Chapter 11 The Thirteenth Day of the Long River At the beginning of May, the eldest princess summoned Sima Fang, the court commander, and ordered him to end the trial of all cases as soon as possible and not to make things out of control.

If, because of your indecision in the trial of the case, it eventually leads to instability in the court and major twists and turns in the peace negotiations, I will severely punish you.

Sima Fang returned home worriedly and discussed with his sons Sima Lang, Sima Yi, and Sima Fu. These cases are implicated in each other, and any one of them will offend a large number of people, and if you are not careful, it will bring disaster to the family.

Sima Lang complained to his father, you are all at home to care for the elderly, why do you still agree to the Prime Minister to take up the post of Ting Weiqing?

Aren't you asking for trouble? Sima Yi thought about it for a long time, and suddenly asked: "Dad, eldest brother, you said that the general suddenly handed over his military power and left Chang'an, did he have a back hand?" ”

"Do you have a brain?" Sima Lang glared and scolded,

"You've been with the general for so many years, you don't know who he is? If he kills people without blinking, can you still keep this head? Chief Sima Fang sighed,

"The disaster of Dong Zhuo back then made the court unforgettable. Whether it is the eldest princess, the prime minister, or the general, they are all careless, and they always prevent and avoid the occurrence of the same disaster. This time, the general suddenly handed over his military power and left Kyoto, precisely to avoid the defeat of the Han Dynasty again. For more than ten years, the general has been loyal to the Han Dynasty and fought bloodily for the great cause of Zhongxing, on the contrary, the eldest princess and the court have been wary of him everywhere and want to take away his military power all the time. Now that the general is gone, the hearts of the people of the world are cold. Good walk, good walk......"

"If he doesn't leave, Chang'an will be bloody now." Sima Lang sighed bitterly,

"But if he is gone, the crisis in Chang'an will be even greater. Losing the deterrence of the general, the forces in the court are like tigers out of the cage, one by one unscrupulous, killing in full swing. The courage of the people of Xiangyang also immediately rose, and they were arrogant one by one, and the conditions for peace proposed became more and more harsh. These harsh conditions would have a great impact on the imperial court, not only causing dissatisfaction among the generals in the army, but also angering many ministers in the court. In the coming months, unrest may erupt in Chang'an. ”

"I know this, I mean, after the general left the court in a hurry, is there a way to solve the bigger crisis that is about to break out?" Sima Yi looked at his father's melancholy face and asked respectfully.

Sima Fang and Sima Lang looked at each other and immediately understood what Sima Yi meant. At this time, if you want to keep the family, you must first stand in line, if you choose the wrong one and stand on the wrong team, you are likely to pay the price of the clan's annihilation.

"The Han can come to this day, and the hope of seeing ZTE is because there is a strong Northern Xinjiang behind it, even if the general is gone, the people of Northern Xinjiang will not give up their authority, let alone sit back and watch the chaos in the court, so that Sheji will fall into the abyss of overturning again. After all, the people of Northern Xinjiang have paid a huge price for today, and no one is willing to let more than ten years of hard work turn into ashes. The general can give up his authority, but the people of the north will not give up his authority. On the contrary, after the departure of the Great General, after losing the control of the Great General, they will burst out with amazing power. Sima Fang gently touched his long hair and said thoughtfully,

"We can also be regarded as half of the people of Northern Xinjiang."

"Dad, now Yancai (Fu Gan) is a member of our family, and with Yancai's identity in Northern Xinjiang, our family is considered a native of Northern Xinjiang, not half of Northern Xinjiang." Sima Lang reminded with a smile.

"I know, I know." Sima Fang stretched, then fell on his back on the seat,

"Urgently tell the court, saying that I have a stroke and can't be a director, please ask the court captain to do the affairs of the court on behalf of the court captain." The eldest princess was extremely annoyed by the sudden illness of Ting Weiqing Sima Fang, and she knew that this old guy had anointed the soles of his feet with oil in order to protect his body

"Slipped". The third day of the fifth month. Xi was temporarily in charge of the Tingwei Mansion, and he took advantage of the fact that the eldest princess and the imperial court had not yet appointed a new Tingweiqing, and successively detained Wu Zi, Xu Yan, and Wang Kai, three Yanzhou officials, and interrogated them day and night.

The trial progressed considerably as he had conclusive evidence in advance. By the time Cai Yong, Kong Rong, Chen Gong and others got the news, Xi Wei had already obtained the evidence that Zhang Miao connived, shielded and participated in Zhang Chao's brother's violation of the law.

The fourth day of the fifth month. Si Li's lieutenant Chen Gong took the prime minister's warrant and personally rushed to the Tingwei Mansion to dignitaries. Wu Zi and others are all officials with a rank of more than 1,000 stones in the court, and they cannot be arrested at will without the order of the prime minister, but Xi is not afraid and resolutely refuses to let go.

The fifth day of the fifth month of May. Xi Xian's request for the arrest of Zhang Miao was sent to Liyang overnight. Chen Qun, the supervisor of the Chinese book, blatantly violated the law, and did not play the eldest princess, and agreed that Xi Xian would arrest people first and get the evidence.

Xi Xi personally led people to rush into Zhang Miao's mansion, and even arrested people and raided his house to solve the problem at one time. Zhang Miao refused to confess, and Xi ordered a heavy sentence.

Zhang Miao could endure the pain, but his wife and sons couldn't bear the pain and confessed one after another, saying something.

At this time, Prime Minister Cai Yong and other ministers had just sent the impeachment recital to Liyang, asking the eldest princess to immediately appoint a new court lieutenant.

In the afternoon, the impeachment of the court lieutenant Cheng Xi flew like snowflakes into the middle secretary. Chen Qun ordered all of them to be seized.

Prime Minister Cai Yong and Imperial Historian Liu He rushed to the Tingwei Mansion angrily and forced Xi Xi to release him immediately, but Taifu Yang Biao and Da Sima Xu Rong then arrived, arguing with reason and obstructing them in every possible way.

Prime Minister Cai Yong galloped to Liyang overnight and asked the eldest princess for help. The sixth day of the fifth month. The eldest princess was considering the candidate for Ting Weiqing, and when she saw the prime minister running panting, she was startled and hurriedly asked what was wrong.

Cai Yong roughly said the beginning and end of the matter in a few words,

"Your Highness, what authority does the Central Scribe have to agree to Xi Xi's arrest of Lord Zhang Miao? If Lord Xi does not have the holy decree of His Royal Highness, and arrests people just by the order of the Central Scribe Superintendent, is it considered an abuse of power? The eldest princess was furious and urgently summoned Chen Qun, the middle secretary.

Chen Qun had a good reason, saying that Zhang Miao was no longer a secretary, but an official who had left his post and was waiting for trial at home, and he had every right to agree to the arrest of the Tingwei Mansion, let alone the eldest princess.

"If such a trivial matter has to wake up His Highness in the middle of the night, what else do we ministers do?" The eldest princess was speechless.

The prime minister was very angry and questioned Chen Qun,

"Why did you withhold the impeachment medals of the ministers and deceive Your Highness?"

"The middle scribe receives hundreds of impeachment concerts every day, if His Royal Highness reads every piece of the concert, she will bow down to everything, will she still have time to rest?" Chen Qun is right,

"These impeachment notes against Lord Xi Xuan were originally made out of nothing, and I know the details clearly, why should I help you frame Lord Xi Wei?" The eldest princess was so angry that her face turned pale, and she waved her hand to let Chen Qun retreat.

"The top priority is to stabilize the court and close all the cases as soon as possible." The eldest princess sighed helplessly,

"Boss, give in when it's time to give in, and don't fight anymore. Now that the general is gone, the morale of the army is fluctuating, and something may happen at any time. As soon as the army is in chaos, it will be even more difficult to appease Xiangyang. In order to calm the world as soon as possible and stabilize the society, it is better to endure it for the time being. If we can't work together, when will the world be at peace? ”

"Your Highness, the current situation is not that we want to fight, but that others are forcing us to fight." Cai Yong sighed,

"The general is gone, no one can deter all parties in the court, everyone is trying to find an opportunity to attack the opponent for the sake of power, and if we are negligent, we will immediately fall into death." You see, it's only been a few days, and things are completely out of control. ”

"General...... He, he's too much......" The more the eldest princess thought about it, the more angry she became, and her tears couldn't help but flow,

"Without saying any reason, he left for no reason, how can there be such a person...... He is a general, he still controls the army, and even if the court wants to take away his military power, it will only take back the part of the military power that does not belong to him, is this too much? If he had been in control of all the military power, what would he do in the future? What should Your Majesty do when he grows up? ”

"Your Highness, when the general left the court, he didn't care about military power, but about Zhongxing strategy. He was very stubborn, he resolutely did not agree to negotiate peace, did not agree to establish a feudal domain, and he still wanted to fight, which was the main reason why he left the court. Cai Yong shook his head and sighed,

"He has fought for more than ten years, hundreds of thousands of brothers have died, and suddenly he wants to be a minister in the same hall as the enemy, and he wants to be a brother and brother to a murderous butcher like Cao Cao, he can't accept it, and he doesn't want to accept it. He left the court and left it alone, in fact, he wanted to make the court chaotic and make the peace negotiation completely fail, and then let the court's Zhongxing strategy be formulated and implemented according to his vision, so that the war would continue until all the rebellions were killed. In his heart, hatred and merit are far more important than thousands of living beings in the world. The eldest princess hid her face and wept.

Cai Yong whispered to comfort,

"Since the general is not here, let the left cavalry general Xian Yufu serve as the court lieutenant. With his prestige in the court, although it is not enough to suppress all parties, it is still possible to quickly coordinate the interests of all parties and conclude the case as soon as possible. The eldest princess accepted Cai Yong's suggestion and ordered Xian Yufu to be the court lieutenant and Chen Hao to be the court lieutenant.

Considering the current situation, Xi Wei is not easy to hold accountable, and he is transferred back to Yushitai. Chen Qun couldn't stay in the middle book supervisor anymore, so he was transferred to Shangshutai as a servant, and let Liu Fang lead the middle book supervisor.

The eldest princess's decree has not yet been issued, and Chang'an sent an urgent report again, and Xi Wei obtained evidence to prove that Chen Gong, the captain of Sili, was suspected of deliberately framing Xun Yu, Xin Ping and others and plotting to assassinate the Son of Heaven.

Xi Wei immediately asked for help from the great Sima Xu Rong, and Xu Rong ordered the Northern Army Yue Cai Zhonglang to bring two hundred iron cavalry to surround the Sili Captain's Mansion.

Xi was anxious to play the eldest princess, and begged for the immediate arrest of Chen Gong, quickly dug up the accomplices, and killed all the rebels.

The eldest princess was stunned. This Xi Jian is really a genius, in just a few days, he threw a heavy punch, knocked over a large area, and quickly reversed the situation in the court at an unbelievable speed.

No wonder Master Sima Fang is about to have a stroke, and when he encounters this fierce deputy, he will be scared half to death even if he doesn't have a stroke.

The eldest princess couldn't sit still anymore, and rushed to Chang'an City with Prime Minister Cai Yong. The former general and guard lieutenant Lu Bu was furious, and rushed to the Sili Captain's Mansion as quickly as possible, and he wanted to ask Xi Wei face to face what he wanted to do, whether he wanted to kill all the Yanzhou people.

Xi Wei was questioning Chen Gong and his subordinates at the Sili Captain's Mansion at the moment, and the official office was full of iron cavalry of the Northern Army.

The sacrificial front blocked Lu Bu,

"General Lu, please calm down, this time is different from the Jinyang rebellion case, last time it was a plot to assassinate the general, this time it is a plot to assassinate the Son of Heaven." Lu Bu laughed miserably.

Back then, Zhang Miao and Chen Gong, the Yanzhou officials, in order to save the Han Dynasty, were born and died with themselves, and they were bloody on the battlefield, how could they have the idea of killing the king?

Whenever there was a fight in the court, the Yanzhou people always bore the brunt and became the target of everyone's attacks. It's so unfair.

Lu Bu suddenly turned his horse's head and went straight to the Dasi Nong Mansion. In this court dispute, Li Wei, Cui Yan, and Xi Wei are all in a gang, and if they want to save Zhang Miao, Chen Gong and others, they can only ask Li Wei for help.

Zhao Yun, the general of Zhijin Wu and Long Xiang, received the news from the priest Feng, and Pegasus caught up.

"Brother Fengxian, Da Sima has spoken first, and it is strictly forbidden for us to intervene in the court battle. If we intervene, the situation can spiral out of control. Not only will you not be able to save them, but you will get more people involved and more people will be unjustly executed. Lu Bu had tears in his eyes, looked up to the sky and sighed, extremely sad and indignant,

"What should I do? How can I save them? Zhao Yun was speechless, he could only put his arms around his shoulders hard, and couldn't even say a word of comfort.

Now it is not only Zhang Miao, Chen Gong and others who are in danger of their lives, but even Prime Minister Cai Yong is in danger.

"If the general is here, how can the situation be so bad?" Zhao Yun sighed bitterly,

"Patience, you must endure, you must not drag the northern Xinjiang warriors into it." That night, there was another big incident in Chang'an City.

Dozens of Assassins stormed Xi's mansion and set fire to it. At this time, more than a dozen masters suddenly appeared in Xi Wei's mansion, trying their best to protect Xi Wei and Xi Wei's family.

Xi is worried that his martial arts skills are acceptable, and he desperately protects his mother. The mother and son barely survived, but his wife and two children were brutally murdered, all seven servants of the family were killed, and the mansion was destroyed.

The Assassins scattered and fled, but for some reason, within a hundred paces of Xi Wei's mansion, patrol guards suddenly appeared, and many of them were caught.

Xi worried's eyes were red, and he was interrogated overnight. Some of the Assassins could not resist the torture and confessed to the hiding place of their leader.

Xi Xuan led people to capture their leader, and then tried again, and caught their behind-the-scenes mastermind. The mastermind behind this was a merchant in the West Market, who confessed to his superiors.

Caught this master, Xi Wei was extremely shocked, this person was Zong Zhengqing Zang Hong's subordinate. Zang Hong is Zhang Chao's former official, in order to avenge his old master and rescue Zhang Miao, he actually came up with such a ruthless trick.

Xi was worried about reporting to the eldest princess and wanted to arrest Zong Zhengqing Zang Hong. When the eldest princess and Prime Minister Cai Yong saw this recital, an ominous premonition surged in their hearts, and the situation was out of control.

The eldest princess summoned Xi Wei, and on the one hand, she comforted her with kind words, and on the other hand, she issued an order to detain Zong Zhengqing Zang Hong and Si Li's lieutenant Chen Gong.

The eldest princess immediately summoned Taifu Yang Biao, Taiwei Xunyou, Dasi Nong Li Wei, and Shangshu Ling Cui Yan to persuade them to put the community first, give up the fight, and stop killing each other.

Prime Minister Cai Yong saw Zang Hong as quickly as possible,

"Why are you doing this? Are you dizzy? Zang Hong laughed miserably,

"How could I do such a thing? This is a frame-up, the opponent is too ruthless, and he actually did such a unconscionable thing. It was only six hours from the time the assassins stormed into Xi Shen's mansion to Xi Xu's investigation of my head, and if all this was not arranged in advance, was it possible? Cai Yong was shocked,

"Who would do such a thing? Li Wei? Xun Yu? Xu Shao? Or Yang Biao? ”

"It's all possible." Zang Hong sighed,

"If you want to save the situation now, you can only invite the general back, otherwise once you kill the beginning, there will be no possibility of saving the situation." In mid-May, the eldest princess decreed that Xian Yufu would be appointed as Tingweiqing, Chen Hao would be appointed as Tingweicheng, and Xi Xi would return to the Imperial History Observatory to serve as the secretary of the imperial history.

Zuo Yan served as Zong Zhengqing. Yang Feng served as the lieutenant of Sili. Now the fighting between all parties in the court is very fierce, and only the warriors of Northern Xinjiang are suitable for the post of minister, and only in this way can the contradictions between the parties in the court be transferred as soon as possible and the fighting between the parties can be quelled.

Xian Yufu and Chen Hao went to the Tingwei Mansion to take up their posts, and first tried the case of Xu Ming. Xu Ming's case is actually very simple, the reason why it has been delayed for a long time is that Zhang Miao and other young Yanshi people want to use Xun Yu and Xin Ping's rebellion case to severely damage Ying and Ru Shiren, who knows that the situation is out of control in a blink of an eye.

At the end of May, Xian Yufu played the eldest princess and the imperial court, and reported the case of Xu Chao in detail. A few days later, the eldest princess issued an order, downplaying Xu Ming's guilt and resigning.

Xu Shao was implicated and took the initiative to resign from his position as Taichang. The eldest princess accepted Xu Shao's resignation, worshiped him as a sacrificial wine for Chang'an Taixue, and asked him to preside over the restoration of Chang'an Taixue.

At the end of May, the eldest princess worshiped Guo Ce as Taichangqing. The eldest princess made great concessions on the matter of dividing the title despite the opposition of the military generals in northern Xinjiang, and Xiangyang and other places sent envoys to Chang'an to participate in the peace talks.

In June, Xiangyang sent two officials, Wang Lang and Hua Xin, Liu Zhang of Yizhou sent Wu Su and Zhang Song, Cao Cao of Xuzhou sent Cheng Yu, Yuan Tan of Yuzhou sent Liu Xian, Sun Quan and Zhou Yu of Jiangdong sent Lu Su and Gu Yong, and Liu Bei of Longxi sent Jian Yong.

After the special envoys of various localities arrived in Chang'an, the peace talks immediately entered the stage of discussing the details. In June, at the strong request of the eldest princess and all parties to the peace talks, Xian Yufu began to try the case of rebellion.

The rebellion case still exists, but the suspects have changed to Zhang Miao, Chen Gong, Zang Hong, Zhang Chao and others, so Xun Yu and Zhang Zhao quickly regained their freedom and quickly left Chang'an.

Xun Yu and Zhang Zhao are innocent, it does not mean that Xin Ping and Xun Chen are also innocent, and they will be detained before the culpability of Zhang Miao, Chen Gong and others is clarified.

In mid-June, Kong Rong, You Heng, Liu Yi and other senior officials of the Qing Yan Dynasty wrote a letter to impeach Li Wei, believing that he was the mastermind behind the assassination of Xi Wei, and that there was relevant evidence.

Li Wei was furious and wrote to impeach Kong Rong and others, believing that they conspired with Chen Gong and others to assassinate the Son of Heaven, and also provided detailed evidence.

The court became more and more chaotic. The eldest princess categorically decreed that the trial of the rebellion case should be postponed indefinitely, and the cases of Ding Li and Zhu Wei would be tried first.

At present, the first task of the imperial court is to appease Xiangyang, and other matters will be postponed and discussed. Jump to