Volume 22 Han Ji XIV (2)
At that time, there were even witches who entered and exited the palace to teach the beauties in the palace how to survive the disaster. And often bury wood in the palace people to sacrifice. The palace people wished each other because of jealousy and jealousy, and denounced each other from time to time, thinking that it was the emperor who wished the emperor. The emperor was furious and killed the harem, extending to the ministers, and hundreds of people died. The emperor had doubts about their wishes, and he could not help but be suspicious, and once pretended to sleep in the palace during the day, and dreamed that thousands of wooden people were holding rods and wanted to hit the emperor. The emperor woke up and felt uneasy ever since. Mind is trance-like and forgetful.
Jiang Chong thought that he had a holiday with the prince and the queen of the guard, and when he saw that the emperor was old, he was afraid that the emperor would be punished by the prince after he drove him. Therefore, he fabricated treacherous rumors, saying that the emperor's illness was caused by witchcraft. So the emperor made Jiang Chong a messenger to rule the prison of witches. So Jiang Chong arrested Hu Wu and those who offered sacrifices at night, tortured them, and forced them to confess. So the people of the government and the opposition turned to falsely accuse witches, and the government investigated, and convicted them of great rebellion. Since the three auxiliary companies of the Beijing division and the county, tens of thousands of people have died before and after, and at that time, the emperor is high in the spring and autumn, and he suspects that the left and right are all people who are Gu Zhuzui, and no one dares to shout injustice regardless of whether there is or not. Since Jiang Chong knew the emperor's original intention, he borrowed Hu Wutan's words to say that there was Gu Qi in the palace. If it is not removed, the emperor's illness will not be cured. The emperor sent Jiang Chong into the palace. In the province, the throne is bad, digging the ground for Gu. The emperor also sent Hou Han to say that Yushi Zhang Gan, Huangmen Suwen and others assisted Jiang Chong. Jiang Chong first ruled the palace of the unfortunate lady in the harem, and then spread to the palace of the queen and the crown prince. Digging into the ground, so that the crown prince and queen have nowhere to place a bed. Jiang Chong said that there were the most wooden figures excavated in Tai*, and there were silk books with great rebellious words on them, and they should be heard by the emperor.
The prince was afraid and asked the young master Shi De, who was afraid that he would be punished as a master, so he said to the prince: "In the past, the prime minister's father and son, the two princesses, and the Wei family were all punished for sitting here. Now the witch and the messenger dig the ground to get these signs, I don't know if the witch himself put it in, but there are indeed these things, we can't know for ourselves. Jiang Chong and others can be arrested in moderation and their treachery can be cured. Besides, the emperor is sick in Ganquan Palace, the queen and her family officials ask for greetings, but they don't report it, the emperor's survival is unknown, and the traitorous ministers are like this, doesn't the prince want to think about the former Qin Fusu? ”
The prince said, "I am a son of man, how can I kill the minister without permission." It's better to go back and apologize to the emperor, maybe you are lucky enough to be innocent. "The prince will go to Ganquan Palace to distinguish, but Jiang Chong is very anxious and refuses to let him go. The prince had nothing to do, so he followed Shi De's plan.
On the afternoon of the seventh month of the autumn and July, the prince made the subordinate guest deceive as a messenger, arrested Jiang Chong and others, according to the Daohou Han said that he suspected that the envoy was deceitful, and refused to accept the edict, the door guest killed Han and said, the prince personally killed Jiang Chong, and scolded: "You, a traitor of Zhao State, used to cause trouble to the king of Zhao and his son, and now he has come to trouble our father and son, which is really hateful." "And he burned Hu Wu in the upper forest.
The prince made no one else, and entered the Changqiu Gate of Weiyang Palace on the night of the festival to tell the queen through the palace maid, and sent the carriage and horses in the palace to open the arsenal to assemble the guards of the Changle Palace. Chang'an was disturbed, and it was rumored that the prince rebelled. Su Wen escaped and was able to return to Ganquan Palace to tell the prince that he was innocent. The emperor said: "The prince must have changed because he was afraid and hated Jiang Chong and others," so he sent a messenger to summon the prince, but the envoy did not dare to enter, and returned to the newspaper and said: "The prince has already succeeded, and he wants to behead the ministers, and the ministers have fled back." The emperor was furious.
Prime Minister Liu Quyu heard the change, led him to flee, and lost his seal. The emperor asked the prime minister what he was going to do, and replied that the prime minister wanted not to make a noise about it, so he did not dare to send troops. The emperor was angry and said: "The matter is already clearly there, and he said not to make a noise." It seems that the prime minister has no style of Zhou Gong. Didn't Zhou Gong once kill Guan Cai? Because he gave the prime minister a seal, he said: "Those who hunt down rebels will have their own rewards and punishments." But don't engage the opponent in close combat, so as not to kill and injure more. and keep the gates shut, so that the nasty ones may not be brought out. ”
The prince's declaration told the hundred officials: "The emperor is sick and sick in Ganquan Palace, suspecting that there is a change, and some traitorous ministers want to cause chaos. "When the emperor heard the news, he came out of Ganquan Palace and built Zhang Palace in the west of Xingcheng. The edict issued three auxiliary soldiers near the county, less than 2,000 stone in the department, by the prime minister and general. The crown prince also sent an envoy to pardon the prisoners of the central capital of Chang'an, and ordered the young Fu Shide and the guest Zhang Guang to divide the generals, so that the prisoners of Chang'an were sent to Changshui and Xuanqu Hu Qi like Hou Zhijie. All ready to go. At this time, the squire Ma Tong passed by, because he pursued Ruhou, and told the Hu people: "The soldier is deceitful, don't listen to him." "Then he was killed. Led into Chang'an. He also sent a sergeant to the great Honglu merchant Qiu Cheng.
At the beginning, the Han Talisman was pure red color, because the prince held the red festival, and later added yellow to show the difference. The prince set up a car outside the south gate of the Northern Army, summoned Ren An, the envoy of the Northern Army, and gave him a festival charm to order him to send troops. The prince led the troops to drive away the people in Chang'an City, and tens of thousands of people went to the west of Changle Palace, met the army led by the prime minister, and fought together for five days, with tens of thousands of dead. Rivers of blood. Folklore said that the prince rebelled, so the people did not attach to the prince, but the prime minister attached more and more soldiers. Tsukasa Hitobe closed the city gate. Thinking that the prince was a father and son, and didn't want to embarrass him too much, the prince was able to have a chance to escape. The prime minister wanted to behead Tian Ren, and the imperial historian said to the prime minister: "Si Zhi is an official of 2,000 stones, and he should ask the emperor to kill him." Why do you want to behead him without permission? The prime minister let Tian Ren go. When the emperor heard this, he was furious, and his subordinates asked the imperial doctor: "Si Zhi indulges the rebel, and he gets along with him and beheads him, he is doing things according to the law, why did the doctor stop him without authorization?" "Katsuyuki committed suicide in fear. The edict sent Zongzheng Liu Chang, the ruling Jinwu Liu Kang, and the queen committed suicide.
The emperor thought that Ren An was an old official, and when he saw the war, he wanted to sit and watch the success or failure, and when he saw the winner, he had two hearts, and Tian Ren was cut in half. The emperor also won the Marquis because of Ma Tong, the Chang'an man Jing Jian won Shi De from Ma Tong, Shangqiu Chengli won Zhang Guang, Feng Ma Tong was the Marquis of the coincidence, Jing Jian was the Marquis of De, and Shangqiu became the Marquis of Qin. The princes' guests, who have entered and exited the palace gate, will be punished. If he rebels with the prince, he will be punished according to the law. Those who participated in the looting all migrated to Dunhuang County. Because the prince was still outside, he began to set up troops to guard the gates of Chang'an, and the emperor was furious, and the crowd was raging, and he didn't know what to do. The third elder of Huguan ordered Hu Mao to write a book: "The minister hears that the father is like the sky, the mother is like the earth, and the son is like all things." That's why the balance will be peaceful. Everything is luxuriant. Father's love and mother's love, children can be filial, the crown prince is the heir of the Han family, inheriting the inheritance of eternity, the weight of the ancestors, the emperor is your son, Jiang Chong is a person in cloth, the subordinate in the palace is only, His Majesty obviously uses it, but with the supreme order, coerced the crown prince, made treacherous, and made a group of evil mistakes. Therefore, the road of relatives is blocked and not passed. The prince can't see him when he enters, and when he retreats, he is trapped in the rebellious ministers, and he is alone and has no complaints, so he can't bear to be indignant, so he rises up and kills, flees in fear, and the son steals his father's soldiers, just to save himself. The ministers thought that the prince had no evil intentions. The poem says: Camp green flies, stop at the domain. Disgusted gentleman, untrustworthy slander. slanderous and reckless, and the four countries are in turmoil. In the past, Jiang Chong greedily killed Prince Zhao, and everyone in the world knew about it. Only Your Majesty, you don't think about it, and now you are just thinking about the prince's mistakes, and you are angry, so that the three princes will take their own hands and send soldiers to hunt down the prince. so that the wise man dare not speak, and the debater dare not speak. The thief is saddened. I only hope that Your Majesty will be relieved, less likely to inspect your relatives, and stop caring about the prince's wrongs. Hurry up and withdraw your army, and don't let the prince go into exile for a long time. The ministers were overwhelmed, and they gave a moment of advice, and waited outside the palace for sin. ”
The book plays, and the Son of Heaven feels. However, he has not yet dared to speak of pardon.