Great Zhou Empress

Xue Zhijing guessed that someone would try to deal with her, but he didn't expect it to be poisoning?

She pulled for a whole day, and almost collapsed. The key point is that she couldn't find when she was poisoned. Fortunately, she loved drinking water and didn't eat much. Doctor Sun who treated her said, It's lucky.

Xue Zhijing is very grateful that chemists have not yet evolved in this era. If modern chemicals were used to poison her, she would have traveled back to modern times in minutes, and then splashed in the sea.

After the noble concubine found out the news, she was in a very bad mood. She gave the order to die and had to find out, not only to find out who poisoned Xue Zhijing, but also to find out the accounts of the entire court, even if the entire court was plowed. To find out.

The court of these hundreds of years, like this dynasty that has entered its twilight years, is gorgeous on the outside, but decayed on the inside.

Xue Zhijing invited helpers to the palace to help, and Yuan Jin had to take care of the polo team, so Li Jing and Chen Tang came.

Xiaohong, Xiaolv and Xiaocui are mainly responsible for their food and life safety, while Li Jing and Chen Tang help Xue Zhijing with his work.

Even though Li Jing and Chen Tang are the daughters of military generals, in this era that values ​​culture, they also learned from "rituals, music, archery and numbers" from childhood. After Xue Zhijing taught them how to use the abacus, their efficiency instantly improved.

When the first snow fell, Xue Zhijing had already compiled a report and presented it to the imperial concubine.

The accounts of the palace are complicated and complicated, and simple and simple.

After all, it does not involve the royal family's property at present, but only the expenditure of food and clothing inside the palace.In order for the noble concubine to see the specific situation better, Xue Zhijing compared the prices of various materials purchased by the palace with the prices in the market, put them on the same form, and gave it to the noble concubine.

The imperial concubine was not used to seeing such a form at first, but after Xue Zhijing's explanation, she immediately fell in love with this comparison method, it was so clear and clear.

However, after reading two pages, the imperial concubine's face turned ashen.

Recently, the price of eggs in the market has increased, 60 copper coins a piece, but the price purchased by these eunuchs is 10 copper coins, 1 coin is 1000 coins, and 10 coins is 10000 coins. 10000: 60, have these people's greed for money become so heinous?

I said that there are not many and a half people in the palace, why do you have to spend so much every day, and dare to be so embezzled? ? ?

Because the imperial concubine grew up in rich clothes and fine food, she doesn't care about the most trivial things such as purchase price and market price. As a superior, she only needs to learn how to put the right person in the right position.

Who knew that a strange balance had been formed in the palace, and all the people below had collectively formed a kind of "tacit understanding" to deceive the superior at the top together, and no one dared to break it easily, after all, even the highest That person didn't dare to completely replace everyone in his court.

After all, they were replaced by a group of eunuchs who were rootless and greedy for money.

The imperial concubine immediately wanted to punish all the corrupt eunuchs and maids, but Xue Zhijing said, "Your Majesty, take a look at the back, there are many unreasonable expenses."

The imperial concubine calmed down, let go of her emotions first, and should not act impulsively when doing things, she also knew that Xue Zhijing was reminding her.

Turning to the back, hidden in some purchasing expenses, are some large inflows and outflows.

"These merchants?" The imperial concubine pondered, seeming familiar.

Tang discussed the follow-up matters together.

"I called you here because you are the people I trust the most, and I can only tell you these things. If you just have some deals with the eunuchs in the palace, the emperor will not punish the queen for this." "The imperial concubine said, "However, the accounts found out by Xiaojing this time are a bit shocking. Almost [-]% of the palace expenditures have been embezzled, and some of them were regarded as their own private property by the eunuchs and made deals with ministers outside the palace. , A considerable proportion of funds flowed from outside the palace into the pockets of these eunuchs. When I think of these things now, I can’t sleep well, and I feel that someone around me will hand me a knife anytime, anywhere.”

There are at least a thousand people in the palace. This is a large enterprise in modern society, and it is very difficult to manage. You will never know who is whose spy.

What's more, in this era, it's life and death at every turn, so spies become even more terrifying. Xue Zhijing can understand the thoughts of the imperial concubine very well.

"Help me think about it, what should I do?"

Haitang said, "Your Majesty, don't worry, the security around you is handled by the hidden guards. I can assure you that there will be absolutely no problem."

Xue Zhijing thought for a while, and said, "My lady, if you want to remove and replace the related personnel, you need to remove about [-]% of the personnel in the palace. After the removal of these personnel, where can they be replenished?"

"Let's simplify it," the concubine said coldly, "The emperor lives in the hot spring garden, and only a few concubines who are not favored live in the harem, and then there are me and Yan'er, just a few half people, the palace needs Do so many people take care of it? It’s a waste of money, and they can all be kicked out.”

The noble concubine felt that she was going to die of anger. She studied mathematics hard before, just to find ways to solve the problem of financial insufficiency with the chief executives. She didn't expect to be cheated like this by the servants in her own home. She really wanted to Squeeze them to death.

The consumption of the palace is almost catching up with the consumption of the imperial guards outside the city.

The imperial concubine felt that her heart was bleeding.

The imperial concubine let out a long breath, "The things in the palace are like this, we should get rid of them, and simplify it to save some money. Think about it for me again, what to do with the empress, this time she must be eliminated." Get down from the position of queen, otherwise she will have to trip us up sooner or later."

The queen is a status, a symbol, so it cannot be easily replaced.

The imperial concubine also wanted to replace the queen's position more than once, but she was unsuccessful. At most, she achieved the result of making the other party feel at ease and worship the Buddha and ignore world affairs, that's all.

Xue Zhijing doubted, don't look at the emperor's sickness day by day, but he knew in his heart that he deliberately kept the empress as a check and balance with the imperial concubine, so that the two of them would stand under him, so that his throne would be at ease. He even wished for two of them Pinch each other.

But the empress is going too far now, sometimes instigating people to use knives on the noble concubine, sometimes covering herself with sacks on the street, and indirectly causing herself to be poisoned and almost dragged down on the toilet.

If such a queen is not killed, will she keep it for the New Year?

Xue Zhijing thought of a plan that was useless in modern society, but extremely effective in the feudal era, "Madam, look, should we try the curse of witchcraft?"

The imperial concubine's eyes lit up in an instant, the curse of witchcraft, that was the biggest court case in the era of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

In the feudal era, there was relatively little scientific knowledge, so mysticism prevailed. Well, after time travel, Xue Zhijing also felt that mysticism also had its merits.

The Shang Dynasty was the most prosperous period of mysticism in ancient times. The king of Shang was the largest priest in the country, and he had to divination in case of troubles. Therefore, he left a large number of words carved on tortoise shells, which left a wealth of textual research for later generations. physical data.After the Shang Dynasty, the art of divination declined, but it did not disappear. In the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Dong Zhongshu only respected Confucianism, combined Confucianism with the way of heaven, and raised the cultural theory to the height of Confucianism.

The emperor is ordered by the sky, and the emperor also needs to be regulated by the way of heaven.

So in essence, everyone believes in mysticism.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was old and in poor health. Someone accused the prince of practicing witchcraft to harm him, so he believed it. A tragedy involving 10 people, including the queen and the prince, was implicated.

"What do you want to do?" the princess asked.

Xue Zhijing said, "Regardless of whether this is true or not, as long as we convince the whole world and use public opinion to force the emperor to punish the queen, even if the emperor doesn't want to remove the position of queen, he has to."

In planning these things, the imperial concubine has much more practical experience than Xue Zhijing. Xue Zhijing just raised an idea, but it has already formed in her mind.

Things quickly moved on.

The hidden guard at Haitang's side put the puppet engraved with the birth date used in witchcraft under the queen's garden, and then deployed spies to dig it out. The next day the whole court knew about it. According to the intelligence system of the country, people in the whole country also knew about it within half a month.

The puppet's curse was directed at the emperor himself.

Xue Zhijing and the others thought too much, the emperor didn't need public opinion to persecute him, he was already suffering.

After all, no matter whether it is true or not, when a buddy who is already sick and sick finds out that there is a puppet cursing him in his wife's place, his heart will always respond.

The imperial concubine did not show up at the Hot Spring Garden to promote this matter at all. She just leaked out all the business transactions between the Queen's family and the eunuchs in the palace.

Soon, the queen was deprived of her title of queen and sent to a royal monastery for confinement, and the family members were also dismissed from office.

The imperial concubine received the emperor's request to tidy up the palace affairs, and the imperial concubine took advantage of the situation and plowed all the eunuchs and maids in the palace who were eating and waiting to die and who had huge corruption.

Finally, I felt that the side of the couch was safe.