Chapter 258: Wang Jia dies tragically
The feudal marquis has become a fact, and the ministers are helpless.
Liu Xin's mind has been completely confused, in just a few years, the ministers of the three princes have changed lanterns one after another, and now they have turned an embroidered pillow in their twenties into a Hou Ye.
Liu Xin is really ill, and if this continues, the dynasty will be chaotic.
This has been a source of annoyance to some honest and loyal officials.
Doctor Bao Xuan, the words of the table, the Bohai family, since he was a child, his family was poor, he can be an official, from filial piety to Langzhong, from Langzhong to Langlang, and then to Doctor, all by virtue of his true ability, bit by bit.
He saw that there were several informants in the court, and the matter of a male favorite marquis was in an uproar, so he angrily wrote a book and wrote the famous Seven Deaths and Seven Deaths, hoping to arouse Liu Xin's idea.
Liu Xin read it, and he was deeply touched by the chapter he wrote, but when he read it, it was the same as not reading it, it was nothing more than verbally praising Bao Xuan's loyalty to the country, and his words were sincere, and the shortcomings pointed out in the chapter were directly ignored by him Liu Xin.
At the end of the fourth year of Jianping (the first 3 years), Xifu bowed to the hometown Fu Yanfu.
"Xianghou Kong, don't come unharmed!"
"Oh, what kind of wind blew the Marquis of Yiling here."
"Eh, I've always wanted to come to visit the prince, but the prince is noble, how can I see it if I want to!" As soon as Xifu bowed out, Fu Yan was impressed for a while. Although the two of them are both Hou Ye, relying on the identity of their relatives, Fu Yan still put on a posture of being a head taller in front of other dignitaries.
"Where, where, you and I are fellow countrymen, where do you get any honor? Please. ”
The two of them sat down, and the kung fu of a cup of tea was going on and on, and before it got to the point, Fu Yan finally couldn't sit still, and he asked, "Marquis Yiling, you won't make a special trip to see the old man, right?" ”
Xifu bowed and smiled, signaling him to retreat left and right, and when there were only two of him left in the hall, Xifu bowed and squinted his eyes slightly and said: "Now, the emperor favors Dong Xian, and the government is lax, doesn't the prince have any ideas?" ”
"Uh, what can I think?"
"Junhou, the Ming people don't say dark words, I came here this time to help Junhou make a comeback and take charge of the dynasty!"
"Oh? What can you do? ”
Xifu bowed and nodded, and then said with a smile: "As long as the prince does what I say." ”
Coming out of Fu Yan's mansion, it was already half dark, but the harvest of this trip was quite big, as long as he formed an alliance with Fu Yan, it was equivalent to saying that he had a relationship with the Queen Mother, and he would see who would dare to fart with him in the court in the future.
The next day, he went to the Taoist fold, saying that the Huns did not come to worship this year.
This incident aroused Liu Xin's idea, he hurriedly summoned Xi Fu and the minister, and after Xi Fu met Liu Xin, he pretended to be mysterious and proposed that his words could only be told to the emperor alone.
Liu Xin agreed. After all the other courtiers withdrew, Xi Fu bowed and said: "Disasters and disasters are frequent, I am afraid that there will be extraordinary changes, you can send the general to the border, reorganize the army, and then cut a county to defend the prestige, and shake the four yi, which can correspond to the mutation." ”
Liu Xin was stunned when he heard this suggestion, this is not a trivial matter to order the general to send troops for no reason, and then cut the county guard, and now there is no general, where to find the general to send troops to patrol the border?
Xi Fu Gong recommended Fu Yan.
Liu Xin was not stupid, and did not immediately follow Xifu's advice, but said that he would consider it.
The reason why Xifugong came up with such an idea is very simple, to get Liu Xin's reuse.
Waiting for Xifu to bow and withdraw, Liu Xin quickly sent Prime Minister Wang Jia and conveyed Xifu's advice to Wang Jia. Wang Jia felt funny when he heard it, how could there be such a child's play.
However, his exhortation did not work, and Liu Xin believed Xi Fu's words.
Liu Xin changed his Yuan Yuan Shou to the following year, and under the action of Xifu bowing, Fu Yan was appointed as the general of the Great Sima Wei, and Ding Ming was the general of the Great Sima Hussars.
One of the two generals was selected and sent to patrol the border.
Coincidentally, when the people were selected that day, there was a solar eclipse, which frightened Liu Xin and the Manchu Dynasty civil and military forces.
Liu Xin could only postpone the selection of generals to patrol the border, and issued an edict to solicit outspoken advice.
This edict made people's hearts surge.
Prime Minister Wang Jia took the lead in participating in Dong Xian's book, and many officials and people also played that the solar eclipse is a manifestation of the prosperity of yin and the decline of yang, and it is a manifestation of the dictatorship of foreign relatives to suppress the imperial power, and I hope that the emperor will pay attention to it.
Although Liu Xin received many recitals to impeach Dong Xian, he directly chose to ignore them, and he was skeptical about the recitals of impeachment of Ding and Fu.
A solar eclipse made Liu Xin sleepless, and he remembered the old prime minister Kong Guang, hoping that he could answer his questions.
Kong Guang was taken back to Chang'an, and Liu Xin named him Doctor Guanglu, and his treatment was second only to the prime minister.
Kong Guang's return to the dynasty reminded everyone of another person, he is Wang Mang, since Old Man Kong can return to Chang'an, why can't the Marquis of Xindu?
Many people in Chang'an City who have received Wang Mang's favor took the lead in writing to state Wang Mang's grievances, some people took the lead, and there was an endless stream of followers, Liu Xin was originally a little jealous of the Wang family, and now he had no choice but to send a decree to the new capital Marquis Wang Mang and Pinga Hou Wang Ren to return to Beijing and serve the Empress Dowager.
You can let them come back, but you don't allow them to be officials.
This is Liu Xin's strategy.
Dong Xian was impeached by so many people, and he counted the account on Fu Yan, the initiator, and bowed his head.
He found Liu Xin and said that Fu Yan was a man who was bewitching the public and should be severely punished.
Liu Xin naturally would not refuse Dong Xian's request, so he accepted Fu Yan's general seal, but for Xifu, he opened his eyes and did not move him.
Sifu escaped and became honest.
However, what caught him off guard was that Prime Minister Wang Jia and the imperial historians came forward to stab him again, and the prime minister, the imperial historian bowed to his husband, Sun Pet and others stabbed Liu Xin for their crimes, and there was solid evidence.
Liu Xin dismissed the two and ordered them to be repatriated to their hometowns.
On the way back to his hometown with his wife and children, the speculator was frightened by bandits from all over the country.
Xifu bowed every day to fold the southeast mulberry branches, stepped on the seven-star step, and recited words in his mouth. This matter was discovered and sued to the court, just like when he falsely accused the king of Dongping, others also accused him of cursing the court.
The crime was similar to that of King Dongping, and the imperial court sent someone to arrest Xifugong and take him to Luoyang Imperial Prison.
Before the presiding judge could interrogate himself, he screamed and strangled himself.
"Bow down, you can be regarded as a well-deserved death!"
The presiding judge sighed.
In the first year of Yuanshou, the Empress Dowager Fu, who had been arrogant for six years, died.
The Fu family has died, and there is less power to restrain them, and many courtiers are looking forward to Liu Xin waking up and making a difference.
He did make an adjustment gesture, and summoned He Wu, Peng Xuan and others who had already been avoided by the courtiers.
However, within a few days, the original form was played again.
Prime Minister Wang Jia was killed by Liu Xin.
The reason was that Liu Xin wanted to increase the fiefdom for Dong Xian, Wang Jia thought it was inappropriate, and returned the edict, which made Liu Xin secretly hateful.
After thinking about it, he wanted to get rid of Wang Jia, but for a while, he had no reason to quit.
He pondered for a long time, and suddenly remembered the case of King Dongping the year before last, in which Liang Xiangyan Tan Zongbofeng was implicated and dismissed because of his grievances for King Dongping, but Wang Jia tried to protect the three of them at that time.
Liu Xin called Wang Jia over, scolded him with a big hat of bullying him, and was so frightened that he apologized to Jia.
Guanglu doctor Kong Guang learned that Wang Jia was reprimanded by the saint, and his heart was ecstatic.
The opportunity to get back the prime minister's position has finally come.
He immediately contacted several important ministers of the court, and jointly attacked Wang Jia for bullying the master, and should be handed over to the court lieutenant for punishment.
Liu Xin got the joint performance of Kong Guang and others, and his heart blossomed, even if some people objected, he still agreed to the suggestion of Kong Guang and others, and sent someone to notify the prime minister to go to the Tingwei Mansion.
When the subordinate officials of the Prime Minister's Mansion learned of this, they advised Wang Jia that it was better to cut himself than to be humiliated, and he even prepared the medicine for Wang Jia.
"Xiangye, the general should not complain to the prison officer, this is an ancient case!" The head of the Prime Minister's Mansion cried and said.
"Prime Minister Wang, the emperor ordered you to go to the Tingwei Mansion quickly!" The envoy urged.
Wang Jia took the poison prepared by his subordinates, threw it desperately on the ground, and scolded: "As the third prince, the prime minister is in charge of the country, and he should serve a prison sentence in the city, and he will be punished by the public!" But like a woman, take medicine to seek death? ”
After speaking, he went to the Tingwei Mansion and handed over the Prime Minister's Seal and the Hou Ye's Seal, looking like he was allowed to be punished.
Liu Xin learned that Wang Jia really went to the Prime Minister's Mansion and did not commit suicide, and even scolded Wang Jia for being afraid of death and not being in a proper manner.
In his anger, he ordered the general and the 2,000-stone officials to be tried together and insulted Wang Jia.
Wang Jia was finally humiliated, and sighed to the sky: "As the prime minister, I can't enter the sage, I can't retreat, I already have the grace of the country, I deserve to die." ”
"Oh? Tell me who is a sage and who is unscrupulous? The senior cadres were all waiting with great interest for Wang Jia to give an answer.
"Kong Guang He Wu is a sage, and Dong Xian's father and son are unscrupulous."
The officials on the jury looked at each other, they really didn't know what to say to Wang Jia, except for Wang Jia himself, everyone knew that Wang Jia was sold by Kong Guang, and now Wang Jia actually said that Kong Guang was a sage.
This is too unfair to Wang Jia, so the case can't be decided.
After 20 days in prison, Wang Jia vomited several liters of blood and died.
After Wang Jia's death, Kong Guang successfully became the prime minister, while He Wu was the former general and Peng Xuan was the imperial historian.