Chapter 789: Zhaoyi loses power
It is naturally self-evident who this group of ministers is more willing to serve.
Moreover, strengthening the regent Liang Puchuan is far more effective than Liang Kang, who is still young. Therefore, the means he used to win over people were not only from the perspective of interests, but also because Liang Puchuan himself had a gentle appearance.
Because of those, his status is much inferior to his, but he will not look down on him because of their inferior status, let alone have the slightest condescending attitude.
It is precisely because of Liang Puchuan's polite attitude that he has received a lot of praise in the entire court without exception.
And at the same time that Liang Puchuan was winning the hearts of the people in the court, the regent princess who also stayed in this palace from Wudu City was personally giving porridge to everyone who came and went in the city, and gave it without hesitation.
In addition, the princess regent herself is born beautiful, and while giving porridge here, she will smile at everyone who comes, whether it is a common person or a dirty beggar, and speak softly to each other.
Under such circumstances, where would the people know about the twists and turns behind the soup kitchen of the princess regent?
For a time, the princess regent was praised by the people as a great benevolent person and a living bodhisattva in the world because of this.
Under the double envelopment of the people in the palace of the regent and his wife, not only the ministers in this palace were soon attracted by Liang Puchuan.
It is this folk that naturally gradually continues to have the voice of the young emperor who supports Liang Puchuan as the new emperor and abolishes the Zhaoyi curtain to listen to the government, and the people continue to sound everywhere.
Zhaoyi, who was still sick in bed and could not come forward to govern, after hearing these words from the secret guard, although he was anxious, he wanted to suppress Liang Puchuan's methods.
But it is always because she has no energy to manage these things now, and the ministers in the court already have many people who have begun to support Liang Puchuan.
Naturally, it is impossible for her to entrust things to those ministers who cannot be trusted. But now she has only secret guards to mobilize, but these secret guards are subordinate to her forces, and they can't come forward to attack the court.
So even if Zhaoyi has a heart, it is just an idea that doesn't help after all.
Just when Zhaoyi didn't know who to entrust this matter to for a while, and went to do it, she heard the palace maid at the door enter the palace to report.
Hearing the palace maid's report, Zhaoyi, who was still pale because of illness, couldn't help but frown when she heard this, "Princess Regent? Ahem...... Please. ”
Although when she first heard that the princess regent was coming, Zhaoyi didn't know what she was talking about.
But after a moment of time, when she thought about what the Prince Regent had done in recent days, she had almost vaguely guessed it.
When the princess regent came in, although she smiled softly, her eyes were full of mockery.
"Princess Regent Ning, see Queen Mother."
Listening to the princess regent's sentence that focuses on the title of the queen mother
When he was above, his face also recovered.
"I don't know what the princess regent is doing this time?"
After looking at Zhaoyi's pale face, which looked more like he was dying, the sarcasm in his eyes became even stronger.
Just as Zhaoyi thought, the princess regent then directly and secretly taunted Zhaoyi.
Especially after this time, the princess of Liang Puchuan has come to visit Zhaoyi several times, but in fact, she has been constantly showing off to her, and she and the regent are now in such a situation that they are supported by the ministers and the people.
However, how could Zhaoyi, who had already experienced a hundred battles, be angry with the princess regent because of such a little trick?
Every time after the regent princess showed off, Zhaoyi directly ridiculed her lips and did not let her go at all.
Even if Zhaoyi is now seriously ill and bedridden, she has never fallen behind the regent princess at all.
After going back and forth like this a few more times, the princess regent knew that she couldn't talk about Zhaoyi. After going every time, not only could he not block Zhaoyi, but he even made himself angry.
After a long time, she naturally didn't want to continue to suffer such dumb losses.
And seeing that the regent princess no longer came, Zhaoyi began to let the secret guards in his hands go to monitor the various behaviors of the regent Liang Puchuan and his princess, and with the help of Zhuang Mingyue and Long Yuanxiu, he gradually discovered the most unusual place among them.
Just because of this, a few of them quickly discovered from it that Liang Puchuan was in the process of regency, and in his palace, a windfall from no source had quietly flowed in.
Aware of this windfall, the source is definitely not simple, Zhuang Mingyue, even his body has not fully recovered, and there is no delay at all, so he went to investigate secretly with Long Yuanxiu non-stop.
And under the joint investigation of the two of them, they finally discovered in an accident that the origin of this money of unknown origin was actually deducted from the people's tax money and military salary.
Zhuang Mingyue, who never thought that it would be deducted from this, decided to continue to study after realizing that this matter was definitely not simple.
And Zhuang Mingyue and Long Yuanxiu, in order to be able to understand the real truth, secretly disguised themselves, and went to infiltrate the low-level people and military camps with the identity that would not arouse suspicion, wanting to find out the truth of these things.
I have to say that Zhuang Mingyue's idea is the most rapid and investigated thing, and it is also the most accurate.
Just because, it was from them that the two of them soon learned that these withheld taxes had increased after the regent took control of the real power of the court.
What followed the reduction was that the military salaries on which the soldiers relied for their survival were greatly reduced.
It's just that all this was done after the regent Liang Puchuan came to power. From the news they found out, it can be known that these are not Liang Puchuan's orders, but in the name of Zhaoyi, who is still sick in bed and has no way to come forward to govern
such commands.
"It's really good to sneer at this Liang Puchuan, he actually took advantage of Zhaoyi's inability to take power, and in turn used her reputation to do such a crazy thing, it's really amazing!"
Regarding Liang Puchuan's approach, Zhuang Mingyue, who was coldly and sarcastically, really didn't expect that he would be so shameless.
Even if you really do such things in the name of Zhaoyi, you should definitely not cut off the salaries of the soldiers in this military camp.
Now this Han is still not really settled, but it is in this situation that this Liang Puchuan still dares to deduct military salaries, "I am really not afraid of foreign invasion, if the military salaries and grain and grass are not available at that time, I want to see what he should do?!" ”
However, no matter how annoyed Zhuang Mingyue was, no matter how much he understood that this matter of deducting military salaries was not Zhaoyi's order.
But these ordinary people and soldiers who are deceived in the dark do not know about it at all.
And it is precisely because they don't know that Zhaoyi is now among ordinary people and soldiers, and his reputation has become extremely bad.
But just when they thought that this was already the worst thing that Liang Puchuan had done.
The two of them quickly learned from other people's mouths that Liang Puchuan, who really deducted military salaries, had talked to all of them, and he had the meaning of lightly paying for them.
And it is precisely because of this reason that Liang Puchuan has been praised by everyone for this.
It's just that after all, the so-called order to be lightly punished has never come down until now, but Zhuang Mingyue and Long Yuanxiu, who know all the truth, know very well in their hearts, all this is just a cover for Liang Puchuan to appease the people, and there is no day of implementation.
Under such circumstances, Zhuang Mingyue and Long Yuan Xiu simply did not return to their original identities during this time.
Instead, he planned to hide among the crowd with such disguised identities and mingle with this group of ordinary people.
In fact, the last two people also tried to reason with them and spread Zhaoyi's goodness, but no one believed this.
The longer Zhaoyi left the court, the longer Liang Puchuan remained in power. The forces that Zhaoyi had managed to gather with great difficulty, and the good reputation that he had worked so hard to establish among the people, were crumbling by Liang Puchuan with such the worst means.
In today's situation, it can be said that Zhaoyi has lost power. Without her in power above the court, Zhuang Mingyue and Long Yuanxiu would not be able to enter the palace, and the young emperor would have no way to control the situation.
Seeing that Zhaoyi's side had lost ground, Long Yaoyang on this side began to think crookedly again.
After some hesitation, after discussing with Liu Yi, the left protector of the Holy Fire Sect, he finally chose to take the opportunity to raise troops into the palace.
However, just when Long Yaoyang was preparing for a big battle. But he didn't want to wait for his side to attack the city, but he found that the soldiers in this warehouse mall had become weak, and they didn't need to fight a big battle at all, as he thought before.