Under the gaze of everyone, Hu Weiyong walked to his usual place and stood, saluting Lao Zhu: "Your Majesty, the humble minister is here."
"Here we come." Lao Zhu nodded slightly, turned to Wang Guangyang and said, "Today we want to ask you something in front of hundreds of officials and Hu Weiyong."
Wang Guangyang was busy getting out of the queue.
Lao Zhu said: "Liu Ji once told us that Hu Weiyong took the opportunity of me asking him to visit Liu Ji to poison Liu Ji. Did you know?"
Wang Guangyang looked surprised: "I don't know how such a thing could happen."
At that time, you clearly knew that Hu Weiyong was not getting along with Liu Ji, and you still asked him to visit Liu Ji on your behalf. It was obviously because you wanted to kill Liu Ji.
Now you suddenly come to ask me again. I want to answer that I am an educated youth. Are you not going to scold me again for why I knew about it but didn't report it?
"Haha, let's ask someone to help you remember." Lao Zhu turned to call the old slave from Liu Bowen's house and asked, "We asked Hu Weiyong to take the imperial doctor to express condolences to Liu Bowen. Can Hu Weiyong give good condolences?"
The old slave saluted Lao Zhu, and then replied in a loud and clear voice: "Your Majesty, Mr. Hu told the imperial doctor to treat it in the most serious area."
Hu Weiyong stared at the old slave in astonishment: This old slave turned out to be pretending to be deaf. He heard everything then. This is killing me.
Lao Zhu asked Lao Nu again: "Is Mr. Wang Guangyang around?"
The old slave replied: "Yes. Thanks to His Highness King Xiang's cleverness, he changed the medicine to something that looks similar but has the opposite properties. My family was able to escape from danger."
Lao Zhu sneered and asked Wang Guangyang: "What else do you have to say?"
Wang Guangyang prostrated on the ground: "I am confused. I may have been distracted at the time. I really didn't hear it."
Lao Zhu slapped the armrest of the dragon chair and scolded: "You collaborated with others to deceive the emperor, neglected others in neglecting government affairs, deceived superiors and subordinates, and failed to stop and report. We gave you opportunities again and again, but you didn't know how to cherish them. , still eating nothing in his corpse position. Corruption, dereliction of duty, debauchery and immorality, the most heinous crimes."
Wang Guangyang was a little confused: You have been accused of so many crimes before, but you didn't do anything to me. You hinted Hu Weiyong to do this, why are you so angry?
He glanced at Hu Weiyong and suddenly understood: Ah, by the way, I am the chess piece used by Lao Zhu to check and balance Hu Weiyong. He didn't touch me before because Hu Weiyong was still there.
Now that Lao Zhu is planning to get rid of Hu Weiyong, I will naturally be of no use.
Lao Zhu is really going to kill me this time.
The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became. His whole body was trembling and he begged, "Your Majesty, spare my life. I know my mistake. Please give me another chance."
Zhu Biao hurriedly came out: "Father, Lord Wang is famous all over the world. Killing him may hurt the hearts of the world's Confucian scholars..."
Lao Zhu took a deep breath, gritted his teeth and said, "Okay. Then we won't kill you. You go to Hainan. Never come back in this life. We don't want to see you."
I finally saved my life, nothing else matters.
Wang Guangyang breathed a sigh of relief, kowtowed to thank him, and then was stripped of his official uniform in front of the court and taken away.
Hu Weiyong became more and more confused: What's going on? I want to poison Liu Ji. Why don't you kill me instead of Wang Guangyang?
Lao Zhu said coldly: "Come here, Hu Weiyong committed murder. Put Hu Weiyong in jail first. We will wait until the Ministry of Punishment has tried him."
Hu Weiyong saw murderous intent in Lao Zhu's eyes and glared at Lao Zhu: Zhu Chongba. With your temper, do you still need to wait to kill me?
What do you want to do?
Lao Zhu looked back coldly: Hu Weiyong, we won't kill you so easily. You are a good chess piece. We have held it in our hands for so long. Of course, we have to play it to the most important place.
It was already the twelfth lunar month.
New Year's Eve and the first lunar month are also rare times of the year when you can play music and sing opera without being questioned by the officials.
Many families will invite theater troupes to their homes to entertain them.
Because there are so many people invited, the decision must be made to the troupe early in the twelfth lunar month.
Ouyang Lun also went out to invite the theater troupe that day, but when he returned to the Prince Consort's Mansion, he knelt down to Princess Anqing and said, "Your Highness, save me, I am in danger."
Princess Qing'an was now pregnant with Liujia and her body was heavy. She was startled and asked, "What's wrong?"
Ouyang Lun didn't dare to think anything since he was scolded by Lao Zhu last time. Even when Zhu Bai was away for a few months, he still followed Princess Anqing's advice and only enjoyed flowers, met friends, and drank tea and talked.
Princess Anqing was very satisfied with his performance.
Ouyang Lun said: "The emperor is investigating Hu Weiyong. Everyone who has close contacts with him will suffer."
Princess Anqing frowned: "When did my father start investigating Hu Weiyong? Why didn't I know?"
Ouyang Lun: "Master Wang Guangyang was demoted, which is a signal."
Princess Anqing smiled: "You are too timid. It is normal for ministers in the imperial court to go up and down. This is not the first time that Wang Guangyang has been demoted."
Ouyang Lun grabbed Princess Anqing's hand and said, "Your Highness, it's okay for others to be demoted. But this Wang Guangyang is different. Think carefully, when was the last time Wang Guangyang was demoted."
Princess Anqing thought for a while and said, "When the father is responsible for Yang Xian."
Ouyang Lun said: "That's right. Wang Guangyang's reputation is too great, and he is a pawn used by the emperor to contain the ministers of the court. But Wang Guangyang himself has no awareness of this at all, and he has made no achievements to Yang Xian before. The emperor wants to give him another gift. An opportunity was given to him to face Hu Weiyong. But Wang Guangyang... The emperor was completely disappointed with Wang Guangyang, so he took him away first so that he could deal with Hu Weiyong."
Princess Anqing thought about it carefully, and the more she thought about it, the more it made sense.
When Yang Xian was killed, many people were also implicated. Even in the palace, she heard about the tragic situation.
Ouyang Lun was only able to go to the Imperial College with the help of Hu Weiyong, and he would definitely bear the brunt of being classified as a "Hu Party member".
Thinking of this, Princess Anqing felt scared: "Ah, what should I do?"
Ouyang Lun hugged Princess Anqing's legs: "Your Highness, you are the only one who can save me now."
Princess Anqing looked pale and said, "Don't panic, don't panic, let me go into the palace and ask my mother."
Princess Anqing was very diligent in visiting the palace on weekdays. In the past two months, Empress Ma felt sorry for her that she was getting heavier and heavier, so she just asked her to come every first and fifth day of the lunar month.
Today is neither the first nor the fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year. Queen Ma was a little surprised when she saw Princess Anqing coming early in the morning: "Hey, why are you here?"
Princess Anqing's eyes were red, and she told Ouyang Lun's story, choking and saying: "Although that guy is not up to date and his background is not good, he is still considerate to my son. Even if he is allowed to die like this, my son will not do anything." Be patient.”
Empress Ma frowned slightly: Lao Zhu's principle is that the harem should not interfere in politics, so she would only give Lao Zhu a few words of advice unless it was to save people's lives.
But in the past, she had saved famous Confucian and loyal ministers for the sake of the common people and the Ming Dynasty.
Ouyang Lun is such a pretty boy who has no merit or achievements and is just clinging to the royal family.
Ask her to ask Lao Zhu...
