Xuande

Chapter 115 Seizing Power
On the seventh day of June in the sixth year of Guanghe, news came from the palace that the emperor was very unhappy with what had happened in the past few days, so Thunder was furious.

He called Yang Ci, Zheng Xuan, Lu Zhi and others into the palace, scolded them angrily, scolded them for not taking their own lives seriously, and not only did they not investigate the truth, but they actually did not take their own lives seriously. This serious time for partisanship!

Are those people outside thinking about his safety?

What the hell are you doing?
Are you doing what you should do for the great Han Emperor?
I was stabbed!
"What is the emperor of the great man in your eyes? Is the life of the emperor of the great man so humble? Is it so inferior to your classic inheritance?"

Liu Hong pointed at the bigwigs of the ancient and modern schools with grief and indignation, he took a breath after giving them the output of Zaan, and made the appointment in front of them.

"You guys don't care about my life, okay, then I will find it myself! It seems that the life of the emperor is still in his own hands! You are all courtiers! Courtiers!"

Yang Ci and Zheng Xuan were also quite speechless in the face of the emperor's monstrous anger, and felt a little bit astonished and helpless in their hearts.

But at this time, they can't defend themselves anyway, they can only make a feeble defense.

It makes no sense.

Who would have thought that the situation would develop so quickly, from the case of the assassination of the emperor to another battle between the ancient and modern literature schools so quickly?

All this crazy thing directly took the focus of the question astray, and even the life of the emperor was not important.

The outside was bustling, and the emperor was furious, and then handed over full responsibility for investigating this matter to Zhang Rang.

Liu Hong ordered Zhang Rang to form an investigation team to conduct a thorough investigation of the matter, and also gave Zhang Rang a major authorization to directly set up a special prison without going through the relationship between Yushi Zhongcheng, Ting Wei, and Sili Xiaowei. Investigate the matter independently of the original judiciary.

Highlight a special event.

As soon as the appointment was announced, Yang Ci and Zheng Xuan, the bigwigs of the modern literature school and the ancient literature school, were all inexplicably surprised.

The Han court had relatively complete judicial organs and judicial procedures. There were fixed procedures for investigating the crimes of central officials, how to investigate the crimes of local officials, and how to investigate and punish civil and criminal responsibilities.

What position holds what power is a key political principle, and these principles cannot be violated in a leisurely manner, otherwise the political structure of the entire dynasty will go wrong.

Therefore, what court officials fear most is that the emperor inexplicably set up some strange institutions to rob the power of normal official positions, and what court officials fear most is that the encroached power will not be returned.

Back then, the three princes were all officials with real power, and each of them was a high-ranking national boss. The emperor had to be courteous when they saw each other. They saluted the emperor, and the emperor wanted to return the salute.

But now?

A Shangshutai, a group of officials below a thousand stones, has seized all the important powers of the three princes. The high position has no real power, and the low position has power, which is more convenient for the emperor to dictate and make decisions.

The high-ranking officials and dignitaries of the big man felt inexplicably awkward and unhappy about this.

However, Shangshutai only controlled administrative power, and did not involve judicial power, and now, the emperor's intention was obviously to set up another organization to usurp judicial power.

This is serious.

It is not a problem for an internal eunuch to lead a team to investigate this matter. The problem is to set up a special prison independently of the original judiciary to deal with this matter.

This is an apolitical behavior, so officials with a formal establishment instinctively want to oppose it.

But the objection is done in a slightly different way.

For example, Taiwei Yang Ci, who seemed to have become the bewildered person of the anti-ancient literature school, immediately poured dirty water on the ancient literature school.

"Your Majesty, the old minister has already got an idea of ​​this matter. This matter must have something to do with Lu Zhi and Liu Bei, and there is a bigger conspiracy behind it. Please also order Captain Sili to investigate this matter immediately. Investigation, the truth will definitely come to light, there is no need to pretend to be someone else!"

Lu Zhi was stunned when he heard it, never expecting that Yang Ci would still want to mess with him at this time, and suddenly became angry for no reason.

"Your Majesty! Your loyalty to His Majesty can be learned from the sun! Taiwei Yang falsely accuses me without evidence, and I cannot accept it anyway! I request to confront Yang Taiwei in court to prove his innocence!"

Zheng Xuan also chimed in to help Lu Zhi get rid of the crime.

"Your Majesty, on the day when the incident happened, Lu Shangshu had been working at Shangshutai for more than ten days, and he himself hadn't left Shangshutai for nearly half a month. He was handling official business in Shangshutai day and night. Where did he find the time to plan this? What about such a despicable thing? I ask Your Majesty to look into it!"

After the three bigwigs finished their speeches, a series of officials from the ancient literature school and the modern literature school also expressed their opinions, maximizing the power of the conspiracy theory, and Liu Hong was dumbfounded.

However, Liu Hong still reacted.

This time is not the time to listen to their dog-eat-dog conspiracy theories, but the time to use the thunder and anger to fully implement Dongyuan.

As long as Dongyuan implements it, part of the judicial power will be obtained. At that time, regardless of these old guys, won't their "monkeys and monkey grandchildren" just let Liu Hong flatten and round them?

So Liu Hong made up his mind, picked up a not very valuable pottery bowl that he just used to drink sugar water from his hand, and slammed it on the ground, smashing the pottery bowl, and completely ended these conspirators collective performance.

"Enough! You don't care about my life at all! All you care about is your own glory and wealth! The great man has been raising soldiers for 400 years! He has raised these things like you! The life of the monarch is in your eyes Is it that worthless?"

To tell the truth, Liu Hong's acting skills are not that good, but covering it up with anger can be regarded as passable, so a group of old conspirators had to bow their heads and apologize for Liu Hong's anger.

Are you kidding me, calm down?
If I appease my anger, will you still obediently give up power?
"I understand! You don't care about my life or death, so I will investigate this matter myself! I will definitely investigate to the end! I will never tolerate anyone! As long as anyone is found to be related to this matter by me, I will make him regret growing up!"

Taking advantage of the "monstrous anger", Liu Hong once again ordered Zhang Rang to point out the investigation team to be fully responsible for this matter, and set up a special prison for this, where people can be directly arrested and sent to prison for investigation.

Censor Zhongcheng, Ting Wei, and Sili Xiaowei are not allowed to interfere, and they must not be involved. When encountering Zhang Rang's investigation team, they must retreat. If anyone interferes, they will be guilty of conspiracy.

As far as the Eastern Han Dynasty is concerned, the unspoken rules of the dual monarch have been played very slippery. Even so, treason is the last criterion that cannot be avoided.

No matter who it is, once it involves treason, even if it is a biological father-son relationship, you have to weigh the pros and cons of hiding it for him.

But now, no matter whether it is the ancient literature school or the modern literature school, everyone is very reluctant to accept the results of the eunuch Zhang Rang's investigation team to investigate the matter, but they have no way to object.

Because this involves the life of the emperor himself, it is related to the safety of the emperor himself, if those daring bastards are not found out, the emperor will have trouble sleeping and eating, and Luoyang will never have peace.

This kind of supremacy and righteousness is something they can't refute.

They missed the best opportunity for investigation and wasted time on meaningless party struggles, so that at this moment they had to and could only watch the eunuchs marching full-scale to the judicial power under the big hat of imperial power.

(End of this chapter)