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Thirty-seven Song's Destruction

The Wang Fu that Cao Song mentioned was one of the eunuchs, one of the confidant eunuchs around Emperor Ling, and the godfather of Wang Ji, the prime minister of Peiguo who was filial and honest for Cao Cao.

At the beginning, in order to help Cao Cao avoid the threat of eunuchs from the beginning of his career, Cao Song created a good reputation and let Cao Cao kill Jian Tu. After that, Cao Cao gained a good reputation, but he annoyed the eunuchs.

The eunuchs are not a single piece of iron. Although the eunuchs are united most of the time when facing fatal things, they usually focus on internal struggles.

Cao Cao's incident angered Wang Fu because Cao Cao was recommended by his godson. As soon as he took office, he turned against him openly and slapped him in the face.

Wang Fu wanted to deal with Cao Cao and even the entire Cao family, not only because of this reason, but also because of the Song family.

The Cao family and the Song family are in-laws. Cao Cao himself has a very good relationship with Song Qi. Wang Fu and the Liangzi of the Song family have formed early, and there is also a relationship between the Cao family here.

The interests within the eunuch group are also complicated. In short, asking Wang Ji to give Cao Cao a filial piety and integrity was an attempt to restore the relationship between Wang Fu and the Cao family.

After the failed attempt, even though Wang Fu and Cao turned against each other, this time Empress Song lost its status, which made Cao Song think of Wang Fu, who had a grudge against Song.

"What exactly is Wang Fu going to do? Can he move the queen?"

Cao Chi was very angry and prepared to go to Wang Fu to ask for an explanation, but was stopped by Cao Song. Cao Song thought for a while and asked Guo Peng to leave first.

"Xiao Yi, go back to Taixue. Remember, this matter has nothing to do with you. Don't participate. Follow your teacher to study hard, and your teacher can keep you safe."

Guo Peng blinked, nodded, and stood up and left.

The Cao family probably wanted to completely withdraw from this matter and let Lu Zhi protect himself. Anyway, the relationship with him would not disappear, and the Cao family also left a way out for him.

After a while, Lu Zhi was worried every time he came back from court, but he didn't tell Guo Peng anything.

Until one day after autumn, Guo Peng heard private conversations between Lu Zhi, Cai Yong and Yang Biao and others while working in Dongguan.

"Your Majesty said that the Queen used witchcraft in the inner palace to curse His Majesty with no offspring, in exchange for a stable position, the evidence is conclusive and unshakable."

"How could such a thing be possible? The queen is simple and unpretentious and has never had any fault in entering the palace for many years. How could she do such a thing?"

"The witchcraft is strictly prohibited in the palace. As the mother of a country, the queen cannot be deposed for nothing as long as she has no big mistakes. She cannot not understand, and she cannot use witchcraft. This must be framed by someone."

"It was mostly done by Wang Fu. Wang Fu falsely accused King Bohai of rebellion and instructed King Bohai to be killed. Princess Song of Bohai was the queen's aunt. Since then, Song and Wang Fu have become enemies, and this must have been done by Wang Fu!"

"This guy is cruel and ruthless. He wants to ignore the overall situation in his work and only considers himself. This time he actually puts his target on the queen. How can the mother of a country be so slandered? You guys, why should we write a letter to defend the queen together?"

"Okay! Just do it!"

“I will participate too!”

A group of people discussed a conclusion to write a letter to defend the queen together, leaving Guo Peng speechless for a long time.

Do they really do nothing except write a letter to defend themselves?

In fact, if you believe in this kind of thing, you will not believe in it. It is obvious that Empress Song was deposed not because of this matter, but because Emperor Ling didn't like her anymore, that's all.

Emperor Ling thought that Empress Song was in trouble and wanted to drive her away and replace her with a new one.

What a simple thing?

However, the emperor always needs a reason and an excuse. Without a suitable excuse, the ministers would not agree. Such a matter concerns the national system and is no longer just the emperor's family affairs.

Therefore, Wang Fu's actions must be some kind of tacit consent of Emperor Ling. Emperor Ling wanted to use Wang Fu's hands and slander to drive away Empress Song.

However, Wang Fu obviously wanted more than that. What he wanted was to kill all the Song clan and even kill Lian Cao clan.

The struggle between the ministers was meaningless. In October of the winter of the first year of Guanghe, Emperor Ling took back the queen's seal and ribbon on the grounds that the queen's Song family had lost their virtue, threw it into the cold palace, and officially abolished the queen.

At the same time, Wang Fu presided over the jail to imprison Empress Song's father and brothers, all the women were exiled, and the family was confiscated and the family was exiled.

Cao Chi entered the palace as a servant and cried to Lingdi to let go of his poor daughter. Wang Fu insisted that all the Song family members were accomplices, and Cao was also accomplices.

Emperor Ling was upset and left this matter to Wang Fu to handle.

Of course, Wang Fu would not pay attention to the Cao family and insisted on extermination of the Song family. Subsequently, Empress Song's father, Jinwu Song Feng and his brother Qianghou Song Qi, were sentenced to death and executed.

Upon hearing the news, Empress Song was angry and hated, and couldn't get sick in the cold palace and died soon.

After her death, Song's family was destroyed, and there was no one to restrain the body. Emperor Ling did not restrain Song's body regardless of the love between the couple in the past.

Finally, the Changshou and Xiaohuangmen who were once favored by Empress Song and the Song family and the Xiaohuangmen in the palace were pitying them, and they jointly paid to save the bodies of the father and son and daughter, and bury them in a hurry.

Cao Chi ultimately did not save his daughter, and his official position was lost, and he was deposed as a commoner, almost losing his life and was driven back to his hometown.

Cao Song originally served as the Grand Master Lu, but is now renamed the Grand Master Yuan.

Cao Cao and Song Qi had a close relationship. Originally, Wang Fu wanted to attack Cao Cao, but Cao Song asked Lu Qiang to protect Cao Cao to the death. Lu Qiang really couldn't bear it, so he took action to let Wang Fu forgive others if he could.

Wang Fu knew that he had acted too ruthlessly this time, which made many people feel sad, so he did not kill Cao Cao, but deposed Cao Cao's position as Dunqiu Ling and demoted Cao Cao to a commoner.

This political storm of the deposed queen can be said to be a political conflict between eunuchs and relatives of the foreign relatives, and has little to do with scholars.

Therefore, the scholars were not damaged, and those who suffered were relatives of the Song family and those who had too close contact with the Song family.

However, because Wang Fu was too ruthless, the Song family had a bad relationship with other eunuchs and had a good reputation.

Wang Fu exterminated the Song clan out of personal grudges. The man killed the woman and exiled him. None of them left was left, which made the other eunuchs feel very dissatisfied and even felt sad that the rabbit died and the fox was sad.

They began to think about making Wang Fu pay some price. This man was already full of power and began to attack his own people.

However, before they could try to kill Wang Fu, not many days later, a solar eclipse occurred in late October.

Someone feels that the opportunity has come.

According to Dong Zhongshu's theory of induction of heaven and man, astronomical phenomena appearing in the sky is a manifestation of the emperor's loss of virtue. The emperor needs to self-examination whether he has made a mistake.

And during this period, the one who can be considered a mistake is the death of Queen Song.

Emperor Ling was already uneasy about Empress Song's tragic death. Suddenly, he encountered a solar eclipse and was panicked. He quickly asked the close ministers around him what caused the cause. The close ministers remained silent, and Emperor Ling himself knew it.

According to the rules, when astronomical phenomena occur, the Eastern Han Dynasty will dismiss one of the three dukes to respond to God's warning on behalf of the emperor.

The person who was dismissed was often the nameless Taiwei, so Taiwei Chen Qiu was in trouble and was dismissed.

But this matter was not over. Emperor Ling had a ghost in his heart and actually had a dream about Emperor Huan scolding him for wrongly accusing Empress Song. This is not the key, the key is that the content of this dream actually spread.

This is a very critical political signal.
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