Chapter 381 The black hand of the verbal war in the Golden Palace appears
Chapter 381: Black hands appear in the verbal battle in the Golden Palace
Morning morning the next day.
The three brothers, Ying Guo Gongshi Xun, the governor of Liangzhou, and Lu'an County Gongshi Yi, the governor of Lizhou, Sinong Qing, and Xuancheng County Gongshi Leng, who had just returned to Beijing, submitted a letter to resign.
The reason is the same, I'm older.
But as soon as these words came out, many people in the palace wanted to laugh.
Although the eldest of the three brothers, Samurai Rei, is over seventy years old, he now takes at least four or five new concubines a year. This bad old man now has more than fifty children, and he keeps taking concubines and giving birth to children.
, it is said that he is also very energetic, very old and strong.
It is said that after taking the elixir prescribed by Wu Huaiyu, the old tree is in full bloom. Because of this live advertisement, it even led to a huge sale of these tonic elixirs in Wujia Qianjintang.
The brothers Samurai Tong and Samurai Yi are both in their fifties. One of them is the governor of Liangzhou and the other is the governor of Lizhou. They respectively clean up the mess left by the princes Li Xiaochang and Li Youliang who were executed for their rebellion. These two brothers are both known for their ability in the local area.
Recruit the dead and rebels, care for the old and the weak, relieve their deprivation and bring down their heads.
Not only did he quickly stabilize the two places and make the county and territory safe, but he also performed very well in cracking down on powerful locals, restoring production, improving labor service, promoting agriculture and mulberry production, reopening the Silk Road, and revitalizing industry and commerce.
Even the resumes of the two brothers are very eye-catching. Not to mention the warrior Yu, they have worked in central and local areas, and the warrior Yi is not bad. In the early years, he assisted Yuan Ji to stay in Taiyuan. Although he was captured, he was still able to spy on Liu Wuzhou's reality.
Deploy and then report secretly to the court.
Later, he went to Daxingtai in Yizhou to serve as Zuocheng of Xingtai. He also performed very well. He also served as the governor of Shaozhou and then the governor of Lizhou. The first two governors of Lizhou, Li Xiaochang and Luo Shou, were both rebels.
The block performed extremely well.
Now all three brothers are resigning, citing their age, but Samurai Tong and Samurai Yidu are only in their early fifties.
Everyone knows that this is all because of the prophecy that suddenly spread in Chang'an.
The lethality of this prophecy is indeed astonishing.
Yesterday, Wu Huaiyu was dismissed from four important positions: General of the Left Army, Minister of the Criminal Department, Master of the Chongxian Hall, and Prince Right Guard. Today the three brothers of the Wu family are also resigning.
The emperor sat in the palace without saying a word for a long time.
Prime Minister Wei Zheng stood up.
I went out to ask for a report, thinking that someone had prophecies to attack and seriously injure the court ministers, and had ulterior motives. I requested the court to conduct a thorough investigation, and we must not encourage this unhealthy trend.
No one expected that Wei Zheng, who used to like to antagonize Wu Huaiyu, would actually stand up and help Wu Huaiyu this time. Wei Zheng and the warrior Xun even had a heated argument in the court over the reward for Wu Huaiyu.
"Your Majesty, I would like to ask Zheng Shanguo, the governor of Qizhou, to report."
Xingyang County Duke Zheng Shanguo went out to ask for the performance.
This is the representative of the Zheng family in Xingyang, with five surnames and seven families. His uncle Zheng Yi was a classmate of Yang Jian in the Northern Zhou Dynasty and an important figure who helped Yang Jian usurp the throne and establish the Sui Dynasty. His father Zheng Cheng was a general in the Northern Zhou Dynasty and died for Yang Jian in his campaign against Wei Chi.
Zheng Shanguo, who was only nine years old, therefore assumed the title of Duke of the county. After the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, he was granted the title of Duke of Wude County.
At the age of fourteen, he accepted the post of governor.
His mother, Mrs. Cui of Qinghe, married into the Zheng family at the age of thirteen, but became a widow in her twenties. Her son was appointed governor at the age of fourteen. Ms. Cui, who was in her twenties, would sit behind the curtain every time her son listened to politics.
Listening to politics, I will analyze with my son whether the case is reasonable and so on.
With such a mother who constantly supported him, Zheng Shanguo's official career in the Sui Dynasty was smooth, and he was even praised as the first clean and capable official. He served all the way to Dali Qing. After his mother's death, Zheng Shanguo gradually became arrogant and extravagant.
In the early years, when Li Yuan was the governor of Xingyang, Zheng Shanguo had a good relationship with Li Yuan. Under the decision of Zheng Shanguo and his cousin Zheng Yuanxuan, the Zheng family in Xingyang betrothed Zheng Guanyin to Li Yuan's eldest son Li Jiancheng.
After that, Li Yuan established the Tang Dynasty, and Zheng Shanguo and the Zheng family of Xingyang also fully supported it. During the Wude period, brothers Zheng Shanguo and Zheng Yuanxuan also held important positions in the court.
Before the Xuanwumen Incident, Zheng Shanguo was the Duke of Xingyang County. He inspected the Dali Temple Minister and the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, as well as the Crown Prince Zuo Shuzi. He also inspected the Ministers of the Ministry of Punishment and the Ministry of Rites.
Zheng Yuanxuan was granted the title of Duke of Xin, and successively paid homage to Taichang Qing, Honglu Qing, and General Zuo Wuhou.
Zheng Shanguo is a person who has only half a foot in the political affairs hall. If it were not for the Xuanwu Gate Incident, he would have already become the prime minister.
The head of the family, Crown Princess Jiancheng, is a die-hard supporter of Jiancheng.
However, because he was the head of the Zheng family in Xingyang, Li Shimin, the queen of Xuanwu Sect, only transferred him to be the governor of Qizhou.
But the emperor never stopped beating the Zheng family, and the Zheng family gradually surrendered over the past year, and even specially sent a Zheng talent to Li Shimin's palace.
However, Zheng Shanguo did not stand up to speak for the Wu family like Wei Zheng.
He came to impeach Wei Zheng.
"Prime Minister Wei Zheng is related by marriage to the Wu family. Now that he stands up to speak for the Wu family, he is acting selfishly. As a prime minister, favoring relatives is a violation of the law. I want to impeach Wei Zheng."
Zheng Shanguo became the Duke of the county at the age of nine and became the governor at the age of fourteen. Now he is nearly sixty years old and has been an official for more than forty years. He has held important positions and has high qualifications and prestige. Although he is only the governor of Qizhou at the moment, he stood up to be impeached by the palace.
Still very sophisticated.
Immediately impeach the prime minister.
The crime was to favor relatives and bend the law for personal gain. For the prime minister, this was a crime that could lead to his dismissal.
It is a well-known fact that Wei Zheng's second son Pingwu Huaiyu's fourth sister.
Li Shimin named Wen Yanbo, the imperial censor, as "Wen Qing."
"Your Majesty, as the prime minister, Wei Zheng is related by marriage to Wu Huaiyu. When matters involving relatives, Wei Zheng should avoid suspicion. Even if he is selfless at heart, he is still to blame."
Wen Yanbo did not give Wei Zheng any face. He directly said that Wei Zheng should not intervene and should avoid it. If he did not avoid it, there would be a problem.
This is tantamount to endorsing Zheng Shanguo's impeachment of Wei Zheng.
However, Wen Yanbo changed the topic and started talking about Zheng Shanguo. He believed that although Wei Zheng should avoid it, what he said was okay, and the court could not deal with ministers so hastily because of a rumor.
Zheng Shanguo immediately began to attack Wen Yanbo.
"The truth is that I am not related to the Wu family." Wen Yanbo said bluntly.
"Is it okay that your son from the Wen family is serving as an assistant in the Wu Huaiyu shogunate?" Zheng Shanguo asked.
The two of them were quarreling with each other, and actually fought in the palace.
Wen Yanbo was in charge of the Censor's Office, and he also presided over the Zhongshu Province on his behalf. He had been Li Yuan's official pen in the past, and he could write well and speak well in debates.
Zheng Shanguo opened his mouth and was very powerful, but he couldn't do anything to Wen Yanbo.
Zheng Shanguo was so angry that he directly attacked him personally, "Wen Yanbo is just a villain who is greedy for life and afraid of death. What qualifications does he have to be the prime minister? He is talking out loud here. Can his words be believed?"
As soon as these words came out, Wen Yanbo's face turned red. This was because he had touched his bottom line.
In the eighth year of Wude, Wen Yanbo served as the commander of the march of General Zhang Jin as the minister of Zhongshu. As a result, almost all the army was wiped out in Taigu. Only Zhang Jin escaped alone. Wen Yanbo was captured by the Turks and brought back
Herding sheep in Mobei.
It was not until the Weishui alliance was formed in the ninth year of Wude that the Turks agreed to return Wen Yanbo and he herded sheep in the Turks for more than a year. This was the experience Wen Yanbo was least willing to mention.
However, Zheng Shanguo said that after Wen Yanbo was captured, he should die to apologize and clarify his ambitions, and not to delay his life and live in fear of death.
How can such a person be qualified to be prime minister?
Wei Zheng had already shut up, but now he stood up and confronted Zheng Shanguo.
Wei Zheng is much more skilled at trolling than Wen Yanbo.
Wu Huaiyu knelt down in the hall, watching this lively scene. He glanced at the emperor secretly, and found that the emperor was also watching with a gloomy face, but he did not immediately stop him.
Wei Zheng and Zheng Shanguo had a feud, which was actually known to everyone.
The reason is also simple. The Zheng family had previously sent Zheng Wanyan to Li Shimin's palace, which was regarded as a gift. But then, for some unknown reason, Empress Changsun heard that the Zheng family had a more beautiful little Zheng, who had an extraordinary appearance.
It was too late at the time.
Empress Changsun personally came to visit and asked Li Shimin to appoint her as Chonghua, one of the nine concubines. This was also a way for the emperor to win over the Zheng family in Xingyang.
Li Shimin naturally followed the trend and issued an edict to confer the title of Chonghua on the Zheng family.
This little Zheng is the daughter of Zheng Renji, the minister in charge of the imperial court. She is sixteen or seventeen years old and is indeed more beautiful than Zheng Wanyan.
At that time, the edict had been issued and the canonized angels had not yet set off. At this time, Wei Zheng came out to disrupt the situation.
Wei Zheng met with the emperor and said that he had heard that Zheng Renji's daughter had been betrothed to Lu Shuang. Although the marriage was not consummated, the marriage ceremony had been made and the engagement was already made. Wasn't the emperor seizing the wife of his minister?
Li Shimin was also a person who wanted to save face. He was doing a good job, so why did he become the emperor and seize his minister's wife?
So he wanted to withdraw the edict with a shameful face, but at this time the Zheng family gave up.
Zheng Shanguo and Zheng Yuanxuan's brothers found Fang Xuanling and asked the prime minister to report to the emperor in person, saying that Zheng and Lu's family had never been engaged. Now that the edict has been issued, there is no reason to stop it halfway. The canonization ceremony should be completed and Zheng Lu's canonization ceremony should be completed.
It was a loan, not a gift, and he had no marriage contract with Zheng at all.
This matter is actually very obvious. Lu Shuang and the Zheng family are indeed engaged, but the emperor wants a woman, and the Zheng family intends to flatter her. Lu Shuang is just an ordinary nobleman, how dare he steal a woman from the emperor?
Naturally, Pingli can only be described as a loan.
As it was, the emperor continued to ennoble the Zheng family and incorporated it into the palace. Everyone was happy, and Lu Shuang might even get an official position.
But Wei Zheng accepted death.
He insisted on fighting to the end and made Fang Xuanling, the emperor, the Zheng family and even Lu Shuang angry, and called some witnesses. In the end, Li Shimin had no choice but to give up on the stunning beauty Zheng.
However, although the matter of being brought into the palace was suspended, it was impossible for Lu Shuang to marry the Zheng family again, so the Zheng family sent this stunning beauty Zheng to a temple to become a nun.
Wei Zheng even wanted to impeach the Zheng family for deceiving the emperor, but fortunately Li Shimin finally suppressed the matter.
But the relationship between Wei Zheng and the Zheng family was finally settled.
In the palace.
Wen Yanbo rolled up his sleeves, Zheng Shanguo also wanted to take action, and Wei Zheng was still spraying nine times a second.
"enough!"
The emperor roared angrily, sounding like the roar of a dragon.
The emperor threw up his sleeves and left.
Later, the chamberlain announced the emperor's decree.
When Wei Zheng and Wen Yanbo were prime ministers, they had a dispute in front of the emperor and were discourteous before the emperor. They were suspended from salary for one month and fined twenty catties of copper. Zheng Shanguo, the governor of Qizhou, was suspended from salary for three months and fined sixty catties of copper.
"Warrior Yi, the governor of Gongli Prefecture of Lu'an County, was moved to be the governor of Yuzhou."
Xu Sinongqing, Xuancheng County's public warrior, Leng, became an official, and Xu Shenfangfang's military commander, Ke, became an official. They were both given full salaries.
Sima Wu Huaiyi, the governor of Guazhou, moved to Shaozhou as governor."
When Wu Huaiyu heard this decree, his face was expressionless.
When the three ministers argued in the palace, the punishment was very light. In the past, Xiao Yu and Chen Shuda argued like this, but the two of them were dismissed directly.
Now it's just a suspension of salary and a fine of several dozen kilograms of copper.
Although the emperor did not accept the resignation of Samurai Xun and others, they were all transferred. Even Father Wu did not resign, but was promoted to official positions by the emperor.
Huaiyi was also transferred from Hexi to Lingnan.
It seems that this matter is not over yet.
Zheng Shanguo danced so happily. Could it be related to the Zheng family?
