A large number of prisoners suddenly poured into the prison, crowded in the corridor, and it seemed chaotic. However, because the officials who were imprisoned before and the officials who were imprisoned now belonged to two camps, neither party spoke. They just talked to each other.
Looking at it, I felt inexplicably complicated.
Inside and outside the cell, the two camps were fighting to the death yesterday, but today they are both prisoners. No matter what grudges, hatreds, and causes and effects, this high wall seems to block everything in the world, and everyone has a sense of transcendence.
But as Musi arrived, everything immediately changed.
Musi came on horseback, but after these prisoners were locked up, they were escorted by the guards in golden uniforms through the city and came on foot. In addition, there were many of them, so their movements were inevitably slow. As a result, they arrived at the prison almost at the same time.
Sehazhi's loud voice suddenly roared in the prison: "It doesn't matter if the cell is not enough, just squeeze it in. Eunuch Mu is here too. Let's listen to Eunuch Mu and allocate cells!"
Musi said in embarrassment: "Master Sehazhi, you are wrong. Our family is not... we are not here to allocate cells. We are here to declare the decree."
"Oh! Oh? Okay, you say it, you say it, everyone listen, Eunuch Mu has the emperor's decree, everyone listen carefully."
There was a sudden silence in the prison. Whether they were already in the cell or crowded in the corridor, everyone pricked up their ears. Everyone wondered: Is the emperor's decree to release me...
Mu Si coughed, cleared her throat, and said loudly: "The Emperor has a decree, and it has been found out that Duke Yang Xu was framed by an adulterer and innocently imprisoned. He will be released immediately!"
Saihazhi burst into laughter, and the laughter echoed throughout the cell: "I'm just saying, hahaha, the Duke is so loyal, how can he be a traitor? Where are the people? Where are the people, come on, you are not here.
If you are discerning, please give me the key!"
Sehazhi grabbed the key and went straight to Xia Xun's cell happily.
Huang Zhen jumped up excitedly and boasted: "My lord, you are amazing! You are truly amazing!"
Xia Xun smiled slightly. He had expected all this. Naturally, he was neither happy nor worried. However, in the eyes of others, they secretly admired him: "This auxiliary Duke is not afraid of favors and humiliations, and his magnanimity is indeed incomparable to others."
At this time, Musi stood on the spot and continued to shout: "Quiet! Quiet! The decree has not been announced yet!"
The prison immediately became quiet again.
"Donggong Zuo Yude Yang Shiqi, released from prison!"
Yang Rong, Huang Huai, Yang Pu, Huang Zhen and others quickly expressed their congratulations to the cell where Yang Shiqi was: "Congratulations, congratulations!"
As soon as Saihazhi opened Xia Xun's cell door, the cell boss rushed over, took the key from his hand, and continued to open Yang Shiqi's cell door.
Mu Si then shouted: "Cabinet Academician Yang Rong, come out of prison!"
"Congratulations, congratulations..."
There were cheers all around again. Chen Ying, handcuffed and shackled, stood firmly on the spot. He raised his chin and looked at the top of the cell. The beard under his chin was raised up, like a goat's beard. Looking from the side, his
There was no expression on his face at all, and I didn't know what he was thinking. Maybe it was just the emotion of "the winner is the king and the loser is the loser".
"Huang Zhen, the imperial envoy to the right capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, is released from prison!"
"Hey! It's my turn, I'm here, I'm here, I'm here!"
Huang Zhen waved to the cell leader cheerfully, and his affectionate eyes made the cell leader feel a chill.
Xia Xun has walked out of the cell, and the released officials have also come out one after another. Because he has the highest official rank, and two bachelors, Yang Rong and Yang Shiqi, are standing next to him. As soon as these three Yang stand, other released officials will automatically and spontaneously come to him.
They gathered around them, forming two groups with clear barriers in the long corridor of the cell:
One group is the Hanwang Party headed by Chen Ying, who have just been released from prison.
One group is the Tai Tongzi Party headed by San Yang, who are about to be released from prison.
"Chen Shou, the left minister of the Ministry of Industry, is released from prison!"
As Chen Shou was released from prison, Musi's voice stopped.
At first, everyone thought he was going to take it easy and give the cell boss some time to open each cell door one by one, but after Musi finished calling Chen Shou's name, he closed the list, and there were cheers in the cell.
It slowed down little by little, and many officials asked in surprise: "Eunuch Mu, keep reciting, why don't you recite?"
Musi spread her hands and said: "Our family has already read out the list of adults who have been pardoned by the emperor!"
"Ah! What? What about...what about me? What about us?"
"What's going on? Why is it that the recitation is over now and we are still in jail?"
There was a chaos in the cell. They rushed outside Yang Pu's cell, holding hands with each other. Yang Pu and Yang Shiqi, who were excited, both looked at Mu Si in surprise. On the other side, Huang Huai, the cabinet scholar, stood outside the door and was chatting happily with him.
Yang Rong also turned his head, with a smile on his face. At this time, the number of people who were pardoned and released from prison was only slightly less than half of the original number of people in prison.
Huang Zhen was also astonished and turned around hurriedly: "My lord, look..."
After only half a sentence, Huang Zhen stopped his voice. Xia Xun, who had always been calm and confident, also showed a surprised look. Obviously, this incident was also beyond his expectation.
"Hahahaha..., hahahaha..."
Chen Ying, who was also unexpected, no longer raised his head. He looked left and right, and after confirming that he had heard correctly, he suddenly laughed wildly. Before he could stop smiling, a guard in Jinyi behind him stabbed him hard on the waist with the handle of a knife.
After a fierce poke, Chen Ying staggered and gasped to stop her laughter, but she still continued to sneer.
At this time, Mu En said again: "The Emperor said that all of you who have been pardoned do not need to go to the palace to thank you. You can go back to the Yamen to do your errands!"
Xia Xun frowned and thought for a while, then said to Yang Rong and Yang Shiqi: "Two pavilion elders, this is not the place to talk. Let's go out first. If you have anything else, let's wait until we see the emperor tomorrow!"
Yang Rong and Yang Shiqi nodded worriedly, and each turned around to appease the officials who were not allowed to be released. Then they followed Xia Xun out. The Jin Yiwei escorted Chen Ying and others in, and when they passed by each other, they all thought in their hearts.
I wanted to smile, but when they were face to face, there was no joy or worry on their faces. They just passed by each other as soon as their eyes met.
There is no personal enmity between them. This is a political struggle, where the winner is the king and the loser is the bandit.
Liu Yujue had received the news and was rushing over in excitement. When Xia Xun and Chen Dong, the Dongchang deputy prison officer who had been "monitoring" him in the prison, walked out together, they bumped into Liu Yujue. Because they arrested the person all at once.
There are too many. The imperial prison does not have that many cells, so some prisoners need to be transferred to the cells in Jinyi South Town for temporary detention. Liu Yujue is here to pick them up.
Seeing that Xia Xun was released, Liu Yujue was naturally overjoyed. The three of them were chatting and laughing. The eldest brother Sai Hazhi simply arranged the things in the prison and chased him out with a gust of wind. He shouted from afar: "
Grand Duke, congratulations, congratulations, hahahaha..."
The three people stood talking and laughing outside the prison for a while. Liu Yujue still had official business to do, and Chen Dong had to rush back to Dongchang to resume his duties. Only Saihazhi was the second in charge of Jinyiwei, but he was not the leader at all. He was a devil in the world. He
If you don't follow the rules of making trouble, you will have to recite Amitabha, and you won't care about him, so Sai Hazhi is very free.
Sehazhi said loudly: "You are busy with your work. I will send the Duke back to his residence. After you hand over your errand, I will visit you at the Duke's residence."
We were all friends like brothers in life and death, and we were not polite. Liu Yujue and Chen Dong were on their own errands, so Saihazhi asked someone to bring two horses to accompany Xia Xun back home.
Xia Xun loosened the reins of his horse, thinking about the emperor's intention all the way. In fact, he had already foreseen his imprisonment and release, and he had vaguely guessed it from the various intelligence he had obtained before.
The emperor's purpose:
What the King of Han had done had exceeded the limit of what the Emperor could bear, and the Emperor was ready to solve this problem. However, it was easy for the Emperor to solve the problem, but it was difficult to completely eliminate the hidden dangers. Because the Emperor did not know how many party members the King of Han had in the court.
If you don’t understand, even though Jinyiwei and Dongchang are the emperor’s messengers, they can’t know everything.
Once a few fish slip through the net, won't it happen again in the future that Xu Jizu, Geng Changxing and other Jianwen remnants framed officials and instigated infighting in the court? Furthermore, although he was determined to solve the problem of the King of Han, this matter could only be done internally.
To solve the problem, the conflicts between the princes and the discord among the officials should not be made public to the world. The reputation of the King of Han is also part of the royal reputation, and cannot be destroyed unless necessary.
At the same time, Zhu Gaoxu is his biological son. Although he is an emperor, he cannot do it if he completely abandons personal family ties and becomes an unsympathetic emperor. He does not want to push his son into a desperate situation. He only needs to eliminate his party members and then
Just send him away as a vassal, so that he no longer has the strength to compete for the reserve position.
Therefore, he took great pains to set up this situation, not only to wipe out all the party members supported by the Han Dynasty in the court, but also to use clever names to avoid the topic of fighting for the throne.
Xia Xun saw the emperor's purpose. When Zhu Di laid a trap but Chen Ying, an old fox, refused to jump in, he knew that the bait was not enough, so he had to put him in a prison.
Chen Ying was fooled by the emperor, so he cooperated with the emperor tacitly and acted out such a play.
Of course, as an important part of the emperor's plan, this is just his personal understanding. The emperor did not inform him of the news before planning this drama. The emperor is the Supreme Being, and thunder, rain, and dew are all the kindness of the emperor. He does not need to care about you.
It's a misunderstanding. I can't condescend to explain it to you first.
The emperor has the pride and dignity of an emperor. There is no reason for him to explain the reasons to you first because he is afraid of making you unhappy. At the same time, Xia Xun speculated that the emperor's doing so might not be a blow to him: you can support it unequivocally.
The eldest son of the emperor is the prince, but you cannot use various conspiracy methods to help the prince. If you do this, are you treating the emperor as a decoration or a puppet?
The emperor's second purpose was naturally to use his strength to ensure the smooth passage of the proposal to move the capital. He had long understood this, and the belated civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty also understood now that when the Meridian Gate
When the Waiti cavalry came out, they vaguely seemed to see Emperor Yongle standing on the Meridian Gate Tower, proudly repeating the words of Emperor Taizong Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty: "The heroes of the world have entered my palace!"
If things stop here and nothing is out of Xia Xun's control, Xia Xun can probably hold a glass of wine in the imperial prison and say with satisfaction: "All the heroes and emperors in the world are in my cup!"
However, the next development was not what Xia Xun expected. Xia Xun thought about it and followed Saihazhi forward casually. When he looked up, he found that Saihazhi had led him the wrong way.
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P: Traveling is not what I want, but sometimes, even if it seems to be something you enjoy, you don’t necessarily do it for yourself. I haven’t taken my son out for a walk during the summer vacation since he was a child.
.I am so tired these days in Guilin...
I come back every day exhausted and sweaty. I quickly wash up and sit down to type. I type until around 12 o'clock and go to bed to rest. I have to get up at 6 o'clock in the morning to continue arranging the day's itinerary. I can hurry up and save up before leaving.
I have used up all the chapters and the coded words during the trip. Today I asked my family and friends to go out for a walk, and I stayed alone in the hotel to catch up on the coding.
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