Chapter 249: Cui Pi's memorial
The next morning, Cui Pi had already written a memorial and sent it to Chang'an with a speed of six hundred miles. The memorial was very long, but it was a few words in a brief summary: Xuan Jianhong was loyal to the court, but was destroyed by the riots. Wangtian family appointed ministers to thoroughly investigate the case and severely punish the real murderer. He Changgui held an important position and refused to pay taxes to the court. He was ashamed of his grace. He should leave his position and follow the conventions and be replaced by descendants of the Xuan family.
A few days later, the memorial entered Chang'an, which was like a thunder thunder on the ground. In the Chang'an Palace, the years were so hard that it was like the year. Emperor Cheng's heart was in a mess when he saw the memorial.
Almost fourteen years have passed since the transformation of Ganlu. He was about to die, but now the living Golden Pill, which was tributed by the Golden Pill Sect, survived and became a puppet in Qiu Shiliang's hands. Over the years, he has refined the alchemy and nourished the energy, and began to feel numb to his life bit by bit. His spirit has wandered into a distant fairyland and found peace there.
But recently Cui Pi wrote a memorial and injected a trace of distant hope into his heart. In the desperate situation, the sudden faint hope is sometimes as cruel as torture. It awakens his insensitive soul again, giving him a trace of distant vitality, but faces the cruelty of reality again.
It was very similar to the prisoner who was tortured to the point of coma being awakened by a basin of cold water again. Emperor Kaicheng Lieutenant Lieutenant Qiu Shiliang, who was kneeling beside him, and deeply hated him.
Qiu Shiliang has already practiced his magic skills to the eighth grade, and no one in the court can be regarded as the generals. Unless he commits suicide, even if he wields the power of all the vassals in the world, he will not be able to kill this world's number one who has already broken through the peak of the seventh grade.
The opportunity for him to become a demon is the transformation of nectar. In other words, it was Kaicheng Emperor Li Ang who fulfilled him.
Before this, the inner and outer courts were in a state of relative checks and balances of power.
The prime minister of the outer court was unable to get close to the emperor. Hanlin scholars went to and from the inner court to get the sages, but they had no administrative power. Hanlin and Lieutenant Shen Ce checked and balanced, and shared the favor of the king. The Southern Yabei and the Northern School checked and balanced each other, which was restrained. The Northern School and the vassal state were equal in their troops and had no trouble.
Any tilt of imperial power can be supported accordingly, and of course it will also be subject to corresponding constraints. This requires the emperor to have clever and exquisite power-making skills to take care of it.
However, Emperor Kaicheng was full of ambition and talent. After promoting Qiu Shiliang and finally defeating Wang Shoucheng, his mentality was inflated and he began to be dissatisfied with the current situation of the Central and Southern Yabei and Northern Affairs Office, which made him tie his hands and feet. He actually felt that he was qualified to change the status quo.
His situation back then was in a thorny forest, and he did not move without harming his body. He insisted on jumping around, but naturally he was confused by reality.
The new parties he promoted back then, Li Xun and Zheng Zhu were not only plastic parties, but also as ambitious as him, and their mentality was inflated. They first planned to plot against each other when they did not cause trouble. One wanted to compete for success, and the other wanted to do everything.
Of course, he should be the most damn himself. At the last moment of the situation, he was convinced by Qiu Shiliang and eventually betrayed Zheng Zhu and Li Xun.
When Qiu Shiliang saw that the situation was not good, he advised him: "Zheng and Li entered the court and practiced the affairs of powerful ministers, and changed the dynasty. Our eunuchs are in charge of the government and have a higher authority, so no matter how powerful they are, they will be slaves from the family of Jun Yongshi."
At that moment of life and death, Li Ang was confused and turned directly to Qiu Shiliang, which eventually led to the failure of the Zheng-Li Party's coup. More than a thousand court officials died in misfortune, and many of them were innocent people who did not know the coup at all.
What Li Ang unexpectedly was that Qiu Shiliang learned the great magic skills from whom he had learned, and accumulated the way by committing sins. He made continuous breakthroughs in one day, fought in Chang'an City, and was invincible.
He now finally understood the meaning of "eternal family slave" in Qiu Shiliang's words. Qiu Shiliang is about to reach the highest level of immortality. At that time, it is not Qiu Shiliang who will become eternal family slaves, but the Emperor.
Qiu Shiliang's bloody killing not only destroyed the mechanism of imperial power supremacy, but also broke the backbone of the Tang Dynasty scholars. Since then, the Tang Dynasty's atmosphere has declined, and court officials have been seeking self-protection, and no one has the ambition to take care of the world and govern the country and ensure stability. The honest and self-reliant good ministers and famous scholars were disappointed with the Tian family, either returning to the countryside or joining the eight schools to seek immortality.
Kaicheng Emperor's restlessness not only did not change the fate of the empire, but instead created a peerless treacherous and led the empire to the road to destruction.
Now Cui Pi's memorial to Xuan Jianhong's grievances can be passed to Li Ang's hands. This is of course a good thing Qiu Shiliang did. He just likes to see Li Ang hate him but can't kill him.
When Qiu Shiliang was promoted to the Lieutenant of the left army of Shence, he made great contributions to check and balance the eunuch Wang Shoucheng. However, Emperor Kaicheng turned against him when he said that he would turn against him. As Liang Bo was so cold that naturally made Qiu Shiliang hold a grudge against him.
"This... Cui Pi is in Shu, but he wants to take care of Huainan affairs and also wants to promote the Xuan family's orphan to be the governor of Huainan. Could it be that he is crazy?" Li Ang sighed helplessly and said in a trembling voice.
"The death of the Xuan family is confusing. We didn't want to take care of it back then. Didn't we have already handed it over to the Yangzhou arresting department office to deal with it?" Qiu Shiliang sneered, "Since the arresting department is not good at doing things, let the Cui family send someone to investigate. I heard that Cui Pi's son Cui Yu is a virtuous person from all over the world and defeated the plan of Lei Yaya's master to infiltrate eastern Sichuan and capture Bashu with two thousand fangs. I think he must be a good player in the case."
"Does the lieutenant want Cui Yu to serve as the censor and fully investigate and punish the destruction of Xuan Jianhong's family?" Li Ang asked.
"That's right." Qiu Shiliang smiled indifferently.
Cui Pi's memorial came with force to defeat the power of tens of thousands of witch soldiers in the Southern Wu Kingdom. In fact, it was a means for local governors to expand their influence. Even if the central court scolded him, it would have nothing to do with him, but instead encouraged his arrogance.
Only by mobilizing the Shen Ce army to fight against such people and contacting the vassals to fight the rebellion of Bashu can we finally cut off the wings of the Cui family and demonstrate the authority of the court.
However, Qiu Shiliang naturally knew the price of mobilizing the Shence Army. Once the surrounding towns heard that the Shence Army began to mobilize, they would follow them to mobilize the troops and make preparations. If the Shence Army did not move them, they would send horses to explore the truth and reality of Chang'an. If the Shence Army moved them, they would beat him up!
Now the Tang Dynasty court is at the strangest time in history. Usually, the Southern Ya and the monarchy are combined to check and balance the power of the vassal states in various places. The vassal states in various places need to bribe the eunuch group to support each other and balance the imperial power.
But now, the eunuch group has become the head of the central court, and the vassal states have changed from cooperating with the eunuch group to confrontation.
The eunuch group is under great pressure now. On the one hand, it is necessary to prevent the Hanlins in the inner court from colluding with the outer court to seize power, and on the other hand, it is necessary to prevent local towns from sending troops to clear the monarch. The Shen Ce Army did not dare to move at all.
Xuan Jianhong had bribed the eunuch Wang Shoucheng back then and finally settled in the position of the governor of Huainan. No one knew who had moved Xuan Jianhong and Qiu Shiliang himself. He only knew that Xuan Jianhong was also very uncomfortable when he died. Xuan Jianhong was dead, and no one sent Southeast taxes to Beijing. Life in Chang'an became more and more difficult day by day.
Cui Pi's memorial seemed domineering and did not take Qiu Shiliang and Kaicheng Emperor seriously. But in Qiu Shiliang's opinion, he could only say one thing: Oh, it's not bad.
Cui Pi used to be a staunch royalist, but he just kept his duties strictly and never dared to make mistakes. However, since he defeated the Southern Wu Kingdom, his ambition has finally expanded and he wanted to influence the interests of Jiangnan. This is very good.
Qiu Shiliang wanted Cui Pi's son to go to Jiangnan to investigate the case and find out who it was. At worst, he would give the position of Huainan Jiedushi to descendants of the Xuan family. Maybe he could restore the Jiangnan grain transportation and save the Shen Ce Army.
If it is not found out, he will bury his son in Jiangnan, let the forces that are causing trouble in Bashu and Jiangnan make enemies and attack each other, turning Cui Pi's Bashu army into a shield for the Shence army, and preventing the forces in Jiangnan from counterattacking Chang'an.
Anyway, Cui Pi, whose power is growing, must not be idle. After he is idle, he might get angry and walk to Chang'an to go, which will be difficult to deal with. Qiu Shiliang is now practicing martial arts at a critical moment, so he cannot be disturbed.
Kaicheng Emperor Li Ang sighed and cut off the glimmer of hope that had just risen in his heart.
He originally thought that Qiu Shiliang had some connection with Xuan Jianhong's death, but Qiu Shiliang's performance showed that he was basically a melon-eating person. There was another person who killed Xuan Jianhong, while Qiu Shiliang used the trick of driving tigers and swallowing wolves to bring the restless Cui Pi power into Jiangnan and lead him to fight.
There is no one who truly cares about the safety of the Tian family in the world. Emperor Kaicheng had already hurt these benevolent people's hearts.
Li Ang picked up his pen and, under Qiu Shiliang's eye, wrote the imperial edict under Cui Pi's memorial. When he was writing, a tear of regret slipped from his eyes and dripped on the memorial.
"It's really touching to everyone when they think of the Xuan Mansion, and they're in love with the scene. It's better not to keep this imperial edict, and directly send it to the Menxia Province for review. After it is sent to the Shangshu Province for implementation, it will also let Cui Pi and the orphans of the Xuan family know that the heavens are so kind." Qiu Shiliang said coldly.
"Accurate." Li Ang whispered listlessly.
Qiu Shiliang smiled with a pursed lips.
The ministers and the ministers... were all instrumentalists of Qiu Shiliang, and this imperial decree could be sent back to Bashu in a blink of an eye. The court under his control was very efficient.
He could no longer wait to see what storm waves Cui Pi could stir up in Jiangnan.
Lei Changye, who returned to Shanjin Town from Huichuan Prefecture, immediately ran to Shushan Dao Palace to report to the leader about the follow-up of the craze of thousands of beasts. When he met the leader, Lei Changye felt that the divine light in the leader's eyes became more and more powerful, and it seemed that he was about to catch up with Wu Daozi.
After he reported on the recent situation of Huichuan Mansion, the head of the sect spoke out with a sigh and allowed him to use mustard bags for life. At the level of the head of the sect, the fifth-grade magic weapon is of course interesting, but the accumulation of skills is the focus of attention.
Lei Changye can accumulate a lot of merit for him through various tricks, so he will undoubtedly benefit more if he owns mustard bags.
Lei Changye also met the other sect leaders of Shushan. Their aura was increasing day by day, especially Huang Gongdao, who had reached the peak of the seventh grade and was on par with the sect leaders.
After the report was completed, the head of the sect kept him in Shushan Dao Palace for a few more days.
Lei Changye knew the intention of the leader and practiced hard every day in the Taoist palace, and did not dare to sleep for twelve hours. He had been stuck in the internal strength of the fourth level of the middle level, and made rapid progress like a mountain torrent, and instantly approaching the key point of the breakthrough.
Chapter completed!