Chapter 234 Palace Affairs
The incident of Hou Jun's conspiracy to rebel against the palace made many people remember Li Zhi's cold-blooded and decisive side as an emperor, and after careful deduction, some people quietly remembered Li Zhi's scheming in their hearts.
The whole matter was dealt with extremely quickly, and the vacant public offices in various places were filled in the shortest possible time, and all the aftermath work seemed to be in order. After Li Zhi sent the order to arrest the people involved, he did not rush back to Chang'an, but as before the incident, he received the minister on time and on time, accompanied Yongning and the children to eat and walk, and even took some free time to take the guards around him and a few princes who were already able to run on horseback to hunt in the hunting ground. The originally impetuous and restless people's hearts gradually calmed down because of Li Zhi's actions.
Although Hou Junji's soldiers and horses were never able to attack the palace, the queen Wang fell ill in fright. Not only the Wang family, after that night, the few concubines in the harem fell ill several times at once, although the Wang family was unwilling, but also had to temporarily entrust the palace affairs to Yongning to deal with. In fact, where is Yongning willing to take care of these things, if it weren't for Li Zhi to take over the matter for her, she would never take on such troublesome things.
Li Zhi naturally saw Yongning's reluctance, if it weren't for that, where would he speak out at that time. Pulling her back to the dormitory, Li Zhicai smiled and said, "What? Really angry? It's just to deal with some palace affairs, and there are old precedents to follow, where is it worth embarrassing you to be like this? ”
In fact, Li Zhi's intentions, Yongning can guess one or two more or less, but since he didn't say it explicitly, she just pretended to be confused. Snorted lightly, glanced at Li Zhi, and Yongning said a little depressedly: "The way to live in this harem is to 'do more wrong, do less wrong', you must know that if you don't do this, you won't be wrong and wait and see, as soon as this palace affairs are in my hands, I don't know how many people should be waiting for me to make a mistake...... I don't know how to hide on weekdays, but now I'm being pulled out by you and set up as a target, I really don't know how distressing people ......"
Li Zhi leaned back, leaned on the soft pillow, laughed softly, played with Yongning's smooth and white slender jade hands, and said, "It's just some scabies, can you still not cope with these?" At the end of the day, it's just lazy...... You're going to have to get started with these things sooner or later, and it's good to familiarize yourself with them now, and besides, isn't there still me? With me to rely on you, what else do you have to worry about? ”
Yongning pursed his lips and smiled, leaned into Li Zhi's arms, and said coquettishly: "What? You took such trouble for me against my will, and you didn't allow me to complain? ”
"It's okay to complain, but things still have to be done......" Li Zhi's eyes fell on the wooden lattice window, which seemed to float very far, and said in a slightly low voice: "The queen's illness will not be cured for a while, you don't have to worry about her, just act sincerely." In this harem, whether it is the palace concubines, or those eunuchs and palace maids, you have to go through it carefully, and you must not be soft on what should be cleaned up, if you encounter something that you are not good to come forward directly, come and tell me, I will deal with it, in short, this time the palace must be straightened out and cleaned."
Yongning was stunned by Li Zhi's words, although she guessed some, she didn't expect Li Zhi to make such a big move. And Yongning noticed that Li Zhi only said that she should be cleaned up, but he did not set the criteria for cleaning up, which means that what kind of person will be included in the scope of cleaning up is completely up to her. From palace concubines, to eunuchs and palace maids, the articles that can be done here are too big, if she really lets go of it, there will be more people who will offend...... Yongning is not afraid of offending people, but if he offends people without knowing the purpose, it is difficult to grasp the balance in the middle.
Li Zhi didn't need to bow his head, just from the moment Yongning's body stiffened, he understood her dilemma, patted her shoulder gently, and said: "After returning to the palace this time, I will demote Changsun Jing to the cold palace, and I will give you a will at that time, and take this opportunity to search the entire Daxing Palace, not afraid that those villains who betray the lord and have two ambitions will not show their feet, you should prepare now, and then cast the net wider, and keep an eye on it everywhere, I don't believe that those black-hearted things can still calm down...... These things must be solved before the end of the year, and we will pick a good day after the year, and we will move to Daming Palace."
Since the death of Emperor Li Yuan, the Daming Palace has been vacant, and the Empress Eldest Sun is also too weak to have time to take care of it, so Li Shimin can't take care of it. But not long after Li Zhi ascended the throne, he began to quietly tidy up the Daming Palace. Yongning knew at that time that he had moved his mind to move the palace. After several years of re-planning and arrangement, Daming Palace is no longer what it used to be, Princess Gaoyang took the opportunity to go around and praise it after coming back, which made Yongning's heart itch for many days, but Li Zhi was stingy and refused to let her have a sneak peek.
Since Li Zhi has decided to move the palace, Yongning takes this clean-up matter more seriously, not for the so-called "villain" in Li Zhi's mouth, but just thinking about moving to a new house, she is also willing to move to Daming Palace with the palace people The background is clearer, not for others, just for her children, and they must also be concerned about these things.
Although Li Zhi confessed such a thing as Yongning, and set the time not loosely, he still insisted on it until the beginning of September, and led the ministers to conduct a harmonious autumn hunt before returning to Beijing.
At this time, more than a month has passed since the rebellion incident, but the atmosphere in Chang'an City is still stagnant and solemn, and the rotation of the royal car has made some people restless.
As Li Zhi said, the queen Wang's condition has not improved, and there are even some serious trends. Yongning naturally knows that there is some credit to Li Zhi in the middle, but judging from the time of Wang's illness, Yongning did not dare to explore more in this matter, besides, although in some aspects, she is also a strong person, but there is no virgin cell on her body, no matter how pitiful Wang is, she can't sympathize with it, let alone save Wang, she feels that she didn't start behind her back, and it is not easy to fall into the well......
Up and down the Tang Dynasty, there are not a few people who are concerned about the queen's condition. Even some of them know in their hearts that the queen is already a flower of tomorrow and is destined to fall. And Yongning, who is in charge of palace affairs in his hands, has a glamorous reputation, but now it has reached a higher level, if it were not for the fact that the Fang family has always maintained a low-key style over the years, I am afraid that the threshold has been broken.
On the second day after returning to the palace, Yongning received Li Zhi's holy decree, and then began a large-scale Qing Palace movement. In addition to Li Zhi's Liangyi Hall and the Empress's Lizheng Palace, the search of Daxing Palace did not leave a single omission. For this reason, the queen Wang's condition has a tendency to deteriorate for a while, even so, she still adheres to the usual virtuous and virtuous posture, and goes to the Liangyi Hall in person to shake people's hearts and other words, imploring Li Zhi to take back her life, the result is naturally difficult as she wants, after being reprimanded by Li Zhi in a loud voice, she has not returned to the Lizheng Palace and is unconscious, although the imperial doctor did not say anything helpless, but only from the expression and medication, it is known that her condition is really not optimistic.
And the people who have a lot of opinions about this turmoil in the palace are not only the palace people who are trapped in it, but there are also imperial historians bombarding Li Zhi with music every day in the court, but Li Zhi's psychological quality is excellent, and he "rediscusses" every day, but there is no result every day. Yongning's side still searched how it should be searched, and it was checked how it should be checked.
The result of this cleanup made Yongning and Li Zhi very shocked. Li Zhi was born in the Xing Palace, grew up in the Daxing Palace, and now has become the master of the Daxing Palace, it can be said that his understanding of the Daxing Palace is also extremely profound, not to mention that since he succeeded to the throne, for the sake of safety, he has also carefully read the drawings and documents of the Daxing Palace and other related materials, it can be said that he should know every corner of the Daxing Palace well.
But in this case, when Yongning was searching, he found two secret passages in different positions that could go in different directions, how could Li Zhi not be frightened? Moreover, Yongning's investigation has found out some convenient ways to enter and exit the palace among palace maids and eunuchs, and there is even a place where you can enter and exit at will as long as you wear the clothes of eunuchs and palace maids, and no one will check it at all......
The discovery of these security loopholes made Li Zhi ruthlessly attack the commander in charge of the palace guards above the court, and a group of eunuch leaders and female officials were replaced in the palace. It was also because these questions were put on the table that the original royal historians who were jumping very happily quieted down, and then no one dared to squeak anymore if there was any movement in the palace.
For a while, Daxing Palace was very calm, and the calm was a little frightening. Anyone who finds someone around him quietly disappears every day, and he is afraid that he will be quiet, and he will not dare to do more or say more.
The queen's condition has never improved, and Li Zhi specially made a decree to let Wang's mother and sister-in-law enter the palace to serve the sick. Wang's mother is a very quiet and honest woman, but her sister-in-law seems to be a little unacceptable. The whole Datang is afraid that everyone knows that the woman the queen hates the most is Yongning, and seeing that once the queen has a good character, then it will definitely be Yongning who takes her place......