Chapter 235 The Dust Settles
Wu Zonghuai was still wearing the civilian clothes he was arrested that night, but he lost a lot of weight in just a few he still managed to hold his breath and straightened his body, he still showed his old age, his eyes were cloudy, and he was extremely depressed.
"Wu Zonghuai, do you know what crime you have committed?" Su Zhen looked at him and asked in a cold voice.
Wu Zonghuai snorted dryly, and said hoarsely: "I don't know what crimes a man without an official or title can commit. He can still enter the Luan Palace again. I will be interrogated by the Holy Grail. It is really a great grace of the emperor."
"Back then you controlled the government, disrupted the administration of officials, formed cliques for personal gain, and killed innocent people indiscriminately." Su Zhen paused, and said, "I think of your achievements in the past, and I think you have worked hard as an official for many years to forgive you. It is indeed me The emperor's kindness is mighty. It's just that I didn't expect that a single thought of benevolence would turn into a tiger's problem."
"The old man is now a commoner, how much trouble can he cause? All along, the troubles of the emperor are nothing more than internal and external troubles. Jingguo has no external troubles. The emperor might as well think about why he has internal troubles. Do you know that it is not caused by his own loss of morality? Now he comes It is really ridiculous to accuse an old minister who has been half buried in the ground."
Su Zhen smiled nonchalantly, "I have lost my way, and I lost my way because I let a bunch of ambitious ministers eat their own food, put myself under a dangerous wall, and put the people in fire and water. This is an internal worry, so what I want to get rid of is this internal worry."
He stood up and went around the desk, and walked slowly a few steps, "If I hadn't caught you, I would have almost forgotten about it." Su Zhen raised his voice slightly: "Wu Zonghuai, Huai River passes through Qingcheng, Zong Wei My ancestors are rooted in the Northern Kingdom. When I entered the court and changed my name to Zonghuai, it meant that I would never forget my roots and ancestors. This is what you said yourself, and I was just a prince at that time."
Wu Zonghuai was silent and did not speak, Su Zhen chuckled mockingly, "It's a pity, Dashui in Qingcheng County, when your fellow countrymen were displaced, but you yourself forgot your own name. , you also have no compassion. What you see is just an opportunity, an opportunity that can help you realize your ambition and return to court."
"Did the emperor think about this when he forced his mother to death, framed and killed his brothers? Why did the emperor mock other people's dirty bodies, but he didn't see the mud all over his body?"
"The battle for the throne has always won the king and the loser, you understand. I only sigh that my elder brother is a fool. He made a big mistake at the beginning. It is a blessing that the first emperor deprived him of the crown prince but spared him to die. After I ascended the throne It is kindness to not kill him immediately. He must have never thought of it, but in the end he was used by you to push himself to a dead end."
Originally, after Gu Chizhang confessed, all the officials in the palace thought that the Jiang family was cleared, and that was the , Su Zhen mentioned the deposed prince Su Que again, everyone couldn't help being surprised.
Abolishing the crown prince is a very sensitive existence for the emperor in all abolished prince Su Wei was the son of the former empress, and in the eyes of many people who respected etiquette, that was orthodox.
In Jingde's last year's battle for the heir apparent, Su Yu was defeated and eliminated early. After being abolished by Emperor Jingde, he was imprisoned in the inner court and left Su Zhen with a decree not to kill Su Zhen ascended the throne, he was sent to Heyuan to guard the mausoleum, and he was not allowed to leave Heyuan for a lifetime.
This Su Que was unknown, and had basically faded out of people's sights, but now Su Zhen brought him out the ministers in the palace thought about it silently, and they all understood that the Jiang family's treason case was far more than just framing an important minister.
Naturally, this is not a wave that Gu Chizhang or Wu Zonghuai can make.
Wu Zonghuai looked up at Su Zhen, "I don't know what the emperor is talking about!"
"You don't know, then I'll tell you." Su Zhen raised his hand, twisting the pendant lightly in his palm, and said, "Sun Youliang already colluded with you in Qingcheng County, and privately embezzled the disaster relief money allocated by the household department, and Take the opportunity to provoke a rebellion. From the beginning of the rebellion, your goal is my throne. Wu Zonghuai, it is useless for you to want the throne, because you can't get it. What you want is power, so you need to find someone who can sit on the throne. A puppet controlled by you on the throne."
"If I don't quell the rebellion, you can slowly grow up in Qingcheng County; if I quell the rebellion, you can take the opportunity to force me to kill the hero unjustly. If I really kill him, you can also find a way to vindicate him and let everyone My minister and I are separated. There are people like you in the court, and you don't care who is the emperor, you only care about the power in your hands."
Su Zhen smiled, "It was supposed to be a relatively long process, but my quick removal of these people made you mess up. That's why the memorial was made to save your power in the court." .”
Wu Zonghuai's face was very ugly, but he sneered again, "This old man has lived in vain for decades, but he doesn't have the meticulous thought of the emperor when he asks himself."
"As Xia Chu said, what is false is always false. For things that didn't happen, no matter how elaborately they are fabricated, there are details that you can't think of, and there are loopholes that you didn't expect."
Su Zhen walked down the steps, stood in front of Wu Zonghuai and looked down at him, "Sun Youliang may not know about your collusion with Su Yu, but he knows about Qingcheng County. Qingcheng County has no interest in the whole case. , so you killed Sun Youliang to eliminate this hidden danger."
"If the emperor wants to excuse the Jiang family, he can say whatever he wants."
"The Jiang family doesn't need anyone to justify it. Those who are cleared will be cleared. I have never believed in these trumped-up charges." Su Zhen glanced at Jiang Xiyuan, and continued: "You think Gu Chizhang doesn't know your intention of treason, even if you confess, Is it just a few murder charges? Do you think that if you kill the coachman, no one will know who you are in contact with? Do you remember Xiang Qing?"
Wu Zonghuai frowned, looking a little dazed.
"As long as the big layout is thoughtful, there will be basically no problems. But the final success and failure are all the results of the little people's every move. For example, Chang Qing who followed Gu Chizhang, for example, wrote down Hong Jing's consumption Jiuxiang, for example... None of you have noticed that the government has arrested the head of Xia Chu. As far as I am concerned, it is these people who allowed the Jiang family to be cleared of their crimes and pushed your actions into my line of sight."
"And this Xiang Qing, who was almost silenced by you after killing Sun Youliang, is a person whose name you can't even remember. If he lives, it will be your disaster."
"Alive?" Wu Zonghuai blurted out with a pale face.
Su Zhen called An Liang over, took a money bag from him, and threw it on Wu Zonghuai, "This belongs to the Xiaoling Army. The money here is official bank, and you should recognize it. Xiang Qing escorted Sun Youliang before leaving , you promised him a lot of money and told him what to do. He was very successful. When he went to get the money as agreed, he was almost killed by someone. When he fled, he fell off a cliff and fell into the Yuan River to escape. He was found by my people. come out."
Wu Zonghuai stared at the money bag, speechless for a Zhen took the money bag over, threw it aside, turned around and walked back to the dragon chair, "Actually, it doesn't matter if there is no Xiang Qing. I have also found your seal, and I have sent a letter to the Heyuan Imperial Tomb in your name. As long as Su Yu Leaving Heyuan, this matter will be settled."
"Wu Zonghuai, you have done Donggong Zhan's affairs before, and you have been friends with Su Yu for a long time, so you should know what kind of person Su Yu is. If you don't tell me, he will. It's not important for me to interrogate you today, Yu Baiguan To restore the Jiang family's innocence before, it is important to warn people of wrongdoing."
"Foolish Monarch!" Wu Zonghuai yelled angrily, "Our group of veterans have worked so hard for your Su family for many years, and put Su Zhen on the throne for you! You crossed the river and demolished the bridge..."
"I don't need old ministers!" Su Zhen pressed his hand on the table, and raised his voice loudly: "What I want are loyal ministers, what the country wants is honest ministers, and what the common people want is to be able to give them a guard of honor and benefit them Officials!" He glanced at all the officials in the palace, "I not only told him Wu Zonghuai, but also said to you people who are raised by the people and who eat the king's service! Let me remember clearly!"
All the officials bowed down in fear, and the mountain shouted long Chu and Jiang Xiyuan also knelt down and smiled quietly at each other.
The Jiang family's treason case was thus settled, and the Jiang family retreated Min came back, and the general's mansion was released. Except for a false alarm, the Jiang family was unharmed.
Su Qun received Wu Zonghuai's secret letter, seeing the letter saying 'the matter is done, we will enter Beijing', without thinking too much, he happily left Heyuan with the personal guards of the Xiaoling soon as he got out of Heyuan, he was pressed down by Min Feng, and the hidden guards fought with Su Yu's personal guards, but the ones guarding the mausoleum and the ones guarding the emperor were not at the same level, and they lost miserably.
Su Yu was escorted back to Beijing, and after Su Zhen saw the latter, he died with a goblet of dove wine.
Gu Chizhang was sentenced to beheaded, and Wu Zonghuai was beheaded for treason, implicating the nine group of old ministers implicated in Wu Zonghuai who were imprisoned in the prison were all charged with a second class on top of the original charges. After the addition, the best result would be exile.
After the remnants of the party were removed, Su Zhen re-appointed officials, whether they were promoted or demoted, or assigned to outsiders, all based on their abilities and their own strengths, with new ministers as the main the same time, Su Zhen made an order to select talents with Enke.
Su Zhen also worked with the Ministry of Officials to draft the assessment of the administration of officials, as a basis for the promotion of officials in the asked Xia Chu to do this matter together.
Because Su Zhen still remembered that when he took the post of head arrester at the beginning of Xia Xia, he had written a "Research Report on the Necessity of Compensation After Rehabilitation of Unjust Cases", which contained a lot of fresh , Xia Chu didn't have any reluctance. Although she was not engaged in personnel work, she had never eaten pork but had seen pigs run away, so she shared all the advanced experience of later generations with Su Zhen.
As for how to land in Jingguo and make it feasible, that is the matter of Su Zhen and the officials.
Because of this incident, Xia Chu was detained in the palace for many was a little apprehensive, afraid that Su Zhen would still want to keep her in the palace. This matter would be a bit hurtful, but after asking around, Su Zhen didn't give her any clear answer, only saying that she should finish her work first. Discussing the matter at hand again made Xia Chu get angry.
After Jiang Xiyuan was unjustly released from prison, she hadn't seen him yet!I didn't think much about it before, but now my heart is all on Jiang Xiyuan, and I miss him terribly.
During this period, Yong Wei met Xia Chu first time, Yong Wei bowed down to her, and wanted to thank Xia Chu for saving her on behalf of the Jiang Chu hurriedly helped her up, saying that it was all because Su Zhen always believed that the Jiang family was innocent, otherwise she would have no chance to save her.
The second time was when Xia Chu found her and asked her where Jiang Xiyuan had gone and why she hadn't seen him enter the palace these Wei said that she had never seen her before, and that she had sent a letter from her family to report that she was safe, saying that Jiang Xiyuan had stayed for two days after returning home, and then left, even the Flower Planting House was closed.
Xia Chu couldn't find Jiang Xiyuan, and didn't know what Su Zhen was holding the seventh day after the public trial in Luandian, Xia Chu couldn't sit still any longer, and went straight to the imperial study room to block Su Zhen, demanding to leave the palace.
Su Zhen looked at her quietly for a while, with a complicated look on his face, and finally stood up with a faint smile, "It's fine that I haven't left the palace for a while, maybe."
"Your Majesty, I am not going out of the palace for a walk, I am..."
Su Zhen interrupted her and said: "An Liang, ask Yuan Fang to prepare her clothes for going out of the palace, and you wait for me to change." After finishing speaking, he left without a trace.
(End of this chapter)
Wu Zonghuai was still wearing the civilian clothes he was arrested that night, but he lost a lot of weight in just a few he still managed to hold his breath and straightened his body, he still showed his old age, his eyes were cloudy, and he was extremely depressed.
"Wu Zonghuai, do you know what crime you have committed?" Su Zhen looked at him and asked in a cold voice.
Wu Zonghuai snorted dryly, and said hoarsely: "I don't know what crimes a man without an official or title can commit. He can still enter the Luan Palace again. I will be interrogated by the Holy Grail. It is really a great grace of the emperor."
"Back then you controlled the government, disrupted the administration of officials, formed cliques for personal gain, and killed innocent people indiscriminately." Su Zhen paused, and said, "I think of your achievements in the past, and I think you have worked hard as an official for many years to forgive you. It is indeed me The emperor's kindness is mighty. It's just that I didn't expect that a single thought of benevolence would turn into a tiger's problem."
"The old man is now a commoner, how much trouble can he cause? All along, the troubles of the emperor are nothing more than internal and external troubles. Jingguo has no external troubles. The emperor might as well think about why he has internal troubles. Do you know that it is not caused by his own loss of morality? Now he comes It is really ridiculous to accuse an old minister who has been half buried in the ground."
Su Zhen smiled nonchalantly, "I have lost my way, and I lost my way because I let a bunch of ambitious ministers eat their own food, put myself under a dangerous wall, and put the people in fire and water. This is an internal worry, so what I want to get rid of is this internal worry."
He stood up and went around the desk, and walked slowly a few steps, "If I hadn't caught you, I would have almost forgotten about it." Su Zhen raised his voice slightly: "Wu Zonghuai, Huai River passes through Qingcheng, Zong Wei My ancestors are rooted in the Northern Kingdom. When I entered the court and changed my name to Zonghuai, it meant that I would never forget my roots and ancestors. This is what you said yourself, and I was just a prince at that time."
Wu Zonghuai was silent and did not speak, Su Zhen chuckled mockingly, "It's a pity, Dashui in Qingcheng County, when your fellow countrymen were displaced, but you yourself forgot your own name. , you also have no compassion. What you see is just an opportunity, an opportunity that can help you realize your ambition and return to court."
"Did the emperor think about this when he forced his mother to death, framed and killed his brothers? Why did the emperor mock other people's dirty bodies, but he didn't see the mud all over his body?"
"The battle for the throne has always won the king and the loser, you understand. I only sigh that my elder brother is a fool. He made a big mistake at the beginning. It is a blessing that the first emperor deprived him of the crown prince but spared him to die. After I ascended the throne It is kindness to not kill him immediately. He must have never thought of it, but in the end he was used by you to push himself to a dead end."
Originally, after Gu Chizhang confessed, all the officials in the palace thought that the Jiang family was cleared, and that was the , Su Zhen mentioned the deposed prince Su Que again, everyone couldn't help being surprised.
Abolishing the crown prince is a very sensitive existence for the emperor in all abolished prince Su Wei was the son of the former empress, and in the eyes of many people who respected etiquette, that was orthodox.
In Jingde's last year's battle for the heir apparent, Su Yu was defeated and eliminated early. After being abolished by Emperor Jingde, he was imprisoned in the inner court and left Su Zhen with a decree not to kill Su Zhen ascended the throne, he was sent to Heyuan to guard the mausoleum, and he was not allowed to leave Heyuan for a lifetime.
This Su Que was unknown, and had basically faded out of people's sights, but now Su Zhen brought him out the ministers in the palace thought about it silently, and they all understood that the Jiang family's treason case was far more than just framing an important minister.
Naturally, this is not a wave that Gu Chizhang or Wu Zonghuai can make.
Wu Zonghuai looked up at Su Zhen, "I don't know what the emperor is talking about!"
"You don't know, then I'll tell you." Su Zhen raised his hand, twisting the pendant lightly in his palm, and said, "Sun Youliang already colluded with you in Qingcheng County, and privately embezzled the disaster relief money allocated by the household department, and Take the opportunity to provoke a rebellion. From the beginning of the rebellion, your goal is my throne. Wu Zonghuai, it is useless for you to want the throne, because you can't get it. What you want is power, so you need to find someone who can sit on the throne. A puppet controlled by you on the throne."
"If I don't quell the rebellion, you can slowly grow up in Qingcheng County; if I quell the rebellion, you can take the opportunity to force me to kill the hero unjustly. If I really kill him, you can also find a way to vindicate him and let everyone My minister and I are separated. There are people like you in the court, and you don't care who is the emperor, you only care about the power in your hands."
Su Zhen smiled, "It was supposed to be a relatively long process, but my quick removal of these people made you mess up. That's why the memorial was made to save your power in the court." .”
Wu Zonghuai's face was very ugly, but he sneered again, "This old man has lived in vain for decades, but he doesn't have the meticulous thought of the emperor when he asks himself."
"As Xia Chu said, what is false is always false. For things that didn't happen, no matter how elaborately they are fabricated, there are details that you can't think of, and there are loopholes that you didn't expect."
Su Zhen walked down the steps, stood in front of Wu Zonghuai and looked down at him, "Sun Youliang may not know about your collusion with Su Yu, but he knows about Qingcheng County. Qingcheng County has no interest in the whole case. , so you killed Sun Youliang to eliminate this hidden danger."
"If the emperor wants to excuse the Jiang family, he can say whatever he wants."
"The Jiang family doesn't need anyone to justify it. Those who are cleared will be cleared. I have never believed in these trumped-up charges." Su Zhen glanced at Jiang Xiyuan, and continued: "You think Gu Chizhang doesn't know your intention of treason, even if you confess, Is it just a few murder charges? Do you think that if you kill the coachman, no one will know who you are in contact with? Do you remember Xiang Qing?"
Wu Zonghuai frowned, looking a little dazed.
"As long as the big layout is thoughtful, there will be basically no problems. But the final success and failure are all the results of the little people's every move. For example, Chang Qing who followed Gu Chizhang, for example, wrote down Hong Jing's consumption Jiuxiang, for example... None of you have noticed that the government has arrested the head of Xia Chu. As far as I am concerned, it is these people who allowed the Jiang family to be cleared of their crimes and pushed your actions into my line of sight."
"And this Xiang Qing, who was almost silenced by you after killing Sun Youliang, is a person whose name you can't even remember. If he lives, it will be your disaster."
"Alive?" Wu Zonghuai blurted out with a pale face.
Su Zhen called An Liang over, took a money bag from him, and threw it on Wu Zonghuai, "This belongs to the Xiaoling Army. The money here is official bank, and you should recognize it. Xiang Qing escorted Sun Youliang before leaving , you promised him a lot of money and told him what to do. He was very successful. When he went to get the money as agreed, he was almost killed by someone. When he fled, he fell off a cliff and fell into the Yuan River to escape. He was found by my people. come out."
Wu Zonghuai stared at the money bag, speechless for a Zhen took the money bag over, threw it aside, turned around and walked back to the dragon chair, "Actually, it doesn't matter if there is no Xiang Qing. I have also found your seal, and I have sent a letter to the Heyuan Imperial Tomb in your name. As long as Su Yu Leaving Heyuan, this matter will be settled."
"Wu Zonghuai, you have done Donggong Zhan's affairs before, and you have been friends with Su Yu for a long time, so you should know what kind of person Su Yu is. If you don't tell me, he will. It's not important for me to interrogate you today, Yu Baiguan To restore the Jiang family's innocence before, it is important to warn people of wrongdoing."
"Foolish Monarch!" Wu Zonghuai yelled angrily, "Our group of veterans have worked so hard for your Su family for many years, and put Su Zhen on the throne for you! You crossed the river and demolished the bridge..."
"I don't need old ministers!" Su Zhen pressed his hand on the table, and raised his voice loudly: "What I want are loyal ministers, what the country wants is honest ministers, and what the common people want is to be able to give them a guard of honor and benefit them Officials!" He glanced at all the officials in the palace, "I not only told him Wu Zonghuai, but also said to you people who are raised by the people and who eat the king's service! Let me remember clearly!"
All the officials bowed down in fear, and the mountain shouted long Chu and Jiang Xiyuan also knelt down and smiled quietly at each other.
The Jiang family's treason case was thus settled, and the Jiang family retreated Min came back, and the general's mansion was released. Except for a false alarm, the Jiang family was unharmed.
Su Qun received Wu Zonghuai's secret letter, seeing the letter saying 'the matter is done, we will enter Beijing', without thinking too much, he happily left Heyuan with the personal guards of the Xiaoling soon as he got out of Heyuan, he was pressed down by Min Feng, and the hidden guards fought with Su Yu's personal guards, but the ones guarding the mausoleum and the ones guarding the emperor were not at the same level, and they lost miserably.
Su Yu was escorted back to Beijing, and after Su Zhen saw the latter, he died with a goblet of dove wine.
Gu Chizhang was sentenced to beheaded, and Wu Zonghuai was beheaded for treason, implicating the nine group of old ministers implicated in Wu Zonghuai who were imprisoned in the prison were all charged with a second class on top of the original charges. After the addition, the best result would be exile.
After the remnants of the party were removed, Su Zhen re-appointed officials, whether they were promoted or demoted, or assigned to outsiders, all based on their abilities and their own strengths, with new ministers as the main the same time, Su Zhen made an order to select talents with Enke.
Su Zhen also worked with the Ministry of Officials to draft the assessment of the administration of officials, as a basis for the promotion of officials in the asked Xia Chu to do this matter together.
Because Su Zhen still remembered that when he took the post of head arrester at the beginning of Xia Xia, he had written a "Research Report on the Necessity of Compensation After Rehabilitation of Unjust Cases", which contained a lot of fresh , Xia Chu didn't have any reluctance. Although she was not engaged in personnel work, she had never eaten pork but had seen pigs run away, so she shared all the advanced experience of later generations with Su Zhen.
As for how to land in Jingguo and make it feasible, that is the matter of Su Zhen and the officials.
Because of this incident, Xia Chu was detained in the palace for many was a little apprehensive, afraid that Su Zhen would still want to keep her in the palace. This matter would be a bit hurtful, but after asking around, Su Zhen didn't give her any clear answer, only saying that she should finish her work first. Discussing the matter at hand again made Xia Chu get angry.
After Jiang Xiyuan was unjustly released from prison, she hadn't seen him yet!I didn't think much about it before, but now my heart is all on Jiang Xiyuan, and I miss him terribly.
During this period, Yong Wei met Xia Chu first time, Yong Wei bowed down to her, and wanted to thank Xia Chu for saving her on behalf of the Jiang Chu hurriedly helped her up, saying that it was all because Su Zhen always believed that the Jiang family was innocent, otherwise she would have no chance to save her.
The second time was when Xia Chu found her and asked her where Jiang Xiyuan had gone and why she hadn't seen him enter the palace these Wei said that she had never seen her before, and that she had sent a letter from her family to report that she was safe, saying that Jiang Xiyuan had stayed for two days after returning home, and then left, even the Flower Planting House was closed.
Xia Chu couldn't find Jiang Xiyuan, and didn't know what Su Zhen was holding the seventh day after the public trial in Luandian, Xia Chu couldn't sit still any longer, and went straight to the imperial study room to block Su Zhen, demanding to leave the palace.
Su Zhen looked at her quietly for a while, with a complicated look on his face, and finally stood up with a faint smile, "It's fine that I haven't left the palace for a while, maybe."
"Your Majesty, I am not going out of the palace for a walk, I am..."
Su Zhen interrupted her and said: "An Liang, ask Yuan Fang to prepare her clothes for going out of the palace, and you wait for me to change." After finishing speaking, he left without a trace.
(End of this chapter)
