Chapter Twenty-Six: Breaking into the Palace
This time it was really someone from the palace, and it was Li Ying who came, but this time his attitude was much better than last time, and a smile actually squeezed out of the dead man's face, although the smile was more ugly than crying, and he shouted a son, and he also bowed down to ask Guo Zhiyuan to go up first, it seems that Chen Ju's beating on him yesterday still had a certain effect.
Along the way, Li Ying talked to Guo Zhiyuan without saying anything, although Guo Zhiyuan didn't have a good impression of this guy, but he also knew that the villain was difficult to raise, and he had to say a few perfunctory words, the carriage staggered to the Forbidden City, this time it was the main palace gate, naturally it was impossible to take the carriage straight in, and got off the carriage far away, Li Ying checked the token for the guards guarding the door, and led Guo Zhiyuan into the main palace gate.
Guo Zhiyuan didn't understand the rules of the palace, just like a modern visit to the Forbidden City, strode in the middle of the road and looked around curiously, Li Ying was so frightened that he quickly pulled him aside, and whispered: "Guo Gongzi, the main palace gate is no better than other places, there are often nobles traveling, so remember not to walk in the middle, let alone look around, if you collide with a nobleman, it will be a big disaster!" ……”。
Guo Zhiyuan looked left and right, and found that the palace maids and eunuchs who passed by were really carefully clinging to the root of the palace wall, walking quickly with small steps and bowing their heads, and couldn't help sighing, this ancient time is really special and has no human rights, there are so many rules broken in this way, but the situation is stronger than people, and he can only be a turtle with a retracted head, otherwise Wanli has not seen it, and he was pushed out and beheaded because of broken rules, which would be a real tragedy.
Li Ying took Guo Zhiyuan to the front hall of Qixiang Palace and stopped, and whispered: "Guo Gongzi, the miscellaneous family can only send you here, you are waiting outside the gate of this palace, long live the Lord announces that you can enter the palace before you can enter, you must not break the rules, otherwise it will be the crime of killing your head!" ……”。
After waiting outside the palace gate for a full hour, the ministers lined up in two neat long queues and came slowly, walking in the front were the first assistant Shen Cheng and the prince Zhu Changluo, Shen Cheng saw Guo Zhiyuan's eyes flashed with a cold light, how can he not know that he was being tricked by this little slippery head to delay the army, and secretly thought, this kid is really bold, and the trick of the slippery head actually came to the emperor, but are you the old man's first assistant ornament? How can you let this yellow-mouthed child be satisfied, and today is just the right time to cut you down the grass and eradicate the roots with the hand of the saint, and never suffer in the future!
However, Zhu Changluo showed a playful smile at the corner of Guo Zhiyuan's mouth when he saw him, and nodded at him with a smile, the other ministers didn't know Guo Zhiyuan, and they were all full of doubts when they saw him, but they didn't dare to slow down, and the fish penetrated inside, and then after a while, he heard the mountain in the hall shouting "Long live", presumably Emperor Wanli appeared!
I heard a majestic voice inside, "The demon book case has been around for a while, today the factory minister has started the trial of the three divisions, presumably the case will be closed in a few days, the factory has submitted the confession of the person involved in the case to me for reading, and there is no self-evidence to prove that Guo Zhengyu, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, is the chief engineer of this case, I Guan Guo Shilang can also be called honest and diligent as an official on weekdays, and he should not do this great rebellion, if there is no evidence to prove that he is the mastermind of the demon book case in the trial of the three divisions today, I plan to acquit him and reinstate the official, what do you think Aiqing?" ……”。
Guo Zhiyuan was overjoyed when he heard it outside the hall, it seems that he invited Chen Ju to come out of the horse, and the cheap dad is saved! At this time, he heard Shen Cheng say loudly: "Holy Heaven, absolutely not!" Although there is no direct evidence, there is still a lot of indirect evidence pointing to Guo Zhengyu, even if he is not the mastermind, it is difficult to get rid of the suspicion of accomplices, according to the old minister's inference, the demon book case should not be done by one person, but a conspiracy carefully planned by a group of traitors, intending to disrupt the court, and his heart should be punished! The old minister implored the Holy Lord to continue to expand the scope of arrest and wipe out this group of traitors! ……”。
Shen has always taken the lead, and those Zhejiang party ministers who followed him closely also jumped out to echo and cheer, and the Donglin party ministers who were in the same faction as Guo Zhengyu were also mostly implicated in the demon book case, either impeached and degraded, or arrested, and even the party leader Shen Li, the second assistant, was also placed under house arrest.
Although Emperor Wanli is the Son of Heaven, he must not consider the opinions of the ministers, his face is cloudy, and he is a little hesitant, Guo Zhiyuan, who is waiting outside the palace, is anxious, this group of guys is beating the cheap dad as a water dog, and he wants to force him to death, his head is hot, and his blood is surging, and he has already thrown Li Ying's advice to him to wait for Wanli to announce that he can enter the palace before he can enter the palace, and shouted "Shengshang, Xiaomin has something to play!" "I went straight to the temple in a daze!
But how could the Qixiang Palace, where the emperor was deliberating, be so easy to break into, Guo Zhiyuan only entered the palace door, and he didn't even see what Wanli looked like on the dragon chair, so he was pushed and pressed to the ground by the two powerful sword guards guarding the door, and the two bright big knives were directly on his neck, Guo Zhiyuan only felt a chill on the back of his neck, and cold sweat came down!
Everyone present was also taken aback, and said in their hearts that this is a stunned young man, who even dares to break into Qixiang Palace, and makes a loud noise in front ---of the emperor, isn't this looking for death () on the thatched house with a lantern? !
As soon as Shen Yi saw that it was Guo Zhiyuan, he was overjoyed, knowing that the opportunity was coming, he pointed at him and shouted: "Be bold and make the people, the court is important, how can you break in!" It is a great sin of disrespect to make a loud noise in front of the Holy One! Holy Lord, please pull this bold fanatic out and put the staff to death! ”。
Wanli frowned, he still vaguely remembered that Chen Ju said that Guo Zhengyu's son was going to face the saint, but he didn't pay too much attention to it, an ignorant child, what knowledge can he have? However, looking at Chen Ju's face, he almost forgot about it just now, and then he remembered when he saw Guo Zhiyuan who suddenly popped out, and Shen's consistent attitude also surprised him, why did the first assistant of the court put an ignorant child to death so impatiently?
This made Wanli a little more curious about Guo Zhiyuan, and said with a blank face: "It's Guo Shilang's son who came?" There was a lot of noise in the court, are you guilty?! ”。
The knife was on his neck, Guo Zhiyuan was also scared to death, and secretly regretted his Meng Lang's actions, it's over, it's over, it's hard to save his life, but when Shen Zheng couldn't wait to jump out to put him to death, his blood and qi surged up again, and his heart said You old fox, didn't Lao Tzu just put you along? You didn't dig your ancestral grave, did you use it so hard? Do you have to put Lao Tzu's court rod to death? The barefoot are not afraid of wearing shoes, Lao Tzu is also here with a halo, and it is not certain who will kill who in the future!
Thinking of this, Guo Zhiyuan was not so scared, anyway, he broke into it, so he could only put it to death and then give birth, so he stiffened his neck and said loudly: "Qi Shengshang, Xiaomin Guo Zhiyuan, my father is Guo Zhengyu, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, Xiaomin doesn't know the crime!" ”