Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 120 The Curse of the Witch Gu ([-])

half year later

Changan
Jianzhang Palace

"Your Majesty, civil uprisings have occurred in Yingchuan, Liaodong, Langya, Nanyang and other counties. However, the civil uprisings in Liaodong have been quelled by the prefect Wang Changzhi. More than 3 bandits would rather die than surrender. They have all been killed!"

The prime minister, Gongsun He, reported to the emperor the situation of the counties and states in the world.

Gongsun He's ability is average. He was often defeated during the Northern Expedition to the Huns. Now he can sit on the position of prime minister because the emperor Liu Che likes to kill the prime minister so much.

Almost every prime minister will be executed by the emperor Liu Che for various reasons within a few years, so that no one who is capable dares to be prime minister, and finally it is the turn of Gongsun He, a useless waste material like Gongsun He, to become prime minister.

"Ah."

Emperor Liu Che just responded casually, he is not very interested in these things anymore, if it was before, he would have to ask the supervisor carefully, but now, he just wants to live forever, so he said indifferently: "This kind of matter, you can handle it yourself That's fine, if you don't know how to deal with it, discuss it with Da Sinonong Sang Hongyang, don't bother me."

"No." Prime Minister Gongsun He was overjoyed, but still pretended to be calm. As long as the emperor didn't care about this matter, he could take the opportunity to collude with the Liaodong officialdom to make some money.

"Your Majesty, the witch has an audience!"

At this time, the eunuch Su Wen trotted over and shouted.

"Huh?" The originally listless emperor immediately cheered up, waved his hand to ask Prime Minister Gongsun He to go out quickly so that he would not be an eyesore, and then said anxiously to Su Wen: "Let them in quickly!"

"No." Su Wen agreed, glanced at Prime Minister Gongsun He who was about to go out with an embarrassed face, and then went out to summon the witches.

Su Wen is in the same party with his new relative Li Guangli, and Gongsun He is in the same party with his old relative Wei Zifu.

Therefore, although both Su Wen and Gongsun He are greedy for money, they dislike each other.

They often report each other's corruption in front of the emperor.

If it was before, both Gongsun He and Su Wen would be executed by the emperor for the crime of corruption, but in recent years, the emperor didn't care much about such trivial matters as corruption, so they just punished them slightly and let it go.

The current emperor pretends to be immortal in his heart.

When Gongsun He left, the three witches also came in, followed by the cruel official Jiang Chong.

"Caomin greets His Majesty, Your Majesty will live forever!"

"Chen, Jiang Chong, I pay my respects to Your Majesty, Your Majesty Wannian!"

The three witches and Jiang Chong saluted the emperor.

"En." The emperor responded, and then asked the three witches: "What happened to the three fairy masters? But the magic of longevity has been found?"

"Your Majesty, when we were observing the celestial phenomena to find the secret of longevity, we suddenly discovered that there was an evil spirit soaring into the sky, and this evil spirit was eroding Your Majesty's aura of the Son of Heaven." The witch looked serious, as if something was happening.

"Huh?" The emperor frowned, and continued to ask: "What do you mean? If there is really evil, where is this evil?"

"Maybe someone practiced witchcraft and wanted to curse the emperor, and that evil spirit is..." the witch replied.

"Where is it?" the emperor continued to ask.

"In Chang'an City! But I don't know exactly where it is, we need to investigate it." The witch continued to reply.

"In Chang'an City?" The emperor didn't expect that someone would dare to curse him with witchcraft under the feet of the emperor, so he ordered Jiang Chong who was beside him: "Jiang Chong, take someone to Chang'an City immediately to find the evil energy of witchcraft Witchcraft curses my evil people to arrest!"

"Sir, obey the order!"

The plan succeeded, Jiang Chong was secretly delighted, but on the surface he still had a serious face, as if he really thought about the emperor and was really worried about the evil spirit of witchcraft.

Li Guangli, Liu Qumao and others have united and started to overthrow the princelings, but the princelings, except for the prince himself and the queen Wei Zifu, the rest are scattered.

The prime minister, Gongsun He, Gongsun Jingsheng and his son relied on the support of the queen and the prince, and were single-minded in corruption. They had no interest in fighting against Li Guangli, Liu Qumao, Su Wen, Jiang Chong and others wholeheartedly.

Just a few months ago, Sun Jingsheng, the imperial servant of one of the Nine Ministers, was greedy for 900 million yuan in military expenses in one go, which is simply a colossal greed.

In fact, it was fine, after all, the queen and the prince guaranteed it. Besides, since the corruption of the world, all the officials were greedy, and the emperor gradually didn't bother to care about it.

But who told him that Gongsun Jingsheng was a princeling?

As a political opponent, the cruel official Jiang Chong took the opportunity to make things worse, and finally succeeded in arresting Gongsun Jingsheng and imprisoning him.

The enemies of the princeling party are those who unite and cooperate to slander the prince in front of the emperor in various ways. Even corruption cannot delay the business of the party struggle.

On the other hand, the members of the princeling party are so focused on corruption that they cannot unite in party struggles.

The outcome of such party struggles is probably self-evident.

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Inside Chang'an City
Royal Mansion
The Embroidered Clothes Messenger Jiang Chong led dozens of imperial guards into the Wang family's mansion in Chang'an, and dug in the backyard of the Wang family's mansion.

"Jiang Xiuyi, I am wronged. Our royal family is loyal to the imperial court. How could we use witchcraft to curse His Majesty?" Wang Changjiong took his daughter to stop the imperial guards who were digging up his backyard, but After seeing Jiang Chong who took the lead, he was immediately scared.

Jiang Chong was notoriously a cruel official, and even a favorite of the emperor. If he offended him, he would lose his skin if he didn't die.

Even Gongsun Jingsheng, one of the nine ministers, was arrested and imprisoned by Jiang Chong, so Wang Changjiong naturally didn't dare to stand in the way.

"Mr. Guangming, you will know if you have practiced witchcraft or not after digging." Jiang Chong smiled, and then gave Wang Changjiong a look.

Wang Changjiong understood that Jiang Chong was blackmailing him in the name of looking for evil witchcraft.

Although he knew the truth, there was nothing Wang Changjiong could do. If Jiang Chong buried a voodoo wooden man in the Wang family's mansion and dug it out in a fake way, the Wang family would be finished.

Fortunately, the Wang family did not side with the princelings, so Jiang Chong was not interested in using witchcraft to frame the Liaodong Wang family, but just passing by the Wang family, so he wanted to extort some money by the way.

If it is a member of the princelings, it is useless even if they give money. After giving money, Jiang Chong still has to bury witches and wooden men to forcibly frame him.

At this moment, Wang Changjiong couldn't help but rejoice that he had rejected the prince's invitation, otherwise he would have died in the hands of Jiang Chong today.

Wang Changjiong hissed to his daughter Wang Ling: "Bring those gold bars."

Wang Ling didn't know why, but she still followed the instructions.

Wang Changjiong got a daughter in old age. He has no son, but only one 16-year-old daughter.

Later, Wang Ling brought a small wooden box containing several gold bars.

Jiang Chong glanced at the gold bars in the wooden box, and then laughed loudly: "Mr. Guangming is concerned about the country and the people. The royal family of Liaodong is loyal to the big man. Naturally, it is impossible to practice witchcraft."

After that, he told the imperial guards who were digging in the backyard of the Wang family's mansion: "Stop digging. I observed the sky just now and found that there is no evil spirit here. The source of the witchcraft should not be here."

Afterwards, after exchanging a few warm greetings, Jiang Chong took people to other mansions to dig out the sources of witchcraft.

He only digs mansions, because ordinary people don't have much money, so they can't extort much, and they have to worry about causing civil uprisings.

There were a few owners of mansions, because they refused to give Jiang Chong money, Jiang Chong buried Wugu wooden figurines in those people's homes in a rage, and then dug them out, and finally determined that those people were Wugu evil people The accomplices, arrest them and put them in prison, waiting for the death penalty!
Not long after, Jiang Chong led his men to dig into Prime Minister Gongsun He's house.

Regarding his political opponents, Jiang Chong was too lazy to extort money, so he skipped the stage of extortion and entered into the stage of framing. After burying the wooden wooden figurine of witchcraft in Gongsun He's house, he dug it out again, and then used the prime minister, Gongsun He, as an accomplice of witchcraft and evil people. Arrested and imprisoned for the crime, waiting to be executed!
"Jiang Chong, you villain, you must die!" Prime Minister Gongsun He struggled hard. He was still excited about embezzling a little money from the Liaodong officialdom just now, but Jiang Chong used witchcraft before he was happy. Arrested on false charges.

Most of the money that Gongsun He embezzled will be filled into the treasury, and the other part will naturally be divided up by Jiang Chong and the imperial guards.

And this money was originally the court's money.

After the money that belonged to the imperial court was embezzled by the royal family of Liaodong, the royal family of Liaodong distributed part of it to bribe the prime minister in order to deceive the public.

After going around and around, the embezzled money returned to the court in the form of embezzlement, which means that Liaodong Wang Jiabai was embezzled.

(End of this chapter)