On the seventh day of June in the sixth year of Guanghe, news came from the palace that the emperor was very unhappy with what had happened in the past few days, so Lei Lei was furious.
He called Yang Ci, Zheng Xuan, Lu Zhi and others to the palace, scolded them angrily, scolded them for not taking their own lives seriously, not only did they not investigate the truth, but they actually Let’s engage in partisanship at this serious moment!
Are those people outside thinking about his life safety?
What are you doing?
Are you doing what you should do for the great Han Emperor?
I was stabbed!
"What on earth is the Emperor of Han in your eyes? Is the life of the Emperor of Han so despicable? Is it so inferior to your classic inheritance?"
Liu Hong pointed at the big bosses of the Jinguwen and Guwen factions with a face full of grief and anger. After giving them a beating on Zuan's output, he took a breath and made the appointment in front of them.
"You guys don't care about my life, okay, then I'll find it myself! It seems that the life of the Emperor of Han is still in his own hands! You are all sycophants! sycophants!"
Yang Ci and Zheng Xuan were speechless in the face of the emperor's wrath, and felt a little stunned and helpless in their hearts.
But at this time, they were unable to defend themselves anyway and could only make feeble defences.
This makes no sense.
Who would have thought that the situation would develop so quickly, from the assassination of the emperor to another battle between ancient and modern literary schools?
All this madness has directly deflected the focus of the problem, and even the emperor's life is not important anymore.
There was a bustle outside, and the emperor was furious, and then gave Zhang Rang full responsibility for investigating the matter.
Liu Hong ordered Zhang Rang to form an investigation team to conduct a thorough investigation of the matter, and also gave Zhang Rang a major authorization to directly set up a special prison independently without going through the relationship between Yushi Zhongcheng, Tingwei, and Sili Xiaowei. Investigate the matter independently of existing judicial authorities.
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As soon as this appointment was announced, Yang Ci and Zheng Xuan, the leaders of the Modern Literature School and the Ancient Literature School, were all inexplicably surprised.
The Han Dynasty had relatively complete judicial organs and judicial procedures. There were fixed procedures for how crimes committed by central officials were investigated, how crimes committed by local officials were investigated, and how civil and criminal responsibilities were investigated and sentenced.
Which position holds what power? This is a very key political principle. These principles cannot be violated at any time, otherwise the political structure of the entire dynasty will have problems.
Therefore, what the court officials feared most was that the emperor would inexplicably create some strange institutions to usurp the power of normal official positions, and what the court officials feared most was that the power that had been usurped would not be returned.
I think back then, the three princes were all official positions with real power, and each of them was a high-ranking and powerful national leader. The emperor had to be courteous when he saw them. They saluted the emperor, and the emperor had to return the favor.
But now?
A group of officials with a thousand stone worth or less in one office took away all the important power of the three princes. The high position had no real power, while the low position was heavy, which made it easier for the emperor to dictate and act arbitrarily.
The high-ranking officials and dignitaries of the Han Dynasty felt inexplicably awkward and unhappy about this.
However, the Shangshutai only controls the administrative power and does not involve the judicial aspect. Now, the emperor's intention is obviously to set up another organization to usurp the judicial power.
This is serious.
It is not a problem to have a chamberlain eunuch lead a team to specifically investigate the matter. The problem is to set up a special prison independently and to deal with the matter independently of the original judicial organs. This is a blatant seizure of power from the official officials of the imperial court.
This is an apolitical act, so officials with formal establishments instinctively want to oppose it.
But the objection is slightly different.
For example, Taiwei Yang Ci, who seemed to be an anti-ancient literature school, immediately poured dirty water on the ancient literature school.
"Your Majesty, this veteran has already got a clue. This matter must be related to Lu Zhi and Liu Bei, and there is a bigger conspiracy behind it. I also ask your Majesty to immediately order Lieutenant Commander Sili to investigate the matter. As long as one Investigate, the truth will surely come to light, no need for others to do it!”
Lu Zhi was dumbfounded when he heard this. He never expected that Yang Ci would still want to mess with him at this time, and suddenly he became angry.
"Your Majesty! My loyalty to Your Majesty can be seen from day to day! Taiwei Yang falsely accused me without evidence, and I cannot accept it under any circumstances! I request to confront Taiwei Yang in court to prove my innocence!"
Zheng Xuan also helped Lu Zhi get away with it.
"Your Majesty, on the day of the incident, Lu Shangshu had been working at the Shangshu Desk for more than ten consecutive days. He himself did not leave the Shangshu Desk for nearly half a month. He was in the Shangshu Desk day and night handling official business. Where did he find the time to plan this? What about such a despicable thing? Your Majesty, please take a closer look!"
After the three big bosses finished speaking, a series of officials from the ancient literature school and modern literature school also expressed their opinions, maximizing the power of the conspiracy theory. Liu Hong was stunned when he heard this.
But Liu Hong still reacted.
This is not the time to listen to their dog-eat-dog conspiracy theories, but the time to completely implement Dongyuan with thunder and fury.
As long as Dongyuan is implemented, part of the judicial power will be obtained. By then, regardless of these old guys, their "monkey grandsons" will just let him, Liu Hong, flatten and round them?
So Liu Hong calmed down, picked up a not-so-valuable pottery bowl that he had just used to drink sugar water from his hand, and threw it to the ground, smashing the pottery bowl to pieces and completely ending this group of conspirators. group performance.
"That's enough! You don't take my life seriously at all! All you care about is your own glory and wealth! The man has been raising scholars for four hundred years! He actually raised you guys! The monarch's life is in your eyes Is it so worthless?"
To be honest, Liu Hong's acting skills are not that good, but covering it up with anger is pretty passable, so a group of old conspirators had to bow their heads and apologize in order to ask Liu Hong to calm down his thunderous wrath.
Are you kidding? Calm down?
Will you still obediently give up your power after I calm down?
"I understand! If you don't care about my life or death, then I will investigate this matter myself! I will definitely get to the bottom of it! I will never tolerate anyone! As long as anyone is found to be related to this matter by me, I will make him repent and grow up!"
Riding on his "outrage of anger", Liu Hong once again ordered the Zhang Rang Ti Dian investigation team to take full charge of the matter. He also set up a special prison for this purpose, where people could be directly arrested and imprisoned for investigation.
Yushi Zhongcheng, Tingwei and Sili Xiaowei are not allowed to interfere or be involved. The investigation team that encounters Zhang Rang must stay away. Anyone who interferes will be guilty of conspiracy.
As the Eastern Han Dynasty progresses to this day, the unspoken rules of the dual monarchs have been slippery. Despite this, rebellion is the final rule that cannot be avoided.
No matter who it is, once it involves treason, even if it is a biological father-son relationship, they must weigh the pros and cons of hiding the matter for him.
Nowadays, no matter whether they are from the ancient literature school or the modern literature school, everyone is very reluctant to accept the results of the eunuch Zhang Rang's investigation team investigating the matter, but they have no way to object.
Because this involves the emperor's life and safety. If those daring bastards are not found, the emperor will have trouble sleeping and eating, and Luoyang will never have peace.
This supreme righteousness is something they cannot refute.
They missed the best opportunity to investigate and wasted time on meaningless party disputes, so that at this moment they had to and could only watch the eunuchs wearing the hat of imperial power and fully marching on the power of justice.
(End of chapter)
