Chapter 463: Sleeping in Spring (1)

Originally, the prince was about to return to Beijing, and many people were excited. But the edict immediately poured a basin of cold water.

In fact, in terms of prime ministers, only Dai, Zhang and Hao are the most competent, so the country's internal affairs are safe in recent years. Even though the struggle for the court began later, there were no major losses in internal affairs. The country suffered many disasters and difficulties, and the transition was smooth. Once Dai and Zhang died, only Hao Chujun was left.

Liu Rengui has enough qualifications and credit, and has served as a border general, and is both civil and military. However, his ability to serve as prime minister is lacking compared with Hao Chujun.

Once it fell, the prince's losses and the country's losses.

Many people were in panic all day long. It seemed that the prince might not be able to come back smoothly, and the country did not know where it was going.

Liu Rengui and Di Renjie came to Zhu Jingze's mansion.

There are two ways to make the prince ascend the throne. The first method is that the prince raises troops from Qinghai and takes advantage of Shangguan Wan'er's incident. This is not very appropriate. First, it is to set a bad start for the future, and second, it is difficult to master the final result. It is very good if it succeeds. It can transfer all the party in one fell swoop, and the civil strife in the country will begin. Moreover, the court has already imprisoned King Yong and was able to return to Beijing, but the reason for raising troops is insufficient.

So there is only the last one left, causing Ming Chongyan's incident to happen.

Look at what you have done over the years, Emperor? Let the emperor abdicate himself and hand over the smooth handover.

But it is not easy, and there is one person in Dali Temple.

The Ministry of Justice can also investigate cases, but it is different from Dali Temple. The Ministry of Justice's power is to take charge of the world's criminal law, the criminal law, the clerks, the ban, and other government orders. The government orders are the first, and the management is wide. Investigating cases is only the right to follow, and it can only investigate some ordinary cases. For major cases, the Dali Temple criminal investigation case is filed and the prison is filed.

Therefore, when Di Renjie was appointed as the Minister of Dali Temple, he dared to investigate the case of Xu Jingzong. Of course, it is possible to investigate, and other important officials must cooperate with him during the trial. However, after serving as the Minister of Justice, he had more power and higher positions, but he was not qualified to investigate and deal with the case of Ming Chongyan.

It needs to be followed by the rules, so I found Liu Rengui.

I dare not say that I set up a Qiankun Bureau very early to wait for Ming Chongyan to feed the Queen Maruko. Even if the prince knows, he will be unhappy. Besides, it’s not that I didn’t feed it.

He and Wei Yuanzhong could only keep this situation in his heart. But there was not no gain. He had a lot of evidence in his hand, which would be enough to make the emperor feel ashamed. Then he was happy and the prince got a strong piece of evidence from the hands of the Wulu.

So he lied to Liu Rengui. When King Yong assassinated Ming Chongyan, Di Renjie felt uneasy when he heard about it, he sent someone to stare at it, and it was a huge conspiracy. He didn't know it very early, but he knew it accidentally, and he knew it recently.

Liu Rengui certainly couldn't remember all the things in between. He only knew the opportunity and would definitely take advantage of it.

Therefore, he made an action and used the three gates and four rivers to complete the construction, and recommended three people to be promoted. Wei Xuantong was the Minister of Personnel, and Wei Siqian was the Censor. Compared with the two of them, Zhu Jingze was not very prominent. He was just a Shaoqing of Dali Temple, not a Zhengqing.

But this Shaoqing is about to be reused.

Zhu Jingze came out and the three of them went in. Liu Rengui looked at the old servant beside Zhu Jingze. He was also a clean official, a very small house, with only three or four servants, and a wife, one concubine and three children. The concubine was given by the crown prince, so he had no choice but to accept it.

Zhu Jingze understood and asked the old servant to retreat.

Liu Rengui and Di Renjie suddenly fell down and gave a heavy gift.

Zhu Jingze quickly helped them up, but he dared not to accept it. Di Renjie didn't mention it, Liu Rengui was the chief assistant of the dynasty.

He said: "Two, you can't kill me."

Standing up, Liu Rengui said, "The prince is about to return to Beijing, but His Majesty didn't know who was bewitching him, so he actually asked Mr. Hao to dismiss the government. I knew that Mr. Hao was upright and dared to speak out, and offended someone. It can be imagined that it won't take long before that Mr. Hao could even dismiss the government. Mr. Li would definitely dismiss the government because of some of the previous words."

This is easy, no one is perfect, and it is too easy to pick it up. It is Liu Rengui who picked out his performance in Qinghai and repeatedly discussed it. It won’t take long to retire. As he said that, he looked at Zhu Jingze’s performance. This person is also good, dared to make suggestions, and even fired a gun at the emperor.

So after thinking about it for a while, he chose this person and entered Dali Temple to take up an important position.

But they were still a little worried. After all, they were recommended by the emperor to the prince, assisting the prince and supervising the prince's mistakes. But he and Di Renjie wanted the emperor to abdicate. I wonder if he would agree?

He didn't see anything, but he was worried. So Liu Rengui said again: "I am old. I believe that it won't be long before I will go with Dai Xiang and Zhang Xiang and the others... Even if the prince comes back, can he successfully inherit the great cause of the Tang Dynasty? Even if he ascends the throne, how many people can obey his command? Is he worried?"

"Mr. Liu, I know, but my position is low and I am a little..."

The position may not be low, nor may it be small, but compared with Liu Rengui, it is a low position. But this position can become the key to the upside down. Liu Rengui still did not say it and continued to test it, saying: "Last year, the queen sent Li Shoucheng to Qinghai and talked with the prince several times. The prince had no choice but to answer, saying, "The queen's power will not be lower than the current power ascend to the throne in the future. However..."

Shake your head straight.

You can't say it right, nor can you say it's wrong. From Liu Rengui's position, the queen's actions are too disappointing. They all promised to give you the current rights, but you are still not satisfied and continue to stretch your hands into the court. What do you want to do? The rights are already very large, unless you want to be Lu Zhi or the Empress Dowager Hu of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

But from Wu Zetian's perspective, the idea is different. If you want to be safe, Hao and Li will fall down, and she will not feel at ease. If you want to be safe, you should still hold the real power in your own hands and put it in your son's hands. Your son will become stronger and you will be entrusted to others. What if something happens?

It depends on what Zhu Jingze thinks.

"I am also disappointed when the queen did this," Zhu Jingze was also unhappy when talking about this.

"Yes, Zhu Shaoqing, do you remember what Pei Yan said the words of King Lu in the winter of the past year. I didn't care at that time. Now when I think about it, the queen has a deep meaning... The emperor is seriously ill again. He seems to be in charge of the court, but in fact, it is not the case. Even the political affairs are all handled by the queen. I am worried about the difficulties in the country."

Liu Rengui was very suspicious at that time, but as the prince's position, the prince's life and death were uncertain, and he wanted to seek justice from Li Lu. However, Li Lu was even younger, so the queen was easier to control. Although it was not easy for the queen to succeed, she was as wise as a demon, and she was not easy to say. Later, the prince came back safely and could not know.

"Mr. Liu, I also want to contribute to the court, but I..."

"Today, I came with Mr. Di, just to ask Zhu Shaoqing something, do you want to revitalize the court and the country?"

"I think...but you... don't raise an army." If I had known that the two of them were here, I had decided to entrust them with important things, but they actually bowed and the matter was very serious. The emperor did not give in to power, so he had to raise troops.

"It's not about launching troops. There is a shortcut that can make the country transition smoothly without hurting the bones, but it needs strong help from Zhu Shaoqing."

"What power do I have?"

"As long as you investigate a case, you don't even need to investigate it. As long as you use your position to sort out the case, the country can make a smooth transition?"

"What kind of case?" Zhu Jingze was very puzzled. He understood the smooth transition. Only by letting the prince ascend the throne immediately and controlling the state power, the queen could not continue to develop his own strength. Even if the prince fulfilled his promise and continued to let the two emperors supervise the country, the prince got the greatest righteousness. Liu Rengui and his group of ministers were still in the court, so he could balance and restrict the development of the queen's strength.

But what kind of cases do this require to be done?

"Ming Chongyan."

"Ming Shaoqing?"

“That’s right.”

"What big case did he do?"

"Shilarious Minister Di, it's up to you."

"Zhu Shaoqing, that's right. Ming Chongyan was assassinated the year before yesterday. After hearing this in Jiangnan, I paid attention to it and accidentally discovered something. Ming Chongyan had a large number of salt fields in Chu and Yang Prefectures. Still remember the folk rumors that King Yong had bribed Zhang Guidong? If you want to bribe Zhang Guidong, you must have a lot of money. However, it was difficult for King Yong to have this financial resources. So I secretly sent someone to investigate it because I had no power. The matter was investigated for a long time. It was not until the end of last year that I gradually found out the whole matter. Xu Jingzong asked Ming Chongyan to go to Luoyang and frame the prince. He was lucky enough to find out and stopped it in time.

Xu Jingzong had a confidant, and Xu Zhong escaped in time. He handed over some of the talents that Xu Jingzong secretly bought and some of the confidants in the palace to Ming Chongyan. Among them were an industry in Yangzhou and some of the ranger merchants bought by Xu Jingzong in Luoyang. After Ming Chongyan failed, he continued to make plans without any clues. After being demoted to Shenzhou, he continued to send people to monitor the movements of the prince. Seeing Liang Jinzhu building a salt farm in Yangchu and Chuzhou, he immediately joined and became the second big salt owner to dry salt, accumulating a lot of money for him. Then he used this money to bribe King Yong, and bribe officials at all levels in Shenzhou to speak good things for him."

All of this was done secretly and it was not easy to detect it. Ming Chongyan would not be foolishly placing his own name directly. But he found out that it was easy to interrogate.

"What happened later?"

"Zhu Shaoqing, I was surprised when I found it. This person's courage was not something you and I could think of. On the one hand, he planned to return to Beijing for the sake of Shenzhou, and on the other hand, he also tried to make a domineering aphrodisiac. In order to test the medicine, he bought a concubine and then killed the concubine to silence him. This was also what I found by accident. A concubine died suddenly, and the Shenzhou government recorded that she died of illness. But I didn't believe it. It was normal to send someone to secretly dig his tomb and the corpse was normal. However, the person sent by the ministers, as well as the precautions, brought a corpse back. I sent an experienced offender for testing, and finally found that it was a very rare poison and killed him."

If others can distinguish it, Ming Chongyan is proficient in pharmacology, and it is not killed by Ming Chongyan. If others kill poison, they will definitely be aware of the officials. However, Ming Chongyan died of a sudden illness and was buried in a hurry. It must be killed by Ming Chongyan.

There is no need to explain, and continue, "I was thinking that trying to match aphrodisiacs may curry favor with a certain powerful man. With his character, he could do it. Why is it so mysterious that he actually wants to kill someone to silence him? Then I heard some rumors in the palace that it was His Majesty during this period..."

This is not the case. I have been sending people to follow me secretly, otherwise I would not have noticed so many things.

After a moment, he continued, "Of course, Your Majesty will be happy like this. But Zhu Shaoqing, no matter what medicine, it is a medicine that stimulates people's potential, and it is three parts poisonous. Moreover, this kind of tiger and wolf medicine. At first I thought he was just for Your Majesty to be happy. However, when I thought about it, it was wrong. He could treat your Majesty's wind and dizziness, and Your Majesty could no longer leave him. Why did you still use tiger and wolf medicine? This would reduce Your Majesty's life. If something happened to Your Majesty, the prince would hate him and he would not need him to treat any wind and dizziness. What are the benefits for him? So he secretly asked someone to inquire in the palace and then he knew the truth. That day, Ming Chongyan used the excuse of the queen's cold and made a bowl of medicine soup for the queen to drink. His Majesty also suffered from the wind and cold, so he snatched it and drank it."

"This...this..." Zhu Jingze was so shocked that he almost fell down from Hu's bed.

When Di Renjie said to Liu Rengui, Liu Rengui's expression was not much better.

After most of the day, he woke up and said, "Even so, it's just that the two emperors lost their faces..."

"Yes, but there is another thing. Ming Chongyan secretly colluded with the Tubo princess and wrote a letter to the Tubo princess, asking Tubo to send troops and drag the prince to Qinghai to come back, so that the queen could calmly develop her power. In the future, the prince would ascend the throne and would also be a puppet emperor." As he said that, he took out the letter and handed it to Zhu Jingze to read it.

Then he leaned down with Liu Rengui again: "The national plan is only in Zhu Shaoqing's thoughts."

As long as Zhu Jingze agrees and has his power, he can file a criminal investigation case. In fact, it is just a motion picture. He quickly took down all the evidence. Di Renjie was the Minister of Justice and Liu Rengui was the chief assistant of the dynasty. Although this case was until the scandal of the Heavenly Court, three people had the right to interrogate the case.

The case is revealed, and the letter from Ming Chongyan can explain everything. Emperor, don’t try any balance anymore. After all, the real power will be in the hands of your wife. In a few years, the prince will become the emperor and will be just a puppet emperor.

What will the emperor do?

Either punish Wu Zetian, but if Wu Zetian's power is retracted, the emperor cannot see the memorial clearly, so what should he do if the state affairs are done?

Force the emperor to abdicate.

Or go to the end and punish Liu Dizhu and the other two, and the prince was dismissed. I am the emperor and the best in the world. I have to hand over the power to my wife and make her become Lu Zhi in the future. So let me ask, does the minister agree? Does the people agree? How many years ago is the real prince?

However, Zhu Jingze refused and immediately reported the matter to the emperor, asking the emperor to execute Ming Chongyan in advance and everything would be stopped.

Zhu Jingze held this letter, as if holding a thousand pounds, but he actually forgot to help Di Ren and Liu Rengui up again.
Chapter completed!