Chapter 530: The Plague

Hubu Shangshu is not wrong, this Cheng Enbo and Peng Chengbo are indeed the result of the battle between the queen mothers of the two palaces.

First of all, the Empress Dowager Yang casually gave the Mao family the title of Earl of Pengcheng, and turned the Mao family who came out of the imperial examination into a noble, at least in the generation of the little emperor, the children of the Mao family could not participate in the imperial examination, Mao Yuanjiu's power leaned towards the government and the opposition, and all the children, grandchildren and nephews became relatives who lived by the emperor's gifts.

In this matter, Empress Dowager Yang did a clean and neat job, and by the time Empress Dowager Mao got the news, the emperor's imperial seal had been covered.

Empress Dowager Mao didn't stop doing anything, and let her father be above the main hall, before the civil and military officials, relying on Yang Min's sacrifice for righteousness, she forced Yang Min's second son Yang Jintang to ask for Cheng Enbo.

Empress Dowager Yang was extremely angry, fortunately, Cheng Enbo gave it to Yang Jintang, not the eldest brother Yang Jincheng, and it was better to sacrifice a younger brother than the Mao family to waste a bunch of nephews.

Cheng Enbo and Peng Chengbo were sealed, and the war between the queen mothers of the two palaces officially came to an end.

Before entering the palace, they were sisters, after entering the palace, they were comrades-in-arms, and now that the dust has settled, they have become enemies.

Two enemies with a common secret.

The result of the first battle was that the queen mother of the two palaces sat behind the bead curtain at the same time.

When Emperor Chongwen was in power, the Empress Dowager was just sitting behind the bead curtain like them, and after the death of Emperor Chongwen, the Empress Dowager sat directly on the dragon chair with the little emperor in her arms.

Neither Empress Dowager Yang nor Empress Dowager Mao had the confidence to sit on the dragon chair.

They don't have the majesty that the Empress Dowager has established in her thousands of troops, and they don't have the Empress Dowager's thunderous means of killing the three princes, so they can only listen to the government.

Even so, they were still apprehensive, after all, they knew the origin of the little emperor.

The little emperor was not yet one year old, and wanted him to sit on the dragon chair alone, unless he tied it with a rope, but this would damage the prestige of the Son of Heaven, so the little emperor simply sat behind the bead curtain with the queen mother of the two palaces.

The Manchu civil and military forces knelt three times and knocked nine times on the empty dragon chair.

At first, the hundred officials felt weird, but after a few times, it became a habit, if one day a person suddenly sat on the dragon chair, they might be scared half to death.

The second two-palace battle in the harem has begun.,The cause this time is that Taichang Temple and Honglu Temple went to the household to ask for silver.。

Hubu Shangshu refused to pay, first, he really didn't have money, and second, he wanted formal documents.

There was no cabinet, no prime minister, no regent overseer, and only the emperor had the right to stamp the paperwork in this matter.

During the reign of Emperor Taizu, he did not personally make an edict on this kind of matter.

It is imperative that there be a prison state.

Except for Yang Feng, the old protector of the country, there is no second choice for this prisoner.

I thought this was a sure thing, but I didn't expect that as soon as this remark came out, some people objected on the spot.

And there are not one or two, but many.

There is only one reason, although Yang Feng is highly respected, he is the grandfather of the Empress Dowager Yang, and if he is made a prisoner, it will be the dictatorship of his relatives.

Then why is Yang Feng also a supervisor of the country when Emperor Chongwen was in charge, so it was not the dictatorship of foreign relatives, it was because the Empress Dowager had the right to regency, although Yang Feng was the brother of the Empress Dowager, but it was the Empress Dowager who held the power, and the Empress Dowager was the wife of the Zhou family.

Empress Dowager Yang, who was sitting behind the bead curtain, glanced at Empress Dowager Mao and sneered: "My sister's methods are becoming more and more sophisticated. ”

Those people are undoubtedly Mao Yuanjiu's handiwork.

Empress Dowager Mao looked aggrieved and said, "Why did my sister say this, now it is my grandfather who is being embarrassed outside." ”

My grandfather is not as good as my father.

In fact, compared with her grandfather, Empress Dowager Yang hopes that her brother Yang Jincheng will be the prisoner of the country.

But that's just a thought, and those people don't even agree with their grandfathers, let alone their older brothers, who are just in their early twenties.

When the Empress Dowager was alive, the Yang family said the same, but now......

Empress Dowager Yang was in her heart.

In the blink of an eye, they entered Layue, Zhou Zheng and the county lord of Yining arrived in Luoyang, but they didn't expect that they were both infected with the wind cold, and they had no choice but to stay in the official post temporarily.

At the beginning, the two of them just had a sore throat and coughed and nasal discharge, and the two pairs of medicines went down, but instead of getting better, they started to have a fever.

At this time, I knew that this was not an ordinary wind chill, but an epidemic.

This is not the first time that epidemics have appeared in the Great Qi Dynasty, only during the reign of Emperor Taizu, there were no less than 20 epidemics reported in various places, but these epidemics mostly occurred in summer and autumn, and it was the first time that they broke out in winter like this.

The epidemic was so violent, and soon spread throughout Henan, where yamen set up incineration sites outside the city, and dozens or hundreds of corpses were carried out of the city every day to be incinerated.

Zhou Zheng and the county lord of Yining are both golden branches and jade leaves, so they can't stay in the city, but the commander of Luoyang Wei led the army to surround the official post and did not allow Zhou Zheng and the county lord of Yining to go out of the city.

"There is an order from the imperial court, but anyone who is infected with the epidemic is not allowed to leave the city!"

The accompanying officials of the Qin Wangfu begged bitterly, but the Luoyang Wei commander did not let him go, but instead sent additional troops.

Outside the gate of the capital, as soon as he arrived at the gate of the city, the people on the horse rolled down, and the standard-bearer guarding the gate was surprised, because he recognized that under this man's cloak was a eunuch serving!

Several standard-bearers helped the eunuch up, someone handed the water, the eunuch drank the water for a while, and finally spoke: "I am the servant of the Qin Palace, the third prince and the county lord of Yining are trapped in Luoyang, let me enter the palace quickly, please ask the saint to save people!" ”

"Luoyang?" The standard-bearer guards who were originally around the eunuch jumped out of the distance in an instant, there was an epidemic in Luoyang, and many people had died!

"Yes, I'm from Luoyang, but I'm not infected with the epidemic!" The eunuch was furious, he had to escape from the official post with great effort, and he had the letter of the Qin Palace's mansion and the letter written by the officials of the Qin Palace, which was to be presented to the emperor and the queen mother of the two palaces.

The eunuch hissed and said: "Luoyang Wei commanded the following criminals to detain the clan, now there is a shortage of doctors and medicines in the official post, the third prince and the county lord are dying, you quickly let me into the city!" ”

The standard-bearer guard was stunned for a moment, and then someone shouted: "Deputy Envoy Wu is here!" ”

Wu's deputy envoy is Wu Jiang, the commander of the Flying Fish Guard, he will go around the city gate every day, and the people of the Bannerman Guard will immediately be happy when they see Wu Jiang, and this hot potato has finally found someone to take over.

Hearing that the eunuch had escaped from Luoyang, Wu Jiang said: "You said that you brought a letter from the official of the Qin Palace, and handed over the letter and the letter to the official first, and the official handed it over to the Holy Lord for you." ”

"No, when the slave and maid came out, the prince told the slave and maid to take care of the third prince and the county master, and the slave and maid could not live up to the prince's trust, please bring the slave and maid into the palace to face the saint." The eunuch argued with reason.

Wu Jiang sneered: "You are from Luoyang, if you bring the epidemic into the palace, can you afford it?" Someone comes, lock him up alone first, and then release him after making sure there is no epidemic! ”