Empress Dowager Empress Dowager

Chapter 268 Killing the Demon Concubine
In Prince Duan's mansion, Baili Zonglu was furious and threw away all the paperweights on the table.

"Bastard!"

The dark guards didn't dare to raise their heads, and they didn't dare to breathe out. They had never seen such an out-of-control Baili Zonglu. It can be seen how deeply this incident hit Baili Zonglu.

No, most of the military pay and rations used by Baili Zonglu to raise private soldiers came from Luo Guogong. Now he has been confiscated and beheaded for public display, and all his property has been brought into the national treasury. How much can he not lose? make him angry.

Moreover, Luo Guogong was also eradicated with such a crude method. This person's ability made Baili Zonglu afraid, and the other party was still in the dark, which made Baili Zonglu even more uneasy.

"Go, let me find out who framed Duke Luo." At this point, Baili Zonglu became even more angry. He didn't even know who the other party was, so he asked the other party to eradicate Duke Luo. You know , Luo Guogong's root system is so developed that even the first emperor tried to move Luo Guogong a few times, but he couldn't do anything, so he let a dragon robe be overthrown so easily.

Fang Tieyi appeared too timely.

When Baili Zonglu thought of Fang Tieyi, he would think of Huo Mingzhu. Baili Zonglu pursed his lips, thought for a moment, and then said, "Check out what Fang Tieyi is doing."

"Yes." The dark guard led the order and went out, and Baili Zonglu pointed the finger at Huo Mingzhu.

Before the hidden guards found out anything, the second person who had an accident was Wei Taishi, who was also a secret subordinate of Baili Zonglu, and he and Luo Guogong were relatively big officials in the court. If the two of them fell, The rest of the people are also useless, at least in the short term.

The downfall of Grand Master Wei was also a coincidence. On that day, Grand Master Wei was visiting a kiln. He is more fond of beauty. He would go to the kiln from time to time to see if there are any newcomers. He was also accompanied by Duke Wei and Hanlin. Master Zhou, these few often get together to enjoy the tenderness of the country.

This day was the same as usual, but it was also different. The new oiran in Yichun Courtyard was quite beautiful, and the eyes of these three people were straightened. A letter fell out from Taishi Wei's lapel.

The oiran thought it was a bank note, took it out in a hurry, and opened it immediately, but it turned out to be a letter, so he pouted, muttered a few times in dissatisfaction, and threw the letter away, which happened to be in the Duke Wei smiled and took Duke Wei's face, unfolding it while joking with Grand Master Wei.

As a result, the sight of the letter and the content of the letter directly made Duke Wei's expression change drastically, pointing at Grand Master Wei's hand trembling uncontrollably, that appearance of about to have a stroke made Mr. Zhou feel very funny, and made fun of Grand Master Wei for being courageous Little, I was so scared when I saw a mere letter.

Taking the letter from Duke Wei's hand, he came over to look at it, immediately stood up from his seat, and said to Grand Master Wei: "I, I still have something to do, let's go ahead."

Before they left, Zhong Ren rushed in with someone, pointed at the three people and said, "Take down the traitor."

Rebels appeared again and again, Luo Guogong only collected the dragon robes, he shouted that he collected the dragon robes because of his admiration for the emperor, and used this to burn incense on the dragon robes every day to show his respect.Even so, Luo Guogong could not escape the fate of ransacking his home and beheading him, so he decided to behead him.

As for Grand Master Wei, the letter of collaborating with the enemy and traitorous country fell out of his clothes in full view. Huo Mingzhu had someone ask the oiran for questioning, but the oiran didn't even know a single Chinese character. It wasn't because the family was poor and unable to live that they fell into the world of mortals. There is nothing wrong with this oiran.

The other two people who were implicated also testified against each other. The two of them just went shopping with Grand Master Wei. For this reason, the two people even asked the tigress at home to clean up.

Wei Taishi was unlucky, he followed in Luo Guogong's footsteps, ransacked his home and beheaded him.

The Luo family and the Wei family ransacked their homes, and found many cases of corruption and bribery. It turned out that the warehouses and locked properties of these two families were enough to scare people to death, and there were some shady secret accounts, which were all recorded in on the locked ledger.

Huo Mingzhu took out the ledger at that time, and the more he looked at the back, the whole person was already trembling with anger. At that moment, he repeatedly called the names of several ministers. These people were implicated in this incident. Li was also involved in taking bribes.

Moreover, these people have another identity, that is, secret ministers of Baili Zonglu, who support Baili Zonglu. Li seemed to be a neutral person, and Huo Mingzhu pointed them out all at once.

Or dismissal or dismissal of officials, in short, this time the big cleanup, Baili Zonglu has been fighting alone in the court, even if there are still omissions, they are of no use. How did you get in touch.

The continuous turmoil since the beginning of Luo Guogong has made people in the government and the wild panic, for fear that he will be the next one. Therefore, many officials who have accepted bribes and raped women for rape have made compensations one after another. The people who came from the people returned to the people, put the beauties they robbed back home, and so on. All of a sudden, Baili Jingqi, the new emperor, and Huo Mingzhu, the queen mother in charge of politics, made the people praise them as gods who came from heaven to save the people. The Great Bodhisattva in water and fire.

If Huo Mingzhu knew that her means of revenge were praised by the common people, she might wake up laughing from her dream, even the heavens are open-eyed, Baili Zonglu should be damned.

These methods were indeed done by people sent by Huo Mingzhu. Fang Tieyi rushed over to catch Luo Guogong by coincidence. It was because she first sent secret guards and put the dragon robe in Luo Guogong's room. It can't be released at any time.

For example, before Luo Yazaki appeared in the room, and when there was no one around him, otherwise, those servants would dare to let Luo Yazaki touch that thing, and it would be too late to hide.

If you meet the above conditions, you can easily frame Luo Guogong. Although Luo Guogong's corruption and bribery can also be a fuss, it is not serious enough after all. Look, there are many people involved in the corruption and bribery. Huo Mingzhu wiped out all the people from Baili Zonglu.

Don't underestimate the article here, you need to separate the royalist party from the Princely Duan party, and punish the Princely Duan party. Of course, you can't kill all the courtiers at once, otherwise it will hurt the foundation of the country It's not that simple to get rid of the Baili Zonglu people without hurting the foundation of the country. Huo Mingzhu has been messing with the account book for a long time.

Yes, that account book was also written by Huo Mingzhu. Huo Mingzhu had deployed it for so long, endured nausea and dealt with Baili Zongrui, and what he was waiting for was today.

Seeing Baili Zonglu's pale face, Huo Mingzhu felt relieved.

This is only part of it. In a few days, Baili Zonglu will receive the power he deployed in the local area and be eradicated. Thinking of this, Huo Mingzhu smiled even more heartily, and said to the officials: "Duke Luo's The matter, and the matter of Grand Master Wei, everyone should learn from it, and don't do such a rebellious thing because of a moment of confusion, think about the elderly and children in your family, they are the most innocent."

Huo Mingzhu showed the kindness that a woman should have in every way, but it was the one that could win people's hearts the most.

It's not like what Huo Mingzhu said, there are no old people and children in the family. If one person makes a mistake, the whole family will suffer.

Just two days after Luo Guogong and Wei Taishi had an accident, Baili Zonglu received the news that the officials he placed outside were either assassinated or committed crimes, and none of them survived.

As a result, the bureau that Baili Zonglu had deployed for so long was completely disrupted. No matter in the court or in the local area, there was nothing about Baili Zonglu. Moreover, only relying on his salary , It is impossible to support the private army in hand.

All of a sudden, Baili Zonglu was cornered by Huo Mingzhu.

Moreover, it will be Baili Zonglu's birthday in a few days, and he has already arranged it. He will use tomorrow's birthday to let those ministers who have not yet surrendered to him see that he has already surrendered the Queen Mother. If they If you don't follow him, you just wait for his means, but in the end, what you are waiting for is such a situation.

Just after thinking about it, the housekeeper of Baili Zonglu sent a box to Baili Zonglu tremblingly: "My lord, my lord, this is what General Fang asked me to hand over to my lord."

Seeing the butler with trembling hands, Baili Zonglu's face became even more gloomy. He brought the box over, opened it, and directly threw the box out.

"Huo Mingzhu, damned woman." Baili Zonglu's expression was extremely terrifying, Prince Duan's mansion was about to be smashed down by him, and the madness he displayed at this moment was unprecedented. It has the appearance of the great hero of the god of war.

His concubine Caiyu happened to bring in the clothes to be worn at Baili Zonglu's birthday banquet. Hearing the movement, she hurriedly walked to Baili Zonglu's side and said to Baili Zonglu, "My lord, who provoked Baili Zonglu?" You, don't get mad."

This colorful jade was newly recruited by Princess Duan, and it looks somewhat similar to Huo Mingzhu. Baili Zonglu dotes on her very much on weekdays. Seeing it now, it is as if he has seen Huo Mingzhu's deeds, so that he will The resentment was vented on her, and she directly reached out and grabbed Caiyu's neck and said, "Whoever asked you to come, whoever allowed you to come, you should die!"

Just like that, Caiyu was strangled to death by Baili Zonglu, but before she died, she didn't understand what she did not do well to make the prince who had always been gentle with him show such a terrifying expression, and wanted to put her to death.

After Caiyu's body fell limply, Baili Zonglu didn't even look at it, but focused on the box in the corner.

The box was an ordinary brocade box, and a part of the handkerchief fell out of it, but it was stained with blood. Baili Zonglu recognized this handkerchief as Huo Huaiyu's.

Why do I remember it so clearly?Because that handkerchief was bought from a street vendor when Baili Zonglu was playing with Huo Huaiyu, and a pair of mandarin ducks were embroidered on it. He gave this handkerchief to Huo Huaiyu on purpose, and he knew that Huo Huaiyu got his things , I'm definitely going to show off in front of Huo Mingzhu, but I don't want to...

At this moment, Baili Zonglu strung together Huo Mingzhu's actions into a thread, from dealing with Huo Huaiyu and Huo Zhengde, to emptying out the power in his hands, all of this was Huo Mingzhu's premeditation, a premeditation against him !
Huo Mingzhu hated him in his heart, Baili Zonglu didn't think clearly about this until now.

Therefore, Baili Zonglu's love for Huo Mingzhu disappeared after thinking about everything clearly, and the rest was hatred, and he also hated Huo Mingzhu!Hate her for not knowing what is good or bad, hate her for being bold, hate her for daring to go against him!

Thinking of this, Baili Zonglu said harshly: "Come on!"

"My lord." Several hidden guards fell on the ground, obeying Baili Zonglu's instructions.

Baili Zonglu said: "Assemble the soldiers and horses, this king wants to clear the emperor's side and eliminate the demon queen!"

"Yes, my lord." Several hidden guards obeyed the order and led them out.But Baili Zonglu gritted his teeth and said: "Huo Mingzhu, if you dare to fight against this king, your time of death has arrived."

It was night, people were still asleep, Baili Zonglu's [-] soldiers gathered, and surrounded Shangjing city layer upon layer...

(End of this chapter)