That night, Yu Jin first reported the news of Liu Teng's murder by the Liukou to Yuan Yi, who rushed to the scene of the incident to check the body and found that there were indeed no other injuries, and there was really nothing unusual at the scene. Yuan Yi pondered that today was Liu Teng's banquet, and the Liu Mansion gathered at this time, and foreign envoys came to celebrate. And at this time, it is at a time when the contradiction between Wei and Rouran Gaoche is tense, if the people of the world know that Luoyang's public security has been neglected so far, in case it causes panic, then it will inevitably remind the people of living and working in peace and contentment under the rule of Empress Dowager Hu.

Yuan Yi was hesitating, Yu Jin pretended to offer a plan and said, "Now that Lord Liu is dead, now the government is the prince alone, what the prince wants people to say, isn't it what it is." ”

Yuan Yi squinted, secretly happy in his heart, but he didn't show it, he called the entourage around him, "Go, clean up Lord Liu and place it in Yongning Temple first, and then go to Liu's mansion to say that the emperor has something to do today, and leave Gonggong Liu, so that they can enjoy themselves first." Tomorrow, he will send someone to Liu's mansion to report the funeral, saying that Liu's father-in-law suddenly contracted a disease and died violently. After finishing speaking, he suddenly remembered something again, and recalled the entourage back and instructed, "When Gonggong Liu was building a new house, Zhou Te, the commander of Fengche, used a hexagram to persuade him not to occupy the house, otherwise he would be a murderer." Gonggong Liu didn't believe it at all, and before Zhou Te's resignation and retirement, he predicted that Gonggong Liu's death was approaching, and he would not live until the turn of March and April. It is now March, but it has been fulfilled. If you go to offer a reward for the arrest of Zhou Te, you will say that he killed Gonggong Liu by witchcraft, which is also to give people an explanation. ”

The entourage acted according to the order, but when she went to Liu's mansion to report the funeral on the second day, Ximei wanted to see Liu Teng for the last time, and made trouble in Yuan Yi's mansion, Yuan Yi saw that she was entangled, so he took her to see Liu Teng's body, just when she saw Liu Teng's knife marks and wanted to question, Yuan Yi grabbed her hair and knocked her to the pillar next to her, and Ximei's skull was broken on the spot. Yuan Yi wiped the blood splashed on his body with a handkerchief in disgust, and threw it into the eyes of the happy and dead, "Mrs. Liu is really a fierce woman, she is so sad that she went with Lord Liu, Brother Liu, how fortunate you are to have this good wife, and you are not alone on the road." ”

Three days after the suspension of the spirit, Liu Teng went out of the funeral, Yuan Xu remembered that he had served him for many years, and posthumously named him the prince of Taiwei, and ordered Bai Cheng to send 700 horses of high-grade silk silk, 400,000 yuan, 200 catties of incense and candles, and according to Yuan Yi's suggestion, let Honglu Siqing personally preside over the funeral. Seeing that the emperor valued Liu Teng so much, the ministers and dignitaries of the court and the central government rushed to fulfill their filial piety, and together with more than 40 godsons, they wore linen and filial piety, and the thousands of people actually filled the suburbs. I can't help but sigh that the power of this eunuch party is so strong that no one can match.

After Liu Teng's death, although Yuan Yi's power was dominant, he lost Liu Teng's plan, but it revealed his ambition to usurp the throne. He monopolized the administrative and military power of the imperial court, and even the command of the forbidden army was firmly in his hands. His father led a million people to the west of the capital; The younger brother is the governor and leads the people of the three Qi. Many officials of the imperial court were his protégés, and most of the magistrates were his former officials.

With the rediscovery of Concubine Li's letters, Yuan Xu has become indifferent to his biological mother by mistakenly believing slander, remorseful, and becoming closer to his mother. It's just that Yuan Yi's power is growing day by day, and the mother and son agreed to move the Empress Dowager Hu back to Jiafu Palace, so that it is convenient for Yuan Xu to enter and leave the visit. Yuan Yong's power at this time was even more hollowed, he reported the information collected by Xu Su to the Empress Dowager Hu and Yuan Xudao, "Queen Mother, Emperor, a few months ago, Yuan Yi sent his cousin Yuan Hongye quietly to Wuzhou, invited the local ethnic leader Ji Kugen and others to the capital, set up a banquet in his mansion, and also gave a generous gift to the beauties. The two sides agreed that if the political situation changed and Yuan Yi's position was unstable, Ji Kugen would immediately launch a rebellion, and personally lead troops to quell the rebellion with Yuan Yi's own power, so as to consolidate the position of the DPRK and China; If he is gone, it is not impossible for him to join forces with Ji Kugenri and use his forces to usurp the throne. Now anyone with a discerning eye can see that Yuan Yi's kingless heart is not a day; The act of usurpation must be done at dusk. ”

Yuan Xu looked at the evidence of Yuan Yong's report, and the piles were shocking, and he realized that he believed the wrong person, and he looked at the Empress Dowager Hu with an innocent face, his eyes were full of trust and expectation. Empress Dowager Hu then inquired about the war in the north, only to learn that Anapu rebelled against the Northern Wei Dynasty and invaded all the way south, burning and looting everywhere he went. After invading Huairou Town, the people asked Yu Jing, the brother of Yu Zhong, to open a warehouse for disaster relief due to lack of food, and Yu Jing was killed by the people in rebellion without food. And the civilians of Woye Town also gathered to rebel, killed the town general, changed the name of the year to the true king, the Han and Yi people in the six towns in the north came to respond, and the people of the six towns of the Han and Yi tribes came to respond, and the six Han Baling led the troops to the south, and sent the partial general Wei Kegu to surround Wuchuan Town, and was attacking Huaishuo Town.

Empress Dowager Hu looked at every territory pointed out by Yuan Yong on the map, and all she saw was wolf smoke and devastation. She said sadly, "The mourning family is sorry for the world entrusted by the emperor, and even more sorry for the previous emperors of the Great Wei, is the Great Wei going to be cut off at the hands of the mourning family?" King Gaoyang, Rouran wants to be broken, and the rebellion of the Six Towns must be pacified, do you have a good general to take on this heavy responsibility? ”

Yuan Yong took out the bag that Xu Su gave him before leaving, hid it in his sleeve, and listened to the Queen Mother's inquiry at this time, so he hurriedly lowered his head secretly to check, according to the above, "General Yu Zhong's great-grandson Yu Jin is now the leader of the Praetorian Guard in the palace. Huaishuo doesn't need to be too anxious, after all, the guard general Yang Jun has made outstanding achievements, and at the same time, his command has just received He Batduba and his three sons He Batyun, He Batsheng, and He Batyue, each brave and brave, can guard Huaishuo. It's just the queen mother, although the external worries are easy to settle, the internal disasters must be cleared, otherwise the Wei country is in danger. ”

Empress Dowager Hu pondered for a moment, "Now that the mourning family wants to leave this cage first, Lord Wang, I don't know if Xu Su has an idea." ”

Yuan Yong's face was embarrassed, and he replied, "Mr. Xu said that as long as you tell the Queen Mother a word, there has been no Queen Mother monk since ancient times, and the Queen Mother will know when she hears it." ”

Empress Dowager Hu understood and looked at Yuan Xu, "Yuan Yi is not in Beijing at the moment, and the emperor is just cooperating with the mourning family to perform a big drama." After speaking, let Yilian find a pair of scissors, remove the headdress, scatter the green silk, and cut it by hand.

Yuan Xu was so frightened that he hurriedly stopped him, and Yuan Yong rushed out and shouted, "The Queen Mother is going to become a monk." Bai Quan, who was quietly watching the situation, would not let go of any opportunity to perform meritorious service at this time, and he went to ring the bell to summon the ministers to the court.

After the courtiers hurriedly entered the palace and saw that the Queen Mother was going to cut out her hair, they knelt on the ground and persuaded her, and the Empress Dowager Hu cried, "What kind of world is this, even the mother and son have to approve their Yuan Yi, this world is not his Yuan Yi?" bullying the orphans and widows of the mourning family, even so, the mourning family followed his mind and went to Songshan to become a monk. ”

Yuan Xu pulled his mother's shirt and cried, "If the queen mother says so, isn't I, the emperor, a puppet of his Yuan Yi, the queen mother must not become a monk, and the Great Wei needs the queen mother." From tomorrow, I will come to the court, and the queen mother will listen to the government as before, and the son is not filial, so he will live in the queen mother's harem these days and serve the queen mother well. ”

Under the instigation of Yuan Yong, the ministers also persuaded the Empress Dowager Hu to come back to the world, but the Empress Dowager Hu did not agree, but drove Yuan Xu and the ministers back, and invited Hu Fanyi and Ying'e to live in the Jiafu Hall to serve.

Yuan Xu understood Empress Dowager Hu's intentions, and when she lived in the Jiafu Palace, she stayed in Hu Fanyi's side hall every day, but she turned a blind eye to Ying'e. Pan Wailian couldn't see Yuan Xu for a few days, and he was afraid of falling out of favor, so he hurriedly found Yuan Yi who heard the news and rushed back to the palace to discuss. Yuan Xu was in the palace of the Empress Dowager Hu for a few days, the mother and son had already been calculated, Yuan Xu quietly pretended to be very scared, and kept crying that the Empress Dowager Hu was desperate to become a monk because she could not see herself. He also said that let the Empress Dowager Hu listen to the government again, she was indifferent, it seems that she is really disheartened, the life of Xuanguang Hall over the years has made her not as good as before, and she wants to serve well. Yuan Yi listened to Yuan Xu's words, and then thought about the Empress Dowager Hu's daily anger told by the eyeliner he arranged in Jiafu Palace, and she just wanted to become a monk, and she even threw out the folds given by Yuan Xu. After all, Yuan Yi was not as scheming as Liu Teng, so he agreed to understand the ban on Jiafu Palace, and Empress Dowager Hu could go back and forth to Yuan Xu's Xianyang Hall at will.

In the first month of 525 A.D., the Yuan monk of Xuzhou Assassin Shi Yuan had selfish intentions to stand on his own, intending to pull Zhang Wenbo, a scholar who was on an envoy in Xuzhou, to rebel together. In the first month of the same year, the fifteenth Yuan monk proclaimed himself the Son of Heaven in Pengcheng, the country name was "Song", changed the Yuan "Apocalypse", and made several sons princes, and at the same time recruited troops and horses, and there was a great tendency to fight against the Northern Wei Dynasty. Empress Dowager Hu took this opportunity to order Anle Wang Yuanjian to lead a large army to crusade, Yuan Fa Monk himself was empty ambition, no strength, after the defeat and retreat, he actually took the seven counties and twenty-four counties of Xuzhou as a condition to surrender to Nanliang.

Empress Dowager Hu took this as an example, and warned Yuan Yi how to recognize and use people when she went to court for several days, and when Yuan Yi was ashamed, Empress Dowager Hu said in a deep voice, "Now it is rumored that the rebellion of Yuan Fa Seng is instigated by Aiqing, and the mourning family does not believe it." It's just that if Aiqing is really loyal to the court and has no second heart for the emperor, then why not resign from the position of leading the army, and choose the rest of the official positions at will to continue to assist the emperor? ”

Yuan Yi couldn't argue, and because he was not ready, he had to resign as the leader. In order to make him unsuspecting, Empress Dowager Hu appointed him as a hussar general, Kaifu Yi and the three divisions.

In the inner palace, Ying'e saw that Yuan Xu was afraid of angering Pan Wailian and did not dare to make a move against Yuan Yi, so she thought of a plan to divide the relationship between Pan Wailian and Yuan Yi, and let Hu Fanyi talk to Yuan Xu to increase Yuan Xu's good impression of Hu Fanyi. Yuan Xu really followed the strategy and asked Bai Quan, the eunuch Zhang Jingjun, who had bought Pan Wailian, to poison her food, and then deliberately reported that Yuan Yi wanted to poison Yuan Xu and her because of his power. was so frightened that Pan Wailian and Yuan Yi were estranged, and then did not report Yuan Xu's news to him, and then Pan Wailian had several incidents in the palace that almost cost her life, which made her even more convinced that Yuan Yi wanted to kill her. He cried in front of Yuan Xu every day, begging Yuan Xu to deal with Yuan Xu quickly. Yuan Xu was afraid that disposing of Yuan Yi would make Pan Wailian resent him, but he didn't expect Pan Wailian to take the initiative to beg him to kill Yuan Yi, so he took advantage of Yuan Yi's departure from the palace that day to relieve him of his position as a waiter, and no longer allowed him to enter and leave the palace. On the second day, Empress Dowager Hu returned to the court, and Lang Zhong ordered Han Zixi to kneel and play a letter to avenge the grievances of King Yuanyi of Qinghe, and asked to kill Yuan Yi and others, and dig up the tomb of Liu Teng and whip the corpse. On the same day, Empress Dowager Hu ordered Yuan Yi to be reduced to a commoner, but because of her sister Hu Run'er, she hesitated to execute Yuan Yi. When the dynasty released Zheng Yan who was imprisoned in prison, poor Zheng Yan was persecuted by Yuan Yi, and his leg was disabled, and Empress Dowager Hu promoted him to Zhongshu Ling and changed to a civilian position. But the eunuch Liu Teng didn't expect that after his death, he would be dug up and whipped up, and the bones of the corpse would be abandoned in the wilderness, and all the more than 40 godsons under his command would be killed.

Soon after, Yuan Yi, who was removed from the imperial court, and his younger brother Yuan Claw plotted to rebel, first sent Yuan Hongye to inform Ji Kugen and others to lead the surrendered households of the Six Towns to rebel in Dingzhou, and then let Yuan Claw collude with various ethnic minorities in the Luyang area to harass Yique. Yuan Yi vainly tried to sit firmly in the Beijing division and should cooperate with the outside, and respectively agreed on the time for the two teams to capture the capital, but unfortunately people are not as good as the sky, and the two handwritten letters were intercepted by Yuan Ziyou after receiving the news and submitted directly to Yuan Xu. Empress Dowager Hu was furious, and couldn't help but sigh that "raising a tiger bites itself, and growing a snake grows into a snake", Hu Run'er no longer pleaded, and moved into Yaoguang Temple to hide quietly. On March 20, 525 AD, 2,000 Praetorian Guards surrounded Yuan Yi's mansion, and Empress Dowager Hu asked Zheng Yan and Xu Su to personally go to announce the decree to give death, Yuan Yi knew that he could not escape death, and drank poisoned wine to death, at the age of 41.