Chapter 508: The Heart of the Viper
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Li Fuguo patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "You don't have to worry, I'm here to commend you." ”
He looked back at the box on the ground, "Look! ”
Chen Hongzhi saw two large wooden boxes on the ground, both open, full of gold, yellow and clear gold, at least hundreds of ingots, he had never seen so much gold since he was a child, he couldn't help but be dumbfounded, and his eyes were a little straight.
Li Fuguo looked at his expression, and had to secretly admire Li Heng's vision, although this person is young, he is really greedy for money in his bones, and he dies for money, as a famous saying from ancient times!
He walked to the box, casually held up a gold ingot, like a poisonous snake tempting a bird, and whispered: "This is fifty taels of gold, worth six hundred yuan, and the box is a total of five thousand taels, that is, sixty thousand yuan, this is the emperor rewarded you, he praised you for doing a good job, in addition, there is a house covering an area of thirty acres in Pingkangfang, which also belongs to you, and the deed is in the box." ”
Chen Hongzhi only felt that his legs were a little weak, and the displeasure and worry in his heart just now were gone, he slowly stepped forward and gently stroked the gold, his eyes flashed with a strange look, what kind of face was that! Like a blooming flower, his greedy, shining, demonic eyes wide open, his mouth and nostrils open, greedily inhaling, he looked straight before him, not only gold, but seemed to want to take all that he saw, the earth, the sky, the sun, and even the air.
Li Fuguo didn't bother him, but stood behind him with his hands behind his back, waiting for him to react from his intoxication, I don't know how long it took, Chen Hongzhi finally returned to reality, he turned his head, and asked in a somewhat hoarse voice: "These.... Give it all to me? ”
"Yes, it all belongs to you, the Emperor Taishang has always been generous to his own people, and your performance has made him very satisfied."
Li Fuguo sat down and said with a smile: "You tell me now, how did you do it, but you were not discovered." ”
This sentence made Chen Hongzhi finally wake up from the dream of making a fortune, he lowered his head, and said in a low voice: "Shengshang likes to drink a kind of flower dew honey juice very much, and I made it all by myself, so I put a little bit of croton powder in the flower dew honey juice. ”
"Hmmm! Yes, don't others doubt you? Like a doctor, or are you not seen by others? ”
Chen Hongzhi's head hung lower, and his voice was almost inaudible, "Whether it is a meal sent in the kitchen or a medicine fried by others, it must be examined by the imperial doctor, and that flower dew honey juice is no exception." ”
"And how did you get past the inspection?"
"I, I'm the last ring, the imperial doctor gave me the things after the examination, and I served the saint to drink, and in order to escape his own dereliction of duty, the royal physician insisted that the saint would only get worse when he was cold at night, and the queen mother did not doubt me, because the saint was with me since he was a child, and the queen mother could suspect anyone, but she couldn't suspect me."
"I see!"
Li Fuguo realized that Chen Hongzhi was actually Li Shi's most trusted person, and God helped them, and a deceitful smile immediately welled up in his eyes, and said: "Although you have done a good job, the Emperor Taishang does not want his grandson to have diarrhea, he just hopes that the Holy Lord can sleep for a while, you know, the Imperial Court and the Political Hall are being re-launched, and the Emperor Taishang does not want the Holy Lord to interfere in this matter, so I have to work hard for you again." ”
As he spoke, he put a red crystal vial as big as a little finger on the table, Chen Hongzhi's face changed greatly, the red vial seemed to him to be a letter of a poisonous snake, he took a few steps back, his eyes were full of horror, and he trembled.
"Nope! No! I don't do it. ”
Before he finished speaking, Li Fuguo slapped him in the face, gritted his teeth and scolded: "You bastard, do you dare not do it?" If you don't do it, you will die, you stole the holy jasper Pixiu, and you put the croton powder, do you still think how loyal and noble you are? ”
Chen Hongzhi was paralyzed, he seemed to hear the sound of the door closing behind him, his retreat had been cut off, he was like a bird that couldn't resist the temptation, being embraced by a poisonous snake.
"You're going to kill me!" That's what he's most afraid of.
Li Fuguo squatted down, patted his face gently, and laughed softly: "You are really confused!" In the end, because he was seriously ill and died, if you died, wouldn't you tell others, what is the truth? You don't have to worry, not everyone has to be killed, just like me, I know more than anyone else, so why didn't the emperor extinguish my mouth? ”
"You're different."
"It's the same, what a stupid boy, you are a eunuch, only a eunuch can become the emperor's henchman, do you understand? Now you are the confidant of the Emperor Taishang, doing the most secret thing for the Emperor, now you understand! ”
Chen Hongzhi nodded as if he didn't understand, Li Fuguo stood up, and said: "Okay, before, because you were not the emperor's confidant, I wanted to reward you with gold, but now that you are our person, there will be no reward, and the matter will be done tonight, and then you will go to study and be the head of the imperial study in the future." ”
After speaking, Li Fuguo opened the door and left, I don't know how long it took, Chen Hongzhi slowly stood up, locked the door, he staggered to the bed, and stared blankly at the two boxes of yellow and clear gold, this is five thousand taels of gold, worth sixty thousand yuan, he never thought that he would have so much wealth, gradually, the fire of greed in his eyes burned again, he turned his head and stared at the red crystal vial, at this time, in his opinion, it was no longer a letter of a poisonous snake, but a light that illuminated his future.
......... Chen Hongzhi is also a very powerful eunuch in the history of the Tang Dynasty, Tang Xianzong in history was killed by him, and the power leaned towards the government and the opposition for a while, but history turned a corner when he was a teenager, and he became a hoe for Li Heng to dig a grave for Li Shi.
When Chen Hongzhi watched Li Shi drink up a glass of bright red flower dew honey juice, at this time, he also knew that he had changed history, he didn't know when the surname Yao would attack, and his heart was so nervous that he almost stopped beating.
"What's wrong with you?"
Li Shi saw that his expression was a little abnormal, and couldn't help but ask strangely.
"No, nothing, the slave may not have slept well these days, and he is very dizzy."
"Yes! I have an illness that has made you suffer, and I feel guilty in my heart, so go and rest! You are not needed here. ”
The care of the saint made Chen Hongzhi almost cry, but he knew that it was irreparable now, if he showed the slightest breath, it would be a dead end, he bit his lip and restrained his emotions.
Chen Hongzhi knelt down, kowtowed heavily and said: "Your Majesty cares, the slave is grateful, I wish Your Majesty's dragon body will recover as soon as possible, and the slave will serve left and right again." ”
"I want to get better soon, hey! Reading every day, my head is big, I still want to take the boat to play again, and you will play with me then. ”
"Good! The slave must accompany His Majesty. Chen Hongzhi's voice was full of crying.
At this time, a strong sense of sleepiness hit Li Shi, and he nodded and said, "I want to sleep, you go!" Go and rest, and come back to talk to me in the evening. ”
"The minion is gone!"
Chen Hongzhi was so nervous that he jumped out quickly, he slowly retreated, and immediately walked briskly to his room, he was not worried about his five thousand taels of gold, so he hid under his bed, if something happened to the saint, the palace would definitely search, if someone found it, he would be dead, no, he had to bury the gold.
At this time, it was already dusk, and there were several eunuchs in the courtyard where he lived who were cooking by themselves, and when they saw him coming back, they all smiled at him flatteringly: "Grandpa Chen, we have a bottle of good wine here, do you want to come and drink a little?" ”
"No, I'm going to sleep, and no one is allowed to disturb me."
Chen Hongzhi had just walked to the door, when a palace maid came over and saluted him: "Grandpa Chen, the Emperor wants me to send you a piece of jade." ”
"Shh
Chen Hongzhi was so frightened that his heart was about to jump out, he looked to both sides, no one paid attention to him, so he whispered: "Go into the house and say!" ”
He pushed the door into the house, and the palace maid also entered the house in a flash, she took out a jasper horse from the basket she carried, put it on the table and said with a smile: "The Emperor Taishang heard that you like jasper, so he gave you this jade horse, which is a tribute from Khotan, it is the best jade, and it is a reward for you." ”
"Thank you Emperor Taishang, please tell the Emperor Taishang, just say that the matter has been done, please rest assured!"
"Really?" The palace maid flashed a trace of coldness, pointed to the bed, and said, "Father-in-law, why is your gold gone?" ”
Chen Hongzhi was taken aback, as soon as he turned his head and looked at the bed, his gold was really gone, he froze, at this moment of lightning, a rope strangled his neck, pulled suddenly, Chen Hongzhi fell to the ground, he struggled desperately, his hands grabbed in the air, his throat gurgled, rolled his eyes and looked at the palace maid behind him in despair, he never thought that a woman's strength was so great.
"Said... Don't kill.. I! He struggled to get it out.
"We don't want to kill you, but you must kill yourself, and we have no choice."
The palace maid's voice was as cold as a poisonous snake, this was the last sentence Chen Hongzhi heard in the world...... In a moment, the palace maid quietly left through the back window, the room was locked, and only Chen Hongzhi's thin figure swayed in midair.
......... Great changes have taken place in the palace, but at this time the people in the court have not yet realized that there will be an accident in the palace, everyone's mind is on the public push of the political hall, tomorrow will be the deadline for the prison to announce the start of the public push of the political hall, from tomorrow, it is a three-day public push period, at this time everyone's heartstrings are tightened, and everyone has forgotten the little emperor who is seriously ill.
In the politics of the Tang Dynasty, the political hall is actually a kind of consultation mechanism, because the power of the Zhongshu Province in the three provinces and six ministries is great, and it has the power to make edicts, in order to limit the power of the Zhongshu Province, there is a door province to supervise, an edict, just stamped with the seal of the Zhongshu Province, but also must have the big seal of the door of the province, so it is called the seal of the door of the book.
If the province feels that the edict of the province of Zhongshu is inappropriate, it can be directly refuted, and the province of Zhongshu must be redrafted, and there are two problems here, the first is that the edict of the province of Zhongshu has been approved by the emperor, and if it is rejected, the emperor will have to approve it again, and secondly, the edict of the province of Zhongshu can be refuted, which is easy to delay the major affairs of the military state.
In order to solve this contradiction, there is a consultation system of the political affairs hall, the heads of the province of Zhongshu and the province of the door sit together in advance to negotiate, after the consultation is passed, the province of the book and then draw up the will, in addition, the Tang Dynasty is the implementation of the multi-phase system, in addition to the Zhongshu order and the subordinate servants such a first-level foreign country, there will be several second-level ministers, that is, the high-ranking officials who have obtained the qualification of the same Zhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi, generally the Shangshu of the ministries, they also participated in the consultation of the political hall, gradually, the political hall became the cabinet of the Tang Dynasty, with great power.
Especially in the current absence of imperial power, the political hall has become the de facto supreme authority, and the military affairs of the Tang Dynasty are decided by it, whether it is Li Qing'an or Li Heng, they all attach great importance to it.
When it was almost dark, several carriages were parked in front of Pei Min's mansion, which was an important backbone of the Zhao Wang Party to discuss countermeasures together, and there were five people sitting in Pei Min's outer study, Pei Min, Cui Lian, Wei Tao and Lu Lian, in addition to Zhang Hao, a Chinese scholar, Zhang Hao originally belonged to the royalists, but Li Heng's serious threat to Li Shi made Zhang Hao realize that only by relying on the Zhao Wang Party could he better protect the young emperor, so he turned to the Zhao Wang Party.
"The more I think about it in the past two days, the more strange I feel, the three conditions proposed by Wang Heng are all things that we can't do, he obviously knows that we won't agree, why do we still mention these three conditions, it is obvious that their purpose is to dissolve the political affairs hall, this is Li Heng's intention, I am sure he has been planning for a long time."
Pei Min's words made everyone fall into contemplation, at this time, Cui Jian frowned and said: "According to the current power structure of the imperial court, the Zhao Wang Party accounts for forty percent, the royalist party accounts for two percent, the Zhang party accounts for one percent, and the prison party only has three percent, if according to this ratio to promote the political affairs hall, among the seven people in the political affairs hall, we can account for three people, one royalist party, one Zhang party, and they only have two people at most in the national supervision party, I don't understand, dissolving the political affairs hall and re-promoting it is not good for them, why do they do this, And since they have won Zhang Yun over, then they account for four people in the political hall, becoming the majority, what resolutions can't be passed, dissolve the land and acres division, and return the land to the owner, these resolutions can be passed smoothly, why do you want to dissolve the political affairs hall, don't you think it's strange? ”
Wei Tao also nodded and said: "Cui Shangshu is right, I think so too, there is no need for them to dissolve the political affairs hall at all, I think, Li Heng should have other intentions." ”
Pei Min walked a few steps with his hands behind his back and said: "Maybe they have other intentions, but there is another very important reason that you didn't think of, that is, Zhang Yun, I don't know what compromise they reached with Zhang Yun, but one thing is certain, Zhang Yun is the grass on the wall, it is impossible to support them in everything, Zhang Yun may only agree to resign with them and dissolve the political hall, anyway, there will definitely be him in the final public election, for him this is just a favor, which is in line with Zhang Yun's style, but Cui Shangshu is also right, They dissolve the government hall at this time and are willing to take a big risk to re-elect, they must have other plans, and I have a hunch that something big will happen in the next two days. ”
As soon as Pei Min finished speaking, there was a rush of running outside, only to hear a subordinate shouting outside the door: "Master, it's not good, there is urgent news in the palace, the saint, the saint has died!" ”
(To be continued)