Chapter 178: King Qinghe and Liang Zi of the Cui Family

The Cui family set up an arms workshop, and when Yu Wenhong didn't know that she was Jiang Yu, he still heard Yu Wenhong mention a sentence or two by relying on Meng Yuyu's identity. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Copper and iron is the monopoly of the imperial court, even the prince and the prince are not allowed to set up a private armory workshop, and even can not mine and trade copper and iron privately. It is really not an exaggeration to set up a private armory workshop, and it is really not an exaggeration to detain a person with a rebellious heart.

Yu Wenhong knew for a long time that the Cui family had such an arms workshop, which was inferred from the fact that Yu Wenjiong was able to easily obtain weapons by recruiting troops and buying horses in the name of building palaces and civil engineering on the domain.

But the Cui family built the armory workshop secretly, and Yu Wenhong didn't know where its specific location was. He couldn't wait to let Zhu Hong leave the capital before, in addition to avoiding being entangled by the Zhu family, another thing was to help Yu Wenhong investigate the location of this weapon workshop.

Later, when he heard that the armory workshop had been bombed and many people had died, Jiang Yu thought that Yu Wenhong and Zhu Hong had done it. However, when he saw that Yu Wenhong was also very angry about this, he realized that the bombing of the Cui family's armory workshop did not seem to be done by them.

Maybe Yu Wenhong was ready to do this, but he was preempted by someone.

And Yu Wenhong was naturally angry not because the Cui family's armory workshop was blown up, but because so many people were killed and injured in this explosion. Yu Wenhong, a good emperor who loves the people like a son, although these people should not help the Cui family make weapons, but dozens of people were killed and injured, but it also made him very sad and angry. But from another aspect, the death and injury of so many people can also show that the Cui family's weapon workshop is not small, which may also be one of the reasons why Yu Wenhong is angry.

Since it wasn't Yu Wenhong, and now that Yu Wenhuan knows so clearly, could it be that he sent someone to do it?

It's hard to guess this Jiang Yu, she has lived in the harem for many years, and she really knows very little about the intricate relationship between the court. The current relationship between her and Yu Wenhong is not so harmonious that she can talk to Yu Wenhong about the court, and Yu Wenhong will tell her everything.

However, the Cui family can stand in the court for decades without falling, and they are not ordinary people, so they are naturally cautious. It is true that the armory workshop was opened by the Cui family, but whether it is Yu Wenhong or Yu Wenhuan, in fact, no definite evidence has been found to prove that this is the Cui family.

The people of the Cui family did not come forward, and even the people working in the armory workshop did not know that the armory workshop belonged to the Cui family, and the only person who could have contact with the Cui family, and the few people who managed the armory workshop were all loyal to the Cui family, and at the first time of the explosion, they committed suicide with a glass of poisoned wine, and these people did not marry a wife and have children, and they didn't even have a family, and Yu Wenhong couldn't dig something out of their mouths.

Therefore, although the crime of privately setting up an armory workshop is big, in the absence of definite evidence, Yu Wenhong cannot convict the Cui family. Not to mention that the Cui family still holds the military power of the entire Liaodong, holding hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, and the father and son of Cui Jue, the Duke of Ningguo, have just finished a victory in Liaodong.

Yu Wenhuan's impeachment is at most too addictive, and it has caused some pressure on the Cui family and the Empress Dowager Cui. If you want to use this to bring down the Cui family, you still have a long way to go. At the very least, you must be able to recover the military power in the hands of the Cui family before you can make the trip.

However, what Jiang Yu is more curious about now is the great grudge that King Qinghe has against the Cui family.

At this time, Zichen Palace.

Marquis Ning Yuan's wife, Lin Yun, found an excuse to enter the palace to thank her because of the lychee reward in the palace before.

She is naturally not looking for Yu Wenhong, she can only find the queen or Jiang Yu who is in charge of the palace, Ningyuan Marquis Mansion and the Cui family are not fellow travelers, so naturally they will not stay in the queen's palace for a long time, but they will stay in Jiang Yu's Zichen Palace for a long time.

Marquis Ning Yuan and the eldest princess of Xunyang are cousins, and since Lin Yun, as a cousin-in-law, has come to Zichen Palace, she naturally has to visit the eldest princess of Xunyang.

And Lin Yun obviously had a good relationship with the eldest princess of Xunyang, so the three of them chatted around Zichen Palace.

It's nothing for three women to be around together, it's just good gossip, and naturally the hottest gossip in the court now is also gossip.

Jiang Yu sighed at this time, and asked with a casual smile: "This Qinghe prince doesn't know what kind of bond he has ever formed with the Cui family, he hates the Cui family so much, and he will always have a share of the Cui family." ”

That is simply more hated than Yu Wenhong, the emperor who has both a mother-killing feud and a power struggle with the Cui family.

The eldest princess of Xunyang and Lin Yu glanced at each other, and they both knew the inside story in their eyes.

Lin Yu always has an inexplicable affection for the current concubine for no reason, and because Marquis Ning Yuan told her that she can not mind getting closer to the concubine, at this time she is willing to sell Jiang Yu two favors, which solves Jiang Yu's doubts.

Lin Yu smiled and said to Jiang Yu: "There are many things in the harem of the first emperor, Niangniang is afraid that she doesn't know very clearly. ”

Back then, the first emperor was able to ascend to the throne, but it was thanks to the Cui family. Emperor Taizong's Empress Zheng had no children, and first adopted the first emperor from Li Zhaoyi.

If Empress Zheng only raised the first emperor, it would be enough, in the case of no heir, the first emperor who was raised under the queen's knee would have the most respected status among the princes, and it would be logical to be made the crown prince and then inherit the throne.

At that time, although Li Zhaoyi was not the fourth concubine, she was also the head of the nine concubines, although her mother's family was not very good, but she was not unmentionable, and she had two princes and a princess under her knees, and even had a little favor in front of Emperor Taizong.

Do you say that Empress Zheng is worried that the first emperor will only recognize the first emperor in the future and not recognize the grace, or just simple fraternity, Empress Zheng raised the first emperor for a few years, and then adopted another prince. The prince's mother is not a noble or favored concubine, but the only good thing for Empress Zheng is that she died of childbirth when she gave birth, and she raised this prince, and there will be no choice between giving birth and raising grace.

After Empress Zheng adopted this second prince, the position of the first emperor suddenly became embarrassing.

Empress Zheng's attitude towards the two looks seems to be impartial, loving and close to everyone, but she is a little suspicious and defensive about everyone. As for the first emperor, there are too many sons, and he is also hesitant on the issue of the selection of the prince. And the first emperor obviously had some ambitions for the position of the prince.

In this case, the first emperor married the Cui family, who held the military power, married the daughter of the Cui family, and obtained the support of the Cui family, making his hole cards bigger.

In the early days of the marriage between the Cui family and the first emperor, the interests of the two parties were the same, both in order to put the first emperor on the throne. Therefore, at this time, the first emperor was happy to even support the Cui family's increasing power and military power, and even encroached on the military power in the hands of others. But this method, although it ensured that the first emperor stood out among the brothers and succeeded to the throne smoothly, it also caused a strong drawback, that is, the power of the Cui family was too large and the tail could not be lost.

After the first emperor ascended the throne, the interests of the two parties were no longer completely identical, and there began to be differences in the distribution of interests. The Cui family thinks that the first emperor only gave the Cui family the title of Marquis of Anguo after ascending the throne, and they are sorry for the hard work of their Cui family all the way, and the Cui family should at least get another title of king with a different surname and greater military power.

As for the first emperor, at this time, he had already discovered that the Cui family was too powerful, and even faintly threatened the imperial power, and he couldn't suppress the Cui family, so he accepted Concubine Wande into the palace, and promoted the Wan family, who was also a loyal martyr, and the Wan family of the Jiangmen family fought against the Cui family and the Empress Dowager Cui. Even if Empress Dowager Cui failed to give birth to a child after marrying the first emperor for more than ten years, it cannot be said that there is no credit for the first emperor.

The result of this cannot be said to be ineffective, at least the power of the Cui family has been gradually suppressed, and the court is no longer the Cui family's monopoly, but there are many Wanjia, Zhou family, Ningyuan Marquis Mansion and other countries that were re-supported by the first emperor, and many forces check and balance each other.

But in the early days of the first emperor's accession to the throne, in the years when the Cui family was the dominant family in the court, the Cui family relied on the military power and the dragon's skills in their hands, as well as the queen of the Empress Dowager Cui, was indeed a little arrogant, and even ignored the royal family and relatives, and did not salute the prince and princess.

The eldest princess of Xunyang nodded, and then Lin Yun's words also said to Jiang Yu: "The feet of the fourth emperor brother will become like this, or it is due to Cui An, the prince of Ningguo." ”

After a pause, he continued: "At that time, everyone was small, Cui An, Cui Mian and others often came to the palace, the people of the Cui family were arrogant, and they often regarded the palace as their own back garden, and they did whatever they wanted, and we princes and princesses didn't like the people of the Cui family. Once the imperial brother had a fight with Cui An, the imperial brother was unhappy, so he found the palace people to put Cui An's design into a burlap bag and beat him severely. Later, Cui An also wanted to take revenge, but he recognized the wrong person, mistook the four emperor brothers who were standing on the rockery and played as the imperial brothers, and wanted to shoot the four emperor brothers with arrows. The four emperor brothers were naturally timid, so frightened that they fell off the rockery and broke their legs. But Cui An committed such a big thing, because of the favoritism and protection of the Queen Mother and the Cui family, but he was only punished for thinking about it at home, and afterwards he should still set up the son of the family, and there was nothing to do, but the fourth emperor brother was lame, and since then he has hated the Cui family. ”

Saying that, he sighed a little for Yu Wenhuan, and said: "It's also a shame that the status of the mother concubine of the fourth emperor brother is not obvious, the fourth emperor brother was only promising when he was a child and was not liked by his father, and he was in the limelight of the Cui family, and his father was not willing to tear his face with the Cui family for the time being, so the four emperor brothers could only suffer this dumb loss." But if it was any other imperial brother who was injured at that time, Cui An probably wouldn't have been so good. ”

The mothers of the eldest brother and the second emperor brother have a noble status and a good background, if they are injured, Wan and Liang will definitely fight with the Cui family. Needless to say, the third emperor brother, if he was injured and Concubine Bai shed a few tears, his father would not spare the Cui family.

Only the fourth emperor brother is a little pitiful, born in the same year as the third emperor brother, and his appearance is similar, and the status of the mother concubine is not high, but the difference in circumstances is too great. To this day, I can only sigh that the same person is not the same life.