Chapter 554: Late Night Firelight
On February 15, Shi Niang also heard everything that happened at the court meeting, and the reporter was not even He Zhan, but Xu Xiuneng: "Lin Yushi impeached He Shaozu at the court meeting, claiming that the road was wronged and sued. ”
Lin Xi's impeachment was really He Shaozu, not the assassination of Jiang and Hong! This shows that everything is as she deduces, and a few witnesses are stepping stones, and the really important Wen Qiao will be left by the King of Ruyang as a fatal blow to defeat Mao Wei.
Eleven Niang's heart was not easy, and there was even more unspeakable anger haunting her heart.
Lu Liyu did not involve He Shaozu, but Shi Niang had learned from Ah Lu that the Queen Mother ordered Dou Fu'an to secretly try the Shifang bandit case.
What does this mean? Wen Qiao claimed that someone instigated Jiangzhou to assassinate Shi and kill civilians has attracted the attention of the Queen Mother, but many officials involved in the case are far away, but He Shaozu is close at hand, and the Queen Mother thinks that He Shaozu is likely to be instigated by others, so she will order Dou Fu'an to interrogate secretly.
But the result? Although He Shaozu confessed, he was still released by the Queen Mother, which shows that the Queen Mother has no intention of pursuing it, and really wants to protect the whole party and watch thousands of innocent people die in vain.
What worries Eleven Niang even more is ......
"I really didn't expect that Lin Xi would also be the Ruyang King Party!" Xu Xiu can make this assertion.
Eleven Niang closed her eyes, many things, she wanted to ask for all, thinking about avoiding implicating the innocent, even if she heard Wen Qiao's complaint at first, she did hesitate whether to sit on the wall and watch, and she was also secretly weighing the pros and cons, just for that short hesitation, until this time she still blamed herself.
Those involved in rights and interests are to blame for their own lives and deaths, but those innocent civilians really should not step up for the powerful.
It's shameful to ignore it, let alone the executioner!
She heard Xu Xiuneng sigh again: "The Queen Mother has ordered Dali Siqing to preside over the trial of this case, and the Shifang people are taken into custody for interrogation, and the ministers have not been consulted, indicating that a decision has been made. ”
Dali Siqing is a member of the Mao Wei Party, what other results can he judge?
"However, the king of Ruyang admonished on the spot today, the relationship is strictly ordered to be thieves, and when the political affairs hall and the Zongzheng hall participate in the trial, the queen mother hesitated again, and the court meeting was not decided."
The reason why the Queen Mother hesitated was because the Ruyang Royal Party questioned it on the spot, but the Queen Mother's intentions had been revealed, and Xu Xiuneng and the others naturally would not rashly admonish.
Although these are not what Eleven Niang wants, I have to say that everything is really what she expected.
Since Lu Li and Shao Guangyu told Wen Qiao, since the incident, the Queen Mother has only gathered several major countries to discuss countermeasures, but she did not ask Lu Li and others what their opinions are, it should be expected that Lu Li and others have different opinions from her, and with the development of the situation, the more precarious the status of Mao Wei and his party members, the more the Queen Mother will not compromise, because in Wei Haichi's eyes, no matter how many innocent lives, it is not worth mentioning compared to the gains and losses of her interests, her choice has long been doomed, unless there is no obstacle to her interests, it is possible because of scruples and conspiracy, And prevent it.
But it is impossible for King Ruyang to miss the perfect opportunity to pull out Mao Wei's minions and shake the power of the Queen Mother's party just to rescue the innocent.
This is why Shi Niang does not approve of handing over Wen Qiao and other witnesses to King Ruyang.
Her plan is to use the King of Ruyang to stir up trouble, and to put the rescue of innocents and the preservation of the interests of the Queen Mother's party on the same level, rather than opposing each other.
"It's just that if the Queen Mother insists on letting Dali Temple try alone, I'm afraid that the Ruyang King Party will not give up, and the King of Ruyang will not have no other followers, but only use Lin Xi to impeach." Although the governor could not do anything, Eleven Niang did not give up persuading Xu Xiuneng to take the first step to persuade the Queen Mother to make a prudent decision.
"There will be no public trial." Xu Xiuneng was very determined: "Once the accuser enters Dali Temple, he will either admit that he was instigated to accuse He Shaozu, or ...... Extinguish! ”
Seeing that Eleven Niang was stunned on the spot, Xu Xiuneng couldn't help but sigh.
In the end, it is the daughter of the boudoir, although she is resourceful, she has not experienced the danger of life and death, and where did she think of such a tragic and hideous situation.
Xu Xiuneng temporarily decided to stand by and watch, but He Zhan took the initiative to persuade the Queen Mother to allow the auxiliary kings to be tried together, but he failed to convince the Queen Mother, and he did not have a private conversation with Shi Niang at this critical time.
But Ah Lu, this evening, taking advantage of his free time, informed the eleventh mother of what he saw and heard: "He She reminded the Queen Mother that the King of Ruyang must have a future, in order to prevent the situation from deteriorating, when He Langzhong was punished according to law to end the case, the Queen Mother was still hesitating, and did not adopt the advice of the He She people, and the Queen Mother saw Mao Xiangguo in the next day, except for the high attendants, the palace people were not allowed to be on the side, so I did not know what the Queen Mother had to give to Mao Xiang. ”
On the next day, Shi Zhen, the secretary of Dali Temple, met with him, although he was from a high-ranking position in the third grade, but the full-time criminal and prison judicial officials have always been not very serious, and Shi Zhen was awarded the edict for the first time.
Dali Temple has always been controlled by Mao Wei, even when He Yan reused Xue Qian and Feng Guozhang, he once granted Dali Siqing another person, but Mao Wei has not really lost control of this institution, since the Empress Dowager came to the dynasty, Dali Siqing was monopolized by Mao Wei's henchmen, this Shi Zhen was once Mao Wei's subordinate official, and he was quickly promoted from a low-level official.
Shi Zhen had never seen Shi Zhen before, and she had the opportunity to "pass by" this day, so she took a closer look.
Shi Zhensanguan was appointed as a doctor in the court, and he was a five-grade doctor, so he did not take purple but served scarlet, with a burly figure, long arms and a shy belly, and at first glance he was majestic, but unfortunately he had a pair of triangular eyes that were slipping and turning, revealing his sneaky and treacherous slippery.
I don't know what he said to the Queen Mother, he came out in an instant, and he walked like a flying robe, and Eleven Niang could see the fierce cold in the triangular eyes under the far corridor.
And her heart sank.
Xu Xiuneng could anticipate the situation, and Eleven Niang, who knew a little more about the Queen Mother, naturally also expected that those people who were so sad and angry and worried because their families were killed that they left their hometowns in the hope of seeking refuge in the guild to change their fate could not escape the tragic ending of unjust death and imprisonment.
And what is even more tragic is that before he died, he didn't even know that he was being used by others, and he fell victim to these so-called nobles vying for power in vain.
The breeze swept away the stagnant water on the spring leaves, cooling the sideburns.
Eleven Niang stood at the bottom of the corridor for a long time, with black eyes, and a hard wheel corridor with flying eaves in the distance.
At this moment, she was thinking, maybe He Zhouzhizhi should really go into decline, the already decayed world is full of hideous people's hearts, and those who still have a conscience have to struggle to survive, just like her, watching innocent people die in vain, but there is nothing they can do.
She stood stiff in this magnificent and majestic court, and unprecedented suspicion arose in her heart.
"Father, is it really meaningful that you worked hard for He Zhoushe in the past? And what I'm doing now really makes sense? Wu Dan has not experienced the prosperity of Wuzong, many political and people, people and things have only been recorded in the history books, and now I have witnessed with my own eyes that the traitor is in power, the people are not happy, the father, Wu Dan is more and more suspicious, only one Wei Haichi died, will the world be able to restore peace? Father, Wu Dan is very useless, and now, even the lives of a few innocent people are powerless. ”
This night is destined to be tossing and turning and sleepless all night.
Eleven Niang was lying in the brocade tent, and she could still hear under the porch outside the window, Xie Ying, who had always slept late, was still talking and laughing with a few little palace maids, they were saying that the rain had finally stopped, arguing about whether they would see the sun tomorrow, Xie Ying mentioned her corner striking field, and took the trouble to describe how many ingenious designs and arrangements, and the little palace maids flattered and asked questions, and Xie Ying's interest in talking became more and more high.
Eleven Niang gradually felt irritable, cloaked in clothes, pushed open a corner of the screen, she just quietly looked at the clouds, a faint round of moon shadows, and farther away on the canopy, there were more than a dozen stars, bright and dark, swallowing brilliance.
The rain has completely stopped, the stone path is half dry, but there is a mist between the flowers and trees, and it is dimly reflected by the eaves corner palace lamp, and the girls who are still talking and laughing do not notice that there are people watching in the window, Xie Ying picked up an almond and threw the swallow between the beams, but there were far treetops, and a few kingfishers were frightened.
"Don't talk, it's like someone is running." A palace maid suddenly noticed something strange.
"Look! It's like there's a fire! Another maid exclaimed.
Before the words fell, I heard a knock at the door.
Eleven Niang suddenly pushed open the door and rushed out, but Xie Ying was frightened, stroked her chest exaggeratedly, and grabbed Eleven Niang's sleeve: "Eleventh sister, don't worry, it's not the palace water." As he spoke, he got closer, and whispered to Eleven Niang's ear: "It's Dali Temple." ”
Daming Palace is built on the Longshou Plain, the terrain is originally high and abrupt, and it is late at night, of course, the fire of Dali Temple outside the imperial city will be detected by the forbidden, but only by a glance can be concluded that it is Dali Temple that is on fire, unless it is a sentry guard who is familiar with the terrain, Xie Ying certainly does not have such ability, so she has only one possibility to make this judgment - she has long known that Dali Temple will catch fire.
Xie Ying didn't plan to hide it from Eleven Niang, while pulling her up to a three-story pavilion outside the Fufang Corridor to watch the fire, she said in a low voice: "If there is a fire in Dali Temple, there will be prisoners who will take advantage of the chaos to extinguish the Shifang people's certificates. In the final analysis, it was all a conspiracy of the guild bandits, and even this fire was also an act of the prisoners to buy off the prison officials of Dali Temple. ”
This set of statements that there is no silver here is too obvious, and Eleven Niang was really stunned this time: "The sixth sister said this to me, was it instructed by the Queen Mother?" ”
If this matter was really done by the Urgent Guild, how could Xie Ying know in advance, unless she was a member of the Urgent Guild, even if the Queen Mother had already known about the conspiracy of the Urgent Guild, then this fire would not be able to burn, there was only one possibility - this fire was instructed by the Queen Mother, and Xie Ying's statement was an official statement to explain to the public in the future.
"Today I waited until this time, just to see this excitement."
While speaking, Xie Ying had already stood on the top floor of the Pavilion with Eleven Niang, she smiled and looked down at the fire: "Although this fire was instructed by the Queen Mother, those so-called witnesses are indeed uneasy and kind, Eleventh Sister may not know that this group of people originally wanted to use Shao Yushi, but unfortunately Xue She happened to be there that day, Shao Yushi was not fooled, but they turned their heads and found Lin Yushi...... The eleventh sister believes that if these people are really ordinary people, how can they know that Shao and Lin will be so impulsive to impeach the court? ”
Xie Ying tilted her head slightly and looked at Eleven Niang: "The Queen Mother asked me to inform the Eleventh Sister, also because of the advice of the Heshe people yesterday, it seems that there is a suspicion of targeting Mao Xiangguo, and the Heshe people have always been loyal to Wei Xiang, but at this time, they can't fall into the trap of the unpredictable people, and the civil strife for personal gain, the eleventh sister should also dissuade the Heshe people, don't live up to the trust of the Queen Mother." ”
This is another naked temptation, Wei Haichi is still suspicious after all!
On the high pavilion, although she saw the flames soaring into the sky, she didn't hear the chaos of people's voices, and Eleven Niang calmly met Xie Ying's gaze: "The fourteenth brother is definitely not for personal gain, sixth sister, this is strange!" It is very likely that the Queen Mother fell into the calculation of King Ruyang! ”