Chapter 178: Investigation (3)
As we all know, Zhao Guangyi, as the younger brother of Taizu Zhao Kuangyin, inherited the unification that should have been inherited by Taizu's son when Taizu had several sons. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
This matter caused a lot of rumors at the time, and many people said that he was not right, and Wang Jien brought up the old matter again at this time, which was tantamount to adding fuel to the fire.
At that time, it was rumored that before Taizu's death, Wang Jien asked Wang Jien to find the prince, and an edict was handed down, but Wang Jien found Zhao Guangyi first, and Zhao Guangyi became the only person Taizu had seen before he died, and he was the only one who knew about the edict.
Zhao Guangyi took the edict that was said to be left by Taizu and ascended the emperor's throne, Wang Jien continued to be the chief eunuch of his inner palace, and the sons of Taizu were dead and crippled, and none of them had a good end.
In this rumor, Wang Jien's role is very large, as he said, if he did not go to Zhao Guangyi at that time, but found Zhao Kuangyin's crown prince, then who is the current Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, the outcome is difficult to determine.
Although many years have passed since this incident, many people are old ministers, so they naturally know the trickiness in it, although everyone has no evidence, but the guess in their hearts is certain.
Now hearing the words of Wang Jien, the guess in the hearts of the ministers has finally been confirmed.
As soon as Zhao Guangyi saw the appearance of the ministers, he knew what they were thinking, and he couldn't help but be even more annoyed.
In this way, Wang Jien's chances of wanting to live were directly wiped out.
The court meeting became like this, naturally it couldn't go on, Zhao Guangyi left angrily, and the ministers had to disperse.
There is no news that cannot be circulated in the court, and the passage about Wang Jien before his death soon spread in Kaifeng City through various channels, although it is not yet known to everyone, but there are not a few people who know.
Zhao Gu naturally knew the news, and Zhao Gu could only smile bitterly at solving the eternal mystery of Zhao Guangyi's succession because of his own reasons.
Wang Jien may not have figured out how he died.
This question Zhao Gu can tell him that he is stupid to death.
Because Zhao Gu was calculating him as early as when he was at the post station of Zhending Mansion, but he still didn't know that after Zhao Gu entered the territory of Kaifeng Mansion, he also carried out an assassination of him, isn't this stupid or what?
In the post station that day, the reason why Zhao Gu forced the prefect to write a report to the imperial court was to overthrow Wang Jien today.
In other words, in fact, the results of today's court meeting were fundamentally led by him.
Just imagine, when Zhao Gu and his party returned to Kaifeng from Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, Wang Jien was able to ignore the consequences of the Liao people turning their faces and dealing with himself, and still wanted to betray Zhao Gu's whereabouts, which shows that his heart to kill Zhao Gu is very enthusiastic.
Then the problem is, he has been assassinating again and again, but he has not succeeded again and again, will he give up?
Apparently not.
So, Zhao Gu asked the prefect of Zhending to write a report to find out that Zhao Gu was assassinated.
Immediately afterwards, Cao Bin, the old fox, also took advantage of the situation to tell everyone about being chased and killed by the Liao soldiers.
These two news were released at the same time, and the impact on the officials was very great, because the Song Dynasty has always had the rule of 'no use of force', not only against neighboring countries, but also in court battles, assassins are not allowed to come, and whoever uses them will become the public enemy of everyone.
However, Zhao Gu was assassinated twice, which was intolerable for many rotten Confucians above the court.
At this moment, Li Fu sprinkled a fire again, stabbing out Zhao Gu for the third time and directly detonating the atmosphere in the Zichen Palace.
Obviously, Zhao Guangyi was also very surprised by this matter, he was a face-loving emperor, so he naturally did not allow such a thing to happen, so he ordered a thorough investigation.
As a result, Wang Jien knew that he could no longer cover the matter, so he could only take the initiative to admit his mistakes.
This is also something that Zhao Gu has long expected, because Wang Jien is a eunuch, like duckweed on water, everything comes from Zhao Guangyi, the emperor, once the emperor wants to check him, everything about him will become transparent, and he can't hide from Zhao Guangyi's eyes at all.
There is also a reason why Zhao Gu said that Wang Jien was stupid.
In fact, from the time Zhao Guangyi asked Wang Jien to go down to find Xiao Qi who protected Zhao Gu, Wang Jien still had a chance to live, as long as he interceded with Zhao Guangyi in private and admitted his sins, Zhao Guangyi might try to cover it up for him because of his love for many years.
But he was lucky, thinking that Xiao Qi might not know Hu Hu, but it naturally backfired, Xiao Qi not only recognized Hu Hu, but also was known by the ministers in the Zichen Palace.
At this time, even if Zhao Guangyi had the intention to cover up for Wang Jien, he couldn't escape the eyes of the ministers.
What's more, it is precisely because Wang Jien has been hiding from Zhao Guangyi, the emperor, that Zhao Guangyi is very insecure, thinking that Wang Jien has ulterior motives, and after learning that Hu Hu turned out to be the vegetable supplier of the palace, he immediately began to suspect that Wang Jien was coming.
Wang Jien admitted at this time that he was the mastermind behind the scenes, which made Zhao Guangyi feel that he was suspected of wanting to be caught and indulged, and he was even more uneasy about him.
As for Wang Jien who spit out that Zhao Guangyi really wanted to kill himself after hearing that he was going to kill him, he was even more stupid.
Which emperor can make people question the legitimacy of his throne?
In the context of the emperor's control of a country, the emperor's majesty and status must not be shaken, otherwise he will definitely die.
Thanks to Wang Jien serving two generations of emperors, he didn't even know this, and he deserved to die.
In the palace of the Marquis of Zhuozhou County, after listening to Wang Jien's incident, Zhao Gu was busy with other things, Wang Jien was no better than Lu Mengzheng, such an opponent was not taken seriously by Zhao Gu, so it was just a little trick to bring him down, so naturally he couldn't attract much attention from Zhao Gu.
As for whether there will be a sense of accomplishment in bringing down such a stupid person, it is conceivable.
Do you get into a fight with a three-year-old and get a sense of accomplishment if you win?
Walking leisurely in the Hou Mansion, Zhao Gu came to the courtyard where Mrs. Fan was.
When the maids saw Zhao Gu coming, they hurriedly greeted them, and Mrs. Fan heard the maid's report and followed out.
Behind him was the cute Fan Zhongyan.
"Master...... It's the Father. Xiao Fan Zhongyan shouted inarticulately.
Zhao Gu laughed, hugged him directly, and then entered the attic.
Zhao Gu and Mrs. Fan sat down separately, Zhao Gu asked some daily things, such as whether Mrs. Fan was used to living here, etc., Mrs. Fan replied with a smile, saying that she was all right, and thanked Zhao Gu for taking care of her.