Chapter 153: Officialdom Earthquake
Empress Dowager Dong was stabbed to death, and the court was shocked. [ads:This site has a new URL,Shorthand method:,.] In the palace, how heavily guarded it is, but such a tragedy happened. Liu Xie was furious, after all, Empress Dowager Dong had blessed him to grow up and saved him from the poisonous hands of Empress Dowager He. That night, the commander of the Praetorian Guard on duty was put on death row by Liu Xie, and as soon as the funeral of the Empress Dowager Dong was completed, he was executed and buried.
The surviving palace maids in Mrs. Dong ** were dragged by Liu Xie's ministers for questioning overnight. These palace maids were in the palace of the Empress Dowager Dong at the time, so they also heard the words of the second brother of the Zhu family. It's just that when their confessions were passed to Liu Xie, Liu Xie couldn't believe it.
The Wei family is also a big family, and it can barely be regarded as a royal family and nobleman, but the Wei family will actually send someone to the palace to assassinate. In order to avoid the leakage of the testimony, Liu Xie ordered that all the palace maids be secretly executed.
And in the dozen or so members of the foggy Qili, the Praetorian Guard really didn't find anything that represented their identity. However, there is the jade plate dropped by the second brother of the Zhu family, and the corpse of the leader of the Li Wei family who is foggy, and it seems that all of them have come to light.
Although a vicious fight was directed at the Wei family, Liu Xie still wanted to continue the investigation, so he ordered the whole city to search and find out the remnants of these people. After all, there was one person in the palace who escaped, if he just didn't ask, where would he put the royal face? What's more, what if that person enters the palace again to assassinate him?
It's just that during the search, the Praetorian Guards did not find the second brother of the Zhu family, but found the two beloved sons of General Huangfu Song and General Zhu Jun who were tied up in a small courtyard in the north of the city. When the news came out, the court was even more shocked, and someone dared to kidnap the beloved sons of the two old generals, which was simply lawless.
After all, the two old generals made a lot of contributions to the Han Dynasty, and Liu Xie, in order to appease the two old generals, ordered a thorough investigation of the matter when the second brother of the Zhu family was arrested.
After investigating this matter, something happened, and the other courtyard turned out to be the property of Dong Chong, the hussar general of the dynasty. It's just that the Empress Dowager Dong just died, but Liu Xie couldn't bear to attack Dong Chong, so he kept not announcing the results of this investigation.
Liu Xie did not announce the results of this investigation, and the people who investigated the case had no choice but to continue to investigate and pretend, but these people pretended to be a little too much. The two old generals saw that these people had been working hard to intervene in this matter, and finally made up their minds and told them that someone from the palace had come to their own affairs.
How dare those officials investigating the case conceal such important news, they can only sue Liu Xie for this news. When Liu Xie heard this, he felt a little frightened. This matter is actually related to the news of the palace, doesn't it mean that someone in the palace conspired to rebel?
It's just that Dong Cheng is pitiful, he didn't do anything, just because someone wanted to recommend him to be Sikong, but now Sikong didn't do it, but became a suspect. However, although Dong Cheng is pitiful, he can't be said to be wronged. This person really has the intention to set up Liu Xie, and then let their relatives surnamed Dong take power.
Liu Xie didn't have a seizure at this time, but continued to endure it, wanting to see what could be found in the end. But Huangfu Song's next words made Liu Xie a little unable to sit still. Huangfu Song pointed out that the person in the palace who came to him at the beginning was a little eunuch who died in Mrs. Dong's **.
What is this one, this means that the Empress Dowager Dong was involved in the kidnapping of the two old generals' beloved sons, and even the mastermind behind this matter is the Empress Dowager Dong.
Liu Xie thought carefully about the method that Ye Mo taught Ye Que and Ye Que taught him, and found that there must be something strange about this matter. The first thing that Empress Dowager Dong did was for the interests of the Dong family, and secondly, it hurt the interests of the Ye family. After that, it was Ye Mo who told the commander of the Praetorian Guard on duty that someone came to assassinate him at night, and then, if someone really came to assassinate him at night, and the person who died was still Empress Dowager Dong.
A qiē of a qiē, pointing to the Ye family. Although one of the people who came to assassinate was one of the Wei family, although the person who fled left behind a jade plate of the Wei family, although the person who scared the Empress Dowager Dong to death reported that his family was a member of the Wei family. However, the Wei family had no motive.
As the saying goes, there is only one truth, which excludes all the impossibilities, and the rest of the situation, even if it is unexpected, is the only truth.
After guessing this, Liu Xie ordered to count all the anomalies in Mrs. Dong ** recently. The eunuch palace maid in Mrs. Dong** was either killed by the second brother of the Zhu family, or executed by Liu Xie herself, but as long as there is something abnormal in Mrs. Dong**, there will always be something abnormal.
Sure enough, it was only a day's time, and the abnormal situation in Mrs. Dong's ** was counted. First of all, it is the news of the imperial dining room, two days ago, the Empress Dowager Dong asked the imperial dining room to prepare more than 20 people to eat, but no one went to visit the door that day.
Then, there was the news from the guards of the Praetorian Guard, two days ago, more than 20 officials entered the palace and were taken away by the little eunuch in Mrs. Dong.
Excluding dissidents and forming parties for personal gain, Empress Dowager Dong really has bad intentions. But the Empress Dowager Dong is dead after all, and Liu Xie can't take the corpse of the Empress Dowager Dong to whip it.
Since he can't talk about the Empress Dowager Dong, and the Ye family has the officials that Liu Xie relies on the most, he naturally won't move. However, someone has to take the blame, so the Empress Dowager He is miserable.
Empress Dowager He brutalized the prince and other concubines in the **, and Liu Xie was dissatisfied with her for a long time. That was really a psychological shadow when I was a child, and now in this situation, I can only let the Empress Dowager He take the blame.
At Liu Xie's suggestion, all the testimony pointed to the Empress Dowager He, who was difficult to distinguish. Once Empress Dowager He relied on her own means to do evil with her brother He Jin. Now, He Jin has already died, and the Empress Dowager He has offended too many people, and it is impossible for anyone to stand up and speak up to Empress Dowager He.
However, Liu Xie said that considering that Empress Dowager He was the woman of his father after all, he was exempted from the death penalty and just went to the cold palace. However, for a woman like Empress Dowager He, being in the cold palace is more uncomfortable than a death sentence. Moreover, Empress Dowager He is the Empress Dowager after all, if Liu Hong is still the emperor at this time, it is better to say, at least she can find an opportunity to let Liu Hong let her out. But now that the Empress Dowager He is old and decrepit, how can she have any qualifications to be a person of Israel. Disheartened, Empress Dowager He went to the three-foot white silk and hanged herself in the cold palace.
In addition to Empress Dowager He, Dong Chong and Dong Cheng were both removed from their official positions, and Liu Xie also specially ordered Ye Mo to rectify the officialdom. When Ye Mo heard that Liu Xie asked him to straighten out the officialdom, he understood that Liu Xie probably guessed that it was the person he instructed behind his back to assassinate the Empress Dowager Dong.
Liu Xie asked Ye Mo to rectify the officialdom at this time, which is nothing more than two points: one is to let Ye Mo understand that Liu Xie has known at this time, and he will be loyal to Liu Xie in the future, and the other is to let Ye Mo dispose of some waste officials who do not have it, anyway, Ye Mo will deal with it, and no one will say that it is Liu Xie's fault if there is a problem.
Ye Mo could naturally guess Liu Xie's thoughts, but he still accepted it happily. If you can get rid of some people who hinder you from changing the Fa, why not?
So all of a sudden, there was a great change in officialdom, and countless original officials who bought officials were dismissed, and countless officials who had no talent but were protected by their ancestors and became big officials were dismissed. And what shocked the world the most was that the Hedong Wei family was raided overnight. xh118