Emperor Zhenguan

Chapter 544

In the Taiji Hall, all the servants had retreated at some point, only the emperor and Zheng Shanguo.

The empty environment made Zheng Shanguo even more uneasy.

When he came back to his senses, he immediately bowed his head to the ground.

"Your Majesty, Mrs. Zheng is guilty, please forgive me!"

At this time, he couldn't quibble.Because both Zheng Dayong and Zheng Yuancong were arrested, sophistry is useless.

"Grace?" Li Zhiyun said with a smile: "You ask me to be kind, the people of Luozhou, who will give them kindness?"

The simple rhetorical question left Zheng Shanguo speechless.

"I deserve to die, I'm guilty, I shouldn't be obsessed with ghosts, I'm sorry for the late emperor, I'm sorry for your majesty, I'm even more sorry for Tang, I'm guilty"

Bang bang bang!
Zheng Shanguo kowtowed frantically, making a bang bang sound.

Li Zhiyun got up, walked down the imperial steps, and stood in front of Zheng Shanguo.

"enough."

Zheng Shanguo stopped and looked at the hem of the emperor's clothes pitifully.

"You kowtow to me, it's better to kowtow to those people who died in vain." Li Zhiyun's indifferent voice made Zheng Shanguo bow his head, terrified.

Tick ​​tock!

Blood fell from Zheng Shanguo's forehead and dripped onto the smooth floor.

Li Zhiyun said: "Zheng family soaked millet in corpse water and mixed it with the imperial government's disaster relief food, causing the common people to get sick. A plague broke out in Luozhou, causing countless deaths and injuries. According to the law, how should I deal with Zheng family?"

According to the law, this kind of crime is enough for the court to destroy the Zheng family.

Because what Mrs. Zheng did was no longer a simple and trivial matter, but an evil deed that devastated people, and its nature was so serious that it was comparable to rebellion.

What's even more frightening is that once news of the plague caused by the Zheng family spreads, the reputation of the famous Zheng family in Xingyang will be ruined!
This is what frightens Zheng Shanguo the most.

"May your majesty be merciful, Mrs. Zheng is willing to listen to your majesty's arrangement, please be merciful to me!" Zheng Shanguo threw herself to the ground, lying on the ground, begging the emperor.

He knew very well that if the emperor didn't let the Zheng family go today, his hometown in Xingyang would be completely killed by the army tomorrow.

Li Zhiyun asked: "Why do you want to do this?"

"The minister is seeking the position of governor of Luozhou, so he did this evil thing." Zheng Shanguo still lay on his stomach.

"Who else is conspiring with you?" After asking, Li Zhiyun added, "You better tell the truth, otherwise"

Zheng Shanguo's heart has completely sunk.

He knew that the emperor knew much more than that.

"And Pei Ju."

really!

Li Zhiyun narrowed his eyes and continued to ask: "Tell me everything about you!"

"Yes." Zheng Shanguo apologized to Pei Ju in his heart, and then said: "Pei Ju said that he will help Zheng to win the position of governor of Luozhou, and even in the future, if the minister is transferred back to Chang'an from Luozhou governor, he will give him the right to do so." help.

Correspondingly, he asked his ministers to support Pei Shiqing in becoming prime minister. "

How dare!

What an old fox.

Knowing that he was going to die, in order to maintain Pei's status in the court, he dared to plan for the position of Xiangguo.

Still in this way.

Pei Ju, you are so courageous!
Li Zhiyun's face was livid, wishing he could kill Pei Ju.

"What else, say it all!"

"Yes."

After a while, Zheng Shanguo told the emperor everything he knew.

After listening, Li Zhiyun fell into deep thought.

The most direct way for him now is to announce the truth, and then kill Pei Ju and Xingyang Zheng.

In this way, he can instantly get rid of the leaders of the two families.

But the problem is that if the Wenxi Pei family and the Xingyang Zheng family are left out in the cold, then the power of the court to fight against the Guanlong family will be greatly weakened.

This is not a good thing.

Do you want to bear it?
The fists were tightly squeezed, and Li Zhiyun really didn't want to bear it.

But for the sake of the overall situation, he had to bear it if he couldn't bear it.Otherwise, if Pei Ju is removed now, the power of the Guanlong people is bound to increase and overwhelm the already weak Shandong aristocratic family.

Losing his balance, he will find a way to target the Guanlong people and introduce other forces to balance the situation.

For now, the power of the Shandong family is very scattered.For example, Cui and Lu Shi did not completely fall for themselves.

Perhaps, this is a good opportunity to take advantage of the Zheng family in Xingyang.

"This time, you are sorry for the court and the people of Luozhou. I will give you a day to think about how to make up for it. After thinking about it, write a memorial to me."

After finishing speaking, Li Zhiyun added: "Remember, don't reveal a word."

"Yes!" Zheng Shanguo quickly agreed.

As long as the emperor gives him a chance to make amends, how dare he talk nonsense.

After driving away Zheng Shanguo, Li Zhiyun's expression turned ugly.

He thought that he would be able to deal with the aristocratic family by killing the Turks.But now he realizes that it still doesn't work, and it affects his whole body.

With this incident, he was indeed able to flatten the Zheng family in Xingyang openly and ruin Pei Ju's reputation.

But then what?

Without the Wenxi Pei family, the power against the Guanlong people will inevitably weaken.

When the time comes, people from Guanlong will jump out and ask for a photo, so what?

When Pei Ji and Tang Jian left, Guan Long's Dugu Sheng danced the most.This time, if he deals with Pei Ju, Dugu Sheng will definitely jump out to add fuel to the flames and prepare for his own appearance.

However, he must not allow Guanlong people to enter the Zhengshitang!

The first emperor managed to drive away the Guanlong people, how could he turn back the wheel of history.

balance!

However, Pei Ju cannot be easily let go this time.

In addition, the person who drives away Pei Ju and replaces him must also be carefully considered.

After Zheng Shanguo returned to the mansion, he found Zheng Yuanxuan and told him about meeting the emperor.After listening, Zheng Yuanxuan was stunned and at a loss.

After a long time, he asked, "Why does Your Majesty know this?"

"What's the use of pursuing this now?" Zheng Shanguo said with a sluggish expression, "If we can't satisfy His Majesty, the Zheng family of Xingyang will be defeated by you and me. At that time, what face do we have to meet our ancestors. "

"But, what should we do to satisfy His Majesty?" Zheng Yuanxuan lamented.

Zheng Shanguo thought about it carefully, and said: "I have made up my mind, for the sake of Zheng, give all we have to the emperor. Food, money, and fields, all to him."

Zheng Yuanxuan said in a low voice: "Food and wealth are fine. If they are gone, we can accumulate them slowly. But if the fields are gone, how will we support the clansmen?"

"Don't talk about it, do you think I am willing!" Zheng Shanguo said with distress and helplessness: "The imperial court wants to distribute the land to the people. In the Central Plains, the Zheng family has the most land. If we don't give it, the emperor will think that we are not sincere.

give it.

Who made us stupid, believe in Pei Ju, and bring disaster. "

"Okay." Zheng Yuanxuan agreed.In the face of the catastrophe of extermination, these things should be discarded if they can be discarded.

Immediately afterwards, he asked, "Then Yuan Cong?"

"Don't ask." Zheng Shanguo said: "Life is a matter of life and death. If he dies alone, it can temporarily calm the emperor's anger and preserve the Zheng family. It will be destroyed once. This is more terrible than losing money, food and fields."

Zheng Yuanxuan fell to the ground powerlessly.

"How did it become like this?"

Hearing this, Zheng Shanguo was ashamed.

"I shouldn't have listened to Pei Ju's words!"

The next day.

Zheng Shanguo sent a memorial to the emperor.

Soon after, the emperor decreed that Daizhou, the governor of Weizhou, be the appeasement ambassador of Henan Province, and Zheng Shanguo, the deputy appeasement envoy of Henan Province, went to Luozhou to help Cen Wenwen relieve the victims and control the plague.

When the news spread, Pei Ju immediately approached Zheng Shanguo to ask why.

Zheng Shanguo naturally didn't dare to tell the truth, but said that when he met the emperor, some questions he didn't answer satisfied the emperor, so he only got the position of a deputy envoy.

In this regard, Pei Ju hated that iron could not be made into steel.

(End of this chapter)