102: A glass of poisoned wine
Rong Jiang has been moving to Zhuangzi on the outskirts of Beijing for three days, no matter who says anything, she doesn't go back to the city to live, and she doesn't care about the affairs in the city, but the Cheng family, she has to go once a day, or sit and talk with Cheng Yi, or accompany him to look at the lake and enjoy the scenery in the house, and then return to Zhuangzi in the evening.
She was idle and complacent, but everyone in the court was gloomy, since Zhao Yan was deposed, she was worried, and there were many people who went to the book, or asked Zhao Heng to take back his life.
However, the anger of the Son of Heaven was unabated, and he issued a will, which was all the words of reprimanding King Shen, until noon on this day, the will of the book was issued again, Zhao Heng wanted to promote the concubine Wei to the throne of the concubine, with the name of "Cheng", moved to Renming Palace, and took charge of the six palace affairs on behalf of the queen, and the Ministry of Rites selected an auspicious day to carry out the canonization ceremony, and as for the former dynasty, let the King Rui listen to the affairs of the court, although he did not enter the cabinet and enter the ministry, but he could interfere in the affairs of the ministries, and also decided that the King of Rui would sacrifice to the sky at the beginning of next month.
As soon as this news came out, it was amazing, not to mention the sudden promotion of Concubine Wei Shu, just listening to the fact that King Rui would sacrifice heaven on behalf of the Son of Heaven was enough for the ministers to be shocked, Zhao Heng's will seemed to be revealing to everyone that he wanted to change King Rui to the prince.
For a while, everyone watched and watched, and even several adults who had written to ask the prince to be reinstated also stopped and stopped folding.
After a lapse of time, the Zhongshu Province issued another decree, reprimanding King Shen for "gathering party henchmen, close to Yuanxian, violent and unkind, violating the fatwa, and having high hopes for me, but he is really disloyal, unfilial, unkind and unrighteous." ”
Zhao Liang waited in the mansion for half an hour, and there was no other decree promulgated, and he couldn't wait for Zhao Heng's follow-up move, so he immediately ordered someone to prepare the car, and went to Rongfu.
Rong Yu was also sweating on his forehead when he saw him, and when he saw the courtesy, he asked: "King Shen has been deposed, and he is imprisoned in the mansion, why do you still have to issue a decree and treat him as heinous?!" He narrowed his eyes, "Do you really want to change the Rui King?" He is a person who has ignored the government for three years, what does His Majesty want to do! ”
Zhao Yan was also a little confused in his heart, he knew that Zhao Heng was ruthless, but the shock brought to him by this will had reached the point of no return-although Zhao Yan was not his first child, but because he sincerely loved Queen Cao, he was extremely fond of Zhao Yan, but today, why would he ignore Queen Cao like this, and be so merciless to this son who is held in the palm of his hand and cared for the eldest son!
Rong Yu saw that he didn't speak, and when he spoke again, his voice trembled a little: "I'm afraid that His Majesty has already done this." ”
"He already had this intention, from him to take this matter and use the topic to play, don't we know?" Zhao Liang raised his eyebrows to look at Rong Yu, but saw that he didn't dare to agree, so he raised his eyebrows slightly, "Do you mean anything else?" ”
Rong Yu nodded: "From the time of canonization-" His words made Zhao Liang's face also change, and he continued, "King Shen is the concubine of the middle palace, and His Majesty loves the queen, and it seems that it is a matter of course when he is canonized." But King Shen's qualifications are mediocre, His Majesty will not be unaware, and soon after the canonization, he spoke wildly, directly blaming the Son of Heaven, to this day, His Majesty is so ruthless, I am afraid that as early as the beginning of the canonization, His Majesty Xià is just to kill. If there was no drunken gaffe that day, maybe His Majesty would have left some affection, but in the final analysis, His Majesty was still to support King Rui's ascendancy."
"Don't talk about it." Zhao Yu's cold voice interrupted Rong Yu's words. These words made him can't help but be frightened, and it was like waking him up suddenly.
Neither of them spoke again, and after a quarter of an hour passed, Zhao Liang stared at Rong Yu obliquely, and asked him with some hesitation: "King Shen is enlightened at the age of three, he has no intention of government affairs but is very clever, if he also thinks of this-"
Rong Yu shuddered for a while, and faintly felt a gust of cold wind hitting his back, and he didn't dare to follow Zhao Liang's words to think about it.
What if Zhao Yan also speculated like this? What will he do?
Just when the two of them were trembling, Wei Ming rushed into the hall in a panic, Zhao Liang saw that he was out of order, although he was displeased, but he knew better that this must be a big incident, and when he turned his head again, he saw Wei Ming followed by Wei Jin, who was crying and entering the house with a sad face.
Wei Ming knelt at Zhao Liang's feet, kowtowed violently, and choked up and replied: "King Shen has taken poison!" ”
Zhao Liang and Rong Yu both took a shot, but Rong Yusheng took a step faster, took two steps closer to Wei Ming's side, and asked in disbelief: "Who?!" King Shen, what's wrong with him?! He shouted and glared at Wei Jin, glaring angrily, "You say! ”
"King Shen has taken poison and has already gone!" Wei Jin knelt down and kowtowed three times to the two of them, his tone was full of pathos, "Just half an hour ago, His Majesty sent a servant to the palace to sue the prince, telling you to enter the palace quickly, and the palace maid said that you came to the Rong Mansion, and the slave didn't dare to delay, so he turned around."
"Your Highness! Your Highness! The palace sent a decree to urgently summon His Royal Highness into the palace! Before Wei Jin's words fell, the shrill voice outside the house rose again, Zhao Liang twisted his eyebrows and looked out, and saw Wei Jin's apprentice walking in one step and running three steps, kneeling down as soon as his knees were weak, and kowtowing to Zhao Liang, "The queen mother hanged herself, and Her Majesty urgently summoned His Royal Highness to enter the palace!" ”
Zhao Yu's feet were soft, he had never been so flustered, Rong Yu next to him was quick-eyed, and he supported him and forced him to stand still. Zhao Liangcai gasped, and asked Wei Jin's apprentice with a cold look: "How could she be the queen?"
Wei Jin couldn't help but turn his head to look over, and saw his apprentice hanging his head and crying and replying: "Sun Guifei brought the news of King Shen's poisoning to Kunning Palace, and the queen mother cried and ran outside the Qingfeng Palace to ask to see her, but His Majesty didn't know about it, and still refused to see it. When Niangniang walked from Qingfeng Palace, the slave looked bad, and then returned to Kunning Palace, and sent the people serving in the house out, but You Zhu noticed that something was wrong, and fought to break into the palace, but Coco Niangniang's body was already cold."
Zhao Liang's hairs stood up all over his body, he gasped heavily, took a few breaths to ease his nerves, and suppressed: "What about Concubine Sun?" She dared to spread the news to Kunning Palace, what would His Majesty do with her? ”
Weijin's apprentice kowtowed again, and he didn't dare to hide it at all, and honestly explained to Zhao Liang: "Your Majesty rushed all the way to Kunning Palace, and when I saw Niangniang, I went to the greenhouse hall angrily, and slapped the concubine, and immediately wanted to depose the concubine and send it to the cold palace, and asked the slave to summon Pingding Bo to enter the palace" He vaguely heard someone gasp, and hurriedly said, "It was the Empress Dowager who stopped Her Majesty and brought the concubine back to the Ciyuan Palace." His Majesty held Niangniang's corpse at this time and refused to let go, and asked the slave to urgently summon you into the palace! ”
Zhao Liang saw that he calmed down, fortunately, Zhao Heng did not completely lose his mind, and the Queen Mother could still stop him and not ask him to move the Sun family - he stepped on his feet and instructed Wei Jin: "Go back to the palace with your apprentice to resume my life, and I will enter the palace immediately when I return to the palace to change my clothes." ”
Wei Jincai raised his head slightly, and when he saw that he was dressed in regular clothes, he bowed, got up and led his apprentice to leave.
Zhao Liang stopped him and asked him in a cold voice, "Where did you see me today?" ”
Wei Jin's heart sank, he glanced back at Zhao Liang, and quickly lowered his head: "In Prince Ying's mansion, His Royal Highness is washing his hands and making tea. (To be continued.) )