That night, Changsun Wuji tossed and turned and couldn't sleep all night.
The rooster crowed for the first time and it was still dark. Changsun Wuji washed up, had a simple breakfast, and took a car to the gate of Tai Chi Palace. He waited for the palace gate to open and had an audience with the emperor as soon as possible.
It's not that he is impatient, but he knows that Fang Jun will interrogate Chang Sun Guang early today. According to Chang Sun Guang's character, it is probably difficult to endure Fang Jun's punishment for several rounds. Once he pleads guilty and is punished, the consequences will be disastrous.
Sun Wuji, a mere eldest son, didn't care whether he was dead or alive, but the result was that the Ministry of War's seizure of military trials became an established fact, which he and the Guanlong nobles absolutely could not accept.
Last night, he ruled all the families in Guanlong and gathered outside the Taiji Palace as soon as possible to meet the emperor and put pressure on the emperor. He could abandon Changsun Guang, but the power of military trial must not be transferred from Weiwei Temple to the Ministry of War.
As a result, it was almost time to arrive at Mao hour, and he was still the only one outside the Taiji Palace. The rest of the Guanlong nobles who had promised well were not even a shadow...
A strong sense of crisis hit Changsun Wuji's heart.
Could it be that the once powerful Guanlong Group had really lost its people and was on the verge of collapse?
And when did all this start?
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The chamberlain had just opened the palace door, and before the guards could stand on their posts, they saw Changsun Wuji waiting outside the door in official robes...
"The Duke of Zhao is knocking on the door early in the morning, but he wants to see His Majesty?"
"Exactly. Please inform me that I have an important meeting with Your Majesty."
"Well, please wait a moment, Duke Zhao. I will go and report to your majesty right now."
The chamberlain hurriedly returned to the palace. After a cup of tea, he returned and said respectfully: "Your Majesty declares that the Duke of Zhao is here to see you!"
Changsun Wuji nodded slightly and walked into the palace gate.
In the Dragon Hall, His Majesty Li Er had just had breakfast, drank ginseng tea and read the memorials. When he saw Changsun Wuji coming in, he waved to him: "Auxiliary machine, come and sit."
Then he ordered his chamberlain to pour a cup of his own ginseng tea for Changsun Wuji.
Changsun Wuji stood up to thank him, and then held the ginseng tea, but did not drink it, but asked: "Your Majesty, last night a group of officials from the Ministry of War, led by Fang Jun, went out of the city in the middle of the night to snatch away the prisoners escorted by the Anxi Army. I wonder if your Majesty can
Did you ever know?"
His Majesty Li Er drank the ginseng tea in the tea bowl in one gulp, clicked his tongue and said, "I've heard about it."
really……
Changsun Wuji knew that Fang Jun might have dared to seize power from Weiwei Temple so unscrupulously with the emperor's permission or acquiescence.
"Your Majesty clearly knows that military trials have always been under the control of Weiwei Temple, and Weiwei Temple has always been fair and impartial, and has contributed greatly to the improvement of law and order in the military. Now Fang Jun's actions clearly violate the court's laws. It would be extremely easy to condone them.
It triggers a struggle for power between the DPRK and China, causing such chaos and instability in the DPRK, so we must not be careless."
He was about to give Fang Jun eye drops, but saw that His Majesty Li Er picked out a memorial from a large pile of memorials on his desk without saying a word, threw it to Changsun Wuji at random, and said: "This is Fang Jun's memorial, auxiliary machine"
You might as well take a look first."
Changsun Wuji quickly put down the teacup, took the memorial, and read it carefully.
When he finished reading the memorial carefully, his face flushed with anger: "Absurd! Shameless! It is clearly a dirty behavior of fighting for power and gain, but he said it so righteously. This man confuses right and wrong, and refers to deer as horses. This is really a treacherous act.
quality!"
In this memorial, Fang Jun talked about military trials and believed that since the Ministry of War is the highest government agency that controls the world's military, these powers should be controlled by the Ministry of War. If it continues to be controlled by the Weiwei Temple, it will inevitably lead to power and responsibility
The results are inconsistent and unclear.
Especially if things go on like this, the Guanlong nobles will infiltrate their influence into all aspects of the military, resulting in strong control. Once anyone among the Guanlong nobles has evil intentions, it will definitely lead to extremely serious consequences.
It's just that he didn't say clearly that someone among the Guanlong nobles was going to rebel...
His Majesty Li Er, however, did not take the anger of Changsun Wuji seriously and asked calmly: "Then according to the wishes of the auxiliary machine, how should we deal with it?"
Changsun Wuji said: "We are all loyal and patriotic people up and down the Weiwei Temple. How can we become a gathering place for those who conspire to usurp the country, as Fang Jun said? The old minister believes that the power of military trial should still belong to the Weiwei Temple.
In charge, after all, many of the officials of Weiwei Temple have followed His Majesty in the battlefields and have been wallowing in mountains of blood and blood. If this power is easily snatched away, I am afraid it will chill the hearts of these veterans. As for Changsun Guang, even more
We must order Fang Jun to be handed over to Weiwei Temple as soon as possible, otherwise it will be difficult to ensure that he will be beaten and a wrong case will be made..."
His Majesty Li Er looked at Changsun Wuji and sneered in his heart.
Have you ever been on the battlefield and rolled in mountains of corpses and seas of blood? Why not tell me directly that the entire Weiwei Temple is the backbone of the Guanlong nobility, and that is your private land. If I dare to seize the power of legal judgment from the Weiwei Temple,
After that, it will be handed over to the Ministry of War, and you must unite to give me a good look...
Of course, he would not completely fall out with Changsun Wuji just because of this sentence. In fact, he was also wary of the Guanlong nobles. Even if he had the intention of suppressing him, he would just boil the frog in warm water, step by step, and not dare to push too hard, otherwise
Once there is a strong backlash from the Guanlong nobles, the court will immediately fall into turmoil, and even the entire empire will be in chaos.
As for sending Changsun Guang to Weiwei Temple for interrogation...
His Majesty Li Er pursed his lips, took out a memorandum from the desk, threw it to Changsun Wuji, and said: "The auxiliary machine arrived late. Fang Jun brought Changsun Guang and other prisoners to the Ministry of War last night. He didn't take any rest and started directly.
Interrogation...This is the confession evidence of Changsun Guang and others, the auxiliary machine can take a look."
Changsun Wuji was immediately startled. He was afraid that Changsun Guang would not be able to withstand Fang Jun's torture and confess everything. He was even more afraid that after the case, the Ministry of War would create an established fact and take away the right to judge according to law, so he did not work for a day.
Liang came to knock on the door, but he didn't expect Fang Jun to interrogate him all night long.
What was even more unexpected was that Changsun Guang confessed so quickly...
He was worried, so he quickly finished the memorial and read it ten lines at a time.
After reading it in a hurry, I felt a little relieved. Fortunately, although Changsun Guang could not bear the punishment and confessed his crime early, he still knew the seriousness. He only said that he was greedy for military glory, and in a moment of confusion, he killed the scout sent by Gao Zhenxing to Gongyue City.
, causing Gao Zhenxing's entire army to be wiped out. He did not say that this was an order given by his eldest son Wuji to his children.
Changsun Wuji looked furious and said angrily: "It's simply lawless! Military trials are the power of Weiwei Temple, why has it ever been the turn of the Ministry of War to interrogate without permission? Your Majesty, I think Fang Jun should be punished severely to set an example, otherwise all the others will be punished in the future.
If all the yamen follow suit, where is the majesty of the imperial law?"
His Majesty Li Er did not answer. Instead, he once again took out a memorandum and handed it to Changsun Wuji, saying: "Fang Jun has already brought this matter to the political hall, and all the prime ministers and ministers will discuss whether to transfer the power of military judicial review to the Ministry of War.
Although I am the emperor, matters related to the laws of the empire cannot be decided in one word, so it is better to leave them to the political affairs hall."
At the end, he added: "By now, Fang Jun must have arrived at the political hall, or the auxiliary machine, you can go and have a look?"
Changsun Wuji's head was so big that he couldn't sit still anymore. He stood up and said, "Old minister, go to the political hall now!"
It's impossible not to go. No one in the current political affairs hall is on the side of his eldest grandson Wuji. Cen Wen has always supported Fang Jun. Xiao Yu is now related to Fang Jun and will support him even more. The new minister Liu Jie is even more supportive.
Wearing a pair of trousers with Fang Jun and ventilating air through one nostril. If I were not there, wouldn't it be that whatever bill Fang Jun proposed, the political hall would pass it?
Although he seemed unable to stop Fang Jun by fighting alone, he could not just watch that guy seize the power of military trial from Weiwei Temple, thereby pushing the Guanlong nobles into the abyss of disintegration...
Looking at the back of Changsun Wuji hurriedly leaving, His Majesty Li Er had no expression on his face, but he couldn't help but feel sad in his heart.
The Guanlong nobles have always been his staunchest allies. Without the strong support of the Long nobles, how could he be where he is today? But similarly, after he ascended the throne, he also gave back tenfold and a hundredfold.
At one time, everything above the imperial court was occupied by the Guanlong nobles, and the imperial power turned away from its monopoly.
Even so, these people are still not satisfied.
When he promoted the imperial examination and intended to recruit talents from the people and reuse them, he was even more blatantly opposed to himself.
Perhaps the Guanlong nobles who established three empires single-handedly never realized that they were different from those emperors.