The Jiuxi Proposal that Huo Wen said in his mouth is indeed causing an uproar in the imperial capital.

Li Jiangyao's great meritorious service for the establishment of the Holy Tang Dynasty was real and obvious to the ordinary officials and ordinary people in the imperial capital. And the voices that support the award of Li Jiangyao's special honor are also sincere echoes generated by this.

But it is precisely because of this that Li Bing feels even more uneasy to sleep.

The so-called high merit is the master, ancient and modern.

Although it is often said that the monarchy is divinely granted. As an emperor, it is on behalf of God to rule all directions, but the actual situation is that every monarch with a normal mind knows very well that only those who win the hearts of the people can win the world.

And this popular heart refers to the support of the people, officials and soldiers.

When there is a great hero in the dynasty, then for the emperor, he must consider who will be on the side of the people who will decide the victory or defeat if an unexpected situation occurs.

Jiuxi itself is not important, it is nothing more than the clothes you wear, the car you sit in, and the guards you match, and the corresponding level is higher, even on par with the emperor's standards.

Li Bing believes that Li Jiangyao, who has thousands of miles of western Xinjiang and has countless elites, will not be so superficial, and he has to compare himself in these small things. What he was worried about was the reaction of the court and the people to the reward of Jiuxi.

If most people do not approve of giving Li Jiangyao such an honor, it means that people still have the distinction between monarchs and ministers in their hearts, and they also know that no matter how great the merit of a courtier is, he cannot easily covet the various honors of the divine imperial power. When Li Jiangyao received such a signal, he would more or less have scruples on many issues, and he couldn't and didn't dare to rashly do anything out of the ordinary.

But if the opposite is the case, and most people are in favor of rewarding meritorious officials, and even think that it is very reasonable to take out Jiuxi as a reward, it means that the people's hearts have changed unconsciously. This will also gradually change Li Jiangyao's mentality, until he makes a disobedient move.

To put it bluntly, high merit is not the root cause of shaking the Lord, but the will of the people.

Although Li Xiuming, the Pingzhang Shi of Tongzhongshu, and Li Maoxun, the king of Hejian County, and others went to the emperor one after another, and clearly opposed the reward of Jiuxi to Li Jiangyao, their voices were far greater than those civil and military officials who were secretly instigated by Cheng Dong, as well as the common people who spontaneously expressed their approval.

The plan to kill people has been laid down by Queen Cheng Wen.

Regardless of whether Li Jiangyao himself accepted Jiuxi or not, Emperor Li Bingdu once again focused a strong sense of crisis on the body of the capital protector of the Zhenjiang Army, and began to be highly nervous.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ouyang Lin also intensified the search and arrest, and continued to grasp more and more power to control the security of the imperial capital through encirclement and suppression operations against Shen Lie and the Intelligence Department.

For the sake of safety, Shen Lie decided to evacuate this place as soon as possible. He and Yuan Bin Shi Feng cleverly designed Yuan Bin to pretend to be himself and make occasional appearances in other parts of the city, successfully diverting the attention of the Forbidden Army's Tiger and Leopard Cavalry and the Northern Ya Reverse Scale Division, and then with the help of the Intelligence Division, they left the imperial capital in batches.

After getting out of danger, Shen Lie entrusted Shi Feng and other secret agents to escort Rui Ji and Wu Ling to the west and to the western frontier. As long as you pass the Zijin Pass, you will really reach the territory of the Zhenjiang Army. In that place, no matter how powerful the imperial court is, there is nothing to do with the Intelligence Department.

And he and Yuan Bin went to Jiangnan to find Li Jiangyao. They got a lot of valuable information from Wu Ling, all of which were closely related to Lao Jianhua and Li Jiong, and they would definitely be able to help in the counterinsurgency war.

Shen Lie and the others all left, and the intelligence task of the imperial capital could only be shouldered by Princess Fenyang for the time being. In order to avoid Ouyang Lin's edge, Li Xi suggested that the Imperial Capital Branch of the Intelligence Division should not contact him for the time being, and that all news and actions would be completed by her independently.

Fortunately, the imperial army has fully crossed the river, and the day of victory is not far away, as long as it survives the last period of time, and when Li Jiangyao and Murong Xue return to the imperial capital with their troops, there is no need to worry about any small tricks at that time.

However, what Li Xi didn't expect was that the degree of treachery and turbulence in the imperial capital far exceeded her expectations and imagination. Just when the counterinsurgency army was marching all the way and constantly sending back good news, a new political conspiracy was quietly brewing in the imperial city.

The first strange change came from the Taiyi Pavilion.

Imperial Physician Xin Zhong said that there are two out of seventy this year. The old man has been studying since he was a child, and he studied under Yuan Hai, a famous doctor in the Holy Tang Dynasty, and was elected to the Taiyi Pavilion at the age of 21, and now he has served four emperors, and he is the first imperial doctor.

There was a witty saying in the court, "Guarding Imperial Doctor Xin, you can live eighty-one", which is to describe the brilliant medical skills of Xin Lao's wonderful hand rejuvenation, which is the greatest guarantee for everyone's illness and longevity.

In addition to the emperor's concubines and princesses, those princes and nobles, civil and military ministers, and even their families and children, as long as they have a little headache and brain fever, they are all looking forward to asking Xin Zhongshu to help take a look, so that they can rest assured.

However, Imperial Physician Xin, who could keep others alive to eighty-one, failed to pass the seventy-two hurdle himself.

Imperial Physician Xin died, and his death was unknown.

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On the ninth day of the Lunar New Year, Li Bing slept late, and the cold night was heavy, and he couldn't help but catch a cold, and on the second day, he felt dizzy and swollen and chilled.

In this case, a doctor can be sent to come over and prescribe a prescription for clearing heat and dissolving the table, but the queen was worried that others were not safe enough, so she specially sent an attendant to call Xin Zhongshu and ask him to treat the emperor.

The old lady doctor was familiar with the road, and only gave Li Bing a pulse, and he knew this little illness well. He wrote a pair of pharmacies by hand and instructed the Taiyi Pavilion to grab the medicine and boil it. Before leaving, the old man said to Li Bing with a confident smile, Your Majesty only needs to drink it once and keep the medicine until the illness is cured.

But who expected, according to the doctor's instructions, Li Bing drank the decoction after dinner, and in less than half an hour, he cried out for abdominal pain and rolled on the couch.

By the time the imperial doctors on duty came to check in a panic, Li Bing had already begun to vomit blood, and the whole person was also dizzy and almost unconscious.

Several imperial doctors were almost frightened to death, and hurriedly tried their best to rescue them, and it took more than two hours of tossing to pull the emperor back from the ghost gate.

The chief attendant took the imperial doctors to a secluded place, and asked carefully what was going on, the imperial doctor, you look at me, I will look at you, and it took a long time to hold back two words: poisoning.

Poisoning?!

The chief chamberlain was anxious on the spot, this is a rebellion! He immediately called the commander of Jin Wuwei and informed the other party that the emperor had been poisoned. Commander Jin Wuwei also panicked when he heard this, and he didn't dare to slack off at all, and immediately notified the Reverse Scale Division.

Tian Mu and Ouyang Lin hurriedly came and asked the imperial doctor for details, and after a little investigation, they found that the problem was in the prescription.

In the prescription prescribed by the old lady doctor Xin Zhongshu, there are two flavors of medicinal herbs that clash with each other, and once they are mixed, they can form toxicity. And the dosage listed by Imperial Doctor Xin is also different from the ordinary standard, to put it bluntly, it is poisonous and heavy, and the amount is large.

Ouyang Lin was anxious on the spot, and asked a few imperial doctors, usually prescribing medicine to important royal families such as the emperor and queen, didn't they all need to be cross-checked by other imperial doctors first, and only after confirming that the medicine was correct?

The imperial doctors looked at each other, and no one dared to speak, and finally the chief attendant standing aside explained for them: Xin Zhongshu is the first imperial doctor, and the imperial doctors in the imperial medicine hall are basically his apprentices, and even his apprentices. Therefore, no one dared to check the prescription prescribed by Xin Lao himself.

"Is this worth it?!" Ouyang Lin reprimanded angrily: "It's about the safety of the emperor's dragon body, you dare to be so hasty, the Taiyi Pavilion should be damned!" ”

Tian Mu said quietly: "The most important problem at the moment is to quickly control Xin Zhongshu. Whether this is someone else's old foolishness, a momentary mistake, or a deliberate attempt to murder the king, must be clarified. ”

Commander Jin Wuwei nodded again and again, and ordered his subordinates to immediately surround the Xin family and arrest Xin Zhongshu. Tian Mu also said, this matter is related to the emperor, and investigating and questioning cases is the specialty of the Reverse Scale Division, they have to send someone to accompany them, and after catching Xin Zhongshu, they have to be escorted back to Beiya for interrogation.

There was no objection to this, and action was immediately taken.

Jin Wuwei personally went out and sent troops to surround Xin Zhongshu's house, and tied up the old man directly. The old lady doctor looked confused, and when he heard that he was arrested because the emperor was poisoned by the prescription and almost died, he was even more shocked.

"Impossible! The old man has practiced medicine all his life, and he has never missed a beat, not to mention the health of His Majesty's dragon body, all medicinal materials are used in soft and peaceful things, and there is no reason to resist each other! ”

"If you have anything to say, let's talk about it in Beiya, whether you did it or not, you will find out when you check!"

Jin Wuwei ignored Xin Zhongshu's protests at all, and directly brought the person back to the Beiya Reverse Scale Division. There, Xin Zhongshu finally saw the list of prescriptions that had killed him in prison.

The old man held the prescription in his hand, read it three times over and over again, and suddenly shouted in disbelief: "This ...... This is not what it was before decay! Although the handwriting is indeed mine, but this prescription is wrong, it is impossible for the old man to write like this! ”

However, no matter how Xin Zhongshu explained, the prescription, the paper, the handwriting, and the time number registered at the Taiyi Pavilion were all verified, and they were the diagnosis and treatment plan he left for Li Bing after he consulted Li Bing that day.

The evidence is conclusive and irrefutable.

Xin Zhongshu was completely confused. Faced with the aggressive question of the Beiya Reverse Scale Division, he himself couldn't help but be a little confused: What is going on? Am I really old and confused?

With this question, the old lady Xin was temporarily imprisoned and imprisoned, waiting for further interrogation and investigation by the palace and the imperial court.

But unexpectedly, on the night he was imprisoned, he suddenly died.

The corpse did not have any obvious wounds, and at the same time there were no signs of poisoning, and several people studied for a long time, and came to the same conclusion: Xin Zhongshu was old, and when he learned that he had almost killed the emperor, he was so frightened and frightened that he died of fear on the spot.

The news of the old lady's death soon spread throughout the court. The ministers did not care how he died, but speculated whether the fatal prescription was unintentional or intentional.

If so, who is behind it?