In the capital, the Forbidden City's Nourishing Heart Hall, the emperor sat on the throne with a gloomy face, paying attention to the actions of the two imperial doctors below.
The two imperial doctors carefully poured the two portions of blood in golden bowls into a silver basin. The layout of the Yangxin Hall was clear and there were large ice cubes, but sweat was still dripping from their faces and their hands were shaking.
, people who don’t know better think they are performing some complicated surgery.
In fact, it was just a drop of blood to recognize relatives. The two bowls contained the blood that had just been extracted from the hands of the emperor himself and His Highness the King of Qin. The imperial physician knew that the emperor would not do such a thing for no reason. Since he did it, he
There must be his reason.
The fourth prince was probably not the emperor's flesh and blood, so whose child could he be? Who was so bold as to dare to touch the emperor's woman, and even asked the emperor to help him raise his child.
But this is not a problem that the imperial doctors need to consider. They know that if the blood cannot be melted together, their lives will definitely not be saved when the emperor is furious, so their hands are shaking, and they are soaked with sweat.
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Outside the Hall of Yangxin, King Qin stood at the foot of the steps, his heart filled with despair. The drastic changes in the past two days were too great for him to accept. Just now, his father arranged for the imperial doctor to draw his own blood, and he sat there personally to monitor.
The look he looked at himself was so strange and cold, completely unlike the look a father looked at his son.
Am I not the flesh and blood of my father? Am I not a prince born to be noble? Then whose son am I?
These questions brought Zhang Chengping's mental state to a critical point, and he was going crazy!
The four expressionless guards stared at King Qin, their hands seemingly unintentionally resting on the handle of the knife. However, Zhang Chengping had no doubt that as soon as the result of blood recognition came out, they would pull out the knife without hesitation.
Hack yourself to death.
In the Hall of Cultivation of the Heart, the two streams of blood in the silver basin finally came to fruition. They melted together and became indistinguishable from each other. The imperial doctor excitedly shouted: "Your Majesty, there is a result!"
The emperor raised his brows and stared at the silver basin. The blood of the two people had indeed merged. All this was done under his personal supervision, so there was no way it was fake.
The emperor breathed a sigh of relief, and his thoughts went back to twenty-two years ago. When the child was first born, he had doubts, fearing that it was the seed left by his predecessor, but after a blood test it was confirmed that it was his own flesh and blood.
Keeping Taiping, it seems that the original result was correct, and he was overly worried. Taiping is his own flesh and blood, the child of the old Zhang family!
The emperor's brows relaxed, and the two imperial doctors also breathed a sigh of relief. They didn't have to die this time.
The emperor waved his hand, and the young eunuch brought over a lacquer plate with two gold ingots on it. Each of the two imperial doctors took one. After bowing, they retreated in fear.
When Zhang Chengping was brought into the Hall of Cultivation of the Heart, the silver basin had already been removed. The emperor did not want this thing to affect the relationship between father and son, so he said a few words to Chengping with a pleasant look, asking him to spend more time with him.
Concubine Shu, after all, she is his adoptive mother.
Even if it was admitted, Concubine Rong was Chengping's biological mother. Zhang Chengping wanted to ask why his mother was thrown into the cold palace, but he didn't dare. The shock of admitting his relatives with blood had not yet settled. In the face of his father's majesty, he could only
Neng Nuonuo kept saying.
In the imperial hospital, the two imperial doctors were in shock. They entered the room, and there came an eunuch and six guards. The eunuch screamed: "I have a decree. You two have worked hard and have achieved great results. I will give you a bottle of wine."
The two eunuchs looked at each other and smiled helplessly. They still couldn't escape the disaster. The eunuch was holding the legendary poisonous wine in his hand. After drinking it, he would die quickly and without pain. Usually only
Only first-class officials or royal nobles can enjoy this kind of treatment.
The emperor poisoned the two of them, which was extremely merciful. At least the pension after death would not be less, and their families would not suffer. The two had nothing to complain about. They took the poisoned wine and drank it down in one gulp. They fell to the ground and died a moment later.
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The emperor's recent behavior horrified everyone. He ordered the arrest of all the people around the second and fourth princes. No one knew the whereabouts of these people. They only knew that the day before they disappeared, the Jinyiwei were ordered to dig up the corpses in Purple Mountain.
A huge pit.
The former Prince's East Palace, Zhan Shi's Mansion, Queen's Kunning Palace, and the Queen's family were all executed, their homes confiscated, and their families exterminated. However, it was announced to the public that the Queen and the Crown Prince were killed by the rebel Yu Hu, and they were to be buried in a grand ceremony.
Everyone knows that the emperor is a person who wants to save face, so no one dares to tell the truth or mention it. Now, in addition to Jinyiwei, there is another yamen called Neichang, which is extremely powerful and has spies everywhere.
No one knew whether the colleague sitting next to him received a subsidy from the inner factory, and no one knew which servant in his house was a spy sent by the inner factory. For a while, the capital was in a state of panic.
Both the Jinyiwei and the Neichang developed rapidly. The emperor gave them power and sufficient funds. All expenses did not go to the Ministry of Accounts, but came directly from the internal funds. These two institutions bypassed the Ministry of Punishment and the composition of the Dali Temple Yushitai.
There are three legal divisions, but they check and balance each other and compete with each other.
After all, the inner factory was under the leadership of Cao Shaoqin, an old fox. They came from behind and overran the Jinyiwei. The big reason for this was that they had more funds in their hands.
After the failure of the Xia family in Gusu, the emperor got a big deal and confiscated all the property of the Xia family. The Xia family was in the cloth and silk business and made a huge profit of more than 10,000 yuan a year. If all the family property was confiscated, it would become a lot of dead money, and
Unable to continue to create benefits, Cao Shaoqin proposed that the Ministry of Internal Affairs take over the Xia family's business.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs is actually the administrative department of the palace. All the people who serve are eunuchs. Eunuchs are the servants of the royal family. They can't urinate in the same pot as the ministers outside. Use them, don't worry.
The emperor readily agreed and handed over this important task to Cao Shaoqin, so Lao Cao selected his capable men and rushed to Suzhou to take over the entire Xia family's business.
Houses, shops, looms, cotton fields, mulberry fields, as well as a large number of skilled craftsmen, and sales networks are all owned by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. This is a business that makes a lot of money every day. Cao Shaoqin has a small treasury in his hands, and he is even more efficient in doing things.
Doing twice the result with half the effort, how can Wenhai and the others compare to it.
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After the queen died, Kunning Palace became vacant. The position of queen was the ultimate dream of every woman in the harem. The concubines all began to daydream, but the bloody lesson taught them that anyone who tries to be clever in front of the emperor
Behavior will only harm them in the end.
The emperor hated others playing tricks on him, even those closest to him.
Concubine Shu and Concubine Xiao were both honest and honest, and they no longer dared to send eunuchs and maids around to inquire about things. However, they both knew that their matrilineal families were not powerful and would not arouse the emperor's fear. Moreover, they both gave birth to children.
The prince, with the status of imperial concubine, is only one step away from the queen who is the mother of the world. If there is an election, one must choose between the two.
But unexpectedly, the emperor had no plans to establish a queen at all. The Kunning Palace was just empty. He didn't say anything, and no one else dared to mention it. Even a confidant like Cao Shaoqin was no exception. It is a capital crime to speculate on the holy will!
Chengkun and Chengping both moved into the palace and lived under the supervision of their father. There was no one they could trust around them. They were on pins and needles every day, walking on thin ice. They both knew that all their wings had been cut off and their father wanted to crush them to death.
It doesn't take any effort. The only way to save your life now is to be honest.
The father likes a son who has a low eyebrow and is submissive. If he shows that he has changed his past, he may regain his favor and ascend to the throne of prince. After all, the country must have a prince.
The emperor understood his sons' thoughts, but he was not in a hurry. He was in his prime and had plenty of time. Now he would leave them alone and take time to do other more important things.
Further clean up the government and the opposition, and then start a war with Xiliang to eradicate this cancer entrenched in the western part of the empire. The son left behind by the legendary figure indeed has a legendary experience. He is famous all over the world at the age of just over 20 years old, and he has fooled several princes.
It's okay to keep going like this. We must take advantage of Xiliang's fledgling period and use all the troops of the country to destroy him.
The emperor has sent an imperial envoy to Gansu at night to remove Fan Liangchen from all his official positions and escort him to the capital for justice. This man named Fan has a close relationship with Yuan Feng. He is also the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu. How can the emperor feel at ease?
As for Liu Songpo, the emperor knew his character and would never get involved with Yuan Feng, so he did nothing to him for the time being.
The bloody turmoil in the capital killed no less than 10,000 people. As a result, the price of houses in the capital dropped by a huge 30%. Of those luxury houses in the East City, four out of ten were empty and closed, with seals posted outside the doors. Many officials had their homes raided.
If you are found guilty, you will be imprisoned and your family members will be sent to the army.
Many new officials have been added to the Sixth Department. They are all young officials transferred from other places by the Ministry of Personnel. It is said that the appointment of these people has been approved by the internal factory. It is not certain how many of them are receiving double salaries. There are rumors that
The emperor wants to abolish the Zhongshu Province and take over all the power. In short, people are panicked and rumors are flying everywhere.
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In the back hall of the county government office in Tianchang County, Zhili Province, a young man wearing a green round collar and a black gauze on his head stood in the yard, looking at the clouds on the horizon with complacency. This man was Yang Feng, the newly appointed magistrate of Tianchang County.
Yang Feng is full of talent and knowledge, and is extremely agile. Within a few months of taking office, he has solved all the five-year backlog of cases accumulated by his predecessor.
When people saw the files from Tianchang County, they also admired that the new county magistrate was even more powerful than the old criminal magistrate.
Yang Feng also organized the people to repair roads, schools and temples, hunt down mad dogs, pick hornets' nests, dig wells, and did many good deeds. He also often went to the countryside incognito to help the poor.
In the eyes of the common people, the parents and officials of a county are as big as the sky. They would never dare to talk to the county magistrate, and officials don't like to deal with mud-legged people, even when inspecting their jurisdiction.
How could Yang Feng be as approachable as he is from a high position?
Mr. Yang's favorite thing to do is to hold the poor old man's hand and say with tears: "Old man, this county is late!" Then he asked the yamen to bring flour and soybean oil, and watched the moved tears of the rural people.
, kneeling all over the floor, Yang Feng will be greatly satisfied.
His official voice quickly spread to the capital. If there hadn't been many bigger things happening in the capital recently, Magistrate Yang's story would definitely have set off a bigger trend. Even so, his thoughts were not in vain.
The two letters on the table are proof of this.
One letter was an official document, a document from the Ministry of Officials to transfer him to Beijing and entrust him with an important task.
There was also a private letter sent by someone sent by Liu Songpo, the right minister at that time. The letter vaguely mentioned that he wanted to marry his daughter to him.
You will have a beautiful woman in your arms right away, you will be a high-ranking official, and there is nothing more satisfying than this in life.