On the seventh day of the sixth month of the sixth year of Guanghe, news came from the palace that the emperor was very unhappy with what had happened in the past few days, so the thunder was furious.

He called Yang Ci, Zheng Xuan, Lu Zhi and others to the palace, and scolded them angrily, scolded them bitterly, angrily scolded them for not taking their lives seriously, not only did they not investigate the truth, but they actually engaged in party strife at this serious moment!

Are those people outside thinking about his life?

What the hell are you doing?

Are you doing what you need to do for the sake of the Great Han Emperor?

I've been stabbed!

"What is the Son of Heaven in the eyes of you? The life of the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty is so despicable? Is it not as good as your classic heritage? ”

Liu Hong pointed at the bigwigs of the ancient and ancient literary factions with a sad and indignant face, took a breath after their Zuan output, and made an appointment in front of them.

"You don't care about my life, okay, I'll find it myself! It seems that the life of the Son of Heaven is still in his own hands! You're all courtiers! Shechen! ”

Yang Ci and Zheng Xuan were also quite speechless in the face of the emperor's monstrous anger, and they also felt a little stunned and helpless in their hearts.

But at this time, they could not defend themselves in any case, and could only make pale and feeble defenses.

It makes no sense.

Who would have thought that the situation would develop so quickly, and that it would go from the assassination of the emperor to another struggle between the ancient literary schools?

All this madness has directly deviated from the focus of the problem, and even the emperor's life is not important.

It was bustling outside, and the emperor was furious, and then handed over the full responsibility of investigating the matter to Zhang Rang.

Liu Hong ordered Zhang Rang to set up an investigation team to conduct a thorough investigation of the matter, and also gave Zhang Rang a major authorization, that is, he could directly set up a special prison without going through the relationship between the three aspects of Yushi Zhongcheng, Tingwei, and Sili Xiaowei, and investigate the matter independently of the original judicial organs.

Highlight a special event.

As soon as this appointment was made, Yang Ci and Zheng Xuan, the bigwigs of the modern literature school and the ancient literature school, were all inexplicably surprised.

The Han Dynasty has relatively complete judicial organs and judicial processes, and there is a fixed process for investigating the crimes of central officials, local officials, and civil and criminal crimes.

What position holds what power, this is a very important political principle, and it is not allowed to undermine these principles when you are idle, otherwise the political structure of the entire dynasty will be in trouble.

Therefore, what the court officials are afraid of is that the emperor has inexplicably come up with some strange institutions to encroach on the power of normal official positions, and what the court officials are most afraid of is that the power that has been usurped will not be returned.

I think that the three princes were all official positions with real power, and each of them was a high-powered national tycoon, and the emperor had to give three points of courtesy when he saw it, and they saluted the emperor, and the emperor wanted to return the courtesy.

But now?

A Shangshutai, a group of officials below a thousand stones, seized all the important powers of the three dukes, the position is high but no real power, the position is humble but powerful, and it is more convenient for the emperor to point fingers and make arbitrary decisions.

The high-ranking officials and dignitaries of the Han Dynasty felt inexplicably awkward and unhappy about this.

However, Shang Shutai only controlled the administrative power, not the judicial side, and now, the emperor's intention is obviously to set up another agency to encroach on the judicial power.

That's serious.

It is not a problem to have a chamberlain eunuch lead a team to investigate this matter, but the problem is that a separate special prison is set up and independent of the original judicial organs to deal with this matter, which is a clear seizure of power from the regular officials of the imperial court.

This is an apolitical act, so officials with regular establishments instinctively want to oppose it.

But the way of opposition is slightly different.

For example, Yang Ci, the captain who seemed to have become a demon of the anti-ancient literature school, immediately poured dirty water on the ancient literature school.

"Your Majesty, the old minister already has an eyebrow on this matter, this matter must be inseparable from Lu Zhi and Liu Bei, and there is a greater conspiracy behind it, please also ask Your Majesty to immediately order Captain Si Li to investigate this matter, as long as it is investigated, it will definitely come to light, and there is no need to fake the hands of others!"

Lu Zhi was dumbfounded when he heard it on the side, he never thought that at this time, Yang Ci would still want to mess with him, and suddenly there was a nameless fire.

"Your Majesty! The minister's loyalty to His Majesty can be seen every day! Yang Taiwei falsely accused Yu Chen without evidence, and the minister couldn't accept it anyway! The minister asked to confront Yang Taiwei in court to prove his innocence! ”

Zheng Xuan also helped Lu Zhi on the side to help Lu Zhi get rid of his crimes.

"Your Majesty, on the day of the incident, Lu Shangshu has been working in Shangshutai for more than ten consecutive days, and he himself has not left Shangshutai for nearly half a month, and he has been handling official business in Shangshutai day and night, where did he get the time to plan such a despicable thing? Please also ask Your Majesty to take a clear look! ”

After the three bigwigs finished speaking, a series of officials from the ancient literature school and the modern literature school also expressed their opinions, giving full play to the power of conspiracy theories, and Liu Hong, who listened to it, was dumbfounded.

However, Liu Hong still reacted.

This is not the time to listen to their dog-eat-dog conspiracy theories, but the time to use the thunderous anger to completely implement Dongyuan.

As long as Dongyuan is implemented, part of the judicial power will be in hand, and at that time, these old guys don't care, aren't their "monkey monkey grandchildren" still letting him Liu Hong rub and rub round?

So Liu Hong settled down, picked up a pottery bowl that he had just used to drink sugar water from his hand, which was not very valuable, and slammed it to the ground, smashing the pottery bowl to pieces, and completely ending the collective performance of these conspirators.

"Enough! You're not even caring about my life! All your hearts are set on your own glory and riches! 400 years of Han monks! I actually raised these things like you! Is the life of a monarch worthless in your eyes? ”

Liu Hong's acting skills are not so good to be honest, but if he covers it up with anger, it can be regarded as passable, so a group of old conspirators had to bow down and apologize in order to calm Liu Hong's thunderous anger.

What are you kidding, to calm your anger?

When I am angry, will you still obediently give up power?

"I see! You don't care if I live or die, so I'll find out for myself! I'll be sure to check it out! No one will be spared! But if anyone I find out to be involved in this matter, I will make him regret it!" ”

Taking advantage of the "monstrous anger", Liu Hong once again ordered Zhang Rang to take full charge of the investigation team, and also set up a special prison for this purpose, which could directly arrest people and put them in prison to carry out investigations.

Imperial History, Tingwei and Sili Lieutenant are not allowed to interfere, and they must not be involved, and the investigation team that encounters Zhang Rang needs to retreat, and if there is any interference, the crime is complicity.

The Eastern Han Dynasty has come to this day, and the unspoken rules of these two monarchs have been played very slippery, but despite this, rebellion is also the last criterion that cannot be avoided.

No matter who it is, once it comes to rebellion, even if it is the relationship between father and son, you must weigh the pros and cons of hiding this matter for him.

Nowadays, whether it is the ancient literature school or the modern literature school, everyone is very reluctant to accept the results of the eunuch Zhang Rang's investigation team to investigate this matter, but they have no way to object.

Because this involves the life of the emperor himself, and the safety of the emperor himself, if those bold bastards are not found, the emperor will not be able to sleep and eat, and there will be no peace in the sun.

This supreme righteousness is something they cannot refute.

They missed the best opportunity to investigate, and wasted their time on meaningless party battles, so that at this moment they had to and could only watch the eunuchs put on the big hat of imperial power and march on the power of justice.

(End of chapter)