Chapter 242: Wang Shang's Advice
The movement in the harem, the ministers in the court saw it in their eyes and were anxious in their hearts.
To be honest, today's son is actually a good saint seedling, he has a generous personality, benevolence, a penchant for words, and a strong physique, but it is a pity that this good young man was ruined by wine.
As soon as the ministers meet now, they will count the story of the death of the king of Shang and Daji, the king of Zhou You and Bao Xi, and the current situation is even worse than that time.
At this juncture, in the second year of Yongshi (15 BC), the great Sima Wang Yin fell ill and died again. Wang Yin is a good Sima, at least better than his predecessor, when he was in office, all parties were fine.
Now, the death of such a weighty person has undoubtedly sprinkled a handful of salt on the already worried court.
After Wang Yin's death, Wang Shang, another brother of the Queen Mother, succeeded as Da Sima, while his younger brother Wang Li succeeded him and led the city gate soldiers.
Wang Shang, although he is not as upright as Wang Yin, is also decent, and among the Wang brothers, he is relatively restrained. He was optimistic about Wang Mang, a hopeful star of the Wang family, and distributed part of his fiefdom to Wang Mang.
Wang Shang had advised Liu Biao several times in person before to pay attention to the country's social affairs and pay attention to his body, but Liu Biao had already been in good health every time and prevaricated. Seeing that Liu Biao didn't listen, Wang Shang found the Queen Mother several times to state that the emperor was too indulged in wine, and hoped that the Queen Mother could persuade the emperor well.
It can be seen that Wang Shang is not bad compared to his extravagant brothers. Now among the living Wang brothers, he is the eldest, and the position of Da Sima is naturally indispensable.
Only two months after Wang Shang took office, a solar eclipse occurred.
Therefore, Wang Shang found Gu Yong, the assassin of Liangzhou, who went to Beijing to report on his work, and explained to him that no one dared to do a major matter at present.
Gu Yong has always followed the Wang family, he was promoted because he was pleased with Wang Feng, and he was released because of Wang Feng's illness and death, and he returned to Beijing today to report on his work, and he was thinking of finding a way to stay in the capital.
It just so happened that Wang Shang was looking for him to do something, and he had to take a risk no matter what.
What Wang Shang asked him to do is actually not difficult, but in view of the lessons from the past, it is more dangerous, and if he doesn't get it right, he will lose his official position and dismiss him, and it is not surprising that he will hurt his life if it is serious.
Wang Shang asked him to write a letter to point out the emperor's various mistakes, the most important thing is to make the emperor realize the disadvantages of indulging in women.
Wang Shang can be described as painstaking, Gu Yong has always been a bold person.
He really got on a book, and he criticized Liu Biao to the point where he was incomplete.
Before Liu Biao finished reading Gu Yong's recital, he smashed it to pieces. His anger is not in one place, and the little thorn Shi dares to anger him so blatantly, and he is tired of being crooked.
A will to put Gu Yong on death row was issued from the Xuanmur Temple.
Liu Biao's will was fast, but he didn't expect Wang Shang's ears and eyes to be faster, they notified Wang Shang first, and Wang Shang sent someone to quickly notify Gu Yong, ordering him to ride a fast horse and hurry back to Liangzhou.
Wang Shang is also righteous, Gu Yong angered Long Yan for him, and he must ensure that Gu Yong is safe.
The imperial history couldn't catch up with Gu Yong, and Wang Shang secretly mediated, Gu Yong's matter was over.
Liu Biao did not remove him from his post, let alone ask for his life.
Wang Shang saw that he couldn't make a plan, so he had another plan.
The Zhao sisters are Liu Biao's rebels, and it is impossible to drive them away unless Liu Biao is disgusted with them. Therefore, Wang Shang decided not to trouble them for the time being, and he aimed at Zhang Fang, the male pet next to Liu Biao.
This Zhang Fang is Liu Biao's playmate, Liu Biao eats, drinks and has fun, cockfighting and lackeys, all inseparable from Zhang Fang.
In order for the emperor to accept sex, Zhang Fang must be driven away.
Wang Shang knew that not long ago, Ban Jieyu's younger brother Ban Bo and the Queen Mother had advised Liu Biao to exile Zhang Fang, but Liu Biao did not listen. Wang Shang decided to put more pressure on Liu Biao.
He found Prime Minister Xue Xuan and Imperial Historian Zhai Fangjin and asked them to jointly play Zhang Fang.
Xue Xuan is the husband of Princess Jingwu and is known for knowing people and being good at their duties. He has successively served as the county commander, the Lelang commander, the Wanju order, and the Chang'an order. Jiahong was the imperial historian in the first year, and in April of the same year, he was the prime minister.
Zhai Fangjin entered the career with the Ming Jing, successively served as a speaker, a doctor, a historian of Shuozhou, a prime minister, a doctor of imperial history, and was a famous Confucian at that time.
Both of them are upright people, and naturally they can't get used to the arrogant and domineering Zhang Fang, and now what Da Sima mentioned, he is right in the middle. So the three of them hit it off, and the next day they jointly played Zhang Fang.
Zhang Fang was disgraced by Bamber before, but now even the prime minister and the imperial doctor have been involved, and a cold sweat broke down for a while.
Liu Biao is really going to be annoyed by these old men, he can't offend the ministers of the Three Princes for Zhang Fang, if it doesn't work well, these people will be passive and don't work, and they won't squeeze themselves to death.
So Liu Biao finally ordered Zhang Fang to be released to the Northland Governor, and Liu Biao thought about waiting for these annoying old men to be in a better mood before transferring Zhang Fang back.
In fact, Liu Biao did the same, and Zhang Fang came back within a few months to continue to be his attendant.
Wang Shang was furious when he learned about it, and sued the queen mother with a piece of paper. The queen mother also disliked Zhang Fang and took her son badly.
Therefore, Liu Biao was strictly ordered to drive Zhang Fang away.
Liu Biao had no choice but to tearfully say goodbye to Zhang Fang again, and Zhang Fang was appointed as the captain of Tianshui.
However, unexpectedly, Zhang Fang came back soon after, and the reason for coming back was very good, because his mother was sick. Even Wang Shang can't do anything about him now.
can only wait for Zhang Fang's mother to recover, and then let this kid go.
Zhang Fang did roll, but this time he was appointed as the lieutenant in Hedong, which is closer to Chang'an. What is stunned is that this kid's energy is really amazing, and the ass of the Hedong Lieutenant has not yet been hot, and he was called back by Liu Biao to serve as a servant.
In this regard, Wang Shang could only have an urge to find a piece of tofu to kill him.
He can't care about Zhang Fang now, because something happened to the court and he was very busy.
The Empress Dowager died.
As a member of the funeral committee, there are too many things for him to work on, and he died as the empress dowager, so he can't afford to miss a little, otherwise he will lose his black gauze hat like Prime Minister Xue Xuan.
Xue Xuan was really unlucky, he made all the etiquette wrong, and as a result, he was involved in a "full etiquette", and the prime minister was dismissed and demoted to a concubine.
In fact, the matter is not so serious, and anyone with a discerning eye knows that this is deliberate by Liu Biao.
He wanted to fight for Zhang Fang, just like the so-called killing an example, so that those who had opinions about him in the court obediently shut up.