Chapter 92: Quiet
Chapter 92: You
The emperor slowly closed his eyes and said, "You overestimated my patience, I underestimated your energy in the palace..."
The eldest princess looked at the emperor and gasped and said, "I know, you have been giving me a chance, but in fact I have been giving you a chance. As long as you don't want to kill me, I can't muster up the courage to harm you... Because in this life, I have become accustomed to being behind you. It is not easy to stand completely opposite you. I don't want to harm you... so I haven't taken action."
"But you made me desperate." Li Yunrui gasped, then smiled gently and said, "So kill me. If I live, I will definitely try my best to kill you."
"No one can kill me." The emperor said calmly, then his hand slowly exerted force, but the knocking sound outside Guangxin's palace stopped strangely, and a strange thing flashed in the princess's eyes.
"You are my sister." The emperor suddenly reached out and gently stroked her cheeks, murmured: "Even if you are very unbearable, you are still my sister."
This is the last conversation the emperor and the eldest princess have in this world.
Then the palace gate of Guangxin Palace was broken open by several snow-like sword lights. After the hissing, the palace gate collapsed. The Empress Dowager, who looked calm but had an extremely anxious look in her eyes, walked into Guangxin Palace with the company of old eunuch Hong, and under the guard of several tiger guards.
"Son of the Emperor!"
The Queen Mother screamed at the shocking scene in front of her.
The eldest princess looked at the emperor who was close to her with a somewhat lost look. She found that when the emperor heard the scream, a self-deprecating smile appeared on the corner of her lips.
But I don't know who this smile is mocking.
One finger, another, gradually loosened from the eldest princess' red neck, like a deadly poisonous vine attached to a branch gradually weakened.
The emperor closed his eyes. After a long time, he calmed down his breathing, then slowly withdrew his palm, turned back his body, slightly tidied up his dragon robe that was tangled by the eldest princess, and met his mother expressionlessly, holding her hand, and whispered: "My mother, let's go back."
The Empress Dowager's eyes remained lying under the palace wall, stroking her permed and red neck, and her body was shaking all over.
The emperor held the Empress Dowager's hand and tightened it slightly, and said softly: "My mother, let's go."
Although the words were gentle and although they showed a compromise, they were also full of irresistible majesty. The Empress Dowager's hand trembled again. She said in a trembling voice: "Go back to the palace, hurry back to the palace."
The emperor suddenly stopped at the gate of Guangxin Palace. The expression on his face was as calm as ever, but his brows frowned slightly and said, "I think that all the people in the world are my people."
The tiger guards who broke into the palace before had their expressions condensed.
Several winds sounded, and several tiger guards following the Empress Dowager snorted several times and fell into a pool of blood.
The emperor respectfully supported the empress dowager's hand and left Guangxin Palace.
Old Eunuch Hong started to follow behind her.
The underground palace gate of Guangxin Palace was closed again. The princess's breathing sound was locked inside.
Today's court meeting was postponed for half an hour, and the opening of the Thirteen City Gate of Kyoto was also postponed for half an hour. This half hour was enough for a lot of things to happen in the palace, and enough for the civil and military officials in the court to roughly know what His Majesty had done.
So no one dared to go to the imperial city after half an hour. All the ministers of the court were waiting outside the gate of the palace as originally scheduled.
But today the atmosphere between the venues was very strange. No one would gather together to discuss and chat, even the noise seemed to have become a kind of sin. The abnormal silence made everyone feel a sense of pressure.
Just before the early morning, most of the forces in the Changgong-Civilian government had been swept away, and some forces were not even known to these officials in the past. This action came so quickly, so decisive and ruthless, and so clean and neat, which made these officials feel a little cold.
It is said that the person in charge of Kyoto is the old black dog from the Supervision Bureau.
Of course, the officials knew how high the hierarchy of this incident was. However, standing in front of the imperial city, each thinking about it, but thinking it through. After all, the world is His Majesty's world, not the princes' world, nor the princess' plaything. As long as His Majesty wants to move one day, he will naturally clean these people up easily.
It was only at this time that the ministers returned to their usual supreme awe for the man sitting on the dragon throne, and remembered that they seemed to have become accustomed to His Majesty's silence over the years, and forgot his supreme glory and great achievements back then.
But the officials could not accept it silently because they did not know what would happen next at the court meeting. If His Majesty wanted to use this matter to carry out another major cleansing of the court, the old people in the Secretariat of the People's Republic of China were very worried whether the bureaucracy in Qingguo could still bear such a storm.
Fantis has arrested too many officials.
If another batch is arrested, who will do the work for the court?
More people are wondering why His Highness the Princess offended His Majesty and ended up like this. In any case, these officials cannot guess the real reason for the incident, and naturally they cannot think of the bloody and miserable scenes in the palace.
There was no news in the palace, it seemed very peaceful.
The whip sounded and the ministers were arranged in sequence to the hall, including Shu Hu, the two Grand Secretary, who was the first to the Secretariat of the Secretariat, as well as the Minister of Revenue, Fan Jian, also the Minister of Revenue, among them, but there were fewer people in the ranking under the dragon throne.
These people are afraid that they are in the Dali Temple or the Supervisory Office at this time.
The ministers bowed their heads and entered, but after a moment of calmness, they were stunned to find that there was no one on the dragon throne.
Shu Wu looked at Grand Secretary Hu with concern. Although he didn't say anything, he had already conveyed enough information in his eyes. This old scholar had been with His Majesty for many years, and of course he knew His Majesty's intentions and methods. Since he said he would postpone it for half an hour, then his Majesty would definitely be sure to finish everything within half an hour.
With His Majesty's demeanor, he will not do or say things that are not sure about.
But half an hour passed, but he still did not attend court. Could it be that the matter in the palace had reached such a problem?
At this time, the rain in Kyoto had already stopped, and the sky was filled with red morning clouds. Although it was not hot, it was enough to make the person see it feel a little warm. However, the ministers of the Qing State in the Tai Chi Hall were cold and nervous.
With the eunuch's salute, the man in the dragon robe finally arrived late.
After long live the mountain shouting, he spoke in sequence, handed over memorials, and issued reviews. All the procedures of the court meetings seemed so smooth and natural. On such a morning, no one dared to make His Majesty the Emperor angry.
Shu Wu looked up and peeked at him and found that His Majesty the Emperor was sitting on the dragon chaise calmly, but he was slightly tired.
Anything that goes bad is always something that has to be done. After all, the court rules are here, and the civil officials responsibilities are dependent on them. Two ministers were suddenly arrested and imprisoned. The censors of the Censorate of the Censorate went to the third place. Two major bloody cases suddenly appeared in Kyoto. Such major events were so hard that they could not escape.
Shu Wu sighed, and after he said sorry to himself in his heart, he left the line and slowly told him what happened last night, and then asked the emperor for his respectful decree.
The emperor held his jaw on the chair, and after a long silence, he slowly said, "The affairs of the Supervisory Office have all received my will. These people are in prison."
Shu Wu always dared to confront Your Majesty head-on and give advice harshly, but he knew that this was just Your Majesty who needed a slightly funny minister like him, but today's matter was very big and he could not ask for it rashly. He swallowed a mouthful of saliva, moistening his nervous and dry throat, and respectfully replied: "I don't know what happened to Shangshu Yan and others."
The emperor glanced at him, closed his eyes, and waved his hand.
Eunuch Yao had already taken out several memorials and files from the yellow silk box beside the dragon chaise, and ran off the imperial platform and distributed them to several old ministers standing in the forefront.
Of course, old guys like Shu Wu and Fan Jian knew everything about it, and had already guessed it, but when they circulated it themselves, they still showed shock, anger, and guilt.
Of course, the file is the investigation of the Supervision Bureau. Regarding the charges of the ministers who were found to be imprisoned last night, one of them could not be clear anymore. The confessions were all there, and the evidence had entered the Dali Temple, which completely bit the ministers tightly, and it was impossible to give them any chance to turn things around.
The three expressions performed by these ministers in the court naturally meant to tell Your Majesty that they knew nothing about the crimes of Yan Xingshu, the Minister of Personnel. As colleagues in the court, they were extremely angry at the crimes of these criminals who ate the king's salary but deceived the king and bullied the good people... As for the guilt, it was naturally because they had not been able to discover the ambitions of these criminals in advance for several years. They failed to inform Your Majesty in advance and expose the ugly faces of these people, and they could not escape the crime of knowing people's unknown. Thank you for your hard work... You can't help but feel a little ashamed of Your Majesty, the court, and the people of Qing Kingdom.
These three expressions were done very well, but the emperor's expression was still faint, with self-deprecating and mocking on the corners of his lips. The reason why he was half an hour late for court today was naturally because he wanted to comfort his mother in Hanguang Palace and to prepare all the dishes in the palace.
It was obvious that he did not explain to the Empress Dowager why he was angry, but strangely, he was not disappointed that he was unable to secretly erase the eldest princess.
In addition to three expressions, there is another expression among the ministers, which is fear and fear.
The file was uploaded in the court and four officials had knelt on the ground. These officials were also related to the eldest princess in the past and had nothing to do with the matters involved in the file. As soon as they saw this file, they knew that their end was coming.
These four ministers knelt in the Tai Chi Hall and kowtowed desperately, but did not dare to shout for the emperor to spare their lives because they knew that the emperor's Majesty, the one who hated the most was those shameless begging for mercy.
The emperor glanced at the four ministers indifferently and said, "There is no more sin than everyone else."
The four ministers were shocked, and they didn't seem to have expected that His Majesty would spare him easily. The shocked joy made one of them unable to help but sit on the ground and unable to speak for a long time.
The emperor frowned and glanced at the man without saying anything.
After the imperial study room, what is left at this time is the real power center of Qing Kingdom. The elders of the Secretariat, including the Six Ministry of the Three Temples, are still sitting on the embroidery stakes as before, but today these big figures seem to feel very sad.
There was no prince listening to the lecture today, and the ministers were guessing in their hearts, but they did not dare to show any of them on their faces.
The emperor glanced at these people and said slowly: "Some things. I can put them in the court, and some things can only be said here, because you are the pillars of my country, the family affairs of the emperor are also national affairs, and you must know them."
Everyone felt nervous, knowing that this was about the princess. They quickly bowed forward.
"Yan Xingshu and others are just minions, so I will not kill them easily." The emperor leaned halfway on the couch and said, "I will not move in the court either. Forget it, you can see it first."
At this time, the ministers were holding the ground files in their hands, which were not the files uploaded by the court, but some real secrets. So the ministers no longer had to disguise those three expressions, because these three expressions were sent from their hearts.
The eldest princess Li Yunrui betrayed Yan Bingyun, the secret spy leader of the Qingguo Supervision Bureau stationed in Northern Qi!
Collude with the open family, secretly form pirates, and rob the internal warehouse merchants!
Secretly instigate the Jiaozhou navy to slaughter the island!
Instruct the assassin to assassinate the imperial officials in the street!
Grand Secretary Shu was trembling with his fingers holding the file. Although these officials knew that the eldest princess was arrogant, they never expected that they would reach this level, especially the four charges were too terrifying. When Nanqing negotiated with Northern Qi, the people of Northern Qi suddenly threw out chips. The attack of Qingguo was caught off guard, and the Northern Qi secret spy leader who shocked the court was captured... It was actually the first operation of the eldest princess!
The incident was too shocking back then, and many ministers still remembered it freshly, especially later, there was another snowflake in words in Kyoto, and every word on the paper pointed directly at the eldest princess, which forced the eldest princess to leave Beijing helplessly... Yan Bingyun is now the leader of the Supervision Office, which is something that the ministers in the Imperial Study Room knew. The ministers thought that it was just a verbal attack. Unexpectedly, it was real!
"This...this..." Shu Wu felt angry, but he couldn't say anything at all.
The investigation provisions on the file are too detailed and clear, so that even if these ministers do not believe it, it will be difficult for them, especially the local people who have been found guilty of the last three charges, and are still in prison.
"There is a small thing called Junshan Club." The emperor closed his eyes and said, "It was something Yun Rui made. Although the accountant's houseman ran away, the black cavalry finally caught a lot of people. As for the assassination in the street... the two assassins are still in prison now."
Grand Secretary Hu was a little calmer. Although he was not sure why His Majesty had to spread the matters of the royal family to the table, he still asked sincerely: "Will there be any mistakes? After all, it is all the results of the investigation of the First House of the Supervision Bureau."
This is very clear and everyone understands it. If these serious sins really point to the eldest princess, there will be no possibility of the eldest princess making a comeback in the Qing Kingdom in the future. It is only known to everyone that since Fan Xian took over the Supervisory Office, he and the eldest princess have been in Kyoto and Jiangnan, fighting to the ground and dying.
If the eldest princess loses power, then Fan Xian's faction will become the most powerful party in the court.
That's why Mr. Hu had some reminders.
The emperor said slowly: "It is indeed Fan Xian investigated the matter, but this young man would not use such small means as frame-up... The assassin's confession is with the seal of the Jiaozhou navy general, and the account book is also there. The Ming family's confession has come out, so there is no need to suspect any more."
Seeing that His Majesty did not listen to his secret advice, Master Hu replied to silence when he knew that His Majesty must have other plans in his heart.
"Fortunately, Yan Bingyun is not dead." The emperor suddenly opened his eyes and said coldly: "Otherwise, why would I face the people of Qingguo? Whether it is the military or the spies from the Supervision Bureau, they are all good people who have been to death for me, Daqing, but they were sold all by the powerful and powerful for their own personal gain!"
His voice rose up and he said disgusted: "Disgusting..."
The imperial study room was quiet. After a long time, the emperor said tiredly: "But Yun Rui is my own sister after all. If you have any resentment, you can do anything to me."
As soon as this was said, all the ministers in the imperial study knelt on the ground, saying that they didn't dare to say that they felt very strange. What a princess' identity? Does anyone dare to force the emperor to use Qinglu to punish her for death? But... wouldn't it be better to deal with these things in the palace? Why did Your Majesty insist on telling yourself so openly about these people...? Oh my God, where did Your Majesty come from?
"In order to avoid public discussion, the eldest princess Li Yunrui will not be granted the title and the fiefdom will not be expelled." The emperor suddenly said, "Ren Shaoan!"
The Taichang Temple Zhengqing Ren Shaoan, who was kneeling at the back, quickly moved forward a few steps. His legs were trembling and his heart was also pounding. He had no problem with the Imperial Study Room Conference, but he had been suspicious and scared before, but then he realized that His Majesty wanted to respond to the order himself.
Taichang Temple manages the residence and transportation of members of the royal family, and is in accordance with the court ceremony.
"I'm here."
"The eldest princess occasionally felt the cold and walked into the royal courtyard of Xicheng to rest. Those who did not have the will will not disturb each other, and those who violated the order will be killed."
"It is under the supervision of the Supervisory Office." The emperor paused, then slowly closed his eyes, and said tiredly: "When is the river embankment of the river fully repaired, and let her come out whenever."
Chapter completed!