Feng Che's words cut straight to the point. Shao An also wondered, thinking that it was very likely that the first emperor wanted King Jin to succeed to the throne before his death. When he asked about the edict when he was in Hangzhou, the king of Jin told him plainly that he had not heard the emperor talk about the succession.

After the palace mutiny subsided, due to the sudden death of the emperor, no will was made. So after the recommendation of the ministers, coupled with the credit of King An to pacify the palace change, King An was unanimously elected as the emperor. King An successfully ascended the throne.

As for the princes and the surviving Jin kings, both sides remained silent. It is a pity that the two parties have been fighting each other for many years, but in the end, the throne, the country, and the world are the king's Su Jinmin.

"What does Master Feng mean?" Shao An kicked back such a sensitive issue as it was.

No matter how bold and upright Feng Che is, he doesn't dare to guess that the current Holy Lord's succession is not right. Moreover, there is no evidence in this matter, and it is taboo to judge the case.

Feng Che revealed the matter and continued to analyze, "Let's start with the prime minister and the prince's party to see how much the prince is involved in the rebellion?" ”

Shao An nodded, in this way, even if he is the prime minister, if he commits a felony of treason, he will not be forgiven.

Everything is ready, only evidence is owed. Feng Che used his expertise to start looking for clues, and Shao An was in charge of recording and sorting.

Feng Che is indeed very good at handling cases, and the speed of collecting evidence is very fast. However, as the evidence became more and more conclusive, Shao Anxinzhong's doubts became bigger and bigger, because he knew that the emperor was not keen on hunting, so why would he invite King Jin to hunt the day before the palace change? Is it really a coincidence, as King Jin said?

But if it wasn't a coincidence, but if the emperor got the news of the palace change, why did the emperor go to rescue King Jin? Let the crown prince get rid of the king of Jin, and then the emperor will get rid of the prince again, this is a good strategy to kill two birds with one stone.

However, all these doubts cannot be sued.

Recently, Shao An's troubled appearance has attracted Sun Yi's attention, and he met Shao An in the Criminal Department on this day, and Sun Yi took the organ and said: "What's the matter, is the case not going well?" ”

"A lot of evidence has been found, and it is definitely possible to put the prime minister to death." Shao An saw that there was no one around, so he said frankly, "It's just that this case involves...... The palace changed that year. ”

As soon as Sun Yi heard the word "palace change", his face suddenly turned pale, "Palace change!" Are you investigating the change in the womb? ”

Shao An saw that Sun Yi's face was ugly, and asked cautiously, "Is there anything wrong?" ”

"It's inappropriate." Sun Yi looked like he hated iron but not steel, "This matter can't be said on the bright side, let alone Prime Minister Liao." ”

Shao An chuckled in his heart, and sure enough, he was unfortunately guessed, this matter was really not as simple as King Jin said.

Sun Yi sighed, "That's it, anyway, you are also the emperor's confidant, so I'll tell you the ins and outs of this." ”

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The day after the change of the Taiwo, the twenty-first year of Yongkang, the eighth day of the twelfth month.

Although the prince's soldiers were defeated and died, the capital was still shrouded in dark and gloomy panic. The Imperial Palace, the Jin Palace, the Jiang Shangshu Mansion, and the An Wangfu were all attacked by the prince to a greater or lesser extent, and they were almost a mess. The bodies of the former emperor, the concubine, the prince, Jiang Hengyu and some of the Jin kings have not yet been buried. In short, there are a lot of big and small affairs, but there is a shortage of people in charge!

Although the appeal is urgent, the most important and urgent thing is who will be the heir to the throne! Since the edict of the first emperor was not found in the palace, and the crown prince was dead, all the princes are now eligible to inherit the throne.

The first emperor had eight sons, in addition to the early death and the late crown prince, there were still three princes, King Ning, five princes Anwang, six princes Kang Wang and eight princes Jinwang. Originally, the King of Jin and the crown prince were the most powerful to win the throne, but now that the Jin King Party is withering, King An has quelled the palace change and made great contributions. It is conceivable that King An's prestige immediately overpowered King Jin.

This battle for succession, which has lasted for many years, began to come to an end at this moment, and it reached the most critical moment.

That night, in the mansion of Prime Minister Liao.

"Prime Minister Liao Cheng asked this king to come to the mansion for a while, I don't know what happened?" King An looked at Prime Minister Liao Hongxuan very cautiously. Because of the temporary decision of Zhongshu Province, a grand court meeting will be held tomorrow, and officials above the ninth rank will have to go to the court to listen to the government. As for the content of the court meeting, needless to say, it is also known that it is about the question of the successor to the throne.

And at this moment, Liao Hongxuan, who is the head of Zhongshu Province, the purpose of inviting King An to come is naturally not to drink and listen to music or something like that. Although King An's prestige was established, in order to gain the support of all the courtiers, he had to get the support of the princes led by Liao Hongxuan.

Liao Hongxuan also knew that King An was not in the mood to beat around the bush with him now, so he got straight to the point: "Invite the prince to come, naturally there is something I want to invite the prince to see." ”

Wang An's eyes were full of doubts, and he thought of something, and his eyes suddenly stared at Liao Hongxuan. Liao Hongxuan was not afraid, calmly opened a long box, and took out a holy decree from it.

The decree is only more than 100 words, and the rhetoric is not ornate, but the content is shocking. This is the edict of the King of Jin.

After reading it carefully, King An raised his eyes to look at Liao Hongxuan, "I don't know what the prime minister means?" ”

"This holy decree is only known to the prince and the old man." The prime minister said slowly, "The prince asked the old man what he meant, it depends on what the prince means." ”

King An knew that he was about to start talking about the conditions, "Please speak bluntly, what do you want this king to do?" ”

"Lord Wang." Liao Hongxuan bowed, "This time the uterus changed, the incident happened suddenly, and the Taizi party members didn't know about it." The old man asked the prince to forgive others. ”

King An said: "In this palace change, only the prince will be punished, and the rest will not be investigated." ”

"Thank you, Lord Wang." Liao Hongxuan continued, "In addition, the old man has been an official for many years and has not made many achievements, so he is really ashamed and has failed to live up to the trust of the emperor. Now sick and painful, he petitioned to resign from the post of prime minister and return to his hometown. ”

King An pursed his lips slightly, and said thoughtfully: "The prime minister is the pillar of the country and the minister of the first assistant. The Son of Heaven sets the national policy, the people are under the care of the people, the four towns outside the country do not violate the border, and the internal leaders do their duties. Over the years, the prime minister has worked hard and made great achievements, and everyone sees it. Now that the saint has died, and everything is still expected to be led by the prime minister, how can he resign at this time of internal and external troubles? ”

Liao Hongxuan shook his head and excused himself: "The prince praises falsely." ”

"This king has always regarded the prime minister as a humerus, and it will be the same in the future." King An finally made a promise to protect Liao Hongxuan as prime minister.

Liao Hongxuan bowed to the ground, "It's better to obey your orders than to be respectful." The word "minister" indicates the meaning of the prime minister's submission.

King An knew that the throne and the world had been shaken in his hands.

The next day, at the court meeting, as soon as the prime minister raised the issue, more than a dozen officials of the prince's party stood up and recommended King An. Subsequently, officials from the six ministries seconded the proposal. Until the end, the royal family also came out and agreed to King An's succession.

King An stood up and humbly conceded, saying that the rest of the princes were also the heirs of the first emperor and were eligible to inherit the throne. And several princes said that only King An can take on this great responsibility. As for King Jin, he is grateful to King An for saving his life, and his attitude is more sincere than that of any prince.

And King An, for his younger brother, is also extremely fond of him, and uses the scenic Hangzhou as the fief of King Jin, so that he can enjoy glory and wealth in that heavenly place.

Yongkang twenty-one years, December twenty-one, auspicious. King An ascended the throne and changed the era name to Tai'an.

The edict canonized Princess An Zhao as the queen, and the eldest son Su Shenghui as the crown prince. He was crowned as the prime minister Liao Hongxuan and the prince Taibao, Sun Yi, the right attendant of the promotion department, as the secretary of the ministry, Liu Yongzhou, the left attendant of the ministry, as the left servant of the criminal department, and Gao Wei, the hussar general, concurrently served as the commander of the forbidden army.

Posthumously crowned Concubine Niangniang as the queen, presented the Ministry of Shangshu Jiang Hengyu Prince Taifu, abolished the prince Su Jinyu, Su Jinyu's wife and concubines and children were demoted to concubines and exiled to Qianzhou.

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After listening to Sun Yi's speech, Shao An finally understood the reason for the prince's rebellion, and also understood the reason why Prime Minister Liao was able to continue to be in power, and he didn't know what to say at this time. The heavenly family seizes the heirs, and the powerful ministers seize the profits, it is really intrigued, and there is no friendship at all. After Shao An sighed, he thought about the details carefully, but there were still doubts.

Shao An asked, "How did the prince and the prime minister get the edict?" ”

"Maybe I bought off the eunuch and got it." Sun Yi said vaguely, "The prime minister has a wide range of relationships and many methods, and the official doesn't know it." ”

Shao An was secretly surprised, Liao Hongxuan was so powerful, he couldn't believe that he could learn about the edict before Concubine Shu and Jiang Hengyu, so he asked Sun Yi again: "The edict has always been in the hands of the prime minister?" ”

"yes. Therefore, the prime minister acted unscrupulously, and the emperor was very angry about this. ”

Shao An sighed, thinking that he couldn't use the palace change incident to bring down the prime minister. No, with the emperor's character, unless the prime minister rebelled, he would never take the risk of getting rid of Liao Hongxuan. Thinking of this, he suddenly became suspicious, "Then the emperor's actions are just to make some noise to knock Prime Minister Liao, and he has no intention of quitting?" ”

Sun Yi suddenly realized, "It turns out that this is what the saint meant." Oops, the heart of heaven is unpredictable, and the courtiers have guessed wrong. ”

"Lord Sun has not followed the emperor for a day or two, and he still knows such secrets, how could he not have guessed?" Shao An frowned, and he had a grudge against Sun Yi in his heart.

Sun Yi smiled bitterly: "How can I have you by the emperor's side for a long time." I thought that the emperor couldn't bear the prime minister anymore and decided to quit the prime minister. It seems that the emperor's temperament is still the most accurate for you. ”

Shao Anxin is right, just the emperor, his joy and anger are invisible, who can guess his thoughts? Fortunately, he didn't rush to impeach, otherwise he would have been unlucky.

But Shao An and Sun Yi understood what the emperor really meant, and the rest of them didn't understand it. No, because the emperor has rejected Prime Minister Liao's recital several times recently, he has shown extreme dissatisfaction with Prime Minister. So everyone thought that the time was ripe, and started with Jiang Jiamin, the secretary of the Criminal Department, to impeach the prime minister.

Later, the privy envoy Gao Wei, the new secretary of the household department Ni Hongyu, the left attendant of the ministry Peng Yuanping, the people of the military department and the military generals under Gao Wei all participated in the impeachment.

At this time, the princes and parties headed by the prime minister couldn't sit still, and they no longer dared to act arrogantly, and they all restrained a lot. In the matter of impeachment, he also actively excused himself and petitioned for guilt.

Everyone thought that the prime minister was going to be unlucky this time, but they didn't expect the emperor to leave the impeachment fold in the middle. At this moment, those who participated in the impeachment, either to curry favor with the emperor, or to uphold justice, or to communge personal vendettas, were all dumbfounded.

At this moment, the matter is still under the control of the emperor, but in the end, even the emperor did not expect that this matter would be out of control. And this originated from a piece of Feng Che's recital......

After several hardships, Feng Che finally seized all the evidence that could accuse the prime minister of participating in the palace mutiny, and impeached the prime minister for the felony of conspiracy. This piece of music seemed to have stabbed a hornet's nest, attracting the previous group of impeached people to go up again one after another, and they looked like they would not give up if they did not punish the prime minister severely.

Faced with a thick stack of folds, the emperor had a headache and continued to ignore it. And Feng Che is not a good lord, he runs to the Heart Palace every day to find the emperor, but later the emperor refused, he went directly to the noon gate to kneel and admonish.

At this time, those officials who hated Prime Minister Liao did the same, such as Gao Wei, Ni Hongyu, Peng Yuanping, and the officials of the military department, etc., learned that Feng Che could not kneel outside the noon gate.

The noon gate became lively, and dozens of important ministers knelt down there, blocking the palace gate tightly. When the emperor learned of this, he sent a message from the eunuchs to persuade everyone to retreat.

But Feng Che still knelt on the ground, and said righteously: "If the Holy Lord does not issue an order today, the ministers will not dare to retreat!" ”