Ping An Biography

The rhombus pattern on the upper part of the doors and windows inside the imperial gate, the embossed cloud and dragon pattern on the lower part, and the Suzhou custom-made gold bricks on the ground are all the highest-standard architectural decorations of this era.The pillars on the main hall are quarried from the remote Yunguichuan virgin forest and transported to Beijing for a long distance. Only such nanmu can support the domineering and stable main hall.The Baoxiang, Jiaoduan, Crane and Fragrant Pavilion are placed near the throne. The Baoxiang symbolizes the stability of the country and the consolidation of the regime. The Jiaoduan is a legendary animal that symbolizes auspiciousness; the crane symbolizes longevity;But in such a dignified place, there was an aura of conspiracy.

The arrival of Wang Gou'er made things seem to be complicated, and Zhu Zhanji signaled Haitao to let Wang Gou'er in.Because Wang Gou'er was not allowed to participate in this matter, both Hu and Zhang temporarily stopped arguing.

Zhu Zhanji said to Wang Gouer who had just knelt down: "Why are you rushing here?" In Zhu Zhanji's impression, Wang Gouer is a person who knows the general and interesting, and he clearly knows the officials in the imperial gate. The servants all backed away, and they wouldn't have come here at this time if it wasn't for something urgent.

Sure enough, the thin Wang Gou'er had a serious expression on his face: "My lord, something serious happened!" After saying that, he turned his head and looked at the two foreign ministers standing on the brick floor.Zhu Zhanji understood and waved gently.

Wang Gou'er then bowed and walked up, bent down and put his mouth to the side of the emperor's head and whispered, "It's all because of the servant's lack of control... just now a little boy ran over and said to the servant: "A while ago Haitao locked one of the first emperor's concubines, Wang Meiren, in a secluded place, and then he bought some things when he went out of the palace to buy something. It was a poisonous forbidden thing! When he entered the imperial city, he was checked and found out. The man was the little slave who came to inform; but the little slave was threatened by Haitao, so he didn't dare to speak out at that time.

... Xiaonu was afraid that something might happen, so he watched secretly, and found that Haitao dared to take something from the outside and secretly put it in Wang Meiren's meal, poisoning her to death!The servants were busy looking for someone to inquire about the affairs of Wang Meiren, only to hear rumors that Wang Meiren was found to be pregnant when she was buried... Haitao was in charge of burying the concubine, fearing that the emperor would blame him, he had the audacity to secretly poison Wang Meiren, Two corpses.The eunuch killed today will be hacked into pieces! "

After hearing this, Zhu Zhanji immediately showed anger, turned his head to look at Haitao, and said coldly: "You mean that Haitao was carrying prohibited items, and he poisoned Wang Meiren to death?"

Haitao's face suddenly turned pale, and he knelt down with a "plop": "My lord, you have to be the master of the servant, this matter is obviously Wang Gou'er who framed the servant..."

Zhu Zhanji didn't yell, he thought about it for a while: If Haitao really poisoned Wang Meiren, it wasn't because she was pregnant. This matter was originally ordered by him, and he used Wang Meiren as an experiment; Tao's motive should be to fight for power and profit. He wanted to take this opportunity to make Wang Gou'er suspect of plotting to poison Taizong and lose his trust, so that he, Haitao, could take over.

"Which eunuch informed you?" Zhu Zhanji asked Wang Gou'er.

Wang Gou'er bowed and said: "Go back to the emperor, he is kneeling outside the imperial gate, as long as the emperor sends an order, he can be called in to confront him."

"Biography!" Zhu Zhanji said coldly, with a calm tone but full of murderous intent.Haitao fell on the ground, his body trembling.

But Hu Ying and Zhang Ning watched silently, neither of them wanted to get involved in the affairs of the inner court.

After a while, an ugly eunuch walked in cautiously with bowed body, knelt down from a long distance, and moved to the front of the throne with his knees as knees, showing full of awe and horror. Lord, long live long live long live..."

Haitao knelt and looked back, and immediately said excitedly: "My lord, my lord, don't believe what this eunuch says! His name is Wang Zhen, and he is Wang Gou'er's godson. It must be that the old and the young have formed a partnership." , not only framed slaves, but also deceived the king!"

"Slave... Slave... Never dare..." Wang Zhen said with a look of horror.Zhang Ning saw it, and didn't know whether he was pretending or real. Pretending that way can show that he is very afraid and dare not tell lies; of course, he may be really afraid, like how old Jing Ke's assistant bragged about killing people in history, In the end, seeing Qin Wang Weiyi was still frightened.

Wang Gou'er looked at Haitao and said, "It's not just one or two people in the palace who call our godfather, there are also people called ancestors, can we take it seriously? Aren't we all still the emperor's servants!"

Zhu Zhanji ignored them, and only asked Wang Zhen what he saw, but the guy couldn't speak clearly. Zhu Zhanji had no choice but to ask Wang Gou'er to repeat it in public, and Wang Zhen nodded and shook his head.

At this point in the matter, Zhu Zhanji was also thinking: Wang Gouer was not involved in this matter, and he had no way of finding out the inside story.Haitao would definitely not leak it to him; the two foreign ministers would hardly have the opportunity to get in touch with the servants.Since Wang Gou'er didn't know that he might be involved in the murder of Emperor Taizong, he couldn't commit the crime of deceiving the emperor and framed Haitao for nothing. Wang Gou'er was already in the hands of the Supervisor of Rites, and he was the biggest eunuch, so why should he hold his head up? Frame a subordinate?

On the contrary, Haitao's motives are more reasonable. Haitao has always felt that he is old. He served in the East Palace when Zhu Zhanji was the prince, and he should not be overwhelmed by Wang Gou'er.He wanted to frame Wang Gou'er, he had enough information, and his motives were obvious...

At this time, Zhu Zhanji had already leaned towards Wang Gou'er, so he preached: "Send someone to the place where Wang Meiren is detained and Haitao's residence immediately!"

Wang Gou'er hurriedly went to preach, and a group of people were waiting for the result at the imperial gate.After a long time, the eunuch in charge of the search came back and reported: "A lot of gold was found in Eunuch Hai's residence..."

"Pick up the important ones!" Zhu Zhanji said, and now the eunuchs' embezzlement and money-making is not a big deal for him.

The eunuch who came to report said: "Something was found in the place where Wang Meiren was imprisoned. It's in the dust between the windows...Please take a look." Zhu Zhanji asked: "What is this?" The eunuch tremblingly said: "Arsenic !"

Wang Gouer quickly added fuel to the fire: "Arsenic is highly poisonous, but if it is used in a small amount, it will not kill people immediately, but if it accumulates in the body slowly, it will die inexplicably."

"Slave and maidservant are wronged! Gou Ri Wang Gou'er, your heart is so poisonous!" Hai Tao was afraid and hated at the same time, and he couldn't choose what to say.

But Wang Gou'er said: "Our family really doesn't want to harm you, don't hate our family, this kind of thing is too big, how dare our family hide it and not report it?"

Haitao hurriedly said, "An autopsy... yes! Whether he died from arsenic poisoning or not, let Wu do an autopsy and the truth will be revealed immediately."

Zhu Zhanji calmed down at this time, "Are you going to disturb the tomb of the late emperor because of such a disgraceful conspiracy? Come and take Haitao to Dongchang for custody!"

Wang Gou'er was very surprised, for a moment he couldn't figure out why the emperor spared Hai Tao's life. This kind of person was not executed on the spot, and a dog's life might be saved if time dragged on.

Zhang Ning saw that the matter had developed to the present, and Xin Dao Wang Gou'er really helped him a lot.Sure enough, Zhu Zhanji asked Hu Ying: "Since the smell of incense ash is very weak, did Mr. Hu smell it wrong that day?"

Hu Ying did not immediately veto it like ordinary people. He watched the play in front of him. Wrong", instead of directly asking about the crime of deceiving the emperor, that matter is not too bad, otherwise the emperor would not need to find a step for Mr. Hu; perhaps because Hu Ying's buttocks have never been crooked, even if it was done once or twice matter, and will not be killed.

He wanted to give up and knelt down and said: "It is reasonable for the old minister to smell it wrong, but... the emperor is right, the smell of that thing is too weak, and people's five senses may sometimes be in a trance. Maybe it is the old minister who smelled it wrong. If you die, ask the emperor to punish you."

In fact, dare to be the emperor, where is there any uncertainty?Either he deliberately deceived the emperor with ulterior motives, or it was something that could be determined with certainty; if he was right and wrong, why would he write any memorials?

The monarch and ministers asked and answered, it was nothing more than the emperor first finding the steps for others, and then Hu Ying went down the steps.

Sure enough, Zhu Zhanji said benevolently: "It's not a capital crime, I'm not the king of mean courtiers."

The decapitation should not be so serious, but once this matter was lost to Zhang Ning, Hu Ying suddenly felt that his official career was bleak. If the official became smaller and smaller, in front of the original subordinates, he really couldn't hold back his old face and nodded. He sprouted on the spot Thought of resigning.He immediately bowed and said: "The emperor is very kind, but the old minister is ineffective and has failed his father's hope. He is really ashamed to wear black yarn again. The old minister is not young, and he is not smart and has a nose problem. Please Your Majesty's kindness, the quasi-veteran will return to his hometown to retire."

"Hu Shilang don't want to speak angry words, we will talk about it in a few days." Zhu Zhanji stayed and said, "That's all for today, everyone go down."

Hu Ying and Zhang Ning saluted together, and then retreated out of the imperial gate.The two walked together, silently, and did not speak until they had left the Daming Gate.The inscription on the Daming Gate is "Sun and Moonlight, Tiande, Mountains and Rivers Zhuang Emperor Residence", which was written by Xie Jin, a great talent.At the beginning Xie Jin was "convicted" and was frozen to death in the snow, but Emperor Yong Le didn't know why he didn't take off his inscription.

Great Xia Yan also came out with him.After leaving the Daming Gate, the houses on both sides were full of government offices. Seeing the situation of the power center made Hu Ying somewhat regretful, he turned to Zhang Ning and said, "I really didn't expect the servants to get involved, and I admit defeat in this matter. "

Zhang Ning hurriedly clasped his fists and said: "There is no winner, and the lower officials never thought of defeating Mr. Hu, but each has his own position and cannot help himself. Please forgive Mr. Hu."

Hu Ying nodded, and said a little unconvinced: "Ping'an is right. In the final analysis, the incense ash case has nothing to do with you. Your biggest weakness is that you were attacked by others. This is the main reason why the emperor treats you badly." , you really can’t do anything.”

"Thank you, Lord Hu, for reminding me." Zhang Ning said hurriedly, very sincerely.He didn't fight for the advantage of his tongue just because Hu Ying said an angry word in embarrassment.

Seeing this, Hu Ying was slightly surprised, nodded and said, "Young people are awesome."

The two walked for a while, and then parted ways.Zhang Ning thought about it, if it was discovered that Wang Gouer's information was revealed by him, the basis for Zhu Zhanji's judgment would collapse, and the consequences would be serious; I believe that Wang Gou'er is also aware of the joints, and Wang Gou'er is not a brain-dead, and it will be a disaster for everyone if things go wrong.

... Hu Ying and Yan Ruofei got into the carriage. Yan Ruofei looked at Hu Gong with a tired face, and said: "I have explored the evil sect, and this group of people is extremely harmful to the court. Can Hu Gong go to the court based on this?" ? Let the emperor know that it is not useless for us to investigate this matter."

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