Chapter 226: Removing Stumbling Blocks
The truth finally surfaced, Xuanyang Jun is hateful, but Bai Yong is greedy for money and vicious, and he ignores the rules of the rivers and lakes, which is also despicable. Ning Jun was furious, rushed over and kicked Bai Yong is foot, kicking him to the side.
When the Meng sisters heard this, they were frightened and angry, staring at Bai Yong with hateful eyes. They didn't expect that Xuanyang Jun had become so mad that he would openly poison and kill the envoys of the dignified Yan Kingdom in the official residence.
At this time, Su Qin was surprisingly calm, and he hurriedly made a gesture to let Ning Jun calm down his anger. He smiled at the Meng sisters again to soothe their nervousness.
Su Qin said to the Meng sisters: "The matter has come to this, we can only seek justice if we make Zhao Hou clear as soon as possible." He asked Meng Ting to find a silk silk, briefly wrote down the process of the assassination, and asked Bai Yong to draw a signature on it.
Ning Jun brought the silk silk to Bai Yong, Bai Yong looked at the silk silk with his eyes, and said embarrassedly: "I will sign it, but there is no ink, how can I sign it." ”
Ning Jun scolded: "You still want to ink mud, I'll find it for you." As he spoke, he pulled out his sword, and immediately picked out Bai Yong's right middle finger, and added: "Now that the ink is ready, you can sign it." Bai Yong had no power to resist, trembling with his numb right hand, stretched out his blood-dripping middle finger to sign on the silk.
Su Qin saw that things were in order, so he tied Bai Yongjie firmly, locked him in the wing, and gave him an antidote. Su Qin and the Meng sisters agreed that early tomorrow morning, without waiting for Zhao Hou to get up and go to court, the two sisters would take Su Qin to the harem to find Zhao Hou to complain.
That night, Su Qin and Ning Jun took turns sleeping and guarding Bai Yong, for fear that he would escape and let Ji Lu fall through. As soon as the sky lit up the next day, Su Qin went to wake up the Meng sisters.
The four of them escorted Bai Yong and rode Su Qin's prime minister's carriage straight to the back door of Handan Palace.
When they arrived at the checkpoint on the moat, the guards on duty there were still leaning on the halberd and taking a nap, Meng Di shouted: "Alas, wake up!" "Scared the two guards out of the woods.
Meng Ting shouted: "You guards, look at the sleepy and hazy, how do you guard the palace." ”
Meng Di continued: "Hurry up and open the palace gate, we have urgent matters to report to the king." ”
The two sisters sang and made the two guards frightened and frightened, the Meng sisters are frequent visitors to Handan Palace, and they are the famous beautiful nobles in Handan City, which guards have peeked at a lot.
They saw that the Meng sisters were upright and angry, and their expressions were very urgent, coupled with the special relationship between these two and Zhao Hou, so the two guards did not dare to stop them, and hurriedly ran to the palace gate and asked the guards inside to open the door.
The guards inside were probably sleepy, and the guards outside the door shouted for a while before the door was opened.
With the Meng sisters leading the way, their carriage drove straight in. The Meng sisters reprimanded the guards inside, and then they came to the Yangqing Palace, where Zhao Hou often stayed.
When they arrived at the front of the Yangqing Palace, a group of people got out of the carriage, and the Meng sisters went to the gate of the palace, found the eunuch on duty, and asked him to send a message inside, asking to see Zhao Hou urgently. When the eunuch saw the two of them roaring in a hurry, he didn't dare to slack off, so he turned around and entered the palace to report to Zhao Hou.
Zhao Hou had already gotten up at this time and was combing his hair by the serving eunuch. When he heard that the Meng sisters urgently asked to see him, he was very surprised, and thought, "Why is it so urgent, do you come to ask for a meeting without waiting for the court?" ”
He was puzzled, but he didn't panic, but asked the eunuch to still comb his hair, coil his hair in a bun, put on the crown, and then came out to the main hall of the Yangqing Palace, and let the eunuch Xuan Meng sisters and others enter the palace.
The Meng sisters and Su Qin went in first, and after hurriedly bowing to Zhao Hou, Su Qin immediately said, "Please ask the prince to avenge Weichen, Weichen was assassinated in Zhao State and almost died in Huangquan." ”
When Zhao Hou heard this, his eyebrows were raised, and he asked in surprise: "Who is so bold and dares to assassinate the envoys of the Yan Kingdom." ”
Su Qin replied: "Weichen has already seized the assassin with Meng Di and Meng Ting and escorted him to the outside of the Yangqing Palace. The Meng sisters also hurriedly echoed Su Qin and asked Zhao Hou to investigate the clues of the matter in detail.
Marquis Zhao ordered the eunuch in front of him to find the guards and escort the assassin into the main hall. Bai Yong was escorted into the main hall, and he didn't dare to look directly at Zhao Hou, kneeling on the ground and trembling. After a night of suffering, he had no will and was wilted.
Su Qin presented the silk silk signed by Bai Yong to Zhao Hou, and Zhao Hou glanced at it and became angry. He sharply questioned Bai Yong about what happened, and Bai Yong recounted the circumstances of the assassination.
At the end, he shouted loudly: "The reason why Xiaomin is bold and reckless is because he was forced by Xuanyang Jun and forced to beg for forgiveness. If you don't believe it, you can find the officials to confront you, and what the people say is true. ”
When Zhao Hou heard that his younger brother was so reckless, he disregarded the dignity of Zhao Guo's recruitment, and no matter how Zhao Guo explained to his neighbors, he disregarded human life, ignored the law and discipline, and became angry. For the sake of prudence, he also deliberately ordered the guards to rush to the official palace to raise the Qing Palace for questioning.
The official was still asleep, but he was caught by the guards sent by Zhao Hou and escorted to the palace, he had already guessed on the way: it must be what he secretly assisted Xuanyang Jun to do was known to Zhao Hou, and he was uneasy.
When I arrived at Yangqing Palace, I saw Bai Yong who was kneeling on the ground trembling, and I saw Su Qin standing aside, and thought, "It's over, the matter has been completely revealed." ”
Zhao Hou had a gloomy face and asked, "Did you participate in the action of assassinating the envoys of the Yan Kingdom and truthfully recruited them?" ”
At this time, the official only wanted to avoid death, where did he dare to hide it, so he pushed all the things on Xuanyangjun, and described himself as a poor worm who was forced to be helpless.
After passing through the interrogation officials again, Zhao Hou had completely understood the shameful behavior of his younger brother Xuanyangjun, and couldn't help but be so angry that he smoked. He secretly scolded Xuanyang Jun for being mad and unreasonable.
Zhao Hou personally walked off the imperial platform, came to Su Qin's side, took Su Qin's hand, and said: "The widow is not strict with his younger brother, and almost let you die in my Zhao Kingdom, I am really sorry for you and the monarch of Yan Kingdom, please forgive Prime Minister Su Cheng." ”
Su Qin hurriedly knelt on the ground again and said: "Weichen's life is a small matter, but he is deeply afraid that it will damage the relationship between the two countries, causing the two countries to fight each other, which will inevitably cause a sad situation of human suffering, and also give other princes an opportunity to take advantage of, which will be greatly disadvantageous to the Zhao State." ”
Su Qin's words not only contained the heart of worrying about Zhao State, but also secretly had some threatening meaning, because if he sent the news of the assassination of Yan State's envoys back to Yan State, Zhao State would not be able to escape the situation of being ridiculed and condemned by other princes.
In order to calm the matter, Zhao Hou comforted Su Qin and said: "I know that Su Cheng has feelings for Zhao Guo, and he will not easily publicize this ugly matter, and the widow will severely punish the perpetrator and bring him to justice to relieve Prime Minister Su Cheng's hatred." ”
Su Qin said: "Wei Chen knows that with the wisdom of a prince and a prince, he will definitely be able to analyze things clearly and judge impartially, and he is convinced of this. Wechen is also willing to turn big things into small things and small things, calm down the incident, and benefit the people of the two countries. ”
Zhao Hou looked at Su Qin, hummed a few words of approval in his mouth, and nodded with satisfaction.
Then, he immediately issued an edict to arrest Xuanyang Jun and put him in the Suning Garden, where the children of the clan were imprisoned, and stripped of all official positions and fame, and if he did not have his own edict, he was never allowed to step out of the garden for half a step.
He also ordered Bai Yong and the officials to be arrested and thrown into the Yamen of the Sikou, and the officials who were in charge of the punishment were convicted according to the rules.
Zhao Hou was so angry that he simply didn't even see the face of Xuanyang Jun Zhao Yun, and punished him on the spot. Of course, he also gave it to Su Qin on the spot, wanting to block Su Qin's mouth.
How could Su Qin not know this, he was naturally very happy when he saw that he had moved to the biggest stumbling block in the competition for the prime minister of Zhao State.
The Meng sisters were also very satisfied with this result, and they were of course overjoyed that Xuanyang Jun, who was worried about taking advantage of his position as prime minister, to completely eliminate the situation of fighting for the throne after the death of Marquis Zhao.
After Su Qin and the Meng sisters met Zhao Hou, they said goodbye, Zhao Hou also intended to continue to talk with Su Qin for a while, to find out Su Qin's thoughts on the prime minister's candidate, as soon as he opened his mouth, Su Qin immediately asked Zhao Hou to say goodbye on the grounds that he was inconvenient to disturb Zhao Hou's court.
Su Qin was actually eager to confess his willingness to be the prime minister of Zhao to Zhao Hou, because the position of the prime minister of Zhao was a real position, unlike his identity as the prime minister of Yan State, which was a false title. Becoming the actual prime minister of Zhao is equivalent to opening the door to lobbying other eastern princes, and the road ahead is suddenly bright.
The reason why Su Qin was reluctant to talk to Zhao Hou in detail was precisely to avoid the Meng sisters, and he was not sure about the attitude of the Meng sisters at this time: Xuanyangjun had already moved, who knew if they would have the ambition to support their own people to be prime ministers again.
Therefore, Su Qin was ready to find a suitable time to ask to see Zhao Hou alone, strive for Zhao Hou's approval, and win the position of prime minister in one fell swoop. Now, it is really not the right time to convince Zhao Hou.
Su Qin took the Meng sisters and Ning Jun and drove out of Handan Palace in a carriage, and the sun was already three poles above this time. As soon as the carriage left the palace gate, the Meng sisters suddenly couldn't hold back their joy, they smiled and high-fived Su Qin repeatedly, celebrating the elimination of the hateful Xuanyang Jun.
Ning Jun calmly looked at the demeanor and expressions of Su Qin and the Meng sisters on the side, he felt for the first time that in fact, Su Qin may not be the kind of infatuated nerd he thought before, he was still measured in his interactions with the Meng sisters, otherwise he would not have arranged things so properly.
However, the relationship between men and women between them is mixed with so many interests and considerations, and they can still fit together with each other, like glue and paint, and they are affectionate. That's not easy to do.
Thinking of this, Ning Jun couldn't help but grin. Su Qin and the Meng sisters were in excitement and excitement, thinking that Ning Jun was also laughing happily, who cared if he was ashamed of himself.