Lei Yue Longmen

The next day, news of the sudden death of Zongzheng Li Taizhong in Zongzhengyuan spread to the palace.

This old King Heng fell asleep in the middle of the night, and died at the age of seventy-seven, which is considered a joyous mourning.

Because it was during the national mourning period, all funeral ceremonies in Prince Heng's Mansion were kept simple.Her Majesty the Queen is sympathetic to King Heng's lineage, and authorized King Heng's son Li Ping Tang Ping to inherit King Heng and become the new King Heng.

However, he was not allowed to continue to hold the vacated position of Zongzheng in Zongzhengyuan.It was recommended by the clan instead.It is clear that the position of patriarch should be moved back to the lineage of Qingzong.

Emperor Qingzong had a total of ten or two sons and ten or six daughters. Among the ten or two sons, apart from Dezong Li Taiyue, there were eight princes who grew up to adulthood.And ten to sixteen girls also have to marry high families and enjoy the prince's salary.Passed down to the present, there are still six male sects other than the imperial line, namely King Qi, King Lu, King Xiang, King Pu, King Yi, and King Dai.Among them, the three kings Qi, Lu, and Xiang are passed down to the second generation and are the uncles of Li Jingchen. The three kings Pu, Yi and Dai have been passed down to the third generation and are the peers of Li Jingchen.

Since it is to choose the patriarch of the same clan, it is natural to choose among the three senior kings Qi, Lu, and Xiang.

Although King Qi is the oldest, he suffers from the low status in his mother's family. The old King Qi worked hard to give birth to his only child with a maid. Although he gave birth to two children with great effort, he is well-known in the clan. In front of the two big producers, Hu Lu and Xiang, there is absolutely no strength to compete.

Lu and Xiang's two generations of princes were not inferior to their Zhongzong ancestors in terms of human creation.Now Lu Wang and Xiang Wang have more than 500 brothers of the county king, more than [-] sons of the county king, and hundreds of grandchildren.The clan's salary is calculated on the basis of the head. The two clans alone have more than [-] people in total. They are Yurui's famous households that eat the emperor's food.If it is a public recommendation, no one can push them.

Li Pinghong was very troubled by this when he was in power, and he specifically limited the number of concubines in the clan to control the situation similar to the skyrocketing population of the clan.But? According to their existing size, no matter what? Restrictions, population explosion is inevitable.Therefore, Ji Wenkui secretly presented a poisonous plan, intending to drive a wedge between the two kings and make the two parties form a feud, so as to achieve the purpose of fighting between the snipe and the clam and making the fisherman profit.

This strategy was discovered by Tan Xuanjing at the beginning. He saw that the side branches of the clan were thicker than the main branch, and would definitely violate the king's taboo.But at that time, in order to stabilize the royal family and deter the four borders, Li Pinghong would not attack the clan easily.I won't just sit back and watch their tails get bigger? Don't drop them.Divorce? On the contrary, it is the safest way.It can kill redundant branches, but will not lose the notoriety of harsh treatment of the clan.

However, the real enmity was not completed overnight. By compiling the "Clan History", the King Xiang was induced to add the deeds of the old Lu Wangmu's family's poverty, luxury and prostitution. ? Go, King Lu has held a grudge against Wang since then.Later, there were many times to sow dissension, which finally led to the famous Huafengmen dispute for son-in-law. The two princes fought fiercely in front of the palace gate.On the surface, the emperor wanted to calm things down, but secretly pretended to be deaf and dumb, adding fuel to the flames.Sit back and watch the two kings suffer from both losses, and form an irresolvable mortal enemy.

The poison of this strategy is that the two kings attacked each other, and the emperor took advantage of it.Can be said to be? Killing does not see blood, and an inch of fish does not stain the body?.At that time, Taifu Tan asserted to Li Jingchen that the ending of both kings was doomed?What? When it hurts, what do you see? When it comes out, make a fire.

Now the fire is here.

The newly vacated post of Zongzheng in Zongzhengyuan has very high voices from King Lu and King Xiangxiang.

But now that Prince Lu's son has committed a crime, and Prince Lu's mansion is overwhelmed with self-care, Zongzheng naturally falls on King Xiang.Li Jingchen followed suit and officially bestowed this honor on Xiang Wangfu.

This orthodox school is one of the few officials in the royal family who holds real power. Not only is it in charge of the registries of the emperor's relatives, compiling and compiling jade documents, but also assists with the Ministry of Rites in the management of ancestral temple sacrifices, and the Ministry of Households in the management of the clan's salary, and with the Ministry of Households. The Ministry of Punishment assists in managing the criminal names of the clan.All clan members who have committed crimes will be handed over to the Zongzhengyuan for custody, and the Zongzhengyuan will convict them together with the Criminal Department.

On the day King Xiang became Zongzheng, Li Jingzong was also released.After all, the Metropolitan Procuratorate has no real evidence and can only release him.

Is it true in King Lu's heart? If there is no such thing? With his age and qualifications, he should have a better chance of becoming Zongzheng than King Xiang.But once this case is elected, there is no possibility of further discussion, and it can be held until death.It would be better to give him a knife than to let him spend his whole life under Xiang Wang, the old bastard who stabbed a knife in the back.

King Lu has an explosive temper.Therefore, when he got the ironclad evidence that Xiangwang Mansion invaded the land of the ancestral temple, he didn't ask where the evidence came from, and immediately ordered a paper pleading to sue the Ministry of Punishment.Poor King Xiang was invited into the big prison of Zongzheng's mansion before he could even sit in his Zongzheng seat.

All the people in the Xiangwang Mansion tried their best to find out about it through all sorts of fiduciary relationships, and finally found out about it? It was? King Lu reported it behind his back. King Xiang gritted his teeth with hatred in prison, and cursed loudly, "Shameless villain, shameless villain!" People! I regret that I should have let Nalu's son go soft-hearted, and I should have skinned and cramped the father and son as an example to others!"

It's a pity that what King Lu handed over to the Ministry of Punishment was ironclad evidence that could not be reversed. This was because he was determined to put King Xiang to death.The elephant king had no chance to stand up, so he could only mourn and wail all day long: "Your Majesty persuaded me to be lenient in the relationship between the clan, but... who is lenient to this king?"

After killing the feud, King Lu finally let out a bad breath.For a while, he got carried away, and set up a banquet at home to celebrate the downfall of King Xiang.At the climax of the banquet, suddenly there was a banging on the door.A group of vicious officers and soldiers directly broke into the courtyard and took people everywhere. Everyone in the courtyard screamed in panic, tables and chairs were overturned, cups and plates were messed up, and it was like a scene of apocalyptic collapse.

This time, not only the people from the Metropolitan Procuratorate came to the door, but also the people from the Ministry of Punishment. They took Prince Lu's son to the Ministry of Punishment for questioning on the spot, and put on torture tools.At this point, Lu Wang realized that the Metropolitan Procuratorate didn't catch any evidence, but that all the evidence was in the hands of King Xiang.He thought that holding the other party's ironclad evidence could destroy him in one fell swoop, and he also held the handle of clinker himself.Originally, the two sides could coexist peacefully and resolve the conflict, but after being tossed so hard by him, King Xiang was forced to a dead end, so why not punish him to death?What awaits the two of them must be the fate of both.When he came to his senses, it was too late to regret.

No one expected that this Zongzheng competition would end with the two kings Lu Xiang dying together.

Those who didn't know the inside story thought that the second king was extremely stupid and killed himself.In fact, the two were led by the same pair of invisible hands, step by step towards a lose-lose ending.

The timing of these two hands was very accurate, taking advantage of Li Taizhong's sudden death, and the clans were in turmoil, they made a sudden move, but if it was a little later, there would not be such a good result.

First of all, use Zongzheng's position to intensify contradictions and instigate confrontation between the two sides.Secondly, send a false signal to King Lu, and use his jealousy to bite King Xiang to death.Again, use King Xiang's vengeance to reopen the old case and kill King Lu.In the end, the two kings were both injured, and they withdrew their hands in time without touching an inch. This is the real murder without blood.

Looking back, the Second King actually had a lot of chances to discover the flaws.And those clans who grow up with gold spoons are not all trash, as long as someone comes forward to persuade both sides, there is still a possibility of turning this matter around.But the reality is?, the person with this ability just died.Even if the two find a flaw, because of the grievances accumulated over the years, they will bite each other and not let go until they go to hell together.

This battle was really beautiful.Those who are interested can see that this is? The queen is? A counterattack against the previous imperial family's resistance to the new policy, Yiyang murdered the two kings, no one has anything to say.

But who is Li Jingchen? His subordinates showed mercy, and only cut off all the honors and titles of the two kings, demoted them to common people, and moved the two clans to the southern and northern borders for the elderly, and distributed them to the fields, and no longer paid salaries.

Later, King Qi was promoted as Zongzheng of Zongzhengyuan.The queen personally issued an order to recall Wang Zhongxu and a group of officials from the household department who had presided over the reduction of finances.So far, the direction of the court has become clear, and the clans all know that the general trend is over, and the reduction of financial support is irreversible, so they cut expenses one after another to overcome this barrier.

Take off the heavy linen mourning clothes and put on light and clean plain clothes.The empress officially announced to the subjects that the [-]-day mourning period for the late emperor had passed, and the folks resumed normal weddings, banquets, slaughter, and playing music.All the officials resumed their regular clothes, and the queen continued to observe her filial piety until her twenty-seven months.During the filial piety period, it is said that intercourse is not allowed, but the queen has no heirs, and she will be thirty years old in two years.Ministers of the Ministry of Rites were more anxious than the Queen, and privately sent a plate of fruit boxes containing peanuts, longan, dates, and melon seeds, implying that His Majesty could give birth to a son early.Li Jingchen rewarded the fruit box to the consort Guowei without any hassle.Cen Zhu was worried that reading scriptures would be boring, so he ate them all.

In the evening, I went to Yaohua Palace to take a look at Li Jingchen. It was so hot that I covered my whole body and got prickly heat.The back of the neck is full of "little red dots", Yun Zai used pine pollen prepared by the Tai Hospital to help her wipe her back, Cen Zhu took it, "I'll do it!" hooked the delicate soft powder on the pulp , staring at the veins of the little red dot?, apply gently from top to bottom.As the layers of clothes were peeled off, more prickly heat appeared on her originally smooth and smooth waist and legs.Cen Zhu felt very distressed, the Yaohua Palace was located in the center, and it was stuffy, hot and not ventilated in summer.In such an environment, you have to wear thick mourning clothes, so it's strange if you don't get prickly heat.

It took a whole box of pine pollen before Cen Zhu wiped her whole body. Now Li Jingchen is like a raw dumpling rolled with flour, even her face is covered in vain.

However, judging from her obviously relaxed expression, the pine pollen from Taiyuan Hospital is still quite effective.

Cen Zhu squeezed her hand and said meaningfully: "Thanks for your hard work."

Li Jingchen pulled up his clothes and rubbed his face with the back of his hands nonchalantly, "You've worked hard too."

Cen Zhu laughed at her, "Like a doll made of flour, does it still itch?"

"much better."

Cen Zhu unfolded the folding fan, and fanned her while talking, "Move out to sleep tonight, it's too hot in here, I'm sweating every two steps. If I stay longer, I'm afraid it will be a long time." ? Even mosquitoes can’t bite.”

"Okay? I'll go back to your place to sleep tonight."

Cen Zhu was taken aback, looking a little surprised.

"Hmph, don't worry, I won't bother you. Then you will sleep in yours and I will sleep in mine. The room will be separated."

Seeing her like this for a while, Cen Zhu couldn't laugh or cry, "What are you talking about, am I afraid that you will disturb me? I've never seen you like this? You like to think about things."

"That's it? You've seen (little knowledge)...Ah!" Before Li Jingchen finished speaking, he was choked by the fans around him.Even the pine pollen just applied on the neck and face fell off a large piece.

Cen Zhu was amused by the scene of flying white @ face, and deliberately took a fan to catch it, "Tsk tsk, what's wrong with this one? Luck? The powder on the girl's body is expensive, how much? Give it alms Don't take advantage of others!"

Li Jingchen's ears are used to listening to the righteousness of the monarch and ministers, and when she heard her say these unethical words, she immediately blushed with shame, and slapped her fan away, as if to give her a good look.

Cen Zhu pursed his lips and pretended to be innocent.She was so dishonest, Li Jingchen suddenly regretted living with her.But she had already arranged all the evening activities in her heart in advance, so how could she be reconciled if she took it back as it was?Had no choice but to bluff, "You wait for me."

In the evening, Li Jingchen and her? went back to Buzheng Waterside Pavilion, breathed in the cool evening breeze blowing from the lake, and felt as if a bird had come out of a cage, completely reborn.Cen Zhu placed a four-panel screen on the balcony, adjusted the angle, and made sure that no one below could see it, then moved out a deck chair and placed it behind, holding a plate of sliced ​​iced melons As a result, he greeted the eager person by the window, "Okay, you can come out now!" Li Jingchen dragged his plain skirt and Shi Shiran out, first poked his head at the door for a while, sure? He hurried to sit behind the screen, lay down on the chair, and ate fruits and vegetables leisurely.

Cen Zhu moved a horse and sat next to her. He couldn't let go of his fan, and tirelessly helped her drive away the bugs around her.Look at her? That enjoyment look, she joked: "Who would have thought that one day, Her Majesty the Empress would act like a thief in her own home. If you eat a melon, you are afraid of being seen."

Li Jingchen's mouth was filled with pulp, so he didn't have time to talk to her. Hearing the fluttering sound of the fan, his body and mind gradually relaxed, his breathing became heavy, and he fell asleep unknowingly.When I woke up, I was already lying on the familiar bed, and the fan on my body was still fanning, but the frequency was very different from the previous one, and neither was the wind. ?noisy.She opened her eyes, and saw that the fan was a little maid of Yunzai's. Ever since she had prickly heat on her body, Yunzai had been training for a long time. How many little maids took turns to come to her at night? fan.

Li Jingchen asked: "What is it now? What time is it?" The little maid replied: "Return to Your Majesty, it's three o'clock." "Go to sleep! You don't have to wait on me." "Yes?" Li Jingchen couldn't sleep, and got out of bed He got up, rubbed his tired eyes, opened the mosquito net, got out of bed barefoot, sneaked into Cen Zhuo's room next door, pushed the door in, climbed carefully onto the bed, and squeezed beside her. Lie down in a position.

Cen Zhu was woken up, and said in a daze, "What are you doing? Are you here?"

"I can't sleep." The voice was innocent.

"Come here, I'll sleep with you in my arms." Half awake, Cen Zhu didn't have time to think too much. He took her into his arms, picked up the fan on the pillow, and fanned her gently on the back. wind.When Li Jingchen heard that familiar frequency, his heart suddenly fell to reality again.Under the caress of the comfortable cool breeze, the eyelids drooped quickly, and soon fell into sleep.

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