Three Kingdoms: I will act as a substitute for the Hunjun

Chapter 91 Destiny (Happy Winter Solstice)
  Zhang Yang did not come back, and both Liu Ming and Jian Shuo were very concerned about this matter.

Jian Shuo directly asked Wang Yue to take his Jianghu friends out of the palace to investigate.

When it comes to tracking experience, they are more experienced than the scouts in the imperial army.

"My dear, I think there is something that cannot be delayed any longer." Liu Ming said solemnly.

"What's the matter?" Jian Shuo said with a smile, "As long as it is beneficial to you and me, I will fully support it."

"This matter will help you and I better control the government." Liu Mingdao, "We can no longer be blind. We must know the movements of the ministers and what is going on inside and outside the palace, otherwise I and I will be isolated in the palace. They were doing random things outside, and we were all kept in the dark. As time went by, we didn’t even know how we died! It would be too late to regret it when the knife was placed on our necks."

Jian Shuo nodded and said, "Well, that's a good idea. Be specific and tell me your countermeasures."

"Those memorials are the medium for daily communication between the palace and the ministers. We can no longer ignore them. We need to take a closer look at what they are thinking and doing." Liu Mingdao, "This is also a channel for me to control the court situation and cannot be discarded. Don’t use it.”

"Of course I understand this truth, but I am not good at managing politics." Jian Shuo helplessly spread his hands and said, "Several of his close eunuchs are illiterate. If I could handle it, I would have done it long ago. Once it’s been dealt with, why should it accumulate so much over time? Or..."

Jian Shuo looked at Liu Ming and suddenly had an idea, "Either you handle it. In fact, your handling is the most justified. What's the matter with my general staring at those broken bamboo slips every day? You said that you are the emperor's stand-in, how is it possible? If you don’t want to learn how to deal with memorials, you can just watch and deal with the daily affairs. Major matters are difficult to resolve, so let’s discuss them and make a decision. What do you think?”

"It's okay, but..." Liu Ming looked embarrassed, "I'm just a commoner, how can I handle so much? In this case, are there any capable eunuchs in the palace whom Aiqing recommends to assist me? It doesn’t necessarily need to be a confidant, and it doesn’t require any great talent, just someone who can help me sort out the memorials.”

Jian Shuo touched his beardless chin and thought for a moment, then said: "There is a candidate, but this person has always been independent and does not get along with us. His knowledge of government affairs is not low, and he is highly appreciated by His Majesty. He was the one in the Yellow Turban He advised your Majesty to lift the imprisonment of the party, and your Majesty readily accepted it, so this man is loved and respected by the family."

Are there people like this in the Han Palace? It was beyond Liu Ming's expectation.

"I wonder who the person Aiqing is talking about is?" Liu Ming asked, "But I have a special status and I don't need anyone who is too smart around me. Otherwise, he will see everything clearly. How can you and I get through it? "

Liu Ming told the truth. Even if Zhuge Liang, Sima Yi, Xun Yu, Zhou Yu and other extremely intelligent people stood in front of him now, he would not dare to use it.

Just because he is a fake and there is a very smart person around him, wouldn't it be possible to quickly tell that something is wrong with him?

What he needs now is an honest person who can help him do things, who is loyal and easy to fool.

"This person is Lu Qiang, the Vice-Chancellor." Jian Shuo said, "It's not hard to say how smart he is, he is just down-to-earth and hard-working. If it hadn't been for the suppression by me and the Ten Permanent Secretaries in the past few years, he would have become His Majesty's favorite minister long ago. "

"In this case, let him try it first." Liu Ming nodded and said.

After this twists and turns, Jian Shuo has completely let go of his guard against Liu Ming, and he can fulfill his wish to perform the true function of an emperor - reading memorials.

Staying in the palace for a day without communicating with the courtiers would make him stupider. He must slowly normalize the position of emperor so that he can seize power and quickly control the overall situation in the future.

"By the way, I suddenly thought of asking all the ministers to watch the execution of He Miao and others, so that they will never dare to think of rebellion again." Liu Ming said suddenly, "I have to trouble Jian Qing to arrange this. , if that Lu Qiang is in place in the future, Jian Qing will have much less trouble."

"I, the general, will go and let Lu Qiang inform you now." Jian Shuo smiled strangely, turned and walked out, saying, "I, the general, am also going to take over Zhao Zhong's mansion."

Due to the change in the situation in the court, Liu Ming did not announce in court that he would give Zhao Zhong's mansion to Jian Shuo. Jian Shuo was in court the whole time, so he knew what was going on, so he went directly to take over the mansion, including the mansion. people and property in it.

Accompanied by Concubine Shu, Liu Ming climbed to the star-gazing platform on the top of Changle Palace. The weather was clear today and he could clearly see the inside and outside of the palace, with a panoramic view.

Not far outside the palace wall, there are two large-scale residences. The buildings are magnificent, not much worse than the palace.

Officers and soldiers had already rushed into the mansion. People inside the mansion were running around in panic, and screams and cries could be heard from time to time.

That is the residence of Zhao Zhong and Zhang Rang.

Relying on the favor of Emperor Ling, the two of them once wielded great power and tyranny. They plundered countless treasures. The scale of their mansion even surpassed that of the imperial palace. It can be said that they were extremely wealthy.

However, now everything has turned into smoke.

After working hard and racking his brains, hurting so many people, and doing so many bad things, the family fortune he accumulated was ultimately just a wedding dress for others.

One of them will soon be owned by Jian Shuo.

At the harem gate of Changle Palace, Zhang Liao was still stationed there with eight hundred Bingzhou wolf cavalry. Although he had been promoted to right captain and commanded Chunyu Qiong's old army, Liu Ming did not allow him to be stationed in the Xiyuan military camp.

Just because Liu Ming felt that he needed such a powerful team to guard him at all times.

The day-to-day management of Chunyu Qiong's old ministry was handed over to Kuai Yue. Kuai Yue was originally an aide to He Jin. After He Jin was beheaded, Kuai Yue wanted to escape, but was blocked by Cao Cao who went to ransack his house. The two knew each other. , so it would be impossible for Kuai Yue to muddle through.

Liu Ming knew that this Kuai Yue had some real abilities. In history, Liu Biao was able to successfully pacify Jingzhou, thanks to this man's advice.

But no matter how powerful he was, Liu Ming couldn't stay by his side and use it, so after a scare, he asked Kuai Yue to accuse He Jin of treason and kill Yuan Feng, and completely pinned He Jin's hat as the culprit of Yuan Feng's death. The Yuan family no longer doubts others.

Then he asked Kuai Yue to assist Zhang Liao in managing Chunyu Qiong's old ministry. This was considered meritorious service. If he could work diligently, his merit would be redeemed. If he could not do his duty with all his heart, he would be punished as a member of the same party who rebelled against him, and his clan would be executed!
  When Kuai Yue heard that he wanted to kill the clan, he was so frightened that he quickly agreed and went to Xiyuan to train his troops.

The Kuai family is also a big family in Jingzhou. If the whole family is harmed because of him, then he will definitely become a sinner for the ages. He does not dare to take this risk and must consider the interests of the family.

Liu Ming looked down and saw Feng Fang's troops at the gate in front of Changle Palace, moving their camp.

Now Jian Shuo no longer needs to guard against Liu Ming or surround Changle Palace with troops. Feng Fang has been promoted to General Fenwu and is responsible for the safety and security of the palace. He wants to station troops and horses at various palace gates.

Zhao Zhong, Zhang Rang and other eight regular servants were tied up and dragged out of the palace by the officials of Tingwei.

A few people did not shout or complain, but silently lowered their heads and walked out, looking back in the direction of Changle Palace from time to time.

Each of them knows that he is a person who has done many evil things and deserves to die. The reason why he has been safe and sound is just the favor of His Majesty the Emperor.

However, His Majesty the Emperor, who had given them countless glory and wealth, did not speak for them this time.

They thought they deserved it and went to help the He family obsessively, but they didn't know that the emperor in the palace was no longer the emperor they were familiar with.

Queen He, with disheveled hair, was carried by several muscular palace ladies to the cold palace.

She didn't cry, maybe she had cried enough, maybe she had expected this day, but she kept giggling like crazy.

They met another group of people head-on. It was the prince Liu Bian who was being escorted by the Yulin Army. At this moment, he had been deposed as a commoner and was about to be expelled from the palace.

"Queen Mother!" Liu Bian fell to his knees with a plop, crying loudly. As a prince and the eldest son, he had an extremely bright future. This great empire was left to him. He never thought that one day he would lose this luxurious life.

However, from now on, all this has nothing to do with him.

Queen He stroked her son's head and remained silent, occasionally showing a strange smile.

"Come on, don't make me wait in trouble." The soldier forcibly picked up Liu Bian and dragged him out of the palace.

"Queen Mother! Queen Mother, beg me!" Liu Bian cried.

However, Queen He's expression was dull. I don't know if she can still recognize her son now or understand the current situation.

Liu Bian was dragged away by the soldiers. He was only twelve years old this year. After leaving the palace, he fend for himself. In this troubled world, how will an unexperienced young man survive? Or whether No one knows whether he can survive.

A lot of people have gathered outside the palace gate, and the civil and military ministers are still gathering there. He Miao, Zhao Zhong, Chunyu Qiong and others will be executed there.

Liu Ming discovered that the small square in front of the palace gate was exactly the place where he sat alone when he had just crossed over and was desperate.

At that time, he had nowhere to turn, and he wanted to make a last-ditch effort to enter the palace and present his plans to the emperor to bring peace to the world, but the soldiers guarding the palace gate would not let him get close at all.

It was there that he was brought into the palace in a sack by Jian Shuo's cronies and became a substitute.

But now, he was standing at the highest position in the palace, overlooking the world, with a beautiful concubine beside him, and the place that once made him lonely and helpless had become the execution ground for his political opponents, a frightening place.

Fortune plays tricks on people, and fate changes, which is really embarrassing.

Just as he was sighing, he saw an old eunuch walking towards the entrance of the platform. He stood with his head bowed. When he saw Liu Ming looking over, he hurriedly knelt down and said, "My constant servant Lu Qiang has come to serve your majesty. "

Lu Qiang didn't look like anything special, he looked honest.

However, in this palace filled with intrigues and intrigues, it is rare for someone to be praised and affirmed by Jian Shuo, so it is not too bad after all.

Of course, now Liu Ming still has to show that he is very familiar with Lu Qiang. This contrast is very awkward, but there is no way, who made him a substitute.

"Aiqing came just in time." Liu Ming said with a smile, "I am very disappointed that Zhao Zhong, Zhang Rang and others have betrayed the divine grace. Go and sort out the memorials and move them to Changle Palace. I will help you in the future." Let me sort out the memorial."

"I obey!" Lu Qiang agreed, stood up and left.

Liu Ming is very satisfied. There are not so many flattering cleverness, and he can actually do practical things. This is what he needs most at the moment.

After admiring the scenery inside and outside the palace for a while, Liu Ming and Concubine Shu went downstairs and returned to the palace.

Lu Qiang has already led people to move the memorials from Jian Shuo and is sorting them out. The main reason is that there are too many. If they are not sorted, they can only be scratched by eyebrows and beards. Liu Ming does not have the time now.

After selecting a few important memorials, Liu Ming sat down and read them.

Concubine Shu poured him a cup of ginseng tea, then put her chin in her hands and sat aside, like a quiet kitten, quietly looking at the man who was focused on his work.

Liu Ming took a look and found that there were actually many urgent reports during this period, even shocking events, but Jian Shuo ignored them at all.

For example, the Qingxu and Yellow Turbans rose up again and robbed the state capital.

Zhang Chun and Zhang Ju colluded with Xianbei King Qiu Liju to rebel, but it was still not effectively contained. Gongsun Zan suffered consecutive defeats, and the rebels had penetrated deep into Youzhou, Qingzhou, and Jizhou to cause trouble.

Han Sui and Wang Guoqiang rebelled, and the siege of Chencang was not lifted. Dong Zhuo did not achieve any great victory, but he lied about the military situation.

Today's Han Dynasty can be said to be crumbling due to internal and external troubles. This is directly related to the failure of the central leadership's function.

Jian Shuo's eyes were only focused on the three acres of land inside and outside the palace. He had no idea of ​​the whole world. He usually only dealt with the contents related to himself when dealing with memorials.

It's true that eunuchs harmed the country.

Liu Ming immediately decided to make Liu Yu the Mu of Youzhou to put down the rebellion of Zhang Chun and Zhang Ju, and to make Huangfu Song the General of the Left to put down the Qiang rebellion.

The reason why these two people were selected was because historically it was these two people who calmed down the wars in the north and west respectively. At this critical moment, Liu Ming had no other better plan. He could only send these two people according to the historical trend. counterinsurgency.

Of course, he still had to discuss this kind of important personnel appointment and dismissal with Jian Shuo.

At this time, Jian Shuo was walking into Jiade Hall carrying two bags.

"Your Majesty, I have invited Zhao Zhong and Zhang Rang here. If you have anything to say, just say it." Jian Shuo said with a smile on his face.

Emperor Ling was overjoyed at first, but when he looked behind Jian Shuo, there was no one there. He could not help but frown slightly and said, "Where are father and mother?"

Jian Shuo placed the two bundles in front of the hospital bed and slowly opened them.

Emperor Ling didn't know what was going on, so he turned sideways with difficulty and stared at the two bundles.

When the baggage was completely opened, they were surprised to find that there were two human heads inside. Looking carefully, they were Zhao Zhong and Zhang Rang.

"Ah!" Emperor Ling exclaimed, feeling the world spinning, his vision going dark, and he fainted.

Jian Shuo summoned the imperial physician who was stationed at Jiade Palace, and after struggling for a long time, Emperor Ling finally woke up.

Jian Shuo waved his hand, and the imperial doctor retreated knowingly.

"You...you...you..." Ling Emperor gasped for air, and it took him a while to regain his breath. "Why did you kill them? Do you still have me in your eyes?"

"I am loyal to Your Majesty." Jian Shuo said with a smile, "Your Majesty wanted to see them, so I tried my best to bring them over to Your Majesty. How can I say that I don't have Your Majesty in my eyes?"

"Rebellion... How dare you rebel!" Emperor Ling felt his breathing was labored and fainted again.

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