After the emperor finished approving the folds in his hand, he picked up the case file that Gao Beyong had taken from Lao Ba's hand.

After carefully examining the case file, the emperor was silent for a moment.

"Clan, coating?"

"Yes. The eighth master didn't dare to look up.

"The ancestor died, the emperor was young, and some of the clans intended to restart the eight kings' politics, but the ancestor ordered the four auxiliary ministers to assist the emperor to govern, the clan lost the opportunity, and could only extract power in the dark, they were unwilling, so they instigated the autocratic power of Aobai, and the ambition of Aobai was rising, and finally coerced the king and was killed by the emperor.

After the capture and killing of Aobai, the Emperor Taishang was in power, and his outstanding power and political talent made the clan lose the opportunity, and as the Emperor Taishang gradually gathered the imperial power, the clan had no chance. ”

"As the Emperor Taishang is old, the new generation of clans is in the prime of life, unwilling to be mediocre and yearning for power, so that they can reach out again. ”

When the eighth master said this, he took a deep breath, and the expression on his face was indescribable: "They are eyeing me!"

The emperor raised his head and looked at the eighth child, "They interfere in the affairs of Concubine Liangniang?"

The eighth master clenched his fists, and the glow in his eyes was like blazing: "In the last years of the ancestor, Prince An Yue Le presided over the council of ministers with the respect of the prince, made decisions on the military power, and held most of the rights of the Qing Dynasty.

Until Kangxi was twenty-eighth, Yue Le died, the emperor was in the prime of life, and under Yue Le, everything was mediocre, and the emperor who was no longer restrained could be said to have really gathered power. ”

"It's just that the clan still refuses to give up, they provoke our brothers to fight, and then want to reap the benefits of the fisherman, my mother ......"

The eighth master gritted his teeth fiercely: "They want to provoke my hatred with the death of my mother...... I was indeed provoked. ”

The eighth master took a deep breath and slowly knelt in the hall: "After the emperor succeeded to the throne, the fourteenth came to ask for advice, the younger brother was the fourteenth brother's counselor, the younger brother had the idea of rebellion because of personal grudges, bullied the king and complained about his father, the younger brother was not filial, the crime was not forgiven, please punish the emperor." ”

The emperor got up slowly, walked out from behind the imperial case, and looked at the eighth brother who was kneeling on the gold brick in the hall with deep eyes, "Eighth brother, do you still want to be right with the fourth brother now?"

"The previous sin is especially there, the younger brother regrets it, the shame is unbearable, today all the actions are described in front of the emperor, it is for the younger brother to feel incompetent, for the thief, so as to hurt the brotherhood, although the younger brother is incompetent, but not without responsibility, not unrepentant, wrong is wrong, the younger brother does not expect the emperor to forgive, only ask the emperor to read the sincerity of the younger brother, Xu brother to change, the younger brother should obey the order of the fourth brother in the future. ”

The Emperor's eyes flickered, and finally turned into a warm smile.

Stretching out his hand to help the eighth brother up from the ground, the emperor patted him on the shoulder affectionately: "Fight the tiger brothers, go into battle with father and son, and with the help of the eighth brother in the future, the ambition of the fourth brother will be more perfectly realized." ”

Looking at the sincere smile on the face of the fourth brother, the eighth brother took a deep breath, he knew that the fourth brother was jealous and hateful, but he was a man with a true temperament, compared to the second brother's solipsism, the fourth brother would take care of the weak brother since he was a child.

The younger brother always remembered the outstretched hand of the fourth brother when he was bullied and treated harshly by the chamberlain when he was six years old. ”

The emperor thought about it carefully, remembered that there was a waiter who bullied the old eighth mother for cowardice, and he himself was not loved by the concubine, so he did not give him food, and deliberately played hide and seek with him, leaving him in the rockery of the imperial garden, in the winter, a six-year-old child was frozen and hungry in the rockery, almost did not freeze to death, at that time, the nine-year-old fourth master overheard the discussion of the waiter, and rushed to the garden to rescue the six-year-old eighth brother.

Then, a group of servants around the eighth master were replaced, and now Gao Fu, the chief of internal affairs of the Eight Baylor Mansion, was sent to the eighth master that year.

Thinking of the eighth child when he was a child, the emperor showed a smile in his eyes, he looked the size of the eighth child up and down, and his face showed a trace of disgust: "Back then, you wrapped my white fox collar and big fur with a small tender face, and it looked like a round white ball, which hurts a lot, which is like now, tsk." ”

Looking at the disgust on the emperor's face, the eighth master laughed: "Fourth brother, my younger brother was six years old that year, and now my younger brother is forty-four!"

The emperor glanced at the fat belly of the old eight, but still felt disgusted, snorted, turned around and walked to the gate of the Heart Cultivation Palace.

"In this way, the death of Concubine Liangniang, the driving force behind the scenes is the clan?"

"Yes, the current Anjun Wang Huayuan wants to reproduce the scenery of his grandfather when he was alive, since Guo Luo Luo married me, he has been placed in various places in my house through Guo Luo Luo's hands, Guo Luo Luo's dowry is mostly under his orders, Guo Luo Luo's house has been burning incense for many years, just because the incense needs to be combined with Guo Luo Luo's habitual bath salts to work, so it has not been noticed by the imperial doctor.

The poisonous fur that Guo Luo Luo personally brought into the palace for the dowry was provided by Hua Yuan, and the manpower in the Yongshou Palace was left by Prince An in the early years, and the small coat with smallpox crumbs ......"

The eighth master hesitantly stopped talking.

The emperor didn't reply: "Say it." ”

The eighth master took a breath: "The fourteenth brother and the empress dowager made a big fuss in the Qianqing Palace, so that the people in the clan saw the opportunity, they contacted the empress dowager, and the empress dowager hid the small clothes in the Yongshou Palace through the Baoyi power in her hands...... The small clothes not only have smallpox debris, but the small clothes themselves are also dyed with poisonous pigments, and its poison is the same as the toxin in the decaying fur, because it has no smell, after hiding in the Yongshou Palace, even the spirit mouse raised by the imperial concubine has not been detected. ”

"Fortunately, the poison suit was found early, otherwise not only the imperial concubine and the prince in the womb, but also the emperor, would have been poisoned by it. ”

The eighth looked at the tall back of his fourth brother, with a trace of sympathy in his eyes, he was poisoned by his biological mother, that is, the family affection between the royal mother and son was indifferent, and it was too appalling for this kind of thing to happen.

The emperor stared at the void outside the Heart Cultivation Hall for a long time, and after a long time, Fang opened his mouth and asked the eighth child softly: "All the evidence has been collected?"

"Yes. The eighth master nodded: "Although it took some time to find out the ins and outs of the matter, it was very easy to extract the confession because of the help of the bewildering incense provided by the emperor." ”

The emperor didn't say anything more, raised his feet and stepped out of the Heart Cultivation Palace: "That's it, let's go with me to see the Emperor." ”

……

Qianqing Palace

The Emperor Taishang, who was lying on the dragon bed, listened to the confession of the old eight, and after a long time, he motioned to Hongyao to help him up.

Hongyao sat up with the emperor in his arms, and sat silently behind him as a pillow to support his grandfather's weak body.

glanced at the old man who was kneeling on the ground with his head bowed, the eyes of the emperor were old, and then he looked at the emperor sitting in front of the bed, and spit out two words with all his strength: "Heavy punishment." ”

Listening to this clear and unmistakable edict, the emperor lowered his head: "Son receives the decree." ”

The Emperor Taishang glanced at the eighth child on the ground again, squinted his eyes, didn't say anything, and closed his eyelids tiredly.

With the approval of the emperor, and the eighth child obtained tangible evidence, the next day, the emperor took the eighth to the Zongren Mansion.

In front of all the participating clans, the eighth master explained the whole story of the poison clothes case in the Zongren Mansion, and handed over all the case files and the confessions involved to the Zongling.

Looking at the thick case file and a few confessions, the sect order of the Zongren Mansion, the left and right Zongzheng, and all the subordinates looked at each other, and stood in place for a long time, not knowing how to react.

The emperor had seen enough of everyone's reactions with cold eyes before he spoke: "The emperor decrees that all those involved will be severely punished." ”

The order heard that the emperor actually knew at this time, and this edict was still said by the emperor himself, knowing that there was no room for change, and at the same time the matter involved the emperor's art and the clan dispute, he knew that he could not contain essence, so he said categorically: "The clan was originally set up to assist the emperor in managing the clan personnel, and since the clan population has committed a major crime, they should act according to the law, and everything will be handled according to the will of the emperor and the emperor." ”

The finished Zong Ling rolled his eyes and looked around at everyone in the room: "Do you think this king's words are reasonable?"

Looking at the cold-faced emperor sitting high in the hall, who dares to say that the person who grabbed power with the emperor and assassinated the emperor's harem is right?

Zuo Zongzheng was the first to say: "The Zong's order is reasonable. ”

Right Zongzheng scratched his cheeks: "A bunch of restless grandsons deserve to be dealt with seriously." ”

"Deal with it. Zuo Zongren nodded.

"Not being heavy is not enough to correct the law. The Right Sect sighed.

The five princes, the prince of the county, Baylor, Beizi and the prince of the town have all expressed their positions, and the remaining three Qixinlang, six Langzhong and four Langzhong and the head of the hall naturally all agree in unison.

Seeing that no one in the Zongren Mansion spoke back, the emperor was satisfied.

"Now that you have agreed, I have decreed. ”

"I respectfully ask the emperor to make a holy judgment. All the officials of the Zongren Mansion stood up in unison and bent down.

Looking at the head hanging down in the hall, the emperor squinted his eyes and raised his hand at Gao Beiyong, who had been standing aside as a plank.

Gao Beiyong understood, took out the holy decree written by the emperor in his sleeve, and read it out in the hall:

"Fengtian carried the emperor, and the edict said:

The clan, the auxiliary emperor to rule the clan, is also in charge of the nine clan rosters, write the emperor's genealogy, record the clan children's descendants, names, titles, hereditary titles, life and death time, marriage, and burial.

Whenever the clan states the request and performs the emperor on his behalf, it is his duty to introduce talented people and remember their guilt and faults;

It is his responsibility to send and receive documents, manage the internal affairs of the clan, register the yellow and red books, confil criminals, and educate the children of the clan.

Today, there are the late Prince An Yue Le, Prince Yu Baotai, Prince Jian Yaerjianga, the current Anjun Wang Huayuan, Lijun Wang Honghui, Beile Yinyu, and Beizi Sunu, who do not think of the emperor's grace and poison the harem family members with selfishness.

The subordinates of the clan government asked for heavy punishment of the people involved, etc., and I allowed the requests of the relatives, but after thinking about the blood and family ties of the clan, after thinking twice, I decided to deal with the people involved lightly.

Depending on the severity of the offense, each person is also punished differently.

Make move:

Prince An's title was stopped, and the current county king Huayuan imprisoned Zongrenfu, and ordered Wu Erzhan, Se Hengtu, Jingxi, and their sons, the grandsons of Prince An and Yue Le, to move to Shengjing and be removed from their subordinate status.

Lijun Wang Honghui, Beizi Sunu, cut the lord.

Prince Yu Baotai was guilty of cutting off the knight, and his disciple Guangning attacked Prince Yu.

Descend to Beile Yinyu for Beizi.

Prince Jane, Yaerjiang A, with his younger brother to protect the raid.

Descend Beizi Yinyi to the prince of the town.

Chin this. ”

……

After disposing of the clan, it was the turn of the coating.

Bao Yi was originally the emperor's minion, and the emperor who had a confession in his hand was not like the trouble of dealing with the clan at all, so he directly asked Gao Beyong to order people and detain all the people involved.

"Since you want to change the master, let them change it, and all the people involved will be sent to Ningguta and the batch of armor people as slaves. ”

In the emperor's words, the position of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was eliminated from ten.

However, in this world, there is never a shortage of talent, and soon, these vacant positions are filled by newcomers.

It's just that, with the lessons of the past, the power of Baoyi is no longer the previous family, and the emperor has proposed talented people who were previously at the lowest level of Baoyi to take office.

"The art of the emperor is the first thing to balance, the royal family needs someone to serve, and the royal family must not be swayed by the person who serves. ”