After receiving the decree of the Queen, Honglu Temple of the Ministry of Rites began to make intensive preparations. Generally speaking, the preparation for the Queen's Ceremony took at least half a year, but because it was for the emperor's happiness and the lack of national supplies, everything had to be quick and simple.
What the officials were worried about was that if the preparations were too lengthy and the emperor died early, it would be a sin...
"Qin Tianjian has already checked the date. March 17th is an auspicious day." Jin Youzi brought the latest news to the two bachelors.
"There are still six days..." Yang Rong frowned, looked at Yang Shiqi and said: "There is no news from Wang Xian?"
Yang Shiqi shook his head worriedly.
"We can't put all our hopes on him." Jin Youzi never believed that Wang Xian was that capable. "He is being guarded tightly by the people in Dongchang. I'm afraid they haven't gotten the word yet!"
Yang Shiqi sighed and was about to speak when someone from Zhongshushe arrived with an official document, so the three of them stopped talking.
Zhongshu Sheren placed a stack of memorials in front of Yang Shiqi, then picked up the ones he had read and bowed out.
After the people in the middle school room left, Yang Shiqi picked up the top memorial and said to Jin Youzi: "Wait a little longer, I believe he will not miss anything..." After saying that, he started reading the memorial. Although he was worried,
But official duties still cannot be delayed.
"Hey..." Seeing that Yang Shiqi had nothing to say, Jin Youzi felt discouraged for a while, sat down and picked up the teacup, and drank it down in one breath, regardless of how cold the tea was.
At this time, Yang Shiqi said "Hey" and picked up a piece of paper from the memorial. He was stunned and his face gradually turned pale.
"What's wrong?" Jin Youzi put down the teacup and looked at Yang Shiqi. Yang Rong also looked at Yang Shiqi. I don't know what happened to make this talented prime minister, who had never changed his face before the collapse of Mount Tai, look so ugly.
"Wang Xian replied." Yang Shiqi handed the piece of paper to Yang Rong, who looked at it with a solemn expression, and then handed it to Jin Youzi.
Jin Youzi took a closer look and saw that there were only two lines of simple small characters on it. The first line was the two names of the dishes, "Sea Crab" and "Jujube".
The name of a medicine, "Ephedra and Asarum Fuzi Decoction", has a total of eleven characters.
Jin Youzi looked at these eleven characters repeatedly, but couldn't understand them. He had to raise his head and asked, "What does this mean? Is it a crossword puzzle?"
"No..." Yang Rong is proficient in health preservation and is also involved in medicine. He said softly: "Eating sea crabs and jujubes together will cause cold and fever. The 'Ephedra Asarum Fuzi Decoction' comes from the "Treatise on Febrile Diseases" written by the medical sage and is mainly used to treat colds and fevers.
Typhoid fever and Shaoyin disease." After a pause, a chill rushed into Yang Rong's heart and he said: "The symptoms of these two diseases are almost exactly the same. If the doctor is not careful, he will be pretentious. Once the wrong medicine is used, the patient will be in danger.
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"Wang Xian is giving us instructions on how to solve the big problem of Concubine Wang..." After listening to Yang Rong's words, Yang Shiqi became more sure of his judgment and said: "These eleven words should be enough to kill Concubine Wang."
Life."
Jin Youzi was startled, and then subconsciously asked: "Why didn't he do it himself?" After saying that, seeing Eryang looking at him with strange eyes, he swallowed and said: "Do we really want this?"
"Is there any other way?" Yang Shiqi said solemnly.
"Wang Xian is trying to drag us into the water..." Yang Rong sighed faintly: "It is inevitable that our hands will be stained with blood..."
Both Yang and Yang are determined, resourceful and decisive people. If they want to understand the key, they know that this matter is inevitable. They originally had illusions and hoped that Wang Xian could take over this dirty job. But now it seems
, this is just an unrealistic fantasy. The other party is only willing to point out one way and tell them what to do, but they will never interfere. They can only handle their own affairs.
"Is this really the case?" Jin Youzi repeated again. This matter was so contrary to his ideals that it was difficult for him to accept it. "Wang Xian is obviously just a simple effort, why do you have to ask us to do it?"
"He wants us to surrender." Yang Shiqi said with a wistful expression: "If we kill Wang Guifei, we will have no choice but to cooperate with him. If we want to deal with him again, we must be careful that we lose our reputation first.
Already."
"In this case, we can't do it!" Jin Youzi gritted his teeth and said: "Once we do this, what's the difference between us and him? Do we really want to continue to work together?"
"But if we don't do it, we will be out of the game..." Yang Rong stood up, walked to the door, looked at the slightly cramped cabinet courtyard and said: "Gentlemen, for the sake of our ideals, I think we can do it...
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"Our ideal..." Jin Youzi was a little crazy for a moment.
The ideals of these three people are the ideals of all the bachelors in the cabinet and are the common ideals of all civil servants.
Anyone who is familiar with history knows that in China, the monarch and the scholar-bureaucrats have shared the world since ancient times. However, the meaning of this scholar-bureaucrat has been constantly changing with the changes of history. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it was a class of scholars who were attached to the emperor and princes. By the Han, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties
, is a hereditary aristocratic landowning class. After the Sui Dynasty opened the imperial examination, scholar-bureaucrats gradually became the exclusive property of common landowners who stood out through the imperial examination.
In the Song Dynasty, state power was controlled by these common people scholar-bureaucrats. The emperor rarely handled state affairs directly, but left it to the prime minister, the leader of the scholar-officials, to handle it on his behalf. This gave the common people scholar-officials great honor and high status.
status, and the countless wealth that comes with it... Of course, the scholar-bureaucrats, who are well-read in poetry and call themselves the children of saints, would not think so. Their hearts are filled with the idea of taking the world as their own responsibility and actively participating in politics.
Strong sense of responsibility!
However, in this dynasty, the emperor of the Zhu family, who had an extremely strong desire for power, would never agree to call himself a "human seal". The founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the prime minister and monopolized power, treating all officials as slaves and trampling on the scholar-bureaucrats. This is
Naturally, it caused a strong backlash from the scholar-bureaucrats, but for Zhu Yuanzhang, the iron-blooded emperor, the solution was very simple, nothing more than - kill! Kill! Kill!
The Hu Weiyong case and the Kongyin case almost killed all the officials in the world. At that time, due to the shortage of officials, there was even an eternal spectacle of prisoners in the hall wearing shackles for trial, and officials in the hall wearing shackles to interrogate the case. But no matter how tyrannical Zhu Yuanzhang was, there was nothing he could do.
If one person handles the government affairs of the country, in his later years, he can only set up a cabinet and select some literary ministers with low official positions to serve as secretaries to support himself in handling the affairs of the country.
After Zhu Yuanzhang passed away, Zhu Di had to hand over the affairs of the country to the cabinet because he had been fighting abroad for many years and did not trust the prince. The status and importance of the cabinet suddenly increased sharply, giving the scholar-bureaucrats hope of regaining power.
Restoring the status and glory of the scholar-bureaucrats in the Song Dynasty is the dream of all civil servants. Regaining the status of prime minister and assistant is the desire of successive academicians. However, this road is destined to be extremely difficult. First, Zhu Di's desire for power is no less than that of Zhu Yuanzhang
Secondly, Zhu Di trusted the noble generals who conquered the world with him. Thirdly, he was suppressed by the ancestral precept that "the descendants of the future generations shall not establish prime ministers." Fourthly, the rank of non-commissioned officers in the cabinet was low and it was difficult to command the civil service group, so if it didn't work, it would be very difficult.
It is tantamount to wishful thinking to expect that the means will work out naturally.
Er Yang has a very clear understanding of the severe current situation. They have long understood that it is impossible to do anything in the Zhu Di Dynasty. They can only hope that there will be a different situation after the new king ascends the throne. And His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has always been close to civil servants, so Er Yang
In Yang's mind, he was the only choice for the new king. In fact, the two of them had been secretly communicating with the prince for a long time, secretly helped the prince a lot, and had expressed their loyalty to each other long ago. It's just that their methods were so superb that no one noticed...
But this is not enough. If they want to turn the great scholar into the actual prime minister, they must make great contributions on the way to the prince's ascension to the throne, so that they can have the capital to get the power they want in the future - right now
The prince and grandson are sent away. Once King Zhao has a queen as a helper, the prince and grandson will face an unpredictable outcome. If this situation can be avoided, then it is a meritorious deed, so what if the means are unscrupulous?
Originally, what several bachelors thought was to use Wang Xian's loyalty to the prince and use his hands to complete this matter. This way they could achieve their goals without being tainted with cause and effect. But obviously Wang Xian saw through their intentions and did not want to do anything.
Take the bait, just tell them what to do and let them do it themselves!
In this case, I can only do it myself...
The three bachelors quickly reached an agreement, and Yang Shiqi said in a deep voice: "To accomplish this, there are two steps. First, manipulate her food, and then wait until she gets sick, and then ask the imperial doctor to prescribe the prescription."
As he spoke, he looked at Yang Rong and Jin Youzi and said, "Leave the hospital side to me, and leave the Jiaoyuan and Imperial Kitchen rooms to you two..."
Jiaoyuan is a garden behind the emperor's palace. It was originally called Wulei Palace. After Wang Guifei moved here with the emperor, she found the original name harsh, so she changed its name to Jiaoyuan.
"Over there in Jiaoyuan..." Yang Rong looked at Jin Youzi and said first, "I have a fellow countryman whom I can trust..."
"Leave the imperial dining room to me..." Jin Youzi gritted his teeth.
The cabinet is the emperor's secretarial agency, which has always been located in the palace. The three of them have been bachelors for many years, and they are all dedicated to running the business. Their connections in the palace are deep, but they are not comparable to those of ordinary foreign ministers...
"Okay!" Seeing that the two of them happily accepted the task, Yang Shiqi nodded heavily and said: "We will split up now. Remember, we must keep things secret and don't leave any clues..."
Although the method given by Wang Xian can be said to kill people invisible, even if Wang Guifei dies in the end, there is almost no way to verify it. But in this kind of thing, it is better to be careful. If you are not careful, your reputation will be ruined and your entire family will be executed!
"Unexpectedly," Jin Youzi said in amusement, "We would actually do such a derogatory thing..."
"If I don't go to hell, who will?" Yang Rong is a believer in Buddhism, but at this moment he said like a king with angry eyes: "We are for the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, for the country, the country, the country, how can we harm the moral virtue?"
"That's right..." After listening to Yang Rong's words, Jin Youzi felt much better, nodded and said: "Then do it!"