[Red Mansions] Lord Hou's daily routine

In the blink of an eye, the beginning of autumn, the weather turned cold.There is still some heat in the daytime, but at night, the night breeze brings a bit of autumnal coolness.

Lin Jianxiu came back from the holidays, and met Lin Daiyu in the mansion during the day, and went to see Yan's mother and son. Everything in the general's mansion was fine. At night, he changed into black clothes and went to the palace under the cover of the night. Resume the secret call of the Holy Emperor.

Deping had made arrangements in advance. Lin Jian had never met anyone all the way into the palace, and no one knew that Lin Jian had entered the palace. When he arrived in the Palace of Qinzheng, Lin Jian saluted with Emperor Chengsheng. With a look of defeat, he was slightly stunned for a moment, but he didn't look very surprised, as if he knew about it a long time ago.

Emperor Chengsheng beckoned Deping to come over, asked Deping to put two soft pillows behind him, and asked Deping to help him up, and then Emperor Chengsheng let out a long breath on the soft pillows, and then slowly looked at Lin Jian said: "Yunxi, I have something to tell you."

Lin Jian knelt down and listened quietly.

Although he looked like he knew about it a long time ago, seeing Emperor Chengsheng's difficulty getting up from the couch, his expression was really haggard and tired, and his face was full of sickness. Lin Jian was really worried, so he asked Cheng Sheng Holy Emperor: "Has the Holy Majesty ordered the imperial physician to come and take a look?"

Emperor Chengsheng nodded and said softly: "It's announced."

Emperor Chengsheng looked calm, but Deping, who was standing beside him, had red eyes again.Lin Jian noticed this scene, and suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.

Before he could open his mouth, he heard Emperor Chengsheng say in a deep voice: "Yunxi, my plan has come to fruition. But, it didn't work out."

"Just as you and I expected before, the Empress Dowager does have evil intentions, but this evil intention is much deeper than what you and I thought."

As early as when Empress Dowager Shen said that she would organize a lecture conference on Mount Wutai, Emperor Chengsheng kept an eye on Empress Dowager Shen.

Lin Jian talked with Emperor Chengsheng about the fact that Empress Dowager Shen had served the Buddha for ten years in Wutai Mountain. This thought was not just a simple fulfillment of a wish. Emperor Chengsheng naturally understood the truth. , but in order to prevent such a situation from happening, Emperor Chengsheng decisively issued an imperial decree to cut off the possibility of such a situation in the future.

At that time, Emperor Chengsheng was wary of Empress Dowager Shen, but he never had any serious doubts, until the thugs taught in this way rebelled, and some things that Lin Hong and Lin Jian found out made Emperor Chengsheng suspicious of the Empress Dowager Shen. Empress Dowager Shen became suspicious.

Even if it hadn't been discovered at that time that Queen Mother Shen and King Duan were manipulating and controlling the rioters, Emperor Chengsheng and Lin Jian had already reached a consensus that even if it wasn't Queen Mother Shen and King Duan, they were from the same line of four princes and eight princes. People are playing tricks in the dark.

This is a chess game set up by others. They are already in the game. At the beginning, they couldn't see the situation clearly, so they could only follow the trend. After seeing the situation clearly and having a guess in their hearts, Emperor Chengsheng called for Lin Jian, and if he wanted to make a plan, Use your body as bait to attract the mastermind behind the scenes.

The person who set up the chess game is thinking about the country of the Great Zhou, and the emperor Chengsheng. If he wants to get the emperor's position, the people behind him will definitely attack him.

Therefore, no one can break this game, only Emperor Chengsheng can break it.

Since the monarch and his subjects have a tacit plan, it is natural to implement the plan afterwards.Lin Jian still continued to investigate the case of Ru Shijiao through various channels, and Emperor Chengsheng was going to start to elicit the matter of the mastermind behind this scene.

On the second day of teaching like this, Emperor Chengsheng went to see Empress Dowager Shen, mother and son had a conversation, and before leaving, Empress Dowager Shen was still angry because of his suspicion, and she seemed unwilling to talk to him anymore However, I still have to say with a cold face that the late emperor also confessed his crimes in front of his ancestors because of the turmoil in the government and the opposition.

What Empress Dowager Shen meant was that Emperor Chengsheng wanted to follow the example of the previous emperors, and the state had turmoil/chaos. Of course, those who caused the chaos were wrong, but Huaiyin/floods, prefectures and counties were restless, and there was still a reason why he, the emperor, was incapable of governing. Others would say The chaos in the world is the fault of his son of heaven.

In order not to let the people in the world discuss, he, the emperor, can only admit his mistakes first, so as to stop the people in the world from talking.

Emperor Chengsheng complied with Empress Dowager Shen's words and promised that she would follow the example of the late emperor and kneel in the temple to accuse the ancestors of heaven and earth.

But he was sneering in his heart, so many things happened ten years ago, he was too busy to even take care of Lin Hong's affairs, Lingnan was not peaceful at that time, and there were not many prefectures and counties in Dazhou that could save him My heart, it was so difficult at that time, and the life of the people was not as good as it is now. At that time, why didn't the Empress Dowager mention that he should follow the example of the late emperor and kneel down in the hall of worship to accuse the ancestors of heaven and earth?

On the issue of dealing with the four kings and eight princes, even if the Queen Mother Shen is his biological/mother, she has never been of one mind with him.

The Shen family, a family of meritorious service for many generations, valued the wealth, fame and power accumulated over the past few generations. If they were asked to give up the power they had acquired, how could they be willing?

The queen mother has obviously married into the Xiao family, and as a royal, she always thinks about the glory of the Shen family in her heart.Emperor Chengsheng thought, or in the eyes of the queen mother, her glory and foundation should be brought by the Shen family and the four kings and eight princes.

They cannot accept the decline of the four princes and eight princes.After all, the people of the four kings and eight males are all prosperous, and all are damaged.

The Empress Dowager would not mention for no reason that Emperor Chengsheng should go to the Hall of Honor to kneel down to the ancestors.

If what was taught in this way and all the previous series of things were done by the Queen Mother, then in general, these plans of the Queen Mother were unsuccessful. If she can get what she wants, then the queen mother will not let it go.

Thinking about it deeply, the queen mother might take action against his own son.What better thing to seize power than to hold the emperor hostage of a country?

Emperor Chengsheng decided to use his body as bait. He went to the Fengxian Hall to kneel down to his ancestors, and after making preparations, he waited to see how the Empress Dowager Shen would treat him.

——If Empress Dowager Shen must do something.

He said that his plan was successful, and that his plan succeeded by using himself as bait, and the queen mother really did it.

He said that his plan failed again, which meant that the Empress Dowager did have evil intentions to attack him, but the way of attacking him was unexpected by Emperor Chengsheng.

Food and living utensils, in this palace, can become deadly gadgets.

Since Emperor Chengsheng was guarding against Queen Mother Shen, he certainly couldn't let Queen Mother Shen succeed easily.

But Deping checked all the things by himself, and he didn't find anything wrong. After seven days of tension, Emperor Chengsheng hardly closed his eyes, but after he came out, he called the imperial doctor to take a pulse. , the many discomforts on Emperor Chengsheng's body were not only due to overwork in the past few days, but also because he had been poisoned.

"Commander Lin, the imperial physician has shown the Holy Majesty. The Holy Majesty was indeed poisoned, but he couldn't tell what kind of poison it was. The imperial physician could only see that the poison was not strong, and the toxin was eroding the Holy Majesty's body. Debilitated."

Emperor Chengsheng felt tired after talking for a while, so he signaled Deping to finish the rest.

Under the instruction of Emperor Chengsheng, Deping said bluntly to Lin Jian that although the poison on Emperor Chengsheng was slow, it was very powerful. It was difficult to get rid of the poison without knowing what it was. Can stay in bed.

Afterwards, Emperor Chengsheng's body would become weaker day by day, and finally he would die after two or three months. When he died, he looked as if he had died of illness.

This situation is far from what Emperor Chengsheng had expected.

Originally, if the Empress Dowager had grasped the handle and evidence that he had done something to him, Emperor Chengsheng could directly deal with the Empress Dowager, and after the matter of the Rushijiao was found out, all the people involved were dealt with, and it was Prince Duan who was involved. Well, Emperor Chengsheng would never let him go.

But now that he has been poisoned, the court judge Lu has made it clear that Emperor Chengsheng doesn't have much time left. If this goes on, he can accomplish what he wants to accomplish, but he has risked his own life. This is really... It was a really shocking result.

Lin Jian raised his eyes to look at Emperor Chengsheng: "How is your majesty preparing?"

Emperor Chengsheng slowed down for a while, and then slowly said: "I have asked Lu Yuanpan to find a way to relieve the toxin in my body a little bit, but if I can't find an antidote, I can't get better."

"What I mean is that we still need to find an antidote. I will negotiate with the Queen Mother, but if the Queen Mother threatens me with an antidote, it doesn't matter if the antidote is not wanted. I am prepared, and I have already thought about it. , the remaining two or three months are enough."

"For the present plan, two things are the most important. One is that the things taught in this way must be found out as soon as possible; the other is that the crown prince can no longer stay in Huaiyin. I will send someone to quietly bring the crown prince back."

"At this juncture, Yunxi, you can't relax. You have to guard the capital for me, and especially for the prince, so that I can send Da Zhou to the prince's hands properly. This world can no longer be chaotic. "

Lin Jian gritted his back molars, and solemnly bowed to Emperor Chengsheng: "Please rest assured, Your Majesty. Your Majesty's entrustment, I will keep in mind."

Lin Jian was furious in his heart, he must find out what kind of poison Emperor Chengsheng had been poisoned by, and he must also get the antidote that could cure the poison.

Several groups of people were conducting the investigation on Rushijiao at the same time. Now that the situation has become clear, all parties have found some information, and it just so happened that these information were gathered to Lin Jian today.

Unsurprisingly, the thugs caused by the Rushi sect this time were indeed not the remnants of the Rushi sect ten years ago.When Lin Hong suppressed the Rushi Sect in Lingnan back then, he had wiped out all the members of the Rushi Sect, and the remnants were only scattered scattered, and it was impossible to gather together to cause chaos.

These people who falsely claim to be the Sect are all a group of people gathered by the Queen Mother and King Duan in private over the past ten years.

The queen mother knew that Emperor Chengsheng wanted to dismantle the minds of the four kings and eight princes, and knew that Emperor Chengsheng wanted to deprive the four kings and eight princes of their power, but the queen mother was not willing to do so, so she went to Wutai Mountain to serve the Buddha for ten years, After planning this plan, she wanted to hold the throne in her hands, and let her grandson of the Shen family, Prince Duan, the fifth prince born out of Concubine Shen, ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor.

In this way, the peace of the Four Kings and Eight Dukes can be guaranteed.