Chapter 15: The Abolition of the Concubine (I)
In the end, Lin Yuan was rescued by the emperor and received grace to move the house. This is undoubtedly great news for the people of the Mirror Moon Pavilion, and it is no wonder that Chu Xue is happy. Lin Yuan was washing his face with water, and after listening to Chu Xue's words, he said, "The emperor hasn't decided a relocation palace for me, so you are discussing whether to live here." ”
"It's a matter of time or time." Chu Tao also said: "The emperor favors the little lord like this, and he will definitely choose a very luxurious and comfortable residence for you, in short, it is much better than here." ”
Lin Yuan shook his head and smiled: "What's wrong with Mirror Moon Pavilion." It's remote, but it's quiet. If I move to another palace, and I can't hold the throne with my current position, then I will have to live by looking at the face of the lady of the throne, and I will have to get along with the concubines who live with me day and night, and how much trouble and noise are waiting for us. It's a pity that the queen buried the puppet in this place, and there are no more people living here. Even if the emperor doesn't favor me, I have to move. ”
The first snow was silent.
"Well, you all go back and rest." Lin Yuan waved his hand and instructed the palace people: "It's not too late to wait for Ming'er to clean up the courtyard." Chu Xue, you come in and help me change the dressing. ”
Chu Xue answered, entered the back room and closed the door. She put down the bed curtain, lifted Lin Yuan's clothes, saw the cracked scabs inside, frowned, and said, "The queen is really excessive!" Knowing that the little master is injured, he still practices the little master like this. No wonder the emperor is angry with her! ”
Lin Yuan said disapprerovingly: "It's all light, you didn't see Concubine Xiang, she was almost tossed and miscarried." There was a bit of coldness in his words: "Concubine Xiang is a powerful character, and her means are no less than the queen, and even I feel that she can see the situation better than the queen." Fortunately, the emperor is also very jealous of her, although he loves her, he guards her everywhere, otherwise with the strength of you and me, An Neng will live under her nose until now. ”
"The queen is not the same." Chu Xue talked about the queen, and her face was uneasy: "What about her rampant harem, there is the emperor pressing." It's a good thing to be noble, but it's too noble, it's too much. ”
"Yes, the emperor doesn't like those powerful families the most, and there are women like the queen who wield power......" Lin Yuan said this, his teeth clenched slightly, and he lowered his voice and said to Chu Xue: "The day before yesterday, I asked you to pass on the news to Lord Xiao, no one else knows, right?" ”
During the few days of the confinement, Lin Yuan searched her intestines and couldn't think of a way. She will never sit still, and when she is helpless, she also thinks of a solution that is not a solution, that is, to ask Xiao Zhen for help. Xiao Zhen is indeed a person who can help, since the last time Lin Yuan was entangled by the Mongolian king and was able to escape with his whole body and escape from death, Prime Minister Xiao You was convinced of this imperial concubine, and he was also sure that she was a person with a bright future.
Lin Yuan didn't feel embarrassed for him, so he wrote a letter asking him to find a suitable person in the court, who didn't need a too high official position and didn't need to be valued by the emperor, just to be able to speak without arousing suspicion.
This matter is not difficult for Xiao Zhen to do, but the queen is watching it closely, and it is not easy for Lin Yuan to bring the news out. And if such a thing is leaked, it will be a big sin of forming a party for personal gain and interfering in politics in the harem, and she has to be extremely careful.
Chu Xue heard this, and looked around busily, and only dared to reply when she saw that the doors and windows were tightly closed: "Don't worry, the little master is to wrap things in the meal and take them out, if the news leaks out, then the bun with things will definitely be opened, and the person who answers outside knows this, so he doesn't dare to peep privately, so he has been sent to Lord Xiao." Lord Xiao is very shrewd, if he really sees the bun broken, he will definitely be alert. Now that everything is stable, Lord Feng, the Qin Heavenly Supervisor, has helped the little master to speak and solve the siege, which shows that this matter has been done without leakage. ”
"That's fine." Lin Yuan calmed down and said with a smile: "I didn't expect the right prime minister to be so good at finding people, the words that Feng Qingming, the Qintianjian said, not to mention the emperor, even I was impressed." I came up with such a method, but I didn't have much hope, I just begged the emperor to listen to a sentence or two, and not to believe too much in the words of Huici and the queen. But I didn't expect that Lord Feng was wise and bold, coaxed the emperor to convince him, and relieved us of the siege, not to mention, he himself was valued by the emperor, and he would definitely have a great career in the future. ”
Chu Xue Qingling smiled and said: "Lord Xiao has been up and down in officialdom for a long time, and such a small matter is naturally done perfectly, which has exceeded our expectations. Speaking of which, that Lord Feng of the Qin Heavenly Prison was not all entrusted by others to be loyal to the orders of others. Lord Liu is a scholar, depressed in the Qingshui Yamen like Qin Tianjian, even if he has been an official to the master of ceremonies for many years, it is only six grades, and the daily errand is divination and deduction, one can not serve the country and the other can not glorify the ancestors, it is really boring to do this. This time, the right prime minister found him, he just got a chance to take the throne, and he showed his talents in front of the emperor and won the appreciation, not to mention, he will get the right prime minister in the future, as well as the support of your mother. How rare such an opportunity is for an ordinary official......"
"Isn't that the best outcome?" Lin Yuan nodded and smiled: "On weekdays, we live in the palace and are not familiar with the court. At present, it seems that there are many people in the DPRK who are unknown and have never met talents, and Lord Feng is an example. Let's pay more attention in the future and find some such people, which will be of great use in the future. ”
Chu Xue "chuckled" in her heart, and the relaxed smile on her face was fleeting. What a terrible woman is the master in front of her, the Lin family......
She has been serving in the palace for a long time, and she has never seen a concubine so bold in befriending courtiers. Lin Yuan has the courage to take a right prime minister for his own use, and he is also planning to win over more people...... There has always been only a man in the court, a weak woman, or the identity of the imperial concubine, even daring to ...... What is the purpose in Lin Yuan's heart!
The concubine wooed the courtiers, in the final analysis, it was a mortal crime. Chu Xue bit her lip and tried to persuade Lin Yuan, but in the end she didn't say a word, bowed her head and was silent.
Lin Yuan seemed to inadvertently peek at her face and laughed lightly. Hatsuyuki was the first to follow her, regardless of the wind and rain, she shared hardships with her, and the two of them supported her to this point, and her loyalty did not need to be doubted at all. It's just that she is an ordinary woman after all, and it is understandable that she can't accept her bold idea of piercing the sky for a while.
Fortunately, she is still a qualified henchman, and she chose to continue to follow her and follow her to do gambling life. If the first snow can't withstand this fear, Lin Yuan will really have a headache.
Lin Yuan fell asleep in such a tiring night. The next day was a good day, the snow in front of the door had melted away, and the sky was as blue as a mirror, without a single cloud.
The news of Shen Yunrong's death had spread all over the capital from the palace. When Lin Yuan got up to eat in the outer hall, the female eunuchs of the outer palace talked a lot, all of which were from last night. According to the emperor's will, in order to completely eliminate the scourge of witchcraft, Yongshou Palace has been closed since then, and all the things of the Shen family have been burned.
Tuoba Hong is not an emperor who believes in his fate, but he can't stand the trust of the people in the palace, so for everyone's peace of mind, and for the sake of beating a dead man of the Shen family deeper into the soil, he made a big move in the Yongshou Palace. As a result, this big move didn't matter, and something that had nothing to do with witchcraft was found in the Yongshou Palace, but it was just as frightening.
Just a few hours later, dozens of imperial doctors sent by the emperor himself went to the palaces in turn to consult, accompanied by a large number of people from the palace led by Yao Fusheng. The concubines in the palace felt inexplicable, until the imperial doctors all saw the doctor, and several palace concubines were called into the queen's Changxin Palace alone, and when they came out, they all cried and cried.
Because they have been told by the queen herself that they can no longer have children.
The culprit is none other than the secret medicine found in the Eternal Longevity Palace. That kind of thing is the same medicine that was found when the Shen clan was demoted a few months ago due to private possession of poisons, and it is not a product of the Central Plains.
In addition to the poison, private phoenix robes and phoenix crowns were also found in the Yongshou Palace. Shen's evil intentions and ambitions are self-evident.
When the final results came out, Takubahiro was furious. There are as many as fifteen concubines who were poisoned by the Shen family, most of them are the group of show girls who entered the palace in the fourth year of Qianwu, and the remaining few are old people in the prince's mansion. I don't know what method the Shen family used to poison all the show girls in the fourth year of Qianwu, and it was irreversible damage, and it was impossible for Hua Tuo to recover these women when he was alive.
That's how it got a big deal. Originally, the crime of witch Gu did not cause much turmoil, first, Tuoba Hong was different from Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he didn't believe in this and didn't want to be imprisoned because of this kind of illusory crime; The second is that it is too unfortunate for this kind of thing to happen in the royal family, and it can be covered up. As a result, as soon as the poisoning of the concubines came out, before Tuoba Hong could make a sound, the princes and nobles in the capital couldn't sit still. They worked hard to raise their daughters and sent them to the palace to serve the emperor in order to glorify their ancestors, but now their daughters couldn't even give birth to children, and they completely lost the opportunity to compete for the successor of the great unification.
This group of nobles and eunuchs knelt in front of Tuoba Hong in the court and wept bitterly, and the cries and scolding almost lifted the roof of the Jinluan Palace, making Tuoba Hong, who had already known it in his heart, speechless. Taking advantage of the Shen family's matter, all the courtiers also took out the rest of the Shen family's charges that they had collected before. The Shen family has secretly committed a lot of scandals over the years, robbing people's daughters, annexing mansions, looting money, etc., everyone is afraid of power and does not dare to expose it, but today in a rage, they rushed to report to the emperor one by one.