Zhangwangfu.

Prince Zhang, Li Xiao, had a very comfortable life.

Since he instructed the servant Shi Fu Youyi to lead more than 900 people in Guanzhong to petition, life has become comfortable.

Although the petition Wu Cao did not approve at that time, he subsequently encouraged more than 60,000 people, including hundreds of officials, clan relatives, Siyi leaders, Shamen, Taoist priests and people near and far, to petition at the same time, and persuaded Li Dan, the prime minister, to write with him and ask for the surname Wu. This is why there is "Fengji Shangyang Palace, Chique sees the court", and this is why Wu Cao came to Zetianmen on the ninth day of the ninth month of September, and changed Hao to Yu, which is the first female emperor in the world.

Because of Li Xiaozhang's strategy, Wu Cao successfully became the female emperor. Wu Cao reciprocated Li with a peach, promoted Li Xiaozhang to the prince, ate 10,000 households, gave the word "Zhang", annexed the governor of the state, and was hereditary.

Li Xiaobrown hummed a little song, had just returned from the palace, and was thinking about how to buy a new house in the east of Luoyang City, when the sedan chair stopped.

Normally, when Li Xiaobrown goes out, he is accompanied by more than a dozen guards, and today he is thinking about the girl Wanchun in Fenglin Pavilion, so there are only four people to follow.

Li Xiaobrown felt that the sedan chair had stopped, so he asked, "What's the matter?"

There was no echo outside the sedan chair, Li Xiaobrown opened the sedan curtain and saw that the four guards had fallen to the ground, and the sedan chair driver had run away.

There was no one on the road.

Li Xiaozhang was beating a drum in his heart.

Stepping down from the sedan chair, it was dark all around, and four people flashed out from behind the sedan chair. Li Xiaobrown looked at it and was taken aback, these four palanquin drivers were dressed up as none other than Ma Yangchen.

Ma Yangchen said with a smile: "Grandpa Guo, don't come unharmed! Oh, by the way, now it's not Guogong, but the prince." ”

Li Xiaobrown smiled awkwardly and said, "It turned out to be you..."

Ma Yangchen said: "Lord Wang, let's talk in a different place." ”

"Go to me, to my palace. I'll lead the way..."Li Xiaobrown was scared in his heart and hurriedly said.

"It's okay! You have also seen their methods, as long as the prince does not make any extraneous branches, we can follow him to the palace. ”

"No, no... Follow me. Li Xiaobrown didn't dare to sit in a sedan chair anymore, looked at the four guards lying on the road, and asked, "Then what should they do?"

Ma Yangchen said to Mo Yan and Mo Fang: "You get people away, and I can go with Jun Qianhua." ”

"No, I don't. Mo Yan and Mo Fang carried the guards into the sedan chair with three strokes and five divisions, beckoned back, and a few more people rushed out of the dark shadow, lifted the sedan chair and left, and after a while, they disappeared into the darkness.

"Let's go. Mo Yan shook his head and said.

Li Xiaozhang walked in front, and a few of them followed behind, not in a hurry at all, not urging him, not talking, just following.

Li Xiaobrown turned around in front for a while, and almost fell. After turning several streets, I came to the gate of the palace on Gucheng Street.

The guards on both sides were taken aback when they saw the prince walking back, and the four of them quickly pulled out their sabers at their waists and asked sharply, "Who are you?"

Li Xiaobrown shouted angrily: "Bold, who told you to use the knife, put it away, put it away... They are the king's guests, open the door, we have important matters to discuss, you keep the door so that no one comes to disturb us, do you hear?"

The guards hurriedly opened the door, and someone stepped forward to help. Li Xiaobrown hurriedly shook off his hand and said to Ma Yangchen behind him: "Strong man, please inside!"

Ma Yangchen and the four of them were not polite and stepped into the palace.

Come to the living room and sit down.

Li Xiaozhang asked people to serve tea, and then retreated, and said: "The strong man is visiting late at night, so you might as well talk about it directly." ”

Ma Yangchen said: "Lord, we took the liberty to visit, and we wanted to ask the prince for something. ”

When Li Xiaobrown heard this, his nervous mood relaxed a little, and said: "When a strong man speaks, as long as this king can do it, he will never refuse." ”

Ma Yangchen said: "Okay! The prince is really fast. Then I won't go around in circles. I came this time to avenge the prince. ”

"Avenge me?" Li Xiaobrown was stunned.

"Yes, our trip is to eradicate your rival for the prince, and to be the court's servant and minister. Ma Yangchen said word by word.

"What? you want to kill Junchen?" Li Xiaobrown was taken aback and said, "Since Zhou Xing was cut off by a strong man, the imperial court has increased the security of the imperial capital. Lai Junchen was even more frightened, and wanted to kill him, but it was not so simple. ”

Ma Yangchen said with a smile: "This time, unlike last time, we just want to use the hand of the prince to get rid of Lai Junchen." ”

Li Xiaobrown was stunned for a moment and said: "According to what the strong man said, this king has no reason to refuse. This king and this traitor are also incompatible, and I hate him so much that I hate him. However, Lai Junchen is now a big celebrity in the emperor, and even the King of Xiang and King Luling dare not provoke him. ”

Ma Yangchen waved his hand and said, "The prince seems to have forgotten the means of our waiting." ”

"Oh?" Li Xiaobrown said, "What do you mean by a strong man?" ”

Ma Yangchen said: "We did an investigation before coming. Lai Junchen has been a treacherous, capricious, sinister and evil person since he was a teenager. Later, he became a hooligan, did not do good deeds, and one day when he was young, he was arrested and imprisoned for committing rape and theft. Lai Junchen's biggest hobby in prison is "false informing". Sometimes he is chasing after the wind, sometimes there is no shadow at all, and he will vividly report to the jailer what major crime so-and-so has hidden. Since most of the things he reported were made out of nothing, the jailer would not gain anything from checking them around. But he still sued and sued as always, and finally aroused anger, and the assassin Wang Xu once beat him up and scolded him with a hundred rods.

However, not long after, the assassin Wang Xu, who beat Lai Junchen, was killed by the imperial court for committing a crime, which made Lai Junchen see the light of hope. Since Wang Xu was killed by the imperial court, it shows that Wang Xu is not a good bird, and since he is not a good bird, according to logical reasoning, the person who has been beaten by him will not be too bad. Lai Junchen had an idea, seized the opportunity, and continued to tell the whistle. This time, he sued at a higher level, directly exposing Wang Xu's major crimes, and then transferred flowers and trees, fabricating his experience of being beaten for exposing Wang Xu on the report letter.

I heard that Wu Cao was very happy to see this report letter at that time, and immediately made an exception to meet with Lai Junchen. In an instant, Lai Junchen's value skyrocketed, thinking that he was a loyal minister, tired of serving the imperial history, and adding a doctor to the court, and now he is a servant. ”

"That's right. Li Xiaobrown gritted his teeth and said.

Ma Yangchen continued: "When trying the cases assigned by the emperor, if there is anything that does not suit his wishes, the criminals will be linked, and the elders and young will sit in their clans, and one killing will be more than a thousand families.

The civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty were silent, and no one dared to speak. People are even more afraid of their obscenity, and they dare not be angry but dare not speak. Together with his cronies Wang Hongyi and Hou Sizhi, he falsely accused those scholars and doctors, whether it was spring or summer, and they continued to kill people. At that time, a prison was set up in Lijingmen, and as long as you entered Lijingmen, it was difficult for one out of a hundred people to survive. Wang Hongyi jokingly called Lijingmen the Case-Door Gate, which means that anyone who enters this gate will have to end their lives.

Lai Junchen also compiled a "Whistleblower Luo Weaving Sutra" with his henchman Zhu Nanshan and more than a dozen other people, with a total of several thousand words, all of which were systematically divided into detailed items according to the content in advance, and also arranged how to fabricate the facts and reasons of the criminal, and ordered his henchmen to denounce it accordingly, and sometimes also submitted the secret letter to the Kuangyuan to let the emperor know, and the emperor mostly appointed Lai Junchen to try this kind of case. Lai Junchen also made a kind of torture instrument, called the sudden roar, and anyone who got on this kind of sudden roar flail had to keep spinning in circles on the ground, and they would soon faint. He also made a dozen flails, which he called the name of the sight of the bearer, and the iron ring halter, in which wedges were added when the prisoners were interrogated. There are also dozens of torture instruments of various names, and they are all roughly the same. Regardless of his original status, the prisoner first put the flail on the ground, and then called him to him and told him that this was the instrument of torture! Normally, those who saw the instrument of torture immediately scattered and framed themselves for rebellion. ”

Li Xiaobrown said: "That's not all. This bastard is not human at all. He also falsely accused the generals Zhang Qianqiao and Fan Yunxian, in the Luoyang Prefecture official office, Zhang Qianqiao and others could not bear the pain, and self-proclaimed meritorious service to the country, righteous and stern, he even directly ordered the guards to hack General Zhang to death. Fan Yunxian also stated his merits, claiming the wrongs and pain of his punishment, and Lai Junchen immediately ordered his tongue to be cut off. The scholars and the common people were frightened when they saw this, and no one dared to speak. ”

Ma Yangchen said: "Such a national thief who brings disaster to the country and the people is punished by everyone. I waited to visit the palace tonight, just to hope that the prince can help destroy this thief, so as to restore justice to the world, and to show the unjust soul who died in vain. ”

Li Xiaopalm got up and said, "Since the strong man said so, this king naturally can't stay out of the matter. It's just that at this time, we need to think about it in the long run, how to eliminate the emperor's trust in him, which is the first problem to be solved. ”

"That's right. The prince and we thought of going together. Then please think about it, what is possible for the emperor to doubt the loyalty of Lai Junchen?" asked Ma Yangchen.

Li Xiaobrown sat down slowly again and said, "Let me think about it." Suddenly, he patted his head and said, "I think of someone." If this person can help, move to Junchen nine times out of ten. ”

"Who is it?"

"Lai Junchen has a friendship with Hedong Wei Suizhong, although Wei Suizhong's reputation is not prominent, but he is very studious and very good at arguing. One day, Wei Suizhong drank too much wine and came to Junchen's house to discuss things. At that time, Lai Junchen was holding a banquet. The gatekeeper deceived Lai Junchen into going out, and Wei Suizhong knew that he was lying, so he broke in with the strength of wine and insulted Lai Junchen's wife, Wang. Lai Junchen felt ashamed because he was abused in front of his relatives, so he instructed someone to beat Wei Suizhong and tie him up, but later someone mediated, and Lai Junchen quickly released Wei Suizhong, but since then the two have formed a feud. Wei Suizhong said that if there is a chance, he must kill Junchen. Although he is a small character, he is both a subordinate and a fellow villager of Lai Junchen, and he must know a lot of secrets about Lai Junchen, so he is not as good as us..."