At the inner gate of Liu Chengyou in front of the Yuanhua Gate, the officials of the Imperial Historical Observatory, the Privy Council, the officials of the various ranks, the Dali Temple, the Taishi Supervisor, the Honglu Temple, and so on knelt down in a large area. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info The back of everyone's neck is soaked with sweat. After all, the sun is now in the sky again. However, this eclipse was really not short, and it lasted less than half a pillar of incense, which according to modern parlance, "lasted nearly ten minutes".

Due to the sudden eclipse, the main hall of the palace was closed according to the routine, Liu Chengyou had to change his clothes, changed the white robe called plain clothes, and then came to meet them in front of the Yuanhua Gate, not only the emperor, but even the Empress Dowager Li hurriedly ordered the old servants to carry themselves to understand the situation, this change is really too appalling.

The set of three-character formulas that Cheng Yuan made up blindly slipped through the mouth and spread in Kaifeng during the holiday yesterday, and this morning it has completely spread throughout the inner court and the outer court. Originally, everyone was watching coldly, wanting to see what Li Ye would do from Chengyuan's self-throwing net, but in fact, most of them didn't feel that Liu Yanseng had any serious crimes, and they were even more sympathetic to Hu Luan.

Now they have to express their stance immediately, and they don't even need to discuss, as long as the solar eclipse suddenly rises, Guo Wei and his imperial historians immediately ask to obey the will of heaven to overturn the case for Hu Luan, then everyone else is afraid that they will have to follow Da Luan, even if some people do not advocate turning over both cases completely, at least they also ask for a pardon for Hu Luan.

If Liu Zhiyuan is alive, maybe everyone will have to be silent for a few days before making conclusions, but facing the young Liu Chengyou is another matter. Especially the treacherous and cunning Su Fengji is still hiding in the Great Inner now, shrinking in Zhongshu Province and not daring to come forward suddenly, so of course the others are more inclined to Hu Luan's side.

When Liu Chengyou encountered a problem, he was the first to find Su Fengji, and if Su Fengji was not present, then he had to turn to Feng Dao for help. Although Feng Xianggong didn't teach Liu Chengyou for a day, after all, he was the prince and master ordered by his father in terms of name, and he had to help himself speak no matter how he faced.

However, what is even more unfortunate is that Feng Nine-Tailed Fox is not in the court, and in the middle of last month, Feng Dao's son, Feng Ji, a talented son of Wailang, a member of the household department, squandered in the Qinglou and quarreled with other officials, causing a sensation in the capital. Although the reign of the first emperor was only thirty-six days, after all, it had not been half a year since then, and Feng Dao asked for the title of Tongping Zhangshi and returned to his home in Heyang to think about it behind closed doors on the grounds of lax discipline, and the imperial court approved it.

Everyone thought that Feng Dao was a helpless move, and only a few people in the inner circle such as Wang Zhang and Su Fengji understood in their hearts: The political struggle between the DPRK and China before Li Shouzhen in the Western Expedition will definitely have a victory or defeat, at least a phased victory. The nine-tailed fox was afraid that he would be caught between the emperor and the queen party and the Guo party, so he used the excuse to slip away......

Since Guangzheng Hall was bowed by the ministers, Liu Chengyou can be regarded as a pro-government, but everyone understands that the four major Gu Ming are only nominally returning to normalcy, but in fact they still hold a power structure like a minister of Gu Ming. Similarly, although Empress Dowager Li couldn't do anything like hanging the curtain and asking politics, she still had something to say in the court situation, and seeing her son's appearance of six gods and no owner, she knew that she had to come forward to clean up the matter.

"Ladies and gentlemen," Empress Dowager Li tried her best to calm her irritable emotions, "the first emperor used the difficult entrepreneurship in the dangerous place of Hedong to start a business, and drove the northern country away with immortal achievements, so that he had the capital to force the Quartet to encroach and control Heluo China steadily." ”

Empress Dowager Li's eyes swept over each of the courtiers, and she watched to see if any of them had secretly raised their heads and showed some strange behavior.

"Now, the country is in a period of great mourning, and Li Shouzhen in the river is in turmoil in the city; Chang'an Zhao Siwan led the beast to devour people. The road is difficult, our mother and son took over the country and mountains left by the emperor, and the danger is like walking on thin ice. Now that there is an eclipse (Note 1), the heavens warn that these great responsibilities are the fault of our mother and son, and the people of the world should not be held responsible. ”

When Empress Dowager Li said this, her eyes suddenly turned red, she choked slightly, and then paused, as if she was waiting for someone else to answer something.

"The emperor and the queen mother have no fault! Thousands of culpables, only those shameless villains! ”

Wang Zuo, the deputy envoy of the third division, can not only give people nicknames, but also the speed of answering is quite fast.

Empress Dowager Li glanced back at the emperor, and when the emperor saw this, he had to sigh and say, "What the sage Empress Dowager said is very true!" The people of the world should not bear such a criminal responsibility, Hu Luan is known as being poor and loving the people, and he should not be framed by others, Li Ye ...... He made Wu Desi into a miasma, and his sins are unforgivable! ”

Empress Dowager Li frowned slightly, after all, Li Ye was her own relative, and she felt that her son would raise things to Li Ye's level all of a sudden, which was too reckless.

"Your Majesty, Queen Mother," Wang Zuo knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly.

Empress Dowager Li hurriedly said: "Wang Qing don't want to be like this, get up and speak quickly!" You raised a champion for the imperial court, Xianlang is so talented, it's too late for our mother to thank you, hurry up! ”

Wang Zuo finally stood up: "Your Majesty, Queen Mother, there are two meanings that Weichen wants to say, one is that although Uncle Li Ye mistakenly put Liu Yanseng and Hu Luanzhi in prison, he is loyal to the Lord after all. Why did the first emperor let him take charge of the Wude Division? It's because this person is iron-faced and ruthless. According to Weichen's view, it was still the judge of Dengzhou, Shi Zaide, who maliciously framed him and wanted to put Liu Hu and the others to death. ”

Empress Dowager Li breathed a sigh of relief: "What Wang Qing said does have some truth, so what about the second?" ”

Wang Zuo continued: "Second: The emperor inherited the mandate of heaven, and Cheng Kui showed the heavens as an early warning, which is meritorious to the world and the country. The minister asked His Majesty to temporarily remove the name of the dog king Pu Zhuangyuan and place it in Kuiyuan to conform to the will of heaven. ”

When he interceded for Li Ye just now, many courtiers kneeling on the ground secretly scolded Wang Zuo for being shameless, but when they heard him say that "Cheng Kui showed heaven as a warning", he felt that this person dared to put this kind of talk and was not afraid of committing taboos, and there was a bit of a seed in his shamelessness.

"Wang Qing's words are really serious," Liu Chengyou hurriedly shook his head, "Wang Pu's test paper is indeed the best among many test takers, his strategy essay writing is magnificent Qi Wei, and his vision is broad, whether it is Bachelor Wang or I, they all recognize it, but with this person, the imperial court will have a lot of harvest for opening an undergraduate year!" ”

Empress Dowager Li also said: "That's true, as for Cheng Kuiyuan's test paper, it's okay if the imperial court is especially gracious and gives another appropriate name." ”

Wang Zuo was just about to use his brains to come up with a name for the wood wolf Kuisu, when suddenly Shi Hongzhao in front of him spoke, Shi Hongzhao was a rough voice, and this opening only startled him

"Weichen has the courage to enlighten the saint, the saint queen mother, Li Ye detained Liu Yanseng Hu Luan, even if it was because of the villain's words of Shi Zaide, but Li Ye tortured Hu Luan to extract confessions, and even mutilated people's limbs, if there is corporal punishment during the trial of suspects according to the laws and regulations of the imperial court, they must be summoned to record it in the case for inquest.

Now among the people in front of the Yuanhua Gate, in addition to Liu Chengyou and Empress Dowager Liu's mother and son, Guo Wei and Yang Wei are still in the Privy Council, Su Fengji is hiding in Zhongshu Province, and the person with the highest rank and status is really Shi Hongzhao, the commander of the Imperial Guards......

Empress Dowager Li knew that Shi Hongzhao was suddenly in trouble at this time, that was to beat the water dog and directly clean up Li Ye from the court, she was worried about how to prevaricate in the past, and suddenly the inner government ordered Xu Min to hold a small box and climb to the front of the royal car.

"Your Majesty! The martial envoy has something to show the saint, slave maid...... The slave maid helped Li Hou to present it! ”

Empress Dowager Li directly took the box and opened it quickly, and saw that there was a bloody finger inside, which looked weird and miserable.

"It's ......"

"Back to the saint Queen Mother, this is the little thumb of the uncle Li Hou, Li Hou said that he was confused and disabled Hu Tingshi's limbs for a while the month before last, and he regretted it, and the sin was unforgivable, so he cut off his little finger on the spot to show repentance."

Empress Dowager Li was dizzy, although Li Ye was vicious, but after all, he was his own brother, he gritted his teeth and closed the small box, his mood was complicated, he really didn't know where to start......

Everyone knelt on the ground, not only did they not dare to speak, but they didn't even dare to breathe......

"Where are Li Ye's others?" Liu Chengyou clenched his fists and asked.

Xu Fuling gasped and replied: "He is still kneeling outside and waiting, saying that he deserves to die for his crimes, and he wants to ask for a decree to judge himself." ”

Everyone never expected Li Ye to be so ruthless, Shi Hongzhao knelt on the ground and closed his eyes and sighed slightly, the so-called gecko broke its tail to survive, Li Ye played this ruthless trick of "breaking his fingers to survive", this time I am afraid that he will escape again. However, Uncle Guo's decisive actions really made him admire him a little......

Liu Chengyou had always wanted to give Li Ye the title and dispatch of the northern envoy of the Xuanhui Yuan, so as to hand over all the power of the inner court to him, but now that there is an eclipse of the sun and the sky is warning, he has to completely dispel this idea.

"Although Wu Desi's torture is constrained by the imperial court system, it has not been controlled by the official offices of foreign dynasties in previous years, this is a common practice, not to mention that although Li Hou is guilty, but such an act does seem to have a sense of remorse, according to my opinion, I will be punished for one year, and I will keep my post and send it to see the aftermath."

"Your Majesty Shengming!" Wang Zuo and Shi Hongzhao replied at the same time.

"Later, Liu Yanseng and Hu Luanzhi will be transferred back to Kaifeng Mansion again, this evening, the second division of Dali Temple of the Criminal Department, um...... Just add the three courtyards of the Yushitai, all of them have one person each, and the five divisions will interrogate, so this matter will be over quickly. Where is Su Yuju? ”

"The minister is here!"

Su Yuqi, the servant of the Criminal Department, also knelt in the Yuanhua Gate, he knew that since the sky had signaled, then the matter of Dengzhou would naturally be over.

"You know how to judge the cattle slaughter case, and those anti-ear advice from Cheng Kuiyuan's scientific field," when he said the words "anti-ear advice", the emperor couldn't help but grit his back molars fiercely, "The anti-ear words are definitely not instigated by Liu Hu and the others, the so-called disobedience of the scientific field, then withdraw the case." ”

"Weichen understands, and after a while, he will prepare to sign with Dali Temple and Yushi, thinking that it will be properly handled."

"That Cheng Kuiyuan, call him to the inner court tomorrow to see him, and Guo Wei, let him put down the matter at hand in the Privy Council tomorrow and come over with Cheng Kuiyuan to see him."

Note 1, the so-called "total solar eclipse" is a modern scientific term, and the total solar eclipse in ancient times was called "solar eclipse". The original meaning of the Chinese character "both" is to eat something clean, and by extension, it means "to complete".

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