On the Wucheng Palace, Lai Junchen stood respectfully, first presented the confessions of the prime ministers, and after Wu Zetian read it, he was silent for a long time, and asked in a low voice: "The prime ministers have all confessed."
Lai Junchen said loudly: "Yes, the facts are all there, the evidence is conclusive, how can they refute that the prime ministers are all smart people, once they are arrested, they know that the general trend has gone, even if they delay for a while, it will not help them get rid of their crimes, so they confess to the crimes they have committed."
Wu Zetian pointed to the confession and said suspiciously: "Why is there only such a sentence as the opposite, there is neither a list of the same party, nor any details of the rebellion?"
Lai Junchen's heart tightened, and he hurriedly pretended to say calmly: "Your Majesty, the prime ministers are blessed with the emperor's grace, but they have failed Your Majesty, and now the matter is exposed, and it is embarrassing to be ashamed, so the ministers only tried the first trial, and they bowed their heads and confessed."
At this point, the prime ministers only want to die quickly, what else can they say.
After all, they are the prime ministers of the country, and the ministers are not good at persecuting too much.
However, " Lai Junchen secretly glanced at Wu Zetian, saw that she was fascinated by what she heard, and said: "Prisoners, it's all like this, at the beginning, most of them still have some thoughts to take responsibility and protect others, not to mention that these people are prime ministers, under one person, above ten thousand, and the arrogance cultivated over the years, how can they easily confess everything."
However, as soon as they confess their guilt, this defense will be opened, and although Your Majesty can rest assured, the ministers will detain them for a few days, boil their minds, and then arraignment in time, and they will definitely be able to confess all the charges. ” Wu Zetian nodded, and said with a gloomy face: "You must find out who their comrades are, I don't want to have a group of white-eyed wolves around me, maybe when, I will bite me."
Lai Junchen licked his lips and said, "Yes, the minister does things, Your Majesty can rest assured."
Your Majesty, please see, Si Liqing Pei Xuanli and Feng Pavilion Sheren Lu Xian are not as difficult as these prime ministers, they have already confessed some of their comrades" As he spoke, Lai Junchen handed over another confession.
"Hmm" Wu Zetian looked at the names of those people that Lai Junchen deliberately circled on the confession, and the corners of his mouth gradually showed a cold smile: "Dongguan Shangshu Li Youdao, Qiuguan Shangshu Yuan Zhihong, Si Binqing Cui Shenji, hehe, these are all people who I have reused after I ascended the throne."
Lai Junchen hurriedly said: "Your Majesty's candle shines thousands of miles, shining the world, in front of Your Majesty's discerning eyes, there is nothing to hide."
It's just that these people are clever and the best at concealment, Your Majesty has a lot of opportunities, how can you have the leisure to examine them one by one, which made them take advantage of the loopholes, and now they haven't been seen through by Your Majesty?"
Wu Zetian smiled slightly and said, "You, don't slap my ass."
I only have a pair of eyes, how can I see the hearts of people in the world.
Now, you are the eyes and ears that I put next to the hundred officials, and you are doing a good job."
Lai Junchen was sincerely frightened, and hurriedly bowed down, and thanked: "The minister was favored by His Majesty, and came to the imperial history of Zhongcheng with a cloth cloth, trusted by His Majesty, entrusted with the important task of supervising hundreds of officials, and the minister is willing to do his best for His Majesty, and then die."
Wu Zetian said lightly: "Get up, you don't have to kneel down and arrest these people at every turn, and carefully examine them one by one, but there are still many ghosts and ghosts, I want to sweep them away and clear my court."
"Whoa" Wu Zetian looked at the chief judge named at the bottom of the confession and said, "Is it the chief judge of this Pei Xuanli who serves the imperial Shi Lai Zixun?"
Lai Zixun is Lai Junchen's cousin, both families live in Zhuque Street, Chang'an City, and grew up playing together, they are a pair of bad embryos that are very compatible.
However, because Chang'an City is bounded by Zhuque Street, the east is under the jurisdiction of Wannian County, and the west is under the jurisdiction of Chang'an County.
After coming to Junchen to make a career, he needed a large number of cronies, so he naturally brought this cousin who grew up together since childhood as his confidant.
As soon as he heard what Wu Zetian said, Lai Junchen hurriedly said: "Yes, Pei Xuanli didn't tell the truth, it was Lai Zixun who followed the good temptation and used the Junchen Avenue to influence him, so that he repented and confessed to the crime." ” Wu Zetian said: "Well, Lai Zixun is a capable official, he is now serving Yu Shi Sheng, he will be a supervising Yu Shi."
Lai Junchen hurriedly said: "The minister Lai Zixun thanked His Majesty Longen, and there is also a confession from Lu Xian, the person of the Fengge Pavilion."
Wu Zetian took Lu Xian's confession again, and after only a few glances, his face became gloomy, and Pei Xuanli's confession was confessed to officials in Beijing, and Lu Xian's confession was much more complicated.
Lu Xian mourned for his father, Ding Wei was worried for 27 months, and now Ding Wei has just returned to Beijing after the expiration of his term, and it has been less than ten days since he arrived in Beijing, so he has such a thing.
The changes in Beijing in the past two years are too great, the officials have gone back and forth, up and down, and Lu Xian really doesn't know much about such frequent changes.
If he were to confess to the officials of the court, he would be too familiar with the situation in Kyori to extract a convincing confession.
So, under severe punishment, in addition to being induced by the cool officials, he recruited some opponents that the cool officials wanted to get rid of, in order to avoid the pain, Lu Xian had to recruit some close friends and officialdom colleagues who were very close to him.
He recruited the same year Jinshi Yushi Renzhi and the internal servant steward Fan Yunxian who he met when he was in Fengge as his comrades, and was also induced by Wei Suizhong to recruit the secretary and young eunuch Li Xun and the leading lieutenant Zhu Bin, and the other two were Li Sizhen, the assassin of Luzhou, who had a close personal relationship with him, and Shi Renlinghui, the governor of Yizhou.
Among these people, Wu Zetian cares most about Zhu Bin and Fan Yunxian.
Although the commander is not the main general in charge of the guard in the palace, but after all, he has hundreds of big-horned hands in his hands, responsible for the ceremonial duty and honor guard of honor in general posts, if he is an accomplice of the traitorous party and is in the palace, this is a force to be reckoned with, fortunately their conspiracy was discovered in advance, otherwise the consequences are really unimaginable.
There is also Fan Yunxian, the steward of the inner palace, who originally served the first emperor, and now although Wei Tuan'er is in charge of everything in the inner palace, Fan Yunxian is no longer in charge of things, but he still has a certain amount of power in the palace after all.
And Li Sizhen, the assassin of Luzhou, and Shi Renlinghui, the governor of Yizhou, are clearly their fellow party in the development of state capitals outside the capital.
The secret letter said that once the palace was successful, there would be local officials echoing from afar to build momentum for the crown prince's ascension to the throne, and if it failed, the prime ministers and generals who conspired with the emperor would protect the prince and escape from the capital and set up a separate court.
It seems that if the three prime ministers are allowed to flee to the local area to set up another court with the crown prince, then this turmoil will definitely be ten times greater than the impact of Xu Jingye's rebellion back then, after all, they have Li Tang's prince in their hands.
If he didn't notice it in advance, and they launched a mutiny, the more he thought about it, the more afraid he became, and after watching it for a long time, he said in a deep tone: "Arrest these people and interrogate them strictly."
"Whoa" Wu Zetian looked at the name and surname of the judge again, and said: "Wei Suizhong is the deacon of the Taiwan Academy, well, Wei Suizhong has made meritorious contributions to eliminating traitors, and he has been promoted to serve the imperial history."
Lai Junchen raised his eyebrows, bowed down and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty" In the past few days, people in the court have been arrested, and more and more traitorous accomplices have been dug up.
For the sake of prudence, Wu Zetian's accommodation would change places every night, except for the two cronies of the hundred cavalry and the internal guards, no one knew which palace the emperor would stay in that night.
The armed forces responsible for guarding in the palace are also adjusted daily, except for several armed forces under the personal command of Wu Youyi and Wu Youji, who control several key points in the palace city, such as Xuanwu Gate and Duanmen, other armed forces will change guards every day.
The generals of the 16 guards of the Southern Ya have completed the mutual transfer, the main general of Long Wuwei is transferred to Jin Wuwei, the chief general of Jin Wuwei is transferred to Hou Wei, the chief general of Hou Wei is transferred to the leading guard, and the main general of the leading guard is transferred to Xiaowei, Wu Zetian through this unconventional emergency rotation, the generals and their subordinates are separated, so that the soldiers do not know the generals, and the generals do not know the soldiers, so as to cope with the current dangerous situation.
Yang Fan's Zuo Yu Lin Wei belongs to the Northern Ya Liuwei, which is Wu Zetian's most trusted cronies, and has been in charge of guarding in the palace for the past few days, despite this, Wu Youyi will also adjust the area he is responsible for guarding three times a day, this is to prevent the armed forces on guard in the palace from rebelling against the party, and sticking to one place for too long will collude with foreign enemies.
It wasn't until three days later that Li Duozuo, the general of the right guard of Yulin, was ordered by Wu Youyi to lead the right Yulin guard into the palace to exchange guards with the left Yulin guard, and Yang Fan was able to leave the palace.
Yang Fan can't stay at home for a long time, at this critical moment, he must stay in the army and be on call at any time, but because his home is in Luoyang City, and his relationship with Yehuli is extraordinary, so he asked for a leave, but he just went home to see and give a few instructions, so as not to worry about the family, and he must go back to the barracks to report before evening.
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Yang Fan made a deal with the defense, and was about to leave the palace from the left gate, when he suddenly saw a group of officers and soldiers and the deacons of the Yushitai walking over menacingly.
One of them was nearly sixty years old, with a full head of gorgeous hair, a thin face full of wrinkles, and a beard under his chin, and he looked like a eunuch of good rank.
Yang Fan had met him a few times, but had never talked to him, so he didn't know his name and surname.
However, another person, Yang Fan, recognized it, and after just one glance, Yang Fan was taken aback.
This person turned out to be Zhu Bin, the commander of the pilot.
"I'm not guilty, I haven't sinned against you bastards, even my father-in-law Fan dares to frame me, do you know who my husband is, but people who have served Emperor Gaozong think that at the beginning, when Emperor Gaozong was still a little prince, my husband accompanied him to study and wait for the prince.
Later, the prince became the prince, and her husband was the chief steward of the imperial palace.
You dare to catch your husband and husband to serve the emperor, and work hard When today's son was a monk in Ganye Temple in the past, or her husband went to Ganye Temple to bring her back to the palace at the behest of the emperor, and her husband has no merit for so many years, husband" "Bang Bang Bang" A royal servant jumped up, rounded him and gave him a few big mouths, which made the "husband's" cheeks red and swollen, like a monkey, and a few teeth that could not be left in his mouth also fell out, and his mouth was full of blood foam, and he babbled so that he could no longer get up with his "husband".
Zhu Bin was tied up with flowers, shackles, and his expression was extremely awkward, and his face turned pale when he saw that Fan husband being beaten.
Yang Fan was also secretly surprised when he saw it: "There are people in the palace who have been arrested again, even the eunuchs and Zhu Bin are implicated, looking at this situation, there is really a plan for mutiny."
Zhu Bin blink of an eye saw Yang Fan standing on the edge of the royal road, and couldn't help but show a smile that was more ugly than crying.
"Hurry up and delay, what's the delay?"
Zhu Bin's feet were just slow, and a deacon of the Imperial Historical Observatory stabbed him in the back shoulder with a wind and fire stick, Zhu Bin was in pain and did not dare to stay, so he was escorted away by a group of deacons and officers and soldiers in a hurry.
Yang Fan looked at their backs in a daze, and said secretly in his heart: "This is a big trouble, whether Di Gong and they really have a plan to launch a mutiny, it is still unknown, but this time the situation is very different from the last time the prime ministers fought with Wu Chenghei, and now that the emperor is all soldiers, I am afraid that Princess Taiping will not easily interfere."
If these officials who are unwilling to talk to the Wu clan can be swept away, it will be a great thing for Wu Sansi, and it will be good if he does not add fuel to the fire, and he will never intervene to stop it.
What's more, if Di Gong and the others did not have the intention of rebellion, maybe he single-handedly contributed to this matter, and this person could not use it.
Shen Mu is not in Luoyang now, even if he is, he may not have the ability to intervene in such a major event, his hidden sect has always focused on operating in the Western Regions, and he is afraid that his hand will not be able to stretch so long.
Moreover, after all, he is a representative sent by the gate valve family, and the ultimate goal is for the benefit of these families.
As long as the development of the general trend of the imperial court is in their interests, these gate lord families who hide their power under the nine lands will be fine, and it is impossible for them to go into battle shirtless and directly participate in the battle of the imperial court.
What's more, Shen Mu and Di Gong are thick, and they are only a temporary alliance reached because of common interests, and such a change in the DPRK and China can't lose his strength, even if he is there, and has the ability to intervene, now that the situation is unknown, he may not be willing to wade into this troubled water, what should I do Seriously, I am a person on Shen Mu's side, so many important figures in the court have suffered from it, and those who can intervene are all watching, how can I, Yang Fan, be a general, really according to what Wan'er said, stay out of the matter, and protect my life."
Yang Fan thought about it, but he couldn't help but sigh a long way.
But he did not know that when people sit at home, disaster will come from heaven, and even if he does not want to participate in it, he will soon be caught in it.
Wu Chengsi, Wu Sansi, Princess Taiping and other forces would never have thought that just because Lai Junchen coveted his wife, he easily pulled Yang Fan into this political whirlpool that swallowed countless big shots, adding a biggest variable to this turmoil, not only will this already doomed ending be changed because of this, but even in the battle for deer in the next few years, there is also an unpredictable variable.
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