Chapter 1172: Fall
Ning Guogong's face turned from white to blue, and he was worried in his heart, when he left Yunfu City, he left in a trance at all, at the beginning... Originally...... He thought about it, what Emperor Wen told him at the beginning, he didn't remember it at all, he was full of thoughts on the four princes, and now, his mind is also on the four princes, he wants to do more for the four princes, and wants to get a bright future for the Gu family and the son under his knees.
Son...... His face darkened, his son was gone, what he did was meaningless, this kind of thought tortured him all the way, he had thought about the time when he faced the saint, he thought of many excuses and reasons, but until this moment, he realized his blindness and emptiness.
"Minister...... The minister is guilty!"
Emperor Wen swept his eyes at Ning Guogong, who was almost lying on the ground, with hair like weeds, his eyes were as sharp as a blade.
"Now I know that I have made a mistake? I know that it is too late to beg me to spare your life! Gu Zhongyong, if it weren't for the love I remembered that you and I grew up together, I would have cut you with a thousand knives! Why were you put into Chuangui? You still don't remember this lesson in your heart, what are you thinking in your head, I know it clearly, are you looking at me who is old and weak, rushing to join other masters, and want to get a dragon merit, so that your Gu family can go to the next level, you are now a first-class duke, and then you want to be a foreign surname vassal king? A few of my princes are killing each other in your hands, and you are watching a big drama on the sidelines, how about it? This play is beautiful?"
The anger of the Son of Heaven rushing to the forehead was obvious, even though Ning Guogong had not seen Emperor Wen's anger for several years, but when he saw it again, he still couldn't stop trembling.
"The minister doesn't dare! The minister never dares to have such a thought! The emperor has misunderstood, the minister ...... Since the minister arrived in Chuangui, he has always been in peace, and even His Royal Highness the Third Prince has arrived in Chuangui, and the soldiers in the hands of the ministers have been changed one after another, and the ministers have not said a word, and the military supplies of the soldiers under the ministers are also the last to get their hands, and the ministers ......"
Emperor Wen sneered and interrupted Ning Guogong: "Do you want to say that you have had a difficult time in Sichuangui, and the third child has squeezed you everywhere, so that you will not have a foothold in Sichuangui?
Ning Guogong was completely flustered at this moment, he had never thought that he could hide from everyone what he had done to the third prince before, but it shouldn't be so easy to be singled out.
"I ask you again, when did you secretly raise the team of dead soldiers under your hands, and what are you going to do when you raise them?"
Emperor Wen's eyes were full of fierceness, and when he looked at Ning Guogong, he no longer had the kindness of ordinary times.
"The minister didn't ......" Ning Guogong still wanted to quibble, but in the afterglow, he saw a person kneeling next to him with a "poof", he turned his head to one side, and his eyes widened instantly, "Li Jiang...... How could you?"
Li Jiang was also brought back by Feng Ming, so Ning Guogong was simply indisputable.
"Say it! Gu Zhongyong has done some good things in Sichuan and Guizhou in the past two years, since you are Gu Zhongyong's most capable subordinate, presumably what you say, Gu Zhongyong will not have anything to argue with. ”
Emperor Wen's words were enough to make Ning Guogong die in the Qianyuan Palace, he knew Li Jiang's personality too well, and he would reuse Li Jiang because Li Jiang valued affection, but it was such a affectionate Li Jiang, but because of some kindness from others, he completely betrayed himself, such a thing made Ning Guogong unacceptable no matter what.
Li Jiang said in a deep voice: "At the beginning, Ning Guogong cared about the people of Sichuan and Guizhou and did a lot of good things, but it was only after His Royal Highness the Third Prince arrived in Sichuan and Guizhou that he began to gradually change......
Li Jiang said clearly one by one, and the color on Ning Guogong's face also turned from blue to gray little by little, as if all the brilliance on his face disappeared in an instant, leaving only a broken body waiting for Emperor Wen's fall.
Emperor Wen listened quietly, heard the anger, couldn't help but stare at Ning Guogong fiercely, what he hated most in his life was to pull the party for personal gain, and disturb the people of the court, if it wasn't for this reason, he would not exile the Wei family, nor would he depose the crown prince, once these things passed, he thought that there should be no more such things in the court, but these things appeared again and again, so much that he, the emperor, was overwhelmed.
It wasn't until Li Jiang said all these things in a gentle voice that Emperor Wen's face was extremely ugly, and Ning Guogong died of his heart.
"I originally wanted to spare your life, but my Jiangshan Society didn't allow it, and the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty would not allow me to let such a troublesome person like you exist!"
Emperor Wen coldly ordered Ning Guogong to be detained in the prison, and the specific charges are to be determined.
These two words to be determined imply countless possibilities, those families in Yunfu City who are optimistic about the four princes regret it, and they all coincidentally pretend to be quails in their own homes at this time, and they don't dare to go up to listen to the rumors, let alone speak for Ning Guogong.
The evidence that has been mastered all shows the absurdity of Ning Guogong's formation of a party in Sichuan and Guizhou, as well as the absurdity of the four princes in Jiangnan for several years.
Emperor Wen looked at it, and he couldn't help but blow all those things to the ground, and the fire pressure couldn't be suppressed.
"Look at it, look at what is going on here!" Emperor Wen looked angry, pointing to the things handed over by Feng Ming on the ground, he hated it so much that he wanted to step on it several times, if he didn't really see this, how could he believe that Gu Zhongyong, who grew up together since childhood, and who wanted to save the life of his family, did so many things to disturb the country behind his back.
Zhao Yuande didn't dare to talk, so he carefully picked up those folds and put them on the table one by one.
"Your Majesty, it's not good for you to come in, the imperial doctor told you to be less angry......
"Why don't I get angry? I am also a person, and I am not an object, I don't know whether I am happy or angry! It is said that the emperor is angry, and if this anger can be extinguished for no reason, then those emperors who will lay dead in a million when they are angry will not exist!"
Emperor Wen got up angrily and walked out of the hall, Zhao Yuande sighed in his heart, and hurriedly stepped up to follow.
The path in the palace is tortuous and dazzling, and the emperor is in a very bad mood at this time, there is only one place he wants to go, and that place is regarded as a forbidden palace.
Zhao Yuande knew what his intentions were as soon as he saw the direction of Emperor Wen, although he intended to persuade him, but when he saw Emperor Wen's thin and thin back, he felt helpless and a little inexplicably sad. I knew that it would be like this, and the emperor would not have made such a decision at the beginning, but what is the use of regretting it at this time?
Emperor Wen left in a hurry, and it was not until he reached the outside of the hall that he ordered: "Just keep guard outside, you don't need to come in." ”
Almost all emperors are extremely conceited, Emperor Wen is naturally no exception, countless people have died in his hands or under his will, he has never been afraid of the dead, but he will never like the dead, except for the one in front of him.
Looking down at the woman lying in the crystal coffin, because there is ice in this palace all the year round, the crystal coffin is frozen, and the skin of the woman lying in the coffin shows a sickly white, as if she has a serious illness, and her long eyelashes are slightly curled, as if she can open her eyes in the next moment.
Emperor Wen let out a long sigh, with a thousand words in his heart, but when he saw this woman, he didn't want to talk anymore.
"Don't you want to see me anymore?"
After a long time, Emperor Wen said this, and his low voice, as if he was afraid of disturbing the dream of the woman in the coffin, was extremely low.
The past has been almost recalled by Emperor Wen over and over again, I don't know how many times, those sweet and sour, bitter and spicy, if someone asks him, he can almost accurately tell the years and months that happened, not how good his memory is, but he is already familiar with it.
"I know, I know, if you see me anxious now, you will laugh at me for not knowing the way of the king, but this is the way of the king, I always can't learn, the queen mother has not taught me, and my father will not teach him by hand, he has always liked the king of Thailand, and even the king of Rui has followed his father, but the throne fell to me, a prince who is useless except for the son-in-law, presumably when my father passed the throne to me, I was helpless in my heart. ”
No one talked about the past, no one could listen to the sadness or sadness in his heart, and Emperor Wen felt that even if he was on this throne, the price he paid was also unbearable.
"Now, now it's finally time to look at these juniors, I know what my father's eyes mean when he fell on me, I know why it was so difficult in the first place, and why I ...... in the first place."
Even though many things at the beginning are clear now, even if we know the truth, it will not help in the end.
"You probably still hate me very much, and you don't want to look at me in your dreams until now," Emperor Wen smiled bitterly in a low voice, his eyes have been staring at the woman in the coffin, how many years, he inadvertently glanced at the bronze mirror the day before yesterday, and found that his face had become eight points similar to his father back then, "After all, I'm still old, do you think I can still see you? Can there be another chance in this world? Those astrological books back then, you disliked it, but I feel that if it is feasible, at least there will be at least one chance to see you......"
Emperor Wen said, shaking his head, his eyes were a little bloodshot, it was the result of hardly sleeping a single day in the past few years.
After chattering for a long time, Emperor Wen was finally able to cheer up some spirits, and then left the palace.
Zhao Yuande glanced at Emperor Wen, and didn't know what to say to comfort Emperor Wen, so he had to hang his head and follow without saying a word.
Ning Guogong's will was quickly drafted by several elders, because the evidence was conclusive, and Emperor Wen did not intend to be lightly punished, Ning Guogong's family almost fell to the point of being beheaded.
When Concubine Shu heard about it, she immediately cried and shouted to see Emperor Wen, but Emperor Wen hadn't set foot in the harem for several months, and even if he rested, he would only go to a place like the Fuyuan Palace, and he wouldn't see Concubine Shu at all.
Concubine Shu had no choice but to ask to see the Empress Dowager Zhu, and the Empress Dowager Zhu was worried these days, because as soon as the funeral of the old lady Zhu passed, the Zhu family had no excuse to shirk, and the whole family had to move back to Qinghe County.
At this time, when she heard the palace people tell her that Concubine Shu was coming, Empress Dowager Zhu showed an impatient expression on her face.
"She doesn't stay in the palace honestly, what is she doing here in the mourning family? The four princes were all ordered by the emperor...... Wait a while!Let her in!" Empress Dowager Zhu was just about to send someone to refuse, but she didn't know what to think of at this time, her eyes flashed, and she asked the palace people to pass it on.
After Concubine Shu came in, she respectfully saluted the Empress Dowager Zhu, she has been in her own palace these days, because it is Concubine Zhuang who is in charge of the six palaces, and she is not the queen, so she does not need to go to the queen every day to greet her, and the palaces are in charge of the affairs of each palace, and she has not seen anyone else for a long time, of course, this is also related to Concubine Shu's own reluctance to move around.
"Queen Mother, you must save His Royal Highness the Fourth Prince!" Concubine Shu was in a hurry, as if she had forgotten everything, begging the Empress Dowager Zhu to save the Fourth Prince, this kind of behavior is actually not appropriate at all, the Fourth Prince's life is not dying at this time, but something happened to her uncle's family, and the Empress Dowager Zhu just wanted to help, and it was not easy to show it openly.
Sure enough, Empress Dowager Zhu's face sank, and she glanced at Concubine Shu: "I heard that the imperial doctor said that the fourth child has recovered well in the past few days, and he can go out and ride a horse, what's the matter? ”
In one sentence, Concubine Shu's request was sent back, and Concubine Shu was stunned and hung her head.
"The Queen Mother, His Royal Highness the Fourth Prince, he didn't conspire with the concubine's brother to ......"
"The harem doesn't ask about the political affairs of the previous dynasty, is Concubine Shu confused?" Empress Dowager Zhu naturally knew why Ning Guogong was disliked by the emperor and sent by the emperor.
"Yes...... One is from the concubine, and the other is the concubine's brother, no matter how reasonable it is, the concubine can't ignore it!"
Concubine Shu's words were sincere, which made Empress Dowager Zhu think of the deceased Mrs. Zhu at once, relatives are like this, they are born with the same bloodline, they will always break their bones and tendons, and they will hurt wherever they poke.
"Eh! The mourning family knows that you are bitter in your heart," Empress Dowager Zhu relieved, "Don't worry about this matter, the mourning family has its own decision, you go back first." ”
Although Concubine Shu didn't get a word of promise from Empress Dowager Zhu, thinking of some disputes between Empress Dowager Zhu and Emperor Wen these days, she didn't dare to ask for anything more, and nodded obediently.