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Chapter 504 Zhao Xu’s memories of Queen Meng

Bingyin (the tenth day of the fifth lunar month) in the first year of Yuanyou.

Edict: It is recorded that one of Sun An's relatives and grandson, the former Hanlin scholar, was selected as the seventh-level judge, Wei Guan Bo. So I extend my grace.

The imperial officials all wrote letters, begging that from now on, those who get the top marks in the civil service examinations will be given the order to show their favor, and they will be promoted to the next level, and they will follow them.

Fan Bailu, a living doctor and a member of the Zhongshushe, and Su Zhe, a storyteller in Jiyingdian Palace and a supervisory censor, jointly wrote: Honor and self-deception... Zhang Chengyi, evil and dangerous to the government, unfaithful and filial, unworthy of a human being...

Now Li Ding has taken charge of Xinzhou, but Cheng Yi has not been punished... The ministers are frightened and beg Cheng Yi to be punished strictly.

Edict: Order the Jingxi Criminal Division to strictly investigate Zhang Chengyi, report to the police, and order Chengyi to face the crime on the spot.

……

Zhao Xu flipped through the instructions from the General Office for today's two palaces.

I put these posts down casually.

For the two crimes combined, Zhang Chengyi must be publicly executed as a warning to others!

So here comes the question.

What a filial son this is!

The scholar-bureaucrats were buried in the third month, the princes were buried in the fifth month, and the emperor was buried in the seventh month.

Can I still argue with this matter?

Shi Deyi lowered his head and replied: "At that time, Zhang Chengyi was serving the Privy Council's decree..."

How did Zhang Chengyi get away with it in his previous life?

Anyway, what Zhao Xu remembers is that during the Shaosheng era, Zhang Chengyi was still in Bianjing City, alive and kicking.

This is legal.

This is challenging the entire Confucian moral outlook.

Zhao Xu started to think.

What are you talking about?

The place where Xu Guogong Zhang Qi is buried is the ancestral tomb of the Zhang family, and it is guarded day and night.

It was not just a day or two for the nobles of the Song Dynasty to have good friendships, connections, and even marriages with the ministers of the inner court.

Zhao Xu feels that it should be the former.

Zhao Xu smiled.

"Ok!"

If they do this, I'm afraid they will only benefit the vultures in the palace in the end.

The evidence is overwhelming and leaves little room for quibbles.

Shi Deyi lowered his head and replied: "Your Majesty, I know that Zhang Maoze, who has now asked himself to serve the Empress Cishengguangxian in the Yongzhao Mausoleum, has always been friendly with Zhang Chengyi."

But what do you mean by hanging the treasures that your father was buried with on your body?

Do you really think the court is stupid?

It can only be said that the Zhang family's IQ has really deteriorated after Zhang Qi.

Like the Lan family, half of the people worked in the palace, serving the emperor and the empress, and the other half worked outside. There were several families who were married to nobles and relatives and had good friendships with them.

Definitely.

He even went to the palace to pay homage to Zhao Xu!

Now it's time to lie down quickly and be honest, maybe you can save something.

So, Zhao Xu turned his head, looked at Shi Deyi, and asked: "Does this criminal Zhang Chengyi have a friend with great supernatural powers?"

"What do you mean? The tomb of Xu Guogong Zhang Qi was stolen by tomb robbers. When the guilty officer found out, he asked someone to re-order the coffin of his late father. Because he found that the rhinoceros belt and other items buried with him had been destroyed by the thieves, he took them out in order to have them rebuilt. Binding.' And so on..."

Ok!

Moreover, even if Zhang Chengyi's sophistry is true, the tomb was indeed robbed.

After all, there has to be some decency.

The only living son of Xu Guogong Zhang Qi!

Zhao Xu had some impression.

Let’s see now, is it death in the end? Or execution?

"So, did he hide his mother's death?"

In the end, everyone loses both his life and property!

However, Shi Deyi did not think it was a serious matter and continued to report: "In addition, I heard from people that after the death of the deceased mother of the criminal Zhang Chengyi, her body has been kept in the temple and has not been buried... So far, it has been several years... "

Zhao Xu couldn't help but ask: "Why?"

This is etiquette.

No room for quibbles!

Let the biological mother remain inactive for several years and not be able to rest in peace.

"Zhang Chengyi is probably dead!" He said softly.

Shi Deyi was beside Zhao Xu, lowered his head and said: "Everyone, I heard that the family of the guilty minister Chengyi has recently been looking for connections to excuse the guilty minister Chengyi."

Zhao Xu smiled: "What else?"

Because the minister adopts an adopted son, according to the system, there is a maximum of one.

Yes, once the ministers in the outer court knew about this matter, Zhang Cheng would no longer have any chance of being decent.

Zhao Xu's brows jumped.

The Lan family, a well-known courtier family, has a son who marries a noble daughter - a high-ranking courtier. The adopted son does not have to enter the palace to become a courtier. He can continue the family lineage outside and live a normal life.

Beyond this limit, there must be a special purpose.

This is the majesty of God’s grace!

Does Zhang Maoze want to follow the Lan family's path?

I must have thought about it.

Now that Zhang Maoze has fallen, Zhang Chengyi's family still has the confidence to continue their activities and want to exonerate Zhang Chengyi.

This means that Zhang Chengyi still has connections in the palace.

Shi Deyi replied respectfully: "I heard that Meng Zaiwei, the Hou of Hemendi, once had a friendly relationship with the guilty officer Chengyi."

Zhao Xu's smile was frozen on his face.

"Meng Zaiwei?" He looked at Shi Deyi seriously and asked confirmingly: "The late Meizhou defense envoy gave it to Taiwei Meng Yuan's son?"

"Your Majesty, Holy Might!"

"Haha..." Zhao Xu laughed.

Is Meng doing it?

His mind flashed back to the image of his Yuan Empress Meng, kneeling in the Kunning Hall, trembling. Liang Congzheng, the big Diao Dang beside Zhao Xu, held the edict and read out the decree in a mellow tone.

"Queen Meng, she is misleading and saying evil things, and she is flattering... I spend my whole night feeling miserable, and sleep and eat peacefully! It is difficult for me to give in to personal favors, and to submit to the kindness of the two palaces, and to receive the sound of jade. If I lose my virtue, what will happen to me?" The mother-in-law of all nations, inheriting the ancestral temple? Can it be listed in the Queen's book of treasures, live in Yaohua Palace, and be given the title Huayang Leader, Yuqing Miaojing Immortal Master! Give me purple, and the name of the Dharma will be true!... It means that you always treat me by calling me. !”

Outsiders only know that Meng was wronged and deposed.

But who knows the resentment in Zhao Xu’s heart? !

That is not something accumulated in one or two days.

It's not just the hatred that has been accumulated in one or two days.

Therefore, Zhao Xu actually knew that Meng was framed - just kidding, he didn't even know about the things in the harem, and if he was still kept in the dark, how could he control the ministers, including Zhang? Are the human spirits, including Dun and Zeng Bu, driven as directed?

However, Zhao Xu sat back and watched Meng being framed and wronged, and even quietly used force during the process of Meng being deposed.

This can be seen from the content of the post-abolition edict!

Completely denying Meng's legitimacy as queen.

It also completely negates Meng's personal morality and virtuousness.

Just point your nose and scold you - you are a person who brings disaster to the country and the people, and you are not worthy of being a mother to the world!

reason?

Very simple.

Meng was chosen by the Empress Dowager, and she was chosen against Zhao Xu's own wishes.

The appointment of Queen Meng was a political choice made by the Empress Dowager to test Zhao Xu's obedience.

Since the Song Dynasty, there has never been a wedding ceremony as shabby, humiliating or even humiliating as the ceremony when Zhao Xu married Meng in his previous life!

Zhao Xu will never forget it!

In his previous life, his wedding date was chosen on May 16th in the seventh year of Yuanyou.

By then, he was an adult.

Moreover, he received a completely orthodox imperial education.

So, how could he not know what day May 16th was?

May 16th is the Taoist day of peace between heaven and earth.

Therefore, since ancient times, couples have slept in separate rooms on this day!

How could the Prime Minister of Manchu Dynasty not know?

But the Empress Dowager chose this day despite all objections!

I just want to choose this day to hold the wedding!

Just to trample on the majesty and face of the emperor Zhao Xu!

Just to test Zhao Xu’s obedience!

If the date was wrong, it might be because the Empress Dowager believed deeply in Buddhism and did not understand Taoist taboos.

But the strange phenomenon on the wedding day cannot be explained in this way.

Zhao Xu remembered it clearly.

On the wedding day, the rulers put on the proper pomp and ceremony of an emperor's wedding since ancient times.

Prime Minister Lu Dafang personally served as the ingratiating envoy, Situ Han Zhongyan as the deputy envoy, Taiwei Su Song as the issuing envoy, Wang Yansou as the deputy envoy, Su Che, the right minister, as the informing envoy, and Zhao Jingzong, the emperor's uncle and the great emperor, served as the deputy envoy. make.

Su Shi, as Lu Bo's envoy, personally served as the guide for Zhao Xu and led him to the Ancestral Temple to worship his ancestors.

Is the pomp big enough?

However, just as Zhao Xu left the palace, the holy team was separated directly in the middle by a team of more than ten vehicles.

At the head is a Chu red umbrella-covered cart, followed closely by a green-covered cart - the standard Queen's motorcade!

What is this doing?

Zhao Xu will never forget how he felt at that time.

He clenched his fists tightly, bit his lip, and looked at the Queen's motorcade with a livid face, separating his team.

Show off your power!

It’s really awesome!

Zhao Xu couldn't bear it!

But, what happened next made him furious!

When the queen was welcomed into the palace, there should have been a full set of etiquette and drums - even if ordinary people were getting married, the welcoming procession would still have to be lively and lively, right?

However, there was nothing in Xuandemen that day.

Deserted.

Ok!

It is understandable that the Queen Mother likes to be frugal.

However, when the queen's car arrived at the Neidong Gate, a group of musicians suddenly appeared and played and played the queen to the Funing Palace.

what's the situation?

This is no longer humiliating.

Instead, he stepped on the face of Zhao Xu, the adult emperor!

why?

Because, since the Han Dynasty, only second and third-married women do not need to be greeted with big gifts when they enter the house. They can only wait until they are sent to their husband's house to play and play and make a fuss.

and so……

Now you know why Zhao Xu insisted on abolishing the queen, right?

Meng himself was not wrong.

Zhao Xu admitted this.

Meng is a virtuous person with a gentle personality, and Zhao Xu also recognizes her.

But she was chosen by the Empress Dowager, and since the wedding, Meng had been a tool used by the Empress Dowager to humiliate him and test him.

This is the reason why Zhao Xu almost deposed the Empress Dowager and kicked her out of Yonghou Mausoleum during the Shaosheng era.

This is also the reason why Zhao Xu must be deposed.

Even though he knew clearly that Meng was actually good, even though he knew that Meng was wronged.

But this queen must be abolished, and she must not be abolished!

At that time, Zhao Xu, who was young and energetic, could endure it until the third year of Shaosheng's reign before using Liu's hands to abolish Meng's family. His self-cultivation was really good.

Shaking the memories out of his mind, Zhao Xu looked at Shi Deyi with a smile: "I understand!"

"That's it! No wonder!"

In the last life, Zhang Chengyi found the reason why he could live.

Zhang Maoze and Meng Zaiwei took the path of the Empress Dowager.

(End of this chapter)