For today's court battle, Xue Shao has made quite adequate preparations. In addition to listing Pei Yan's series of crimes of tyrannizing the country and abandoning the army, he also prepared a lot of evidence and witnesses. Just in case, Xue Shao had already secretly contacted Fan Yunxian, the general of Yulinwei, and asked him to lead Yulinwei to control the entire Hanyuan Hall after the court meeting began. Even the Weishui army outside the city is ready for emergencies at any time.

But the situation in front of him made Xue Shao a little crying and laughing. What was originally a good court political discussion and head-on struggle is about to evolve into a dog-eat-dog that exposes each other's shortcomings and betrays each other.

Seeing that the prime minister of the prince and the ministers of Shangshu were blushing and thick-necked, and the court today was arguing into a pot of porridge, Xue Shao simply watched coldly and remained silent - dogs fight, pigs persuade!

At this moment, the loud scolding above the court suddenly came to a halt.

It turned out that another person came out to break the news - Wang Benli, the household servant and the Pingzhangshi of the Tongzhongshu Sect, publicly exposed that Pei Yan had tried to use a mutiny to detain the Empress Dowager Wu in order to force her to return to the emperor!

As soon as these words came out, the entire court of the Tang Dynasty was almost about to explode!

Who is Wang Benli?

Once, he was a favorite minister of the first emperor Emperor Gaozong, and served as Zuo Shilang in Shangshu Province, and the official was not small and powerful, equivalent to a senior official in the General Office of the State Council. He relied on Gaozong's favor to commit many illegal acts, and was impeached by Shi Di Renjie, the servant at the time. Gaozong wanted to pardon Wang Benli for personal righteousness, but Di Renjie strongly advocated that he should "govern the country according to law" and not pardon. In the end, Gaozong made concessions and demoted Wang Benli from Chang'an.

In the following two or three years, Wang Benli served as the governor of Shengzhou on the frontier. Because it was a small merit to defend the city and not be captured by the Turks, he was recalled to the imperial court by Wu Zetian, reappointed as the head of the household department and summoned him to the cabinet to become the deputy prime minister of the Tongzhong Shumen who participated in politics and politics, that is, the deputy prime minister of the three products under the Tongzhong Shumen.

Wang Benli was belittled by the first emperor but was recalled by the Empress Dowager Wu, and naturally he was extremely grateful for the grace of the Empress Dowager Wu. When he returned to the dynasty, around the time of the death of the first emperor, the political alliance between Empress Dowager Wu and Pei Yan was in the "honeymoon period". So while he tried his best to be loyal to the Empress Dowager Wu, he also took refuge in Pei Yan very decisively and won his trust. It can be said that Wang Benli is one of Pei Yan's most trusted henchmen second only to Liu Qixian.

But this henchman, when Pei Yan fell into an unfavorable situation, did not hesitate to stab him in the back!

Seeing Wang Benli's performance, Pei Yan was almost petrified on the spot, his eyes were straight, and his face was white. He almost forgot about the arguments and scolding, and just froze there.

The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were also a little stunned, I really didn't expect that so many unexpected things would happen in today's court! - Pei Yan wants to mutiny and rebel?!

That's amazing!

"Bloody mouth!" Pei Yan didn't make a sound, Wei Xuantong couldn't bear it anymore, and scolded angrily, "Wang Benli, what evidence do you have?!" ”

"Of course I have proof!" Wang Benli said loudly, "Just a few days ago, Pei Ge Lao secretly summoned his official and General Feng Chenwei to his mansion in the middle of the night, and conspired with us to intercept and detain her halfway while Empress Dowager Wu was going back and forth between the inner court and Princess Taiping's mansion, and then force her to return to the inner court to return to the emperor!" - But at that time, both of us strongly advised Pei Ge Lao Mo to do such an unrighteous act, firstly, Empress Dowager Wu was often guarded by a thousand horsemen, and secondly, such a conspiracy was not enough to achieve great things. Under the repeated persuasion of the two of us, Pei Ge gave up this idea!! ”

"False words, unfounded!" Wei Xuantong reprimanded excitedly, "Wang Benli, you despicable villain! Pei Ge Lao has never treated you badly, how can you be so ungrateful? ”

"Yes, Pei Ge always treats his official well!" Wang Benli said loudly and refused to give in at all, "But that's just private feelings." Compared with the justice of the country, this official can only kill his relatives with righteousness and put national affairs first! ”

After that, Wang Benli also bowed to Pei Yan for a long time, "I'm sorry, Pei Ge Lao!" ”

"Get out! ——" Pei Yan was completely furious, almost jumping up and scolding angrily.

The Manchu Dynasty was surprised, and everyone sighed!

Xue Shao was also speechless, and only said in his heart: When the dispute between gentlemen becomes a dispute between villains with no bottom line and no morality, then all the rules of the game will be broken. Intrigue and morality will soon become useless, and that is the time for a shady conspiracy to come into play.

Did Pei Yan really discuss the mutiny with Wang Benli?

There is no circumstantial evidence, Pei Yan is speechless.

Even General Right Fengchenwei is now "out on business", and there is no proof of life or death, and now he can only let Wang Benli talk nonsense above the court.

"I'm still too young!" Xue Shao could only smile bitterly in his heart, "Zhengzhì, how can it be as clear and simple as I imagined?" …… When these sanctimonious high-ranking officials and Confucians tear off the mask of a gentleman on weekdays, their ugly and despicable side will be unreservedly displayed. How noble and delime they are in normal times, how vile and abominable are their faces now! ”

Just as Xue Shao was thinking about this, someone stood up again and said loudly-

"Minister, I want to impeach Pei Yan in the book!"

Supervising the Imperial History, Cui Cha.

The ministers couldn't help but say secretly in their hearts at the same time: Another one fell into the well!

Cui Cha walked to the center of the court hall and said: "As far as I know, Xue Zhongzhang, an official of the Imperial History Observatory and a colleague who is also the supervisor of the Imperial History, asked the Shangguan for orders before the Yangzhou Rebellion and went to Yangzhou to inspect the place. Not long after he went to Yangzhou, he and Li Jingye killed the governor of Yangzhou and occupied the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion. As we all know, Xue Zhongzhang is Pei Yan's nephew, and you know that he went to Yangzhou. Within a few days of the Yangzhou rebellion, Pei Yantuo was ill and did nothing, and it was not until Li Jingye's rebels captured Runzhou and transmitted the text to the capital that he came to the court. And with the text as a rhetoric, he forced the Empress Dowager Wu to return to power. Li Jingye raised troops outside, Pei Yan forced the palace inside, and even the time and opportunity were so consistent! All this is enough to prove that Pei Yan has the intention of vainly trying to steal the authority of the Tang Dynasty, or he has already colluded with Li Jingye in a vain attempt to completely overthrow the Tang Dynasty and replace it himself! - Therefore, the minister openly proposed to impeach Pei Yan! He must leave the court immediately to accept the strict interrogation of the imperial platform, and he can no longer occupy the central position above the court, let alone let him talk about the military and cause chaos in the government! ”

"Poof......

Pei Yan spat out a mouthful of blood, trembling and pointing at Cui Cha, but he couldn't scold anymore.

Wei Xuantong hurriedly supported him, but it was useless. Pei Yan didn't catch it in one breath and fainted.

The court of the Tang Dynasty suddenly became quiet.

Wu Zetian glanced around the entire court, and said in a leisurely voice: "Come on, take Pei Yan down and put him in Yushitai Prison for later trial!" ”

"Queen Mother, no!" Wei Xuantong hurriedly said: "Pei Ge is an honest and honest official, and he has served the Tang Dynasty for decades. He may have made small mistakes during this period, but he could never rebel! ——The minister guarantees with his head, Pei Yan will not oppose! ”

At this time, Liu Qixian and several other henchmen of Pei Yan finally stood up and said together: "The minister also guarantees that Pei Yan will never participate in the rebellion!" ”

"Whether Pei Yan is rebelling or not is not something we can calculate by casually saying it here." Wu Zetian said calmly, "The facts are in front of you, his nephew Xue Zhongzhang is now an important arm of Li Jingye." The country has its own laws, and since Pei Yan is suspected of rebellion, he must accept the strict investigation of the Yushitai - Zhongqing, there is no need to intercede for Pei Yan anymore. ”

At this time, Wei Xuantong shouted angrily, "If Pei Yan is opposed, we are all anti-thieves!" ”

All over the world are shocked!

Xue Shao couldn't help but be stunned, is this Wei Xuantong a little too righteous?

"Wei Shangshu doesn't have to be righteous." Wu Zetian was not angry, but smiled at each other and said: "This palace knows that you are frank and loyal. This palace knows even more that Pei Yan has always had anti-intentions, and you definitely don't! - Someone, take Pei Yan down! ”

Immediately, more than a dozen Qianniu Beishen and Beishen walked into the hall again. When the ministers saw it, it was obvious that all of these guards had been replaced. One of the leading members, Jiang Zuo, is exceptionally tall, he is Zuo Fengchen Wei Zhonglang General Cheng Boxian!

The ministers couldn't help but take a breath of cool air in their hearts - just when the court was arguing endlessly, all the guards outside the hall came to a big replacement. I can't say, the twelve people who came in to arrest Song Jing at the beginning are probably already on the ground at this moment!

Cheng Boxian walked into the hall with people, and commanded his subordinates to carry Pei Yan and leave.

Wei Xuantong, Liu Qixian and the others were stunned, looking at the direction where Pei Yan left in a daze, and they didn't come back to their senses for a long time.

Xue Shao also fell silent and was speechless for a long time. He thought to himself, I obviously have sufficient evidence and reasons for Pei Yan to step down, why is the script not what I expected at all when the script is played to the end?

After thinking about it again and again, Xue Shao sighed lightly, and said secretly in his heart: I only hope to remove Pei Yan's stumbling block, but Wu Zetian hopes that he will die without a place to be buried. Maybe I can also bring down Pei Yan, but when Pei Yan took the initiative to break the rules of the game, Wu Zetian also changed his strategy decisively without showing weakness and cleaned him up in the simplest and most effective way!

In other words, I, Xue Shao, am just one of Wu Zetian's choices, and it can be regarded as an upright conspiracy. Presumably, in order to defeat Pei Yan, Wu Zetian didn't know how many preparations he had made, including Liu Yuanzhi's backlash, Wang Benli's knife in the back, and Cui Cha's falling stone.

Perhaps more than that? And maybe assassinations, mutinies?

Who knows!!

Unscrupulous means to achieve the end is Wu Zetian's consistent style. Now all she wants is a result.

And then she got the result......

"Retreat from the dynasty-" Wu Zetian's two words woke Xue Shao up from his contemplation.

When he came back to his senses, he saw that the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were like birds and beasts, and almost all of them had already gone through. There was only one Song Jing left, still standing beside Xue Shao.

"Xia Guan remembers that Xue Juma once promised me that he would sit down and have a good talk with me." Song Jing bowed to Xue Shao and said, "I don't know today, is it appropriate?" ”

Xue Shao looked at the stupid white-faced scholar in front of him, and couldn't help but smile, "Can you drink?" ”

“…… Crumb. Song Jing replied.

Xue Shao said seriously: "How about a bucket?" ”

"I'm afraid I'll get drunk!" Song Jing's expression was shocked

Xue Shao laughed twice, "Then two fights!" ”

Song Jing gritted his teeth fiercely, "Xiaguan, sacrifice your life to accompany the gentleman!" …… It's just that I don't know, is Xue Juma celebrating victory, or is he using wine to pour revenge? ”

"You know too much." Xue Shao looked at Song Jing coldly, and said coldly: "But why didn't you think that I was going to kill people?" ”