Chapter 16: The Abolition of the Concubine (Part II)
After that, there is no need to speculate too much - the great crime of the abolished concubine Shen implicated her mother family miserably, and Tuoba Hong responded to the strong request of the Manchu Dynasty civil and military forces, and asked Shen's father, brother, uncle, uncle, etc., who were officials in the court, to be questioned in court.
The magnitude of such movements is almost comparable to the battle that killed King Mu Wu in the first place. Lin Yuan lived in the inner house of the deep palace, and the earth-shattering ground in the court was still transmitted through the layers of palace walls - the left and right sides were connected to the six departments to discuss the crimes of the Shen family, and a total of eight major crimes were listed: witchcraft as a disaster, killing the emperor's heir, despising the king, carrying the emperor, forming a party for personal gain, disordering the court, filling one's own pockets, and not harboring dissent. All the courtiers jointly played, asking the saint to surrender to the Shen family. Daqin's court has always been fighting with each other and not giving an inch, but this time it was surprisingly unanimous, and even Lord Xiao, the Prime Minister of Zuo, and Lord Shangguan of the Hubu Shangshu rarely failed to quarrel.
Tuoba Hong had no objection to the courtiers' proposal, and in his anger, he also issued a decree to punish the Shen clan on the spot. Shen's father, Shen Hua, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, was dismissed and copied from his home, and was beheaded on the same day; His uncle, Shen Xiao, the governor of Nanyang, was dismissed from his post and exiled to Ningguta; His eldest brother, the first-class guard Shen Liu, was dismissed from his post and investigated, and was beheaded three days later; The second brother, the third-class guard Shen Xi was dismissed from his post and investigated, and he was beheaded three days later. In addition, in the Shen family, all men who have official positions are dismissed from their posts and sentenced to relocation; Those who have no official position and a female dependents are not enslaved. As for the patriarch of the Shen family, Shen Linzhen, a popular figure in the court, Shen Linzhen, as Shen Yunrong's grandfather, he is already eighty-two years old.
That's it, the families of the victims are still unforgiving. When the Shen family's fathers and brothers were pressed down by the guards, Lord Wu'an Hou Yao took the lead in knocking the jade wat in his hand on the head of the dismissed Ministry of Works, and then the crowd rose up to attack it, and even Lord Yang, a scholar of the Hanlin Academy who was known for his elegance, kicked it in the chaos, and he didn't know which one he kicked on - the wall fell down and everyone pushed it, not to mention that Shen Yunrong was the only concubine with a prince in the palace, and how many people hated him for being able to inherit the throne in the future, and the Shen family also had a lot of grievances on weekdays. The Shen family attaches great importance to civil affairs and light military force, and does not have the arrogance of military attaches in power, but as civilian officials, they are arrogant and unkind, and they have a very big frame among their colleagues, and they have done a lot of things to seize power for profit and fight against differences with the party. The courtiers of the court and the central government dare not speak out in anger on weekdays, but today they naturally vent their joy.
In the Mirror Moon Pavilion, Xiao Chengzi described this matter to Lin Yuan vividly as if he was making up a joke, and he was very happy in his words. Not only the Mirror Moon Pavilion, but also the palace room next to it is quite happy. When the emperor personally killed Shen late last night, the concubines did not react so strongly, and today, when the fifteen poor women cried behind closed doors, the people next to them were shocked and glad that the sinner Shen had finally surrendered, and they did not have to worry about what secret medicine they would be given in the future.
This incident caused unrest in the six palaces, and it caused a storm in the city, all because the Shen family's sins were too vicious and appalling. Although the concubines on the side have also harmed people and done dirty things, which one can match one-tenth of the cruelty of the Shen family? If she had been spared for a few more years, it would have become a nunnery in the harem of Emperor Tuoba Hong of Great Qin.
Thinking about Shen's virtuous and generous appearance over the years, people feel cold sweat when they mention it. It is said that dogs that can bite people don't bark, this Shen Yunrong ruined the lives of the concubines, and he was praised by others, which is also a good skill. There is a thoughtful one in the concubine, and when she thinks about the Shen family carefully, she feels even more shocked - the Shen family's private phoenix robe and phoenix crown are afraid that it is not a matter of one day or two! She has served the emperor for more than ten years, and she has shown her virtuous face for such a long time, and even Empress Xiao is not as good as Empress Xiao in this regard, she must have been aiming for the throne from the beginning!
And it's not just the queen, but also the position of the queen mother in the future! One wall of "diligent cultivation of Ned" made himself famous, and the other wall eliminated all the contenders for the throne. Later, Concubine Xiang and Ye were pregnant, and she also cursed the witch Gu to get rid of the two dragon fetuses, and when the emperor reached the age of not being confused, there was only one seedling of King Zhao, and I was afraid that I didn't want to set up a prince and had to set it up.
Such a woman is simply the incarnation of a snake demon.
Shen Yunrong's death made everyone celebrate, but Lin Yuan in the Mirror Moon Pavilion was not very happy. She found something very troublesome, and that was that she became more and more unable to guess Takubahiro's thoughts.
In her expectation, Shen would not have died so early...... Even if the emperor was ready to attack the important ministers who controlled the government after eliminating Queen Muwu, she should not bear the brunt of the attack.
The Xiao family tree has deep roots that are difficult to uproot and cannot be moved, so the first one will not be the Xiao family. And the Shangguan clan ...... That's a clan of generals who hold military power. Compared with Wenchen Shen Linzhen, Shangguan Yue, the general of Shangzhu State, is the person who should be eliminated.
And a few months ago, Tuoba Hong also personally crowned the son of the Shen family as the king of Zhao.
At that time, no one could see the emperor's attitude towards Shen Yunrong.
However, it seems that it is easy to explain now, it is nothing more than because of King Mu Wu and Tuoba Hongcai to give grace to the emperor's eldest son in order to appease the Shen family and let him exert more strength in the Beigong Rebellion. But even if Tuoba Hong unloaded the mill and killed the donkey after the matter was completed, others did not expect that he would toss the Shen family into such a state, not to mention losing his identity and authority, most of the clansmen even took their lives.
Tuoba Hong's methods are very ruthless.
After the death of the Shen family, the three-legged momentum in the palace was broken. If the forecast is good, the next thing Takubahiro has to do is rebuild a new balance. He will support a person to replace the dead Shen family to contain Concubine Xiang and the queen, and who will that person be?
What methods will Tuoba Hong take to achieve his goal?
Lin Yuan began to find that this palace was not as simple as she imagined.
What will happen in the future, no one can guess.
Three days after the Shen family raided the house, Tuoba Hong once again issued a holy decree in the court, set up a military aircraft department, and ordered Yang Qi, a veteran of the three dynasties and an auxiliary minister of the cabinet, to be the "seat", and ordered King Xianyu, Xiao Jingwen, the left prime minister, Xiao Zhen, the right prime minister, Chu Dakai, the governor of Huguang, and Xu Shizheng, a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, to be the minister of military aircraft. At first glance, its functions are very similar to those of Zhongshu Province in the Sui and Tang dynasties.
However, after the turmoil of the Five Dynasties, cabinet institutions similar to Zhongshu Province were rarely established, because although the cabinet ministers did not have much real power, they were the closest people to the emperor, with the most spiritual ears and the longest hands. In other words, the cabinet has no decision-making power, but it has a great right to know.
As a result, there are often courtiers who are good at drilling camps, using the status of the cabinet to hollow out the emperor's authority little by little.
But this kind of thing depends on the situation. If the emperor is young, the lord is suspicious, or the emperor has soft ears, then the cabinet is simply a moth to the imperial power. If the emperor is strong...... will use the cabinet to hollow out the power of the rest of the courtiers, so that the entire court does not dare to have a voice against the monarch, and it is easy to send a secret edict to the cabinet to assassinate the prime minister, and the courtiers can only be afraid all day long and dare not disobey.
The matter of the Shen family is not over yet, and the establishment of the Military Aircraft Department has shaken the Great Qin Dynasty again. The harem concubines can't discuss the government in vain, but they are always staring at the front of their noble families, staring at the rise and fall of their clan. This action by Tuoba Hong is very amazing, and anyone can figure out the importance of this military aircraft department. Lord Yang, who was already eighty years old and ready to return to his hometown, suddenly became hot, and the courtiers who could enter the military department were also regarded as having a bright future.
When the Minister of Military Aircraft led by Lord Yang entered the palace to thank the emperor, the emperor specially allowed Prime Minister Xiao Cheng to meet with his daughter who was the empress. At that time, Empress Xiao was sick and was still lying in bed taking medicine.
Empress Xiao has not been in good spirits recently, and on that night when she was in a big fight because of the witch curse, she blew in the cold wind all night, and she suffered from the cold. Originally, there was no major problem, but Xiao Yueyi's palace cold disease has been more than eight years, and it is an old stubborn disease, this time the cold caused her old disease to recur, and the whole person was sick and couldn't get out of the house, just like Lin Yuan in the Mirror Moon Pavilion.
Naturally, these days the morning province is exempted.
When Prime Minister Xiao Cheng entered Changxin Palace, he saw his daughter looking listless.
He stared at his daughter twice before kneeling down and saluting. A grandmother next to him had already stepped forward to help him up, and Queen Xiao was also busy bowing and said, "Father, please excuse me." ”
"What's wrong with you lately?" Prime Minister Xiao sighed slightly: "I heard that your body is not good? When I finished my work in the Qinzheng Palace, I begged the emperor to come and see you. ”
Empress Xiao is not an ordinary concubine, she is the main palace, and her father is an important minister of the court, Tuoba Hong allows her to meet with her family whenever she has the opportunity. Therefore, she is not like others who have not seen her parents for many years, and she has to hug her head and cry when she sees her. When she heard her father's words, she became anxious, and said with a frown: "Father, don't ask the emperor for grace at will!" Our family is not the same as before, and we can do whatever we want. Saying that, when he saw that his father's temples had more gray hair, his heart was sour, and he comforted: "Father, don't worry about me, although the emperor doesn't favor me, he always respects me." The Shen family in the concubine has just died, and even Concubine Xiang will never cross me. ”
Prime Minister Xiao Cheng's face was a little heavy, and he said coldly: "But there is only respect, you have been sick for more than ten days, but the emperor has never come to visit you......" said that it was taboo in the palace, and he didn't dare to say any more. "You haven't had children all these years, this is the most important problem, I just heard the report that you have committed the palace cold again, so I came over to take a look worriedly. Fortunately, the Shen family is dead, and the battle for the emperor's heir is not known to anyone. ”