Doctor of the Great Song Dynasty: In the beginning, Li Qingzhao and Li Qingzhao made a private decis

Chapter 233 The Witch Gu Disaster Is Just a Farce

"Empress! The villain is rude."

Inside Longyou Palace!Tong Guan led a group of eunuchs and bowed to Empress Meng.

Empress Meng suddenly looked embarrassed and said: "Eunuch Tong, I have not practiced witchcraft. Back then, my sister brought the talisman water into the palace, but I destroyed it in front of the officials."

"That's right, why would you come to Longyou Palace to search for witchcraft in the palace of the concubine Xian? This is a blatant frame." Yan said forcefully to hide her guilty conscience.

Tong Guan said with no expression on his face: "The villain is also following orders, please forgive me, Empress!"

At that moment, with a wave of Tong Guan's hand, a large number of palace guards immediately poured into Longyou Palace.

Yan wanted to stop her, but it was in vain. In the end, she could only watch helplessly as the palace guard entered Longyou Palace to search.

"found it!"

Soon, there was an exclamation, and a group of palace guards searched out talismans, Tongren and other witchcraft from Yan's room.

"wet nurse!"

Empress Meng couldn't help being startled, as if struck by lightning, she looked at Yan in disbelief.

First, the elder sister Meng entered the palace with talisman water, and then the wet nurse Yan practiced witchcraft behind her back. Why are there so many pig teammates around her?

Yan's face turned pale immediately, and she resolutely denied it: "This is impossible, this must be framed, empress, they must have harmed you!"

However, she was still lucky, thinking that as long as she refused to admit it and characterized it as framing, she might be able to escape the catastrophe.

Tong Guan's expression darkened immediately and he said: "Mrs. Xuan, according to the records in the palace, you have been out of the palace frequently in recent days, so you must be clear about why, and someone saw you splashing talisman water on the road of the official's house, how do you explain it?"

Yan's complexion changed drastically, he didn't expect that what he thought he was hiding would be discovered by others, and immediately he shouted for injustice, denying it again and again.

Soon, the news that Longyou Palace found the witchcraft immediately spread, and the harem was in an uproar.

Zhao Xu got the report from Tong Guan, and his face was embarrassed.

"Come here, order the Imperial City Division to thoroughly investigate this case!" Zhao Xu sternly said.

The occurrence of witchcraft in the palace immediately caused a sensation in the government and the public. Those who heard it couldn't help but tremble, and couldn't help but think of the tragic witchcraft disaster in the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Tens of thousands of people died directly in that catastrophe, and hundreds of thousands were affected by it.

But now the witchcraft happened again in the palace, which immediately affected the hearts of the government and the public. Both the old and the new parties wrote letters one after another.

Fan Fuzhong!
Li Qingzhao couldn't help being stunned when she heard the news. She was familiar with history, so she naturally knew the tragedy of witchcraft. She didn't expect that there were witchcraft in the Song Dynasty.

"Fan Lang, do you think Empress Meng is really practicing witchcraft?" Li Qingzhao asked worriedly.

Fan Zheng shook his head and said, "It's hard to say whether Empress Meng participated or not. I'm afraid the Yan family won't be able to escape?"

"Why is Fan Lang so sure?" Li Qingzhao asked with a frown, she still tended to think that Yan's family was wronged.

Fan Zheng smiled wryly and said: "Because there is a phenomenon in medicine, when a small hole appears in a tooth, it is usually already emptied by moths. In layman's terms, when you find a cockroach in the house, there are often a group of cockroaches in a dark corner."

"Everyone knows that witchcraft is strictly prohibited in the palace, but Empress Meng's sister, Meng, took the risk of bringing Fushui into the palace. It can be seen that many people around Empress Meng believe in spells, and Yan, as Queen Meng's wet nurse, came from the same place as Meng, and I am afraid that she also believes in witchcraft. Combined with Empress Meng's situation, it may not be difficult to guess her motive."

Sure enough, as Fan Zheng guessed, with the extensive search by the Imperial City Secretary, and Hao Sui had already been secretly watching him, soon, both the nun Fa Duan and the priest Wang Jian related to Yan's witchcraft were found out.

Yan's practice of witchcraft has been proved beyond doubt.

"Reporting to the officials, Yan's witchcraft has been confirmed, please let the officials know."

In the vertical arch hall!Tong Guan disclosed Yan's criminal evidence one by one to the public one by one, causing an uproar in the court.

Zhang Dun immediately said in a loud voice: "Report to the officials, Yan is the queen's nurse, and Yan's practice of witchcraft is aimed at the officials and concubines. It must be the queen's instigation. I ask the officials to abolish the queen and restore the harem."

"The Empress!"

All the ministers of the court were shocked. The rumors about the abolition of the empress had already been spread, and the queen's status was at stake. Now that she was implicated in the matter of witchcraft, the queen's position would definitely not be guaranteed.

"Officials think twice!" All the ministers of the old party objected.

"Wait a minute, the officials. Although the Yan family intended to let the officials drink the tea with talisman water, they did not intend to murder the officials. Furthermore, the officials did not drink the tea, the big mistake was not made, and Concubine Liu Xian was not injured at all. According to the punishment of the Song Dynasty, it did not reach the death penalty." Su Song persuaded.

Su Song is a fair person. When Su Song sentenced Zhao Mingcheng to the case of intentionally causing Fan Zheng and Li Qingzhao to fall into the water, it was also fair to sentence Zhao Mingcheng to three years in prison according to the Song Xingtong.

Now Yan's behavior seems to be bad, but it has not caused bad results. According to the criminal law of Song Dynasty, it is far from the level of death penalty.

Zhang Dun sneered and said, "It's nonsense. If Yan Shi dared to put talisman ashes in the official tea today, he might dare to murder the official in the future. If such behavior does not kill everyone, how can the safety of the official be guaranteed?"

Zhao Xu's face was immediately embarrassed. The reason why his heirs were not prosperous was because the eunuch of the imperial dining room secretly poisoned him with cotton. Now that Mrs. Yan secretly put ash into his tea, it can be said that he violated his bottom line.

Just as Zhang Dun said, if the Yan family dared to poison the ashes today, wouldn't they dare to poison them in the future?

"The Yan clan is ignorant and believes in sorcery. His behavior deserves death, but the queen did not participate in it. Please let the officials give him a lighter sentence." Lu Dafang immediately prepared to abandon his car to save the commander, and he was ready to abandon the Yan clan and save Queen Meng.

Zhang Dun retorted again: "What the Yan family did was to keep the official family in Longyou Palace, and to get rid of Concubine Liu Xian. The ultimate beneficiary is the queen. Moreover, the Yan family is the person next to the queen, and the queen has no shirkable responsibility for this matter."

All of a sudden, the new party wrote letters one after another, requesting the death penalty for Yu Yan and others, and the abolition of Empress Meng's posthumous title.

Zhao Xu had long been inclined towards abolishing the Empress. Empress Meng was handpicked by the Empress Dowager, so he didn't like it at all. Coupled with the constant scandals in the Meng family, and now she was implicated in the scourge of witchcraft, his dissatisfaction with Empress Meng had already reached the extreme.

Even though the old party members tried their best to persuade him, Zhao Xu was sure that he would stand up proudly, this time, he would abolish the empress.

Seeing this, the old party couldn't help feeling ashamed. Empress Meng is the representative of the old party in the palace. If it loses the position of queen, the old party must suffer heavy losses.

The new party couldn't help being overjoyed upon seeing this. Once Empress Meng is abolished, concubine Liu Xian ascends to the throne, and the prince Zhao Mao ascends the throne in the future, the new party will overwhelm the old party and the medical party in one fell swoop.

Seeing this, Su Song couldn't help sighing, although according to the Song Dynasty's criminal system, Yan's family could not be sentenced to death, but after all, there was suspicion of assassinating officials, coupled with the particularity of witchcraft disasters, it is not illegal for officials to execute Yan's.

Just when the overall situation was settled, Fan Zheng sighed and came out and said, "I want to report to the officials, I think this farce should end."

(End of this chapter)