Cheng Haofeng introduced again that this Gonggong Li deliberately held the Empress Dowager hostage because he was initially jealous of the party's original security, and later evolved into dissatisfaction with the entire faction of Han Zexi's cronies.

Gonggong Li used to be regarded as a eunuch below one person and above ten thousand people, and Dang Ben'an was only in charge of the imperial study before, and Gonggong Li promoted him many times.

Because the party was always by Emperor Deyuan's side, Gonggong Li respected him for everything, just to let him not say unfavorable things in front of the emperor. Therefore, their relationship was quite intimate during the reign of Emperor Deyuan.

Hu Xianxian had traveled with Dang Ben'an when he entered Beijing and was entitled, and he had some impressions of him, but he had no impression of Gonggong Li. Cheng Haofeng reminded her that she had seen Gonggong Li on top of the Kuaifu feast.

She thought about it for a while, and remembered that the people at their table were left out in the cold, and a eunuch invited Dang Ben'an to sit at another table, and that person was Gonggong Li. Looking back at that time, the relationship between the two was indeed close at that time.

After Han Zexi succeeded to the throne, Dang Ben An had a very good personal relationship with Governor Zhou and Qiao Heshi, and he passed on the edict and was promoted to the eunuch of the celebrant and the seal of the seal. Not only did he become the head of the eunuchs, but he also had the power to make all officials jealous.

Gonggong Li was deposed from his position as the celebrant and appointed only as the eunuch in charge of the Ci'an Palace. Although Han Zexi paid homage to the Empress Dowager and gave preferential treatment to the people of Ci'an Palace, it was impossible for Gonggong Li to hold some real power.

For this reason, Gonggong Li once asked to be transferred to the celebrant supervisor, but was rejected by the party Ben'an. Gonggong Li looked for another opportunity to ask the Empress Dowager to recommend himself in front of Han Zexi, but Han Zexi prevaricated on the grounds that "benevolence and filial piety govern the country, and the affairs of Ci'an Palace are more important than the affairs of the ceremonial supervisor".

Li Gonggong turned from jealousy of the party's security to hatred of the party's security, and repeatedly stumbled the party's security, but unfortunately he failed to achieve his goal.

The wall fell down and everyone pushed it, and Grandpa Li's followers became fewer and fewer, but there were still a group of loyal followers of Grandpa Li. It's not that these people don't want to change their backers, it's that they used to stick too closely with Gonggong Li, and no one was willing to pull them under their command.

Seeing the decline of Gonggong Li's power, these people could no longer follow Yaowu, so they thought about how to fight again.

Some of them helped Gonggong Li plan this matter, some helped him implement this matter, and some helped him find foreign aid to ensure the success of this matter.

Han Zexi and the Empress Dowager did not have a mother-son relationship, he just went to greet each other every now and then according to etiquette, and when he went, he just said a few clichés according to the form, and he didn't notice that the Empress Dowager looked strange.

Seeing that the emperor was only polite and perfunctory to the queen mother, his subordinates were even more perfunctory.

Those guards stood guard at one point, and left the palace when it was time to change shifts, without carefully interrogating the identities of the people in the Ci'an Palace, nor did they carefully check the belongings of the people who came and went.

"Ordinary negligence is not taken care of, which is what causes today's disaster. Regardless of the dereliction of duty of the guards, alas...... The Empress Dowager is really pitiful...... "Hu Xianxian sighed, the most noble woman in the world who has no husband, no son, and no confidant, lives a very pitiful life.

Cheng Haofeng ignored her exclamations, and after she finished speaking, he introduced that Gonggong Li was the mastermind, and Han Zecan, the king of Chengjun, couldn't get out of it.

Gonggong Li had the conditions to hold the empress dowager hostage and to plant explosives, but he did not have the means to get them.

Ye Guanying kept an eye on the activities of King Chengjun's spies in the capital, and he found out that the spies had contact with Gonggong Li's people. These explosives were supposed to be provided by Chengjun Wang's secret agents, but at that time, they all thought that those secret agents were going to do some kind of sabotage, and they didn't care what Gonggong Li was going to do, so they didn't know exactly when they would transfer the explosives.

"King Chengjun is fanning the flames everywhere, is he trying to test your strength? Are you sure you're going to solve this without knowing it? ”

Cheng Haofeng didn't answer her question directly, but smiled wryly and said, "You think this is troublesome?" This is just one of the two things in parallel, the other thing is that the old princess was also held hostage. ”

"The old princess? Didn't she even live in the palace and live in seclusion in a small courtyard next to the tomb of the old prince? Who still holds her hostage, who has no power, no power and no name? Hu Xianxian knew that although the Empress Dowager had no real power, she had a reputation, and she could indeed get some rights and interests by holding her hostage. However, the old princess doesn't even have fame, what is she holding hostage?

"The old princess is an unimportant figure for the officials of the court and China, but for the emperor, she is the biological mother, and the mother and son have a deep relationship." As soon as Cheng Haofeng said this, Hu Xianxian understood that holding the old princess hostage was a threat to Han Zexi and to contain the matter of saving the empress dowager.

Han Zexi was succeeded to the throne by the vassal king in Beijing, which is equivalent to his succession to the empress dowager as his grandson, and he has the responsibility to honor the empress dowager. Although it is common for distant nephews to inherit the family business to relatives with the same surname, and there are no major disputes, Han Zexi's inherited family business is the entire country, and his words and deeds may cause big disputes.

In terms of emotional intimacy, Han Zexi must save his biological mother first. In terms of etiquette and importance, Han Zexi had to save the Empress Dowager first.

If he saves his biological mother and delays the rescue of the Empress Dowager, those who secretly oppose Han Zexi will impeach him. accused him of being unfilial, ungrateful, and deliberately killing the Empress Dowager.

If he saves the Empress Dowager and delays his mother, those people will accuse Han Zexi of being ruthless and unjust, forgetting his roots, and not even caring about the life or death of his biological mother.

"Huh...... This is a deliberate trick. Alas, but this ethical thing is really hard to say, everything depends on mutual respect and understanding.

Mr. and Mrs. Hu are gone, and if they were, something happened to my parents and them, and my brother would definitely not know which side to help first.

Mud Egg's parents are also gone, if he encounters something like that, it will be difficult to do, right? The emperor is also quite pitiful, and he is in a dilemma. ”

Cheng Haofeng sighed twice: "Therefore, we must make every effort to ensure that the Empress Dowager and the old princess are safe and healthy." I'll tell you about the situation on the old princess's side, and you can also analyze how to save people. ”

After the old princess lived in seclusion near the old prince's cemetery, she greatly reduced her use and strived to be simple, just to show the world that she would not threaten the status of the empress dowager.

As soon as her use was reduced, more than half of the servants in the original palace were cut, and all kinds of items to be purchased were also reduced by more than half.

Bian Caiban once asked the original Steward Zhou and now Governor Zhou to think of the Weaving Bureau, Kiln Bureau and other institutions in the capital to find something to do. Governor Zhou said that he was old and frail, and he was only a Taoist governor, and he couldn't speak in front of the emperor at all, so he refused his request.

This kind of prevarication can coax others, but can't coax Bian Cai, who has a lot of experience. On the surface, this Xianyun Temple seems to be just a Taoist temple of royal cultivation, but it is closer to the palace than other Taoist temples and the building is grander. However, he knew that Xianyunguan was actually the place where the emperor placed his confidants, and Governor Zhou could do many things that officials in the DPRK and China could not do on the surface.

It was easy for Governor Zhou to get someone an errand with oil and water, and with their friendship of working together for many years, Bian Cai's request was not excessive. Governor Zhou's rejection of him is that he does not trust him and excludes him from Han Zexi's original old age.

Governor Zhou really didn't trust Bian Caiban, and rejected him because his son Bian Guangce was the commander of the Xiang Army in Kuozhou and was close to King Chengjun.

Bian Caiban didn't expect this at first, but after returning to Taixing Mansion, he originally wanted to quit his errand in the palace and find another job, but his son Bian Guangce asked him to be patient for the time being.

Bian Guangce was friendly with the king of Chengjun, and he was transferred to Yizhou to serve as the commander of the Xiang army in order to find out Han Zexi's movements in Taixing, so that he was prepared to strike first after the death of Emperor Deyuan. Unexpectedly, the matter of the vassal king's struggle for the throne did not appear, and Han Zexi was directly ordered to enter Beijing to succeed to the throne without spending a single soldier.

failed to know Han Zexi's movements in advance, and did not set a trap on Han Zexi's way to Beijing, Bian Guangce's chess piece became a waste, so King Chengjun scolded Bian Guangce fiercely.

King Chengjun wanted to find someone to hold the old princess hostage, and when he learned of this, Bian Guangce recommended his father to implement this matter in order to please King Chengjun.

Bian Cai has been in the palace for many years, and he has done things conveniently, and he also bought the old princess's personal mother to assist him in his success. The rest of the palace only knew that the old princess was sick in bed, and did not know that she was being held hostage. Therefore, although Cen Zaidao was in charge of the Qirui Palace, which was rebuilt from the original palace, he often went to see the old princess, but he could not find anything unusual in advance.

Bian Caiban's request to the emperor was to go to the Ayajin Courtyard to manage the affairs, and his son Bian Guangce became the general of Jin Longwei, and the old princess was strangled if he did not agree to the conditions.

These two things were secretly sent to threaten, and not many people knew about them, but because they were handed over to Han Zexi many times, more than ten people still knew.

Cheng Haofeng once again stressed to Hu Xianxian that these two things must be done well. Otherwise, the conditions for agreeing to Gonggong Li and Bian Procurement will be controlled by others, and not agreeing will also make the emperor passive in handling government affairs.

"Taixing Mansion can't let Daoist Cen deal with it, he is too rigid and not suitable to deal with this kind of thing that needs to be handled slowly, and the others are unreliable, so I have to wait for you to deal with it personally? Do you want to ask my opinion which side to save first? Hu Xianxian looked at him and asked.

Cheng Haofeng bowed slightly, she frowned again and said: "Even if something happens outside Taixing City, the news will not spread quickly, and you can find other reasons to cover up the past."

If something happens in the palace, it will soon spread to the whole world, and you can't hide it if you want to. Moreover, Bian Caiban only threatened the life and death of the old princess, and the matter of Gonggong Li threatened the life and death of many people in the palace.

In fact, you have already decided in your heart which side to save first, but you can't bear it, you are uneasy, and you want someone to share the uncomfortable feeling with you.

Haofeng, it's not that you have to make a ruthless decision about who lives and who dies, it's that you blame King Chengjun for making such a ruthless move. Furthermore, I believe that we can keep both mothers safe and well. “

After she finished speaking, he held her hand tightly, and made a little determination in his heart: "If you save the queen mother first, the danger faced by the old princess will be aggravated, and the emperor will be burning in his heart." Alas......"

At this moment, there was also a pair of clenched hands in Yusheng Palace, and Han Zexi also made the decision to save the Empress Dowager first. To outsiders, he seemed to be calm and a little calm, but Shen Zhujun could feel his hands trembling slightly.

Someone understood the decision he made, Cheng Haofeng was more confident in handling things, and after a while, he let go of her hand, and the two discussed specific methods.

Cheng Haofeng planned to let people sneak into the Ci'an Palace to find the location of the Empress Dowager, and then let people pretend to be the Empress Dowager and bring the real Empress Dowager out. Then, the fake Empress Dowager and Gonggong Li worked out the location of the buried explosives.

As long as the Empress Dowager is safe and the explosives are withdrawn, the matter will be settled. Of course, Hu Xianxian knew that she had infiltrated Ci'an Palace to pretend to be the Empress Dowager and tell Gonggong Li that only she could do these things.

However, if you want to bring out the Queen Mother safely, you have to understand the situation of Gonggong Li to talk about it, and it is not enough to sneak in just by stealth.

Regarding these doubts, Cheng Haofeng said that there had been arrangements for a long time, because Gonggong Li mainly wanted to take power rather than really make the fish die, so the chores of Ci'an Palace were done as usual. The Empress Dowager will provide everything she needs as usual, and Cheng Haofeng plans to enter with the person who delivers the things, so that it is easier to respond.