"How can you see that there are still intact eggs under the overturned nest?" [Shishuoxinyu·Speech]
Not long after the emperor returned to Qingliang Palace, Princess Liu Jiang came to the palace to ask for an audience. He knew that today's affairs could not be delayed, so he had to ask Mu Shun to invite her in.
Sure enough, the first thing Liu Jiang did after arriving was to persuade him: "Fan Chou was Dong Cheng's arm. Now that his arm has been removed, all the officials in the court will know that your Majesty will deal with Dong Cheng. Why did Fan Chou die and then there was no news?" ?”
"Why, you're here to push me too?" the emperor asked in displeasure.
"I don't dare to push your Majesty, I just have some doubts." Liu Jiang took a step forward and said: "It stands to reason that after Dong Cheng forced himself to kill Guan Ning and became so angry at Zhu Jun, he should be abandoned by your Majesty. But why did it take so long? Is he still in office? This man is incompetent in politics and is obsessed with seizing power. There is nothing to pity for getting rid of him, but His Majesty is still hesitant to this day...but for the Queen?"
The emperor glanced at her, walked back to the couch and sat down. His silence was equivalent to acquiescence.
Liu Jiang smiled with a dark expression on his face: "Your Majesty, can you pity people now? Or is he pitying children?"
Seeing that the emperor was silent, Liu Jiangfu said again: "I heard that your majesty recently took in Zou Cainu, who is next to Fu. Didn't she say something to your majesty? Now that there is uncertainty in the palace, Dong is still the empress, so what will happen to the outside world? Even though I have my heart set on it, I don’t dare to let go and really do it.”
The emperor looked up at Liu Jiang and said with a smile: "It seems that the emperor knows a lot."
"I also learned about it accidentally." Liu Jiang finished speaking softly.
So the emperor said no more and immediately summoned everyone in the palace except Empress Dong. Fu Shou sat opposite Liu Jiang. Under her was the noble Zhen Mi, and then the palace officials Wu, Du, and Zou. surname, and the sickly surname Song.
Zou's ability to be favored by the emperor was due to the golden tweezers she wore on her head, which made the emperor mistakenly think she was Feng Fang's daughter. After learning the details, he couldn't help but feel disappointed for a while, and was moved by Zou's pear blossoms carrying the rain. Feeling compassion, he took the decision to accept him as a palace servant.
Just as Liu Jiang said, Zou, who had just become a palace servant, soon "inadvertently" revealed to the emperor more or less the whole story of Feng Fangnu's victimization, her deeds were strange, and she tried to arouse the emperor's interest. And then smoothly He naturally said that Feng Fangnu seemed to have seen something she shouldn't have seen. As for what it was, Zou didn't say it at the time. The emperor summoned everyone at this time, but Empress Dong was missed. This made Zou really Saw the opportunity.
"Actually, I didn't ask clearly." Zou lowered her head and said timidly as she knelt in the middle: "I just heard from Fang Nu that she seemed to have seen Chang Yu walking with a man next to the queen that day. It was quite sneaky and unusual. So Fang Nu took a few more glances at that time..."
Liu Jiang took the initiative to ask: "How could there be men in the palace at that time? Did Feng Fangnu see it wrong?" She saw that Fu Shou lowered his eyebrows and said nothing, and Wu, Du and others were too timid to speak, so she sighed slightly. Take a breath.
Zhen Mi suddenly said: "Why don't you call Chang Yu over and you'll know after asking?"
Liu Jiang glanced at her appreciatively.
So Zou didn't care whether there was evidence or not, and simply relied on Feng Fang's dictation: "...Later, Fang Nv realized clearly that it was not a man, but someone wearing His Majesty's old clothes and pretending to be a man..."
Then, she told the folk customs she knew again. At this point, how could everyone not know that the person wearing the emperor's clothes was Empress Dong!
"This, this is..." Wu Ran said in horror. She couldn't help but glance at Zhen Mi. She saw that Zhen Mi's face was also pale. Knowing that the other person was as frightened as herself, she felt inexplicably calmer.
"This is really a big treason." Liu Jiang looked at the emperor's deep expression and said. She then looked at Du Luofu: "I heard that people from Du Palace often lived with the queen and were married before entering the palace. But
Is this true? Nowadays, the rules in the palace are very strict. How did you get into the palace? You might as well tell me."
Du Luofu's face turned pale, and she left the table and knelt down in the atrium. At this time, she had no idea and didn't know where to start. If she wanted to defend her relationship with Empress Dong, she would take the opportunity to add insult to injury and expose her own background.
Will you continue to stay in Weiyang Palace? In this situation, if you go out in the future, how can you see her child?
She was thinking too much, and in this tense moment in front of everyone, Durofu, who had never seen a big scene, his eyes went white and he fainted quickly.
At this time, a few more witnesses and physical evidence would no longer help. According to modern thinking, the emperor did not take his wife wearing her husband's clothes too seriously, but after he came to this era, he deeply understood the importance of this matter at that time.
The seriousness in people's hearts, not to mention his identity is still the emperor.
At this point, he was still worried about the child in Empress Dong's belly. Perhaps it was Wang Bin's words before his death that moved him and made him feel more humane and have a feeling of licking the baby, so in
At this moment, he still hasn't gone too far like last year when he got angry and dealt with Song Du.
The emperor immediately issued an edict and sent people to take Changyu, who was still on the way, to Yongxiang for punishment. He also sent Dachangqiu Miao Si and others to move Empress Dong to live in the side hall of Jiaofang Hall. After the crime was pronounced, she was temporarily suspended.
After Yu Faluo's death, all treatment was as before. The affairs in Ye Ting were placed in the hands of two noble men, Fu Shou and Zhen Mi. Fu Shou was already in the middle of the month and it was inconvenient to be tired, so the rest of the affairs were left to Zhen Mi.
Seeing the emperor's ugly face, no one raised any objections to this. Only Song Du felt a lot of unfairness in it, and left angrily with Guo Zhao.
"This Song family!" Liu Jiang complained afterwards: "There are still no rules."
The emperor was extremely uneasy at this time. He waved his hand and said, "Sister Huang, please go back early! Xun'er will be impatient to wait."
Liu Jiang raised his eyebrows and glanced at the other party, thinking that his goal had been achieved, so he stopped staying too much.
Cao Cao, the general of the Wei who had only been in the imperial court for less than ten days, was quickly changed to the position of captain of the Sili school. Although he had received the emperor's edict, he only started to take action after learning the news about Jiaofang Palace the next day. He made something out of thin air.
They uncovered Fan Chou's "evidence" before his death and began to thoroughly investigate the rebellion of Cavalry General Dong Cheng.
Cao Cao's investigation method was very simple and crude. He directly transferred 500 elite soldiers from Fan Chou's remaining troops and surrounded Dong Cheng's mansion.
At that time, Dong Cheng was worried about his daughter's loss of power. He summoned Du Zhi, Hu Miao, Zuo Ling and others to discuss matters in the palace. Before Dong Cheng could finish losing his temper and get down to the topic, he looked up and saw Cang Tou coming to report to Cao Cao.
News that troops have been surrounded by the mansion.
"Cao Mengde is so bold! He is just a lieutenant, how can he have the power to mobilize troops! I think he is the one who wants to rebel when he besieges the Lord!" Dong Cheng was so angry that he kicked over the table.
, and even wanted to pull out the sword: "Quickly, gather all the servants in the house, dress them up and fight with me, let's see what he dares to do to me!"
"Dong Gong, dong Gong, calm down!" Hu Miao rushed over and hugged Dong Cheng's leg, and kept persuading him: "If you lead people to fight now, isn't it just giving people evidence? Cao Cao dares to lead troops.
We must have come with the emperor's instructions. Now that Fan Chou is dead and the queen is trapped, we can no longer do anything drastic, otherwise we will be in danger within a short time! I hope Mr. Dong will think twice!"
"Damn it!" Dong Cheng drew his sword and slashed at the pillar. The blade was deeply embedded in the pillar. Even though he used both hands, he could not pull it out for a moment. Dong Cheng kicked the pillar as if to vent his anger, and he was furious.
Said: "Why would the emperor do this to me?"
"Now we have to work together to figure out how to save the Holy Family. For this reason, only the emperor changes his mind can he save Dong Gong!" Chang'an Ling Zuo Ling looked at the scene in front of him as if he was watching a farce, and he couldn't sit still.
He stopped and stood up in a hurry: "I want to change my clothes first for a while and let you guys wait for a while and laugh."
After saying that, he hurried out.
"He's trying to run away." Du Zhi's face looked a little ugly. He had the same idea just now, but unfortunately someone else beat him to it, so he simply said it directly.
"Humph, there are Cao Cao's heavy troops outside, where can he go?" Dong Cheng understood at this time, snorted coldly, and sat down on the couch.
Not long after, I saw Zuo Ling coming back with a disgraced face. He seemed to have really returned from going to the toilet, and he tried his best to act natural: "Dong Gong, gentlemen, how was the discussion just now?"
"Aren't you always so smart? I've been waiting for you to make up your mind." Hu Miao looked at the other party with some dissatisfaction. Zuo Ling was also brought up by him, but now he has retreated and wants to escape from the battle, which really makes him know something.
People don't know.
Zuo Ling laughed a few times, and after sitting for a long time, he finally came up with an idea that was not an idea: "It suddenly occurred to me that the mistake Her Highness the Queen made was really not a small one, but the emperor just moved her to the side hall.
That’s all, I haven’t moved out of Jiaofang, and there is no abolition of the imperial edict. It can be seen that there is still some emotion in the emperor’s heart... Her Highness the Queen is pregnant with the emperor’s heir. If the child is born at this moment..."
"Nonsense!" Dong Cheng said angrily. He raised his hand to slap the table, but he had already kicked the table over and had to slap his own leg with one hand: "Before the first month, you can give birth to the child in advance if you want to.
Come down? Unless something unexpected happens, can you pay for it with your dog’s life?”
"If we wait until the full month is over, it will be too late!" Zuo Ling begged: "How can the scholars in the court just sit back and watch at this time? Who doesn't want to take the opportunity to impeach, criticize, and put me to death? Guan Ning, Zhu
Jun and others have died not long ago, Mr. Dong still wants to think carefully!"