Chapter 455: The Emperor's Road (26)
Suddenly, the ministers stopped arguing and looked at each other in the back.
Your Highness, what's going on? In eye contact, all the ministers had questions. I have never seen His Royal Highness the Crown Prince so insulting the majesty of the court for many days, but today it happened. During the court discussion, being able to sleep soundly is probably rare in ancient times.
Yao Yuanchong had the courage to step forward to take a look, and after making sure that His Highness was really asleep, he said to the ministers: "Your Highness has worked hard for the country, so that your body is not safe, Lou Xiang, what instructions do you have?" ”
Lou Shide is now the prime minister of the left and the prime minister, so he has the final say in the court without His Royal Highness the crown prince presiding. Lou Shide got up slowly, he was obese, so he had some difficulty getting up, and said: "Your Highness works hard for the country, so that you are so stuck, why don't you leave it here for Your Highness to rest and let the palace people take care of it, how about I wait until the side hall to continue to discuss?" ”
The ministers bowed down and said, "Then according to Lou Xiang's words!" ”
Immediately, the ministers retreated to the side hall, and Yao Yuan Chong ordered the palace people to cover His Royal Highness with a brocade quilt, so as not to catch a cold and get a cold.
When everyone left, Shangguan Wan'er stepped into the hall, and when she saw Wu Chu, who was still snoring, she couldn't help but smile and said to herself: "You really trample on etiquette like this, I really don't know if it's good or bad." ”
Immediately, she stepped forward and looked carefully at the sleeping Wu Zheng, looking at the angular face, a heroic aura rushed to her face. wanted to kiss it, but was afraid of being seen by the palace people, so he turned around and walked out of the hall.
happened to see the palace maid bring a brocade quilt, and she instructed: "When you cover Your Highness, don't wake up." ”
The palace maid owes and agrees. Then he entered the main hall. Shangguan Wan'er walked not far away, only to hear a miserable cry in the hall, she hurriedly turned around and ran into the main hall. I saw that Wu Chu was still asleep, snoring like thunder, but the palace maid was lying in a pool of blood, her eyes were wide open, and she couldn't blink to death.
It was also at this time that the ministers in the side hall rushed to the palace when they heard the news and saw a bloody scene. I saw a deep wound in the palace maid's chest, bubbling with blood, and the palace maid twitched slightly. But he was already dying. And His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was still asleep, snoring like thunder.
"Your Highness!" Lou Shide and the others shouted in unison!
After a few sounds, Wu Chu suddenly woke up from the throne, and then asked, "Everyone." Where? ”
I saw that he looked sleepy. The eyes are confused, but there is no trace of the majesty of the past. Seeing that the ministers did not answer, he asked again: "I'm sorry, this king is indeed a little sleepy, let's continue!" ”
Seeing that the ministers looked at him with strange eyes, Wu Chu was stunned for a moment, then stood up and found that there was a brocade quilt on his body. was stunned for a moment, and then saw the palace maid lying in a pool of blood not far from his feet. Seeing that his saber was thrown aside, the sword was dripping with blood, and he was stunned.
He said in disbelief: "This king seems to have killed countless enemies in a dream, but he doesn't want to really kill people. ”
A look of loneliness suddenly appeared on his face, and he said slowly: "The palace people are not guilty, this king is guilty, Lou Xiang, what is the crime of killing people for no reason?" ”
Even though Lou Shide has been an official for decades, he didn't know how to answer for a while, he wanted to say that the prince was guilty of the same crime as the common people, but he thought that the palace people were killed by His Royal Highness in his dream, how could this be judged?
Seeing that Lou Shide didn't know why, Wu Zheng looked at Ji Ji and said: "Ji Zhongcheng, the prince is guilty of the same crime as the common people, today I will bury this palace person, and then come to receive the crime, Ji Zhongcheng can consult the cases of the past dynasties and convict this king." ”
His Royal Highness said this, Ji Ji didn't dare to agree, his whole life was glorious on His Highness, how could he be punished because of a palace person? Immediately, he knelt on the ground and said, "Your Highness, this is manslaughter, although the palace people died in vain, but Your Highness is unconscious, and the ministers dare not convict Your Highness." ”
Yao Yuanchong and the others also knelt on the ground and said in unison: "Your Highness must not disregard the world and tarnish your reputation. ”
Wu Chu was stunned for a moment, and said: "This king is at fault, although it is not the king's intention to kill people in his dream, but after all, he killed a palace man who covered this king with a brocade quilt." If her parents were alive, she didn't know how to be sad. ”
In this way, Wu Chu ordered his guards to bury the palace maid and erect a monument to remember it.
The palace maid had her own guards to go to the burial, and he came to the queen's bedroom, told the empress the reason, and then said: "The son killed the palace maid by mistake in his dream, please punish the mother." ”
The empress was stunned for a moment, then asked, "What do the prime ministers say?" ”
At this time, a palace person reported, "Holy Lord, all the prime ministers are here!" ”
The empress paused slightly, and then said to Wu Zhuang: "The emperor will go to the side hall to avoid it first, and I want to see what the prime ministers say." ”
Wu Chu smiled bitterly in his heart, and could only wait in the side hall.
In a moment, the prime ministers arrived in unison, and some who should have come came, and those who should not have come.
If you want to say who is happiest to hear this news, it is undoubtedly Wu Sansi. Now Wu Wang Wu Chenghei's body is about to fail, it is said that he has to vomit a few liters of blood every three or five places, and he can't leave the medicine jar at any time, but this time the empress can't get up from Sanyang Palace, and is replaced by his heir. If the king of Wei was deposed of the title of crown prince because of this incident, then should it be his turn?
Therefore, after Wu Sansi got the news, he hurried to the empress's bedroom, but he didn't expect to meet a large number of important ministers.
Li Xian, the king of loyalty, and Li Dan, the prime minister, were calmer, and although they were happy in their hearts after hearing the news, they thought that this was probably Wu Zheng's conspiracy again. Both of them resisted the urge to admonish, but when they heard that the ministers had gone to the empress's bedchamber, they also got up and went.
The empress sat behind the beaded curtain, after all, this is a dormitory, and it is inconvenient to directly receive the courtiers. After the ministers saw the salute, the empress asked: "Ladies and gentlemen, now that the crown prince is in charge of the country, the prince will decide on political affairs. You Aiqing are not in the palace to discuss matters, how can you come to my bedroom? ”
Lou Shide said first: "Holy Lord, the ministers are only here for His Royal Highness the Prince's accidental killing of the palace people, and I also ask the Holy Lord to forgive His Royal Highness the Prince's sin." ”
The empress nodded slightly and said, "What does Lou Xiang mean that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince killed the palace people by mistake?" ”
So Lou Shide told the prince about the accidental killing of the palace people in the prince's dream, and repeatedly stated that the prince Wuchu was really killed by mistake in his dream, and he couldn't really kill people.
The empress was really strange in her heart, although she had seen Cao Mengde's dream murder in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", she didn't expect that Wu Chuan could also kill people in her dream, who would that child calculate? With such a question, he looked at her rather important Yushi Zhongcheng, Ji Xuan.
Ji Ji was deeply trusted by the empress, and when the empress looked at him, he immediately went out and played: "Holy Lord, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is really innocent, although His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is asleep in the palace, but he accidentally killed the palace people, but he dreamed of killing people in a dream, but in fact killed the palace people by mistake, if the palace people are not close to His Royal Highness the Prince, then the palace people will be fine." ”
The empress nodded slightly and said, "There is some truth in Ji Aiqing's words. Then he looked at the rest of the ministers and asked, "Do you all think that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince killed the palace people by mistake in a dream?" ”
Lou Shide and the others immediately bowed down and said: "The ministers do think so, and what the ministers saw with their own eyes was that after Yao Shangshu saw His Royal Highness the Crown Prince asleep, we moved to the side hall." ”
Yao Yuanchong came out of the class and said: "Holy Lord, the minister saw it with his own eyes, and then asked Lou Xiang if he moved to the side hall to discuss matters. And if you want to say that you are guilty, it is also the minister's guilt, because the minister saw that the palace was cold, and he was afraid that His Highness would feel ill and delay the state affairs, so he asked the palace people to take the brocade and cover it for His Highness. If the minister does not command, the palace people may not die in vain, and if they are guilty, they are also guilty. With that, he fell to his knees.
"It's really affectionate and righteous, all the ministers want to exonerate His Royal Highness the Prince, is this to ignore the laws of my Great Zhou?"
Suddenly, a burst of yin and yang strange words came out from behind the ministers, and the ministers turned around and looked, who was Wu Sansi?
The empress was also stunned, what is going on with these three thoughts, can't she understand this child's teachings in her ears? It is true that if there was no Wu Zheng, she would probably consider passing the throne to Sansi, but Sansi had a good skin, but he was really a straw bag. He is not enough to take on the heavy responsibility of continuing the Great Zhou. This is also an important reason why she finally gave up Wu Wangwu Chenghei and Liang Wangwu Sansi.
In contrast, Wu Chu founded the science of science, so that the official school of the Great Zhou Dynasty almost became the foil of science, and the officials of science accounted for almost half of the list of scholars in each imperial examination. is so rational that she has a feeling of talking about rational color change. Fortunately, the science officials are indeed able to shepherd one side, and the achievements they have made are obvious to all, so why don't she use the science officials who can govern the country like this?
And Wu Sansi and Wu Chenghei have no achievements, forming a party in the DPRK and the central government, enclosing land and building houses, which has aroused the anger of the heavens and people, if it weren't for her, who was the emperor, to suppress those snowflake-like whistleblowing letters, it is estimated that both of them would have died hundreds of times or thousands of times.
In this way, the empress often mentions the two of them in the palace, to understand that the glory is not easy to come by, and should know how to cherish it, she knows that the two of them do not deal with Wu Zhuang, so she changes the way to let them get close to Wu Chuan and befriend Wu Zhuang, she also hopes that the Wu family can be harmonious and harmonious.
But today, it seems that she was wrong, as the emperor, she felt a wave of exhaustion when she saw such disagreements within her family. Ignoring Wu Sansi's words, he said to the ministers: "Prime ministers, it is unheard of for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to kill the palace people in his dream, but His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is also unintentional, and the prince buries the palace maid, in my opinion, I will punish the prince with a year's salary and let him make meritorious contributions to the crime, what do the ministers think?" ”
The empress is not energetic, and she no longer wants to bother because of the crown prince's problems, not to mention whether Wu Chu is at fault, but she is just killing a slave.
In this way, the ministers shouted, "Holy wise, Holy Long! ”
Wu Sansi didn't expect such a result, and he was afraid of being scolded by the empress, so he quietly withdrew from the dormitory.
Although Li Xian and Li Dan knew the result in their hearts, they still felt powerless, they looked at each other from a distance and smiled, and then left the dormitory one after another.
But in this way, the prince is good at killing people in his dreams, but he is constantly leaving, so that he is crossed by the more and more mysterious ...... (To be continued......)