Immediately following the sleepless night of the previous night, I had another sleepless night.

Ma Miao of Dong'an Company was arrested, and his father, Sima Liang, the king of Runan, was naturally anxious, so he rushed to the palace that night and pestered me and the emperor to quarrel.

Fortunately, I had already unified the caliber with the emperor in advance, and I didn't say anything else, only that he led the troops into the palace. No matter what Sima Liang said, it is enough for us to firmly grasp this point. In this way, no matter what reason he had, they would always be the one who was to blame.

Sima Liang's coming to make trouble was enough for a headache, but in the middle of the night when something happened in the Qi Palace, the imperial doctor came to report in a hurry, and the little daughter of the King of Qi with smallpox died.

After the death of the little county lord, King Qi's heart was unbearable, and he fainted on the spot. After being helped into bed, even he fell unconscious. The imperial doctor said worriedly, looking at that posture, King Qi seemed to be infected with smallpox.

As soon as the news of King Qi's illness came out, the army of the Runan Royal Mansion was immediately placed under close surveillance. The emperor issued an order overnight that the army of the king of Runan should be stationed on the spot, and that no one should be allowed to move around at will, and that if anyone dared to leave Kim Yong City without permission, he would be killed.

Despite this, in order to prevent anyone from taking advantage of the opportunity to cause chaos, the capital still entered a tense state of martial law, and the forbidden army, under the leadership of Sima Wei, the king of Chu, patrolled and defended all parts of the capital. The palace was also brightly lit all night, and I accompanied the emperor to sit in the Qinzheng Palace, and it was not until dawn that I sent away Sima Liang, the king of Runan. When he left, he said angrily that he would go to the court tomorrow morning to evaluate and see if his son Sima Miao was wronged if he was arrested.

I asked Zhang Hong to go out overnight to deliver the letter, and also asked Ji Shao and Liang Jingren to contact various departments separately, so that all our cronies and ministers would be ready tomorrow. The people of the king of Runan have a recital. We also hurry up to follow up with a general principle, or one other don't argue with him, just ask him one. Fastest update. A minister, leading troops to break into the palace late at night. Should I be caught?

In this matter, I am holding the ground. The marriage between the Runan Royal Mansion and the Wei family has not become a fact, and the dowry has not been paid, so the theory of "the king taking the wife of the minister" is not valid. Even their prior matchmaker contacts were done in secret. I am afraid that the emperor and the ministers of the court will suspect that they have formed a party for personal gain, and I am afraid that someone will interfere with it.

Unexpectedly, because they were doing it secretly, it gave me an excellent excuse. Since no one even knows about the matchmaker's agreement, and the matter of hiring is also nothing, Wei Jin has nothing to do with Sima Xuan, and Sima Xuan does not have any position on breaking into the palace and asking for guilt. In this battle for Wei Jin, we are both in reality and in public opinion. All won by a big margin.

The next day's court discussion, as I had expected, was one-sided. They all think that Sima Xuan's behavior of leading troops into the palace is very serious. Don't be spared. Although there are not many soldiers and horses with him. The name of rebellion can be exempted, but as the commander of the forbidden army. Knowing the law and breaking the law, how will you serve the public in the future? Everyone believes that Sima Miao is no longer suitable for the post of commander of the forbidden army.

This result was completely unexpected. According to what the emperor later told me, the king of Runan could not hide his surprise and shame when he saw that so many ministers who had bragged to him before had turned against him.

In fact, how much of a crime it is to lead troops to break into the palace is secondary, and the real reason is that the king of Runan has lost power. After Wei Jin entered the palace and Sima was arrested, he lost three kinds of support at the same time and was robbed of military power, his allies retreated, and the emperor no longer trusted him. No matter how bravado he is, he is only an old man who will be ten years old, a bare-bones prince, and those ministers who see the wind and steer the rudder, which one is still willing to serve him? One by one, they quickly dissociated themselves from him. The "court discussion", in which the king of Runan pinned his ardent hopes, became a critical meeting to beat the reservoir dogs.

Political struggles have always been so cruel that the people who lift you up to the sky are the ones who trample you to the ground.

Since everyone thought that Ma Miao of Dong'an Company was guilty and should be punished, the emperor immediately issued an order to remove Sima Miao from his position as commander of the forbidden army. The holy decree also said that according to Sima Xuan's crime, he should have been exiled to the frontier, remembered as the grandson of the royal family, exempted from exile, and restricted him to leave Beijing and return to China with the private army of the Runan palace before sunset tomorrow, that is, to drive him back to the fiefdom with his army.

As for Sima Liang, the king of Runan, he didn't move him this time, but added the post of Taifu to the official title of Weidi - that is, he was appointed as the emperor's teacher. In this way, Wei's status in the court is above the king of Runan.

Originally, Sima Wei suggested that I take the opportunity to completely destroy the land of the king of Runan, and he even repeatedly hinted to me that it was better to simply do nothing and kill the father of the king of Runan. I didn't do that, not because I was reluctant, but because the time wasn't ripe yet.

In the political game, the loss of one side will inevitably increase the power of the other party, and I suppressed the power of the Runan Wangjia and raised the status of the Wei family and Sima Wei, in order not to let the King of Runan dominate.

But again, I don't want to see Wei and Sima Wei without opponents. Especially Sima Wei, he is the son of the first emperor, and he has thousands of private armies, and now he is still in command of the forbidden army, if he is allowed to stand alone, the consequences are unimaginable.

And the reason why I raised Wei so high is because I really don't like this person, he is the enemy of my family, but I have no reason to get rid of him, so I might as well simply lift him to the top. As the saying goes, a gun shoots a bird, and this time he was promoted without merit, and I don't know how many pairs of jealous eyes he has red.

Especially Sima Liang, the king of Runan, now hates Wei to the core, right? Originally, they said that they wanted to marry, to form an alliance, to jointly control the government, and to share this great river and mountain, and this wealth and wealth together. However, Wei sent his daughter to the palace after the two families had already made up the eight characters, and let his son lead the troops to break into the palace under the anger of the attack, so that this disaster was broken! It also involved him in losing ground in the DPRK. Wei jumped above him and became the de facto dictator of the imperial court.

After an incident is over, the one who is most likely to become the target of public criticism is the one who benefits the most from the incident. I deliberately praised the guard, made him a knight, made his daughter a lady, and at the same time gave him a lot of gold and silver treasures, so that his favor was unparalleled for a while, but to direct all envy to him. At first, I was not without guilt, but soon, my guilt was automatically eliminated.

Because Wei is really too proud. He felt that he was now the emperor's concubine and the so-called "national master", and his momentum not only overshadowed the previous Sima Liang, but even overshadowed Yang Jun. Not only did he stow himself in front of the courtiers, but he even lost the awe he deserved in front of the emperor,

In this way, it is not only Sima Liang who gritted his teeth, but also Sima Wei, the king of Chu.

Sima Wei himself is a person who is very keen on fighting for power and profit, and he is young and vigorous, and always thinks that he has the talent to endure the heavens and the earth, and should be entrusted by the imperial court to be reused. This time, he helped the emperor catch Sima Miao and pulled down Sima Liang, and he thought that he had made great contributions to the "Falling King of Runan" incident and deserved the highest reward. But apart from appointing him as the commander of the forbidden army, the emperor did not let him hold any important positions in the imperial court.

Originally, he brought down Sima Miao in order to compete for the position of commander of the forbidden army, but now that he has got his wish, it stands to reason that he should be satisfied. But compared with Wei Yi, he was psychologically unbalanced again, thinking that the royal father of Runan was obviously pulled down by him, how could the credit go to Old Man Wei?

For this reason, he complained to me many times that he despised Bowei for "picking up ready-made cheap" and robbing him of the fruits of victory.