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Si Li's Captain's Mansion.

Da Situ Zhang Wen, Taichang Cai Yong, Zongzheng Cui Lie, Shaofu Yuan Peng, Guanglu Xun Kou Zhun, Wei Wei Tian Feng, Dasi Nong Wang Yun and more than a dozen important ministers of the court stood in the lobby of the Sili Captain's Mansion, bowing their heads and no one dared to speak.

The eldest princess of Wannian was dressed in a military uniform, her long hair was scattered, and she sat behind the desk with a cold expression.

Shi Liu, the head of the palace of the eldest princess of ten thousand years, rolled up the bamboo slip in his hand, looked at the ministers in the hall, and said slowly: "Although the ancestors of the Taiyuan royal family have made many meritorious contributions to the Han Dynasty, their descendants are not good, and they are not guilty of committing this rebellious thing, so they ......."

"Your Royal Highness......" Zhang Wen raised his head abruptly and said loudly, "There is no other reason for this matter, the crime is not in the Wang family, please think twice." ”

"You know?" The eldest princess glared angrily and asked in a trembling voice, "Since you know, why didn't you tell me?" As the minister of the Three Princes, you should know the seriousness of this matter, why did you hide it and not report it? ”

"Your Highness, although the minister has heard of it, but it has not been confirmed, how dare the minister play His Highness with suspicion?" Zhang Wen hurriedly argued.

"...... you" The eldest princess turned over and jumped up, pointed at Zhang Wen and the courtiers, and asked angrily, "Have you all heard of it?" ”

Some of the ministers lowered their heads, not daring to look at the eldest princess, and some looked very surprised.

Indeed, there are people who know this. After Zhang Wen sent Wang Chen away, he privately convened Cui Lie, Yuan Peng, Ding Gong and others for urgent deliberations that night.

The hand of the Son of Heaven caught them off guard. Marrying the eldest princess to the Wang family, the power of the eldest princess of Wan Nian was immediately combined with the power of the Northern Xinjiang Gate Valve, and the Northern Xinjiang Gate Valve rose and the power surged, which would seriously hurt the interests of the hussar generals and the Northern Xinjiang warriors, and then trigger a new round of court turmoil.

The officials of Northern Xinjiang fought with each other, and it was naturally the Son of Heaven and the former ministers of Chang'an who benefited. The hussar generals didn't want to see this situation, and the Hebei officials didn't want to see it, so Zhang Wen and the ministers came up with two countermeasures after careful discussion. The first is to immediately let the hussar general return to Quanzhou to stabilize the situation. The second is to use all kinds of connections to persuade and obstruct the Son of Heaven as soon as possible, delaying or forcing him to temporarily abandon making such an extremely unwise decision.

Zhang Wen repeatedly warned these ministers that this matter should not be leaked, especially not to tell the eldest princess, lest the contradiction between the eldest princess and the Son of Heaven suddenly intensify and cause an uncontrollable situation.

Since the Son of Heaven arrived in Hedong, the eldest princess has become more and more irritable and behaves more and more perversely. It may have had something to do with her age, the amount of pressure she was undertaking, and her painful love for the hussar general.

Her identity and power today determine that she is not a woman, nor is she a simple eldest princess, but an important force in Zhongxing Dahan. This power belongs to the Han, the royal family, and her own, and she cannot give it to others, nor can she let others get it. Her fate seemed to be doomed from the moment the emperor sent him out of Luoyang. She wants to change her fate, but who can help her? Who will give her this chance?

In addition, anyone who is a hussar general cannot reveal a single thing.

The eldest princess of Wannian came to Northern Xinjiang at the age of fifteen and grew up under the care of the civil and military officials of Northern Xinjiang, in the eyes of these people, she is not only a beautiful eldest princess, but also an undesecrated imperial power.

Northern Xinjiang has been able to survive on thin ice in recent years, many times thanks to the noble identity of the eldest princess. For example, the reason why Zhang Wen and Ma Riyan stayed in Northern Xinjiang and helped Northern Xinjiang was not because of the strong force of the hussar generals, but because of the imperial power of the Han Dynasty represented by the eldest princess. Zhang Wen and others did not serve the hussar generals, but the Han Dynasty.

Many civil and military officials in Northern Xinjiang know very well that once the eldest princess of Wan Nian gets married, the imperial power she represents will disappear, which is intolerable in Northern Xinjiang. Therefore, once this matter is leaked, whether it is out of respect for the eldest princess or out of the instructions of the lord, they will inform the eldest princess and help the eldest princess quickly resolve the matter.

However, Zhang Wen made a lot of calculations, but he didn't calculate that the Son of Heaven was impatient.

Zhang Wen's mistake eventually led to the situation in Jicheng getting out of control.

"Do you know why I left the city overnight and rushed to the camp of Jicheng?" The eldest princess pointed at Kou Zhun, Tian Feng, Guan Ning and Zhuge Xuan and said, "Do you know why I want to go far? Do you want to take 10,000 iron cavalry Chen soldiers to the west city gate? ”

Of course, Kou Zhun and the others knew that the eldest princess rarely came to Jicheng. And Guan Yu, the general of Zhengdong, as the commander of the Youzhou army, is too sensitive, and his every move may make many people have different reveries. For the sake of the stability of northern Xinjiang, he has not entered Jicheng since the lord left. The eldest princess believed that Guan Yu didn't know about it, but she didn't believe it with the four of them. She brought an army of 10,000 to Jicheng to threaten the four of them. If these four people knew that the Son of Heaven was going to marry her off and deliberately concealed it and did not report it, then the problem would be serious.

"I really don't know." The four of them had no way to defend themselves, so they could only say these five words.

Guan Yu stood beside Kou Zhun, and the two looked at each other and smiled bitterly.

"Ping Zhong, it seems that only when the eldest brother comes back, the four of you can be innocent." Guan Yu lowered his voice and said in a low voice.

Kou Zhun cried with a sad face, knowing that he was bitter.

"Don't tell me, I'll know it myself." The eldest princess picked up the long sword on the desk and strode out of the hall, "General Xiaoguan, follow me to the palace to arrest people." ”

"Da Situ, you take these ministers to the new palace. If you are guilty, show it as soon as possible, otherwise, don't blame me for turning my face and not recognizing people. ”

The eldest princess of ten thousand years left, and the ministers looked at each other in panic.

"Da Situ, why don't you tell us about such a big thing?" Kou Zhun was really angry, and said to Zhang Wen, "This is good, you can't escape the guilt no matter what." The four princes of the imperial court, the Taifu died, and the Great Sima General was in the desert. You, the Great Situ, are also going to prison, and the Great Situ is left to support the court. ”

Zhou Zhong lowered his head and smiled bitterly.

Tian Feng was shocked: "Da Sikong, you don't know about this, do you?" ”

Zhou Zhong nodded, and pointed to Cui Lie, Yuan Peng, and Ding Gong: "A few of us know it." ”

At the beginning, because they were worried that they would leak the news and let the eldest princess know about this matter, which would lead to unpredictable trouble, they decided to hide it from all the important ministers of Northern Xinjiang, so including Cai Yong, Zheng Xuan, Guan Ning, Bing Yuan, and Wang Lie, who were considered scholars, did not tell them, let alone Kou Zhun, Tian Feng, Zhong Xuan, and Chen Qun, the descendants of Li Yi who were single-handed.

Tian Feng shook his hand angrily, turned around and left.

Kou Zhun blushed and shouted, "Everyone, why are you so confused? How can you ...... such a great thing It turned out to be ......"

Kou Zhun stomped his foot and left.

Zhang Wen sighed: "People are not as good as heaven, the Han Dynasty is constantly in trouble, and there is no time for Zhongxing." ”

"What is supposed to come will come. If this is the will of God, how can manpower be reversed? Cui Lie patted the ashes on his body and said unhurriedly, "Let's go, let's go to the prison of the Tingwei Mansion." Although the sky is falling, I still have to sleep and eat. ”

After Cui Lie and the others left, there were only a few important ministers from Northern Xinjiang left.

In order to discuss how to deal with it, several ministers did not ride horses, but instead rode in carriages.

"Yun Chang, when you left the Jicheng camp, did you send flying pigeons to pass on the book?" Kou Zhun turned his head and asked Guan Yudao.

"I've sent it out." Guan Yu said, "I said in the letter that the situation is very serious, but the eldest brother may not be able to rush back in time. But just a few days ago, the news came back that the eldest brother had just arrived in Heyun City (now around the Kyrgyz Lake) at the eastern foot of Jinwei Mountain (now Altai Mountain), thousands of miles away from Jicheng, even if the flying pigeon passed the book and arrived in Heyun City, it would be ten days later. Then the eldest brother rushed back day and night, and the time was already September. ”

"A few of us are in Jicheng, you just told him that the sky in Jicheng has fallen, and he won't come back." Tian Feng shook his head helplessly, "Forget it, don't expect the lord to come back, let's figure it out ourselves." ”

"For the time being, there is only one way, to persuade the eldest princess as much as possible to control this storm within an appropriate range." Kou Zhun said, "The eldest princess's goal is actually the Son of Heaven. But because this happened to the people of Northern Xinjiang today, in the end, we lost the most. In my opinion, let's turn the direction of this storm a little bit, and let the eldest princess point the finger at those old ministers of Chang'an, so that our losses will be small. If we lose a little, Hebei will naturally be safe and sound. ”

Tian Feng, Zhuge Xuan, and Guan Yu looked at each other and nodded in agreement.

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In three days, under the pressure of Kou Zhun, Tian Feng, Guan Ning and Guan Yu, Jicheng finally regained its calm. However, at this time, the situation in northern Xinjiang has completely changed.

The Son of Heaven was imprisoned in the imperial study and thought about it behind closed doors.

Seven ministers, including Da Situ Zhang Wen, Da Sikong Zhou Zhong, Dasi Nong Wang Yun, Zongzheng Cui Lie, Shaofu Yuan Peng, Tingwei Ding Gong, and Da Honglu Shi Sun Rui, were imprisoned in the Tingwei Mansion prison.

The emperor's family members Fu Wan, Fu De and Dong Cheng were all arrested. Only the eldest princess of Yang'an was spared.

The Wang family of Jinyang and the Wang family of Qi County, the head of the family Wang Yun and below, all 320 people were imprisoned. The officials of the Ma family, the Yang family, and the Cui family were all arrested.

More than 30 people, including Chun Yujia, Zhang Xi, Zhao Wen, Zhao Qian, Sima Fang, Feng Shuo, and Yang Qi, former ministers of Chang'an, were invited into the Tingwei Mansion.

The Tingwei Mansion was overcrowded for a while.

It can be said that after this battle, all the former ministers of the imperial court fell in, and Li Yi's descendants were spared. However, so many people were arrested, and the Jicheng Imperial Court was also paralyzed in a blink of an eye.

This situation was completely out of the expectations of the eldest princess, although she had some suspicions that the people of northern Xinjiang deliberately suppressed the old ministers, but in the face of the ironclad evidence found out, the eldest princess couldn't say anything. She didn't expect that there were so many people who wanted to be unfavorable to her, and those who came to the north from Luoyang and Chang'an Imperial Court were all involved.

The eldest princess was so sad that she couldn't afford to get sick.

The government and government were all handled by Taichang Cai Yong, Guanglu Xun Kou Zhun, Wei Wei Tian Feng, Yu Shi Zhongcheng Zhong Xuan and Shang Shu Ling Chen Qun for the time being.

The holy decree was sent to the desert urgently, and Li Yi, the general of the Great Sima, was asked to return to Jicheng in a hurry. (To be continued.) )