Chapter 9 The Bloody Heyin Palace Incident
Whirring, in the winding court, a eunuch lowered his head, very cautiously looking left and right, with nervousness, panic, and uneasy pace of speeding through the corridors, here the walls are several feet high, the red bricks and rubble, the forbidden palace is numerous, and from time to time there will be guards patrolling again.
Because this is a deep palace, he grew up here since he was a child, and he walked to the location of the Queen Mother's bedroom without twists and turns, and soon he walked to the palace where the Queen Mother lived.
Obviously, this person must be a familiar face who often goes in and out of various palaces, otherwise the huge palace, all palaces are strictly guarded, how can he be a little eunuch, how can he wander recklessly and without prohibition
"My lord" saw him quietly walking to the big eunuch beside the Queen Mother, whispering something in his ear. As he listened, the great eunuch seemed to anticipate the seriousness of the matter, so he gestured to him to pause. Of course, this move. He also knows that in the deep palace, the most taboo thing is to have an unobstructed mouth and ears on the wall.
After all, after being in the palace for so many years, many things have to be done according to the eyes of the master, if you can't penetrate this, it is estimated that in this deep palace that has not seen the light of day, you will have died a long time ago.
The big eunuch said very skillfully and steadily, "Go down", and sent the maids who were cleaning the palace on the side, only to see that his face sank, and he looked at this very familiar little eunuch with some hesitation.
"This is true, this matter is very important, don't fly the dragon and the phoenix, if it is leaked and don't say that you and I don't have our heads protected, even this deep palace, I'm afraid it will be difficult to escape"
"The sky is about to change in this palace," the old eunuch thought to himself, so he looked carefully at the greedy little eunuch.
"Yes, yes, the villain knows, it is true at this time, I dare to vouch for my life" I saw the little eunuch looking at him with a serious face, as if it was not verbally heard and nodded, at the same time he also glanced around, and saw that there were no idlers around, so he cautiously walked to the big eunuch's side tentatively, "Where is the evidence?"
"So, you and me. Now immediately go to the top and tell the Queen Mother about this, "After finishing speaking, I saw these two people walking quickly towards the palace where the Queen Mother was resting.
As he spoke, the two of them walked briskly one after the other, bowing their heads and wandering around the palace. There were a few big turns in the middle, and on the way, there were palace concubines playing in the garden, and the emperor's holy car passed by, only to see that the old eunuch's forehead was already frightened and sweaty.
The emperor's holy car passed by, he and the little eunuch stood far away, the emperor subconsciously looked at the two, and then was carried over by everyone without paying much attention.
"What are you doing in a daze, hurry up" The old eunuch scolded the little eunuch fiercely, and then the two couldn't help but speed up their pace and went straight along the queen mother's bedroom.
About half a pillar of incense, the two of them had already strode from the palace gate to the front of the Queen Mother's bedroom. As a rule, ordinary little eunuchs are not allowed to enter the Queen Mother's bedroom first, unless they are specially summoned. The chief housekeeper beside the Queen Mother had already walked in proudly. Only the little eunuch was left outside the door in a hurry.
The little eunuch was outside the door, slightly anxiously bowing his waist, his left hand and his right hand reaching into the gap between his sleeves and wandering eagerly, which could be described as ants on a hot pot, and he didn't know what to do. At this time, the great eunuch who entered the queen mother's bedroom was accustomed to bowing his head and moving forward.
In the Yaohua Palace, you can vaguely hear the sound of men and women playing, this eunuch has become accustomed to a corner of the door, and when the queen mother is not tired of going in.
I saw that at this time, the Empress Dowager Hu was in the midst of the laughter and noise with a group of male pets chasing me, and Wu Yazi saw a big waiter who wanted to speak and stopped somewhere. From his eyebrows, a trace of panic and urgency could be felt. Wu Yazi had no intention of participating in the noise, and slowly walked to the side of the waiter.
"What's wrong?"
"There is something urgent to inform the Queen Mother," said the big eunuch, and the big eunuch whispered two words into Wu Yazi's ear, and then you could see that his face became more and more pale. In the Yaohua Hall where the Queen Mother lives, the rockery and the fake water are like a paradise on earth, and the pale cyan veil goes down vertically from the tile purlin, about three feet away, only to see the center of the palace, these men dressed in bright makeup, running around in the hall, you are chasing me, and you are not aware that the danger has spread.
Among these people, there were twenty-five or six of the elders, and thirteen or forty-five of the younger ones. And each of them is exceptionally delicate and beautiful, not to mention anything else, except for the Queen Mother's most favored first favorite official Wuyazi is even more stunning.
This Wuyazi naturally likes to wear dark robes, and his eyes are especially fond of gently drawing two strokes with crimson daizi powder, plus he is already fair-skinned, and he is already full of national color without makeup. It's just that his nature is like an iceberg, and few people can get close, but he didn't think that after the Gongshu people, he could capture the Sacred Heart in one fell swoop and even more.
"Queen Mother" was talking to him, and he walked slowly from outside the door, followed by the eyeliner who came back from Jinyang.
Walking into the palace, it was still the same as before, and the rest of the men in the palace were either laughing around the Queen Mother, or standing beside them and pinching their legs and beating their backs.
"Yo, the iceberg among us who don't like to talk is back," he said, and one of the men in pale cyan clothes with a gorgeous face glanced at Wu Yazi with a slight sour taste, and then stood in place without looking to point with his fingers.
"Get out of the way," Wu Yazi didn't look at it, and pushed him aside with a wave of his hand.
Seeing that Wuyazi didn't take him seriously at all, the waiter immediately rushed up with red eyes, "You"
"Okay, Takeran, don't worry about him," he said, and the man standing next to him pulled him, who was already angry and about to rush up and hit someone.
"Humph! I won't worry about a piece of wood, the Queen Mother likes my flowers and moonlight the most, I don't want to have wrinkles" Seeing that Wuyazi didn't have the slightest idea of being more serious with him, he simply couldn't help but find a step for himself.
"Queen Mother, your lotus leaf soup" said, Wu Yazi walked towards the chaise longue in the hall, the graceful and luxurious woman who was lying. This person is the Empress Dowager Hu Shi, who now holds the power of the military state, thinking that at the beginning, this weak woman supported the eight-year-old emperor to ascend the throne, and now decades have passed, her appearance is still the same, and she has a little more charm and soft beauty before.
Wu Yazi slowly walked to her side, and at this time, the Empress Dowager Hu who was lying on the small bed was not asleep, and there were three or four male attendants around her who were beating her legs and squeezing her hands
The "Queen Mother" was about a meter away from the bed curtain, and the big eunuch stopped, and the frolicking in the bed curtain did not stop, as if there was no side to the joy. The voice came very clearly, and he was more than two meters away.
Seeing that the Empress Dowager Hu did not answer, knowing the priority of the matter, the big eunuch shouted in a low voice, "The Empress Dowager, over there in the Taihua Palace" The big eunuch wanted to speak and stopped, hearing this, the Empress Dowager Hu couldn't help but get bored.
As she spoke, she asked in disgust, "What's wrong with the emperor?"
With the growth of the emperor, the ideology has gradually matured, so many years of government and government, military affairs are all decided by the queen mother, he the emperor has long been in vain, in the main palace, the minister only knows that there is a queen mother and then listen to the emperor. It is difficult for the emperor's summons to go out of the Xuanzheng Palace.
Although the current emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Emperor Xiaoming Yuan Yi is the son of the Empress Dowager Hu. After so many years of government and politics against the enemy, the mother-son relationship of ordinary people has obviously become much weaker. The emperor, after all, is the emperor and the co-ruler of the world.
"Heavenly family impermanence" for so many years, the queen mother relied on the emperor's youth, has been grasping the Northern Wei Dynasty politics, the queen mother in order to cultivate her own power, the people who sent her phoenix out have been made big officials, and at the same time the old ministers corresponding to themselves have returned to their hometowns one after another, the current government is depressed, most of the literati are tired of the career, yearning for a free and easy life, there are fewer and fewer people, and the traitorous eunuchs are trying to envelop the Empress Dowager Hu, and the plan is endless. The wind is corrupt and bleak, and the people are in dire straits. The young Emperor Ming couldn't get used to his mother's actions, and when the mother and son were suspicious of killing the queen mother and favored the bow people, they expanded day by day.
In order to defend his ancestors, Emperor Ming had to write a letter to Er Zhurong, who was born as a warlord, for help. Unexpectedly, the confrontation with his mother, Empress Dowager Hu, had not yet begun, and Emperor Ming's plan was exposed.
"Your Majesty," the eunuch pondered again and again
"He, what's the matter" Through the bed curtain, I saw a graceful woman, playing with her fingers inconsequentially. Obviously, she didn't care about the emperor's approach at all, and she believed that he couldn't toss any storms at all.
"This," the big eunuch said worriedly, glancing at the male pet in the queen mother's bedroom.
Seeing that he didn't say anything, Empress Dowager Hu lifted the veil and walked out with some impatience. Although the emperor is more than twenty years old, the woman in front of him does not look old at all. The skin is as fair as a girl, and her face is good, although she is not as delicate as Diao Zhaojun, but she is as charming as her sister. "What's the matter, let's talk about it!"
"The Queen Mother, Your Majesty" I saw the eunuch whispering a few times in his ear, and in an instant, I saw that the Empress Dowager Hu's originally happy face suddenly became nervous. The Queen Mother's originally joyful face became gloomy like a thunderbolt.
"What are you talking about" said that, Empress Dowager Hu suddenly sat up, her brain nerves were very stimulated, she said nothing and refused to believe that the emperor who had always seemed to obey her in every way actually united with outsiders to oppose her behind her back.
"The Queen Mother, this is true, the people sent are already waiting outside, if the Queen Mother is still suspicious, it is better to send the people outside the door to ask, and then the truth will be known."
Outside the window, I don't know when, the wind slowly blew, and the veils in the dormitory were blown up one by one. The rest of the male pets in the hall were frightened by the Queen Mother's sudden reaction, and they were suddenly frightened.
"Go down, all to the mourning family" I only heard Empress Dowager Hu's angry roar, and these people in the dormitory retreated one by one. "Pass him in" Empress Dowager Hu scolded angrily, only to hear that at this time, the door outside the door of the dormitory "squeaked" a sound.
"Let's go inside!" As he spoke, he saw that the doorman had already pushed the door open, and said to the little eunuch who was a little nervous at the door.
Walking and walking, the little eunuch slowly stopped, and then glanced at the queen mother's bedroom, a golden yellow manman curtain, crimson embroidered carpet Nanmu tables and chairs, and the palace equipment was extremely luxurious. Separated by layers of beaded yarns, the sound of men and women playing is still heard from time to time, which can be described as a palace song.
"Thank you, thank you," the little eunuch said a few words of thanks to the doorman, and then cautiously entered the place where the door had opened.
I have long heard that the queen mother's bedroom has always been gorgeous, and everything in the palace is extremely precious, and the people who can enter the queen mother's bedroom are generally of higher grade, and this father-in-law named Chonghuan is obviously the first time to enter. Everything inside feels particularly exquisite, and there is a sense of entering a fairyland.
The little eunuch was thinking as he walked, and his future glory and wealth would come from here. He cautiously looked at everything around him, until he entered the center of the palace step by step from the outer hall, and the Queen Mother sat directly beside the small bed in the center of the palace, and next to him stood the most favored internal official Wuyazi in the Inner Palace.
Seeing him come in with a probe in his head, Wu Yazi scolded angrily, "Why don't you come here quickly, what are you doing in a daze" said, he looked at the eunuch standing neatly in the center of the dormitory and said, "The Queen Mother is this person, this person's name is Chonghuan, and he was sent by the person sent by the Internal Government Bureau to follow the emperor."
The big eunuch simply explained the reason to the Empress Dowager Hu, and the slave knelt down very quickly towards the Empress Dowager Hu, and said with sharp teeth, "The slave sees the Empress Dowager, and the Empress Dowager is blessed with Jin'an"
"This little mouth is very good at talking, get up and talk back" Empress Dowager Hu waved his fingers, only to see that the eunuch was nervous, he looked up at the Empress Dowager Hu who was sitting quietly, and then lowered his head with the fastest eyes.
Empress Dowager Hu glanced at the eunuch with confidence, and then her gaze skimmed to another place, and then she slowly got up and looked
"You are the one who came back from Taiyuan, let's talk about it, what is the so-called matter of the emperor sending someone to Er Zhurong?"
This person slowly looked up at the Empress Dowager Hu, and then some people who wanted to take an inch of merit stepped forward and cautiously said to the Empress Dowager Hu, "Empress Dowager Qi, the emperor, he wants to rebel"
"Presumptuous"
Empress Dowager Hu suddenly gave a stern reprimand, and the little eunuch immediately knelt on the ground in shock, trembling slightly.
"This world is the emperor's world, will the emperor turn against himself" She looked angrily at the eunuch who was eager to lead the work
"Yes, yes, yes, the slave says a lot, the slave says the wrong thing, this is the punishment" said, the eunuch trembled slightly, and kept trembling.
"Say it! What the hell is the Emperor plotting?"
"The emperor sent someone to Er Zhurong to send a decree, so that he would raise troops from Taiyuan in three months, and the purpose of besieging the capital was to force the queen mother to hand over power."
As he spoke, the eunuch took out a series of facts from his bosom that could prove that the emperor really wanted to raise troops, "It seems that the emperor has grown up after all." The Queen Mother asked in a low voice unhurriedly.
"Queen Mother" suddenly, I saw that the Queen Mother Hu was angry, and everyone in the Queen Mother's bedroom trembled.
"Everyone in this palace thinks that the emperor is really stupid, but in fact, the emperor is not stupid, but he has been pretending to be a mourner to see" After reading the secret summons, Empress Dowager Hu was suddenly furious. I saw that the little eunuch was completely frightened, kneeling on the ground and unable to move at all.
"This bastard boy, he actually dares to unite with Qihu, use Qihu's forces to threaten the palace, and empty the palace," she said, angrily throwing the secret summons to the ground.
Rebellion, rebellion, this is the most taboo thing in the deep palace, since the emperor is going to act, then, the Empress Dowager Hu will definitely not sit idly by, and she wants to come to the most proud position of the middle palace and how can it be easily given to people.
"Queen Mother, what are you going to do next?" the great eunuch asked for instructions.
"But it's all right," she smiled, smirking contemptuously, and walked back to her bed.
"But the Queen Mother, this Chief of Qihu, he is a martial artist who quelled the rebellion of the exiles, if His Majesty really unites him to deal with the West Palace, then we" the great eunuch said with a little worry.
"So far, he hasn't rebelled against that. The mourning family is still the only queen mother of the West Palace in the Northern Wei Dynasty, he wants to use the power of the middle palace to suppress the palace, just rely on the power of his three-year-old tooth boy" said, her fingers stretched out, and she led the little eunuch who inquired about the news to her as if she were hooked.
"But the Queen Mother, we also have to guard against it."
"Defense, what's there to prevent. The reason why he Qihu promised the emperor is nothing more than for what, fame and fortune, what his emperor can give, can't we afford it? As she spoke, Empress Dowager Hu smiled, only to see her hand teasing the male pet's bamboo-dyed chest muscles.
"If the emperor is gone, you say, this Qihu, will you still die for it?" Speaking of this, she already had her own idea, that is, to kill the emperor, this kind of thing, she has done. All the women who wanted to snatch her concubine position before went to accompany the emperor one by one, so Empress Dowager Hu was not afraid, and even she felt that this was her glory and her achievements step by step.
"Wu Yazi, what do you think of this matter?" said Empress Dowager Hu glanced at him coquettishly.
"There are many ways to come to the palace to make a person disappear, why should the Queen Mother ask for only one"
Although tiger poison does not eat children, if a woman sits in a position of power for a long time, there is naturally nothing she can't give up after weighing the pros and cons.
"What does the Empress Dowager mean," the big eunuch asked the Empress Dowager Hu without understanding.
Empress Dowager Hu didn't answer, but at this time, the male pet above her step made a hoarse sound, and saw a white-bladed dagger piercing his heart.
"Queen Mother, you" Before he could say anything, he saw the man dressed in white brocade and with green silk hanging bun falling on the bed.
"It's up to you to bury my son, and I don't regret your life," said Empress Dowager Hu, who pulled out a dagger from the man's chest and threw it on the ground. Then he pretended to be panicked and yelled
"Someone! Help, help" She pretended to be panicked and ran around the dormitory alone, when several guards with knives rushed out of the door. "Queen Mother, what happened"
"Catch that assassin and kill him immediately" said, only to see Empress Dowager Hu's long sleeves wave, and pointed at this Chonghuan who came from the ventilated message. Before the little eunuch could react, the guard's knife had already swept over his head.
I saw that the Empress Dowager Hu was very nervous and said, "The order goes down, the West Palace was attacked, after a thorough investigation, this assassin came from the Middle Palace, and the special commander of the West Palace's internal affairs, Wu Yazi, took the big eunuch to go to investigate thoroughly" After speaking, the big eunuch prepared a summons, and the Empress Dowager Hu finished stamping the order with a ghostly smile, and said the special advice, "Remember, don't leave a living mouth"
"Then the queen mother, where is the emperor, what should I do" The big eunuch asked hesitantly
"The Son of Heaven kills his mother, which is regarded as unfilial piety. It is really difficult to set a table for the people, such as today's son of sainthood is corrupted, the position of the middle palace, should not stay for a long time, if you meet stubborn resistance, kill on the spot, imprison the Son of Heaven in Shanglin Yuan, and order him to think, if there are bewitched people, he will not be forgiven" After speaking, I saw a group of people rushing straight from the West Palace.