Beautiful step by step

Chapter 178

A few unintentional words of the nine princesses, in Emperor Qinglong's ears, there is a clear feeling of seeing the sun and the moon through the clouds and mists.

After leaving Yikun Palace, he asked Qinglongwei to secretly investigate the matter of the East Palace.In recent years, he has seldom taken care of the affairs of his sons' backyard. One is out of reassurance. He still doesn't feel that the prince he has carefully cultivated can't even do the most basic Qi family; another point is that he is a father-in-law Peeping at his daughter-in-law, what kind of words spread out.

But now that the leak of the military plane involves the back house, he can't take care of that much anymore.

After Qinglongwei was ordered to retreat, he began to read the memorial by candlelight.

The pen is closed during the Chinese New Year, but some natural and man-made disasters will not stop because of the Chinese New Year.This year, there is still heavy snow in Northwest China. Fortunately, local officials dealt with it in time and did not cause snow disasters.But on the contrary, when the cold wave went south, Japanese pirates took the opportunity to land, causing heavy casualties in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

In previous years, Japanese pirates also often caused chaos along the coast, causing countless casualties.At first glance, it was quite scary, but after hearing it every year, he was quite familiar with it, and then he became familiar with it, sending troops to suppress it, and allocating good wages to relieve disasters.But this year is different. The Northwest military plane leaked and was raided by others can win the battle, and the Jiangnan side has enough soldiers and food to face a few pirates and still lose.

"You can't win at all, what a bunch of country moths!"

Holding the memorial, the veins on his hands bulged.A few days ago, the staff secretly dispatched to the south of the Yangtze River found out the iceberg of corruption.An ordinary Jiangnan county magistrate's mansion, built with gold and jade, is no less luxurious than the prince's house in the capital.After investigating corruption for two years, he found that the lower the level, the lower the attention of the imperial power, and the more lawless those low-level officials.

The East Palace is in the palace, with Emperor Qinglong's permission, it is very convenient for the Qinglong Guard to check.In addition, in order to choose a son-in-law for the ninth princess, they searched the back houses of rich and noble families in Beijing in many ways. They already have some experience in this, and they will search quickly again.

As soon as the morning of the second day passed, the leader of the Azure Dragon Guard had already come to report.

"After Wu entered the East Palace, he flattered His Highness the Crown Prince in every possible way. This move was also dissatisfied by the Crown Princess and other female family members in the East Palace. The only side concubine in the East Palace now, under the instruction of the Crown Princess, made things difficult for the Wu family. The first crown prince also Following the wishes of the side concubine, she verbally reprimanded Wu several times. If Wu hadn't given birth to the emperor's grandson, she would have even been grounded. But in the early autumn of last year, the crown prince suddenly ignored the side concubine, and instead treated Wu better. .And then, at the Emperor's grandson's Zhou Zhou ceremony, he personally promised to promote Wu as a side concubine."

In the early autumn of last year, Emperor Qinglong held his teacup tightly.The Oirat army made a large-scale invasion in the late autumn and early winter of last year. If the news spread from the capital, wait for the Oirat royal court to receive it, and then organize the army to invade on a large scale. The calculation time is just right.

"Did the prince start to dote on the Wu family for no reason?"

The secret guard thought about it carefully: "The subordinate did not find out what kind of big mistake the side concubine made, but the little emperor's grandson is one year old, maybe His Highness the Crown Prince is happy?"

Happy?It's not that the crown prince doesn't have a son, a son conceived by a concubine before entering the palace, what's there to be happy about.

After the dark guard retreated, looking at the Jiangnan memorial on the imperial case, Emperor Qinglong was in a daze for a while.

Leaning on the couch to rest for a while, he slowly opened his eyes, and his vision gradually recovered.

"Your Majesty, do you want to teach the imperial physician?"

Walking down with his fly whisk, he thought twice and sighed. The emperor's health has become worse and worse in the past two years. Usually, two lamps on the left and right can write memorials, but now there are ten lamps. The whole side hall of Qianqing Palace is brightly lit. strenuous.

Emperor Qinglong waved his hand: "No need, I have presbyopia, and it's just like that."

After thinking for a while, he said again: "Bring the pair of dioramas that Ayi bought for Zhen from outside."

Seeing Sansi retreating under orders and reclining on the couch, Emperor Qinglong looked at the dense mist rising from the censer in the center of the hall, and a faint sadness of a hero's twilight rose in his heart.

It's not that he is in love with power, nor is it that he regrets that the time flies by and he is in his twilight years. He wants to delegate power, but to whom should this power be delegated, and who can it be delegated to?
Prince?

Look at what he does!

If he could break out of the siege among the tiger and wolf brothers like he did back then, and look down on the world with his personal ability, why would he worry about having no successor to the throne.It doesn't matter if one's own ability is insufficient, and it doesn't matter to be a successful king and continue the prosperity of Da Viet in a down-to-earth manner.

But he chose to follow these heresy ways, using the woman in the back house to plot against his brother.It is neither the check and balance of the emperor's mind, nor the magnanimity of a man and the kindness of a successful king.

Dai Viet has been in power for nearly a hundred years, and under the prosperity and prosperity, some officials have long forgotten the difficulties of starting a business.Jiangnan, which accounts for the most tax revenue in the world, has rotted from the root. Can the prince control such a world?

On such an ordinary morning, Emperor Qinglong, who realized that he was no match for the vicissitudes of life, began to make final plans for this world.

The country is a game of chess, whoever controls the ups and downs.

Anyway, it can't be the prince.

At no moment did he know better than now, it wasn't that he hadn't been taught, and it wasn't that he hadn't been reminded, but the prince insisted on getting into a dead end, so don't blame him for being abandoned.

The turmoil in the early spring of the 40th year of Jianwen left a strong mark in the history books.

"At the beginning of March, the Emperor had a frightening dream about the Taizu, and the Taimiao might be in danger..."

The stain of collaborating with the enemy and treason must not be pinned on the royal family, so Emperor Qinglong had a dream. He dreamed that the founding father of Dai Viet entrusted him with a dream, saying that there was something wrong with the Taimiao where the ancestors' incense was enshrined.I sent someone to investigate, and found that someone was doing something in an important hexagram related to the prosperity of the family in the five elements and gossip in the East of the Taimiao.

It is none other than the prince who does things.

Although the prince made every possible excuse, saying that he listened to the advice of an expert outside the world, he chose this auspicious place to do a ritual, to bless the prosperity of the country of Dayue and the prosperity of his father forever.But this argument can't stand at all, because Qinglongwei soon found out the witchcraft.

"The emperor was furious and deposed the prince. However, thinking of the love between father and son, he was confined to the palace in the suburbs of Beijing."

At the same time, the leak of the Northwest military plane that has been raging all winter has finally come to light.

After following the line of the prince, mother and concubine, Emperor Qinglong found out a result that he never expected.The origin of the crown prince, mother and concubine is not obvious, she was just a low-ranking concubine when she first entered the palace, and she can be qualified as a fourth-rank Jieyu only by giving birth to a good son.If it weren't for the lack of harem lords, it would be impossible for her to be the harem lord even in a relatively remote palace.

With this kind of background, there are not many scholars in her family.So much so that she gained a firm foothold in the harem later, and wanted to support her natal family, but she couldn't pull people into the officialdom.

If you fail to be an official, you will ask for money, and the way to ask for money is to go into business.Jieyu has lived in the deep palace for a long time, and she is used to seeing rare treasures brought from the Western Regions.So the direct branch of her natal family took the crown prince's banner to accept bribes with peace of mind, and the side branch started to run the Western Regions trade route.

The IQ of a family that can cultivate such a prince's birth mother is not much higher.It just so happened that the descendants of the Buktu tribe were looking for opportunities, and when they came and went, they found opportunities to sneak in.The Boketu family is a natural guide, and they are also familiar with the ways of the Wala people. With them joining the princess's natal family, they will be even more powerful and earn a lot of money. They will soon be regarded as confidantes.

With the protection of the prince's family, the Boketu family can also move freely in the northwest.Liangzhou city defense relies on felt tents and has strong mobility, but when it comes to playing felt tents, nomads are the ancestors.Others can't see it clearly, they rely on wind direction, climate and some clues, and they can figure it out with their eyes closed.

It was thanks to Wei Wei that the dark guard could find out about this.

After Dong Xue was taken to the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, she went to see her once.

When we met again, Dongxue had completely recovered her arrogance, and she was no longer as humble as she was when she was a maid.Probably because she grew up in the common people, she didn't have the kind of rich clothes, fine food, and top power to subtly influence her for a long time. Her arrogance just straightened her waist and raised her chin. She didn't have the dignity from the inside out of a serious princess at all.

Wei Wei grasped this point: "I don't judge who is right and who is wrong between Da Yue and Bo Ketuhan. In short, the winner is the king and the loser. But Dong Xue, rights and obligations are corresponding. They never gave you the enjoyment of a princess. Why do you have to take on the responsibility of the princess?"

Facing this former maid who almost dragged Yan Heng into the water, Wei Wei had no patience, and with one sentence, she directly destroyed her beliefs over the years.

"Not responsible?"

"Do you want to be King Khan?"

After spending so many days in the dark prison of the Ministry of Justice, the silence, darkness, loneliness and fear of death have almost destroyed Dong Xue's will.Now that she was asked the question that troubled her since she was a child, this was the only thought left in her mind.

King Khan, she never even thought about it!So why?Why couldn't she be like the kids around her since she was a child?Why is she alone shouldering the important task of restoring the country?Those people never asked her wishes, never asked her if she wanted to return to the country!
"Dongxue, you are a very smart girl. What Gu Yu took years to learn, you only need a few months. With this intelligence and your looks, you could have married into a wealthy family and lived happily ever after. .But you insist on choosing the most difficult path, and you have to blame yourself for what you are doing now.”

The purpose of Wei Wei's coming to the Ministry of Punishment was to calm down the anger in his heart.Being betrayed by someone close to her was uncomfortable, and she didn't want this emotion to affect the child in her womb.

After saying these words, she felt relieved and went home to raise her baby with peace of mind.

But these words of hers affected Dongxue. After thinking about it, her firm belief gradually began to crumble.

When the collapse was about the same, Qinglongwei came to interrogate him.Qinglongwei had some tricks when interrogating people, and soon the complete information was tricked out.Apart from the prince's family, Dong Xue also mentioned the Wu family. When the Wu family was guarding the northwest, the spies they used were Wala people. She had seen these people before.

As for King Wu and King Wei, everything has come to light.Emperor Qinglong was reluctant to punish his son, but he was willing to attack others.

The royal family does not allow the stain of collaborating with the enemy and treason, but this trick is the best way to deal with generals.In addition to collaborating with the enemy and treason, Emperor Qinglong also investigated such things as counterfeiting military merits and embezzling military pay, and listed ten deadly crimes.In the entire Wu family, from the direct lineage in the capital to the collateral lineage of the ancestral home, no one with the Wu surname on the genealogy was spared.

After the punishment, it was the turn of rewards. Yan Heng was promoted to the commander of the Liangzhou Guard for his meritorious service in defending the city, and he was promoted to the fifth-class baron because of his military achievements.

At the same time, Duan Wang's marriage, which had been delayed for two years, was finally settled.Mr. Wei has made meritorious deeds in defending the city, and his daughter-in-law is dignified and intelligent, and is from a famous family. With this merit, she was hired as the right concubine of Duan Wang.

(End of this chapter)