XXXVII. The Destruction of the Song Clan

Cao Song said that Wang Fu was one of the regular attendants, one of the cronies and eunuchs around Emperor Ling, and the godfather of Wang Ji, the minister of Pei who was filial to Cao Cao.

At the beginning, Cao Song wanted Cao Cao to avoid the threat of eunuchs from the beginning of his career, so as to create a good reputation, so Cao Cao killed Jian Tu, and Cao Cao got a good reputation after that, but he annoyed the eunuchs.

The eunuchs are not monolithic, although the eunuchs are united most of the time when faced with fatal things, but they are usually infighting.

Cao Cao's matter annoyed Wang Fu, because Cao Cao was recommended by his godson, and as soon as he took office, he rebelled openly and slapped him in the face.

Wang Fu wanted to clean up Cao Cao and even the entire Cao family, not only for this reason, but also for the Song family.

The Cao family and the Song family are in-laws, Cao Cao himself has a very good relationship with Song Qi, Wang Fu and the Liang son of the Song family got married early, and there is also a relationship with the Cao family here.

The interests within the eunuch group are also complicated, and all in all, letting Wang Ji give Cao Cao filial piety is an attempt by Wang Fu to repair the relationship between Wang Fu and Cao.

After the failed attempt, Wang Fu and the Cao family turned their faces completely, and this time the status of Queen Song was lost, and Cao Song couldn't help but think of Wang Fu, who had a grudge against the Song family.

"What the hell is Wang Fu going to do? Is the queen he can move? ”

Cao Chi was greatly annoyed and was about to go to Wang Fu to ask for an explanation, but was stopped by Cao Song, Cao Song thought for a while, and asked Guo Peng to leave first.

"Xiao Yi, you go back to Taixue, remember, this matter has nothing to do with you, don't get involved, follow your teacher to study hard, your teacher can keep you safe."

Guo Peng blinked, nodded, and got up to leave.

The Cao family probably wanted to completely withdraw from this matter and let Lu Zhi protect himself, anyway, the relationship with himself would not disappear, and the Cao family could be regarded as leaving a way back for himself.

After that, after a while, Lu Zhi was worried every time he came back from the court, but he didn't say anything to Guo Peng.

Until one day after the beginning of autumn, when Guo Peng was working in Dongguan, he heard Lu Zhi, Cai Yong, Yang Biao and others talking in private.

"Your Majesty said that the queen used witchcraft in the inner palace to curse His Majesty without an heir, in exchange for her position to be stable, the evidence is conclusive, and it is unshakable."

"How can there be such a thing? The queen is simple and unpretentious, and she has not made any mistakes in the palace for many years, how could she do such a thing? ”

"The palace strictly prohibits witchcraft, as the queen is the mother of a country, as long as there is no big mistake, it is impossible for her to be deposed plainly, it is impossible for her not to understand, let alone use witchcraft, this must be framed by someone."

"Most of it was done by Wang Fu, Wang Fu framed the King of Bohai for rebellion and instructed the King of Bohai to be killed, Princess Song of Bohai is the aunt of the queen, since then Song and Wang Fu have a grudge, this must have been done by Wang Fu!"

"This fang is ruthless, he doesn't care about the overall situation, he only thinks about himself, this time he actually puts the target on the queen, is it tolerable or unbearable, how can the mother of a country be so framed? Gentlemen, why don't we go to the book together to defend the queen? ”

"Good! Just do it! ”

"I'll participate too!"

In this way, a group of people discussed a conclusion that they would write together to defend the queen, which made Guo Peng speechless for a long time.

Do they really do nothing but defend themselves?

In fact, if you believe in this kind of thing, if you don't believe it, you don't believe it, it is obvious that Queen Song was deposed not because of this matter, but because Emperor Ling didn't like her anymore, that's all.

Emperor Ling thought that Empress Song was in the way, and wanted to drive her away and replace her with a new one.

How simple is it?

But after the emperor is abolished, he always needs a reason, he always needs an excuse, and without a suitable excuse, the ministers will not agree, this kind of thing is related to the national system, and it is not just the emperor's family matter.

Therefore, Wang Fu's actions must have some kind of acquiescence from Emperor Ling, and Emperor Ling wanted to use Wang Fu's hand and slander to drive Empress Song away and get rid of him.

However, Wang Fu obviously wants more than this, what he wants is to exterminate the Song family, and even punish the Cao family.

The struggle of the ministers was meaningless, and in the winter and October of the first year of Guanghe, Emperor Ling took back the queen's seal on the grounds of the empress Song's immorality, and put it into the cold palace, officially abolished.

At the same time, Wang Fu presided over the death of Queen Song's father and brother on the grounds that the queen's family must be accomplices, and all the female dependents were exiled, and the family was exterminated.

Cao Chi entered the palace as a waiter and cried and begged Emperor Ling to open up and let his poor daughter go, Wang Fu insisted that all the Song family members were accomplices by Emperor Ling's side, and the Cao family was also an accomplice.

Emperor Ling was distraught and handed over the matter to Wang Fu to deal with.

Of course, Wang Fu would not deal with the Cao clan and insisted on exterminating the Song clan, and then the Song Empress's father, Zhijin Wu Song Yu, and her brother Yin Qiang Hou Song Qi were sentenced to death and executed.

Upon hearing the news, Empress Song was angry and hateful, and she fell ill in the cold palace and soon died.

After her death, the Song family was shattered, and there was no one to collect the corpse, and Emperor Ling did not care about the love of the young husband and wife, and actually did not collect the body of the Song family.

In the end, it was the Chang Attendants and Xiao Huangmen in the palace who had been favored by Queen Song and the Song father and son who took pity on them, and jointly paid for the collection of the remains of the father and son, and hastily buried them.

Cao Chi did not save his daughter in the end, and his official position was also lost, and he was abolished as a concubine, almost losing his life, and was driven back to his hometown.

Cao Song originally served as Dahonglu, but now he has been reappointed as Dasi Nong.

Cao Cao and Song Qi had a close relationship, and Wang Fu was originally going to attack Cao Cao, but Cao Song asked Lu Qiang to die to protect Cao Cao, but Lu Qiang couldn't stand it, so he made Wang Fu forgive and forgive.

Wang Fu knew that he was too ruthless this time, which chilled the hearts of many people, so he did not kill Cao Cao, but deposed Cao Cao's position as a Dunqiu Order, and demoted Cao Cao to a concubine.

This political turmoil after the abolition can be said to be a political conflict between the eunuchs and their relatives, and it has little to do with the scholars.

Therefore, the scholars were not damaged, but only the relatives of the Song family and those who had close contacts with the Song family.

But because Wang Fu was too ruthless, the relationship between the Song family and other eunuchs was not bad, and he had a good reputation.

Wang Fu exterminated the Song clan out of personal grudges, and the man killed the woman and exiled him, leaving no one behind, which made the rest of the eunuchs feel very dissatisfied, and even had a sad mood of the rabbit and the fox.

They began to think about making Wang Fu pay some price, and this person was already lustful for power and began to attack his own people.

But before they could try to kill Wang Fu, not many days later, in late October, there was a solar eclipse.

Someone sensed an opportunity.

According to Dong Zhongshu's theory of celestial and human induction, the appearance of astronomical visions in the sky is the embodiment of the Son of Heaven's immorality, and the Son of Heaven needs to self-examine whether he has made a mistake.

And during this period, what can be regarded as a mistake is the death of Queen Song.

Emperor Ling was originally uneasy about the tragic death of Empress Song, and suddenly encountered a solar eclipse, he was greatly alarmed, and hurriedly asked the ministers around him what caused it, and the ministers were silent, and Emperor Ling himself knew it.

According to the rules, when an astronomical anomaly occurred, the Eastern Han Dynasty would remove one of the Three Princes to respond to the warning of Heaven instead of the Son of Heaven.

And the one who is dismissed is often the titan who has no real name, so the titan Chen Qiu poured blood mold and was dismissed.

But this matter is not over, Emperor Ling has a ghost in his heart, and he actually had a dream about Emperor Huan scolding him for wronging Queen Song, this is not critical, the key is that the content of this dream actually came out.

This is a very important political signal.

So a certain official who was specially promoted by Emperor Ling appeared on the stage - the current captain of Sili, Yang Qiu.