Chapter Seventy-Three: Who Is He?
On the morning of the second day, without waiting for the emperor to express his position on the case of the Ministry of Rites, the prince came to ask for a performance in public, saying that the Northern Underworld colluded with the officials of the Ministry of Rites and blinded his hearing and hearing, which made him make a wrong judgment and made an alliance with the Northern Underworld in a vague way. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoNow that the truth is revealed, the emperor has revoked the alliance between the two countries.
The second prince saw the opportunity, stood in line, and accused the prince of treating the alliance between the two countries as child's play. In the event that this incident caused a deterioration in relations between the two countries and led to a war, the crown prince would be deeply responsible.
Of course, the prince was not convinced. The two of them immediately argued. The emperor was furious, watching his two sons arguing in front of the courtiers, and his heart burned with anger. The ministers looked at each other, not knowing which side to advise.
When he was in a hurry, a eunuch came up with a secret fold and placed the fold on top of the emperor's dragon case. The emperor picked up the secret fold and looked at it, and the words "Fly immediately" on it showed that it was sent back with an expedited delivery of 500 miles.
The emperor gently unfolded the dense fold, and after only two glances, his eyes narrowed, revealing a dangerous light. The two princes in the palace had already stopped arguing, and the ministers also looked at the secret letter that obviously caused some emotions in the emperor, not knowing what would happen next.
The emperor looked at the crown prince, and his face changed from impatience to anger, and then to sadness, a kind of sadness that he did not want to accept but had to accept. He smashed the seal on the prince's head accurately, and then shouted at His Highness: "Where is the king of the Royal Forest Army? I will arrest all the officials of the Northern Underworld Mission, and not let any of them go. ”
Wang Meng, the commander of the Imperial Forest Army, had already come out of the ranks and went out after receiving the holy decree. The Imperial Forest Army is the emperor's personal guard, and few things can alarm these top guards in Donghuang. Today's emperor actually asked Wang Meng to take people, which shows that he was very angry. There was a burst of whispering and discussion in the court, but no one dared to stand up and touch the head when the emperor was angry.
The prince was so frightened that he had already knelt on the ground, picked up the secret fold and looked at it. The so-called secret fold is actually a handwritten letter written by Princess Tana to the prince of the Northern Underworld, Agoura, and the general meaning of the letter is: I followed you to Donghuang for my own obsession, but I didn't expect it to backfire. Now that I have been pointed out to the prince, I am already the prince's person, you don't want to get our support in the future, just wait for the third prince to clean you up!
This is clearly a letter from Tana's resentment at being crowned the crown prince's concubine and being broken by the prince, accusing Agora of refusing to stand up for him, and never wanting to get the support of their clan in the future. But she wrote vaguely, and in the eyes of the emperor at this time, it became a letter from Tana who colluded with the crown prince and secretly supported the three princes of the Northern Underworld. Regardless of whether Tana was the eldest prince's man or the third prince's man, this letter made the emperor misunderstand the prince, thinking that the prince was in touch with foreign countries and mixed into the whole thing. And this is the thing that the emperor is most unwilling to see, and what he is most unwilling to believe and has to believe.
In fact, as early as the resignation of the Northern Underworld Mission, the emperor was very suspicious of various coincidences of the matter. Since there was no direct evidence of collusion between the mission and the crown prince, and the matter was related to the diplomatic relations between the two countries, the emperor had no choice but to let them go and allow them to meet Tana. But he secretly sent someone to secretly monitor every move of the Northern Underworld Mission, but he didn't expect to have such a big harvest in just a few days.
At this time, I heard the prince's request to withdraw the alliance between the two countries, which corroborated the content of the letter, and confirmed that the prince understood and participated in the progress of the situation.
When this matter was later known by Feng Jiutian and others, Mu Qing, who was present, immediately burst into laughter, Jiang Moyan almost suffocated his internal injuries, Feng Jiutian was even more speechless, and he didn't know why he had put himself in such an embarrassing situation when he tried to help the prince clean up.
Later, I heard that the emperor issued an edict to reprimand the prince for his ineffective work, and after thinking about it for half a year, the prince was temporarily expelled from the court. A group of ministers began to adjust their positions one after another, and the sides in the court had another secret contest.
The emperor's anger did not subside, and he grabbed none of the officials involved in the case of the Ministry of Rites, and completely purged the Ministry of Rites. The Shangshu of the Criminal Department was even beheaded by the whole family, and the three clans were connected. The waiter of the Ministry of Rites was also involved and was convicted of being beheaded.
For a time, the execution ground at the entrance of the vegetable market was full of people and rivers of blood. Jiang Moyan followed Feng Jiutian in the private room on the second floor of the teahouse, and witnessed the entire execution, and saw her stomach turn upside down. Although she has also crawled out of the pile of dead people, the scene of being tied into zongzi and chopping off people's heads like chopping melons and vegetables still shocked her.
She looked back at Feng Jiutian's calm expression, and her heart was mixed. Although the facts of the collusion between the crown prince and these officials of the Ministry of Rites are clear and the evidence is conclusive, if it were not for Feng Jiutian's cloud-turning hands, I am afraid that there would not be such a grand murder scene as now. What do you mean by that? The road to imperial power was paved with the blood of countless people, and it seems that this is indeed the case.
In fact, she still doesn't know if she really supports Feng Jiutian's lofty ideals. It would be impossible to say that she couldn't see the line of his career, not to mention that various circumstances forced him to move forward, and there could only be one end to that road.
But let her really support him as emperor? There are also a lot of mental obstacles. Not to mention how bumpy and bloody this road is, just after he succeeds, where he goes will stump her. Because there has never been an emperor in history who can keep his original intention, he can be very fond of a certain concubine in a certain period, but let him only guard one woman for the rest of his life? Has there ever been such an emperor in history? Can she share her husband with others? Gross - let God take her in!
A woman's heart is big and can hold a man and a man's whole world. A woman's heart is also small and can only accommodate a bed and a man. So, Jiang Moyan was confused again, and even began to wonder what the meaning of his crossing was, was he just to be cannon fodder?
Jiang Moyan, who was distracted, was pushed by Mu Qing, only to see Feng Jiutian who was staring at him. She was busy lifting her spirits and looked at the other party, waiting for the other party's instructions.
Feng Jiutian smiled: "Why are you distracted again?" Could it be that you are intimidated? Mu Qing also looked at her and smiled, as if it was a funny thing to see her timid.
Jiang Moyan didn't want people to discover his strange appearance and thoughts, so he touched his head on the donkey down the slope, revealing an embarrassed expression.
Mu Qing took out a letter, handed it to Jiang Moyan and said, "Your Highness asked you to go to the Wandering House and give this letter to Shen Ershao." The Shen Ershao he said was Shen Changqing. Jiang Moyan took the letter and looked at it, there seemed to be only one piece of letter paper in the thin envelope. She nodded, said goodbye to the Nine Emperor Princes, and turned around and went down the teahouse.
Feng Jiutian saw Jiang Moyan's not-so-solid figure gradually disappearing into the crowd on the corner of the street from the window, and his eyes still did not take back.
Mu Qing also looked at the corner where Jiang Moyan disappeared, turned to Feng Jiutian and said, "Your Highness, your subordinates have carefully checked Mo Yan, and even his room has been entered. Everything seems to be very normal in this child, and there is nothing to be seen on the surface. It's just that...... His vigilance is very high, and the doors and windows of his room have been dealt with, as long as someone who doesn't know enters, he will definitely be the first to find out. However, his subordinates looked at his room carefully, and they really couldn't see any secrets, I'm afraid it was just pure caution. ”
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