Chapter Seventy-Nine: Xiao Pinyan Dies
The Ministry of Rites is the head of the six departments, Xiao Pinyan has the audacity to put his hand into the harem, one is not a daughter, and the other directly arrogates the sixth bureau to manage the prince's boudoir.
The teachings taught by Confucius "Don't look at incivility, don't listen to incivility, don't speak incivility, and don't move incivility" were thrown into the mud.
Xiao Pinyangui is the highest position in the Ministry of Rites, Shang Shuling, the official worships the official of the imperial court, and participates in the harem battle like a fool, Tian does not know the shame and the six departments, how can he be in charge of the imperial examination and etiquette?
The Xiao family is a famous family, and naturally there are children of other families who have entered the court as officials, and they want to defend Xiao Pinyan but they don't dare to plead in the emperor's anger.
In addition, the Shangyi Bureau came forward to present a single coat, which is equivalent to the Sixth Bureau's determination that the crown princess is chaste and safe, and its endorsement of her chastity cannot be questioned. If the Shangyi Bureau is accused of being unfair or suspected of fraud in person, it is no longer a matter of the East Palace, but a question of the sixth bureau.
If the six games are not governed, the queen has no way to discipline him, and the queen's incompetence means that Emperor Chu Wei has no way to govern the family.
After coming and going, this crime is big, and the interests involved are not just a position of the secretary of the Ministry of Rites and Xiao Nuoxue's status as the crown prince and concubine.
In order to protect the queen, the Xiao family will not dare to argue, and the officials who are attached to the Xiao family are dissatisfied with the prince, and they have to see An Guogong's face.
As for the other parties, they are fighting for power, everyone wants to cut off the Xiao family's henchmen, and they only hope that Xiao Pinyan's fall will greatly weaken the momentum of the Xiao family, and the vacant Shangshu seat is naturally hot, and whether it can fall into his own hands is just around the corner.
Everyone has their own abacus, everyone has a plan, but Shen Yuanan has a murderous intention, and Xiao Pinyan must be killed.
Since the day of the incident, Shen Yuanan returned to the palace and was furious, in order to find out the fine work in the mansion, he not only killed several maidservants in the mansion, but even threatened to take Xiao Pinyan's head, kill chickens and monkeys, and establish his prestige, so that everyone can see clearly that he is the king of Qi and not the "abandoned king".
There are wolves in front and jackals in the back, Xiao Pinyan is really isolated and helpless at this time, if he doesn't pay attention to the lone knife mountain, he will be crushed.
Thinking carefully about what Shen Mushi did, Shen Jiyu had to admire this Sixth Emperor Brother.
Deliberately closed the door and hid in the dark to watch the tiger fight across the mountain, borrowing a knife to kill people and fishermen to make a profit, even if the Xiao family wants to plead with the prince, there is nothing to be done if the prince is not present, high, it is really high!
It's just that there is one thing that Shen Jiyu has never understood: why did the Sixth Emperor Brother make the illusion that he had to resist because he was oppressed?
This move is tantamount to exposing that the prince is a cowardly and incompetent person, and the courtiers have no place to go, and he will probably be an unassertive master in the future.
In the future, how will these bloodthirsty courtiers like maned dogs climb on the head of the crown prince? Isn't that putting yourself in danger? Is it really worth it for a woman to pay so much?
Or did the Lu family secretly pressure the prince to do this? If the Lu family is really so strong, it won't be able to stay......
Shen Jiyu thought about all the possibilities he could think of, and then quickly self-denied.
The personality of the six emperor brothers is domineering and has a strong sense of assertion, and he is not a character who can be swayed by people casually.
Shen Jiyu has been running behind the butts of the Six Emperor Brothers since he was a child, which one is not willing to submit to his hands?
For as long as he can remember, the Sixth Emperor Brother is talented, intelligent, and independent, and as long as he is willing to fight for anything, he has never lost once.
Regardless of the friendship that grew up together, but in terms of the degree of excellence compared with several royal brothers, there is no doubt that the sixth emperor brother is the best candidate for the crown prince, which is why he chose to stand on the side of the six emperor brothers in the original prince dispute.
Therefore, this is also one of the reasons why he is worried that Shen Mushi will be trapped by love, the Sixth Emperor Brother has not been easy all the way, and he must not be planted in the hands of a woman, if the Sixth Emperor Brother falls, then his good days will come to an end.........
Just as he was hesitating to test Shen Mushi's mind, Shen Yanchu spoke.
Shen Yan was only fifteen years old at the beginning, and he was in Shaoguang, ranking ninth among the princes.
With a childish little face, white jade and warm face, red lips and teeth, he can be called a beautiful young man, because he is still young and not favored by the emperor, he has always been attached to Shen Mushi's wings to live.
It was about when he followed Shen Mu since he was a child that he understood his temperament, plus he was still young, and he didn't speak as restrained as others, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he was a knife:
"Sixth brother, you are too impulsive this time. Xiao Pinyan's matter is not impossible to solve, why use this method of hurting the enemy by one thousand and self-inflicting eight hundred? In the future, these courtiers will still treat you as a bully master and try their best to oppose you, and you, the prince, will not be as satisfied as before. ”
"What did my father say?"
Shen Mushi did not answer Shen Yanchu's question, still looking down at the string of Bodhi beads in his hand, and there was no sign of anger on his face.
"My father has always loved the eldest brother, so he naturally defends him. However, the good life of the eldest emperor's brother does not mean that others are also so lucky, and the father has ordered Xiao Pinyan to be imprisoned in Shangshu's mansion for three days. ”
Shen Yanchu's face was unconvinced, and his tone was sour.
Because his biological mother was not favored by the emperor, he was looked down upon by other princes and princesses over the years, especially the royal sister Shen Bingbing, who caused trouble every now and then, and he cleaned up the mess all day long. If it weren't for the Six Emperor Brothers who had been sheltering their two brothers and sisters, they really didn't know how to live this life.
Therefore, most of the time, what Shen Mushi said was that Shen Yanchu obeyed his orders, and sometimes it was even more effective than the holy decree of Emperor Chu Wei.
Vinegar is vinegar, Shen Yanchu also understands in his heart that no matter how much his father dotes on the eldest emperor, this supreme throne will never be passed on to the eldest emperor.
For this reason, the eldest brother has always been obsessed, and his behavior has become even more absurd and tyrannical.
"Sixth brother wants to play his father's exile Xiao Pinyan, or just kill him and then kill him quickly?"
Shen Jiyu looked at Shen Mu and asked lightly.
In fact, Shen Jiyu had already expected that there was no need for the Sixth Emperor Brother to take action in this matter, and he would take care of Xiao Pinyan according to the violent temper of the eldest Emperor Brother.
But the father still didn't send the Xiao family, and threw the hot potato back to the six emperor brothers and let him deal with it himself, which shows that the crown prince's position is as stable as Mount Tai, and the father is also testing the ability of the six emperor brothers.
Emperor Chu Wei is not a faint monarch, and can even be said to be a generation of heroes, benevolent and ruthless.
Although he claims that the succession is only passed on to the virtuous son, the sage in his eyes is not necessarily just a "good man" emperor who is close to the people and generous, and must also have the courage to kill and decide.
Therefore, he deliberately did not dispose of the Xiao family, just to see how the prince he personally elected would send Xiao Pinyan and uproot the queen's henchmen.
The queen and the Xiao family are in collusion, secretly colluding to make the court a miasma, he has long known these things, because the queen mother is also a member of the Xiao family, he naturally has the blood of the Xiao family on his body, and he has to swallow his anger and close his eyes, otherwise the queen mother will not be able to pass the pass, and the Xiao family's power is too much, with deep roots and many henchmen, and it is not easy to eradicate it. It just so happens that Xiao Pinyan is so short-sighted, and the head he sent to the door should not be in vain, so it is a good opportunity to leave it to the prince for training.
Knowing his father Mo Ruozi, Shen Mushi listened to Shen Yanchu's words, and naturally understood what Emperor Chu Wei wanted him to do, or to kill people with a knife, but this time he killed not only one but a group of .........
"No, I want him to come and see him himself." A smile tugged at Shen Mushi's lips. Suddenly, he pinched a Bodhi in his hand, and the beads suddenly became powder and fell to the ground.
He knows Emperor Chu Wei too well, his father has wanted to uproot the Xiao family's henchmen for a long time, and this attack is just an excuse, as an emperor, where will he care about the battle in the harem.
Even if the crown princess really had an affair with the eldest prince, it should be handled by the prince himself, and now it is just a matter of beating snakes with sticks and pulling out a big seedling of the Xiao family.
What the father really wants to move is not Xiao Pinyan, but the Duke of An Guo and the Queen Mother behind Xiao Pinyan, it's just that it's not easy to start, if the prince comes to do this, it is justified, and it is for the sake of the princess's reputation and the reputation of the East Palace, and he can't complain about the prince's viciousness.
In the evening, the queen arranged for the palace maid to secretly escort Xiao Nuoxue out of the palace, and the carriage went straight to Xiao Shangshu's mansion after leaving the palace gate.
On the second day, Xiao Nuoxue returned to the East Palace, her whole body was sluggish, and her eyes were swollen like peaches and plums.
On the third day, Xiao Pinyan committed suicide in the mansion.
On the morning of the fourth day, in the Taihe Palace, An Guogong impeached Xiao Pinyan for his crimes, and read out Xiao Pinyan's suicide note, and finally presented his head in tears in exchange for the safety of Xiao Pinyan's remaining family.
According to the laws of Chu Wei, Xiao Pinyan slandered the reputation of the crown princess and the eldest prince, and slandered the prince for being incompetent.
But Xiao Pinyan has committed suicide, Xiao Nuoxue is the prince's maid, the queen is inconvenient to meddle in the previous dynasty, but she can use the identity of the lord of the harem to plead in front of the emperor, and also moved out of the name of the queen mother to ask the emperor to open the Internet and not to involve the Xiao family's daughters.
Emperor Chu Wei was noncommittal, but he did not refute the queen on the spot, only claiming that the matter was sent by the crown prince and everything was left to the prince to dispose of.
And Shen Mushi indifferently watched An Guogong's fake acting in the Taihe Palace, and waited until his kowtowed forehead was blue before pretending to intercede for the Xiao family, exempting Xiao Pinyan's relatives from being cheap, and only being removed from the official status and reduced to a commoner.
In addition, the Xiao family was originally a member of the royal family, but they failed to behave properly, and directly admonished the elderly, and all the incumbent officials of the Xiao family were demoted to one rank as punishment.
There is also An Guogong, as the patriarch of the Xiao clan, if the clan is wrong, he should speak out and admonish, instead of conniving at his criminal ministers' nonsense, disturbing the dynasty, and the crime of reading his merits can be avoided, and he will be punished according to the law, and he will be punished according to the law, and he will be introspected for ten days behind closed doors.
At this point, Xiao Pinyan's case is settled.
The prince acted impartially and impartially, and his words and deeds were dealt with in accordance with the law, in addition to being kind-hearted to exempt himself from the sin of joint sitting, sparing a family member and clan relatives, and being a good example of mercy and mercy.