Chapter 0091: Changes in the East Palace
There is a dense house in the next city in the northeast corner of the Taichu Palace, which is the dormitory of the eunuchs, and nearly 10,000 eunuchs live here.
When on duty, the eunuchs enter the palace to serve, and when they are not on duty, they go back to the dormitory to rest, and only high-ranking officials like Gao Yanfu can open a mansion outside the palace.
At this time, in front of a small courtyard in the next city, Wu Youxu, the general of Qianniuwei, led hundreds of guards to tightly surround the courtyard, and the captain Yu Pinlong led more than a dozen people to carefully search the room.
In the distance, a large group of eunuchs gathered to whisper.
"Isn't that Luo Zhongzhong's residence? everyone is dead, what are they still searching?"
"Don't you know that the palace is investigating the people who poisoned the Buddhist scriptures? I heard that quite a few people have been arrested. ”
"I heard about it, but this matter is not related to Luo Zhongzhong, didn't he die of poisoning when he checked the palace birthday ceremony?"
"This is your news blocked, it is said that the above has determined that it is the poison of Luo Zhongzhong, and he later committed suicide in fear of sin. ”
At this time, Yu Pinlong shouted excitedly from the room, "Found it!"
I saw Yu Pinlong running out of Luo Zhongzhong's room quickly, holding an iron box stained with mud in his hand.
He stepped forward and knelt down on one knee and presented the iron box to Wu Youxu, "This is an iron box dug out in the corner of the wall, please take a look at it!"
Wu Youxu glanced at the two imperial doctors next to him, "You guys check it!"
The two imperial doctors opened the iron box tremblingly, and inside were three small porcelain bottles, they carefully checked for a moment, and couldn't help but exclaim, "General, there is gold poison in the bottle!"
The people around were in an uproar.
Wu Youxu sighed secretly, now that the evidence is conclusive, I am afraid that this time the East Palace will not be able to escape the catastrophe
That night, thousands of palace guards and more than 100 palace maids and eunuchs broke into the East Palace in a menacing manner.
They were divided into two routes, and Wu Youxu, the general of Qianniuwei, led the palace guards to search the study and living place of the emperor's heir Li Dan.
Wei Tuan'er led more than 100 palace maids and eunuchs to search the residences of Li Dan's concubines.
With the demotion of Di Renjie and the imprisonment of Wu Chenghe, the once-boiling Buddhist scripture case gradually disappeared.
But this matter is not over, Wu Zetian has always been angry about the poisoner in the palace, and she ordered Wei Tuan'er to secretly investigate the matter in the palace.
Soon, Wei Tuan'er came to the conclusion that the person who poisoned the palace was the eunuch Luo Zhongzhong, who was responsible for inspecting the birthday ceremony of entering the palace, and only he had the opportunity to contact the Buddhist scriptures offered by Di Renjie.
Luo Zhongzhong was later poisoned not because someone killed him, but because he committed suicide in fear of crime, and with the gold poison found in Luo Zhongzhong's room, the evidence of Luo Zhongzhong's poisoning has been conclusive.
But Luo Zhongzhong had served in the East Palace for a long time, and not long after he was transferred to the Taichu Palace, he became the poisoner, so the two emperors who had lived in the East Palace, Li Xian and Li Dan, could not escape suspicion.
Because Li Xian is in Chuzhou, he can rule out suspicion, and Li Dan, the imperial heir who lives in the East Palace, is difficult to get out of trouble.
In the Mingxin Hall of the East Palace, groups of palace maids and eunuchs of the East Palace were taken out of the main hall, and a great eunuch in charge of the search commanded his subordinates in a loud voice, "All the concubines and palace people in the East Palace are all sent to the Blessing Pavilion for temporary shelter, and nothing is allowed to be carried." ”
Surrounded by several palace maids, Wei Tuan'er stood in a pavilion and looked coldly at the terrified eunuchs and palace maids of the East Palace, she was wearing a snow-white palace dress, her face was blue, her eyes were cold, and she looked quite strange in the moonlight.
At this time, the two concubines of the imperial heir Li Dan, the imperial heir Concubine Liu and the German concubine Concubine Dou were also brought out by several search eunuchs, and Concubine Dou and Concubine Liu were pale and had their heads scattered, and they were rudely pushed by several eunuchs.
Concubine Dou walked past the flower pavilion, she turned her head and looked at Wei Tuan'er angrily, and said angrily: "Wei Tuan'er, if you take revenge for personal gain, you will not die well!"
Wei Tuan'er snorted disdainfully, and said coldly: "You think about yourself first! ”
Concubine Dou smacked her hard, Wei Tuan'er was furious, stepped forward and slapped her, and ordered the eunuch to say, "Drag her away!"
In a burst of shouting and scolding, Concubine Dou and Concubine Liu were pushed down by the eunuchs, and at this time, the eunuch in charge of the search stepped forward and sneered at Wei Tuan'er: "Auntie, everyone is gone!"
Wei Tuan'er showed a cold smile in her eyes, and she said slowly: "Search carefully and carefully, especially the rooms of Dou and Liu, and you are not allowed to let go of every inch of them, I think there must be something evil hidden in their room." ”
In the past few days, due to the cold weather, Wu Zetian's body aches have worsened a little, and only the massage and acupuncture of the imperial doctor Shen Nanmu can relieve her body pain.
The room was filled with a faint sandalwood, the hibiscus tent was as warm as spring, and the imperial physician Shen Nanmu knelt in front of the bed, his sleeves half rolled up, and he was engrossed in massaging the saint.
Wu Zetian was lazily lying on the ivory couch covered with thick velvet, covered with a Bailing Cloud brocade quilt, her phoenix eyes slightly closed, and she comfortably enjoyed Shen Nanmu's massage on her body and legs.
"Well, come up a little more, yes, that's it, a little bit harder!"
In the corner of the room, Xue Huaiyi looked at Shen Nanmu's hand with a heavy face, and when Shen Nanmu's hand touched Wu Zetian's sensitive part slightly, Xue Huaiyi couldn't hold back any longer, snorted heavily, turned around and left the room.
Wu Zetianfeng's eyes opened, and he glanced at the back of Xue Huaiyi, who was striding away, with great dissatisfaction.
At this time, Wei Tuan'er walked quickly into Wu Zetian's bedroom, and she couldn't help but hesitate when she saw that the saint was massage.
"Tuan'er, what did you find?" Wu Zetian opened his eyes and asked slowly.
"Your Majesty will treat it first, and the slave will report to Her Majesty later. ”
"Say it now!"
Wu Zetian motioned for Shen Nanmu to help himself sit up, Shen Nanmu knew that the saint was only wearing a thin underwear, and he was about to retreat, but Wu Zetian gently held his hand and smiled approvingly at him, with a gentle look in his phoenix eyes.
Shen Nanmu's heart jumped, and he hurriedly retreated.
The two palace maids stepped forward to put on Wu Zetian's clothes, Wu Zetian stretched her body slightly, and felt that her body was much more comfortable, so she asked Wei Tuan'er: "What did you say?"
The slave didn't dare to speak. ”
Wu Zetian's face sank, and his eyes looked at Wei Tuan'er sharply, "Say!"
Wei Tuan'er kowtowed, and said tremblingly: "There is nothing abnormal in the imperial heir, but there is something disgusting in the bedroom of the imperial heir and the concubine De. ”
Wu Zetian's heart jumped, and his eyes became fierce, "What kind of disgusting thing, show it to me!"
After a while, a eunuch walked into Wu Zetian's outer room with a willow box, carefully placed it on the ground, Wu Zetian walked out of the bedroom, his eyes fell on the box, it was two little wooden people, her name was written on them, and the little wooden people were densely inserted with steel needles.
Wu Zetian suddenly felt that her body was becoming more and more painful, she suddenly understood why she had been in pain recently, she gritted her silver teeth, and the murderous intent burst out of her eyes, and it took a while to squeeze out two words from her lips, "Slut!"
"Spread my message, Emperor Xuan's heir and Concubine Dou De will come to Jiayu Hall to see me immediately!"
The eunuch rushed away, and Wu Zetian said coldly to Wei Tuan'er: "You go and deal with them! These two people, I don't want to see them again." ”
Wei Tuan'er was secretly happy in her heart, bowed down and said, "The slave obeys the order!"
At noon the next day, the imperial heir Li Dan had been kneeling outside the Zhenguan Hall for more than an hour, his heart was full of sorrow, his two wives, Liu and Dou were announced to the Jiayu Palace last night and never came back, he knew what happened, but no matter how great the grief he could only hide in his heart.
At this time, the chamberlain Gao Yanfu hurriedly walked out of the hall with the holy decree in his hand, his face was calm, he glanced at Li Dan, then unfolded the holy decree and stood on the steps to read it.
"The emperor's heir, Li Dan, has long inherited the grace of the saint, but he does not think about loyalty and filial piety, indulges the harem, and even the harem is immoral, his sin is inevitable, I think about the safety of the society, and hereby decree to depose the heir of the emperor of the East Palace, demote him to the king of the prime minister, and think about it for a year behind closed doors, and admire this!"
Li Dan only felt that it was dark in front of him, and he fainted under the steps
During the reign of Wu Zetian, the emperor changed several times, and the crown prince was replaced frequently, and the imperial heir was only a substitute for the crown prince, and even the prince could not be talked about, so Li Dan was deposed, and it did not cause much turmoil in the Tang Dynasty and the opposition, and everyone has long been accustomed to it.
But the purge of Li Dan's faction officials is the focus of everyone's attention, according to the convention, the Holy Lord will inevitably purge the senior officials of Li Dan's faction, and Di Renjie, who supports Li Dan, has been removed first, so who will be next?
Soon, in less than half a month, Tongping Zhangshi Ren Zhigu, Pei Xingben, Si Liqing Cui Xuanli, Wenchang Zuo Cheng Lu Xian, Yu Shi Zhongcheng Wei Yuanzhong and other high-ranking officials of the Li Dan faction were deposed to county orders one after another.
For a time, the government and the opposition were restless, and everyone was in danger.
Contrary to the turmoil of the imperial court, the people of the Tang Dynasty were immersed in the joy of celebrating the birthday of the Holy Spirit Emperor.
The price of wine in Luoyang has tripled, especially the merchants who deal in wine from the Western Regions, and they are extremely profitable
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