Chapter 66, the court's heart
Facing the ministers' concern for him, Su Xin said, "My body is fine, let's be flat." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info”
Su Xin whispered, the hundred officials got up, and the ministers all bowed their heads cautiously, and in this strange atmosphere, the hall returned to tranquility.
Everyone cautiously raised their eyes to look at the saint, and when they saw Su Xin's haggard face, they wondered in their hearts - the emperor had only not been to the court for six days, and his body was so sick and weak, and the dragon body of the saint was like this, and he even said that it was no big problem? If there is really a good one, what will happen to the future country?
Little by little, the hearts of the ministers became alarmed. Everyone didn't expect Su Xin to be really seriously ill.
One of the ministers stepped forward and said, "Weichen has the courage to ask why the Shengshang's illness came about? Why did he suddenly fall ill? What is the result of the treatment now?" Everyone heard that dozens of palace maids and eunuchs in the palace had been beheaded, and at first they thought that this was a bitter trick staged by the Empress Dowager Zhang, but then they gradually felt that something was wrong.
But what is the ins and outs of the matter, Empress Dowager Zhang is too tight-guarded, and they have made several attempts to find out to no avail.
Su Xin said, "Don't get in the way, Lu Chuan has already treated me." It is poisoning caused by improper use of cinnabar. Now that most of the toxins have been unraveled, it is enough to recuperate for a while. ”
As a result, in addition to the great Sima Zhang Haidong and Zuo Cheng, there was a collective uproar in the court, and the emperor was actually poisoned! However, all the food in the palace was tested with silver needles and then presented to the emperor.
At this moment, Empress Dowager Zhang cleared her throat in a timely manner and said, "What the emperor said is right. Thanks to Lu Chuan, the descendant of the white-clothed holy hand of the Pei family, the emperor's toxin was unraveled. ”
Lu Chuan and the ministers immediately pricked up their ears. It seems that I had not heard of this character before. But the descendants of the Pei family are no strangers to them, and neither are the white-clothed holy hands.
Those who can get in touch with these two must not be mortals.
Empress Dowager Zhang continued, "Lu Chuan said that there is slightly toxic mercury in cinnabar, and improper application or excessive use of this medicine will cause mercury poisoning. Therefore, the mourning family intends to hereby announce to the world that future generations of doctors must use cinnabar to cure diseases. ”
The ministers lowered their eyebrows and lowered their heads, Zhang Haidong is here today, even if everyone has dissatisfaction and questions in their hearts, they don't dare to make a mistake. I saw that General Zhang Haidong took the lead in taking a step forward, and took the lead in leading the ministers to kowtow and said: "The Queen Mother is sympathetic to the common people, and we should remember the teachings——"
"We take the teachings to heart—"
But despite this, there were still a few old courtiers left by the previous dynasty, their faces were disapproving, and the Ministry of Rites Shangshu couldn't help but take a step forward and said:
"Emperor Qi, Empress Dowager Qi, there is something unclear about Weichen -- the cinnabar dynasties have been widely used to calm the nerves and nourish blood, how can it become the culprit of poisoning? We must put an end to this kind of thing ...... again."
"Bold!" Empress Dowager Zhang stood up, "Could it be that what the mourning family said is not true!"
The waiter of the Ministry of Rites saluted respectfully, "Wechen doesn't dare, Wechen just talks about things." Weichen just thought that the cinnabar poisoning was indeed ridiculous. Not at all convincing. ”
Empress Dowager Zhang's gaze was slightly cold: "Do you suspect that the mourning family deliberately concealed the emperor's illness!"
His face was calm, although the Empress Dowager Zhang was terrifying, but the power of his ceremonial squire was mostly at the border of the outer courts, and there was not much involvement inside. "Weichen didn't dare. Weichen only suspected that cinnabar poisoning was misdiagnosed. After all, cinnabar has also been drunk, but there is no poisoning, and Weichen believes that everyone in the court has drunk cinnabar...... What's more, since this doubt can be thought of by ministers, doctors in the world can think of it. At that time, I'm afraid that Weichen is not the only one who is puzzled. ”
After saying this, everyone in the court nodded faintly, and the statement of the waiter of the Ministry of Rites was right. Cinnabar is indeed a very commonly used medicine.
How can a commonly used drug contain toxins?
Speaking of this, Su Xin himself was puzzled, Lu Chuan said that cinnabar was poisonous, but why was it poisonous? Is it cinnabar or something else? But he believed that Lu Chuan would not lie.
Then, the mourning family asked Lu Chuan to prove the matter in court. Empress Dowager Zhang sat on the chair and said word by word.
She remembered that at that time, Su Xin's mouth spit out some blue things, which showed that it was poisonous. Therefore, Empress Dowager Zhang replied confidently.
"Someone, send someone to invite Lu Chuan, the wife of the Marquis of Xiangyu-" Empress Dowager Zhang spoke directly.
"Yes" replied, but it was General Feng outside the main hall. -- General Feng went to ask for someone, and Su Xin sat on the dragon seat and quickly recalled the situation in the past two days. In fact, two days ago, Su Xin was half-asleep and half-awake when he heard a conversation in the hall outside.
At that time, General Zhao reported to Empress Dowager Zhang outside the palace the situation in the southwest hinterland, saying that the flood in the southwest hinterland was serious, and two groups of displaced people took the lead in rioting. Later, Empress Dowager Zhang directly sent 5,000 elite soldiers to the south and issued a special killing order.
Now, taking advantage of the opportunity to wait for Lu Chuan to verify the mercury poison in public, Su Xin said: "If Zhong Aiqing has anything to do, you might as well play it here first." ”
If it had been in the past, Li Chengyun, the head of the household department, would have taken the initiative to come forward to report on land taxes, household registration, military supplies, food and wages, financial revenues and expenditures and other matters throughout the country.
But today—
Su Xin's eyes searched among the hundred officials, but he did not find the figure of Lord Hubu Shangshu.
He's on leave today?
Li Chengyun, the lord of the household department, was the minister in charge of the country's financial revenues and expenditures, and the economic situation of all parts of the country was conveyed to the emperor through him. Unexpectedly, after only six days, the head of the household could not resist the pressure and took leave.
Su Xin wanted to know what the situation was in the hinterland of the southwest first, and he also wanted to take this opportunity to assign the matter of the displaced people to Lu Chuan and let her find out the cause of the strange disease.
He was shocked to hear that among the displaced people, they were suffering from strange diseases, and Empress Dowager Zhang said that it was the people who pretended to be gods and ghosts and deliberately provoked trouble. In fact, he doesn't think so, it's best to find a doctor or Lu Chuan to ask about this matter to make a conclusion. It's just that he was weak and inconvenient at that time, so there was no way to interfere with the Queen Mother's approach.
It's just that he didn't expect that it would be six days, and after six days, he returned to the court again, and everything became strange.
The silence at court was terrible.
Su Xin raised his courage and said steadily, "I heard that the floods in the southwest hinterland are wanton, and the displaced people are rampant. Who's going to tell me what's going on?"
The movement in Empress Dowager Zhang's hand tightened, and the light flashed in her eyes, but in the end, she didn't stop it. She lifted her eyes, her gaze sweeping over each minister's face......
Jiu Ding said
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