Yang Yuanqing didn't expect the other party's assassination to be so weak, maybe it was too unprofessional, or maybe it was because he was well prepared, they didn't expect that they would take a carriage instead.

But none of this matters, the important thing is that he achieved his goal, and Yu Shiji's wife Sun got into his trap and fell into a catastrophe.

The news of Yu Shiji's wife's murder and assassination of important frontier ministers spread throughout the government and the opposition within an hour, as well as most of Luoyang City.

In all dynasties, the assassination of ministers is an extremely taboo thing, because it involves everyone's vital interests, and is hated by all ministers, no matter who violates this article, it will arouse the strong anger of all ministers, and it is precisely for this reason that the despicable means of assassinating courtiers is also the bottom line of the emperor, and no emperor can tolerate it.

So when Yang Yuanqing handed over an assassination contract and an IOU for an assassination commission to Yang Guang, Yang Guang's face turned blue with anger, the assassin was arrested on the spot, confessed the broker, and the broker confessed to the Sun family, and the human and material evidence was there, and he almost roared, "Come on!" Seal Yu Shiji's house and order Dali Prison to strictly try the case! ”

Yang Guang can tolerate Yu Shiji's corruption and bribery, and can tolerate Yu Shiji's son to be lawless, these have not violated his bottom line, he can tolerate it, but Sun still bought murder and assassinated important ministers in the border when Yang Yuanqing had apologized first, he couldn't tolerate it anyway, otherwise he couldn't explain to the courtiers, even if Yu Shiji didn't know, but the main messenger of the murderer was his wife, and he couldn't escape this responsibility anyway.

"Your Majesty, although the Sun family bought the murder minister, but the cause is one thing, and Yu Shilang does not know about it, I hope Your Majesty can be as tolerant as possible, and the minister does not want to ruin the career of an important minister for this matter."

Yang Yuanqing is very grateful to his grandfather for teaching him some officialdom skills in the last period of time, the most important of which is the degree, which must be grasped, and nothing can be done too full, too full will overflow.

Although he can force Yang Guang to severely punish Yu Shiji step by step at this time, he must not do so, even if Yang Guang is forced to dismiss Yu Shiji from office and investigate the responsibility, although he Yang Yuanqing is happy for a while, but Yang Guang will inevitably turn around and pursue his responsibility in addition to heartache, leaving a little leeway for Yang Guang, that is, for himself.

Yang Guang has also slowly calmed down, and he began to think about how to deal with this matter, how to deal with Yu Shiji?

Yu Shiji is now his most favored and most powerful minister, from his original intention, he does not want to deal with Yu Shiji, but he also knows that the reason why Yu Shiji's wife dares to take the risk of buying murder and assassinating important ministers is also closely related to Yu Shiji's usual pride in his wife, Yu Shiji cannot be without responsibility, the key is how to deal with it, not only to give Yang Yuanqing and the court an explanation, but not to make Yu Shiji too miserable.

Yang Guang is also balancing the degree of punishment, he is very embarrassed, Yang Yuanqing showed a degree of tolerance, which made him very satisfied, but he can't stop this matter because of Yang Yuanqing's tolerance, yesterday Yang Yuanqing also took the initiative to ask for guilt, and today there was an assassination case, Sun's move was undoubtedly a slap in the face, and he couldn't pull down this face.

At this moment, a eunuch reported at the door, "Your Majesty, Doctor Pei asks to see you!" ”

Doctor Pei is the imperial historian Pei Yun, in charge of the imperial history platform, his appearance will definitely not be a good thing, Yang Guang smiled bitterly in his heart, and had to make an order: "Announce his audience!" ”

Soon, Pei Yun hurriedly walked into the imperial study and bowed, "Minister Pei Yun see Your Majesty!" ”

"Is there anything wrong with Pei Aiqing?"

Yang Guang saw Pei Yun holding a thick booklet in his hand, and he understood a little in his heart, and sure enough, Pei Yun presented the booklet and said solemnly: "Your Majesty, this is Weichen's impeachment of Yu Shiji's connivance with his family to run rampant, so that his wife bought a murderer to assassinate the minister, Yu Shiji's crime cannot escape, and the minister implores His Majesty to severely punish Yu Shiji, this is not only the meaning of the minister, but also the common voice of three hundred and eighty ministers. Yu Shiji lived up to His Majesty's expectations of him. ”

Yang Guang was taken aback, was there a joint impeachment of 380 people in such a short period of time? He took over the recital, the front was Pei Yun's impeachment of Yu Shiji, pointing out his four major crimes, selling prison officials, bribing public banks, gazing for revenge, and arrogance of his wife, each of which had a detailed record, and behind it was a dense number of official signatures, Su Wei, Yu Wenshu, Zhang Jin, Pei Ju, Niu Hong and other important ministers all signed, and even his brother Yu Shinan also signed at the end.

Yang Guang's face became more and more ugly, Pei Yun exerted strong pressure on him, but Pei Yun is the imperial historian, and it is his duty to impeach the minister, and it is not forbidden to jointly write a letter, which makes Yang Guang very headache, Yu Shiji usually offends too many people, and at this critical time, the ministers began to attack him.

Yang Guang sighed, he understood that Yu Shiji had offended the anger of the public this time, it seemed that he had to sacrifice his troops to protect the generals, punish Yu Shiji, and give an explanation to the ministers.

Yang Guang's holy edict was issued in the evening of the same day, 'beheading both the broker and the assassin for public display, ordering Yu Shiji to divorce his wife, and his wife Sun to assassinate the important ministers of the frontier, the evidence is conclusive, the crime is unforgivable, the rod is 100, sentenced to exile, exiled to Lingnan, and his son Xiahou Yan is also exiled, Yu Shiji is arrogant and indulges his wife, and it is his duty to remove him from the post of Shilang and demote him to Changsha County. ’

Poor Yu Shiji ran to Luokoucang to avoid King Qi, he didn't know anything about the situation, he lost his official position inexplicably, he was not strict in governing his family, and he was arrogant in his wife and children, which led to today's disaster, which is also a common situation of losing his official position in officialdom since ancient times.

And Yang Yuanqing was also re-recognized in this assassination case, someone assassinated just a coincidence, but there were also people who assassinated Yang Yuanqing's plan, but whether it was a coincidence or a scheme, Yang Yuanqing overthrew the first minister of the dynasty, this is a fact, which made the Manchu Dynasty civil and military impressed him.

It was also this case that greatly improved Yang Yuanqing's status in the imperial court, and he became one of the important ministers of the court in one fell swoop.

"When people don't know Lingyun wood, they wait until Lingyun is high."

The day after the assassination was the day when Yang Guang officially set off for the southern tour, but in the middle of the night, a major incident occurred in the capital, which made Yang Guang have to temporarily decide to postpone the southern tour and fell into great grief for the loss of his son.

In July of the second year of the Great Cause, the crown prince Yang Zhao fell ill due to obesity and died in his sleep at the age of 23.

That night, Yang Guang and Queen Xiao fell to the palace, although they usually dislike their son too fat, but after all, this is their biological flesh and blood, their eldest son, they only have two sons, the death of the eldest son made their husband and wife cry, rushed to the prince's mansion overnight, crying goodbye to the eldest son.

In great grief, Yang Guang ordered the southern tour to be postponed indefinitely, and for three days, he ordered hundreds of officials to mourn and come to mourn the prince.

The prince's mansion set up a mourning shed overnight, and before dawn, hundreds of officials began to come in an endless stream to mourn the prince, and everyone wore filial piety and mourned for the prince.

Yang Yuanqing rushed to the prince's mansion before dawn, and Yang Zhao's sudden death also made him sad, although he knew that there would be such a day, but when this moment really came, the grief over the death of his eldest brother and the death of his friend made him feel uncontrollable and shed tears.

As soon as he entered Yang Zhao's funeral shed, the crown princess Wei took Yang Zhao's three sons to kneel down for him, the three children lay at his feet and cried, Yang Yuanqing quickly knelt down, he couldn't help but weep and said to Concubine Wei: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince just gave it to me three days ago, I hope that the minister can bless his children and keep them safe, and the minister Yang Yuanqing will do his best to make them safe and secure for a lifetime, and will not live up to their father's trust." ”

Wei also wiped his tears and said: "The prince also said to the children, to treat them as uncles, yesterday afternoon just left a will, he unfortunately died at night, I will keep the will, when the children grow up to give it to them, I hope that General Yang will remember their father's kindness, always protect the three children." ”

"Chen Yang Yuanqing will never give up!"

Yang Yuanqing slowly walked to Yang Zhao's spiritual seat, knelt down again, and said to Yang Zhao silently in his heart: "Since the minister has promised His Royal Highness to protect the three sons, he should do his best to keep them safe for a lifetime and not let the King of Qi harm, even though the way of heaven is changeable, one day I and the third son have to meet each other, it is definitely not Yuan Qing's original intention, Yuan Qing should try his best to save his life, he can't bear to kill, and hope that his brother is in the spirit of the sky." ”

After praying silently, Yang Yuanqing kowtowed three times to Yang Zhao's spiritual position.

At this moment, a dry howl came from the door of the tent, "The imperial brother died young, how can the courtier's brother be embarrassed!" ”

This is the king of Qi Yang Yan arrived, he wore linen and filial piety, a vegetarian, although his face was full of sadness, but his heart was secretly happy, since many years ago he had the heart to replace his brother, the brotherhood in his heart has been as thin as water, and now that his brother has died, he has become the only prince, and he is expected to be on Jiuding, how can he not be overjoyed.

He walked into the spirit shed, although Yang Zhao's third son didn't like this imperial uncle, he could only come forward to visit, Yang Xuan hurriedly helped up the three nephews, and said pretendedly: "The imperial brother is unfortunate in his youth, I am our only uncle, I should regard you as a son, protect you sooner or later, prevent you from being harmed, you don't have to worry." ”

Yang Jun also knew very well in his heart that if he ascended to the position of Jiuding, the only contenders would be these three nephews, would his father make him the emperor's grandson? He was also full of worries, and if it was possible, he wanted to poison the three sons immediately.

Yang Xuan walked to his brother's spiritual seat and knelt down, but found that it was Yang Yuanqing who was kneeling beside him, he was stunned in his heart, and he didn't do anything, but kowtowed to his brother three times.

Yang Zhao's third son also hurriedly stepped forward and knelt beside him to return the salute.

At this time, Yang Yuanqing had finished worshipping the spirit, and he was just about to get up, but suddenly heard Yang Xuan's cold voice, "Yang Yuanqing, if you are willing to take refuge in me and serve me as the master, I will write off our past grudges and will, and I will treat them well, what do you think?" ”

Just yesterday afternoon, Yang Jun also unexpectedly heard the news, Yang Yuanqing actually knocked down Yu Shiji, which surprised him, although he was also quite dissatisfied with Yu Shiji in the past two days, but Yu Shiji was his military advisor after all, this time Yu Shiji was knocked down, transferred to Changsha as a county commander, so that he lost his right arm, he finally realized Yang Yuanqing's power, this person will be a big rival on his way to the East Palace, now Yang Zhao is dead, if he can win Yang Yuanqing, of course it is the best, if he can't win over, he must get rid of it as soon as possible.

Although the three nephews were beside him, Yang Yun didn't care, he glared at Yang Yuanqing again, and threatened viciously: "If you dare not obey, I will let death have no place to die." ”

Yang Yuanqing slowly stood up and smiled indifferently, "I'm sorry, I just swore in front of the crown prince's spirit that I should protect his son and enter the East Palace early, His Royal Highness King Qi loves him, and Shu Yuanqing can't accept it." ”

finished, he bowed deeply to Yang Zhao's three sons, turned around, Yang Zhao's three sons all heard the conversation between the two of them just now, and the eldest son Yang Qi pulled his two younger brothers to kneel down and kowtowed to Yang Yuanqing's back