Chapter Seventy-Four: Entering the Dynasty as an Official
Prince Hui sighed secretly. This time, I will consider myself a miscalculation. A gentleman takes revenge, it's not too late for ten years! Hetai, this king can't spare you!
After figuring it out, he fell to his knees: "The emperor forgives the sin, the minister's brother and mother have just mourned, and he is overwhelmed by grief, not intentionally contradictory, the minister really just wants to share the emperor's worries, how important the criminal department is, the minister just feels that he can't be vacant all the time, but the minister's words are not thoughtful, please ask the emperor to be gracious!" He instantly looked sad and sad, and said so pitifully.
He knelt down, everyone was a little confused, Hetai not only refuted Prince Hui, but also said what he said kneeling down and pleaded guilty, it was incredible, they all secretly praised his courage and maintenance of the emperor, Heyan saw the look in everyone's eyes, and felt a little unhappy in his heart, he was the prince, but Hetai actually stole the limelight with a few words.
But they didn't think deeply, just saying something would make Prince Hui feel silent, he was afraid of Hetai's methods, and Hetai's military power was in his hands. Strength is the backer of the right to speak, and those who have the strength are timid. Those who don't have the strength will speak lightly, and no matter how bold they say, they are just big words.
The emperor was also overjoyed in his heart, but he didn't expect that at the critical moment, Hetai rushed forward to defend his dignity as an emperor, and coaxed his concessions to the height of benevolence, which was simply brave and strategic. Suddenly, he had an idea, so he took the opportunity to say: "I originally thought that your mother had just been mourned today, so I didn't want to talk about state affairs at this moment. ”
Someone has chosen who? Prince Hui raised his eyes and looked, and everyone held their breath.
"I plan to take up this position in Jinyang Wang Hetai, the criminal department is in charge of the law and criminal law, and needs to deal with murderers often, Hetai is brave and strategic, and he is also a martial artist, just right, he fights for the country, and now he should have a serious thing to do when he returns to the court, so let him enter the court to practice. The emperor's light tone was like a hammer hitting Prince Hui's chest. What? Hetai entered the court as an official, so he had to face him all day long?
"What's the matter, does the prime minister have an opinion?" Seeing that Prince Hui had not responded for a long time, his face was gloomy, and the emperor asked in a deep voice.
"No, no, everything is up to the emperor. Prince Hui gritted his teeth and said.
The emperor was overjoyed, Prince Hui's arrogance was much more restrained in front of Hetai, and perhaps only Hetai could balance him. And after entering the court, it is an errand to investigate the case, and there is no need to pay the military power to find a reason at that time.
The emperor suddenly felt that this was really a blessing in disguise!
"Lord Jin, don't you want to thank you?" Seeing that Hetai was standing still and had a pensive expression, Gonggong Yu reminded him lightly.
"Chen Hetai thank the lord Longen!" Hetai knelt down to thank him, he didn't want to be an official in his heart, he needed to go to court all day long, there was too little freedom, it was better to be a happy prince at ease, but at this juncture, he had just trained Prince Hui to disobey the holy will, and he couldn't refuse the emperor to let him catch the handle, only for the time being.
Concubine Su in the crowd was full of displeasure, this Hetai had just been crowned king and now he was an official in the court, and the emperor inevitably looked up to him too highly.
In the past dynasties of Qiuchi Kingdom, there are very few princes who can have real power, and it is already an honor to be crowned king, not to mention the prince with a fief, only the abundance of taxes can be worry-free for a lifetime. Generally, the prince is given an empty king title, and there are few fiefs. And Hetai is the prince with a title and a fief, how many people are envious, and Concubine Su is also among them.
may be afraid of the same dragon vein, in order to cut off the prince's covetousness to the throne and stabilize the imperial power of the Son of Heaven, so the prince rarely has the opportunity to enter the court, even if there are a few favored by the emperor, it is also for some part-time such as repairing the garden, for the emperor, the queen mother to do a birthday or national ceremonies and other errands, generally do not get real power. And Prince Hui gained real power because he was crowned king and entered the court, so he was more glorious than other royal heirs.
Hetai was crowned king at a young age before he was a weak crown, and now he has entered the court as an official, and his future can be described as bright, but he doesn't know when he will have such an opportunity. How could Concubine Su be happy.
Hebi was even more jealous and itching, what's the big deal? Didn't he just take the troops on a trip, he knew that he should have gone to Huangquan Road that day, but he didn't expect it to be a broad road, and he could return triumphantly if he went, so all the honors and favors of today are not his own? Although going to the battlefield is also a life of nine deaths, but if he does not enter the tiger's den, he will win the tiger, rather than being a prince with a nest, it is better to fight.
Even if you can't be the crown prince and can't inherit the throne, but if you can get in and out of the prime minister, you will have supreme honor in that life. It's a hundred times better than wearing an empty hat of a prince, a prince, what is left besides the noble royal blood?
The more he thought about it, the more unwilling he became, the more jealous he felt in his heart, he glanced at the prince, and saw that he also seemed to be unhappy, and his heart was a little more balanced. If you say hate. The prince hates more than himself, and with a strong minister like Hetai, the prince will be afraid of three points when he ascends the throne in the future.
"Congratulations to King Jinyang, in the future, our uncle and nephew will be officials in the same dynasty, and we will work together to serve the emperor. Prince Hui immediately changed his face and congratulated.
Hetai glanced at him coldly, he didn't want to make some false polite words with him, but thinking about his official residence in the court, it was inconvenient to tear his face, he was also a royal family, and he was an elder, so he was indifferent and replied: "The little nephew is young and has no experience in officialdom, and I hope that the imperial uncle will give more guidance in the future." ”
Ben Cheng must give you good guidance, Prince Hui sneered in his heart!
"Since the virtuous nephew has been promoted to the secretary of the Criminal Department, then you have to worry more about this case, otherwise it will be difficult for this princess to enter the earth!" Prince Hui raised his sleeve and wiped his eyes as he spoke.
Hetai secretly rejoiced, fortunately, Concubine Zhuang should not have died at the hands of the people she had sent, otherwise how could she investigate this? Check yourself yourself? Who would have thought that she would suddenly become an official in the court, and what did she do in the Criminal Department?
"Uncle Huang is in charge of himself, don't worry, Tai'er will find out as soon as possible, and the concubine will definitely give you an answer before the first seven. Hetai's promise made Prince Hui stunned, this case is tricky Everyone can see, this kid is indeed young, and before he said that he was forced to promise the date, he actually said it himself, stunned green is stunned green, what to explain to himself when he sees it?
"Okay, it is worthy of being a general who makes the enemy fearful, if you really have the demeanor of a general, then the king will wait for your good news, and if you catch the murderer, the princess of the queen will laugh at Jiuquan. Prince Hui waited in his heart to see his joke, but said something else.
said to give you an answer, but it didn't say that the murderer was caught, and if he didn't catch it, he would reply! Thinking of this, Hetai pulled his lips and smiled secretly. But I think I will do my best to investigate, leaving the assassin in the palace will be a disaster sooner or later, and it is too strange that there are others who come to assassinate Concubine Zhuang. Who is it, and why?
Prince Hui got the promise, and he didn't have to go around any longer, so he went to the dormitory to see the body of his mother.
"Mother!" A roar of pain, Prince Hui rushed to the side of the bed with a brisk stride, and his tall figure seemed to be petrified at the moment, slightly stiff.
Although he knew in his heart that the concubine had been assassinated, when Prince Hui really saw the situation in the dormitory, he still couldn't help but be shocked, and the concubine Zhuang was lying on the bed with her face tilted to one side, her body was already lifeless, and the pillow was also stained red with blood on her neck, and the blood stains had now solidified into a dark red.
There were also a few bundles of beaded curtains scattered on the side of the bed, which should have been torn off by struggle before death.
Prince Hui suddenly looked at this bloody scene, his head buzzed, as if he had been hit in the head by a big hammer, his legs staggered for a moment, and he almost didn't stand firmly, his arms supported the edge of the bed in a panic, and he could stand still, and his index finger was against the center of his eyebrows and kneaded hard. Force yourself to calm down.
Although his officialdom has been up and down for many years, many people want to harm him, he has also harmed many people, and I am afraid that he will not be able to go to this day without blood on his hands, but now he sees the corpse of his mother and concubine with his own eyes, what kind of mood is this, at this moment, what he is thinking about is no longer the political struggle, what about the high official position? The people who are close to him are no longer there, and from then on, he is no longer the person loved by his mother. Only that cold right.
And Fang Cai, he even used his mother's death to balance with the emperor and fight with officials, thinking of this, he didn't dare to stop his eyes on Concubine Zhuang, he felt that he was not worthy, the living used it, even the dead people also used it, that was his own mother!
After standing for a long time, he looked at Concubine Zhuang again, raised his hand mechanically, gently stroked his index finger to Concubine Zhuang's severed throat, and said in a low voice: "Mother, my son will definitely avenge you, he will definitely be." Then he fell on the corpse and wept bitterly.
After crying for a long time, with the support of others, he took a deep breath and tried to maintain the last trace of reason in his mind, until the self-blame and distress in his heart returned to a calm state, and then he moved his lead-filled legs and returned to the main hall. pleaded with the emperor to mourn from the palace, and the emperor read his filial piety and agreed, and Prince Hui took his leave and went back to prepare for the funeral.
As soon as he left, the emperor was obviously relieved, Concubine Zhuang was assassinated, only Prince Hui entered the palace alone, two sons and a daughter did not arrive, the emperor was worried that he was keeping his back hand, so his heart has always been carried, but fortunately, Hetai defeated his arrogance, made him afraid, and things eased down.
It's just that if this assassin and the assassin at the banquet were in the same party, the case might not be solved in those few days, and if it was so simple, how could the last case be dragged on to today? Tai'er shouldn't have promised him a date, but if he didn't, maybe Prince Hui might not have returned to his house so quickly. So there is always no two ways to go, but fortunately, today's events are generally victorious.
The guards were still searching the palace one by one, and when they found the Ximian Palace, Yu Die'er had not yet fallen asleep, and heard a strong knock on the palace door, and then the bustling footsteps stepped into the courtyard one after another, she felt strange, why did so many people come in the middle of the night? Then there was a faint sound of the minions in the Ximian Palace, as if talking to the gang.
Because she was afraid that her illness at night would frighten the maids who kept vigil, Yu Die'er didn't let the peony or the autumn warbler keep vigil in the house tonight, let them rest in the side hall, and call them over again if they had something to order.
She was afraid that after falling asleep, she would be a boundless illusion, so she sat up and rummaged through her jewelry box, the pill bottles and medical scriptures hidden in the bottom layer, and carefully flipped through the recipes to find a cure for this poison? Although she had already finished reading this book, she still read it again, for fear that there would be something missing.
The two rows of pill bottles, she stared at it for a long time, and the truth was that she took an antidote pill from the pale green bottle to eat, but Cui Li said that this poisonous evil sect, if she took the antidote, it would clash with it, for fear of causing more serious consequences, so she didn't dare to eat it, and resisted the urge to eat.
When the matter is done, or you can't stand the pain of poisoning, take a risk again, anyway, after the thing is done, even if you eat it to death, you will have no regrets. If you don't eat, you will die, and if you eat, there may be a glimmer of hope, isn't it?
But if you hallucinate from time to time, or faint, and it is difficult to even take care of yourself, how can you implement the plan?
For example, can a strong physique alleviate the discomfort of poisoning? And the domineering life-sustaining pill written on the note, what is the Dragon Soul Tianyuan Pill? If a person who is about to die takes one, he can live for a longer time, which shows how powerful and domineering the improvement of physical functions is, anyway, his life is short, and there is no need to save it, if he really lives after half a year, who will save it?