Dasheng, the Imperial Palace, the Imperial Study.

Meng Tianjue sat behind the bookcase, looking at the folds in front of him, his face was already gloomy.

Dasheng's army was defeated by the Meng army in Shangyong City, the main general Cao Xun was captured, and Chu Pingchuan retreated to Fufeng City and angrily beheaded the prison army Rongkui.

"Bang!"

He slammed it on the table, then raised his hand and threw the fold in the face of a man who was standing in front of his desk.

The man was dressed in a dark red official uniform, with a slender figure, a black beard, and deep-set cheeks, looking overindulgent. It was Dasheng who was the prime minister of the dynasty, Rong Huaizhong.

"Rong Huaizhong, look at the good things your son has done!"

With a "bang", Rong Huaizhong was frightened, fell to his knees on the ground, and said in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty, there must be a secret in this." As a prison soldier, every thing he does in Zhengyang Pass is like walking on thin ice, and with the emperor's order, how can he do such a rebellious thing. According to Weichen, this must be Chu Pingchuan who put all the blame on the dog in order to cover up his mistakes. The poor dog died at his hands like this, and now there is no proof of death......

After speaking, he also raised his sleeve and pretended to wipe the corner of his eye. lost his son in old age, no matter how out of shape Rong Huaizhong is, it seems to be a matter of course.

"Are you saying that Chu Pingchuan killed your son in order to shirk the responsibility for the defeat?" Meng Tianjue glared at Rong Huaizhong coldly, and said word by word.

"Chu Pingchuan is the commander of the three armies, and he must be to blame for the defeat in the battle. But now that the dog is dead and General Cao has been captured, what is the real situation of the battle of Shangyong City, I can only listen to him alone. Rong Huaizhong was indignant.

"Is Chu Pingchuan such a person?" Meng Tianjue's gloomy eyes were dark and inexplicable, and his tone was still cold. But Rong Huaizhong knew that his opportunity had come.

"The emperor Mingjian, as a prison soldier, is equivalent to the emperor's eyes and ears, but Chu Pingchuan didn't even ask for instructions, so he killed him with one sword. Wechen has also heard that Chu Pingchuan has always complained to the emperor about your position as a supervisor in the army, although it is not a pity for the dog to die, but Chu Pingchuan's move is really disrespectful! Rong Huaizhong's crying is called a sincere and loyal one.

Wiping away his tears, he took the opportunity to peek at Meng Tianjue's increasingly blue face, he knew that he had caught Meng Tianjue's weakness, so he continued: "It's good now, General Cao has been captured, the dog has been killed again, everything in Fufeng City, as well as the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses stationed at the border of Zhengyang Pass, will be decided by Chu Pingchuan." ”

In fact, Rong Huaizhong was originally just a five-grade Beijing official, and he didn't have any great achievements, and he couldn't say that he had any outstanding talent, but he was clever and good at observing words and feelings, and he could be regarded as a source of left and right in the officialdom. His daughter was originally Meng Tianjue's side concubine, and after Meng Tianjue ascended the throne, she was named a concubine. Therefore, the Rong family has always been a member of Meng Tianjue's party.

In Meng Tianjue's view, although the Rong family is not a prominent family, it is better to be loyal to himself, and such a small family is easier to be pinched in the palm of his hand. The queen's mother, the Lu family, is a big family, but what's the use, the family is too powerful, he can't control it, that's really dangerous. For example, Lu Hengshan, the first assistant, he is indeed very loyal, but Meng Tianjue knows that he is loyal to Dasheng, not to him Meng Tianjue.

In fact, at the time of Emperor Mingde, the imperial court did not have a prime minister, only the first assistant. However, since Meng Tianjue succeeded to the throne, he was extremely jealous of Lu Hengshan, the first assistant who was in charge of the cabinet and held great power, so he added the post of prime minister to compete with the first assistant. Rong Huaizhong thus became the first prime minister of the Dasheng Dynasty.

In Meng Tianjue's opinion, Rong Huaizhong was single-handedly pulled out by himself, so he would naturally only be loyal to him. He named the daughter of the Rong family as a concubine, and promoted Rong Huaizhong to the prime minister, in order to suppress the Lu family. In his opinion, the Lu family's power was already too big to exceed his control.

Rong Huaizhong's eyes lit up, with the help of his daughter, he had already figured out Meng Tianjue's thoughts, so every one of his words touched Meng Tianjue's heart.

After Meng Tianjue succeeded to the throne, the most taboo thing for the generals who held the military power was that the generals were outside, and the king's orders were not subject to it, so he had always looked closely at the border guards, not to mention that Chu Pingchuan had been guarding the border for many years, holding nearly a quarter of Dasheng's military power, and his prestige in the army was very high, so he had to guard against it.

Xuanwangfu supported the army and respected himself, and finally the bitter lesson of treason, he didn't want to eat it a second time.

"Okay, you Chu Pingchuan, it's really ill-intentioned!" Meng Tianyu wanted to find an excuse to deal with Chu Pingchuan, but with Rong Huaizhong's clever words, he happened to go down the steps and took this opportunity to dismiss Chu Pingchuan's military power.

Rong Huaizhong looked at Meng Tianjue's expression, and he already knew what he should do.

Rong Kui is not his only son, nor is he his favorite son, and now he can use Rong Kui's life to bring down Chu Pingchuan, in Rong Huaizhong's opinion, it is really a particularly worthy thing. Thinking that Chu Pingchuan was destined to be bleak in the future, he couldn't help but want to look up to the sky and smile.

If you want to talk about the grievances between him and Chu Pingchuan, it is really long.

Thinking back then, he was also a handsome man with a personable demeanor, the Rong family and the Jiang family were world friends, he grew up with Miss Jiang Rubi's childhood sweetheart since he was a child, and he had already regarded the beautiful and graceful Miss Jiang as his future wife.

That year, Miss Jiang was twenty-eight years old, and there was an endless stream of people who came to seek relatives, which simply broke the threshold of the Jiang family. He was anxious in his heart, and he was planning to show his elders, intending to come to the door to propose to the Jiang family. But who knew that at that Hundred Flowers Festival, Miss Jiang happened to meet Chu Pingchuan, a young general who had returned to the dynasty, and that Ying was quite masculine and high-spirited, and her high-spirited appearance immediately attracted her attention, and she fell in love with him since then. And Chu Pingchuan also fell in love at first sight with the beautiful, gentle, knowledgeable and courteous Miss Jiang family. So, before he had time to express his intentions, Jiang Rubi and Chu Pingchuan had already made a lifelong agreement with each other.

He still remembers very vividly how bitter the cup of wine he drank at the wedding banquet between the two of them. Therefore, in Rong Huaizhong's subconscious, he had already regarded Chu Pingchuan as a rival in love who snatched away his future wife. It's just a pity that since then, his career has not improved, but Chu Pingchuan, a young general, has been prosperous all the way, and he has become a general in the west, and he is famous all over the world.

But now, Chu Pingchuan's good days are finally coming to an end. Rong Huaizhong thought viciously, and his heart was extremely refreshing. That night, he hugged his bewitching concubine and slept very sweetly and soundly.

In the early morning of the next day, Rong Huaizhong proposed to play a petition to impeach the general Chu Pingchuan of the expedition to the west, who was unable to command the troops and lead the troops, and fought with the northwest Mengjia army in Shangyong City, and lost the first battle, resulting in the capture of the main general, Dasheng lost face and committed the crime of dereliction of duty. Later, in order to cover up his dereliction of duty, he even beheaded the prison army, in order to block the mouths of the people, without a king, the means were cruel, outrageous, and his crime should be punished!

Fortunately, Chu Pingchuan was not present, if he heard Rong Huaizhong's remarks that reversed black and white, he would probably be so angry that he vomited blood on the spot, at least the first assistant Lu Hengshan would be very angry. Several officials led by him came out one after another to excuse Chu Pingchuan and argue on the basis of reason. The prime minister's party led by Rong Huaizhong spared no effort to crusade and smear Chu Pingchuan, and the hall suddenly quarreled.

Meng Tianjue sat quietly on the dragon chair, coldly looking at the noise below, as if he was out of the way. Lu Hengshan was so bright-eyed, he finally knew why Rong Huaizhong was so arrogant today, it turned out that the person who supported him was the emperor.

"Your Majesty, now the surrounding countries are eyeing my Dasheng, the border is not very peaceful, there is a country in the east of Dongyue, it is said that the name of the founder is Yin Shuo, claiming to be a descendant of the royal family of the Yin family in the previous dynasty, and it is clearly aimed at my Dasheng. Your Majesty, the talent of a general is indispensable! Lu Hengshan stepped forward and turned to plead with Meng Tianjue.

"Could it be that my Dasheng is only a general, Chu Pingchuan?" Rong Huaizhong refuted coldly: "If you let someone like Chu Pingchuan continue to serve as the commander in the army, isn't Lord Lu afraid that he will become another tiger and wolf in my Dasheng Dynasty?" ”

"You ......" Lu Hengshan glared angrily at Rong Huaizhong, who pointed to the deer as a horse, and was so angry that he couldn't speak for a while. Since taking the position of first assistant, he has been conscientious and conscientious, never daring to slack off in the slightest, and is willing to die for Dasheng. He is upright, loyal, and has always looked down on people who are clever and sloppy, but the Rong Huaizhong in front of him has repeatedly challenged his bottom line, so that he really has the heart to strangle him.

Just when Lu Hengshan and Rong Huaizhong were not giving in to each other, Meng Tianjue, who was sitting high on the dragon chair, spoke.

"I think Prime Minister Rong's words...... It makes sense. ”

Such a fluttering sentence seemed to have decided Chu Pingchuan's fate.

"The emperor is wise!" This is the chant of the Prime Minister's party.

"The emperor thinks twice!" This is the plea of the naysayers.

Only Lu Hengshan's heart sank. He knew that the establishment of a prime minister and a prison army were both preludes to the emperor's intention to suppress the former emperor's ministers. Now, with the help of the battle of Shangyongcheng, the emperor is finally going to make a move, and he plans to take Chu Pingchuan to set an example.

The so-called once a son of heaven and a courtier, they, the former ministers of the previous emperor, are afraid that they will inevitably withdraw from this stage.

Lu Hengshan closed his eyes, and the corners of his eyes were faintly moist. After a moment of silence, he stepped forward tremblingly, crouched down at the foot of the high steps, and bowed deeply to Meng Tianjue. "Your Majesty, old minister...... Death! ”

Before he could finish speaking, he had already hurried to the side, his forehead slamming against the beautiful pillars.

With a "bang", I saw blood dripping down Lu Hengshan's forehead, which was shocking, and then his body fell to the ground softly.

"Father!" There was a heart-rending cry from the temple. It was the voice of Lu Ziqing, the secretary of the Criminal Department.

"Lord Lu!" Everyone exclaimed in unison, and there was chaos in the Jinluan Palace.