Return to the Three Kingdoms with the Empire System

Chapter 153 Official Earthquake
Empress Dowager Dong was stabbed to death, and the court was shocked.In the palace, the security is so strict, but such a tragedy happened.Liu Xie was furious. After all, Empress Dowager Dong once protected him from growing up and protected him from the murderous hands of Empress He.That night, the commander of the imperial guards on duty was sent to death row by Liu Xie, and he was executed and buried with Empress Dowager Dong as soon as the funeral was over.

The few surviving maids in Mrs. Dong's palace were dragged overnight by ministers sent by Liu Xie for questioning.These court ladies were in Empress Dowager Dong's palace at that time, so they also heard what Zhu's second brother said.It's just that when their confessions were passed to Liu Xie, Liu Xie couldn't believe it.

The Wei family is considered to be a big family, and it can barely be regarded as the royal family and nobles, but the Wei family will send people to the palace to assassinate.In order to avoid leaking the testimony, Liu Xie ordered that all the court ladies be secretly executed.

But among the dozen or so Wuqueli members, the imperial guards did not find anything that represented their identities.However, with the jade token dropped by the second elder brother of the Zhu family, and the corpse of the leader of Li Wei's family in Youwu, everything seemed to be clear.

Although a vicious fight was directed at the Wei family, Liu Xie still wanted to continue investigating and ordered a city-wide search to find the remnants of these people.After all, there was someone in the palace who escaped. If he just ignored him, where would the royal family's face be at stake?What's more, what if that person enters the palace to assassinate him again?
However, during the search, the imperial guards did not find the second brother of the Zhu family, but found the two beloved sons of General Huangfu Song and General Zhu Jun tied up in a small courtyard in the north of the city.When the news came out, the court was even more shocked. Someone dared to kidnap the beloved son of the two old generals. It was simply lawless.

After all, the two old generals did a lot of meritorious deeds for the big man. In order to appease the two old generals, Liu Xie ordered a thorough investigation of the matter when the second brother of the Zhu family was arrested.

After investigating this matter, it turned out that the other courtyard was the property of Dong Zhong, the Hussar General of the dynasty.It's just that Empress Dowager Dong died just now, but Liu Xie couldn't bear to attack Dong Zhong, so he kept refusing to announce the results of this investigation.

Liu Xie did not announce the results of the investigation, so the investigators had no choice but to continue investigating and pretend, but these people pretended to be a little too much.The two old generals saw that these people had been working hard to interfere with this matter, and finally made up their minds to tell the story about someone from the palace who had come to interfere with them.

How dare those investigating officials conceal such important news, they can only tell Liu Xie the news.When Liu Xie heard this, he felt even more frightened.This incident has even got news from the palace. Doesn't it mean that someone in the palace conspired to rebel?
It's just that Dong Cheng is pitiful, he didn't do anything, just because someone wanted to recommend him to be Sikong, but now Sikong didn't take it seriously, and instead became a suspect.However, although Dong Cheng was pitiful, he could not be said to be unjust.This person really wanted to sideline Liu Xie, and then let their relative named Dong take over the power.

Liu Xie didn't get angry at this time, but continued to endure, wanting to see what he could find out in the end.But what Huangfusong said next made Liu Xie a little restless.Huangfusong pointed out that the man from the palace who came to look for him was a young eunuch who died in Mrs. Dong's rape.

What does this person mean? It means that Queen Mother Dong was involved in kidnapping the beloved sons of two old generals, and the person behind the incident was even Queen Mother Dong.

Liu Xie thought carefully according to the method Ye Mo taught Ye Que and Ye Que taught him, and found that there must be something fishy about this matter.Everything the Empress Dowager Dong did was, firstly, for the benefit of the Dong family, and secondly, it harmed the interests of the Ye family.Afterwards, it was Ye Mo who told the commander of the imperial guards on duty that someone came to assassinate him at night, and then, someone really came to assassinate him at night, and the person who died was Empress Dowager Dong.

Everything seems to point to the Ye family.Even though there was a member of the Wei family among those who came to assassinate, even though the escaped man left behind a jade plaque of the Wei family, even though the person who scared Empress Dowager Dong to death claimed that his family belonged to the Wei family.However, the Wei family had no motive.

As the saying goes, there is only one truth, and after eliminating all the impossible, the remaining situation, no matter how unexpected it is, is the only truth.

After guessing this, Liu Xie ordered to count all the abnormal situations in Mrs. Dong's bed recently.The eunuchs and maids in Mrs. Dong's chambers were either killed by the second brother of the Zhu family, or executed by Liu Xie himself, but as long as there is something abnormal in Mrs. Dong's chambers, there will always be something abnormal left.

Sure enough, in just one day, the abnormal situation in Mrs. Dong's body was counted.First of all, it was the news about the imperial dining room. Two days ago, Empress Dowager Dong asked the imperial dining room to prepare more food for more than [-] people, but no one came to visit that day.

Then, there was news from the guards of the imperial guards that more than 20 officials entered the palace two days ago, and they were taken away by the young eunuch in Mrs. Dong's house.

Eliminating dissidents and forming cliques for private interests, Empress Dowager Dong really has evil intentions.But Queen Mother Dong is dead after all, so Liu Xie can't use Queen Mother Dong's body to flog her.

Since Empress Dowager Dong cannot be taken into account, and the Ye family has officials Liu Xie relies on most, they will naturally not make any move.However, someone had to take the blame, so Queen Mother He was miserable.

Liu Xie had long been dissatisfied with Empress Dowager He's mutilation of the prince and other concubines in the harem.It really was a psychological shadow when I was a child. Now, in this situation, Queen Mother He can only be blamed.

At Liu Xie's suggestion, all the testimonies pointed to Queen Mother He, who was hard to tell.Once upon a time, Queen Mother He relied on her own means to do evil with her brother He Jin.Nowadays, He Jin is dead long ago, and the Queen Mother He has offended too many people, and it is impossible for anyone to stand up and speak to the Queen Mother He.

But Liu Xie said that considering that Queen Mother He was once his father's woman after all, she was exempted from the death penalty, but she was left in the cold palace.However, for a woman like Queen Mother He, being in the cold palace is more uncomfortable than the death penalty.Moreover, Empress Dowager He is the Empress Dowager after all, if Liu Hong is still the emperor at this time, it's okay to say, at least she can use sex to find a chance to let Liu Hong let her out.But now that Empress Dowager He is old and fading, how can she have the qualifications to be an Israeli.Frustrated, Empress Dowager He went to the three-foot white silk and hanged herself in the cold palace.

Except for Empress Dowager He, both Dong Zhong and Dong Cheng were dismissed from office, and Liu Xie also ordered Ye Mo to rectify the officialdom.When Ye Mo heard that Liu Xie asked him to rectify the officialdom, he understood that Liu Xie probably guessed that he was the one behind the scenes to assassinate the Queen Mother.

At this time, Liu Xie asked Ye Mo to rectify the officialdom. It was nothing more than two points: one was to let Ye Mo understand that Liu Xie knew about it at this time, and he had to be loyal to Liu Xie in the future; Officials, anyway, it was Ye Mo who handled it, and no one would say that it was Liu Xie's fault if something went wrong.

Ye Mo could naturally guess what Liu Xie was thinking, but he still readily accepted it.If you can eliminate some people who hinder your reform, why not do it?
All of a sudden, there was a big change in the officialdom. Countless people who had bought official positions fell from their posts, and countless high-ranking officials who had no talent and learning but were sheltered by their predecessors fell from their posts.And what shocked the world the most was the entire family of Hedong Wei's house that was ransacked overnight.

(End of this chapter)