Chongzhen Sunset Song

?one

"It's all...he arranged it all by himself?"

Chongzhen squinted his eyes, his tone was shockingly calm.

"Yes." Wu Mengming, dressed in an ocher yellow flying fish suit, replied with a low head, "According to Chen Luqian's confession, not only the recent Qian Qianyi case and Zheng Fu case, but also various officials in the past few years since Wen Tiren became the chief assistant. Most of the rewards and relegations are his participation. First, he instigates the same party to lead the public opinion, and then arranges special personnel to report, and the people who are responsible for the inspection and interrogation are all his cronies. These methods make him almost invincible. And he himself rarely He came out in person, and whenever there was a big event, he called him sick and begged for rest, so as to avoid people's eyes and ears, so he has been deceiving him so far, and he has not been caught by anyone..."

Wu Mengming seemed to be recounting Chen Luqian's confession, but Chen Luqian had only muddled around with Wen Tiren for a few months, so how could he know so much.It is necessary to step down on the crime of being warm and benevolent, and to avoid being jointly charged with the crime of not reporting the knowledge for a long time. Wu Mengming and Wang Zhixin discussed this set of words early in the morning, and pushed all the hard-to-clear ties to Chen Luqian's head. something happened.But seeing Chongzhen's face getting more and more ugly, Wu Mengming didn't dare to say any more, he stopped talking, and waited quietly for the emperor to speak.

"He...has a party." After a long while, Chongzhen suppressed his anger and popped out such a sentence.

"Yes." Wu Mengming replied cautiously.

"Who are his accomplices...?"

"According to Chen Luqian, the Wen party spread all over the court, and there are countless..."

"Innumerable...ha...hahaha..." Chongzhen said in his mouth, and suddenly laughed out loud, this laughter made Xi Zhao beside him feel chills. "Okay, okay, there are too many to count! Haha!" Smiling, Chongzhen's face suddenly changed, and he slammed the table, his eyes stared like copper bells, and his thick eyebrows stood upright like swords:

"You all eat dry food!!"

Wu Mengming's shoulders trembled, and he immediately knelt down, and pleaded guilty on the ground: "The failure to notice the existence of the Wen Party is due to the stupidity and dereliction of duty of the humble minister! Please forgive me, Your Majesty!"

Chongzhen glanced at Wu Mengming's bent back, closed his eyes, and said nothing.Condemnation, how to convict?They didn't realize that they had indulged him for so many years in a daze.So many years... Ha, so many years, how many years I believed in him, how many years he lied to me.Although the political achievements are mediocre, the victory lies in being clean and party-free. Although you can't fully believe what you say, you can still make the best use of it. Just like this, I was easily blinded and blocked by him and the courtiers. Again, the thoughtful calculation turned out to be just a stupid joke!Chongzhen was stuffed with a ball of fire, stuffed in his chest and kept agitating, but he couldn't suppress it no matter what, and couldn't let it go.The people in the room stood and knelt, all anxiously waiting for the emperor to speak, but even Chongzhen himself didn't know what to say anymore.

"Emperor...Emperor..."

Just when the silence was overwhelming, a timid voice suddenly came from the door.Chongzhen opened his eyes and saw that the messenger eunuch was waiting at the door with his body bowed, looking into the Nuan Pavilion tremblingly.

"What's the matter?" Chongzhen said hoarsely.

"Back... back to the emperor, the prince has been waiting outside the palace for a long time to deliver today's booklet."

"Hey, let him in." Chongzhen frowned, holding back his irritability and beckoning.

"Yes..." The eunuch got the order and hurriedly left the Nuan Pavilion, which was like a Shura field.After a while, Wang Chengen came into the room with a stack of memorials in his hand, and asked to be safe. He glanced inside and out, and said calmly, "Your Majesty, this is today's memorial."

Chongzhen didn't want to speak, he just moved his finger, signaling him to put it on the case.

Wang Chengen lowered his body, put the memorial away, glanced at Wu Mengming, probably deduced the situation, then reached out to pick up the first book on the pile of memorials, and handed it to Chongzhen with both hands.

"Your Majesty, Mr. Shoufu wrote in the note, saying that he is in poor health and asked to return to his hometown to recuperate. Look..."

When the booklet was handed over like this, it naturally hit the muzzle of the gun.Before Wang Chengen could finish speaking, Chongzhen raised his eyes sharply, grabbed the paper, scanned it up and down, threw it on the table, picked up the ink pen, and erased all the papers drawn up by Zhang Zhifa on the cover of the memorial. With a swipe of the pen, Zhu Zhu was written, and then he flicked his sleeve and fell to the ground with a slap.Wang Chengen didn't expect the emperor's reaction to be so violent, so he was taken aback, and he didn't dare to pick it up for a moment. Wu Mengming, who was kneeling on the ground, squinted secretly, and saw that the bright red Zhu Bu covered the ticket that was originally reserved for warm words, and it was written Three flamboyant characters:

Let, him, go!

Wu Mengming took a breath, looked at the intimidating Zhu Pi, and was still in shock, but heard a deep voice coming from behind the dragon case, the sound was not loud, but it pierced the ears of everyone in the Nuan Pavilion.

"During Wen Tiren's tenure as chief assistant, he hijacked the government, formed a party for personal gain, confused black and white, disturbed the audience, acted recklessly, and committed heinous crimes. He will be reduced to a commoner immediately, and his family will be confiscated!" After a few steps, I felt my knees go limp, my eyes went dark, and I only heard the screams of "Your Majesty, Your Majesty" in my ears, and I didn't know anything after that.

two

"Your Majesty, it's the heat invading the body, coupled with the rage attacking the heart, which caused this fainting state. It's not a problem, it's not a problem, it will recover within two days."

In the bedroom was quiet, Chongzhen was dressed in a white silk singlet, lying on the bed with his eyes closed, the palace lady stood at the head of the bed, gently fanning Chongzhen, one after another, the cool mint fragrance wafted out.The old imperial physician tremblingly put the wrist pillow for pulse diagnosis back into the medical box, saluted Chongzhen, and walked towards the door.Xi Zhao hurriedly followed and sent the imperial physician all the way out of the gate of the Hall of Martial Arts before going back to the bedroom.And when he came back, Chongzhen had woken up at some point.

"Your Majesty, do you feel better?" Xi Zhao leaned over to the bed and asked with concern.

"Hey..." Chongzhen looked at the sunset, and sighed slowly.Xizhao knew it in her heart, squatted down and sat on the step stool, leaning against the side of the bed, and smiled warmly.

"Your Majesty, you don't have to blame yourself. People's hearts are so close that no one can see them accurately. What's more, that party is still deliberately trying to hide it from the Emperor. The Emperor only has one pair of eyes, so how can he be able to cover them with the hands of that party."

"Hey... no." Chongzhen closed his eyes weakly, and shook his head, "Thinking about it, it's not that these things about him were not mentioned in the impeachment papers, but somehow, I was deceived, so I took it for granted. It is a false accusation and ignored. From the beginning of his ascension to the throne, he was appointed Minister of the Ministry of Rites, and he was hand-picked into the cabinet and promoted to the chief assistant... For ten years, I have treated him so kindly, but he has repaid my trust in this way... During these ten years I don’t know how many people from all over the court secretly called me a fool. Hey...you taught me what face I have to sit on the court..."

"People are not sages, no one can do anything wrong. Mr. Wen has not committed any serious crimes, and now it is too late to find out." Xi Zhao didn't know how to forgive the emperor, so he could only say a few words as comfort, "Think more Injury, since the emperor has dealt with him, don't think too much about it."

"The emperor is not a sage, but the emperor is the son of heaven; everyone is wrong, only the emperor can't be wrong..." Chongzhen looked straight at the bright yellow curtain embroidered with the pattern of a dragon riding on auspicious clouds on the top of the bed, and his words were full of sighs.The scent of mint in the room gradually dissipated, the scorching sun slanted to the west, and some of the heat faded away. The sunlight passed through the shadows of the trees, and stained the window screens with traces of red and gold.

"Is my disposition already issued?" Chong Zhen asked, looking at the sky.

"The prince should have gone to the Wen mansion, but there is no reply yet." Xi Zhao replied.

"okay."

three

"My lord is here—"

In the evening, a long and loud singing sounded in front of the gate of Wen Mansion.A group of Jinyi guards pushed aside the servants who were trying to stop them, and opened a wide and clear path.I saw Wang Chengen wearing gold-painted black gauze on his head, wearing a big red python suit, wearing beaded soap boots, flicking the dust whisk, lifting his skirt, leading a group of eunuchs, striding into the gate of Wen Mansion, and walking straight to the main room.

"My lord! The prince is here!" A servant ran into the main room in a panic, ignoring that Wen Tiren was having dinner, and rushed to report.

"Wang Gonggong? Which Wang Gonggong?" Wen Tiren was taken aback, unable to react for a while.

"It's Prince Wang Chengen!" Before the servant could finish his sentence, he saw a group of Jinyi guards with swords and swords rushing into the main room unceremoniously behind him. , Great eunuch Wang Chengen.

"Hey, Mr. Wen, where are we going to eat?" Wang Chengen raised the corner of his mouth, stood still calmly, hugged his arms loosely in front of him, and rested the whisk on the socket of his left elbow.The affairs of Wang Chengen's faction were kept secret, how could Wen Tiren know that in this day, outside this Wen residence, the world had already been turned upside down for him.He only knew that this former ally was now an enemy, such a splendid attire, such a frightening battle, at least he must not have come to visit and talk about things.

"You guys, what do you mean?" Wen Tiren tried hard to calm down, but his body was stiff and uncontrollable, and his hand holding the chopsticks stopped in mid-air, trembling slightly.

"Hehe." Wang Chengen Mimi smiled, but that smile really made the hair stand on end, "Our family heard that Mr. Shoufu is not in good health, so we came to visit him."

"I have already recovered, so there is no need for father-in-law to worry about it." Wen Tiren responded reluctantly.

"That's true." Wang Chengen laughed more and more exaggeratedly. "Looking at Mr. Shoufu's face flushed and the food delicious, it must be nothing serious. Our family is really worrying too much." Wang Chengen raised his eyes and said in a strange way , "Why don't we say goodbye now?"

So menacing, say two words and then leave?Seeing Wang Chengen teasing him like this, Wen Tiren clenched his fists secretly, anger arose in his heart.Wang Chengen made a gesture and turned around, as if he really wanted to leave, but he took half a step, but slowly took it back.

"Ah, ah, look at our family's mind. Seeing Mr. Wen's strong body, he felt relieved, and almost forgot about important matters." Wang Chengen turned around, stared directly at Wen Tiren, grinned coldly, and then suddenly put away his smile , cleared his throat, and proclaimed loudly:

"It was passed on to the emperor that during Wen Tiren's tenure as chief assistant, he hijacked the government, formed a party for personal gain, confused black and white, disturbed the public, acted recklessly, and committed heinous crimes. From now on, he will be demoted to common people, and his family property will be confiscated and confiscated. I hereby—"

Clap la la!

The chopsticks in Wen Tiren's hand slipped to the ground.Wen Tiren stared blankly, opened his mouth half-opened, and was stunned for a long time before his breath caught, his body paralyzed, and he fell limply from the round stool.The servant rushed forward to help him, but Wen Tiren lay on the ground as if he had lost his soul, but he couldn't get up no matter how hard he pulled.

"Shoufu...uh, Mr. Wen...ah no, old Mr. Wen—" Wang Chengen dragged his voice, and smiled coldly, "The imperial decree will arrive in two days, the old man should be mentally prepared. From now on, you and I will be in power There is a difference, we are far apart, our family can't take care of you, you can do it yourself, ah." With a wave of his hand, the eunuchs and guards in the room retreated one by one, and the surroundings suddenly became empty.Wang Chengen bent down, and finally patted Wen Tiren's shoulder, then swept the dust away, and walked out of the main room without looking back.The scarlet flame-like back carried a long shadow, and finally disappeared into the bloody sunset, leaving only a blindingly hot bright red to the helpless Wen Tiren in the room. ?