Chapter 822: Puzzled

Collusion with Meng Yuan can be said to be a hidden pain in Chen Yi's center, once this matter is caught, it is not only a matter of discredited and ruined, but it is completely impossible to get into the court, let alone return to the court, even the fame has to be cut off and become a real white ding. When the little emperor mentioned this matter, he made his heart chuckle, and when he mentioned it in front of the ministers, he must have found something, otherwise he would not have said it rashly with his heart.

"Your Majesty, Yao and Wei just followed the holy decree to find the descendants of the clan, and they were both grounded in the palace due to some mistakes in the hurry. Such a fuss is not to exclude dissidents, but to attack the same sect is self-evident. Chen Yizhong is indeed sophisticated, and when he finds something wrong, he immediately transfers the problem and tries to point the finger at the little emperor again.

"Duke Chen, don't argue, what did the so-called King of Yiyang County say at the court meeting that day, the Manchu Dynasty is full of civil and military affairs, Your Majesty just grounded them is already an extrajudicial favor, otherwise they will be in prison." Wen Tianxiang smiled beside him.

"You are trying to add a crime, the king of Yiyang County is drunk and drunk, how can it be used as a basis for punishing the courtiers!" Chen Yizhong's words were fierce and authentic.

"Wen Xiang, can these letters be used as evidence?" Zhao Yu took a small wooden box from Wang De's hand and handed it to Wen Tianxiang.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Wen Tianxiang took the wooden box, opened it carefully, and saw a few letters in it, he took out one and looked at it and asked, "Chen Gong, is this your handwriting?" ”

"This ...... This seems to have been written by me! Chen Yizhong squinted closely, and most of them were covered by Wen Tianxiang with his hand, and he couldn't see the content clearly, so he hesitated and said vaguely.

"Since Gong Chen has admitted it, then your collusion with Meng Yuan's envoys is true!" Wen Tianxiang sneered twice.

"I can't say that I have never had contact with the envoys of Mengyuan, let alone collusion." Chen Yizhong hurriedly said.

"Please review it with a few deacons!" Wen Tianxiang saluted several governors. Lu Xiufu, Zhang Shijie, Liu Huang, Ying Jieyan and Deng Guang recommended the list, and several people took the letters in the box and carefully examined them one by one. But Chen Yizhong was like sitting on pins and needles, looking at a few people with uncertain expressions, trying to find some flaws in them, and at the same time racking his brains to think about what he wrote fell into their hands.

"Colleagues, is it Chen Youquan's handwriting?" After a while, seeing a few people watching, Wen Tianxiang asked.

"I am most familiar with the handwriting of He Quan, and these three letters, whether in handwriting or in a monogram, can be assumed to be from him. These letters seem to be the handwriting of Yao and Wei. The governor should see if these two letters are in the handwriting of Liumengyan. Liu Huang and Chen Yizhong were classmates and were quite familiar with his handwriting. The flower is equivalent to the modern fancy signature with personal characteristics, in order to prevent the signature from being counterfeited by others, and at the same time to let people know who wrote it at a glance, he said several letters in different categories.

"Yes, it's the handwriting of Han Mou!" Ying Jieyan put on his glasses and looked at them carefully.

"Hmph, do you want to read it again, is it your book?" After repeated verification in the court, Wen Tianxiang asked Chen Yizhong again.

"I don't look at it, you are conspiring to frame and deceive the world!" Chen Yizhong never thought that the letters he exchanged with Liu Mengyan would fall into the hands of the little emperor, and these letters alone would be enough to kill him, but he still denied it.

"You are the one who deceives the people of the world, right?" Zhao Yu stood up and said, "Now that the evidence is ironclad, you are still denying it." On the day of the book ceremony, someone was sent to stab me, and it was also from your handwriting! ”

"Your Majesty, if you want to put the grass people to death, why frame them again, the soldiers can be killed but not humiliated, if Your Majesty wants my head, you can take it!" Regarding the leakage of letters, Chen Yizhong suspected that Liu Mengyan betrayed himself in order to save his life, but the assassination was all done by his cronies. The insiders have all been killed, as long as they don't admit it, no one will know the truth, so they still shout with their necks.

"It's useless to deny, Xuan Liu will go to the palace to see you!" Zhao Yu smiled and turned to Wang Dedao. Chen Yizhong's tricks are considered to have seen through him, and he will not admit it without real evidence, and if he is exposed, he will mess around, no different from a street shrew. He thought that the same thing was true of politicians, who were deceitful, ridiculous, and smiling, and their methods were not very clever, but they were more shameless and despicable than the shrews, and this thing was also a perfect game and learned the essence.

However, since Zhao Yu wants to control him, he has to fight a prepared battle. And as the saying goes, if you want him to perish, you have to let him run rampant, so that he thinks he has to make mistakes constantly. And he just waited, and even instigated, that it was okay for him to stop the driver and write the book, but he could talk about it by colluding with the enemy country, and there was nothing to say about the assassination of the king. But Chen Yizhong is no better than ordinary people, if you want to get him, you have to convince the world and all the subordinates, then you have to have real evidence, and be open and transparent, and announce his crimes to the world.

When Zhao Yu learned that Chen Yizhong was going to lead the crowd to beat the drum and write on the day of the Queen Mother's return to the court, he felt that the opportunity had come, so he did it in this court. But he is still intoxicated with the dream of returning to the court and waiting for the phase to take charge of national politics again. You can have the heart and mind to catch him off guard, not only to expose his evil deeds to his face, but also to make no more trouble.

"Subordinate Liu Yan to meet Your Majesty!" The effort is not big, and Liu Yan went to the hall to pay homage.

"Flat!" Zhao Yu raised his hand to let him get up, pointed at Liu Yan and asked, "Do you know this person?" ”

"See Chen Xianggong!" Liu Yan turned around and saluted Chen Yizhong first.

"You...... How did you end up here? Chen Yizhong looked Liu Yan up and down, and said in surprise.

"Now that you know each other, is the rest of the matter for me to say, or for you to say?" Zhao Hao asked with a smile.

"I treated you well in the past, why did you betray the old master!" Chen Yizhong never expected that Liu Yan would appear in the court, he had followed him as a personal follower for many years, and he was familiar with all the people around him. Isai Tiger pretended to be Chen Qing, he could deceive others, but he couldn't deceive Liu Yan, so the matter was undoubtedly exposed.

"Hehe, Liu Yan is originally a person from my handsome mansion, how can he talk about betraying the master. On the contrary, Chen Gong is my great Song people, who once ranked among the kings of the court, but not only betrayed the country, but also killed the king! Zhao Hao smiled.

"In this way, the one who assassinated His Majesty that day was the mastermind!" Wen Tianxiang asked in surprise.

"Wen Xiang, the assassin is his disciple in Zhancheng, pretending to be the book donor Chen Qing to assassinate in the palace, the person behind it is self-explanatory!" Zhao Yu said.

"The queen mother, the minister thought that Chen Yizhong had been the left minister of the dynasty, and in the name of contacting the city, he led more than 200 warships, several ships of property, and tens of thousands of soldiers, but he never returned, and he should be punished for treason!" Lu Xiufu came out of the ranks.

"Queen Mother, Chen Yizhong slandered His Majesty in public and disturbed the court, and the ministers thought that they should be punished for the crime of bullying the king!" Deng Guangjian also came out.

"Queen Mother, Chen Yizhong colluded with bandits, assassinated His Majesty, dethroned the throne without permission, and deceived the monarch, and should be punished with capital punishment!" Deng Wenyuan came out of the list and said.

"Queen Mother, Chen Yizhong colluded with Meng Yuan and betrayed the lord and treason, and his crime should be punished!" Gong Xingqing of Dali Temple also played upward.

"This son colludes with the enemy country and causes chaos in the government, he should be killed!" All the ministers in the palace shouted in unison.

"Kill, kill, kill......" Although the people gathered outside the palace gate did not understand it, they also saw it, and found out that Chen Yizhong was not a loyal minister who asked for the people's life, but a traitor who sought power and usurped the throne and troubled the country, so they also clamoured.

"Queen Mother, I am also dedicated to the country, but I was confused for a while, and I was bewitched by the villain to do a big rebellious thing, please forgive the Queen Mother!" Liu Yizhong's unexpected appearance made Chen Yizhong's plan completely bankrupt, and the shouting of killing made him completely panicked, and he hurriedly begged the Queen Mother for mercy.

"Take down Chen Yizhong and a group of accomplices and interrogate them strictly!" But Empress Dowager Yang had a frosty face and said coldly.

"Obey orders!" Ni Liang beckoned, and a team of guards rushed to the palace to arrest and detain Chen Yi and others. And the arrest in the square in front of the hall also began, and the farce ended with the shouting of injustice and the laughter of onlookers, and there was no cheering from the people that Chen Yizhong expected for what he had done, only cursing and spitting......

In response to this sensational incident, the imperial court only published an article on the front page of the "Imperial Daily" about the beginning and end of the incident, and at the same time informed the officials of the seven products in various places through the Di Bao. Zhao ordered the Bureau to closely monitor official and non-governmental public opinion, and any response must be reported in a timely manner and properly handled, and asked the Imperial Front Office to sort out the relevant information on the same day and send it for reading in a timely manner.

But Zhao soon found himself too nervous, and in the first few days, news from all over the country reached his desk like snowflakes, including local officials who expressed their loyalty and demanded severe punishment for Chen Yizhong's letter; However, after the incident spread, there was a lot of discussion in the locality, but the public opinion reflected by public opinion was more to spread and discuss the matter with the mentality of watching the excitement, and there was no obvious political tendency. After digging deep into what Chen Yizhong had done over the years, the newspapers in Beijing quickly showed little interest in this political event and turned to the more attractive homely routine.

However, this major event in the imperial court, just like a modern hot event, gradually cooled down after a few days, like a gust of wind blowing, few people talked about it, and disappeared into people's chatter, not as much as the news that the Zhang family's cow gave birth to an elephant has staying power. Zhao Yu thought about it, Chen Yizhong has disappeared from people's field of vision for many years, and the emperor has changed several times, where will anyone be interested in a prime minister who has long been outdated, if it weren't for his 'big thing', I'm afraid no one will remember who he is anymore.

Zhao Yu was quite emotionally moved by this, thinking that Chen Yizhong was also a powerful figure in the late Song Dynasty, and he also wrote a letter to impeach Ding Daquan with all the students of the Tai Dynasty with high spirits, and then took refuge in Jia Rudao, and then 'obeyed' the public opinion to defeat him and ascended to the stage. After presiding over the government, Meng Yuan had already approached the city, and he booby-trapped Han Zhen, the commander of the forbidden army who was bent on moving the capital, but fled at the last moment. After the establishment of the Xing Dynasty, it was even more unparalleled, and it can be described as a powerful minister above 10,000 people under one person. But such a figure is quickly forgotten, but it also shows that an era is over.

The voice of the people has gradually cooled, but there are still disagreements in the court about how to deal with Chen Yizhong, which is what he expected. Chen Yizhong's collusion with Meng Yuan and the assassination of His Majesty is already a solid matter, and now the debate is nothing more than the question of whether to kill or not, and even among the rulers, there are such different opinions. Some people think that the ancestral system should be obeyed and not killed; Some people think that he has committed a heinous crime, which has long gone beyond the scope of the ancestral system, and deserves to be put to death.

After several meetings, it has been difficult to convict because of the controversy. However, Zhao Yu knew that this matter must be resolved quickly, otherwise the scope of the controversy would be expanded, and it would inevitably lead to a 'big discussion', and the result would still not be optimistic, but would lead to a new court dispute. But at this time, the Queen Mother suddenly issued a decree, saying that Her Majesty had been fighting for a long time, causing a serious illness, although she had recovered, but still needed to recuperate, so she was temporarily in charge of the court.

Zhao Hao was very puzzled, since he was seven years old when he was in charge of the country's affairs, the Queen Mother basically no longer cared about the government for so many years, even if she needed to be approved by the emperor when she encountered major events, she often did so. But now that he has just returned to Lin'an, why do he want to seize power? Do you really want to depose him before he becomes a pro-government and set up a new king? But he didn't think about it, if he really had this intention, he should take himself out when Chen Yizhong was in trouble, and he didn't have to defend it in every way.

Puzzled, Zhao Yu wanted to go to the West Palace to 'ask for sin', but soon there was another edict for him, allowing him to go to Yanxiang Garden, the imperial garden outside the city, to recuperate. This made him even more confused, could it be that he wanted to drive himself out of the capital so that he could act, but the queen mother couldn't figure out what she wanted to do. After a little preparation, he said goodbye to the Queen Mother and went to Yanxiang Garden outside the city, accompanied by not only the guard battalion, but also a regiment of the personal guard brigade.

Zhao Yu felt even more wrong at this time, the pro-guard brigade was concurrently served as the brigade commander by Ni Liang, but this regiment was a little special, and its commander was Yang Shilong, the third son of Yang Liangjie. When Meng Yuan went south, Yang Liangjie escorted his sister and two nephews to run south, and participated in supporting his nephew Zhao Yu as the emperor and became the uncle of the country. Later, he drove to Quanzhou, because of military affairs, and returned, the young emperor and his entourage had arrived in Chaozhou. Then he took his three sons Shichang, Shiyao, and Shilong to chase to Zhangzhou, but failed to catch up with the Battle of Yashan, and died of illness shortly after going to Qiongzhou, and was posthumously named the king of the county.

After that, Yang Liangjie's eldest son Shichang inherited his title, the second son Shiyao returned to his hometown to guard the mausoleum, and the third son Shilong was put into the army, and he was tired to the commander. When the pro-guard brigade was formed, he was transferred to the commander of any regiment at the request of the Queen Mother. Zhao Yu thought about it, after all, everyone is relatives, and it is more reassuring to let others serve as the defense of the inner palace, and the queen mother can also feel at ease. Unexpectedly, this time he was still asked to accompany him, which made him inevitably mumble in his heart, and things became more foggy and difficult to figure out......