dhibooks Chapter 129 Dismissal
Chapter 129 Dismissal
Su House.
Persimmon has been working in the Su Manor for half a year, and was sent by Song Yuxian early in the morning. He usually does some odd jobs, and he has never even seen the face of the legendary Prime Minister Su. The girls are also very tricky, and they are very handy in entertaining others on weekdays.
"Psimmon, you haven't written a letter to go back to your hometown for a long time, right?" a handyman asked.
"I, I can't write..."
There are many people who can't write these days. Of course Shizi can write, but he lied that he couldn't write.
"You go to that Butler Zhou, he is nice, maybe he will help you write."
This Steward Zhou is getting old, but he is very kind to his servants. If he is found to write a letter home on weekdays, he will not refuse.Persimmon went to Steward Zhou and said he wanted to write a letter back. After only one day, the letter was finished.
Song Yuxian received the letter, but felt that the handwriting of this letter was somewhat similar to that in the correspondence, but when he compared it, he found that it was exactly the same.
"This letter can't be wrong, why not submit it to An Guogong." Song Yuxian said.
"In case that An Guogong crosses the river and demolishes the bridge..."
It's just that now that they have boarded this big ship of conspiracy, no one can live and work in peace.What Qiu Xiaofeng said was just to remind Si Lingkai that he should not be taken lightly.The assassination that day, together with the emperor and them, was all included in his calculations. No matter which side wins, he has a way to transfer troops.
In the end, the two discussed for a while and gave the letter to Qi Wuyuan.After Qi Wuyuan read it, he passed it on to Si Lingkai.
The assassination failed, the emperor had already returned to the imperial city, and things went nowhere.
Being at a loss what to do, Qiu Xiaofeng's letter came at the right time, and it wrote in detail the whole process of Su Qingshou's murder of the prince that day.The emperor can turn a blind eye to other things, and he can't just watch the treacherous minister kill his own son and ignore it.
Although the emperor was not assassinated, he began to vomit blood frequently after returning to the imperial city, as if suffering from some kind of illness.In private, the emperor asked the imperial physician to strictly keep this matter from spreading, because he was afraid that someone would take advantage of it and try to seize his throne.It's just that the imperial doctor tried everything, but there was no improvement. Seeing that his head was not safe, he was tricked out by the spy placed in the palace by Si Lingkai.
Qiu Xiaofeng was puzzled when he heard about this.
But I only heard the devil say, "The sandalwood blade can seal the throat without seeing blood."
Said that the emperor must have been so angry that he threw the sandalwood blade into the fire and burned it. The fragrance wafted out and mixed with the fragrance of gardenia that was common at this time, becoming an indelible poison.
After Qiu Xiaofeng heard this, he ordered his subordinates, "Go and pull out the gardenias in the yard."
It's dangerous.
The devil could only laugh it off.
In fact, he just sent someone to poison the emperor's food.
Now the palace still has a high position and weight in secret work.
There are also many who have the opportunity to poison.
Just think of it as doing Qiu Xiaofeng, an idiot, a favor.Not telling him that there are still people in the palace is to prevent him from doing dangerous things on a whim.
When the emperor came to court, his complexion became worse and worse, and all the ministers could see that he was suffering from illness.
"Your Majesty, Su Qingshou used his power for personal gain, killed Zhongliang and had the intention of rebelling against him. Your Majesty must not be deceived by treacherous ministers, causing the country to be devastated."
"There is no proof, Master Si, don't talk nonsense, that is the crime of deceiving the emperor."
This Su Qingshou was wearing a flaming red court attire and a pitch-black official hat inlaid with beads, and he had the demeanor of a prime minister in his gestures.He has a handsome face, red lips and white teeth, but every word he speaks is aggressive.
In this majestic hall, the ministers around were already used to two people sarcasm each other relentlessly, but no one could do anything to the other.If it is said that Prime Minister Su serves the emperor with color, the emperor will not give him the position of prime minister, he is naturally capable.
"Of course there is evidence."
Si Lingkai presented the letter to the emperor.
The emperor was a little surprised, saying that Su Qingshou never kept his tail in his work, but this Si Lingkai was able to leave a clue.So he opened the letter and took a few glances.
The whole hall was silent, so quiet that one could hear every breath, and the draft blew in from outside, bringing with it the fragrance of gardenias.Several ministers held their breaths, and only dared to look up occasionally.
The emperor was furious after watching this, and he slapped the table and stood up, "Su Qingshou, you are so ignorant, colluding with Si Tiantai, murdering the current prince, and intending to usurp power and treason!"
Su Qingshou didn't speak, and the Minister of Rites said, "Your Majesty, calm down, this letter can be easily forged, so how can it be asserted that it was written by Mr. Su?"
Su Qing Shoutai Mountain collapsed on the top without changing his face, and walked forward to salute, saying, "Your Majesty, you have read the memorials I submit every day, and you can tell who intends to murder the ministers of the court just by comparing the handwriting."
The emperor's anger still persisted. It's not that he didn't know that Su Qingshou was greedy and cunning. It's just that although he was greedy for many major affairs in the court, it wasn't too much. he.Unexpectedly, he actually had the intention of treason.
"Supervisor Sitiantai, is there such a thing?"
This is the crime of beheading, and no one can admit it.
"But there is this."
When he came out, there was an uproar in the court, did this man not want to live?
The emperor also frowned and asked, "Are you pleading guilty?"
"Grassman pleads guilty."
Si Tiantai was only twenty in prison, and at this moment he raised his hand and took off his official hat, without a trace of nostalgia or reluctance, he knelt down on the ground again, kowtowed and confessed.
"Grass people pray for strong grass. On that day, my father was recommended by Prime Minister Meng Su to join Sitiantai. Su Xiang asked my father to fabricate astronomical phenomena to trick the emperor into killing the prince, but my father thought of the prince's benevolence, so he should not die like this. So he hid the letter in the chess book Among them, I hope that one day the prince can be vindicated.
"All 170 members of Caomin's family were killed by Su Xiang. Su Xiang was afraid that the sudden change in Sitiantai would cause the emperor to notice, so he spared Caomin's life to replace my father and continue to do this inhumane thing. Now the time has come, villain I am willing to take responsibility for the wrong things my family has done.”
As soon as this remark came out, Su Xiang's eyes filled with hatred, and he said in his heart that this person usually looks submissive, sees money and power, and doesn't care about family feud at all, so this act is for this moment.At the beginning, all the prisons, young prisons, and chief bookkeepers in Si Tiantai should have been replaced in one fell swoop, so that the emperor would not be able to catch anything.
The emperor was furious, "Why didn't you submit the letter? Did you come to confess at this time?"
"This letter is missing, and the grassroots can't find it everywhere, so I can't report it to the emperor."
The emperor looked at Si Lingkai again, and said coldly, "Where did you get the letter from?"
"This letter is in the emperor's imperial study, but the emperor has never seen it."
The emperor sat slumped on the dragon chair, and suddenly coughed violently. He quickly blocked it with his hands, blood stained his sleeves.
The ministers still saw clearly.
Secretly thought that the world was about to change.
"This letter was not written by Weichen." Su Qingshou said again.
Si Lingkai saw that he was still unwilling to give up, so he said again, "Master Su, why bother to die? This letter is stamped with your Prime Minister Su's private seal, how can others forge it. Even if it wasn't written by you yourself, it was written by you." Write. If Su Xiang has no regrets in his heart, how about asking your housekeeper Zhou of the Su Mansion to come forward and write a letter?"
After a cup of tea, another guard escorted the butler to the hall.
"How come so fast?"
Si Lingxie said, "Master Su, if I don't hurry up, he will be silenced by you."
Seeing that the butler's tongue had been cut off, he was speechless, and his right arm had been scratched by the blade.Si Lingkai took out the letter written by the housekeeper that day.
"These two letters are exactly the same, Mr. Su, he is your housekeeper, what else do you have to say?"
Su Qingshou's face turned pale. He didn't expect that he would still lose to Si Lingkai in the end. This old, treacherous and cunning person is indeed not to be underestimated.
Seeing the change in his face, the emperor knew that the matter should be true, but killing him directly would have allowed Si Lingkai to dominate and take advantage of it.
"Remove Su Qingshou from his post and put him in prison pending trial."
The Minister of the Household Department said, "Your Majesty, Su Qingshou has committed such a serious crime, and he can be executed at any time. If the Emperor does not kill him, it would be too sorry for the common people!"
"Retreat!"
The emperor didn't want to argue about right and wrong with these sanctimonious ministers. In their eyes, there was no right and wrong, but power.Even if Su Qingshou died, there would inevitably be a second and third such treacherous officials in the court, and the emperor would never be able to kill them all.
It's just that Ling Kai was very satisfied with sending Su Qingshou to the position of Secretary Ling Kai. For this person to fight him at such a young age, he is simply suicidal.So what about the position and the prime minister, today the king is on the side, and the ghost of the king of Hades in the Ming Dynasty.
Now that Prime Minister Su was dismissed, it could be said to be an earth-shattering event for the court, but all of Prime Minister Su's followers were in danger, and they were afraid of being implicated and hacked to death.
Of course the fourth prince knew about this, and he was also surprised in his heart. This Prime Minister Su has always acted in a smooth and cautious manner, but this time he was caught by Si Lingkai. It seems that this Jianghu is still very useful.The leader of the martial arts alliance should be more useful.It's just that no one can be in charge of the world like Qiu Xiaofeng, making all parties bow and submit.
In fact, he was quite happy in his heart, this Prime Minister Su deserved it in the end, the Queen killed his birth mother that day, and Prime Minister Su also participated in it, if it wasn't for Prime Minister Su's idea, the Queen would never have imagined that there would be such a cheap way to snatch a son matter.
It's just that the emperor didn't kill Su Xiang. Could it be that he had some friendship with Su Qingshou?
The empress and Su Qingshou may not have that kind of brotherly love.
Once he heard them quarreling, the empress nearly killed Su Qingshou by pulling out her hairpin in anger, but thanks to the guards' stop, the matter was calmed down.
If it wasn't for the emperor, he would never have imagined that they would quarrel over something.
After thinking about it, the fourth prince Tan Shangan decided to report the murder of his mother and concubine to the emperor in detail.The emperor became even more angry when he heard this, and immediately wanted to remove the empress as well, but he finally endured, these people were lawless, and really thought the emperor was dead.
If the queen is moved at this time, I am afraid that the situation will all lead to Si Lingkai's side.
Tan Shang'an was never close to the emperor, he left after finishing his speech without stopping at all.
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Since the emperor didn't want to kill Su Qingshou, wouldn't Su Qingshou not want to kill the emperor?
Qin Shang'an thought about it and immediately went to the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice. The people around him wanted to stop him, but he was the prince after all.Although it is against the rules, no one dares to stop it.
Qin Shangan was immediately led into the cell where Su Qingshou was detained.
Su Qingshou wore a pale prison uniform, took off his official uniform, and stood among a pile of hay.His sharp and tricky appearance on the court suddenly restrained, and he looked like a down-and-out beggar from a distance.
"Lord Su, don't come here without any harm," Tan Shang'an said.
Su Qingshou took a few glances at this prince. This prince was born rich and honored, and he wore gold and silver to the utmost luxury.He looked at himself again, his clothes were ragged and dirty.
"Fourth prince, don't be too happy too early. It's a common occurrence in the court. Even if Su dies, the fourth prince can't be the emperor."
Tan Shangan was not angry, and said, "As long as the Duke of Chaozhong'an is not dead, Mr. Su will not be able to return to his original post."
In fact, Su Qingshou not only wanted the official to be reinstated, but also wanted to usurp power and position.Tan Shang'an once investigated his life experience, and he turned out to be the son of a former court official. The former emperor declared to the world that he would never hire a former court official.The current emperor has broken this rule, which caused turmoil in the mountains and rivers and the people's livelihood.
"Master Su doesn't want to kill the emperor?"
Now that there is no one around, Tan Shangan doesn't mind getting straight to the point.
On the surface, Su Qingshou was very respectful to the emperor, but in fact he might hate the emperor for some reason. Counting new and old hatred together, the one who wanted the emperor's life the most in this world must be him.
"How could a humble official commit crimes against the emperor and murder the emperor? The fourth prince has the intention of killing the emperor. If there is a chance, he must report the truth."
Su Qingshou still put on an air, no one could catch his words.
"Su Qingshou, do you think I don't know? Your crap."
Su Qingshou stopped talking, looked at Tan Shangan intently, and said coldly again, "What do you want to say?"
"The emperor coerced you and forced you to sleep in bed like a woman. If it wasn't for your official position, how could you submit?"
Now there are rumors everywhere in the court, but no one dares to talk nonsense in front of him. Now that he has no official position, he can't stop others' mouths.
"Gossip, how credulous?"
"Now that the emperor likes the new and dislikes the old, he still dismisses you. I'm afraid you are going to die in this prison."
Tan Shangding sighed and laughed again.
Su Qingshou never cared about etiquette, as long as it was profitable, he would dare not refuse.He is the most ruthless, with only interests and power in his eyes.Now the emperor no longer wants him to have a good time, and the glory and wealth are gone.Naturally, Su Qingshou couldn't be content with being down and out.
"What trick do you have?"
"Before your court ministers are cleaned up, it's better to strike while the iron is hot."
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Three days later, the emperor heard that Su Qingshou had escaped from prison and disappeared, and now he remembered that he had no relatives in the palace except the queen.If you want to implicate the nine clans or use your family members to coerce you, you can't find anyone at all.Su Qingshou is a wolf. When he obeys, he can wag his tail like a dog and beg for mercy. If he rebels, he will bite his master hard.It's painful.