Chapter 321: The Year of Quality
No one thought that the matter of questioning King An in court would involve the royal blood. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Now no one dares to answer easily.
Everyone's eyes fell on Lord Zongzheng standing at the foot of the steps in front of the hall.
The burning gaze of everyone made Lao Zongzheng's body tremble slightly, and soon he stood straight again, his chin raised slightly, and he saluted the emperor and Qi Chenjing who were standing on the steps.
"Your Majesty, it is a matter of royal blood, the inheritance of the country, and the old ministers dare not be careless, so I invited all the clans to come, and asked all the ministers to follow the emperor into the palace to distinguish one or two."
There were five or six clansmen standing behind Lao Zongzheng, looking at each other, and they were scolding Zongzheng vigorously in their hearts.
Zongzheng asked them to come over and enter the palace together, thinking that he was going to witness the conviction of King An and remove the jade.
Who knew that King An would poke such a big thing.
I knew that this old immortal was asking them to participate in this kind of thing, and if he killed them, he would not follow them into the palace.
It's good now, everyone is already standing here, even if you want to go out of the palace, I'm afraid it won't work.
These clans really can't wait to turn back time, they didn't hear what Qi Chenjing said just now, how good it should be.
In the end, it was still the first month, and it was icy and snowy, and everyone stood in front of the hall for so long.
Lao Zong Zhengyi reminded everyone that their hands and feet were numb from the cold.
It's just that this matter is too involved now, and it is no longer suitable for those of them who are courtiers to participate.
It's not a good thing to hear about this kind of thing too much.
Then an old minister with white hair and beard trembled out of the ranks, and before he could speak, he fell down, and he couldn't support it.
The well-intentioned minister's eyes lit up and he was ready to follow suit.
The emperor threw a cold look at him and ordered, "Carry him into the palace." ”
Then a little eunuch came up and carried the fainted old courtier into the hall.
Qi Chenjing had already started just now, who knows if these courtiers will talk nonsense when they go out, and during the safety period, these people will still stay in the palace.
The emperor glanced at Ding Gang.
Ding Gang understood, quietly took a few steps back, and walked into the hall quietly.
The other ministers looked at the little eunuch being dragged into the hall without pity, and they all shook their shoulders and extinguished the idea of pretending to be unconscious.
The emperor walked into the hall with his head held high.
Walking into the warm hall from outside the cold hall, everyone first felt loose, and then felt cold and itchy in their backs, and fear gradually surged up in their hearts.
"Your Majesty, please also invite the Queen Mother to come and confront King An." Lao Zongzheng once again asked for his life.
The emperor was already sitting on the dragon chair, and sneered when he heard this, "Joke, Zongzheng, do you know what you're talking about?" You can let you be, or you can directly abolish you, you can recognize the direction clearly, don't help the abuse here! ”
"I am the eldest son of the first emperor, the crown prince personally appointed by the first emperor, everyone in the world knows, why do I want to invite the queen to confront this Qi Chenjing, who is full of nonsense and wolf ambitions?"
"Come on, drag Zongzheng out for me, and punish me with a hundred rods."
Lao Zongzheng is over 70 years old, and if he goes down with a hundred rods, it is estimated that he will not die.
The situation of the Praetorian Guards rushing into the hall in armor made the ministers standing next to them tremble in their hearts.
Without waiting for the Praetorian Guards to step forward and drag Lao Zongzheng, Lao Zongzheng threw himself on the ground and cried.
"Your Majesty Taizu, the first emperor, take a look, our Liang's country is about to be destroyed in the hands of people with foreign surnames, if you have a spirit under the spring, you will kill these ill-intentioned people with a thunderbolt!"
Lao Zongzheng suddenly snorted in his throat, and a sentence with a foreign surname made the emperor's face already like ink.
"Shut up, stop talking, drag him down to me, beat him to death!"
The Praetorian Guards immediately stepped forward and grabbed Lao Zongzheng's clothes.
Lao Zongzheng's body was short, he broke free from the hands of the Praetorian Guards, and took out a jade plaque from his arms, "The jade plaque given by Emperor Taizu is here, if you see the jade plaque like Emperor Taizu, who dares to move?" ”
The Praetorian Guard, who was about to arrest him again, froze in place, a little at a loss.
The emperor looked at it fixedly, and saw that Lao Zongzheng was holding a palm-sized white jade plaque in his hand, on which the words "Ru I came in person" were indeed written.
There was a moment of panic in his expression.
How could Lao Zongzheng have the jade plate of Emperor Taizu in his hand, he had never heard of Emperor Taizu giving this kind of thing to Lao Zongzheng.
"Zongzheng, what are you doing here?" Gritting his teeth to ease his expression, the emperor asked Zongzheng in a suppressed voice.
Zong Zheng got up from the ground at this time, held the jade plaque and said: "I want the bloodline of Emperor Taizu, please come to confront the Queen Mother, if the emperor is really the bloodline of Emperor Taizu, the minister's blood is splashed in the Golden Palace today, and he will apologize for his death with death!" ”
It seems that today is really not good.
A cruelty flashed in the emperor's eyes.
If he only had two doubts about his life experience before, but now that Qi Chenjing and Lao Zong were so right, his doubts also turned into eight points.
How could he be stupid enough to invite the Queen Mother to come and confront him.
Why hasn't Ding Gang come yet? The emperor was a little anxious in his heart.
Seeing that the emperor didn't look at him, Qi Chenjing walked up the steps, faced the ministers, and said loudly: "Ladies and gentlemen, this king came to the palace today to be instructed by the emperor, the emperor couldn't bear to be occupied by people with foreign surnames that Emperor Taizu had worked so hard to build, and he couldn't bear to keep the lords who were loyal to Daliang in the dark, so he gave his dream to this king and let this king expose all this." ”
"Receiving the dream of the first emperor, this king is also very shocked, there is such a thing to confuse the royal bloodline, it is really shocking, but the various human and material evidence instructed by the first emperor, this king has been verified to be true one by one, so he invited Lord Zongzheng to come to the abbot for justice!"
Lao Zongzheng stepped forward to make a move, "Please tell the prince the truth of your facts and the physical evidence." ”
The emperor watched Qi Chenjing and Lao Zongzheng sing and harmonize, and his heart was very anxious.
Can't let them speak, who knows what they'll say.
But Zong Zheng has the jade plate of Emperor Taizu in his hand, he can't dispose of it at will, what should he do?
The emperor quickly calculated in his heart.
Qi Chenjing had already opened his mouth: "When the emperor was alive, the queen mother and the king's mother were pregnant at the same time, and the queen mother gave birth to the eldest prince first, and when Concubine Zhuang was about to give birth, there was a sudden fire in the palace, and Concubine Zhuang and the people who served in the palace were all burned to death in the palace. ”
This matter is not a secret, and almost all the ministers present know about it, regardless of their age.
Qi Chenjing sneered, "But this is not the truth of the facts, the truth is that the queen is not pregnant at all, and my mother did not die of the fire, she was in childbirth, by the queen at the time, and now the queen mother, sent someone to put a poison called "parasitic soul", the queen mother was difficult to give birth, the queen first sent someone to give medicine, and then sent someone to set fire, poor mother concubine desperately gave birth to this king, there was no strength to escape from the fire, only had time to arrange someone to tell the king to take out of the palace. ”
What happened 20 years ago?
The younger courtiers were a little dazed, twenty years ago they were ignorant children or teenagers, and many things were only mentioned by the elders of the family, and they had no personal experience.
And some of the old ministers looked at each other, shocked by what Qi Chenjing said.
Twenty years ago, they were already in the officialdom, the former dynasty and the harem were closely linked, the queen and Concubine Zhuang were pregnant at the same time, and the future prince would come from there, and the atmosphere of the previous dynasty was also quite treacherous.
They now suddenly remembered the trepidation of that time.
"What nonsense!" Just when everyone was guessing in their hearts, suddenly a sharp female voice came in.
The queen mother strode into the palace surrounded by palace maids and eunuchs.
The emperor looked at the Queen Mother who was getting closer and closer, his brows were furrowed, why did the Queen Mother come over?
"Mother, why are you here?"
He got up and helped the Queen Mother.
The Queen Mother sat down next to the dragon chair, raised her chin and pointed at Qi Chenjing, "Of course the mourning family wants to come, but the mourning family can't come, I don't know what it will be said by some wolf ambitions!" ”
The corners of Qi Chenjing's mouth twitched, not caring about what she said.
The Queen Mother squinted at Lao Zongzheng, "Zongzheng, I heard that some people doubt the emperor's background?" ”
Lao Zongzheng swallowed his saliva, and his neck subconsciously shrank.
The Queen Mother suddenly picked up a letter on the dragon case and smashed it, "Bastard, the mourning family respects you as Zongzheng on weekdays, and the royal ancestral hall of the Liang Dynasty worships you, and respects you for three points, you are good, you actually teamed up with that wolf-hearted thing to harm the mourning family!" ”
"Say that the emperor is not the blood of the first emperor? Any idea what this is doing? You are implying that the mourning family is sorry for the emperor, you are insulting the former emperor and insulting the mourning family, such a person should be killed on the spot, what is the emperor hesitating about? ”
The Queen Mother glared at the emperor.
The emperor smiled bitterly, he was not hesitating, but when Qi Chenjing said the first sentence, he knew that today's things could not be good.
He was waiting for Ding Gang.
It's just that Ding has just been gone for a while, why hasn't he come back yet?
Lao Zongzheng looked at the emperor, and before he could speak, he shouted first: "I have the jade plate given by Emperor Taizu here, and today I must have a correct bloodline for the Great Liang Jiangshan." ”
"King An has the instructions of the first emperor to ask for a dream, and there are witnesses here, if the queen mother has a clear conscience, why don't you dare to confront King An?"
The Queen Mother's angry lips trembled, and she pointed at Lao Zongzheng, "Shut up, why did the mourning family confront him in court?" ”
Lao Zongzheng took a step forward, facing the ministers standing with His Royal Highness, held the jade plaque high above his head, and said: "Everyone present, some are veterans who have gone through two or three dynasties, and some of the ancestors also followed Emperor Taizu to fight the country, and we are loyal to Emperor Taizu who led your ancestors to work hard to build the country, which is the orthodox bloodline of the Great Liang Qi clan. ”
"Now that we're here today, don't you want to know if the one we've always been loyal to is right?"
"Today I swear by the jade plate given by Emperor Taizu, if what I just said is half untrue, I am willing to die to apologize to Emperor Taizu and the previous emperor!"
Qi Chenjing put his hands behind his back, his long body was jade, and now Lao Zongzheng was behind him, his face was light, "This king never speaks, today's matter, please also ask your adults to be a witness for this king." ”
Lao Zongzheng's words were sonorous, smashing into the ears of the ministers standing in His Highness, beating their hearts like a heavy beating.
And Qi Chenjing's words were like a tickling brush, gently scratching their hearts, but they couldn't help but make the tips of their hearts tremble.
Many ministers have already become a little hesitant at first.
Today's court meeting, although it is the first court meeting of the new year, everyone has a tacit understanding in private, that is, to convict King An at the first court meeting of the year.
Some ministers even got Ding Gang's explicit hint to add fuel to the fire at the right time.
And the ministers, who have not received a clear hint, know that the pattern of the DPRK and China is going to be reshuffled with a little brain.
Some people are secret, some are sympathetic, and some are numb.
But no matter what kind of psychology they have, they have a certain psychological preparation for today's events.
But what happened was nothing they had imagined.
No, at least the first half is consistent.
Until Princess Ann demonstrated the so-called poisoning process with a cat that had been going crazy.
Some people's psychology has undergone subtle changes.
Then Qi Chenjing rushed straight to the front of the hall with Lao Zongzheng.
Qi Chenjing and Lao Zongzheng's words surprised everyone!
In this way, things evolved from asking the guilty king to talking about the authenticity of the royal bloodline!
When they heard such words unguarded, they had no way back.
Lao Zongzheng's words made several old ministers who had experienced the ups and downs of the court begin to quickly ponder in their minds.
Today's affairs, whether King An is right or the emperor is right, they are not allowed to participate as courtiers.
But they've heard the beginning, that is, they've been involved.
And no matter who is right and who is wrong, since ancient times, if the emperor wins, the emperor will not allow those of them who have heard of his suspicious background to exist in this world.
If the words of King An and Lao Zongzheng are true, what is sitting on them now is really not the blood of the first emperor, so it is estimated that it will be difficult to leave them a decent whole corpse.
If King An wins, then the mystery of the emperor's life history is estimated to be kept secret by them.
If you perform well, you may be able to get another one more from the dragon.
Those who have a flexible heart begin to think in their hearts.
But seeing that one person had already come out of the ranks, he was now shouting loudly in the main hall: "The minister asks King An to show a dry of human and physical evidence to prove that the insult to the emperor does not exist!" ”
Grass!
It's Li Liangce, the waiter of the Criminal Department.
Let this person take the lead again!
A person who usually looks at a muffled voice is surprisingly active today!
Look at what people say.
did not say that he asked the Queen Mother to confront him, but directly asked King An to show human and material evidence!
Several old ministers scrambled to stand up while despising Li Liangce.
"Please show the physical evidence!"
"Please explain in detail King An!"
"I'm waiting for the old ministers to do their best for Daliang, and I ask King An to explain this kind of thing that confuses the blood of the royal family as soon as possible."
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One after another, people came forward, one, two, four, six............
In front of more and more courtiers, the queen was pale!
Angry!
The corners of Qi Chenjing's mouth curled slightly. (To be continued.) )