Tang Dynasty woman

Chapter 73 Three Powers Eunuchs Misadventure the Country (3) ([-])
When Empress Zhang Nian took refuge in Lingwu together with King Li Xi of Yue, the two also formed a romantic relationship. Later, Empress Zhang followed Emperor Suzong to Beijing, while King Li Xi of Yue was sealed in Nanyang. ground apart.Now Queen Zhang sent a secret envoy to send a secret letter to Yue Wang Li Xi, wishing Yue Wang Li Xi would make him the crown prince after the success of the matter, and they would live together in the deep palace and share happiness together in the future.

Not only can he get the throne of emperor, but also get together with his beloved Empress Zhang. Yue Wang Li Xi was very happy when he got the news, and immediately set off from Nanyang City to the capital in a starry night.

At the same time, the prince also received letters from Li Fuguo and Li Kui in Xijing, saying that the sage was critically ill, and he asked the prince to return to Beijing as soon as possible to preside over the government.The crown prince immediately handed over the military power to Guo Ziyi, and took Miss Chunying, who was still dressed as a servant and showed no signs of spring, to the capital at night.As a result, on the day the prince entered the palace, the king of Yue had not yet come to the capital.

When Empress Zhang saw that the prince had arrived first, she immediately went to greet him with a pleasant face. It was quite different from the previous arrogance and arrogance. Empress Zhang personally led the prince to see Emperor Suzong in the palace.The crown prince stepped forward and called several times, Suzong, who was sleeping on the bed with his eyes closed, could no longer speak, and just nodded slightly.The prince felt sad for a while, almost crying, if it hadn't been for Queen Zhang to signal.

Then, Empress Zhang invited the prince to a secret room and told him how domineering Li Fuguo has been recently, how he has held forbidden soldiers for a long time, and the imperial edicts have all come from there;He also said that Li Fuguo was afraid of only me and the prince; now that the lord is in critical condition, Li Fuguo joined forces with his best friend Cheng Yuanzhen and other treacherous officials to plot chaos.In order to plan for his own authority in the future, the prince had to kill the traitor Li Fuguo immediately.

Seeing that his father was critically ill and the five internal affairs were in chaos, the prince burst into tears after hearing what Empress Zhang said: "Now that my father is seriously ill, it is inconvenient to report this matter; if Li Fuguo is killed suddenly, If the secret is not kept secret, the court will be shocked and the country will be shaken, so we have to discuss this matter slowly."

At this moment, suddenly a confidant palace lady came into the secret room and whispered something to Empress Zhang, and Empress Zhang couldn't help smiling when she heard this.When the prince saw him, he was puzzled, but Empress Zhang suddenly changed into a lazy expression, and said to the prince: "The prince has traveled so far, and I think he is tired. Let's go back to the East Palace and discuss it later."

The crown prince just left the palace gate on his front foot, and as expected, Li Xi, the king of Yue, got into this secret room on his back foot.After the two reunited after a long absence, they were obsessed with madness. After a while, Empress Zhang talked about Li Fuguo's rebellion; Bits don't fall into your hands.At this time, King Yue was lying on Empress Zhang's plump and tender chest, and he immediately agreed.

Although the king of Yue agreed with all his heart, he didn't have any good ideas. It happened that Duan Hengjun, the chief inspector of internal supervision, asked to see him.Duan Hengjun saw that Li Fuguo's authority was as high as the sky, and he had long been unwilling. Now that King Yue returned to the capital, he knew that King Yue and Queen Zhang were in the same group, and he had a good relationship with King Yue in the past. Sure enough, it was the perfect time for him to meet the King of Yue overnight, so the poisonous plan he set up for the King of Yue was naturally the most adopted, that is, Duan Hengjun went back to the palace to select two hundred strong eunuchs and give them weapons , Ambushed in the apse, and then Jiaozhao called the prince and Li Fuguo into the palace, took advantage of their unpreparedness, ambush them, and killed them.

5. Conspiracy leaked
When King Yue and Duan Hengjun were discussing, there was only a handsome maid Hongmei serving Tangcha on the left and right.Because of Hongmei's extremely beautiful appearance, after the king of Yue hooked her up privately, he couldn't leave her for a while, and even the king of Yue made a wish to make Hongmei the No. 12 princess.Unexpectedly, this little maid has a big ambition. She made an agreement with the King of Yue that she is willing to be a personal maid in front of her. Once the first princess dies, she will be promoted to be the first princess.If the first princess died after her, she would rather not be titled for the rest of her life.At the same time, she asked the king of Yue to swear to her that she must be content with the throne for life, not to do anything against usurpers, and not to have any more ambiguous affairs with Queen Zhang.This girl's wisdom is very careful, she is afraid that the king of Yue will usurp the throne, and she will be born in a humble family, and will never be a queen; and if the king of Yue and Queen Zhang regain their old love, her power will definitely not be able to match Queen Zhang, it is inevitable Don't take away your love.

Unexpectedly, King Yue was just obsessed with Hongmei's beauty at that time, and agreed one by one. Later, the situation changed and his mood changed greatly. King Yue had already forgotten what Hongmei said, and kept discussing with Duan Hengjun how to seize the throne. He also found out from Yue Wang's young servant that Yue Wang had entered the palace, and he had an affair with Queen Zhang.But coincidentally, this young servant is also good-looking, knowledgeable and interesting.He had already set his sights on Hongmei, but because Hongmei had already climbed a tall branch, he dared not move.She flirted with her a few times, but Hongmei just kept a cold face and ignored her.

Now the boy is outside the house, Hongmei is inside, and the two are serving the master.As the night grew darker, when Hongmei occasionally came to sit outside the house to rest, the servant came up to pester her again.At this time, Hongmei knew that the king of Yue had changed his mind and could no longer look forward to her future. She also saw that the young man had always been very fond of her, so she also willingly cured the young man's lovesickness for many years that night.As soon as the matter was over, Hongmei advised him to make a plan to get ahead.The boy sticks out his tongue, saying that he is just a small person, and it is absolutely impossible for him to have a chance to reconcile in his early years, so Hongmei instigates him to go to Li Fuguo's mansion to inform him about how King Yue and Duan Hengjun colluded. The design guarantees that you will be rich, but after you get rich, don't forget the love between the two of us today.You must let me be your first wife, and also the only wife.

The boy immediately made an oath to the sky, saying that Changsheng would not dare to bear Hongmei.Then he sneaked out of Yue Wang's mansion overnight, and rushed to Li Fuguo's mansion to inform the secret.Li Fuguo, who was about to go to bed, was shocked when he heard this, and invited Cheng Yuanzhen and Li Kui into the mansion overnight to discuss countermeasures.Li Kui said: "Although this matter must be believed, it cannot be fully believed. It is better to send a few soldiers from the Flying Dragon Stable to the gate of Lingxiao tomorrow to find out the truth, and then Cheng Yuanzhen will lead a large team to respond."

6. Kill the Queen
Here, Empress Zhang heard that King Yue had heard about his and Duan Hengjun's plan, and she repeatedly called out the clever plan, so she took action, while Duan Hengjun went to select [-] strong eunuchs, each with a dagger, and ambushed at the entrance of the back hall; On the one hand, Empress Zhang stole the jade seal while Emperor Suzong was in a coma, stamped the false imperial decree, and sent two capable internal eunuchs to send it to the East Palace and Li Fuguo separately.

Unexpectedly, the two eunuchs were caught by soldiers sent by Cheng Yuanzhen as soon as they walked out of the palace gate, and they were sent to an empty room and locked up.At the same time, soldiers were assigned to guard the gates of the palaces, and no one was allowed to enter or leave.At dawn, Prince Li Yu arrived, and Li Fuguo stepped forward to stop him and said: "There are changes in the palace, Your Highness must not enter lightly!" Prince Li Yu was surprised: "What happened in the palace?" Li Fuguo corrected Queen Zhang Talk to Duan Hengjun about the ambush and conspiracy.The prince burst into tears when he heard this: "When I entered the palace yesterday, I saw that Wan Sui was seriously ill. When I came out of the palace, I missed it very much in my heart. I had no sleep last night, so I got up early today to visit the palace. My father is in critical condition. As a son of man, don’t you want to enter the palace because you are afraid of death?” Then, Prince Li Yu insisted on entering the palace.

Li Fuguo tried to dissuade him again and again, and Cheng Yuanzhen also advised him: "The matter of the society is serious, Your Highness must be cautious." But the crown prince refused to listen, and decided to go to the palace to visit his emperor's father. Cheng Yuanzhen saw that he could not stop the crown prince, so he asked The soldiers raised their hands.The soldiers understood, and swarmed in front of the soil, surrounded the prince, without any explanation, half pushed and half pushed into the Feilong hall, a group of soldiers guarded the gate of the hall, and did not let the prince out.Li Fuguo forced the prince to issue a hand order to the prison guard.

Then Li Fuguo led the banned soldiers and broke into the central palace.I met Duan Hengjun and his [-] eunuchs on the opposite side, and the two men started to fight under Dan Chi, the pity these [-] eunuchs have never practiced before, and they want to fight with a small number of eunuchs, how can they resist live?See that half of the eunuchs are dead, and the rest throw down their knives and sticks and run for their lives in all directions.

Here, the guards shouted loudly, and the tide surged up to the hall, binding the king of Yue and Duan Hengjun tightly.When Cheng Yuanzhen saw Duan Hengjun, his teeth itch with hatred, he pulled out his saber and was about to strike, but Li Fuguo stopped him: "Kill this guy slowly, we still have big things to do."

Then Li Fuguo ordered Yue Wang and Duan Hengjun to be thrown into prison, turned around, rushed towards the inner palace with a sword in his hand, turned his head and said loudly to Cheng Yuanzhen: "Follow me!" give up.Unexpectedly, Li Fuguo rushed into the inner palace boldly with his sword, he couldn't help being timid and hesitant.

Seeing that Cheng Yuanzhen dared not go in, Li Fuguo led a group of forbidden soldiers by himself, and rushed into the inner palace with great strides.Li Fuguo was familiar with the road in the inner palace, and by the time Empress Zhang got the news, it was too late.She knew that the situation was over, and when she was panicking, she suddenly heard shouts and shouts outside the gate of the inner palace, she got up and fled from her bedroom.Empress Zhang was slow to escape, but Li Fuguo was fast in pursuit. Empress Zhang fled into the Palace of Longevity in a hurry, because the seriously ill Emperor Suzong was there, but this was not a safe place, and immediately Li Fuguo chased into the emperor's bedroom.Empress Zhang was in a hurry, so she hid behind Emperor Suzong's dragon bed.

Although Emperor Suzong was seriously ill, to the point where he could not move his body or speak, he was sober in his mind. When he suddenly saw Empress Zhang fleeing into the house in a panic and hiding behind the dragon bed, he knew that something was wrong. Sure enough, Li Fuguo chased after him with his sword.

When Li Fuguo saw the emperor, he couldn't help being frightened. He quickly hid the sword in his sleeve, knelt down, and said: "My minister Li Fuguo will see you, and may my emperor live forever!" Angry, he raised his head to see that Emperor Suzong was so anxious that the veins on his forehead were bulging, his face was flushed, his mouth was wide open, but he couldn't utter a word, he could only gasp heavily, two The eyeballs were so wide that they almost protruded from the sockets.When Li Fuguo saw that the emperor was about to die when he couldn't even speak, he became bolder and chased after the dragon bed. He had to kill Queen Zhang, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous.

When Empress Zhang saw it, she turned over in a hurry and wanted to get on the dragon bed. Before she could raise her legs, Li Fuguo held the sword in one hand, and grabbed Empress Zhang's hand with the other hand and pulled it out. Empress Zhang kowtowed on the ground begging for mercy in a panic. .Li Fuguo saw that he couldn't drag her, so he became ruthless, bit the sword in his mouth, stretched out his hands to grab Queen Zhang, and dragged her out. Queen Zhang cried and yelled, and put her whole body on the ground, refusing to die. Walking away, he shouted loudly: "Long live Lord, save me quickly! Please, for the sake of the love of husband and wife for more than ten years, please ask General Li for me!"

Poor Emperor Suzong fainted from anger.No matter how Empress Zhang called Long Live, her Lord Long Live just closed his eyes straight, and he didn't see the heavy wheezing just now, and he was so calm that he didn't even take a breath.Seeing this, Li Fuguo hurriedly leaned forward to test the emperor's breath, only to find out that Emperor Suzong had already passed away at some point.

When Li Fuguo saw that the emperor had been frightened to death by himself, he became even more courageous. With a shout, the guards swarmed in like wolves and tigers outside the door, took a white sweat towel, and tied up Queen Zhang as well. A strong man, temporarily in limbo.Li Fuguo searched everywhere in the harem, looking for his wife, Ms. Chunying, who knows that he couldn't find it after searching all over, and all the people in the palace also said they didn't know.Li Fuguo rushed to Lenggong and saw that Empress Zhang was tied up like a dead shrimp with a sweat towel and fell to the ground.

As soon as Empress Zhang saw Li Fuguo coming in, she desperately begged for mercy, calling Li Gonggong and Grandpa Li again and again, saying that she should spare the maidservant's life!Li Fuguo ignored it, and only ordered the four forbidden soldiers to go up and loosen Queen Zhang's ties, and then used the untied white sweat scarf to wrap around Queen Zhang's neck. He strangled Queen Zhang to death.

7. Hunt down the little prince

Then Li Fuguo turned around and came out, brought out Yue Wang Li Xi, Duan Hengjun and others from the prison, and moved their heads one by one.In a solemn and magnificent palace, corpses were strewn all over the ground, and blood flowed all over the steps.

Li Fuguo then searched everywhere for Empress Zhang's three-year-old son Dingwang Li Tong.This is Empress Zhang's own flesh and blood, and must be eradicated to avoid future troubles.

Because Prince Ding Li Tong is the biological son of Empress Zhang, he is so pampered and pampered on weekdays. Now when the group of nursing mothers and nurses heard about the incident, they left the three-year-old little prince Li Tong alone on the bed, and they all fled for their lives.Only an old palace man surnamed Zhao saw the little prince thrown on the bed, dancing with arms and legs, crying hoarsely with all his strength, couldn't bear it, stepped forward to hug him, and hid in the back hall.The apse is an empty room, and there are curtains as high as mountains piled up in the upstairs room, and the people of Zhao Palace hide the little prince under the curtains.The little prince was very sensible, so he stopped crying and shouting.Zhao Gongren retreated downstairs, squatting on the stairs and guarding.

At this time, Li Fuguo led the imperial guards and searched the palace three times, but they couldn't find any trace of the three-year-old Ding Wang Li Tong. When he was passing by the entrance of the back hall very anxiously, he suddenly saw a maid in the door poking around to see what was going on. His appearance was very suspicious, so he ordered the imperial guards to go up and grab him. Li Fuguo pressed his sword against the maid's neck and forced her to ask her if there was something wrong with her. Have you ever seen the little prince?
The old palace lady surnamed Zhao didn't change her face, and she refused to say a word.Li Fuguo said a search word, and the soldiers searched the apse separately, until they reached the upper floor of the apse, only to find that King Ding Li Tong had been suppressed by a large pile of curtains, and died of breathlessness.Only then did Li Fuguo feel relieved, and casually wiped his sword on Zhao Gongren's neck, pity her loyal soul, and went with the little prince.

(End of this chapter)