Grassroots soldiers only follow their generals, who their generals are, where they go, they go, Li Qianshun is a good emperor, very capable, but when the emperor has been in office for a long time, institutionalized, especially after experiencing the Liang rebellion, he does not trust the soldiers very much, which makes a considerable number of party officers very dissatisfied.

This gave Cao and Renduo the opportunity to protect their loyalty, and under some lobbying, four-fifths of the party's army forces defected to the Cao regime, and the remaining fifth was expelled to the periphery, guarding the western frontier of the enemy country, away from the center, and in this short month, the Cao clan grasped the supreme power of Western Xia in one fell swoop through the operation of the Han strategists and the old scheming of Renduo Baozhong.

The bedridden emperor Li Qianshun was still in a coma from time to time, and he was unable to make any countermeasures against this, let alone restrain the Cao family, defeat the Cao family, and regain the power that belonged to him and the Dangxiang clan.

At this time, the central government of Western Xia, which was full of Cao's henchmen, was panicked after learning the news that the Song army was about to attack Xingqing Mansion, and the degree of panic can be imagined.

This is not a good thing, although the Han officers in the party army account for the vast majority, but the army under Renduo Baozhong is the elite, after the elite is destroyed, the Western Xia government only has 10,000 imperial forest troops and 30,000 militia in the capital to mobilize, 10,000 imperial forest army is good to say, at least it is still a regular army, the central army, the 30,000 militia is an egg?

In this case, a woman from the Cao family was on the verge of collapse. She was afraid that the Song army would come and kill her, and she was also afraid that Emperor Li Qianshun would suddenly recover, and when she got up, she would kill her even more when she saw this scene, she suddenly felt that she had no sense of security, no one to rely on, and a group of civil and military courtiers under the court buzzed like flies. It just can't come up with any effective measures.

In such a situation, Cao's psychology has undergone subtle changes, after retiring from the dynasty, she called her most confidant little eunuch Zhang Quan to the palace, let Zhang Quan come over, she whispered a few words in Zhang Quan's ear, Zhang Quan's face changed greatly, became pale, bloodless. His lips trembled slightly, and he looked at the hideous Cao with a look of horror.

"Master, really...... Do you really want to do this? In this case...... Once the incident happens...... We...... We...... Your Majesty will still wake up sometimes, and the time when he wakes up these days is getting longer and longer, and yesterday he wanted to summon the minister to question, but he didn't hold it up, and he fell asleep again, and now he is still asleep. I guess I will definitely wake up today, and Your Majesty's body has begun to recover! Zhang Quan was still terrified.

Cao Shi let go of everything. Hideously: "This is the worst thing!" Once Your Majesty wakes up, his body recovers, and he is about to go to court, everything we do will be exposed! When the time comes, I won't die, you won't die, and all the Han people will die! Only now. Only let Li Qianshun talk about the past forever! Put my son on the throne! I can be the regent in the name of righteousness! ”

Zhang Quan trembled and said: "But Your Majesty eats every day and has to be verified by those barbarians, they don't eat, even if Your Majesty is asleep, the villain can't bring things to His Majesty's house, and the guards of Your Majesty's house are all pro-guards." Don't listen to anyone! Once something is wrong, they can kill the villain in an instant, the villain...... Villain ......"

Cao Shi stood up suddenly, slapped Zhang Quan's face, and roared: "Useless waste! Your whole family's lives are saved for you! If there is no queen! Your whole family is finished! How can you bargain with Benhou here today! Ungrateful stuff! Benhou will naturally prepare the proper medicine for you! You go or you don't go! ”

Zhang was pale and trembling, fell to the ground motionless, and after a while, he slowly stood up and said in a low voice: "Master, master, the villain understands, this matter must be done for the master, even if the villain himself does not want to die, he will definitely help the master handle this matter...... It's just that there is a sister in the villain's house, and an old mother, the master......"

Cao frowned, and sighed for a long time: "I know, if something happens to you, your mother and sister will be properly arranged in the future, don't worry!" ”

Zhang Quan knelt down suddenly, kowtowed three times, and got up to leave.

Cao Shi looked at the back of Zhang Quan leaving, and suddenly remembered the more than ten years he had spent with Li Qianshun, and suddenly felt a pain in his heart, thinking of Li Qianshun's gentle smile and delicate care, which was one of the few warm memories in the cold deep palace......

I'm sorry, Your Majesty, the concubine didn't want to harm you, the concubine never wanted to hurt you, but ...... But as long as you wake up, recover, see all this, see all this, the concubine will definitely die without a place to be buried, the concubine does something wrong, you have to continue to make mistakes, in order to survive, there is no chance to turn back, I'm sorry, Your Majesty, the concubine has never wanted to harm you, the concubine just doesn't want to die......

The lives of so many Han people are in the thought of concubines, the lives of the family, the lives of so many people, I'm sorry, I'm sorry Your Majesty, please, please forgive the concubine...... Please ...... Please ...... Please die!

At this thought, there was no confusion in Cao's eyes, but instead firmness and indifference.

Li Qianshun's diet has always been firmly controlled by his henchmen, and the emperor of the party also has a personal guard that has been passed down from his ancestors for generations, compared to the royal forest army, he doesn't know how far he goes, and he is the most elite personal guard that no one can touch, the number is very small, only a few hundred, but most of them are passed down from their ancestors, passed down from generation to generation, from Li Yuanhao's era to the present, extremely loyal to the emperor.

These people are Li Qianshun's last barrier, beyond this barrier, it will be barrier-free, but it is no longer barrier-free, there will still be guards to follow Li Qianshun's room, but at this time the people who go in are the imperial doctors in the palace, how to diagnose and treat or the imperial doctor's business, the guards except for rabbits and dogs and other animals to test the medicine, there is no other way to distinguish whether the medicine is poison or not, they themselves do not understand medical skills, the Dangxiang people seem to have no talent for medical skills, and have to rely on a large number of Han doctors.

For more than ten years in the palace, Cao was a Han woman. It is very important to befriend the imperial doctor, otherwise, she can't even keep her son, and the Han concubines are a vulnerable group in the inner palace, because most of the Han concubines here are the descendants of the renegades who surrendered on the initiative of the Song State and the people who surrendered in defeat, and they have no status. Compared with the concubines of the party and the Khitan, they are very weak and not valued.

And a relatively large number of Han imperial doctors often try their best to protect Cao, who is also a Han person, and protect her thoroughly, which can be regarded as a guarantee for their future, and Cao can't imagine that the relationship maintained for more than ten years has become a very important life-saving relationship.

"Imperial Doctor Li, that's the way it is. This is the medicine given to you by the master, you can see how to use it. Zhang Quan came to the Tai Hospital, avoided everyone, came to the house of the Han Imperial Physician Imperial Physician Li, and took out the pill that Cao Shi handed over to him from his arms. Gritting his teeth and being ruthless, the so-called wealth is in danger. If you don't help the Cao family at this time, once the Cao family is finished, you will also be finished, and now all the Han people are grasshoppers on a rope, and if you don't rely on the Cao family, you will have nothing to rely on.

Imperial Physician Li took the pill. Putting it in front of his nose and sniffing it, his face was surprised: "Could it be...... It's really unexpected, Cao Guifei still has this medicine in her hand, if that's the case, there should be no problem. Put it in the medicinal juice, it dissolves in water, it is colorless and tasteless, and it is harmless when put on a dog, but it is a deadly thing when used in people...... I thought it was destroyed 20 years ago......"

Zhang Quan didn't know why: "What does Imperial Doctor Li mean by this?" ”

Imperial Physician Li sneered a few times and explained: "No matter where, even if it is a country of party members, the battle in the inner palace has always been bloody and has never subsided, the reason why Empress Dowager Liang can sit on the throne of the Empress Dowager as a Han person, and even become the ruler of a country, is thanks to this medicine, later, after Empress Dowager Liang was placed under house arrest by His Majesty and raided her home, this drug was discovered, and then reported to Your Majesty, Your Majesty was furious when she heard this, and ordered the destruction of this medicine.

This medicine grows in the mountains, it is very rare, I don't know the name so far, and I can't find any record in the medical books, I only know that the people around the Empress Dowager Liang call this pill called the golden pill, itself is like this, it is soluble in water, dissolved in water without color and taste, the water will not change in any way, it is still clear, there is nothing wrong with the taste, there is nothing wrong with it in the medicinal juice, and it is non-toxic and harmless.

However, once mixed with a medicinal herb, it immediately becomes a highly toxic medicine that kills people, and the strange thing is that it will not have a seizure at that time, and there is nothing wrong with eating it, and it will generally occur after three to seven days, first coughing and then coughing until hematemesis, and hematemesis will not stop until he vomits blood, until he vomits blood and dies...... It is extremely painful, only two or three days from the onset of the disease to death, and some people even die in less than a day, but this medicine has no effect on poultry such as pigs and dogs.

So far, the old man still doesn't know why this medicine alone has so much harm to people, and it is harmless to pigs and dogs, but since the matter has come to this, the concubine gave the old man such medicinal materials, and the old man knows how to do it, and you go back and tell the concubine that the old man will do it cleanly, and after the matter is completed, please also ask the concubine to save the life of the old man's family. ”

Zhang Quan nodded, and then said worriedly: "Don't worry about this, Imperial Doctor Li, we are all grasshoppers on a rope, but, since this medicine was discovered twenty years ago, it proves that there may be people in the palace who know what this medicine is, once Your Majesty ...... Will we be suspicious then? ”

Imperial Physician Li showed a mysterious smile: "The one who discovered this medicine is the old man, except for the old man, no one knows where this drug comes from, what it does, how to test the poison, even His Majesty only vaguely knows it today." ”

Zhang Quan was overjoyed: "Then everything is entrusted to Imperial Doctor Li, everything I have waited for has been entrusted!" ”

Imperial Physician Li nodded: "The old man understands." ”

The heart of the doctor's parents, for the doctor, should be to save people's lives, not harm people's lives, but unfortunately the old man was confused when he was young, greedy for wealth and wealth into the palace, became a doctor, and had to rely on Cao's family, mistakes again and again, I don't know how many lives in my hands, I can't turn back, the old man is no longer worthy of being a doctor, but in order to save his own life and the life of the whole family, he has to do so, alas...... (To be continued.) )