed me guilty of such a crime?
"Just because of handwriting that resembles mine, I’m labeled a murderer of my brother?
"What does resemblance in handwriting mean? From childhood to now, the articles I’ve written and books I’ve copied number in the hundreds or thousands!
"If outsiders wanted to imitate my handwriting with intent, it’s not impossible! How could Mother Empress not believe in her own son, yet choose to believe a minister’s slander?!"
"Slander? The evidence is already here, and you still call it slander? If they wanted to slander you, wouldn’t they have come out six years ago? Why wait until six years later for it to be revealed?!"
The Empress bit her lip, fighting back tears, but her eyes still grew moist. At this moment, she was not the revered Empress, but just a mother who had lost her beloved child!
Nothing is more hurtful to a mother than siblings turning against each other, especially when they had hoped for more than twenty years, only to end up with such a result!
"Someone, help the Empress sit down!"
The Emperor clenched his fists tightly, the force making his knuckles pale. He glared at the Crown Prince on the ground, wishing to speak, but a surge of anger brought on a violent cough!
"Your Majesty, please take care!"
Pei Zhan hurriedly bent down, then faced the door, "Go and call the Imperial Physician over!"
"No need!"
The Emperor waved his hand to stop the panting and looked again at the Crown Prince, "Summon Huang Men Lang to come in and draft an edict: depose Crown Prince Yang Hong and immediately confine him within Jingren Palace!
"Everyone in the Eastern Palace is to be relocated to Jingren Palace!"
After speaking, he pointed at the Minister of the Ministry of Justice and the Imperial Censor, "Revive the case of Baiyu Lane from six years ago, investigate it thoroughly and announce it to the world! Everyone involved in the case is to be imprisoned in the Heavenly Prison until everything is resolved, then for an imperial court judgment!"
"Your minister obeys!"
The two immediately stepped forward to accept the order.
Xu Yin kept a close watch on everything happening before him,
The guards came forward to drag away the Crown Prince. The Crown Prince removed his hand from his face but shook them off and stood up on his own!
"Father, issuing an edict to depose me in such haste is unfair. In a trial, evidence and testimony are both required. Even if evidence exists, the lack of witness testimony now, and to incarcerate me like this, is it a benevolent and wise decision of Father?
"If word spreads across the land, won’t people think of Father as ignorant?"
"Insolent!" the Emperor shouted angrily, "You act brazenly in front of me, what should be your crime? Is it the people of the world scolding Me, or are you the one scolding Me?!"
"I am merely stating the facts. Eldest Brother is already dead, and Father is left only with me and Third Brother. Third Brother has a chronic ailment, and he can’t undertake great responsibilities!
"Only I can firmly inherit the land of Great Zhou! If Father deposes me, then who will take up the mantle of the land you have fought to pacify?
"Should it be handed over to the veteran ministers and meritorious officials of the court? I implore Father to think carefully and not fall for the wicked ministers sowing discord in the father-son bond between us!"
The Crown Prince didn’t hold back; instead, his voice grew louder, and at the end, he shot a fierce glare at Pei Zhan, "The Pei family, arrogant with their countless merits, now dares to frame me with just these objects, their wolfish ambitions are evident!
"Father, don’t you think they would be satisfied with just the title of Great General? Isn’t all this done for coveting our Yang family’s empire?!"