Chapter 488: Thunder Storm

"Report, Your Majesty, Princess Qingning asks to see you outside the court!" Outside the main hall, a guard walked in and knelt down on one knee to report.

The civil and military officials above the court were in a commotion again, and began to whisper earnestly.

Whether it is Shang Zhou or Great Qin, there has been no precedent for women to go to the court to discuss politics since ancient times, so they all looked at the emperor together in confusion.

Qin Shi Huang was also stunned for a long time and then asked, "Why did Qingning see me in the court?" ”

"Your Majesty, Princess Qingning said that she caught the eunuch who disappeared the day before yesterday, and she needs to explain the secret in front of all the adults!"

"Wow~" The Manchu Dynasty civil and military forces instantly broke out into a more violent commotion, and everyone turned their heads to look out of the store.

"Xuan!" Qin Shi Huang was silent again and then spoke.

"Princess Xuan Qingning enters the palace~" With a long shout, I soon saw Princess Qingning, who was dressed in a colorful skirt and with a slender posture, walking into the court with broken steps, and several palace people behind her escorted a eunuch with sackcloth stuffed in her mouth.

"Qingning meets his father!" Standing at the entrance of the court, Wang Qingsleeve bowed down.

"Qingning, where did you catch this eunuch?" Qin Shi Huang stared coldly at Wang Qingsleeve and spoke.

"Father, my daughter is the eunuch who was caught in the garden of Concubine Shu's bedroom the night before yesterday!"

"You caught it the day before yesterday, why did you hide this eunuch until now?" Qin Shi Huang's face became more and more cold.

"Because this eunuch said one thing, involving the Marquis of Qinghe and Zhao Fuling, and also involving hundreds of eunuchs and eunuchs in the palace, so the daughter is a little worried, once it is exposed, I am afraid that someone will kill him, then no one will be able to trace these things clearly, and it will inevitably leave a great hidden danger to the harem, maybe...... One day, someone will be unfavorable to my father! ”

"Bold~" Qin Shi Huang Huo Ran stood up, his cold eyes swept over the entire hall, and suddenly the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty instantly felt a coldness from the bottom of his heart.

"Qingning, you stand up and speak, who dares to be unfavorable to me!"

Wang Qingsleeve stood up, then looked up in Zhao Gao's direction, and everyone's eyes in the hall also moved, and finally fell on Zhao Gao.

"Your Majesty, Princess Qingning must have made a mistake, the minister has always been loyal to His Majesty, and he will definitely not be unfavorable to the emperor!" Zhao Gao's face changed in an instant, and he quickly stood up, his voice trembling slightly.

"Someone, go and bring the officials in the imperial dining room, and carefully identify whether this person is the eunuch who disappeared the night before!" Qin Shi Huang ignored Zhao Gao, but turned his head to an attendant standing at the entrance of the inner hall.

"Huh~" The chamberlain turned around, Qin Shi Huang also sat down and began to wait, the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty also had serious faces, and only Zhao Gao stood alone in the center of the main hall.

Chen Xu sat on the chair and looked at Wang Qingsleeve's face was sluggish, but his heart was churning like a tidal wave, and he couldn't imagine why Wang Qingsleeve would suddenly do this.

Not long after, several chamberlains pressed a cloaked and scarred chamberlain to come out, and after the officials identified it, this eunuch was indeed one of the two eunuchs who saw Chen Xu off in the imperial dining room the night before.

"Let him talk!" Qin Shi Huang stared at the eunuch kneeling on the ground, and a palace man reached out and tore off the sackcloth from the eunuch's mouth.

"Your Majesty spares your life, if it is not for us to frame the Marquis of Qinghe, everything is ...... It's all Zhao Zhe forcing us to do it! The eunuch knelt on the ground, kowtowed, and begged for mercy hoarsely like pounding garlic.

"Say, if you have half a point to hide, I will fry you in a wok and cook it again!" Qin Shi Huang's icy voice echoed in the court hall.

"Your Majesty, this matter should start from Zhao Zhe's entry into the palace, since he became a eunuch, he used money and coercion to threaten us to help frame the Qinghe Hou, the night before yesterday the Qinghe Hou entered the palace to accompany His Majesty after the banquet drunk, the two of us are ready to send the Qinghe Hou out of the palace, Zhao Zhe has already been waiting for us in the corridor in the backyard of the imperial dining room, pretending to send the sobering sour plum soup to Qinghe Hou to take, but the sobering soup has been mixed with drugs, Qinghe Hou is unconscious, and then he asked the two of us to carry Qinghe Hou to the garden of the concubine's bedroom, forced the two of us to send Qinghehou to the palace of Concubine Shu, intending to frame Qinghehou for fornicating in the harem, but the two of us did not dare to act because they were afraid, so Zhao Zhe took out a dagger and wanted to kill us, just when Princess Qingning appeared and killed Zhao Zhe to save the villain's life, and then Princess Qingning asked me to carry Qinghehou out of the canal leading to the outside of the palace......"

The eunuch's words have already been instructed by Wang Qingsleeve, so what he said is true and false, and outsiders can't distinguish between true and false, especially omitting the situation where Chen Xu was lying on Concubine Shu after taking the aphrodisia potion, but even so, this experience also stunned the Manchu Dynasty civil and military, and his eyes moved from the eunuch to Zhao Gao again.

The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty are all old fritters who have been in the court for many years, how can they not know the joints, and the reason why Zhao Zhe wants to frame the Marquis of Qinghe is not clear to most people, but it must be related to Zhao Gao.

Jiang Heng's face was also a little pale, and he felt that there would inevitably be great changes in the court today, and the things mentioned in the letter sent back by the fourth brother Jiang Beiting would inevitably be broken today.

Meng Yi turned his head to look at Chen Xu, then stroked his beard and began to ponder.

Qin Shi Huang's face turned dark: "Do you know why Zhao Zhe framed the Marquis of Qinghe?" ”

"Your Majesty, your subordinates don't ...... I don't know! The eunuch lay on the ground nervously and trembled.

"Your Majesty, Zhao Zhe and Qinghe Hou once had a grudge, maybe it will lead to this incident!" Jiang Heng, who was standing beside Qin Shi Huang, suddenly spoke.

"The two have a grudge? What is the grudge? How come I've never heard of it? Qin Shi Huang turned his head to look at Jiang Heng.

"Your Majesty, the cause of this matter is quite complicated, it involves many officials in Wancheng, and it also involves the fourth brother of the minister, who is now serving as the Jiangbei Pavilion of Nanyang County......"

Jiang Heng originally told the story of what happened in Nanyang in detail, and finally walked down the nine steps and fell on the ground and said: "Your Majesty, that day Zhao Zhe communicated with the mountain bandits to rob the tax grain of Qinghe Town, and the guards of the Marquis of Qinghe cut off Zhao Zhe's outer kidney, but all the officials in Wancheng were involved because they had children, so they cooperated to make a fake case, and the minister was also afraid that the fourth brother would be involved, so he and Zhao Gao and Zhao Gao concealed the matter. If this matter is not broken by Princess Qingning, Concubine Shu and Qinghe Hou will inevitably fall into it and become sinners, and Zhao Zhe's wolf ambition may really be unfavorable to His Majesty in the future, and the minister will be guilty of adding to the crime, and the minister knows that it is difficult to escape the responsibility for concealing this matter, so please ask Your Majesty to surrender the crime, and the minister is willing to accept any punishment! ”

The entire court hall was silent without the slightest sound.

No one could have imagined that there was such a deep grudge between Zhao Zhe and the Marquis of Qinghe, and because of this incident, more than a dozen officials of all sizes in Wancheng were involved, and what was even more unexpected was that this matter had been concealed so tightly after more than a year, and the Manchu Dynasty civil and military almost didn't know about it.

"Except for Jiang Fuling, who else knows about this matter?" Qin Shi Huang's cold eyes swept over the entire court.

"Report~, Your Majesty, I ask to see you outside the General's Palace!" A guard came in and knelt down on one knee to give a report.

Qin Shi Huang flicked his sleeves and stood up and said loudly: "Xuan! ”

"Please enter the palace~" With a long sigh from the speaker, Wang Qian, who was dressed in a black brocade robe and had neatly combed his hair, and looked in good spirits, strode in.

"Your Majesty! cough cough~" Although Wang Jian seemed to have a good complexion, he coughed when he spoke.

"The general is exempt~" Qin Shi Huang personally walked down the nine steps to greet him, and was about to step forward to hold Wang Qian's hand to show his respect, but Wang Jian suddenly knelt down and bowed to the ground and said, "Your Majesty, the minister is here to ask for sin today!" ”

"The general's words are serious, what are you guilty of?" Qin Shi Huang said in a gentle voice.

"The old minister has something to hide from His Majesty for a long time, and he is here to ask for guilt today!"

"General, please, no matter what kind of crime, I will not punish you!" Qin Shi Huang supported this old general who had laid down most of the country for him with both hands.

"The old minister was terrified, the minister heard that the eunuch of the young mansion ordered Zhao Zhe to be stabbed to death in the harem, and the hidden situation in the inner house may be related to this matter, so the minister did not dare to continue to conceal it, and he came to ask for an explanation, the incident happened the year before last, and the old minister was ordered by His Majesty to inspect Nanyang ......"

Wang Jian told Zhao Zhe about robbing the summer grain again, and many of the details were naturally much clearer than Jiang Heng's.

"Your Majesty, the old minister did not mean to conceal it at that time, but because there were too many officials involved, in addition to Zhao Gao, who served as the commander of the CRRC government at the beginning, and Jiang Heng, who is now the commander of the CRRC government, if dozens of officials of Wancheng are all removed from their posts and investigated, I am afraid it will cause turmoil in Nanyang County, not to mention that it also involves the Marquis of Qinghe, at that time the old minister could not confirm his identity, if it was reported at the time, maybe His Majesty was angry, and the Marquis of Qinghe would also be involved in it and be implicated, if the Marquis of Qinghe was killed because of dereliction of duty, the old minister's guilt would be too great!"

Qin Shi Huang was silent after hearing this, feeling panicked in his heart.

He had no idea that the ministers he valued and relied on the most were hiding this matter, and it had been for nearly two years, and the strict laws that he had always been proud of were completely like a fig leaf for the county officials below, almost useless, only a glamorous appearance, and what was revealed inside after being torn off was a dirty insider.

And what made him most depressed about this matter was this matter, Zhao Zhe's communication with the mountain bandits to rob the summer grain was of course a felony, but compared to Wancheng, more than a dozen bureaucrats of all sizes colluded to conceal this matter, and for nearly two years, Zhao Zhe's matter could be ignored lightly.

Qin Shi Huang left Wang Jian and walked to his dragon chair step by step, while his eyes coldly swept over the civil and military ministers on both sides.

The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty bowed their heads and were silent under his cold gaze, and many of them were still trembling slightly.

The emperor's expression was a kind of extremely suppressed anger, a sense of oppression that was about to come, and a thunderstorm seemed to be brewing in the court and could break out at any time.

As a result of the outbreak, there will inevitably be people who will be dismissed from office or even fall to the ground.

Therefore, many people secretly looked at Jiang Heng, who was kneeling on the ground, and Zhao Gao, who had not made any moves.

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