Chapter 0383 Head-to-head confrontation (2)
Wu Sansi was walking from a distance with a smile on his face, greeting everyone one by one. The smile on his face was obviously a bit far-fetched, as if he knew that he had become the focus of everyone's discussion.
The prophecy has spread throughout Luoyang City, and its interpretation of it has become deeper and more thorough. Not only that, many notices have appeared in the city, revealing the evil deeds he has done in the past one by one. For example, ten years ago, he forcibly occupied the real estate of 34 households in Yongkangfang, Chang'an, and eight of them committed suicide by taking poison.
These things are described in great detail, not fabricated, but are all facts he has hidden for many years, which makes Wu Sansi frightened. Only a very small number of people from the Wu family know about these things, how could they be spread? Could it be?
Wu San thoughts came to Wu Chengsi. Only this bastard knew the past. He actually shook all his scandals. It must be him. Wu Sansi was so angry that he almost cut the bastard with a knife.
"Captain Di!" Wu Sansi suddenly saw Di Renjie, and he hurriedly met him.
Di Renjie was talking to the censor Zhang Jianzhi and the Secretariat Yao Chong. Seeing Wu Sansi coming here, Zhang Jianzhi stared at him in disgust, turned around and left. Yao Chong was unwilling to talk to Wu Sansi and said goodbye first.
Di Renjie laughed and said, "Is there anything wrong with His Highness Liang looking for me?"
Wu Sansi seemed to have caught a life-saving straw and said anxiously: "Captain Di, don't take those words of malicious slandering me seriously."
Di Renjie smiled faintly, "It's not true or false, the fake ones cannot be true. The clear ones will be clear, and the turbid ones will be turbid. Why should Your Highness take it to heart?"
Wu Sansi's face became hot and he hurriedly said, "I'm afraid that three of them will become tigers. If the emperor asks about this today, Prime Minister Di must tell me about it."
After pausing, Wu Sansi whispered again: "I have to blame my son for being promoted to the prefect of Xingzhou."
Di Renjie smiled, "Thank you for your good intentions, but today there are many important government affairs to discuss. The emperor may not pay attention to this matter. I think your highness is a little over-concerned."
Wu Sansi encountered a soft nail. He originally hoped that Di Renjie could help settle the matter, but Di Renjie obviously planned to stay out of the matter. Wu Sansi had no choice but to leave embarrassedly.
Li Zhen stood alone in an inconspicuous corner. Although he was doing well a few years ago, in fact, he was not in the circle of court officials, but in the circle of powerful officials. He had no outstanding deeds among court officials, and naturally he had no prestige. Many court officials just regarded him as the son-in-law of the Prime Minister Di.
However, what thousands of people in the square were talking about was his masterpiece, but they didn't know it, and this feeling inevitably made him a little proud.
"A Zhen!"
Someone called him behind him, needless to say, the person who called him nickname in the imperial city would not be anyone except his father-in-law Di Renjie. Li Zhen turned around and saw Di Renjie standing behind him with a smile, followed by someone behind him. Li Zhen also knew him, Li Duozuo, the general of Zuo Yulin, had cooperated with him when he annihilated Li Jinzhong in Liaodong.
Li Zhen quickly bowed and saluted, Di Renjie smiled and said, "I know it's your first time in court. There are some rules here. Don't do it randomly, otherwise you will be ridiculed. So I ask General Li to help you, and you will stand together and follow him."
Li Zhen didn't expect that Di Renjie was so thoughtful. He couldn't help feeling in his heart. He quickly clasped his fists to Li Duozuo and saluted, "Please trouble the general."
Li Duozuo replied with a smile and said, "It is my honor to be able to help Dunhuang Hou get a little busy."
Li Zhen was called "Dunhuang Marquis" in the court. Because he was born in Dunhuang and his titles were all named Dunhuang, everyone called him Dunhuang Marquis. However, now Li Zhen has been named County Dunhuang, and not many people call him the nickname of Dunhuang Marquis.
At this time, a melodious bell sound came from afar. At this time, the time for court came, and the ministers walked towards the steps of the Mingtang, and soon they lined up in front of the steps.
As the censor in the hall shouted loudly, "The hour is here, enter the hall!"
Amid the drums and music, thousands of civil and military ministers slowly walked into the main hall of Mingtang.
This was indeed the first time Li Zhen went to court. Although he was fully qualified to attend court after he became the left-behind Xijing, there were always some reasons that delayed the court meeting.
Li Zhen followed Li Duozuo and stood behind the Mingtang Hall. The light was slightly dim around, and there was a large pillar next to it, making it look like a shadow. Most people would not notice his existence?
“There are no scheduled topics today!”
Li Duozuo whispered to Li Zhen: "Today is a grand dynasty meeting, and it usually won't take too long, but it seems that someone is going to ask about Wu Sansi."
"How do you know?" Li Zhen asked in confusion.
Li Duozuo sneered and said, "Wu Sansi's incident has been circulating in Luoyang, and there are prophecies. If the censor doesn't say it, it means they have dereliction of duty."
Li Duozuo touched Li Zhen with his arm again and pressed his mouth towards the front of the hall, "Did you see, the Zhang brothers didn't come!"
Li Zhen saw that there were two empty seats in front of the right side, and no one sat there. It turned out that it was the seat of the Zhang brothers. Why didn’t they come? Could it be to avoid the Zhang Jingxiong case? With the wisdom of the Zhang brothers, they would never think of this. This must be the hint of Emperor Wu Zetian. It seems that Wu Zetian knew very well what would happen today?
Li Zhen thought of Aunt Gongsun again. He later learned that Aunt Gongsun was Wu Zetian's beautician on the one hand, and Wu Zetian's eyes and ears on the other hand, so that Aunt Gongsun would tell Wu Zetian in time if something major happened in the market.
At this time, the palace supervisor shouted: "His Majesty the Emperor is here!"
The hall suddenly became quiet, and teams of guards were in hand with wooden weapons. Finally, eight palace maids surrounded the Tang Dynasty emperor Wu Zetian and walked into the side door of the hall with long-handled fans. Wu Zetian sat upright on the dragon couch. She looked at the dark minister below and nodded to Cui Xu, the supervisor in the hall. Cui Xu immediately shouted, "Get up, pay a gift!"
More than a thousand court officials bowed together, "See Your Majesty!"
The momentum was spectacular, and Wu Zetian waved his hand with a smile, "Dear dear friends!"
The hall calmed down again, and Wu Zetian said slowly again: "Today is a great dynasty, I have no military and political discussion to discuss. Do you all have any credit for reporting?"
The hall was silent for a moment. At this time, the Censor Du Jingzhi came out and said, "Your Majesty, I have a copy of it!"
Li Duozuo turned around and whispered to Li Zhen: "This person is the person in charge of the four censors, and he is also in charge of collecting public opinion. If he doesn't say anything about what happened in the past two days, he will be impeached."
Li Zhen knew very well that he was the mastermind behind the entire incident, but how to make it work the most effective is the other people's affairs, such as Du Jingzhi, the assistant censor, and Li Zhen believed that Princess Taiping stood behind him.
Moreover, he knew that what Du Jingzhi said was not a prophecy or publicity matter. Wu Zetian had already known about that matter without the ministers' report.
Li Zhen quickly glanced at Wu Sansi and found that his face was pale and his whole body was shaking slightly. Li Zhen smiled and he waited for it.
Du Jingzhi raised a volume of memorial and said loudly: "Your Majesty, this is the memorial of the former left guard General Su Honghui suing King Liang for interfering in military affairs, resulting in the Tang army's great defeat in the Battle of Liaodong and the death of the head coach Wang Xiaojie. The evidence is conclusive. Please check it out."
Du Jingzhi's words caused an uproar in the civil and military affairs of the court. Everyone thought Du Jingzhi would say prophecies and announcements, but they did not expect that it would be a re-introduction of the old case. Wu Zetian said a little unhappy: "Civil Du, isn't this case already a conclusion? Why do you want to raise it again?"
"Your Majesty, because there was no evidence before, and now I have obtained conclusive evidence. If I don't report it, it would be a crime of deceiving the monarch. I dare not do such a thing."
What a good person who knows that he is not reporting is to deceive the king. Du Jingzhi's big hat is covered, and even Wu Zetian can't do anything to him. She asked again: "What evidence do you have?"
Du Jingzhi took out the letter and presented it with both hands, "This is a handwritten letter written by King Liang to Su Honghui. Please read it."
Everyone was stunned, and even Wu Sansi was shocked. Didn’t his subordinates say that the letter was burned in person? How could it still exist?
A eunuch walked down, took the letter, and submitted it to Wu Zetian. Wu Zetian opened the letter and immediately recognized Wu Sansi's handwriting. Wu Zetian immediately lowered her face and barely read the letter Wu Sansi wrote to Su Honghui. Wu Zetian could no longer help but feel annoyed. He glared at Wu Sansi, stood up and brushed his sleeves, and rushed away angrily.
The court officials who originally planned to watch a wonderful debate were stunned. No one expected that the emperor would leave. The court meeting ended less than a quarter of an hour. Everyone looked at Di Renjie. Di Renjie was the leader of all officials. Should he persuade the emperor to come back, or should everyone disperse the court?
Renjie also had to admire the priest's cleverness. He probably couldn't keep the letter from the court, so the priest left and avoided the embarrassment of publicly breaking up.
Di Renjie said to everyone: "Everyone will disperse!"
The courtiers left the Mingtang Hall in groups of three or three and headed towards their respective cemeteries. At this time, Di Renjie quickly walked towards Wu Zetian's imperial study room and walked to His Highness Zhenguan. He waited for the guards to report to him.
After a moment, an eunuch ran out and said, "I'm sorry, the emperor of Di, was a little uncomfortable, so he went back to the palace to rest first. The emperor said that she wanted to take a day off, so please do a lot of hard work."
Di Renjie knew that the emperor was actually trying to avoid him. Either the letter was too embarrassing and made it difficult for her to explain to the court officials, or she wanted to delay and turn big things into small things, or she wanted to think about it and not want others to disturb her.
Di Renjie shook his head and turned around and left. He felt it was necessary to talk to Li Zhen again. He knew something about Li Zhen's plan, but he was not very clear about how to do it. It seemed that these steps were too ruthless and had a great impact on the emperor.
Chapter completed!