Chapter 192: The sword is pointed at the prince
"Grandfather!!"
Emperor Tianqing and Wu Jinliang were all taken aback.
Feng Yuan hurriedly stepped forward to help him, touched his hand and snorted and said, "I fainted." ”
Emperor Tianqing's face darkened: "Pass on the imperial doctor!" ”
Cheng Guogong suddenly fainted, disrupting Emperor Tianqing's accountability, Feng Yuan carried the person to the side hall, and after the imperial doctor hurriedly came to diagnose him, he said that it was a fainting caused by anger and anger.
The imperial doctor trembled at Emperor Tianqing, whose face was full of frost: "Grandpa Guo is already old, he has never recovered from a serious illness before, and his body is still weak. ”
Emperor Tianqing looked inside through the screen, and remembered the sad and angry appearance of Chengguo Gong just now: "How is Chengguo Gong's body?" ”
The imperial doctor hesitated for a moment before saying: "Back to Your Majesty, Grandpa Guo has lost money inside, and his serious illness has injured the roots, and if he recuperates well, it will take more than half a year to recover, but if he comes like this twice, I'm afraid it will be ......."
He didn't say what he was afraid of, but Emperor Tianqing already understood.
It also dispelled the suspicion that Chengguo Gong was showing weakness.
Emperor Tianqing waved his hand and asked him to go to the needle for Chengguo Gong, and Haosheng treated him, and when he stood outside the screen, there was only one Feng Yuan by his side.
The third prince and the fourth prince were all left outside.
Emperor Tianqing looked at Feng Yuan with calm eyes: "Did you say that the fourth child did this thing?" ”
Feng Yuan was silent for a moment before saying, "It shouldn't be." ”
Emperor Tianqing looked at him.
Feng Yuan said in a low voice: "The matter of Yunxianglou is not secret, the third prince, the Duke of Chengguo, and even many people in the court know that it is very easy to do anything to blame the fourth prince, and just like the fourth prince said, even if he wants to use the son of the Peng family to make it difficult for the Duke of Chengguo, he will never use the same method." ”
Emperor Tianqing's face was cold: "Why didn't you say it before?" ”
Feng Yuan knelt down directly: "It's the slave's negligence, the slave got the news from the south today and was busy investigating Xue Chen's matter, and the matter of Yunxianglou was handed over to the people below to investigate, I am afraid that Your Majesty will be in a hurry, and the slave will be in a hurry to come back to Your Majesty when he gets the news, and I didn't think of it so much for a while." ”
"The matter of the Criminal Department is that the slaves are not thorough enough, and they have wronged the four princes, and I ask Your Majesty to punish them."
Feng Yuan admitted his mistake neatly, and did not shirk responsibility at all.
Emperor Tianqing was instantly changed by him: "Is there any news from Xue Chen?" ”
Feng Yuan replied: "I found out that Xue Chen had been in contact with Jingzhong before his disappearance. ”
"After the death of the rebel thief Yingyu, when the imperial court searched for the remnants, Zhaoyun Fourteen rode away and escaped, one of them also went to Jiangnan, and the people of Jinlinwei found that the person also appeared near Chengzhou."
"Chengzhou again?" Emperor Tianqing had frost on his face.
He naturally knew that Zhaoyun Fourteen Cavalry, and he also knew that it was the most elite and trusted person by Yingyun's side.
These fourteen people only obeyed Yingji's orders, and in addition to the ten loyal black-armored guards who followed Yingji's side on the surface, there were also four people hidden in the shadows, holding all the spies in Yingji's hands and the hidden power left by her years of operation, and those four escaped in the bloodbath.
Emperor Tianqing had expected that they would go to Xue Chen, or that the people left behind by Yinghui would not give up.
But all gathered in Jiangnan, and they were all in Chengzhou......
"Your Majesty, Chengguo Gong has woken up."
The voice of the little eunuch interrupted Emperor Tianqing's thoughts.
Emperor Tianqing temporarily put aside Xue Chen's matter and said to Feng Yuan: "Get up." ”
Feng Yuan shook his head: "The slave is not doing well, and his carelessness almost made His Majesty misunderstand the four princes, and the slave will go to the criminal department to receive a fine of twenty sticks as a warning." ”
Emperor Tianqing was originally a little suspicious of Feng Yuan, he had always been thoughtful, and it was impossible not to notice that the matter of the Criminal Department was that someone wanted to borrow a knife to kill someone, but he didn't mention it.
Emperor Tianqing has always been suspicious, and he was only suspicious for a moment before Feng Yuan asked for a punishment to dispel it: "I don't blame you, you are not perfect, how can you know everything......"
"But the slave is His Majesty's minion, and if he has His Majesty's trust, he should take care of everything, and today fortunately he has not wronged the four princes, if his majesty's wisdom is really damaged because of the fault of the minion, then the slave will die and will not be able to escape the blame."
Feng Yuan was stubborn, "These twenty sticks are what a slave deserves." ”
When Emperor Tianqing heard this, he dispelled even the slightest suspicion, and he said helplessly: "You slave, how can anyone beg to be punished by himself?" ”
Feng Yuan didn't speak.
Emperor Tianqing waved his hand: "Get up first, I still have something to ask Chengguo Gong." ”
He didn't say that he wouldn't let Feng Yuan receive the punishment, nor did he say that he would punish him.
Feng Yuan obediently got up and stood behind Emperor Tianqing with his head slightly bowed.
When the two entered the inner room, the imperial physician retreated very consciously after saluting, and a little eunuch stood guard outside the screen.
Cheng Guogong, who had fainted earlier, had woken up at this time, and his face was still pale when he lay on the couch.
Hearing the footsteps and turning his head to see Emperor Tianqing coming in, he hurriedly propped up on the edge of the couch and wanted to get up and salute, and Emperor Tianqing stepped forward a few steps to press back, and then he gave up.
"The Imperial Doctor said that your body is not well and you are angry and angry, what is the matter to say slowly, how can you get here?" Emperor Tianqing reprimanded.
Cheng Guogong was depressed when he heard this: "The old minister is afraid that he will continue to talk slowly, for fear that he will be calculated to death......"
"What nonsense!"
"The old minister has said nonsense, the old minister prides himself on being smart, but he doesn't want to be caged in an urn, if it weren't for His Majesty still thinking about a little bit of the love of the monarch and the minister, I'm afraid that the old minister is now dead and has no place to be buried."
Cheng Guogong was seriously ill and was not as healthy as before, and when he spoke quickly, he was a little wheezing, and he lost the strength and shrewdness in the court, and his face was full of wry smiles at this time.
"Your Majesty, the old minister knows about Meng Dehui, you are suspicious of the old minister, and you also feel that the old minister has the three princes in his heart but forgets His Majesty's grace, but if you think about it carefully, from the Cao Yun accident in March, to the corruption of the household department, the court has been turned upside down in a few months, and the old minister and the three princes have benefited at all?"
"Not to mention the three princes, even the four princes have had accidents one after another, the close ministers around Your Majesty have changed and changed, and even the courtiers have changed, as if someone is secretly playing with everything......"
Feng Yuan stood aside and lowered his eyes to see his face clearly.
However, Emperor Tianqing's expression was sluggish because of Cheng Guogong's words.
"What the hell are you trying to say?" Emperor Tianqing said coldly.
"Lao Chen wants to say that it all started when the people of the Shen family went to Jiangnan."
Cheng Guogong looked up at Emperor Tianqing, and said in a condensed voice at his sudden cold expression,
"Shen is the prince's companion, he went to Chengzhou for no reason, and inexplicably bumped into the Hu family, the Hu family has been lucky to smuggle salt for many years, how can he be caught by the tail so easily? All this seems to have someone who has already found out the details of the Hu family and is waiting for Shen to come to the door. ”
"A piece of luck, Xu Lizhen, who has a grudge against the Shen family, was treated coldly by His Majesty, and Zhan Changdong was promoted."
"A household department, the three princes and the four princes who have a grudge against the crown prince are all involved, but the East Palace is out of the matter."
"Meng Dehui was executed, the household department was implicated innumerable, His Majesty was disgusted with the two highnesses, and then the new election of the courtiers will not let them interfere, without the checks and balances of the three princes and the four princes, the prince is the sole ruler in the court."
"The new minister ascended the throne, and the power of the dynasty returned to the East Palace...... Can't Your Majesty really see who has benefited the most during this time? And His Majesty can know that the remnants of Yingyu have appeared in Chengzhou. ”
Chengguo Gong pointed at the crown prince.
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was personally taught by Yingji."
Emperor Tianqing's eyes darkened.
On the side, Feng Yuan crossed his hands in front of him, and when he heard "Ying's remnants", he looked up at Cheng Guogong, and the expression on his face was subtle for a moment.