The Six Palaces of Favorites: The Black-bellied Emperor's Cold Concubine

Chapter 355 The Emperor’s Means (4)
In the first half of the night, Qingchen couldn't sleep, but in the second half of the night, he couldn't sleep because of the noise of a thunderstorm. Early in the morning, he asked Xiao Xiangzi to stare at the things in front of him. It wasn't until the emperor came back that Xiao Xiangzi came back and said: In the morning, the emperor publicly dismissed the eldest son of the Lin family from his position as the commander of the Beijiang Army on the grounds that Mr. Lin was old and needed someone to take care of him, and ordered him to return to Beijing to report on his duties, and he was transferred to the Ministry of Rites by the way."

"Ministry of Rites?" Qing Chen was a little dumbfounded, transferring a general who was fighting on the battlefield to the Ministry of Rites for the elderly, this is really a coward, and the emperor's work is terrible.

"What's the situation with the queen? Have all the guards been removed?" What she was most worried about was still the emperor's treatment of the middle palace.

Xiao Xiangzi said: "The guards guarding the central palace have already been removed. It is said that Meng Gui has accumulated the money for many years and asked the little eunuch to send it out of the palace. The reason why the little eunuch wanted to kill Li Meiren was because Li The beauty once had someone beat him for something, and he just wanted revenge."

Up to now, it is no longer important for Qingchen to know the truth, Zuo is just a set of rhetoric from the emperor, "Then why did he blame me?"

Xiao Xiangzi replied: "Your Majesty, you still remember the deceased Lan Guiren. It is said that the murderous little eunuch had received great kindness from Lan Guiren, and he always suspected that you were the one who harmed Lan Guiren. One move, this is to avenge him and his benefactor."

Qingchen nodded and didn't say anything, which was a reason.

Xiao Xiangzi paused for a moment, as if he didn't know what to say or not, hesitatingly looked at her face, Qingchen saw him like that, and said, "What do you want to say, but it's okay to say it?"

"Ma'am, I have a friend in the Punishment Department. He happened to be on duty the night Mr. Fu tried the case..." Xiao Xiangzi hesitated for a moment, and then continued: "He seemed to have heard Meng Gui calling for grievances. No matter what, he refused to put a charge on the confession. Later, when Eunuch Zhang went to the Punishment Department, Meng Gui obediently recruited, and insisted that it was the Queen who asked him to bribe someone to secretly murder Li Meiren, but now Meng Gui How did you become wronged again?"

"Meng Gui confessed after Zhang De went to the Punishment Division..." Qingchen seemed to have understood the general idea in his heart, but he couldn't say it clearly. He only told Xiao Xiangzi solemnly: "You'd better tell your friend about this matter." Don't talk nonsense, or you may not even know how you died. In a place like the Punishment Division, sometimes only dumb people can live long, do you understand what I mean?"

Xiao Xiangzi's face froze, and he said hastily, "I understand, and I will persuade him not to talk nonsense."

Since everything is under the emperor's control, she has nothing to worry about, so she ordered: "It's okay, you can go down first."

Lin Shaokun, the eldest son of the Lin family, had only been in Beijing for a few days, when Shen Guoan at the border came to Beijing with a memorial. He used the excuse of cleaning up military discipline to kill a group of high-ranking generals who did not obey military discipline. After reading the memorial, the emperor smiled and said nothing.Qingchen knew that Shen Guoan was actually not rectifying military discipline, he was just clearing out the remaining members of the Lin family. The death of this group of people meant that the Lin family bid farewell to the military power in northern Xinjiang.

It seems that there are only a few words, but the emperor can imagine what kind of thrilling scene it was at that time. It is common for the boss to be transferred and the people below are not convinced by the new boss. How to suppress the people without causing mutiny is a need. In terms of means and courage, Shen Guoan did not disappoint him.

(End of this chapter)