A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 783 Confusion in the East Palace
  On the Xuanwu Gate,

Emperor Li Shimin held his hands on the city walls and looked at his eldest son below the city with extreme disappointment.

The fourteen-year-old young prince Cheng Qian was holding the head of Zhengzhi, sitting on the ground and crying bitterly.

He was willing to die with his eyes open, his eyes wide open, and the extreme fear before his death was frozen in his eyes.

It was gloomy.

The emperor's face became more gloomy.

The prince cried so much that he forgot himself and just shouted for Cheng Xin over and over again. His mind was filled with the screams of "Prince save me" when Cheng Xin was dragged to be beheaded.

"Send the prince back to the East Palace," Li Shimin said with a trembling voice. He couldn't understand that his son, Li Shimin, would do this for a music boy.
  Xu Luoren went to the prince in person to persuade him and wanted to take the head away, but the prince hugged him tightly and refused to let go.

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  "Who is behind Qin Ying, Wei Lingfu and Zhu Qingqing?"

Li Shimin asked Zhang Ananda.

"Xihua Temple has been sealed, but no more useful information has been found," Zhang Anan said bluntly, "Maybe it's just a few demons with ulterior motives who use alchemy to confuse the East Palace for personal gain."

Li Shimin didn't believe it.

Qin Ying and the others were Taoist priests in Chang'an, and they were quite famous at first. In the early years, Qin Ying even debated with Fa Lin of the Third Order Sect. He kept criticizing Fa Lin and the Third Order Sect, and even attacked Buddhism. He was a standard bearer.

It is precisely because Qin Ying is relatively famous among Taoist priests in Chang'an that he agreed to let him pray for the prince when the prince fell ill last year.

Cheng Qian was ill twice last year, and Qin Ying prayed for the prince twice and visited the East Palace frequently. This allowed him to get acquainted with the prince and even gain his trust. It was also at that time that Qin Ying came to the East Palace.

Chengxin has been taking care of the prince. After the two teenagers of about the same age experienced those days together, they actually developed feelings that no one could have imagined. ’

Li Shimin refused to admit such feelings, thinking that this was just Qin Ying's deliberate use of Chengxin to get closer and confuse the East Palace.
  Qin Ying and others did receive many benefits from inheriting Qian, such as the edict to build the Xihua Temple, and the special decree giving Qin Ying three thousand Taoist monks' ultimatums.

Not to mention that Qin Ying and the others also made many illegitimate benefits under the banner of Donggong.

The emperor decided that Cheng Xin was just deliberately approaching, seducing, and confusing the prince, and that he would never have any feelings.

The prince was young and was deceived, too deeply.

The emperor had deliberately neglected Cheng Qian before and even banned him from the East Palace, just to make him wake up. He even gave Wei Wangtai special favors in order to stimulate Cheng Qian.

But who knew that Cheng Qian had no repentance?

Even if he dared to break out of the East Palace today to ask for someone, Li Shimin was so angry that he killed him directly.

But seeing Cheng Qian hugging his head and crying, Li Shimin was disappointed and heartbroken. After all, he was still just a boy and not sensible yet, so he handled it a bit harshly.

He suddenly thought of Wu Huaiyu.

"It would be great if Wu Qingyang was in Chang'an, maybe this kind of thing wouldn't happen at all."

It is said that this incident indeed happened not long after Huaiyu left the capital. Not long after Huaiyu left the capital and went to Lingnan, Chengqian fell ill, and his illness was quite serious. Only then did the Taoist Qin Ying pray for the prince. Therefore, the crowning ceremony of the crown prince was postponed.

Later, he fell ill again, and the ceremony had to be postponed again.

Then the emperor discovered that the prince was actually having sex with a music boy.
  At first, I thought it was not a big deal, but who knew it would turn out to be this situation. Wu Huaiyu has superb medical skills. If he had been in Beijing last year, the prince's illness might have been cured long ago. Moreover, Wu Huaiyu has always been a teacher that the prince trusted more. If something like his wish came up, Wu Huaiyu would come out and give him a few words of advice, and it would probably be solved.

Thinking of this, Li Shimin felt a little regretful. In fact, he should have told Huaiyu about Cheng Qian's problems last year. Maybe he had a way to solve them, or he should have called Wu Huaiyu back to Beijing last winter to solve them face to face.

Looking at Cheng Qian now, Li Shimin was really irritable.

Although he also said the words of Prince Shiwu in front of the ministers, they were actually just words of anger, or just to put some pressure on the prince.

Cheng Qian became the crown prince at the age of eight. He has been the crown prince for six years and is still the eldest son. He has no reason to establish another prince just because of this.

But the emperor, who was about to become invincible, was really annoyed by the situation in front of him.

The desired head was forcibly snatched away from the prince by Xu Luoren, and then Cheng Qian was escorted into the carriage by Baiqi and sent directly to the East Palace.

This time the gate of the East Palace was completely blocked, and Xu Luoren, the general of the Forbidden Army, personally guarded it. Anyway, the emperor issued a strict order not to allow the prince to step out of the East Palace.

In the emperor's rage, many members of the Eastern Palace officials were held accountable, some were demoted, others were demoted, others were dismissed, and some were even exiled and executed.

Cheng Qian was sent back to the East Palace, feeling very lost.
  His hair was disheveled and there was only hatred in his eyes.

He personally wrote a spiritual tablet for Chengxin, and then built a tomb for Chengxin in the East Palace Garden.
  The prince stood guard in front of Zhongxin's tomb,

The emperor said that Cheng Xin was a bitch and had ulterior motives to confuse the East Palace. However, Cheng Qian felt that when he was seriously ill twice last year, Cheng Xin stayed with him day and night without any clothes on. This kind of warmth was not given to him even by his biological brothers. of,
  Not to mention the palace eunuchs in the East Palace,
  The two have been together day and night for more than a year, and gradually developed a special relationship. Cheng Qian feels that this is a real relationship, and the love is sincere.

Anyway, the relationship between the two teenagers is getting better and better, and in the end it is difficult to tell each other apart.

But the emperor killed Zheng Xin,
  Even because of this, another king of Wei was appointed crown prince.
  Cheng Qian is heartbroken, sad, and full of hatred.

Cheng Qian's behavior in the East Palace made the emperor even more angry.

The emperor issued an order to kill Qin Ying, Wei Lingfu, Zhu Lingqing and others, and to abolish Xihua Temple and Huisheng Temple. The Taoist priests of the two temples were forced to return to secular life. The three thousand Taoist certificates issued previously were invalidated, and the Taoist priests who had been renounced were ordered to return to secular life.

Qin Wei and others had private houses, property, wives and children, and were qualified to serve as officials.

However, although the thunder was furious and killed many people at once, the emperor kept this matter relatively secret.

He asked Zhang Liang, the imperial censor, to impeach Qin Ying, Wei Lingfu, Zhu Gengxin and others, but the charge was that they were practicing evil and causing chaos, which did not involve the East Palace or the prince at all.

There is a paragraph in the bullet list that reads, "The Taoist Qin Ying has a good understanding of medical prescriptions. He is free to pray for the ban. He lives with his relatives. He is sick and commits suicide. He rapes his wife. He is worse than a beast. His feelings are against the orthodox religion and his heart is like a wolf. He is greedy. The ambition of competition is to indulge in evil and filthy behavior.

He has a wife in his family, and there is a Ji Tong in his family. Take advantage of the fat and light clothes to enter and exit the thoroughfare..."

The main evidence of his impeachment was that he used heretical magic, raped women, married wives, had children, kept slaves and other illegal things.

The real crime was to confuse the East Palace and instigate the prince. These were not even mentioned.

Of course, the emperor did not want these stains to remain on the prince.
  So this time the handling was very fast, and it was a special case.

Even with Cheng Xin, the prince's male favorite, Li Shimin strictly ordered that no information be leaked. With the execution of Cheng Xin, Qin Ying and others, Li Shimin hoped that this matter would be put to an end and sealed forever.

(End of this chapter)