Chapter 229 Yuwenhu Falls(1/2)
In terms of court power schemes, Yuwen Shu is indeed outstanding, but in this matter, Yuwen Shu can't escape the eyes he set up.
Yang Jian looked out, looked at the floats that were gradually coming from the end of the long street, and said to Garo: "Have you had enough fun?"
I enjoyed the lanterns. The only regret is that when I went to the Yuwen family’s private room just now, I didn’t see my elder sister Fu Feng. The man was pregnant and was caught between the Fu family and the Yuwen family. I don’t know what the situation was. Even though there was no love between the sisters, there was still a trace of blood. Now there was only one screen but I couldn’t see the true face. I felt sorry.
But it's only a little bit.
Yu Jialuo said that he had been in Jianzhang Palace for half a year, and the lantern festival tonight was like a gluttonous feast. She nodded, her eyes hidden behind the jade beads and tassels, and she smiled, "I'm so happy! Thank you for your kindness."
After saying that, Yingying stood up, "The float is here, should I leave?"
"Do you know what to leave?"
"Since Yuwen Hu is here, there will be troubles when he is waiting. The float is coming. It is the most lively and chaotic time of the Lantern Festival. No matter whether the person you are looking for can escape, I should always slip away first, so as not to have trouble later, and it will only drag your highness back. Besides, it will be better to return with joy and leave some aftertaste and look forward to Shangyuan again?"
This self-comprehensive spirit made Yang Jian amazed.
Originally, he planned to turn the Wenhuo into a big fire on this night, but Yuwen Shu insisted on causing trouble, so he had to push him back and wait until Yuwen Jian was cleaned up and add firewood. Yang Jian smiled and praised him, and said to Garo: "I'll change my cloak later, and the hat is too eye-catching. Yue Hua - take her to change clothes and leave as soon as possible."
Yue Hua obeyed the order and waited for Gala to remove the cloak and headdress, and then left the private room.
There was obviously a guy who was following nearby, and Yue Hua turned a blind eye and took Gala to change his clothes.
Penglaichun has a good terrain, and most of them are noble people, and there are many high-ranking female family members. The place where the female family members change clothes is naturally very secret. Yue Hua will follow them and knows how to deal with the people who follow them. He turned around and turned those guys and went to the changing clothes to someone to pick him up, so he asked Gala to wear a black cloak and leave calmly.
Walking far away, I suddenly heard the noise behind me. Gala looked back and saw a thick tongue of fireworks rolling up in Penglaichun.
"It must be the float catching fire." Yue Hua said.
"Can you let the float catch fire and take advantage of the chaos of the crowd?" Garo nodded when he saw Yue Hua and sighed, "I feel sorry for those innocent people."
Walking in the remote and dim alley, panic shouts in the distance were heard one after another.
Gala had watched the Lantern Festival in Shangyuan. I remember that when the floats passed by, the crowds were crowded with people. Lanterns on the streets were the most likely to catch fire. Tonight, soldiers were arranged in all streets and alleys in the capital to prevent accidents. Zhuque Street was the most tight, and it might not be impossible to extinguish the fire in time. However, once the floats caught fire, the people watching the lights fled in fear, fearing that it would cause disaster.
Gala sighed in his heart and left in a hurry.
In a corner of the capital, Yuwen Hu's mansion stands on the street.
This street is not too far from Zhuque Street. It is surrounded by rich mansions, with no idle shops, so naturally there are very few pedestrians.
Su Wei hid in the dark eaves, staring at the movements at the door of Yuwen's house.
The mansion was surrounded by dark spots, and from nightfall to this point, he had been lying motionless for an hour. There were hasty steps coming from afar. The man who looked like a servant staggered and rushed to the door, shouting: "Penglaichun is on fire, the prime minister and the others are trapped in it. What's wrong! Hurry up, ask someone to put out the fire and save people!"
The manager at the door hurriedly came in and asked for arrangements.
But in a moment, more than 40 people in Yuwen's mansion rushed forward and ran out of the mansion, in an attempt to put out the fire.
Su Wei's eyes swept through the crowd and soon saw the unique person-
Even though his decorations were completely similar and his expression and behavior were no different from those servants, his temperament was hard to hide, like a full bow. Even if he deliberately disguised it, he was still obviously tight.
Su Wei was not sure and turned his head to look at Chen Xuan next to him.
Chen Xuan climbed up from the gate guard and now serves as the fourth-rank official of the right gate of Jianzhang Palace. He is not from a high school and has been working hard from the bottom. He has checked past pedestrians in the city gate for several years and has reached his current status. Although his skills are not outstanding, his vision is vicious and his keenness of people is definitely not comparable to others.
"It must be him!" Chen Xuan was very confident and even ecstatic.
——The huge Yuwen Mansion has too many places to escape, and the side gates and corner gates in the dark are all good places to escape. However, the staff of Jianzhang Palace is limited after all. Even though Chen Xuan's pair of eagle eyes cannot be installed everywhere. After Yang Jian thought about the pros and cons, he finally placed Chen Xuan in the main gate.
Unexpectedly, Yang Jian was really the right bet!
Yuwen Jian really took the risk and refused to go anywhere else to fall into the trap. He took a lucky look and let Nuqi hang out in the crowd and run to the main entrance.
This is the fat fish delivered to your hand!
Chen Xuan and Su Wei were both happy for several days, and they threw out several sleeve arrows like meteors and headed straight for Nuqi.
The sleeve arrow brought out a very low sound of wind in the dark night. The servant next to him was not aware of it. Only Nuqi listened to the wind to distinguish the sound. He looked at Su Wei in an instant, and then dodged and avoided the sleeve arrow. He mingled among the servants and ran very fast. If it weren't for the sleeve arrow, he would have walked away.
Su Wei's long sword was unsheathed and pounced on him like a bat in the dark night.
Chen Xuan followed closely, shouting "Catch the spy", and several stakes rushed out around him.
The servants didn't know the reason, but saw the sword light and subconsciously dodged everywhere. In an instant, they left Nuqi standing there.
——The disguise has been seen through, and he knows that he can't escape, so he has taken the scimitar in his hand.
After being hidden in the mansion by Yuwen Shu, Nuqi wanted to rush out several times, but Yuwen Shu advised him to dispel his mind on the grounds that the guards outside were tightly guarded. Nuqi couldn't help but suppressed himself. Until two days ago, he learned that Yuwen Jian wanted to take advantage of the Mid-Autumn Festival opportunity to send him out, he was ready to move. He did not know about Yuwen Shu's tricks in Penglai Chun. He just pretended to be a servant, and acted as a fool, and went out swaying from the main gate of Yuwen Mansion.
No one expected that there would be such sharp eyes in the dark night, and he recognized him in disguise at first glance from forty people!
Nuqi's wild wolf-like eyes narrowed slightly, raised his knife in his hand, and faced Su Wei.
Two Jianzhang Palace Guards led the attack, and there were also guards in the dark who were besieged. They were unable to resist and were forced to the corner.
In the rich and prosperous Yuwen family, Yuwen Jian watched Nuqi besieged and fell to the ground. If he was defeated, he would be defeated! Even if the scheming prime minister built a plank road in Penglai, he still could not escape Yang Jian's hand. Nuqi was arrested in front of Yuwen's house. For this crime, his father and son must be responsible for it - that was a foregone death penalty!
At the lantern festival, the incident of the float accidentally caught fire and was quickly extinguished in the capital. Although such a thing can be considered an accident, those who are interested think there is something tricky. Before they could gossip, the next morning, the whole court was blown up by another thing.
The left prime minister Yuwen Shu secretly hid the nobles in the Northern Liang Dynasty in his mansion, and was taken down by the emperor on the spot. He had both witnesses and physical evidence.
This incident was revealed, and the court and the people were in an uproar.
The shadow of the defeat at Huyang Pass in February has not yet dissipated. The Supreme Emperor and several captured court officials are still imprisoned in Shiyang City. Daxia still owes Beiliang tens of thousands of silver and has not been paid back. That is all the hard-earned money of the people!
But the Yuwen family is secretly hiding the nobles of Northern Liang at this moment? It is said that it is still Ying Zuo's cousin who stepped on the iron cavalry to break through the Huyang Pass?
The prime minister of the dynasty was a vengeance of the king, but he had private contact with the enemy country, which was simply horrifying!
Even though some court officials knew the plan of the Yuwen family, they even hoped that the Yuwen family could resolve the war with Beiliang and welcome the Supreme Emperor back, so that the foolish and generous emperor could squeeze out the shrewd and fierce Yang Jian and his son, so that they could continue to make profits from it, but if things were put on the table, they had to show a harsh attitude.
No one is willing to get involved in such a crime as colluding with enemies and treason.
An official who relied on Yuwen Shu's breath and took up his post and explained a few words, saying that Yuwen Hu should just be discussing with Beiliang, intending to redeem the Supreme Emperor and the captured court officials as soon as possible, not to treason the country, and immediately was scolded back - if he was working hard for national affairs, there was Yang Zhong, the Emperor of Sui and the Temple of Honglu, what should he do to hide secretly?
Before the debate could be over, Jianzhang Palace took out the evidence of the crime next to him - a letter from the Yuwen family to Beiliang, and evidence of the person involved in the secret exchanges between Yuwen family and Beiliang. Immediately, Yuwen Jian was greedy for bribery, embezzled military rations, ignored human lives, and deceived the emperor and did not have the best. All the matters of the Censors were raised one by one, and the book was submitted.
The Emperor Taizu of Sui, Yang Zhong, was furious and ordered the three departments to conduct an investigation and make sure to find out the case!
Yu Wenjian, the most suspected person, was arrested and imprisoned that day, and all the slaves involved were arrested.
I don’t know if it was Yuwen Shu’s stubbornness. Even though Yang Jian dug up for several months, all the evidence of the crimes he finally found pointed to Yuwen Jian. A little involved Yuwen Ji, and almost nothing involved Yuwen Shu. Yuwen Jian also insisted that everything was done by him without his father’s concealment. Even Nanuqi was hidden in the mansion. Seeing that the momentum was wrong, he took advantage of the fact that there was no one in the mansion in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Yuwen Shu didn’t know anything at all.
Even when he finally sent Nuqi to escape, Yuwen Shu was still enjoying the lanterns in Penglaichun, leaving them clean.
The confrontations in Penglaichun were not based on no evidence. Of course, Yang Jian could not have taken them out to accuse Yuwen Shu. After several days of interrogation, Yuwen Jian was in a very serious crime. Except for the lack of strict discipline, incompetence in teaching children, and inadequate supervision of the family, Yuwen Shu had no other crimes that directly pointed to the key points.
Therefore, Yuwen Jian's crimes were irrefutable. Yuwen Shu wrote a letter to express his love by taking retreat as an advance and taking the blame for the failure to teach his children.
He was also a Jinshi appointed by the imperial pen. He had been immersed in the court for many years, and his ability to write memorials was already superb. He chose to use words and sentences, and his humility was not to mention his hard work in the memorials. He said that he was busy with the court over the years, and the higher his official position, the heavier his responsibilities. He usually neglected to discipline his son, which led to Yuwen Jian doing such a confused thing today. Then he said that he had let down the cultivation of the Supreme Emperor, let the expectations of Yang Zhong, the expectations of the Emperor Taizu of Sui and the expectations of his colleagues. He had no face to return to the court and begged to resign from the prime minister.
When the memorial was handed over to the desk of Yang Zhong, Taizu of Sui, he quickly spread among his colleagues with his exquisite words. The regretful attitude in tears was so impressive.
This move uses retreat to advance, which is really very insidious.
The next day at the court meeting, when the Emperor Taizu of Sui Yang Zhong mentioned this matter, a court official who was instructed by Yuwen Shu to ask for mercy.
Yuwen Shu lived in the prime minister for several years. Although he was greedy for bribery, he had done several good things. Moreover, he was the prime minister left by the Supreme Emperor. Although he had no fault of educating his children, there was no ironclad evidence to directly point out the key points. In addition, the Yuwen family was entrenched in the court, with deep roots, and disciples related to the interests of the Yuwen family were everywhere. Several of them held military power. Yang Zhong, the Taizu of Sui, did not think about it in a hurry.
After the defeat, the national strength was still poor and the court was not stable. It was not difficult to be the old man Yuwen Shu. The difficulty was how to regain power steadily, so that the court could surrender and not have civil strife.
The Emperor of Sui Dynasty, Yang Zhong, had no hope to take this opportunity to completely overthrow Yuwen Shu to the ground. Therefore, under the pleading of many court officials, he was fined his salary as a warning, and he still kept Yuwen Shu's position as the left prime minister.
But Yuwen Shu's reputation and status plummeted.
Jiang Zhan naturally took over many things in the court, and took advantage of the opportunity of investigating the case and involved some newly promoted officials.
Inside and outside the capital, the people also scolded the Yuwen family to the point of being bloody.
The prime minister's mansion that had been standing for several years finally revealed a desolate scene in the cold rain that suddenly came after the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Gala only heard of those things and never paid attention to them.
She was hiding in the Nanxun Palace at this moment and peeling chestnuts with Tan.
The rain sounded drizzling outside the window, and the maids and nanny in Nanxun Palace were beaten to rest, and the yard was quiet. Hua Shang knew that the two grandparents and grandchildren had something to say, so he found a thin blanket and sat in the lounge chair under the corridor, half squinting his eyes to rest, and half venting the wind.
Mrs. Tan chewed the sweet and soft chestnuts, finally drank tea to moisten her throat, and began to tell stories.
A true story.
The Aji Kingdom has been prosperous and prosperous for hundreds of years, and is no different from what I said to my mother and the abbot of Luantai Temple.
Until Aji's country was destroyed.
According to my grandmother, while Aji's country believed in Buddhism, it also worshiped the art of witch Zhu. Six years before Aji's destruction, there was a witch Zhu divination, saying that Aji's fortune would decline, and all the jewelry, gold and silver that were born on Yushan would be included in the hands of others. Emperor Zhou was shocked when he heard this. After two months of anxiety, he decided to build another palace outside the royal city to store wealth. If one day he really lost Yushan, he would make a comeback.
His plan did not mention it to others, but just found a reason and sent his confidants to choose a location. Finally, he met the terrain at Yulong Peak, which was far away from the east. Afterwards, Emperor Zhou recruited the people to build a large-scale construction and built a palace in the west of Yushan, but secretly mobilized his troops to build a secret underground palace on Yulong Peak.
On the day the underground palace was completed, all the craftsmen involved in the construction were killed, and then the army was transferred to build the palace elsewhere.
With his large-scale construction, few people knew about the underground palace. After several other gorgeous palaces were built in the following two years, even the soldiers who built the underground palace no longer paid attention to it.
Afterwards, Emperor Zhou sent his trusted guards to disguise themselves as travelers and secretly took the wealth in the royal city to the underground palace.
Later, before the wealth was removed, foreign invaders suddenly invaded. The people of Aji had already suffered a lot from exploitation, and the army was neglected to train and lacked combat power. The foreign invaders captured the city within half a month and quickly surrounded the royal city.
At that time, Emperor Zhou was seriously ill. Even if he wanted to escape and make a comeback, he would have the will but not enough.
When the royal city was broken, Emperor Zhou was being carried to a carriage and wanted to escape. However, he finally realized that people could not defeat nature and coughed up blood. When he was dying, his son was fighting bloody outside, he had to hand over the treasured treasures to his only daughter and sent the most loyal soldiers to escort her out of the royal city.
This escape will lead to the destruction of the country and the family will be destroyed, and the country will change its ownership.
To be continued...