Chapter 54: The Booklet
Xue Chongxun spent a lot of effort lobbying during the court discussion, and it was generally smooth, but the court did not agree immediately, and an important reason was that the prince Li Chenghong made the relationship too clear, although in the end the prince did not win and was slapped in the face, but the words were clear, and the ministers had to deal with it carefully and slowly.
After Xue Chongxun went home, he remembered that he was very dissatisfied with the crown prince, and felt that this guy was not a suitable candidate for the crown prince. If the powerful Princess Taiping is still there, she is the lord who can depose the emperor, and most of them will abolish Li Chenghong. Xue Chongxun's power is still a little far away from Princess Taiping, and it is not easy for him to do anything to abolish the establishment, but this does not affect his hostility towards Li Chenghong.
As soon as he sat down in the living room to rest, Yu Wenxiao came in to talk about the matter, talking about the formation of the pro-kingdom, as well as the progress of arranging eyeliner and so on.
Xue Chongxun didn't have much interest in listening to those trivial matters, and only said: "Li Chenghong, the prince, there is no need to monitor him for a long time, you must get him down as soon as possible, so as not to raise a tiger." ”
Yuwen Xiao hurriedly asked why, and Xue Chongxun told him about being openly confronted by the prince in the temple today. Unexpectedly, Yu Wenxiao smiled when he heard this: "The second son is not able to measure his strength, he is in decline and cannot be obscure, he is not a big tool, Xue Lang doesn't have to look up to him too much." ”
Xue Chongxun said indignantly: "Having said that, this world is very strange, if you are not afraid of the wise, you are afraid of the stupid fork!" At the beginning, Wu Sansi did not die in the hands of the powerful Empress Wei and his mother, but died in the hands of a stupid Li Chongjun, which has to be said to be an irony. The first strike is the strongest, and now Li Chenghong has not had a chance to unfold, and it is easiest to strangle in infancy. ”
After hearing this, Yu Wenxiao said, "Then I'll give Xue Lang an idea...... Didn't the crown prince live with his eldest princess, who was the same father and mother? Let's ask someone to print a pamphlet in private, saying that he has committed adultery with his sister. ”
Xue Chongxun was stunned and said, "How could Yuwen Gong come up with such an idea? It's just a matter of doing it, I don't care about the means, but what's the use? ”
Yu Wenxiao's old face showed a wicked smile, and Xue Chongxun suddenly said: "There is still a trick?" ”
Yu Wenxiao nodded, got closer and whispered, Xue Chongxun thought about it, and immediately laughed: "The means are a little damaged, but it's enough for him to drink a pot." With this matter, wouldn't it be reasonable if he died in the future without knowing it? ”
Xue Chongxun has no pressure to do bad things, in fact, he hasn't done a few good things in normal times. So he simply asked the inner factory to print that kind of booklet.
The goods in the inner factory are also damaged enough, and if you make up a story, you can describe it as if it were true, and the causes and consequences of the connection and the specific details can be written clearly, as if they saw it with their own eyes under someone's bed...... What's even better is that there are illustrations!
So after those pamphlets were distributed, in addition to being a scandal, they could also be read as small yellow books, with pictures and texts, even many illiterate Shengdou Xiaomin could read the pictures and read the words.
The courtiers didn't know if the matter was true, some people suspected that Xue Chongxun did it, and some people felt that Xue Chongxun didn't need to use such a small means to slander others.
But this matter itself is not a big deal, there is nothing strange about the court chaos, many things are just not easy for historians to write, only wild history dares to write. In the Han Dynasty, there were vassal kings who liked to ask their own daughters to sleep, and the royal family had no pressure. Therefore, the minister only regarded it as a joke, and did not want to mix it blindly, let alone abolish the prince because of such a thing, not to mention that there was no real evidence at all.
It's just that Wang Guifei is angry, the tree lives a skin man and a face, and her own daughter and son are gossiped about that kind of thing, and her anger as a mother can be imagined.
Wang Guifei called Li Chenghong's sister and brother to Penglai Palace to question, the eldest girl had recruited a concubine, and the life of Li Shouli's daughters was already lascivious, and the princess didn't take it seriously at all. And Li Chenghong was very angry and said to his mother: "Do you still believe in such a thing? The blind man can see that the king of Jin is a ghost, and he really did such a dirty thing, look down on him! ”
Wang Guifei scolded back, "Am I more blind than a blind man?" She didn't think it was Xue Chongxun, in her eyes, the sons and daughters were all righteous and bright, and those shady tricks were only done by women. Wang Guifei said: "Why did Xue Chongxun do such a thing? I think Empress Gao is the most suspicious...... Well, right! It had to be her. Last time I hinted at Her Majesty's adultery with the King of Jin, is she trying to treat others in the way of others? It must have been the dirty thing she instructed the eunuchs to do out of the palace! ”
Li Chenghong's head was big: "Didn't I tell my mother not to have trouble with the queen, why don't you stop?" ”
Wang Guifei said angrily: "This woman doesn't abide by women's morals, has a private meeting with the king of Jin, and every time she eyebrows, she loses the face of our family, I can't be angry." But why did you offend the king of Shangjin again? ”
Li Chenghong said: "I'm doing the right thing, how can I compare it with the intrigue between women?" Xue Chongxun wants to control the government with all his minds, if he sits idly by, he will be the second Wang Mang and Sima clan! I, the heir of Li Tang, defend my ancestors and die without regrets! ”
"Why are you dying and living all day long, I panicked when I heard it." Wang Guifei said hurriedly, almost making some tears to persuade her, "You can be your prince in peace, so that the ministers think that you are good as the prince, and if your position is stable, what are you afraid of what Queen Gao will do?" ”
Li Chenghong was annoyed by listening to it, and he wanted to leave under the pretext that there was something, and said that the pamphlet did not need to be taken care of, and it did not matter much.
After saying that, he went out of the palace with the eldest princess, but his sister actually laughed, saying that after reading the booklet, it was so embarrassing, our sister and brother didn't do anything bad, and they became bad people, so they were really wronged, so it was better to really do that kind of thing.
Li Chenghong angrily reprimanded a few words and parted ways.
…… Unexpectedly, the matter was not over, and Xue Chongxun instructed a royal historian to strictly investigate the matter and severely punish the initiators. Although the ministers all think that the matter is not big, it can be big or small, after all, it is about the face and reputation of the royal family. The dignified Crown Prince Li Tang was laughed at by the pawns of the small people in the market...... There are still pictures, the indecencies of the princess have been drawn, won't the royal majesty be swept away?
So the imperial court ordered the officials of Jingzhao Mansion and Wannian County Chang'an County to investigate the case, and it was a royal case, most likely to get a few heads to be scapegoated.
That's just it, and it turned out that the person in charge of the case in Jingzhao Mansion was a friend of Zhou Bin...... Zhou Bin is the one who took refuge in Yuwen Xiao. Now things are going to be a mess.
Zhou Bin has a reputation for being a cool official, and was sent by Princess Taiping to handle Liu Youqiu's case before, Liu Youqiu himself didn't catch it, so he took Liu Youqiu's family to ask about the case, all kinds of cool punishments were used, and even the daughters and dependents were tortured to the point that everything was cut.
Zhou Bin's friend who was an official of Jingzhao Mansion was not too much, and he arrested people everywhere to force confessions, which caused resentment among the people of Chang'an. The cool official's bull comparison is that they are bold enough, and they tortured them to extract confessions, and even the courtiers were involved, and they went to the Beijing official's house to copy the house......
People can't hate a cool official, just like a normal person and a madman do anything? His resentment naturally came to the head of the crown prince Li Chenghong. It's just that you, a prince, are your own sister, whatever we do, we are implicated in the scandals of the royal family, and it is strange that we are not resentful.
In the meantime, there was an accident, a printer was raided by the government, and the wife of a slave of his family was dragged to the firewood room and raped under the chaos. Afterwards, the master just wanted to calm things down, and a slave had no place to reason, he regarded it as a great shame, and he didn't do anything, and he took a kitchen knife and hid on the road to cut the prince of the court...... Of course, it couldn't have succeeded, and the incident suddenly cut off one of the guards' ears, and then was chopped up with a knife.
Li Chenghong was covered in dirty water, and the people's support rate plummeted. This method is indeed inferior, but it is undoubtedly effective, and what the modern power field is playing in (in some countries in order to crack down on political opponents during the election, all kinds of indiscriminate means), naturally in the Tang Dynasty will not be too bad.
The prince was physically and mentally exhausted and did nothing. At this time, Xue Chongxun's second wave of work unfolded again, and he first stalked and actively approached; Immediately afterwards, he immediately applied a reprieve and cooperated with Zhang Chi to raise funds to transform the abandoned public house behind the City God Temple into a charity hall, saying that it was to help those helpless and needy.
He sent people everywhere to find scholars and wealthy families to donate money, but in fact, everyone did not donate much, such as Baiwen and Qianwen, but they wanted to set up a stone tablet outside the City God Temple, and engrave the good name of the donor on the tablet. Now everyone is satisfied, and some money has made a good name, what a happy thing!
On the day of the groundbreaking, Xue Chongxun and the gentry came to the City God Temple in person, and there were many people who watched the excitement. He was dressed in a purple official robe, with a kind smile on his face, and he held a dirty child in his arms. The child's mother saw Xue Chongxun's black face, and he was actually a big official, in the eyes of the woman, where was Xue Chongxun's kind smile, it was simply a yin smile, the woman was afraid that he would hurt her child, and she was so anxious that she was caught by the officials, and tears came out...... It's an irony.
When Li Chenghong and the others heard about this, they naturally secretly scolded Xue Chongxun for acting evilly. But Xue Chongxun himself is pressure-free, and the ordinary gentry and ordinary people don't know much about the internal affairs of the regime, since people are doing good deeds, most of them are also good people.
The staff of the Jin Palace's mansion also went back to make a big fuss, saying that they would let Xue Chongxun participate in such good deeds to show the image of integrity and loyalty. He himself understands that as a person in power, it is completely for the sake of fame to set up a charity hall, otherwise it will be a waste of time. Although everyone said that he was loyal, they did not stun him.
originally wanted Wang Changling to write an article that will be passed down through the ages, but Wang Changling couldn't write it...... For a real literati, the article comes from the heart, and he may not be able to write about things that are obviously deceitful. Xue Chongxun had to find other staff members to write, but the influence was not so good. G