"Are you saying that there is suspicion of someone tampering with the Crown Prince's illness this time?" Jiang Tian calmly looked at the sad-looking Crown Princess Pei in front of him: "Isn't this too bizarre? Your Highness? Are the protective measures around us all weak, or are those close by neglecting their duties?"
"Concubine... Concubine, I thought that this was not the case, but after returning to the palace, I found that someone was missing nearby." Concubine Pei, who was still in the palace, said softly with a look of helplessness: "At the same time, Jun Golden fur coats and violet shirts commonly used in clothing have also been found to be impregnated with cold substances."
"You need to know that although the clothes in the palace are mostly made of incense, because of your Majesty's reasons, cold medicinal materials such as borneol, borneol, and mint are rarely used as a means of enjoying the coolness and relieving the heat; but this time they suddenly appeared in the palace. It was not only on His Highness’s clothes, but also on the curtains of the carriage.”
"It happened that the two eunuchs who were responsible for accompanying the carriage disappeared on the way back to the palace. Such a deliberate conspiracy here makes me worried and hard to figure out. And Ouchi kept giving palace maids and eunuchs, so it was inevitable that there would be a mixture of good and bad. ;Although there are means of separating the inside and outside, it is inevitable that it is difficult to prevent it.”
"Now that Your Majesty has recovered from his illness, it is inevitable that his vitality will be greatly reduced, but he is already diligent in political affairs. He really cannot bear more hard work and care." At this point, Concubine Pei's face became more and more sad: "Concubine, I think about it. Go, there is really no one to entrust, so I can only shamelessly ask for help from Li Sheng."
"This is an unsolvable problem." Jiang Tian nodded, agreeing to her request: "In this case, you will need to rely on some secret monitoring methods, and you will also need more resources and manpower; however, you can Give me the possible suspects first."
"His Highness has already explained in private that as long as everything belongs to the East Palace, Li Sheng will have no choice but to dispatch it; even if he is as humble as a concubine, he must cooperate with it." After hearing this, Concubine Pei breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Although the palace It is difficult to supplement the junior and middle-level officials, but there are still many young and young palace officials."
"Then after I secretly select the people, I will send them all to the cat shop!" Jiang Tian also pressed his paws and decided: "On the surface, Su Youzhi, the envoy of the Yellow Sect, will lead them and do some physical strengthening. and then, under the pretense of looking after and looking for raccoon slaves, he would move around the palace."
After finalizing such an episode, Jiang Tian also made some adjustments to his activity schedule; he went to the palace outside the palace every night to search and explore, and created some activities to spread urban legends; he temporarily stopped and then intensified his activities. During the inspection of the East Palace and Ouchi.
Although no more conspiracies and other irregularities were discovered against Prince Li Hong; however, more than a dozen suspicious activities involving unauthorized activities at night were caught. Most of them were stealing and carrying items from the palace in the dark; there were also some who took huge risks to have private affairs.
Regarding the former, Jiang Tian directly knocked it out with a paw and left it on the spot to make a noise; naturally, the night guards would come to deal with it. Regarding the latter, Jiang Tian, with the patience of a melon-eater, would watch the show for a while; when the two parties were almost in love, he would scare away with malicious intent.
After that, Prince Li Hong's condition relapsed twice again due to fatigue and exhaustion, and then he stabilized again. But these two times, no trace of external factors was found; just like the previous time, it was just an accident. Time flies and the end of June comes.
The disturbing flood situation has finally come to an end; in the end, there was an urgent report that the Weihe River embankment in Guo County collapsed, hundreds of houses were washed away, hundreds of people drowned and hundreds of people were missing; this midsummer ended with urgent reports. The season of heavy rains. But this also further boosted the prince's reputation.
Because, in the decades since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, there has not been a single local disaster, only causing hundreds of casualties. It mainly relied on the relatively sufficient materials and civilian resources prepared in advance, as well as the effective handling under the supervision of the East Palace officials who inspected the area in sections;
Then, the heat and thirst caused by the bright sun for days came to the land of Guanzhong again, but this time, for the first time, no widespread epidemic occurred; because thousands of doctors and medical staff from Chang'an Hospital also Under Meng Xian's example, he began to practice epidemic prevention.
Therefore, when Lai Heng, the inquiry envoy from the Eastern Capital and the Minister of Huangmen, and Cen Changqian, the right minister of the Ministry of War and the recruitment envoy to Xijing, embarked on the return journey, they also received an edict from the Eastern Capital at the same time, commending and rewarding this person. Officials who were effective in preventing floods and solving the epidemic.
Among them, Zhang Jianzhi, Wei Yuanzhong, Wei Xuan and other officials of the East Palace were all promoted to the first rank and given crimson crowns. In Chang'an's assistance to the East Palace in clarifying the customs and clarifying the officialdom, Zheng Zheng, who had made great achievements After admonishing the doctor Xue Yuanchao, he was granted the title of Shi Censor Zuo Censor Zhongcheng Shi.
Meng Xian, who served as the emperor of the East Palace Medicine Storehouse and was also the director of the Da Nei Shang Pharmacy Bureau, was awarded the rank of Taizhong doctor, which was under the fifth rank; even Prince Zuo Shuzi, who had just been appointed to the East Palace, Zhang Daan and other assistant ministers also received varying degrees of rewards for assisting Prince Bi.
On the contrary, he was busy dealing with the aftermath during this period. In fact, Di Huaiying, the right prime minister of Zhan Shifu and the left prime minister of Dali Temple, did not receive the named commendation or reward in the imperial edict; instead, he took advantage of the situation and ended his temporary leadership of the capital. As sent by Zhaofu, he officially began to take charge of the responsibilities of Dali Temple.
The newly arrived Jingzhao Shaoyin, to a certain extent, can be regarded as an acquaintance who has never met before; that is, Li Yiyan, the minister of Zhongshu who once wrote a letter with Prime Minister Hao Chujun to dissuade Emperor Gaozong from letting Empress Wu act as an agent in the government. ; Apparently they were punished to some extent afterwards.
Although Hao Chujun, who was Zhongshu Ling, was an upright and impeccable minister; even in history, Wu Zetian could only dig up his family's coffins after ascending the throne and take out the coffins to feed them to vent her anger. However, Li Yiyan, who was a follower, did not have such good luck.
Although the imperial court appointed him to be in charge of the Jingzhao Mansion in the name of assisting the prince in supervising the country in preparing for the war against Tibet, it was also equivalent to kicking him out of the Eastern Capital Government Hall as the center of power for ministerial affairs and thus marginalizing him in disguise. . Of course, Li Yiyan was also considered a famous official in the Gaozong Dynasty.
He was a native of Changle, Weizhou, and came from a distant branch of the Li family in Longxi with the fifth surname Qiwang. He was also the last Jinshi in the Taizong Dynasty. He was known as a tall, handsome, knowledgeable, resourceful and insightful person. Starting from Taiyuan Captain and Baishui County Magistrate, he held many official positions step by step.
He was valued and treated politely by Li Ji, the governor of Bingzhou at that time. After Li Ji became the Prime Minister and entered the court, he also recommended and promoted this young talent. From being a criminal officer to being a minister, he has been serving as a minister of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. He is of the same origin as Zhang Wenguan, the minister of the imperial court/right prime minister who stayed in the capital.
Therefore, unknowingly, in a short period of time, a political force surrounding the prince Li Hong seemed to be formed in Xijing, which was vaguely confronting the Empress Wu's party that was all over the court in the east capital. prototype. What followed was the final battle against Silla. (End of chapter)
