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    ☆, Jin Yi Lu 22

    On the seventh day of April in the twenty-ninth year of Tianzheng, Concubine Shu, who was pregnant with Liujia, gave birth to a son in Fengan Palace. Emperor Longyan of Tianzheng was delighted and made the child a prince on the spot.

    On the day of the canonization ceremony, the city of Yuejing was decorated with lights and colorful decorations and was bustling with activity. In the past six months since Fang Guangjian was imprisoned last year, the situation in the DPRK and China has been changing rapidly, and people in even the most virtuous place are in panic, and there is quite a simmering atmosphere.

    Now that there is such great news, and with Wang Rongan’s deliberate promotion, the entire celebration can be said to be extremely prominent.

    As a third-rank imperial official, Yao Ji naturally had to attend the banquet. At the banquet, Wang Rongan, an eunuch, sat at the top of the courtiers. Even the newly appointed chief minister of the cabinet had to look at her face.

    Everyone had different expressions on their faces, whether it was the Heshan Party or Fang Yiyi’s old Party, they all exchanged looks of bitterness and helplessness.

    Li Geng sat next to Yao Ji, picked up the wine glass and took a sip: “It’s enough to let Fang Guanyi climb to the top. Now he is bullied to this point by a eunuch. It’s really sad and lamentable…” he This sentence is not the voice of everyone.

    It’s just that Wang Rongan is now so powerful that even Su Jing was arrested and imprisoned by He. It has been two full months and she still has not been released.I heard that Wang Rongan originally wanted to execute Su Jing directly, but unexpectedly he was stopped by Concubine Shu.

    This concubine who gave birth to the prince was also the reason why Wang Rongan was so powerful.Emperor Tianzheng was very obedient to her, and she had a son by her side. Once Emperor Tianzheng became successful, she would be able to jump from concubine to queen mother.

    “Could it be that the situation has been overturned, and I, Dayue, can only survive in the hands of the traitor and the eunuch?” Li Geng drank another drink, and Yao Ji saw that he was becoming more and more uncharacteristic as he spoke. She thought he was drunk, so she stopped him and said, “Mr. Li, it’s getting late, I’ll take you back to your house.”

    After helping Li Geng out of the palace, he saw that he got into the carriage with the support of his family, and Yao Ji had just driven home.

    The night was already deep, and the cold moon in the sky made the sky look even more lonely.

    It is clearly the early spring when everything is getting warmer. The new willow trees on the roadside and the first blooming peach blossoms all look dejected and lonely in Yao Ji’s eyes.

    Because what changes is not the scenery, but the people’s hearts.

    When she returned to the Meng Mansion, Mrs. Meng had already rested, but Taishi Meng was still writing words in the study. When he saw her coming to say hello, he smiled kindly: “I’m back, let’s go and have a rest.”

    “Dad,” Yao Ji hesitated, “Mother she, you have a good day today.” “Okay,” Taishi Meng put down the pen in her hand, “Yao’er, you don’t have to worry about this. Although your mother is still a little bit indifferent, isn’t there still a father? Since you have made up your mind, just do what you want. Your mother has always been a sharp talker, and she has stopped blaming you for her anger.”

    Yao Ji lowered her eyes, hiding the guilt in her eyes: “It’s only my fault that my daughter is unfilial and has to teach her parents to worry about her at such an old age…”

    But if she were allowed to choose again, she would still advance and retreat with Su Jing.After returning from prison that day, she told her parents everything about herself and Su Jing. Naturally, Mrs. Meng was furious on the spot.Regardless of how bad Su Jing’s reputation is, he is still in prison, and he doesn’t know whether he will live or die in the future, but his daughter has expressed that she wants to live and die with him. How can a mother agree to this?

    “He promised me that he would come out.”

    The daughter, who had always been well-behaved, was resolute, kneeling straight on the ground, her eyes full of determination.

    “Then what if he miscalculates? What if he still fails to come out in five years, ten years, etc.?!” Mrs. Meng’s face turned red with anger.”Then I will keep waiting.” Even if it takes a lifetime.

    This answer completely gave up Mrs. Meng’s heart. Her daughter She knew best that as long as she made up her mind, she would not change it even if the world collapsed. She couldn’t help but burst into tears: “What evil have I done…”

    Yao Ji felt uncomfortable, she lowered her head silently, trying not to let tears come out.Taishi Meng sighed: “Have you really thought about it?” “You have thought about it.”

    The expression on Taishi Meng’s face was complicated and unspeakable: “Your master sent me a letter, asking me to advise you not to do stupid things. It seems that I can’t persuade you anymore… That child,” he paused, “originally his surname is Huo.”

    Twenty years ago, Huo Weian, who was the left deputy censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate at the time, was arrested and imprisoned on eight counts for impeaching Fang Guangyi, the chief assistant of the cabinet. In prison, Huo Weian was tortured and refused to give in and sign the fabricated confessions.

    However, Fang Guangyuan was always in control of the court. Jin Yiwei, the Ministry of Punishment, and Dali Temple were all under his control. Huo Weian was isolated and helpless, and was eventually sentenced to beheading. The entire Huo family was beheaded.

    Huo Weian had five sons and one daughter, the youngest of whom was only seven years old. He came to be executed all the time, and all the boys under the age of fourteen were sentenced to exile. At that time, someone in the court interceded for Huo Weian’s youngest son, but Fang Guanyi said: “Those who bring trouble to the imperial court, if their sons grow up, they will also be traitors, how can we keep them?”

    There were forty-seven members of the Huo family, except for the only daughter who was not admitted to the prison. Since then, their blood has been spattered on the execution ground.And the only daughter also jumped from the upper floor of the classroom and died a few months later.

    Such appalling tragedy, but because the government and the public were afraid of Fang’s consistent power, no one dared to comment on it.At that time, Grand Master Meng had already retired as an official and was at home. When he heard that Huo Weian was unjustly imprisoned, he ran up and down trying to rescue him, but to no avail.

    No one knew that the seven-year-old child had survived.There were also people in the prison who sympathized with the Huo family. They cooperated with the Huo family’s old servant Li Daitaojiang to rescue the child, anonymously, and sent it to a farmer in Gyeonggi Province.

    As time passed by, the child grew up and planned for decades. Finally, twenty years later, he succeeded in revenge and returned all the cruelty that had been inflicted on the Huo family to his enemies.

    “Although I don’t support what he did, I can’t argue with it. After all,” Meng Taishi smiled bitterly, “The king is stupid and treacherous. Apart from this decisive method, there is no other way to do it.”

    This country went into decay more than 20 years ago.He supported Emperor Tianzheng, who was still the crown prince at the time, to ascend the throne, and watched the emperor deteriorate day by day, ruining the land with holes.

    If what happened to the Huo family was caused by Fang Yiguanyin, then all of them, those who were complicit, onlookers, or powerless, are probably accomplices.

    On May 13, the twenty-ninth year of Tianzheng, shortly after the prince’s full moon feast, Emperor Tianzheng suddenly fell ill and was bedridden.

    Ever since the emperor became addicted to alchemy, his health has deteriorated day by day. Such a day has long been expected by the courtiers.The Taiyuan Hospital is still doing its best to treat people, and the huge country is still continuing to operate in an orderly manner.

    In June of this year, the emperor’s life hung on a thread for ten days, and he finally died.

    After he passed away, the Ministry of Rites, which had been prepared for a long time, quickly set up the ceremony and held the funeral ceremony for Emperor Daxing while coronating the new emperor.The new emperor’s biological mother, Concubine Shu, naturally became the queen mother. Because the new emperor was young, the queen mother listened to politics from behind the curtain and managed state affairs together with the chief steward Wang Rongan.

    The situation in the DPRK was as calm as a pool of stagnant water, and there was no instability at all like the handover of power.This is also a helpless matter. When Emperor Tianzheng was in power, because he ignored the affairs of the country, power was originally controlled by the Queen Mother and Wang Rongan. Now it is just a puppet as the emperor. What’s the difference?

    However, no one expected that on the fifth day after the enthronement ceremony, the proud Wang Rongan went to the Royal Garden to enjoy flowers at the invitation of the Queen Mother, but was beaten to death on the spot by the Jin Yiwei who jumped out.

    This is the shocking secret known as the “Imperial Garden Incident” in history. On that day, the news of Wang Rongan’s death was strictly sealed. Later, the Jinyi Guards followed the instructions of the Queen Mother and the Jinyiwei commander Su Jing. In one day, all eight of Wang Rongan’s buddies were arrested and neatly executed in prison, including Xue Hao, the commander of the Jinyiwei.

    It was not until the court meeting on the second day, when the newly appointed Eunuch Bingbi announced the matter, that the courtiers suddenly realized that it turned out that Concubine Shu, no, the partner of the Queen Mother had been Su Jing from the beginning to the end.

    Overnight, the eunuchs were completely overthrown, probably because God felt what happened. After the court was over, everyone walked out of the Fengtian Hall, and the sky that had been gloomy for the past few days actually cleared up the clouds and saw the sun, and the wind cleared up the rain.

    Looking up at the blue sky thousands of miles away, Yao Ji felt a little crazy for a moment.It turns out that this is his promise. He said that his words always count.

    She couldn’t wait to see him, her heart was beating violently, as if it was about to jump out of her chest.She moved her boots slightly and was about to take a step when a voice behind her stopped her——

    He Xi was dressed in the blue clothes unique to eunuchs. He lowered his eyes humbly and said, “Meng Zhongcheng is here to stay. The Queen Mother invites you.”

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