The Imperial Garden, a gazebo.

It was snowing lightly outside, but inside the pavilion was hot wine, a few pastries, and three people sat around a stone table.

Zhao Zhi held a wine glass in his hand, pecked the wine lightly, and frowned a little uncomfortable, following Liu Ji, Yang Daosi also reported to his illness seven days ago and recuperated and closed his door, but Huang Zhi's case is getting bigger and bigger, and the implication is getting wider and wider, now even if he wants to kill Huang Zhi directly, it is impossible to understand this case, it should be said that it is not that Zhao Zhi does not want to, but that some people do not want to, and the expansion of the matter has been faintly beyond Zhao Zhi's control.

"Your Majesty, what should I do with the confession from Dali Temple?"

Qin Anming glanced at Zhao Zhi who was frowning and contemplative, knowing what he was thinking, previously, dozens of officials jointly played the Huang Zhi, Zhao Zhi was furious, and dismissed them all for the crime of forming a party and private alliance, these people have not been reviewed clearly, within half a month, Dali Temple issued a confession of Huang Zhen again, which was even more shocking than last time, and more than 70 officials were implicated, including many important ministers in the court, such as ..... Governor of the Governor's Affairs... Xiao Zheng and Yang Yu, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites.

Zhao Zhi raised his head slightly, drank all the wine in the cup, looked at Qin Anming, and said lightly: "Qin Aiqing, what do you think?" ”

"Don't dare."

Qin Anming lowered his head slightly, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, Huang Xuan didn't say a word before, but now he confessed so many people at once, there must be deceit among them, if it is not handled well, I am afraid it will cause a great shock." ”

Listening to Qin Anming's words, Zhao Zhi didn't say anything, but looked at the person next to Qin Anming, this person was none other than Liu Zhigu, the secretary of Dali Temple.

Liu Zhigu chuckled and said: "Liu Congyuan bypassed me and directly passed Huang Xuan's confession to the emperor, it is conceivable that this confession must have many problems, and if you don't show it to me, you are afraid that I will see the problem." ”

Liu Zhigu is about fifty years old, his father was the sworn friend of Zhao Yuan, the prince of Pingzong, and Zhao Zhinai is a hostile relationship, Liu Zhigu is very low-key, as the highest official of Dali Temple, you are one of the nine Qing, a high-ranking official of the third grade, but there are few words in the court, and his official reputation is not very good, in the eyes of outsiders, it is not valued by Zhao Zhi, but who can know, it is precisely such a person, it is one of Zhao Zhi's most trusted henchmen?

Zhao Zhi nodded and said softly: "You also saw Huang Zhi's confession, do you see any problems?" ”

Liu Zhigu said unhurriedly: "Many officials inside are relatively close to His Royal Highness King Qi. ”

Liu Zhigu said bluntly, without beating around the bush, and directly said the key to it.

Zhao Zhi remained silent: "Zhigu, how do you think I should deal with this matter?" ”

Qin Anming glanced at Liu Zhigu enviously, and from Zhao Zhi's name for him, it could be seen that his weight in Zhao Zhi's heart was much higher than his own.

Liu Zhigu drank a glass of wine and sneered: "Since someone wants to muddy the water and make things bigger, why doesn't Your Majesty take advantage of the situation?" ”

Zhao Zhi was slightly shocked: "What do you mean?" ”

Liu Zhigu said with a smile: "Arrest all the officials on the confession." ”

Qin Anming's face showed a look of shock, and he said worriedly: "If this is the case, the development of the situation may be out of control. ”

Liu Zhigu smiled: "Huang Zhi was arrested, Liu Ji couldn't dissuade him, he was sick at home, ignoring the court affairs, and the matter of the officials' joint performance broke out, and before Huang Zhi's confession was about to come out, Yang Daosi also told the sick to recuperate, and ignored the things outside the window, which has explained a lot of problems." ”

Qin Anming heard the deep meaning in Liu Zhigu's words, and said in surprise: "What do you mean to say... Liu Wei and Yang Daohei have already seen that someone will use the matter of Huang Wei to announce a political storm? Liu Wei didn't say much, Yang Daosi, as a courtier Wen Kui, had already guessed that there would be such a result, why didn't he stand up and stop it from happening? ”

Liu Zhigu shook his head and sighed: "There are some things that I am afraid are no longer up to Yang Daosi to control. ”

Qin Anming was silent, and suddenly thought that the party of the right prime minister seemed to be a little abnormal recently, especially Yang Binglin, the sixth son of Yang Daohe, who was just a minister, but in the last few court meetings, he made a high-profile speech, but he was able to get the echo and approval of many officials of the right prime minister's party, and he was more elegant than several ministers in the DPRK and China.

Zhao Zhi was silent in thought, he had already understood what Liu Zhigu meant, didn't someone want to make a big deal out of it? Well, I will take advantage of your heart to arrest all the officials on the confession, and when the time comes, all the forces in the court, whether they want to or not, will stand up, instead of being like a pool of stagnant water like now, and the left and right ministers will report their illness together, and the rest of the political affairs hall and the ministers will not dare to speak without authorization.

Qin Anming whispered: "Your Majesty, why don't you arrest Liu Congyuan, as long as you find out the black hand behind him, the matter of Huang Xuan should be settled down quickly." ”

Liu Zhigu glanced at Zhao Zhi secretly, then lowered his head, continued to drink his wine, and said nothing.

Zhao Zhi shook his head, leaned back in the chair, closed his eyes, and frowned.

Zhao Zhi was bumpy, in the cruel competition between the sons, he won the final victory, and now he has been sitting on the throne for more than 20 years, how can such a character be a general? He had already vaguely guessed that behind this Huang Shi incident, there were many princes.....

Zhao Zhi has experienced the scene of fratricidal brothers, and knows the cruelty of it, so since he ascended the throne, he has been trying his best to prevent this kind of thing from happening, but some things, even if he is the emperor who is the lord of the world, cannot be stopped, and in his old age, he is going to repeat the mistakes of the first emperor Pingzong.

Zhao Zhi now faintly regrets a little, he shouldn't treat Huang Zhi with private emotions, he should simply treat Huang Zhen, now that things are getting bigger, it's too late to stop it, Liu Ji and Yang Daosi's illness is an obvious signal, whether it is Liu Ji or Yang Daosi, they have slowly lost control of their respective power groups, for Huang Zhi, it is no longer a simple matter of killing or not killing, even if Zhao Zhi issues an edict now and immediately beheads Huang Zhen, I am afraid that he will be blocked by many ministers, and in the end, it will only make things more uncontrollable.

The shepherd stood outside the pavilion, and Xiao Lezi quietly approached at this time, and whispered something in his ear.

Mu Gong nodded, walked into the pavilion, and broke the silence of Zhao Zhi and the others.

"Your Majesty, Concubine Li Guifei invites Your Majesty to go and share lunch."

Zhao Zhi was still in that posture, but he raised his hand, and Mu Gong didn't say anything more, and bowed down.

Qin Anming and Liu Zhigu glanced at each other, got up and bowed to leave.

When he arrived at Changle Palace, Li Yi had already prepared a table of meals.

Zhao Zhi sat down, looked around, and asked, "What about Xun'er?" ”

Li Yi added good dishes and chopsticks to Zhao Zhi, and chuckled: "Xun'er recently got a few unique books from the previous dynasty, and he has been reading books at home during this time, and he doesn't go anywhere. ”

Zhao Zhi nodded and said silently: "It's okay to stay at home, it's been a little messy outside recently, and it's futile to be upset when you come out." ”