As I looked at the jade shavings, Xiong Bingmao glanced at Xiong Bin fiercely, knelt on the ground and bowed his head: "The old minister has heard the servant explain in detail the ins and outs of today's events. Emperor Chang Ji is at ease, but her clothes are simple, and the dog has eyes that don't know Mount Tai, and she doesn't know Emperor Chang, so she repeatedly offended Emperor Chang Ji. It's just that the dog is ignorant, and in the end it is an unintentional mistake. The eldest emperor is tolerant, please understand. ”

It is worthy of being a royal historian who can compete with Zongzheng Gengfu. Xiong Bingmao took all the mistakes one by one, and did not deny it, but did not mention the words "disrespectful to the royal family". If he also admits it in person, he will not be able to save Xiong Bin again. But if you only pull with me, it is only about the belly of me, the eldest emperor.

In his heart, he was secretly praising Xiong Bingmao's methods, and he had blatantly handed Xiong Bin a suggestive look, and asked sharply: "Rebel!" Why did you come to Hanshan Temple today and cause an incident?! ”

This remark is obvious, Xiong Bin immediately understands it, and shouts wronged: "In the final analysis, this matter is not the fault of the child!" It's all in this Hanshan Temple that signed a text and cursed the child, and the child was angry enough to come to the Hanshan Temple to find the abbot's theory! ”

Is this the only cause? Xu also heard that Xiong Gongzi once wanted to marry the Xinyi girl in Hanshan Temple. I wonder if there is such a thing? ”

After exchanging salutes with Xiong Bingmao, he fell silent, and Zong Zhengxu finally spoke. Xiong Bin was speechless for a moment, and Fang forced himself to speak calmly in Xiong Bingmao's gaze: "Xiong Bin has never done such a thing. Where did Da Honglu hear the rumors, so he said...... Is there a basis for this? ”

He exclaimed: "Who can prove what Da Honglu said? ”

Xin Yi wanted to speak and stopped, the abbot lowered his eyebrows, and if I spoke for Xin Yi, I would sit on the theory that the relationship between the government and Hanshan Temple was not right. Xiong Bingmao's piles are indeed clearly calculated.

At my suggestion, Xiong Bin got up and glanced at Zong Zhengxu and the abbot triumphantly. Xiong Bingmao leaned over again, and wanted to speak, but I slowly intercepted his words first: "The spirit sign that Xiong Gongzi asked for, the content of it is not lost word by word, and I have already read it." I don't know when Xiong Gongzi asked for it from Hanshan Temple? ”

I thought that I mentioned the spirit sign to confront Fang Cai Xiong Bin's own self-control, but unexpectedly, I was pushing a boat down the steps for him. Xiong Bin breathed a sigh of relief, and didn't see Xiong Bingmao's warning eyes: "It was about ten days ago." ”

"Ten days ago......," I muttered, "the time for the return of this emperor to Ning is also ten days ago." Ben Di Ji still remembers that on the day of the banquet, Dr. Xiong attended with Xiong Gongzi. The banquet of the day began in the morning and ended in the evening, I don't know when Xiong Gongzi came to Hanshan Temple to ask for a signature? ”

Panicked but speechless, Xiong Bin reluctantly explained for a moment: "Yes, I remembered the wrong day......

"Then Mr. Xiong should always remember clearly which master led Mr. Xiong to ask for a signature?" I didn't care, and asked again before he could finish his defense. Xiong Bin looked left and right, and raised his hand to point directly at the abbot: "It's the abbot of Hanshan Temple!" At that time, he, he deliberately led me to ask for a signature, and it was clear that he had already put this curse spirit sign and forced me into a trap! Emperor Chang ......"

"Rebel! Let's not say a word......"

"I see." Xiong Bingmao opened his mouth to stop Xiong Bin, and I immediately grabbed the words: "What can the abbot say to defend himself?" ”

Proper salute, the abbot is not slow: "What Xiong Gongzi said ten days ago is the day when the eldest emperor returns to Ningning. The monks of the temple prayed for the elder emperor in the temple, and did not receive pilgrims all day. As for what Xiong Gongzi said, the signature was given by the old man, and the old man didn't dare to admit it. He had been living in the meditation room since ten days ago, and he had come to this day. Wangchang Emperor Ji, Imperial Doctor, Da Honglu Mingjian. ”

"That's ...... That's ...... me."

"Mr. Xiong is going to say that he has a bad memory again?" Zong Zhengxu stepped forward slowly, and I silently handed him the spirit sign, and he carefully studied it for a moment: "The confusion of time is due to the fact that there are several days apart, which is understandable. But according to what Xiong Gongzi said, since the person who asked for the signature for Xiong Gongzi had ill intentions, he should not remember this candidate. And this spiritual lot...... It's always a little strange to look at it. ”

"What's wrong?" The full hall seems to have become a stage for me and Zong Zhengxu, and the ending and direction of the story are all in my hands. Xiong Bingmao's face was pale and gray, I just didn't realize it, and listened to Zong Zhengxu's head and said: "This spirit sign is of excellent quality, and it is indeed from the temple." It's just whether it's the signature of Hanshan Temple......"

Zong Zhengxu raised the spiritual sign to the end of his nose and sniffed lightly, and smiled lightly: "Each temple in the canal has different spiritual signs, and they will smoke different aromas on the spiritual sticks and mark them. Although this spiritual sign has the mark of Hanshan Temple, incense is burned on it...... But it is not the magnolia incense of Hanshan Temple, but the peony incense of Dalongxing Temple. ”

"Dalongxing Temple?" This conclusion was unexpected, but looking at the beads of sweat that appeared on Xiong Bin's forehead, I knew that what Zong Zhengxu said was true.

After exchanging glances with Zong Zhengxu, I raised my voice: "Since it involves the National Temple, this matter is not only about the grievances between Emperor Ben, Hanshan Temple and Xiong Gongzi. Today they are gone. Tomorrow in the court, please ask the imperial doctor and the great Honglu on behalf of the emperor to explain the matter to his father, and ask his father to make a decision. So," I looked at Xiong Bin, who was in a trance: "Does Xiong Gongzi have any objections?" ”

After waiting for a long time and he didn't answer, I smiled faintly, turned to say goodbye to the abbot, and winked at Xin Yi. She was slightly stunned, and soon covered her mouth and laughed silently, secretly making a gesture of admiration.

Facing the crowd of kneeling down the stone steps of the long mountain gate, I don't know who got up and shouted with gratitude, "Congratulations to the eldest emperor". Then it seemed to be all over the mountains, and the six words began to echo one after another. I know that with Xiong Bin's character, relying on the power of his family over the years is bound to be a bully, and most of the people are afraid that most of them will suffer because of Xiong Bingmao's official position. This time, I came for Hanshan Temple and Xinyi, but I pushed the boat down the river, once and for all, and also eliminated the harm for the people of Xinqu.

The next morning, Zong Zhengxu made a detailed statement of Xiong Bin's actions, Xiong Bingmao indulged in words, and it was difficult to say much because of his identity. Meng Deng ordered the imperial history of the Taizhong of the imperial history, supervising the imperial history to investigate the matter thoroughly, and within two days the monks in the Dalongxing Temple confessed, the spiritual sign was the imitation of the Hanshan Temple in the Dalongxing Temple, Xiong Bin was in a hurry, so he only had time to replace the Hanshan Temple imprint, but the original Dalongxing Temple's signature incense was difficult to eliminate for a while. The Dalongxing Temple has long been secretly linked with Xiong Bingmao, and half of the annual incense money goes into Xiong Bingmao's pocket, and the Dalongxing Temple relies on Xiong Bingmao's protection to forcibly ask for money from pilgrims and civilians in the name of repairing the temple.

As soon as this incident came out, the whole country was in an uproar overnight. Thinking about it, Meng Deng was not completely unaware of Xiong Bingmao's actions, but he needed to keep him in the court to contain Zongzheng Gengfu, so he had let it go all these years. But since this matter is revealed to the world, in order to give a reasonable explanation to the people, it is also necessary to remove Xiong Bingmao.

Five days later, Meng Deng dismissed the honor of the national temple of Dalongxing Temple, punished the abbot and the chief monk in the temple, and confiscated most of the treasures in the temple. Xiong Bingmao was dismissed from his post and beheaded at noon the next day. Because of his lack of merit and hard work, Xiong Bin was specially exempted from his death, and the whole Xiong family was demoted to a concubine, sent to the border of the night, and was not allowed to enter the ditch for the rest of his life. The people of Xiqu ran to tell each other, and they all felt very happy, and I and Zhen Sheng took advantage of the gap to go to Hanshan Temple again, and after compensating the abbot, they played freely with Xin Yi. After another five days, Hanshan Temple was revered as the Pan Night Country Temple.

At first, I was worried that the abbot was unhappy, after all, he was a quiet person, and he didn't care whether the incense was prosperous or not. However, Zong Zhengxu comforted and said that if you want to make Hanshan Temple free from such worries as that day, it is a long-term strategy to establish a national temple. Later, seeing that the abbot did not make any waves, I was relieved of my worries.

When I got up this morning, I had breakfast with Zong Zhengxu, and when he went out, I saw Zong Zhenggeng standing on the other side of the courtyard, looking at me. Seeing him look straight at me, he nodded slightly without a trace, and walked away, I retracted my gaze and told Zhen Sheng to fetch a plate of sweets.

When Zhen Sheng walked away, I got up and went to the courtyard, walked in front of Zongzheng Gengfu's house, saw the door open slightly, and turned my mind to the study. But it was Ji Die, who was standing outside the study with his hands in his hands, and was a little surprised to see me finding, and quickly suppressed his emotions: "Meet the eldest emperor." ”

"The prime minister is here? Lingzhou came to the appointment. Seeing that he was interested in letting go to the side, I spoke quietly through the door, and only after a moment did I reply: "How did the old minister invite Emperor Lingzhou?" It's probably because Emperor Zhou remembers it wrongly. ”

With a shallow smile and lowered his eyes, I knew that Zong Zheng Gengfu could see my every move: "If the prime minister has not met, Ling Zhou will come uninvited at this moment." In this way, if the prime minister did not give orders, Ling Zhou retreated. ”

Saying this without moving, I listened to the movement in the room with bated breath, Zong Zheng Gengfu stopped in front of the door and did not open the door: "Emperor Zhou Ji sees through the wisdom of people's hearts, and the old minister really worships." After a pause, Zong Zheng Gengfu said slowly: "After a few days, the old minister and Emperor Ling Zhou said words of gratitude, and I hope that Emperor Ling Zhou will not be blamed."

"Ling Zhou is also doing it for himself, and the prime minister doesn't need to be polite." I still looked at it, knowing that he would not be looking for me because of this word of thanks. Sure enough, Zong Zheng Gengfu opened his mouth for a moment: "Emperor Ling Zhou can think about it, how should he do things that should be combined with the outside after Lianghong?" ”

"Ling Zhou is ashamed, the plan has been formed, and he is powerless to do it himself." Answering softly, I pursed my lips: "Lianghong is strong, if you want to overturn, you always need to disintegrate from the inside to get twice the result with half the effort." Although the embankment of thousands of miles was destroyed in the anthill, if only the people of Lianghong West Wilderness acted on the matter, it would be harmless to fear that the grasshopper would shake the tree. Therefore, only since Emperor Lianghong's capital finally started to Shu, can there be a fatal blow. ”

"Not bad." The figure is graceful, and you can see him bowing his head slightly. Zong Zheng Gengfu Shen said: "The first thing that should be solved is the Wang clan of Zhongshu. In the front and back harem, you know what their people are. And after that? ”

"After that?" I was puzzled, the door in front of me was open, and when I raised my eyes, I saw Zong Zheng Gengfu's gaze.

"A hundred-legged insect is dead but not stiff. Although Wang Ren is crucial to Lianghong, he is by no means fatal. Unless forced or there are other candidates, Emperor Lianghong will never abandon and belittle the Wang family. ”

Quickly raised his eyes and looked away, Zong Zhenggeng hesitated at the bottom of his eyes, and couldn't see it really: "The concubines and courtiers are connected in one vein." After overthrowing the Wang family, Emperor Ling Zhou thought that who else was left in the harem of Zhongshu? ”