Chapter 325: Who will succeed the Great Unification of Wu Zhou
Many men most hope that they have endless money, endless beauties, and supreme power.
These three are the ultimate dreams, but anyone who can realize one is the best among men, and those who realize two can already be said to be very, very good, so what about the three, it can only be a god-like existence.
It is impossible for the three natures to exist in isolation, but to see which one belongs to whom, and the one who can get all these three and use them to the extreme is only one person, the emperor!
On this night, Wu Qing and his senior sister Yuwen Su'e hugged each other after the passion, and they talked about the current situation and the world after the current Wuzhou Revolution.
In the six years before the revolution, the empress did a lot of things, avenging her personal revenge, killing those who had rebelled against her and despised her before. Then he killed the disobedient person, and then because of the Yangzhou Xu Jingye rebellion case, the empress was terrified, so she opened the door to the whistleblower and appointed the cool officials Suo Yuanli, Zhou Xing, Lai Junchen, etc., and once they heard the accusation of rebellion, regardless of the reason, they all bypassed the normal trial procedures, and all of them were handed over to the prison outside the law, and the cool officials were arbitrarily convicted.
In particular, the cases that revolved around the "Yangzhou case" and the "Yuzhou case" have not been severed to this day. This directly leads to the fact that Yangzhou has lost its former prosperity, and Yuzhou is even more people's livelihood.
Under such circumstances, hundreds of officials are bent to welcome, and the DPRK and China have almost become the world of this generation, and the people's grievances will not explode for a while, but they will definitely accumulate slowly. Then next, the empress will definitely kill some cool officials to alleviate this contradiction.
After the Shangyuan Festival in the second year of Tianzhu, Empress Dowager Wu recruited Wu Qing into the palace.
In the Hall of Regency. Wu Qing saw the empress who was still ruddy, as if she was full of energy.
After the ceremony, the empress asked, "Do you hear in the market that the people can talk about the court?" ”
Wu Qing was stunned. Then he said, "What does the Holy One mean?" ”
The empress was slightly stunned, and then she understood a little, and then said, "You just tell the truth." ”
Wu Qing pondered for a moment and said: "The people all say that the saint was blinded by the villain, so the cool officials ran rampant, causing many good people to be slaughtered. One day, the saints will be soberly understood. ”
The Empress was thoughtful. She also understood what Wu Qing meant, in fact, she already felt that her human hope was slowly disappearing, even if she asked the people to visit the Ming Hall and Heaven. She could also see that those people were all smiling and laughing, and the officials were also bent to welcome and please in every way.
The Empress stood up and paced slowly. Then it stopped. As if he had made up his mind, he stared at Wu Qing and said, "You can start with Zhou Xing first." ”
Wu Qing smiled in his heart, it seemed that the empress was finally going to cross the river and demolish the bridge and kill the cool officials, and then bowed down and said: "Weichen takes the order!" ”
Now the Qiuguan Compound, with Wu Qing supervising, is somewhat fair. But Zhou Xing and Wu Chenghe's lackeys are here, and they are still smoky miasma. Moreover, after the revolution, Wei Yuanzhong finally misjudged the case and was demoted to Lingnan, Xu Yougong served as the Si Xing Lang Zhong, and the Empress Dowager Wu also moved Yao Yuanchong to the court as she wished, and served as the Si Servant Lang Zhong. In this way, the criminal department can also operate normally.
On this day, after getting the empress's order, Wu Qing invited Zhou Xing to a banquet in Qingfeng Tower, Zhou Xing was very strange, he thought that he didn't have any intersection with His Royal Highness King Wei on weekdays, but His Royal Highness King Wei was invited, how dare he not go.
Zhou Xing is over fifty years old, but he is well-maintained, if it weren't for a pair of triangular eyes, to be honest, in terms of the whole appearance, he would be like an uncle next door, but this person has killed the most people since he became a cool official, and it is simply a soul track.
"Xiaguan has seen King Wei!" Zhou Xing bowed from afar.
Wu Qing said with a smile: "The waiter doesn't have to be polite, please sit down." ”
Xiao Er, who was waiting, also served the food, and the two ate against each other and drank two light wines.
Wu Qing said with a smile: "This king heard that Zhou Shilang has a method of controlling the prison according to the shackle, and there are many prisoners, and they are stubborn, how should they be tried?" ”
Zhou Xing said with a smile: "Why does the King of Wei have to try it in person, just hand it over to the lower officials." ”
Wu Qing still asked, "Please also ask the waiter to teach me." ”
Zhou Xing paused, and then said confidently: "What's so difficult about this? Take a large urn, put the prisoner in the urn, and burn it with charcoal around it, but in a moment, the prisoner will be undoubted. ”
Wu Qing laughed and said, "The squire really has a way. Then he commanded: "Take a large urn and burn it with coals around it." ”
Zhou Xing did not doubt him, and thought that King Wei liked to test on the spot, so he picked up the wine glass and saluted Wu Qing, who tasted it lightly and put down the wine glass.
At this time, the soldiers took a large urn, and burned a starving charcoal fire around it, Wu Qing looked at it, then stood up, and said slowly to Zhou Xing: "Please enter the urn!" ”
Zhou Xing immediately understood, and then hurriedly kowtowed: "Please spare your life, please spare your life!" ”
Wu Qing smiled and said, "Okay, if you cooperate, it is possible to spare you." ”
Zhou Xing's face was like ashes, and he suddenly understood what it meant to "die of a cunning rabbit and cook a lackey".
Wu Qing ordered Zhou Xing to be sent to the prison of the Criminal Department, and he personally interrogated him that night, so Zhou Xing dragged out Qiu Shenji, Suo Yuanli, Lai Zixun and other cool officials to rebel.
Zhou Xing was sent to the prison of the Criminal Department by King Wuqing of Wei, and was immediately passed to the ears of Wu Chengsi and others, and Qiu Shenji and others seemed to realize something.
Wu Qing handed over the case file to the empress on the second day, and after reading it, the empress pondered for a long time and said, "You go down first, and I will reply to you in three days." ”
Wu Qing's heart darkened, it seems that Empress Dowager Wu didn't really want to kill these cool officials, after all, their merits were obvious, but they had to calm down the people's grievances. He had no choice but to retreat.
Looking at Zhou Xing's confession, it was written that Qiu Shenji, Lai Zixun, Suo Yuanli and others rebelled. She suddenly understood that it was a mistake to let Wuqing try Zhou Xing, but she, who was extremely sensitive to the word "rebellion", ordered Junchen to try Qiu Shenji and Lai Zixun.
Three days later, Zhou Xing was transferred to Lingnan, which made Wuqing very depressed, and Qiu Shenji, Lai Zixun, Suo Yuanli and others were handed over to Lai Junchen to press.
But Wu Qing overthrew Zhou Xing, and his reputation also increased a lot among the hundred officials.
In order to improve the strength of the Wu clan, the empress promoted several county kings to princes. and ordered Jian'an Wang Wu to stay in Chang'an.
The speed of coming to Junchen is very fast, and Lai Zixun implicated the brother of Shangyi Fengyu Liu Xinggan, Liu Xinggan's eldest brother Liu Xingju had resisted Xu Jingye's rebellion in Xuyi County, and his brother Liu Xingshi was named the assassin of Chuzhou. Now the three brothers were falsely accused and implicated, and soon they died one by one. Lai Zixun also committed suicide in prison shortly after.
Zhou Xing was also killed by the enemy on the way to Lingnan, which made the empress sigh for a long time. She felt that the people were sometimes undeceived.
In another month, Qiu Shenji was finally beheaded.
Soon Suo Yuanli finally stepped onto the guillotine, a Hu man, came to the Tang Dynasty, broke thousands of families, and killed nearly 10,000 people, which is really incredible.
With the beheading of several cool officials, the gods were excited, and the world was excited.
At such a moment, Zhang Jiafu, a member of the Fengge House, sent hundreds of people including Wang Qingzhi from Luoyang to the table and asked Liwu Chenghei to be the crown prince. Who is Zhang Jiafu, everyone knows, who else is the person behind this is not Wu Chenghe?
Originally, I wanted Zhang Jiafu to be on the table in person, but Zhang Jiafu Fujian, with the people on the table, can better show that Wu Chenghei is also the destiny of heaven and is highly respected. Wu Chengsi thought so, and didn't the Wuzhou Revolution start with a civil petition? He repeated his old tricks to seek the right to inherit the throne for himself.
After the empress was stunned for a moment, she understood, and asked Wang Qingzhi, "The emperor's heir is my son, how can he be abolished?" ”
Wang Qingzhi is also quite eloquent, and after being taught by Zhang Jiafu, he responded like a stream, saying: "Gods don't like non-gods, and folk sacrifices will not sacrifice to other ancestors." Who is the world now, but His Majesty has the Li family as the heir? ”
The empress suddenly also deeply felt a serious problem, that is, who will inherit the Wuzhou dynasty?
Seeing that the empress didn't mean to say anything, Wang Qingzhi knelt on the ground, kowtowed like pounding garlic, his forehead was broken, and the blood flowed like an infusion, asking the empress to agree.
The empress looked at Wang Qingzhi, whose face was covered with blood, and felt that he was a little persistent, so she took the seal, printed it on a piece of white paper, handed the paper to Wang Qingzhi, and said: "You go back first, I have my own decision, you take this paper, go back into the palace and show it to the gatekeepers, and you can be unimpeded." ”
Wang Qingzhi thanked him and left.
Empress Dowager Wu pondered for a moment and ordered the prime ministers to be invited one by one.
The first thing to ask was Wu Changqian, who was the right minister of Wenchang and the three products of Luantai in Fengge, and the left minister of Wenchang was Wu Chenghei, so he asked Wu Changqian first, and then told Wang Qing about it.
Wu Changqian looked stern and said: "Holy Lord, the imperial heir is in the East Palace, this matter should not be discussed again, the ministers ask the Holy Lord but there are those who ask for abolition, and they will not see anything." ”
Empress Dowager Wu didn't get the answer she wanted, so she asked Ge Fuyuan, who was the official Shangshu and the Fengge Luantai Pingzhang, Ge Fuyuan also thought that there was no room for negotiation in this matter, and also thought that the emperor's heir was in the East Palace, how could he establish a new prince.
At this moment, the empress finally realized that the Wuzhou Revolution was successful, but the heir was a problem, and it was obvious that the ministers all wanted the imperial heir to inherit the unification, but she understood very well that the imperial heir Li Dan inherited the unification, so what was the significance of the Wuzhou that she founded single-handedly? I was a little dissatisfied with these ministers. But the issue of heirs is really a big problem, and the empress naturally doesn't believe in the reincarnation of Maitreya, let alone in immortality, so the issue of succession to the throne suddenly made her feel difficult. And there is no clue at all.
Whether it is Wu Qing, or Wu Chenghei, or even Wu Sansi, they are not parents, but nephews. Of course, if she had to choose an heir among the three, she would rather choose Wu Qing, because it was the child of her mother's sister and Taiping's husband. Wu Chengsi and Wu Sansi's father and mother both abused them, and it was because of her that they indirectly led to their deaths. Now Wu Chengsi and Wu Sansi have nothing to say, but they can ascend the throne?
The more she thought about it, the more irritated she became, and the empress was furious and removed the miscellaneous items on the case, and the ink spilled on the carpet, a stain, and she became even more irritable.
Shangguan Wan'er hurriedly knelt down in front of her and asked softly, "The saint is angry, the slave and maid should die." ”
The empress took a deep breath and said slowly: "What should you be damned, get up, order someone to clean up here, I'm tired." ”
Then I went to the dormitory to rest. (To be continued......)