On October 9, the 25th year of Dayong Wuwei, the emperor conspired against the prince and was unfilial, and issued a decree to give death, and he was buried with the rites of the king, and he was not allowed to enter the imperial mausoleum.

- Yongshi #8226; The Legend of the Kings

On October 5, when Emperor Yongdi was on the road, Chang'an had been calmed down, because Zheng Fang and Shi Yu decided to continue to conceal the news after discussion, so although people in Chang'an were panicked, they still didn't know about the great changes that had taken place in the Hunting Palace. On October 6, Zheng Fang came to see the driver with a few guards, and when Zheng Fang and Emperor Yong were talking secretly, I had already received the report, although I didn't know what they were talking about, but I thought Zheng Fang was not a confused person.

Besides, Zheng Fang entered Emperor Yong's bedroom, and saw that Emperor Yongdi was safe and sound, so he put his mind at ease, and after making a big gift, Li Yuan hurriedly told him what had happened, he trusted Zheng Fang very much, and told Zheng Fang everything he knew in detail. Zheng Fang was also dumbfounded after hearing this, but he had always been good at making decisions, so he calmed down and asked, "Your Majesty, what are your plans?" ”

Li Yuan said distressedly: "I also have a lot of headaches, the crown prince and King Yong are both my sons, and I naturally don't want them to kill each other." But King Yong almost died this time, and I was almost killed, if I don't strictly pursue it, I can't say it anyway; But the prince has said today, I also have something inappropriate, and the queen once hanged herself, although she was rescued by the palace people, but she was already dying, and I couldn't bear it for many years; There is also King Qi, this child is affectionate, this is his strength, but also his shortcoming, now he is implicated, no matter how to deal with it, it can only be said that it is light, but it can never be said that the disposal is wrong, his surname is so stubborn, I am worried that King Yong will be angry, and ask him to be imprisoned or abolished as a concubine, so it will not make me embarrassed; And Wei Xiang, I heard you say that he was safe in Beijing, it seems that he really doesn't know about rebellion, but the crime of rebellion, if you don't connect it, it's really not like it, Zheng Qing, think about it, how should this be? ”

Zheng Fang said with a solemn expression: "Your Majesty, in the eyes of the ministers now, it doesn't matter how these things are handled, what matters is how Your Majesty is at peace with King Yong's father and son." ”

Li Yuan's heart was shocked, after all, he had been an emperor for many years, and he had vaguely thought about these thoughts, but Zheng Fang said it so bluntly, he was still a little caught off guard, and he couldn't help but look at Zheng Fang angrily.

Zheng Fang said fearlessly: "Your Majesty treats the ministers as much as a mountain, if it weren't for the sake of Your Majesty and Dayong's country, the ministers would not have said these rude words, if Your Majesty is willing to listen to the minister's details, it is to kill the minister, and the minister is also willing to eat." ”

Li Yuan hesitated for a moment and said, "Zheng Qing said, I know your loyalty." ”

Zheng Fang said awe-inspiringly: "Your Majesty, now King Yong's inheritance of the unification is already the trend of the times, the prince rebelled, he should be deposed, King Yong's merits are high, and he is the oldest, no matter what the emperor plans this time, this storage position is already in King Yong's pocket." In the past, in order to protect the crown prince, the emperor suppressed His Royal Highness King Yong, and King Yong inevitably had no resentment in his heart. Now that King Yong wants to take the opportunity to seize the throne, few people will resolutely oppose it, for the ministers, there is no difference between loyalty to His Royal Highness King Yongwang and loyalty to His Majesty, but in this way, the emperor's position is very embarrassing. If His Majesty personally disposes of the crown prince and others, it is inevitable that there will be something to provoke King Yong's dissatisfaction, if King Yong has a grudge in his heart, that is, now His Majesty has kept the prince and King Qi, and when His Majesty lives long live, who knows what King Yong will do? If this matter is handed over to King Yong, then His Majesty will express his opinion politely, and King Yong will definitely not disregard His Majesty's mood, and when the time comes, His Majesty can not only achieve his wish, but also eliminate the estrangement between His Royal Highness King Yong's father and son. ”

Li Yuan lowered his head and thought for a long time, got up and saluted Zheng Bian, Zheng Bian was shocked, and hurriedly avoided it: "What is Your Majesty doing, the minister can't afford it." ”

Li Yuan said with relief: "Zheng Qing's kind words are all for the sake of my Li family, if Hou Zhen and King Yong's father and son are at peace, the crown prince and King Qi can be preserved, it is all the credit of Qing." ”

Zheng Fang hurriedly apologized again and again, and Li Yuan smiled: "I have been with Zheng Qing for many years, and I don't need to be so clichéd, not to mention that although I have seen some people wrong, I have not misunderstood Zheng Qing, I know that Qing's direct admonition is all for my sake." But there are some things that you still have to decide for me, what do you think I should do next? ”

Zheng Fang said: "Your Majesty, are you sure to keep the crown prince?" ”

Li Yuan said with some hesitation: "Although the prince is not good, but after all, it is my blood and bones, and I am really a little reluctant." ”

Zheng Fang asked again: "What about His Royal Highness King Qi?" ”

Li Yuanzheng said: "Although Xian'er attaches too much importance to love and righteousness, and is not enough to be the emperor, I really cherish this son, and I must not let Zhen'er hurt him." ”

Zheng Fang said with a straight face: "Since this is the case, Your Majesty should not protect the crown prince, otherwise it will harm the King of Qi?" ”

Li Yuan said in surprise: "How can you say this? ”

Zheng Fang said: "Your Majesty, if the king of Qi is not as good as King Yong's martial arts, if he is not as good as King Yong, if he is not as young as Yong, so if there is no prince, then King Qi can be a general or a minister, but if the prince is still alive, then no matter what, the prince is the eldest son after all, and the king of Qi and the prince join forces to have the possibility of rebellion, so if the emperor protects the prince, if His Royal Highness King Yong reluctantly agrees, he will eventually suspect King Qi, and when the time comes, someone will be separated from it, and sooner or later King Qi will die in the hands of King Yong." When the time comes, His Majesty wants to save his two sons, but he can't save any of them. If the crown prince is abandoned, then it will be impossible for His Royal Highness King Qi to endanger the throne of King Yong, and it will be easy for the monarch and the ministers to be at peace at that time. ”

Li Yuan was silent for a long time and said: "What Zheng Qing said is that since this is the case, I can't care about that rebel son." ”

Zheng Fang said: "This is still from a personal point of view, if it is from the perspective of national law, the prince forced the palace to rebel, and lured Her Royal Highness the queen to lose his morality, this is the crime of unfilial piety without a father and a king, chasing and killing siblings, this is a crime of unkindness, unfilial piety, how can it be forgiven." Your Majesty's inheritance is to be passed down through the ages, and if you do not leave a vigilance for future generations, and everyone follows such acts, will not you let the flesh and blood of heaven kill each other? ”

When Li Yuan heard this, he was shocked and moved: "Zheng Qing's words are really the most reasonable in the world, well, I have made up my mind to give death to the prince, and the queen should have given death. King Qi's affairs, I'll leave it to King Yong. ”

Zheng Fang said solemnly: "The emperor is sage, in this way, you can not only be vigilant against future generations, but also convince King Yong, and King Qi's affairs, King Yong will not be able to deal with it excessively." ”

Li Yuan's heart was clear, and he continued: "The disposition of the prince's family has been decided, so let's take it as a rule in the future." There is one more thing, after returning to Beijing, I want to be promoted to the eldest grandson, what does Zheng Qing think? ”

Zheng Fang was stunned for a moment, then immediately came to his senses and said, "Your Majesty, Shengming, it should be like this." The monarch and the minister looked at each other and smiled, and they knew each other tacitly.

Zheng Fang understands in his heart that it is indeed a good idea to set up the eldest grandson concubine as the queen, and now it is obvious that Li Yuan will sit on the throne for a period of time, and the harem cannot be ownerless, and after King Yong succeeds to the throne in the future, there must also be a mother who is filial, and now the Dou family has been deposed, and King Yong's biological mother has long since died, Ji Guifei is a rebel, so only the eldest grandson and Yan Guifei are qualified to be promoted to the queen, but the king of Qi is also involved in the rebellion, Yan Guifei naturally lost the qualification to be the queen, and the eldest grandson Guifei has a noble status, Princess Changle has made a great contribution this time, as the biological mother of Princess Changle, then it is a logical thing for the eldest grandson to be crowned. And the best thing is that the eldest grandson Guifei does not have a prince to survive, and it will not affect the throne of King Yong, so she can be the mother of the world. Li Yuan can think of this, it seems that he has paved the way for King Yong's ascension to the throne, and he is no longer afraid of King Yong. As a courtier, Zheng Fang was naturally happy in his heart, but this kind of thing can only be understood, not spoken, and the two monarchs and ministers naturally only looked at each other and smiled.

After a while, Emperor Yongdi said with some hesitation: "Zheng Fang, Princess Changle loves Jiang Zhe's thing, what do you think?" ”

Zheng Fang asked cautiously, "I don't know what the emperor and King Yong mean?" ”

Li Yuan said dissatisfiedly: "Zhen'er once came to see me in private, hoping that I would marry Princess Changle and Jiang Zhe, but I saw that Jiang Zhe was scheming, frail and sickly, and was really not a good match for Changle, so he had already refused, but Jiang Zhe had made such a great achievement, if I insisted on not allowing it, it would inevitably chill his heart a little." ”

Zheng Fang thought for a while and said: "This matter, it doesn't matter what the minister thinks, on the one hand, Jiang Zhe was a courtier of Southern Chu, the princess was the queen of Southern Chu, His Majesty's refusal to give marriage, it is also in line with the etiquette law, on the other hand, now Jiang Zhe is a great courtier, and has made great contributions to quelling the rebellion, the princess is His Majesty's beloved daughter, and her status is noble. ”

Li Yuan thought for a while and said: "If Jiang Zhe's body is better, I will be able to achieve Changle, but now I am really not at ease, let's let it go first." ”

Zheng Fang saw that it was already late at night, and Li Yuan also looked a little tired, so he said: "Your Majesty, the matter has been discussed, why don't Your Majesty go to bed first." ”

Li Yuan said with a smile: "I have already figured it out, in the future, all major military and political affairs will be handed over to King Yong, I want to live a comfortable life for a few years, don't leave first, after drawing up the decree for me, go to rest." ”

On October 7, Li Yuan returned to Beijing and issued three decrees, one of which was to give the crown prince death, add the title of king, and depose the queen as a concubine. The second is to establish King Yong as the crown prince of the prison country, and all major military and political affairs are decided by King Yong. The third is to establish the eldest grandson and concubine as the queen, then it is said that the official ceremony will be held, and the princess of Changle will be rewarded with ten thousand households, and the title of Ningguo will be given, and the princess of Changle will be given to the princess in the palace of Ningguo.

The emperor's resolute behavior shocked many people, and the government and the opposition either thought that King Yong took the opportunity to hold the emperor hostage, or thought that Li Yuan was frightened and had no intention of paying attention to the government anymore, but they didn't know that the biggest hero of this matter was Zheng Fang in the service.

After King Yong was in charge of the government, he began what was later called the "King of Yong's Great Rebellion Case" and purged it, tens of thousands of dignitaries and dignitaries were imprisoned for the crime of rebellion against the prince, and there were countless people involved, and the government and the opposition were frightened for a while, only a few people with a heart would find that King Yong's purge was actually well controlled, and most of the courtiers who were implicated were born in powerful families, although these families made contributions when Dayong rose, but now they are fighting for hegemony, annexing land, and even raising armoured soldiers privately, faintly separating the facts. This time, King Yong used the army in his hand to destroy almost all of these powerful families by plotting against the big case. His methods are both rigid and soft, for those who are the backbone of the family is often killed as a rebel or imprisoned, after all, these families are inevitably related to Fengyimen and Wei Guan, and for the children of the family and those civilians who depend on the family to survive, they will not easily add crimes, thanks to the blessing of the former Splendid Alliance and Fengyimen, many of these wealthy families have already been killed to pieces, and then in the name of the big rebellion, so that the major families are as cold as cicadas, and dare not come out, it is more convenient for King Yong to break through, between January, The Dayong court has been completely renewed, and the Youzhou officials brought by Shi Yu and those middle and low-level officials who are really willing to do things quickly restored the center of Dayong to normal operation, and the blood washed away the dust on the Dayong court.

Among them, there is a kind of official who is the first to be purged, that is, the officials whose wives and daughters are related to Fengyimen, and the lightest punishment for these officials is also debasement and demotion, and a slightly more serious one is to remove the official from his post, and even go directly to the court is possible. Many Fengyimen disciples were originally young ladies, and most of them entered Fengyimen to improve their status, so most of them immediately drew a line with Fengyimen, if such a woman can get the protection of her father, brother and husband, she can still live in peace, although there is no shortage of things that have abandoned his wife and daughter, but most of them can still be a new person. But if it is the kind of woman who was born in a poor family and was able to marry a nobleman in the court or a child of a wealthy family because she entered the Fengyi Gate, her fate would be much more miserable, and she would either be divorced by her husband's family or sent to the cold palace. But when the butcher's knife was hot, the bitter grievances of these women were also covered up by the bloody purge.

King Yong is not always so ruthless, some officials were attached to the prince in the former party or were born under Wei Guanmen, as long as there is no obvious evidence of rebellion, no matter how good their talents are, then they will not be purged, and the military will not be implicated in the purge process of King Yong. King Yong issued an edict, and the military officers and soldiers fought for the country, and they all had great merits, so they were not allowed to purge in the army, but they found that some generals were indeed close to Fengyimen, and as long as they were willing to write a detailed letter of repentance, they could be pardoned. Therefore, King Yong's iron-blooded purge, not only did not endanger Dayong's foundation, but strengthened the strength of the army, because many children of the family and people in the rivers and lakes avoided being implicated in the great rebellion case by joining the army, and after the crisis, Dayong's military strength became even stronger.

On October 9, Zheng Fang took the wine, white silk and a short sword to the Jin'an Hall where the prince was imprisoned, this is the second time the prince has been placed under house arrest here, last time, although Li An was also frightened, but there were Wei Ying secretly taking care of it, and Fengyimen and Lu Jingzhong and others were running outside, and finally had the bottom of his heart, this time Li An had no one to rely on, shrunk in the hall, and did not enter the tea and rice, and there was only one breath left.

Zheng Fang was about to go in, and suddenly saw a group of people coming in the distance, just looking at their lanterns, he knew that it was a person from Yongwang's Mansion, and after approaching, Zheng Fang saw at a glance that the person who was the leader was Jiang Zhe, and the person standing behind him was the evil shadow Li Shun, and the surrounding guards were surrounded by guards.

Jiang Zhe stepped forward and bowed deeply: "The lower official is ordered by His Royal Highness King Yong to see off the crown prince, please allow the prince." ”

Zheng Fang frowned and said: "This is against etiquette, but there is the emperor's will?" ”

A trace of fiery murderous aura flashed in Jiang Zhe's eyes, and he said in a low voice: "Lord Shizhong, the lower official might as well say it bluntly, I didn't know that His Royal Highness Yongwang came this time, it was I who used His Royal Highness's gold medal to deceive the forbidden army to come in, this time I am sure to see the prince, if Lord Shizhong does not allow it, then Jiang Zhe can only break through." ”

Zheng Fang was stunned when he heard it, he looked carefully, and saw that Jiang Zhe's eyebrows were actually Ning Weiyu's broken expression, although Zheng Fang abides by the etiquette law, but he is not a stubborn person, thinking that this person assists King Yong, and forces the prince step by step, is it because he has some grudges between him and the prince, this person is deep and vicious, if I insist on not allowing it, he holds a grudge, and it will inevitably cause a big disaster, if it harms me, it will be just that, in case this person deliberately provokes the father and son of the emperor and King Yong, it is my sin. Thinking of this, he said: "Since it is the order of His Royal Highness King Yong, this official can also follow the power, so Jiang Sima will go in with this official." ”

Jiang Zhe showed a hint of ecstasy, waved his hand to let the guards stay outside, and only brought Xiao Shunzi to follow Zheng Fang in, Zheng Fang originally had two brave and powerful eunuchs by his side, originally to prevent the prince from committing suicide and let them help, but now looking at this situation, in order to prevent these two eunuchs from seeing things that should not be seen, Zheng Fang waved them to stay outside.

The three of them entered the Jin'an Palace, and when they saw Li An huddled on the bed, Zheng Fang couldn't help but sigh softly, but Jiang Zhe's face was as cold as ice.

After Zheng Fang made the decree, Xiao Shunzi walked over with the tray he had just received, and stepped forward with wine, white silk and short sword. Ang Lee just screamed and retreated, and sure enough, he refused to commit suicide.

When I got closer, I whispered, "Your Royal Highness the Prince, may I ask Your Highness if you remember the willow fragrance of Nanchu?" ”

Li An's eyes were confused, and it took a long time before he said, "Remember, Gu once blessed her, didn't he let Liang Wan send her back a long time ago?" Master Jiang, please intercede with your second brother, as long as you spare Lone's surname, Lone is willing to be imprisoned for life, or become a monk. ”

There was a surge of blood in my chest, I couldn't imagine that Liang Wan still lied to me, it turned out that the real murderer who killed Piaoxiang was herself, and although this Li An was the culprit, he was not a murderer, but the more I thought about it, the more I hated it, if it wasn't for his wasted silver, if it wasn't for Liang Wan's secret to protect his identity, how could Piaoxiang be killed. Thinking of this, I turned my head to look at Xiao Shunzi and said, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince refuses to go on the road, so you can help him." ”

Xiao Shunzi glanced at Zheng Fang, picked up the wine casually, stepped forward to hold Li An, and easily poured the wine to him. Li An quickly lost his breath, his face was bruised, with unwillingness and remorse, but he didn't know what he was regretting.

I only felt that my heart was empty, and the revenge was avenged, but I was a little dazed, and at this time, Zheng Shizhong said meaningfully: "Lord Jiang, the past is over, and those who come can be chased, you can hold on." ”

I glanced at Zheng Fang, stepped forward and said: "Lord Zheng, rest assured, although Zhe has some selfish intentions, he has never instigated His Royal Highness King Yong to ignore brotherly affection, but now that the prince is full of evil, Zheruo can't come to watch the enemy on the road, he really can't be reconciled." ”

Although Zheng Fang only heard a few words, he could guess a little bit of the truth, but he knew that now that the wood was in the boat, he didn't need to do much, just warn this young man not to harm the overall situation for personal revenge.

The three of them were about to leave, suddenly there was a noisy voice outside, and when they walked outside the hall, they saw King Yong coming in a hurry, and after seeing Zheng Fang and Jiang Zhe, King Yong's expression was wide, and he said: "Lord Zheng, this king sent Jiang Sima to see off the prince, but also a little brotherhood, and please Lord Zheng Don't be surprised." ”

Zheng Fang couldn't help but be a little funny, but he didn't expose it, he just said: "This is also a favor, how can the minister blame, Your Majesty is waiting for the minister to return, Your Highness please." ”

After Zheng Fang left, King Yong came over and glared at Jiang Zhe fiercely, and said, "You are really bold, you dare to fake my edict and go back to settle accounts with you." Then he said in a low voice: "Suiyun, since you have such a heart, why don't you make it clear to this king, you are really, alas." ”

My heart was warm, and I hurriedly turned my head sideways, so as not to be seen with tears that were about to overflow, and also whispered: "The minister does not dare to harm justice with selfishness, His Royal Highness's love for the minister, the minister is grateful, and he will never dare to hide it from His Royal Highness in the future." ”

King Yong sighed and said, "Let's go, if it weren't for Xiahou seeing you entering the palace late at night, this king wouldn't know that you were acting so recklessly, fortunately, Lord Zheng didn't blame you." ”

I bowed again to apologize, and then followed His Royal Highness King Yong out of the palace. Along the way, my heart is full of gratitude, His Royal Highness King Yong's great kindness, I can't repay it after all.

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