The Heavens: From Knowing Whether You Rule the World

Chapter 80 The waves have receded and the party struggle has ended!
The debate between Chu Hong and the Queen Mother had a wide impact.

Anyone who has a little knowledge of the matter basically knows the general situation of this debate.

When the petty officials get together, they talk about the inside stories they know, and many of them will also tell about the situations they imagine.
As a result, the debate between the emperor and his subjects became clearer and more mysterious.

It is clear because there is a general framework, and mysterious because there are no details.

The more mysterious it is, the more people talk about it.

The empress dowager risked the public's disapproval and ruled the country from behind the scenes.

The elder stood alone in the court and argued openly.

For a time, Chu Hong's image became more upright and mysterious.
Regardless of the rumors among minor officials, there have indeed been significant changes in the court of Bianliang.

After the debate that day, the curtain behind the throne that represented the queen's behind-the-scenes ruling had not been removed for the time being, but the empress dowager never sat in that position again.

The Queen Mother consciously and slowly reduced her presence.

As a result, many officials breathed a sigh of relief.

Especially those who had been selected by the Queen Mother were secretly delighted.

There is no way, the New Emperor Party’s advantage is too great.

The Duke of Yingguo and the Deputy Commander-in-Chief Gu Tingye, the two of them can be said to have firmly suppressed the army of the Great Zhou. Although some people from the Queen Mother's party also have military power, they are obviously not on the same level.

There is no need to say much about the civil officials. Their bias can be seen from the fact that all the cabinet ministers advised the empress dowager to withdraw from the throne and return power to the government.

The emperor is born with justice in his hands.

Can't win, can't win at all.

In this case, you will lose sooner or later, so it is better to lose early.

If they lost early, they wouldn't be embarrassed and both sides would be respectful.

But if you lose late, then there is no turning back, it will be a life-and-death battle.

However, those who supported the Queen Mother knew that she would lose, but they did not dare to side with the new emperor.

I dare not be biased, nor is it easy to be biased!

You were promoted by the Empress Dowager in your early years, and everyone knows that you are her loyal supporter.

In the end, did you vote?

If you vote, the new emperor will definitely be happy and will accept it.

But it is not possible to reuse.

If you vote like this, you will definitely be scolded to death by the officials.

Hypocrites, villains, without mercy or justice.
Various titles followed one after another, and future generations might be implicated.

People who betray their masters will be despised by everyone in secret.

If you want to advance, you should surrender, but you will be cursed and your decades of building up your reputation will be in vain.

If you don’t vote, you will lose the party struggle.

This situation is a dilemma.

Now, the Queen Mother has left the stage in a dignified manner without falling out with the new emperor. This is also the outcome that the Queen Mother's Party would most like to see.

If you lose early, you won't offend people completely and your official career will be reduced to a nominal position.

His reputation was not lost and his official position was not demoted.

That's enough, real power becomes secondary.

So what if it's an empty position? It can still protect future generations, which is better than losing everything.

The factional struggle between the New Emperor's Party and the Queen Mother's Party ended with the New Emperor's Party winning and the Queen Mother's Party retreating.

As the winner, the New Emperor Party will naturally make the winner's choice.

However, they did not fall out after all.

The emperor is not just the emperor of a certain party, but the emperor of the world.

Therefore, the losers of this party struggle were not so miserable.

Officials of the Empress Dowager's party, rank three and below, will be unconditionally adjusted to honorary positions of the same level.

For those above the third rank, most were rewarded with money or other favors, and coaxed into changing to nominal positions.

The New Emperor's Party was satisfied with this result, and the Queen Mother's Party could also accept it.

However, there are always some people who will be the only losers in party struggles.

Qi Heng!

Chu Hong never expressed any intention to touch him, the emperor had no intention of targeting him, and King Huan also treated him equally.

However, just because the people above didn't say anything doesn't mean that there won't be someone who will deal with him.

Qi Heng had offended too many people. When he was investigating the rebel king's party, he arrested many relatives and friends of the powerful.

At that time, Lord Chu personally took action to investigate the rebel king's gang, and he was successful in every investigation. The big tigers who deserved to be killed and their families were confiscated and their families were exterminated, and the small tigers were basically killed without any survivors, and those who deserved to be exiled thousands of miles away were exiled thousands of miles away.

The rest are just little Karamis who are slightly involved.

The involvement is not serious, so the elders don't think highly of it.

Lord Chu also petitioned to give up his power and was not prepared to conduct a thorough investigation.

Then Qi Heng volunteered to investigate one by one and check their social interactions. Qi Heng not only investigated them strictly, but also identified them as the core members of the rebel king's party.

Those who are involved will be sentenced severely, while those who are not involved will be sentenced lightly.

For example, the younger generations in the third branch of the Ningyuan Marquis's Mansion just accepted concubines given by Prince Yan's party.

Those youngsters don't have any abilities at all. Not to mention whether they have the idea of ​​becoming core members of the rebel king's party, just based on their abilities and power, there is no support for them to become accomplices of the rebel king.

A few dandy young men who don't even hold a small official position probably don't even have the qualifications to speak to Prince Yan.

You say this kind of person is an accomplice of the rebel king and is involved in rebellion?
Too inhumane, too full of personal hatred.

As it turned out, Qi Heng really did that.

The dandy young men of the third branch of the Ningyuan Marquis's Mansion were exiled three thousand miles away simply because they took in a few prostitutes from the rebel king's party.

Even Gu Tingye’s personal plea was of no use.

This is just the Ningyuan Marquis's mansion. The rest include the second son of the Duke of Yue, the youngest son of the Duke of Ling, the youngest son of the former Minister of Personnel, and the eldest son of the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice.
Each of them is a person with great power in Bianjing.

These people were exiled to Lingnan, to the southwest, to a distance of three thousand miles.

Now, the waves have receded.

Qi Heng, someone will naturally settle the accounts.

Things gradually became serious. Civil officials impeached and listed his dark spots, military generals were collectively isolated, and a lot of old dark materials about Qi Heng's old father, the Duke of Qi, were also exposed.

The Duke of Qi is the Salt Commissioner. This position does not carry much power, but it is very valuable!
Some things are trivial until they are exposed.

The Chu family was also involved in the salt business, which was really profitable.

Before anything goes wrong, control the amount appropriately and don't mess around and nothing will happen.

Everyone knows the situation of the salt business, but as long as it is within a certain range, the higher-ups will not interfere.

But if you put these things on the scale, things that seem to weigh only three or two pounds may actually weigh a thousand pounds.

Qi Heng was impeached repeatedly, and Duke Qi had many scandals and was also investigated by the Ministry of Justice.

Those literati killed people without blinking an eye, and all the crimes they listed started with depriving them of their titles.

That's really scary!

Princess Pingning, who had not left the Duke of Qi's Mansion for a long time, walked out of the Duke of Qi's Mansion again.

She went to ask the Queen Mother for help.

Back then, Princess Pingning also went to ask the Queen Mother for help regarding the matter between Qi Heng and Princess Jiacheng.

The Queen Mother did not get involved at the time.

Today, Qi Heng’s incident is no less serious than that time. The combined anger of civil and military officials is not something a small Duke of Qi’s Mansion can withstand.

This time, the Queen Mother softened her heart.

Qi Heng was indeed the vanguard she personally selected at that time.

Unexpectedly, this vanguard offended someone and was about to muddy the waters, so she, the referee, quietly withdrew from the competition.

However, the Queen Mother also knew her own limitations.

If she ordered the civil and military officials not to impeach in this kind of situation, some people would definitely give her face, but some people might not.

If you don't give face, you will lose face.

In addition, if she spoke out, the New Emperor's party would probably become nervous again, thinking that she was trying to interfere in government affairs.

She went to see the emperor.

Zhao Zongquan readily agreed. The empress dowager had withdrawn from government affairs during this period, and the two of them were enjoying a loving motherly and filial son relationship.

Zhao Zongquan then contacted Chu Hong and Prince Huan Zhao Ceying.

Chu Hong understood, and submitted a memorial requesting a thorough investigation into Qi Heng's case, and a re-examination to see if there were any injustices or miscarriages of justice in the original judgment made by the rebel king.

Chu Hong took action and immediately captured the hearts of the powerful.

The main reason these powerful people targeted Qi Heng was to take revenge on him.

Also, see if we can make the matter bigger so that the relatives who have been exiled can have a better life.

The results of the re-investigation were not surprising; all the powerful and influential people who had not actually participated in the rebellion were basically released.

As for the Qi family, the title of Duke of Qi remained intact, but their official position was stripped away.

As for Qi Heng, he was demoted to the seventh rank.

Chu Hong reserved a seventh-rank censor position for him.

He was too straightforward, but Chu Hong just admired his straightforwardness.

The court, which is like an abyss, sometimes also needs clear water like Qi Heng.

Such clear water will reflect many things to a certain extent.

Chu Hong's current position is so high that even the governor, who is in charge of the livelihood of tens of millions of people, has to bow down to him.

He could hardly see some small places.

He wants a pair of eyes.

(End of this chapter)