Chapter 231: The Witch Plague is just a farce
"Queen Mother! The villain is rude. ”
Inside the Longyou Palace! Tong Guan took a group of eunuchs and bowed to Queen Meng.
Empress Meng suddenly said with an embarrassed face: "Father-in-law Tong, this palace did not do witch things, the runic water that my sister brought into the palace at the beginning, this palace destroyed it in front of the official family. ”
"That's right, why did there be a witch Gu in the Xianfei Palace, and they wanted to come to Longyou Palace to search, this is a blatant frame-up." Yan said toughly, in order to hide his weakness.
Tong Guan said expressionlessly: "The villain is also acting on orders, and I ask the queen to be considerate!" ”
At that moment, Tong Guan waved his hand, and a large number of palace guards immediately poured into Longyou Palace.
The Yan clan wanted to stop it, but in vain, and in the end they could only watch the palace guards enter the Longyou Palace to search.
"Found it!"
Soon, an exclamation came, and I saw a group of palace guards searching for charms and Kirito and other witchcraft things from Yan's room.
"Nurse!"
Empress Meng couldn't help but be shocked, and suddenly looked at Yan in disbelief as if she had been struck by lightning.
First, there was my sister Meng Shi who entered the palace with Fu Shui, and then there was the thing that the nurse Yan did behind her back, how could she have so many pig teammates around her.
Yan's face turned pale suddenly, and he resolutely denied it: "This is impossible, this must be framed, Queen Mother, they must be harming you!" ”
However, she still had a fluke, thinking that as long as she bit and refused to admit it, she might be able to escape the catastrophe if she was framed and framed.
Tong Guan's face suddenly sank and said: "Listen to Mrs. Xuan, according to the records in the palace, you have been out of the palace frequently in recent days, so you must know what is going on, and someone saw Ling splashing talisman water on the road of the official house, how do you explain?" ”
Yan's face changed drastically, he didn't expect that what he thought was hidden would be discovered, and he shouted wronged at the moment, and denied it again and again.
Soon, the news of the search for witch things in Longyou Palace immediately spread, and the harem was in an uproar.
Zhao Xu got Tong Guan's report, and his face was immediately embarrassed.
"Someone, order the Imperial City Division to investigate this case thoroughly!" Zhao Xu said sharply.
The occurrence of witchcraft in the palace immediately caused a sensation in the government and the opposition, and the people who heard it couldn't help but tremble in their hearts, and couldn't help but think of the tragic witch disaster during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, which directly killed tens of thousands of people, and affected as many as hundreds of thousands.
And now there is a witch Gu thing in the palace, which immediately affects the hearts of the government and the opposition, the old and new parties have written books, the new party advocates the abolition of the queen, and the old party loudly avenges for Queen Meng.
Fan Fuzhong!
Li Qingzhao couldn't help but be stunned when she heard the news, she was familiar with history, and naturally knew the tragedy of the witch Gu disaster, but she didn't expect that there would be a witch Gu in the Great Song Dynasty.
"Fan Lang, did you say that Empress Meng really did something like witchcraft?" Li Qingzhao asked worriedly.
Fan Zheng shook his head and said, "It's hard to say whether Empress Meng participated or not, I'm afraid the Yan clan won't be able to run?" ”
"Why is Fan Lang so sure?" Li Qingzhao frowned and said, she herself was still inclined to the Yan family to be wronged.
Fan Zheng smiled bitterly: "Because there is a phenomenon in medicine, when a tooth has a small hole, it has often been hollowed out by moths, and in layman's terms, when you find a cockroach in the house, there is often a group of cockroaches in the dark corner." ”
"Everyone knows that witchcraft is strictly forbidden in the palace, but Empress Meng's sister Meng took the risk of bringing Fu Shui into the palace. It can be seen that many people around Empress Meng firmly believe in the doctrine of spells, and Yan, as the nurse of Empress Meng, is in the same place as Meng, I am afraid that they are also convinced of the witch Gu thing, and combined with Empress Meng's situation, it is probably not difficult to guess her motives. ”
Sure enough, as Fan Zheng guessed, with the large-scale search of the Imperial City Division, and Hao Sui had already been secretly staring at him, soon, the nun Faduan and the worship official Wang Jian related to the Yan Clan's witch Gu were all discovered.
The Yan family's practice of witchcraft has been ironcladly proven.
"Qi Qi official family, the Yan family's witchcraft has been confirmed, and the official family is invited to send it down."
Inside the arch hall! Tong Guan made the evidence of Yan's crimes public one by one, and there was an uproar in the court.
Zhang Dian immediately said loudly: "Qi Qi official family, Yan is the queen's nursing mother, Yan family's witch Gu thing, and it is aimed at the official family and the virtuous concubine, it must be the queen's instigation, the minister asks the official family to be abolished, and the harem is corrected." ”
"Wasted!"
Suddenly, the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty were shocked, and the rumors about the abolition of the official family had already been rumored, and the queen's status was in danger, and now she was implicated in the witch Gu, and the queen's position was definitely not guaranteed.
"Think twice!" The ministers of the old party opposed it one after another.
"The official family is slow, although the Yan family intended to let the official family drink the tea with Fu Shui, there was no intention to kill the official family, and the official family did not drink the tea, the big mistake was not made, and Concubine Liu Xian did not have the slightest damage, and according to the Song Dynasty criminal system, the sentence did not reach the capital punishment." Su Song persuaded him.
Su Song is fair, and Su Song's verdict on Zhao Mingcheng's deliberate cause Fan Zheng and Li Qingzhao to fall into the water was also fair, and Zhao Mingcheng was sentenced to three years in prison according to the Song criminal system.
Now Yan's behavior seems to be bad, but it has not caused evil consequences, and according to the criminal law of the Song Dynasty, it is far from reaching the level of death.
Zhang Dian sneered: "It's nonsense, the Yan family dares to put talisman ashes in the official family's tea today, and may dare to murder the official family in the future, if you don't kill an example of this behavior, how can the safety of the official family be guaranteed." ”
Zhao Xu's face was embarrassed suddenly, the reason why he had no heirs was because he was secretly poisoned by the eunuch of the imperial dining room, and now the Yan family secretly put talisman ashes in his tea, which can be said to have violated his bottom line.
As Zhang Dian said, the Yan clan dared to send talisman ashes today, wouldn't it dare to poison another day.
"The Yan family is ignorant and believes in evil arts, and its behavior is certainly damned, but the queen did not participate in it, and asked the officials to take it lightly." Lu Dafang immediately prepared to abandon the car to protect the handsome, and was ready to abandon the Yan family and keep Empress Meng.
Zhang Dian retorted again: "What the Yan family did, one is to leave the official family in Longyou Palace, and the other is to get rid of Concubine Liu Xian, the final beneficiary is the queen, and the other is the person next to the queen's mother, and the queen is responsible for this matter." ”
All of a sudden, the New Party wrote letters one after another, requesting that Yan and others be punished with capital punishment and abolish the throne of Empress Meng.
Zhao Xu has already been inclined to abolish the queen, Empress Meng is hand-picked by the Empress Dowager, which is not to his liking, coupled with the continuous scandals of the Meng family, and now it is even more implicated in the scourge of witchcraft, and the dissatisfaction with Empress Meng in his heart has already reached the extreme.
Even if the old party tried his best to persuade him, Zhao Xu must be sure in his heart that he would get up proudly at the moment, and this time, he must abolish the queen.
Seeing this, the old party couldn't help but feel like ashes, Empress Meng was the representative of the old party in the palace, and if she lost the position of queen, the old party would definitely suffer heavy losses.
The new party couldn't help but be overjoyed when they saw this, once Empress Meng was deposed, Concubine Liu Xian ascended to the throne, and the prince Zhao Mao ascended the throne in the future, the new party would overshadow the old party and the medical party in one fell swoop.
Seeing this, Su Song couldn't help but sigh, although according to the Song Dynasty criminal system, the Yan family could not reach the point of capital punishment, but after all, there was a suspicion of plotting to assassinate the official family, coupled with the particularity of the witch curse, it was not illegal for the official family to execute the Yan family.
Just when the overall situation was decided, Fan Zheng sighed and said, "Qi Qi Guan, the minister thinks that this farce should be ended." ”
(End of chapter)