391. Chapter 391: Purge
After the Son of Heaven left, the atmosphere in the hall suddenly became much more depressing. Especially those ministers who colluded with Dong Cheng, their hearts became even more up-and-down.
Wen Zhao glanced at Li Ru and said softly, "Arrest someone!" ”
Li Ru was overjoyed when he received Wen Zhao's order. As soon as he beckoned, the wolf-like armor behind him pounced on the ministers in the court.
Thirty-two ministers were arrested by the soldiers, and they struggled violently and cried out, "What crime am I waiting for? You dare to arrest the ministers of the DPRK and the Central People's Republic of China! ”
Sikong Zhang Xi saw that so many officials were arrested, and his face changed, he stepped forward and said to Wen Zhao: "Arresting so many ministers will definitely shake the dynasty, if there is no full evidence, please think twice." ”
Wen Zhao's attitude towards Zhang Xi has changed greatly, and he patiently explained: "Zhang Sikong rest assured, I will not wronged a good person, and I will never let go of a person with bad intentions." ”
"Actually, Pusaka Ling Cheng Zhongde has already sent me a secret letter, saying that these people colluded with the wealthy families of Hanoi County and connived at the family's private soldiers to pretend to be bandits and loot everywhere."
"Pusaka Ling and Wenhou Lu Bu will return to Pusaka in a few days. At that time, coupled with the letters of these people who fornicated with Dong Cheng, Xu will definitely give Sikong an explanation. ”
After finishing speaking, Wen Zhao led Li Ru and asked those soldiers to arrest all the thirty-two ministers. Not only that, but even their clansmen in Pusaka were all thrown into prison by Gao Shun and strictly guarded.
After leaving the main hall, Wen Zhao called Li Ru and whispered: "Wen You, those medical workers will all be confined to the army in the future, and they can't be allowed to chew their tongues outside." ”
"As for the imperial doctors who diagnosed Concubine Dong Guifei before, they will all be executed!"
Li Ru nodded, indicating that he understood.
Dong Cheng wants to murder Wen Zhao, then his daughter Dong Guifei is bound to be cut down and eradicated.
However, in any case, Concubine Dong Guifei is also the woman of the Son of Heaven, and if Wen Zhao forcibly kills her, it is difficult to guarantee that it will not give people a feeling of flying and domineering.
Therefore, Li Ru presented this poisonous plan to Wen Zhao. found three henchmen and medical workers, and after diagnosing Dong Guifei, they lied that she was not pregnant at all.
The timing of Dong Guifei's pregnancy was too coincidental, and after Li Ru's slander, it was easy to make people suspicious.
In order to completely hide people's eyes and ears and not give the Son of Heaven a chance to confirm it, Li Ru even pretended to be angry, and directly in the main hall, he openly killed Dong Guifei.
In this way, whether Dong Guifei is pregnant or not is only known to the imperial doctor who examined her before, as well as the three medical workers brought by Li Ru.
When Dong Guifei was accused of bullying the king, coupled with what his father Dong Cheng did. Even if Li Ru killed Dong Guifei, the Manchu Dynasty had nothing to say.
With such a vicious strategy, calculating a pregnant woman, Wen Zhao felt a little guilty in his heart.
However, he now represents not only himself, but also a large interest group. If he falls, those who follow him will have countless heads on the ground.
In troubled times, too much mercy means destruction.
"If you want to blame Dong Cheng, the good officials of the DPRK and China are unwilling to do it, so they have to find ways to deal with me."
For three days in a row, there were shouts of killing from time to time throughout Puban City. Wen Zhao's soldiers would often drag out corpses and transport them to mass graves outside the city to bury them on the spot.
After Wen Chao's brutal repression and purge, those who colluded with the Hanoi family were either killed on the spot or thrown into prison.
Even the men, women, and children of their family were not spared.
This time, Wen Zhao, who had been dormant for a long time, decided to completely subdue the officials of the DPRK and China. Let them know that if they do something wrong, they will pay the price.
For those who have different aspirations, Wen Zhao also wants to purge them when they are unable to fight with other princes now.
As early as when Dong Cheng conspired to use the Hongmen Banquet to kill Wen Zhao, the strategists under Wen Zhao's command had already guessed what Dong Cheng was thinking. So, Wen Zhao will plan it, and this is why there is a chain design behind.
Even Dian Wei fainted during the banquet, but it was just a pretend. The glass of wine he drank didn't even fit into his stomach.
Not only that, Dong Cheng was able to get the news of Hanoi County, but Cheng Yu wanted to catch the old man and deliberately released some fish that slipped through the net and asked them to come to Pusaka to report the news.
Acting like this is just to startle the snake, make Dong Cheng and the others become frightened birds, and force them to jump over the wall in a hurry and take risks.
If Dong Cheng did not plot to murder Wen Zhao, even if Cheng Yu returned, Wen Zhao wanted to use Dong Cheng and those officials in the DPRK and China to collude with the wealthy families of Hanoi County, and the reason for getting rid of them was still not sufficient, and he would leave people to talk.
It was precisely in order to force Dong Cheng and others to oppose that Wen Zhao startled the snake.
While asking Cheng Yu to release some messengers from Hanoi County, he spread rumors that he wanted to take down all the officials who colluded with the wealthy families of Hanoi County.
In order to completely strengthen Dong Cheng's determination to trap himself, Wen Zhao deliberately let the army in the city stay away from Dong Cheng's mansion under various pretexts, even the trapping camp was no exception.
Those trapped camp armor soldiers who later entered Dong Cheng's mansion were only two hundred soldiers who were the first to hide nearby.
Wen Zhao used himself as bait to lure the snake out of the hole. Only then did Dong Cheng find an opportunity and completely make up his mind to get rid of Wen Zhao.
And when Dong Cheng wanted to kill Wen Zhao, he sent a group of henchmen to cause chaos in the city and cause chaos in Pusaka City. Under the suppression of Zhao Yun and other generals, there was not much turmoil at all.
This time, in order to eradicate some officials in the court, some of the strategists under Wen Zhao were racking their brains.
Whether it is Cheng Yu's desire to capture the old man, fight the grass and scare the snake, or Wen Zhao's use of his body as bait to lure the snake out of the hole, or Li Ru's planting and blame, it is the result of the concerted efforts of the strategists under Wen Zhao.
can be so calculated by these top strategists in the Three Kingdoms period, Dong Cheng and these people died unjustly.
When Cheng Yu and Lu Bu came back, they brought a lot of evidence to prove that those officials who were taken into custody in the court deserved their crimes.
One shocking crime, whether real or fictional, has been done seamlessly by Cheng Yu.
Even Zhu Jun's death was framed and married to those wealthy families in Hanoi County.
Even though anyone with a discerning eye in the DPRK can see that this is a false accusation, Cheng Yu really did a flawless job. In front of the now aggressive Wen Zhao, the Manchu ministers could only acquiesce to the authenticity of those evidences.
With the return of Cheng Yu, the entire Pusaka City once again fell into bloody terror. The officials of the DPRK and China, as well as their families, were all beheaded for public display.
For a time, the city of Pusaka was full of people, and the city was filled with a strong smell of blood.
Not only that, Wen Zhao also dismissed many officials in the court and the central government who were in the palace of Dong Cheng at that time and did not stand up under the pretext of installing cronies as officials in the local government.
And those whom they had installed in the localities were also removed from their posts.
On the contrary, Sikong Zhang Xi, Weiwei Shi Sun Rui, and many ministers of the DPRK and China who stood in front of Wen Zhao, but they had many disciples who were recruited by Wen Zhao and sent to various places as officials.
Of course, many positions in important places are still held by Wen Zhao's cronies.
Grievances and grievances are clear, those who follow me prosper, and those who oppose me die. This spirit is vividly interpreted by Wen Zhao.
In the palace, Liu Xie had a sad look on his face, but Queen Fu was beside the Son of Heaven and constantly comforted him. During this time, the Son of Heaven did not deal with government affairs at all, and all the affairs of the court and the central government were all handed over to Wen Zhao again.
However, Liu Xie knows a lot about the recent bloody rain in Pubancheng. Although he knew, he couldn't change anything.
For this purge of the court, Wen Zhao did a good job. Even if the Son of Heaven knew that there was something greasy in it, he couldn't find any flaws.
Moreover, due to the death of Concubine Dong Guifei, Liu Xie did not bother to care about other things during this time.
Although in the main hall, the three medical workers swore that Dong Guifei had a hidden disease and could not get pregnant. But Liu Xie, who returned to the backyard, felt that something was wrong the more he thought about it.
The three medical workers were all brought by Li Ru, and it was very likely that they were instructed by Li Ru to speak like this.
And before Li Ru left, he actually asked people to take Dong Guifei's body away, which is even more suspicious.
Liu Xie sent people to look for those imperial doctors who had diagnosed Dong Guifei, but heard that they had been beheaded all over the house because of colluding with Dong Guifei and blinding the Son of Heaven.
Not only that, Liu Xie wanted to send someone to find the three medical workers who diagnosed Dong Guifei in the main hall, but there was no way to find them.
All of this adds up to a little more suspicious.
While massaging Liu Xie, Empress Fu said softly: "Your Majesty, the concubine also saw Concubine Dong a few days ago, and she would retch from time to time, which is completely a sign of pregnancy. ”
"What's more, how dare Concubine Dong Guifei deceive Your Majesty in terms of pregnancy? If the time is up, his stomach does not rise, and he can't even leave the dragon seed for His Majesty later, isn't this a crime of deception? ”
"I think that the three medical workers in the hall must have been bribed by Li Ru and deceived His Majesty with lies."
"Li Ru, a chaotic minister and thief, killed Dong Guifei without His Majesty's confirmation, and took her body away, he must be a thief."
The relationship between Queen Fu and Dong Guifei is not good, especially after Dong Guifei is pregnant.
However, seeing Concubine Dong Guifei being killed by Li Ru mercilessly, Queen Fu couldn't help but feel a chill.
She thought to herself, Li Ru can kill the concubine today, maybe she will kill her as the queen tomorrow. Therefore, Queen Fu felt a great sense of crisis, so she complained about Dong Guifei in front of Liu Xie.
Glancing at Queen Fu, Liu Xie didn't speak, just clenched his fists, and secretly thought in his heart: "I thought Chen Xu was a loyal minister, but I didn't want him to be a raccoon dog with Dong Zhuo, Li Dao, and Guo Yan." ”
"Even, Chen Xu is more difficult to deal with than those people."
Thinking of this, Liu Xie sighed slightly and began to worry about the future of Dahan.