Seeing Chang Yu stabbing himself with scissors, Chongzhen and others were shocked. Prince Zhu Cixiang was even more panicked and frantically tried to help Chang Yu stop the bleeding: "What are you doing? What are you doing?"
"Prove your innocence, little one." Chang Yu forced a smile, suddenly pulled out the scissors, and held it down with his hand as blood spurted out!
Chongzhen frowned: "Prove innocence? Is it too late for you to cheat now?"
"Your Majesty will know what he means after the meeting." Chang Yu smiled bitterly: "He is born with a special talent. His wounds heal faster than ordinary people, and they leave almost no scars. He is not a little deceitful, it is true!"
Born with extraordinary talent, Chongzhen was shocked, and the prince and Wang Chengen were also surprised. They saw that Chang Yu's wound that was still spurting blood just now was no longer leaking out.
Is there such a strange thing? Chongzhen's curiosity suddenly aroused, and the previous anger had disappeared. He was born in an imperial family, and he was a ninety-five-year-old man. He had heard and seen countless strange people and strange things, and even met a lot of 'gods' from all walks of life. But later, they all It was confirmed that it was a quackery. How could anyone not be curious when hearing that there was such a person in the inner palace.
Compared with Chongzhen, the prince's heart was extremely shocked, because the god he told Chongzhen about the dream was actually told by Chang Yu. Is there such a coincidence?
Zhu Cixiang's eyes slowly began to change when he looked at Chang Yu.
"At most, with one stick of incense, the emperor can know the truth or falsehood of what he has said." Chang Yu wrapped his belt around the wound, put his clothes back on, and knelt on the ground.
Chongzhen's expression changed again and again, and finally he smiled: "Get up and give me a seat. I have something to ask you."
Chang Yu's face changes faster than the sky changes. Chang Yu sighed in his heart and stood up to thank him: "Your Majesty, please tell me everything I know."
Chongzhen nodded: "I have called you back to the capital to tell you everything you know, and to explain everything you did outside the capital, no matter how big or small."
"Yes, Your Majesty, which part does Your Majesty want to hear first? The Battle of Taiyuan?" Chang Yu said. In fact, most of what he did after leaving Beijing was reported to Chongzhen in secret letters, and he also knew that Chongzhen knew about it from other aspects. What he did.
"No, let's start from the beginning, starting from the time you left the capital." Chongzhen sat down and motioned to Wang Chengen to refill everyone's tea.
Chang Yu took a sip of tea and cleared his throat: "After I left the city with Commander Wu, I went straight to Chang Yu. Because I was traveling on pay, I didn't dare to be careless, so I arranged several lines of exploration horses to go ahead..."
The moon was dark and the wind was high and the wind was biting. Chang Yu was chatting with the emperor and the prince in the warm spring-like Qianqing Palace, but outside the palace there was a man drinking from the northwest wind.
That was the unlucky Jin Yiwei commander Wu Mengming.
Jinyiwei was one of the emperor's personal soldiers, and Wu Mengming was naturally one of his confidants. This time, he had to recall the emperor to face the emperor. Although he entered the imperial city, he did not receive the order to immediately face the emperor, so he had to go to the Donghua Gate of the palace. Waiting for call by the moat outside.
Because he didn’t know when he would be summoned to meet the saint, poor Wu Mengming had to wait. Even when the British father-in-law and others invited him to have fun in Caolanchang, he declined, and just stupidly whistled outside Donghua Gate. Snorted coldly.
In the dead of night, only the guards on duty patrolled back and forth outside the palace, and no one else was seen, because almost all the eunuchs and maids in the imperial city went to the grass field to have fun.
"Sir, the weather is unbearably cold, and I don't know when the emperor will call you. Why don't you go to the Yamen of Dongchang to sit for a while to avoid the wind and cold?" an attendant whispered.
There are two yamen in Dongchang. The outer yamen is in Dongchang Hutong, east of the imperial city. It is where external cases are handled. There is also a yamen in the palace for internal affairs, called Neidongchang, which is just outside Donghua Gate. , next to Shang Shanjian.
Wu Mengming was a little moved. He turned around and glanced at the Neidongchang Yamen not far away. He saw that there was no light in the Neidongchang Yamen. He thought to himself that the Dongchang had been idle for more than a year, and Chang Yu had never returned to the Yamen to do business. He went there at this time. Feeling slightly uncomfortable, he shook his head in denial.
"Then why don't we go into the palace and hide from the cold in the reception area outside Qianqing Gate?"
The duty office outside Qianqing Gate was actually the temporary office of those nobles on duty, but at this time, these nobles had all gone to Caolan Field, and there was no one there.
Wu Mengming still shook his head. The reason was very good. How could he enter the palace at will?
As we all know, the imperial city is locked after dark, and so is the palace.
The imperial city is the emperor's empire building, and the palace is the home and office in the empire building. It is even more heavily guarded. Not only are the walls high and the city thick, but there is also a moat dozens of meters wide around it. After the four doors are closed, only the guards and relatives are there. Wei Jinyiwei is on duty, that is, the Han general among the Jinyiwei!
But the palace is divided into the front palace and the harem. The front palace is the office area and the prince's residence. Generals of the Han Dynasty can patrol and patrol. The harem is the emperor's one-third acre of land. After dark, anyone except the emperor can No one with a handle is allowed in.
Therefore, even if Wu Mengming is the commander of the Jinyi Guards, he would not dare to set foot in the palace, even if it is just the front palace, without answering the call!
Therefore, poor Mr. Wu had nowhere to go for a while, so he was blowing in the wind on the moat bridge outside Donghua Gate, listening to the wind, and his nose was running.
"You said that Wang Chengyin in Xuan Mansion actually resisted. If you hadn't brought any money at that time, wouldn't it be impossible to mobilize a single soldier?" In the Palace of Qianqing, Chongzhen's face was ashen. Chang Yu had not elaborated on this matter before, but I skipped it hastily and only explained that the Xuan Mansion owed wages and dispatched nearly 10,000 troops to aid Taiyuan, but I didn't know there was such an inside story.
"That should be the case" Chang Yu replied.
"This is unreasonable. The thief is so ambitious. He has a guilty conscience!" Chongzhen shouted angrily. You must know that he had learned from the prince's dream that Wang Chengyin was a traitor to the city, so he became murderous. However, he had no evidence, so he hinted to Chang Yu. Play it by ear.
"I have long wanted to mobilize troops, but he has repeatedly pushed back. Even when you arrived at Xuanfu, he still refused because of military pay. I just found this reason to punish him!" Chongzhen said bitterly.
"Your Majesty, you can't do that," Wang Chengen said urgently in a low voice. Although he was a eunuch and was not allowed to participate in politics, he had been following Chongzhen. He was also an eunuch with a pen, so he knew how powerful this was. If he wanted to find a reason to get Wang Chengen, it would be a big shock. Because the imperial court is now in arrears of pay, and cannot mobilize troops everywhere. If you don't solve the problem of paying the troops, but instead use this as an excuse to use the general to lead the troops, then the morale of the military will be bad. The impact will be too bad and too great, and it will easily lead to big troubles.
"Father, think twice," Zhu Cixiang said quickly.
snort! How could Chongzhen not know how powerful this was? He was just talking angrily. At this moment, he was already itching his teeth with hatred!
"Your Majesty, I don't need to worry, I already took him when I came," Chang Yu said calmly.
Chongzhen and the others were shocked: "What's the reason?"
"Being corrupt, perverting the law, depriving soldiers of their pay, and lining their own pockets!"
"Is there any evidence?" Chongzhen asked quickly.
Chang Yu smiled: "Your Majesty, how many clean people can take the position of commander-in-chief at this time?"
Chongzhen was startled, then looked enlightened, and then clapped his hands: "It is most appropriate to punish him for the crime of withholding military pay. Firstly, it will not affect the morale of the military, and secondly, it can kill chickens and scare monkeys! Check, I will definitely find out that he deducted military pay."
"Master Wu has escorted him back to Beijing. The Jin Yiwei will definitely find out." Chang Yu chuckled.
"Why did you bring him back to Beijing?" Chongzhen raised his eyebrows, then looked at Chang Yu and smiled: "You are good at pulling tiger skins."
"It's the dragon robe" Chang Yu handed over.
"Hmph, you, you, you," Chongzhen shook his head and thought to himself, this kid doesn't want to take the blame for Wang Chengyin.
No matter what, this matter is far-fetched. It is not as certain as Jiang Yu. There will be a huge backlash in the court. He needs to step in to suppress it at the critical moment. This kid knows that he is powerful and troublesome, so he simply leaves it to him. Yes, it's really exciting.
Sure enough, he was the emperor, so he figured it out in a flash. I was afraid that Wu Mengming really thought that Chang Yu was worried that Xuanfu was Wang Chengyin's territory, so he took him back to the capital to avoid trouble.
"Isn't the case of Jiang Yu the same?" Chongzhen suddenly thought that the secret letters and memorials between Chang Yu, Wei Jingyuan and Wu Mengming all said that Jiang Yu conspired to assassinate Chang Yu. Was the inside story also deliberately touched by Chang Yu? Porcelain, or like the way Wang Chengyin was punished, first find the cause, then investigate, and convict wherever he finds it.
"The assassination of Jiang Gan is absolutely true. Although Xiao Xiao had the intention to kill Jiang Gan, he did not frame him falsely. He took action twice and three times, but he just gave Xiao Xiao a handle and got evidence. Now Mr. Wu can testify that we were assassinated together not long after we entered Datong, and it was just Jiang Yu behind the scenes!" Chang Yu said with a cupped hand.
"Oh, why do you want to kill that Jiang Yu?" Chongzhen suddenly smiled playfully and looked at Chang Yu.
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Friends who like this book remember to collect it. Foretelling, Eunuch Chang is about to go north.
