Chapter 822
Collusion with the Mongol Yuan can be said to be a hidden pain in Chen Yi's center. Once this matter is caught, it will not only be a matter of discredited reputation and a disgrace, but it will be completely lost in the court. Not to mention returning to the court, even his fame will be cut off and he will become a real white divine. The little emperor mentioned this matter, which made him feel a little sad. When he mentioned it in front of the ministers, he would definitely find something, otherwise he would not say it rashly with his nature.
"Your Majesty, Yao and Wei just followed the imperial edict and looked for descendants of the royal family. Because of the hasty time, they were both banned from the mansion. Such a small matter is not just to eliminate dissidents, but to attack the same clan, it is self-evident." Chen Yizhong was indeed experienced. He immediately passed on the problem when he found that something was wrong, and tried to point the finger at the little emperor again.
"Mr. Chen should not argue. At the court meeting that day, the so-called Prince of Yiyang said something traitorous. All the civil and military officials in the court were all in their ears. It was a blessing from the law that Your Majesty just put them in the prison, otherwise he would have to be killed in the heavenly prison." Wen Tianxiang said with a smile.
"You are trying to inflict crimes. The Prince of Yiyang said that he was drunk and drunk. How could he be used as a basis for punishing the court officials!" Chen Yizhong said fiercely.
"Wen Xiang, can these letters be used as evidence?" Zhao Bing took a small wooden box from Wang De and handed it to Wen Tianxiang and said.
"Yes, Your Majesty!" Wen Tianxiang took the wooden box and opened it carefully. He saw several letters in it. He took out one and looked at it and asked, "Mr. Chen, is this your handwriting?"
"This... this seems to be what I wrote!" Chen Yizhong approached and squinted his eyes, while most of them were covered by Wen Tianxiang with his hands, unable to see the content clearly, and he hesitated and said vaguely.
"Since Mr. Chen admitted it, then the incident of your collusion with the envoys of the Mongol Yuan is true!" Wen Tianxiang sneered twice.
"The literary minister cannot be said in a silence. I have never had any contact with the envoys of the Mongol Yuan, and there is no collusion." Chen Yizhong said hurriedly.
"Please review together!" Wen Tianxiang said to the several prime ministers. Lu Xiufu, Zhang Shijie, Liu Fu, Ying Jieyan and Deng Guang recommended him. Several people took the letters in the box and carefully looked at them one by one. However, Chen Yizhong looked at the few people in a stale expression, trying to find some flaws from them. At the same time, he racked his brains to think that what he wrote would fall into their hands.
"Dear colleagues, are there Chen Yuquan's handwriting?" After a while, after seeing a few people watching, Wen Tianxiang bowed and asked.
"I am most familiar with the handwriting of Quan. Both the handwriting and the silhouettes of these three letters are believed to be from him. These letters are like the handwriting of the two ministers of Yao and Wei. You should know whether these two letters are Liu Mengyan's handwriting." Liu Fu and Chen Yizhong were classmates and were very familiar with their handwriting. The silhouettes are equivalent to modern fancy signatures with personal characteristics, in order to prevent others from fake signatures. At the same time, they can make people know who wrote them at a glance. He classified several letters and said in a word.
"Yes, it's Liu Hanmou's handwriting!" Ying Jieyan put on his glasses and looked carefully again.
"Hmph, Mr. Chen wants to read it again if it is written by you?" After repeated verification in the classroom, Wen Tianxiang asked Chen Yizhong again.
"I don't look at it. You are conspiring to frame and frame the people of the world!" Chen Yizhong never expected that the letters he communicated with Liu Mengyan would fall into the hands of the little emperor. These few letters alone would be enough to kill him, but he still denies.
"Is it you who deceived the world?" Zhao Bing stood up and said, "Now the evidence is as strong as a mountain, you are still denying it. It is your work to send someone to assassinate me on the same day as the Book of Changes."
"Your Majesty, if you want to commit suicide, why should you frame the people again? Soldiers can be killed or humiliated. If your Majesty wants to take the head of my neck, you can take it away!" Chen Yizhong suspected that Liu Mengyan betrayed him to save his life, but the assassination was handled by his confidants. All the insiders had already silenced them. As long as they were beaten to death, no one would know the truth, so he even shouted with his neck.
"It's useless to deny it. Xuan Liuqian went to the palace to meet him!" Zhao Bing smiled and turned to Wang Dedao. He saw through Chen Yizhong's tricks of cheating. He refused to admit his account without real evidence. He was exposed and he was stubborn. He was no different from a street shrew. He thought that the same thing was actually the case with politicians. They were cheating, making jokes, and hiding their knives in their laughter. Their methods were not much more wise, but they were more shameless and despicable than shrews. And this guy was so well-versed and learned the essence.
However, since Zhao Bing wanted to control him, he had to fight a prepared battle. As the saying goes, if he wanted to destroy him, he would be arrogant and make him think he was always able to make mistakes. He just waited and even encouraged him to stop him and wrote a letter to him, but if he colluded with an enemy country, he could say something, and there was nothing to say about assassinating the king and killing the emperor. But Chen Yizhong was no more than ordinary people. If he wanted to do it, he had to convince the world and the ministers, so he had to have real evidence and openness and transparency to publish his crimes in the world.
When Zhao Bing learned that Chen Yizhong was going to lead the crowd to beat drums and write letters on the day the empress dowager returned to court, he felt that the opportunity had come, so he did it in this court. But he was still intoxicated in the dream of returning to court and waiting for the prime minister to take charge of national affairs again. He could have a mindless plan and catch him off guard. Not only did he expose his evil deeds in person, but he also had to make no troubles.
"I am Liu Qiang, the subordinate, pay homage to Your Majesty!" He didn't have much effort, so Liu Qian went to the palace to pay homage.
"Flat!" Zhao Bing raised his hand and asked Liu Qian, pointing to him and asked, "Can you recognize this person?"
"See Mr. Chen!" Liu Qian turned around and bowed to Chen Yizhong first.
"You...why are you here?" Chen Yizhong looked up and down at Liu Qian and said in surprise.
"Since you know each other, is the rest I said or you?" Zhao Bing asked with a smile.
"I treated you well in the past, why did you betray your old master!" Chen Yizhong never expected that Liu Qian would appear in the court. As he followed him for many years, he was familiar with everyone around him. Yisai Fenghu pretended to be Chen Qing and could deceive others, but he could not deceive Liu Qian. Then the matter was undoubtedly exposed.
"Haha, Liu Qian was originally from my general's mansion, how can we talk about betraying the Lord? On the contrary, Mr. Chen was a citizen of the Song Dynasty. He once served as a dine-in master in the court, but not only did he blame the country, but he also wanted to kill the king!" Zhao Bing smiled.
"In this way, he was the mastermind who assassinated Your Majesty that day!" Wen Tianxiang asked in surprise.
"Wen Xiang, the assassin is his disciple who was raised in Champa City. Chen Qing, a scholar, went to the palace to assassinate. The people behind him will understand it without saying a word!" Zhao Bing said.
"The Empress Dowager, I think Chen Yizhong was the left prime minister of the Shang Dynasty. In the name of contacting the city, he led more than 200 warships, several ships of wealth, and tens of thousands of soldiers to go there, but he never returned. He should be treated as treason!" Lu Xiufu made a speech.
"Empress Dowager, Chen Yizhong slandered Your Majesty in public and disturbed the court. I think he should be punished for deceiving the king!" Deng Guangjian also said.
"Empress Dowager, Chen Yizhong colluded with bandits and assassinated Your Majesty, arbitrarily speaking and abolishing the king and deceiving the emperor, and he should be punished with the extreme punishment!" Deng Wenyuan went out to report the ceremony and said.
"Empress Dowager, Chen Yizhong colluded with the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty and betrayed the lord and treason, and his crimes should be punished!" Gong Xingqing, the chief of Dali Temple, also replied.
"This son colluded with the enemy country and caused trouble to the government, so he should be killed!" The ministers in the palace shouted in unison.
"Do you deserve to kill, you deserve to kill, you deserve to kill..." Although the people gathered outside the palace gate did not understand, they also saw that it was roughly obvious. It was clear that Chen Yizhong was not a loyal minister who asked for the people, but a treacherous charity who sought power and usurped the throne and caused trouble to the country.
"Empress Dowager, I am also dedicated to the country. I was just confused for a moment and was bewitched by villains and did a great debauchery. Please forgive me!" Liu Qian's accident appeared, which completely broke Chen Yizhong's plan, and there were shouts of killing from all over the country, which made him panic and hurriedly begged for mercy to the empress dowager.
"Take Chen Yizhong and his accomplices and interrogate them strictly!" But Empress Dowager Yang said coldly with a frosty face.
"As for your order!" Ni Liang waved his hand, and a team of guards rushed to the hall to arrest Chen Yizhong and others, and imprisoned them. The arrest in the square in front of the hall also began. A farce ended with the shouts of injustice and the laughter of onlookers. There was no cheer for the people who were expecting by Chen Yizhong for what he did, only curses and spit...
Regarding this sensational incident, the court only published an article about the whole story on the front page of the Empire Daily, and at the same time informed the seventh-rank officials in various places in detail through the official newspaper. The Zhao Bingzhi Bureau closely monitored the public opinion of the official and the public, and reported any reactions in a timely manner and handled properly. It also required the imperial front office to sort out the relevant information on the same day and send it to the timely reading.
However, Zhao Bing soon found that he seemed too nervous. In the first few days, the news sent from various places was delivered to his desk like snowflakes. Among them, local officials expressed their loyalty and demanded severe punishment for Chen Yizhong's letters. However, after the incident spread, local people were talking about it, but the public opinion reflected in public opinion was more spreading and discussing the matter with a lively mentality, and there was no obvious political tendency. After digging down Chen Yizhong's actions over the years, newspapers in Beijing were very interested in this political incident and turned to a more attractive family matter.
However, this major event that happened in the court was like a modern hot event. It gradually cooled down a few days later. As if the gust of the wind blew, few people mentioned it. It disappeared into people's chats. It was not as long-lasting as the news of the cow from the Zhang family gave birth to an elephant. Zhao Bing thought about it. Chen Yizhong had disappeared from people's sight for many years, and the emperor had changed several times. Where would anyone be interested in a prime minister who had been out of date? If it weren't for his "big event", no one would have remembered who he was again.
Zhao Bing was quite moved by this. Thinking about Chen Yizhong was also a powerful figure at the end of the Song Dynasty. He also energeticly wrote a letter to all the students to impeach Ding Daquan. Later, he defected to Jia Sidao and rose to prominence. Later, he "obeyed" public opinion to defeat him and ascended to the prefecture. After presiding over the government, the Mongolian Yuan was already at the city. He lured and killed Han Zhen, the imperial guards who had been moved to the capital, but fled at the last moment. After the establishment of the dynasty, he was even more unique, and he could be called a powerful minister above ten thousand people. But such a person was soon forgotten, but this also shows that an era has ended.
The voices of the people have gradually cooled down, but there are still differences in the court about how to deal with Chen Yizhong, which was expected by him. Chen Yizhong colluded with the Mongolian Yuan and assassinated Your Majesty was confirmed. What is now debated is nothing more than the issue of killing or not killing. Even in the priest, there are such different opinions. Some people think that they should follow the ancestral system and not killing; some people think that what they committed was a sin of unforgivable crime, which has long exceeded the scope of the ancestral system and should be executed.
After several rounds of discussions, it was difficult to convict because of the undisputed argument. However, Zhao Bing knew that this matter must be decided quickly, otherwise the scope of the debate would be expanded accordingly, which would inevitably trigger a "big discussion". The result was still not optimistic, which would trigger a new dispute in the court. But at this moment, the Empress Dowager suddenly issued an imperial edict saying that Your Majesty had been fighting for a long time, which caused a serious illness. Although he had recovered, he still needed to rest, so she was temporarily in charge of the government.
Zhao Bing was very puzzled. Since he was seven years old, the empress dowager had basically stopped inquiring about the government affairs for so many years. Even if he had to be controlled by major issues, he often followed suit. But now he just returned to Lin'an and seized power? Do you really want to depose him and establish a new king before he took power? But he thought about it and didn't look like it. If he really had this intention, he should take away himself when he was in court in Chen Yizhong without any maintenance.
Unable to understand, Zhao Bing originally wanted to go to the West Palace to "apsue" but soon another imperial decree was given to him, asking him to go to Yanxiang Garden, the Imperial Garden outside the city to rest. This made him even more confused. Could it be that he wanted to drive himself out of the capital to facilitate his actions? But the empress dowager could not figure out what he wanted to do. After a little preparation, he said goodbye to the empress dowager and went to Yanxiang Garden outside the city. In addition to the guard camp, there was also a brigade of the personal guards.
Zhao Bing felt even more wrong at this time. Ni Liang served as the brigade commander, but this regiment was a bit special. The commander was Yang Liangjie's third son Yang Shilong. When the Mongolian Yuan went south, Yang Liangjie escorted his sister and two nephews to flew south, and participated in the support of his nephew Zhao Jing as the emperor and became the uncle of the country. Later, he followed Quanzhou and left for military affairs. When he returned, the Shao Emperor and his party had already arrived in Chaozhou. So he took his three sons Shichang, Shiyao and Shilong to Zhangzhou, but he failed to catch up with the battle of Yashan. He died of illness shortly after going to Qiongzhou and was posthumously named Prince.
Chapter completed!