Chapter 200 Poisoning
"Oh! Mr. Ge is not as good as me. Recently, I have been very happy with a grandson. I want to invite Mr. Ge to talk about it. I don't know if Mr. Zhang can be a good face? Prime Minister Gu Yuping smiled and invited with a red face.
"In this case, it's better to obey than to be respectful. In the evening, I will definitely go to the Prime Minister's mansion to disturb!" Although it was strange in his heart, Zhang Gelo was the person who achieved the position of Geli Lao after all, and he agreed quietly on the surface. Knowing that something important must have happened, the Prime Minister probably wants to discuss it with himself. In this case, let's see what the Prime Minister is doing first.
"To the way, I'm sorry to bother Mr. Zhang to inform Mr. Duan and Mr. Wei!" Seeing Zhang Gelo's happy promise, Gu Yuping actually asked Zhang Gelo to inform the other two Gele Laos.
"This!" Zhang Gelao was a little hesitant when he heard the words. Although the matter in the court of Fengchu can basically be covered by the sky by the high priest Yu Yaobai. But this does not mean that Shangguan Yunba can tolerate his ministers to hold together.
You should know that the cabinet ministers often overlap with the prime minister's government affairs. The cabinet should help the emperor deal with local memorials, give opinions, or help the emperor come up with some ideas or something.
The Prime Minister is a big and small matter of the country, and many things also need to be decided by the Prime Minister, which leads to the Cabinet sometimes feel that this decree should not be implemented and vetoed, but the Prime Minister suddenly came out and said that this decree can be implemented.
In this case, it is strange that the relationship between the cabinet minister and the prime minister can be good. Therefore, Mr. Zhang Ge thought that there must be something in this matter when the Prime Minister invited him today, so he hesitated for a moment and finally agreed: "Since the Prime Minister is so kind, it's better for me to be respectful than to obey!"
"In this case, I will wait for the three elders in the house!"
In fact, as an important cabinet minister, Zhang Gelou has been intrigued in the court all his life. For the strange form in the current court, it can still be seen more or less. But knowing it, he doesn't want or dare to change anything. You should know that from ancient times to the present, people who are too enthusiastic about making changes are all dead.
So after Zhang Ge and Zhang Xian returned to the house, he didn't care about the Mid-Autumn Festival. Directly sent subordinates to Duan Yifeng, and Wei He made a post.
It wasn't long before the two came to Zhang Xian's house.
"Zhang Gelong, I don't know why we are in such a hurry to come here?" Wei He was more impatient and asked first. In fact, the performance of several people in the court is not as harmonious as it is now. In order to reassure the emperor Shangguan Yunba. In fact, the relationship between several people is not good. Even usually, I seldom take the initiative.
But in fact, the relationship between the three people is very good. He was born in the same list, although he is not a brother-in-law. But at least there is no problem in many things to advance and retreat together.
"Lao Wei, why be so polite? I haven't seen a few people for years, have I? Can't it be that I miss you two, so I want to get together with you?" Zhang Xian did not answer Wei He's question directly, but picked up the tea on the table and said with a slow smile.
The good green ink given by Ouchi. You don't have to drink it. Just by opening the lid of the teacup, a fragrant fragrance comes out from afar.
"You can't be a three-year-old baby. Now the atmosphere is so weird. Did you invite me to come at this time? Even if you don't want to live. I still have a family!" Naturally, Wei He will not believe Zhang Xian's nonsense. But since the other party said so,
He was not in a hurry. He also picked up the tea and took a sip, and then sighed, "There are so many good things in your old boy's house, but there is no such a good tea in the government!"
Duan Yifeng sat firmly in the chair from the beginning of entering the door. He looked at the two people quarreling with a smile, neither dissuading nor interrupting.
"Yifeng, you are still the same!" After bickering with Wei He and seeing a picture of Duan Yifeng who was fine, Zhang Xian sighed.
"Lao Zhang, if you have anything to say, just say it directly. We are not outsiders!" Duan Yifeng hasn't answered yet, and Wei He has already said.
Among these three people, Zhang Xian is the oldest and is now seventy-five. Wei He is seventy-two times, and Duan Yifeng is the youngest, only fifty-nine years old. Although the three of them are about the same age, they are all from the same gang. On the surface, water and fire are incompatible, but in fact, they secretly help each other.
"Okay!" Zhang Xian thought for a moment, and he was no longer laughing here. He said seriously, "It was not suitable for us to meet at such a ** time. The recent atmosphere in the court is really strange. I think both of you are very clear about this!"
"Ye-huh! Lao Zhang is right. I always feel that the atmosphere in the court is strange. It seems that something big is going to happen. But after thinking about it carefully for a while, I still don't know why!" Wei He said with a wry smile. Then he looked at Duan Yifeng and asked with a smile, "Yifeng, you are the most shrewd among us. Can you see anything?"
Duan Yifeng frowned and replied, "I also feel something is wrong, but let me say that I can't say. I always feel that someone is doing something in the dark. I also sent someone to investigate, but I didn't find anything.
They exchanged eyes with each other, and then the two looked like Zhang Xian together. Since Zhang Xian called the two of them here at this time, it was obvious that they should have found something.
"I didn't find anything specific! But..." Naturally, the front is nonsense, and the important thing is the content of the back. I heard Zhang Xian say so. Wei He and Duan Yifeng immediately stared and waited for the following. Sure enough, Zhang Xian continued to say, "I think all the strange things recently are related to the high priest!"
This is as good as a bolt from the blue. Do you know who the high priest is? That's the red man around the emperor now. Even these people know why the high priest appeared beside the emperor Shangguan Yunba, that is, to develop the elixir of immortality.
Although these people don't believe that there is really a so-called elixir of immortality, as long as the emperor Shangguan Yunba believes it. Therefore, the high priest has always been a person on the whole court of Fengchu, covering the sky with one hand, all because he gave His Majesty a dream of immortality.
All the ministers of Fengchu have always been worried about whether Yu Yaobai is really just an ordinary scholar and whether he really has no political ambitions. It's just that Shangguan Yunba really spoils Yu Yaobai too much. After many ministers failed to meet. For Yuyao Bai Manchao's Wenwu, he can only turn a blind eye.
But fortunately, Yu Yaobai has not shown any political ambition, so in the past few years, although the courtiers have been dissatisfied, they can only let it go.
"Can't the high priest help it after all?" Wei He asked with a big change of face.
"Lao Wei, there is no need to worry. This is just my guess!" Zhang Xian quickly comforted, "Didn't you find it? Recently, the relationship between His Majesty and the high priest has been estranged, and I don't know where a so-called Nangong goddess came out, and let His Majesty directly take this woman of unknown origin into the palace, which must be the hands and feet of the high priest. I even suspect that this woman was sent by the high priest to your majesty. Although I don't know what the purpose of the high priest is, I suspect that the high priest is likely to work with your majesty!"
Wei He suddenly realized and said, "It's still Lao Zhang, you are careful. I didn't find anything wrong between your majesty and the high priest, and what's wrong with the Nangong goddess?"
Zhang Xian did not answer directly, but looked at Duan Yifeng and said, "You don't know much about Yifeng?"
Since Duan Yifeng came in, he hasn't said much, but quietly listened to the two people. Now Zhang Xian asked himself directly, and instead of remitating, he recalled and said, "This Nangong goddess suddenly appeared in Chudu half a month ago. I have also found someone to investigate. But nothing happened before this. It seemed that this woman really fell from the sky.
"This so-called goddess, the first thing to do when entering Chudu is to go to the flower boat on the Phoenix River to watch Hua Kui sing a little song..."
"What, how can you be so promiscuous? What qualifications do you have to be called a goddess?" Wei He said angrily when he heard this. Before Duan Yifeng finished his words, he was interrupted by the grumpy Wei He.
"Lao Wei!" Zhang Xian asked helplessly. Among the three of them, Wei He's temper was the most irritable, and there was no room for a little sand in his eyes.
"I'm reckless! Yifeng, go on!" Wei He blushed when he heard the words and motioned Duan Yifeng to continue. In fact, of course, he is not really so angry. This kind of pretending posture is just a habit usually formed in the court. You should know that the cabinet minister is in control of national affairs. If he is really a very impulsive person, can he really do a good job in this position?
Duan Yifeng looked at Wei He with a smile and said nothing more. Naturally, he knew his colleague very well, so he shook his head and motioned that he had nothing to do. He continued to say, "Although this woman looks like a promiscuous skeleton on the surface, the first thing a woman came to the foot of the emperor was to go to the flower boat. This is really too strange, so I reduced everything on the day. Everyone checked it carefully, and it turned out that I found something amazing. His Royal Highness was also on a flower boat on the Phoenix River that day, and the two of them had contact on that day!" After saying that, Duan Yifeng smiled mysteriously.
"What?" Zhang Xian and Duan Yifeng stood up in surprise at the same time. Zhang Xian even slapped the teacup he had just picked up and fell to the ground. I didn't expect His Royal Highness to go to the flower boat with people to have fun? This is too harmful to the country.
If it is in ordinary times, just such a small thing will cause a shock in the whole court. For the impeachment of the prince, it will fly into the cabinet like snowflakes, and even the three of them will go up. "Advising" His Royal Highness the Prince. Then compromise with your majesty and use this matter for some political purposes.
But now, no one cares what will happen to the crown prince Shangguan Hong. They were surprised that the first thing the goddess of Nangong entered Chudu was to see His Royal Highness. Does this mean that this woman has anything to do with His Royal Highness?
"Did the prince order him..." Wei He guessed carefully. He didn't dare to say the following words, just stretched out his finger and pointed to the sky. Of course, the meaning is very clear in people's minds.
"No!" Seeing that the situation was not good, Zhang Xian interrupted immediately. You should know that although the conversation of several people is secret, the wall has ears. There is no impervious wall in the world, and it may be known. If their guesses fell into the ears of His Majesty, it would be a terrible disaster, so Zhang Xian interrupted without hesitation.
"I think this woman was sent by the high priest. The first step was to seduce the prince, but he failed to seduce the prince, so the high priest used some means to send the woman like a palace!" Zhang Xian said what he thought. He has no scruples about the high priest. Even if the emperor knew it, he would not do anything to them because several cabinet ministers suspected the high priest.
The reason for this is that Shangguan Yunba needs a balance in the court, even if the high priest really has power to cover the sky with one hand. You can't really make the court become a high priest, and you still need to oppose it. The way of balance is the way of the emperor. From ancient times to the present, no emperor did not do this.
"But why is that? What if a woman is born with the fragrance of the country? I don't know how many beautiful women there are in the palace. Does Yu Yaobai want to seduce your majesty with this woman? Wei He said unconvincedly.
"Lao Wei, I didn't say what the high priest would do with this woman, but he has action now. That's absolutely true and must be guarded?"
"What Lao Zhang said is very true! And this woman is not an ordinary woman. You two may have only noticed what happened in the court, and they don't know much about this Nangong goddess!" Duan Yifeng, who had been listening to more and watching less, suddenly interrupted and said.
"Oh? What's your opinion about Yifeng?" Zhang Xian asked curiously, obviously looking forward to any important information from Duan Yifeng.
Duan Yifeng smiled and continued to say, "After that, the god of Nangong suddenly appeared at the foot of Lingshan and was seen by a group of foreign exiles. He was shocked on the spot. Then it is said that the so-called goddess sacrificed for three days on the spot and asked for a God-given elixir to treat these exiles for diseases. I heard that this medicine can cure all the diseases in the world. And buy food tools for these exiles so that they can live. When it comes to entering, there are as many as 3,000 people in exile at the foot of Lingshan Mountain!"
"Myss!" Zhang Xian and Wei He took a breath of cold air. It's good to know that this is to collect the exiles. In any country, that's a taboo.
You should know that most of the rebels took advantage of the fact that the exiles couldn't eat, so they died, and then collected the exiles to raise troops. For the exiles. There is still such a glimmer of life, but if you don't do anything like this, you can only wait to die.
For these ministers, they still attach great importance to the exiles. But their position also determines that it is impossible for them to directly overstep the management of the officials below. In that case, it is no different from rebellion.
Therefore, it is against the following management. Even hide it in the event of natural or man-made disasters. And increase the tax burden on the local government. Satis full of personal pockets and whitewash peace. They also have the intention to govern, but there is no particularly good way.
Now the goddess of Nangong actually collected the exiles at the foot of the imperial city, which had to scare them. You should know that it is not impossible for 3,000 exiles to directly break through the palace with several mysterious masters at the instigation of people. Especially when this instigator is still the goddess of lifesaving in their hearts. This is even more powerful.
"What does Liu Wantang eat? There are so many people gathered at the foot of the imperial city. I don't think he has anything to do with Jing Zhaoyi!" Wei He, who was shocked and sweating coldly, slapped the table fiercely and said angrily.
Zhang Xian and Wei He really saw different aspects. No matter what Wei He, who was angry, said thoughtfully, "It's at the foot of Lingshan Mountain. It seems that the relationship between this woman and the high priest is absolutely extraordinary. But it's a little wrong. How could the high priest expose this woman so early? And also put these exiles at the foot of Lingshan Mountain?"
"This is not right!" After thinking for a long time, Zhang Xian still shook his head and came to such a conclusion.
"What's wrong? The high priest is now fearless. With His Majesty's reincarnation, these exiles were not appeased by him personally. We have no direct evidence, and we calculate that it is causing trouble to your Majesty. Your Majesty will not really punish the high priest!" Wei He said.
"But this is not the style of the high priest! The high priest has done a lot of things over the years, but he has never left any handle, which shows that the high priest is a very cautious person. If he really means that. Naturally, this matter will be more secretive and will not leave a trace of handle for people! That's why I think it's a little strange!" Zhang Xian's eyebrows were almost wrinkled together. I can't figure out what's going on with this matter.
I guess they won't think that this matter is Nangong Miin's private action from beginning to end. It has nothing to do with Yu Yaobai, right? The reason for such a series of seemingly reasonable things is just a coincidence. It's a coincidence that you can't make a book, right?
However, these coincidences, in the eyes of these important ministers of the imperial court who have engaged in a lifetime of political struggle, are full of conspiracy and tricks.
"Whether this matter is true or false, it is true or not. But in a word, one thing is certain, that is, the high priest is going to pile up your majesty!" Wei He saw that Zhang Xian was still thinking and said loudly.
Unexpectedly, Zhang Xian's meditative hand interrupted, which shows how good the relationship between the three is. Of course, no one knows how good the relationship between the three is.