Catch the thief and the stolen goods, catch the adulterer and the couple!
As long as Gao Zhan grits his teeth and the emperor doesn't betray him, who dares to say that this idea came from him?
Regardless of whether you really guessed it or you were deceiving me, I will just deny it...
Li Chengzhi's face was blank, and he looked extremely innocent: "What the sacrificial wine means, I really can't understand it!"
Don't you understand?
How could Gao Zicheng be so quick-witted? Gao Zhao was, but he knew the importance: whoever dares to agree with the emperor on this matter will be the one who will most likely be responsible for cleaning up Buddhist affairs, so it won't be him.
Only a young man like Li Chengzhi, who is ignorant but always quick-witted and willing to risk his life just to make money, would dare to come up with such a crooked idea.
If you think about it carefully, the two ideas of "selling ice to monks" and "luring the emperor to sell ice" are so destructive. It is obvious that they were written by one person, who else could it be if it wasn't him?
Cui Guangqi was so angry that he unknowingly rolled up his sleeves, as if he was about to take action.
Li Chengzhi was shocked.
It's not that he's afraid of what Cui Guang can do to him, but that he's afraid that the old man will accidentally step aside.
Liu Fang pulled Cui Guang and winked at Li Shao.
How audacious Li Chengzhi is, how could he be frightened by such a method? To deal with such a cunning little thief, you have to be strategic.
Although Li Shao had only been back in Beijing for a day, Li Chengzhi had sent Li Xie to deliver ice to his house during the past few days, so he knew about Li Chengzhi's ice making.
He had also heard a bit about the emperor's thoughts. Now when he heard Cui Guangzhi's words, he immediately guessed everything.
Is Li Chengzhi crazy?
Do you know that before the monk dies, the first person to be unlucky will definitely be the aristocratic family?
His face darkened, he stretched out his hand to point at Li Chengzhi, and said solemnly: "This is a serious matter, please speak up!"
If it were Li Shao, Li Chengzhi would not be able to be careless.
Because the Li family in Longxi and their ancestral home, including Yang Shu, Zhang Jingzhi, etc., all belong to the "Guanlong Family" and are riding on the same boat. At this time, Li Chengzhi is a member of this boat.<
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He can also guess what Li Shao is worried about.
The original intention of the emperor to honor the Buddha was to restrain the clan. If he was determined to clean up Buddhist affairs, he would definitely solve the clan problem first.
Today's Shandong sects have no reputation, only the Guanlong family is like a centipede insect, dead but not stiff. And with Yuan Ke's temperament, 90% of the time he will operate on the Guanlong family before destroying the Buddha.
This is what Li Chengzhi thought about for a whole night before he came back that night. But after thinking about it, he was shocked to find that no matter what position he stood on, it seemed that he should support Yuan Ke!
Buddhism and clans can be called the two major cancers in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Not to mention that Li Chengzhi was born under the red flag and grew up in New China. These two anti-human and anti-social monsters will surely be eliminated soon. p>
Even from the perspective of rebellion, if he wants future generations to maintain this world for a longer period of time, Buddhism and sects are definitely obstacles that must be cleared on his way to success.
Especially the gate valve, is it possible to keep it?
Otherwise, the outcome is self-evident: just like the Eastern Han Dynasty, when all the heroes came together and the Three Kingdoms stood in power.
Another example is the two Jin Dynasties, when the emperor was a coward.
It’s not like he didn’t lift the table, just like Yang Er in the Sui Dynasty. Unfortunately, his heart is as high as the sky, but his life is as thin as paper! Become a Yemeni clan, lose a Yemeni clan...
Or just like Li Er in the Tang Dynasty, boil the frog in warm water. But after more than two hundred years, the influence of the family has not been eliminated. In the end, Huang Chao had to be troubled and shoveled over like a bulldozer...<
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Bulldozers are easy to use, but the ending will definitely not be very happy. Ninety-nine percent of them will become the enemy of the world and be attacked by a group of people.
Li Chengzhi neither wanted to follow in the footsteps of Yang Er, nor did he want to be Huang Chao. He felt that it was appropriate to sit on the sidelines.
Sit back and watch as Yuan Er revolutionizes the old and establishes the new, charges into battle, and then the storm rises and the world is in chaos...
When the time is right, it won't be too late for Li Er to show up and take advantage.
Including the measures Yuan Ke is taking to suppress the powerful families, aristocratic clans, support the Han people, and common people, etc. to strengthen centralization. There are also a series of measures to reconcile class contradictions such as suppressing Buddhism, consolidating Yuan Hong's achievements in sinicization, etc., as well as cleaning up hidden households, collecting
Returning the land to state ownership, enhancing national strength, etc., Li Chengzhi supported it with both hands and feet.
It means that Yuan Ke will help him wade through the water in advance for everything he wants to do and must do at that time...
Although Yuan Er is destined to fail, when he waits to take over again, the difficulty will definitely be several times easier.
Then what reason does he have for not supporting Yuan Ke?
Maybe, from time to time, I have to be an undercover agent and try to stir up discord...
"I really never gave His Majesty any advice!"
Li Chengzhi rolled his eyes and took a breath as if he had a toothache: "The night before yesterday, His Majesty once asked me: How do you view Buddhist services?"
Li Shao's face changed slightly: "How did you reply?"
"I advise your Majesty to be calm and think about it in the long term! Your Majesty is not surprised, when I killed so many heads in Jingzhou, why didn't you think about thinking about it in the long term?
The subordinate had the courage to persuade me, "I only have two hands and two legs," and His Majesty became angry..."
Cui Guang looked at him suspiciously: "Are you trying to trick me? If you really want to annoy His Majesty, it would be great if I don't whip you a few times, and can you be named Dayu Zhen?"
Li Chengzhi pointed to the sky and shouted: "Sacrifice wine, how powerful are the three music arrays? You were also in the city that day, so you must have heard it. The lower officials have hard work without merit, right? Besides, they have been fined."
After eight years, what's the use of being a vassal?"
Cui Guang squinted his eyes: Power?
The ability to flatter is pretty much...
I don’t think he would lie about such a big matter. Furthermore, if Li Chengzhi really dared to promise anything to the emperor, His Majesty would have released him or moved him to Luoyang or Henan Yin to secretly find out the details of the temple instead of staying there.
Beside me, prepare to cultivate into a happy minister...
Cui Guang immediately believed 90% of it. He glared and cursed: "Return to Sangong, what are you dreaming about?"
Even Liu Fang seemed to be secretly relieved.
No matter how impatient the emperor is, someone has to do it. As long as no one lets go, can the emperor still do it himself?
Only Li Shao stared at Li Chengzhi steadily, his eyes flickering, as if he was extremely worried.
After pondering for a long time, he said: "When I returned home yesterday, I found out that you had paid a visit just after you arrived in Beijing, and you even made a special trip to deliver ice two days ago. I'm very interested... It's better to choose a different day. Let's go to court today, my dear.
Have a few drinks!"
Li Chengzhi sighed secretly, bowed his hands and said: "It is better to obey orders than to be respectful!"
I'm afraid this undercover agent is not that easy to be...
Ignoring the courtiers who blocked Gao Zhan and cursed him, the four of them left the palace together.
"Are you really good at it? You did bad things and got promoted, but others helped you to avoid disasters?"
Knowing that it was a hot day, he had no choice but to endure it forcefully. And it was all because of Li Chengzhi. Cui Guang naturally disliked him. As he walked, he sarcastically said, "And this time of promotion, demotion, and transfer,
They are all personally sealed by the emperor? It saves me and the minister a lot of trouble..."
How could Li Chengzhi admit it? He cried out to the sky: "How much effort has I put into this month's leave, but only how many days have passed? This Dayu Zhen, it doesn't matter if he doesn't move..."
Cui Guang almost slapped him in the face: I'm not even willing to be promoted, how about your ability?
"If you have the ability, would you say that when you meet His Majesty?"
Do I think the neck is too stiff, or do I think Yuan Ke’s knife is too dull?
He was cursing in his belly when he heard a sudden cry: "Li Houlang, please stay here?"
Looking back, he seemed to be a middle-ranking eunuch (eunuch). As he walked, he called out: "Your Majesty ordered Li Houlang to be summoned to the Liangfeng Palace?"
Liangfeng Palace, the Queen's Bedroom?
The Queen's injury has not healed yet?
Li Chengzhi felt a sudden change in his heart, turned around and made a bow, saying goodbye to the three of them.
Looking at the backs of Huang Men and Li Chengzhi, Li Shao asked suspiciously: "He is a foreign minister, what does the queen call him to do?"
"Uncle Yuan, I'm afraid he has forgotten that your nephew is also good at medicine?"
Cui Guang sighed, "I heard the queen is ill!"
Li Shao's eyelids twitched: "Trauma?"
Li Chengzhi does have medical skills, but he can only heal injuries...
"Uncle Yuan, don't panic, the queen was not injured by a sword!" Liu Fang explained, "It was caused by a fall in the garden, but why is it that she never recovered?"
Now that I think about it, the reason why the emperor is so impatient today must be because of this matter.
But even the imperial doctor in the palace was helpless. What can Li Chengzhi do?
Li Shao was slightly worried...
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"The hair and skin of the body are received from parents and dare not be damaged. This is the beginning of filial piety..."
This is the opening line of "The Classic of Filial Piety" and Gao Ying's original words.
It is also possible that Gao Ying is afraid of pain.
However, Li Chengzhi asked carefully that day and found out that it was just an infection caused by a prick from a flower thorn, and the injury was not serious. It was not as severe as cutting the sore and releasing the pus. It could be done with acupuncture, and an ordinary doctor would be able to take a good look at it.<
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But the strange thing is that Gao Ying has been stabbed three or four times, and every time there is pus and blood, but within two days, Gao Ying will relapse again. From a small lump smaller than a fingernail at first, it finally swelled to the size of a fist?<
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Even though he was only half-experienced, Li Chengzhi couldn’t figure out the reason for this.
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Today's queen is dressed quite neatly. Except for the wound on her shoulder, the rest of her body is tightly wrapped. However, her complexion is not very good. Her face is not only white, but also yellow. She is half leaning on the couch in a sickly way, as if she is not even wearing clothes.
I don’t even have the strength to speak.
Gao Wenjun knelt under the couch and kept wiping her sweat. Yuan Ke sat on the other side, holding her hand and comforting her warmly.
There were a bunch of imperial doctors kneeling in the hall, including the imperial censor, Lieutenant Wang Xian.
This person's experience is somewhat legendary: he was born in the Wang family of Donghai, after Wang Lang, a famous official in the Han and Wei Dynasties. However, he did not like to read serious classics since he was a child, but he loved to study medical books, and his medical skills were very good.
When he started his career, he was originally a county official. When Gao Zhaorong was pregnant with Yuan Ke, Empress Dowager Feng called him to see him. Wang Xian concluded that he would definitely have a boy, but it turned out to be unforeseen.
After Emperor Xiaowen heard about it, he simply transferred him to the palace as a medical officer. Yuan Ke was born with liver disease, and it was thanks to Wang Xian's dedicated treatment that he lived for so long. Therefore, he was highly favored by the emperor.
He successively served as a guerrilla general, a court lieutenant, a lieutenant, a holiday commander in charge of all military affairs in Xiangzhou, and a governor of Xiangzhou, and later moved to the chief minister of the Taifu and the lieutenant of the censor.
Being a doctor and becoming an official, being able to become one of the Nine Qings is definitely the only one in the world...
Standing next to him was imperial physician Ling Xu Jian.
Although this person's hair is more black than white, he looks about forty or fifty years old, but he is actually eighty-one years old.
Born into a family of famous doctors, the Xu family of Donghai. Starting from the great ancestor Xu Xi, all descendants of the Xu family served as imperial doctors in the Jin Dynasty and the Northern and Southern Dynasties. The old man's medical skills were not bad either. He served as an imperial physician for almost fifty years and was awarded the title of Imperial Physician by Emperor Xiaowen.
Uncle Jin Xiang.
In addition, there are Cui Yu, Cui Guang and Cui Liang's younger brother, and Xu Jian's nephews and disciples, all of whom are several famous doctors in the Northern Wei Dynasty.
The Queen was indeed only slightly injured at first, but after being treated by so many famous doctors, not only did she not recover, but her injuries became more serious. Yuan Ke just asked them to kneel down without hitting their boards, which was already a great mercy.
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"Is there really nothing we can do?" Gao Zhao's face was as dark as water and he asked Wang Xian in a low voice.
Wang Xian looked sad: "It's not that it can't be cured, but that the cause of the disease cannot be found... Every time Mr. and Jin Xiang open a sore, they will definitely squeeze out the pus. Logically speaking, His Highness will be fully recovered in four or five days at most. p>
But for some reason, His Highness's sepsis will relapse within two days at most, and the accumulation (mass) will be worse than before? A certain person has been practicing medicine for half his life, and this disease has never been heard of..."
With that said, Wang Xian turned his head again and looked at the imperial physician Xu Jian: "What do you think, Master Xu?"
"The lieutenant is at a loss what to do, what can I do if I am a subordinate?"
Xu Jian replied, and then said with some uncertainty, "If it is said that the first time it was caused by external poison, the sores and blood would not relapse after the sores appeared, but His Highness has had it three times? The official even doubted whether His Highness was poisoned.
A hidden poison?"
"Master Xu, be careful what you say!"
Wang Xian's hair almost stood up in shock. This old man was good at everything, but he was too straight-tempered and had a weird temper, and he dared to say anything.
If you are sure, then leave it alone. It is obviously speculation. How dare you say it here?
If the queen is poisoned, who poisoned her?
Among the dozen or so people kneeling in this hall, no one including him, Wang Xian, could escape suspicion.
Poisoned?
Gao Zhao raised his eyebrows, and a fierce light suddenly appeared in his eyes.
Just as he was about to ask, a man from the Huangmen trotted in and whispered to Yuan Ke: "Your Majesty, Li Houlang has arrived outside the palace!"
Yuan Ke's expression turned cold: "What else are you asking, Xuan!"
When he saw Gao Zhao, Li Chengzhi was stunned.
We have become close friends, but this is the first time we have met. He is quite handsome, and can be called a handsome old man. But there is some sinister hidden in his eyes, and his eyes are full of violence.
When he bowed down and greeted the emperor, Li Chengzhi saw that there were already a lot of people kneeling on the ground. Then he saw that even Wang Xian was kneeling upright, and his heart suddenly thought: The queen is dying?
Shouldn't it?
We just met the day before yesterday, and she still had the mood and energy to tease her. It hadn't even been forty-eight hours, how could it be so fast?
Yuan Ke didn't have any patience at all. He shouted coldly: "Why are you lingering? Why don't you just come and take a look?"
Li Chengzhi's scalp suddenly felt cold: Even the imperial doctors can't do anything, what do you want me to think?
I have said it eight hundred times: I don’t know medical skills...
Just as he was about to open his mouth to refuse, he suddenly heard Gao Zhao scolding him in a low voice: "Why are you panicking? I'll talk about it after you've seen it..."
Am I panicking? I don’t know how to do it at all...
Li Chengzhi cursed and took two steps forward.
What a coincidence. As soon as Li Chengzhi walked to the couch, Gao Ying fell ill: it seemed as if he had been rubbed together, and the facial features were squeezed into a pile. He seemed to be chewing beans in his mouth, and his teeth were crunching.
Ring.
His eyes were turned upwards, but the corners of his mouth were turning downwards, as if he was smiling bitterly.