Chapter 212: After the Seal

"Yes," Jin Youzi said: "King Zhao has the emperor's jade seal, and he can make any will he wants!"

"What is the jade seal," Yang Shiqi showed a sly smile: "Without going through the Feng Pavilion and Luantai, what is the name of the edict?"

The emperor is not what people think, he can give orders at will. In the era of the prime minister, the edict could only be promulgated through Zhongshu Province and Menxia Province, Zhongshu Province was Fengge, and Menxia Province was Luantai.

Although the Taizu of this dynasty abolished the prime minister system, he was also afraid that his descendants would be unscrupulous and make an order indiscriminately, so he set a rule, the general political department and the six sections, and had the right to repeat and refute the emperor's edict. If the emperor issued a mediocre edict, the six departments would immediately advise in the matter, and if the advice was not successful, the edict would be refuted and not executed. Therefore, the emperor's freedom to issue edicts at any time was in fact heavily restricted.

In the past, the power of refutation was almost never used, because Taizu and the current emperor were both totalitarian emperors, who would dare to refute the edicts of these two emperors? But now the situation is extraordinary, and the one who holds the jade seal has become the king of Zhao, so it is time to take out this rule and use it.

"Brother Shiqi...... You are really," Huang Huai sighed, "You are cunning." ”

"King Zhao wants to issue an edict," Yang Rong said: "I will let all the six subjects be dismissed, even if King Zhao coerces the Son of Heaven, he will not be able to resist Emperor Gao's ancestral system!"

"The jade seal is not the most important," Yang Shiqi frowned: "The tiger talisman is." ”

The tiger talisman is the evidence of the emperor's mobilization of the three major battalions and the seventeen guards of the Beijing army, and the three battalions do not even recognize the emperor's handwriting, but only recognize the dissected tiger talisman. Such an important thing, the emperor must have kept it very closely, but I don't know if King Zhao got it, if this is the case, it will be really dangerous.

"King Zhao didn't get the Tiger Talisman," Yang Rong said firmly: "If he got it, it would have changed by now, he could directly mobilize the army and force the emperor to abdicate, so why bother to send all the princes and grandsons out, and win over the nobles and us?"

Yang Shiqi nodded and said, "Yes, King Zhao should be looking for the Tiger Talisman now." ”

As expected, King Zhao and Concubine Zhang suddenly started a thrilling search in the palace, and the crime used was "Suppressing Nightmare".

Witch Gu Nightmare, from the beginning of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, dealt with two cases related to witchcraft, one is the case of the abolition of the queen, traced Chu Fu and others for Queen Chen witch Gu evil magic, blessed ghosts and gods, scourge others, and finally executed the witch Chu Fu beheaded in the city, and more than 300 people were implicated in this case and were killed. The second is that Gongsun Jingsheng, the son of Prime Minister Gongsun He, was accused of being a witch curse Emperor Wu and adulterous with Princess Yangshi, and the father and son of He were imprisoned and died, and Princess Zhuyi and Princess Yangshi, and Wei Qing's son Changping Hou Wei and his wife were all sentenced. Later, Jiang Chong took the opportunity to frame the prince, claiming that the Tongmu people had been excavated in the prince's bedroom, which triggered the tragedy of father and son killing each other in Emperor Wu's later years.

From then on, in the court, where there was a trace of "witch Gu town nightmare", then the small one involved hundreds of people, and the big one shook the government and the opposition, not only Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, but also the queen Zhen Ji of Cao Pi of the Wei State was accused of hiding the puppeteer in private, and when the book was written on the year and month of the Son of Heaven, Zhen Ji was given death for the matter of the town;

The emperor's harem was already trembling, and because of the death of Concubine Quan, the case of Lu Jieyu, and even the case of the North Korean Huang family later, the harem heard such a rumor, like a bird with a frightened bow.

A large-scale search of the harem was carried out, and the palace of every concubine was turned into a mess, even including the Yongning Palace of Wang Guifei. However, Wang Guifei is already seriously ill, and when she hears this, she is no longer able to preside over the overall situation.

Zhang Guifei listened to King Zhao's words and suspected that someone in the palace was suppressing the emperor, so the emperor was strangely ill and unconscious. She searched the palace for anything related to wooden figurines, kirito, and rune paper, and what King Zhao wanted to find was the tiger talisman.

Although King Zhao got the emperor's seal, the tiger talisman was not found. He searched the entire Qianqing Palace and the three major halls, but found no trace. Now he has searched the entire back court again, but still found nothing.

"Where is the Tiger Talisman?" Gao Sui became more and more impetuous: "If you can't find the Tiger Talisman, the heart of this king will hang forever!"

Although King Zhao now controls the court and the emperor, he knows that there are only two ways for him to ascend to the throne, the first is to find the tiger talisman and use the tiger talisman to mobilize troops and horses, not to mention Beijing, that is, the world is decided. The second is to abolish the prince and make him the prince of Zhao.

But neither of these can be enforced at this time. Because the tiger talisman seemed to have disappeared, King Zhao searched through almost the entire palace and did not find this thing. And the second article of the abolition of the crown prince, there can not be only one edict, the emperor must meet with the courtiers, even if he is too sick, he must summon the six ministries and nine secretaries, this is a matter related to the country. And when the time comes, what Liubu Jiuqing will see is an unconscious emperor.

"Tiger Fu, is it possible to be in Wenyuan Pavilion?" Huang Yan said.

"Wenyuan Pavilion?" King Zhao was shocked: "You said it was in Yang Shiqi's hands?"

King Zhao felt that what he said was possible, the people in the cabinet were all picked up by the emperor himself, and after elimination and screening, there are only four people left, all of whom are the elite of the elite, they know the importance of things best, and they also know the emperor's mind best.

"Let Guo Jing take someone to search!" Gao Sui said: "Control the person for me!"

Huang Yan responded, and said, "Your Highness, what if Wenyuan Pavilion doesn't have it?"

"It can't be not," Gao Sui roared, "Is that thing still outside the palace?"

"If you really don't find it," Huang Yan said, "and the emperor quickly passed the medicinal properties...... At that time, everything that His Highness planned was gone. ”

Gao Sui showed a crazy look: "Then you will increase the potion and burn more black incense!"

It turned out that it was Wuxiang that made the emperor unconscious, and Wuxiang is one of the names of opium. Opium was not imported in the Qing Dynasty, as early as when Zhang Qian of the Han Dynasty went to the Western Regions, opium spread to Middle-earth. During the Tang Dynasty, opium from Arabia was called "A Hibiscus", and in the Kaibao Materia Medica, published in the Northern Song Dynasty, opium was named poppy poppy, which has always been regarded as a good medicine to calm the nerves and relieve pain.

In the national dynasty, the kings of Siam, Java and Bengal regularly sent tributary missions to the Ming Dynasty, and there was opium in the tribute, such as Siam paying 200 catties to the emperor and 100 catties to the queen each time, and the price of opium was the same as that of the same weight of gold.

The imperial physician Liu Guan has a unique understanding of Wuxiang, and he also has a very sophisticated grasp of the emperor's body. For example, when the emperor had gout, he used borneol and musk to relieve it at the suggestion of others, both of which were spicy and fragrant, opening the mind and awakening the mind, and it was very effective for stroke, but Liu Guan believed that it was appropriate for those with wind disease in the bone marrow, and if the wind was used between the blood and muscles, it could lead the wind straight into the bone marrow, such as oil entering the face. As for Wuxiang, he advised the emperor not to use things that seemed to calm the nerves, but actually anesthetized the nerves, and the emperor had never used Wuxiang - the emperor trusted him very much, because Liu Guan had been in charge of his and the queen's bodies since he was in the palace.

Therefore, the fragrance that Liu Guan smelled in the main hall was actually that King Zhao lit the black incense, in order to cover up the smell of the black incense, and at the same time ignited other spices, but Liu Guan's nose was not good, so he didn't smell it.

The emperor was drowsy under the medicinal effect of black incense, but this drowsiness could not last, and no one knew when the emperor would suddenly wake up.

Huang Yan suggested that he be ruthless, and after killing the emperor, he would abolish the crown prince and establish the king of Zhao by posthumous edict.

But at a critical time, King Zhao's indecisive and indecisive temperament appeared, and he did not want to bear the charge of killing his father.

"Don't be in a hurry," he said: "The edict is not insured, if there is the queen's order, it can be regarded as justified." Let's do it quickly. ”

In the cabinet at this time, Yang Shiqi thought about it and always felt that he had calculated everything, but there was one thing that he had missed.

"Bachelor Yang, Bachelor Yang!" Two people hurriedly walked in at the door, it was Chen Wu and Wang Dian in the matter of Like.

"What's wrong?" Yang Shiqi was shocked: "Is there an edict in the forbidden?"

He had been waiting, waiting for King Zhao's edict to be issued, to see what he was going to do—but no matter what he did, Yang Shiqi would give him a rejection.

However, when he got the handbook and looked at it at a glance, he was stunned: "After the seal, you want to make Zhang Guifei the queen?"

He suddenly knew what he had missed, and he also understood King Zhao's plan.

King Zhao named Zhang Guifei as the queen, although Zhang Guifei is actually the master of the harem, but the title of the wife has not been obtained, this is the emperor's family matter, no one cares whether the queen is crowned or not, the emperor's harem has nothing to do for 20 years, even if he gives birth to a child, what is the use, can he still surpass the three sons born to Queen Xu?

But at this critical time, the position of the queen suddenly became important. In case the emperor dies, the queen will become the queen mother, and the queen mother can be abolished!

If the edict and the will of the queen mother are used to abolish the prince and establish the king of Zhao, it can completely offset the legal advantages of the prince and the grandson!

"I actually forgot this," Yang Shiqi showed a rare look of annoyance: "You can block any edict, but the emperor wants to seal this edict, but he can't find any reason to reject it." ”

What is the reason for stopping Zhang Guifei from being crowned? Being childless and unvirtuous—is this possible? The emperor wants to be happy, but you dare to stop it? Do you agree with the honor?