Chapter 167: Counterattack
ps: At 18 o'clock in the evening, the 15o monthly pass exploded. ο½ο½
The night passed, the sun rose high, and today was another beautiful day with a nice wind.
After a night of interrogation, all the important information that should have been obtained was in hand.
The thick stack of crime articles can be described as exhaustive, its content includes all the bad things that Chen Chan did before he came to the case when he wore open crotch pants, this kid has a strange habit, he likes to write down the bad things he has done, it is simply a personal crime dictionary, and there is also a detailed address and signboard in Chang'an City and nearby Lingyi Flower Street and Willow Lane, half-closed door, which made the captain of the Northern Army in charge of interrogation speechless.
"Don't sleep for a while?" Zhang Ou asked.
Cao Shi shook his head and washed his face with cold water to cheer up, Zhang Ou was too old to squint in the middle of the night, and he didn't sleep all night in order to surprise interrogate.
"Eat something and go to the council, I think they can't wait."
Zhang Ou smiled.
He was originally a neutral party, but when he chose to support Cao at the last moment, the edict issued by Liu Che, the son of heaven, played an important role, and he could not transfer troops without the edict.
He is the concubine of Anqiu Hou Zhang, and the current Anqiu Hou Zhang Xin is his nephew, he is a member of the meritorious liehou group has never changed, only Wei Juan and Zhi Budo and others will naively think that he will stand on the side of the minister and wave the flag and shout.
Zhang Ou and Tiaohou Zhou Yafu are of the same age, and their backgrounds are also unappreciated concubines, so the two have played since they were children and have been big iron buddies, and this relationship has been covered up for decades, and only the old people who have experienced the era of the Empress Lu system still remember such a thing.
The Zhou family of the Marquis of Jianghou was destroyed, and only Zhou Jiande was left as a bare-pole commander, and he also had the feeling that the rabbit was dead and the fox was sad. The fall of the meritorious liege will do him no harm or good, and he will not support Wei Juan in any reason.
It's ridiculous that Sangong Jiuqing still thinks he is Wei Juan's hardcore.
Just because Wei Xuan's excerpt recommends a lieutenant, there are several options that can replace Ning Cheng. Zhang Ou's ranking always comes first.
Prime Minister Wei Xuan's self-righteous recommendation thought that he would be rewarded, but he didn't expect that the Son of Heaven would be dissatisfied when he saw the twist, and Cao Shi came forward to persuade the little emperor to recognize Lieutenant Zhang Ou, because he was born as a son of a meritorious prince.
Wei Juan underestimated Zhang Ou's influence.
He didn't know that Zhang Ou's qualifications were profound and prestigious, as early as the time of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, he was ranked 2,000 stones, and he served as a court lieutenant for a long time in the era of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty. The people all know that Zhang Tingwei is kind and considerate of the prisoners, no matter how big or small the crime is, he never abuses the prisoners, and never lets the prisoners lack food and clothing.
If it weren't for the influence of Zhou Yafu's resignation. He has long been ranked as the third duke.
When he was a court lieutenant, Wei Juan was only a middle-level bureaucrat with a rank of 2,000 stones, and he was still messing around with a rank of 1,000 stones, how could he not be grateful to two people whose background, qualifications, prestige, and abilities were far inferior to his own? Even if you are grateful, you have to count Cao Shi's share. Maintaining neutrality on the surface is already the limit.
Once it comes to the major events of the survival of the meritorious princes. Zhang Ou will never be ambiguous, Wei Juan's friendship and Cao Shi are offset, and he still has to represent Cao Shi, who is a meritorious prince.
The two had secret contact as early as the time of the Yulin Cavalry military training, and the disturbance at the racecourse prompted him to make up his mind to officially defect.
"Ready over there?"
"Well, it should be on the road at this time, and all the ones who should be caught and copied will start to act when the morning meeting begins." Zhang Ou said with a smile.
Cao Shi smiled: "Then let's go too, don't let people wait." β
The main hall of Weiyang Palace.
Today, the spirit of the hundred officials and ministers is particularly good. One by one, they were engrossed in high spirits, and the onlookers were waiting with their eyes wide open for the big drama to begin.
Wei Juan's expression was very calm. His preparation was very thorough, and several sets of plans formulated by several Shangqing overnight included all the weaknesses and key points of Pingyang Hou Cao Shi, and each person copied a copy and hid it in his sleeve, and it was enough to catch Cao Shi off guard when he needed to read a paragraph.
"The Empress Dowager will come over soon, today we are going to give Cao Shi a ruthless fight!" Tingwei Niu rubbed his palms excitedly, he might be able to enter the ranks of the three princes if he did a good job in this hammer business, and his enthusiasm was also one of the highest people.
Danong Linghui frowned deeply, worried: "Will there be an accident?" Shaofu hadn't come over by this time. β
"Cao Shi must have felt very scared, and he was cowardly in the face of our angry attacks, but this is also good, it is a great achievement to take Shaofu without blood."
"People are self-aware, it is really unwise for Cao Shi to take the initiative to tear his face with us, and it is even more stupid and stupid to escape, after this battle, who in the world dares to underestimate our strength."
Most of the three princes and nine kings talked confidently, and they didn't care if Shaofu was well prepared, no matter how powerful a person was, his energy was limited, and in the face of a large number of enemies watching from the side, Pingyang Hou Caoshi's state would definitely not be better than them.
"Is that coward really afraid to come?"
"It's not really going to be missing, is it?"
"Suicide in fear of sin?"
"Don't talk nonsense, maybe you fled back to the Marquis of Pingyang to hide and cry bitterly."
"That's really miserable, a liege is mixed up like that, it's better to die."
"It turns out that sharp teeth and sharp mouths are useless, as long as we concentrate and get serious, Pingyang Hou Cao Shi is just a clown."
"After all, it's just a yellow-mouthed son who has not dried up, and he hasn't even grown his hair at the age of seventeen, so what qualifications do you have to fight with us."
"I bet he's crazy."
Doctor Yu Shi looked around without doubt, and suddenly said, "Have you seen Lieutenant Zhang Ou?" β
"I don't see it."
"It's strange, today's court meeting is so important, why didn't he come?"
"Will you have a bad stomach and can't come to the court meeting?"
The three princes and nine ministers talked a lot, Taichang Xuchang, Taifu Wang Pifang, Weiwei Zhuang Qingzhai and others, who will be the master craftsman Zhang Pre is like a sculpture with an expressionless face, and his heart is also anxiously waiting for the news from outside the hall.
They received the news last night and they didn't sleep soundly all night.
The northern army mastered the curfew patrol of Chang'an City, and the southern army mastered the entry and exit patrol of the palace ban.
Zhuang Qingzhai, the guard of the Southern Army, is a liehou, as long as he nods and releases people, he can pass in and out of the palace at midnight as usual, and when he finishes Cao, he enters the palace alone to have a secret conversation with the Son of Heaven.
Zhuang Qingzhai clearly saw that when he walked out of Weiyang Palace, he was holding a tiger talisman for troop transfer, which was the troop transfer tiger talisman of the Northern Army, what was the troop transfer going to do? Nobody knows.
"Shaofu Cao, Lieutenant Zhang Ou has arrived!"
The secretaries looked out in good spirits, and saw two people walking side by side, talking and laughing, with relaxed expressions, and the relationship between the two secretaries seemed to be very good.
Cao Shi smiled and nodded to the civil and military officials, and the people on both sides of the people and the ministers were stunned, if they wanted to dodge, they didn't want to hide.
"What's going on?"
Sangong Jiuqing looked vigilant.
On the one hand, Ning Cheng did not spare any time to offend many people, and on the other hand, the lieutenant was in charge of the Beijing Division, commanding the 180,000 Northern Army to guard the pass, and today when the lieutenant is vacant, the lieutenant is the military commander with the heaviest military power in the world.
The lieutenant was too important, so important that in the era of the Great Qin Empire, the emperor had to exclude him from Jiuqing, and instead promoted the relatively weak Wei Wei and Lang Zhongling to Jiuqing as a constraint.
Because it's important, be more careful.
Weiwei Zhuang Qingzhai is the main force of the liehou faction, and Lang Zhonglinghe belongs to the three princes and nine qing factions, and the two sides are fiercely competing for the lieutenants of the northern army in the three armies of Chang'an.
So the three princes and the nine secretaries wanted to choose a reliable person to replace the lieutenant, Zhang Ou was a reliable person carefully selected by Wei Juan, but the current situation made everyone very suspicious.
In the important place where the court discussed state affairs, it was inconvenient for the secretaries to question sternly, so they had to suppress the anger in their hearts: "Lieutenant, come here!" β
Zhang Ou smiled, glanced at Cao Shi, and turned to stand in the team.
A roll call.
The civil and military officials bowed their heads and leaned over, the Son of Heaven Liu Che and the Empress Dowager Wang Wan stood on both sides, supporting the left and right hands of the Empress Dowager Dou Yifang to walk up to the court.
Hundreds of officials and ministers saluted and sang, and sat separately after the salute.
Taizhong doctor Han Yan announced loudly: "Your Majesty has an order, if there is something, it will be played, and if there is nothing to retreat from the court!" β
The ministers pulled their mouths and smiled, and the Son of Heaven couldn't wait to end this court discussion.
"Your Majesty is anxious, seeing that the Empress Dowager can't fight, she wants to withdraw her troops, it's too naΓ―ve."
"It's not easy for the Empress Dowager to suppress Her Majesty? A few years ago, the first emperor (Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty) had not made concessions, and the five sons of King Xiao of Liang (Liu Wu) were the princes and kings, and the Son of Heaven was the grandson, how could he fight with his grandmother? β
"Cao Shi has no one to protect, just like a turtle in an urn, a lamb to be slaughtered, and fat meat on the chopping board."
"The expressions of those princes are very interesting, such as the weather in June is changeable, and it can be beneficial to the body and mind after watching it for a long time."
"Look at Pingyang Hou is still laughing, and he still dares to laugh out loud, is he emboldening himself?"
The victory is in hand, Sangong Jiuqing's expression is relaxed, and the tone of gossip is very natural, to the point of pointing out the country.
According to past experience, they have reason to believe that the Empress Dowager will win, as long as the Son of Heaven is still pressed by the Empress Dowager, the three princes and the nine secretaries can calmly hone the temperament of the Son of Heaven.
After three or five years of training, the character of the Son of Heaven has become more and more mature, and he generally respects the Three Princes and Nine Qings, just like Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, who can accept criticism and guidance from the Son of Heaven, even if they are disgusted by the Son of Heaven.
I think back then, when the first emperor was the crown prince, he was not taught a lesson by Zhang Shizhi, the first emperor ascended the throne and remembered Zhang Shizhi's old grudge and belittled him, and Zhang Shizhi died of illness within a few years, but so what?
The world praised Zhang Shizhi for his uprightness, and the subtext was that the first emperor did something wrong.
As long as they can polish off the sharp edges and corners of the young son of heaven and leave a good reputation as officials, they are not afraid of being degraded at all.
The unhappiness caused by Lieutenant Zhang Ou's strange appearance dissipated in a blink of an eye, as long as he could achieve victory in the court, Zhang Ou's slight wavering was not to worry.
They have reason to believe that smart people will know how to choose. (To be continued!)
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