Chapter 24: The Breaking Stone (4)

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It wasn't until he heard Wu Bi say that dozens of assassins ventured into the palace just to assassinate a Xia palace concubine who had just entered the palace, and he suddenly realized that the killed Xia palace concubine might be the righteous daughter of Xia Mama, and speculated that this Xia Haitang was likely to have a very close relationship with the Yang family.

The emperor's reaction made Liu Yi even more convinced that the facts of the whole thing were not far from what he had guessed. In this way, everything suddenly became clear: the Yang family girl entered the palace, and the Zhang family's sworn party risked the assassination, the purpose of which was nothing more than to prevent the Yang family from resurrecting and regaining control of the six palaces.

Liu Yi has always hated these filthy inner court disputes, but he has been inadvertently and repeatedly involved, and it is difficult to get out. A few years ago, when the official army regained Liangjing, he also had the idea of being a virtuous minister and assisting the emperor in governing the country, but he soon retreated because he witnessed the power struggle in the court and the harem, and finally hung up his crown.

Now, it is difficult for him to refuse the repeated invitations of the new emperor, and he returned to the capital with a pure heart to help people in danger, and lived in the palace as a guest secretary, hoping to help the new emperor safely overcome the crisis at the beginning of his ascension to the pole with his prestige accumulated in the court and the army for many years.

Liu Yi let out a helpless sigh from the bottom of his heart, and said with a wry smile: "I heard my grandmother talk about this girl when I was chatting in the past, but I have never seen it. It's a pity that her good youth turned into a handful of loess! I don't know what the emperor's plans are for the Xia family's death? ”

The emperor had no intention of revealing the true identity of the Xia clan to the few courtiers in front of him. only replied: "She ranks first on the list of proposed seals submitted by the two concubines, and she plans to seal Zhaoyi, but now she has suffered an accident. Let's be buried according to Zhaoyi's rank. The top priority is how to catch the fleeing assassins as soon as possible, find out the main culprit behind them, punish them properly, and eliminate the elbow and armpit scourge. ”

Liu Yi pondered for a moment and said, "According to what Qing Zefang just said, the assassin is not hiding in the capital square. Then it is more likely that they are hidden in the palace.

As it stands, the minister did not advocate a team of people in the palace to track down the Assassins. Because then it is very easy to force them to fight the trapped beasts. His Majesty's safety is at stake. At the same time, the palace will not affect the capital and even the whole country, if there are malicious rumors, the people do not know the truth. Rumors. It will greatly shake people's hearts and create an opportunity for the rebels inside and outside the capital to take advantage of.

Yesterday His Majesty has entrusted Fu Yi with the important task of leading the army to quell the rebellion, and today he may wish to clear the disasters in the palace to be presided over by a capable person, and adopt the method of loosening the outside and tightening the inside, slowing down the outside and slowing down the internal emergency, and carefully visiting. In order to catch them all, eliminate the elbow and armpit troubles. ”

The Emperor listened to him in a few words. The crux of the problem has been explained, and the rights and wrongs of it have been clearly explained, and I can't help but have a light in my eyes, and I said anxiously: "Mr. Dacai, I only feel at ease when I hand over this matter to Mr. to preside, and I hope that Mr. will not refuse." ”

Liu Yi bowed to the ground and responded: "It's not that the minister intends to shirk, but there is actually a person around His Majesty, when it comes to the talent of investigating and exploring secrets, it is far better than the minister, this person has been banned in the palace for a long time, and he knows all the people in the palace well. ”

The emperor couldn't help but praise in his heart: The poison of Liu Yi's vision really has the power to penetrate people's hearts! Although he knew that the person Liu Yi said was no one other than Li Jinzhong, he still didn't want to break it easily, and looked at Jing Yuncong and said, "Does Jing Gong know that there is such a person?" ”

Although Jing Yuncong was silent after entering the palace, he had roughly guessed from the questions and answers of the emperor and Liu Yi and others that the assassin must be related to the Zhang family, but he was born as a military general and had always paid little attention to the open and secret battles in the palace, so the information revealed in the words of the emperor and Liu Yi seemed to be understood and not very clear. Suddenly hearing the emperor ask himself, Jing Yuncong hurriedly stood up and clenched his fists and replied: "Most of the people who are well known to the ministers are in the military camp, and they don't know much about the people in the court. Please forgive me. ”

"So, according to Jing Gong, how can I deal with last night's incident in a safe way?" The emperor wanted to wait until Li Jinzhong came to tell the person recommended by Liu Yi in person, and the other also wanted to hear Jing Yuncong's attitude towards this matter, after all, he was the deputy marshal of the world's soldiers and horses, and his daughter was the most prominent concubine, and the two major court events of the counterinsurgency and Jinggong were closely related.

Although Jing Yuncong is known as a coward, Jun is far less thoughtful, tactful and subtle than Liu Yi, and he said: "What Mr. Liu said about the ban on the Neijing Palace, according to the ministers, is nothing more than to eradicate the remnants of the Zhang clan as soon as possible. Now Zhang Liang fled to the foreign domain, is the leader of the remnants of the Zhang family, assassinated in the palace, even if he is not personally involved, he will be in charge of the matter, only by trying to capture him, escort back to Beijing, and punish the crime according to the law, can he force the small people who hide in the palace and Beijing to lose their leader, and dare not make trouble again. ”

"It's a good thief to capture the king first, and Gong Jing's words can make up for Mr. Liu's shortcomings, and they really hit the nail on the head." When the emperor heard Zhang Liang fleeing from the outer domain, his heart moved, and while praising Jing Yuncong, he asked Xie Liangchen, who hurriedly walked into the palace, "Is the Duke of Jin still unwilling to enter the palace to see me?" ”

"Long live Hui, the Duke of Jin has entered the palace on his shoulders and is now waiting for the decree outside the palace." Xie Liangchen glanced at the emperor uneasily and replied softly.

Entering the palace on the shoulder is a kind of care given by the emperor to the elderly minister, and it can also be called a courtesy. Since the first emperor recovered Chang'an, he has never heard of a minister who was allowed to enter the palace by the emperor's grace.

Today, Li Jinzhong first refused the emperor's summons under the pretext of a head injury, and then asked someone to carry him into the palace to see the emperor without permission.

Jing Yuncong, Liu Yi, and everyone in the Yanying Palace, including Zeng Qingze and Wei Chang, heard Xie Liangchen's reply, their faces all changed, worried that the emperor would be furious, and immediately blamed Li Jinzhong.

To everyone's surprise, the emperor didn't seem to hear the words "Shoulder Woo Entering the Palace", but calmly instructed Xie Liangchen: "Summons the Duke of Jin to enter the palace to speak." ”

Li Jin is loyal to the emperor, even though he has the merit of supporting Dingding and being the prince of the country, but after all, he is just a eunuch, the emperor's house slave, and the emperor's preferential treatment of him is above himself and Liu Yi, Jing Yuncong is quite unhappy about this, peeking at Liu Yi, but seeing that he looks calm, he looks unconcerned, and he can't help but be secretly surprised.

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