Chapter 64: Confrontation in the court
"Your Majesty has arrived!"
With the little eunuch singing sharply.
Emperor Deyuan, with the support of a group of eunuchs, slowly walked into the court.
"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"
The courtiers knelt on the ground and saluted, and the voice of chanting long live today was much louder than in the past.
Emperor Deyuan raised his eyes to look at these people in the court, and his brows couldn't help but adjust.
"Let's get flat!"
He waved his hand and said lightly.
"Today, you Aiqing are very free, even these people who said they were sick in the past have come to the court today, and there are also a few of you who can't be invited on weekdays."
"What a good day is this?"
Emperor Deyuan said, looking at these people present, it was obvious that these people had already divided into two teams.
One team stood behind the crown prince, and the other team stood behind the fourth prince.
Seeing the sparks that almost burst out of the eyes of these two teams looking at each other, Emperor Deyuan knew that today's court meeting might not be so easy to solve.
In the face of Emperor Deyuan's somewhat ridiculous words, none of these courtiers and Confucian scholars present came out to pick up the stubble, and all of them had a solemn face.
In the court, compared to the crown prince and the fourth prince, Zhou Yang was like a good baby at this time, standing in a corner of the court, as if he was afraid that someone would find him.
After seeing Zhou Yang get up, he lowered his eyebrows there, and he couldn't see the expression on his face at all, and Emperor Deyuan's heart didn't move.
"This matter was originally caused by the assassination of Concubine Xian, why is this old seven like an outsider now, and the prince is very energetic in this matter?"
Emperor Deyuan thought to himself in his heart, and when he looked at Zhou Yang, there was a little more strange look.
"Your Majesty, I heard that in Dali Temple last night, Zheng Tianxiang, the secretary of the Criminal Department, has been sentenced for the assassination of Concubine Xian."
"Now that the culprit has been ambushed, please also ask Your Majesty to order this case to be closed, so that His Highness the Seventh Highness can hurry up and go to Qindi!"
A minister behind the four princes stood up and spoke loudly.
In this war without gunpowder, the people under the four princes took the lead in firing the first shot.
This minister stood up and said this sentence is to take advantage of Emperor Deyuan's desire to shield the four princes, and directly come up to make a final decision, and close the case of assassinating Concubine Xian.
After all, all the blame has been put on Zheng Tianxiang's body, and now there is no proof of death.
As for what Zhou Yang said, the letters he searched from Zheng Tianxiang's home were left on the streets of the capital, and the city defense army searched all night last night, but Mao did not find them.
Now the four princes think that all this is just Zhou Yang's bluff there, and they don't need to take it to heart at all.
"Your Majesty, the minister thinks it's inappropriate!"
There was also someone behind the prince who stood up, and this person was the right-hand man beside the prince, Donggong James Dongfang Qing.
This person is also the proud disciple of the Confucian master Qiu Laofuzi.
As the inheritor of Confucianism, he is also closely following the prince, as long as the prince can ascend to the throne, then their Confucianism will definitely be able to shine in the hands of the prince, and they will have a greater say in the court.
"The case of Concubine Xian's assassination is full of fog, Zheng Tianxiang, as the secretary of the Criminal Department, has no contact with the harem on weekdays, why did he suddenly lose his heart and send someone to assassinate Concubine Xian?"
"This doesn't do him any good at all, and Zheng Tianxiang and the Fourth Highness are unusually close on weekdays, if there is no Fourth Highness involved in this matter, I'm afraid no one will believe it."
Dongfang Qing didn't say a word of nonsense, and directly aimed the finger at the four princes.
Immediately, the two sides began to argue fiercely, it can be said that the public is reasonable, the mother-in-law is reasonable, and the quarrel in the court is inextricable.
Now the two sides are not giving in to each other, and they both know in their hearts that if their side loses, then they will not be able to raise their heads in the court in the future.
And then it will be slowly cleared out of the court, and then it will really become an ant in the eyes of others.
Seeing the boiling noise in the court, Emperor Deyuan suddenly felt a tingling of his scalp.
"Enough!"
An angry shout came from the mouth of Emperor Deyuan.
I saw that Emperor Deyuan's face was gloomy at this time, looking at the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty like shrews, where they were abusing and arguing with each other.
"This is above the court, what do you think of this place? Wet market? Such a noisy noise, what a system. ”
Although Emperor Deyuan scolded those ministers.
But the afterglow of his eyes swept towards the four princes and the crown prince, and he knew that his two sons were fighting here for all this today.
Originally, he thought that he had already made a decision last night.
Unexpectedly, the prince was unwilling to let go of this matter, and in today's court, he picked up this matter again.
Emperor Deyuan felt a little unhappy that the prince had tossed so many things again, but he was a little relieved that the prince had such a scheming.
The position of the crown prince has been determined early, but in recent years, the performance of the four princes has also been excellent.
This made Emperor Deyuan a little difficult, and he must hand over Wujiangshan to a capable person this week.
All along, he has been secretly supporting the crown prince and the four princes to fight each other, wanting to choose a better person from these two to inherit the throne.
The performance of the four princes is better than that of the crown prince, and in the heart of Emperor Deyuan, there is already the idea of abolishing the prince and appointing the four princes as princes.
So during this period of time, in many things, he was biased towards the four princes, intentionally or unintentionally.
Unexpectedly, after the incident last night, the crown prince was able to pick this matter out again without admitting defeat and deal with the four princes.
"Prince, since the people in your East Palace said that they feel full of doubts about the assassination of Concubine Xian, then what are the doubts?"
This sentence of Emperor Deyuan shows that his attitude has changed slightly.
At least it's not blindly biased towards the four princes.
While this made the four princes nervous, the prince was also happy in his heart, and he hurriedly took out a stack of letters from his arms.
"Father, these are all letters written by the fourth brother to Zheng Tianxiang, the secretary of the Criminal Department, and I also ask my father to look at it, everything can be known after reading these letters."
Seeing the letters and familiar envelopes that the prince took out, the four princes next to him couldn't help but feel a tightening heart, and their pupils suddenly contracted.
He could see clearly that the letters were indeed his own.
This Zheng Tianxiang really kept the letter he wrote to him secretly, it's really damned!