Chapter 61: The Palace Confronts Each Other
This story is pure fiction
At this time, in the imperial study of the palace, Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Yuwen Yong, was discussing with the crown prince Yu Wenyun what had happened recently, and Yuwen Yong asked the prince: "Has there been any movement in the Qi Yang Palace?" ”
The crown prince replied: "Father, there is no movement in the Qi Yang Palace, just as usual. That day, the assassin ran out of Qi Yang Palace, and the people in Qi Yang Palace's Mansion seemed to be fine. "The people of Qi Yang's palace, seeing that King Qi Yang has not returned to the mansion yet, the assassins have all fled, and the officers and soldiers have also withdrawn, seeing that the emperor is not to blame, they thought that it was okay, and they still returned to their normal life in the past, and they didn't take it seriously. It's just that the crown prince changed a little in the tone of what he said, and he changed the original idea of Qi Yang's palace in Yu Wenyong's heart.
"It's not a big deal when such a big thing happens, I don't know if it's because they are relieved, or if they don't take me seriously." Yu Wenyong suppressed the anger in his heart. In fact, Yuwen Yong and Yu Wenxian grew up together, when Yu Wenyong eradicated Yu Wenhu, Yu Wenxian played a key role, but with the greed of imperial power, and when it comes to the future of the prince, in Yu Wenyong's view, the prince Yu Wenyun is not the best successor, but there is no more suitable candidate, and he doesn't want to pass the throne to this brother who accompanies him all the way to life and death. So the two brothers slowly became estranged, originally Yu Wenxian took a back seat because of illness, but someone reported to him, saying that Yang Jian let the monks go privately, and the brothers were not separated by anything, but they couldn't let others threaten the imperial power of their Yuwen family, so they personally went to arrest these monks who fled into the mountains, so that Yang Jian would never have the opportunity to turn over.
"No, that's a big experience." Yu Wenyun followed Yu Wenyong's words and said, anyway, he will not face King Qi Yang, although he is his imperial uncle, but it also threatens him to ascend the throne in the future.
Yu Wenyong didn't want to mention Yu Wenxian at this time, so he asked Yu Wenyun: "How is the situation on Yang Jian's side?" Is there any change in the situation? "Yu Wenyong's suspicion of Yang Jian will not relax, but he is not as suspicious as before, it is inevitable that he is still the prince's father-in-law, and Yang Jian is still a useful person.
Yu Wenyun said: "There is no movement, looking at the arrests all over the city in the past two days, Yang Jian is so frightened that he doesn't dare to come out of the house." Yu Wenyun thought that Yang Jian was frightened.
Yuwen Yong laughed and said, "I didn't expect that Yang Jian was such a fearful person, and he used to look up to him." Yu Wenyong really thought that Yang Jian was a person who was afraid of things, and he felt that Yu Wenxian wanted to impeach Yang Jian in order to eradicate the prince's wings.
"Emperor Qiqi, according to the Xianyang envoy Jiejie, said that there were several people in Wugong County, Yongxian County and Anwu County who claimed to be King Qi Yang, burned the city gate tower, and said that they ran to Pingliang City, but Xianyang's envoy searched Pingliang for a long time, but no one was found." Yu Wenyun told Yu Wenyong about Qiao'er and Youtian leading away the envoys.
"And this kind of thing, how is this the same as the assassins in the palace, they are all wearing Yaksha masks, is it the same person? What does he Yu Wenxian want to do? Yu Wenyong began to doubt Yu Wenxian's intentions.
At this moment, I heard the eunuch report that King Qi Yang asked to see him, it was really Cao Cao, Cao Cao arrived, and Yuwen Yong announced that King Qi Yang had come to see him.
King Qi Yang entered the imperial study with a puff of dust, and as soon as he entered the imperial study, King Qi Yang knelt down, and then lay on the ground and said to Yu Wenyong: "Your Majesty, the five monks escorted by Weichen were robbed on the way. ”
"What do you say? Who dares to be so bold and dare to rob the court? Yu Wenyong slapped the royal case and yelled loudly, forgetting to let this brother who helped you get up.
Yu Wenxian continued to lie on the ground and said: "Wechen doesn't know who kidnapped these monks, Wechen suspects that Yang Jian did it. Yu Wenxian didn't suspect what Yang Jian did, what he thought in his heart must be what Yang Jian did, but before there was no evidence, he couldn't be sure of Yang Jian in front of the emperor.
"Oh...... did you see Yang Jian personally robbing those monks?" Yu Wenyong was discussing this matter with the prince just now, but he didn't expect Yu Wenxian to come back, and Yang Jian has been being watched by him and the prince. And it is impossible for Yang Jian to know about Yu Wenxian's capture of the monk, this is done secretly by Yu Wenxian, except for the emperor himself, that is, only Yu Wenxian and Yu Wenxian's subordinates who were arrested together know. As soon as he came, he suspected Yang Jian's head, which didn't make sense, Yu Wenyong thought to himself.
"No, I was ambushed by a group of people with strong martial arts in a valley and robbed people." Yu Wenxian hurriedly explained.
"Okay, it looks like I'm going to call General Yang to ask." Yu Wenyong felt that Yang Jian should be called to confront him at this time, and then said to Gonggong Jia, who was standing aside: "Come on, Xuan Yang Jian enters the palace." ”
"Whoa!" Father-in-law Jia received the order on the side and went out to announce that Yang Jian had entered the palace to face the saint.
Yu Wenyong didn't speak, let Yu Wenxian lie there, and didn't let him get up. He is angry in his heart, he has been a brother for so many years, and he still comes out like this with himself. In fact, before the change, Yu Wenyong would never have any doubts about Qi Yang Wang Yu Wenxian, but as he got older, the more credit Yu Wenxian had, the more jealous Yu Wenyong became. What he is worried about is not his own throne, but the throne of the crown prince, and he is afraid that there will be another Yuwen Go.
About half an hour later, Yang Jian was hurriedly led by Gonggong Jia to the imperial study, and when he came in, he knelt down and shouted long live. While Yu Wenyong let Yang Jian get up, he also let Yu Wenxian get up by the way.
"Yang Aiqing, King Qi Yang said that you robbed his five prisoners, but is there such a thing?" Yu Wenyong provoked the incident first to see how the two of them reacted.
"Robbed five prisoners? What prisoners? Yang Jian said with a blanket on his face, then looked at the emperor, and then looked at King Qi Yang.
"You're still pretending to be garlic here, did you rob those five monks?" Yu Wenxian was already angry and said loudly to Yang Jian. Yu Wenxian was very embarrassed when he came back, and Yang Jian still didn't admit it, Yu Wenxian became angry in an instant.
"Monk? Didn't you say the prisoners? Is it a prisoner or a monk? King Qi Yang, please make it clear, I'm confused, I don't know what you're talking about. Yang Jian is still confused, he doesn't pretend to be confused now, I'm afraid he won't have a chance to pretend to be confused in the future.
"Yang Aiqing, King Qi Yang said that he escorted five monks back to Chang'an on the way back to Chang'an, and was robbed by you. Is there such a thing? Yu Wenyong looked at it in general, and then wrote very lightly.
After hearing this, Yang Jian quickly knelt down and said to Yu Wenyong: "Your Majesty, Weichen has been at home for the past few days and has not gone anywhere." Please ask the emperor to take a clear look. Then he lay on the ground and couldn't get up.
Yu Wenyong didn't care if Yang Jian couldn't get up, and said to Yu Wenxian: "King Qi Yang, Yang Aiqing said that he didn't rob him. Do you have any evidence to prove that it was Yang Aiqing who robbed it? "Yu Wenyong wants Yu Wenxian to come up with evidence, and he also wants Yu Wenxian to come up with evidence.
"The minister will not be able to produce evidence for a while, the emperor will treat me for a while, and the minister will definitely be able to come up with evidence." Yuwen Xian wilted, he really couldn't come up with evidence.
At this time, Yuwen Yong really didn't want to hurt his brothers, except for Zhao Wang Yuwen Zhi's rebellion, forcing Yu Wenyong to deal with Yu Wenzhi, for other brothers, Yu Wenyong really didn't have a ruthless hand. And in front of this is the brother who helped him deal with Yuwen Hu, the brother who grew up together, Yuwen Yong can't make this ruthless hand.
Yu Wenyong wanted to ease the atmosphere, so he said to Yu Wenxian: "King Qi Yang, you go back to the house to rest first, it's hard to travel all the way, rest for one night first, we are discussing the matter of robbing prisoners." "What Yu Wenyong thought in his heart was that he Yang Jian, me and the prince were under double surveillance, he really didn't leave the mansion, and the people in Yang Jian's mansion didn't leave the mansion. This robbery of monks must not have been done by Yang Jian, and it is pointless to confront him like this. It is better to let King Qi Yang go back to his house to understand the events of the past two days clearly, and it is better to conduct interrogation. Yu Wenyong also thought in his heart that King Qi Yang had prejudices against Yang Jian and wanted to put Yang Jian to death, but now Yang Jian can't die, Yang Jian must be the prince's father-in-law, and he can also assist the prince. If Yang Jian is dealt with, King Qi Yang's power will become bigger, and the throne of Tai will not be guaranteed in the future.
Yang Jian knew in his heart that he was silent there, and everything was waiting for the emperor's fate, and now Yang Jian couldn't advance in a hurry, couldn't retreat slowly, and could only watch the development of the situation.
Qi Yang and Wang Yu Wenxian knew that they would not be able to produce evidence for a while, and they would not be able to take Yang Jian. Since the emperor gave Yu Wenxian this step, Yu Wenxian went down the steps and said to the emperor: "Your Majesty is compassionate, the minister will go back to the house to rest first, sort things out, and then report to the emperor." ”
Yu Wenyong waved his hand at Yu Wenxian and said, "Go back to the house and rest." Yu Wenxian saw that the emperor had spoken, and then withdrew.
Yu Wenyong said to Yang Jian again: "Yang Aiqing, you can also go back to the house to rest, wait for King Qi Yang to sort it out, and then come to confront him." After Yang Jian listened, he didn't say anything anymore, and bowed to Yuwen Yong and retired.
When Yu Wenxian and Yang Jian left, Yu Wenyong said to the crown prince Yu Wenyun: "Are you sure that no one in Yang Jian's mansion has left the mansion in the past few days?" "In fact, there is no one in Yang Jian's mansion who has left the mansion, Yu Wenyong is very clear. He only tentatively asked the prince.
Yu Wenyun didn't know that his father was testing him, so he replied to Yu Wenyong: "Father, Yang Jian's mansion has been in and out for the past few days. The child keeps an eye on him day and night. ”
Yu Wenyong estimated that he was also tired, so he said to the prince Yu Wenyun: "You go down, I'm tired and want to take a rest." Yu Wenyun bowed and retired.
After Yu Wenyun left, Yu Wenyong asked Jia's father-in-law: "Has Cao Dehai come back?" ”
Father-in-law Jia replied: "I'm back, I'm listening to the announcement outside the hall." ”
"Then pass him into the temple." Yu Wenyong said a little weakly, maybe Yu Wenyong was scared by Qiao'er and them, and his body has not recovered.
"Xuan, Cao Dehai is here!" Gonggong Jia shouted from inside the hall to the outside of the hall.