Chapter One Hundred and Thirty He Actually Always Been
Chapter 130 He has been
The pearl curtain scattered, and the cold light shone everywhere, like the queen mother's bottomless eyes. The queen mother stared at Shu Wu coldly and said word by word: "Sir Shu, the Grand Secretary, is a serious crime to deceive the emperor!"
Shu Wu's expression changed slightly. After a little silence, he respectfully responded: "I have no lord today in Daqing, so how can I deceive the lord?" Facing the empress dowager, the Grand Secretary refused to give in!
The empress dowager stretched out her old hand, slowly pulled out the bead curtain, walked out from behind, and stood beside the dragon chaise. The prince quickly supported the old man.
"Your Majesty in Bintian, Dadongshan, was a supervisory authority who colluded with Dongyi City to assassinate the crime. The incident happened suddenly. How could there be any saying of a will?" The Empress Dowager stared at Shu Wu's eyes and said calmly: "If there is a will, where is it now?"
Shu Wu felt a little cold in his heart. He knew that the Empress Dowager's words were about to push him to the side he was involved with Fan Xian. He sighed and replied: "The will is now in the hands of Duke Dan Bo."
As soon as this was said, the court suddenly felt an uproar. At the beginning of the crown prince's ascension ceremony today, Fan Xian's crime had been pointed out and directly beat Fan Xian to the endless abyss. The ministers did not expect that Grand Secretary Shu would suddenly bring out the so-called will, and that will... was in the hands of Lord Fan.
The queen mother coughed twice, looked at Shu Wu, and said, "Is that true? Fan Xian was the most evil criminal. The imperial court secretly arrested him for several days, but he didn't know that he had returned to Kyoto. Grand Secretary Shu was ruthless. Why did Grand Secretary know about the will?"
Shu Wu bowed to the ground and said sadly: "Your Majesty was assassinated in Dadong Mountain. The sky was sad. However, the matter was only half a month. The military prefectures and counties said it was correct, which was done by Danbo. The old minister knew that Danbo was a man and dared not do such evil deeds. As for the last edict, it was indeed true. The old minister had seen it with his own eyes."
The prince's hands were a little cold, and deep inside his heart was even colder. He never thought that before the incident in Dadongshan broke out, his father would leave a will! What was written on the will was clear without thinking about it. The prince suddenly felt a sense of sadness. It seemed that the father really hated him to the core.
He was silent beside the empress dowager. A wry smile appeared in his heart, knowing that his grandmother's spirit was extremely exhausted today, otherwise he would not have responded in such a mistake. As the empress dowager with a respected status, why did he need to be entangled with an old minister in these details? It was just that the topic was already started. If he wanted to sit on the dragon throne smoothly, he had to conquer the sudden edict!
"Fan Xian colluded with Si Gu Jian to do such a great evil."
The prince looked at the ministers below and said slowly: "Then Fan Xianli was used to being able to apply makeup and deceiving the world and stealing reputation. Grand Secretary Shu should not be deceived by such a traitor. If the father really had a will, the son of this palace would of course be missed and hoped to see the father's handwriting again..."
The words were extremely high. The prince had already heard a slight sad voice. The ministers below offered to comfort him, and he took the opportunity to stabilize his mood.
The meaning of this sentence is very clear. The will can be forged. As a disciple of Shu Wu, how can you secretly interact with Fan Xian, a criminal who is a criminal?
The prince looked at Shu Wu and frowned and said, "I have always respected the elderly and scholars, but what I heard and saw today really disappointed me. I actually secretly covered up the imperial offenders. I wonder how much my father valued the elderly scholars back then. Today, the scholars were so confused and vicious. I wonder what face they would have to see my father in the future!"
The prince's eyes gradually became colder, and a powerful aura that rarely appeared on him began to infect all the ministers in the palace with the words he spoke.
"The Grand Secretary Shu Wu colluded with the imperial prisoner of the court and pretended to be the emperor's will, and someone came... drove him out of the palace, thinking of his age, he was imprisoned and waited for later trial!"
As soon as this statement was made, the whole palace was full of shock. All the ministers of Qing State knew that there was never any gentleness in the fight for imperial power, especially since Grand Secretary Shu brought out the so-called will today, and the prince would definitely choose the most iron-blooded means to suppress it.
But everyone was not used to it for a moment. The gentle prince would show such a domineering aura that was so similar to that of the newly deceased Majesty in an instant!
At this moment, everyone felt like a wooden fish was gently hit by a wooden stick, making a slap.
Because Shu Wu's sad cry, the prince's ascends to the base was forcibly interrupted. All the ministers had stood up, their black or white clothes were floating in their arms and wide sleeves. Everyone was stunned, their mouths were speechless, and the ripples on their sleeves were lit up.
In the empty Tai Chi Hall, all the ministers were silent. They watched the eunuchs holding Master Shu's arms. At the same time, they saw that outside the Tai Chi Hall, there were many people walking in a silence. They should be the guards in the palace, and those guards with short straight swords. All the ministers knew that if they were not doing it well today, they would be the strict end of the hall with blood splattering!
Shu Wu smiled bitterly, without any struggle, and let the eunuch beside him tie his arms. He had already done what he should do. If the ministers in the palace were still silent due to the power of the queen mother, the position of the prince, and the power of the eldest princess, then what if he took out the will?
The Empress Dowager said that the will was fake, but who dares to say that the will is real?
He shook his head, looked at the queen mother with some presbyopia eyes, quietly looked at the queen mother, sighing in his heart, why did Fan Xian insist on not contacting the ministers with the will? If he had contacted the ministers in the palaces last night and had His Majesty's will protect him, these civil officials would always be more courageous. Why would he be like today, so he would have been trapped in loneliness.
Of course, the will written by Emperor Qing was not burned by the Queen Mother in a brass basin. The burning ground was just a piece of white paper in the envelope, and the burning was only the little expectation of Grand Secretary Shu for the Queen Mother's last remaining expectations.
The eunuchs half-helped Shu Wu and helped him out of the hall, and the guards with murderous aura outside the hall were waiting.
The prince breathed a sigh of relief. These stubborn civil officials were still submissive to the power of the royal family and did not dare to be too presumptuous. The queen mother felt a little calm, hoping to drag Shu Wu, the old man who was ignorant of the current affairs, and let the prince ascend to the base ceremony end.
Shu Wu was dragged away in a mess, while dragging him. The old man thought in his heart that his reputation was not necessarily dead, but when the prince truly sat firmly on the dragon throne, would he be greeted with a glass of poisonous wine or a white silk?
At this moment, many people heard a faint sigh.
The sigh came from the day when the civil servant train was the first, the Chief Grand Secretary of the Secretariat, the originator of the Qingguo New Literature Movement. The Grand Grand Secretary of the Court, who has a very high reputation in the court...
Grand Secretary Hu looked at Shu Wu, smiled bitterly and shook his head, then stepped out of the line, knelt down, kowtowed, raised his head, and opened his mouth.
"I ask His Highness the Crown Prince to take back his decree."
The ministers were in a state of uproar.
The empress dowager's face changed slightly, and her hands hidden in her sleeves were trembling slightly. She did not expect that Grand Secretary Hu would stand up at this time. Even if he had a personal relationship with Shu Wu, when this country's fortune was passed on, Grand Secretary Hu...
Grand Secretary Hu lowered his head, three inches of Qingwang under his jaw, and said, "Since Your Majesty has a last order, I dare to ask the Queen Mother's will to announce your Majesty's will."
Before the empress dowager and the prince spoke. Grand Secretary Hu bowed his head and said again: "The incident in Dongshan is full of doubts. If Duke Danbo has returned to the capital, he should be told to enter the palace and submit the so-called will in person. If the three departments are planning a rebellion, how can the military intelligence be decided hastily? Your Majesty's life and death are a major event in the world. Until today, there has been no dragon body. No return from the Tiger Guard, and the Supervision Bureau is in chaos..."
The leader of the Qing State civil servant spoke faster and faster, and even the empress dowager refuted coldly without stopping him from speaking.
"I think the most urgent task is to know the truth of Dongshan. And only Danbo Gong can know the truth of Dongshan."
"Whether the will is true or false, we must always see."
"Whether Mr. Danbo should be cut into pieces, he must be captured and discussed."
"Therefore, I think that the first priority is to capture Danbo and bring him to justice, so I beg the Empress Dowager to make a clear decision."
The palace was silent for a long time. The Empress Dowager only turned pale and looked at Grand Secretary Hu and said three times: "Okay! OK! OK! OK... You kill Hu!"
Killing Hu was because His Majesty the Emperor of Qing Kingdom gave this Grand Secretary Hu a title of bandit for him and rewarded him with a righteous and clear mind. Today, the situation in the palace was dangerous. After a long silence, this Grand Secretary Hu suddenly made a clanging voice, and in front of the empress dowager and the prince, he did not give in, and every word was directly stimulating the hidden story!
The Empress Dowager's eyes slowly narrowed, and the cold light gradually subsided. However, the prince's expression was still as calm as usual, and his eyes swept down.
The prince naturally had his own confidants in the court. Although the ministers were swaying between the princess and the second prince for many years because of the eldest princess' methods, they still stood up bravely at this moment. Yan Xingshu, the Minister of Personnel, looked at Grand Secretary Hu and said coldly: "The Empress Dowager had issued an order to strip Fan Xian of the title and ordered the Fan family to be confiscated. The Grand Secretary still called him Dan Bo Gong. Fan Xian was a serious crime of treason. The two Grand Secretarys were obsessed with refuting today, and I wonder if there was any secret behind this that was unspeakable."
Shu Wu was at the door at this time, looking at Grand Secretary Hu, who was kneeling under the dragon throne in surprise and relief.
Mr. Hu didn't even look at the Shangshu, and said contemptuously: "I am a minister of Qingguo, a minister of Your Majesty, and a scholar of the subordinates. I am the leader of the Secretariat. I am the order to handle state affairs. If your Majesty has a last order, I will see it. What should I not tell you?"
At this time, the three princes under the dragon chaise were in a complicated mood. The second prince mocked his grandmother and the crown prince in his heart. He thought that it was related to the chair. You had to go on an open and upright path. No wonder they caused so many troubles. The eldest prince was silent and secretly calculating whether the wills the two great masters said were true or false.
Only the youngest third prince lowered his head slightly, feeling the hard feeling coming from his calf, and his heart felt a little cold. He thought that a large group of guards rushed in a while... What should I do? Of course, I wouldn't let the prince brother kill all these old ministers!
The prince, who stood tall next to the dragon throne, looked coldly at Grand Secretary Hu who was kneeling below, feeling very complicated, thinking that his aunt's judgment was indeed correct. In the two arms of Qing Kingdom, except for the military one, this civil minister has always had his own brain. This brain was allowed by His Majesty the Emperor, but at this time, this brain began to bring infinite trouble to the prince's path to ascend the throne.
"Both Grand Secretary has come forward..." The prince thought to himself in his heart, and then said coldly: "As a minister, he pretended to be the will. Grand Secretary Hu, you should also reflect on yourself."
As soon as the words fell, another eunuch guard stepped forward and supported both sides of Grand Secretary Hu. In an instant, the Tai Chi Hall was filled with an atmosphere of panic. The two Grand Secretarys of the Secretariat opposed the prince's ascendance to the throne! Both Grand Secretarys were to be taken to prison!
When was this situation the past of Qing State? No minister could think of it. They only knew that these two great scholars were the leaders of civil servants. If the prince could not conquer them openly and could only use this violent means to suppress them, then many problems would eventually arise.
The question of the heart of the court.
This problem was immediately revealed on the way outside the Tai Chi Hall. When Grand Secretary Hu and Grand Secretary Shu looked at each other at the gate and smiled speechlessly, the civil servants who had been standing in the Tai Chi Hall for a long time actually knelt down!
A large piece of darkness!
"Please think twice, and your prince think twice."
Half of the civil servants knelt down at this moment and shouted in unison! This was not just a plea for the two great scholars, but a demonstration against the grandparents and grandchildren on the dragon throne, telling the people of the Li family that in the court of Qing State, there were not only two great scholars, but also many people.
The civil servants belonging to the eldest princess and the military generals who had been silent all the time, were extremely moved to the scene. They didn't understand what these civil servants kneeling on the ground were thinking and what they wanted? Are they really going to get rid of Fan Xian's crimes, and do they really want to stop the prince from ascending the throne? What strength do they have besides that mouth and name?
Looking at the group of ministers under his feet, the queen mother felt dizzy in her head and she was a little unsteady. The prince's face finally couldn't remain calm and became gloomy. He did not expect that a will that did not appear in front of everyone would bring such a great disaster to today's throne ceremony!
Are there really people in this world who are not afraid of death? There should be no. If civil officials are so open-minded and upright ministers who are not afraid of life and death, then what else does the Qing State need the Supervision Bureau to do?
At this moment, the prince's thoughts were a little dazed. He didn't understand why so many people opposed him and could not notice them at all. The officials kneeling down were basically neutral factions... Could it be that Fan Xian had used some witchcraft on them?
Kill them all?
What should I do if I don’t kill it?
A sensation of depression between the prince's eyebrows began to spread throughout his mind. He thought to himself, Fan Xian, Fan Xian, it seems that he underestimated your energy in Kyoto.
However, at this time, the empress dowager who had already returned to the chair, lowered her voice and cursed her name from the crack of her lips, reminding the prince that the scene of the ministers kneeling for advice was not something Fan Xian could do.
Chapter completed!