Chapter 8: The End of Heskai
Before the person arrives, the sound comes first.
"Okay, you guys, not long after the first emperor died, you want to join forces to frame the first emperor's ministers?!" Empress Dowager Hu broke in in a hurry, and a large number of honor guards behind her were left outside the gate of the Taiji Palace. Her feet were not slow, her mouth was not idle, and before she could stand still, she pointed to the king of the Manchu Dynasty and publicly reprimanded:
"You people, instead of worrying about the country, come to frame the minister with accusations! Okay, you people are all hardened in their wings, thinking that no one will be able to cure you if the first emperor goes, and now as soon as the first emperor dies, they will all come to bully our orphans and widows! You have forgotten all the humility and humility! Emperor Xian, look at these rebellious ministers and thieves......"
Empress Dowager Hu spoke with a crying tone, and took advantage of the topic to play, a "ill-intentioned" hat was put on the heads of a group of ministers, among them, Gao Rui was the leader, and was scolded by Empress Dowager Hu's nose, and the whole person was about to be drowned by Empress Dowager Hu's spittle. But he didn't dare to refute it at all - this is the Queen Mother! Even if Gao Rui actually looks down on her in his heart, she is also the queen mother, the most noble woman in Northern Qi, there is still respect on the surface, and her son is still watching from above! Gao Rui was stunned when he was scolded, and even if he had anger in his heart, he could only endure it first.
"Gao Rui, the first emperor trusted you so much back then, and praised you for knowing the law of advance and retreat, but now it seems that the first emperor is really blind! The first emperor trusted you so much, why did you frame the ministers left behind by the first emperor? Is this your loyalty to the Emperor and His Majesty? ”
The last sentence is very heavy, even if Gao Rui is determined to kill He Shikai, he is categorically unwilling to bear such a reputation of disloyalty to the ancestor and the king. Gao Rui's words were full of anger, trying his best to suppress his anger, and said solemnly:
"The Queen Mother's words are wrong. Non-ministers are disloyal, on the contrary, ministers are too loyal to the first emperor and His Majesty to propose that His Majesty get rid of He Shikai! He Shikai has now become a cockroach that I have to get rid of! If you don't get rid of him, you're in danger! ”
"Full of nonsense!" Empress Dowager Hu's willow eyebrows are upside down. He scolded: "The monk has made great contributions to the country and His Majesty, and now you call him a national thief, isn't it reversing black and white, making the first emperor under Jiuquan feel cold!" ”
This sentence Empress Dowager Hu said sincerely, but the ministers below sneered, you have cuckolded the first emperor and never said that the first emperor would be cold, and now you are going to execute your lover, but you have played the signboard of the first emperor......
"Queen Mother, the minister wants to ask, what is the great contribution of Heshi Kai to the country? Did he build bridges and water conservancy for the lower counties, or did he fight valiantly to defeat the Northern Zhou and the Turks? Could it be that the queen mother's statement that He Shikai has made great contributions to the country means that He Shikai is good at holding the lance and playing the pipa, and often makes the first emperor Long Yan happy? ! ”
Feng Zicong's cold words made Empress Dowager Hu dumbfounded, and Empress Dowager Hu was like being slapped in the face! This sentence easily punctured the so-called Heshikai's remarks that "he has made great contributions to the country and the king", which made Empress Dowager Hu angry, looking at Feng Zicong, her hands and feet trembled, and she couldn't speak.
"You, you traitor, dare to contradict this palace like this? Emperor, emperor ......" Empress Dowager Hu suddenly remembered her emperor's son when she was dizzy.
[Okay, you think I'm a woman and can't talk about you, then I'll find my son, anyway, he is the emperor, do you dare not listen to what he says? ] 】
At this moment, Empress Dowager Hu's mind still didn't turn around, and walked directly towards Gao Wei, Gao Wei's behavior of sitting on the dragon chair without moving was interpreted by her as her son's first experience of such a big impeachment scene, and she was stupid. But she is not afraid, do these ministers dare to threaten the queen mother and the emperor at the same time on the main hall? It seems that he is going to sit next to Gao Wei.
It's just that before she could sit on the dragon chair, Xiao Luzi had already moved a couch and a table over and placed them on the right side of Gao Wei's dragon chair. The Queen Mother was instantly stunned, Gao Wei had never let her sit in the lower seat in the past! She looked at Gao Wei, but Gao Wei looked at the ministers below without squinting, and didn't even say hello......
The important ministers at the foot of the stairs finally understood everything, this is no longer a matter of not dealing with Heshikai, this is the emperor's intention to compare with the Hou Party! So, why did the emperor suddenly become angry, and why did he not stop Gao Rui's impeachment unusually, everything makes sense, starting from Gao Rui's impeachment, all these means and arrangements for He Shikai are not His Majesty's temporary intentions at all, but have been planned for a long time!
Empress Dowager Hu was in disbelief, looking at this son in a daze, obviously her eyebrows and facial features were still the same as before, Sven was handsome, like her, but she suddenly had an indescribable strangeness...... Gao Wei turned his head, showed a sunny smile, and said: "Queen Mother, please sit down and rest for a while, right and wrong, we will see later......" turned his head, and his face was clouded in an instant: "Drive the monk to me!" ”
Under the attention of everyone, a group of Jinyi captains took the monks into custody, like a butcher tying up a pig. The monk was tied to a thick wooden stick with his hands and feet, his feet were facing the sky, his abdomen was facing up, his face was beaten into a pig's head, and his mouth was stuffed with a foul-smelling rag......
Liu Taozhi lifted the knife and slashed lightly, the rope that tied the hands and feet of the monk was broken, and the monk fell to the ground as soon as he opened it, and his abdomen and back were smashed hard, and the monk developed a miserable howl like killing a pig, but his mouth was stuffed with a rag, his face was red, and the green tendons in the corners of his forehead were bursting. Even Empress Dowager Hu almost didn't recognize him. He couldn't scream even if he wanted to scream at the moment, and the wail blocked by the rag was like a ghost crying, making everyone's hearts tremble.
He Shikai writhed on the ground for a long time, writhing like a worm. When I looked closely, I found that He Shikai's hands and feet were as soft as noodles, and his limbs were actually broken! Empress Dowager Hu exclaimed, hurriedly lifted her skirt and went down the steps, her hands trembled and pulled out the rag stuffed in the mouth of the monk, and the monk coughed twice and then cried loudly:
"...... Ask the Queen Mother to save Weichen! Ask the Queen Mother to save Weichen! ”
Empress Dowager Hu just wanted to help him up, but suddenly remembered that this was in front of everyone, and lifted the corner of her skirt and took a few steps back. It's just that seeing that the lover is now embarrassed, his hands and feet are broken, and he is lying on the ground and wailing, his heart feels like he has been pinched hard, and his eyes are red, and he said angrily: "Who did it?" Who! ”
Liu Taozhi didn't think much when he started, but now he is a little worried, but he is loyal to the emperor, the queen mother is not his master, gritted his teeth, and was about to stand up, only to hear Gao Wei say lightly on the throne: "I made people break his hands and feet......"
Empress Dowager Hu's momentum froze suddenly, and she asked in a daze, "What did the emperor say?" ”
Gao Wei stood up from the throne, put one hand behind his back, went down the steps, looked directly into the eyes of the Empress Dowager Hu, and said softly and firmly: "It was I who made Liu Taozhi break his hands and feet, and it was also me who killed all the monks, and next, I will kill his three clans...... Does the queen mother understand? ”
Empress Dowager Hu couldn't believe her ears, "Emperor, you...... Why are you doing this? He Shikai helped you in the first place! ”
"Why did I do this...... Why didn't the queen mother ask why He Shikai did this? ”
This queen mother really doesn't know the severity...... Gao Wei's phoenix eyes imperceptibly flashed a ray of cold light, turned to He Shikai, whose face was full of pain, and said coldly: "Heshi Kai, you should say it yourself, right?" The palace maid beside the first emperor...... How does it taste? ”
Empress Dowager Hu looked at He Shikai, and He Shikai struggled and said: "Wechen is wronged, Wechen is wronged......"
"If you don't see the coffin, you won't cry......" Gao Wei sneered, turned around and went up the white jade steps, "Liu Taozhi, bring people up!" ”
"Whoa!" Liu Taozhi turned around and went down the hall, and immediately brought a group of panicked and crying palace laves, who were singing and dancing in the monk's mansion. After this group of palace maids went to the main hall, the faces of all the ministers changed, although they had heard the rumors, but they didn't expect that He Shikai was really so bold!
"This, this ............" An elderly prince of the Gao family pointed to the group of palace laves, trembling with anger. The kings of the Gao family clan have naturally all seen Gao Zhan's personal palace maids, how could they be wrong?
The princes of the Gao family were all angry, their beards were all open, and they looked at He Shikai with a murderous eye, and even looked at the Empress Dowager Hu with a very bad look. openly recruiting the personal palace maids of the first emperor, what is this not a contempt for the majesty of the royal family?
Although Empress Dowager Hu was also very angry in her heart, it was important to save her lover first. Gritted his teeth and said: "This batch of palace maids was given to the monks by the mourning family, why, the mourning family sent a few palace maids to the courtiers, do you still need to explain it to you?" ”
"Does it mean that this is not the palace people around my father?"
Empress Dowager Hu: "No! ”
No one could see her lust and guilt, Gao Wei asked lightly, "Where is Lu Junjun?" ”
Lu Junjun is Gao Wei's nurse Lu Lingxuan, don't get me wrong, she and Lu Zhen's legend are not a person, this is also a model of a traitor, with a single tongue successfully brought down the legendary woman of Gao Wei's two queens, if she knew that she would be successfully whitewashed through a certain TV series more than a thousand years later, she would probably wake up laughing in her dreams.
Although Lu Lingxuan is also a traitor, she and Empress Dowager Hu's back party are not all the way, and there is a great conflict of interest between the two sides. Moreover, Lu Lingxuan knows that the foundation of her interests comes from Gao Wei, and the future and power of her and her son Luo Deva all depend on Gao Wei, so she is not stupid at this time, and she must stand on Gao Wei's side when the Queen Mother and Gao Wei have conflicts. Moreover, Lu Lingxuan is the female official in charge of the entire harem affairs, and no one has more say in this matter than her.
Gao Wei had a calculation in his heart, and said: "Lu Junjun, come and see, is this the palace person next to the first emperor......
Lu Lingxuan looked at it carefully and said, "The old woman can be sure that this is the palace person beside the first emperor." ”
Empress Dowager Hu was anxious: "Emperor, after all, He Shikai has helped you, you open the net, let him go......"
"How else can I open the net?!" Gao Wei suddenly roared, and directly abolished the family card of the Empress Dowager Hu, and the clear eyes were pitch black, bottomless, and the piercing coldness was terrifying: "How else can I open the net?" Well? Queen Mother, do you know how many impeachment meres I have received every day? I'm telling you, a car! A whole car! If it weren't for these twists and turns, I'm afraid I wouldn't have known that my country had been put in danger by these people......
"Didn't I tolerate him? Didn't I hint at him letting him stop? But he didn't take me seriously at all...... If the queen mother thinks about how many times I have spared this dog thief over the years and how much infamy she has borne for him, she will understand me...... I will not tolerate a white-eyed wolf who doesn't know what a monarch is again and again to let the rivers and mountains left by the first emperor be buried together! Therefore, when the queen mother protects him, she might as well think about it, can you be regarded as worthy of the first emperor by doing this? ”
Mrs. Hu's face was pale and she was almost unsteady on her feet.
“…… This time, it's useless for anyone to stop me, and whoever stops me will kill him! Gao Wei looked at Heshikai in disgust, "Drag this thief to the entrance of the vegetable market and cut it down!" ”
Maybe it was because he knew that he was going to die, but he Shikai smiled nervously, laughing so madly, and suddenly scolded like a mad dog: "Gao Wei...... You are so ruthless, you unload the mill and kill the donkey! You unload the mill and kill the donkey! Whining! ……”
Liu Taozhi stuffed the rag back into the mouth of the monk and dragged him down like a dead dog. The resentful cry still echoed in the hall, making people shudder.
Gao Wei moved his steps and was about to announce the next dynasty, when he suddenly paused and instructed Xiao Luzi: "All the little yellow doors on duty outside the Taiji Hall today will be killed!" ”